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Castlegar News May 22, 1988

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KAMLOOPS (CP) — Social Services Minister " e
Claude Richmond, saying he expects the creation of é fe ) oO U eg5 a va
6,000 jobs, a $16-million employ and .
training program for people on income assistance. ¥ y

The main purpose of the three-pronged program,
which provides government wage subsidies‘ to
employers, is to help welfare recipients gain econom-
ic independence.

He said there are 80,000 employable welfare
recipients in the province.

Richmond said the money will be distributed
regionally to take into account areas with particularly
high unemployment.

CUPW fined $16,000

Premiers end meet
with show of unity

By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Vancouver Island trucking magnate Jack Charles Sr.
Press loaned the yacht for the-meetings. The B.C. government

picked up the tab for fuel and the crew.
Still, the Vancouver Sun's front-page story on the
dlined Premiers Defend Cost of

PARKSVILLE — Canada’s four western premiers —
dubbed the Four Amigos by one columnist — left their
luxury yacht Saturday to return home after a glowing show was hi
of unity at their annual conference, Meetings.

+ The premiers — Manitoba rookie Gary Filmon, The premiers issued 13 communiques — ranging for
Saskatchewan's Grant Devine, Alberta's Don Getty and support for free trade to a call for a meeting of federal and
British Columbia's Bill Vander Zalm — now even have a - provincial agriculture ministers on the drought-stricken
team uniform — navy and yellow rain jackets that were a West,
gift from Vander Zalm. The issue on which they couldn't agree — the Meech

“As a block, We're more powerful now than we've even Lake constitutional accord — did not figure in the
been,” Vander Zalm declared. “I think the West has really communiques.
found its place in Confederation.” Devine, who prior to the conference had urged Filmon’s

The unity of purpose comes from the premiers’ common minority government to try to pass the accord in the

ig

“BICYCLE SAFETY . . . Castlegar RCMP Const. Dale
Hockley puts Grade 4 students Tanya Hopkins and
David Stevenson through their paces at the annual
bike rodeo Friday at Twin Rivers elementary school.

RCMP took rodeo to district schools this year and will
draw for a 10-speed bike at the end of the year, which
will go to one student who received perfect scores on
the written and practical tests.

CosNews Photo

POLL SHOWS
SOCREDS IN
A TAILSPIN

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Sociat Credit party is
taking a beating in the fight for popular support in
Greater Vancouver, suggets a poll published Saturday
by a Vancouver newspaper.

The poll by Marktrend Marketing Research also
indicates that more than two-thirds of Greater Vancouver
residents are dissatisfied with the performance of
Premier Bill Vander Zalm

The poll, taken earlier this month, suggests that if a
provincial election was held now, the New Democratic
Party would take 59 per cent of the committed vote in
Greater Vancouver, with Social Credit receiving only 25
per cent. The Liberal party would be backed by 12.5 per
cent of voters who have made up their minds.

Standings in the B.C. legislature are 45 seats for the
Social Credit, 22 NDP, one independent and one vacaney.

The Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives have no
seats
SURVEYED CONSUMERS

Marktrend asked the questions as part of a consumer
survey taken in Greater Vancouver between May 9 and
May 15. With a sample of 508 respondents, the poll is
statistically accurate to within plus or minus 4.5 per cent,
19 out of 20 times

Vander Zalm said Friday night that he was not
concerned about the poll's results.

“You can't worry about these things three years or
four years away from an election,” he said

The poll also indicated there was a huge
uncommitted vote — 44 per cent of the total. Twenty-two
per cent of those surveyed said they didn’t know which
party they would support, 14 per cent refused to say and
eight per cent said they did not plan to vote.

Vander Zalm fared worse than his party in the poll,
with 69 per cent unhappy with his performance.
Forty-four per cent said they were very dissatisfied with
the premier, while 25 per cent said they were quite
dissatisfied.

Only 24 per cent liked his performance, with 20 per
cent saying they were quite satisfied and four ver sent
very § patisfied::

conservative political philosophy, which they share with the Manitoba legislature despite stiff opposition, instead

federal government. This meeting — with Filmon replacing
former New Democratic Premier Howard Pawley — marked
the first time in almost two decades that all four western
premiers shared the same political stripe.

But the focus of this week's conference was at times
obscured by attention paid to the 35-metre yacht which
played host to the meetings. The choice of the $3-million
Hotei II — complete with its six staterooms, three bars and a

tomorrow.’

hot tub — was in stark contrast to previous conferences
which have been held in small centres such as Humboldt,

Sask., and Swan Lake, Man.
POOR CHOICE

“I think the image of the luxury yacht was probably not
sensibly chosen,” said Terry Morley, a University of Victoria

political scientist.

