a a December 29, 1985 Castlégar News _s News. A3 WORK CONTINUES ON CHAPEL RESTORATION Castlégar News December 29,4985 Free SkyTrain WEATHER rides popular VANCOUVER. (CP) — Free rides on.the SkyTrain rapid transit system has become a popular fad.in the Vancouver .area and there were huge lineups at stations Friday as’ 60,000 _ people crammed into the cars. It got so bad passengers Briefly ones to allow crowds of outgoing travellers a chance to get al “There was so much in the LINE RE-OPENS : sae eorataea antes Ware : VANCOUVER (CP) — BC Rail has re-opened'its Sara d asia fee as , : : main line near Clinton in the Cariboo after it was qeaiea ware Sena 4 = “\ closed by a derailment Christmas Eve. ee tes: saeNee There were no injuries when two locomotives and final meeting for the year last Thursday with the appointment of a new member, Les Davis, a retired Cominco _ supervisor and active community worker. Davis has been “arriving in New Westmin- Westminister,” ister were asked to leave the trains and wait for the next ALCON Sine & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH AVENUE CASTLEGAR 8 vIn 2S! 365-3563 CA! EEE Carol Magaw Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES OFFICE 365-5210 5 “If you don't see era LTD. JOSES'S AurO im Jack Morrison. CASTLEGAR ¢ CHEVRON Bath a, Upstairs in Trail’s To Good Stock of Lighti Accessories & Wotetled: Phone 3, 68.5302 Square Mall said Bob Egby, a B.C. Transit spokes- SYNOPSIS: The ridge of = pressure along the B.C. coast which has been diverting systems cround the province is wea ind hopefully allow flight operations to return to somethi soning. Pocitic disturbances are now now breaking through the ridge but in doing ery well. The result is bands of cloud and isolated Hureies ‘ut littl Stee, Wh this Change in the pattern the low valley clouds will break up at times mojor systems are foreseen for this area during the next five doys. Sunrise: 7:46 a.m. closer to normal at Castlegar. No Sunset: 3:59 p.m. $100 CAB RIDE VANCOUVER (CP) — Fog and a lack of buses at Abbots- ford airport meant a $100 cab ride into Vancouver Friday for five passengers from a Pacific Western Airlines flight from Edi and to land at Abbotsford, 60 kilometres east of here, be- cause of fog at Vancouver In- ternational Ai PWA_ spokesman Jack Lawless said no buses were the Interior of British Col- umbia, Dave Stemler ‘of Vancou- ver said he and four others took the cab after waiting on board the aircraft for two NANAIMO, B.C. (cP) — The of liver rec- be- cause CP Air and Air Canada were also using buses and demand exceeded supply. A bus finally did arrive and the remaining passengers arrived at Vancouver airport She said in a telephone ipient Chris Baxter has been downgraded to serious from fair, as the seven-year-old Nanaimo, B.C., boy had a high fever and showed other signs of rejecting his new organ. His mother Sherry said he was moved from intensive care back to the children’s ward at Pittsburgh Child- ren's Hospital, however, be- cause he was not having a bad reaction to a new anti- jection drug. r she is still opt- imistic about her son's chances of a full recovery from the Dec. 10 surgery. NUMBERS ARE UP “The doctors told me that when the numbers are nice and low, everything is going smooth, but when they are up, things are unsteady in- side,” his mother said. “The numbers are high now. Hopefully, he'll be bet- ter tomorrow. He's staying in bed because he doesn't feel like running around.” Crossword Cold Wave. . . answer in Thursday's paper. Fog hampers flights seven hours after their flight was scheduled to arrive. The fog situation is im- proving, but patches are ex- pected to remain until early next week. The fog, which first crept in about two weeks ago, has been caused by a tempera- ture inversion that has crea- ted sunny spring-like condi- tions on local mountains but hours after it had been forced just after midnight, nearly and poor Liver recipient's condition serious schedule TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. (CP) — Quintette Coal has introduced a new work sc- hedule at its mine in this northeastern British Colum- bia community and the United Steelworkers of America is suspicious about the move. “Union spokesman Eric Spears said Quintette claims the reason behind the new shift rotation is safety but the union thinks the move is aimed at selling more com- pany-owned houses. The old work schedule was four days on, four days off. The new schedule, which has a longer working day, is two days on the job, one day off, another day on, then four days off. EDMONTON Health i . Kids feast on food at Peace at Christmas potluck held recently at “Complex. Childcen.