stude
depart

By JOHN CHARTERS

‘The last two of the Castle-
gar Rotary Club's exchange
students, Cheryl Campbell
and Dina Poohachoff, left for
their ‘host countries this
week.

Cheryl, a Grade 12 student
at Stanley Humphries sec-
ondary school, drove to Cal-
gary with her father, Don
Campbell, a millwright at the
Celgar pulp mill. She will say
goodbye to her mother
Susan, and then fly on to
Comitan, a town near the
Guatamalan border in south-
central Mexico, to meet the
first of her host father,
Certimaio Torres and his
family.

Chery! will live as a
member of the Torres family
for three months and attend
one of the local schools. She
will then move to three other
families, learning the lang-
uage, the lifestyle and cus-
toms of the people of that
part of Mexico, and returning
in a year to Castlegar.

Her father says he is ex-
cited for her, to which Cheryl
added: “Me too, I'm sure it
will be a great experience.”

Asked about her know- -

ledge of Spanish, she said, “I
would like to thank Carmen
Guido for her lessons in
Spanish. She has been so
helpful all summer.”

Susan Campbell, Chery!'s
mother, is a receptionist at
the offite of local chiro
practor Dr. Dave Williams,
but is currently involved in
the Winter Olympics. organi-
zation as a community con-
sultant.

The last student to leave
was Dina Poohachoff, also a
Grade 12 student at SHSS.
She flew today to Mantta in
south-central Finland, where
Pakka Monto and his wife
Maija will be her first host
family.

Her route will be an in-
direct one. She flies first to
Vancouver, then to Seattle,
and from there to Helsinki in
Finland.

Language preparation was
a problem, since she could
find no Finnish speaking
people in Castlegar. But her
host father speaks English
and she expects to immerse
herself in the native language
immediately upon her
arrival.

Other preparation, such as
what to wear, has greatly in-
creased the bulk of her
baggage, for Pakka Monto
warned her that cross-coun-
try skiing is a Finnish
national sport and the temp-
erature is frequently -40C.

EXCHANGE STUDENT . . . Cheryl Campbell, standing with her father Don, has left

for Comitan, Mexico.

School opened Aug. 18, but
Dina needed the income from
her three jobs for her initial
expenses and for a proposed
trip to Leningrad. Her host
Rotary club will, however, be
financing a trip for exchange
students to Finnish Lapland
— an exciting prospect.

As an ambassador for her
country and community,
Dina will be carrying club
banners, city pins and bro-
chures, pamphlets and bro-
chures on local industries and
tourist attractions, slides and
pictures, including a West
Kootenay '87 calendar which
features a number of local
scenes.

All exchange students are
expected to speak to schools
and Rotary clubs and since
Finnish geography and in-
dustry is similar to that of
Canada, she expects to find a
considerable interest among
her audiences.

At school she is expecting
to concentrate on history and
languages.

She credits Louise Devon a
former exchange student
from Australia and partic-
ularly Liz Peter, a current
exchange student from South

WORK TO RULE

Protest may cont

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
instruction-only campaign by
British Columbia teachers
will continue unless school
boards withdraw letters
placed in teachers files after
walkouts last spring, dele.
gates to the B.C. Teachers
Federation summer confer
ence decided Friday.

Federation president Elsie
McMurphy said the 500 dele.
gates voted overwhelmingly
to continue the campaign “so

teachers don’t feel they are
going to have continuing
repercussions throughout
their careers.”

The delegates rejected =
recommendation by the fed:
eration executive that the
campaign be abandoned be-
cause it could divert at-
tention from the federation's
effort to sign up its members
as union members.

