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(CP) — Cliff Lindbergh has an illegal M-16 automatic rifle in his bakery in this bedroom of V: Paul Paradis keeps a shotgun under the counter in his grocery and jeweller Bob Wraight's 58-kilogram Rottweiler greets customers at the door after Wraight pushes a buzzer to ket them in. Lindbergh says he's been robbed more than a dozen times in the past two years. Paradis was robbed a month ago, while Wraight said his dog, Max, ensures that people who come in the shop are on their best behavior. Last week, the eight members of the Surrey Guardian Angels donned their red berets for the first time and began night patrols of shopping malls and bus transfer points. But until their numbers increase, the Angels will only be on patrol two or three nights a week. Surrey has had a rash of break-ins that began last October. Up until then, it was averaging about 350 break-ins a month. Suddenly there were more than 500. “Why October? We can't figure it out,” said Sgt. Jake Neijer of the Surrey RCMP. “We've tried to figure it out by days but there is no real pattern.” Neijer, who is in charge of community policing for the 219-member detachment, estimates that 70 per cent of the residential break-ins are done by juveniles. He suspects that juveniles account for a similar proportion of business robberies. The trend of increased break-ins continued into January with 559 — 431\of those were residential. In January 1984, there were only 218 residential break-ins. February saw a slight decrease that Neijer said is the result of police efforts to organize residents to be more careful and more vigilant. Throughout the community, businesses are preparing to do battle with punks between 14 and 17 who are terrorizing the neighborhood. Windows are being barred and citizens are banding together in police-sponsored programs to watch their neighbors’ property. Ald. Jerry Huot, who runs a food brokerage firm, says, “It's like Harlem. How can we allow this to happen in Surrey?” Huot said a group of teenagers who roam the area is causing the problem. But, if a merchant kicks them out of his store, the alderman said “They'll terrorize his customers, break his windows, urinate on the walls.” 75815 ww Love still i OTTAWA (CP) — It’s spring and love is in the air. Or is it? How do you know if you've got the makings of a lasting relationship? How do you decide, in country-and- western parlance, when to hold "em and when to fold ‘em? The first Step, says the experts, is awareness — of yourself, or the other person, and of what's going on in the relationship. John Holmes, a social at the University of Waterloo who recently completed a federally-funded research project into trust between couples, said relation- ships pass through a series of filters at different stages. Filters, or criteria for judging the other person, are relatively superficial during the first four to six euphoric months of a relationship, said Holmes. People concern themselves with looks, demeanor and the social skills of their partner because that’s all they have to go on in the early stages. People ‘hide things about themselves they don’t want seen,” said Holmes. ‘People fall in love with the image that's been created. They have hopes, dreams and © fantasies about the other person and they fill in the gaps = of actual knowledge with those.”’ HITS REALITY n the air? in happiness; and these are the couples who are going to make it, because they have to come to grips with the things about their partner that they don’t like.” Communication is the only way a couple can solve the second-stage problems, said Holmes. “Their chance of workin, igh depends on how much self-disclosure they're capable of,” he said. “Where they disagree, they’ve learned how to talk to each other. “Some people are bad at talking at each other, mostly males. Women are better at talking and at decoding what the other person is saying. During the second stage, each partner begins to discover how the other feels about roles in the relationship and about life in general. Attitudes towards careers, handling of money and how each deals with the other's friends all have the potential of bringing the two closer together or driving a wedge between them. Adjusting to a new partner means recognizing what you like and don't like about that person. It’s important to be aware of characteristics that could cause trouble and to realize that love, although powerful, can’t cause changes in personality, said Teresa Antle, a Roman Catholic counsellor who works with TRUCK bear ar The second stage brings the couple down to reality * with a bump. It used to be that successful relationships simply got happier as time went on. . Actually, there's a yy social couples embarking on second marriages. “big downturn in happiness” when the infatuation stage wears off, said Holmes. ‘You start to have to live with a real person,’’ he said. **You have to accommodate to who they really are. % “During this accommodation stage, there's a big dip marriages. that what you see is what you get,”’ said Antle. “‘If a person gets drunk every weekend, you know what you're going to end up with. If they flirt a lot, that’s~ what you're going to have to handle.”’ Holmes’ study looked at 86 couples who had been married anywhere from one to 30 years and who expressed widely varying ranges of happiness with their CHOKED BY COMMERCIALS CBC radiomay By Kirk LaPOINTE The Canadian Press CBC's radio networks, fa ced with budget cuts in the coming year, could soon stray from their no-commercials policy and accept corporate sponsorship of some pro- grams. 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Juneau said the amount raised by sponsorship would “not amount toa great deal of money” for the networks, but acknowledged every little bit counts during austere times at the corporation. The federal government will cut $75 million in CBC funds in the fiseal year go commercial starting April 1. A further $10 million is being cut from an equipment budget. CBC will receive $846.8 million from the government in the coming year, including $45 million for the English radio network and $31.5 million for the French. The radio networks will not have to absorb much of the cut — administration and television are the most af. fected areas — but any reduction impairs their ab ility to maintain or improve programming. CBC would probably have to ask the federal broadcast regulator to amend the lic- ences of its English and French AM and FM _ net works before it could pro- ceed. And the move is likely to encounter strong oppos- ition from private broad casters. “I think there would be some concerns,” said Wayne Stacey, executive vice-pres- ident of the Canadian As sociation of Broadcasters. “Even if it doesn't mean commercials, sponsorships come out of the same pool of money (from advertisers.)” CBC's board of directors, which likely will approve the policy shift at a meeting in the next month, has a few options on how to carry out a new policy. The money raised could go into general reve- nues for the network or be directed specifically at cer tain programs. Sponsors could be accepted on a wide range of network shows or simply for special projects. Those special projects, such as last year’s acclaimed George Orwell: A Radio Biography, are endangered by budget cuts. Margaret Lyons, vice-president of CBC's English radio net works, said last month that specials and live coverage of many events may be reduced “unless some other means of funding can be found.” The CBC board will also soon approve a new fall schedule, which includes what Lyons says are the most dramatic changes in a decade. Among the shows being cut are Variety To. night, Our Native Land and Identities. Morgentaler pushes for Halifax clinic HALIFAX (CP) — Dr. Henry Morgentaler said Tuesday he will ask Premier John Buchanan of Nova Sco- tia for permission to set up an abortion clinic in Halifax to serve the Atlantic provinces Morgentaler told a news conference at Dalhouse Uni versity, where he was to speak tonight, he is aware Buchanan has said he would prosecute if an abortion clinic was set up anywhere in the province. “I intend to write a letter CANADA WORKS GRANT to Mr. Buchanan saying: ‘Look, I intend to establish a clinie here to serve all the Atlantic provinces,” he said. “I am going to ask you to approve that clinic, which you can do or your minister of health can do, as a hospital for the purpose of performing an abortion. “If they refuse, I will still establish the clinic with the idea of what I am doing is perfectly legal and human. itarian .. . my intention is to open it as soon as possible.” NOTICE CENTRAL KOOTENAY COMMUNITY ADJUSTMENT COMMITTEE Funds in the amount of $448,000 will be available as grants for eligible em- ployers to create new employment opportunities in the Regional District of Central Kootenay during the period April 1, 1985 to March 31, 1986. Morgentaler said that ba sed on the number of women from the Atlantic provinces who have had abortions at his Montreal clinic, Newfound land would have been a logical site. “I thought that instead of establishing it in St. John’s, Nfid., I might establish it ina central location like Halifax, not as much for the Halifax population which seems to be served well by the Victoria General Hospital, but for all the Atlantic, provinces.” Projects must pi de full time employ fo of three workers for personal use vehicles — even light trucks. ‘8 C and Alberta! 