yp \f Sy. as Castlégar News September 2, 1987 No time to relax _ for NDP's Harcourt VICTORIA (CP) — The dog days of summer have anything but lazy for B.C. New Democrat Leader Mike Harcourt. ‘The affable former mayor of Vancouver, who leads the 22-member Opposition against Premier Bill Vander Zaim's 46-member Social Credit government, has not only‘hired a new staff at a time when most British Columbians are seeking out sunny beaches. He's also spent 12 days touring 30 communities im the north and the Interior of the province, polishing up party policies on Indian land’ claims and economic development. It's part of the countdown-to-election plan Harcourt devised after he was acclaimed leader in April. His aim, of course, is to become British Columbia's second NDP premier, and to bring to three the number of NDP governments in Canada. Now, despite the surging popularity of the party at the federal level, the only New Democrats in power are Howard Pawley in Manitoba and the Yukon's Tony Penikett. After his low-key, springtime leadership convention, the initial step for Harcourt, the balding, 44 year-old rookie member for Vancouver Centre, was to get his feet wet during his first legislative session. “Now,” he said in an interview this week, “it’s time to switch from responding to the Social Credit government'and get on with things of our own.” WANTS TO SETTLE If he is elected in the next provincial election, which does not have to be held until the fall of 1991, Harcourt says his first priority will be to open negotiations to settle Indian land claims. In the meantime, Harcourt says, he wants to quell unrealistic voter fears that native land claims are thréatening much of the land in B.C. He also wants voters to realize that without settlement of the 14 comprehensive claims in B.C. istered with MIKE HARCOURT _ aiming to be premier road on Lyell Island, a Vancouver Sun poll indicated that three out of five British Columbians wanted the government i Ottawa, resource industries can not be assured of tenure on Crown lands. The Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia said in a background paper last year that land claims have “serious consequences for the forest industry” because Indians are claiming much of the Crown land leased to forestry companies under long-term tree forest licences and cutting permits. It noted the disruption of logging on Meares Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island since 1985 when a court injunction halted logging until after the B.C. Supreme Court determines the validity of the aborigina)claim. That case is scheduled to be heard later this fall or-in early 1988. The Social Credit party, which has ruled the province since 1952 except for a hiatus of NDP rule from 1972-1975, does not recognize aboriginal title. It says title was extinguished when British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871 — a view that the NDP leader calls “a redneck, —ostrich theory.” READY TO TACKLE “People are apprehensive about the issue of land claims settlement,” Harcourt said in an interview. “They are not quite sure what it will mean. But there is a readiness to tackle the issue.” There has been no recent polling on the issue. But two years ago, when Haida Indians were blockading a logging to neg Fulfilling the second major plank of his platform, Harcourt has appointed a committee to prepare regional economic development strategies. “We want to make local people players in the economic scheme,” said committee co-chairman Glen Clark. “In the north, people are paupers in their own land when there could be local i and native ‘7 ‘The committee is holding a workshop Sept. 27 when it hopes to define decentralization and decide how to formulate plans in consultation with local people. On Oct. 3, Harcourt’s provincial caucus will get a pep talk from its federal counterpart when they meet to discuss policy, strategy and what help the B.C. party can offer in the next federal election. The B.C. wing. hopes .that by maintaining its traditionally close tie to the federal party, it may be able to get some spinoff benefits from the soaring national popularity. Harcourt, who has a low-key, co-operative leadership style, has also used the summer to hire his personal staff including: Jim Hayes, a former associate deputy minister of forests in Ottawa, as principal secretary; Sharon Prescott from federal NDP House Leader Nelson Riis'’s Ottawa office as community liaison officer; and, Hans Brown, who has returned as provincial secretary, a position he held when the NDP were elected in 1972. VANCOUVER (CP) — The decision to trim $7 from the monthly cheques of 35,000 welfare recipients in British Columbia may be recon sidered, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Monday. Last week, Social Services Minister Claude Richmond told a meeting of the Down- town Eastside Residents As- sociation, a‘Vancouver group supporting higher welfare payments, that cabinet might review the cuts and that he would get an answer “as soon as possible.” “When the time comes to review the budget, it will be considered,” the premier said. “We're not about to change horses in midstream.” In early August, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled” the provincial government vio- lated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by discrimi- nating against welfare reci- pients based on their age. People under 26 were given $25 less than welfare