my SUPER HOSTS . . . Three Stanley Humphries i with the Cast Chamber of C school graduates, from left Renata Hale, Eric Om- mundsen and Michele Lalonde, have found summer ce as tourist officers after toking the Super Host program. North says arms sales 'neat idea’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Lt.-Col. Oliver North told congressional hearings today it was a “neat idea” to divert money from Iranians arms sales to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. He defended the sale of arms in exchange for three American hostages in the Middle East. North also denied that President Ronald Reagan told him it was “important that I not know,” about the diversion of the profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. “I don't recall the conversation that way,” North told John Nields, counsel for the House of Representatives. Nields was asking about a phone call last Nov. 25 from Reagan to North, who had just been fired from the National Security Council staff. North admitted he wrote phoney letters to cover up his acceptance of a free security system for his home. He called it his grssest misjudgment.” He said he and his family were threatened with assassination by Middle Eastern terrorist Abu Nidal. North said the decision to divert funds from the arms sales to the Contras was made “with the authority that I got from my superiors, Admiral Poindexter, with the concurrence of William J. Casey, and — I thought at the time — the president of the United States.” He said he later learned that Reagan did not know. Casey was the late CIA director. Poindexter was Reagan's national security adviser during much of North's tenure on the staff. MEESE QUESTIONED Meanwhile, Attorney General Edwin Meese was questioned in private at the Justice Department, agency sources said. Two sources said congressional investigators were interrogating Meese about his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. Meese is expected to testify publicly later this month. As North fielded questions for the second straight day at the nationally televised joint hearings of House and Senate committees, key legislators said they believe the thrust of his first day’s testimony — that he acted on orders from above. North's testimony emphasizes the importance of the expected testimony next week of Vice Admiral John Police search for pit bull terrier KELOWNA (CP) — Police and pound officials were searching Tuesday for a pit bull terrier that bit a three year-old girl and later broke “We have issued a public a window to escape from the warning that the dog may be truck taking it to the pound dangerous,” Harrison said to be destroyed. Tuesday. “Anyone who sees the dog should contact a con- trol officer as soon as pos- sible.” trator Al Harrison said the dog escaped through the van's glass window Monday morning. The dog's owners volun tarily had the animal picked up for destruction after it bit the child Sunday. The girl required three stitches to her face and two stitches to the back of her hand. The pit bull, a mongrel bred for its ferocity, is not recognized as a breed by either the Canadian Kennel Club or the American Kennel Regional district admins- Club. Man wants rematch after horse wins SPOKANE, WASH. Well, the great man-vs-horse very many horses that can do this course — even with Poindexter, who was national security adviser during much of North's tenure on the staff. North again appeared in his U.S. marine uniform, complete with six rows of ribbons. He wore silver-framed glasses to read d that Nields frequently called to his attention. COVERT OPERATIONS In other testimony, North: e Gave a flavor of the covert world in which he operated. Nields referred to notes North made of a conversation with Israeli Amiram Nir in which North wrote that “Joshua has approved proceedings as we had hoped” to replenish the weapons that Israel had sold to Iran. North said he thought “Joshua” was a code name for Israeli officials. Advised to look it up on a code sheet, he said,“I was wrong, I had forgotten the codes.” Nields: “Who was Joshua?” North: “The president.” e Sparred with Nields over whether retired air force Maj.Gen. Richard Secord was an “authorized seent” in in arranging the sale of arms to Iran. Shown a document that he drafted for Poindexter to send to Reagan suggesting that an authorized agent, namely Secord, could be used, North said, “Secord was the broker for the transaction.” Secord says he was not an authorized agent of the government, and thus was not barred from placing some of the proceeds into Swiss bank accounts, where $8 million US remains. e North said Secord was first brought in handling deals for the United States as an “outside entity” in 1984 at the suggestion of then-CIA Director William Casey. Secord first dealt with the Contras, but was later assigned to negotiate with Iranian intermediaries oa the sale of arms to Tehran. North the ions and the diversion of funds from oe to the Nicaraguan rebels. ‘NOT WRONG’ “I saw that idea of using the Atyatollah Khomeini LOGGERS ~ _ LASH OUT AT DEAL By DAPHNE BRAMHAM “ Canadian Presa VICTORIA — A 18-year fight to protect the South Mraoliy. reper of she pests seeerros iteade yoo. ended but logging bosses fear their employees haye been condemned to il-paying menial jobs or perpetual “I worry about the future of British Columbia,” Rodget Manning, president of Western Forest Products Ltd., said Tuesday. His company has logged Lyell Island for 19 years. “If this trend continues we will all be doing menial tasks Mike wackion