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The specialists at H&R Block always have the answers you need If THERE'S EVER A TIME FOR Castlégar News Aprit 12, 1989 Deaths said sacrifices NOTICE Genelle Improvement District GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — A satanic cult of drug smugglers who sacrificed and ‘apparently cannibalized 12 ‘people, in student on humans slaughtered cluding a U.S. college spring break, authorities say Five people were arrested in connec tion with the killings and on drug charges by Mexican Federal Judicial Police, which found the dozen bodies in graves at a ranch just south of the U.S. border 2 BLOCK 1761 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-5244 Monday te Fridey 9 .™-6 p. ‘Sorurday 9 e.m.-8 twas horrible,’ Cameron County Sheriff Alex Perez told a news don ference in the Texas border city of Brownsville “It was like slaughterhouse. * The suspects were U.S. and Mexican said sheriff's Lieut. George Gavito, who did not identify them fur human citizens, ther The dead included Mark Kilroy, a 2i-year-old University of student who v Matamoros, Gavito said. Kilroy apparently was* chosen at random " feglers who had hoped human sacrifices would protect them from harm, Gavito said. Kilroy was grabbed after the cult members ‘were told to pick one Anglo male that particular night,"” Gavito said. The cult had been involved in human sacrifices for about nine months, he said, and prayed to the devil ** police would not arrest them, so bullets Would not kill them and so they could make more money Authorities found candles and ket tles full of body parts and animal said Oran Neck, chief U.S, Customs agent in Brownsville Also bowls and a caldron from which brains, hearts and Texas ished last month in so the bones, found were other organs ‘of victims were eaten, Perez said “They were cooking body parts in a big pot there on that ranch,’’ said Texas Autores Generallim Mau by drug-smuggling cult blood,. herbs, rooster’s fet, goat's *Heads and turtles. Authorities would not identify the other victims, but said all were males. Some victims we and oth with machetes. or Neck said. The ‘bodies were found Tuesday morning in a field about 30 kilometres west of Matamoros, Gavito said Anthony Padilla, a photographer with the Brownsville Herald, said he saw ‘Kilroy’s body at a Matamoros funeral home. “There was nothing in- side the skull,’* Padilla said. In some forms of witchcraft, removal of the brain. signifies a sacrifice of the victim's soul. Padilla said Kilroy’s legs were cut off at mid-calf ‘and his spine was severed and twisted Kilroy, a premedical student, vanished from a crowded Matamoros street shortly after 2a.m, on March 14 while out drinking with a group of friends iAthe city SY*80,000 just across the Rio Glande from Brownsville The discovery Tuesday was the four th drug-relaied mass killing recently discovered along the U.S.-Mexican border On March 29, Mexican authorities found the bodies of three women and six men on an abandoned ranch near Agua Prieta, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz., and on April | the bodies.of another three men were sledgehammers, foundix JLonthe property Briefly... Reagan didn't say lie: North WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Oliver North ‘testified that neither Ronald Reagan nor Robert McFarlane told him to lie to the U.S. Congress tohide covert support to the Nicaraguan Contras. “The president never told me,’’ North said, answering prosecution questions about a draft leuer he wrote in August 1985 in response to congressional inquiries into his activities on behalf of th¢ Contras. North said he assumed he had Reagan's and McFafrlane’s implicit ap- proval to write deceptive letters in late 1985 to congressmen who asked about his role in aiding the Contras despite a Congressional ban. He acknowledged that at that time he was co-ordinating the Contra aid plan. Concorde loses piece of tail SYDNEY, Australia (AP) A British Airways Concorde super- sonic jetliner with 100 Americans aboard lost a 2'/2-metre piece of its tail while trying to set a speed record on a world-circling journey, but landed safely in Sydney. Part of the rudder disintégrated while the supersonic jet was flying at about 12,200 metres at Mach 1.8 — almost twice the speed of sound from Christchurch, New Zealand, said British Airways spokesman Peter Stanton. He said the pilot was unaware of any problem until he was alerted by the control tower at Sydney's Kingsford-Smith International Airport However, at least one passenger said the plane had shuddered and Piggier vaccine said invented WASHINGTON (AP) — The U,S. Agriculture Department said that American scientists have invented a vaccine to make pigs piggier Pigs immunized with the experimental vaccine ate an average of 10 kilograms more feed and gained 11 pounds more weight than pigs without the treatment, the department’s Agricultural Research Service reported “Ifa commercial product results from this venture and is approved by regulator agencies, it Could mean more quality pork produced at lower cost and in less time,” said animal physiologist Jerome Pekas. Soldiers head for Namibia OTTAWA (CP) Canad ead Mote Cc imrennger soldiers will vases for Namibia of dens ana Je tuotransport Wells blasts Tories PLACENTIA, Nfld, «CP)-— Liberal Leader Clyde