(FALCON, PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH AVENUE CASTLEGAR 8 © Cin fel 365 3563 NEWs Pio CASTLEGAR 70 case 3007 Casiucas Jack Mor “ft you don re 30S! rere LTD. Dirigible scheme owners vanish ARMSTRONG, B.C. (CP) — Dozens of investors and creditors involved in a scheme to build a giant dirigible, hav: been left with nothing but the aluminum skeleton of th: prototype hip sitting in a pasture. Cloudflight Airships Ltd. ceased operations earlier this year and its owners, Rick and Vicki Daigle can't be found Investors say they put more than $200,000 into the pla: during the last two years. The Daigies, originally from Calgary, attracted wide spread interest in this southern Interior community wit! their plans to build a 60-metre-long prototype airship. the space shuttle. “[ had a hell of a lot of faith in him,” said Rawleigh Boss, an Armstrong realtor who invested thousands of dollars and found the Daigles the 16-hectare parcel of land where the prototype's framework now rests. “I was one of their most enthusiastic supporters.” BUY SHARES Investors were invited to buy shares at $5,000 and $6,000 a unit to finance the estimated $400,000 cost of the prototype, Boss said. They were ‘told the finished craft would be sold for about $1.5 million. and payment for janitorial services at the company’s offices in nearby Vernon, B.C. Schmidt also has to figure out what to do with the framework of the prototype airship which sits on the property he rented to the Daigies. He said he hopes to sell the skeleton to someone interested in finishing the dirigible or else it will have to be broken up for serap. A receiver has been appointed to dispose of Cloud. flight's assets and an auction house has removed the contents of its offices. Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES It was to be the forerunner of a fleet of 300-metr: dirigibles which could earry huge cargoes over lon; distances at a lower cost than surface transport. There was also a design for an airship that investor: were told could be used as a landing and takeoff platform for Winfield plant won't re-open KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — A North Battleford, Sask., family that purchased the recreation vehicle maker Vanguard Manufacturing in July will not be re-opening the local plant that employed 250 workers, a member of the family said Tuesday. “You don't run a store 800 miles away,” said new owner Harry Bondar. of Brotherhood of Carpenters do. and Joiners of America, most certain the famil would not be building rec reational vehicles at the plan in nearby Winfield. The Jim Pattison Grou announced the sale of Var guard assets in July t Hunters Sports Shop Ltd., Bondar family company cor sidered the leading Vanguar. dealer in Canada In the weeks since th purchase, the plant worker- have been weaiting for th new owners to decide what t Provincial authorities i have bee which rep: the plant employees that he was al- MACHINE 20200202002 €0000063902 trying to persuade the famil: to move the plant to tha province. Kelowna Mayor D: Hammill “said he made ir \quiries with various B.C ministries as well as then jer Bill Bennett on be half of Vanguard workers but he felt that back in July i was already too late. He said he never though the Bondars wanted a manu facturing plant. Bondar said the family’: original intent was only t buy the company’s inventor. but he said there is a poss bility that a congolidate+ smaller operation could b: set up in Saskatchéwan: Grand Forks Fall Fair and Rodeo Sat. Sept. 6, Sun. Sept. 7 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.- SATURDAY 11 a.m. — Parade. City Park to Arena. 10a.m.-6p.m Exhibits Ham Radio Booth Baby Contest Cartoons Library Stories — Arena — Booths * Beer Garden lower Power Apiaries Fresh Local Liquid This season's honey crop is on the roll, so bring your containers over any late afternoon or evening and they s shall be filled! Beea vality v winner, and stick with the best! ‘Buzz — 442-2933 $ 1 oo rex pound quontity Curling Ria, 2 Western Canadian Company “Your satisfaction is our Boss said he has records of 28 investors who sank about $213,000 into the scheme. Some investors put in as much as $35,000, he said. Bernard Schmidt, the Daigies’ landlord and an investor in the project, said the couple owe four months’ back rent Attempts by investors to find the Daigles have been fruitless, said Boss. He said that ‘discussions with federal tax officials seemed to show chances of recovering investors’ money are slim. COUPLE ANNULS MARRIAGE FOR SEX-CHANGE VICTORIA (CP) — The marriage of a Vancouver Island couple has bepn annulled because the hus. band plans to undergo a sex-change operation. The couple plans to stay together, said Victoria lawyer Eric Partridge, who made an application to the B.C. Supreme Court in June for an annulment of the union. “The annulment has taken effect as of last Friday,” said Partridge. Partridge applied for the annulment on behalf of the couple because they were in a difficult position with doctors who didn’t want to perform the operation until the marriage was finished. He said neither the couple nor doctors wanted to create a situation where two people of the same sex are married. Ironically, he said, the marriage could have been easily dissolved by divorce had the couple been pre- pared to falsely claim men tal cruelty or adultery. County court Judge J.J Gow, acting as a local judge of the B.C. Supreme Court, granted the annul ment after Partridge pre sented written submis sions, citing in particular an 1858 English case, that marriage is the union of one man and one woman “to the exclusion of all others for life.” He argued that this applies not only at thi moment of marriage but throughout the whole marriage, so, if one of the partners changes sex, the marriage no longer exists. He also argued that a marriage is a contract like any other and a change in status of any of the parties can render the contract void The court also heard evidence from the doctor who is treating the hus- band, Partridge said. CHILD ABUSE CASE Social worker wins VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Supreme Court threw its support beé- hind government social workers Tuesday, recog: nizing the extreme difficulty of their role in matters in- volving alleged child abuse. Madame Justice Mary Southin dismissed an action in which a Surrey couple whose seven children were apprehended by social workers sued them and the provincial government for damages. The judge said social worker Teresa McHale acted in “good faith” when she seized the children in 1982, believing the older girls had Westar, e been sexually abused by their father. They had not been abused. The judge-said the mother, rejecting