“HAS COME TOT Yes, Santa i is here once again - . . and he has set up shop at Eaton's in downtown Trail. Santa will be taking Christmas orders between 3:30:p.m. and 5:30 .p.m. every day, Monday :through Saturday, until Dec. 20, when he teaves for the North Pole again to make ready for Christmas Eve. Santa: has even made arrangements to have. a. photographer on hand, just. ‘in case you should want a picture to send to Grandma and Grandpa; or just a hap- py emery of Christmas, 1980__ . oo Christmas Hours: For your shopping convenience. Eaton's will be open till 9 p.m. on the dates in- dicated during the month of December: DECEMBER 93° 4°65 -6 011 1213 91 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 -21 22°23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 EATON'S Our promise for amerrier Christmas BUYLINE: 368-5232 1 7 8 . a Girls’ knit sweaters There's almost no way you can begin to describe- the variety of girls’ knit sweaters we haveon & sale, Whatever you're looking for you're bound — 3 to find it. Choose from V-necks, turtlenecks, & cardigans; mostly long sleeved. All area perfect’ ‘match when teamed.up with a skirt, tunic or jeans. Some are solid or striped, some are jacquards but all are knitted styles. Assorted’ colors to choose from. For sizes 2-6X 5.99 7-14 6.99, EATON'S Our promise for a merrier Christmas Boys' famous. maker ‘sweaters clearance Eaton's has a bundle of cosy sweaters on sale to take him skating or to the hockey game in § warmth and comfort-These famous nfaker sweaters come in a multitude of plain or * patterned styles. And Mom, they're all easy care and machine washable. Choose from crew-nacks. V-necks or cardigans —allsale . priced. Colors include brown, camel, blue and navy. For sizes 4-6X 5.99 8- 16.6.99. Not all sizes or colors available in all styles. VOL. 33; No, 64 Bus skids, many hurt SKYKOMISH, WASH. {AP) — A chartered Groy- hound bus- bound for a° Christmas pageant in’ the Cascade Mountains’ ran: off fey Highway 2 Saturday’ ‘and plunged: over an. embank- ment, injuring more than a dozen passengers. | Judy Joselyn, a dispat- cher at Josh's Towing, said 16 ‘to 20 persons were in- - Her husband, Darrell, Skykomish assistant fire ‘chief and owner of the towing company, radioed to her from the scene thatthe | bus Tests given ‘to researcher, gov't, admits VANCOUVER (CP). —. The -provincial government has confirmed: that 20,000 confidential Grade 12 English teats were given to a. uni- versity _ researcher without proper clearance. ‘The’ tests still carried the names,and addresses of _ the students who had written them when they were passed last spring to Dr. Barb McDaniel of the. Simon Fra- ser University department of English. Deputy Education Min- ister Jim Carter was told of .the error by the B.C. Tea- .- hers’, Federation. He has since .told- McDanielito re- move’ the identification “™ give’ up: the ‘teats, been conducting a study on “marking consistency. The annual placement tests are used to put students in’. appropriate Post-second- ary English courses. They are the only provincial ass- essment examinations that require students to identify themselves. ‘The teachers’ federation, meanwhile, charges that in addition to the marking-con- sistency research, McDaniel ‘categorized students in three groups: non-Chinese, Chinese who had English as their first landguage, and Chinese who did not have English as their first language. Counting on emotional reaction LISBON (AP) — Portu- gal's right wing leaders hope to use the emotional reaction to Prime Minister Francisco ‘sa Carneiro’s death to secure their candidate's victory in Monday's presidential elec- ons. The governing Demo- cratic Alliance issued a state- ment Saturday saying the only way to continue the work of the late prime min- ister is to- vote for the Alli- ance candidate, Gen. Antonio Soares Carneiré. The general was chosen as the Tieht's candidate by the prime minister, who died in a plane crash Thursday night. © In private, Alliance lead- ers confide that their only hope of defeating President Antonio Ramalho Eanes’ ef-- forts.to win'a second term with the help of socialists and communists is the emotional reaction provoked by the prime minister's death. The right win media had been’ concentrating on the funeral of'sa Carneiro and Defence Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa, knowing it might swing the election in che Alliance candidate's fa- vor. The elections will go ahead as scheduled following a unanimous decision by the national election committee, with the supper of all major parties. Published ' at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1980 WS if skidded on ice and slid over a 16-metre embankment. Joselyn said at least- «three ambulances were ‘dis- patched and additional med- ical ‘personnel were ‘re- quested at the scene. Oren Evans, Grey: hound’s Seattle transporta: tion manager, confirmed that the accident involved a char- tered Greyhound bus east-~ bound from Seattle to the town of Leavenworth in the Cascades for a Bavarian Cheishaas tree lighting festi- vi Buy oil, gas shares VANCOUVER (CP) — Senator Hazen Argue, minis- ter responsible for the. Can- “* adian Wheat Board, . says » credit unions and co-oper- ; atives across the country.:° should be encouraged to il and a shares in