as Casthégar News _2v\y 16. 1986 fit * t 3 ; We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our customers. * Cranbrook © Penticton * Kelowna 365-7701 SOCREDS DECIDE ON RULES VANCOUVER, (CP) — The Social Credit party has: decided on the balloting rules for use during the leadership convention at Whistler later this month. But party won't release them unit! Thursday. “The rules still have to be put in legalese language, and we will not be releasing them until Thursday, I) think,” party spokesman Craig Aspinall said Tuesday. The party's convention committee met recently to deal with, among other things, concerns that the balloting rules outlined in the constitution could create confusion and knock several candidates off the ballot after one vote. The constitution states that “balloting shall be carried out by the process of eliminating those candidates whose combined total of votes do not equal the next highest until a candidate has been elected with an absoulte majority.” Some candidates had voiced concern that this meant several of them could drop from the ballot after just one vote, if their initial totals were low and a large gap existed between them and the front-runners. Bill Goldie, one of Bill Vander Zalm's official agents, said he attended a party meeting last week and was told the new rules would include the consitutional rule, as well as several “additions” that could conceivably keep all candidates alive after one ballot. “If I understand it properly, there could exist a possibility where if the two bottom delegates tie on the first ballot, neither one would be dropped,” Goldie said. He said some candidates were concerned they would lose their $2.500 deposits if they were dropped after one ballot. The candidates lose the money if they do not get at least 100 votes. Another new rule would stipulate that at least one candidate must be dropped after each ballot, following the first ballot, Goldie said. = SUNFEST FUN . . . Youngster cools off while watching firemen’s competions Sunday at Pass Creek Park Costews Proto by Doug Hor vey Tahsis man ~ killed VICTORIA (CP) — A 34-year-old Tahsis man was killed Tuesday when his vehicle was in collision with a Westmin Resources Ltd. bus. It was the second time in a month a Westmin bus had been involved in a fatal accident Rodney Noel Powell was driving south on the Island Highway about 15 kilometres north of Courtenay early Tuesday. “The roads were quite slippery because of rain,” said Courtenay RCMP Sg. Phil McVie. Bus driver Harry Sawat zky, of Courtenay, was taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Comox and treated for face cuts and glass fragments in his eyes. There were no passengers on the bus which was heading to Campbell River to pick up passengers. On June 18, a Tahsis woman died when she lost control of her vehicle and slammed into a Westmin bus. Twelve of 32 passengers were injured located at Castlegar Mohawk FRIDAY, JULY 18 10 a.m. to7 p.m. OTTAWA (CP) — The French government, not Ca. nadian taxpayers, picked up the hefty tab — including a hotel bill of $3,400 a night — isa during Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's six-day February ‘ stay in Paris, a spokesman a RESTAURANTS/HOTELS/RESORTS for the French Embassy con- USING 2 FOR 1 OR DISCOUNT COUPONS??? firmed Tuesday AVOID THE RECEIVER!!! INTERCHANGE SCRIP REVERSES THE DISCOUNT The total costs for Mul- roney and five other mem- bers of the Canadian dele- gation- attending the—first & PAYS YOU FIRST! summit of the world’s franco- INTERESTED in the marketing breakthrough phone countries was paid by of the the French government — century? 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In a rare move, a number of cabinet members have anonymously briefed “British newspapers on their fears that the Queen and the prime minister are headed for a clash unless Thatcher agrees td sanctions against Pretoria. The anonymous leaks, almost identi- cally phrased, appeared in five British newspapers today, including four sympathetic to the government. The Queen, believed to fear the breakup of the 49-country Common- wealth unless Thatcher backs sanc- tions, has already delayed the start of her annual Scottish holiday to meet with six Commonwealth leaders in London next month. Commonwealth officials were quoted by the Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, as indicating that the Queen would intervene to act as mediator between Thatcher and the six Commonwealth representatives. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who has urged Thatcher to reconsider her stand, will attend the mini-summit of Commonwealth leaders. Thatcher had her regular weekly audience with the Queen on Tuesday but, as usual, no word of what was discussed was made public. The Queen is said to see the Commonwealth — which groups Bri tain’s former colonies and dominions — as a bond between industrialized coun tries and the Third World. ALARMS QUEEN Many newspaper reports today said she is also alarmed at the boycott of the Commonwealth Games, which are due to open in Scotland on July 24. Today Malaysia became the first non-African country to join the boycott. Only hours before seeing the Queen a defiant Thatcher repeated to Parlia ment that she would not support full economic sanctions in Pretoria, de claring again that they would only cause misery to the black majority A senior member of the opposition labor party said Thatcher seemed set to ignore even the Queen's advice in the crisis over sanctions and place the entire Commonwealth in jeopardy. “A constitutional crisis now seems imminent unless the prime minister relents from her stubborn stance,” George Foulkes, Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, said in a television inter view. “She is out of step with every other Commonwealth leader, increasingly isolated from her cabinet colleagues She is arrogant in her certainty that she alone knows best. “The Queen is being put in an increasingly embarrassing position by the prime minister's obstinacy and the Commonwealth Games are sliding into utter shambles.” Foulkes added: “I very much suspect the audience the prime minister had with the Queen last night was a very frosty affair.” GRACE McCARTHY - need new style SOCRED IRON LADY WANTS ‘BIG PRIZE’ By DAPHNE BRAMHAM VANCOUVER (CP) — Provincial Secretary Grace leCarthy is the B.C. Social Credit party's iron lady in sequins. First elected in 1966 and named minister without portfolio by W.A,@> Bennett, McCarthy championed low-income housifg “and the causes of the mentally retarded and elderly. She was promoted to tourism minister where she earned the nickname “minister of ribbon-cutting.” After the Socreds’ loss to the New Democrats in 1972, McCarthy led the renewal by signing up thousands of new members. She even swallowed her ambitions and eased the transition from W.A.C. to his son, Bill, in 1973. HE CANDIDATES McCarthy has been given all the accolades the party has been able to afford her. But now she wants the big prize. At 58, McCarthy wants to succeed Bill as leader and premier. “They need someone who can build on what we have accomplished in the past. And they need some inspiration for the future and I think I can give that and I don't frankly see anybody else in the race who can do it better,” McCarthy said in a telephone interview. She has the ample faith and fervent zeal of an evangelist or, perhaps more apt, of another W.A.C. Bennett. But when asked about policy, she is vague. On education, for example, McCarthy wants to transfer the pI pation from a jon with teachers back to “the youngsters” and the quality of education. “I have so many very exciting things to talk to my colleagues and to plan in terms of the computerization age and high tech opportunities we have in B.C. It would take me all morning to talk just about education.” When asked whether she would follow the Bennetts’ love of megaprojects that ranged from W.A.C.'s road and dam building to Bill's Expo 86 and northeast coal, McCarthy is enthusiastic. “Absolutely. I have always been a builder. Anybody who doesn’t want to be a builder is a negative person. And we don't need a negative leader.” Like W.A.C. 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