“I think it's easier to do that (get their message across)

from Lloydminster or Calgary or Victoria than from a yacht

with three bars on it and a hot tub. Three bars and four
premiers. And those jackets — I thought they looked silly.”
Bat Filmon defended the opulent setting, saying media
attention on the yacht rather that the premiers’ message
was a “disservice to the people of all our provinces.”

defended the new premier at the meetings.
“Get off his case,” Devine told reporters.

chance. I mean he's only been in there 10 days and you're

saying ‘Well, why haven't you done everything as of

“Give him a

The four premiers each took digs at the “fat cats” in
Ontario — as Devine described them — for preventing their
provinces from getting what they termed a fair share.

Sookeroff funeral
set for Wednesday

Mabel Sookeroff of Castle-
gar passed away Friday, May member of the Canadian
20 at the age of 68.

Funeral service will be loved gardening, singing and
held at the Castlegar Funeral working in her flower gar.

Castlegar in 1974. She was a

Doukhobor Society. She

Chapel on Wednesday from den.

10 a.m.

Court news

CPR

continued from front page
small chapter in CP Rail's overall plan
to drop as much as 42 per cent of the
track it currently -uses across the
country

There are presently seven BMWE
employees working the Castlegar to
Midway line and Kennedy said those
with seniority will be able to bump
other members with lower seniority
out of a job. Kennedy said the end
result is job loss

“This isn’t just a local thing,” he said
“They want to abandon all branch lines
across Canada which makes up 42 per
cent of all the track they own.”

The rail company has already suc
cessfully closed down a 288-kilometre
section of track between
Bridge and Penticton

The BMWE is one of nine unions
representing railway workers and
Kennedy said there will be union rep.
resentatives from across the country at
Tuesday's meeting.

H+ CP.

Spences

w+ Burlington Northem R.R.

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x By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

A Stanley Humphries secondary student is one of 10
British Columbia students awarded a provincial scholarship
for a year's study in Japan.

Teresa Lamb, who graduates in June, will receive
$6,314 from the Ministry of Education for her study of
Japanese history, language and culture.

The students go to Vancouver at the beginning of
August for a few days of orientation and then leave for
Japan on Sept. 1

Lamb said she is hoping to go to Japan right after the
orientation session to visit friends she met there on a
previous Rotary student exchange trip.

Lamb is “conversationally fluent” in Japanese now and
will be taking advanced Japanese and Japanese culture and
history for the first part of the program, which will be at the
YMCA in Yokohama. The students will also stay with
Japanese families during the 10-rhonth learning experience.

The scholarship program, which provides up to $20,000
each to 10 graduating students in B.C., was introduced last
fall as part of the provincial government's $12 million Pacific
Rim Initiatives program

Other initiatives include short-term student and teacher
study tours and the expansion of Mandarin and Japanese
language programs in B.C.

The winners were selected from more than 100
applicants by a panel put together by the Ministry of
Education.

The selections were made on the basis of academic
excellence and interests. The group was short-listed to 25
and interviewed for the final selection.

Personal attributes indicating potential success in
cross-cultural situations and their future intentions and

to Japan

potential were considered.
Lamb says the Rotary trip helped her in being selected
because it changed her attitudes about Japan.
‘Two of the.10 students chosen to go to Japan are from
Rossland.

Duane Abney pleaded pleading guilty to driving
guilty to assault in Castlegar while impaired. Sask.
se.

provincial court this week
and was fined $300 or 14 days
in jail.

.

$400 or 14 days in jail after ple.

Patricia Baker was fined April 11,
$200 or 10 days in jail after
pleading guilty to failure to
Harry Hoodicoff was fined provide a breathalyzer sam.

