Public Hearing, Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 1984 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenve Castlegar, B.C., to receive from all p who deem it in rebuilding confidence and trust. Ina speech to the op: and security, Allan MacEachen stressed the urgeney of the ys. task facing delegates from 85 counteies,” ‘ Aside from Canada, the United States and the Union, 32 European bd at the ¥ r delegates Tuesday by se ae ing each other the many unresol their interest to make rep: tegar- ding the f — formally called the Conference on Security and 1g proposed d to the City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw No. 160, 1977 and amendments thereto. Bylaw No. 402 The intent of Bylaw No. 402 is to amend Schedule “A” and Schedule “B” of Bylaw No. 160, 1977, to rezone the easterly 36.58 metres (120 feet) of Block 3, Plan 2207, District Lot 7175.except Plan 5898 Kootenay District known as 2605 Columbia Avenue from “P-1" Schools, Institutional and Public to “R-1" Single Family Residential. The lands detined in this ByLaw are shown outlined as shaded. he Bylaw may be reviewed at City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. during of- tice hours. R.J. Skillings, |. City Clerk Cc Building On Canada’s behalf, MacBachen said: “We declare, solemnly, that we will spare no effort in our and for the sense of confidence that underpins for pea: security. Soviet Foreign Minister ly before ha search Andrei Gromyko, who spoke a d the. Ameri y “It is easy to make times of stress and danger,” MacEachen said. “It is much less easy to set all that aside and to make an ional like —b military buildup as a “pathological obsession,” Gromyko called on the international community to stop U.S. militarism, which he likened to a drug addiction in which the addict needs greater and iter doses to survive. great Later today, Gromyko met U.S. State Secretary George Shultz at the Soviet Embassy — the first high-level contact between them in four months. OTTAWA (CP) — A fed- eral budget will likely be presented in late February or early March, Finance Min- ister Marc Lalonde said to- day. “I think you can assume a budget date this year will be somewhat earlier than it was last year,” Lalonde told re+ porters as he emerged from a party caitcus meeting. GAS & GROCERIES on the slow and detailed task of finding ways to reverse a downward trend in international dialogue.” He said the West demands “respect for our security interests” and is equally RESPECT of the P to turn their baeks on it once it came down to the long and urgency,” MacEachen said. “And it proves desirable for us to return to this forum to i willing to “assert our respect for the legitimate security interests of all other countries.” FOR DESERTING IN 1955 Soldier gets 60 days OTTAWA (CP) — Ralph Bernard Cross, who as a Canadian army private de- fected to East Germany in 1955, pleaded guilty to deser- tion Tuesday and was sen- tenced to 60 days in a mili- tary prison. Cross, now 55, will be flown to Edmonton to serve the sentence. But Maj. Andre Powers, who represented him at a disciplinary court martial, said later that Cross regarded the sentence as “stiff” and may appeal. Maximum sentence the military court could have im- posed was two years less a day. If Cross had faced a general court martial, a life sentence could have been ~ fogs The“son of a Canadian soldier, who defected to East Germany 29 years ago, said Tuesday he has no emotion about his fa- ther’s return to Canada. “I never met the man in my life,” said John Arthur Cross, the youngest of» Ralph Bernard Cross’s, three thildren. “f was 2% years old. when it ‘hap- pened. He’s never seen me. Why should I have any animosity towards the man? He’s still my father.” The elder Cross, 55, a 99 %o FINANCING AVA LABLE! On approved credit for the first year of term on any new vehicle in stock. WE NEED THE FOLLOWING ITEMS AND WILL ALLOW TOP DOLLAR native of BS Sask., pleaded guilty to desertion at a disciplinary court martial Tuesday. He was sentenced to 60 days in a military prison. John Cross, a resident of Sparwood, contacted the Lethbridge Herald on Mon- day after reading a news- paper story that, said his Deserter's son othing father had been found in a West German transit camp for East European ref- ugees and had asked to re- turn to Canada. Ralph Cross was serving as a private with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Pat- ricia’s Canadian Light In- fantry in, Hemer, West Germany, in 1955 when he failed to return from leave. A week later, an East Ger- man news agency reported Cross had been granted political asylum. Cross's wife, Edith, who now lives in Williams Lake, said the defection was a scandal 29 years ago. “It had a bad bearing on my three sons. The two oldest children were five and six years old. They got beat up in