baxnege for'teuslate toe months of the yer for th other a months.” _— said the loseing jobs are lost forever. the hountacioe fora are park that would include Lyell and nearly 140 other tiny islands off the northern B.C. coast will be signed Saturday by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm. In March, during negotiations, the province stopped issuing cutting permits on Lyell. The number of loggers dwindled to 25 while they cut what was left of their permits, and the last piece of timber was put into the final log boom a week ago. g contractor Frank Beban, who has also operated on ‘geil said he hoped adequate compensation would be fort! MUST LEAVE “I just hope they come up with a good package for my men and that they treat everybody properly,” he said Tuesday. “It seems I have no choice but to leave the Queen - and I don’t know where else to go.” The federal and provincial governments have agreed to have an independent auditor determine eit Lyell gained prominence mainly as the site where the Haida, who make up one-third of the Queen Charlotte's 6,000 residents, made their stand against logging. It was not even recommended for inclusion in the park until earlier this year. Beban brushed aside a suggestion he will benefit from the park through his two other businesses — Queen Charlotte Ltd. and the 51-room Sandspit Inn. for Western Forest Products, MacMillan Bloedel :: which has a small interest in the park area), Frank Beban Logging Ltd. and individual loggers. Western Forest Products will lose about 70 per cent of its annual allowable cut, which Manning said is an unprecedented change in a tree farm licence. In an affadavit filed with the B.C. Supreme Court in 1985, Frank Beban Logging Ltd. and Western Forest Products Ltd. (which holds the tree farm licence) declared that the average annual cut on Lyell was 194,000 cubic metres, which produced a gross yearly income of $5.1 million. Although Manning expects his company will survive, he said as many as 100 logging jobs will be lost. Quoting last year's B.C. Wilderness Advisory Committee report, he estimated another 200 jobs may be lost in the two pulp mills and three sawmills that Western Forest Products supplies and furtehr 600 jobs will be lost in supporting industries. Although it i tried to st chainsaw-lugging loggers as insensitive to the beauty around them, Beban said he will miss Lyell Island. LIKED ISLAND “We liked Lyell Island,” he said. “If you have to work in isolation, we wanted a nice place to work where there was good recreational potential. Lots of the loggers were involved with the (scuba) diving club, hunting and fishing. I'll miss it.” Beban has a reputation as a caring, fair boss. When the provincial government refused to provide a teachers for his workers’ children, Beban put one on his payroll. His $1.5-million camp on Lyell Island also had a recreation centre and satellite TV dish. From November 1985 to February 1986 when 72 Haida were arrested, Beban daily walked up to the assembled Haida with their blackened faces and ceremonial, red-and-black button blankets and asked them to let his men go to work. Now he says he has no choice but to dismantle his A study by Alex Grzybowski of park impacts estimated ds many as 30,000 tourists would visit the new park in the first year and up to 80,000 would visit in the park's 10th year. Province to be paid millions VANCOUVER [CP] — The federal government islands that lie about 150 kilometres off B.C.'s north- ern coast. The park will approximately of land. federal government's offer two weeks ago and no im- provement on the $196 million being sought by the Monday the federal government had agreed to subsidize ferry costs if the park put an additional bur- money to support the Nicaraguan freedom fighters as a good one, and I still do. I don't think it was wrong. I think it was a sneat idea,” he said. “We got three Americans back and there was no terrorism .. . For almost 18 months there was no action against Americans” until the affair unravelled last fall. North said he believed the affair offered an opportunity “to achieve a strateic opening” with Iran. “We weren't using the taxpayers’ money. We were using the Ayatollah's money,” he said. The day opened with Nields asking about the phone call Reagan made to North, and a subsequent conversation North had in his office with a National Security Council colleague, Ltd.-Col. Robert Earl. Magnetic fields may cause cancer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Magnetic fields generated by ordinary overhead power lines may be a factor in the development of 10 to 15 per cent of all childhood cancer cases, a New York state committee reported today. State health officials say the scientific committee's re- port marks the first time an impartial group of scientists has concluded that magnetic fields may be a danger to human health. The director of the project, by the state's utilities and co-ordinated by a state- appointed committee of 10 scientists, concluded that children with leukemia and brain cancer are more likely to live in homes close to or- dinary overhead power lines where there are elevated magnetic fields. ie research was con- ducted in the Denver area between 1978 and 1983 by a team of researchers led by Dr. David Savitz, an epi- demiologist at the University of North Carolina. Eastern political interests.” camp and try to sell his equipment for the best price. “There was room for tourists and loggers,” Beban said. “But the (B.C.) government got bulldozed by den on ferry services to