~~ Service in our Own Facilities TIME DOES NOT APPLY TO KODACHROME OR DISC FILM Wiogers tc. SOS-T 515 reese nto VanCity won't bid on co-op By CasNews Staff Vancouver City Savings Credit Union announced this week it will not make an offer for the assets of the finan- cially troubled Teachers’ In- (JACK WILLIAMSON PAVING L — FREE ESTIMATES — SPECIAL: Ste eaon. CALL NELSON TRAIL 352-4002 368-8278 CASTLEGAR 365-5573 HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Mon.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” and Housing Coop- erative. A news release from the credit union says that after reviewing an existing offer by CanWest Financia! Corp. of Winnipeg, VanCity con- eluded it couldn't make an of fer that is “significantly bet- ter.” The CanWest offer is ex pected to net co-op deposi. tors about 74 cents on the dollar. ‘The co-op's receiver, Mar- tin Linsley of Coopers and Lybrand Ltd., said his dis cussions with VanCity were “frank, friendly and useful,” the release says. He added that the VanCity review showed the CanWest offer is fair. TIHC members will vote on the CanWest offer May 11. Alma McGauley, a retired Castlegar teacher, has been leading the fight to have a major financial institution take over the TIHC and free more than $260 million in deposits which were frozen when the co-op was placed in receivership last November. She could not be reached for comment Saturday. The TIHC has 45,000 mem- bers in B.C., Alberta, Man- itoba and Yukon. Subsidies slammed DAWSON CREEK (CP) — Government subsidies are helping a United States for. with a ANNOUNCEMENT Pictured are Len Poty (on left) and Allen Wozney Allen Wozney, owner of Junction Shell is very pleased to ‘ennounce the appointment of Len Poty as their experienced Import Specialist. Len Poty, Sommer of Fischer Motors in Nelson has 2 Years experience working with imports. pe ven Nelson plant, a hearing into a Louisiana-Pacific ap plication for a tree harvest ing licence was told Thursday night. Louisana-Pacific is building a waferboard plant in this northeastern B.C. commun- ity but Fort Nelson solicitor Andrew Schuck, who is also the city’s former mayor, said the provincial govern- ment is promoting unfair competition with $10 million in subsidies. “It is blatantly unfair when the taxpayers give loans to Voie. Votkswagen. js and most Evropeon cors. Len would like to thark all his tolthtyl costomars over the post 9 years, ond say you will receive the same professional, cou: Seoue service os ohvays ot his new employment with Alien Woxney at Junction Shel AW) JUNCTION st SHELL sai euaaeaioee - Eaihagie Call 365-4511 new to the de- triment of existing corporate residents,” Schuck told the public hearing. “The marketplace should determine where a plant should be located, not poli- ticians. 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Funeral service begitis to- night at 7 p.m. at the Castle- gar Funeral Chapel and con- tinues Monday from 10 - noon with burial in the Krestova Cemetery following at 1 p.m. Mr. Verigin was born Aug. 23, 1920 at Ootischenia and lived at Shoreacres until af. ter his marriage to Annie Markin in 1950, when they moved to Krestova. During his life, Mr. Verigin worked as a logger and saw mill worker. He enjoyed gar dening and fishing. He is survived by his wife Annie at Krestova; two sons, Peter and John of Krestova; one daughter, Nettie Sook erukoff of Shoreacres; and two sisters, Ann Kinakin and Polly Stoochnoff of Krestova. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Court news In Castlegar _ provincial court this week, Alexander Findlay pleaded guilty to failing to provide a breath sample and was fined $300. TWO PER CENT Teachers get raise By CasNews Staff Castlegar District Teachers’ Associ- ation has reached an agreement with the Castlegar school board calling for a two per cent wage hike for district teachers for the 1986-87 school year, the board announced Friday. A brief news release says the board anticipates the raise will Stabiliz- and the board are pleased we didn’t go to arbitration this year. “We're pleased with the improve- ment in the relationship with the board but we'll continue to watch what the board is doing carefully,” she added. The two per cent wage increase will receive approval from C ation commissioner Ed Peck. In an interview later Friday, COTA president Lisa Pedrini called the raise “a very, very modest increase.” She noted that teachers’ salaries in the district have risen 4' per cent in the last four years — including the 1986-87 two per cent raise — while inflation for the same period was 14 per cent. She also expressed concern over the way teachers in B.C. negotiate salary increases. “We recognize that teachers’ bar- gaining is very much an illusion be- cause not only does the government give boards their budget figures before completing bargaining (with teachers) but also the agreements have to go . Peck for approval. However, Pedrini said “the teachers through cost the board approximately $100,000 over the next year, district secretary- John Dascher said. He said the total payroll for teachers Board chairman Kay Johnson said Friday the $100,000 increase in the teachers’ payroll will not adversely affect other programs in the district. “We set that budget figure (two per cent) months ago,” she said. “It was in our original budget March 15." Johnson said if the board had not agreed toa salary increase for teachers She added that the cost of an increase is worthwhile for labor peace and increased morale in the district. and they had been awarded one through arbitration, then other pro- grams would have been because the board would not have bud- geted for the increase. affected LISA PEDRINI . ‘a modest increase’ Most boards hike taxes VANCOUVER (CP) — Fifty-five of British Colum- bia's 75 school boards will The figures show six small school districts lowered their school tax rates by small Fourteen other dis- raise 1 school prop- erty taxes this year by an average of about eight per cent. But only homeowners in 18 school districts, mainly in urban centres, will actually have to pay more for schools through 1986 property taxes after the province's $380 homeowners grant is applied. Eric Buckley, president of the B.C. School Trustees Association, said the boards were forced to raise taxes because they have not been provided enough money by the Social Credit govern- ment. “Understandebly, taxpay- ers will not be ‘pleased,” said. “But hopefully Buckley they Will undérstaid that all the boards are trying to do is maintain the current level of school services after three years of cuts.” The association compiled the tax figures Thursday, the deadline Victoria gave boards for submitting final budgets. triets kept the rates the same — including New Westmin- ster and Coquitlam, the only districts in Greater Van- couver that didn't raise Association executive dir- ector Henry Armstrong said total tax increases for the gntire 1986-87 gchool year gould go higher than What i is ineluded on this year’s tax notice. 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Open 6 Days o Week from 8:30 o.m.-5 p.m 1607 Cohombic Aven Castieger Call 365-2965 ge Trach Tires Briefly | Chernobyl area NO ELECTION VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett says he has no plans to call a provincial election soon, despite suggestions that his Social Credit government could capitalize on the “euphoria” created by Expo 86, which officially opened Friday. Interviewed on the CTV program Canada AM, Bennett said his information indicates his government would win if an election was called now. “But I want to tell you, I have no intention of calling an election,” he said. FIRM EXPANDS PENTICTON (CP) — A Kelowna firm which manufactures hot tubs will begin operations in Penticton within three weeks and create 25 jobs for local residents. Bob Kennedy, owner of Okanagan Spa Co., confirmed the purchase of a 7,500-square-metre former mobile home plant here. The company currently employs 60 people in Kelowna. About half of them will be coming to work in Penticton. Kennedy said the company is moving because its production of acrylic spas has reached 6,500 a year and it has outgrown its plant in Kelowna where there is no other suitable facility. MONEY FREED MONTREAL (CP) — Five’ multi-millionaire members of a Montreal family that won $7.6 million in a lottery last month can begin spending most of their money again, a judge has ruled. The money had been frozen since last week when Louise Lavigueur, 16, said she was being cheated of her $1.2-million share of the jackpot the family won the the Lotto 6-49 lottery. Lavigueur sued her father, two brothers, a sister and an uncle because, she claims, they broke a verbal contract to split any lottery win six ways. Quebec Superior Court Justice Alphonse Barbeau ruled that $5 million of the winnings be released, but that another $1.3 million remain in a trust fund pending a hearing into Lavigueur's claim. LECLAIR STABLE OTTAWA (CP) — Noella Leclair, the first Canadian to receive an artificial heart, remains in critical but stable condition today as the search continues for a suitable replacement human heart. The 41-year-old woman from the Ottawa suburb of Orleans made medical history in Canada after receiving a Jarvik-7 heart late Thursday at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute at the Ottawa Civic Hospital JET BOMBED COLOMBO (CP) — An explosion tore through ar AirLanka 1-101} jetliner before its scheduled takeoff for an Indian Ocean vacation mecca Saturday and state radio said 20 people aboard were killed and 41 injured The national news agency, Lankapuvath, said a timebomb caused the blast, but the government made no immediate statement on its cause. There was no immediate claim of responsibility The state radio said passengers were boarding the Lockheed Tristar at Colombo's international airport when the explosion occurred, sending plumes of smoke skyward and shattering glass panels in the main terminal building It said 12 of the injured were in critical condition. SEVEN DIE JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Seven people were killed in unrest that followed a one-day strike against apartheid by about 1.5 million black workers, police in South Africa said The victims