Bill McColl, a principal in
Fort St. John who has sup-
ported the federation for 25
years, said i the in-

Job openings

Details of these and other job
opportunities are available ot

Heirdressers are required in
the Trail area. (134 and 250)

Registered Nurse for cosual
position in Castlegar. (262)

An Experienced Travel Coun
sellor is required part-time in
Trail. Wage is $6.00 per hour
(302)

ice-skating instructor required
in Fruitvale area. Mi
freeskate
minimum fiftl

details. (318)

di
figure. Call tor

An Experienced Journeyman
Boker is required in the Trail
oreo. Wage is $15 to $16 per
hour. (321)
wired part
's $4.00 per

Food Server
time in Trail. Wag
hour. (324)

Graduate foresty technicions
eded for temporary work
e East Kootenay area. (OA3)

struction-only campaign is a
mistake and could open a
split in the organization.
“What's going to happen
I can guarantee it, is that
some schools that have been
supportive in the past will
openly withdraw support
from the federation over this

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DINA POOHACHOFF
. learning Finnish a problem

Africa, as greatly i

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of Art

her decision to go on the ex
change program.

Two other Castlegar ex
change students who left
earlier in the month include
Jerrod Isfeld, son of Thiron
and Sharon Isfeld, who has
gone to Japan and Kecia

issue.”

Doug Dodington, president
of the Music Educators
Association of B.C., called the
BCTF's decision “very dis-
appointing.”

WILL GO AHEAD

He had said earlier that
individual music teachers had
told him they planned to go
ahead with their programs,
no matter what was happen
ing with the instruction
only campaign.

Bob Ferguson, president of
B.C. School Sports, said
earlier many coaches are
planning to go ahead with
regular seasons despite any
BCTFdecision.

But Maureen MacDonald,
president of the 1,500-mem
ber Vancouver Elementary
School Teachers Association,
said she thought a continued
instruction-only campaign
would get strong support

Tourist
alert

VANCOUVER (CP)
RCMP tourist alert for Sat
urday. The following people
believed travelling in British
Columbia are asked to call
the contacts listed below:

Damara_ Sylvester, Ed
monton, call Margaret Syl
vester.

Hector Vandermurlen,
Medicine Hat, Alta., call Jing

Carson.

from her mi r

“It doesn’t matter where
you are in the province, you
have a great deal of symp
athy for those who have
letters in their file. I wouldn't

Court news

and Barbara Dusseault, who
is now in Germany.

Two recent arrivals in
Castlegar are Simone (pro-
nounced See-mo-hee) Rates
from Brazil and Johanna
Makelin from Finland.

Of all of these, more later.

inue

want to be in one of those
locals and think the feder.
ation was abandoning me.”

McMurphy said jshe is
hopeful the campaign could
end before schovtstarts Sept.
8.

She said earlier this week
that the federation executive
wanted to drop the ban on
teachers Participating in
extva-curricular activities
because the BCTF's main
task this fall would be an or.
ganizing campaign.

The provincial govern
ment's new Teaching Pro-
fession Act eliminates com.
pulsory membership in the
BCTF, and teachers in each
district must vote on
whether to form a union or an
association.

Ted Craddock, vice-chair.
man of the Fort Nelson
board, said he didn't think
the board would consider
withdrawing the letters of
reprimand that were put in
24 teachers’ files after the
April 28 walkout to protest
the government's new labor
legislation

Weather

In Castlegar pr
court this week, Michael Fitz.
patrick was fined a total of
$150 when he pleaded guilty
to one count of careless
driving and one count of ex
ceeding the speed limit.

Sunday will be sunny and
warm. Highs near 30.
Monday will also be sun-
ny and warm with highs of
30. Chance of precipita-
tion both days is near 0.

~ met Ree

Forest industry must
follow Sweden's lead

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Canadian forest industry
should follow Sweden's lead by developing new, highpriced
wood and paper products rather than relying on “low-value”
bulk commodities such as lumber, pulp and newsprint, says
the Science Council of Canada.

that now threaten to take the place of wood in prefabricating
housing or packaging.”
URGES FUND
The council, describing the forest industry as Canada's
most important industrial sector with more than 275,000

Warning that Canada cannot contii on its
cheap dollar to stay competitive, the council also urged both
the federal uooreiacet and the private sector to double

and d in the next five
years, to an on esthelnged $110 million a year.

