SS Castlegar News December 15, 1985 SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure will remain off the coast. Pacific systems will continue to move over the top of the ridge then down the ContineMtal Divide. These systems are quite weak. ] Eel 2) EE! el (24) (2 Youth to be tried as adult NELSON — The case of a 16-year-old Fruitvale youth who faces a second-degree murder charge will be held in adult, not juvenile, court, provincial court Judge Ste- wart Enderton decided here Thursday. The youth is charged in the death of Cale Clarkston, a Grade 6 student from Fruit- vale in the West Kootenay, who disappeared July 12 while on a fishing trip. His body was found, stran- gled, two days later in bush SERVICE AWARD . . . Castlegar’s Debra Chmara receives Red Cross service pin from ALRT gets first VANCOUVER (CP) — The metal walls of the st- SkyTrain stations got their ations of the advanced light first grafitti this week, but it rapid transit line are speci- didn’t last. ally treated to be “grafitti- i no wae ICE CAPADES Dee. 26 and 29 SPORTS FANS GETAWAY Feb. 26-Mar.1, 1986 saqoo MAPLE LEAF TRAVEL 365-6616 DEWDNEY TOURS 800-332-0282 : Old Spice Soap on - A Rope. 140 Gra: Photo Albums 1 ai PRAY Bag of Bows Old Spice Sets Bese” $5 88 cormeit OPPYEOCK gems: $329 indoor Lights i] Sparkle Set. V's. Ri $8.99. "$4.39 25 % Off Selected * Gift Baskets © Boxed Christmas Cords Mluminoted ... © Timex Watches Christmas Hours — Thurs. & Fri. 9a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat., 9a.m, - 5:30. Sunday 12-58 6-7 p.m. CARL’S DRUGS LTD.2= graffiti proof,” so would-be artists will have to look elsewhere to exhibit their work for longer periods. “A crew comes along at night and just wipes it off with a cloth,” said Bob Egby, B.C. Transit spokesman. . “It’s been shown if you leave it there, grafitti just encourages more grafitti.” Egby said-paint and felt- pen markings appeared at two or three stations. In one case, “a member of the public bawled a kid out for using a felt pen on the walls.” On the first day of service, Wednesay, transit officials estimated 60,000 people rode the system, accounting for 100,000 rides. On Thursday, approximately 50,000 pass- engers took 80,000 rides. On Friday, 55,000 people used the service. The free-ride system con- tinues the next two Fridays and Saturdays. Regular ser- vice begins Jan. 3. f Poy | VICTORIA (CP) — Brit- ish Columbia police are lé- gally authorized again to order blood tests on sus- pected impaired drivers and issue 24-hour roadside sus- pensions. “The laws allowing police to use the two means of dealing with drinking driving were recently ruled unconstitu- tional in separate cases in B.C. 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Benedict is going “through a phase” of disinterest in the language, while Mark's comprehension is good. She expects Nicolas to pick up the language quickly as all her terms of endearment to him are in Serbo-Croatian. Mildred Istona, Chatelaine’s editor-in-chief, said the magazine chose Mulroney as woman of the year because she is “a woman who knows her own mind and has the courage to speak it.” “In the current social climate, many women are often move defects in the Motor Vehicle Act to make it con- form with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were passed Dec. 2, just before the about their choice to be wives and mothers first. Mila says so with conviction and panache. “At the same time, while her highest priority is her husband and family, she has impressed Canadians as a person in her own right. No one could ever accuse her of living in her husband's shadow.” 75¢ off processing. (Prenttim onty.) Call 365-7515 1106 3rd St., Castlegar a Western Canadian Company AT THE Castleaird Plaza Only OPEN SUNDAYS for your Shopping Convenience -5 p.m. ATTENTION -ALL KOKANEE TAX CLIENTS We are pleased to announce that Tri City Tax Services will be able to handle ~ all of “Management needs as of mid-January, 1986. your Also, Janet of the former Kokanee Tax Office in Castlega our staff. = Watch for future ads in this paper in the New Year. Wishing you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tri City Income Tax Tax and Accounting r will be on SPOTS GOOD SIGN Bananas are the most digestible when the brown spots appear on the skin. Guess she's 39 today? Happy Birthday! 