ss Castlegar News — morch17, 1985 ANNUAL MEETING Blueberry Creek Irrigation District — Reports — — Election of Trustees — TIME: 7 p. PLACE: Dicckorey Creek School DATE: March 25, 1985 Please Attend! Board of Trustees Annual General Meeting Kootenay Columbia Cooperative Society Sun., Mar. 24, 1 OOTISCHENIA HALL On an rchase interest Free a Interest Free interest Free ved credit TOTAL PERFORMANCE. ave tir Cons TORRAL FINANCIAL FLAIIEING, COMPETITIVE EDGE: P! uddenty therd are a lot of newcomers offering dervices “Wt financial planning’ Who do you turn to? field of en ne 0 Soret et Poeontect on Perma! Freamcia! CAMERON BOND 365-8181 C Ypvestous ‘PROFIT FROM OUR EXPERIENCE en WEATHER. Court news John Silva was put on three months probation and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service work this week in Castlegar pro- vineial court after pleading guilty to telling a policeman an offence had been com. mitted when, in fact, no offence had been committed. . * « $150 fine was given to Joseph Gorkoff after he pleaded guilty to theft under $200. * 8 6 William Perepolkin was fined $350 for driving with a blood alcohol content over 08. 28 6 Brian Symons was put on three months probation after pleading guilty to possession of a narcotic. GREAT Man finally gets job KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — An unemployed chimney sw. eep who parked his car in a vacant lot and then set up two large signs reading’ ‘I need a job’ has found steady employment. Dale Rogers, 24, whose wife, a Kelowna-native, tal- ked him into moving to this Okanagan community from Vancouver to look for work, set up Monday morning and by Thursday night, he was working for Western Pallet and Bin Ltd. “A fellow was walking by Wednesday while I was stan. ding there and told me this place was probably hiring,” Rogers said Saturday. “So I THIEL The Stih! 032 AVEQ CHAINSAW 365-2710 199 Columbia Ave drove over there and filled out an application. “The manager had seen my picture in the paper and was shocked when I walked in and he recognized me.” Company manager Jules Dore said he has Rogers working ona band saw in the mill. The company manu factures and repairs bins, pallets, wooden boxes and crates. Rogers said he’s only recei ving minimum wage, but “I can work six or seven days a week if I want. It's pretty hard work, but it's a job.” “It isn't exactly what I wanted, but you can't be picky,” said Rogers. Police file DAVE HENDERSON . director of marketing services for Tourism B.C TOURISMWN——_ continued from front poge attracts four times as many tourists, Shuswap-Thompson has three times as many and Rocky Mountain region twice as many. “There's a tremendous amount of visitor traffic that is buzzing all around you,” he said. Wollenberg added that some Central Kootenay attractions “do well” for the number of visitors in the Kootenay Boundary region, but not when com pared to other regions. For instance the Nakusp Hot Springs attracts 40,000-70,000 visitors a year, but can't compare to Radium Hot Springs which attracts more than a half million visitors annually, or to Fair. mont Hot Springs which draws more than 250,000 visitors a year. “T's not your fault,” Wollenberg said. “You're not nasty people. It's an accident of geogrpahy and highway construction.” He pointed out that the major Two unidentified passen- gers received minor injuries when a 1975 two-door Buick automobile flipped onto its roof after the driver f make a turn Friday night at Syringa Creek Provincial Pa rk. According to Castlegar RCMP, one passenger rec- eived a shoulder injury while the other had a back injury No information was avail able on the identity or condition of the driver, who was driving at Syringa Creek Park at about 9 p.m. when the accident occurred. The incidnt is under inve. ys don't provide access to much of the Central Kootenay. He said there are several potential large-scale developments, but they would probably require a significant injection of non-private funding. The list includes: @ a large-scale cruise operation @ major historic attractions, such as the Doukhobor Village e natural resources enhancement, such as enhancing the sport fishers. Wollenberg said the development of an arts and crafts centre is considered to have some potential for enhancing tourism and would create some em- ployment, but would require support from outside the private sector. He also called on Central Kootenay tourism operators to improve pro- motion and marketing efforts to attract visitors and investment. Wollenberrg and travel marketing advisor Frank Addison will now meet with area tourist operators and or. ganizations to draw up a “game plan” to give the region's tourism marketing some direction. The new Kootenay Country Tourist Association will sponsor another con ference in a couple of months to reveal the “game plan.” Meanwhile, Dave Henderson, dir. ector of marketing services for Tour. . was the keynote speaker at the conference. Henderson replaced deputy tourism minister Mike Horsey who was unex- pectedly called away. Henderson outlined the