recipients 26 years and over. The B.C. government com- plied with the decision a week later when it raised welfare payments. Teacher sentenced WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. (CP) — An elementary school teacher was sentenced in provineial court Tuesday to ‘a year in jail and two years’ probation on two sexual as- sault charges. Rick English, 41, pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of assault involving female stu- dents in the 1985-86 school year. English was ordered to undergo treatment and coun- selling under the supervision of a probation officer. * Laurentien Colored Pencils PHARMASAVE: Your Complete School Supply Headquarters! Page Tempo Instruments No, T1-18SLR Value Pack Calculator with Pen/Eraser & Ruler. Pharmaseve Price ee 1°° Liquid Paper Bond White Pen & Ink Krazy Glue i “In the Heart of Downtown Castlegar” OPEN THIS SUNDAY. _ ey Soviet abortions incregse MOSCOW (AP) The months or more after mar. 1,000 marriages, he said. an unstable lifestyle, he said. Soviet Union is suffering a serious increase in abortions, unplanned births and di vorges and the trend can only be reversed with better sex education and contracep: tives, said a Soviet re searcher. Viktor Perevedentsev wrote in the newspaper Ned elya most urban Soviet wo men are sexually active be fore they marry and many become pregnant because of the “low culture of sexual life.” Pregnant women who rush into marriage are more likely to be divorced, he wrote, and if they decide not to marry, their children are deprived of a full family life and in either case are more likely to be un stable. “The main way we (in the Soviet Union) eliminate un desired births is by abortion, the number of which every year exceeds the number of births by several times,” he added. “This is barbarity. I think we need to have good and accessible preventive means, good information about them _ for those who use them,” said Perevedentsev, an econom ist. . He cited statistics from a study of first pregnancies in Perm, an industrial city in the Ural Mountains, which Perevedentsev said is demo- graphically a typical Soviet city Out of every 1,000 preg nancies studied, 272 were riage, he wrote. “Now almost all young women in the big cities have a sex life before marriage.” “The double moral has changed into one,” he added. SEXUAL REVOLUTION? “Earlier, it was strict for women and liberal for men, but now it is all the more free for both that is, women have taken on the male model of sexual behavior.” The article is one of a series that has been appear. ing in the Soviet news media recently about the effort to stem the rising divorce rate and ignorance about sex. In early July, Igor Kon, a doctor of philosophy, wrote in the magazine Ogonyok there is widespread “sexual illiteracy” in the Soviet Union that sometimes leads women to believe abortion is the only means of birth con trol, and often causes tension in marriages. In a report from the Bye- lorussian capital of Minsk on Friday, the Tass news agency said young, single women are flocking to that city from rural areas and “many say they would rather have a baby while remaining single than endure the hard. ships of a marriage that would eventually fall apart.” Perevedentsev said hasty marriages often end in di vorce, and in 1986 there were 347 divorces for every 1,000 marriages. In the Black Sea port city of Odessa in 1984 there were Most children of hasty marriages that end in divorce live with their mothers, said “From these children more often come people with de viant behavior — drunks and . They and the drug-addicts, children of single mothers prostitutes and thieves — grow up without a man in the than from children raised in a house, and that encourages full family.” “ae Submissions Invited to Operate Transit Services in Selected Municipalities Submissions are invited from persons or i ter into an Ag! with BC Transit and their respective municipal partner for the operation of conventional transit services and the maintenance of transit vehicles from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1990 for the following: 1. Prince George 2. Port Alberni 3. Vernon/Goldstream 4. Kootenay-Boundary (Trail Central Kootenay (Castlegar) are available for each of the above municipal transit services from Director Planning & Contiact Services BC Transit P.O. Box 610 844 Courtney Street Victoria, B.C. V8W 2P3 Telephone: (604) 385-2551 Submission documents for one (1) transit service are available to persons or companies free of charge. Additional submission documents are available at a charge of $25.00 each (non-refundable). Submissions will be received at the BC Transit offices at 844 Courtney Street, Victoria, B.C., [ until 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, 1987 Small craft Harbours. A revitalization program. yachtsmen and local industries. But more importantly local harbour authorities created under this revitaliza tion program will, with the Federal government support, give fishermen and other users a more direct role in the planning, management, operation and maintenance spread of filet mignon, stuffed shrimp ahd red wine, but the only thing Nilan plans to feed Lemieux tonight is a heaping helping of elbows. ‘The Montreal Canadien teammates will be adversaries — Nilan suiting up for the United States and Lemieux for Canada — in a Canada Cup showdown between the only two THAT MAKES YOUR MONEY WORK AS HARD AS YOU DO ne it’s