Wells has added a bit ‘more cucumber dressing to his already well-oiled campaign for the April 20 Newfoundland election, Ata packed rally in this seaside town on the Avalon Peninsula, Wells blasted the “Tory government for in- vesting -$22-million” inthe struggling Sprung greenhouse operation near St. John’s. Sprung is the great symbol of this government's stupidity and waste, thundered Wells as about 600 people cheered him on. Although cucumbers from the sprawling hydroponic greenhouse are being sold in Toronto, Montreal and Atlantic Canada, its future remains in doubt, There was a major crop failure late last year and the operation has since been put in receivership nment hopes to sell it. The Sprung problem haunted Premier Tom Rideout’s campaign earlier in thé day. During a raucus leaders’ forum at Memorial University, Rideout was rudely reminded of the Tory gover nment’s involvement in the troubled greenhouse venture WAVES CUCUMBER “You were part of.the government that put over $22 million into growing these,”” said an angry female student, pulling a cucumber out of a bag. **Does this 100k like a post-secondary The gover: April 12,1989 AS (S 60 YEARS OF 3 EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE Pork Butt Flo: 2.84 ns. 1.29. New Red Potatoes 1.96 xs. Small Tomatoes U.S.,Grown 1.74 i. 19. rida Grown Romaine Lettuce Or Green or Red Leaf Lettuce California Grown * Each 09 Rice WESTWOOD — A home you can afford because you can Id it yourself DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME Felipe Flores, spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office, said he knew nothing about reports of can: nibalism, But he added that during the ritual killings victims’ brains were cut out_and put_on a fire, mixed with Georgian On March 27, two people from Arizona and three from the Mexican state of Sonora were found bound and stabbed in a shed in Tucson, Ariz. All 17 deaths were also called drug: related residents say tensions cooling MOSCOW (AP) persisted today as soldiers complained of harassment but residents said ten Sporadic strikes sions had cooled in Tbilisi, scene of a bloddy clash between army troops and Georgian nationalist protesters. The official Communist party newspaper Pravda said today that the mood remained the Georgian capital and several other cities in the southern Soviet republic ‘extremely tense”? in The situation is “‘more or less quiet now,” said a church employee in Tbilisi who asked not to be identified They’ ve promised to lift the curfew if people behave.” Pravda put the number of police and troops injured in Sunday’s melee bet Soviet ween troops and pro BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THE B.C. BUSINESS NETWORK The series of advertisements on Regional Business Opportunities you've seen running in this publication are only a small sample of information and opportu nities available to businesses through the computerized B.C. Business Network The B.C. Business Network is a public database of helpful business information including: statistics, government procurement requirements, and extensive domestic and international business opportunities. 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Howard Dirks Minister of State for Kootenay Province of British Columbia pendence demonstrators at 91 Previously, officials had said 75 soldiers and police were hurt No reason was given for the change The military Red Star said army political officers have been dropping leaflets onto the city from helicopters. It indicated the leaflets were part of an official campa public anger against the newspaper gn to counter military. Officials said 18 civilians died Sun: day Red Star said youths were harassing Soviet soldiers, and pis under way to provocations against soldiers. Soviet media said strikers have been trying to prevent other Georgians from working, including bus drivers and there are attem: organize Parents wishing to Kindergarten for September December 31, 1989. Primary, Ootischenia 9:00 a.m. - 11:00a.m.; Wed., Thurs 9:00 a.m. - 11:00a.m.; ROBSON ELEMENTARY Thursday, April 20 TARRYS ELEMENTARY Board of School Truste SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 (CASTLEGAR) KINDERGARTEN AND GRADE ONE REGISTRATION For the ‘89/'90 School Year roll their child in either ENGLISH Kindergarten or RUSSIAN 1989, ore asked to register their child at the elementary school indicated below. If the child is presently attending Kin: dergarten, there is no need to register him/her in Grade One Please note that a birth or baptismal certificate MUST be shawn betore a child can be registered. Kindergarten pupils must be f 89. Grade One pupils must be six years old on or before CASTLEGAR PRIMARY — Wednesday, Thursday, April 19, 20 — 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m KINNAIRD ELEMENTARY — Kinnaird Elementary, Valley Vista, Blueberry Creek , April 19, 20 — 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m ~ 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m Wednesday, April 19 — 8:300.m WOODLAND PARK — Woodland Park, Pass Creek Thursday, April 20 — 8:30a.m-= 2:30 p.m NOTE: Dual entry for Kindergarten will not be im- plemented for the '89/'90 year. s School District No. 9 (Castlegar) factory workers. The central square where the clash took place was today in flowers, placed as memorial tributes to the