¢ activities and a visit from Santa highlighted the evening. < Picketing may be limited SASKATOON (CP) — Saskatchewan Court oa Queen's Bench will decide Mongay if an injunction to limity picketing will be im- posed on. striking Pacific Western Airlines employees in Saskatoon. PWA management and re- presentatives of the three - striking unions involved arg- ued their case in court Friday. The Calgary-based regional air carrier said pick- ets have intimidated emp- loyees and customers, resul- ting in lost busine: About 1,800 members of the United Auto Workers Canada, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the Canadian_ pitching Flight, At- jation walked lim- will .gut’ their ‘is pickets have been granted in Vancouver, Win- nipeg and Calgary. Members of the three Saskatoon union locals agreed Dec. 24 not to picket Christmas Eve, Chris- tmas Day or Boxing Day. “But it's business as usual until! a decision is handed down,” said Ed Eitzen, a spokesman for the auto workers’ union. PWA spokesman couldn't - be reached for comment. contracts. Striking PWA workers in Edmonton plan to holda rally at Edmonton International Airport today. “We have no idea of how many people may be there, but the rally will be orderly \to try to increase public awareness and show the support we have,” said Sur- villa-Kuzyk, strike director in Edmonton. Contract talks between the : | unions and PWA resumed two weeks ago, but last week were adjourned by the airline until Jan! 7. The airline is seeking con- cessions it says are heeded to cope with tougher compet- ition off their jobs Nov. 20. (CP) — ulation. The unions say the from dereg- - 19 empty cars of a northbound freight, left the tracks. Passengers were taken around the derailment site by bus. pean AFTERSHOCKS EXPECTED OTTAWA (CP) — Federal authorities say aftershocks will continue to occur for several months following a Dec. 23 earthquake that occurred in the Northwest Territories. However, no serious damage resulted from the earthquake or is expected from the aftershocks, two of. which occurred Christmas Day. The earthquake, which registered 6.9 on the open-ended. Richter scale and was centred 400 kilometres west of Yellowknife, was also felt in the Yukon, and northern British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. REMAINED CHEERFUL SASKATOON (CP) — Jackie Allan, one-half of the popular Allan Sisters singing duo that became popular on CBC-TV's Tommy Hunter show, remained “cheerful and bright” until her death in Saskatoon this wesk from spinal cancer says her sister Coralie. Funeral services for the 51-year-old Allan, who died Christmas Eve after a 3-year battle with the disease, were held Saturday. lan's last professional. performance ‘was last August in Cypress Hills Provincial Park. Coralie said her sister's death was unexpected. CAPTAIN FEARED DEAD SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. (CP) — The captain of the Coast Guard i, ~“Tupper—fell rest + VERNON, ee (CP) a Newwork| smoking at work and increased a cleaning and Judy Hancock says she wants to clear the air in the work- place and a decision bya fed- eral labor adjudicator in Ontario is a move in that dir- ection. The adjudicator ruled that a clerk in a federal govern- ment office in Toronto was exposed to a dangerous sub- stance because some of his fellow workers smoked. Because of that decision, and because of the savings involved, “I think 1986 will see a wave of employers moving towards a policy of restraining smoking in the workplace,” Hancock said. Hancock, who is vice-presi- dent of the lobby organiza- tion GASP (Group Against Smoking Pollution), said em- ployers are making the move Many mine commute from Chetwynd and Dawson Creek and Spears believes the change in shift rotation is to make these people want to buy. company- owned housing. Spears said the company and the community would like to see the miners put back a portion of their earnings into Tumbler Ridge. However, basic houses cost $84,000 and mortgage pay- ments are $900 a month and many workers don't want to make that kind of com- el | T ball owe 12-297 ENBS NRLPBGJ DG oxKpDGo- Average time of solution: 67 minutes. CRYPTOQUIP PKWJ EDAH TRSHXGDSQ WePKX- Today's Cryptoquip clue: T equals M Laps SK RGDKG EBXI:.°D'T pDGsK THTPHX ADGBWWQ This Crossword Puzzle d by the following busi Zee COLUMBIA COIFFURES Ph. 365-6717 1458 Bay Ave., Trail 368-8512 WANETA WICKER & . THE KITCHEN CORNER SCHNEIDER'S BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. TRAIL -PAUL’S PLACE LTD. 