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a2 Castlegar News September 24, 1989

Fre aeoner

. archeologist Wayne Choquette (right, in hardhat) confers
with workers at the site of the road construction near Vallican. The Ministry of

ig as auth
are found during construction of the road which runs past an ancient Ini

y to stop the work if indian artifacts or remains

n burial ground.

Vallican

continued from front page

Choquette, who lives and works in
the Kootenays, has been hired by the
Ministry of Highways through the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs to be on
site during all work on the road
Ministry of-Highways~ officials say
Choquette has been given the power to
stop work at any time if artifacts are
uncovered

About 12 bones have been gathered
from the road route and a number of
objects have been discovered that have
been left where they were found, Fry
said she told a ministry official before
work began Friday. A ‘‘keeper’’ of the
artifacts, who is the only band member

Chapman

continued from front poge
mation from someone else’s memory,
he says

“Hove to hear stories, obscure bits
of history, and research them and find
outthey’re fact."

As if to prove his point, Chapman
halts the interview frequently to search
bookcases and stacks of manuscripts
and books for snippets of information.

Perhaps Chapman’s fascination
with history and how it has touched
ordinary people comes from his own
brushes with well-known people and
the memorable incidents that have
shaped his life

Chapman says he knew the late B.C
journalism legend Ma Murray for
eight years when he lived in Fort St
John and has met writer Paul St
Pierre.

He says he regrets being too shy to
speak to a young Emily Carr when he
lived in Victoria in the 1940s but
remembers her trading her drawings
for groceries at a local store

The pictures were kept rolled up
behind the counter and sold for about
$0cents each, he remembers

Writer Paul Ryga, who died about a
year and a half ago, was a special
friend, whom Chapman calls a ‘*gentle
genius,” and helped Chapman edit his
novel

Chapman says it was at Ryga’s
Summerland home that he got his first
taste of life with professional writers
and actors.

Chapman, who lived in Castlegar
and worked for B.C. Tel here for 22

Report

VANCOUVER (CP) — Little could
have been done by B.C. officials to
prevent the 1987 collapse of the Prin
cipal Group of companies, says the
regulator identified as the first to

who knows where each object is on the
road route, was not present Friday, she
added

Fry said during a press conference
Wednesday that the band is upset the
issue of the burial ground, which has
been declared a heritage site by the
provincial government, was not ‘con-
sidered in the court decision allowing
the ministry to proceed with the road
work

Elements such as the ministry's
timeline for completion of the road
and a bridge were considered instead,
she said

The ministry obtained a partial in-
junction in August allowing the con-
tractor access to the north side of Lit-

tle Slocan River where a bridge to con:
nect the new road with Passmore is to
built

However, the injunction did not
allow for work on the road so the
ministry returned to court last week to
obtain complete access to the site

Fry said an appeal of the injunction
was filed by the band’s lawyer, Nor-
man Evans, in the B.C. Court of Ap
peal Friday and is expected to be heard
Monday. The band has also filed aland
claim for a large area of Southern
B.C., including the Vallican site

Evans was slated to arrive in
Vallican Saturday to discuss the
proceedings with band members an-
delders.

years before retiring, also discovered
the erratic and eccentric lifestyle many
writers and actors live because of their
professions

Ryga’s house was always full of
people coming and going at all hours
and long conversationswere_begun
and sustained on almost any subject

“They could talk for hours on end
and with such incredible clarity — that
was so exciting for me,’’ Chapman
says.

Chapman also finds writing itself
exciting, especially the way his career
has been shaping up over the past few
years.

He began writing poetry in his 20s,
he says, but didn’t take his work
seriously enough to even keep what he
wrote until the middle 1970s when a
poet from San Francisco who was
visiting the Kootenays to do a reading
in Nelson read one of-his pieces and
said it was “‘not great but not bad.””

