ew a2 Castlegar News July 23, 1989 Bg ait FRIENDLY GREETINGS... Viewing Japane: College and their homestay host Selkirk College welcomed 41 Japanese students and their three chaperones to Castlegar July 19 to begin a three-week English language/Canadian culture tour This is the third consecutive summer students from Aoyama Technical College, Selkirk College's sister in- stitution, have spent in Castlegar combining English language classes with opportunities Canadian culture and recreation. The Aoyama students were met by college officials nd staff of the international education departments ell as the 24 homestay host families who will billet the visiting students for the duration of their stay Homestay monitor Philomena Archambault has been scouring the Castlegar area for the past several months to secure enough billeting to accommodate the 24 female and 17 male student visitors “We are very pleased to have found 19 new homestay host families,” said Archambault. She was also, pleased that several families are hosting Japanese students for their second or even third summer “The fact that this tour occurs every summer at the same time allows people to plan ahead so they can par- ticipate,"’ she said Gait Ogiow,-tourceordinaterforthe third con- secutive year, stressed the importance of the homestay host families, saying that Aoyama officials asked for more contact between students and their homestay hosts after last summer’ s visit “We have adjusted our agenda accordingly,” Oglow said. This summer the Aoyama students will spend a total of eight more days in Castlegar than last year’s group, allowing for more contact between the students and their homestay hosts. “There is no better way for these students to get a real sense of Canadian family life than to spend time with Canadian families,"* she said. While evenings and weekends are relatively un structured, weekdays are packed with a full agenda of language learning and recreation. Each morning, students are picked up by a college bus near their host family residences. At the Castlegar campus each day, they receive three hours of English-as-a-secorid- language instruction from experienced educators hired especially for this student group. After lunch, the seven Canadian student cultural assistants take over to ferry Japanese students in three groups to lessons in tennis, golf, arid horseback riding These recreational interspersed with outings to local construction sites to see frame and log buildings under construction to experience activities are ¢ who converte students meet with officials from Selkirk jamilies upon their arrivgl at the Castlegar Airport. Students begin tour “Many of the students are studying drafting, ar chitectural tracing and other skills relating to. the building trade in Japan Canadian building techniques and materials, explained Field trips to Nelson and a circle tour of the silvery Slocan are also on the students’ agenda. Oglow noted that the ““Glost Tour,” which stops at the abandoned Retalleck, Zincton, Forks and through towns such as Ainsworth, Silverton and New They are very interested in * Oglow townsites of Three Denver, isa big hit with the students “Dr, Bill Sloan developed an interesting presen tation that recounts the colorful history of this region's mining activity,"’ said Oglow. **This went over very well with last year’s group. A special treat awaits the students on this year’s cir cle tour, as they have been invited to tour one of the region's supreme examples of a designer log home. A short side trip to Schroeder Creek, north of Kaslo. will allow them to visit the summer residence of Calgary oil magnate John Masters. There they will be met by Lenora Masters, who is welcoming the students into her home for a detailed look Log builder Chris Temple of Johnson's Landing, Pages Of AFCHITEctUrAl bIUEPrINTS IN a handsomely crafted 3,000-square-foot log home, will be present to talk about the construction techniques The residence was constructed in 1985 at an estimated cost of $500,000. A tour of the Castlegar Aquatic Centre construc tion site is also included in this year’s agenda, with a C1 from the Ed: based engineering firm on hand to give a slide presentation and tour of the com- plex Other excusions will see the students visit the Water continued trom tront pege stated the water being used must be treated to be safe. “The ongoing evaluation of your community's water supply indicates that it is contaminated by fecal coliform bacteria, and exceeds health standards for drinking water,’’ the let- ter says. “lt is recommended that the water be disinfected at its source so that it is made safe for drinking,” the letter continues. Chief public health inspector Mike Harnadek said the presence of the bac- teria, generally from human or animal waste, is not unusual and is considered “normal background contamina- tion.”” Advisory letters are sent to all area water users each year