Aa — April 28, 1985 -— ESTABLISHED AUG. 7. 1947 sEAABER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCE News wck weeny MAY 4. 1900 we THe MUD. WEEK PLANT MONCE OF cOrYmcHT: vested wn belong to the od PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman FOREMAN OFFICE MANAGER — ADVERTISING MANAGER — Coro! Magow CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodley ‘ond belongs to SEL oerer meme prepared trom repro pros. engrowings AUG. 27 1980 —_ Peter Harvey Linda Kositsin News Lid. t port and that part only of procided ty the odveriwer shall temas i le ecco by Cost The imperfect hero Steve Fonyo deserves all the praise and tributes he's received. When he set out on his Journey for Lives some 14 months ago, he was in the unenviable position of run- ning in Terry Fox's shadow. it was an_ all-encompassing shadow. After all, how do you top someone who died doing what Terry Fox did? You don't. But Steve Fonyo knew that. He said he wasn't completing Terry Fox's run, but beginning a run of his own. It's taken the rest of Canada until now to realize that. When we saw Steve Fonyo run- ning in prairie blizzards, he showed us that he too had in- credible stamina. He wouldn't give up. When we saw Steve Fonyo fighting back tears because he feared he would have to halt his run on account of cancer, he showed us that he too had courage. The cancer was later diagnosed as a stress fracture and Mr. Fonyo returned to the road. He wouldn't give up. In fact, the only time Steve Fonyo conceded to abandon the run that means so much to him is when his family’s restaurant faced financial ruin. That's when showed us his unselfishness. At the same time, Steve Fonyo is not the perfect hero. Early media images pictured him as a gum chewing teenager running with a Walkman on his head. Those early reports said he loved to party, that he liked all the attention especially from girls, that he was partial to sleeping late — and even at one point that he maligned hockey great Wayne Gretzky. Those may all have been true. It simply goes to show that today's heros aren't pre-packaged. They don't come in one shape and size to fit public preconceptions. And no matter how hard the media tries from now to Van- couver, Steve Fonyo will still be Steve Fonyo. On his run to the coast, he will continue to show us those qualities that got him this far: stamina, courage, compassion and selflessness; just as he'll continue to show us his foibles, his flaws. Steve Fonyo is an impertect hero trying to complete a dream. , A crucial time The disclosure that the federal government has awarded a $234,000 advertising contract to a Toronto company owned by Finan- ce Minister Michael Wilson's brother-in-law comes at a crucial time for the fledgling Tory gover- nment. The Conservatives, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in par- ticular, have worked hard at cultivating the public's tid Mr. Mulroney has bent over back. wards to show he isn't following in the Liberals’ footsteps. it was all supposed to lead to the Tory government's first budget to be brought down shortly. Then Canadians learn that a contract has been awarded to Lawson Murray Ltd. Douglas Lawson, Mr. Wilson's relative is president and owner of the firm while Doug Robson, Mr. Wilson's riding association president and a MRP" « Proviee SOUTH AFRICA working in the finance mii ‘e office until about two weeks before the contract was awarded Nov. 13. The problem with the contract doesn't so much stem from the fact a relative of a cabinet minister is involved (though that bad enough), but from the fact that the contract was awarded without being put to tender. And while Mr. Mulroney may state that Mr. Wilson was not in- volved in awarding the contract, there is nevertheless the strong appearance of patronage — the kind of patronage the Conser- vative government promised to end when it came to power. Canadians voted for a change from the old Liberal way of governing the country. Mr. Mulroney better be careful. Public confidence is a delicate thing. It doesn't take much to shat- former aide, is a vice-president. In fact, Mr. Robson was ter wh 9 may have been done before. Fred Merriman The input device accepted a typical high level language and passed the instructions to a series of integrated circuits commonly called hips” which in turn responded to machine language by directing minute electric currents along con- ducting bus through gates capable of understanding only one of two possibilities. Voltage above approx imately 3.5 receives “yes” voltage less than that threshold is told “no.” Just to confuse the non-technical there are complementary instruc. tions which can result in just the op- posite reply. We are talking about a simple garden-type personal com puter with a blinking green screen and the frustrating characteristic of doing exactly what it is told. The reply will always be simply “yes” or “no.” There is no gray in the fast as light artificial mind of our unem otional friend. The inanimate beast is incapable of making an arithmetic error. Here are some of the early signs of emotional change: For instance, there are some users who find themselves becoming quite impati ent with traffic lights which take 30 seconds to change from red to green. This