aa__ Castlégar News October 13, 1985 iii : ANNOUNCEMENT Daniel B. Voykin REGISTERED MASSAGE! -PRACTI ) haa Is now accepting patients at No. 8-306 11th Ave. Castlegar BY APPOINTMENT CALL 365-2700 RG CALL 365-2747 (after hours) ber of the A of and Massage Practitioners. of B.C. ‘copy Covered under Medical Plan when referred by D: Ministry of Transportationand Highways - KOOTENAY LAKE FERRY SCHEDULE The followin: Kootenay Lake Ferries commending Tuesday; October 15, 1985 up to and including Friday, May 16, 1986. Piease note, this schedule will run on Pacific Daylight Savings Time up until Sunday, October 27, 1985 when it changes back to Pac Standard Time, staying on P.S.T. up until Sun- day, April 27, 1986 when it changes back once _ again to Pacific Daylight Savings Time. LEAVES KOOTENAY BAY LEAVES BALFOUR “VESSEL 200 p.m. 12:00 midnight —_M.V. Anscomb G.J. Sutherland, P. Eng. District Highway. Manager Ministry of Transportation and Highways Nelson Highway District schedule will be-effective-on the ~ SYNOPSIS: A Pacific he Storms will move through the interior carly skies and some rain. freezing level at 1.500, me rake, a mixture of cloud and sun will rs, the precipitation will be in s tor he outlook for this aor soiving overcast ve af With the {Beton ot ence ot 5 higher ‘cloudy weather with some Raphael [=I fel (2) Ee) Konkin services held Polly Konkin of Raspberry Lodge passed away in Grand Forks Thursday, Oct. 10 at the age of 80. = Funeral service was held Friday and Saturday at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel with burial in the Krestova Cemetery. Mrs. Konkin was born in Pelley, Sask. on July 22, 1905. She moved to Glade in 1906 with her father and brother and then the family moved to Brandon, Man. Readers Please Note: Because of the holiday on Monday, most of the following businesses will be closed this Monday. Please phone first to learn if the business is open Example: Pharmasave will be closed. strip of 5 Bectie Express Tickets for thie Wednesday Te Uppeurs; yours your FREE tickets.drop into the Costlegar News office tomorrow or ta.claim. Find yo: wr name below. ne 345:726h ———— They moved.to Alberta for a short time returning to B.C. in 1937. She married Pete Kabatoff at Pincher Creek and they lived at Blairmore until ill- ness forced her husband into the hospital in Calgary. In 1980 she returned to Raspberry Lodge and moved to the extended care of Kinakin passes away Millie Kinakin of Grand Forks died Oct. 8 at age 74. Born in Langham, Sask. on May 21, 1911, Mrs. Kinakin grew up in Saskatchewan and received her education there. She married Nick Kinakin in 1928 and shortly after they moved to Slocan Park. In 1975, the couple moved to — Castlegar. Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks this year. She enjoyed handicrafts, crocheting, and gardening. She is survived by her husband Pete in Calgary; ‘step-sons Pete, George and Jack Kabatoff of Calgary; step-daughter, Mabel Maloff of Calgary; five grandchil- dren; two brothers John November 1977, Mrs. Kin- akin stayed in Castlegar until about three years ago, at which time she moved to Grand Forks. Mrs. Kinakin was a mem- ber of the Grand Forks USCC. . She is suxvived by sons Peter of Slocan Park and Paul of Castlegar; daughter d- Shutdown planned By CasNews Staff Fish said no date has been Cominco is shutting down set for the shutdown, which its Trail operations for one will include a complete shut- month during the summer of down of the metallurgical 1986. operations and the Warfield The conipany’s Vancouver. _chemical and fertilizer oper- office. made the “announce- ations. ment in.a news release this. Employees’ week. *, tions will be scheduled for In an interview Thursday, the shutdown period and no Richard Fish, spokesman for layoffs are eee Fish Cominco in Trail, a said. worldwide surplus of zinc is Cominco will annqunce the causing a poor market for the date of the shutdown “when metal, making the shutdown available,” the news release necessary. says. “The price (of zinc) went “In conjunction’ with this down 3% cents Per pound fi in - reduction, production of zine may id I at the nee ex- Sailer Mine at Kimberley will be curtailed by 17 per Cominco has already re- cent.” duced its production’ of re‘ Ina separate release, Pine fined zinc at Trail by 15,000 Point Mines Ltd. of Yellow- tons for the period from July knife announced it is cutting 1 to Dec. 31, 1985, the news back production of zine con- release says. centrate in 1986 by 93,000 “This latest curtailment tons and lead concentrate by will result in a refined zine 29,000 tons. reducation of 25,000 tons