4 A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28, 1981 Youth parliament Attending the annual B.C. Youth Parliament from this area will be Sandra Churches. Churches, a Grade 12 stu- dent at Stanley Humphries Secondary School, is spon- sored by the student council. She leaves Dec. 26 for Vic- toria. Churches, along with 85 successful applicants throughout B.C., will attend’ a session at the Parliament Buildings where they will debate issues of public in- terest and importance and a the upcoming year's of recipient of the 1979 Kin- naird Junior Service. Award and this year’s Stanley Hum- phries Special Service Award. The Older Boy's Parlia- ment in Canada was started in 1912 in Saskatchewan. Since that year, Parliaments have been established in sev- en provinces across Canada, with the Maritimes consti- tuting one Parliament. B.C. Youth Parliament or- iginated as the Older Boys’, Parliament of B.C., an organ- ization sponsored by Tuxis groups, Taal ees and Pr " Churches is active both in the community. and at school. She has over 500 hours as a Candy Striper, has earned the All-Round and Canada cords in Guides and helps with the Robson Guides. At school she is involved with CounterAttack, belongs to the debating team and is churches, The first session was held at Victoria in January, 1924, There were no sessions held during World War II, thus making 1981 as the 52nd session of the Youth Parli- ament in B.C. Churches will return to Castlegar Jan. 1. Downed economy brings more ills VANCOUVER (CP) — When the economy sickens, so do the people. Some doctors in British Columbia, where the econ- omy has taken a sudden downturn, have noticed an increasing number of stress- related illnesses — things like-depression and lack of sleep — and some dentists say an increasing number of people are skipping dental appointments and putting off needed dental care. The latest figures from Statistics Canada show that at the end of November there were 102,000 unemployed in B.C. — about 10,000 from the forest industry. This means msn; cummun- ities which rely on logging for their economic base are par- ticularly hard hit. A survey of doctors in these communities turned up mixed findings: some re- ported little change while others noticed more prob- lems. “I'm finding many people already in deep trouble,” said Dr. David Blair of Campbell River, a community on Van- couver Island which relies heavily on the forest in- dustry. PATIENTS DESPONDENT Blair said many of his pa- tients are despondent over the loss of jobs. Many feel tied to the community be- cause of in homes SANDRA CHURCHES ‘Guest workers’ discouraged By PAUL TAYLOR BONN (REUTER) — When the millionth immi- grant worker arrived to boost West Germany's soar- ing economy in 1964, wel- coming officials shook his hand and gave him a free motorcycle. Now there is talk of A offering those who followed his example a lump sum of money to go home. The number of foreigners has swelled to 4.6 million out of West Germany's popula- tion of 60 million, and despite official attempts to stop baa they are still flooding "With unemployment rising toward two million, officials (Wedding Bells - / Congraulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mirl Gare, who were married Dec. 23 at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York. The bride, Mary Anne, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cassio! of Buffalo, N.Y. and the groom is the son of Mrs. _Catherine Gare and the late Ernest Gare of Nelson, B.C. . . Ce i to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Anthony the sens, “The general practitioner may not be fully aware of the root because of some of his patient’s problems, and so wor- Kryski, whose marriage took place Dec. 26 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Trail. The bride, Brenda Katherine, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novakowski and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kryski, both families of Trail. detect an alarming growth in racism against an immigrant community living largoly in big-city ghettos. ‘ “Foreigners out,” is a com- mon slogan daubed on walls from Hamburg to Munich, The Bonn government has asked state governments 2 take Tho federal cabinet urged state governments to lower to 16 from 18 the maximum age at which dependents of non-Common Market immi- grants can enter the country. Dependents with one par- ent living outside the country should not be admitted and check the influx of pee grants’ relatives. In the 1960s, “guest work- ers,” as they were called, came mainly from Italy,, Yugoslavia, Spain and Portu- gal. More recently they have poured in from Turkey and other Islamic states, The 1.5 million