to keep them up- to-date on the situation, he said. Celgar, which-along with a number of other area users relies on untreated surface water from the Lower Arrow Lake, has been advised of the high bac- terial counts for years, ad- Celgar industrial relations manager Ron Belton told the Castlegar News, which received a telephone call from a Celgar employee concerned about the notice in the bulletin. Celgar technical manager Vic Morandini said the health unit is get- ting stricter About water treatment this year but refused to comment fur- ther. Bacterial counts have been rising over the years, Harnadek said, and a ‘worst-case scenerio’’ could see people contracting a number of diseases from the water. Based on hospital reports, he said there have been cases of people becoming ill with diseases that are known to be sometimes transmitted by water. Health unit records indicate that 14 of 40 samples collected at Celgar taps contained more than the acceptable amount of coliform. More than 10 per cent of the samples taken in a 30-day period showed the presence of coliform and no coliform could be detected in seven samples because they ded. The company is using city water — which is treated — while it looks into installing a chlorinator for the mill, were with other bacteria, the records show The cities of Castlegar, Nelson, Grand Forks and Rossland and the Blueberry Creek, Genelle and OCotischenia improvement districts, along with 29 other water users, received letters stating their water sup- plies **did not consistently meet health standards." These users, who all rely on some form of treatment, were advised to flush distribution sysems at least twice each year and reminded of the quan- titites of chlorine necessary to suf- ficiently kill bacteria. Users of ultra-violet-light systems, such as the Robson-Raspberry Im- provement District, were reminded to maintain their systems properly. Castlegar’s water, which is chlorine- treated surface water from Lower Arrow Lake, had one sample in 98.that contained more than the acceptable level of coliform and two that were overgrown with other bacteria to the point that coliform could not be detec ted, health unit records show Harnadek said Castlegar’s record is considered good by health standards. A total of 126 community water systems were analyzed this year Community swimming pools were also sampled and the Bob Brandson and Clarke pools in Castlegar had no positive coliform readings, the data shows Film continued from tront page the roles and now that he is no longer bound by Canadian content regulations he is free\to find a-non- Canadian actor to fill the part should Farmer take another offer. The film would be losing a tremen- dous actor but there is no alternative, sai a Stark, a Rossland native, said he can’t afford to dwell on his patriotic feeling now. “1m about ready to take my flag down,” he said. Stark has been Working on the film Court news Doukhobor village musuem, the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre, a local sawmill, hike the area’s nature trails, and partake of a Japanese feast prepared by Sigrid Shepard, a well-known gourmet chief specializing in Asian and Arabic cuisine “With the experience of hosting this tour for three summers-comes the confidence that we are giving the students from Aoyama what they want in the short-term Canadian learning holiday,”’ said Oglow. ‘*I’m con- tinually impressed by the enthusiasm and excitement felt by everyone connected with this event and look for- ward to another positive experience with the students from ougsister institution The Aoyama student tour will depart Castlegar Aug. 10. Motion continued from front page The ESL motion will take time and the child-care department will probably not materialize since education is under provincial jurisdiction, Kinakin said Kinakin added he plans to bring the motion on buying unbleached paper to the Castlegar board at a fall meeting. A motion from the Castlegar board asking the CSTA to request the provincial and federal governments to enact legislation to monitor the sale or use of steroids and prohibit their use except for defeated, Kinakin said medical purposes was Workshops continued from front page are needed this year in Canada and only 1,600 are currently in training That may make it difficult for Castlegar to find a teacher for the French immersion program the board plans to implement in the fall of 1990, he said. Kinakin said the most interesting workshop he at tended was about values in education and looked at the difficult position trustees are placed in by parents who think the education system isn’t teaching their children the right values “It’s been my experience that the kids are fine it's the parents who are the problem," he said Conservative parents want the schools to teach the basics, religious parents want ‘‘morals’’ put back into the schools and elitists are upset because they think “their