11 a.m Se > Three fire department units raced to the scene but by the time they arrived the Country Club Mall's own sprinker system had doused the flames. There were no injuries in the incident and fire de- partment investigators had not determined the cause of the blaze. The tree was located in a fenced-off area in the hub.of the mall where children line up to visit Santa Claus. Santa was not on duty at the time of the fire. a “The smoke was dreadful and we were fortunate that no major store damage re- sulted although we are still trying to find out exactly what took place,” mall man- ager Colin McTaggart said Friday night. Robbery victims cool off VICTORIA (CP) — Five Burger King employees were shivering when two armed bandits held up the fast-food outlet Friday — but they weren't shivering with fear. The masked men ordered four members of the clean-up. crew and a supervisor into the walk-in freezer where the temperature was -18. Three were dressed in shirtsleeves and two in coats for the frigid five-minute stay. “They really let us cool * said supervisor Gary 24, before the five The thieves failed to jam the door shut with a screwdriver and by piling cases of buns against it. The early-morning robbery began when a man armed with a knife and a pellet gun smashed through the front. door while Braun was count- ing money. The other, armed with a knife, guarded a rear “looted an un- Police arrested two sus- pects in an alley 10 minutes later. A gun, masks and more than $3,000 was recovered. One of the suspects required four stitches to close a gash on his thumb. Michael Badior, 21, and Ri- cardo Thomas, 20, were re- manded to Tuesday. Each was charged with robbery with violence, wear- ing a mask during the com- mission of a crime, possess-. ing firearms and two counts of unlawful confinement. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Sean Coul- son pleaded guilty to driving without a valid driver's li- cense and was fined $35. OPEN SUNDAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS 4 m SAVE UP TO 50% ROSE'S BOUTIQUE December 15, 1985 Castlegar News a3 Briefly MAN CHARGED OAKVILLE, ONT. (CP) — A man charged with the abduction and repeated rape of three Oakville girls over a two-day period last August has been committed to stand trial on 31 criminal charges. _ Lonnie Mowers, 35, of Chilliwack has been in custody at the Hamilton detention centre since his arrest Aug. 30. He appeared in provincial court and waived his right to a preliminary hearing on the 31 charges, which include robbery, buggery. gross indecency and kidnapping. He was committed to trial by Judge William Sharpe. RATES CUT TORONTO (CP) — Canada's five major banks have cut their medium-and long-term mortgages in response to this week's drop in the trend-setting Bank of Canada lending rate. - The Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said they have cut interest rates on two-year mortgages by half a percentage point to 10.25 per cent and the rates on three-, four- and five-year mortgages by one-quarter of a point to 11, 11.25 and 11.5 per cent, respectively. The new rates match those charged by the Toronto-Dominion Bank and the Bank of Montreal, which cut their rates earlier. CLARK GREETED JAIPUR, INDIA (CP) — Elephants with holiday paintings on their bodies, garlanded camels and cobras swaying to the wail of their charmer's flutes greeted External Affairs Minister Joe Clark Saturday on his arrival in the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Clark briefly wrapped a proferred snake around his neck but hardly seemed to relish the feeling as he stood in bright warm sunlight on the finely manicured lawns of the Rambagh Palace hotel. 50 INJURED DILLON, COLO. (AP) — As many as 50 people may have been injured Saturday when a ski lift malfunctioned at the Keystone resort, releasing a cable carrying scores of weekend skiers up the mountain, a resort spokesman said. Lillian Roth, communications director at the resort, said details of the accident were sketchy, but initial reports were that “about 50 people were injured, but we just don’t know.” SUB PROTEST GROTON, CONN. (AP) — Anti-nuclear activists sang carols and handed out Christmas cards Saturday outside the Electric Boat shipyard during the hii of the af Pt ed attack i Louisville. The 110-metre-long vessel, the 21st fast-attack submarine launched at the shipyard, will be aimed with MK-48 anti-submarine and anti-ship torpedoes, as well as anti-ship cruise missiles and. anti-submarine missiles. Members of the Coalition to Stop Trident, an anti-nuclear weapons group that draws its name from Trident submarines that carry nuclear weapons, were amolng the protesters. EXTENSION SANTIAGO (REUTER) — Chile's state of emergency was extended for another three months Saturday. The decree by the rightist dictatorship of President Augusto Pinochet extends emergency measures, which include curbs on the reporting of political developments and guerrilla violence. Pinochet, who seized power in a 1973- U.S.