Turks are now by far the biggest immigrant group in West Germany. Government spokesman Kurt Becker said Bonn wants to stop foreigners entering the country who are unwill- ing or unable to assimilate — those uot prepared to take West German citizenship or unable to pick up the lang- uage and culture. Unlike the large immigrant communities in Britain, Can- ada or the United States, West_ Germany's “guest opean Community foreigners should be joined by their spouses only if they are over 18, have lived at least eight years in West, Germany and have been married a year. State governments has tened to introduce the new rules and some conservative- ruled regions took even tougher measures. West Berlin issued a de- cree which could force thou- sands of unemployed for- eigners over 18 who arrived as dependents to leave the city. But the edict was sus- pended after it aroused mass liberal protests. TEN PER CENT FOREIGN West Berlin has some of Germany's worst social prob- lems. Ten per cent of its 2.2 million residents are foreign- ers, half of them Turks. The situation is even more k are p foreign citizens with no in- definite right to live in this country. acute in F the gate- way for arriving immigrants, where foreigners make up 25 The central government stresses it has no plans to send home any immigrant who has a legitimate right to live here. But consorvative officials such as Baden-Wuerttem- bert state Premier Lothar Spaeth have suggested West Germany consider offering foreigners ‘material incen- tives” to go home. Spaeth said ina newspaper interview they should be of- fered a “return premium” equivalent to a year’s un- employment benefit plus their pension payments. Experts at the Bonn Labor Ministry say that despite a 1978 ban on new “guest workers” thousands of fore- igners have entered the country through marriages of convenience, abuse of liberal political asylum procedures or by giving false personal information, In 1980 alone, 108,000 peo- ple sought asylum in West Germany. The vast ‘majority were not genuine victims of political persecution but sim- ply cconomic refugees, offi- clals say. Since the government tightened up the rules, :mak- . ing visas compulsory for Turks, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans and forcing asylum- seekers to wait two years for a work permit, the number of applicants this year has dropped to 44 Immigrant isan fear the new government measures could tend to legitimize racial prejudice among West Ger. mans, “They brought us here in the fat years to do the jobs which Germans would not, valley landscape nursery ) FOLLOWING THIS, WE HAVE MELNOR QUARTZ HEATERS revere °11.59 NURSERY, DESIGN SERVICES & ESTIMATES Winlaw, B.C. 226-7270 226-7220 per cent of the P are multiplying to the point where they can’t handle all the patients.” Dr. Malcolm Weinstein, a psychologist who worked with Dirnfeld on the stress committee, said many of the unemployed are currently going through what he terms an acute crisis phase in re- adjusting to being at home, unemployed and (in their minds) unwanted. In this early phase there is often an increase in alcohol and drug consumption. Mari- tal relations may become strained, said Weinstein. COULD BE VIOLENCE Although none of the physicians su.veyed re- ported this, Weinstein also said there could be an in- crease in family violence such as wife or child abuse. The man who keeps his problems to himself will find both himself and his family in deeper trouble, the doctor said. He knows of men who have pretended to go to work long after their jobs ended, rather than admit they were un- employed. or business. Dr. Victor Dirnfeld of Richmond, who has been working on a special com- mittee on stress, says any sudden and traumatic change —such as the loss of a job — has profound effects on the health of an individual and. his family. Dirnfeld expects that psy- chiatrists will be busier as Health unit changes its phone number The West Kootenay Health Unit in Trail has changed its telephone number. The new number is 364 0271, and is used by long term care, public health nursing, public health inspec- tion, speech and hearing, home care nursing and dental programs. The clerk who works for Cancer Control also uses this number, also predicts physicians will see more women with medical prob- lems because “women are the emotional barometer of the family. We'll undoubtedly see an increase in the number of tranquillizers being pres- cribed.” Those workers who are ac- customed to seasonal bouts of unemployment will be better able to deal with it than those who face an unexpected lay: off, he said. People have difficulty ac- cepting that they have no control over their own lives in a tight job market. 