school, ridiculed: I don't feel they need this again. And now there's grandchildren to consider. My feelings are my own.” Spill caused fire EVERETT, WASH. (AP) — An employee caused, a gasoline spill that led to a fire at a Marysville service sta- tion last Nov. 28, resulting in four deaths, the state Fire Marshal's Office has con- cluded. Bill Grum, an employee of state 5, spilled some gasoline on the driveway when he changed a filter in a gasoline pump just prior to the ex- plosion and fire, said Ron Brown, chief investigator. The fire killed two Can- adian women, who were trap- ped in the rear seat of a car that parked over the spilled handed down. Cross is suffering from cancer of the mouth. He has $96.51 in back pay coming to him and $227.56 in pension contributions. Otherwise he is broke. Powers said Cross will live with his sister, Violet Sharp, in Pierceland, Sask., in the area where he was born. FELL IN LOVE Cross told the court he de- serted after falling in love with an East German woman, Marta Schroeder. When his wife — they had three chil- dren — wouldn't give him a divorce, he crossed the bor- der with Schroeder. The Schroeder liaison didn't last long and Cross spent his 29 years in East Germany working in factor- ies. He was picking mush- rooms when he wandered near a missile installation in 1982 and was arrested and jailed for 13 months. The East “Germans told him'to leave the country and he did so last fall, eventually turning himself in to Cana- dian authorities in West Ger- many. He said going to East Ger- many was “the biggest mis- take of my life.” Cross said he will co-oper- ate with RCMP who want to question him. inspire and maintain that Is there any among us who would not come back?" Ships’ guns out of action HALIFAX (CP) — North Atlantic storms and 8 design flaw have left East Coast naval supply ships without anti-aircraft guns. Preserver and Protecteur both lost their bow guns to the raging North Atlantic in December and defence officials say they probably won't be replaced in a hurry. Capt. Bernie O'Reilly, Preserver's master, said a powerful cresting wave plowed over the foredeck, denting the gun's glass-fibre gunner’s housing and smashing equipment inside. The damage was so severe the gun had to be removed when Preserver entered port of Halifax, he said. “There was just a big bang . . . we think some pieces of the gun may have struck the forward superstructure, but the housing itself remained in place,” he said. The loss of the guns is the latest in a series of mechanical problems for ships in Canada’s aging navy. Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Blais ran into the situation head-on Monday when he got his first look at the East-Coast fleet in action. ALL BREAK DOWN A demonstration for Blais and reporters of foul-wea- ther manoeuvring by four destroyers and Preserver went ahead, but engine breakdowns kept one destroyer in port and caused another to be an hour late. On the way, the ships passed yet another destroyer, floundering at the mouth of Halifax harbor because its engines also had broken down. All three destroyers have been repaired and they sailed for the Caribbean on Tuesday. Preserver's sister ship, Protecteur, also lost her only gun to a storm. The two identical $47.5-million vessels, 13 and 14 years old respectively, are the biggest ships in the Canadian navy. A flaw in the design mounted the gun too far forward, so the first thing a big wave hits is the gun's glass-fibre housing. The defence spokesman said the guns could be replaced within 24 hours if needed. 4 Court ruled Tuesday that the q nar aaamab ined: By a 6-4 vote, the court said the: manufacturers are not violating federst selling the machines, which the industry, owned by about one of every 10 American fam sales of video recorders total nearly $2 billion, In Toronto, lawyer John Hylton said no sinilar case. has been tested in Canadian courts. fi Hylton, a ialist in deast and law, said home taping would pr ly be a ‘ing only for private’ u ‘Pevie Ww. high court may not jhe The high-stakes battle over: u are seeking a final ¥i the power to rewrite ¢ ‘FRESH LOOK’) ‘he court said “it may well be that Congress will, take ‘# fresh look at this new technology.” ki ‘The justices said manufacturers may ‘not be Beld. under the present Canadian copyright law, which has ‘not been substantially amended since 1926, |” ‘The U.S. law was amended in 1975 and under it, the definition of ir use” of eopyrightmaterial was expanded, he said. gible for possible illegal use of the video such ap taping copyrighted productions for commercial Justice John Paul Stevens, int his opinion for the court, wrote there is another remedy for “armehair pieecy.” He said anyone who reproduces copyrighted mat- for private financial gain — a federal sentenced to one year in prison and fined $25,000 for first