included four black men shot by police, two pelice officers killed by black demon. strators, and a woman, accused of being a police informant, who was burned to death by other blacks Police said they arrested more than 70 people in the violence that began late Thursday, and spread to 24 black townships. FAITH DEFENCE URGED CAIRO (AP) — Libya and Iran have called for a billion Moslems to prepare for a war to defend their faith from a “10th Crusade,” Libya's official JANA news agency said In a broadcast that was monitored in the Egyptian capital, JANA said the declaration was issued during a visit to Libya by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and Muhsin Rafiq Dost, the minister in charge of Iran's revolutionary guards. PEKING CRACKS DOWN PEKING (AP) — Peking’s city government has cracked down on more than 300 shops and restaurants for playing loud pop music to lure customers, an official Chinese newspaper said Saturday Forty-eight of the establishments were fined, 15 had their sound equipment confiscated and 267 received disciplinary warnings in the weekend clampdown, the official English-language China Daily said The newspaper said the establishments were accused of having disturbed the normal life of neighborhood residents and had been punished or warned in accordance with city regulations on noise control. INJUNCTION NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Saturday preventing deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos from selling five New York properties worth an estimated $100 million The government of Corazon Aquino, who replaced Marcos in February, is seeking to gain ownership of the properties, which include three Manhattan office buildings, the Herald Centre shopping arcade and an estate on Long Island already released by the government about the accident. Western experts have said they believe the accident began April 23 and that a fire raged at, the reactor for several days. White House. spokesman Larry Speakes, in . Tokyo with President Ronald Reagan for the economic summit, said Saturday there was evidence that the reactor or associated equipment continues to smolder. In his weekly radio address, Reagan expressed sympathy for those affected by the accident, but said “the Soviets owe the world an explanation” for what happened. By AP-CP Two top Soviet leaders have toured the area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the official Tass news agency reported Saturday as the Kremlin moved to publicly show its concern about the accident that has riveted the world’s attention for a week. But another Communist party official, said the area around the plant remains radioactive and it was not clear how close Premier Nikolai L Ryzhkov and the Kremlin's No. 2 man, Yegor K. Ligachev, came to the reactor site, 130 kilometres north of the icra Be peeomayranl. ey oo ores td Ukrainian capital of Kiev. “demanding more news and more facts from Chernobyl . Yeltsin, the Moscow party chief, said human error likely (western) politicians are waiting only for bad news.” caused the accident in which the government said two “It's unlikely that the reports that the sii besa in the Casthégar News _ 02 still dangerous Hector Cowan, a consular officer from the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, said most of the Canadians known to be in Kiev — 16 students and 21 parents who have joinedthem since the accident — would be taken to Moscow by train and. later leave the Soviet Union. Reapers deneeed cone peer rine 4 SE ae people died and 197 were injured, 18 of them seriously. He area of the atomic stati said steps were being taken to prevent a recurrence. Tass added. Radioactive dust from the accident, already detected in much of northern, central and eastern Europe, spread Saturday into Greece and Turkey. But officials there said it had not reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people demanding the shutdown of nuclear reactors protested in several West German cities. Italian officials, who forbade the sale of leafy bles for two weeks, seized several tonnes of greens Saturday. Tass said Politburo members Ligachev, Ryzhkov, Ukrainian Communist party chief Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky and other officials went to the Chernobyl area Friday to meet evacuees and decided on unspecified “additional measures” to deal with the disaster. LITTLE INFORMATION Tass did hot say how close the officials went to the Chernoby! plant, nor did it add to the sketchy information is normalizing will sober them up,” WARNS CANADIANS The uncertainty about radiation levels reportedly has caused growing concern among some of the 2.4 million residents of Kiev. It also prompted an exodus of foreign students, tourists and workers from the area. In Ottawa, External Affairs Department officials have warned Canad: women and children under the age of 16, to avoid travel anywhere within an 800-kilometre radius of Kiev. That includes eastern Poland, most of Romania and western regions of the Soviet Union. External has given permission for the dependants of embassy staff in Bucharest and Moscow to leave should they