“Sweden is an example of a country that moved on from
just cutting wood and shipping it out to becoming experts in
forest machinery, to becoming exporters of wood products
such as furniture and eventually design,” council chairman
Stuart Smith told a news conference.

“As long as we just stick to the old business of cut the

dity, mine the ship it out as quickly as
possible, we will be completely dependent on having a lower
and lower Canadian dollar in order to compete.

“We have to get into products that are far more know-
ledge-intensive, products that we find in Japan, Eyrope and
the United States that will be occupying a larger and larger
percentage of world trade.”

The council report, which took two years to prepare,
says there are “massive” market opportunities for new
products, including fine paper and wood specialty products
such as preserved wood foundations for residential con-
struction.

New types of pulp, chemicals and glues as promising
options, it says.

Smith said the forest industry should also learn that
wood must not only compete with wood but is also up against
plastics and metals.

“There's lots of room in the wood products industry for
research, innovation and fighting back against the materials

I and_ $28.9 billion in annual: production, said
Ottawa should qreate a forest industries innovation fund.
Directed by the Department of Industry, Science and
Technology, the fund would help lay a blueprint and
h and by the private sector.

Chief executive officers and government should work
together to make strategy for future action, the report says.

Smith said government must get involved because
Canadian companies pricend have been “under-per-
formers” in h an of new The
American forest pecan Weyerhauerser Inc., he said,
spends more money on research annually than all Canadian
companies combined.

Even though they have a “breathing space” with
current buoyant markets, Smith said companies have made
excuses for not spending money on research.

“Whenever things have been good for the forest
products sector, and you have recommended that they do
much more research and development in technology, they
say, ‘Why should we, things are great?”

“And when things have been bad, and we say they
should add more research and technology, they say, ‘You
may be right but we can't afford it.’

“That game has to stop,” the former Ontario Liberal
leader said. “It's about time we recognize that when things
are good as they are at the moment, we have to make the
investments which will prevent the downturn from being as
devastating as you in British Columbia remember the last
downturn as having been.”

KIWANIS CLUB
CELEBRATES
ANNIVERSARY

The Castlegar Kiwanis Club will be celebrating its 40th
anniversary with a banquet, dance and installation of new
officers on Sept. 12.

The club was chartered on Aug. 19, 1947, and one of the
original 25 members, W.T. (Bill) Waldie of Robson, is still
active in the club.

New president Pat Haley will be installed by outgoing
Kiwanis lieutenant-governor John Holden, while retiring

~president Brian Brown will turn over the gavel to the new

exécutive.

J.R.C. (Bob) MacBain, a former president of the local
club and co-chairman of the anniversary banquet committee,
said he hopes former members of the club and citizens
interested in attending the special occasion will contact him,
Brown or Burt Campbell.

He said the wives of deceased members of the club
would be especially welcome.

The Castlegar News is also 40 years old this year, and
its issue of Thursday, Aug. 21, 1947 (its third weekly issue),
carried a report on the Kiwanis Club's charter night held in
the old Coronation Hall where the Co-op Garage now stands.

That report follows: “Tuesday evening some 150
Kiwanians and friends gathered at the Coronation Hall for a

banquet to honor the Castlegar Kiwanis Club and accept _
them into Kiwanis International.

“The call to order was given by Lt.-Goy..Roh Barns of
Trail, followed by the singing of OQ Canada and America.
Rev. J.T. Horricks gave the invocation.

“A. G. Cameron of Trail introduced Kiwanis governor
Don Engdahi and Mrs. Engdah! and L. Craig introducted
Lt.-Gov. Burns and Mrs. Burns, and members of the
executive of the Castlegar Kiwanis Club.

“A hearty wel was ded to visiting Ki
by A. Ferguson and to the new club by S. Horswill for the
Canadian Legion, O. Walker for the municipality and A.
Horswill for the Castlegar Board of Trade.

“The charter was presented by Kiwanis governor Don
Engdahl of Spokane and he gave an inspiring address on the
objects of Kiwanis International and outlined the work being
done by the Spokane and Vancouver clubs.

