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OOTISCHENIA_ SCHOOL

By CasNews Staff
SOCKEYE A decision to have two

split classes at Ootischenia
Elementary School enlarged
=< to carry three grades each
220 Gr. $929 has been “put on hold” until

mext year, according to a

repr from the
school’s parents’ group.
Denise Chernoff told mem-

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Parents’ Committee Thurs-
$199 day that a proposal to have a

Class decision d

Grades 3/4 split class divided

layed

ants were concerned

money.
not a pool we were able to find in the
entire are¢ that makes money,” he

“Operating costs are quite high for
the pool, but when you incorporate
things like a fitness centre and lounge,
they do better.”

And even with a fitness centre,
Wilson said the best the community
could hope for is to come close to
breaking even.

But Wilson says the dream of having

‘a fitness centre is still a few years

away.

“We anticipate it will be a year or
two before anything comes together,”
Wilson later said. “There's a lot of hard
work (involved), but I think the area
wants it.”

During the question period, one
chamber member asked about the pos
sibility of incorporating a library into
the plan. Wilson said he would bring
that up at the committee meeting
Monday night.

Asked about overall costs, Wilson
noted that a facility recently approved
in Salmon Arm is expected to cost
about $1.9 million.

don’t think we could do it without a tax
increase.”

At the meeting Monday, the com-
mittee will be looking at ways to raise
money for the centre.

One member noted that if there is a
referendum, many senior citizens will
likely vote against it because they can't
afford a tax increase.

It was then asked if it could be
arranged for seniors not be taxed for
the centre.

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore,
who attended the Chamber luncheon
meeting, replied that it wauld be illegal
to exclude seniors from taxation.

Lyle Archambault told the meeting
that racquetball is a dying sport in
some areas. He estimated that the
costs are $120,000 per court.

Chamber manager Wally Peacock
agreed.

“I recently looked at the situation as
a business and they are dying out in
B.C. and Alberta. They are just not
moneymakers,” he said.

But chamber member Doug Drink-
water countered that there are lots of
people still playing the game.

with Grade 3 students in the
Grades 1/2 split class and
Grade 4 students in the
Grades 5/6 split class had
“disturbed” members of the
Ootischenia parents group
when it was presented to
them earlier this week.
Chernoff said parents, tea.
chers, and trustees met at
the school last Sunday to dis-

curt quality of educa-
said Chernoff. “Ob-
viowply it was going to go
downhill.”

thé situation will be resolved
for next year.

Meanwhile, a substitute
teacher is filling in at Twin
Rivers.

Pagan lost his
bid to stop trial

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cuss the proposal presented Chernoff said parents of
by school superintendent children at the school plan to
Terry Wayling.

write to MLA Chris D'Arcy,
The purpose of the en- the Ministry of Education

larged three-way split classes and the school board pro-
was to cover the loss of one of testing any move of this type.
the teachers at Ootischenia, “We don't know what else
who was to teach at Twin to.do, we've been told some-
Rivers Elementary school in thing's going to happen. »All
the afternoons to replace a we can do is make gur
teacher on sick leave.

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and Roy Holdershaw, 42, who
have lived together for about
four years.

He said the parents would
not say which relatives they
left their daughter with, but
police have checked with all
known relatives, and “they
don't know where the baby
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school
refused to hire him to teach ‘girls’ physical education
classes.

Teacher Nevio Rossi of Prince George said in an
interview the council has confirmed in a letter that an
industrial relations oficer has been appointed to look
into the complaint.

Rossi said he applied last May for a job at
Mackenzie secondary school, but was later told in
writing that the school board preferred to hire a
female teacher for the girls’ classes.

NEEDS HELP

MONTREAL (CP) — Premier Rene Levesque,
who apparently is counting on Prime Minister
Mulroney for political help, got a boost Saturday with
reports that the Tory leader is ready to recognize the
distinct character of Quebec in constitutional talks.

Le Devoir reported that Mulroney told a caucus
meeting last week: “It will be necessary one day to
recognize that Quebec is different. And this day
should not be far away.”

Levesque and Mulroney are to have their first
official meeting in Quebee City next Thursday, the
first bilateral meeting between Mulroney and a
provincial premier.

