hy. Castlegar News November 2, 1988 NOBODY BUT NOBODY HAS THE USED CAR AND TRUCK SELECTION LIKE WE DO 1988 IROC From Camaro this 228 is a real winner JIMMY Low miler 4x4 just Like new don't miss it. 1987 CHEVY Exceptionally clean low miles ready for winter driving. PRELUDE Spotless condition ready For your driveway 1987 CELICA GT From Toyota, low miles, high savings Great value. 1987 S-10 EXTENDED CAB From Chevrolet Low miles 1987 SUBARU Low miles, high economy, Great value and warranty. 1987 PONTIAC Fully equipped includes Air conditioning, Very clean 1986 GMC % TON 4x4 Diesel powered. Don't miss this truck. 1987 JIMMY x4 When you talk about a clean truck This is\it 1986 BUICK SKYHAWK Great value and economy complete with low miles 1986 PONTIAC Four door comfort Complete with air cond 1986 BUICK SOMMERSET Fully equipped this may be our best used car. REMEMBER If you've got it but don't want it, trade it in. We'll take it 1986 CUTLASS SUPREME Smart tudor tutone low Miler. 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Spotless Tutone many Extras here. 1983 DODGE Clean low miles with MALONEY PONTIAC BUICK GMC 1700 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Di. 5058 PHONE NOW 365-2155 a PHONE COLLECT Steering You Straight. low payments are available. Stutterers own worst enemies RED DEER, ALTA. (CP) People who stutter often have to overcome fear and shyness to get help, says a speech-language path ologist, Such people are their own worst enemies when it comes to seeking therapy, says Margo Lepage, who works for the Red Deer Health Unit “Many are not aware of the possibilities of getting help,” she said. “Some are not motivated to change their behavior because they're used to stuttering and, for the most part, they're shy and em. barrassed.” Two per cent of people stutter or have awkward breaks in speech, Lepage said, adding that medical experts believe stuttering is caused by a problem with motor program ming. Ontario pushes walking TORONTO (CP) — Fitness Ontario has begun a program aimed at people 55 and older, in which participants “walk” from one city to another. Keeping Pace, adapted from a similar project begun by the U.S Rockport Shoe Co., involves keeping a log book of how far a person walks each day. Using a special map, in which dis. tances have been arbitrarily shor. tened, trekkers walk from one city in Ontario to another, says an article in The Fitness Report. Kenora to Thunder Bay, for in stance, is only 30 kilometres instead of the actual 490. When a person has covered a specified distance, he or she has earned a sticker bearing the crest of the city “reached.” The goal is to walk across the province, visiting each of the 25 designated cities. The actual distance covered is 755 kil ometres. Sex-torture case starting to unravel By ELAINE O'FARRELL Press EDMONTON — A carefully crafted case against Charles Ng, wanted in the United States in a string of sex-torture slayings, is beginning to come apart while his Canadian extradition hearing plods on, says a Crown prosecutor at the hearing. “One witness has already died and another is very ill, and for those reasons we are very concerned the case not be permitted to disintegrate any further,” Bruce MacFarlane said in an interview, The prosecutor represents the U.S. government at the hearing, which opened in Edmonton in Oct. 17 and is expected to last thtough mid-November. James Nourse, the father of murder victim Deborah Dubs, died of eancer about 18 months ago. Since 1985, Nourse had rallied California residents to press for Ng's quick return. He died without seeing any results. Ng is charged in the deaths of Harvey and Deborah Dubs and.their son Sean, who was 16 months old when the family was reported missing from their San Francisco home nearly four years ago. The 27-year-old former U.S. marine and martial arts expert faces 25 criminal charges in the United States, including 12 of capital murder. SERVES TIME Eleven of the homicide charges involve sex-torture killings at a rural cabin’ in Calaveras County, 200 kilometres east of San Francisco. The other was laid in the death of a San Francisco dise jockey. Ng is currently serving a 4'/:-year sentence at the federal penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask., for armed robbery, aggravated assault and unlawful use of a firearm. The December 1985 conviction followed a shoplifting attempt at a Calgary department store during which Ng shot a security guard in the hand Ng, whose name is pronounced Ing, has set impassively in the prisoner's box throughout the extradition hearing. Shackled and flanked by RCMP officers, he