“The charter was received by Cyril Bell, president of
the Castlegar Kiwanis Club.

“Guest soloists for the evening were Mrs. T. McColm, J.
Graham, G. Leitner and R. Sommers.

.L. Webster, M.L.A., extended greetings and, on
behalf of the visiting clubs, presented their gifts. The gifts
were accepted by Cliff Wanless, vice-president of the
Castlegar Kiwanis Club.

“Officers of the Castlegar Kiwanis Club are: Cyril Bell,
president; Cliff Wanless, vice-president; R.T. Waldie,
treasurer, and E.L. Stanford, secretary.

“Wires of congratulations were received from 0.E.
Peterson, secretary of Kiwanis International, and Mr. and
Mrs. H. Jones, Portland, Oregon.

“A dance followed.”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

avout 20, 967 CasthigarNews 12

Re-write refugee bill

A brief comment on the
refugee question.

It’s too bad we cannot be
non-political on a question af-
fecting the lives of often des-
perate and frightened people.

Church and refugee groups
nave long supported speed.
ing up the refugee hearings,
ind quickly detecting phony
immigrants. What is dis-
turbing in recently proposed
refugee bills is not the stated
purpose, but the actual de-
tails, which are too unreal
istic, too legalistic, and too
uncaring, and actually threat-
en to reject ieee who are
legitimate refugee:

I must wonder if ‘these bills
were written by over
zealous immigration officials,
the sort of persons who

would have deported Fred
Nachbauer, if Kootenay West
MP Bob Brisco and others
had not brought common
sense and human decency
into the picture.

I would hope such a less
legalistic, more humane
approach might be taken to-
ward the refugee question. I
would suggest that readers
write Mr. Brisco, and others

my understanding
that the presently proposed
legislation could be re-writ
ten in a way that would find
wide acceptance, especially
by removing some of the
extreme proposals. I suggest
that readers who recall their
own immigrant and refugee

ancestry request that Ottawa
find an acceptable and work-
able way of: screening out
illegals and speeding up ref-
ugee hearings. The presently
proposed bills are the wrong
way to try to do the right
things.
TED BRISTOW
itlegar

in Ottawa, r an im-
partial, non-political ap-
proach to the examination of
the proposed bills, with the
aim of re-writing the legis-
lation in a way that would
find all-party approval. I feel
such a question about the
future of human persons
should be lifted above poli

cal name-calling and one-up-

changes will go
Monday, Sept. 14.

Street.

changes taking effect.

on the

dules.

Transit
timetable

A new timetable for the Castlegar
Transit System with minor route
into effect on

The changes involve minor rout:
ing adjustments on the south loop.
The areas effected are Highway 22
from 22nd Street to 24th Street and
4th Avenue from 30th Street to 34th

Revised timetables will be de-
livered to all residences and will be
available on the buses prior to the

Bus riders can also call Transit
Information at 365-3100 for details
charges. and more in
formation on routes, fares and sche.

BROKERS

continued trom front poge
to property suffered by the applicant

as a result of the

vieted.”

that Singleton

his case load.

“Rankin, Madigan and I managed
to condense the trial to its elements,”
“rather than the three or four
months it could have taken.

“Civil proceedings ought not to tie
up for extended periods the criminal

he said,

court dockets.”

Bridge results

Nine pairs of duplicate
bridge players competed
Aug. 24 in the Joy Ramsden Peter Kangro; third — Myr.
Bridge Club at the airport na Baulne and Donna Wiw
coffee shop. char; fourth — Hugh Auld

Winners were: first - Rita and Louise Whitehead.

Perrier and Ian Glover; se-

In the courtroom, Sperry said his
clients are anxious to see the end of the

offence of which the accused is con

Singleton told the court that the
adjournment was an additional burden
since he is expected to keep his clients
informed of all proceedings.

But Sperry later told reporters
should not
special treatment because of the size of

of the pr igs, stating they felt a “cloud
over their heads in this community.”

