ss Casthégar News July 19, 1987 GIVEN FIRST READING MPs to get raises OTTAWA (GP) — Roughly 50 MPs, including Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, will get raises ranging from $2,000 to $11,900 a year under a bill quietly given first reading on the last day before the Com- mons’ summer recess. The raises are for parlia- mentary duties the MPs now perform for free. Bill C-83, introduced amid a flurry of legislation June 30, wasn’t accompanied by the usual news releases or fanfare. Copies of the bill outlining the pay increases were available only Tuesday. Chairmen of standing or special committees, chairmen of caucuses, deputy House leaders, and some committee members are among those who will get the pay raises if the bill is passed. Fifty-two positions would be paid for. Some MPs hold more than one position, and the number of special and standing committees changes frequently, so it is difficult to specify how many MPs will benefit from the new bill. Asit stands now, however, all but nine of the 52 raises would go. to Progressive Conservatives. The bill, based on recom- mendations from two Com- mons committees, provides additional pay to the regular salaries and other benefits MPs receive. The largest group to bene- fit are the 28 Tory MPs who are chairmen of standing or special committees. They would each receive $6,800 a year, bringing their annual pay to about $83,000. Another 14 Tories who said copies of other bills were also delayed beeause of the last minute legisl, rush, “That's not unusual at the end of a session,” sald Cam- eron. For the bill to be given first reading in the Com- mons, all parties must agree. Don Boudria, Liberal MP for Glengarry-Prescott- Russell, said he hadn't heard about the bill until Friday morning, when it was firet reported in the Ottawa Citi- zen. serve on the panel of legis- lative committees would get an extra $2,000 each. GETS RAISES “There isn't any doubt in my mind that some of the people getting the money de- Conservative caucus chairman Gerry St. Germain and Liberal caucus chairman Marcel Prud'homme would be the biggest recipients — they would pocket an extra $11,900 a year. NDP caucus chairman Iain Angus would get $6,800, even though his 30-member caucus isn’t much smaller than the 40-member Liberal group in the Com- mons. Brian Cameron, chief of the Commons distribution office, serve it,” he said. “But I find it strange that the govern- ment will introduce an amendment to something like the Seeds Act and sent out a press release, a press kit, maybe even hold a press con- ference. “This time, none of that.” He said that the govern- ment must be so ashamed of its performance that it’s worried about announcing a pay increase for fear it will not be received well. Archer suing tabloid LONDON (CP) — It’s got all the elements of a nov- elist's dream — a twisted plot, sex, mysterious shady characters, politics, power, drama and intrigue. But the libel trial unfold- ing here in the glare of media overkill has been more like a nightmare for Jeffrey Ar. cher, the multimillionaire novelist and prominent Con- servative politician formed to resign last October after his name was dragged into a sex scandal. Archer, author of such popular works as Kane and Abel, a Matter of Honor and First Among Equals, has been repeatedly called a liar and forced to watch his wife of 21 years break down in tears in the witness box while testifying on his behalf. Perhaps even worse for a man who still entertains hopes of joining the inner circles of British govern- ment, he's been forced to put up with endless questions about the intimate details of his private life, including taped telephone calls with a prostitute who says she slept with him. Archer is suing The Star, one of Britain's racier tabloid newspapers, for reporting he paid Monica (Debbie) Cogh- lan, 36, the equivalent of about $150 Cdn to have sex with her on the night of last Sept. 89 in a dingy west London hotel. FELL INTO TRAP The former deputy chair. man of the Tory party admits falling into a trap set by a rival newspaper, News of the World, and arranging to pay the woman 2,000 pounds (about $4,200 Cdn) to leave the country. But he strenuously denies he had sex with her — as re- ported only by The Star and not by News of the World in the original article. And he says he can't resume his political career with his dreams of being either a cabinet minister or being named party chairman until his name is cleared. Archer says he agreed to pay Coghlan to go abroad only to give him time to “nail this evil lie” but admits it was a serious “lack of judgment.” He resigned over the at- tempted payoff, not the sex- ual allegations, but has laun- ched a separate libel suit against News of the World. There is little about the convoluted plot of this true life story that isn’t disputed. 