January 19, 1986 southern 8.C. today, ond is shifting slowly southward. tems today ‘of wet snow in the valleys. Another system thus it will be cloudy but with just o few will give steady precipitation to southern Temperatures will cool slowly over the next tew days but remain seasonally SUNRISE: 7:37 (2) 3 Catelli Dinners Macaroni end Cheese 225 Grom - Ore A.M.TO 5P.M. Prices effective Sun., Mon., Tues. & Wed. 1. Cooked Ham Guth Steed. . 666 per 100G...... Cry . N SUNDAYS a $139 2...99° Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Allan Ruy- skensvelde pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was fined $400. * * 6 Karl Thomas pleaded guil ty to failing to stop his vehicle at the request of a police officer and was fined $100. * * « Robert Hubert pleaded guilty to failing to remain at the scene of an accident and was fined $75. Aluminum vehicle driven by Norma Moll of Castlegar lost control and collided with a northbound vehicle driven by Ken Mel- nick of Slocan Park, Castle gar RCMP report. The accident oceurred just north of China Creek Shell. Moll was taken to Trail Regional Hospital where she was treated and released. Melnick, taken to Castle gar Hospital, was also treat ed and released. PERSONAL INVESTMENT Waterlan By PAUL LOONG VICTORIA (CP) — B.C. Forests Minister Tom Waterland resigned from the cabinet Friday because his personal investment in a pulp-milling partnership is a clear conflict of interest, Premier Bill Bennett said. No irregularities in Forests Ministry procedures were found in an investigation by Ted Hughes, deputy attorney general, Bennett told reporters. A similar conflict does not exist for Stephen Rogers, minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, who has invested in the same partnership, Bennett said. All cabinet ministers will be asked to review their investment portfolios, and clear conflict of interest guidelines will be considered, he said. The British Columbia government currently has no such guidelines, but all elected members must report on their The ion is contin uing. A two-car accident at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday resulted in $1,800 damage to two ve- hicles, Castlegar RCMP re port. ‘A 1977 GMC pick-up driv en by Tim Stoochnoff of Castlegar was southbound in the 2500-block of Columbia Avenue when it collided with a 1983 Toyota driven by Al fred Rogers, also of Castle gar, the police report says. e twice yearly under the Financial Disclosure Act, which will also be scrutinized now for its adequacy. “I don’t believe there is one minister in my government — in fact I know there isn't anyone — who sets out to beat the rules or to try to gain personally from being a cabinet minister,” Bennett said. CLEAR CONFLICT “But what you have clearly in the case of Tom Wateriand is a clear case of conflict of interest, and therefore he couldn't continue as forests minister.” Bennett said Waterland’s investment “direetly involved the responsibilities of his ministry.” “He had thought he was buying an accounting procedure for taxation but it in fact put him in a conflict of interest. He offered his resignation and I accepted it Th is con. tinuing. Castlegar RCMP have completed a survey of about one-third of 114 people who viewed the videotape Room to Live last fall instead of paying a $25 fine for not wearing their seat belts. All of the people contacted “hastily responded a staunch affirmative when asked to honestly answer if they were using or greatly increased usage of their seat belts as a result of the experience,” a news release from the de tachment says. RCMP are still showing Room to Live at the request of community groups and businesses and the release Don Phillips, currently minister of international trade and investment, will double as acting forests minister, Bennett said. + The premier said Waterland’s $20,000 investment in the Western Pulp Partnership Ltd. “directly involved responsi- bilities of his ministry,” whereas Rogers’ did not.$ The premier said Waterland, 52, a mining engineer who had been forests minister for almost 10 years, “still has my confidence as a member and as someone who can continue and in the future make a major contribution within the government of British Columbia.” Waterland offered to resign Thursday and Bennett accepted it, but asked the minister to stay on one more day to address a truck loggers’ i in V: i d resigns TOM WATERLAND . .. contlict of interest two mills from Western Forest Products, the company which has been lobbying for more logging in South Moresby. A government-appointed committee is holding hearings on the use of wilderness areas, including South Moresby. Logging is scheduled to resume Monday on Lyell Island — the only place in South Moresby where it is currently allowed. Environmentalists want to preserve the area as a wilderness park. Haida Indians, claiming aboriginal title, oppose logging on Lyell. Scores of them were arrested late last year and ieted of Waterland announced his resignation after the speech. T ‘AX DEFERRAL Waterland maintained he bought 20 units in the partnership in 1983 as a tax-deferral program, and has included it in his disclosures over the last two years. Waterland had insisted there is no conflict of interest because the partnership has no cutting rights, which are nine for defying court orders against blocking a logging road. Bennett said Waterland’s resignation has nothing to do