dead, said Zhorab. Lomidze, an editor at the Georgian news agency Gruzintorm. ‘Official mourning ended yester covered day,"' he said square where the tragedy happened, and today the “People went out to the square is full of flowers. ENFORCED CURFEW As authorities enforced a ban on public gatherings and an 11 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew in Tbilisi, President Mikhail expressed his resolve Tuesday to oppose ‘‘ex tremism, anti-Soviet displays and the adventurist Gorbachev destructive actions of elements. At a meeting with Hans-Jochen Vogel, head of West Germany's Social party, Gorbachev was quoted by the official Tass news agen cy as saying he considered ita ‘sacred”’ principle that Georgians and others have the right to express their but that the law limits Democratic opinions freely, their actions. “The question of state nothing to be trifled with or taken lightly," Vogel quoted Gorbachev as saying power is Cars and adorned Tuesday with black flags and people work black clothes and ribbons, said Nana Natadze, wife of a Georgian nationalist activist trolleys were @ years old on or betore Twin Rivers, Castlegar - 12:00 noon planes to assist pencekeabiseaefYuria in tbe dou era (riche lacrhons The Defence Department said that 203 soldiers would fly from Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, easiof Ouawa The announcement came as External A ffiars Minister Joe Clark and Defence Minister Bill McKnight welcomed a cessation of battles in Namibia: Fighting between South African-controlled security forces and guerrillas of the South West Africa People’s Organization stopped this weekend. The week-long battles had jeopardized a UN-backed peace plan under which Namibia would become independent after decades of South African rule. Union wants wage increases VANCOUVER (CP) general wage increases of $1.50 an hour retroactive to April 1, similar increase next April, the union said The union was releasing its demands for a new two-year contract for 23,000 health-care workers in British Columbia Management has only made very general demands so far, said union spokesman Sean O'Flynn Talks have been scheduled for this month and next Brazil to look at cancer rate BRASILIA (Reuter) — Brazil has ordered an investigation into what it believes could be a connection between depletion of the Earth’s protec tive ozone layer and a high incidence of skin cancer in a gommunity of fair-skinned German immigrants. The Hospital Employees Unidn wants with a Tarso Flecha de Lima, secretary general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, said the Health Ministry will investigate whether cancer among the 16,000 members of the community was caused by damage to the ozone layer by industrialized countries The newspaper Correio Brasiliense recently reported 90 per cent of the residents of Santa Maria de Jatiba in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo showed symptoms of skin cancer Pharmacists fear price war X\ICTORIA (CP) — Independent pharmacists on Vancouver Island say they fear a supermarket price war on dispensing fees will drive them out of business The battle began in the Vancouy babes This week, dispensing fees in Victoria dropped as low as 98 cents compared with the industry average of $6.92 The B.C predatory pricing among large grocery store chains that can sustain long. term losses in their pharmacies Pharmacists Society said the lower prices are a case of Bouchard to visit resort OTTAWA (CP) Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard will visit the ski hills of Sunshine Village in Aiberta on Thursday, to get first-hand impressions of a controversial proposal to expand the resort near Banff Bouchard will also meet with environmentalists and business groups who have been fighting a fierce political battle over the issue Environmentalists say the plans, which include a 300-room hotel, a high-speed chairlift, and a 1,000-car parking lot, will destroy the beauty of the area, and will be a signal for unchecked development in Banff National Park Support The April Cancer GIVE GENEROUSLY WHEN CANVASSERS CALL Student to you The student accused the government of shortchanging post-secondary education while pumping millions into Sprung Rideout countered that some day, if ‘survives, it could bea place of employment for many. university graduates. During the forum, he promised a solid review of the student-aid policy. Wells said he would increase student loans by $3 million in the first year of a Liberal government and NDP Leader Cle Newhook complained that both the Tories and the Liberals have given newfoundland’s youth nothing but broken dreams and hollow promises Wells had his problems with the restless students as well as Rideout. He misjudged the crowd, and his usually popular tirade against the out- migration of people from Newfoun- dland fell flat. “‘An elderly woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘If you can get my son to come back home, I'll get down on my knees and kiss your feet with tears streaming down my face, Wells said, repeating a story that had been well-received at other meetings. The students weren't impressed and there was a roar of boos. Hours before the meeting, Wells held a news conference to attach a multi-million-dollar price tag to his election platform. 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