-supported coup, repeated a warning Friday that he had prepared-“spectacular action” to combat leftist rebels. He gave no details in this remarks to reporters in the northern city of Valparaiso. U.S. MISSILES WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government is accusing Washington of “virtually mining the skies” of the Central American country by supplying rebel forces with sophisticated surface-to-air missiles. ii A Carlos -T made the allegation in response to a Reagan administration denial that it had supplied rebel forces with the missile that shot down a Soviet-made helicopter over Nicaragua on Dec. 2. State Secretary George Shultz had suggested last week the insurgents obtained the missile on the international arms market because U.S. law prohibits providing military equipment to the rebels, known as Contras. BODY FOUND LONDON (AP) — Security officers evacuated hundreds of travellers from the international terminal at Heathrow Airport on Saturday following a telephoned warning tliat a bomb was set to explode. Airport officials ordered the evacuation shortly after noon when a man wiht an Irish accent called to say a bomb was timed to explode in 30 minutes. Pension plan premiums to rise By JIM COYLE TORONTO (CP) — The federal government has reached an agreement with the provinces to increase and expand Canada Pension Plan benefits and raise premiums starting in January 1987. But any move to extend ‘pension benefits to homemakers will be delayed. : . The improvements will cost $478 million in the first year and bring benefits paid under the plan in 1987 to $6.8 billion, federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson estimated when announcing the agreement after a meeting with his provincial counterparts Friday. ‘The maximum monthly benefit of $435 would rise to $527 and eligibility age, now 65, would be made flexible to allow people to retire anytime between 60 and 70 with ppropriate benefit adj Disability benefits would also increase for about 140,000 recipients while survivor benefits would no longer be «cancelled for those who remarry. Payments would be their benefits on remarrying. Pension credits earned during marriage would be split between former promises of more study on extension of benefits to homemakers. Such a move is supported only by the federal government, Ontario and Quebec. “We are all aware thata fund would run out in 2003 at current contribution rates but the changes agreed to at the seven-hour, closed-door meeting would ensure its financial health “in the decades to has not din Canada on pi ¥ .” Wilson said. = Pp for FOLLOWS QUEBEC Quebec is the only province with its own public pension. plan and the changes proposed bring the national plan in line with Quebec's. The Canadian plan, d in 1966, has i d benefit levels since its inception but never raised the contribution rate — 3.6 per cent of if i cent by 2011. Wilson saiod the “gradual and predictable increases” would allow employers to plan for the changes, which would see them add $150 million in contributions in 1987 to the $2.7 billion called for if the rate remained unchanged. Canadians earning the average wage of about $26,700 in 1987 would see ‘contributions rise $24 a year_to $458. However, contributions are tax deductible so the impact on ke-hi over $2,300 to a maximum $23,500 a year. : Contributions are split evenly between workers and emplyees and paid entirely by the self- pay is reduced. Wilson must seek the approval of two-thirds of the reinstated to about 35,000 widows or widowers who lost Wilson said that because of the aging population the the pension plan. TURNING THE SOD... . Mayor Audrey Moore and Castlegar Chamber zs ce buildi f of C c first piece of sod for chamber’s new building to be constructed next to the Community Complex. Also on hand for Saturday's ceremony were chamber directors, city rep i di IWA warms to B.C. Fed VANCOUVER (CP) — The executive board of the Inter- national Woodworkers of chairman Mike O'Connor turn the and others invol: the design and construction of the new building. Shown are (from left) Gordon Soukoreff, Michael Mayrhofer, Ni Paul Moroso, Jim Switz, Mary Anderson, Dave Gairns, Larry Bosse, Doug Drinkwater, Nick Chernoff, Mickey Nazarov (project foreman), and Jim Horcoff. ick Oglow, Carl Henne, —CosNews Photo by Phul Colderbonk FORMER. BCMA.