listens intently to the lawyers’ arguments. Much of the hearing has been held in camera. His Calgary lawyers have said they will continue fighting his return to the United States unless they are convinced he won't face California's gas chamber if convicted. When the Canadian Parliament banned capital punishment in 1976, the government signed an extradition treaty which allows it to refuse to release prisoners who may face the death penalty in the United States. Extradition decisions can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and once all legal avenues are exhausted the final decision rests in the hands of the federal justice minister. The state has not put anyone to death since 1967, but currently there are 243 people on death row and a handful have exhausted most of their appeals. TWO STEPS An extradition hearing is not a trial and lacks many of the safeguards and procedures normally granted one. It permits the use of sworn affidavits and consequently many witnesses cannot be cross-examined. Defence lawyers also can't use the guarantees in the Charter of Rights as they might in a trial. Ng's Calgary defence lawyer, Don MacLeod, said the main thrust of his arguments to Madam Justice Marguerite Trussler of Alberta Court of Queen's Bench is that much of the Crown evidence is inadmissible. MacLeod said that even if he is successful in blocking extradition, his client won't be set free on Canadian soil. When Ng’s Canadian sentence expires in 1990, immigration authorities will seek to have him deported to his native Hong Kong because he has been convicted of an indictable offence here. Meanwhile, he says it's conceivable the case could drag on for years. It depends on how long it takes Trussler to make her decision, whether there are any appeals and how long the justice minister mulls over his decision. ive Librarye baviliawent Bldgs.. Victoria, B. Ce. 1x4 vay 501 Belleville st Febs 38 roundup For complete NHL results from last night BI Turner trade Liberal leader John speaks against free trade out + AB Smoke warning unlikely OTTAWA (CP) — Many of the demands of anti-smoking groups for detailed health warnings on cigarette packages won't be met when the government announces regulations implementing federal legislation, one of those organizations says. “We don't believe the warning will be anything more than what the tobacco industry proposed before the legislation was introduced,” Garfield Mahood, executive director of the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association, told a news conference Tuesday. Mahood said Health Minister Jake Epp has done more than any other health minister to combat smoking, but his association and similar organ. izations fear the requutiona won't set an international precedent, as was hoped, but are being diluted. The legislation, which will sub- stantially reduce the amount of tobacco product advertising as well as spell out requirements for the package warnings, is to take effect Jan. 1. WANT WARNING Mahood said the association has learned that the regulations won't require any warning on the outside of packages saying that smoking is addictive nor any warning about the dangers of second-hand smoke. The government also has no plans to require information inserts in the packages warning about, for exam- ple, diseases associated with smok- ing. The federal Health Department estimates 35,000 Canadians die an- nually of smoking-related diseases. “We were told by people in the Health Department that whether inserts should be required is not a time problem (given the short period until Jan. 1), but a policy decision,” Mahood said. 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The $1,000,000 winning number in Fri- day's Provincial lottery draw is 329: , 44, 47, 54 Belczyk preparing Downhill ski racer Felix Belczyk is gear- ing up for another sea- son on the World Cup downhill ski circvit Sunday C Vol. 41, No. 89 Ss astlega 60 Cents vaca CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, r News SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1988 4 Sections (A, B, C & D) MULRONEY VISITS . . . Prime Minister Brian Mulroney meets workers at Cominco’s lead smelter modernization project in Trail Thursday as Mila charms centre crowd By CasNews Staff While Prime Minister Brian Mul roney toured Cominco with the throng of national and local media, wife Mila slipped quietly off to the Children's Development Centre in Tadanac to visit with the children, parents and directors. Mila Mulroney, who has been criss-crossing the country campaign. ing with her husband for the past five weeks, showed no signs of