ada is at the root of unem-
ployment in the country, B.C.
Business Council president
Jim Matkin said Friday.
Speaking in a panel dis-
cussion on job creation at the

Canadian Union of Public
Employees two-day confer-
ence on the erosion of jobs,
Matkin said the govern-
ment’s role in easing unem
ployment is to “create a cli-
mate” for growth.

The first step toward that,
he said, is to ease the federal
deficit, which has caused the
country’s interest rates to
rise.

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down, the financial commun-

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Mike Blonski was given a
three-month suspended sen-
tence this week in Castlegar
provincial court after plead-
ing guilty to being a minor in
possession of alcohol.

* 28 6

Andreas Pavlikis was put
on probation for 30 days after
pleading guilty to consuming
liquor in a publie place.

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A three-month suspected
sentence was given to Mi
chael Hadikin after he plead
ed guilty to being a minor in
possession of alcohol.

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Debora Lee was fined $100
after pleading guilty to theft.
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A $100 fine was handed to
Shirley Powell after she
pleaded guilty to theft.

After pleading guilty to
theft, Jim Shaw was fined
$100.
*- 8 6
Randall Haack was fined
$125 after pleading guilty to
remaining in a licenced es-
tablishment after being re-
quested to leave.
. 28 6
A $1650 fine was handed to
Ralph Humphrey after he
pleaded guilty to a mischief
charge.
* 28 6
James Graham was placed
on four‘months probation af-
ter pleading guilty to tres-
passing at night.
* 68 «©
Brian Manning was given a
nin-month suspended sen-
tence after pleading guilty to
breaking and entering, and
committing an indictable of-
fence,

ST. JUDE

O Holy St. Jude Apostle and Martyr,
great in virtue and rich in miracles,
near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful

Intercessor of all

who invoke your

special patronage in time of need, to
you | Have recourse from the depth of
my heart and humbly beg to whom
God has given such great power to
come to my assistance. Help me in

present urgent petition,

in return 1

promise to make your name known,
and cause you to be invoked.

Say

three Our Fathers,

three Hail

Marys and Glorias. Pyblication must

be promised, St. Jude
all who invoke your a

ray for us and
. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to

fail.

This Novena must be said for 9 con-

secutive days.

4 $400 fine was given to
Laurin Hackman after plead-
ing guilty to obstructing a
police officer.

* 28 «6

Carl Voykin was fined
$200 for failing to comply
with probation order.

* 28 «6

A nine-month jail term
given to Jason Fraser after
he pleaded guilty to breaking
and entering, and theft over
$200.

* 6 «

Norman Sapriken was sen-
tenced to nine months in jail
after pleading guilty to im-
paired driving, and failing to
remain at the scene of an ac-
cident.

LOCAL GAS

are in the midst of a gas war.
The battle for fill-ups began
last week, and by Wednesday
was in full swing.

The price for regular gas
Saturday was 45 cents a litre,
down from 52.5 cents a litre
before the gas war flared up.

For
Snowmobile
ond

Snowthrower

TUNE UPS

Christmas

CASTLEGAR
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

NEWS

No one was injured by the
slide, which sent debris,
water and mud cascading ac-
ross the road, down a hill,
over the B.C. Rail tracks and
into Howe Sound.

Man
on sex
charges

KELOWNA (CP) — A
former counsellor at Maple
Springs bible camp near
Peachland has been sent-
enced to three years in prison
for sexually assaulting three
young boys.

Egor Koncewicz, 82, also
known as Igor Konetzov, was

BIRD'S EYE VIEW . . . Satellite photo taken from =
23,000 miles above the Earth shows western

Conoda and the U.S. clearly and the weather

systems moving in from the Pacitic Ocean. 4

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FORECASTS

continued from tront pege
Willson. The method by which the weather office receives

the ipformation is complex.

The satellite beams

information down to a weather office in Maryland on the
east coast of the U.S, where it is processed in a computer
and beamed back to the satellite

The information is then beamed back down to a
satellite dish in Vancouver and transmitted to Castlegar

via B.C. Tel.
“We can pick out ...

He says

accurate?

casts,” says Willson.

forecast accurately.

very small movements in any
weather system,” says Willson.

For instance, he says most thunder storms develop
and move toward Castlegar from the Grand Forks area.
the satellite provides such a clear
photograph of that area “it’s just like sitting over there in
a plane and telling what's going on.”

Will METDAS make weather reports 100 per cent
No, says Willson.

“It's virtually impossible,” he says,
weather office doesn’t only forecast temperature, but
snow, wind speed, air pressure and other items.