365-3311 707 Baker St., Nelson 354-4494 2141 Columbia Castlegar RIES 246 nnn AQIS for a period of not less than six weeks and poe more than fifty-two weeks Applications will be reviewed and grants awarded on o quarterly basis Deadlines for receipt of applications for review will be April 30, 1985, July 31, 1985, October 31, 1985 and January 31, 1 Applications for the next quarterly allocation of funds will be accepted until April 30, 1985. Applications received after that date will be considered July 31, 1985 For further information and application forms, contact Employment and Immigration Canada offices CRESTON: 2238 - 10th Ave., North. Telephone 428-5366 NELSON: 514 Vernon St. Telephone 352-3155 TRAIL: 835 Spokane St. T: 368-5566 AN OCCASION TO REMEMBE! + Kay and Jerry Markin celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Jan. 19. The party was held at the Fireside Inn. Many friends and relatives attended, with a lot of nice gifts tor the happy couple. TORONTO (CP) — Flora MacDonald looks like “a IS FRUM_A FRUMP? List of best and worst dressed “His clothes: un \ catastrophe d’habitude — rumpled burns. civies mistress at Cape Breton College for lassies” and classical guitarist Liona Boyd could be the and pr ya of the guy’ 's still & separatist.” Kemper of Ottawty“alias Maggie Trudeau, warm-up act for the gladi and Ci at the Roman coliseum circa AD 50. These are the opinions of a group of “in-house” people at Chatel. which ished in the arr havin’ le rst Best and Wark Dvtated Canadians List of 31 of the country’s better-known women and men. Janet McLeod, a magazine spokesman, said Wednesday that editor Mildred Istona “thought it would more or less be a fun thing to do.” McLeod said the judges, including Chatelaine fashion editor Eveleen Dollery, “were just a group of people who got together to choose the worst- and best-dressed for this list.” Their iled by writer Robert Collison, refer to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his wife Mila as having “star quality,” and liken them to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan. GET RID OF SUITS However, the panel tells the prime minister’ to “deep-six the double breasted suits. They make you look like the lad in a Sicilian version of The A-Team.” Barbara Frum of CBC’s The Journal got a dressing down from the judges, who consider her “overfeathered, overglittered, overdressed, overkilled.” The final insult: “Is there a silent “p” at the end of Frum?” Hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky didn’t fare much better. The panel decides “the Kid may be elegance on ice, but when it comes to clothes, his number 99 Oiler jersey is obviously his best shot.” Quebec Premier Rene Levesque's “world weary” approach is reflected in his dress, Chatelaine concludes. 8 is obviously into role regression,” the judges say. A WAR BRIDE? For her wedding to Fred Kemper last April, “she must have rifled through her mother’s hope chest. The hat looks as if it came out of a Chelsea milliner’s shop, cirea 1943. Marriage may be Hell, Margaret, but the war bride look has got to go.” Kemper’s white felt hat was heavily v: trimmed with a spray of feathers. } Other well-known Canadians consi for Ahe Chatelaine hit list were author and broadcaster Larry Zolf — “he doesn't dress badly, he dresses outrageously badly.” Author Margaret Atwood’s appearance is “dull, led and dull, dull;” singer Anne Murray “needs new plumage” and journalist Barbara Amiel's style is strictly “verboten.” But the judges aren't all critical. They've chosen a handful of fashion trendies to round out the list. Toronto resident Sonja Bata of the shoe manufactur- ing empire, is at 58, “the reigning goddess of Canadian fashion.” “Swiss-born Sonja still has a body as svelte as a panthers and a sense of chic as clockwork-perfect as a Rolex,” the judges conclude. Also lauded for excellent taste in clothes are actress Leah Pinsent (daughter of Gordon Pinsent) whose clothes “are as regal as her face;” Maureen McTeer who in her clothing “knows her own mind and her own style,” and fashion designer Simon Chang who is “very much the new urban dandy.” Don't leave this important task to amateurs. Updates in tax laws and requirements make our professional knowledge a must. Let us prepare your income tax return. Kokanee Tax Service Call Jill or Janet 278 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-2416 New Right wants TV news control WASHINGTON (AP) — The most exciting television show these days is a drama of corporate intrigue and big money involving the power struggles of a large cast of flamboyant characters. It doesn’t offer much to fans of sex and violence, but it can rival Dallas for surprises and talk of billion-dollar