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Vie Van Isle Construction Ltd., a was the lowest of seven bidders on the project, which will see the current 314-square-metre terminal triple in size with an 800-metre expansion to the south of the present building. The car park will also be enlarged from 115 stalls to hold 160 vehicles. “Expansion and renovation of the air terminal building Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said in is long overdue,” Feb. 28 Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 2300, said there was only $100,000 difference, or less than five per cent, between the Van Isle bid and the third lowest bid from Fame Construction Ltd. of Trail, 3 union firm. “I think it's absolutely bloody unacceptable,” Embree ie told the ©, Construction. area construction News. He pointed out there is 90 per cent unemployment in the industry, in addition to a general unemployment rate of around 25 per cent. Embree said the project would have provided work for 15 local carpenters if it had been awarded to Fame He also pledged that he and other union leaders will be He also predicted the project will not go ahead without protests from labor. Embree said the construction site will be picketted. Meanwhile, Embree also pushed the issue during Tuesday's council, meeting in his role as an alderman, saying he is “extremely disappointed” the contract was awarded outside the area. He said Van Isle reputation.” Council agreed to write to Ottawa pi decision to award the contract to an out-of-town company. But Brisco, who attended the council meeting and heard Embree's complaints, disagreed. Brisco pointed out that the contract was delayed by has a “notorious the é “ ie ways apart,” he said. “It eae announcing the project. “By the end of next summer, we will have a first-class facility to serve the West Kootenay region.” But the decision to award the contract to an out-of-town, monitoring the project to ensure Van Isle abides by the federal fair wage legislation. Embree suggested the project will come in over budget if the company is forced to comply with the fair wage three weeks because the lowest bid was about $260,000 over budget and because of conditions he placed on the Ministry of Transport. Because the lowest bid was over budget, the non-union firm angered a local union leader. n Embree, business agent for the United Castlég Vol. 40, No. 58 60 Cents legislation. But if that happens, the federal government will end up picking up the bill, Embree said. Sal ministry had to determine if the bid was legitimate or continued on page A2 RSs +S rNews © CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1987 4 Sections (A,B, C & D) Pickets up then down at hotel By CasNews Staff An information picket line that went up outside the Monte Carlo Hotel Monday morning, has been removed. The line, manned by four Monte Carlo workers who said hotel manage- ment had laid them off and takenover their jobs, disappeared sometime Tues- day. The workers, members of the Hotel Restaurant Culinary and Bartenders Union Local 40, targetted their protest at the Monte Carlo hotel and not the restaurant located within the hotel. Verna Abietkoff, one of five full-time chambermaids involved in the dispute, said the layoffs started when the hotel's new manager, Pete Morrisseau, took over May 16. “He started getting rid of us one by one and the last one was last Wednes- day,” she told the Castlegar News in an interview Monday morning. Abietkoff said Morrisseau didn't give any reasons for the layoffs. “They can handle it; that’s all he said.” She noted that the chambermaids haven't been officially laid off, only told that they will be called when they are needed. The workers’ grievance. The workers added that they took the protest action on their own and pledged to remain on the picket line “till we get our jobs back.” Abietkoff could not be reached today for comment on why the picket line is down. The Castlegar News contacted Mor risseau late Tuesday evening by tele. phone, but he declined union has filed a PICKET PROTEST .. . outside Monte Carlo Mond Chambermaids set up picket line to protest doing their work. HATEL Ro niyGEMEN Our Line was removed Tuesday CasNews Photo by Ron Normon IN SLOCAN VALLEY Festival kicks off Friday By CasNews Staff The unveiling of a life-size statue of Russian author and humanitarian Leo Tolstoy will highlight the Russian Canadian Heritage Festival this week. end in Castlegar. The unveiling will commemorate the historic and important role Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, played in helping the Douk hobors emigrate from Russia to Canada. Ilya Tolstoy, great-grandson of the author, will also be in Castlegar, as well as the statue's sculptor Yuri Chernov. The festival begins Friday with a workshop and lecture at the Brilliant Cultural Centre featuring Ilya Tolstoy, a professor at Moscow State Univer sity, Lidya Lubimova, the director of the Tolstoy Museum, and Dr. Alexan der Fodor, a professor at McGill University and author of Tolstoy and the Russians aren in 1984. Spray permit scrapped By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer The B.C. Environmental Appeal Board cancelled one of CP Rail’s herbicide spray permits today, but three other permits are still valid pending a second appeal hearing slated for Monday The Environmental Appeal Board's Ralph Patterson cancelled the permit at 9 a.m. this morning at a hearing in the Nelson Rod and Gun Club after the CPR withdrew its permit to spray parts of the rail line in the Slocan Valley. Nineteen appeals were filed against the permit from such groups and organizations as the Regional District of Central Kootenay, the Railway Workers Union, the Village of Slocan, the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance and the Slocan Valley Wildlife Associa. tion, “We're very relieved they are not spraying the Slocan Valley,” said Don Warthe, spokesman for the Kootenay Citizens for Albernative to Pesticides. “But we're concerned the other three The iling cerem onies will take place at the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society Museum at 11 a.m. Saturday followed by choral presentations and speakers at the Brilliant Cultural Centre with an evening banquet and variety concert. continued on poge A2 may not get the same treatment.” The three outstanding permits include rail lines from Nelson to Castlegar, from Castlegar to Trail and the section of