is the same impatience which counts the seconds it takes an intelligent software to make a cal culation on a large and complicated spread sheet file. Some files require nearly 80 seconds to retrieve or save data Each of us also learns at the embryo vi ~ Ne b, -24 oe | —_—— stage that hours of data may be destroyed in an instant. Most of us require at least two incidents of im- mediate destruction before we learn to save material, periodically .. . as a matter of habit. We very quickly learn that the “garbage in garbage out” school was speaking prophetic wisdom well before the present day of popular and personal home com. puters. However, with computers it is much easier to cross check and prove the final results. Modifica- tions and refinements in presenta- tion can be made in seconds. You can probably tell, that I am excited about these electronic mar- vels because I envision many posi tive results from their proper and practical application in our daily lives. Look at the change in culture and lifestyle-brought about by just three simple inventions, the auto mobile, the telephone and tele vision. The next input device will probably respond to our spoken word and personal service will then take on new meaning for all of us. Artificial intelligence may be the final result of an early day break through, awesome, incredible and completely amazing, the making of a fire. When our android rubs two dry sticks together and understands the significance of the event we could have trouble on our hands . . . in the meantime this dumb beast has nothing more to say because his energy has been disconnected. U.S. seldom speaks out By GREGORY NOKES WASHINGTON — President Ronald Reagan has said the struggle against the government of Nicaragua is one of the “greatest moral challenges” since the Second World War, but critics say the greater challenge, about which Reagan says little, is in South Africa. The President speaks out forcefully and frequently against Nicaragua, but seldom criticizes South Africa. Yet there is little disagreement the mis- treatment of South Africa's 22 million blacks by the white minority is much harsher than the abuses of the San- dinistas. South Africa, the only government to make racial discrimination official government policy, routinely destroys homes of blacks, and has forced mil lions to live on reservations known as homelands. Blacks have no vote and no right to protest. Several hundred blacks have been killed in recent months by police who fired on di while that will reap its own ill harvest, critics say. Representative Howard Wolpe (D-Mich.), chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa, said the administration fails to “understand that South Africa iteelf i is an open invi and don't get at the substance of apart- heid, which is the denial of any political power to the black majority. Reagan has said he doesn't criticize South Africa more often because it is “counter-productive for one country to splash itself all over the headlines to “Our identification with this kind of regime is actually increasing the de- of in the region on the Soviets and the Cubans,” he said. Randall Robinson, who has organized daily demonstrations outside the South African Embassy in Washington, said the administration errs by focusing ex clusively on strategic objectives. “Moral concerns of the deprivation of human rights don’t have the slightest consideration,” he said. He said the administration is doing nothing in its policies to head off a possible “blood bath” in South Africa. But State Secretary George Shultz, speaking at a National Press Club dozens of black leaders have been jailed on unspecified charges. Reagan's approach to the two coun tries reflect his concern Nicaragua is going communist, while South Africa is considered an anti-community bastion in Africa. It’s a short-sighted policy on Tuesday, expressed sharp opposition to a proposal before Con- gress that would ban new U.S. invest ment and reduce trade ties with South Africa. He also said conditions in South Africa are improving, although critics say recent changes are only cosmetic ding that another country do something . . . It can't appear to be rolling over at the demands of out siders.” There is no reluctance to criticize Nicaragua, however, which Reagan said wants “to spread its poison throughout this free and increasingly democratic hemisphere.” “We cannot have the United States walk away from one of the greatest moral challenges in post-war history,” he said Monday night in a speech aimed at persuading a reluctant Congress to approve $14 million in new aid for anti-government guerrillas. Reagan said the rebels — organized and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency — are freedom fighters worthy of help. April 28, 1985 The Castlegar Kiwanis Club is offer- ing prizes of $25, plus a silver cup, $10. ani'$5 for the best boulevard in Castlegar, in its “Beautify Castlegar Competition.” MLA Walter Hendricks, Judge Eric Dawson and Ed Mann of Nelson at- tended a recent Kiwanis Club meeting in Castlegar in support of the new * Mount Saint Francis Home for Senior Citizens at Nelson. The local Kiwanians were asked to undertake some par- ticular phase of the farnishing of the building. . Wright's Auto Service of Kinnaird advertises the new Perfect (Ford of England) which “gives you up to 40 miles to the gallon . . . Interior and exterior appointments will please the most discriminating with colorful lea- ther upholstery in your choice of red, green, brown or blue.” There's even room for small parcels “in a compart- ment below the dash.” . 