The 16-month pyramid scheme,
masterminded by Powers, involved
people making a minimum investment
of $1,000 cash on the promise that
within 60 to 90 days they would see
their money doubled. They were then
given an opportunity to reinvest

Powers, 36, also known as Laura
Grace Gibbons, was sentenced to one
year in prison last November for her
part in managing and operating the
scheme. The charges of fraud against
her were stayed.

Powers, who served her senience
at the Lakeside Correctional Centre for
Women in Vancouver, was released in
July. >

expect

cond — Stan Jenkinson and’

ay

Two killed

TORONTO — Two laborers were killed early
Saturday when a cable snapped on a construction
elevator and sent it racing to the top of a downtown
45-storey building at about 80 kilometres an hour.

Witnesses said a counterweight broke off the
elevator immediately after the doors closed on the
ground floor of the Bank of Nova Scotia tower, being
bulit_near the heart of the financial district.

The b ies and glass cage shot upwards and
slammed fhto a beam on the 45th floor. The partially
crushed car then dropped and came to rest one floor
down.

The dead men, who were not immediately
identified, were not wearing helmets. Three others,
who had helmets, were seriously injured.

Woman beaten

EDMONTON (CP) — A frail 83-year-old woman
was in critical condition in hospital Saturday after
being found brutally beaten in her Edmonton home.

Lillian Berube, who one neighbor said has
survived two recent heart attacks and being hit by a
car a few years ago, suffered a broken neck, jaw and
ribs during Friday's attack.

The widow lives alone and was described by one
neighbor as “like everybody's grandmother on the
block.”

Teacher removed

SHELBURNE, N.S. (CP) — The Shelburne
County school board has removed an elementary
teacher from classroom duties after word spread in
the community that the teacher had been exposed to
the AIDS virus.

The teacher is from the Cape Sable Island school,
off the province's southwestern coast.

Parents onthe island had threatened to keep
their cfildren home when the school year begins next
week unless the teacher was removed.

AIDS testing

WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The United States
has announced it would begin AIDS testing for all
immigrants on Dec. 1.

The lethal disease is transmitted by the exchange
of body fluids. Homosexuals and intravenous drug
users are particularly at risk in the West.

Shuttle test

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (Reuter) — Officials
called off a full-scale firing of a redesigned space
shuttle rocket Saturday in the northern Utah desert,
saying that needed more time to remedy problems
that halted the same test two days ago.

The test of the 38-metre shuttle booster rocket
had been reset for Saturday after problems with
ground-support systems interrupted three count
downs on Thursday. 7

New crackdown

SEOUL (AP) — South Korea's opposition accused
President Chun Doo-hwan’s government Saturday of
using countrywide labor turmoil to justify a new
crackdown on the democratic movement and renege
on promised reforms.

The National Coalition for a Democratic Con.
stitution, an alliance of dissidents and civil rights and
religious activists, issued a statement as authorities
stepped up investigations of dissidents.

Buses explode

BEIRUT (AP) — Two bomb-rigged buses
exploded five minutes apart Saturday in a crowded
square in the northern Lebanese ‘port city of Tripoli,
killing three people and wounding 25, police said.

Later in the day, a bomb exploded in a garbage
dump in west Beirut in the Moslem sector's main
shopping centre, breaking shop windows but injuring
no one, police said.

No group claimed responsibility, but police say
such attacks are often designed to discredit the
Syrians, who are trying to keep peace in this Mediter
ranean country plagued by 12 years of civil war.

Truce ends

MANAMA, Bahrain (reuter) — Iraq ended a
six-week lull in attacks on Iranian offshore oil targets,
hitting an oil terminal, an oilfield and setting a tanker
ablaze Saturday, regional shipping sources said.

They said Iraqi warplanes hit Rakhsh offshore
oilfield and Iran's Sirri Island oil terminal, both in the
southern Persian Gulf, setting the tanker Alvand on
fire. The vessel had been loading at Sirri.

The attack came 45 days after Iraq's last strike on
shipping and signalled what could be the end of aAruce.
in the war at sea. (

Aouzou retaken

AOUZOU (AP) — Libyan military officers
displayed arms and Chadian soldiers Saturday it said
were captured while retaking the desert outpost of
Aouzou from Chad.

