A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 25,198! AWARD FOR VALOR WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan © pre- sented. the highest U.S, award for valor toa retired Vietnam veteran Tuesday “and said he and ‘all the * Americans who fought that war “were denied’ pe: sion to win.” Reagan presided over a Pentagon ceremony paying tribute to the more than _ three million U.S. soldiers =-who served in the South- east Asian conflict over 12 years. He draped the blue- ribboned Medal of. Honor. around the neck of Roy Benavidez, a 46-year-old retired Army master ser- -geant and father of three | from El Campo, Tex., credited with saving the lives of eight . wounded members of a 12-man Green Beret reconnais- sance team in 1968. SCIENTIST DIES TORONTO — Dr. Alan . Ming-ta | Wu, 42, an inter’ Foreign briefs . .. broken “instruments and bad weather caused a Dec. 5 plane crash that killed 10 people, including eight United Nations officials, It said’ the chartered, twin- engined Piper aircraft was carrying 164 kilograms more than its limit when it crashed. Before . takeoff, the pilot failed to inquire about weather conditions and | several = moni- tors on the plane were not working, the report eaid. - ‘The plane ran into a thun- derstorm and disinte- grated in flight. ACTIVIST ) ERS BANGKOK (AP) — A former student . activist who has been with Com- munist insurgents in the Jungle has sure has surrendered, ill . with’ malaria, Thirayutn Boonmee, 29, who helped engineer an enormois stu- | dent demonstration ‘that- led to the toppling of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat’s military regime in 1973, din ok on ‘entist in the area of . bi- ophysics, originally of ‘Tai- wan, of a brain tumor, ~ Monday. HOMOSEXUALS Ly =! ROME (AP) — Two Ital- jan homosexunis— hand- ‘euffed themselves to a : metal rail at the Canadian ‘Embassy in Rome to pro- ‘teat « the arrests last month of more than +200: men at a Toronto ‘steambath frequented by homosexuals, police said. “Two embassy officials sawed off .the handcuffs and took the men for . coffee, said embassy press - attache Gilbert Reid. “We all went out quite joilily,” he said.” “They: wanted someone to listen to their point of view, which we “did.” > ESCAPETO WEST HANNOVER, WEST - GERMANY :(AP) — Two East .German . soldiers di rand 20-year-old "private, whose comrades apparent- ly did not notice their escape Monday night, said they fled because of poli- “tical and ie condi- « ~tersanean ' . Soviet Union. Friday, a Thai, army spokesman said. BRITISH JOBLESS UP LONDON (AP) — tain’s jobless rate, already the highest since the De- pression, rose two-tenths -— of one per ceni io 10.2 per | cent this month, the em- ployment department said “Tuesday. It was the ninth consecutiva monthly” in- crease, WER ERODED manding NATO forces in southern Europe ssid Tuesday that U.S. naval power has eroded alarm- inaly in the Mediterran- onAdmiral William Crowe Jr. said there is a des- perate need for strength- ening: naval forces in the area to counter the Soviet fleet, which is backed by land-based Backfire bom- . bers that can-reach Modi- - waters from the-- NOSTAY OF tions in East Germany. SHOT AT BLACKS 3% KLERKSRORP (AP) — ‘A white South African of- ficer, charged with mur- black boy, shot at random at blacks as he and four other soldiers drove along ‘a highway, one of his co- defendants testified at the --trial: of the five soldiers. [Rifleman Jan Hattingh, 20, -gaid 2nd ‘Lieut. Jacobus Botha, ’19, fired at road “signs and.blacks with his automatic rifle during the dering a nine-year-old | d March 8 ex- a mur- TSE ee a TORONTO (CP) — Toronto stock market aa down moderately in. mid. . morning trading Wednesday. Trading was also moderate. The TSE 800 index was off 1.87 points to 2170.10. |” Seven, of the 14 stock groups in the composite in- dex declined, led‘ by ofl and gas, which was down 16,85 points to 4274.55, Consumer © products had the largest of the ‘seven advances, up 9.66 points to 1988.16. Volume of trading by 11 - a.m, was 1.66 million ‘shares, compared with 1.11 million shares at the same time Tuesday. Declines outnumbered ad- vances 146 to 196 with 184 issues pahengee ‘Trading in shares of Zel- ' ler's Ltd.’ resumed at: the. opening “after. being halted:: Tuesday and'by 11:a.m.' the: atock gained 7/8 to $17.7/8 on: 3 6,100 shares.” NOON DOLLAR ” MONTREAL (OP) — U.8.