the Queen Charlottes on the Port Hardy-Prince Rupert route. continued from front poge reation committee to reject Trail's request to use the bleachers. He said in mid-June a Trail repre- sentative asked to borrow the bleach- ers. Rogers said he suggested the rep- CONVENTION continued from front page Gustafson explained that most of the 3,000 members will eat at the complex but he said all of them will be staying in hotels and motels throughout Castlegar, Trail and Rossland. The three-day convention will focus on the “major problems that affect humanity” and the principal address will be “In Our Fearful Times, Whom Can You Really Trust?” to be delivered by A. Mac- Namara on Sunday. BLEACHERS resentative contact regional recreation director Pat Metge with information on when the bleachers would be needed, for how long and how many. But Rogers said he never heard back from the man. “The ball was really left in their court,” he said. In other council news, there will be a public hearing prior to the July 2t council meeting on the proposed re- zoning of the former Castlegar Pen- tecostal Tabernacle building on 11th Avenue. Castlegar resident Leo Bosse prop- oses to rezone the property from “Schools, institutional and public” to “Comprehensive commercial.” Ald. Nick Oglow told an earlier meeting Bosse has a “number of pos- sibilities” for the property. He sug- gested the proposals will be made known at the public hearing. The city’s Community Plan must also be amended to accommodate the re- zoning. Abuse continues LONDON (REUTER) — Human rights abuse has con- tinued in Romania through the 1980s and has included imprisonment, harassment and torture of political op- ponents and people wanting to emigrate, Amnesty Inter- national said Tuesday. Priests, intellectuals and campaigners for the rights of the country’s 22 ethnic mi- norities faced ill-treatment, the group said. Agreement reached in strike MONTREAL (CP) — Agreement in principle was reached Tuesday between race is over and the horse won. But by so little that the man wants a rematch Zeke, the eight-year-old Arabian horse, took mara thoner Bill Minser by six minutes in their grueling 80 kilometre (50-mile) race. But Minser mulishly insists that a human is a more ef ficent running machine than a horse and wants another 0. “I don't think there are training — like this horse did,” Minser said. He and Zeke went two laps around a hilly 40-kilometre (25-mile) course that included some rigorous cliff climbs. Minser had the lead a few times, but mostly because Zeke had to stop for reg ularly scheduled medical checkups. Zeke was fine after the race, but Minser said he felt “like someone has taken rub- ben hoses and beaten me from the ear lobes down.” the State University of New Public Health, called the find ing disturbing and urged im mediate followup studies. shouldn't be unduly alarmed by the findings. He said the increse in cancer risk for children is far greater from US research project paid for Savitz coded all the homes in a suburban neighborhood Albany School of according to their nearness to overhead lines, transfor- mers and substations. The cancer risk to children living closest to the power lines was 1.7 times higher than for children who lived away from the lines. The risk of developing leukemia in children was 2.1 times higher. The general incidence of childhood cancer is one in 10,000 a year. Dr. David Carpenter, dean of York's Carpenter said people their parents’ cigarette New York Power Lines Project, a $5-million Human remains found VANCOUVER (CP) = Human remains found by a forestry crew mopping-up the Twin Lakes fire may be connected to the disappear- ance of a Kelowna man three years ago, say Penticton RCMP. Hans Rudolph Kaiser's ve- hicle was found abandoned in May 1984, in a pull-off on Highway3A, 20 kilometres southwest of Penticton, the spokesman said. The remains found Saturday were ap- proximately 600 metres from the pull-off. “There may be a connec- tion,” the spokesman said. He said foul play is not d and an matattack, but it’s one thing we won't ever know. There Roy Kaiser said. Kaiser's son, Roy Kaiser of Edmonton, has been contac- ted and advised that positive identification can not be made at this time, the investigation took place at the time of Kaiser's disap- pearance. “I don't think it (reason for Kaiser's death) was ani- said. " Roy Kaiser, in a telephone interview, said his father had been living in Kelowna since the fall of 1983 when he dis- appeared. Cc lid. Inc. and the Canadian Paper- workers Union to end a strike at three of the com- pany’s Quebec mills. About 2,400 workers at mills in Trois-Rivieres, Shaw- inigan and Grand-Mere went on strike June 26 after failing to reach agreement on such issues as overtime, vacations and working hours. Company official Denise Allard could not provide de- tails of the agreement but said if it is’ endorsed, the workers could be back on the job later this week. The last agreement expired April 30. ss ‘Castlégar News TREET TALK GREYHOUND BUS Lines has moved its Castlegar depot from the Fireside Inn to the old Bumper to Bumper store at 1507 Columbia Ave. THE EMILY CARR College of Art and Design's Castlegar outreach centre has lots of elbow room at its south Castlegar location. The centre used to share a building with the Kinnaird Library and Verna’s Flowers. However, the library closed and the books were And NEW SIGNS... The provincial government has begun installing new provincial park signs. ‘Woman to Woman magazine look familiar to you, that’s because they