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SMOKING POLICY The result is that depart- ments in both'the federal and provincial governments are looking into some kind of policy that would restrict smoking. Hancock believes that after government pol- icies are in place, it won't be long until private companies follow suit. The author of a Health and Welfare Canada smoking pre- vention package now being used in all Grade 7 classes in Canada, Hancock also wrote a report on the subject for the Alberta Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Commission. From this she been charged with eerie the provincial Holiday Shop- ping Act and at least six other retail stores could face similar charges. A charge of opening il- legally on a Sunday in December. has been laid © against B.C. Sports World and a provincial court ap- pearance was set for Jan. 8. The other six businesses were open Boxing Day, a statutory holiday under the shopping act. RCMP said there have been no comp- laints about these openings but charges could still be laid. Vernon is one of. three. major B.C. cities that does not permit Sunday and hol- iday openings by most retail businesses. Cranbrook and Kamloops are the other two. Cities must exempt them- selves from the Holiday Shopping Act by local refer- endum and Vernon residents have rejected the measure three times since 1980. The maximum penalty for a shopping.act violation is a $10,000 fine. learned that employers con- sidering restricting or ban- ning the use of tobacco in the Police file workplace “have to app: the issue with a certain amount of sensitivity to the smoking employees’ needs.” ie recommends educa- tional programs so the staff While most Castlegar res- idents have been taking it easy over the holiday season, Castlegar RCMP have been busy with their Counter- will d the: neg: effects of smoke. Next, smo- kers as well as non-smokets must recognize there is a problem and participate in establishment of a smoking policy. Finally, she encourages a stop-smoking program on the jobsite to help:smokers who want to quit. attack Local police have checked more than 1,000 vehicles in roadblocks around the area designed to combat drinking drivers. ~ And it seems to be work- ing. Police have issued only five 24-hour suspensions, but have not laid any. impaired charges. NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING e Gases © COASTERS e CE ret ri © CANDLES © COCKTAIL SERVIETTES Revion NAIL ENAMEL & LIPSTICK Combo. Your Choice. Reg. $9.95 Eyelure Ready to Wear NAILS & LASHES LEE PRESS-ON NAILS CARL'S DRUGS Castlecird Plaza 365-7269 was feared dead, police officials said Saturday. Divers were searching for the body in the ice-infested harbor after atterhpts to retrieve it earlier in the day failed. The man’s name and details of the accident were not immediately known. NATURALIST MURDERED KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuter) — American natur- alist Dian Fossey, 53, a world authority on gorillas, has been murdered in a Rwanda game preserve, police said Saturday: Her body was found Thursday at the Karisoke research institute, which she founded. She had studied the great forest apes in the heart of Africa for 18 years. A police statement said no arrests were made. SIDEWALK BIRTH JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — The birth only lasted a few seconds, but Lorna Brodock says the next time she has a baby, she would prefer to do it in a warm hospital, not on a sidewalk in frigid temperatures. Brodock of Horton, Mich., said she was only afew steps from the door at W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital at 4 a.m. Thursday when she began giving birth. She fell to the ground, took off her coat, and her son Darren was born in -20 weather. { A mother of three: Brodock, 29, said she felt labor pains about 2 a.m. and woke her husband Steve, 30. “The ‘pains weren't strong so I though I had lots of ” she said Friday from the hospital's maternity She was wrong. “I told my husband . . . He said, 1" and called for help, but it was too late. He put his hands under the head and the baby slid out.” LEBANESE PEACE continued from front page programs to announce the signing, hailing the accord as a -“historic document” and a “new start for Lebanon.” Syria's state radio called it “Leb- anon's salvation.” But public: response in Beirut was ON THE JOB... Gordon Hill (left), Alex Lutz and Les Davis (right) takea break from work to restore the chapel house on Zuckerberg Island. Formal opening of the chapel house has been postponed until spring. better chance than any of the previous pacts because it was concluded by militia leaders who control the guns. All previous peace accords were signed by politicians who had no military power. Details of the new accord were not spelled out. But militia sources said it ig _deep- rooted doubts among both Christians and Moslems who noted that scores of previous peace efforts and ceasefires have collapsed. QUESTIONS ENFORCEMENT “Signing is one thing, enforcing is another,” said Fadaa Malouf, a middle- aged real estate dealer in Christian PI for a detailed mechanism to oversee the armistice by Syrian military observers. : Syria, Moscow's main Middle East ally, became Lebanon's main power broker after attempts by Washington Christians have dominated the gov- ernment, parliament, army and jud- iciary since Lebanon's 1943 independ- ence from France. Moslems, who advocate closer links with the Arab’ world, now make up 55 per cent of Lebanon's four million inhabitants ‘and want nothing short of equality. Christian politicians,’ includ- ing Gemayel’s U.S.