Chad continued to deny Libya had recaptured the
village in its first victory after a string of costly
defeats in the border area, which both countries claim
as their own.

But Libya took six western journalists to the
battle site about 60 kilometres south of the border
between Libya and Chad to see the spoils of war and
its victims

Hostage released

ROME (AP) — Six Italian convicts holding 21
hostages in a prison infirmary on the island of Elba
released a 65-year-old inmate with heart trouble
Saturday

One hostage, prison director Cosimo Giordano,
was interviewed Saturday in a taped, national
broadcas

Claudio Rubini was released after he apparently
became hysterical and began screaming at the
mutineers, officials said. Rubini was one of those being
treated in the infirmary when it was seized Tuesday
by. six prisoners armed with guns, knives and
explosives.

COURSE COMPLETED . .
. Michele Lalonde and
Eric Ommundsen are
two of the three people
to have recently com-
pleted their Travel
Counselling Techniques
course, sponsored by
the Tourism Ministry.
Missing from photo is
Renata Hale.

CasNews Photo

DANGER NOT OVER

Aquino has problems

By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press

MANILA — The failed mutiny in the Philippines last
week indicates growing problems facing President Corazon
Aquino’s government and calls into question the image of
stability her supporters promote.

The mutiny leaders, many from the officer corps elite,
spoke of government indecision in the face of crises,
including the Communist rebellion, and failure to deliver on
promises of change.

Aquino’s uncle, Representative Fransisco Sumulong,
said the mutiny showed officials must “see if the government
failed somewhere.”

“The danger is far from over,”

LYSIS

Soliven in The Philippine Star.
“The president and her henchmen who have been
calling the rebels ‘mutineers’ and ‘enemies of the state’
would do well to pay attention to the seeds of discontent and
despair that led so many men to join.”
The latest try was the most widespread and

wrote columnist Max

Kuranari said the Philippines “much achieve a stable
political situation before it can have economic stability.”

Unlike previous attempts, Friday's abortive coup was
not led by groups seeking to restore the discredited regime
of ousted president Ferdinand Marcos.

The leader was Col. Gregorio Honasan, who played a
key role in the 1986 mutiny against Marcos that swept
Aquino into power.

Honasan gained the support of fellow soldiers in
Pampanga province, Cebu City and Legazpi City, indicating
dissatisfaction may run deeper in the officer corps than the
leadership assumed.

Previous moves against the government were confined
to Manila.

Honasan's chief lieutenants included some junior and
middle grade officers who, like their leader, were considered
the cream of the officer corps. They would be the type of
officers needed to restore the morale of the 150,000-
strong armed forces to fight the 18-year-old Communist
rebellion at a time when the Communist New People’s Army
is stepping up its attacks.

In a statement broadcast during a brief takeover of a

yet against the 18-month old Aquino government.

The military had said it stepped up security in Manila
after recent attacks by Communist rebels against police and
soldiers.

Even so, between 800 and 1,500 armed mutineers
managed to launch attacks on the presidential palace and on
television stations and to seize positions at the headquarters
of the armed forces and Defence Department.

The attacks came as government officials were giving
assurances the country was moving toward political stability
and was a fertile ground for new investment.

On Saturday, Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi

private tel station, s said their
was led by “idealistic young officers” against a government
that had lost “political will.”
FAILED TO ACT
Their primary complaint was that Aquino failed to act
decisively against Communist rebels. They also decried the
“overindulgence in politics that now pervades our society.”

HANDICAPPED
SOCIETY ROLE
IS IMPORTANT

Editor's note: This is the first of six features on

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

Kootenay Society for the Handicapped takes special
pride in its role in the community and, according to
society president Gerry Ehman, its role is an important
one.

The society operates a number of services in and
around Castlegar and the operations are funded in
several different ways.