already appeared on the front page of the tley News back in December. = ‘The faces are those of Sarah Walker, 15, and Andrea Burchill, 13, the two stars of Bill Forsyth’s new movie An expanded awards program honoring those who have made valuable contribution to the preservations and enhancement of the B.C. environment has been announced. “This new series of annual | Minister’ 's Environmental Awards. will gnize si by British Columbians of all ages and in all walks of life, with categories for both individual citizens as well as moved to the new library building Verna's Flowers has vacated its premises. KEITH McQUIGGAN of the Trail Daily Times won an honorable mention and $500 in the annual MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. jornalism awards for daily newspapers. McQuiggan won in the editorial writing category for a political column. Robin Brownlee of the Kamloops News took first place and $1,000 for his sports column. Mark Hume of the Vancouver Sun became the first reporter to win two MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. jeurnalism awards in one year. Hume, 36, won first place and $750 for stories written this winter on Kim Westberg, a former RCMP undercover officer who was refused a leave of absence and went into hiding in the United States in 1985 after police learned of an underworld plot to kill him and his family. Hume shared top prize in the features category with Rebecca Wigod of the Victoria Times-Colonist, who wrote about the problems of aging. Former Sun business writer Don Whiteley, 40, won first prize and $1,000 in the news category for a series of articles on an export tax on lumber products going to the United States. In the same category, Hume won an honorable mention and $500 for a series of Gareth Wood, the B.C. man rescued from the South Pole just before Christmas. Hume joined The Sun in 1984 and previously worked at the Province, the Victoria Times-Colonist, the Ottawa Citizen and the Edmonton Journal. Whiteley spent eight years at The Sun before recently becoming manager of the University of B.C. news bureau. He has worked at the Boston Globe, the Calgary Herald, the Ottawa Journal and the Calgary Albertan. Judges were writer-broadcaster Peter Newman, businessman Ron Longstaffe and Murray Fraser, vice-president, academic, of the University of Victoria. HIGHWAY SIGNS identifying B.C.’s_ provincial parks are sporting a new look. The signs are a colorful red, white and blue design. However, it could be awhile before the new signs are in place around here. The province began installing the signs on Vancouver Island highways in June, but it will take a year to complete the province-wide program. IF TWO FACES on the cover of this month's B.C. says Envir Minister Bruce Strachan. “In addition, candidates for these awards may now be nominated by any member of the public or by any group, as well as by the ministry.” The six new categories of award, expanded from two, will cover a wider range of activities and provide & BEACH FUN AT CENTRAL DELI ENTER TO WIN A SET OF BEACH TOWELS & FRISBEES DRAW ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987 MAPLE LEAF MEAT LOAVES MAPLE LEAF COOKED. HAM MAPLE LEAF CHEDDAR CHEESE a $979 a8 MAPLE LEAF. REG./ALL BEEF . 450 G- CHUCK BLADE INADA GRADE A BEEF kg. °3**/iw. $58 = kg. 95° /ib. 558 THIG FRYING. —_ PORKRIBLETS ...,, 99° MEATY. GOV'T. INSP( INSPCT. kg. °3°S/p. PORK BUTT GOVERNMENT INSPECTED. STEAK $199 «kg. §439/p. ¢ ORANGE S one -284 mb 69 LIGHT TUNA CLOVERLEAF. FLAKED. ...... 184 G. $429 more specific r The ies are: citizen, youth organization or school group, citizens’ group or or it I, , government agency, and envir 1 ion (( idual or organization). To be eligible to receive an award, the individual or group will have been instruemental in: © promoting active concern for the enhancement and protection of the environment; © identifying, reducing, solving or avoiding an environmental problem; ‘ 1 ibl ng r environ- mental management practices; or o increasing public awareness and understanding of an 1 problem or si Nominations, for which staff of the Ministry of Environment and Parks are ineligible, must be submitted by Dec. 31 for the next awards announcement, which will be made in March 1988. Strachanwill select the award winners. Nominations and information inquiries should be directed to: Minister's Environmental Awards, Informa- tion Services Branch, Ministry of Education and Parks, 810 Blanshard Street, Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X5. Housekeeping, shot in Nelson (and at Castlegar’s CPR station) last year. Woman to Woman calls the two “B.C.’s newest stars.” The article goes on to say that Columbia Pictures intends to release the film this fall, possibly entering it in the Toronto and Vancouver film festivals. “But whenever and wherever i opens,” reporter h expected to be BIG.” TRAIL HAS BEEN named host of the 1988 B.C. Summer Championships for the Disabled. The four-day event will be staged next July and attract some 350 blind, amputtee, cerebral palsy, and wheelchair athletes who will compete in events such as swimming, track and field, and archery. San Weather Cloudy with sunny periods and a chance of isolated showers on Thursday. Highs near 24° with lows near 12°. Probability of precipitation is 30 per cent. Friday outlook is for clouds and showers while Saturdays outlook is for sunny periods and isolated showers. NeED To KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR NEW COMMUNITY? 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