C4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 21, 1980 °

PERCIVA

WHAT'S ‘WRONG
HOWIE?

L THINK (VE GOT
BRUCE TENNER FOOT.

son, born Dac. 14,
; onary

(Vital Statistics

BIRTHS.
COSTA — To Mr. and Mrs.
Manuel Costo of Castlegar, o
daughter, born Dec. %
DANIELS — To Mr. and Mrs,
Roland Daniels of Nelson, o
daughter, born Dec, 12, i

GORDON — To Mr, and Mrs,
Robert Gordon of Slocan Park, a
.

GRIS — To Mr, and Mrs, Rondy
Gris of Nelson, o daughter, born
:

. ¢

ir. ond Mrs.

South Slocan

Auxiliary makes
$4,500 donation

South Slocan Hospital
Auxiliary ended its 1980
term with a Christmas lun-
cheon held in No. 3 Hall.

Plans laid at the Nov-
ember meeting were carried
out, and it was a delightful
two hours, complete with
Chri

of generation for West Koot-
enay Power, made the draw
for the raffle. The winners
were: quilt, Jane Mezza!
arba, Nelson; doiley, Helen
Strookoff, Grand Forks;
tablecloth, Valerie Smith,
Nelson.

tree and pi
for all.

The healthy bank bal-
ance brought about the mo-
tion to donate $4,500 towards
the purchase of telegraphy
equipment for the intensive
care unit and $100 to the
medical library.

The knitting committee
reported over $200 in sales
for the month; and two
afghans were turned in for
sale, they are on display at
the hospital.

Al Dube, superintendent

The inating commit-
tee submitted its report re-
sulting in the following elec-
tion; Betty McRae, publicity,
Vera Johnson, treasurer; Es-
telle Barton, secretary;
Nonie Burk vice-president;
Sadie

By RALPH BOULTON

MOSCOW (REUTER) —
Women throughout the So-
veit Union will lay down their
shovels, turn in their cov-
eralls and park their bull-
dozers for the last time on
Jan, 1.
On that date, new reg-
ulations come into force ban-
ning women from 460 occu-
pations, including exception-
ally heavy or dangerous work
in the construction, chemicals
and metals industries,

The regulations, part of
an official effort to boost the

The meeting closed with
a Christmas sing-along and
exchange of gifts.

The January meeting
will be held at the Hammond
home with Betty McRae and
Vera Dudlyke supplying the
refreshments.

country's decl: birth
rate, will also exclude women
from many forms of mechan-
ical repair work and prevent
them from driving vehicles
capable of carrying more
than 14 passengers. °
Leeonid Sharikov, a spec-
ialist in work conditions at
the state committee for la-
bor, who the list of

(Your Stars 7

By STELLA WILDER

An_ exciting week lies
ahead. Small children may
make life somewhat diffi-
cult with their mounting
enthusiasm over the
approaching holidays — but
their determination to be
“good” counters the nega-

aches you enjoy. Work out
career difficulties carefully
as the week progresses,
GEMINI:(May 21-June 6)
~- Family members act as
wise consultants this week.
You can move ahead on the
words of the very young.
(June 7-June 20)°-~ Give
careful to fi it

tive more or less ly.
Money worries may put a
damper on plans for future
activities- but, in general,
spirits are high and the out-
look is pleasurable. Old
friends communicate mes-
Sages of ardor and good will;
new friends may provide
unexpected opportunity for
great personal gain.

matters this week. You may
be required to contribute
unexpectedly to the “pot.”
CANCER:(June = 21-July
7) — Periodic checks’ of
where you fiand in oe plan-
ning aspects of projects for
the future make this a pro-
ductive week. (July 8-July
22) — This is a week for
—_in

SAGITT. 22-
Dec. 7) ~ This is a good
week for finalizing plans for

roject expansion after the
jolidays, Don't wait. (Dec. 8-
Dec. 21) -- So lang as you do
not neglect your duties and
responsibilities, this should
be a week filled with good

cheer.

CAPRICORN:(Dec. 22-
Jan. 6) - Make every effort
early in the week to gain
time for yourself. You need
to schedule yourself better.
(Jan. 7-Jan. 19) -- Agree-
ments may not be as iron-
clad as you'd hoped. Even
so, you would do well to go
ahead with them. Bargains
fade.