-backed administ- _Yation, have resisted such sweeping reforms. Calm prevailed in most of Lebanon's civil war fronts as the pact was signed. Beirut's Green placed in charge of gardening and landscaping on the Zuckerberg chapel house site — an aspect of the heritage development which’ has given the committee some considerable concern. Other items of business included discussion of the 1986 budget, plans to complete the restoration of the second floor of the house, covering the walls of the new washrooms, and obtaining the services of a hydrologist to determine heritage sites along the shoreline of the island. photographs of paintings by Chairman John Charters displayed a set of enlarged the famous 19th: century Russian artist Isaac Levitan. These photos, obtained through John McIntosh of the Collections Division of the University of B.C. library, are replicas of those which Alexander Zuckerberg had framed and displayed on the walls of the chapel house, and which Charters is convinced were the inspiration for the present structures on the island. These new pictures will be framed and put on display as part of the restoration. George Apel reported on the work being done by Selkirk College’s Wildland Rec department and other departments to prepare tour pamphlets and brochures for the island. Dr. Bill Sloan discussed his recent meeting in Victoria * with Russell Irvine, Director of the B.C. Heritage Branch, and the probability of a workshop meeting with the director in Nelson in the spring. attending the workshop. All of the i indi an interest. in Alex Lutz indicated that while the cold weather and present plans to restore the upper floor of the chapel house have postponed plans for a formal opening until the spring, they accord well with a suggestion by Dr. Roy Ward that an invitation be sent through official channels to the Prince and Princess of Wales for a quiet visit to the island after the opening of Expo 86 in Vancouver in May. Finally, since it is now three years since plans were to assume that role in bloody failure. Syria which has iti en-. Line, which slices the capital into Moslem and Christian halves. It was to develop the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park, it was decided to place a notice of thanks in the local press to the assistance of patrons and | East Beirut. “We've had many peace _ treaties in the past and none worked.” Fatima Suleibi, 42, a housewife in Moslem West Beirut, said the militia leaders “have burned Lebanon to the ground and now are signing a peace pact.” “May God burn them all, along with the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union,” she said. Some Beirut i joyed a certain hegemony in Lebanon, has 25,000 troops in the northern and eastern parts of the country under a 1976 mandate from the Arab League to try to end the. Lebanese civil war. 'LANS REFORMS Militia sources said the accord also provides for the formation of a broad-based national coalition govern- ment to introdute political reforms to argue that the new “accord stands a and equal share of power giye with the Christians. quiet for the third consecutive day. But reports from south Lebanon said Israeli-backed militia gunners shelled the Shiite villages of Kfar and At the same time the chairman was instructed to write a letter of appreciation to, on behalf of the committee, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, thanking him for his Habboush on Saturday, killing a nine-month-old girl and __ seriously wounding her mother. The targets of the one-hour barrage are on the fringes. of Isreal's self- designated “security zone” policed by mainly Christian militiamen of the South Lebanon Army. AIRPORT ATTACK continued from front F i i ion O; izati ing at least 60 people.