' Classic book too racy CAIRO (AP) — The Egyp- tian government has gone to court to clean up the Thou- sand and One Nights, argu- ing that racy passages in the centuries-old Arabic classic are a threat to Egyptian} youth. The Interior Ministry has charged three booksellers with misdemeanor violations of pornography laws for printing, importing and dis- tributing the unexpurgated version of the legendary tales told by Scheherazade. It has seized 3,000 copies of the book, also known as Ara- bian Nights that includes the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and chara- eters like Aladdin. Although a decision by the THE BUS Blinds INESS DIRECTO . po od Brian L. Lene Brown | =- CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT SUPERIOR Window Covenng Products 270 Col bia Ave. > Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 court is not d before May 19, the case has caused an uproar among scholars and intellectuals who fear the government move was prompted by Islamic extre- mists. “The Thousand and One Nights as a literary docu- ment has the right to exist unchanged because of its his- toric significance,” retired magazine editor Anis Man- sour, a prominent Egyptian intellectual, told The Asso- ciated Press. “My fear is that if we con- SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Cast tlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner tinue to fi obscene words from our literature, it will not stop there . . . It will move to poetry, swimming suits, alcohol, and step by step it will lead us to become another (Islamic) fundamen- talist state.” The Moslem Brotherhood and other fundamentalist groups have pressured Pres- ident Hosni Mubarak’s gov- ernment to make Islam's stern religious law the na- tional law of this largely Moslem nation. Interior Ministry officials say parts of the classic in- clude graphic sexual refer- ences and such stories as the adventures of three young women who seduce a poor porter. “We are not asking for the execution of the Thousand and One Nights,” said Brig. Adly el-Kosheiry, head of the Interior Ministry's delin- quents department. “We want to expurgate from it the dirty words, sentences and tales which have bad effects on the youth and push them toward deviation and corrup- tion.” SEXUALLY EXPLICIT Opponents of the govern ment's action argue that sex. ually explicit passages form only a small part of the Thousand and One Nights and that a classic should be spared. “The words on sex con stitute less than one-tenth of this book, which has such a high worldwide reputation and is an Arabic classic,” said Sohair el-Kalamawy, a Cairo University professor who wrote her doctoral disserta tion on the Thousand and One Nights. “There are much more graphic details of sex, even homosexual sex, in our heri. tage of literature and poetry. But it is our heritage and, of course, we will not change it.” But el-Khosheiry argued the Thousand and One Nights is not part of Egypt's heritage and should be treat- ed under the law as any other work would be. Scholars say the stories are apparently Persian, Ind ian and Iraqi in origin, and the first complete edition ap- peared in the early 19th cen tury in Caleutta, India, al. though some tales are more than 1,000 years old The 125 stories of the Thousand and One Nights are written as the tales first spun by Schenerazade, beau tiful wife of King Shehrayar of Samarkand. 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Outlook is for sunny skies on Monday in on some cloud moving Tuesday 50 Cents ei VOL. 38, No. 40 Belle CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1985 vills 3% Money for forestry Kootenay West MP Bob Sceneete ond Raglan Ovnganmen paces: ment si by Ottawa and Victoria. a3 See bonus number was 20. prizes. The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 19, 21, 32, 39, 43 and 45. The The winning number in this week's Provin- cial draw is 1230670. There are also subsidiary awards Castlegar residents Doug Coulson and Jim Lewis were honored for their outs con- tribution to minor hockey in Castlegor . . . 2 Sections (A & B) YOUTH FESTIVAL . . . Young people sin 1 Doukhobor Spiritual Festival songs during 38th annual Union of Communities Christ Union of Youth The festival, which includes choirs from day at the Is Monday” More Costews Photo by Rob Popott Brilliant Cultural Centre and e photos B3. THEATRE ENERGY AT KJSS By CHERYL CALDERBANK Writer Students at Kinnaird Junior Secondary School had a chance to view and participate in a unique Theatre Energy production Thursday. The production, Calling the Play, deals with teenage drug and alcohol use. It was treated by Theatre Energy members, Judith Ceroli — who is also the play's and “referee” — and Ruby Truly, who plays Chri with Leigh Simms of Nelson Community Services. The project was funded in part by Castlegar Savings Credit Union and the B.C. Credit Union Foundation. The result is a life-sized board game played by up to 80 students from Grades 7-9. In the process of playing the game, students answer questions, express their feelings WEEKEND FEATURE about drug and alcohol related situations and make decisions and suggest strategies to deal with scenes performed by the company of actors. The set was built by students at Trafalgar Secondary School in Nelson, under the guidance of Theatre Energy artistic director Richard Rowberry and Trafalgar school instructor Ken Wilson. It was based on a design by John House of Moonlight Studio. The two performances