AQUARIUS:(Jan. 20-Feb.
3) — A sensitive youngster
may make this.a week for
walking on eggs. Make no
hasty decisions now. (Feb. 4-

Feb. 18) -- This is a good.

time for smoothing the way
for another. You word bears
a lot of weight now; make
use of it!

PISCES:(Feb. 19-March

5) -- A shopping spree at.

mid-week could end badly
unless. you are on your toes.
Guard personal possessions.
(March 6-March 20) -- Get
ahead -- and keep ahead -- of

the competition this week.’

Organization is the real
name of the game!
1-April 4)

for getting! Be ready to con-
tribute toa cause.  -
LEO:(July 23-Aug. 7) ~
Take care not to be caught
in the hidden clauses of a
contract. Consult an expert
before signing anything now.
(Aug. 8-Aug. 22) - A &
week for paying off obliga-
tions that have nothing to do
with financial indebtedness.
Offer advice to another,
VIRGO:(Aug. 23-Sept. 7)
- The week has more w
than downs so don’t be ais.
couraged if it starts off
badly. Make a_ wise
urchase. (Sept. 8-Sept. 22) -
‘hough it may not be evi-
dent at first where you stand
in terms of advancement, it
becomes clear by week's
end. Wait!
LIBRA:(Sept. 23-Oct. 7) ~
Unless you are willin,

. (Oct.
-Oct. 22) -- Postpone a deci-
sion regarding a_ most
important gift until the last
minute. Something may
“turn up.”

SCORPIO:(Oct. 23-Nov.
7) — You can make a big
impression on the powers
that be this week. Learn a
lesson well early in the
week. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) —
Unfamiliarity is no excuse
for the neglect of responsi-
bility. Find out what you're

PP to do -- and

2
~- A battle you thought
already won may have to be
fought again. Don’t give up
too soon. (April 5-April 19) --
Career matters take a turn
for the better. You are
encouraged to expand your
own personal horizons at
this time.
TAURUS:(April 20-May 5)
- Avoid anything that could
get in the fray of plans for
the upcoming holidays. Keep
to yourself this week. (May
6-May 20) -- Competition
brings just the kind of head-

AUTHENTIC
RUSSIAN

SPINNING
WHEELS

LA
local craftsman

365-5593

su en do

restricted occupations,
summed up his attitude to
Soviet women. -

“Iam frankly astonished
by the work our women are
prepared to put in,” he said.
“They're willing to take on
any task. I tell you, some-
times I gasp.” ¢

A walk around any So-
viet city will bear out this
simple truth. It is common to
see several able-bodied work-

Soviet woman
lay down shovels

men enjoying a smoke while
8 wisp of a woman sets to
work with a shovel,

GLORIFIES LABOR

In the firat decades after
the 1917 Revolution, films,
novels, poctry and songs
glorified the Soviet woman as
embodying a perfect union of
maternal tenderness and
sheer grit. A romantic tradi-
tion grew. up around the lady.
with the hammer.

To most Russians, Tat-
yana Fyodorova personifies
this tradition. She began
work in the 1930s as a 14-
year-old digging under-
ground tunnels beneath the
streets of Moscow. Now, an
imposing yet congenial fig-
ure, she is chief of all subway
construction in the Soviet
capital,

“About a quarter of the
workforce underground were
women,” she recalled. “We
would do any work, operate
any machines and we enjoyed
it. We would even compete
with the men and, since we
didn't keep stopping . to
smoke cigarettes, we often
beat them.”

Few people regret the
passing of hard times.

But the Soviet author-
ities will face problems (in
implementing the regu-
lations, although they have
had two years to prepare.

Letter grades
are mandatory

VICTORIA (CP) — The
use of letter grades — the A,
B, C, D and E method of

Smith said the regula-
tions also will be changed to
allow school districts to have

porting pi prog: to
parents — are mandatory for
students in Grades 7 to 12
under new regulations to the
School Act, Education Min-
ister Brian Smith has an-
nounced. -

Such grades may he
used at the discretion of
school districts for pupils in
Grades 4 to 6, and will not be
Permitted for primary stu-
dents in kindergarten to
Grade 3, he said.

teachers spend
the first two weeks of the
school year visiting the par-
ents of their pupils and
planning for the year ahead.