“And we're covering such a large area in our fore-

adding the

As well, he says every mountain valley has a
different weather pattern which makes it even tougher to

However, Willson has a pretty clear picture of why
we are having so much snow this year.

He says it's because of the change in direction of

Pacific weather systems.

Last year everything came out of the west and

court

nine years old, the other 10 —
were assaulted between July
and August this year.

provi

Castlegar residents with a mild winter.

This year the systems are coming from a more
northwesterly direction, giving colder temperatures

(about three

“That's enough to give us sn:
the entire weather pattern for

says.

 eneugh to change
Interior,” Willson

Complaint is uphel
by B.C. Press Council

The B.C. Press Council, in
recent adjudication, partially
upheld a complaint against
the weekly Squamish Times
01 a letter-to-the-
editor that did not bear the
writer's name.

Terrill Patterson of Gari.
baldi Highlands had com-
plained that the letter and its
heading disparaged him and
was attributed only to “a
contributing contractor
name withheld upon
quest.

At a press council hearing,

he objected that a letter at
tacking a person should have
been published anonymously
and that he had been held up
to ridicule. The letter’s head.
ing read, “Poo poo you Mr.
Patterson.”

No representative of the
Squamish Times appeared at
the hearing. However, assis-
tant publisher Rose Tatlow
wrote the Council that the
paper had followed its polity
that it must know the name
of a letter writer but did not
have to disclose it.

The text of the Press
Council's adjudication
follows:

“The Council finds that it is
an established practice in the
newspaper industry for pub-
lishers and editors to decide
on some occasions to run un
signed letters, while knowing
who the writers are, and that
this is their prerogative.

“The Council finds that the
letter was demeaning to Mr.
Patterson and had the effect
of lowering his reputation in
the community. This part of
the complaint is upheld

“The Council finds that the

HIGHWAY CONTRACTS

VICTORIA (CP) — Tw more contracts have
been put out to tender for work on the new Coquihalla
toll highway, which eventually will link Hope with -
Kamloops and Kelowna. ‘

One contract, returnable Jan. 7, is for the
construction of 8.37 kilometres of freeway, half of it
six-lane and the remainder four-lane, from Hope east-
ward along the existing Highway 8 to Nicolum Creek,
where the new Highway 5 will branch off.

Another four kilometres of Highway 3 east of the
interchange will be upgraded under the same contract.

The second contract, returnable Jan. 4, is for just
under nine kilometres of construction to sub-grade a
four-lane highway immediately north of Merritt.

Both contracts are due to be completed by the end
of May 1986.

$100,000 ON OFFICES

OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government has
spent almost $100,000 renovating the main offices
assigned to Prime Minister Mulroney, his wife and
their staff, says the Public Works Department.

Additional work was also ordered on Mulroney's
Parliament Hill offices, the design for which cost about
$3,200, but the cost of the renovations themselves will
not be released until at least Monday, spokesman
Nonique Lortie said

Meanwhile, Public Works Minister Roch LaSalle
announced an additional $12,860 in work on 24 Sussex
Drive, the prime minister's official residence, for some
of the repairs recommended by an engineering firm

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The new work at 24 Sussex brings the total to
$111,958 since Mulroney took power Sept. 17

ANTI-ABORTION

OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Mulroney's
Office has received almost 700,000 anti-abortion post
cards from across Canada since Dr. Henry Morgenta
ler was acquitted on abortion-related charges.

Letters to the prime minister's office supporting
Morgentaler total about 2,000.

Morgentaler, along with two associates, was
found not guilty Nov. 8 by an Ontario Supreme Court
jury. The Ontario government is appealing the case

LAW FIGHTS DRUNKS

OTTAWA (CP) — The government's long-await
ed legislation to crack down on drunk drivers will be
introduced in the Commons next week and Jusfce
Minister John Crosbie says he is talking to the
opposition to see whether it can be passed into law
before Christmas.

The Liberals have already indicated they'll
support the legislation because Crosbie says the
proposals are almost idegtical to those introduced by
the previous Liberal government

The Liberal bill died when the September election
was called

But New Democrat justice critic Svend Robinson,
in British Columbia fighting a libel suit, has said he
thinks the Commons justice committee should hold
public hearings on Crosbie's bill. It's unlikely such
hearings could be arranged before Parliament's
Christmas recess begins next Friday

ETHIOPIA AID

SASKATOON (CP Most of the Canadian grain
donated to Ethiopia is reaching the starving people it
is meant for, says the deputy executive director of
UNICEF Canada.