the toll a campaign can take on the wife of a party leader. The neatly-prepared public, whirl wind stop in Tadanac saw no heck lers, protesters or demonstrators — just admirers. Three local media representatives and a Cable 10 TV cameraman were the only reporters at the gathering. “Listen we're getting used to it,” she said of the protesters that regularly greet the couple while they campaign. “But it’s really nice to come here where there aren't any.” Mulroney appeared at ease around the 30-40 children gathered in front of her on the floor in a classroom as she read them a story from one of the centre's story books. The tots looked on, appearing bewildered about the fuss being made over someone who could easily double as their mother. Once finished reading the story to the room full of children, she was presented with gifts from several of the youngsters sitting on the floor in front of her. She was then ushered from the classroom downstairs to meet mothers and development centre directors. She chatted at length with them while holding an infant belonging to one of the women the room. “I really miss my three-year-old son Nicholas,” she lamented while clutching to the infant. She was only able to spend about 15 to 20 minutes with the group of parents and directors before leaving for Castlegar, but left a good impres- sion with centre director Lillian Michallik. continued on page A2 part of his three-hour visit of Trail and Castlegar during his nation- wide tour. casNewsPhoto by Bonne Morgon SPECIAL VISITOR . . . Mila Mulroney visited the Children’s Develop- ment Centre in Tadanac recently as part of a whirlwind stop in Castlegar and Trail. She took the time to chat with parents and read a group of children a story CosNewsPhoto The four candidates for Koot enay West-Revelstoke will come under fire today on a live television forum broadcast by Shaw Cable. The program will present the opportunity for Castlegar and Trail residents to phone in ques- tions to the candidates during the open-line segment of the show. The Election 88 Forum will have three panelists challenge Progres. sive Conservative incumbent Bob Candidates forum televised today Kristiansen on such topics as free trade, jobs, women’s issues and the environment. Elizabeth Fleet, chairman of the Selkirk College board, will moder- ate the forum, which is sponsored by the local branch of the United Nations Association. Panel members include Patricia Lakes, chairpersén of the West Kootenay Women's Association; Herb Hammond, forester and Brisco, Green Party candid: Michael Brown, Liberal Party can. didate Garry Jenkins and New Democratic Party candidate Lyle and Stu Mathieson from Cominco. The telecast will air at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 10. Hecklers no match for Mulroney By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Hecklers were no match for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Thursday as he breezed through Castlegar to lend support to Conservative in cumbent Bob Brisco. Mulroney picked up the pace of his speech to Conservative supporters at the banquet room of the Fireside Motor Inn after a heckler shouted: “Tell the truth.” “Would you mind closing your mouth sir, so I can see who you are,” Mulroney responded, much to the delight of the overflowing audience. “You can tell it's going to be a frugal campaign,” he added, “the NDP and the Liberals have rented the same heckler.” But from that point, the speech was much the same as the one he delivered earlier in the day at Cominco’s lead smelter moderniza- tion project in Trail. Mulroney tied the project, which received $79 million in federal funding, to the free-trade issue. He said Canadians need invest: ment in western Canada and the free-trade agreement to create jobs. “Open up markets for them and invest in them as people so that you can build the kinds of infrastructures that you are building here so that the kind of product that comes out of here is saleable internationally,” he said at Cominco. “When you do that, 10 times out of 10, you secure jobs here in your com munity.” Wearing a hardhat, Mulroney walked through the modernization project in drizzling rain meeting workers. He looked relaxed, shaking hands and pausing briefly to chat with union members. He had a brief disagreement with one worker about the free-trade pact and then resumed the tour, smiling. Mulroney incorporated the dis. agreement into his speeches, saying that the union contingent at the plant appreciated his government “While there were differences of political opinion, the employees in that plant, they all respected and