8 @ A delegation from the Projects Society met with the Castlegar and District School Board to discuss the possibility of obtaining Block 50 (block earlier purchased by the board as possible site for high school) as a site for the proposed Recreational Centre, the object in mind being that it will be in fairly close proximity to the new high school. 25 YEARS AGO 2,500 books in hard-back and paper- back editions were collected for the public libraries of Castlegar and Kin- naird during the recent book drive conducted by members of the Castle gar-Kinnaird Kinsmen Club assisted by Scouts, Cubs, Guides and Brownies of the district. . 28 « Victoria silverware was brought home by badminton players from Kin- naird and Riondel. Jack Osachoff of Kinnaird and Bruce Pollick of Riondel were B.C. winners of the boys doubles under 17 and Don Gray of Kinnaird and Gordon Hallstrom of Riondel were B.C. winners of the boys doubles under 15. 8 «@ The department of highways will be asked to investigate the possibility of a stop-and-go traffic light at the inter- section of Pine and Columbia. Mean- while, a mercury vapor street lamp was shown to the town council by Comm. Walter Thorp and the light will be erected at Pine and Columbia for test and demonstration purposes. . 8 @ History was miade on the Arrow Lakes this month when the first rafts of logs floated downstream toward Celgar’s growing pulp mill. The tug- boat Keetow, with Capt. B. Crowell in charge, shepherded the first shipment of what is expected over the years to grow into a main industry of the lakes. 15 YEARS AGO Education Minister Don Brothers, MLA for Rossland-Trail has announced that work at Syringa The Ni counter-revol aries have received $80 million from the administration since 1981, but a much older black guerrilla movement in South Africa receives neither Rea. gan's praise nor U.S. aid. (Associated Press) Is Nicaragua a Vietnam? BYLARRY BLACK NEW YORK)— The Vietnam War was a inful time for the United television and President Ronald Rea gan’s $14-million Contra aid package going down to defeat in congress — the States, and now that Washi again finds itself entafgled in a tropical war — this time if Nicaragua — many Americans seem anxious to heed the lessons learned in the jungles of South east Asia 10 years ago. Americans seem to agree the United States should never again involve itself in a long, losing war in a foreign country. But that is where the consensus on “the lessons of Vietnam” ends, and the arguments over what went wrong there — and could go wrong in Central America — begin. Until recently, American “hawks” on Central America — those who want to see the leftist Sandinista government overthrown — have resisted compari sons between the two situations. And despite a spate of Vietnam movies and General William Westmoreland’s high profile lawsuit, the surprising ambi guity of the public verdict on America’s last war has remained largely unques tioned. Only two weeks ago, for example, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, argued the proper analogy for the challenge of Nicaragua was not Viet nam, but Munich — where Britain abandoned Czechoslovakia to the Nazis to appease Hitler. But this week — with the humiliation of Vietnam relived nightly on network seized on the compar. ison, offering its interpretation of the moral of the Vietnam story. “Vietnam and Central America — I want to tackle this analogy head-on,” U.S. State Secretary George Shultz said Thursday. “Our goals in Central America are like those we had in Vietnam: democracy, economic progress and security against aggression. “Broken promises. Communist dic Quotable Quotes PAUL HORNBY of the B.C. Cancer Research Centre recently had this to say on drinking: “Believe it or not, people who belong to golf clubs tend to drink as much as the men in the detox centres, although they obviously don't drink shaving lotion and things like that. “However, when (golf club members) go home, their wives feed them decent meals,” allowing them to successfully withstand the effects of golfing and boozing, said Hornby. tatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very borders. Here is your parallel between Vietnam and Central America,” Shultz said. For Shultz, the Reagan adminis. tration and undoubtedly most conser vative Americans, the war in Vietnam was a nobly motivated attempt to help an innocent government prevent a foreign invasion and the imposition of an authoritarian regime. On the other hand, if you believe Vietnam was a doomed attempt to per. petuate unchallenged American influ- ence in the region, “you equate the Contras with the ‘corrupt dictatorship in Saigon’ and refuse them the guns they need to defeat their Communist enemies,” writes former Nixon admin istration official William Safire in his New York Times columpf this week. Whatever the value of the compar. isons and contrasts between the two situations, the implications