and “This curtailment repre- a refined-lead reduction of sents a cutback of 30 per cent 7,000 tons in 1986,” the re- from planned production lev- lease says. els and reflects the current reduced demand and lower world prices for zine and the associated reduction in de- mand for zine concentrate by Cominco Ltd., the corpor- ation’s major customer,” the release says. ae Konkin of Castlegar, Pete Konkin of Penticton; sister Mabel Yofonoff of New Den- regular vaca-- Another company reducing _zine and lead production is the Polaris Mine, which—is—-——~ cutting zinc concentrate pro- duction ‘by 25,000 tons and, , lead, concentrate by -4,000 tons between -now,.and the next shipping season, - ; -Meanwhile, Noranda Inc.,» one of Canada’s largest base metals producers, has cutvits zinc production at seven mines and its processing re- finery in Valleyfield, Que. Noranda said Friday it is cutting production at its zinc refinery in Valleyfield, Que. and mine production as by 10 per cent in the second half of 98S. : The cut will reduce zinc production at the.Quebec re- finery to 217,000 tonnes from its full capacity of 230,000 tonnes. The company’s seven mines will reduce ore produc- tion to 715,000 tonnes from about 800,000 tonnes last ear. Davies said the production cuts are needed because zinc purchases by China, which have kept the company oper- ating ‘‘flat-out’? for the last’ three years, have slackened in recent months. Zinc is used in galvanizing steel, producing: brass, pro- ducing diecast auto parts and curing rubber. ver; and many nieces and nephews. She was prede- ceased by one son, Alex in 1959. Court mews Funeral arr : were under the direction of the Castlegar Chapel. Eric Gundersen pleaded Funeral guilty to driving with a blood- S alcohol count over .08 and was fined $400. «ee oo A- seven-day intermittent * jail sentence was handed to Wayne Lapointe after he . pleaded guilty to causing a three great-grandchildren. disturbance. A prayer service was held Thursday and a funeral ser- Dean Paetkau pleaded guilty and was fined $500 for failing to stop and state his name at the request of a police officer. . 28 ¢ Ronald “Weir - pleaded guilty to being a minor in a licensed establishment and was fined $100. Briefly J NO MORE FOOD VICTORIA (CP) — Three employee-run govern- ment cafeterias are closing and patie 15 people out of work after the B.C. Buildings Corp. decided to start - charging rent for the first time in 34 years. ‘The corporation was seeking $10,214 a month rent from the B.C. Government Employees! Cafeteria Mesoatio ‘ zs 5 Pat Hark said the association has a surplus of only about $10,000 a year and cannot afford the rent without cuts in staff and service. The cafeterias, which service about 2,000 civil servants, will be closed Oct. 24. The 15 workers, members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, will lose their jobs. MORE AIRPORT.RCMP OTTAWA (CP) — More RCMP will be added to Canada's international airports as part of ongoing efforts to increase security following the Air-India crash and Tokyo airport bombing earlier this year, says Transport Minister Don Mazankowski. “We're living in a new era,” an interview. Mazankowski said in “When you look at international airports, they are literally world crossroads and many old scores and new scores can be settled at these airports.” __ Mazankowski said a full review of airport security by a federal loeakosiee committee has been completed. PQ GAINING QUEBEC (CP) — Pierre Mare Johnson has narrowed the gap between the Parti Quebecois and Liberals since entering and eventually winning the PQ leadership race, but the PQ still trails the opposition by about 12 percentage points, a public opinion survey published Saturday suggests. By ining the asked in a provi! ide telephone survey Oct. 4, lished the gap b the two parties at 12.5 points, the Quebec City daily Le Soleil and radio station CHRC reported. Asked which party they would support, 51 per cent of the 1,200 voters surveyed chose the Liberals, compared with 36 per cent for the PQ. Eight per cent said they would support the fledgling ‘provincial to two “vice was held Friday, both at the USCC Centre in Grand Forks. Burial took place at the USCC cemetery in. Grand Forks. i Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Schools to get board meetings By CasNews Staff _. Castlegar. .school, board's education. committes..is. recommending that the board hold three of its regular meetings in district schools during the 1985-1986 school year. continued from front provincial government 365-2912 365-7145 365-2955 (CASTLE TIRE (1977) LTD. 1050 Columbia