Canadian oil - gas industries. : Srmes song sheets. | available: Multi-colored -: song. first-come, ‘first-served basis, and the Castlegar News reserves the right to ols are included as well as the: more modern pieces such as “Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer” and “Winter Wonderland.” Airport will ‘add firemen Treasury Board ap- proval has been given to make money available for the hiring of additional — fire- fighters at the ‘Castlegar This was announced Fri- day evening during a Christ- mas social sponsored by Ad- - ‘ga Systems International, the holder of the operating contract for the airport, held for employees and guests, rt firechief Jim Brendly, when contacted yes- terday, said the number of firefighters, as well as when their employment starts, are unknown. Trail man on board VICTORIA (CP) Labor minister Jack Heinrich has appointed a’ new board of review to deal with ‘appeals of. Workérs’ Compensation Board decisions. Heinrich says Maria Gi- ardini, a Vancouver lawyer who has worked with the WCB for the last three years, has been named chairman of the new board. The two board members are Leonard Kingman, former manager of the occu- pational safety and health division of MacMillan Bloedel and Alfred Read, former ‘fulltime financial secretary of the steelworkers local 480 in Trail. The appointments bring the number of independent boards of review in B.C. to six. TODAY'S PRAYER Let us sing pra tor for anoth 2 Sections (A&B) Bus hit truck 30 injured SPARWOOD (CP) — Heavy snow and poor visi- bility have been blamed for a bus-truck collision Friday morning that injured 80 coal miners on their way to work. RCMP said the collision * occurred about four kilome- tres east of the B.C.-Alberta boundary on Highway 3. Five of the men are in hospital at Crowsnest, Alta., while two more severely in- jured have been transferred to ‘hospital at Lethbridge. The others were ‘ged after treatment. No names have been released. Police said the bus was carrying 41 workers on their way to the Kaiser Resources Ltd. coal operations at Spar- wood when it struck a parked trailer-transport truck owned by Synkoloid Co. of Canada of Surrey Rumors spread after killings | ex SAN SALVADOR (REUTER) — Rumors of a “possible rightwing SOUR oF or + leftwing ‘sweeping El wador f follow. ‘Ming news of the suspension of 'U.S. military and economic ‘assistant ce. ‘ President Carter Friday suspended a $20-million aid * package for the central American country, pending the report‘of a special mis- program is outlined VANCOUVER (CP)— A massive two-pronged pro- gram, aimed “at bringing rapid transit to’ the Van- couver area and easing the housing shortage, was un- veiled Saturday by municipal affairs minister Bill Vander Zalm and lands minister Jim Chabot. The program, which Vander Zalm called an “ur- ban strategy for the. lower ~ mainland,” involves: - =. Completion of an automated light rapid transit line between downtown Van- couver and New Westmin- ster by 1986;" — Extending the system to the Surrey and Coquitlam town centres following fur- ther studies; 3 — Completion by mid- 1982 of a commuter train service along CP Rail tracks on the south shore of Burrard Inlet to Port Moody, Co- quitlam and Port Coquitlam; Phone rates up VANCOUVER (CP) — Long-distance telephone rates between British Col- umbia and the United States : will rise 5.12 per cent on Monday. ° Robert Johnston, B.C. Telephone’ public relations director, said the increase will equalize B.C.'s rates with those being charged by American Telephone and Telegraph on calls from the United States. . The U.S. company re- -cently increased its rates and Radio-Television and Tele- communications Commission to make the same increase. Johnston said the last rate change in Canada-U.8. service was in April, 1976. — Servicing of govern- ment-owned land, ‘primarily in Port Moody, Port Coquit- lam and Coquitlam, to pro- vide 19,000 new housing unit Introduction of a new building code to allow .con- version of older- and under- utilized residential, industrial and commercial buildings in- to housing; — review\of the prov- incial home mortgage aid program and grants to en- sure they reflect current market conditions. Chabot said the main purpose of his housing pro- gram is to stabilize land prices and to make better use of older areas in Vancouver. The site of the old B.C. ’ Penitentiary in New West- minster will also be rede- veloped, with its 67'/ acres divided into residential lots. Mortgage rates remain high OTTAWA (CP) — Can- ada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the house con- struction industry should be- gin coming out of a four-year decline next year, but mort- gage rates are apt to remain relatively high and the cost of new homes will likely rise by eight to 10 per cent. ', The predictions are con- ee in the agency's latest uarterly ‘economic outlook for the industry. ‘Starts on new housing reached their lowest levels in May, reflecting record-high interest rates earlier in the spring, but have begun risifg once again. Housing starts for 1980 are expected to total 160,000 units, and the fore- cast for 1981 is 188,500 units or more. . New construction is fore- cast to increase in most re- gions, mainly in multiple-unit What a bummer Inclement weather has Played: tricks on the Castlegar News. Our Canadian Press news service line from Ni since early tiday. CNCP T cs munications is working on it but at press time the break hadn't been found. * We'd planned on bringing you all of last night's NHL gam and all kinds of other current stuff. Please accept our apologies. Life can be a bummer. . Much of what we do offer today, out- side of local and district news provided to us courtesy of radio ste CKQR and over long-distance phone to in Vancouver and Toro Canadian P: “dwellings such as apart- ments. However, rental. units will continue to be in short supply through early next year. Virtually no vacant units are available in Vic- toria, Sudbury, Ont., St. John’s, Nild., Saint John, N.B., Oshawa, Ont., and the ChicoutimiJonquiere area of Quebec. - COULD FLUCTUATE Mortgage rates for 1981 are predicted in the range of 14 per cent, down about one percentage point from cur- rent market levels, but rates could fluctuate markedly around 14 per cent. ‘Finally, the corporation says, prices for new houses ‘have started rising signifi- cantly for the first time in four years. The total average in- | crease in housing prices be- tween 1976 and 1979 was only 9.9 per cent. The in- crease for the first nine months of 1980 was 6.4 per cent and increases of eight to 10 per cent are expected next In St. John’s, one of Canada’s most active housing markets, the annual increase ‘to September was 21.2 per cent. The comparable in- crease in Vancouver, one of the tightest housing markets, was 26.2 per cent. _ 126 counts against former VSE ote i VANCOUVER (cP) — However, the case in ‘Vancouver provincial court was adjourned to June 12 to allow time for former VSE vice-president Christopher Caulton to be brought back from England to stand trial. Crown Counsel Len Doust said it will take at least four months to have Caulton returned to Canada. The new charge means Caulton, who held the power- ful position of approving new listings, now faces 94 counts — including 31 each of con- spiring to commit breach of trust, committing breach of trust and accepting. secret commissions. The crown alleges. that Caulton accepted benefits from officials of 21 Vancou- ver-based public companies in exchange for preferential treatment. Charged Friday with the new conspiracy count were promoters John Davies, Errol Fisher, Dennis John- ‘stone, Alexander Lenec, Philip Lieberman, John Me- Kay, John Tancowny and Carl Zuber. The promoters earlier were charged with either conspiring with Caulton, aid- ing and abetting him to com- mit a breach of trust, or corruptly offering benefits to him, Wage, price controls liked TORONTO (CP) — results of a Gallup Poll show just over half of Canadians favor wage and price con- trols. The poll’ shows that 61 per cent approved the impo- sition of controls and 34 per cent were against. Fifteen per cent were unable to say. It is based on 1,061 personal interviews with Canadian adults in mid-October. Approval was highest in British Columbia — 56 per cent — and Ontario — 63 per cent. It was the lowest in the prairie provinces — 43 per cent. In 1978, after the federal government began phasing out its anti-inflation program, 658 per cent of Canadians surveyed approved controls. sion due to: investigate the murders of four American women: The bodies of the four — three nuns and“a Roman . Catholic lay worker — were found shot to death Thursday about 50 kilometres from the capital. They had been kid- napped from the capital city of San Salvador’s interna- tional A spokesman for the suggestions that security forces were involved in the kidnap-murders. And ithe spokesman said aid sus- pension: could weaken the junta, which he described as the best defence against a takeover by left or t rightwing extremists, Fueling rumors of insur- yd Majano. He's considered the most liberal of the five-man executive, and’ has been under pressure from rightist critics to Majano held secret talks Friday night with Panaman- ian ‘strongman Gen. Omar Torrijos, who backed left- overthrow the late dictator Anastasio Somoza in Nicar- gua, Upon arrival in Panama, Majano said he had no inten- tion of resigning from the junta, but called the Salva- doran military to expel right- ist sectors within it. - More than 9,000 people have been killed in political vidlence in El Salvador this year. Inaugural meeting set Monday is Conception Day and it's conceivable things will perk up at future city council meet after the swearing in of four aldermen at 7 p.m. by Judge L. Bruce Josephson. Jim Gouk, Carl Loeblich and Carl Henne, each of whom is an old hand at ning seats in the Nov. 15 elections. They're expected to liven senate as they join returnee Len Embree, vet- erans Charlie Cohoe and Albert Calderbank, and Mayor Audrey Moore. Gouk, Loeblich and Em- bree are. e: be around for scother” two years; but Henne will have to face voters again next: Nov- ember along with Cohoe, Calderbank and Moore. After Judge Josephson has Embree, Gouk, Loeblich and Henne take the oath of office, Rev. Lowell Kindschy of St, Peter’s Lutheran Choureh will give an invoca- tion and Mayor Moore an address. Appointments to various committees will be made and an ‘acting mayor named. Other housekeeping duties will be performed be- fore aldermen decide regular future meeting datés.