The minister also an-

. nounced.that legislation will

be changed to allow school
districts to provide a pre-
i He at local

— To M 5
Phillp Koochin of Cost! a

ment in the cemetery. A
memorial service will be announ-
gedataloterdate,

ete

Regional Hospital, Service was
conducted Dec. 19. from Care

Cathert

“— Martha
: Houndle: 70; of Trall, distd Dec, 12

rail Regional Hospital,
Cremation hos aken place, e

KERSHAW — Cyril Kershaw, 60,
of ‘Nelson, died Dec. I

Kootenay Lake District Hospital,
Memoria! service. will be held
Coc, 27 at 2 p.m. in the chopal of
Thompson Funeral Home. with
Rev. Jamas O. Wilson to officiate.
Cremation, ee

daughter, born Dec, 18.

‘MANSON — To Mr. and Mrs.

Fraser Manson of Nelson, a
daughter, born Dec. 15,
eae

MATTHEWS — To Mr. and Mrs,
Neill Matthews af Castlegar, a
daughter, born Dec. 17.

QDITUARIES

BUNA — Santa Bung, 85, of Trall,
died Dec. 14 in Trail Regional
Hospital. Rosary was recited Dec,
16 fram_ Corberry’s Memorial
Chapel. Funeral moss was cele.
brated Dec. 17 fram St, Anthony's
Church with Father Stan Frytek
officiating, Burial was at Moun-
tain View Cematery.

CARLSON — John Carlson, 76,
retired CPR employee who lived
in Nelson for many years, died
suddenly in Karlskrona, Swi

on Nov. 21, Service was held in
Langasio, Sweden on Nov. 28.
Cremation. His remains will be
forwarded to Nelson for Inter-

Western

winning

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Western Express
Winning numbers for: the
$10,000 prizes are 6848530,
5013855, 7550869, 6485997
and 7417815, :

The five $100,000 win-
ning numbers are 4493262,
7240707, 5866906, 4967039,
6022714.

For additional prizes,
remember the-last six iden-
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last five identical digits, $100

* and the last. four’ identical

digits, $25. The last three
identical digits will allow the
ticket-holder to redeem that
ticket for five dollars’ worth

tickets. * .

568068,

—A Light.
burn, 41, of Fruitvale, died Dec.
11 at Troll Regional Hospital. Ser-
vice was conducted Dec, 16 from
Emmanuel Baptist Church with
Rev. Allan Walker officiating.
Cremation.

+

MCALLISTER — Robert Leonard

McAllister, 94, of Rossland, died
Dec. 13 in Mater Misericordiae
Hospital. Service was held Dec,
16 in the Gospel Chapel in
Rosstand with Mr. Willlam M.
Dawes officiating. Burial was at
Nountain View Cemetary:

THOMAS — Memorial service for
Elizabeth Bru

TOGNOTT — Mabel Tognolti, a
former resident of Trail, died Dec.
3 in Victoria General Hospital,
Memorial service is to be held
Dec, 22 at 12 noon from St. Fran-
clsCatholicChurch.

WILSON — John Wilson, 88, of
Trail, died Dec. 15 in Trail

Express
numbers

of Western Express tickets.
Both the Dec, 10° and
Dec. 17 tickets are eligible
for the bonus prizes. The 20
numbers generated are
662354, 366898,
762230,
252438,
373660,
818354,
652138,

629695,

548319,

773364,

329830,

431656 and 841722.
These are to match up

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and three last numbers of

your tickets and are eligible

for prizes worth $1,000, $100,

$26 and $5 of Express tickets

respectively. .

eles

ZAITSOFF — William W, Zaltsoff,
47, of Robson, died accidentally
on Dec. 11 near Addy, Wash,
Prayer service was hel wary
from the Castlegar Russian Hall
and funeral concluded the
following afternoon, Burial was in
Shoreacres Cemetery.