-HEAD Jory wins legal fight VANCOUVER (CP) — A former president of the British Columbia complicated relationships with other important that people are announcing Medical Association has won a legal challenge against a suspension by the America has r its British Columbia locals re-affiliate- with the B.C. Federation of Labor after a one-year absence. College of P i and Dr. William Jory, 52, was suspended for one year and fined $10,000 plus $20,000 in costs after the college was critical of the way he conducted eye inati of Indian children in But hard, a union vice-president, said the board also proposed a $20,000 con- tribution to the federation’s Unemployed Action Centres. ‘The move follows a change in the federation's regula- tions on delegate entitle- northwestern B.C. However, B.C. Supreme Court Jus- tice Beverley McLachlin has over- turned this penalty. She held that _ there was insufficient evidence to support the college's finding. McLachlin said Jory performed the ment to annual An amendment passed at last eye honestly, if some- what carelessly, and had no intention of ing thi month's ion will mean representation and _per- capita dues will be deter- mined by the number of members a union has and not its structure. Eleven of 13 locals in the the B.C. medical services plan. The charges against Jory, an oph- thalmologist then based in Prince Rupert, rose in April 1982, shortly after he had taken over for a second term as president of the BCMA. He i 35,000- Ss union have withheld all. bu token federation dues since last year's convention, when IWA president Jack Munro lost his union's traditional vice-president. Munro blamed the defeat — to forest industry rival Art Gruntman of the Canadian Paperworkers Union — in part on the delegate formula, which gave a relatively large number of delegates to unions with” many small locals, and penalized the IWA, with its few large locals. > The woodworkers, the lar- gest private-sector union in the province and a key player in federation policy, also withdrew from federation committee work. FEDERATION The loss of IWA dues cost the federation close - to $180,000 and Blanchard call- ed the proposed $20,000 pay- ment to the action centres a show of “good faith.” He said two locals are still balking at re-affiliating with the fed jon because they The terminal was sealed off and all i flights briefly delayed. feel “the union was dumped on, but we're hopeful they'll come around.” but the cloud over his reputation d head of the association © physicians and with the restraint- _minded provincial government. KEPT WORKING —The college suspended him last Feb- ruary after finding him guilty of improper billing for eye examinations at the rate of 78 or more a day. He continued to practise in the V this win, because otherwise the other doctors don’t know about it — he's won.” Gardner said McLachlin’s ruling is a landmark decision, clarifying the powers of professional groups like the College of Physicians and Surgeons in their ii igati and ipline of area while his appeal was heard. Jory is in Europe but his lawyer. Robert Gardner, said his client is relieved. “For 3'/: years he’s been under a cloud, emotionally, financially and family-wise ... and I've seen that, and I'm very happy for him,” Gardner said. “They decimated — I say they, the system — decimated his practice.” Jory. once one of B.C.’s top-billing doctors with a gross income in 1981-82 of $234,000, said early this year that his fortunes had declined rapidly after the charges as other physicians stopped referring patients to him. “He now has a long way to go back to regain his old credibility with his peers,” Gardner said. “That's why it’s members. “It sets out the law as to how far an in-camera hearing can be allowed to go,” said Gardner, who had argued in court that the college's procedures were unfair. “It’s very helpful, I think, for the college to understand that they have certain responsibilities in the way they handle their members.” In her decision, McLachlin said the evidence indicated that a study based on examinations of Indian school children “was not initially Dr. Jory's idea, and was carried out honestly, if somewhat. carelessly, with full dis- closure by -Dr. Jory to (the federal health officer) and to the B.C. Medical Plan. Fatal plane had problems MIAMI (AP) — The chartered DC-8 that crashed in Gander on Thursday killing 256 people experienced mechanical difficulties earlier this year and had to abort two takeoffs in the last six months, the plane’s owners confirmed Saturday. : Ona Nov. 15 flight from Grand Rapids, Mich., the jet’s nose lifted'into the air but quickly settled back down after the tail hit the runway on takeoff, said Robin Mattell, a spokesman for Miami-based Arrow Air. On that flight, the plane was carrying 99 U.S.. Marine _ Corps reservists from Grand Rapids to Camp Lejeune, N.C., on a weekend emergency mobilization