-. Israel ordered the raid in retaliation for the slaying by terrorists of three Israelis aboard a yacht in Cyprus. Israel has not indicated whether it will retaliate against Palestinian targets for Friday's attacks, saying only that it will protect Israeli citizens everywhere. Riccardo Infelisi, Rome's deputy police chief, said the four terrorists who attacked Leonardo da Vinci Airport were “without a doubt” Palestinians, but their countries of origin were not known. “They call themselves the Martyrs of Palestine and it appears that it is in reprisal for the bombing in Tunisia, where also several civilians, women and children, were killed,” he said. Alfred Rupp, a police lieutenant-colonel and head of security at Vienna's Schwechat Airport, said “it is clear that the two attacks were related,” but there was no firm evidence of a link Saturday. A state police official identified the Schwech shootout with police. Their nationalities have not been determined, police and Interior Ministry officials said. Thw two survivors were under heavy guard in a Vienna ° hospital with stomach and chest wounds. In Malaga, Spain, a man who said he belonged to a Palestinian faction headed by Abu Nidal claimed the faction was responsible for the Vienna and Rome attacks. There was. no way to confirm the call. An Italian news agency AGI quoted unidentified judicial sources as saying the lone surviving terrorist in Rome told officials he and his accomplices belonged to Abu Nidal. That report also could not be confirmed independently. Abu Nidal is the assumed name of Sabry al-Banna, who broke with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's main guerrilla faction, Fatah, a decade ago. Nidal’s men have claimed responsibility for. attacks on PLO, Israeli and! western targets. The PLO issued a statement Friday from Tunis, Tunisia, denying “any involvement with the attacks. Saturday as Abdel Aziz Merzoughi, 25, Ben Ahmed Chaoval, 25 and Mongi Ben Abdollah Saadqoui, 26, who was killed in a z Judge: D Sica d Sarham at a military hospital Saturday, authorities said, without giving details. Eight-pound Darren has been ni “the little polar bear,” she said. ARRESTS ALLEGED SANTO DOMINGO (Reuter) — The Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic says that Nicaragua had arrested more than 100 members of the i and subj them to humiliat ing. treatment. tA Bishops Co alleged ee Sandinista government has stepped up attacks on the church since the government imposed restrictions on civil liberties last October. fanagua has said the restrictions are necessary to counter rebel activity. COMMUNE PLANNED NEW DELHI (Reuter) — Controversial. guru Bhagman Shree Rajneesh plans to leave India within a few weeks to establish a new commune, possibly near Fiji, an Indian newspaper reports. Rajneesh, 53, who returned from the United States last month pledging never again to leave his homeland, also said two South A ies had invited him to start communes there. NEW VW COMING TROY, Mich. (Reuter) — Volkswagen of America says it will introduce an “entry level” car it 1987, a front-wheel-drive based on the By the Associated Press Relatives of Americans slain in the terrorist attack at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport wondered Saturday “why they had to get caught in this,” while some of those who lived through the experience arrived in the United States with tales of horror. . “My son had a sweet, short, happy life and I'm here with his friends celebrating his life,” Cecile Buonocore of Wilmington, Del., said of her son, John.Jr. : “It's what he would have wanted,” she added. “His friends are here, hoisting a few and celebrating the good moments of his life. What else can we do. . . none of us will'ever understand this.” Buonocore, 20, was to have returned home to Wilmington ‘on Friday for his father’s 50th birthday. At least 13 Americans were wounded and five killed in Friday's attack by Arab terrorists at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport. DAUGHTER DIES Those killed included Natasha Simpson, 11-year-old daughter of Victor Simpson, news editor for The Associated Press in Rome; Buonocore, a student at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.,; and Frederick Gage, 29, a newspaper executive from Madison, Wis., The U.S. State Department said. Don Maland, 30, a finance officer for Ford in Egypt, who was from New Port Richey, erospace ++ died also said it will raise the price of some of its models by about $163, effective Jan. 1 and it expects its share of the U.S. market to rise to about three per cent in 1986. during-surgery, the State Department said. The Italian Interior Mini: said later that Elena Tomarello, 67, also died at a Rome. hospital. The State Department said she had relatives in Naples, Fla. Relatives of victims left wondering Travellers who had been in Rome's airport, some of them Italians en route to the United States, arrived during the night