Sidon-Creston-Yahk. “It really made a difference how many people showed up during the inspection," Marthe said, referring to the more than 1,000 people who lined the Slocan Valley tracks during an on-site inspection of the spray permit area. All three permits allow the use of herbicide Spike 80W. But Marthe emphasized that the group he represents is “fairly annoyed that it took so much time, effort and money on the part of the citizens” to have the permit withdrawn. the Slocan inadequacies “What's happened in Valley points to the inherent the whole permit procedures,” he said. “It's been up to the people to spot this little ad in the paper and, once and if they see it, to go through the whole effort to get this pulled.” Marthe said he expects a large number of people to show up for a march scheduled to coincide with next continued on page A2 ‘CP Rail to spray herbicides here By CasNews Staff A herbicide application permit allow ing spraying of Spike 80W between Castlegar and Cominco, starting from the Castlegar CP Rail station, has re ceivéd only minor changes after an on-site inspection of the spray area last week. The changes state that only the five creeks that traverse the CP Rail tracks between Castlegar and Cominco be excluded from the permit In a brief to Ron Kobylnyk, director of the Pesticide Control Branch of the Ministry of Environment and Parks, Stuart Craig, regional manager for the Pesticide Control Program, has rec ommended, among other things, that only those areas within 10 metres of bodies of water should be excluded from the permit. In the on-site inspection report, Castlegar's CPR station is set at mile 0.05. The report states that between miles 0.6 and 1.6 “there is a severe slope away from the tracks to the east, but it is in excess of 100 metres from the Columbia River. continued on poge A2 Air crash poses many questions By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff W: Airport, who did not want his name used, said a broadcast from the emer- gency locator was never heard. He said the airport had already begun usual location procedures since the plane was flying byk a visual flight plan and was late reporting in. But most of the procedures for filing a visual flight plan are left to the discretion of the pilot, including whe- ther or not weather conditions are suitable for flying. Dunlop had only been a pilot for 14 years and weather conditions at the time of the flight, according to the spokesman, were Lung said at no time ‘did Dunlop talk with the Castlegar Airport tower, though he did file a flight plan. Lung said the aircraft, which left Trail at 3:45 p.m., was flying low, about 2.4 kilometres from the Kootenay Summit when the tip of the left wing struck a tree top. The plane crashed approximately 130 metres from the tree. Lung is uncertain why the aireraft was flying so low at the time, though he suspects the weather conditions were a factor. Lung also said the engine and air- craft, after inspection, “appear to be in good condition.” Dunlop, who managed Trail’s Radio Shack store, owned a two-seat plane but was piloting a Cessna owned by the Trail Flying Club when he crashed. A spokesman for the club could not be reached. Many questions remain unanswered regarding the plane crash outside Salmo last Friday in which three members of a Trail family died. Though an official aviation report will not be released for six to eight months, Dwayne Lung, investigator with the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, said details about the crash are still sketchy. Some of*the questions that remain unanswered include why the plane was flying so low and exactly why the Emergency Locator Transmitter did not send out a signal at the time of the crash. Pilot Daniel Dunlop, 33, his wife Kimiyo, 33, and their daughter Danica, 7, were all killed in the crash near the Salmo-Creston Skyway summit. Two sons, Blair, 12, and Darrell, 9 are listed in satisfactory condition in Trail Regional Hospital. The family was on its way to Ontario. All aircraft are equipped with an emergency locator which broadcasts an emergency beacon immediately upon impact. The locator is expected to be “armed” by the pilot as soon as he suspects there is trouble. However, the wreckage of the four-seat Cessna 172 was found by a Salmo logger who noticed the plane fly overhead about two hours before coming across the wreckage and not by the emergency locator. A spokesman at the Castlegar inside STUDENTS ARRIVE: Twenty-six Japonese exchange students and four instructors arrived in Castlegar Sunday for a two week visit. The students were officially welcomed to the city at a reception Tuesday night at city hall... A2 FIGHT CONTINUES: The Kootenay-Okanagan Electric Consumers Association plans to appeal the decision to allow the sale of West Kootenay Power... A2 SENSE OF OUTRAGE: Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco says there is o strong sense of outrage in the Western provinces about the recent illegal entry to Canada of 174 Sikhs . . AQUANAUTS TOPS: Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club captured the Colville Valley swim meet over the weekend... BI MORE THE MERRIER: YAOUNDE — Mongo Fayo, a singer who already lives with 36 wives, married six more, the official Cameroon Tribune newspaper reported Tuesday. Faya, 35, married the six at a civil wedding ceremony July 11 in the port city of Dovala, Cameroon's economic capital. Faya's wives, aged 20 to 24, live harmoniously under the same root, the paper said. The singer who earlier this month returned from the United States where he recorded his latest album, Stop Apartheid, has 28 children.