On the poet's advice, Chapman
submitted his poem to the Castlegar
News and having it published was one
of aseries of memorable first experien.
ces for the author

From then on he began writing
seriously, Chapman says

His work paid off when his first
short story was published

Chapman's life in Castlegar has
yielded many experiences most people
would consider worth writing about
but the author doesn’t see as worth
promoting

For instance, he has run the only of
ficial Frog Jumping Championship in

Canada for the past 17 years but he
doesn’t want to be noted for that
achievement

““rjusrdo that for the kids,”” he says,
adding that he would prefer to be
recognized for his work with the
Canadian- National Institute for-the
Blind through the Lions Club

If Chapman's life experiences are
noteworthy his writing style is just as
personal and different

He can write an entire short story in
his head in a few hours or a day or two,
he says, and then sit down and put the
whole thing on paper at once

But don’t expect to find a word
processor or a personal computer in
Chapman's study. He writes all his
stories in longhand, on thick pads of
yellow paper, and then his wife, Ada,
types them out for him

He writes in large script and usually
puts no more than eight or 10 lines on
a page to make the job easier for her
But she still **cries because she can’t
read my writing," he says

Horseman was 3,000 pages long
when he first wrote it and it took eight
months to finish, Chapman says.

Chapman like most writers also has
his own methods for working, in
cluding having his surroundings com-
pletely quiet
dreams.”

Chapman will
preparing a set of short stories that
may be published as a collection

For now, he is occupied with his
novel, which was to have its official
“‘launch"’ in Edmonton today

so I can get lost in my

spend the winter

attacks officials

B.C. role in the 1987 Principal Group
collapse slammed B.C. regulators for
not taking firm action with respect to
Associated Investors of Canada and

First Investors Corp., Edmonton

based companies that sold investment

contracts to B.C. investors

Government stops
GO BC allotments

By CasNews Staff
and News Services
VANCOUVER (CP) — Disbur-
sements of the proviticial gover-
nment’s $262-million Growth and Op-
portunities grants program have been
frozen, says Social Services and
Housing Minister Claude Richmpnd.
Richmond was appointed by
Premier Bill Vander Zalm to in-
vestigate the fund, called GO BC, after
money from it ended up in the hands of
a comany owned by former tourism
minister Bill Reid’s campaign manager
anda friend.

Reid resigned from cabinet Wed-
nesday following a report revealing
$277,065 from the fund was directed to
Eco-Clean Waste Systems Ltd.

“have decided that until we get to
the bottom of everything and satisfy
ourselves: that’ things are running
properly, which they will be, that we
will just put a moratorium on
everything,’’ Richmond told reporters
Thursday in Penticton.

All disbursements of the controver
sial fund are halted until he completes
the investigation, he said.

The moratorium on disbursement of
GO BC funds isn’t likely to affect con-
struction of the new Aquatic Centre in
Castlegar, the first ‘project in the
province to receive money from the
fund, Castlegar and district recreation
director Pat Metge said Friday

“1 can’t see how that (the
moratorium) will pose a problem,”
Metge told the Castlegar News.

RETURNS FROM TRIP

Reid mum ond

VANCOUVER (CP) — Former
cabinet minister Bill Reid refused to
answer questions Friday about his
resignation when he arrived at, Van-
couver International Airport from
Hungary

Reid resigned as tourism minister
and provincial secretary Wednesday,
hours after a published report that
$277,065 from a fund he administered
ended up going to a company owned
by Reid’s campaign manager and a
longtime family friend.

“1 have no comment. I'll talk to
you tomorrow,” Reid told reporters.

Vander Zalm said Friday he would
not rule out the possibility of a police
investigation into how the Growth and
Opportunities grants program. funds
went to Eco-Clean Waste Systems
Ltd., owned by Reid’s campaign
manager George Doonan and lontime
friend Bill Sullivan.

**Nothing is ruled out,’’ the premier
said, adding he wants to hear Reid’s
side of the story first.

**Common justice (and) fairness

BILL REID
+++ 'no comment’

He. said the Castlegar and District
Projects Society has just received the
second of three installments of the
$700,000 grant and the next payment
isn’t due until completion of the
Aquatic Centre sometime in Decem-
ber.

Richmond, who assumed Reid's
portfolio as tourism minister, and
provincial secretary, said he will make
public this week his plans for the in-
vestigation.

Asked if he would call for an in-
vestigation by Attorney-General Bud
Smith, as demanded by the New
Democratic and Liberal parties,
Richmond refused to comment. His
investigation should be complete
within amonth, he said

ecisi

would only have it that (Reid) be able
to speak his piece,” said Vander Zalm,
responding to a report that Reid had
denied any wrongdoing over his han-
dling of the grant money and would
welcome an investigation

Reid resigned hours before the
Social Credit party lost a byelection to
the NDP in its former stronghold of
Cariboo, which had voted Socred since
1952. \

Social Services Minister Claude
Richmond, appointed by Vander Zalm
to investigate the grant to Eco-Clean,
has frozen disbursements from the
$262-million Growth and Oppor-
tunities program.

