Castlégar News sais 1988 Cooke divorce Juicy scandal By JOHN VALZORI WASHINGTON — Canadian-born sports tycoon Jack Kent Cooke is at the cenfré of a juicy divorce scandal that would curl the hair of even the most ardent followers of TV soaps For most the last month, the 75-year-old Cooke has been subjected to endless public humiliation in the Washington media as. his estranged wife, Suzanne, aired the couple's dirty laundry and The Cooke story is stuff of which legends are made — He quit ‘school in Ontario during the ion and sold ency before making a fortune in radio that led him to the United States in the 1950s. There he parlayed a cable TV émpire into ownership of three sports teams. He built the Los Angeles Forum on a dare and sold it years later to buy the Chrysler building, one of the most famous pleaded for him to recognize their seven-month-old daughter, Jacqueline Cooke, who owns the Superbowl champion Washington Redskins and is one of the richest men in the United States, is divorcing his 31-year-old third wife, in part because she reneged on a promise to have an abortion shortly after he married her in July 1987. Suzanne Cooke, a hazel-eyed beauty, in turn is countersuing to try and get a $15-million US trust fund from Cooke for Jacqueline, who she insists is Cooke's, even though he has renounced the child The steamy divorce case, set to go to trial in October has set Washington tongues a-wagging. Many side with Suzanne Cooke, claiming Jack Kent Cooke is a stingy, heartless tyrant who has done wrong by his mistress-turned-wife and baby girl Others see in Suzanne Cooke only a practised poseur, a former cocaine addict trying to milk an old man for his money. To buttress her case, Suzanne Cooke has gone public with her kiss-and-tell story, regaling the media with lucrid details about their courtship, stormy marriage and turbulent breakup. It's a narra- tive chock full of titillating details about Suzanne Cooke's previous cocaine addiction and drug arrest, her two abortions, knock-em-down, drag-em-out fights and her attempted suicide. NO COMMENT So far Jack Kent Cooke, an intensely private man, has refused to comment about the divorce case pers on M. "s skyline. His first wife Jean, his childhood sweetheart, divorced him, getting a $41-million settlement that got into the Guinness Book of World Records. He also divorced his second wife, Jeannie, whom he married in 1980. In the August issue of Washingtonian, a maz- azine for the city’s wealthy set, Suzanne Cooke paints an unflattering almost pathetic picture -of the Hamilton-born tycoon, depicting him as a deceitful philanderer with a Jekyll and Hyde personality and a notorious tightwad ‘He's cheap; he’s tighter than tight can be, and 1 used to tell him too when we had fights,”’ she told interviewer Kitty Kelley, author of a critical unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra Suzanne Cooke told Kelley she met Cooke in 198S and moved in with him two months later. The two had a stormy relationship for the next two years — she says she caught him in bed with a former Las Vegas showgirl and he forced her to have two abortions. They were married in July, pregnant again, but allegedly on the con she have a third abortion the next day. Suzanne Cooke told the Washingtonian she couldn't go through with the abortion, and when Cooke found out she was having the baby he kicked her out of their home, although she admits the relationship was foundering after he found out of her past record of cocaine abuse 1987 when she was ion that Speech b TORONTO (CP) — Ex-.White House aide Oliver North may have pleaded the fifth amendment before the U.S. Congress, but for $25,000 the lieutenant-colonel will give an after-dinner speech. Neither the fee nor the speaker is unusual these days. Once the domain of Dale Carnegie-type pep talkers, for washed-up politicians and has- been comedians, the speech business has turned into a serious industry, generating millions of dollars a year in revenue. Experts of all kinds — from authors, journalists and government officials to scientists, adventurers and athletes: — are taking to the podium across North America as a lucrative hobby or a career, “When we first got into this market, we wondered how long we'd be able to last,"’ said Perry Gold- smith, owner of the Vancouver-based National Speakers Bureau. ‘‘But people have really gotten into the idea that knowledge is power."’ Dottie Walters, president of Wal- ters International Speakers Bureau of Glendora, Calif., concurred: ‘‘I have been in this industry for 25 years and it has been like going from the horse and buggy to the-space ship.” SLOTS TO FILL Walters said the meeting business is thriving and the speaking business goes hand-in-hand with it. The aver- age three-day convention has about 30 slots to fill. “People are very, very serious and focused these days, desperately look- ing for information and theories and techniques to help them get ahead. The old-fashioned convention, where you drink a lot and leave your spouse at home, has become passe."’ While Americans once dominated the lectern both in Canada and the United States, Canadians have start- ed to make their presence felt. But speakers’ agencies and bur- eaus, which match up orators and usiness big But the roster also includes peopte like Hannah Milner Smith, a grap- hologist and author who talks about often find C: more reticent than A g. people through their Canadians are skeptical that any- body would be interested in them and suspicious about what is involved in giving a speech, said David Lavin of Toronto-based David Lavin Assoc- jates Inc. Fees in Canada range from about $500 to $5,000; in the United States they got up to $40,000 US. 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The BCGEU's con. tract expired July 31 Sheila Fruman, the BCGEU spokesman in Vancouver, said the two sides went back to the table Friday afternoon after the union submitted a “very comprehensive proposal” to the government on Wednesday “Our proposal, we believe, con tains the framework for a settle ment,” she said. “We've made major changes on our two key issues of job protection from privatiztion and contracting out and wages.” The kef-dature in the proposal, Fruman said, was a “secondment proposal.” She said the secondment proposal would enable government employees whose jobs are being pri seconded” to the term of vatized to be private companies for the their contract “They woulid retain their status as public service employees and all the benefits that go along with that,” she said. “At the end of that period of time, they woulid return to the public service as government employees.” She cited the current contracting out of highways services on Van couver Island as an example. High ways is being contracted out to pri vate companies for three year terms, she said. After the three expires, the members — who main. tain their union contract status with the private companies would