Einstein is in a class of dummies and sweathogs,”” Kinakin said The workshop instructor told trustees that, in the future, school districts will have to set up schools and classes that cater to some of these parents’ wishes if they don’t want to see school districts ‘‘ripped apart,” Kinakin said He noted that Castlegar specialization. Of the 75 school districts in B.C., Turner estimated only 10 or 12 were represented at the conference by the 21 trustees who attended from this province That may be in part because the B.C. School Trustees Association joined the CSTA informally only this year, he said, and before that membership in the national body was up to the individual districts Castlegar has belonged for several years, Turner added. . is too small for such Program stresses thinking NELSON (CP) — Teachers in the Nelson school district have come up with a way to improve students’ per formance and change their behavior teach them to think The program, designed four years ago by Pat Dooley, the district's direc tor of the instruction for curriculum, stresses thinking over memorization - says pulsive.”” Teachers are “Instead of It has been praised by the provincial trained to problem-solving and decision-making, with less rote memorization teaching kids 400 geographical terms, they might have kids go through a problem-solving exercise about geography and how it might influence their culture," she The program was tried first on a small scale in 1986 and expanded the By last year it involved in the East stress following year teachers at 14 schools Kootenay adapt it for their classes. Dooley and district teachers have written a book to be published this fall that outlines their experiences with the program, in hopes éther teachers can Education Ministry as a model for developing thinking skills. Teachers trained in the program have noticed a difference in students Tourist alert their students, say Dooley “They're able to see other points of view more easily; they rely on their teachers a-lot-less for giving them_the answers,’’ says Dooley “Some parents have noticed a dif- ference in their kids,”* she adds. ‘*They are much more thoughtful, less im- Alert sonal méssage Alice Kale, VANCOUVER (CP) issued by the RCMP. The following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent per Dawson Creek, call Tourist Vicki Clarke Terry Waters, Waters. Margaret call son Brian Calgary, Lockie, Frank Toth, Michigan, call Gerrit Haaksma Mark Saskatchewan, Last week in Castlegar provincial court, Clifford R. Wilson pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a probation order and was fined $200 or, in default, sentenced to 14 days in jail. Lotto jackpot to goup KAMLOOPS (CP) — The B.C. Lottery Corp. will raise the ante for Lotto B.C. when the game’s format is changed in August. Effective Aug. 5, when a weekly Lotto B.C. ticket is purchased for a $1, buyers will get another ticket free, the corporation said. The rolling jackpot — increasing each week if there is no winner — also will be eliminated. The jackpot now will be $250,000 each week, up from the current $125,000. Buyers also will select six of 40 num- bers instead of the current five of 40. The lottery numbers, which can only be purchased in British Columbia, are picked on Saturdays. President Guy Simonis said the cor- poration is trying to give the game a higher profile to make the lottery more competitive with the national 6-49 lot- tery Under the rules of 6-49, buyers pick six of 49 numbers and the jackpot in- creases after each draw if there is no The lottery is drawn Wed- nesdays and Saturdays. winner Lottery numbers — to be called The Dispossessed — for 10 years and has been receiving fun- ding from Telefilm for the last few years for development of the project Telefilm received the script and budget information April | and Stark has been waiting since then for word ‘on whether the agency will partially __ fund prods ‘the picture. Stark said a few weeks ago he could no longer wait without risking the loss of his cast and possibly his distribution contracts with Hemdale in: the U.S. and Astral and First Choice in Canada. Bill Gray, Telefilm’s director of operations in Vancouver, said Stark's project must wait its turn to reach the top of the pile for consideration by the agency. It’s been a nightmare,”’ said Stark, who has put all of his Own possessions, including his house and car, into financing the film. “I'd be a real masochist to do an- ything like this again,” he said, referring to working with Telefilm Stark added it would be ironic if the _ film turned out to be a U.S. or Yugoslavian picture after asking Telefilm — whose mandate is to en- courage Canadian films — for fun- But Stark said the door is still open for Telefilm to get involved and if fun- ding became available he would recon- sider. However, there would have to be no more delays, he said, noting the speed with which Leone and the