Richmond has taken over Reid's
portfolio.

The Vancouver Sun reported that
Reid promised money to the city of
White Rock for a recycling program,
but the money was subsequently
diverted to the non-profit Semiahmoo
House Society. The society then han-
ded the money to Eco-Clean for
recycling equipment at prices totalling
the amount of the grant

Municipalities plan.to
push for legislation

PENCICTON (CP)-— The Union
of _B.C._Municipalities—will_keep
pushing for legislation to deal with
property tax reform and waste
management during the next year, says
the organization’s new president.

“The key issue will be the implemen-
tation of the property tax reform that
we started," Len Traboulay said
Friday at the end of the union’s annual
week-long convention.

“We're hoping to have legislation in
place so we do not see these major shif-
tsin property taxes and assessments.”

Traboulay, whose round face is
framed by silver hair, is a tall dark man
who wears dapper suits accented by
smart ties. In his pocket, the Port
Coquitlam mayor carries an NDP
membership card.

But he doesn’t see this as a problem
even though, as union president, he'll

Court dat

An appearance by Westar Timber
Ltd. officials in Castlegar provincial
court was postponed for the second
time Tuesday due to a file mix up. As
well, Westar’s lawyer, John Carpen:
ter, said he is still waiting for infor-
mation on the case from Crown coun-
sel.

The case has been set over until Oct.
17 for Westar officials to enter a plea
on four charges being brought against
the company under the Waste
Management Act

Driver
stable

have to work closely with the Social
Credit government.

“Whether I’m NDP or Liberal or
Communist, the fact is I've been
chosen by my peers to represent
them,” he said:

“It wouldn’t be a factor for me. It
may be a factor for the people I'm
dealing with, but I’m hoping that will
not interfer.’’

The organization's second priority
will be working with both Environ-
ment Minister Bruce Strachan and
Municipal Affairs Minister Rita John-
ston on solid waste management ‘‘and
the very tricky business of biomedical
wastes,’’ Traboulay said.

“Most of the major hospitals in the
Vancouver area are shipping their
body parts and pathological waste to
Bellingham (Wash.) but we're being
cut off at the end of the year,"’ he said.

e delayed

Westar is charged with three counts
of failing to comply with a permit
issued by the Waste Management
Branch of the provincial Ministry of
Environment and one charge of
refusing a waste management order
The charges involve burning waste
wood that waste management officials
deemed suitable for use by the Celgar
Pulp Co. mill, regional waste manager
in Nelson Jim McLaren said in August-
Each charge carries a maximum
penalty of $50,000 although any fines
would be determined by the judge

“We have some serious negotiations to
geton with."*

Johnston a former Surrey alderman,
said she expects legislation to accom-
modate the demands~ of the
municipalities, particutarty~on~the
waste management issue

“tIt’s. certainly a priority of the
government,” she said. ‘If the (en-
vironment) minister has determined
there are some areas that require
legislation, he'll be bringing them for-
ward.”"

There had been concerns expressed
at the convention that promises of ex-
tra funding for recycling would be
useless unless the government helped
find markets for recycled goods.

Lottery numbers

September 24, 1989

Briefly

Following are the winning numbers

from Wednesday lotteries
OTTO 6/49 — 1, 13,21, 31, 36and

48. The bonus number was 26

There was no winner of the jackpot
prize of $1,855,278.30.

EXTRA — 11, 14,87 and 93

B.C. KENO — 5, 11 15, 19, 23,
30 and 34.

The following winning numbers
were drawn in Thursday’ s lottery

B.C. KENO — 9, 20, 21, 22, 28, 31,
4tand44

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be considered
unofficial.

Japanese to help natives

VANCOUVER (CP) — On the anniversary of their historic redress
settlement for those interned during the Second World War, Japanese-
Canadian leaders pledged Briday to lend 4 hand to native Indians with
their grievances

The commitment was unveiled at a ceremony hosted by Japanese-
Canadian leaders, who invited native war veterans to attend.

Japanese immigrants and native Indians have both been victimized
by the same discriminatory legislation, said Ron George, president of the
United Native Nations.