TOBACCO BAN

OTTAWA (CP) — Federal Health Minister Jake
Epp says he hopes Canadian newspapers will follow
the example of an eastern Ontario daily which plans to
ban most tobacco advertising next year.

Epp commended the move by the Kingston
Whig-Standard in an interview with Standard
Broadcast News taped in advance for broadcast
Saturday.

“I think they've taken a very courageous step,”
Epp said, praising the decision for ethical and health
reasons while recognizing the paper's financial
sacrifice.

CHURCH CHANGE

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Faced with a
declining number of converts and fewer eligible young
men to “proclaim the Gospel,” Mormon Church leaders
have ended a 2-year experiment and returned the
length of most missions to two years. The First
Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints said that starting Jan. 1, most missions would
no longer be 18 months, a term established in 1982 to
ease the financial burden on missionaries’ families,
who support them during their service.

ABORTION

PARIS (REUTER) — French and Swedish
researchers say they have developed and successfully
tested a compound which induces abortion in early
stages of pregnancy

Etienne Beaulieu of the Bicetre Hospital in Paris
and Mark Bygdeman of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm told a news conference that their method is
100 per cent effective and has practically no side
effects.

They described it as a new version of the
“morning-after pill.”

The method is not contraceptive but “contrages
tive.” a term invented by its creators, indicating it
does not halt but acts at the ing stage
of pregnancy, preventing the uterus from retaining
the fetus.

BOMB SCARE

ATHENS (REUTER) — A large bomb, apparent
ly aimed at killing Greece's opposition leader Con
stantine Mitsotakis, was found and defused Saturday
at a spot where he was due to address a political rally
an hour later, police sources say. The rally, which
attracted at least 10,000 people, was called to protest
the way the Socialist government uses state
television.

PEACE TALKS

SAN SALVADOR (AP) Rebel leaders said
Saturday they want the Salvadoran peace talks to
keep going despite President Jose Napoleon Duarte's
threats to end negotiations unless they “think over”
their proposals

The second round of talks ended late Friday with
neither side agreeing to more than minimal conces-
sions. The rebels and the government also failed to set
a date for the next talks aimed at ending the five-year
civil war against the U.S.-backed government.

148 PERISH

COLOMBO (AP) — The Sri Lankan government
said Saturday that 148 people perished in guerrilla
attacks on two prison camps and ensuing battles with

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by rebels seeking an independent Tamil homeland.

troops, and that Sri Lankan ships and planes drove off
19 boats believed to be carrying an invasion force of

guerrillas.
It said that 10 people were killed aboard one of

eventually employ 140 people in the economically-depressed

The plant would be located at Usk, about 26 kilometres
north of Newport in the northeast corner of the state.

The operation will be known as Ponderay Paper Ltd.
and will have an annua! payroll and benefits of about $7
million for the permanent work force, James McCampell,
manager of the Pend Oreille County Publie Utility District,
said Wednesday.

It will be built on a 120-hectare site.

Officials said negotiations for the plant are in the final
stages. They have been working with representatives of
Pack River Co. of Hayden Lake, Idaho, a member of the
investor group in the project.

Other members of the investor group are the
Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, the Copley Newspapers of San
Diego, the Salt Lake Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle,

The Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette, and Great Lakes

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Conservative
wins in Quebec

were predicted

VANCOUVER (CP) — Prime Minister Brian. Mylroney
predicted at the beginning of the federal election eampaign
that the Progressive Conservative party would win 60 seats
in Quebec, says one of the party’s chief strategists in the

campaign.

Patrick Kinsella, former executive secretary to B.C.
Premier Bill Bennett and Social Credit campaign chairman
in 1983, discussed his election strategy in a talk to a Simon

Fraser University marketing student club.
His talk was taped and a copy was made available to a

CBC reporter.

Kinsella said he asked Mulroney about his chances in
Quebec during the first day of the campaign.

“If I can replace in the hearts and minds of Quebeckers,
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, I will win 60 seats in Quebec,” he
quoted Mulroney as saying. “I will very clearly tell them in
my language, in my French, my street talk, with all the
nuances that I can expand on as a franchophone . . . that Tam
going to replace Trudeau in Quebec.”