of the Reagan administration's parallel with Vietnam are ominous. While Shultz of. fered no corollaries to his comparison and never mentioned deploying U.S. combat troops in Central America, he made it clear Washington will not tolerate a “loss” in Nicaragua. “The larger lesson of the past decade is that when America lost faith in herself, world stability suffered and freedom lost ground,” Shultz said. “This must never happen again.” (Canadian Press) Creek Park will be undertaken this year and will include publie parking for 140 cars, erection of 30 pienie tables and the sanding of 900 feet of shoreline to create an attractive beach. e The Flowers of Hope Campaign sponsored by the Castlegar branch of the Kootenay Society for Handicapped Children has been cancelled this year “because of the tremendous response in the community to the Hike for Hope.” The Town of Castlegar is spon- soring regional recreation director Buck Pacholzuk in the Hike for Hope at $5 a mile — provided he covers the 19-mile course only once! . mechanic, pipefitter, millwright, elec- trician and heavy duty mechanic con- tinued to be the major thorn in the side of area employers, according to the annual report of the Trail Canada Manpower Centre. Back in the black and enjoying in- creased membership, the baal Chamber of Commerce is community with a service “that bos been lacking for a long time,” president Tom Ogiow reports. “Today we have 74 members who have paid their dues to support this organization.” . 8 «@ Interest rates require Northland ies Ltd. to continue watching and waiting for financing of its planned $3 million, 115-room Sandman Inn on Seventh Ave. South. . e Mike Lauriente, Twin Rivers Elem entary School principal, has been ap- pointed director for instruction for School District No. 9 effective Sept. 1. By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Anne Christiansen always knew she was psychic, but she didn't know how to put her gifts to practical use. During the first nine years of her life she lived in fear. Seeing ghosts in the farmhouse where she lived were common occurences. Yet the Qualicum Beach resident says although all may not feel psychic everyone has some form of Extra Sensory Perception. Christiansen was recently in Castlegar conducting workshops on making ESP practical. She maintains that ESP is not the mysterious phenomenon that many people make it out to be. She says that people have made a big mystery of being psychic, but it's no mystéry. “The feelings we get, the inner eye pictures, that's being psychic,” she says. “It hasn't got anything to do with the occult,” Christiansen said in an interview adding that a big mystery has been made out of something so simple. “ESP has to do with energy,” she said in an interview. Christiansen compares the human being to a radio transmitter. “We are constantly sending out and picking up thoughts and feelings,” she says. Christiansen notes that there are four types of psychie gifts: vision, intuition, prophesy and feeling. The visionary person picks up thoughts and sees it. This person sees things like visions, symbols and colors in the mind's eye transforming the thought into an image. He is sometimes considered to have a photographic mind or to be clairvoyant. An example of such a person would be psychic Jean Dixon. Such people can see auras and even ghosts, Christiansen says. Prophetic people are the kind of people who “just know about things,” she says. They have a real strong concern for the future and have a tendency to act like “know it alls.” The prophetic person is usually sensitive to precognition and hunches. They also tend to make good executives. The intuitive person is very direct and has a very precise approach to life. They are very businesslike as a rule, she says. If they are out of balance they get very pushy or d ding and put pI ona lot of people. A feeler is a sensitive and understanding person. He bases his life on how things feel. One example of a feeler would be Peter Hurcose who works a lot on police cases in finding missing children. Feelers also have been known to do psychic healing. Anyone can learn to do it to some degree, but Christiansen says the psychic healing by these people really amazes her. With all gifts comes both positive and negative, she says. Depending on how you understand yourself, these gifts can be either positive or negative. “When they understand themselves, people feel THEN LEARNED T' Psychic used to live in fear more directed and not feel at the mercy of everything that comes along,” she says. Christiansen says if people learn to unfold their gifts it makes life and communicating with others so much easier. For instance, when talking to a feeler, one must be gentle with that type of person. A feeler is one who picks up a thought and translates it into a feeling. His whole response to life depends upon how it feels to him. His ... always knew she was psychic sense of touch is extremely well-developed and he knows people by feeling what they feel. Communication is a key in one's business, personal and social life, Christiansen says. “Learning about yourself and how to use your ESP abilities in a constructive and positive way helps to be a lot more successful.” Christiansen noted that as a former