Royal Bank have moved in the past week to cut @ deal for the film Stark currently has commitments from actors Christopher Plummer, his daughter Amanda Plummer, Margot Kidder, Megan Follows and Elias Koteas. Man may be dead after bridge fall Boy, 2, to undergo treatment NELSON (CP) — A two-year-old boy is scheduled to undergo an ex- perimental treatment for muscular dystrophy that an expert says is the most important advance ever against the disease. Dennis Zeabin will arrive in Van voucer on July 30 to begin injections of asubstance that laboratory experimen ts suggest can reverse the muscle wasting process of the disease that kills most of its victims by their 20s. Zeabin’s 18-year-old brother, Ken- ny, died last May of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most com- mon and severe form of the disease. Dennis has the same form of the illness. TRAIL (CP) — One man was presumed drowned after four painters fell into the Columbia River when the scaffolding they were standing on collapsed, RCMP said The body of the man, a Nelson resident in his 20s, had not been recovered. RCMP Sgt. Laurie DeWitt said Brian LeLeeuw, 24, of Ladysmith, managed to swim to shore after the ac- cident. He was taken to hospital for treatment of a broken ankle. Michael Vegh, 25, and Mark Houre, 31, both of Revelstoke, were picked up in the river as they clung to the broken scaffolding The men, employees of A and T Fabricators of Revelstoke, were san dblasting under the bridge in this southeastern British Columbia com. munity when the accident occurred Thursday afternoon In memory KAMLOOPS (CP) — Unofficial results from Friday’s Punto Parley lot- tery in British Columbia: July 18 — Saskatchewan wins by 5 points (a 4-7 point spread). July 19 — Toronto wins by 4 points (a4-7 point spread). July 20 — Hamilton wins by 6 points (a4-7 point spread). July 21 — Edmonton wins by 50 points (a 22-plus point spread). The following winning numbers were drawn in Thursday’s lotteries: B.C. KENO — 6, 18, 22, 31, 38, 41, 46, 56. The following winning numbers were drawn in Wednesday's lotteries: Lotto 6/49—14, 20, 25, 33, 35 and 48. The bonus number was 27. The jackpot of $7,452,070.60 was divided into two prizes of $3,726,035.30. The four extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Wednesday were 24, 47, 58, 82. B.C. KENO — 6, 7, 15, 17, 34, 39, 40 and 55 These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial. busiiness. daughters, Kelly and Stacey; Funeral Chapel Nick Shkuratoff Nick Shkuratoff of Qualicum Beach passed away July 18 at age 38 Mr. Shkuratoff was born Dec. 2, 1950, at Nelson and grew up in Slocan Park. He graduated from Stanley Humphries secondary school in 1967 and attended Selkirk College for one year He began working for Celgar as a millwright and moved to Prince Rupert in 1979, continuing to work in the same position there for Celgar. In 1980, he moved to Port Alberni to work for MacMillan Bloedel. In 1981, he married Debbie Forsyth at Port Alberni. He began operating his own shop and sawmill in Qualicum Beach in 1985. He en- joyed motorcycling and sailing when he could take time away from his He is survived by his wife Debbie of Qualicum Beach, son Chris and parents, Nick and Pauline Shkuratoff of Brillian(; brother Stan of Seattle, Wash.; sister Lynn Robinson of Brilliant; grandmother Dora Poohachoff of Castlegar; eight nieces and nephews; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral service was held at the Brilliant Centre Friday and continued Saturday with burial at Park Memorial Cemetery Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar E> July29, 1909 CastlégarNews 43 Tina Markin Tina Markin of Nelson passed away July 19 at age 65 Funeral service was held Friday and continued Saturday at Thom: pson Funeral Home. Interment followed in Nelson Memorial Park In lieu of flowers, friends who so desire may make donations to the ‘Cancer Fund, Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Funeral Service. Thompson Missing man's body found CRANBROOK (CP) — The body of a man missing for more than three months has been found in a wooded area west of Cranbrook, RCMP say Paul Englehart, 35, was reported missing by his parents in early April Police said Englehart’s body was found near this southeastern British Columbia community on Wednesday. The cause of death was under in- vestigation and foul play had not been ruled out. CN to wait for appeal outcome KELOWNA (CP) — CN Rail has voluntarily put its three pesticide permits on hold, pending the outcome of an appeal by the Canadian Ear- theare Society based in Kelowna and 10 other environmental groups in British Columbia. “It’s a major victory for the public’s democratic right to express its concerns with these applications,” said society president Lloyd Man- chester The Crown corporation planned to spray the herbicides Spike and Glean along its railway tracks in the Kelowna area and Simazine