drill, Mattell said. He said a “loading problem” at the rear of the plane was believed to have caused the incident. After stopping, the airplane successfully took off and” completed its flight without incident, Mattell said. “It-was obvious what had happened, that some portion of the aircraft had struck the runway,” said Capt. Larry Martin, an active-duty officer assigned to the Grand Rapids reserve unit. : “There was a big bump, a big jolt,” said Capt. Robert Cheslek, the company commander who also was on the DC-8. . MOVES TO FRONT ‘The reservists were asked to take their gear and move from the rear of the plane to the front. Martin estimated that the company's equipment — packs, rifles and steel helmets — weighed about 2,720 kilograms. On July 28, the same DC-8 was carrying members of the Kentucky Guard and Ohio Air National Guard when forced to abort a takeoff from the Toledo, Ohio, airport, he confirmed. Mattell said reports that there was an explosion and an engine fire were incorrect. “There were some mechanical problems, but there was no fire or explosion,” he said. Mattell said he did not know the nature of the difficulties. After a delay at Toledo, the plane flew to Bangor, Me., and West Germany without further problem. “I want to emphasize that we have never flown an airplane-that was not completely safe to fly,” Mattell said. The DC-8 crashed Thursday while taking off after a refuelling stop in Gander while ona flight from Cairo, Egypt, to Fort Campbell, Ky., headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division. The crash killed all eight crew members and 248 U.S. soldiers who had been on peacekeeping duties in the Sinai Desert. They were the first fatalities for Arrow Air in its four-year history, Mattell said, adding that the airline has flown 64 million kilometres and logged 85,000 hours of flight time. 73 FINES AIRLINE However, Arrow Air had a number of safety violations in 1984 and last summer agreed to pay a $34,000 fine for record-keeping that did not meet FAA requirements. In a-related development in Washington, Pentagon spokesman Lt-Col. Don Brownlee said Saturday that remaining 101st Airborne troops in the Middle East will not fly home on Arrow as scheduled. “There was a third and final contingent of the 101st that was due to come in on the 18th (of December),” Brownlee said. “The army chief of staff requested that . . . the air force fly those remaining personnel instead of the scheduled Arrow Air transportation. But there has been no non-use of Arrow, there's been no suspension of Arrow’s. contract.” it with two-thirds of Canada’s population to change PAT CARNEY .. - Petro-Canada OTTAWA (CP) — The government is moving ahead with plans to: sell Petro- Canada shares to the public, Energy Minister Pat Carney says. a But Carney says the gov- ernment has not decided when the move will be made oo ———~ "SF How many shares willbe Soko dct ani ented “The raising of equity for Petro-Canada through the sale of shares in the new. year will be a high priority,” she said in an interview. Petro-Canada, the coun- try’s biggest oil company in terms of both assets and share of the gasoline market, has been told by the gov- ernment it now must act like a privately owned company. But before any shares are issued, the government has to determine “what kind of company we want Petro- Canada to be,” Carney said. An_ inter-departmental group has been set up under Carney to study relations be- tween state oil companies and other countries. Two of the models being looked at are British Pet- roleum, where the govern- ment holds an interest but is not involved in operations, and Elf-Aquitaine in France where Carney said the gov- ernment plays a bigger role. Petro-Canada chief Bill Hopper has said the company will need major infusions of cash if it is to go ahead with development of such plans as a new oil sands plant in Al- berta and production from the Hibernia field off the Newfoundland coast. FAVORS OPTION If the government does not provide the money, Hopper wants to raise cash by selling shares and is known to favor that option. The government has told him the company is being cut off from government sup- port. A plan to invest $275 million in the company last year was cancelled by the Conservative government. ‘The previous Conservative government ran into grief when it proposed selling Petro-Canada by putting shares on the market. But at that time, then- prime minister Joe Clark was talking about getting rid of Ottawa's entire interest in the company. Most analysts now consid- er that Petro-Canada has grown too large to sell all at once, as it now has assets of about $10 billion.