12 noon. Mrs.
will then be ship
ped to Saskatoon Funeral gar; five brothers, Alec, Bill
Home for services on Thurs- and Nick Tarasoff of Lang-
day, May 26, from 10 a.m.
until 12 noon with burial in Saskatoon, and Henry of
the family plot at Watson, Raddisson, Sask.; one sister,

She is survived by her
husband, William of Castle-

ham, Sask., Pete Tarasoff of

Mrs. Annie Osachoff of South

Mrs. Sookeroff was born Slocan; and many nieces and

Sask., where she grew up.
She married William Sook
eroff at Watson, Sask. on under the direction of the

1920 at Ceepee; nephews. She was predec-

eased by one brother, John.
Funeral arrangements are

Dec. 7, 1939. She came to Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

MORE LETTERS

We're coming of age. :

In keeping with a benevolent trend

which promises to become worldwide
these days there are welcome signs in
this community that people of all
different ethnic origins are beginning
to “come of age” — in terms of their
goodwill and equal acceptance of each
other. Hopefully, we are coming to that
day when age-old biases will be a thing
of the past, having gone the way of
extinction like the ill-fated dinosaurs.
No doubt many of us still have some
distance to go in this “coming of age”
but there seems to be a welcome trend
in this direction.
“Evidence of this good trend has
been showing up in various ways in our
Kootenay/Boundary communities. Par-
ticularly encouraging in the Castlegar
area is the community outreach being
shown by our large Russian/Ukrainian
sector (Doukhobor in religion) in wel
coming all people to various high
quality events being sponsored at their
Brilliant Cultural Centre. The USCC
administrators of this centre are also
encouraging other organizations in the
community to utilize these well-
designed facilities — through reason-
able rental rates — for appropriate
large-scale public events.

In the fall of 1986, in response to the
USCC offer, Selkirk College chose this
centre to host the major event in its
Distinguished Speaker Series, an
address by the eminent scientist Dr
David Suzuki. The result was a
packed house with Suzuki fans attend
ing from many parts of the Kootenay
Boundary region. A year later, in the
fall of 1987, the Rossland Light Opera
Players used this building to good
advantage for a commendable perfor.
mance of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” Again on
May 5, 1988 area residents enjoyed a
second highly successful Selkirk-spon
sored event at this location when the
college added another chapter to its
Distinguished Speaker Series by bring
ing in the highly popular humanist,
Stephen Lewis, Canadian Ambassador
to the United Nations. Though less of a
full house than the Suzuki affair this
was a tactful and harmonious occasion
enjoyed by all, centred about the
eloquent-speaking yet sincerely-caring
Ambassador Lewis.

Other exceptionally good events
such as the Peace Through Com.
munications Conference (five days) in
August 1985 and last summer's ex
cellent Tolstoy Heritage Festival,
along with the well-attended Suzuki
and Lewis addresses, are a true indica-
tion of the international-calibre of the
events being held in recent years at

this spacious centre. Those of us non-
Russian visitors attending from time to
time — have to the best of my know.
ledge — experienced no problem with
the fact that this is a religious centre as
well as a cultural one, and that it,
therefore, has ‘certain minimum re-
quirements of protocol and tradition to
follow. On every occasion we have ap
preciated the friendly people, the re-
laxed atmosphere, the quality of the
event, and — above all — the sincerity
in the cause of peace and justice.

It seems that throughout history the
many’ different ethnic peoples that
make up the unique cultural mosaic of
Canada have all had their ways —
mostly good — but perhaps a few that
were not go good. All of these peoples
must confess to being afflicted at one
time or another with prejudices of
some sort. But now a significant change
seems to be taking place, partly be
cause of our efficient world-wide media
coverage these days. Now, with vir.
tually an armchair view of everything
that happens in the world, we have
become much more conscious of human
suffering, human injustice, environ.
mental pollution and the threat of nu
clear annihilation. In comparison with
these drastic realities our small ethnic

differences no longer seem to have any
significance. So we tend to face those
common foes — enemies of peace and
justice — together.

Racial and religious biases are surely
a “habit” we cannot afford. They sap
away one's precious energy and time
—to no avail. There is much work to be
done in the fields of peace and justice
and environmental conservation if we
intend to pass on a living and livable
planet for the benefit of the next
generation. In the words of the well-
known American poet Robert Frost:
“We have miles to go before we sleep.”

With the good, diplomatic peace/
justice/environmental work being done
by the large USCC organization in
Grand Forks and Castlegar, and by the
devoted people of the KCSF (Kootenay
Centre for a Sustainable Future) in
Nelson — along with various other
like-minded groups and individuals —
this part of our province seems to be
setting a good example, and appears to
have even greater potential for the
future. All of these good works are
welcome signs that the people of our
communities are getting on the right
track — coming of age at last.

Harry F. Killough
Castlegar

Grad committee
acted responsibly

To: Graduation Class ‘88.

Your final year of basic training is
nearing an end. Soon you will all be out
pursuing further training in careers or
awaiting the next phase of formal
education in professions of your choice.