Group wants spending cuts

VANCOUVER (CP) — A group calling itself SLOG (Spend Less Or
Go — is lobbying Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Finance Minister
Michael Wilson to cut federal spending by 10 per cent

The group is circulating a petition demanding the federal gover
ment cut its over-all spending by 10 per cent of the total budget. The
group wants a minimum of a five-per-cent reduction in every department
except health, seniors and welfare

In a release Friday, SLOG says the government should follow the
example set by businesses since 1982

“To survive, they became more efficient and less sloppy,”’ it says.

Beer drinkers risk cancer

LONDON (Reuter) — Daily beer drinkers are 12 times more at risk
of developing cancer of the colon than non-drinkers, a British medical
journal said Friday, quoting Japanese researchers.

The Lancet said researchers at the Institute of Preventive Oncology
in Tokyo found a striking association between alcohol and cancer of the
sigmoid colon, part of the large intestine.

A 17-year study found that people who regularly drank alcohol were
four times more at risk than tectotallers. But daily beer drinkers were 12
times more likely to develop cancer of the colon than were non-drinkers.

Ministers to discuss new tax

TORONTO (CP)
meet next month to discuss the economic impact of the proposed federal
goods and services tax, a Toronto newspaper has reported

The ministerial meeting stems from the annual premiers’ get-
together in Quebec City last month, the Toronto Globe and Mail said ina
story from Ottawa

At that time, the premiers asked their finance ministers to ‘‘in.
vestigate the impact’’ of the proposed tax on their economies and to
report back before the first ministers’ conference on the economy in
November

The premiers of all the provinces have attacked the GST as
ceptable.”

Provincial finance ministers are expected to

‘unac-

Ontario faces fading Hugo

TORONTO (CP) — Hurricane Hugo's last gasp sputtered over
southern Ontario Friday night, rakings much of the region with heavy rain
and strong winds before moving east

The weakening storm had been downgraded from hurricane status
after leaving a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the United
States this week

Hugo left at least 36 people dead, thousands injured and more than
50,000 people homeless.

Dealer lured near White House

WASHINGTON (AP) A drug dealer was lured into selling crack
near the White House so that President George Bush could display the
drug during a televised speech earlier this month, officials say

But Bush said Friday the circumstances don’t matter

“The man went there and sold drugs in front of the White House,
didn’t he?”’ the president told reporters after he toured a tree farm in
Wells, Me.

“*That's the bottom line
for this fellow.””

Bush’s press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, and the Drug Enforcement
Administration admit that the drug dealer was manoeuvred into making
the sale in a park across from the White House, rather than a few blocks
further away

That’s what the man did. I can’t feel sorry

Two confess to assasination

BOGOTA (CP) — A Colombian army general said two men in
custody have confessed to assassinating presidential candidate Luis
Carlos Galan, a killing that resulted in the government's declaration of
war on drug traffickers, newspapers reported

The reports quoted Gen. Ramon Niebles as saying the army now
knows who hired the two gunmen, but the newspapers said he did not say
who ordered the killing or whether it was drug traffickers

Senator Galan, who was seeking the Liberal party's nomination for
March’s presidential election, was killed Aug. 18 in a hail of machine-gun
fire at a rally in Bogota. President Virgilio Barco blamed drug traffickers
and declared an all-out war on them

More arrests in South Africa

PRETORIA (AP) — Police blocked entrances to the South African
capital Saturday and strung barbed wire down a main street to stop an
unauthorized march by anti-apartheid women’s groups. Organizers said
about 200 people were arrested

Police also used batons to clear black bystanders from Pretoria’s cen.
tral square after scuffles broke out when right-wing whites in swastika:
marked khaki uniforms began hustling blacks away from the site of an
approved pro-apartheid rally. One white right-winger and several blacks

New bill >
on acid
rain

WASHINGTON (CP) Leading
American-senators-plan-to introduce
acid rain legislation next week that
might make it easier for the United
States to meet Ottawa's demands for a
50-per-cent cut in pollution that flows
into Canada.

Maine Senator George Mitchell and
Montana’s Max Baucus announced
Friday they will introduce a bill that
they say will strengthen the clean air
plan Presidept George Bush sent
Congress this spring.

Both the Bush bill and the Senate
proposal will reduce sulphur dioxide,
the major component of acid rain, by
10 million tonnes a year and put a cap
on emissions after the reductions are
achieved.

