ce ¢ 1, 1990 ‘gar News NATIONAL NEWS Tories want provinces to help push UI bill OTTAWA (CP) — Employment Minister Barbara McDougall wants provincial help to push the stalled unemployment insurance bill through the Liberal-dominated Senate. And she has warned provincial governments the $800 million they have been seeking for months from Ottawa for new retraining programs is in jeopardy because the upper cham- ber is holding up Bill C-21, a proposal to overhaul the unemployment in- surance system. Those messages were in a letter the minister sent the provinces after reporting to cabinet in June, gover- nment officials said. “She just said ‘Here’s the PERSONAL ALCOHOLICS anonymous and Al-Anon. yoas7h Wish to locate CHRISTINE ALMA Mac DONALD, Widow of the late Daniel Dixon MacDonald: Married at Merritt 1972. Reply to Color drapings and makeovers. Ladies pamper yourself — call today to tind out how to host an Image Improvement Clinic, Personal consultations also. 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VOG 1Y0 104/80 LEGALS LOST DUPLICATE CERTIFICATE OF TITLE LAND TITLE ACT RE: Lot 15, Di Lot 7174, Kootenay District, Plon _ WHEREAS proof of loss of Duplicate Certificate of Title No. 138440-1 to the above mentioned lands issued in the name of MARY AGNES WHITE EXECUTRIX OF THE WILL OF ROBERT HENRY WHITE, DECEASED SEE DF 26978 has been tiled in this office Notice is hereby given that | shall at the expiration of fourteen days from situation’,’’ said one of the officials on condition of anonymity. “If there is anything you feel you can do to expedite the passage of Bill C-21, please do so. The legislation, affecting everything from improved parental benefits to the number of weeks of work needed to qualify for unem- Ployment-insurance-benefits, was in- tended to come into effect last January after the Commons passed it in November 1989. But Liberal senators balked at passing the bill without amendments, and it has bounced for months bet- ween the two feuding chambers. The bill would see the government cut its $2.9-billion annual con- tribution to the UI fund and pass on all the costs to employers and em- ployees. The Senate wants the gover- nment to restore half that amount. Liberal Senate Leader Allan MacEachen has suggested the bill be put in front of a free conference — a rarely used procedure in which both houses of Parliament work out a compromise. This motion will be debated when the Senate resumes sitting next mon- th. Harvie Andre, government leader in the Commons, has rejected this procedure, holding out the prospect of an extended legislative purgatory for the bill. All federal-provincial retraining programs expired in April 1989 and Ottawa and the provinces had been negotiating new ones that would cost the federal treasury $800 million. But the talks aré on-hold-because the UI bill has been held up, the of- ficials said. Andrew Jackson, an economist at the Canadian Labor Congress, said he saw no reason why the government couldn't at least continue to talk about the programs. Commons Speaker John Fraser has warned of a serious constitutional crisis if the impasse is not resolved. There-is_also a human cost. Some examples: — About 80,000 families would have already qualified for an extra 10 weeks of parental benefits had the Senate passed the bill. — Bill C-21 would have extended unemployment insurance benefits to people over ake 65 still in the work- force to comply with a Federal Court ruling last year OTTAWA (CP) — Unem- ployment insurance benefits paid by the federal government in the first half of 1990 were — at $7.01 billion — 9.5 per cent higher than for the same period of 1989, Statistics Canada said. Since the start of 1990, the government has received 1.6 million claims for benefits, up 10.2 per cent from the first six months of 1989, the agency ad- ded. In the first six fronths of the year, the average weekly payment increased 7.3 per cent to $231.48 from the previous year Payments increase In June, 964,000 were receiving UI benefits, up 6.5 per cent over the same month last year. Male beneficiaries rose 12.3 per cent to 497,000; there was little change for female recipients. Total claims in June rose 10.1 Per cent to 254,000 from the same month of 1989. Earlier this month, Statistics Canada reported the national unemployment rate for July rose to 7.8 per cent from 7.5 per cent in June. Unemployment in July was at its highest since January. 4 Research group saved OTTAWA (CP) — A tentative agreement has been reached to save the National Research Council’s high- energy physics group. The small group of physicists — pioneers in the fields of high-energy and nuclear physics — could officially transfer to Carleton University as early as the fall “‘Negotiations that we conducted with the NRC have concluded. There is an agreement,”’ said Leslie Copley, dean of science at the university “This group has worked in close contact for 20 years. It would have been a tragic loss for the country if the group had to disband,”’ Copley added High-energy physics and nuclear physics involve the study of tiny sub- atomic particles. CLASSIFIED SHOWCASE Schools Re-open Tuesday, Sept. 4 FAMILIAR SIGNS TAKE ON A NEW EMPHASIS AS SCHOOL AGAIN GETS UNDERWAY IN DISTRICT CLASSROOMS. Devecaraceore: VEHICULAR SPEED MUST BE REDUCED IN SCHOOL 30 km/ SCHOOL] moronrists MUST STOP TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO USE SCHOOL CROSSWALKS. hort pedi STOP WHEN RED or their part, parents shou insist. their children use LIGHTS FLASHING! designated pedestrian and Ho Rerscega bus is stopped on the highway with red lights school crosswalks from either di must stop and must not flinsh until the red lights stop flashing. 