Ave. Cottiecird Plore FLOWER SHOPS 365-3717 365-7787 TULIPS FLORAL CO. 12S ath Ave 365-5191 HEALTH FOOD MOTHER MATURES PANTRY jowntown Car 365-2155 365-3666 ta! Columbo 365-3311 365-7750 BAKERY PLAZA BAKERY Costleoied Ploso PRINTING CASTLEGAR NEWS. ? Columbia Ave. 365-5944 Ket 623 Columbia Ave, MM. DeRosa, 35 King $1 PLUMBING 365-2175 365-7252 365-6141 é RESTAURANTS EASTGATE GARDENS 32 Columbia Ave sports TuDoR sroRts 1010 - ath Se 365-7941 365-3255 365-7782 WICKER & GIFTS nots sounaut hate Bate Poy n Tok woo. WOOL WAGON Cottleowd Piero 365-7813. poge erate about _ $30,000, __between $60,000 and ‘The municipal costs will be shared by Castlegar, and Areas I and J. a its meeting this week, the committee decided to _two zones. the "wa ‘Schoots-t from Kinnaird Elementary and Stanley "Humphries Secondary it those schools. ‘Conservatives; four-pe one per cent other parties. _ SOLUTION SOUGHT “~ JOHANNESBURG (AP) “— White opposition politicians seeking a solution to South Africa's racial conflict met in neighboring Zambia on Saturday with lead {th d_African..National.C. _SIRACUSA, SICILY_(AP) — hostage on the Achille Lauro cruise liner stopped in Sicily on their way home and singled out their four former captors in a “lineup,” officials and relatives said Americans who were held_ said U.S. Embassy. sources in Rome, who'spoke on condition they not be identified. The former hostages viewed four groups, The hijatkers, who are being held at a fortress-like prison in Siracusa for trial in Italy, told i they ining one hijacker, the sources said-- PICKS OUT CAPTORS K took-over the Italian cruise ship: Monday only after a waiter discovered them feamennd thet weapons, the ANSA news agency reported. Quoting Italian the the report said F teaeee to mountan attack in Ashdod, Israel, the shop's next port of. call after Port Said, Egypt. — Francesco Meloni, chief prosecutor of Genoa, Italy, confirmed reports that “about 10” Americans from the luxury liner had been brought to Sicily to help investigators identify the hijackers, who face charges of murder in the death of a passenger from New York City..The former hostages were on their way from Egypt.to the United States. The Americans were able to identify the hijackers “immediately and singled them out” from others in groups that included sailors and other people from a local navy base, FIRE TIPS . . . Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann (left) and firefighter Lindsay Anderson show seniors at Rota Villa complex proper way to use fire extinguisher. . were on the’ hijacked 5! said his mother told him that several former h luding Marilyn Klingh: : , : cuvber 2.1905 CastlégarNews 4s Americans point out hijackers ‘The-U.S._ military action acres pears eereares from each one accused the United States of See ; at home of-collusion. with the Americans, said the incident has strained U.S.-Egyptian th MéSkin, the son of a Union, N.J., couple who relations and called the U.S. interception “unheard of under any international law or code.” whose husband was reported killed by the hijackers — picked out their former captors in “some sort of lineup.” Meskin, who lives in Short Hills, N.J., said he talked to his mother by telephone after the Sicily stopover. The Americans arrived at Newark said the U.S; mission had nothing to'do with his country’s detention of the Achille Lauro at northern Egypt's Port Said harbor, He said the ship will leave once an investigation ends. One of the PLO members was identified byPalestine officials in Tunisia_as Mohammed Airport in New Jersey about 1 p.m. Saturday aboard a Abbas, a pa of the PLO executive committee. The state-run RAI television later reported that Abbas was believed to have left Saturday on a Hight, te to Yugoslavia. said special U.S. military charter. U.S. Embassy sources said it remains unclear whether the Americans will have to return to Italy and noted that Italians who were held hostage could identifications. * The U.S. Justice Di Abbas, charging him with also make earlier Saturday that it had issued an acfeat warrant for Piracy, hostage-taking and The hijackers were taken Saturday morning to the conspiracy to commit both crimes. SMITH CLAIMS BELUSHI DEATH ‘ALL_ MY FAULT’ maximum security prison in Siracusa, an ancient Greek colony that once rivalled Athens, just south of the Sigonella air base where the Egyptian jet they were aboard was forced by U.S. warplanes to land Friday morning. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former singer Cathy Evelyn Smith of Toronto told-a-free- lance writer in a tape-record- ed interview that it was her fault that comedian John Bel- ushi drug binge. “They're probably right," Smith, 38, was heard to say on the tape, which ‘was played Friday in a prelimin- ary hearing into charges against her of murdering Bel- ushi. ‘‘It’s all my fault."* “Every time he did any- . thing, it was when I was around," she said on the tape. ‘‘I did it for him."” During the last 24 hours of his life, Belushi took- drugs **maybe 20 times . . . it never stopped,’’ she said. But when she left him for the final time, ‘*he was fine.’” “It wasn’t an overdose as far as I know,"’ she added. Smith is charged with mur- died after. a. five-day’ The judge admitted the tape into evidence Friday, but said Smith's defence law- yer, Howard Weitzman, could argue against its ad- mission when the hearing re- sumes Nov. 12. In the May 23, 1982, re- cording of a telephone con- versation between Smith jin Toronto and Van Ness in Los Angeles, Van Ness. asked “how much dope” Belushi consumed. ‘‘He probably had - about four grams of coke," Smith answered. Van Ness, who had known Smith for about four years before Belushi’s death, told her he was trying to help her, had talked to her lawyer and would work with the lawyer to clear her name. “Talk to me like I was Robert,”’ he urged her, re- ferring to her lawyer, Robert Sheahan. dering Belushi on March 5, 1982, by injecting him with | fatal ‘‘speedballs” of heroin and cocaine. “Were you shooting him Demonstration'was part of fire prevention week. — CosNews Photo up?” Ch Van Ness asked on the tape. “‘Is that what was happening?” **Yeah,*!-Smith “Tm trusting you with my ~ life,"". she told Van Ness. “You're in good hands, be- lieve me,"’ he countered. Van Ness had tried to with- hold the’ tape under Cali- fornia’s shield law, but Superior Court Judge Robert ich. culed_.he..was.ineligi. HE ested. | black guerrilla group. President P.W. Botha, who condemned a similar meeting last month by shree. prominent white had no 's session between four legislators of the 1 Progressive Federal party and four ANC leaders. © fare would only apply to will_pick_ up $80,000 and says. “—=—=lege-student- Se Slee pound ast E bus ‘ for travel across the (Kinnaird) bridge,” he _-10_cents from Castlegar and 56 cents! from Robson.” However, Drolet also suggests fares attend the meetings. $-trip-for-a-col-—— ae Committee member Doreen Smecher argued that the original intention of holding board meetings at district” | schools was-to- give parents-in-outlying-areas-a_chance_to Holding-a-meeting at at Stanley. Humphries was unneces- SHIP CRIPPLED WELLINGTON (REUTER) — The Greenpeace environmentalist group's protest flagship, crippled by_ =sary;_she-said-——— + —come-to-the-board- office,” Drolet also at fare system. Adults would pay 55 cents for one zone and $70 for travelling in reduced to 40 cents for one zone and‘55 cents for two”zones. and seniors couki be’ the schools. “If people_can come to a Raney “Humphries, they-can— Smecher_said. However, trustee Kay Johnson said more parents might be encouraged to attend board meetings if they were held in “Parents intimidated by the board office might feel more comfortable in their home schools,” Johnson‘ said. Trustee Gordon Turner added that the board, by SPECIALS Police file holding in the school, “may be making more contact with teachers in those schools.” In other news, the education committee decided it wants more information: about. the Canadian Scholarship Trust Found: to the board that it An overnight fire Oct. 8 in Upper Bonnington destroyed the home of Jim Riches, Crescent Valley RCMP re- port. No one was home at the time of the fire and there were no injuries. FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday THIS WEEK Cause of the fire is un- known and damage is esti- mated ‘at $70,000, an RCMP spokesman said. The police investigation is continuing. Castlegar RCMP have two juveniles in custody in con- nection with a break-in at the Labatts warehouse on For- befor distribute the ioaadaucus literature to Schools in the district. The ‘ization which allows parents to save for their child's potascondary education by putting money into tax savings plans. The foundation is approved by. B.C.’s MMiatstey: of Education. ‘The Ministry of P y and Services has awarded the Calon school I distriet a grant of up to $3,000 to assist arts programming in area schools. The rest Road early morning. RCMP discovered the _break-in.“in progress”: said.a_. police spokesman. was made in a letter to the board from provincial secretary Jim Chabot. ‘inally, director of instruction Lach Farrell told the school year. committee he_is_pleased_with the smooth start of the new... EIT