between Boston Bar and Surrey to control weeks Manchester said he expects the society’s appeal to be heard in Sep- tember. Earlier, the society had asked the Environmental Appeal Board to delay the effective dates of the permits until the appeal could be heard. Toigo buys U.S. donut chain VANCOUVER (CP) — Millionaire businessman Peter Toigo has bought the Winchell’s Donut House chain in the United States for $40 million US. Winchell’s operates 657 doughnut shops in 14 western states. Toigo, a friend of Premier Bill Vander Zalm, owns the White Spot restaurant chain in British Golumbia. He also has businesses in Ontario which include Gaines Pet Foods, Canterbury Foods, which operates the Crock and Block restaurant chain, and the Coca-Cola and Canada Dry bottling franchise for much of nor- thern Ontario. ___]| Mill owner dies.on saw blade _ ERRINGTON (CP) — The owner of a small cedar mill on Vancouver Island died Tuesday when he fell into a huge circular saw and was cut in half. Police said Nicholas Shkuratoff, 38, a former Castlegar resident, had just finished feeding a cedar log through the saw when he lost his balance. Officials from the Workers C Board are the accident Errington is about 20 kilometres north of Nanaimo. Bardot accused of castration SAINT TROPEZ, France (AFP) — Brigitte Bardot, the former sex symbol who now devotes her time to animal rights causes, has been ac- cused bya of his donkey without Jean-Pierre Manivet, an industrialist who lives next door to Bardot at the south of France resort of St. Tropez, left his donkey Charly in her care while he was away last May. He said that on his return he found that the four-year-old animal had been castrated by order of Bardot because Charly was too affectionate with Mimosa, a female donkey kept by her. Gun said turned on killer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuter) — When Gary Frion charged into girlfriend Janet Rose’s backyard with a gun during a quarrel and shot one of her pet rabbits, she retrieved the weapon and fired back, police said. Frion, 43, was treated at a medical centre for a bullet wound in the backside, said police Lieut. Dave Coppom. Rose, 35, described as distraught, was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The rabbit, said Coppom, died in Rose’s arms. Typhoon kills 24 in China BEIJING (AP) — Torrential rains and floods caused by Typhoon Hope have killed at|least 24 people and injured 1,000 in eastern China, an official report said Saturday, just days after Typhoon Gordon took at least 17 lives. The official Xinhua news agency said up to 19 centimetres of rain fell on various countries of Fujian province during the 24 hours beginning 8 a.m. Friday Torrents rushed down mountains and several rivers flooded, destroying 4,000 houses and covering 3,300 hectares of cropland, the report said Canadian film-maker dies MONTREAL (CP) — Donald Brittain, crusty creator of some of Canada’s best documentary films, died Friday in hospital after a long bout with cancer. He was61 His award-winning films for the CBC and the National Film Board included Hendy Ford’s America, Bethune, and Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry. Amazon highway loan approved BRASILIA (AP) — A development bank has agreed to loan Brazil money to begin paving a highway in the western Amazon, ending a two- year delay caused by environmentalists worried about the road's effecton the fragile forest. William Ellis, the Inter-American Development Bank’s represen- tative in Brazil, said the bank would finance 40 per cent of the $146 million US needed to complete the jungle project Brazil will receivé 80 per cent of the money immediately, and the remainder will be released after the government complies with a promise to create Indian and forest reserves and control forest burning in the region, Ellis said Soviet miners reject offer MOSCOW (AP) — Miners in the Soviet Union's biggest coal field have rejected a government offer to end their weeklong strike, and reports on Saturday indicated half the coal industry’s one million workers were off the job. “All mines have stopped,” the official Tass news agency reported from the Donetsk Coal Basin in Ukraine Miners in one major coal centre, Karaganda in the republic of Kazakhstan, began returning to work after negotiators worked out a set- tlement package, Tass said. Other strikes were depriving vital factories of fuel and threatening industfy countrywide. The Donetsk Basin has 121 pits with an andl production of 210 million tonnes. ba © Fishy questions RIVER AWGLERS TOF FOR Columbia River anglers can expect to be quizzed over the next few weeks as a team of people working for the Environment Youth Corps conduct a fisheri urvey. The survey's purpose is to monitor the movement of game fish, to document the value of fishing to local anglers and to determine the expected losses if the proposed Murphy Creek hydroelectric dam is built. Japanese