But unlike the administration plan,
the Senate version targets only the 20
heaviest-polluting plants to
make the bulk of the acid rain cuts by
the mid 1990s,

These plants — 16 of which aré from
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
West Virginia and Missouri
long been blamed by environmentalists
for producing half the
kills lakes, rivers and trees in Eastern
Canada

Under the Bush plan, the ad
ministration proposed to reach the 10.
million-tonne annual reduction by
requiring smaller cuts from 106 plants
across the country. Pollution from
these plants, many in\the south and
southwest, had little impact on
Canada

Michael Perley, a Canadian acid
rain lobbyist, said the Senate
legislation appears at first glance to
benefit Canada more than the Bush
plan

“The more cuts you get from the
large plants in the Midwest the better
it is for Canada,"’ said Perley,
spokesman for the Canadian Coalition
on Acid Rain

CUTS PROPOSED

“What we're trying to do here\is to
identify and sharply reduce emissions
from the very largest emitters,"’ said
Mitchell, the Senate majority leader
and longtime supporter of acid rain
controls.

While the Senate proposal adopts
many of the Bush clean air measures, it
also includes changes that should en:
sure Senate support
states, who had balked at measures in
the Bush plan they considered unfair to
their region

The bill also appears to make it
easier-for the tinited-States1o-meet
the Canadian government's demands
for an acid rain accord that cuts in half
the U.S. pollution that flows into
Canada from coal-fired utilities in the
industrial Midwest.

The-bill- proposed—by-Baueus-and
Mitchell, both Democrats, will likely
form the foundation of future Senate
negotiations with the White House and
the House of Representatives on @
compromise acid rain bill that will be
accepted by Bush and passed into law
by Congress next year

Bush has promised Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney he will begin
negotiations on an acid rain accord
Canada has long sought to ensure the
U.S. lives up to its promises to curb
acid rain pollution.

However, serious negotiations bet
ween the two countries will begin only
when Congress, the legislative arm of
the U.S. government, has dealt with
the issue.

power

have

cid rain that

from Western

Release due for

SEATTLE (AP) f
suspect’’ in the Green River
murders is due for release from prison
by Monday, but investigators say they
need more time to determine whether
they can file charges against him

‘viable

serial

William Jay Stevens Il, 38, is
scheduled to leave King County Jail
when he completes a 1981 sentence for
escape.

He then will be transfered to
Spokane, Wash. County Jail to face
federal charges in Eastern Washington
of possessing a
fugitive

“We are not done, we're still
working on it,”’ Capt. Robert Evans,
the task force commander, said of the
investigation that has kept 12. in

firearm while a

to visit the library.

Special to the C
Martha Penman loves good mystery books
she knows just where to find them
District Public Library
There's. just one

‘astlegar News:

problem the
often as she would like.

bringing the mountain to Mohammed,

with heran armful of boc

UNITED WAY
FEATURE

“I enjoy reading.

table. Asked what books she likes best, the lively Pen:
man doesn’t hesitate.

**Mysteries,"*
Catholic taste.””

makitfg use of the service for shut-in.
“We're always willing to do more,”
mouth. **All we need is a phone call and a staff member
or volunteer will deliver."
While Penman loves mysteries, her reading isn’t
restricted to “Whodunnits.”
authors like Daniette Steet, atong with a host of others,

says Wear

Normally, her reading would be restricted because her
failing eyesight limits her to large print books. But Pen
man is one of three Castlegar library patrons using a
special reading lens.

“It’s exceptional, "* Penman says.

The lens, which allows her to borrow small print
books, cost a hefty $600 and was donated by a local ser
vice club. The library has five lenses, two of which are
available for use at this time
Wear
mouth notes, adding that one woman had a lens for

“We let people have them indefinitely,

seven years
**When she died.
thanks from the family
The Castlegar and District. Public
member of the Castlegar and District United Way. Last

it came back with the grateful
It is agreat service
Library is a

year, the library received a $500 grant from the United

LITERARY HOUSE CALL . . . Castlegar and District Public Library's head librarian,
Judy Wearmouth delivers books to Martha Penman and other reading enthu:

Novel service brought
to public by library

And
the Castlegar and

84-year-old
Castlegar grandmother can’t get around as easily as she
once could.and so doesn’t visit the downtown library as

But the library has a solution. If Mohammed can’t
come to the mountain, then the library believes in
through its
special service for shut-ins. For the last eight years
Castlegar head librarian Judy Wearmouth has made
regular trips to Penman’s Rota Villa home, bringing

among them classics and besisellers, as well as books for
childrens and youths.
foreign-language books, including Russian and Por
tuguese, in addition to large print books which circulate

Penman says as Wearmouth
piles the stackful of books on her living room coffee

she says, adding later, “Il have a

Penman is one of a half dozen or so residents

She also reads bestselling

anxious caller announced that her dog was having pup

sts unable

Way. [he library’s major funding comes from the City
of Castlegar, which this year provided $115,000, The
provincial government donates an $11,000 book grant,
while memberships from regional residents contributes
$4,000.