the accusation, “re- sponded with the ferocity of a she bear defending her cubs” when the children were re moved from the family home. The judge said McHale viewed the mother's ferocity as “that of a woman de- fending the man she loved” and believed it was her duty under the Family and Child Service Act to apprehend the children. Citing McHale's duties under the act, Southin found she had an “honest belief” that the well-being of the miners back bargaining VANCOUVER (CP) — Westar Mining Ltd. and the 950-member United Mine Workers of America resumed negotiations Tuesday in another bid to end a 17-week strike at the Balmer coal mine in southeastern British Columbia Repeated attempts to settle the dispute during the MARY WADE ANDERSON 1404 HIGHLAND DRIVE vw tC MARY WADE ANDERSON NOSYIJONV JOVM A 5 < 5 j=] tal > F4 i=] ta 54 Pa iO r4 summer failed when the union held firm in demands that the grievances be settled at the table before talks on a new contract begin. Talks in July broke off after less than a week. The Balmer open pit coal mine near Sparwood has been shut since June 10 when the company issued a lockout following five weeks of ro tating union strikes. Westar, a subsidiary of B.C. Resources Investment Corp., loses about 18,000 clean tonnes of production a day when the mine is shut. In August, it reported a loss of $8.2 million for the second quarter, compared with earn- ings of $9.2 million a year ago. : children was endangered and thus they were in need of protection. “Because I am of the opinion that such a belief is a complete answer to the (fam- ily’s) claim, I do not think it is appropriate for me to make findings of-fact as to whether (McHale) handled the in- vestigation badly,” the judge added. Emphasizing the difficult choiees social workers must make in cases of alleged child abuse, the judge said, “From time to time, we read of a child who dies because he was physically maltreated. “The ministry (of human resources) is sometimes blamed for not having done enough. A child may have physical injuries. The mini- stry investigates. The parent says the child fell. “The physicians say per- haps the injuries came from a fall and perhaps they came from a beating. “The evidence is incon. clusive and the child is not apprehended. It was a beating. The child who is neglected may or may not tell the truth. He stays in the home and is abused further. “The kind of abuse which Mrs. McHale feared here is the kind which takes place in private. By its very nature, it rarely is witnessed. If the abuse stops short of inter. course, there is no physical evidence, but the damage to the child is very real.” Smith orders investigation VANCOUVER (CP) — At torney general Brian Smith said today he has ordered his deputy minister to investi- gate reports that former cabinet minister Tom Water- land was involved in a con- flict of interest after ac- cepting a job as a mining lobbyist. Premier Bill Vander Zalm, attending a cabinet meeting here, said he understood Waterland, who held the agriculture and forests mini- stry portfolios under former premier Bill Bennett, had at tended a cabinet meeting which resulted in a vote granting the Endako moly bdenum mine a concession on electrical rates. 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In a‘grim report on the military regime's record, the British-based human rights group said Chile's security forces — faced with protests against the juntas policies — are using undercover teamis to kidnap, torture and kill opponents of the government. Amnesty International said the undercover forces “have been ‘ible for serious of human rights, i i disiel exect- fions, the systematic use of torture and the intimidation of large sectors of the population through threats, harassment, abductions and physical assault.” Safeway’s got it tter Service e © Orounar Selection © Top Quality Beef Blade Roast Grade A Absolutely Fresh Sausage! [Beef Sausage 3249 198 fs $437 Italian Sausage /kg. Ib. Amnesty said mass di such as the of 15,000 people in the poor suburbs of Santiago last May, resulted in some of the highest arrest figures since the days following the 1973 coup that brought the govern- ment to power. The systematic suppression of dissent since the coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende 13 years ago has éarned Pinochet international condemnation. The United States has been among the critics of Pinochet this year. In March, Washington sponsored a United Nations resolution deploring Pinochet's human rights record, the first time it had voted against Chile since the 1973 coup. Although angry over the U.S. pressure and facing opposition at home, Pinochet has said he will stay in power. NON-ALIGNED CONFERENCE BLASTS U.S. HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Castro accused the United States # aggression against Nicaragua, and have to relearn the tragic lesson of Vietnam.” President Fidel Earlier Tuesday, President Ali Khamenei of Iran told delegates from the 101-member Non-Alignment Movement, holding its weeklong summit in Harare, that the United States was the “arch-Satan.” On Monday, Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega opened the summit conference by chastising U.S. President Ronald Reagan for his plans to send millions of U.S. dollars in aid to Contra rebels fighting to overthrow his country's leftist government. In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Charles Redman said: “The litany of arbitrary and un founded charges is both highly offensive and counter-pro- ductive. It also raises a question as to the objectivity or political bias of the organization.” Pro-western Singapore complained that the Non Aligned Movement was veering far from the political centre. “Who are we talking to?” Singapore Foreign Minister Dhanaban said at a lunch with western reporters in Harare. “We're losing credibility. The movement has become too radical.” ‘Nicaragua is suffering a dirty war of aggression’ Dhanaban said the movement hit a low at its 1979 tri ennial meeting in Cuba, but moderated under India's three-year chairmanship, which passed Monday to Zim babwe. TEMPERS FLARE Meanwhile, tempers flared. Outside the conference hall, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s security guards, trying to crowd in with him, clashed with Zimbabwean security officers and were driven off, witnesses reported Zambia's president, Kenneth Kaunda, broke into tears over another major issue at the summit — apartheid in neighboring South Africa “Thousands have been killed in cold blood and thousands more imprisoned” since the white government declared a state of emergency on June 12, Kaunda said, wiping his eyes with a kandkerchief. 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