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Senith Registrar Date of first publication: August 25 1990 — WANTED — CLEAN COTTON RAGS Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Mobile Auto Glass Service ¥ Patio Doors CA AD Mirrors <7 UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LOCAL 1298 (CASTLEGAR) GLASS & TRIM LTD. “For All Your Glass Needs!" 365-6505 24 HR. SERVICE 050 COLUMBIA AV! CASTLEGAR 5 Lia, , WEDNESDAY September 5, 1990 Vol, 43, No. 71 Castlegar, B.C. 3 Sections (A, B & C) sia ba. 75 Cents Library receives literacy collection +++ A6 Canucks’ Reinhart hangs up skates WEATHER Tonight: Clear skies, Lows 8°10". Thursdoy: Sunny with scattered atternoon clouds giving the risk of showers or thundershowers. Highs near 28°. Friday's outlook is generally sunny with aliernoon cloud buildyps. Probability of precipitation 15.0 per cent tonight ond 30 per cer Thursday By KEITH THIRKELL Special to the Castlegar News This year, CP caustic chemicals and herbicides. Fierce opposition arising from environmental concerns about the use of herbicides has forced CP Rail to cancel all herbicide applications in B.C. and develop state-of-the-art technology to control vegetation along the corhpany’s tracks. is experimenting with a revolutionary new prototype rail car that kills all weeds and vegetation over which it rolls. Instead, the new car ee ee a oH if. Aap (ated sano vie ee re et David Polster, an ecologist working for CP Rail, walks in front of the company's new device which kills weeds along rail lines with a blast of super-heated steam. comows Proioby Keun th CP Rail unveils new device to kill weeds — the first one of its type in the world — uses super- heated steam to kill vegetation. The car, part of a small train of tanks, engines and boilers, rolls along shooting 400 C steam on to the underlying tracks. The car was manufactured by Tun- dra Steel Products of Cranbrook David Polster, an ecologist working under con- tract to CP, said Tundra was chosen as the prototype’s prime contractor because of the company’s ability to work through the design process with CP please see CP RAI page A2 But gone are the QUALITY FILL MATERIAL $9Q°° PER LOAD — Delivered in City Limits — TOPSOIL No. 1 SCREENED ROAD GRAVEL *x MORTAR SAND BEDDING SAND x DRAIN ROCK ROAD SAND CASTLEGAR SAND & GRAVEL 365-3990 — 8:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. — Westar Timber Southern Wood Products Board of School Trustees School District No. 9 (Castlegar) This message is published in the interest of public safety by the above businesses : Judge overturns hunting conviction By SIMON BIRCH Editor A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned the conviction of-a tocat man for poaching elk. Bert Franks was fined a total of $3,000 in April after he was convicted of illegally hunting the elk and unlawful possession of dead wildlife The charges stemmed from an in cident alleged to have occurred in Oc- tober 1988 on Mount Sentinel near Castlegar. In setting aside the verdict of provincial court Judge Donald Sperry, Justice Raymond Cooper said the Crown’s failure to call Franks’ hunting partner, Darryl Keus, an eyewitness to the shooting of the elk, was unfair and that Sperry erred in ruling that defence counsel Richard Spilker should have called Keus to the stand if Spilker wanted his testimony Citing precedent, Spilker argued at the trial that the Crown should call all witnesses necessary to tell the facts surrounding the incident in question. “The defence submissions which were rejected at the trial were found to be correct by’ the appeal judge,”’ Spilker said Tuesday. Spilker was not available for thé appeal which was handled by his partner, Bill Heflin. “*In fairness to the accused, | am satisfied that the Crown might well have called Darryl Keus to testify,’ Cooper says in his written judgment He adds that the Crown’s failure to call Keus to testify ‘‘raises an inferen ce’’ that the Crown had a motive in not doing so. “In the foregoing circumstances | find that the learned trial judge did err in ruling that the witness Keus Shoutd-have-been-called by the defen ce if it wished his testimony. In my view, armed with the knowledge of his testimony there was an element of unfairness in the Crown's refusal to lead this evidence."’ Crown prosecutor Scott Bell told the Castlegar News today he has recommended the Crown appeal Cooper's decision to the B.C. Court of Appeal. However, he said a final decision will be up to his supervisors and the Attorney General's office The Crown has 30 days to file the ap peal from the date of Cooper's decision, Aug. 30, Bell said Hotel back to normal after ‘misunderstanding’ By ED MILLS Staff Writer A one-day walkout by Hi Arrow Hotel employees ended Saturday night after management admitted it jumped the gun by firing some workers‘and laying off others. Both sides are now saying it was a misunderstanding that led to em- Taylor said were Friday by Oliver who informed them they were no longer needed. She said some employees were told they could work but with substantial pay cuts. The information picket was set up around 2 p.m. Friday. Taylor said she contacted the president of the Hotel, Restaurant, Ployees setting up an picket outside the hotel Friday after- noon. “Yeah, there was a misunderstan- ding,” the hotel’s new general manager, Ron Oliver, said on Tuesday. ‘‘We came in with the idea that there was no staff in this place. We did not realize we were violating union rights so we solved the problem and everybody's back.”” Oliver came to Castlegar from Saskatoon last week to run the Hi Arrow after a Saskatchewan interest bought the hotel two weeks ago. He said there was some lack of communication between the new management and the employees, and the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand of Vancouver which had been running the hotel after it was repossessed April 23. by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Employee shop steward Colleen Culinary E and Bartenders Union, Nick Worhaug, who talked with the hatel’s new management. An was reached shortly after The information picketers disbanded ~and all employees returned to work immediately under their union con tract “This guy (Oliver) apologized, | don’t know how many times, for doing that (phoning employees) because he said he jumped the gun,” said Taylor Taylor said the new owners didn’t please see HOTEL page A2 Smooth switch planned By CasNews Staff Flight service specialists will take over the Castlegar Airport control tower at the same time the six air traf fic controllers are moved out and there will be no disruption of service, a Transport Canada spokesman said Some flight service station equip ment will be moved in right away and the rest will go in about six weeks later, said Bill Almolky, the regional director of public affairs for Tran sport Canada in Vancouver at tower The FSS personnel should have all their equipment in place by mid December, he added In a letter to Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, federal Transport Minister Doug Lewis said the fiight service station “‘will subsequently be moved to the vacant tower building as soon as technical modifications are completed.”" Lewis and flight service spec have said safety at Castlegar Airport please see TOWER page A2 Slain man's dad angry at court By ED MILLS Staff Writer On the same day Mark Lightle was beine buried in a Castlegar cemetery, the three men accused of killing him were granted bail by a Calgary judge. “We just feel the justice system has been raped, we’ve been raped and the people of Canada have been raped that these three have been allowed to walk freely,’ said Robert Lightle, who was in Castlegar for his son’s funeral Aug. 27. ““We feel very revolted and very sick at heart. We're very let down by the justice system of Canada and | will go to no ends to see that justice is served if it takes the rest of my life.”” A former Castlegar resident, Mark Robert Lightle, 28, was beaten to death in a fight on a downtown Calgary street in the early morning hours of Aug. 22. Lightle, who graduated from Stanley Humphries secondary school in 1980 but had been living in Calgary for the last 10 years, died of a brain hemorrhage on arrival at hospital. Timothy Stuart Steer; 26, David lan Olson, 20, both of Calgary and Donovan James Hilton, 20, of Wetaskiwin were charged with man- slaughter in connection with Lightle’s death. A Calgary judge granted the three bail at & preliminary inquiry in Calgary provincial court. Calgary’s chief crown prosecutor Manferd Delong, who was not the Prosector in the case, said he has or- dered a tape and transcript of the hearing to determine if an appeal can be launched. “*I want to get a little closer to the judge’s reasons of why he felt that these people, charged with man- slaughter should be released," Delong said. He said it would have to be ‘‘highly special circumstances’ for one judge to overturn a colleague's decision in any case. The prosecutor handling the case, Gary Belecki, did not return repeated phone calls by the Castlegar News to his Calgary office. . Robert Lightle is blaming the judge. “As far as I'm concerned, he's condoning a misjustice that was carried out after a brutal and heinous crime. Mark was beaten and kicked to death and justice is not being served by letting those people walk freely on the streets of Calgary today,”’ she said, Lightle said he will attend every day—| of the trial of the three men. No trial date has been set yet. 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