head for TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Sousuke Uno attacked the rival Socialist party in a final campaign speech Saturday, the eve of parliamen- tary elections in Japan, while the Socialist leader urged voters to ‘make clear your disgust” with Uno’s scan- dal-plagued government. At stake today are half the seats in the upper house of parliament. A poor showing by Uno’s conser- vative Liberal Democrats could in- crease pressure on Uno, in office less than two months, to resign and lead to early elections for the more powerful lower house, which elects the prime minister. “*Socialism does not fit in Japan, Uno, 66, told severaj hundred workers on his Liberal Democratic party. ‘*Please help us defend freedom in this country.” He praised his party’s record in raising Japan’s status in the world. Personally hobbled by allegations that he kept paid mistresses, Uno made few public appearances during the 18- day campaign and his last was in a secluded parking lot at party headquarters. By contrast, Takako Doi, chairman of the Japan Socialist party, held her final campaign rally at a main intersec- tion. “Now is the time we can change politics, and the energy is beginning to move,” Doi said, assailing scandals and-a new sales tax. ‘‘Tomorrow is your big chance to make clear your disgust.” Polls, analysts and even many Liberal Democrats cast the governing party as an underdog in the voting for 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councilors. Recent polls by three major national newspapers indicated the party would win only 30 to 42 seats, far short of the 54 it needs to maintain asimple majority. Final results are expected Monday evening. China tightens controls BEWING (AP) — China's propaganda officials and censors say tighter control of the media and arts is necessary to protect socialism, and they ridiculed those in the West who say the Communist system has failed, reports said “‘News and publishing units, social science research organs, literary and art groups must propagate and seriously carry out the four basic prin- ciples," the party newspaper, the People’s Daily, said the officials decided The four principles in essence declare that China must be ruled only by the Communist party under the principles of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse-tung. That idea has been part of the ideological gospel for a decade under senior leader Deng Xiaoping, but tends to be stressed only in times of suppression on emergent liberalism. The officials, heads of propaganda departments and cultural censors from across the country, declared as their five-day meeting ended Friday that the cultural market must be “‘rec- tified” — meaning shaken up — and purged of materials. , as many as 700 Socreds in this Cariboo | Quebec woman waits for abortion ruling | — = Chantal Daigle was supposed to get married next weekend, but instead of making last-minute wedding plans she’s locked in a landmark court battle with her former fiance, trying to win the right to have an abor tion. After a week of biticr accusations and threats in three different courts, it is now up to a five-judge panel of the Quebec Court of Appeal to decide whether to strike down an injunction preventing Daigle, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, from having an abortion. A decision isn’t expected until next week at the earliest The case has catapulted Daigle, 21, and her former boyfriend, Jean-Guy Tremblay, who filed for the injun- ction in Montreal on July 7, into the centre of a national debate on the ever-divisive issue of abortion and rights of the fetus. “1 recognize that Daigle, the women of Quebec and the women of Canada have rights,"" Tremblay’s lawyer, Robert Francis, told the judges Thursday. ‘‘But Tremblay and all men have rights and so dochildren who are born and not yet born. BALANCESCALES **Ypur job is to balance the scales of justice," while considering the rights of all three, the lawyer argued. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Thursday the federal government will begin dealing with the abortion issue in the fall with the hopes of filling the legislative vacuum left when the country’s abortion law was struck down 18 months ago by the Supreme Court of Canada As the legal and |medical communities debate the question of whether a fétus is a human being and whether its rights take precedent over those of the mother, the in timate details of Daigie’s and Tremblay’s stormy relation- ship have been put on public display Tremblay says he'll go so far as to have Daigle charged with murder if she goes ahead with the abortion and says he wants her back. But Daigle maintains she never loved the 25-year-old man whom she met last November, lived with briefly and left earlier this month The native of Chibougamau, Que., says she wants nothing more to do with Tremblay, who works in the ser vice department of a Montreal car