eC June 5, 1985 WEATHER ; SUNSET: 8: 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 ’ NN SYNOPSIS: A strong westerly tlow has developed across the eastern pacitic and the pacific storm track is crossing the continent through Washington and Oregon States. This will continue to generate clouds across the southern half of the province for some time yet and be accompanied by occasional showers. SUNRISE: 4:46 A.M. 52 P.M. By CasNews Staff Lisa Pedrini has been elec- ted president of the Castle- gar District Teachers’ Asso- ciation. Pedrini, who now serves as vice-president, succeeds pre- sident Mike Rodgers, who decided not to run. Both Rodgers and Pedrini agreed that her election win last Thursday was a date for “ CUCUMBERS continued from tront pege Central Foods and Canada Safeway There has been one unconfirmed case of poisoning in Tacoma. The bers from Western Green- in Castlegar said last kend the stores hadn't purchased any of the tainted cucumbers. Monty Arnott, director of the Central Kootenay Health Unit, said to date there have been several com- plaints of locals getting sick from cucumbers, although these haven't been verified. Arnott said he'd heen told by a federal Health and Welfare spokesman in today that the may have been shipped all over B.C., Alberta and the United States. tical action” on the part of the CDTA. Pédrinj said her platform included a call for “public awareness, and dialogue be- tween parents, teachers and the school board.” About 70 teachers were present to vote at the elec- tion held at the teachers i] El Le] EY fe | [=] Gov't says mail service must improve OTTAWA (CP) — The government is pressing the Canada Post Corp. to improve mail delivery and has not yet decided whether to approve proposed rate increases, Revenue Minister Perrin Beatty said today. Several Conservative MPs have urged the cabinet to reject Canada Post's proposal to boost the price of mailing a first-class leiter“as of June.24 to 34 cents from 32 cents, as Welisas. ather proposed postal service price increases. Conservative backbencher Bill Attewell said Tuesday many cabinet were sy and predicted the government would reject the rate hikes. Beatty, the minister responsible for the post office, said he too is sympathetic to pleas for better postal service. He says deciding the rate increase issue is “difficult” but gave no indication of what direction he is leaning on the issue. “Obviously, nobody is anxious to have a rate increase,” Beatty told reporters outside the Conservatives’ weekly caucus meeting. “People want to see efficiency improved as well, there's no question about that. So does the government .. . We're pressing the post office to improve efficiency as quickly as possible.” DELAYS DECISION Beatty said the government is required to delay making any decision until 60 days after Canada Post proposed the rate increase to allow time for public submissions. The rate increase was proposed April 10. He said the government has already received “a couple of thousand” submissions, fewer than were generated by the last rate increase. “For the most part what people are saying is that ‘Look, it’s not the rate increase as such, we want to see improvements in service.’ I fully share that feeling,” Beatty said. He said mail service seemed to have been particularly slow this spring because fears of a possible postal strike caused large volume mailers to dump unusually large quantities of mail into the system. “There were slowdowns that were quite beyond the normal,” he said. “What the post office has a responsibility to do is to demonstrate to Canadians that they're determined to deliver the mail and do so in an efficient way.” He said the government had to decide whether the proposed rate increase was necessary. He noted, however, that the government was cutting subsidies to the post office this year and that Canada Post is supposed to eliminate its operating deficit by 1987. The deficit last year was about $350 million. Beatty said the cabinet was unlikely to make a decision this week or even next week. District budget gets okayed By CasNews Staff The provincial government and plan renovations to Stan VICTORIA nance Minister Hugh Curtis's fiscal policies have increased the burden on British Col- umbians with a heavier pro- (CP) — Fi- vincial debt, higher taxes, less services and fewer jobs, New Democrat Dave Stupich said Tuesday. “He has proven this gov- ernment’s record of abject failure to handle the fiscal uation in the province of ritish Columbia,” Stupich said during debate on the Finance Ministry's spending estimates. “He'll go down in history as the first one to bring back deficits to B.C. in 55 years, and as the best at denying services to the people of British Columbia,” the Op- position finance critic said. Stupich said when the Social Credit government took office in 1975, British Columbia had $4.4 billion in public debt. When Curtis be- came finance minister in 1978, the debt was $7.6 bil- lion. “But during his term of office so far, it has gone up 2.2-fold to a total of $16.8 billion,” he said. The total debt is about $5,700 for every person in the province. There was also more bor rowing from abroad, at. a higher interest rate. Stupich said the province's foreign debt, most of it in U.S. dol- lars, rose to $4.2 billion by the end of March 1984 from $500,000 in 1975. “It is costing us in excess of $500 million a year to pay interest to foreigners on debt that we owe them,” he said. “That makes the debt that the provincial government owes much more of a burden on Canadians than the debt that the