My congratulations to you all. In
particular, I salyte your grad com.
mittee for it’s drive to try something
new, to make a change for what it felt
to be an improvement. It would have
added a further sense of dignity to your
ceremonies had their objectives been
fulfilled. Oh well, at least now we can
be comforted by the thought there. is
room to have “Unele Henry's sister-in
law’s niece” present.

It's very important, you know, to
have crowds of people at these cere
monies. Even more important than
achieving a desirable change and doing
things a committee was democratically
elected to accomplish. It is interesting
to note, and you will learn more about
these ideals in the future, that in some

peoples’ minds a democracy- is called a
dictatorship only if the personal views
of an individual are not accepted as
representing the proven majority.

In the minds of many of us in
Castlegar the grad committee acted in
a responsible manner as duly elected
representatives of their class. They
have proved to us they have initiative,
they have drive, they are not afraid to
make decisions, they are clear, concise
and honest in support of their goals and
last, but not least, they have a proven
maturity. A maturity that far exceeds
that of the occasional narrow-minded
person with the like-minded objectives.

Thanks grad committee and class of
1988. I look forward to working and
being associated with you in the future.
Thanks as well to the faculty of SHSS
for assisting us, the parents, in bring-
ing a great group of jeople into
adulthood.

Ken E. Arnett

VANCOUVER (CP) — Two locals of the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers were fined a total of $16,000
for defying a B.C. Supreme Court injunction limiting
picketing during last October's postal strike.

Mr. Justice John Spencer cited the union for
contempt, saying the inside postal workers showed a
flagrant disregard for the orders of the court.

The union's Vancouver local was fined $15,000 and
the Fraser Valley local $1,000. The locals have four
months to pay the fines.

Health alert issued

OTTAWA (CP) — The Health Department has
issued a health alert against imported canned bacon
from Denmark which may be contaminated and could
cause serious food poisoning.

The canned bacon, imported from Denmark under
the brand name Tulip Brand Sliced Bacon, is sold
mainly in the western provinces, said a Department
release issued on Saturday.

‘The product, in 454 gram cans containing 24-26
slices, should not be eaten. The Health Department
has found swollen cans and bacterial contamination
which could be caused by inadequate food processing.

No illnesses have been reported so far, the release
said.

Art gallery opened

OTTAWA (CP) — The’ crowd cheered and
thousands of balloons soared over the glass-and-steel
roof of the new National Gallery on Saturday as Gov.
Gen. Jeanne Sauve snipped the ceremonial ribbon to
Officially open the building to the public.

Sauve entered the lobby and pulled a blue velvet
cover off the floor, unveiling a marble plaque noting
the opening date.

After 108 years of exhibiting Canada's national
paintings and sculptures in temporary quarters, the
National Gallery finally has a home built specifically to
house and protect the art.

The politicians, who approved the $162-million
cost of the\new Building, wefe éffudive if their praise.

Unions defended

BUDAPEST (AP) — A member of the Hungarian
Communist party Central Committee has defended
the creation of independent trade unions and political
groups before a national party conference.

Imre Pozsgay, in a spirited attack Saturday on
the ideals of aging party leader Janos Kadar, called for
a “broadening of civil law” to give ordinary
Hungarians more of a voice in national affairs.

Pozsgay made his speech to the national party
conference amid speculation Kadar would be replaced
as party general secretary by Premier Karoly Grosz.

10 killed

AMRITSAR, INDIA (AP) — Sikh militants shot
and killed 10 people across northern Punjab state
Saturday, and the government flew in special
anti-insurgency forces to combat the escalating
violence.

A committee of Sikh elders announced that
services would resume today at the Golden Temple,
Sikhism's holiest shrine and the scene of a 10-day
police siege that ended Wednesday.

Contingents of Assam Rifles, a specially trained
anti-guerrilla force famed for combating insurgency in
India's northeast, were flown into Punjab on
Saturday, state police chief K.P.S. Gill said.

100 Klan march

CHESTER, PA. ig deta - Bbost 100 Ku

FESTIVAL FUN...
(clockwise from top
right) visitors crowd into
Brilliant Cultural Centre
Saturday to hear choirs;
Brilliant Choir performs;
Doukhobor newsletter
relayed to crowd;
woman listens intently
to choir. Festival
continues all day today
with a special evening
concert featuring the
Union of Young
Doukhobors of
Vancouver 20th
anniversary concert.
Round table discussion
and sports day will
highlight Monday's
activities.

CasNews Photo by Brendan Nagle
‘and Ron Norman

Klux Klan members, out by
policemen anticipating violence, werchod on Saturday
through a tiny working-class suburb of this largely
black city on the Delaware River.