The Tories won 58 seats in Quebec.

POLLS IMPORTANT

Kinsella, a former London, Ont., insurance salesman
who managed Ontario Premier Bill Davis's majority election
win in 1981, stressed to the students the importance he felt
polis played in campaign strategy

“I believe polls can tell you exactly what it is you want
to know. And the challenge then is to take that and make it
work for you.”

He said the election campaign has over a month elore
the election.

“All you had to do was tread water. (Pollster) Allan
Gregg predicted on Aug. 11 what was going to happen. He
was out by about three seats.”

Kinsella said it was apparent as early as the second
quarter of 1962 that the public wanted a change in
government.

leadershi ing the fact
that they liked or didn’t like Pierre Elliott Trudeau, what
they wanted to do was change leaders.

“Mulroney knew we had to keep on our tactic of staying
on the gameplan and just talking about change. If he gave
three speeches a day he had to say the same thing in every
speech. He had to remind you of the sleaziness of the Liberal
government.”

Kinsella said that during the campaign, Mulroney
refused to divulge what his party's campaign promises
would cost, because “the polls told us you could have cared
less.”

COSTS DISCLOSED

Then, with less than a week left in the campaign, “we
finally revealed to all who cared that it was going to cost $4.2
billion. And it was a one-day wonder in the media.”

Kinsella said that after showing Mulroney's television
ad to a focus group, a one-word change was made which sold
Mulroney to Canadians.

The original ad had Mulroney saying “together we can
do better.”

“We changed one work of that after the focus group said
‘we dor't believe you can do better, we don't buy that crap.”

The ad was changed to read “we can be better.”

During the campaign, Kinsella said the party polled 500
Canadians in 20 key ridings every night, to decide where
Mulroney should go and what he should say.

Kinsella also discussed the 1982 B.C. election campaign
during the talk.

He said the Social Credit government's restraint
program was designed to sell Bennett as a tough leader and
was “based on the data that told us what it was that the
people out there were feeling.”

Kinsella now works as a private consultant for the B.C
Social Credit Party and the federal Conservatives.

Tranquille
complaint

KAMLOOPS (CP) — The handicapped people,” he said

lobby group British Colum- Etmanski said he hopes a

bians for Mentally Handi favorable ruling by the coun

capped People has filed a cil would allow the Trangille
complaint with the B.C. residents ai Glendale to

Human Rights Council over move to group homes.

the transfer of about 60 The provincial government

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DOWN WE GO... Children at the Hobbit Hill Daycare
Centre play on the new Rodney Stewart Venture
Playground, which consists of a tire swing and slide

The playground was built this summer through a
Canada works grant and memorial donations.
Ceattews Photo by Chery! Cakderbont

Rock ‘n roll senator

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AP) A rock star who
shaves his head and delights legions of fans with his
frenzied performances on stage stands a good chance of
becoming an Australian senator with his message of
nuclear disarmament.

Peter Garrett was given a good chance of winning
election to the federal Senate from the state of New
South Wales on the Nuclear Disarmament party ticket
when counting adjourned Saturday night following the
general election.

“There are millions of people in the world who are
concerned about the issue of disarmament,” Garrett said
Saturday

“Disarmament is an issue which will not go away. It
is the central issue which we all must face.”

Election officials said it might be up to two weeks
before final Senate results are known, but Garrett was
about three-quarters of the way to the 12 per cent of the
overall state vote required to get one of the seven seats
from the state. Senate voting is based on proportional
representation.

The party was formed last summer solely on the
issue of nuclear disarmament and campaigned for a ban
on mining and exporting of Australia’s uranium reserves
and the immediate closing of U.S. military facilities in
Australia.

“We're not radicals, we're not Communists and we're
not revolutionaries,” Garrett said.

The onetime law studegt is lead singer of Midnight
Oil, one of Australia’s most popular rock bands. With his
gangling limbs and gaunt features, Garrett is best known
for his wild performances 6n stage in which he gyrates
and twists to the band’s blaring electronic music as
streams of sweat run down his body.

