He said he does not know what dealings the company A Pacitic disturbance moving onto the south coast this morning will spread rain into the level remains near 1,200 metres, thus any precipitation will be ions. No change in the basic pattern is expected over the the mild weather will persis! BILL KRUG Former Castlegar city official on committee Krug, city from 1974 to 1981, is now local government adviser for the Union of B.C. Munici- palities. He is included on the Regional District Review Pelton is the fourth cabinet minister to come under criti financial By CasNews Staff Castlegar city council Campbell, who will chair the nine-member committee, began the review in 1983 and has completed his evaluation of all but three of the 28 re- board, for its initiative and said he hopes the idea spreads. But, he added, “since the matter of morality and ethics cannot be legislated, we as a We reserve the right to limit quantities. Prices limited to stock on hand. 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Council says no to board’s resolution council cannot support this matter.” Ogiow urged council mem- bers to support the resolu- tion on an individual basis a ling to their consci- ence.” ROAD WANTED During question period af- ~ ter the meeting, an inquiry from a resident about an ex- tension of 8th Avenue from 2ist Street to 24th Street behind Kinnaird Hall was re- ferred to council's planning al Crown agencies, showed Maple Ridge Chrysler re ecived $17,716 from the gov ernment for the year running from April 1, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The public accounts do not specify what the payment was for, but do record it for the year in which the goods were received or services rendered. However, Section 25 of the Constitution Act says in part that no member of the legis lative assembly shall be & director or senior officer of a vineial government which accepts money for goods, services or work from the government. VACATE SEAT The section does not pro vide any penalty, but the act says any legislative member who alleges another member UNDER FIRE FOR LINK WITH COMPANY Pelton ‘not aware’ of ban submitted financial disclo Pelton, after talking to has contravened the section and that the money was se- cepted with the approval of the contravening member shall move that the matter be referred immediately to @ special committee to investi- gate. If that committee reports back to the legislature that the section has been com travened, and the report is adopted, “the member shall forthwith cease to be s mem- ber and his seat shall be vacated.” “If there is a problem there, it can be easily reeti- fied but I never recognized it as a problem,” Pelton said when told about section 25. “Tt is quite easy to rectify, all I have to do is resign as secretary-treasurer of both those little companies.” Nielsen punched by angry husband VICTORIA (CP) — Jim Nielsen's job as health min- ister is safe and his wife said Friday she would greet him with a hug and a kiss after it take him back in a minute,” Jean Nielsen said in an inter- view. “If he walks in the door right now, I will greet him with a hug and kiss.” She said the couple has not nd City engineer George Res- haur told the resident, “It's a question of whether or not the city has the funds to do the building (of the road) as well as access across private send the committee a letter formalizing the request to have the matter reviewed by the committee. d. They have eight children. Premier Bill Bennett said he won't ask for Nielsen's ition. “I would have no comment on domestic disputes unless they affected a minister's capability of doing the job,” he said. “Jim, Nielsen is a capable hard-working minis- ter.” Nielsen said in an inter- view Thursday he was punch- ed earlier in the week by the Man sentenced for shooting A Penticton man was sen- tenced to nine months in jail and prohibited from using a firearm for five years after he pleaded guilty to careless use of a firearm in Nelson provincial court Wednesday. David Frank Settle, 53, was arrested and charged af- ter a Sept. 21 incident in Winlaw in which he fired several shots at a residence rented from him by the Smyth family. The incident occurred over a landlord-tenant dispute. There were people in the house at the time of the shooting. valley landscape nursery OPENING Sat. , Feb. 8 " GENUINE Pus p HUE $4 Seeds Hours 10-4 p.m. 1419 COLUMBIA AVE.. CASTLEGAR ‘South Side of 365-2262 husband of a woman he was visiting in a modest Victoria neighborhood. “Her husband came over and thumped me. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. There was no provo- cation; no reason for it.” Nielsen said he has known the woman for several years, and was not contemplating charges against the husband. In an interview on BCTV, the husband, Tom Laidler, said he went to his estranged wife's house because he was concerned for her welfare. He said he hit Nielsen be- cause it was “time for a little ity." He added that he “didn't feel too much re morse.” The minister needed stit- ches to close a facial wound and had a black eye. He missed a pre-budget meeting with Premier Bill Bennett and health experts last Wed- nesday, and was unable to attend a cabinet meeting in Vancouver on Thursday. Nielsen, minister of health since January 1981, said Thursday he would consider resigning if details of the in- cident were revealed. He has since been unavail- able for comment. CUSTODY OF CHILDREN RETURNED NELSON (CP) — A Nelson judge returned custody of two children to their mother Friday after the Human Re- sources Ministry took them from her home, believing they had been sexually abused by their father. ‘The children, a seven-year old boy and his five-year-old sister, were taken by the ministry Aug. 13, 1985. Social workers testified the mother could not cope emotionally with visits by the father, who had been accused of sexually abusing them. Criminal charges against the father were never laid. Judge R.O. D'Andrea, who died Jan. 27, was the first judge to hear the case. He~ concluded that the son had probably been abused but it could not definitely be es tablished that the boy was correct in naming the father as the abuser. Judge Patrick Hyde, who took over the case, criticized the manner in which the children were apprehended. “I have concerns as to the actions of human resources but they don't always have all the information before they apprehend,” the judge said. Ramsden services John Albert Richard (Jack) away Grand Forks Jan. 30 at the age of 21 years. Funeral service will be at the Castlegar YOUR HEALTH CARE Monday Funeral Chapel on Monday, Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. until noon with burial at Park Memorial Cemetery. Mr. Ramsden was born at Calgary, Alta. on March 6, 1964 and came to Castlegar with his parents when he was only six months old. He at- tended schools in and lived here all of his life. BLACKS HURL BOMBS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Blacks hurled gaso line bombs at a department store and a car Saturday in white areas west of Johannesburg in a rare outbreak of violence beyond the borders of the country’s black townships. Police headquarters in Pretoria also said police used shotguns to disperse a crowd of blacks attacking a police patrol, killing two men in the small eastern ‘Transvaal town of Wesselton. That brought the death toll to four since Friday night, hours after President P.W. Botha said rioting was abating. A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said two black men each threw a firebomb Saturday morning at the busy OK Bazaar department store in in, about 50 west of Johannesburg. POPE BEGINS VISIT NEW DELHI (AP) — Pope John Paul began his longest visit to a non-Christian land Saturday by invoking Indian ind di leader Gandhi's vision of religi tolerance and peace — after Hindu radicals burned the Roman Catholic pontiff in effigy. Police briefly detained about 300 Hindu militants, including the brother of Gandhi's assassin, releasing them after the Pope arrived in India’s capital to begin his 10-day, 14-city visit. The demonstrators had chanted, “Sinner Pope, go home,” and “Pope, go to hell.” Hindu extremists claim the visit — the Pope's 29th foreign trip — is aimed at converting poor Hindus to Christianity. About 83 per cent of India’s 750 million people are Hindus while only three per cent are Christians. Roman Catholics number about 13 million. ROSS MARRIES ROMAINMOTIER, SWITZERLAND (REUTER) American singer Diana Ross married Norwegian millionaire Arne Naess in a medieval church in this snow-covered mountain village Saturday, church officials said. Among the film and music stars who were present for the ceremony performed by a Baptist minister were American soul singer Stevie Wonder and actor Gregory Peck, witnesses said. The 40-member Norwegian Silver Boys choir. performed. Ross, 42, started her recording career in 1963 with two women friends in a group called the Supremes. They had such hits as Baby Love and Nothing But Heartaches. CURRENCY DEVALUED WARSAW WEUTER) — Poland effectively devalued its currency, the zloty, by 13.5 per cent against the U.S. dollar Saturday in a bid to boost exports. The central bank gave the new rate of the zloty as 170 to the dollar compared with 147.11 Jan. 27, giving a devaluation of 13.5 per cent when calculated by the International Monetary Fund method. The rates were published by the official news agency PAP, which said the zloty was “pegged considerably lower against all leading western currencies.” CRASH KILLS 39 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll rose to 39 Saturday as rescue workers sifted through the wreckage of two passenger trains that collided outside the South African coastal city of Durban. ‘The dead were 38 black passengers and the white train driver Willie Mitchell, railways director for Natal province, said many of the bodies were discovered when a crane pried one smashed car from atop another at midday Saturday, 18 hours after the crash. Screaming and moaning passengers were trapped in the wreckage during the night, some for as long as 12 hours, reporters at the scene said. LEADER