a little harder playing against one of your teammates because you don't want to start anything to break the spirit (on ‘the Canadiens).” PROPELS Defenceman James Patrick and goaltender John Van- biesbrouck are good friends, too. Patrick's NHL job entails keeping the puck away from New York teammate undefeated teams in the si: try hockey Team USA is 2-0 while Canada is 1-0-1. The two forwards will take part in the NHL's version of civil war. All but three of the league's 21 teams — the Toronto. Maple Leafs, the Vancouver Canucks and the Detroit Red Wings — will be represented. Ranger Vanbiesbrouck. Tonight, he'll be trying to propel the puck past his Ameri buddy. « “We both went to the Rangers at the same time, at the end of the 1964 season, and we're both the same age, 23,” says Patrick. Brent Sutter and Pat LaFontaine also are NHL team- mates, with the New York Islanders, who will play against “We both play tough because that's our style,” says each other tonight — Sutter for Canada and LaFontaine for Teammates are foes tonigh HAMILTON (CP) — Chris and Karen Nilan had Claude and Carol Lemieux over to their place last winter for # “There certainly our players,” he says. “The team that wins this one ean be being in the playoffs, #0 we both know the felt bad. “You know, he's on my NHL team so I hoped he was OK. You forget that the guy you play with all season in the NHL is just another opponent in a tournament like this.” WILL DRESS ‘Team Canada head coach Mike Keenan of the Phil- adelphia Flyers, meanwhile, says Glenn ‘Anderson of the “If they win, great; Edmonton Oilers has recovered from a leg injury and will dress. Moses ROME (AP) — It was the most difficult race of Edwin Moses’ life, but when it was over, there were no doubts who is the best intermediate hurdler in the world. Moses,.the two-time Olympic champion and the world-record holder, had to fight all the way to successfully defend his 400-metre hurdles title at the track and field world champion- ships Tuesday. Mark McKoy of Vancouver won both his hurdles heats to advance to “They're the sleeper wind up upsetting everybody.” works f In Tuesday's other finals, Billy the hot, humid conditions took their toll Konchellah of Kenya took the men's on six athletes, who collapsed either 800 metres in 1:43.73; the fastest time just after the finish line or shortly in the world this year; Tatiana Sam- before the end. olenko of the Soviet Union won the women’s 3,000.in 8:88.73; the Soviet Union's Sergey Litvinov defended his hammer throw title, with a heave of 63.06 metres, a meet-record; and Irina A Strakhova of the Soviet Union won the added strength-sapping women's 10-kilo- metre walk in 45 minutes 11 seconds. Organizers said all six requited a the that she was not in danger. Ann Peel of Ottawa finished It was the first time the walk was eighth in 45:27 and Alison Baker of Thursday's final. held in the world championships, and Kingston, Ont., was 2ist in 47.48. Lynn William of Vancouver was ninth and Debbie Bowker of Victoria was 13th in the women’s 3,000 metres. ON THE MOVE. . . Wayne Zino stick handles his way up centre ice during o Monday night game of Gen- tlemen’s Hockey at the Community Complex. Another game is set for tonight. _ CosNews Photo by Suri Ratton Barfield drives in run to give Blue Jays 4-3 victory TORONTO (CP) — Jesse Barfield figures it’s about time he got into the _ “September's a big month,” said Barfield, surrounded for the first time in several weeks by a group of reporters. “I can’t shoulder the whole load, but I'm due. There's no question about , it's time for me to come through.” Barfield drove in the winning run with a double — this third wit of the game — in the 10th inning Tuesday night as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the California Angels, 4-3. The win left the Jays one game behind the division-leading Detroit Tigers in the American League East while California stayed three games back of the Minnesota Twins in the AL West. Barfield’s hit off Mike Witt, 15-10, barely eluded centre-fielder Devon White and scored Rob Ducey from second base. Barfield also doubled in two runs in the first inning. “Pye been swinging at bad pitches and when you swing at bad pitches, Gary Pettis, both gave up on the ball ‘Toronto tied the game on an error after it eluded them on the fly. in the seventh. With Willie Upshaw at Ducey has spent most of the first with one-out walk, Nelson season at Class AAA Syracuse before Liriano singled to centre, but White's returning to the parent club Monday. throw to third sailed over the bag and In the California ninth, pinch-run- banged off the Jays’ dugout, allowing ner Gary Pettis stole second and Upshaw to score. moved to third on catcher Bob Boone's Ray’s third single of the game off sacrifice bunt. Dick Schofield grounded starter Jimmy Key scored White in the the ball through the hole but Fer- sixth. Then, after a walk and an error nandez intercepted it and sidearmed loaded the bases, Mark Eichhorn re- the ball to catcher Ernie Whitt. ‘The placed Key and Boone hit into a double ball arrived in plenty of time to cut play, scoring Ray from third. down the speedy Pettis. Eichhorn pitched four scoreless Barfield made a leaping catch innings. against the wall in right to deprive Ray also scored in the second on Johnny Ray of his fourth hit. Wally Joyner's two-out double. Burley happy to coach Rebels By CasNews Staff ‘Training eamp for the Castlegar Rebels of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League opens up Sunday at the Community Complex transfering to a Scotish team of the A photo finish separated Moses from fellow American Danny Harris and West German Harald Schmid, two of only three men who had beaten him in the past 11 years. Moses nearly surrendered the lead he took at the start, but held on to post the best time in the world this year, 47.46 seconds. 