acknowledged what the government of Canada had done,” he said, refer. ring to modernization to be com pleted next year. Mulroney likened his own growing up in Baie Comeau, Que. to the West Kootenay, saying his roots are in s paper mill town “far removed from the decision-making centres of Can- ada” and his father was an electriciar in a Baie Comeau paper mill. “This country is truly a country of small towns and big dreams,” he said. But Mulroney's thoughts on job creation and economic prosperity were continually interrupted by hecklers at the Fireside. He shot back one-liners and was met by thunderous cheers from the largely Conservative crowd. “There's the classic dilemma for a socialist: go to a demonstration or get a job,” he deadpanned, later saying, “The best social program is a job.” Mulroney took the opportunity to take several pot shots . at the Liberal and New Democratic parties. He called NDP policy on national de- fence a “maybe policy.” “Canada is not a neutral nation. We stand firmly on the side of a NATO and NORAD and freedom and our alliances,” he shouted. Mulroney told a heckler that NDP leader Ed Broadbent has been misleading Canadians with false commercials regarding free trade, but didn’t go into detail. He also criticized both opposition parties for stunting economic growth in western Canada. “The National Energy Program brought about by the Liberals and the NDP ripped the heart of the energy business in western Canada. It paralyzed the growth in western Canada and we got rid of it because it was unfair to western Canada,” he said. He referred to his last visit to the area in 1984 as a member of the opposition, saying people then want- ed jobs and his governmewnt has delivered them. Mulroney credited Brisco for push- ing the federal government to fund the Cominco modernization project and used the smelter as an illus- tration of Conservative-delivered prosperity. The Mulroney plane arrived in Castlegar a half an hour off schedule at 11:30 a.m. While the Prime Minister toured Cominco, Mila Mul- roney visited the Children's Devel- opment Centre in Tadanac. Island bridge ‘neglected’ By CasNews Staff The city is neglecting the suspen n bridge linking Zuckerberg Is. land Heritage Park to the mainland, says the chairman of ‘the Castlegar and District Heritage Society. John Charters says the city hasn't spent any money on the bridge in the four years it has been open. “The city's initial investment in the bridge was nominal. It's investment in the four years since that time has been nil,” Charters says in a letter to Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of Castlegar council's works and ser: viees committee. Charters adds: “In spite of re Peated requests, absolutely no money has been spent on mainten es ance. The sway cables have not been adjusted. The only painting work done on the deck or cables was done last year using (Castlegar and Dis. trict) Development Board crew and a (Castlegat) Rotary Club grant.” Charters notes that each year visiting engineers have pointed out is obvious neglect of a valuable and essential city asset.” He says while the island and chapel house are the heritage society's res. ponsibility, the bridge is within the city’s jurisdiction. However, Calderbank defended the city, pointing out that an independent engineering study is planned for the bridge, along with the CP Rail pedestrian bridge. Calderbank conceded that there is no money in this year's city budget for the suspension bridge, but sug: gested funds could be included in next year's budget. In any case, he said the works and services com- mittee wants to see the engineering study before going ahead with work. But Charters says the city should give the bridge a higher priority. “Since its opening, thousands of people travel over the bridge throughout the year. It has become an increasingly prominent tourist at traction for the city and an adjunct to the popularity of the chapel house and island,” he says in his letter. Charters adds that the bridge is an essential alternate access to the island for firefighters. The only other access is the causeway, which is flooded for part of the year. Charters notes that the causeway is in “ruin- ous condition, making emergency access increasingly difficult.” He adds later: “The bridge was a major community project and a strong public relations statement since it drew support and resources from a wide spectrum of West Koot- enay citizens and (industries).” At the same time, he says the bridge, which played a major role in developing the heritage park,.on, Zuckerberg island, “de' slowly for, lack of attention.’