Small groups of hecklers threw eggs and bottles
at the Klansmen, who paraded for less than 30 minutes
through Parkside, about 32 kilometres south of
Philadelphia.

One policemen was slightly injured while trying
to keep the two groups apart.

Rockets fired

\_BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite guerrillas from rival
militiay rocketed each other's positions Saturday in
the slums of south Beirut after Iranian efforts to end
16 days of bloodletting collapsed. Police said seven
people were killed.

In a Separate conflict, two warring factions of the
Palestine Liberation Organization called a ceasefire
after battles that killed five people.

A Lebanese leader said Syrian troops would soon
enter the slumb to quell the struggle between the
Shiite militias — the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and
pro-Syrian Amal. Hezbollah's spiritual leader was
quoted as saying he would accept the yrian troop
presence.

Relations unstable’

MOSCOW (AP) — Most Soviet citizens surveyed in a
public opinion poll believe relations with the United
States are satisfactory but unstable, the Communist
party newspaper Pravda reported Saturday.

U.S. move

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada won't withdraw from the
proposed free-trade agreement, even if the United States
carries through with proposals to restrict imports of
Canadian lobster and plywood, says Trade Minister John
Crosbie.

Crosbie told the Commons he has sent diplomatic notes
to Washi and telephoned U.S. trade rep: ative
Clayton Yeutter in Paris to protest the recommendations by
the Senate finance committee which Canada says would
violate the agreement negotiated last fall.

Yeutter is in Paris for an international economic
meeting.

But Crosbie shied away from opposition demands that
he should threaten to kill the deal unless the Americans back
down.

“When we encounter a problem, we don’t throw up our
hands and withdraw altogether and leave chaos in its place,”
he told the Commons.

Crosbie said they're only proposals and he hopes they
will be dropped.

He said if the United States doesn't eliminate the
provisions from its legislation, Canada could take the issue
to the binational trade panels, which would be set up under
free trade to settle disputes, or could take “counter-meas-
ures” — presumably restrictions on American goods.

REMOVE TARIFFS

Under the free-trade deal to take effect in January,
Canada and the United States would phase out tariffs and a
wide range of other barriers.

However, both Parliament and the full U.S. Congress

protested

must still approve the necessary legislation. Crosbie said he
intends to introduce the legislature in the Commons on
Tuesday.

Liberal Leader John Turner and NDP Leader Ed
Broadbent both prodded Crosbie to draw a firm line against
any concessions the United States wants to add to the
free-trade deal.

“Just for once. will this government stand up for
Canadian interests before something is done against us
instead of after?” Broadbent asked.

Crosbie replied: “What is it you want? Do you want me
to go down there with a machine-gun?”

He said the American protectionist moves this week
simply underline the need for the free-trade agreement to
provide secure access to the U.S. market of 250 million
consumers.

Earlier, Nova Scoita Premier John Buchanan — a
free-trade supporter — said he planned to tell Prime

“Minister Brian Mulroney he's worried about thé proposed

lobster regulations.

SETS MINIMUM

A clause in the legislative package approved
Wednesday by the U.S. Senate finance committee calls for a
minimum size on Canadian lobsters exported to the United
States. Canadian officials say that's unfair because Canadian
lobsters are generally smaller.

Buchanan said the clause would threaten his province's
$155-million lobster industry, although he added he doubts
the provision will be adopted south of the border.

KEY TORY
TO SELL
FREE TRADE

OTTAWA (CP) — International Trade Minister John
Crosbie has reportedly recruited one of the Progressive
Conservative party's most successful organizers to run an

ign to sell Canadi on free trade with

the United States.

John Laschinger clinched a deal with Crosbie on
April 10 to form a team to take over the promotion of free
trade, the Toronto Star said Saturday.

Laschinger, 45, is widely regarded as a key Tory
player who was involved in the 1984 federal election
campaign and six Conservative leadership races.

Laschinger’s team hasn't submitted a final budget to
the treasury board, but its campaign is separate from a
$12.7-million free trade information strategy that has
focused on it and backbench
speeches on the banquet circuit, the newspaper reported.

Organized in the past six weeks and-run out of
Crosbie's offices on Parliament Hill, the new campaign is
being handled like a leadership race, Toronto Star
sources say. Laschinger declined to comment.

It includes an advertising blitz, a communications
strategy, an operations desk, an internal polling section,
earl and legislative networks and a leader's tour.

are also a