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Christmas Day. High 3°; low 0°,
Continuing mild with occasional
showers over weekend,

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THE CITY OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED
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Library disappointed . -

Misunderstanding
says Lotteries

A miswi has

caused the Castlegar and
District Library Board to be
disappointed,

Although the B.C. Lot-
teries Fund accepted their
application, there:was never
any intention of grariting
money from that fund to the
library, said fund co-ordin-
ator Ray Orchard.. E

Because it is against
government policy for the
Lotteries Fund to grant
money when another body
exists for that type of grant,
the application was merely
accepted with the objective
of passing it on to the Rec-
reation Facilities Assistance
Program (RFAP). 3

Chairman Roy Ward
said a Lotteries Fund rep-
resentative had written to
him to say they had closed
the file for the library's

and “they will not
reopen it.” x
“That's 2%: years of
‘work down the drain.”
Kelsey, acting
deputy for the provincial
secretary, said he was “sorry
to hear the voters of Castle-
gar failed to support the ref-
erendum for a new library.
“Under the circum-
stances, I am writing to in-
form you that the library
fund application for financial

Fi

assistance toward this proj. -

ect is now considered closed.”
But, there is still a
chance of getting RFAP
funds, said Orchard. The
letter “was just a formal
procedure to take it off our
books." . * es
The board may apply for
one-third financing from
RFAP if they’ have a firm

‘commitment to get the re-

maining two-thirds from
other sources,

Charter of Rights
Trudeau plans |
more amendments -

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau’ says he
plans to strengthen his gov-

d charter

- others have attacked’ the ex-

ceptions written into it,
For example, an earlier
1 by the federal gov-

of rights with a series. of.

amendments in mid-January.

He said in an interview
with the -Ontario-based Glo-
bal television .network.. tha:

some of the wording of the

charter, a key part of the
constitutional package intro-
duced in the Commons in

October, was diluted to meet -

provincial objections raised
in the summer.

“In an effort to get
everybody on board, we
negotiated,” Trudeau said.
“We put a lot of water in the
wine and we weakened the
bill of rights.”

He said most of the
criticism of the charter be-
fore the special Parliament-
ary constitutional committee

ernment said rights set out in
the charter were subject only
to “such reasonable limits as
are generally accepted in a

e and democratic society,”

“But the amended version
used the term “in a free and
democratic. society with a
parliamentary system of gov-
ernment.” Critics such as the
Canadian Civil Liberties As-
sociation said this would

* allow Parliament and pro-

vincial legislatures to pass
laws that go beyond the
limits set out in the charter.
In another example, the
original federal proposal
guaranteed . protection
against “unreasonable search
and seizure” and the right
“not to be arbitrarily de-
tained or impri e

is aimed at its k

and “what we're prepared to
do is strengthen it again.”

+ Justice Minister Jean
Chretien will tell the com-
mittee about the changes.

DID NOT SPECIFY

Trudeau did not specify
what changes were planned
but a number of critics have
called for a widening of anti-
discrimination rights, while

But the version intro-
duced in October added the
phrase “except on grounds
and in accordance with pro-
cedures established by law"
for both cases.

Critics ‘told .the com-
mittee the wording of that
exception was too vague and

would allow laws that under-

mine the basic protections in
the charter.

O19,

atic
i fe y

PHOTOGRAPHER JORGE ALVAREZ seldom is Caught napping. ‘He was driving around
liar fi A my

Castlegar the other day and spotted this f
Santa is only a dummy, North Ameri
reported an

Colo., this af

Pt
Pole. “We think it's Santa starting out early,"

igure ona hi p this
ican Air Defence Command at Colorado Springs,
dentified radar blip moving south from.the North
"a NORAD spokesman said.

t

Big price tag on report

VICTORIA (CP) — Brit-
ish Columbia taxpayers will
pay $100,000 for a verbatim
report of the constitutional
debate conducted during the
recent legislature session,

The week-long session:

was held early in December
at a cost estimated at

$500,000 to debate a resolu-

tion calling for the patriation
of the itution without

inces and the federal govern-
ment. ‘

* Premier Bill Bennett

said Tuesday copies of Hans-
ard, the verbatim report of
the twoday constitutional
debate, will be distributed to
‘976,000 people in the prov-
ince early in the new year. -

He said it is imperative
that British Columbians un-

amendment and an amending
* formula which would require
the approval of all 10 prov-

IS’ gi
position on the issue.
The decision to proceed
with the mass mailing was

KILLER STORMS
TOKYO (REUTER) — Snow
‘storms lashed northern Japan to-
day, killing a 77-year-old man,
injuring 11 other people, snarling

treme rightist

* broke away from Begin’s conser-
vative Likud bloc.