dealership. “1 was afraid of him and wanted to leave him but didn't know how because he threatened to disfigure and control and subdue me once and for all,” Daigle said in an affidavit filed in Quebec Superior Court on July 14 Tremblay, who stands about six feet tall and once worked as a bouncer in Montreal bars, denied he ever hit Daigle but admitted he was possessive “+1 think all men are possessive but that’s no reason to killachild,” he said EPP SAYS TORIES WON'T DUCK ISSUE BURNABY (CP) — The Progressive Conser- vatives haven’t copped out in their policy on abortion, the federal government's former health minister said. Jake Epp, who opposes abortion, said he doesn’t think Parliament will duck its responsibility on the issue, but the Tories have consistently favored a free vote on abortion legislation. 7 “The party and the prime minister have alway looked on this issue as a conscience issue and a free vot issue," Epp said in an interview. ‘For the cabinet . . . we will have to give recommendations both to our caucus and to the House, and that’s what the prime minister ex- pressed yesterday.’ Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said last week that the government will start working on a proposal for new abortion legislation this fall. A cabinet committee on the issue, chaired by Sen. Lowell Murray, has reported to Mulroney, but Epp wouldn’t disclose the committee's findings The Supreme Court of Canada overturned Criminal Code restrictions on abortion in January 1988. Meanwhile, the Canadian Medical Association will draft a policy on the rights of the fetus to complement its year-old policy sanctioning abortions outside hospitals The association's ethics committee has been told to study the issue and to draw up a position, Dr. John O'Brien-Bell, president of the association, said in a news release Socreds choose Fraser's replacement today WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — Former 60, an auctioneer Social Credit legislative member Alex Fraser embodied the indepéndent spirit of the Cariboo riding he represented for 20 years. And many people think he simply be Tourist Association replaced But today, organizers are expecting cher Challenge and and past president can’t city to decide who'll fill the cowboy boots of Fraser, who died this spring ning “We're going to be making a very, in Quesnel; Severns, 50, a lumber grader with Flet tourist operator from 100 Mile Houe Highways Minister Neil Vant holds one of the two Cariboo seats. He said the Socteds won't have a problem win “If we work hard.” We have a tendency to have a cer Lyle tain amount of apathy in byelections because not everything is at stake and people aren't keenly interested.”” Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s gover nment has lost every byelection it has called. It lost’ in Similkameen, Hans Dankel, a of the Cariboo Okanagan another Socred stronghold. It lost in Vancouver-Point Grey, a swing riding. It lost in Alberni, a New Democrat stronghold on Van: couver Island very important decision (today),’* Williams Lake real-estate agent Roy Croisina said. “*It would certainly split the party very badly if we get the wrong guy and then he loses the byelection.”” A date for the byelection hasn't been set. The Cariboo has been a safe Socred riding for 37 years, but there is a question whether it will remain one WOLFVILLE, Clifford “This is going to be a very important byelection for both parties,” said Quesnel Mayor Mike Pearce, a 42 year-old lawyer who is one of four deélared candidates. past four ydars. N.S. (CP) Olson, € notorious serial killer, taking ¢orrespondenc the Acadia Divinity College for the Andrew MacRae, principal of said the Serial killer studies Bible most of this decade in a segregation unit at the penitentiary in Kingston, Ont MacRae acknowledged it is unusual for someone with a record like Olson’s to study theology, but college offer a spent anada’s has been courses at most does will be here with all their talent, all their ability and all their money . . . If this gets flubbed, it will cause some problems for the premier going into the October (Socred) convention,” Pearce said demonstrate a turnaround from the last byelections.”’ the college affiliated with Acadia University, confirmed that Olson has completed three or four cour sesin New Testament studies Olson was convicted of first degree murder after paid $100,000 in 1981 to lead RCMP to the bodies of 11 children missing in the Vancouver area. He was sen: tenced to life in prison and has “Both parties (Socred and NDP) being But if we're successful, it will Other candidates include Joe Wark, diplomat in prison ministry MacRae did not know who was paying Olson's tuition, but a Nova Scotia radio station reported that Corrections Canada is picking up the tab While the past cannot be un done, MacRae said he hopes the college can contribute something internally to Olson’s well-being