with the South Moresby controversy, and Waterland dismissed it as “a red herring.” Waterland said he will sell his investment to allay any suspicion. Rogers, the member for Vancouver South,-is head of M i Ltd., a Pp: with a $100,000 MEASLES VICTORIA (CP) — The measles epidemic here is the worst since vaccine for the disease was intro@uced in 1969, with 18 cases reported Thursday and 15 on Wednesday. . Dr. Brian Allen, medical health officer, said there have been more than 250 cases since October. Measles cases have been reported throughout. B.C. but Allen said most are in the Victoria and Vancouver areas. Meanwhile, health officials in southeastern B.C. have launched a vaccination program to counter outbreaks of rubella and red measles. Six cases of rubella, or German measles, have been reported at one high school in Cranbrook. Officials hope to vaccinate about 600 people. Five cases of red measles have been reported among pre-schoolers in Creston, where another vaccination clinie has opened. EIGHT CHARGED PENTICTON (CP) — Eight people have appeared in provincial court on charges arising from the seizure of more than 2,000 kilograms of marijuana with an estimated street value of $8 million. They face charges of conspiracy to import and traffic in marijuana. Meanwhile, Darryl and Darlene Orr of Canal Flats were arrested in Cranbrook and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking. The police investigation involved the three Western provinces, and drug enforcement officials in Montana, Idaho and Washington. JUDGE RULES CHILLIWACK (CP) — A provincial statute dealing with Sunday store openings has been declared unconstitutional. In a written judgment, Judge R.S. MeQueen dismissed the case against, four Overwaitea stores charged with remaining open on Dec. 23, 1984. stores in Chilliwack, Cranbrook, Merritt and Prince Rupert were charged with carrying on a business contrary to the Holiday Shopping Regulation Act. McQueen based his decision on a Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the federal Lord's Day Act, which was ruled ituti because it discrimi: ACCOUNT CLOSED . . . Joe Irving (right) coordinator of Castlegar Unemployed Action Centre chats with ian Labo Southern Interior C Congr represen- r tative Bob Buchanan after closing centre's account at i i ef Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The move was G protest against a cheque-cashing policy for weltare ConttensProte CHEQUING POLICY data centre workers on strike in continued from front page Dechkoff's statement that customers Toronto. known to the bank are not required to produce two pieces of ification to cash welfare cheques. Irving said he witnessed three cases tive Bob Southern Interior CLC representa- stood on the bank's doorstep handing out leaflets with information about the strike to Com- negotiate with the union, information from the CLC says. At the Nelson, Trail and District Labor Council meeting Wednesday, Buchanan urged all local unions to this withdraw their accounts from the CIBC [it ill otet FEEL i i as ii i “T'm sure everyone around table has a good idea of the letter. what needs to be done,” Sheets 242" x 36 before Christmas where people known at the bank were asked for two pieces. He said he is certain that these were not misunderstandings or cases where the teller didn't recognize the cus- tomer. y issued by his Forests try. investment in the Western Pulp Partnership. The investment went unnoticed until now, at the same Although Rogers is a member of the cabinet's time controversy is raging over whether logging should be Environmental Land Use Committee involved in examining allowed by the government in the South Moresby archi- the South Moresby issue, Bennett said the committee has no pelago of the Queen Charlotte Islands. decision-making powers — cabinet decides. “He has no Western Pulp Partnership gets timber supply for its conflict,” Bennett said. merce customers. The VISA workers — most of them women — joined the Union of Bank Employees and are seeking a contract with CIBC which has refused to and to cancel Commerce-issued VISA ‘Trustee Rick Pongracz said. cards until CIBC management signs The Learning Assistance ognize that what the CLC considers a fair contract hers’ A is host- over * with the VISA workers, says a CLC press release. against some religions. Under the provincial law, a municipality has the power to opt out if a majority of voters in a referen dum vote in favor of holiday shopping. additional persons have been encouraged to buckle up,” the release says. CENTRAL FOODS Further roadchecks will be held at_strategic ipteryals, police say. 3 NNUAL INVENTORY The Largest Window Manufacturer in the Kootenays! TARRYS TARR WOODCRAFT Quality Cedar Windows From YS WOODCRAFT LTD. EARANCE SALE If you are thinking of remodelling your present home or building in the spring, now is the time to shop at Tarrys Woodcraft for all your window needs . YOU CAN SAVE UP TO 90% OFF LIST PRICE Call us for Free Estimates! Moresby not unique? SANDSPIT (CP) — Frank Beban Logging went for the jugular in its presentation to the provincial wilderness ad visory committee Friday night. Beban has a contract with Western Forest Products to log on Lyell Island, and Peter Voith, a lawyer representing the company, took to task the Indians and i benefits” if logging were prohibited. “I don't know what I'd do if it were to close down.” MacLennan said Lyell Is- land