7 Harris and Schmid were both timed in 47.48, but the photo awarded the silver medal to the American. record set in 1962, and Harris clocked his personal best. Later Tuesday, Jackie Joyner- Kersee won the second goal medal for SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rick Reuschel pitched seven strong innings _ 62-3 more than he lasted two days earlier — and-did aot more to help the streaking San Francisco Giants win another game Tuesday night. “J feel a lot better than after that Schmid equalled his own European last start on Sunday. I turned things around and we scored a lot of runs,” said Reuschel, who drove in the Giants’ first two runs, and made two good fielding plays in the 14-4 victory over the U.S. team but narrowly missed the Montreal Expos. breaking her own heptathlon world record when she faltered in the last race of the seven-discipline event, the 800 metres. Joyner-Kersee was on world-rec- On Sunday, in his home debut with the Giants, the pitcher retired just one New York Mets batter and gave up five runs. He threw only 19 pitches. “The Mets came out swinging. But ord pace after six events but two days 1 could tell tonight that Rick had his of competition in the sweltering heat good stuff again,” said Kevin Mitchell, and high humidity finally took its toll. who scored three rine and belted « FALLS SHORT Her score for the gruelling event was 7,128 points, just short of the three-run homer in the Tuesday game. ‘The Giants increased their dead in the National League West to 5 record of 7,158 she set in Houston one games, as the second-place Houston year ago. Connie Polman-Tuin of Powell Astros lost & seventh straight game. The Giants, who were five games River, B.C., finished 19th with 5,608 out of first place on Aug. 6, have gone points. Lendl de NEW YORK (AP) — Top-seeded Ivan Lendl made U.S. Open -history, while fourth-seeded Boris Becker set & personal mark on the opening day of the tennis tournament 187 since then and now have the biggest retiring unear double. Will Clark had a two-run single for the Giants in the seventh. Foley had a two-run triple for the Expos in the third. Pinch-hitter Jack Daugherty drove in two Montreal runs Giants stomp all over Montreal by 10 runs t lead in the major leagues. Reuschel, 10-7, allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked none, the last 11 batters he faced in his third start since being acquired from Pittsburgh in an Aug. 21 trade. The Expos took a 2-0 lead with two ned runs in the third, but the Giants scored six runs in the bottom of the inning, with the first five charged to Floyd Youmans, 8-7, who came off Montreal's disabled list Tuesday. peon singled Akiko Kijimuta 7-5, 6-3 in an opening-round ‘women’s aborted, 140 mothers gave almost 600 divorces for every birth outside marriage, 271 gave birth less than nine match. Lendl overpowered Moir in 71 minutes. LOST and the team's new head coach Brian Burley says all the players will “have a This program was created with the safety of @ re-open harbour facilities dosed for safety reas8ns; of their harbour. Project proposals will home game word gets out,” said Barfield, who took films from last season shutout in Open 6-0, 6-0 in an months after marriage and people and the protection be analyzed and funded on Monday night to try and find a solution fair chance” to make the team. history, blanking WER have any power,” said Lendl, who is SAVE UP TO $30 SANDMAN’S SUMMER SAVINGS PACKAGE © repair damage caused by afternoon match at the National storms or high water levels; Tuesday night, Becker rallied to beat seeking his cage st Wilkison 46, 46, 7-5, 64, 6-2. It was the first time the return of serve, 19-year-old West German had won a match after trailing by of boats in mind. It will @ put ongoing, maintenance of existing small craft har- for a recent slump. Barfield's average had dropped 54 points to ..252 since June 19, heading into Tuesday game. SINGLED TO START “His best shot is his 317 babies were born nine it didn’t hurt me. Hi The ex-Nelson Maple Leafs cap- tain said in an interview with the Castlegar News that he's giad to be able to coach the Rebels. their individual merits, and announcements on funding, will be made as decisions @ launch new services and “Let the little children facilities at some harbours come unto me, Jesus said Sunday School is a good woy MAY 1—NOVEMBER 30, 1987 SANDMAN bours and facilities on a that will meet the expand: are reached Tony Fernandez, who made a sounder financial footing: “Pm really looking forward to it. Burley said it two sets. “Tve learned to really come back and fight,” said ior : ing needs of fishermen, It'll be a good experience. T've beet — Nee Fas pont ol ibe Rebel's Becker, a two-time Wimbledon champion. “Everything came thinking of being » coach for # couple of coach after turning down an offer to easy two yours ago. came and played and won, and I didn't Ranteilpreai espertly hing ach the Edinburgh Racers. One of know how. 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