federal government owes — to Canadians.” During the same time, a variety of taxes have in- creased significantly, Stupich said. He said that unemploy- ment is high (14.4 per cent in ley Humphries y School. © $43,575 to purchase a new 72-passenger bus. @ the balance to be used to replace Science 10 equipment and for minor renovations. has approved the Castlegar school district's 1985-86 cap- ital budget totalling $123,655. The budget will include: © $42,900 to investigate — April), “our edi system is in shambles and that our health care delivery system is being destroyed. “Along with borrowing all that money, we have des troyed the economy.” s annual general meeting. Pedrini said she garnered about half the votes. Other nominees were Jack Closkey and Bill Gor- koff. Pedrini will take over her one-year term as president beginning July 1. Rodgers will remain on the executive as a geographical representative for the B.C. Teachers Federation's repre- sentative assembly. Other for the Castlegar and District Hospital were for house Growers Co-operative Associa- tion of Surrey have been distributed to many food stores in Washington, most- ly in the western part of the state, said department spokesman Bert Bartleson. Morgan said the name of the pesticide wrongly used on the cuc- umbers may be released after chemical tests have been completed by health officials in Ottawa. Thelma MacAdam, chairman of the pesticide committee of the Society Promoting Environmental Conserva- tion, said Tuesday she was told by a Ministry offi comment at press time. able for comment at press time. Cucumbers have also been recalled from supermarkets and warehouses in Washington state. Dr. John Beare, head of the state's health division, warned Morgan would not say whether the pesticide found on the cucumbers was Temik, but he did say the compound was in the family of pesticides being vestigated. 7 “Temik is one of the carbamates,” he said. “But we have not identified the und to date.” “ie added the grower who used the pesticide won't be identified until the lab results are known. Morgan said his department will decide later whether the grower will be charged under the federal Food and rug Act. ” Concumers were warned Friday not to eat any of the cucumbers after 22 people who ate the vegetable reported ill. cial the on the bers was Temik. USED ON POTATOES MacAdam said Temik is only licens- ed in Canada for use on potatoes, adding‘it can also be used in hothouses on and pointsettias. Tuesday not to eat English cucumbers grown in B.C. “Few chemicals are as toxic as Temik,” she said. About 160 of 20,000 crates of the vegetables supplied to the region by Western Greenhouse Growers are lieved to have been contaminated. Co-op sales manager Howard Bishop said English cucumbers returned from grocery stores will probably be dump- ed in a landfill later this week. Rodeo By CasNews Staff Dust off yer cowboy hat and climb into yer trusty ol’ blue jeans — it's rodeo time in Castlegar! The Castlegar Lions Club is sponsoring its third annual rodeo this weekend beginning 2 p.m. on filled were: Deb Chmara vice-president, Hedy Oleski representing the status of women committee, Marlane King learning conditions chairperson, Ron Heuer pro- fessional development chair- person, Jim Crawford treas- urer and Alexia Turner chair- person on the committee against racism. Iran has most deaths LONDON (REUTER) — Amnesty International said Tuesday it documented ‘at least 1,500 executions last year, more than 40 per cent of them in Iran. The London-based human rights organization, which campaigns to’ end capital punishment throughout the world, said it had details of 1,513 lawful executions; 661 in Iran. It noted more executions probably took place in Iran and other countries than of- ficially reported. Amnesty said it could not give an exact total because many governments do not provide full information and comparisons with previous years cannot be made. The figures do not include extra-judicial executions, sentences handed down with. out a trial, disappearances or deaths in custody. Amnesty said it confirmed 292 executions in China. It said the figure was based mainly on reports from large urban centres and did not include small towns or rural as. The report had no figures for Iraq. Amnesty said there were reports of hundreds of dxeci s there but none rcould be confirmed. In Nigeria, where more than 110 executions were re- ported in 1984, at least 66 prisoners were put to death after trials before special tri- bunals with no right of appeal, Amnesty said. In South Africa at least 114 people — all but three either black or of mixed race — were executed, it said. VANCOUVER (CP) — A former bank manager who defrauded his bank of $373,000, lived a flamboyant life of playing the race track and the stock market, watched his investments go sour and was fired after throwing a potted plant at a customer received a four-year prison sentence Tuesday. “Dominic Moscone, 39, was also ordered by provincial court Judge Wallace Craig to repay the $373,000 to the Bank of Montreal. Crown attorney Monty Carstairs said Moscone, who managed a branch in east Vancouver, stole the money between April 1978 and December 1983 by making a series of false loans in the names of 26 real and fictitious ns. He used the funds to pay off his personal invest- both y and Sunday. Scheduled activities include sad- die broncing, bareback riding, calf roping and wrestling (“when a guy jumps off his horse and grabs the calf by the head”), team roping, the barrel race, and bull riding, says rodeo chairman Marcel