choose. Twenty-three dependants — 12 children and 11 adults — of the embassy staff in Poland left Warsaw by car Friday for the Canadian Forces Base in Lahr, West toa iene of four dangerously the evacuees have not been allowed to return home, he said. Meanwhile, Soviet television Friday branded the bitvnerrigE rit. dnd snciNe: fab attacked the United States and Britain for encoureeing thelr citizens to leave the area. The news agency also reiterated condemnation of an unconfirmed western news agency report that thousands died in the disaster. , Although U.S. officials at first A expressed paeadbny sor od about the low Soviet casualty toll, Harold of nuclear radiation for the U.S. iecear padi veel Commission, said Friday in Washington that he wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be correct. Expo’s opening has few problems NO PEEKING . . . contestants vie for awards in a challenging nursery school game during the Hobbit Hill Childrens Centre garage sale Saturday. Trying to put the pegs in the holes while blindfolded are (left to right) Madelyn MacKay, Kay Johnson and Leslie Soles. Costews Proto SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET—— fact what they've done is gone to the Pongracz noted that the pi VANCOUVER (CP) — pote weekend at the world's another on- pall of visitors for a vigw of Expo 86 under brighter skies and less restrictive conditions. The hoopla and security surrounding the royal visit had moved off the site — at least temporarily — but gen- erally sunny skies and war- mer temperatures seemed sure to match or surpass the opening-day gathering of more than 107,000. The $1.6-billion exposition, the largest and most expen- sive ever world's fair with a specialized theme, opened Friday with intermittent rain and cool breezes. On a more positive note, an Expo spokesman said the opening provided no bad sur- prises. “I don’t think there were citement of a fair that had been under construction for almost six years. LINEUPS EXPECTED The crowds, as they are expected to do for the next 5‘ months until the fair ends Oct. 18, have been forming long lines at the main attrac- and United States — The atmosphere, however, has been clearly one of high energy and good times. No smiling, ticipation and exuding the Sn ae eee Sein Lono of St. John's, Nfld, who has been to two continued from front page But Johnson said the board had no choice. “If we don't go to the taxpayers we might as well shut the system down,” she said after the meeting at the board office, which was packed with about 35 residents and teachers. During the meeting, Johnson, who spoke against the bylaw to approve the budget but voted in favor of it, said the money raised from the tax increase will help maintain school services but won't begin to restore services and programs cut back during restraint. taxpayers and said, ‘Write me a blank cheque and we'll spend to that level.” government will not allow school boards to tax businesses and that “If they had gone through the budget homeowners will “shoulder that res- and established ... exactly where the ponsibility” for education “one more money is going and why, I would have time.” supported a modest tax increase. (But) = think that's unfortunate. I hope needs and services have not been these realities will change next provin- identified.” : ag) cial election. Other trustees agreed with Johnson . 7 that the board was forced to go to the The board's budget did not sit well taxpayers to help fund education in the with Lisa Pedrini, president of the district. Castlegar District Teachers’ Associa “When I ran for school board, I ‘on. pledged to defend education and I came “I feel sick . . . because we were to the conclusion that raising taxes is lulled into believing the provincial my last resource to defend education,” government when it told us restraint is said Tony Guglielmi, elected to the over,” Pedrini said. “In fact restraint board for the first time last November. was not over so the boards were forced Rick Pongracz placed the blame for into the position of having to ask the the tax increase on the provincial taxpayers to pay twice for an education government system. And now the taxpayers in “The amount of the tax increase is Castlegar will have to pay for a system not something I feel responsible for. barely holding together.” The provincial government has the Pedgini said the budget will result in responsibility to fund education fewer teachers, larger classes and “less “One of the responsibilities we have attention to individual needs” of stu as trustees is to show support for those dents. who don't have a vote — the students “IT don't think anybody realizes yet in our classrooms.” how bad it's going to be next fall.” IN KIEV tested for radiation and knew of no plans for such tests on the B.C. students. “The money provides a rope to a sinking school district but it doesn’t pull it out of the water,” she said. “We'll probably still see small schools closed and the loss of a significant number of teachers.” But trustee Doreen Smecher — the only trustee to vote against the budget bylaw said the board could have done a better job of planning