COLORFUL CELEBRATION

made because of numerous
requests for copies of the de-
bate. Bennett would not say
how many requests he re-
ceived but that the expen-
diture is more than justified.

The NDP has no ob-
jection to the government
mailing. i

Bennett should send
Handsard out every day to
everybody in B.C., Barrett
said, and should not have the
right to select what he wants
for mailing.

_Gas tax plan

togotocourt §

VICTORIA (CP) — The
legality of a federal excise
tax on natural gas and nat-
ural gas byproducts will be
challenged in the courts ‘be-
fore Feb. 1, Bob McClelland,
British Columbia energy min-
ister said Tuesday.

He said the federal gov-
ernment does not have juris-
diction to implement the tax
which was announced in the
Oct. 28. budget. ©

He also dismissed the

confrontation with Ottawa to
cover up its political mis-
fortunes at home.

“I wouldn't dignify the
remarks he made with a
comment of my own," said
McClelland. “I think that
would be foolish on my part
because he is being foolish.”

However, McClelland
added the federal govern-
ment is the one looking for
th i

its inept energy policy. 2
Lalonde said Tuesday,
the B.C, government is set-
ting a dangerous precedent.
“You can imagine what .
would happen if industry or
individuals in a particular
province reacted in the same
way to any provincial tax
that they didn’t like — that
they would refuse to pay
until the courts had passed

e to cover up

federal government's deci-
sion to charge the B.C. gov-
ernment double-digit interest
on any tax it collects from the
producers for Ottawa but
does not remit,

“How can a government:
make such a threat when it
doesn’t have the power to
collect the money in the first
place?” i

The B.C. government
announced last week it has
instructed B.C. Hydro, whose
natural gas division sells nat-
ural gas for home and indys-
trial use, and B.C. Petroleum

Corp., the only marketing °

agent for natural. gas pro-
duced in the province, not to

remit the 380-cents-a-thou- §
sand-cubic-feet tax to Ot @

tawa,
Both. are provincial
Crown corporations.

Pierre Bussieres, federal @

minister of state for finance,
warned the province Monday

it had ‘better ‘pay the tax but

declined to'say what the fed-

“eral government would do if

B.C. ‘withholds it.
DOESN'T HAVE RIGHT

He acknowledged the
right of the province to bring
a court challenge, but said
B.C. does not have the right
to withhold payment pending.
a court decision.

“The position of the gov-
ernment of B.C. is contrary
to the long established prac-
tices and procedures in con-
nection with tax measures
both of the government of
Canada and of prdVincial
governments.”

A spokesman for Fi- 4

nance Minister Allan Mac-
Eachen's office said Ottawa
will charge B.C. the same

interest penalty it charges .

any other delinquent tax-
payer — currently 11 per
cent. .
McClelland said Tuesday
he takes exception to re-
marks made by federal En-
ergy Minister Marc Lalénde,
who said B.C. is looking for a

FREELANCE SANTAS
q VANCOUVER (CP) —
Canada Post has found
t enough freelance Santas to
- deliver a backlog of Christ-
mas parcels in their own
; vehicles, spokesman Buzz
Sawyer said Tuesday.
} About 50 drivers with
, station wagons, vans and
t light trucks were signed
! up, most of them regulars
who have been helping out
| for years, he said,
Sawyer gave assur-
} ances the drivers and ve-
hicle registrations are
thoroughly ‘checked and
the post office keeps a
record of What parcels are
, entrusted to whom.
Tr'S A MIRACLE
BRANDON (CP) —
, Thieves who broke into St.

j formed a ‘small’ Christmas
miracle of their.own, mak-
t ing a 450-kilogram safe
_ disappear without a trace.
“It must have been
; wheeled out of the build-
: ing, but no marks were
found on the floor,” said
Rev. Noel -Goater.
g There were cathedral
} records in the safe but no
money, he said.
The thieves also ran-
; sacked’ the Christmas
Cheer registry office in the
. church annex, ripping open
food hampers and gifts.