return to the government service Despite the 85-per cent strike vote last week Fruman said no date has been set for a strike “We have absolutely no strike plans at the moment,” she said. “We are committed to trying to negotiate years a settlement.” ROBSON FERRY She said the talks will take some time and didn’t’ know when an agreement might be reached We feel that we have come a long way to making a settlement possible with these new proposals,” she said Now whether or not there will be a strike is entirely in the hands of the government.” The union represents workers in liquor stores, government offices and ministries. Supreme court date set By CasNews Staff The Robson Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee will get lis day in court with the provincial Ministry of Highways. The committee, represented by lawyer Terry Dalton, is challeng. ing the ministry's cancellation of the cable ferry between Robson. .and Castlegar. The group is scheduled to go before a Supreme Court Justice in Nelson Nov. 28 “It's a challenge to the decision to close the ferry,” Dalton told the Castlegar News. The committee's main argument stems from the ministry's closure of the ferry service without any public hearings or advance warning. Under provisions in the Highways Act, the ministry must hold public hearings and gazette the closure of a provin. cial highways service The committee contends this was not done properly and will challenge the ministry in court in November The committee may have been able to secure an earlier Supreme Court date in Vancouver but Dalton said they waited for a date in Nelson “be. cause a number of people want to attend the hearing so it was set in Nelson at a later date.” Meanwhile, the group's proposal to purchase the ferry has been turned down by the ministry, said commit tee spokesman Fern Allam. “They have returned the dollar and said we can't buy the ferry until it’s publicly offered for sale,”. she told the Castlegar News She added the group is looking forward to the upcoming court hearing in Nelson. “Lexpect there will be a pretty fair crowd from Robson going to Nelson for the hearing.” . Contract talks halted By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Contract negotiations between the union representing sawmill employ ees in Castlegar and Westar Timber Ltd. have broken off after two days of negotiations. The union also represents six forestry workers in Nakusp. The International Woodworkers of America-Canada and Westar went their separate ways Thursday follow ing Westar’s “final offer” to the IWA-C Local 1-405 which represents about 290 workers in Castlegar. Wayne Nowlin, president for the IWAC local, told the Castlegar News Westar's final offer was not ac. ceptable. “We are scheduling a meeting to have an acceptance or rejection ballot to see what the membership Workers By CasNews Staff Two union members who were laid off by the Monte Carlo Motor Inn have been given their jobs back The move week-long picket prptest by four members of Local 40 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union who set up the picket line in front of the Monte Carlo to protest the hotel's use of non-union chamber follows a maids. Helen Kinakin and Verna Abiet koff, both union members, were given their jobs back this week, but not before the hotel's owner, Nick Kosnikoff, threatened to sue the union unless it took the picket line down. Mabel Postnikoff, a unior who has not been offered her job back, said the picket line came down Wednesday after Kosnikoff ened to sue “The owner of the hotel called Verna (Wednesday) and told her that if we did not get off the picket line we were going to get sued individually and the union was going to get sued, Postnikoff told the Castlegar News Abietkoff, the shop stewart for the union local, met with Kosnikoff Wednesday night to issue “That evening Verna met with Nick Kosnikoff, the owner, and he tried every which way to convince her to take a non-union job with the hotel,” Postnikoff said. “And that's a no go, that's completely against our contract.” But Kinakin and Abietkoff re. turned to their union jobs at the hotel Thursday and and currently working with two non-union employees. “Now it's in the lawyers’ hands, our union lawyer and his (Kosni koff's) Postnikoff said. Postnikoff said the union filed a grievance protesting the layoffs without warning in December. The grievance will be going to arbitration next month. 1 member Ubreat discuss the lawyer think,” Nowlin said. “The negotiating that which I'm the is going to be recom committee, chairman of, mending rejection.” Nowlin said there are a couple of key local issues holding up a set tlement but wouldn't say what the issues are “I don’t want to get into all the details,” he said. “There are a number of outstanding items, there are some that we've cleared off and there are some that are still outstanding.” The union meets Sept. 18 to decide whether to aceept the proposal or not. Even if the membership rejects Westar's offer, as Nowlin has ad vised, he said the union will not call a strike vote “We would hope that if it (the vote) is rejection that the company will come back to the bargaining table.” Westar manager Wade Zammit said the company has offered a deal similat to one ratified by IWA-C members on the coast and in the Interior. The three-year deal the other locals have agreed to includes an 85-cent-an-hour wage increase in the first year on the base rate of $14.48 and 5.5 per cent in each of the subsequent years. Zammit said the IWA-C at Westar is asking for too much “I think there was some concern whether the people here should get more than the industry had settled for,” Zammit told the Castlegar News. “I wasn't really prepared to put that on the table.” But Zammit said he will go back to the table if the union members reject the current contract offer on the 18th I wouldn't say be people that stick our hes sand and say no,” Zammit “We'll sort of take it one step at a time and assess what our next step would be depending on what the results of that (the union vote) will be on the 18th Zammit said the negotiations also effect six Local 1405 members in Nakusp who do surveys, lay out roads and other forestry work. He added that a settlement would be beneficial to both sides at this point ‘Obviously there's a lot to lose on both sides if something like that (a strike) happens,” he “What they're not addressing is problems. demands to get more we're ever going to s in the said. said It's just money.” Doucette charged By CasNews Staff Nelson RCMP have charged a former director of the West Koot enay National Exhibition Centre in connection with a disappearance of funds from the NEC last year. Lucille Marie Doucette, 29, cur rently of Calgary is charged with misappropriation of funds and érim inal breach of trust Police report the amount of money in question to be $5,117.14, Doucette has been summoned to appear in Castlegar provineial court Oct. 13.