° dollar in terms ‘of Canadian funds at ‘noon. Wednesday was. up 7-100 at $1108. Pound sterling ‘was :.down 12-25 at; $2.6689. In New York, the Canadian dollar was up 1-20 at $0.8851 and pound sterling was down - S210) at $2.2287.. : B.C. briefs . COQUITLAM (cr) — body of 17-year-old aed missing since Friday’ night has been-found by RCMP. The body -of Darlene Ellen McLeod of Port Coquitlam,: B.C. was found in a wooded area near the Coquitlam- house where the party. she attended was held. Police have revealed no details of the condition of the body. fe elstoke dank: He is combining war service’.time : with . his years: as a civil ‘servant to take retirement “when I-can . enjoy it.” * z . BACK ON JOB _ NANAIMO (CP) -- About. 175 members. of; tho. Inter- national .. Woodworkers . of ‘America returned ‘to. work Monday at'-Crown : Zeller- bach's Nanaimo Lakes Wood- lands Division, © ending a under way.” WILL RETIRE VICTORIA (CP) How- ard DeBeck, B.C.'s comptro!- , ler of water rights at Victoria since 1965, will retire April 1 at age 60, DeBeck broadens the public hearing n: when B.C, Hydro plied for for. water licences to build the . Seven Mile dam near ‘Trail walkout : hauling rates for log truck drivers..A meeting between company * and union to discuss a con- Hudson's Bay Co, sald it’: will make an offer of $18 3 ’ share for. the 88 per’ cent of’. Zeller's it: dose not : “of Blake Resourses Ltd. was halted in early trading pend-'.’ . ing’ an announcement,’ The : sees last traded at: 8%. ‘ ‘ame exchange also said.14 million’ common. shares ‘of “Ghelter Hydrocarbons Ltd. will be posted for trading in... the oil and gas category Feb. 26. : The company has. ofl and gas interests in Western Canada and. the United States. i Ans - Among industrials,.-Mur, phy oll tell ue to: $8142, Texasgulf 1 to $57, MICC Investments '/ to $11, Gulf Canada ‘4 to $25: %,..and Canadian Pacific 1/8 to heer 5/8. Black Photo gained. 2 to. $82, Seagram % ‘to '$68%, Nevtonndlnd Capltal B 5/8 to $9 5/8, ward A5/8 gale and Westcoast Dickenson A was off / to "VANCOUVER (cP) = Striking ‘Telecommunteations Workers Union members will picket’ the’ main’ Vancouver. eowntown post office if union day. “The. union’ says the» post office Is party: to the B.C, -Telephone’ Co., dispute because’ it’ mails. company telephone : _bills.’. Picketing could shut down postal oper- ations: if members’ of - the Canadian Union’ of Postal Mothers: refuse to cross ther 6. The union. ‘says it is giving Lower. Mainland ° banks, which. handle’ B.C.,Tel cust- - omers" bills, ‘several days to _ discontinue: the. practice .be- fore: the’ “anion “pickets _ ranches, is BO. Bicone Court has adjourned | until Friday hearing on a B.C; Tel request, that atriking company .work- “gra be prehibited ‘from ple- , keting supervisors’. homes. +1. WANT EXTEN SION Spokesman. Keith 'Mat- /thews said B.C, Tel will also ° ask the court toextend to the whole: province an earlior Pyuneelon limiting the num- ber of pickets at company premises to two. per en- trance. Matthews said there had been ‘several incidents . of members of the TWU, follow- ing», supervisors. to their - homes and setting up picket... lines. “These supervisors are working out of their homes, receiving assignments there, keen company vehicles Police Briefs ay) j ah ‘hare and. heading’ “out:to.?..' work without. golng to, the office,” said union spokesman . About: 130°, unfontzed! Cy ployees are | off the’! al because: the union’ ts picket” ing the Canadian ‘Kenworth, truck manufacturing’ plantiin’ | « phones. if castle: pant ed by Castle News ite ‘Mail ‘subscription rate to. the J» + Pst editions | only: Collected coc acweek Second-, ‘class mall mi Lézal ROMP sre investi: tores. | ating ‘a ‘theft“-of a.