LOADED CAB

Philadelphia (AP) —
Step into Bill Deutsch's
taxicab, and the street's
noise and grime fade into
: the background. Yellow
Cab 239 has enough Christ-
mas decorations in it to

# stage a holiday pageant.
i

‘It took me a month to
design and two days to put

Christmas happenings

“said Deutsch, 46, who has

“Matthew's Cathedral ‘per- “

tages in Iran,

together, and it.cost me 4
about $85 for materials,”

been driving a cab for i
about a year.

“Its been worth all |
the effort and the money
because it makes the peo-
ple .who ride with me {
happy," Deutsch said.

CANDY CLUE J

STURGIS, MICH.
{AP) — Someone broke in
to Santa’s Shack and stole
some Christmas goodies,
and police say a trail of
candy canes led to a teen-
age suspect. i q

Emmanuel Stamper, |
18, was arrested Tuesday 4
morning and charged with j
breaking and entering,

RETURNS GENEROSITY
« NEW YORK (AP) —
When Percy Ross was six
years old and poor, the
Salvation Army helped his
family. Now he’s 63 and a
millionaire, and he ‘came
here Tuesday to repay #
some of that generosity.

“I have more than I
need for myself,” . said
Ross, standing on Fifth
Avenue next to a Salvation
Army band and singers
while sleety, slushy snow
fell on the city. “Why not %
share it?”

And share the Minng-
apolis, Minn., philanthrop- j
ist did, handing out silver $
dollars to everyone who
donated a dollar or more to
the charity organization.

Some of those who §
thanked Ross had heard of 4
his past giveaways, includ-
ing tossing out nearly
$17,000 at a parade and |
offering to raise $60 million 4
to ransom the U.S. hos- 3

splinter party that

-{ NEWS CAPSULE |

Police said the bombs may have
been planted by a man, dubbed the
Mistletoe Bomber by the press, who
has been blamed for. explosions at

someone sneaking into a judge's
chambers to obtain documents for a
state commission that's investigat-

ing the judge has touched

off an

The radio quoted the Afghan’
defence minister, Gen, Mohammed
Rafi, as saying there are no Cuban
soldiers in Afghanistan.

; SAVES LIFES
BELFAST (AP) — Twelve-
year-old Sharon Smylie dialed the
. wrong number Tuesday and helped

transportation and forcing more tha
630,000 families to spend Christmas
Eve without: electricity.

Two small fishing boats with 11
people on board were. reported
missing in the Pacific after sending
distress signals, the Maritime
Safety Agency said. j

The man died after the roof o!
his house caved in under the weight
of more than 80 centimetres of
snow, police said. .

The storm paralysed nearly all
train services and many bus and
flight operations in the Tohoku
region, in northern parts of the
central island of Honshu. :

SURVIVES VOTE

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime
Minister Menachem Begin's govern-
ment today crushed a parliamentary.
non-confidence motion raised to
protect its refusal to annex the
occupied: Golan Heights of Syria.

The vote was 56 to 2. The Labor
party and other left-of-centre oppo-
sition factions abstained while mem-
bers of Begin's coalition voted
against the motion.

The motion's sole backing came
from its sponsor, the two-member
right-wing Tehiya party, an -ex-

. BETHLEHEM (AP) — A color-
ful, drum-beating procession opened
Christmas Eve pageantry in Beth-
lJehem today, and hundreds of tour-
ists and religious pilgrims gathered
in the town where Christ was born.

Israeli troops were out in force
to guard against any Palestinian
terror actions as the town cele-
brated its 14th Christmas under
Israeli occupation.

Scores of clergymen and altar-
boys in white and scarlet vestments
escorted the Roman Catholic patri-
arch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Giacomo
Giuseppe Beltritti, into Manger
Square for midnight mass that is to
be televised for overseas audiences

- by satellite,

Mayors of surrounding Arab
towns greeted the monsignor under
grey and cloudy skies when his
motorcade arrived from Jerusalem,
eight kilometres to the north.