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(AP) — Al- most 2,000 passengers of the 8S Norway are back ashore in Miami today after a fire hot enough to buckle steel plates raced through the lux- ury liner’s boiler room and turned their vacation plans to ashes. Christmas _ Eve murder ROSEDALE (CP) — Char- les Leclair, 31, of Vancouver was shot and killed during a quarrel Christmas Eve at a home in this community about 10 kilometres east of Chilliwack, the RCMP said. Robert Holmes, 41, of Rosedale was later charged with second-degree murder in connection with the inci- dent and is to appear in Chil- liwack provincial court Tues- day. day. Police said a small-calibre rifle was used in the shoot- ing. Sunday's blaze forced the owner of the world’s largest cruise ship, Norwegian Car- ibbean Cruise Lne, to cancel the Norway's seven-day New Year's gruise, a spokesman for the line said. The com- -pany will refund: money to the 1,950 people scheduled for the trip and will offer to reimburse their air fare and give them a discount on a future cruise, the spokesman said today. Cruise Line vice-president Art Kane estimated the loss to the cruise line from the blaze will easily “exceed a million dollars.” The fire, which broke out shortly before noon a few metres above the water line. of the 315-metre luxury liner, heated air to more than 530 degrees Celsius, Deputy Fire Chief Dan Fabyan said. The flames spewed black smoke upward through the crew's quarters, and thick, oily smoke blew across Miami's port. Firefighters from the Nor- way’s crew and nine com- panies of Miami firefighters in protective clothing fought the blaze for almost two hours before extinguishing the flames, “I can't believe this; I'm just heartsick,” said Marlene Brown, a Neptune, N.J., in- surance agent scheduled for the cruise. “If it was going to get stranded, why couldn't. it get stranded in the water by St. Thomas instead of here?” The Norway had been scheduled to leave at 5 p.m. Sunday for seven nights at sen and stops at St. Thomas in the Virgin Ilsands and at one of the outer islands in the Bahamas. When the ship docked, it was returning from a Christmas cruise, and about 200 departing pas- sengers still aboard had to be evacuated. Move Angered Pope Pope Pius V excommuni- cated Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1570 after she decided to keep her supre- macy in ecclesiastical mat- ters. Turn to Thunder In Japan, the slang ex- Urea foam continued from: page Al and will be seeking support from local residents. He said they will be de- ‘manding the removal work be performed by ‘Certified professional contractors and be inspected during and after removal, The group is also seeking regulations on the use of formaldehyde-based resins “to prevent this ever hap- pening again.” Kassian said if the federal goyernment fails to respond tothe d the group CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28, 1981 POLAND 'S THIRD WEEK OF MARTIAL LAW Meat rations cut By The Ausociated Press Poland’s martial-law reg- ime began its third week in power by cutting monthly meat and butter rations for most Poles and predicting worse food shortages in the new year, Western reporters in War- saw said antibiotics and medical supplies also are in drastically short supply. It was food shortages that provoked the nationwide strikes in Poland 16 months ago that spawned Solidarity, the first union in the Soviet bloc independent of govern- ment control, and ration cuts last summer spurred a string of Solidarity strikes. Lech Walesa, leader of the now-banned Solidarity union, was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1981 Sunday for standing out “not only as the heart and soul of Poland's battle with a cor- rupt Communist regime, but as an international symbol of the struggle for freedom and. dignity.” Walesa has been held by the government at an undis- closed location in Warsaw since shortly after martial law was imposed Dec. 13. The latest cuts in the al- ready depleted Polish menu were announced Sunday by Warsaw Radio, which pre- dicted that next year the situation “will be worse than this because of considerably lower imports and lower poultry output.” RATIONS CUT The radio said the martial law regime was trimming January's meat rations to 2.5 kilograms a month for most Poles. Children, pregnant women and the elderly and, the sick will receive four kilograms of each commodity a month, it said, and manual workers will be exempt from the cuts, Meat and butter rations were cut off completely for farmers with more than one- half hectare of land, the state-run radio said, presum- ably because farmers have access to their own food stocks. The radio said the