-pickup ‘truck.owned by Manuel De- Transmission 1/8 to $14%. foryas of Castlogar.. The + tru $94, Onaping Resources ;'/1 to $9'/ and Denison Mines 14° to $49 7/8. Q.M.G. ‘Holdings rose 7/8 to $1644 and Camp! bell - Lake 8/4:to' $614." Cleveland : ick was discovered missing from,, the Deferyas garage and may have been. missing since Feb. 24, The vehicle is a 1977 brown’ Ford ™ pick-up with the B.C. licence plate” 413-8HH. a An ‘accid ‘on :¥ear-ended a vehicle driven by Carol Vecchio of Castlegar when it had stopped ‘for “traffic aheac ‘There: was $2,200 damage: to the vehi- cles’ Vecchio was taken to. | Castlegar and District Hos- pital with a complaint of 8 neck injury. Police ‘say that. Hildah! has been ‘charged with driving too fant: ber road: Highway 22 near the Se ‘twacte ‘dispuio’ ‘nas been set ior 2. Workers walked out Thursday. to“* protest the company’s refusal. to pay extra for hauling three or more loads. The’ company said only one extra payment’ — for hauling ‘two'or ‘more - leads — was payable , under the collecti and the I Rev- Two more children reported missing" ATLANTA, GA. (AP) — Two more black children, boys aged 10 and 14, ‘have been reported missing in At- . lanta, _police . said today, _ There. wasno word, hows “on whether their:cases * been assigned to the special force investigation 18 deiiths and two —An Atlanta city council gets its: ; apology — Comedian Rich Little, who aroused the ire of the people of Cleveland with. a joke about the Ohio city,, says he really loves Cleveland and has tendered his apologies. The Ottawa-born | Little made the apology Mo fonday night during :.a, guest’ host ‘appearance on NBC's -To- night show.» _ Due Ronald Reagan's inaugural’ gala last month, Little joked ‘that. the best way to keep the: Russians © .” from invading Poland was to serchandlyn QR: public, areas or, Ab. sh01 centres. Tho measure is, am _ other -he-- said). “But Cleveland is a good town, and Td like to come back to your city and doa show. IfI do and you doa 21-gun salut Please aim into the air.” Gauley Redi-mix turnoff Fri- . . iJ “Sunday evening a@ car driven by Alex: “McKinnon of ded -day evening. A car driven by 7 Hildahl of one - CRTC rejects’. OTTAWA . (CP). .—. ‘The: Canadian Radio-television and , Telecommunications Commission’ has refused Col-. umbis” Kootenay. Broadcast- permission .to: buy. "Co. : three British Columbia radio. z stations. ‘The ‘company: prasad buy» fadlorsta’: tons :-CKEK' in: Cranbrdok;._ CFEKin Fernie and ‘CJAT.in “Trail. In “rejecting the plan, the conimission ‘said the financ- ing arrangements “would ': place too heavy.a burden on‘ the purchasers. It also sald, the ability:of the stations ‘to provide an adequate level of local programming services ran by Douglas: Towle of” Richmond when Towle slowed. down ,.to .turn ‘off Columbia Avenue. There were no injuries’ and an estimated $2,000. damage “to the vehicles, RCMP: say that. McKinnon has” been charged with following too closely. 2 AVENUE 4 i a in : ‘copyright in ony ‘print copia at Castle | News Ltd. is vated in ond nd belony 10. Ca! jews Ltd; p eed jareommstating the id Waele LOIS HUGHES, - Managing Editor: , HARVEY: Plant Foremon | UNDA KOSITSIN Circulation Manager’ could be of the child cases. Thurmond, _ chairman of the Senate judi: ciary committee, said in a letter to Attorney-General William’ French Smith the Atlanta case is “a social: disester for all America.” Hand and the DeKalb County police became in- volved in, the child cases earlier this month when the body of 11-year-old Patric Baltazar was found behind an office building in the eee ban.county. A whole lot more - a than JUST the SCORE Full Sports.Coverage. with RICK BOURGON | Ifyou ; sa onde hye af dosing dare for applicatio: : fot Summer each ‘Bli is sore 16, 1981 to be exact)... "Tf wedon't have your aj + don already, act now. epetice 3 ic before we can give you the + gorahe to get it going, ead. Or the wherewithal ql aya 4 social ©. P services; : enrRY conserva renewable resources and en «.