Audet of the Castlegar Lions. One of the highlights of the rodeo is wild cow milking. A three-man team chases down a cow, ropes it, and extracts a measure of milk in a comes to town pop or beer bottle as fast as possible, said Audet. The greased pig contest for children will be held again this year, and Audet says there's at least one more new event for the kids — the calf scramble. This involves children aged eight and up chasing a calf and attempting to grab a ribbon tied to its tail. Another new treat for kids — “mutton busting” — is in the works, but Audet said there's one problem. The Lions are having trouble coming up with a sheep — not exactly a common commodity in the West Kootenay. Audet said the event which he re- cently saw at the Keremeos rodeo, involves children aged 4, 5 and 6 riding a sheep let loose from a chute. Sheep “don't gallop, they hop,” says Audet. “It's really cute.” Other rodeo events include a pan- cake breakfast on both Saturday and Sunday, a beer garden, a rodeo dance on Saturday night with the band Amber, and a baron of beef and beans supper following rodeo events on Sunday. The attendance at last year's Castlegar rodeo was approximately 2,000 on each of two days and Audet hopes it will increase this year. “We've been quite happy with it,” he said. “It seems to be catching on more each year.” While the rodeo has previously made money, “it's not a big fund- raiser like the trade fair,” says Audet. “But it holds its own.” SEATTLE (AP) himself after all. and a home computer. the second week than the first.” — An eight-year-old Cub Scout who won a trip for four to Disneyland but decided to give it away to dying children, will be going to Disneyland A Bellevue, Wash., businessman, who says he was touched by the story about the boy's decision, has offered to send Billy Joe Thomas and his disabled parents on an all-expenses-paid trip to the Magic Kingdom. “That young man has more than proven hi: said the donor, who asked to remain anonymous. just a gift from one family to another.” Billy Joe, a Cub Scout for about two months, sold enough $2 tickets for the Boy Scouts of America 75th Diamond Jubilee Seattle Scout Show to win passes to restaurants and a theatre, two Swiss army knives, passes to a museum and free roller skating. The third grader kept on selling. He received more entertainment passes and gifts, a handyman's workshop “There just aren't that many kids who are that enthusiastic after the first week,” said Sophie McDaniel, committee chairman for Thomas's pack. “He did better Cub Scout officials say that the biggest sellers the previous two years sold about 500 tickets. Scouts help others cancer. worth,” “This is blind. Billy Joe, who sold 800 tickets, finally won the Disneyland trip, including airfare, hotel and passes for four to the amusement park in California. “I wanted to give it to two handicapped kids, so their moms can take them to Disneyland before they die,” he said. By handicapped, he said, he meant someone with Ray Thomas said the idea of winning the trip to Disneyland and then giving it away was his son's. “He said: ‘Hey, I want to give it away. There's lots of kids and they can't be Scouts. I've got lots of chances to win. I want to give it away to kids with cancer at Children's Orthopedic Hospital.” Doctors at the hospital will select the youngsters, said Stuart Case, Rotary district chairman. For the past three years, club members have helped provide dream trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. Ray Thomas, who had to quit work six years ago because of lung disease, said the family's income is less than $800 a month. His wife Laura is deaf and legally “This is hard to believe,” learned of the offer. “I knew there were kids who couldn't be Scouts, so I thought they'd be glad to take the trip,” he said. never been to Disneyland, but I'd sure like to go.” Bill Joe said when he “Tve ' exhibitions and Thirty die in Bangladesh Banker goes to jail ments or business ventures that had gone sour, prosecutor said. Moscone, who was fired from his $39,000-a-year job after the plant-throwing incident in November 1983, pleaded guilty last April 1 the DHAKA (REITER) — least 30 people have died in an outbreak of diarrheal dis eases in Bangladesh's cyclone disaster zone and about 2,500 others have been affected, a senior medical official said today. The government health service said that 30 deaths have been confirmed so far on two cyclone-hit islands in the Bay of Bengal. About 2,500 people were affected by cholera, dysen tery and diarrhea in the area, he said. Newspapers have said 150 have died in the outbreak of disease caused by survivors drinking polluted rainwater, but authorities say it will take several days for a medi- cal investigation to be com- pleted. Pakistan's President Mo- hammad Zia-ul-Haq arrived in Dhaka today and im- mediately left with Bangla- desh’s leader, Hossain Mo hammad Ershad, for a tour of the area where the cyclone hit 12 days ago, killing thou- sands of people. Tight security was im posed at Dhaka's interna- tional airport as the two leaders left by helicopter for Lumber probe Urir Char, worst-hit of seven islands swept by the May 24 storm. Last Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene joined Ershad for a disaster summit on the so-called graveyard island where thousands are lieved to have died. Twelve days ago strong winds and a tidal wave bat tered low-lying islands and coastal areas in the Bay of Bengal, sweeping thousands of people and their cattle into the sea. A government official said that so far, 2,086 bodies