FLEESTORE
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AP)
Th of Chri: Eve

two other stores outside Sydney
last week.

Authorities said the downtown
store received a telephone call
warning of the impending ex-
plosions about 20 minutes before the .
first blast ripped its main floor. The
store's staff evacuated thousands of
shoppers.

* Two people were injured in the
blast that blew out windows, scat-
tering glass across one of the city's
busiest intersections opposite the
city hall.

SPINNING FOR POWER

PORTLAND, ORE. (AP) —
The world’s largest wind-powered
turbine generated its first elec-
tricity this week when its 91-metre
blades were set spinning in the
breezes of the blustery Columbia
River gorge. For 11 minutes Mon-
day night, “a teeny” bit of electricity
used in the Northwest power sys-
tem was produced by the $4.8
million windmill near Goldendale in

h fled the main V
department store in the heart of
Sydney today, minutes before. at
least two bombs exploded in what
authorities believe may have been
an extortion plot.

said Gene
Tollefson, a spokesman for the Bon-
neville Power Administration,

CAMERAS CATCH JUDGE
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A
videotape camera set up to catch

uproar. -

. Police Chief Thomas Sardino
says the tape shows Chief City
Court Judge Joseph Falco, a Repub-
lican, going through the papers of
City Court Judge Richard Sardino, a
Democrat. Richard Sardino is
Thomas’ brother.

7 ITED

MILAN, ITALY (AP) — Police,
pressing their search for a kid-
napped judge, arrested 17 sus-.
pected members of left-wing ter-
rorist bands Tuesday, officials re-
ported.

They said the Milan suspects
were charged with forming illegal
armed organizations. Police sources
said the prisoners were linked to
Front Line, Workers’ Armed
Squads and other leftist guerrilla
groups, ;

Judge Giovanni: D’Urso was
abducted Dec. 12 in Rome by mem-
bers of the Red Brigades, the group
that kidnapped and killed former
prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.

NO CUBANS IN AFGHANISTAN

NEW DELHI (REUTER) —

_ Afghanistan denied Tuesday that

Cuban soldiers were fighting anti-

government rebels in the country,
Kabul radio reported.

“With the exception of the lim-
ited contingent of the Soviet Union,
there is not a single soldier of any

other nationality,” Rafi was quoted |

as saying. »

A television interview broad-
cast in New York last September
quoted a defecting Kabul airport
maintenance chief as saying that
between 17,000 and 20,000 Cubans
were in Afghanistan.

WIESENTHAL CLOSES IN

JERUSALEM (AP) — Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal said Tues-
day he is closing in on accused Nazi
war criminal Josef Mengele, the
so-called Doctor of Death at the in-
famous Auschwitz concentration
camp.
Wiesenthal said Mengele was
last reported seen nine weeks ago in
Uruguay. He said he has two in-
vestigators in South America and is
offering a $50,000 reward for infor-
mation leading to Mengele's cap-
ture, $

Mengele was the chief doctor at
Auschwitz during the Second World
War. He is accused of having
selected which of the incoming

is were to die i i

in the gas chambers and which were
to be placed in work gangs.

‘three kilometres from Ballymena.

save a life, police said.

Sharon was at home in Ball-
ymena and tried to telephone her
school to see if a ring she lost had
been found. By mistake, she dialed
the home of 86-year-old Agnes
Wilson.

She heard a woman gasp: “I am
dying. Get help. Number 45.”

‘he woman was too ill to say
anything else.

Police checked voters’ lists and
discovered that a woman lived alone
at 45 Feneghy Roach, Galgorm,

Authorities found Wilson there
helpless in bed and ill.

HEART TRANSPLANT

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AF-
RICA (AP) — The heart of a white
woman killed in an automobile
accident last weekend was trans-
planted into the body of a black man
by Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s medical
team, the South African Press
Association reported Tuesday.

It quoted transplant pioneer
Barnard as saying the five-hour
operation Monday night at Groote
Schuur Hospital was “completely
straightforward” and the patient
was breathing normally. i