For that money, area residents are provided with a
host of services. The best known is the library’s book
lending. Last year, the library's circulation jumped
more than 20 per cent when some 94,000 books Were
loaned

The library has a collection of about 38,000 books,

There are also a large number of

in batches from Victoria and Vancouver

The library also provides newspapers from across
the country, including the daily papers from Nelson,
Trail and Vancouver, as well as our own Castlegar
News. Want to leaf through today’s Vancouver Provin-
ces or the Christian Science Monitor? Visit the library

The library also has subscriptions to an assortment
of magazines, among them Time, MacLeans and
Newsweek, along with National Geographic and B.C
Outdoors.

But books, newspapers and magazines are only the
beginning. The library also lends videos on such topics
as furniture refinishing or Interested in
childhood illnesses? Why not take out the video of the
same name? There is also a video for wine lovers called
The Wine Advisor: Understanding Wine for Business
and Social Entertaining, along with a video for new
parents or parents-to-be called Baby Basics.

The library also has a large collection of ‘*Listen-
for-Pleasure’’ books on cassettes, such as Anne Tyler’s
acclaimed novel The Accidental Tourist, along with
Tom Clancy's bestseller The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
Of course, there are several Agatha Christie novels on
tape for mystery fans. Children’s books on tape arealso
available. The Curious George series is popular

Distinct from the-“Listen-for-Pleasure’” tapes,
which are available for general use, is the library's
books for print-handicapped

tennis

collection of audio
residents

And last but not least are the librarians themselves
They provide a valuable reference service, answering
queries both over the counter and over the telephone
Not all the reference questions are of a literary bent
Some have come from worried homemakers wanting to
know how to clean up a spill. Then there was the time an
pies.

Can you look up what we are to do?" she asked

The librarian did

1,800 videotapes, some pornographic
In affidavits seeking search warran- isthe killer
ts, investigators described Stevens as a
“viable suspect” in the case
No char
Stevens in the Green River killings, the

nation’s worst known unsolved serial

s have been filed against
public scapegoat

Authorities
murder case

Forty young women, most of them
linked to prostitution, were killed from
1982 to 1984 in the Seattle and Por
tland, Ore., Another
missing women are

RCMP

RCMP
Inkster

areas eight

MONTREAL
Commissioner

(CP)
Norman

Green River victims

Bob Stevens, the suspect's brother,
threatened to sue

claiming his brother has been made a

have
determine Stevens’ activities after his
1981 escape to 1985, when he enrolled
at Gonzaga and began living with his
parents in Spokane, east of Seattle
Stevens was convicted in t9st int

said his views are irrelevant tothe legal

suspect

Stevens denies he

ment business. He walked away from a
work release facility

Other jurisdictions also may charge
The attention given Stevens
due to the Green River investigation
makes him especially vulnerable for
charges, Craig Beles.
Stevens’ lawyer

‘There is some concern that

the task force, Stevens

been trying to lesser said

perhaps more minor charges are being
used to hold an individual until a larger
investigation —is—compteted;*—Bete>

Seattle of burglarizing a police equip- said

union in

pressed oppesition to the union quest

court

refused comment on decisions taken

before his term as commissioner

In memory

recognize serious financial problems

were arrested

Earl Jewitt, deputy
superintendent of brokes, disagreed
Friday with ombudsman Stephen
Owen's report, which states that
Jewitt’s inaction played a ‘‘pivotal
in the losses suffered by B.C. in

former

role’
vestors

“I disagree,”’ he said. ‘‘I did all that
1 could do in the circumstances. We
were relying on the Alberta
authorities.