at KJSS were the ninth and 10th performances of a 14-school tour in the West Kootenay. Upon completion of the tour, evaluation and suggestions from participating schools and social work pr s will be made to three experienced company members. The trio will then spend a week assessing the production and incorporating improve. ments and new ideas. During the performance, students are divided into four sections. They view the actors acting out the scenes and when the four actors run into a conflict, the referee blows the whistle. The actors separately, approach the students and try to come up with a strategy as to how to deal with the situation. Some of the choices include: Demanding to have your own way, waiting and seeing what others want, persuading others to do what you want and negotiating a compromise. For instance in one seene the foursome — Alex (David Topliff), Brian (Nigel Harvey), Chris (Ruby Truly) and Dee (Mary Watson) — are on their way up to the ski hill. Alex, who has had too much to drink, insists on driving. “You can hardly stand up,” Brian tells him. “You don't have to stand up to drive,” Alex counters, Alex wins out and has a close call, which shakes up Brian and Dee. Brian takes the keys away from Alex, but Alex takes them back and insists on driving. Brian gets out of the vehicle and wants to hitchhike and pick up the car later. Dee wants Alex to drive her home, afraid of getting into trouble. Lee just wants to get more beer. The whistle blows and each actor goes to their respective sections to plan a strategy. The group with Brian decides he should demand to have his own way, that he shoulde raise his voice and threaten to get out and walk.-Alex's group decides he should negotiate a compromise, Chris's group decides she should give in to what other people want. The end result is Alex agrees to not drink any more while he is driving. During the spinning of the wheel, students answer questions like, “What's the worst thing parents can do to their children?” The consensus is punish them too much or not punish them at all. Another question: “How would you change the world to make it better if you had all the power?” One answer was to ban nuclear weapons. True and false questions dealt with drugs and alcohol included: Ala-non and Ala-teen are support groups for alcoholics’ families. True. One cigarette shortens a smoker's life by 5‘ minutes. True. Alcohol is a stimulant. alse Another scene involves the foursome having a party at Dee's house while her parents are out for the evening. Smoking and drinking, Dee says, “My parents would freak out if they could see this.” continued on page A? 4.7 PER CENT Hospital receives budget increase By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar and District Hospital has received a 4.7 per cent increase in its 1985 operating budget, administrator Ken Talarico said Friday. Talarico said the hospital's budget totals $3.65 million — up some $133,000 from 1984. However, $70,000 of that is because the hospital had more patients last year, he added. “We have experienced about a 10 per cent increase in patient activity,” Tal- arico said in an interview. The hospital's year runs from March 31 to March 31. Thus, Talarico said it is costing the hospital “more to operate.” When the increased ‘number of Arbitration arings By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer Binding arbitration hearings be. tween Castlegar teachers and the school board are tentatively set for May 25 and 26. The decision to go to arbitration was “mutually agreed” upon following the cancellation of a meeting scheduled Wednesday to continue with salary negotiations, board chairman Doreen Smecher said Friday. “I talked to the chairman of the negotiating committee over the tele- phone. He indicated the proposal that was coming back from the teachers. “They were so far apart, there didn’t seem to be any reason to meet. We mutually agreed at that point it should go to arbitration,” Smecher said. The board had made an offer that would give teachers a choice of a 1.5 per cent increase with no salary incre. ments over 12 months beginning July, or just regular increments with no increase. The first offer would have cost the board $77,000; the second $66,000, Smecher said. The board proposal stipulated no in creases Yor the first six months of 1985. Smecher said the teachers wanted a 1.75 per cent increase for the 18 months plus regular increments. “Which is three times what we have to offer,” she said. “There's too great a distance.” Mike Rodgers, president of the Castlegar District Teachers’ Associa tion, indieated Thursday he was dis satisfied with the outcome “We understand the lack of funding, but it seems the board is a little too willing to use the government direc tives and keep us to zero.” Rodgers is also critical of the board's recent decision to appoint a director of instruction. He says the new adminis trator will be paid “a very minimum” of $45,000 — money which should have gone towards teacher salary increases. “Once again, teachers are paying for education,” Rodgers said. “We consider this to be a double taxation: we're being taxed once as members of regu lar society, and then we're being taxed to keep (public education) going.” Smecher said the positions will be filled internally with funds from four part-time positions to be covered by the director of instruction: district resource centre worker, French help img teacher, computers co-ordinator and special education teacher. She