military council “appeals to individual farmers and to state and co- operative farms to expedite (food) deliveries.” Western correspondents in Warsaw have said Poland's private farmers — the back- bone of its food production — some foods to protest martial ‘The radio, monitored in Western Europe, quoted a Home Trade Ministry an- nouncement as saying extra imports — “especially from the Soviet Union” — helped the government meet De- cember rations but did not: secure enough meat to cover ration arrears. ‘AS The near-bankrupt Polish government lacks the funds to pay for food imports, SUPPLIES SCARCE Last August, rations were cut for a month to three kilograms 2 person from 3.5, but even then supplies were still so scarce that Poles had difficulty buying the meat to which they were entitled. were entitled, 15 die in record cold Christmas BIRMINGHAM, ENG- LAND (AP) — Fifteen elder- ly people froze to death in their homes on Christmas Day in the West Midlands region of Britain, police and ambulance services said to- day. “The number of deaths on Christmas morning was ex- ”" an of- ,of freezing temperatures, snow and ice — the worst December weather in 30 ears. A 19-year-old was found dead from cold in.the street in Oldham near the Midland city of Manchester on Christ- mas Day. The coldest Christmas hol- ficial explained. “They .were living on their own in inad- equately heated homes.” Like the rest of the coun- try, the region covering the have held back shi of d ial city of Bir . has been hit by three weeks iday was re- corded in the Scottish village of Crawfordjohn, 62 ‘kilom- etres southwest of: Edin- burgh, where the: mercury plummeted to -13 ‘Celsius on Dec. 24, -15 on Dec. 25 adn -16 Dec. 26. Several injured in two-car Boxing Day highway accident Thirty-two complaints and eight motor vehicle accidents were investigated by local RCMP over the Christmas holiday. An accident Sunday at the Cedar Manor parking lot re- sulted in charges against Dale Wesley of Castlegar for backing when unsafe. Police reports indicate Wesley's ve- hicle, which was not dam- aged, struck a parked vehicle owned by Dale Warren Kat- elnikoff, also of Castlegar, causing $600 damage. resulted in injuries to a pas- and no charges have been senger in each of the ve- laid. hicles. Injured were Wendy Voy- kin who was in a vehicle driven by William Tarasoff of Castlegar and Verna Kat- abott who was in a 1978 Ford drivern by Richard Kanigan of Castlegar. The Kanigan vehicle re- ceived $4,000 damage, while the Tarasoff car sustained $3,000 damage. Police report the Kanigan vehicle was heading ‘to Several persons sustainéd* Castlegar when it struck the “injuries In a two-vehicle’‘ac- cident Saturday on Highway, 3A one .mile north of the Castlegar Airport. Tarasoff vehicle which had just pulled out of the ditch. The accident is still under investigation. Two were re-' A 1967 Plymouth, driven by Mathew of Castlegar, was ‘ travelling north down a steep icy grade when it went out of control and struck a 1974 Buick which was travelling in the opposite direction. Driver of the Buick has been identified as Gerald Conkin of Slocan Park. Sustaining injuries were Harshenin and a 16-year-old passenger. Injured in the Conkin vehicle were Lori Conkin, 20, Kathy Kelsey, 17 and Colleen Kelsey. No charges have been laid. Christmas morning a two- vehicle accident in Thrums ported Christmas eve, one involving two vehicles and the other three. In the two-vehicle acci- dent, a 1974 pickup, driven by Aage Brattebo of Castle- gar was southbound ~ . Firefighters, police and of the street and the danger of other buildi the ground floor. One of the owners of the restaurant and several guests were among the dead. Police said the cause of the explosion is still not known, but a gas leak is the most likely explanation. Leaky raft continued from page Al The 4,000-tonne Hudson was headed to the Magdalen Islands from Montreal with a cargo of about 40,000 barrels of bunker C and diesel oil when thé fire broke out early _ Christmas .morning. It burned for 30 hours. Four bodies were pulled out of the St. L later William Rutherford, 55,: of Montreal. Still missing are Robert Poisson of Montreal, Paul Marchand of Quebec City and Paul Viau of Nova Scotia. The Hudson was towed to Baie Comeau, which is across the river from Matane, where the ship's cargo is Friday and Saturday, as much as 50 kilometres away from the ship. Dead are James Hancock, 38 of Hants County, N.S., Michael Robinson, 24, of Montreal, Terence Sullivan, Ont., and being d into ano- ther ship owned by the same company, Halco Inc. of Mon- treal. Cloutier said none of the molasses-like bunker oil es- caped from the tanker, and no damage was done to the