Midnight Oil's best selling records feature songs
with social themes such as protests against U.S. military
bases and the threat of nuclear destruction.

Garrett said he plans to devote his efforts to the
Senate if he wins election, but he would continue his
musical career as long as it did not pose a conflict.

The Nuclear Disarmament party emerged as a
surprising force in eleetions that saw Prime Minister Bob
Hawke's government hold on to power with a diminished
majority

Hawke and other government leaders strongly
attacked the Nuclear Disarmament party during the
campaign, claiming no one was more concerned about the
threat of nuclear war than the government was.

The prime minister dismissed the party as “cloud
cuckoo land” idealists and said a vote for it would be
wasted

Probe into Petrofina

OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal Leader John Turner wants a
publie investigation by a Commons committee into the con
troversial 1961 purchase of Petrofina by Crown owned
Petro-Canada under the previous Liberal regime.

“I would like t6 see the whole situation airmed com
pletely,” Turner told reporters Saturday on his way into a

Liberal party mission meeting.

His sta eda report Saturday by the
Ottawa Citizen yers paid at least $200 million
more than i ht for the oi] company because of

an arrangement whereby shareholders in the parent
company, Petrofina S.A. of Brussels, would avoid paying
Canadian capital gains taxes

The deal, made while Marc Lalonde was energy
minister in Pierre Trudeau's government, is already under
independent investigation by order of the Progressive
Conservative government in late October

The Belgian oil company was originally said to have cost
$1.46 billion until it was learned that a Swiss firm employing
former Petro-Canada chairman Maurice Strong got nearly
$1 million for arranging the takeover — boosting the cost to
about $1.6 billion.

The Toronto-based accounting and management firm of
Ernst and Whinney is to report to the Tory government at
the end of January

“Td like to get to the bottom of it, find out what went
on,” Turner told reporters. “And I think the public accounts
committee might be a good vehicle for that.”

An inquiry by the Commons public accounts committee
means witnesses could be called whose testimony would be
taken for the public record. The independent investigation is
conducting its examination in private.

ALSO INVESTIGATES

ation on the basis of physical McCarthy said Friday the
condition. 7 remaining Tranquille
“Ithink what we're hoping residents won't all be moved

to gain is freedom for those out by Dee. 31.

Auditor General Kenneth Dye, who is
carrying out his own investigation of the takeover, has said
he feels the Ernst and Whinney report will not answer all
the questions he thinks needs answering.

The pr Liberal gp Pp d the
auditor general's office from gaining access to confidential
cabinet documents which Dye says his staff needs to assess
the

Dye has already gone to court to try to get that access.

The Conservatives, who pestered the government for «
public inquiry while they were in Opposition, have also
denied Dye access to the documents.

Lalonde and the previous Liberal government con.
stantly defended the takeover against steady criticism.
especially by the Tories, saying nothing was awry.

The Tories had suggested that Petro-Canada paid too
much for the company and complained immediately after the
acquisition that news of the deal had been leaked, running
up the cost of Petrofima’s stock and raising the possibility of
profiterring.

Petro-Canada paid $120 a share, $30 a share more than
market value

It was also revealed in 1961 that the chairman of the
board of Petrofina earned about $300,000 by exercising
lucrative stock options in the firm less than a month before
the Petro-Canada purchase. But Pierre Nadeau had then
denied any wrongdoing and said he was “just so lucky.”

After the deal was announced, the Liberals imposed a
special tax on gasoline and home heating oil to pay off the
purchase. The levy — now 0.9 cents a litre — is still collected
from consumers long after the Petrofina deal has been paid.

Doukhobors
on probation

By CasNews Staff Josephson that they will
The two Sons of Freedom keep the peace
women charged with the In a separate trial Thurs.
arson of the Doukhobor His day, Mary Astaforoff, 69, was
torical Village June 29 were found not guilty of setting
given suspended sentences fire to the same museum last
Thursday in Castlegar prov. September.
ineial court The women were pardoned
Mary Braun, 63, and Tina by the federal government in
Zmaefi, 59, were also placed October 1988 after they fast-
on three years probation af. ed during prison terms for
ter promising Judge Bruce arson