says extra funding needed for the position will only be the difference between a teacher or administrator's erosent salary. and the salary (still to for the new position. patients is taken into account, the hos- pital had an increase of only $63,000 or 2.23 per cent from last year, he said. Castlegar hospital has 70 beds, 55 acute care and 15 extended care. Talarico said the increase is “prob- ably more than I expected. We kind of expected zero (per cent).” He added, “It’s going to be a tight - but it’s not going to be impossible.” He said the cost of supplies has increased more than the increase in the hospital's budget, partly because many hospital supplies are made in the United States. Talarico said the drop in the Cana- dian dollar has increased the cost of American-made hospital supplies. As well, he said contracts with two hospital employee groups expire this year. The B.C. Nurses’ Union's contract expired March 31 and the Hospital Employees’ Union contract is due to be re-opened for wage negotiations in November. The third hospital employee group — members of the Health Sciences Asso- ciation — has a contract that runs of Health has indicated in # ¢overing letter it sent with the hospital's budget that “there are no funds available” for wage increases. The ministry has also instructed the hospital not to set aside any funds for increases. Talarico added that the hospital is “not anticipating” any layoffs. Hiring policy passed by school board By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Stat . abuse crimes was passed by Castlegar school board this week. The policy follows a recommendation and sample guidelines on the subject from the Ministry of Education sent to B.C. school boards last fall. Under the new policy potential employees offered a job by the school board will be required to answer the following statement: “Have you ever been charged or convicted of a criminal offence? Please provide particulars on a separate sheet and place the sheet in an envelope marked ‘confidential’ to this lica ti A false _ been a in the Castlegar district ‘employees later found to have records involving sexual or child abuse. “There's never been a need in our policy has been written and approved,” she said. While originally initiated as a result of the ministry directive, the policy is timely. Currently, Ashcroft elementary school principal Noyes faces 16 counts of sexual assault against child- ren, and there have been similar reported cases in B.C. over the past year. report is an offence which, when discovered, may lead to a person's loss of employment.” Board chairman Doreen Smecher said in an interview that there's never ELECTION However, Smecher said the board doesn't plan to do any special checking inte an applicant's possible criminal . Only job ref are carefully investigated, and continued on A2 Skelly sounds call By DAPHNE BRAMHAM VANCOUVER (CP) — Provincial New Democratic Party Leader Bob Skelly sounded the election call Friday on the first night of the party con vention, urging delegates to get working so they can win the next provincial election. Skelly pointed to recent poll$ that have showed the NDP with a solid lead over the governing Social Credit party. But he added that although “every thing looks great midterm,” there won't be much good news for the NDP in the coming year because the Socreds still run the government. “They are going to try to convince you they've changed that the economy is going to be a little bit more expansive.” Skelly said They're going to hire 50,000 people to sell hot dogs at Expo and they're going to try to tell you that's going to bring in $3 billion to the B.C. economy. ‘The fact remains, they put tens of thousands of people out of work in British Columbia over the last 10 years and they should be thrown out for that reason.” Skelly, attending his first convention as leader, said the Socreds have a perverted view of government and financial priorities.” The government was unjustified in dismissing publie school trustees in Vancouver and the Cowichan Valley this month for defying provincial bud get guidelines, he said “Tell me one major democracy in the world today that didn't begin with defiance of the law. Because the prin- ciple of democracy is not simply respect for the law. It's based on respect for the law, but not blind obe- dience to bad laws.” PLEDGES FILLED Skelly reported that he has fulfilled the promises he made during last year's leadership race. He has visited each constituency at least once. The membership has increased by 6,000 and the party has raised nearly $300,000 to pay off its deficit, now at $736,228. Gerry Stoney, stepping down after seven years as provincial party presi dent, said the NDP is in good shape politically and is getting in shape financially However, he suggested it must carry its own banner into municipal politics instead of working behind other names, such as the Committee of Progressive Electors in Vancouver. And Stoney urged delegates to spread the party's message so voters don't look to the Liberals as an alterna tive. Tony Penikett, leader of the New Democrats who won half of the 16 seats in Monday's Yukon territorial election, told the B.C. NDP convention that the Conservative tide which swept the country in last September's federal election has turned He said Monday's victory is “the end of a very long journey” which began 15 years ago when the Yukon NDP decided to forge a coalition of workers women and aboriginal people the