at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. “Women and children had blood all over their faces and clothes,” Luciana Graziani, 50, of Rome, said through an interpreter. “All we did was throw ourselves on to the floor. The whole thing took no more than five or 10 minutes.” . IGNORES SUBJECT U.S. Air Forte Capt. Elizabeth Tamassy, 32, of New York City said she thought to herself, “it's my turn,” when she was knocked over by a grenade blast. “We didn't even talk about it on the flight back here, but there was a lot of applause when we landed safely,” she said. The same gunfire that fatally wounded Don Maland also wounded his brother, Mark, 37, of Elizabeth, N.C. They and a third brother, Tim, 32, had met in Rome on Tuesday and spent Christmas together, their parents said. Tim had flown to Munich, West Germany, where he lives, shortly before the attack. Their father, Ray Maland of New Port Richey, Fla., said his two daughters were flying to Rome on Saturday and that Tim also was returning to the Italian city. He said Mark was in good condition. ‘ “It's unreal,” Ray Maland said. “You wonder why they had to get caught in this. You just don’t believe it.” The elder Maland said his sons had called the day after Christmas. “They were just happy,” he said. “they said they walked from one end of Rome to the next . . - They saw it all.” and support of the heritage project. Court case _worries labor ‘movement VANCOUVER (CP) — The labor movement is concerned about a prison guard's bid for a court declaration saying he should not be compelled to give union dues to groups whose aims he abhors. Charles Baldwin, a guard at the nearby Burnaby Community Correctional Centre, wants a system where employees can say whether union dues should ‘go to activities outside collective bargaining. Baldwin says his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are being breached when the B.C. government Employees Union uses a portion of his compulsory dues to support non-contract causes. The Baldwin challenge, which will be heard Jan. 23-24 in B.C. Supreme Court, is almost identical to an application heard in Ontario Supreme Court earlier this month. It was launched by Merv Lavigne, a community college teacher. Art Kube, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, says the Baldwin and Lavigne cases represent a right-wing attack on labor's long-standing support for the New Democratic Party, labor centrals such as the B.C. Federation of Labor and the Canadian Labor Congress plus various social causes. “The concern is that they (Baldwin and Lavigne) are trying to make the trade union movement into something it has never been,” Kube said. “It has never been simply a bargaining tool.” UNDERMINE LABOR A victory for them would undermine labor's attempts to counter the clout wielded by corporations at the bargaining table and in government and other policy-making circles, he said. He called the two challenges “the most important Charter cases so far because they will show if the Charter will be used to satisfy the capriciousness of the individual at the expense of the collective. The two applications are being heard under the freedom of association clause of the Charter, which gives Canadians the right to associate (for instance, to join a union) and implies a corollary freedom not to associate. While the government employees union is prohibited by law from supporting any political party, it pays dues to the B.C. labor federation and the Canadian Labor Congress which fund the NDP and social groups that include the “pro-choice” side in the abortion debate. “The BCGEU say they give money to the Fed with _ instructions that it not be used for political purposes. That may or may not be true but if it gives money to the Fed, then that frees up more money for the Fed's political purposes.” ROLE NEEDED Kube said Labor's political rdle'; is warranted considering corporate support for the Conservative and Liberal parties. He called Lavigne and Baldwin “traitors to their class” and noted Lavigne is being financed by the National Citizens Coalition, a right-wing lobby group which has said it could spend up to $500,000 if the case goes to the Supreme Court of Canada. Baldwin, a former NDP member who joined Social Credit, says a court victory would show whether union members really have “solidarity” with groups like the B.C. Federation of Labor and the NDP. “Personally, I think that most union members want to keep money close to home.” Baldwin is not 3 government employees union member but must pay union dues under the Rand formula, a compromise developed in 1946 by Mr. Justice Ivan Rand under one all employees must pay dues but are not to join the union certified where they work.