is a good place to work, adding: “I got more groceries now than I had in other times. There's lots of grub in my house.” Company president Frank activists opposed to the cut- ting. Voith argued that the South Moresby area of the Queen Charlotte Islands is not unique, as envi 1 Beban, of . told the committee that uncertainty about the future of his com- pany’s operation must end. “You know these 90 days you have to decide, it sounds groups claim. “There are no animals that live only on South Moresby, and the metaphor of South Moresby being the Canadian Galapagos is patently false,” Voith told the committee. The Beban presentation also said the area’s tourist potential haw been overstat- ed. “Tourism in South Mores- by cannot replace logging,” Voith said. “The area is in- accessible, has a harsh cli. mate and is expensive to visit.” Sandy MacLennan, an em- ployee of Beban Logging who works on Lyell, told the com- mittee that “it would be really tough to get another job with equal pay and equal just about i ible, but if you can, God bless you.” The chairman of the Queen Charlotte Islands school board, Duane Gould, a logger by trade, said the environ. mental controversy “is a big game — this little community is just getting tired of being the football.” “It seems there is a direct correlation between how far you live away from here and how badly you need a park,” Gould said. The chairman of the Queen Charlotte Islands chamber of commerce, Bob Long, plead ed with the committee to lis. ten to the people most af. fected by its decisions. “Don't take our jobs away,” he said. “There's lots of room to make comprom- ises, so please think of the people on the Queen Char- lotte Islands when you make this decision.” Committee chairman Br. yan Williams said he was not surprised to find such polar- ized opinion on the islands. “It's too bad it has reached this point,” he said. “But the people seem to be pleased there is an independent com mittee. Committee in Cranbrook By CasNews Staff The Wilderness Advisory Committee, which began a Series of public meetings Jan. 13, has received more than 600 written submissions from groups and individuals. The committee, appointed by provincial environment minister Austin Pelton to re- view general land use issues in regard to wilderness con servation in 24 specific areas of B.C., meets Wed: in Written submissions are available for public viewing at the Castlegar library. Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park near Nelson has “a long history of mining activity (and) many valid claims exist today, although most are presently inactive,” a com. mittee newsletter says. The park's boundaries form a square, cutting ar bitrarily across natural val. Cranbrook where it will dis- cuss Kokanee Glacier Park and Purcell Wilderness Con servancy. ues, the ittee says. “The Parks Division is interested in making adjust ments to these arbitrary boundaries that would result PRE-INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE This Week Only! Jan. 21 - 25 — (Big, Big Savings!) 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Wednesday's public meet ing takes place at Cran brook’s Inn of the South from 15 p.m. and 7-10 p.m FOTO Shoppes 1-Hour Photo Finishing 278 Columbia Ave., Costleger 365-2888 NO JAIL TERM VICTORIA (CP) A map who wants a sex-change operation will not have to go to jail on a drug charge. Jaime Rogers, 42, pleaded guilty in county court to trafficking in cocaine and possessing marijuana. Judge Kenneth Murphy said he would have sent Rogers to jail, “but in the cireumstances in which he or she finds himself, incarceration would be extremely difficult.” Rogers’ estranged wife, Cindy Lynn, said her husband has decided to live as a female and undergo a sex-change operation. She said he had been out of work for a long time and was depressed. But she said the drug offence is “out of character with his lifestyle.” CRASH KILLS 88 GUATEMALA CITY (AP) An airplane carrying passengers to Mayan ruins in northern Guatemala crashed Saturday in jungle terrain, killing all 88 people aboard, the director of civil aeronautics said. The twin-engined Caravelle jetliner operated by the private Aerovias company crashed as it was preparing to land at Santa Elena airport, 500 kilometres north of Guatemala City Col. Adolfo Corzo, director of Civil Aeronautics, said the plane carried six crew members, 59 Guatemalans, 11 Americans, two Germans, six Colombians and four Venezuelans. SHIPS RETREAT Heavy weapons fire between warring Marxist factions in South Yemen forced Soviet, British and French ships sent to rescue foreigners caught in the cross-fire to retreat from the port of Aden on Saturday, diplomats said “The situation in Aden has suddenly worsened and the evacuation had to be interrupted,” said an Arab diplomat in contact with his country's diplomatic mission in the South Yemeni capital. At least eight Canadians were known to have been in the capital. At last report five were at the Aden Hotel and three at the home of an official of the UN development agency. It was not known if any got out before the evacuation was suspended. SHUTTLE LANDS EDWARDS AIR BASE, CALIF. (AP) The space shuttle Columbia ended its hard-luck mission turday with a faultless pre-dawn touchdown in the fornia desert, two days late and a continent away from its intended landing site After a record seven launch postponments and three wave-offs