for the coming school year. “My major complaint is the board has not establis! plan. They have not set a budget,” Smecher said. “So in STUDENTS continued from front The parents left Castlegar for the Soviet Union last Saturday One student told the Vancouver Sun a telephone interview from Kiev “everything is normal,” and criticized the Western news media for “freaking out” parents of Canadian students in the Soviet city Tim Harshenin, 24, one of the Castlegar students known to be in Kiev, said Thursday he had not been disaster “We probably don't know much more than you,” he said His remarks followed a statement by a British diplomat that tests on more than 80 western students taken to Moscow from Kiev had shown they were,not in any danger Everyone here is aware that there was some sort of atomic accident “But I wish you reporters in the West would check your sources before you print all those things you've been printing. You're freaking out our parents and have everyone worried for no reason.” Harshenin said the students are now monitoring BBC io and Soviet newscasts for news about the nuclear i A ASE a “SUNDAY OPENING continued trom tront page And although he said he is authorized to open his bar this Sunday, he won't. Instead he will wait a week to gauge public res ponse to the opening. However, he said his liquor store will be open today. There is concern in some small towns, where Sunday is often a day off for police, that Sunday openings could mean higher policing costs. However, RCMP Staff Sgt. John Stevens of the Castlegar detach. ment said, “I do not foresee any problems at all.” Stevens said shift schedules for police are set out and include Sundays. Elwood Veitch, minister of con. sumer and corporate affairs, said Sunday openings will enable the tourism industry to better serve tourists visiting B.C. for Expo which runs May 2-Oct. 13. Veitch said there has been no decision to extend the openings beyond Expo and liquor stores will remain closed on Sundays. Meanwhile, Tulio Esposito, owner of the Hi Arrow Arms, is of two minds about opening his bar on Sunday “It's nice in one way. I just hope we have the clientele to do it,” Esposito said. On the other hand, he said, “I think the Lord's Day should be res. pected.” Esposito said it's important to have one day of rest in order to “slow down and smell the flowers.” any major pi (on open- ing day),” said George Mad- den. “There were a lot of little things, such as signs, people looking at maps and trying to figure out where they are. A lot of it is simply people being unfamiliar with the site.” With every move of Prince Charles and Lady Diana televised, early crowds on opening day were lower than anticipated. But as the school and work day for most ended, more people teemed on to the 70 hectare site to taste the ex world fairs, had high praise. “It’s very intriguing,” he said. “I recommend come and have a look at it.” Gail Gnat of Toronto was impressed after a tour of the Ontario pavilion. “You hear the comments of the people around you and they are very thrilled too. It made me feel very proud.” The excitement level at Expo will likely rise again when Charles and Diana re- turn to the fair Tuesday and Wednesday to visit several pavilions. PICTON continued trom front pege They can say no, but they will tell us why,” said Picton, who added that vetoed investment proposals will still be part of the students’ learning experience. He said most of the investments will be in bonds and low-risk blue chip stocks such as MacMillan Bloedel, General Motors and other less-established but secure companies. “No speculation. However, he acknowledged there is always the possibility of losing money even with seemingly sound investments. “The risks will be there. It's a real-life situation,” he said. “There's a possibility of losing some of it but not all of it.” Income from the fund will be used to support research and teaching in the faculty of commerce and business administration at UBC Picton, along with the other third-year students, leaves for Toronto this week to spend the summer working for Toronto-based investment industry firms. At the time of the interview he did not know which firm he would be working for The fourth-year students will work for similar firms in Vancouver. Picton, who last year attended Selkirk College and won the Governor-General's silver medal for having the highest grade average in two years’ of study at a college, said his long-term goal is to get into fund management, possibly with a firm that handles large pension.fund accounts Turning out better-trained students is the goal of the program “The investment industry felt students didn't have enough practical experience.” said Picton, noting that students can't amass the amount of money the program's fund will make available for investments. - Besides providing students with, practical experi ence, the program is also a less-expensive way for investment firms to train people rather than taking them into the company and training them on company time, he said. Picton said & wisdesia | in the program were selected on the basis of marks, leadership abilities and i