deals. For political junkies, it's must watching. But don’t look for it in the regular program listings. This show is real, played out in the media, as conservatives complain about a “liberal bias” in television news and talk of taking control of a major U.S. network to ensure the news is reported their way. John Dolan, chairman of the U.S. National Conservative Political Action Committee, recently used NBC videotape to offer the New Right's view of how a profile of new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev should be handled by the networks. The network ran its own version followed by Dolan's and there was no doubt the New Right would have handled that story far differently than NBC. Dolan’s segment of the Today show was something of a cameo appearance compared with the lead roles being played recently in the network ‘drama by Senator Jesse Farmers help Nicaraguans EDMONTON (CP) — It is hard to tell who benefitted most from a recent Canadian aid program — the poor of Nicaragua or the Alberta farmer who headed the project. “It's probably the first time in my life I'm sure I'm doing something worthwhile,” Irving Bablitz said in a telephone interview from his home in the central Alberta town of Bruce. Bablitz, 52, a grain farmer, was the driving force behind a project which saw 16 farmers from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba spend two months in Vancouver. They returned last week, leaving behind a machine shop, welding machines, a lathe and a milling machine they brought or built. In total, they provided $185,000 worth of equipment and training to farmers in the Central American country It was the first visit to Nicaragua for most of the Prairie farmers and Bablitz said his fellow travellers were taken aback by what they saw “The aggression sponsored by the United States, that was obvious, and the poverty because of the aggression. The openness of the people and the government, I think some of them didn't realize this would be so.” PLANS MORE TRIPS The trip to Nicaragua was Bablitz’s third in the past year, but it won't be his last “T've sort of committed myself to four or five years,” he said. “I look at it as a longer-term project than a one-year program.” Bablitz is returning to Nicaragua in June to tie up loose ends and lay the groundwork for the next project, which will take place early next year Most of the people who accompanied him in January will not be involved in the new project, he said. “I didn’t expect to use the same people over and over because it's asking quite a bit of people to leave their comfortable homes and their families.” Besides, he says, “the program next year might differ in its makeup so it might attract people of other walks of life.” “The needs vary so much. There are people here who could offer so much. I think plant breeding and soil management, the medical field.” Bablitz has spent more than $50,000 of his own money on the project. The Alberta government has committed $50,000 but is withholding the funds until a full accounting of expenses is received, he said. ulation Services CONTINUES 500 Helms, a North Carolina Republican, and Ted Turner, the owner of Cable News Network. While Dolan was displaying how he'd play the news if he ran a network, Helms and Turner are talking about taking control of one. A conservative leader who can rival President Ronald Reagan as a political fund-raiser, Helms is urging his supporters to help a North Carolina group called Fairness in Media buy stock in CBS in an effort to take control of the network and combat what he says is the network's liberal bias. g about forming an alliance with Helms and Fairness in Media is Turner, who is hungry to gain control of one of the three major networks. The Atlanta-based entrepreneur says he is looking around for the $4 billion it would take to get control of CBS, which looks like the most inviting target of the three networks. Is CBS worried? Network board chairman Thomas Wyman says there is “no financial substance” to reports Turner might launch a hostile takeover bid, his way of saying the Georgia millionaire couldn't raise the kind of money needed. LOAN-OUT CAMERA The Castlegar News has two simple-to- operate loan-out cameras (complete with film) which it is pleased to allow groups to use for taking pictures for use by the Castlegar News. Arrangements for the use of these cameras should be made through our News Department at 365-3517 [wm B.C. «4 R ES OU RCE S&S ~ 19 8 4 Silica ke the howe SUMMARY OF CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF EARNINGS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1984. 2. These surnmaries Wenae Traber Led (000% owned) aed 3. 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