The society op two resid for the Ih
handicapped under contract from the Ministry of Social
Services and Housing. It also offers a life skills services
which, according to Ehman, enables the handicapped to
live “more or less on their own.”

Ehman explained that the life skills service requires
someone to visit the individual homes to help out in
certain aspects of independent. living.

UNITED WAY
FEATURE

But Ehman said the society also operates in an
advocacy role for parents and handicapped. He said the
society keeps in regular contact with the school board to
follow the progress of the handicapped in the school
system and he said it also offers input into most of these
educational services.

Through the society receives a great deal of financial
support from local and individual contributions it also
receives a substantial portion of its backing from the
Castlegar and District United Way.

Ehman said the United Way's support is used in the
voeational services operations such as the laundry
services offered at Castlegar’s Clay Castle.

Ehman described how the society once benefitted
from the B.C. Lottery Foundation, but now with several
new lotteries on the market and a change in distribtuion,
the lotteries on which the society relied most are being
phased out.

Ehman said the society also offers recreational
services to the handicapped, such as Camp Sanca on
Kootenay Lake, as well as recreational events in the
winter.

He added that because of its growing need for
specially-trained individuals, the society has turned from
volunteers to paid staff mem! The society,
including both full- and part-time, now has 25
employees.

But Ehman said the, society's shoestring budget
means it needs all the financial backing it can find as well
as having the knowledge and reassurance that funding is
steady.

“We would be very affected with the help of the
United Way.”

Refugees fear
war escalation

VANCOUVER (CP) — (the Nicaraguan Contra

The rebels failed to gain any civilian
support in a population with bitter memories of eight years
of martial law under Marcos.

Other groups, including Aquino's supporters, have
complained of indecision, failure to stamp out corruption,
administrative disarray and a lack of a firm policy agenda.

refugee

who arrived here this week
say they want to escape
instability in their country
and fear an escalation of war
in the strife-torn region, but
do not want to burden
Canada.

guerrillas’) bombs are fall-
ing,”.one man said.

“Your children are crying.
your wife is hysterical. There
is no peace. It hurts to say
this about my own country
but it hurts more to see my

Murder-suicide kills 33

SEOUL (AP) — Thirty
three people were found dead
in a South Korean factory
today in what appeared to be
a murder-suicide linked to a
religious cult, police said.

They said the bodies were
discovered in the attic of a
factory at Yongin, about 80
kilometres south of Seoul

Factory owner Park Soon
ja and her three children
were among the dead, said

cer said by phone, who
refused to be identified.

Authorities said Park, 48,
was called “Benevolent
Mother” by her followers.
She had claimed God ap-
peared to her and told her to
seek disciples, authorities
said.

The sect claimed to be
Christian and preached that
the world was mired in de
cadence and about to come to

nesday after police began in-
vestigating charges she al-
legedly swindled the equiv-
alent of about $11.7 million
Cdn from 220 people, many of
them apparently involved in
the cult.

Police said the bodies were
stacked on top of each other
in two large piles, with 14
bodies in one and 19 bodies in
the other. Many of the
victims were scantily clothed

factory told them Park had
been hiding in the attic since
Wednesday. The maid said
she had been taking food to
Park once a day and last saw
her Friday.

Park also ran a charity for
orphans, homeless elderly
people and the poor in the
central Korean city of Tae-
jon.

wife and children in such a
“Imagine it’s midnight and_ state.”

Railways
back on track

By The Canadian Press

vice was back in operation.
The first train left Dorion,
just west of Montreal Island
at 9:05 a.m. EDT.

“As far as freight goes, the
workers showed up and

The country’s railways
were back in business Sat-
urday after federal legis-
lation derailed a strike by
48,000 workers, including

state-run KBS television.
Police said the victims had
been dead for up to two days.
“The investigation is still
going on but there are sus.
picions that it was a religious
mt,” a local police offi

an end. It demanded extreme
spiritual discipline and blind
obedience, police said.
Police declined to confirm
the report that Park was
among the dead.
She disappeared last Wed

in underwear or pyjamas,
they said. ‘
KBS said 29 women and
four men died, but other
reports said the dead in-
cluded some children.
Police said a maid at the

Korean news reports in-
dicated Park and aides in-
doctrinated charity _recip-
jents into the cult. Some re-
ports suggested poor people
and children were used as
labor in the Yongin factory.

RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) — A man who told police
he survived a motorcycle gang's shootout in a soured
drug deal that left as many as 30 people dead faces a drug
charge, Kootenai County Prosecutor Glen Walker said
Saturday

Nearly 80 law enforcement officers searched a
secluded area near this rural community Saturday after
George William Lane said he saw as many as 30 bodies
piled ‘next to graves after a shootout Friday afternoon.

Lane was booked into Kootenai County Jail for
investigation of possession of a controlled substance after
he told deputies his bizarre story

Walker said Lane could face additional charges of
filing a false report. The drug charge stemmed from small
amounts of cocaine and marijuana found on Lane at the
jail

Walker also said Sally Huston, who was last seen
with Lane, and man Lane claimed he saw dead are also
being sought in the case.

“There is no indication the gunfight occurred, but
she's missing,” Walker said. “Until we get her, we don't
know what happened.”

Walker said Lane was with Huston when she told

Gang shootout a hoax?

three friends that she had seen about 20 “biker types”
wearing camouflage fatigues and carrying rifles on her
property.

Walker said a single 22-calibre shell casing was found
near a hat and binoculars Lane said he dropped after
being fired upon when he found a pile of 15 to 30 bodies
and saw people digging graves.

“There is absolutely nothing to prove that that
occurred,” Walker said. “I think I can safely say the
search (for bodies) has been concluded until, or unless,
additional information is forthcoming.”

Heavily armed officers waited for daylight until
making their move to investigate reports by Lane and
others of guniire and a motorcycle gang war. The
prosecutor and police were unable to explain reports by
several people of gunfire in the area.

Dennis Bonneau, a reserve Rathdrum police officer,
said Lane “has been known to have a false report before,”
but offic went along with the man because he seemed
honest and was shaking when he told his story.

Three mep dressed in combat fatigues and a woman
taken into custody for questioning Friday night were
released Saturday morning, Walker said.

hundreds who clashed with
police on Parliament Hill.

The first few trains began
to move soon after crews
reported for duty on their
regular morning shifts.

The legislation ending the
strike received royal assent
on Friday only hours after
500 angry workers — most
arriving by bus in Ottawa
from Montreal and Toronto
— shouted their disapproval
in a rowdy demonstration on
the hill.

CP Rail spokesman Jim
Barlow said in Toronto the
return to work was smooth.

A Via Rail spokesman said
passenger service would re
sume on Monday.

Fines of up to $500 for in
dividuals, $10,000 for union
and company officers and
$20,000 for companies and
unons as institutions could be
levied for breaking the law

Catherine Dallaire, public
affairs spokesman for CP Rail
in Moncton, N.B., said all ex
pected employees were on
the job at 8 a.m. ADT and
seven trains were expected
to move. No problems were
anticipated

In Montreal, CP spokes
man Fred Draper said regu

trains are being put together
and the operation is slowly
getting back,” he said. “It'll
probably take a day or so for
the freight train schedule to
get back to normal.”

Louise Filion, speaking for
Canadian national in Mon
treal, said all employees who
were supposed to be on shift
reported for work at 5:3C
a.m.

‘SEEMS NORMAL’

“Everything seems nor
mal,” she said. “Trains will be
running sometime this after
noon.”

The first would be a pilot
train, a freight, to inspect the
tracks and check the signals,
she said. Commuter trains in
the Montreal area would
start Sunday morning.

In Winnipeg, Paul Thurs
ton, CP Rail spokesman for
the Prairies, said three trains
had already left from various
points.

“Everybody reported re
turning to work,” he said.
There were “no unusual inci.
dents, and you'll hear trains
rumbling pretty soon.”

The strike began at mid
night Aug. 23 in protest at
layoffs planned by the rail
ways as they prepare for de.

lar ser-