“It would be naive not to think some aid doesn't
go astray,” Colin Rainsbury, who recently returned
from a two-week visit to Ethiopia to evaluate UNICEF
field programs, told students at Aden Bowman
collegiate

But as far as I am concerned Canadian wheat is
getting through to where I expected it to be. We

LEARNING .. . Statf from
two residences in
Castlegar, where tour
former residents of the
Tranquille institution will
be welcomed, joined with
staff from Nelson and
Cranbrook residences tora
training session on com-
munication, held at the
Sandman Inn. The instruc-
tor for the workshop was
Sandy Wrightman

Olson's wife speaks out

VANCOUVER (CP) — The wife of killer Clifford Olson
says she would never have accepted a $100,000 trust fund if
she had known it was the price RCMP paid for information
on the location of Olson's 11 victims.

Joan Olson, who prefers to be called by her maiden
name Hale, said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun that
she thought the money was for her and her son to live on and
didn’t realize it was for information Olson supplied to police
about the children he had murdered and their bodies.

Had she known the money was payment for
information, she said, there is no doubt in her mind she
would have walked out the door and not helped the RCMP
to get Olson to begin talking about the murders.

“I think that money was given to me in good faith. I
don't have any guilty conscience. I can look at myself in the
mirror and say you're a good person, don't be ashamed

After RCMP put $100,000 into a trust fund for his wife
and son in August 1981 Olson led officers to the bodies of his
victims in remote southwestern B.C. locations. He pleaded
guilty six months later to 11 counts of first-degree murder
and was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for
parole for 25 years

FOLLOWS DECISION

The interview with Hale follows a B.C. Supreme Court
decision last week in which William
ordered that what was left of the $100) “éstimated at
about $60,000 be surrendered to the court and that the
lawyers who handled the trust fund must make up any
shortfall. The judge also said that the parents of seven of
Olson's victims have a legitimate claim to the trust fund
after being awarded damages against Olson last year under
the provincial Family Compensation Act

NEVER TOLD DETAILS

Hale's lawyer Jim McNeney, who helped arrange for
creation of the trust fund, said the lawyers and police never
told her what the money was for because the money-for-evi
dence deal would have fallen through if she had walked out

‘She thought she was getting the $100,000 from the
RCMPbecause her husband was going to jail,” said McNeney
in an interview in his office

Hale said she has only recently begun to recover from
the years of horror caused by her husband and finally came
to terms with his atrocities by leaning heavily on her
religious faith.

I did a lot of screaming at the Lord,” she said. “I did a
lot of ‘Why are you putting me through this hell, why are
you doing this to me, how could you expect me to live
through this and come out sane.’ But I did.”

She said she last saw Olson in November 1982 when he
was brought in from Kingston Penitentiary to look for more

bodies. He writes her constantly, she said, but she gives the
unread letters to MeNeney

She last talked to him on the telephone in May this year
and told him she would hever go to Kingston to see him

BEAUTIFUL CHILD

Her son Stephen is a beautiful child

It's really strange. He knows who his father is. He just
picked it up just from the TV. I just explain to him that his
dad was a bad person and he has to spend the rest of his life
in jail and that we are never going to see him and he
accepted that. Whether he will later on I don’t know.”

Halesays she has not told her son, now three, that his
father is a murderer but if and when he feels a need to know,
MeNeney will tell him

“I feel that if I have raised him a Christian and he knows
then it will work out. I feel that he's not
going to love his father.”

that I love him.

Hale, born into a Saskatchewan farm family, moved to
B.C. when she was 18 months old. After finishing Grade 9
she took commercial courses. At 18 she met her first
husband Walter Berryman. They were divorced in 1981
after living apart for at least a year

MET OLSON

She met Olson at a bar in nearby Coquitlam in February
1980 and was immediately captivated by him.

He is a real charmer. He has a way with words and
I've yet to see a woman that hasn't been attracted to him. I
don’t know what it is really. I like to say it was his brown
eyes, but it couldn't have been just that.”

She said she believed Olson married her to get his hands
on the $60,000 she saved from her first marriage. The
money, she said, was soon gone

She said he was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr
moment a kind and devoted father, the next a brutal bully
who drank and beat her

Hale said she has not contacted the families of Olson's

Hyde — one

victims because she can’t help them and they can’t help her

“What am I going to do? Tell them all the awful things
Clifford has done to me?”

She also said she first believed Olson was a murderer
when RCMP confronted him at the Surrey detachment and
told him they had a witness who said he was the last person
with one of the victims

When police left the room, Olson tried to choke her
when she told him she had co-operated with the RCMP

After that point she became obsessed with trying to get
him to confess

“The more that I found out what he had done, the more
obsessed I was. I was going to manipulate or trick him or use
him. He was going to tell.”