have been recovered and a further 4,858 people are missing and feared dead in the catas- trophe. At least five people have also died in floods sweeping eastern districts bordering India's Assam state and thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes there. r Srreer TALK THE CHANGING face of Castlegar: Renovations are underway in the old Robinson's Store at Castleaird Plaza. No word yet on who will occupy the store, but a Trade West, which bought out the store from on creating jobs. The article points up the local jam mer paki a eng sk green ph EMMA's story was one part of a two-part feature on how Canadians are responding to tough times and taking control of their changing economic destinies. Another article reported that a conference at Douglas College sponsored by the Social Planning and Review Council of B.C. is planned for this weekend to explain how the average citizen can create jobs and y — like EMMA's. has vacated the premises. MEANWHILE, Joe Alves Grocery across from the liquor store is up for sale. THE STEDMAN'S store is undergoing a shake-up and had its windows papered over this morning while staff took inventory. EMMA'S JAMBROSIA continues to receive good regional A similar conference was held at Selkirk College last weekend and covered in the Sunday CasNews. TH building in Nelson has been sold to three Nelson businessmen who plan to turn it into a heritage-style mini-mall. TRANS CANADA Glass is undergoing a name change to Speedy Auto Glass. The national firm has 185 press in the V; daily The Sun featured the Crescent Valley jam factory in a June 1 Pee from Victoria to St. John's, Nfid., including one on Columbia Ave., here in Castlegar. NAMES IN THE NEWS By The Canadian Press Elton John’s former manager took advantage of the rock star's youth and inexperience when he gained rights to 169 songs eventually made into records that sold for a total of $260 million, John’s lawyer said. John, 38, went to court Tuesday demanding that his former manager, Diek James, give him profits and rights to all the songs the singer wrote between 1967 and 1975, including Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Candle in the Wind. Lawyer Mark Littman told the court that John and his lyricist friend Bernie Taupin signed the first of the three agreements in 1967 after being caught making unauthorized use of James's recording studio to record their own demon- stration tapes. James gave them 100 pounds — then about $350 Canadian — as an advance on royalties, and the two were so elated they did not read the agreement and would have signed anything, Littman told the court. John, who was then Reginald Dwight, was 20 and Taupin 17. Littman said that because they were under 21, they had to get their parents to sign the agreements. The full amounts of James's profits and of John's and Taupin's royalties have not been disclosed. British lawsuits do not specify the amount of money being sought. *_ 28 « Yoko Ono wants to keep the name of her late husband, John Lennon, off products of “unsatisfactory quality,” says a licensing agent who will sell the rights to use the name of the famous ex-Beatle. “For example, if you wanted to make ‘the John Lennon piano,’ you'd come to us,” said Marilyn Goldberg, president of Marigold Enterprises, which has acquired worldwide rights to Lennon's estate. Proceeds — expected to reach an estimated $20 million over seven years — will help set up a John Lennon museum in New York that will include facilities for young musicians, store, said Goldberg. Ono, 50, signed the deal because “there have been illegal items produced in the marketplace that are of unsatisfactory quality,” Goldberg said. Marigold also will publish selections from drawings done by Lennon and will sell the rights to photos, posters, greeting cards and clothing oe Elizabeth Taylor has been discharged from a California hospital following tests for injuries she sustained after Sharma still in stable condition “She's very awake and alert, and feeling so good you can't tell she’s been in sur- gery,” her mother said Tues- day. “She is so spunky.” LOS ANGELES (CP) — Rachel Sharma was reported in serious but stable con dition Tuesday night after surgery to remove her wearing a 23-kilogram skirt for a television film, her publicist said. Taylor was admitted to Santa Monica Hospital on May 24 and discharged Friday following tests for what her physician, Dr. William Skinner, described as “severe neck and back problems of degenerative cervical and lumbar sacral spine disease and secondary muscle spasm,” Chen Sam, Taylor's spokesman, said Tuesday. Skinner advised the actress to cancel her schedule for two weeks and to “intense physi .” Sam said. He felt surgery was unnecessary, she said. Taylor injured her back after donning a 23-kilogram period skirt during filming of North and South, an ABC miniseries set in South Carolina. . While Arlo Guthrie was on stage here, a thief was busy in the folk singer's dressing room, stealing a bag containing airline tickets and other items, police said. Guthrie told police Sunday that his bag was taken at the Temple of Music and Art either Saturday or Sunday while he performed, police said. The bag contained two airline tickets valued at $1,070, a crystal pendant, a synthesizer operator's manual, a telephone book, an appointment book and a shirt, police were told. * 8 « Actor Anthony Herrera, a member of the cast of the ABC daytime drama Loving, says he's planning to make some of Eudora Welty’s short stories into a series of films. 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