from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, where it was supposed to have ended its mission Thursday, the shuttle landed at 5:59 a.m. Castlegar time (8:59 a.m. EST) on a floodlit concrete runway in the Mojave Desert Florida had been the target again Saturday, but a threat of rain for a third consecutive day forced shuttle commander Robert Gibson to keep the ship in orbit for an extra swing around the Earth for the €atifornia landing. “People who have lived in this com munity all their lives had to go through this hassle,” Irving said. However, he said he told Dechkoff that there would not be “further at- tacks on the bank from me” and added he will direct future efforts protesting the policy toward the ministry of Human Resources. That's where “the arrows ought to be directed,” Irving said. Meanwhile, the downtown CIBC branch Thursday was also the target of a continuing Canadian Labor Congress “Boycott the Commerce” campaign in support of striking Commerce VISA the utility's work sites. B.C. Tel back to work More than 100 unionized B.C. Tele- phone Co. employees in Castlegar, Trail and Nelson were back on the job Wednesday after striking Shaw Cable workers ended five days of picketing at The end to picketing came when the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents a dozen Shaw employees, was served with notice of a court hearing on the issue. B.C. Tel had been scheduled to appear in B.C. Supreme Court Wed further picketing. The five-month-old Shaw dispute after utility supervisors repaired tele. phone lines leading into the cable firm's offices in Trail and Nelson. electrical workers’ picket lines to repair the cables, which had been van dalized. CHAMBER—— continued trom front poge as well as improve lighting on the Kinnaird bridge. “Ifyou are-coming into Castlegar_as_a_visitorwith darkness all the way through you can miss the city and can nesday to seek an injunction banning think Ootischenia is the big city,” he said. “There is not enough lighting or signage to say it is big city coming up.” Ch ernoff added that the committee will also be working spilled over to B.C. Tel last Friday on getting a road along the Arrow Lake from Castlegar to Fauquier. “It would be a real asset to Castlegar,” he said. “We are trying to find out which is the better side to have it. It could B.C. Tel workers refused to cross the be built on either side.” A written report by roads and bridges chairman Mary Wade Anderson also pointed out the lack of directional signs in the West Kootenay, and Castlegar in particular. Security high at airports By JANET STEFFENHAGEN OTTAWA (CP) Security remained high at several Canadian airports Saturday and as a fatalistic calm swept passengers, police kept mum about allegations that a terrorist has threatened to down a U.S.-bound aircraft out of Ottawa. RCMP Staff Sgt. Bernard Gagnon, one of many uniformed and plain clothes police officers keeping watch over the Ottawa International Airport, said stepped up security has been at the same level since Thursday and will remain high as long as it is deemed necessary. Police and Transport Canada officials have steadfastly refused to say why extra security personnel and bomb sniffing dogs were dispatched to the Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal airports in the first place. They have also refused to comment on various unattributed news reports about the nature of the threat. Most passengers leaving the Ottawa airport Saturday appeared unfazed. “If you're lucky, you're lucky,” said a local man headed to Atlantic City on a chartered Pilgrim Airlines flight for a day of gambling. “I had to drive here and there are just as many chances of getting hurt doing that as getting on the plane.” Passengers departing from Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal are undergoing unusually close checks of themselves and their luggage. Special steps are being taken to ensure that all passengers who have checked baggage actually board the plane Dave Sutin, a public affairs spokesman for Transport Canada, would not confirm that special security measures have also been implemented in Quebec City, although he advised that mechanics and vehicle operators there have walked off the job because of an unrelated labor dispute. Security was increased at the Winnipeg International Airport Friday when a man took hostages and threatened to blow up a van in an isolated child custody dispute. The incident ended peacefully when two suspects surrendered. The threat here apparently involves the bombing of a U.S.-bound flight from Ottawa. Four airlines offer direct daily service to the United States from Ottawa but all Mixed Doubl . answer in Wednesday's paper 69 Riveter of sone TV Ond TV 92 Gusding pron Auk genus 08 Clone at Hoter™ 113 Hangover X1OPA NPPN Terage time of solution. 71 minutes cRYPToquIF 14D TNPIX DSQerDD xw y Towtay's Cove This Crossword Puzzle sp d by the followi reported business as usual on Saturday A union spokesman said earlier that some airport employees, concerned about their safety, might refuse work this weekend in keeping with a provision of the Canada Labor Code but Austin said Ottawa employees were on the job as usual. Gagnon laughed when asked if RCMP in Ottawa had gone on maximum alert as some had predicted Friday. “Do you know What maximum security is%io to Vienna and you'lt see what that's like. 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