violation and two years and $50,000 for subse- mt convictions. But Stevens said taping television shows, even hted ones, for private viewing at a later time is iMegal. An underlying question in Tuesday's ruling was *whether Sony and other manufacturers could be foreed to ppay royaltiés to movie companies for making a machine r capable of being used to break the copyright law. ‘The video recording industry said that if the court's opinion had gone against it, consumers might have had to © pay a royalty, or tax, of $100 on each machine and $1 on each blank tape. About nine million of the machines have been sold in the United States, and the industry expects 40 million recorders to be sold by 1990. ITALIANS SING BLUES OVER OPERA SHOW NORFOLK, VA. (AP) — The Virginia Opera Association has an offer some Italian-Americans would like to refuse an updated production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera Rigoletto, featuring a cast dressed as machine-gun-toting 1920s gangsters. But an opera association official says the new version is meant to promote Italian musical genius, not to suggest that Italians are gangsters. Newspaper advertisements for the production show a mobster in a white hat holding a machine-gun, with the New York City skyline in the background. “Look at that,” Frank Guida, regional co-ordinator of the Italian-American Foundation, said Tuesday. “You see they've put that gangster over an Italian name like Rigol etto. People who see it are going to get the impression that all gangsters were Italian.” “It isn't so,” said Guida, who owns a music publishing and production company in Norfolk. “They are portaying an image of Italians as modern gangsters,” said Merrill Beck, a Norfolk engineer who is state president of the Sons of Italy. “We don't think that’s fair to people of Italian descent.” In the original Rigoletto, men in doubles and tights and women in Elizabethan-style costumes act out the tragic feud between the lecherous Duke of Mantua and his jester, the title character. In replacing Renaissance courtiers with the guys and dolls of gangland America, the Virginia Opera Association wasn't being insensitve, insisted Peter Mark, the associ- ation’s general director. NOT ASLUR “Certainly no slur was intended to the Italian com- munity,” Mark said. “We are not trying to’ offend anyone. We announced what we were doing a year ago.” He questioned why those now complaining failed to object “when we said we were going to do the opera in English in a New York gangland setti It is too late now to change the publicity in any event, he added. The production opens Friday and continues through Jan. 29. “J don't object to updating the opera,” Guida said. “And I don't oppose their using any period they like. My problem is how the opera is being showcased. “They have kept the original names on the performers so that all the gangsters in the opera have Italian names. “Why didn’t they Anglicize the names too if they are going to translate the lyrics into English? “Believe me, I'm not-a troublemaker. I want to see opera succeed here, but not at the expense of Italian-Americans.” In response, Mark noted that the opera association has named this “our Italian season,” for that country's classic composers. “We expect Italians to take pride in that.” He said the association “promotes and respects Italian culture” — amd added that that's his personal view, too. “I live with Italians all the time,” Mark said. “Bellini, Verdi, Puccini.” Andropov to appear BY ISLAMIC ame GROUP? NEW YORK (AP) — So viet leader Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public for five months, will make a public appearance in confirmed reports that An- dropov has kidney troubles. Official Soviet spokesmen have been saying only that Andropov has a cold. Se FOR THEM ON TRADE... 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Kerr was shot in the head and killed in a campus build- ing, authorities reported. Police said Kerr, 52, a Beirut-born American, was dead on arrival at the uni- versity’s hospital. Kerr had replaced David Dodge, the acting president, who was kidnapped in July 1982, Dodge was held by pro- Iranian extremist’ ih Leb- anon’s Bekaa valley and in Iran for a year before being released after Syrian leaders intervened. DIDN'T HEAR SHOT A university source, who asked not to be named, said Kerr's secretary and others in the building did not hear the shot, but rushed to the Bishops oppose new divorce law MONTREAL (CP) — The federal government is at- tacking the basic elements of soviety by easing the way for divorce, the, secretary .gen- eral of the Canadian Con- ference of Catholic Bishops said Tuesday. Andre Vallee said prop- osals in a draft Justice De- partment document attacks the institution of marriage and the family. 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