Teamsters
guilty of
contempt

VANCOUVER (CP) — Teamsters Union Local 213 and
11 of its members were found guilty of contempt of court and
warned by the judge he will consider continued acts of
violence when he sentences them Thursday.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Meredith said
that, according to affidavits sworn after the union was
served with notice that Brink's Canada Ltd. would be
seeking contempt citations, “the members of the union have
continued to commit acts of destruction, violence and intimi-
dation.

“I intend to take these acts into account to the extend
that they are not rebutted when the time comes to sentence
the union and the other persons mentioned for contempts I
have found to have been committed.”

Justice Meredith found the union and its members
“mocked the court order and thus the law” in defying a
restraining injunction granted the armored truck firm,
which has locked out its Teamster drivers in a contract
dispute

The company, in requesting that the union be found in
contempt, asked that those found violating the order be
jailed or fined

In one incident, pickets at a company office tore down a
copy of the injunction and burned it in a barrel. This was
“calculated to demonstrate contempt for the order and
constituted an act of intimidation directed to those who were
to be protected by it,” said the judge.

Other incidents of “molesting and intimidating,” in
violation of the restrainign order, occurred at delivery sites
where drivers had been followed by roving picket squads.

Meredith rejected a company request that he enlarge
the restraining order by banning the union from following
company vehicles, but he said the union could not have more
than two persons picketing at or near any of the company’s
vehicles or at any of delivery sites

He also banned Teamster members from being within
15 metres of the Brink's vehicles or the company's working

employees

Measles up
30 percent

OTTAWA (CP) The Health Department has
reported that measles cases across Canada have
increased by about 30 per cent over the last year.

Statistics released in the department's weekly
week show about 4,000 children

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issue, and rules against this
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wishes to notify her customers, the of-
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December, but will re-open January 7
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spot-checked, stopped vehicles and opened (sacks) of
grain and always they were headed for relief camps
and carrying what they were supposed to be

Rainsbury was commenting on reports that
Canadian wheat donated for famine relief is being sold
on the black market in Ethiopia.

contracted measles in the first 10 months of 1984, up from
1,332 in 1983 and four times higher than in 1962, when
about 1,000 cases were reported

It's significantly up over the last few years,” said
Dr. Alastair Clayton, head of the department's centre for
diseases control

Clayton said although the once-common childhood
disease used to strike chidlren under five years of age,
the majority of cases reported in 1984 were in children
aged five to nine

The main reason for the change is that younger
children are being immunized before entering school
while many already in the school system haven't received
the vaccine, he said

And he feels the number of cases could be reduced if
immunization was mandatory across Canada. Now, only
Ontario and New Brunswick have legislation requiring
children to be immunized against childhood diseases such
as measles, mumps, and whopping cough.

Clayton said the increase could stem from a number
of factors, including a possible outbreak of the disease in
remote areas where people haven't been immunized or
the possibility of the disease entering the country with
immigrants.

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did not make available all the
information in this case, and
that no representative of the
Dewspaper appeared at the
Couneil hearing.”

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SONG NOT COPIED

CHICAGO (AP) A federal jury, has found CBS
Inc. not guilty of copyright infringement in a $5-million
suit filed by a songwriter over Michael Jackson's
blockbuster hit The Girl is Mine.

The suit, filed by Fred Sanford, 32, alleged that a
song he had written called Please Love Me Now was
the basis of Jackson's multi-million-dollar hit, a duet he
sang with former Beatle Paul McCartney

It was a hell of a fight,” Sanford said when
informed of the verdict

‘I am disappointed.”

Jackson, who testified during the trial, was not a
defendant in the suit

December General Luncheon Meeting
Thursday, December 20, 1984
Sandman Inn 12:00 noon
Roast Beet Dinner $7.00
Election of officers for
the coming year will take place

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SHOWS SHARP DROP

Before the vaccine was introduced in 1963, there
were about 20,000 cases of measles in Canada each year,
affecting 500 of every 100,000 Canadians. The rate now is
about 18 of every 100,000 Canadians, he said

Measies is also on the rise in the United States,
despite the U.S. government's attempt to etiminate the
illness through mandatory immunization

The U.S. statistics also show an increase in hepatitis
B. an infectious viral disease that ean lead to death from
liver cancer or cirrhosis, said Clayton.

The report says the incidence of the disease has risen,
steadily, to about 200,000 infections a year, even thongit
the preventive vaccine has been available for two yearty

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launched a search for an unidentified foreign
submarine in Isefjorden fiord, about 30 kilometres
from Copenhagen, naval operations command said
Saturday

Danish coast guard officers spotted what they
said was a submarine’s periscope on Thursday at the
mouth of the fiord where the water is around seven

metres deep, the Ekstra Bladet newspaper reported

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