newspaper reporter in Parksville, when she had all her facts down, her mind was clear and in 15 to 20 minutes she had her story all written. She adds that she was the only one at the newspaper who wasn't ever under pressure. “It's a practical application of ESP,” she says. She adds that many times when people have feelings they don’t understand that all of it is very psychic. “People don't even know how psychic they are,” she says. Christiansen helps people to understand how psychic they are. Through techniques she says people can learn how to direct their energy in a positive way and pick up on that energy. Christiansen is sponsored by the Inner Peace Movement, a development program aimed at showing E GIFT people how to lead a more creative and fulfilling life through leadership training and techniques. She doesn't do psychic readings. “I would rather have people do it for themselves,” who was born of Hungarian parentage. She notes that with eastern and southern European nationalities, being they questioned being psychic. But before that being psychic was more accepted because people didn't have that intellectual understanding. “I remember my grandmother talking about her grandparents. They would always examine their dreams every morning,” she recalls. Christiansen says she had psychic experiences as a child. When living in an old farmhouse she said she could see ghosts walking around. Later she found out that the person who owned the house before her family looked after old people and very likely a few died there. She also used to get strong notions about what people were like. “If they were not to be trusted I would always know it,” she said. “My parents were not impressed.” But she explainedishe was not being rude but was simply tuning into what the person was all about. She spent the first nine years of her life always afraid, literally in terror. Then she became very ill and actually died, she said. She had an experience where she was actually outside her body. “I looked down on my body,” she recalls. “There was a brilliant white light. I had a feeling of freedom and all of a sudden I heard a voice say, ‘but you are not finished, you know.’ I thought, I don’t want to go back but I will.” This experience showed her that there was no death. But Christiansen says she didn’t know how to deal with her psychic gifts. “Often I had dreams that came true. As I grew up I began to look for ways to understand this better. I did a tremendous amount of reading. I often found this was a big mystery but I wanted to make it practical in everyday life,” she said. But now she says that if someone is making a big glory trip out of being psychic there's something wrong. “That's not how it works,” she says. Eventually, 13 years ago she became involved with the Inner Peace Group. She found that they had a very practical down-to-earth approach and she could see how to apply these techniques right away. Now she finds she can be positive every moment of her life. She has also experienced healing. Christiansen notes that she has been healed from a thyroid condition, which the rest of her family still has but she doesn't. She says she also uses her psychic abilities for little things in life, such as finding a parking spot in big cities. getan expertly prepared tax return free-of-charge plus 85% of your refund, usually within three working days. 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Government bers of the legislature grant- Managers’ Association, ed themselves earlier this means that “certain long- year. standing members of the leg- On a vote of 21 to 10, the islature” should get pension legislature also rejected at- increases of 20 to 25 per cent. tempts by the NDP to chop _In presenting the changes to $1 the $4,000 annual in- sought by the NDP, New crease granted to the gov- Westminster MLA Dennis ernment whip and assistant Cocke said the increases deputy speaker, and the should be limited to $1 until $3,000-a-year increase an independent commission accorded the opposition could be set up to recommend house leader and opposition any changes to the $26,698 whip. salary and $13,349 tax-free However, the legislature ‘llowance paid the members. did give third and final read- ing to a bill cutting in half those increases. A jump in the travel al- lowance for rural members to $2,472 from $1,648 was re- duced to $2,060. The $6,000-a-year salary for the newly-created post of parliamentary secretary was not affected even though the members filling those posts have voluntarily agreed to a $3,000-a-year boost instead. And the bill did not change SPECIALS FOR YOU KRAFT cut raises Premier Bill Bennett ac- ment was forced to bring in cused the NDP of indulging the bill following the public in political tactics, saying uproar that followed passage that if they can't have it all, of a law last February grant- then they only want $1. ing those members repre- He said the ploy would not senting ridings outside of the get them any political points, Greater Victoria area a $60-a- and was in fact taking away day capital city allowance for “the last vestiges of any a maximum of 50 days. The credibility” they have left. Victoria-area members got a -day allowance. 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