SWORN IN KAMPALA (AP) Yoweri Museveni, the new Ugandan president whose guerrillas battled their way to power last weekend, swore in a political council and cabinet Saturday to run “a government of freedom fighters.” The swearingin ceremony for the 12 cabinet ministers and 22 members of the National Resistance Council was held on the steps of Parliament, where Museveni was inaugurated as president Wednesday. Empty cartridges left from the recent fighting still LARGEST EVER IN REGION akes west American shore of Lake Erie about 50 kilometres north- east of Cleveland, Ohio, mea- sured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The last major quake in the area was in 1943 and measured 4.5, said Robert Mereu, a University of West- ern Ontario geophysicist. Startled people from Bar rie in central Ontario to Washington, D.C., felt the ground shake beneath them at about 11:47 a.m. EST. Some feared a gas explosion, others blamed passing trucks and still others thought it was just a powerful gust of wind. Several public buildings in southern Ontario were evac wife. Greenspan jokingly told the jury afterward the slight tremor was a special effect of erable damage, and 7, wide spread destruction. Every inerease of one number in the seale, @ measure of ground motion, means a tenfold in crease in strength. ‘The Mexican earthquake last September that killed 4,600 people and caused mas sive damage measured 8 on the scale. his final “For my next trick, I'm going to part the waters of Lake Ontario,” he said when the trial resumed. The earthquake caused minor damage in 11 states and Ontario and two slight injuries in an Ohio school. ‘A quake of this magnitude could have caused “substan- tial damage” such as broken chimneys and cracked plas ter, had it oceurred directly under a city, Mereu said. SCALE is An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter seale can cause slight damage in the local area, 5 can cause consid- predict the area around Friday's tremor will be hit with some after shocks, though less intense than the original quake. Police, fire departments and newsrooms were flooded with calls Friday from people wondering what happened. David Callfas, a clerk at the Ontario legislature, said the ice in his water glass “started tinkling” as he sat listening to a debate in the house. “It was scary. I didn’t like it one bit,” Callfas. said. Mary Koeller of Cultus, near Simcoe, Ont., said she felt “a strange rumble” that “sounded like the washing machine when it's got too heavy a load.” Pat Moore of St. Thomas, Ont., said during the tremor she watched a crystal ball ornament filled with water. “There were literally white- caps in the thing because it was shaking so hard,” she said. In Mentor, Ohio, a suburb 32 kilometres north of Cleve- land, two people were treat- ed for cuts from flying glass and falling ceiling tiles. “The ceiling looked like it was going to fall down,” said Mike Hodgins, a senior at the local Roman Catholic high school. “It was just like in the movies. The walls were shak- ing back and forth.” The earthquake also sounded an alarm at an un finished nuclear plant in Ohio, cracked a building in Pennsylvania and knocked out a hydro generator near Cleveland. New unrest reported PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) Militiamen in small, un- marked cars patrolled the Haitian capital's downtown Saturday, enforcing calm after two days of violent protests agai the government of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. New unrest was reported in Cap-Haitien on the northern coast, Haiti's second-largest city, where a funeral was scheduled for three people killed during a demonstra- tion there last Monday The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince said it received reports that security forces used tear gas and gunfire to control an early morning demonstration in Cap-Hatien. There were no reports of injuries. In the capital, sporadic shooting was heard late Friday and early Saturday, apparently from militia. By daybreak Saturday, the streets of the city of one million were clear of protesters. Soldiers and members of the uniformed militia, called the Volunteers for National Service, patrolled with automatic rifles and shotguns. Only Aquino warns of violence MANILA (AP) Philip. pines President Ferdinand Marcos said Saturday that two plots to kill him during election campaign stops in the past week were uncov ered. Meanwhile, challenger Corazon Aquino warned of possible violence if she loses the Feb. 7 presidential elec tion because of fraud. “L hate to think of what will happen because a frustrated and angry people might re sort to violence, although I will still preach the non violent way,” Aquino told re porters at a news conference. Marcos spoke at a separ ate, almost simultaneous news conference. Both Mar cos, in power for 20 years, and Aquino said they expect to win Friday's election, which Marcos called early to prove his popularity. Marcos gave few details about the purported plots to assassinate him during cam paign visits in the past week. Meanwhile, witnesses