° vironment; tourismartisti cultural development Would °° J ‘certainly make sense t0 US, must be non- Proj ; ; ¢ benefits should be to the community. ; fee must provide at feast’ for students. For fi x’ weeks, From) . And keep ployment policies support which give equal oppar y a all Canadians, inclu cing the young, women, ind the led. We really want to h your, fg good ideas, But we've got to, hear soon. Proposals must be - postmarked by March 16's0 get the applicatio, p form now, ° if you haven'e already. 5 From y your Canads _ mene Centre, or E Ws ry railon mento eee worthy, Minister (Lloyd Arworthy, iistre tt tsa Pe siemens E tion aT % Voice of the Peop ‘Teter’ to the: x pen * School District No, 9 Board, Castlegar, ' ve: removal of teak from the :bebool H- r Boing alive Means having happy, pleasant encounters “ with others, and sad hurtful encounters with others, Like- wise; while we canbe proud: of:some‘of-our own personal thoughts:and_ actions,’; we sometimes have thoughts or perform acts.that trouble,us.. In’ order to’ have’ good mental heath; we ‘must. find - ways to cope constructively, : ; with both the positive and negative aspects: ‘of: our- elves: with both the joys ant others, Storybooks can bea useful ioal for helping, us .to learn. constructive. coping... skills.”: Some storybooks i inerely pro: frustrations we experi-: ence in’ our interactions with ‘Censorship peers characters that resemble real ; . people dealing with realistic © . life’ situations:' ° characters _ who suffer and worry, won- : der ‘and ‘learn in ‘a’ manner intimately. familiar to the i reader, _ At least two of the books you have removed from the elementary school library arc the second. type ‘of story book... They are. children’s books, written for and about children, Please note that], ‘a parent: of a..10-year-old ‘Castlegar schoolgirl,-am saddened. and . frightened by your decisions to remove certain’ children's books from the shelves of the. ‘elementary.: school ‘library. of "any: sort threatens the foundations of a free society. Books provide... important pathways to know-’ ledge and understanding for. our children... * Please don't start Hhiniting ‘our children’s access to these, S.D. Sheldon, Castlegar, B.C. ay be involved ‘in “our reunion curv ’ and have not been contacted, please write in ‘careor the “Newmarket High School Re- The B6th anaual rescue and first-aid ‘competitions spon- sored by the West Kootenay aid. competitions » will ‘take’* place at Lakeside Park in the morning ;and afterncon,. and +. there’ will bea bangaet, and “unton Committee,’ 829:Pros- pect St., Newmark “On By KEVIN DOUGHERTY QUEBEC (CP). — Rene Levesque has: denied — Premier . ie) | Premier denies Hydro. payoff. suggestions that he played a ° ~ role . in: awarding Hydro- ‘Quebec ‘contracts to’ ‘com: pany in which the brother-in- law. ofa man: killed - ‘by Levesque's car in February, 1977, had an interest. :“I heard about that rather B-style ‘movie that was‘ sup- posed to be printed by a B-style daily today,"“Leves- que salt sible, I don’ would make ‘Bpecial efforts, ing on a copyrights! In ‘The Toronto Star. “If that's reportin, ‘then my. name. is’ ‘Pope John Paul 0. ‘ would The ‘story. said“Sogerin |’... Ltd.,'a management: consul- tant firm which had not pre- : viously. received Hydro-Que- bec , contracts,.. obtained . $988,280 ' in: contracts from + the \; publicly-owned, utility, just days after the accident,’ Edgar ‘Trottier, #,62-year, old. derelict,’ wi parently ap) lying on‘ the road rf a blind - curve of: Montreal's,affluent Westmount: suburb “in: the early hours of-Feb. 7,.1977, when a-car. driven by’ Lev- esque struck and killed him,’ brother-in-la: + Jacques-A; Snethird terest in Sogerin. bi ahips., The first-aid e events include | the’ senior .competition, the — persol ‘competition, ‘inter: ¢ The sei jor compotition or. the Mine‘ Safety..Appllance lia 110 70 of: ict at. the Relat for. the: Workers’ “tition is open to any. team of ast 2 icy employéd in ‘tret-aid, The intermediate event for * the Fleck Brothers Trophy. is.