“We felt that if the shoe were on the
other foot, we would have looked after
it. We talked to (Alberta regulators)
and as far as we were aware, they were
looking after it.””
176-page into the

Owen's report

Court

News

astlegar provincial court this
week, Paul Sookachoff pleaded guilty
to uttering a threat to cause death or
serious bodily harm and was given a
conditional discharge and 12 months
probation with conditions

Bertrand James Fitchett pleaded
guilty to driving while prohibited, was
fined $300 and will be prohibited from
driving. Fitchett also pleaded guilty to
mischief and was given a conditional

discharge and probation for one mon
th with conditions.
Robin John Russell was fined $400,
given five months probation with con
ditions and prohibited from driving
for driving without due care and atten:
tion
was fined $75 for
driving over a posted speed limit

Abram Wiebe

By CasNews Staff

The driver of a flatbed truck loaded
with lumber was in stable condition in
Castlegar and District Hospital Friday
with undetermined injuries after a
single vehicle accident Friday morning
sent the truck’s cargo into the ditch at
the intersection of Highways 3 and 3A,
Castlegar RCMP said

The accident occurred at ap-
proximately 4:35 a.m., Const. Peter
Redekop said. A crew from Trowelex
Equipment worked late inig Friday
morning to clear the spill

RCMP are investigating the accident

d the driver's name has not been
released, Redekop said

Krestova in 1932. She lived th
worked for the Britannia Commun

many nieces and nephews.
Funeral serv

Krestova Cemetery

Funeral Chapet

Dorothy Maloff

Dorothy Maloff of Vancouver passed away on SEpt. 14 at age 69.
Mrs. Maloff was born Feb. 17, 1920, at Cowley, Alta., and moved to
re until moving to Vancouver in 1962. She
ty Centre until she retired in 1985.

She is survived by one brother,
Mary Demosckoff of Grand Forks and Mabel Demosckoff of Oliver; and

es were held Friday and Saturday with burial in the

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar

Fred of Crescent Valley; two sisters,

Company hits the beach

VERNON (CP) — California’s legendary surfers may soon be
wearing made-in-Canada shorts if an Okanagan Valley company has its
way

Far West Industries Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with a U.S.
sportswear company, a move that will open the door to the entire North
American market, Far West officials said

Far West, which.now produces outdoor clothing, has a deal with the
Washington-state-based Boardheads Jnc. to produce clothes for water
and s surfers. The arrang will let both “cap-
tuye a major share of the exploding litestyle sportswear market,"’ said Far
West president Gordon Robinson

vestigators busy during the nine mon
ths Stevens has been in prison

“We need another 10 days or two
weeks to get through what we are
evaluating The decision would be
to determine whether this person is a
murder suspect or merely a victim of
some bizarre circumstances.""

Stevens, a fourth-year
University law student, was arrested in
Spoaken in January
following a ‘‘Manhunt’’ television
show on the Green River killilngs.

In searches of

Gonzaga

from a tip

residences where
Stevens had lived, authorities seized
dozens of police
uniforms and badges, license plates, a
complete undercover police car and

boxes of items,

testifying Friday at a hearing into an
application by Mounties for the right
to organize a union, studiously
avoided
timent

Quebec RCMP members asked for a
court declaration on their unionization
right in May 1987, after about 15 years
of trying in vain to forma union

expressing anti-union sen

They want Quebec Superior Court
to overturn sections of the Canada
Labor Code and the Public Service
Staff Relations Act that prohibit RC
MP members from forming a union
The Mounties argue that this ban
denies constitutional guarantees of
equal treatment under the law

Inkster,

who has previously ex

battle

“We function without a union, and
we aré prepared to function with a
union” if the law grants officers tha
right, Inkster said during questioning
by James Duggan, counsel for the
petitioners

LAWWILLDECIDET |

Asked whether RCMP management
had opposed unionization in the past,
Inkster “The

irrelevant because it is the law that

said question. is
will decide

Hasn't there been a history in the
ROMP. since 1972 or 1973

unionization?

against

Duggan pressed
Inkster, head of the Royal Canadian

Mounted Police for only two years,

*“Anything I could say would be hear
say

“I put it to you that you yourself
were against unionization on behalf of
the RCMP,”" Duggan said

Inkster replied cooly: ‘That's en
tirely possible.”

Outside the courtroom, union sym
pathizers claimed Staff-Set
Delisle, who has
union drive since 1985, was harassed
by RCMP management who denied

Gaetan
spearheaded the

him special leave in an effort to prevent
him from attending the court hearing

squash me like a
“A lot of mem

because

They could

raisin,’ said one man
bers are not here they're

scared