said Saturday that the death toll in pre-election violence rose to 39 when gunfire raked a village dance attended by supporters of Aquino, killing a 19-year-old woman. Eight people, mostly teen- agers, were involved in the shooting at midnight Friday night in San Vicente village, 335 kilometres southeast of Manila ONLY SAW SOLDIERS The witnesses said they did not see those firing, but that as soon as the shooting stopped about 30 soldiers rushed in and ordered every. one to raise their hands. Village headman Gonzalo Marfil said in a radio inter. view in the provincial capital of Legaspi that the soldiers told him they fired only after a group of Communist New People's Army guerrillas, who allegedly were among the dancers, fired at an ap- proaching military patrol “I did not see any armed men; I saw only soldiers,” said Marfil. A military unit said in a news release to a Legaspi radio station that after the soldiers returned the guer. rillas’ fire, the rebels fled, “firing their firearms indis criminately towards the civi lians and the soldiers.” debris remained in the heavily damaged business district from two days of protests that began late Thursday when angry crowds poured out of the city's huge slums to smash and plunder stores and overturn parked automobiles. A western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said stores staying closed Saturday in Port-au-Prince meant the situation was far from normal. At least five people were shot dead and 60 injured in Port-au-Prince in two days of rioting. FIRST TIME It was the first time protests had flared in the capital since unrest broke out in late November in at least a dozen towns in the interior of the Caribbean country of six million people, ranked by the World Bank as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The unrest has resulted in 16 deaths country-wide, ineluding 11 this week. The estimated 2,000 Canadians living in Haiti, 400 of them missionaries, are believed safe. Another 500 are tourists at resorts unaffected by the turmoil. Most of the tourists are from Quebec. On Friday night, U.S. journalists standing in front of a hotel near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince saw militiamen slam a rifle butt into a Haitian, knocking him to the ground. Militia questioned other American journalists 2s they walked city streets Friday night, but allowed them to continue after they identified themselves. The protests in Port-au-Prince were fuelled by rumors that Duvalier and his family had fled the country Early Friday, U.S. presidential spokesman Larry Speakes announced Duvalier’s government had fallen, but the White House later retracted the statement, citing “conflicting reports.” U.S. Embassy spokesman Jeffrey Lite said Saturday he “Right now, it's the winter blahs,” “You always need an excuse for this i ; é in members sneak out of town at dawn to a kilometres away. It’s part of their “oath of office” remains secret and no one else comes along, z 3 weather. All this doesn’t deter the Wiarton organizers, stick to their story and even it oh aid the Leben twins Wak Willie by festival organizers last summer and kept for safekeeping in a cage at a nearby resort to await winter. “Some son of a gun broke into the cage and let him go, or took him,” the mayor said. A reward of an all-expense-paid weekend for two at the Pacific Hotel in Wiarton owned by Silk hasn't brought him back. “There's a rumor that some Americans from Pennsylvania hijacked him,” Silk said. would have no further on the Earlier, Lite said the embassy had “only reported rumors that were circulating” to the U.S. State Department Pennsy claims to be the authentic home of the groundhog legend. TV Trivia . . . answer in Wednesday's paper 81 Mamet's 84 African nation: nape Troops to take He enjoyed writing. Financing up to $1000 Payable in 3 monthly installments Minimum Down Payment & Administration Fee Required Financing Subject to Approval Financing arrangements through Kootenay Savings Insurance Services Ltd. 1 NOW YOU CAN RENEW EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH! KOOTENAY SAVINGS INSURANCE SERVICES LTD. 1199 CEDAR AVE. 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It was decided then to name features on the planet only after women, it said, in keeping with the mythological significance of Venus, who was the Roman goddess of beauty part in exercise OTTAWA (CP) Cana dian Forces troops will be put to the test Feb. 15 to March 18 in a major NATO training exercise dubbed “Anchor Ex press” for the reinforcement of northern Norway, the Defence Department has an nounced. More than 1,000 Canadian soldiers and airmen will par ticipate, along with 19,000 other troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion, in the exercise which involves warning and alert ing, deployment of forces from outside Norway and de terrent operations, combat operations and then bringing the troops home British, American and Dutch marines will stage an amphibious landing as part of the exercise. 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