Tourism Ministry's new promotional program. He said the ministry will be ri buting a 32-page four-color vacation “planner” in May to all the households in B.C., Albrta, Washington and Oregon. “The Kootenay Country has a very large presence in the piece,” said Henderson. Salmon treaty cuck Investors Syndicate Limited is @ member of the Power Financial Corporation group of componies Nite Live” signed into law BUCK stigation. WA TON (CP) — pact to be signed Monday by President Ronald Reagan sig. Reagan and Prime Minister ned into law Friday legis- Brian Mulroney in Quebec lation implementing the City West Coast Pacific Salmon Treaty in the United States, The treaty, the subject of putting the final touch onthe 14 years of negotiations WOODLAND PARK ESSO Sas & seroceries SPECIALS FOR YOU between Canada and the and Wednesd People’s Insulation Services [i CONTINUES 500 United States, provides for management of the fishery under the direction on an eight-member com mission, with four represent atives from each country this week FRYING CHICKEN BREASTS BRIEFLY Housing increase OTTAWA (CP) — Diplomats and staff at Canada’s 135 foreign embassies and consulates are upset about a federal government decision to increase their housing rent April 1 by as much as 25 per cent. The Department of External Affairs has received °a flood of complaints from employees around the world about the planned increase and public service unions plan to meet with Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret next week to ask that the hikes” be suspended or gradually phased in. Fewer weapons BRUSSELS (AP) — The Soviet Union and its East European allies are delivering more weapons to non-Communist developing countries but fewer so-called Soviet client states in the Third World, a new study by NATO shows. The report tracing east Bloc economic relations with the developing world from 1980-1983, also said economic aid and trade subsidies to all Third World countires in 1983 fell four per cent from 1982. A summary of the study, released Friday, said the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact delivered $6.3 billion worth of weapons to non-Communist developing countries in 1983 — the most recent year for which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization experts have figures. Man caused death MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge convicted a 22-year-old man of murder, ruling that he caused an old woman to have a fatal heart attack by frightening her during a robbery. The verdict was delivered in the non-jury trial, two days after another judge married the accused and his fiance in the same courtroom Judge Mary Montgomery of Hennepin County district found John Walker guilty in the death of Maude Mindrum, 85, of Minneapolis On Oct. 18, 1984. Bodies pulled out ALTA, Utah (AP) — The bodies of a man and a woman killed when an 82-room ski lodge was demolished by an explosion were pulled from the rubble Saturday, and authorities said they did not believe anyone else was trapped inside. The blast Friday, believed caused by a propane leak from a 38,000-litre tank in the basement, also injured at least five people, one of them critically, and collapsed a wing of the three-storey building. The dead man had been in a room at the Goldminer’s Daughter Lodge when the explosion occurred, said Salt Lake Country Sheriff Pete Hayward. He had been only tentatively identified Foreigner kidnapped BEIRUT (AP) — Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, was kidnapped Saturday by armed men off a street in mostly Moslem western Beirut It was the third kidnapping of a foreigner in western Beirut in as many days. The two previous victims were Britons. Donald Mell, an AP photographer, witnessed Saturday's abduction and said three bearded men, two armed with pistols, forced Anderson into a green automobile and sped off Security defended KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) The warden of Kingston penitentiary says she sees no need to tighten security despite an 18-hour hostage-taking that ended without injuries Friday morning Mary Dawson, the first female Canadian maximum-security prison, told reporters an internal investigation will be held but she defended current security precautions as adequate. In Ottawa, federal Solicitor General Elmer MacKay said penitentiaries commissioner Rheal Leblane was at the prison and will prepare a report Canadian arrested ANKARA (AP) — A Canadian, a Briton and nine Turks arrested in the southern city of Adama on religious proselytizing charges have been released pending trial, say officials in Adana. Rick Kirkwood Monroe, the Canadian who is a former employee of a warden of a SAWMILL FIRE . . . All hoses were on this fire which broke out Thursday morning under the side lift at Westar Timber’s sawmill in Castlegar. In attendance were Castlegar Fire Department as well as firemen from the sawmill and pulpmill. CasNews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk Handicapped woman's move will kill her, say parents VANCOUVER (CP) — A govern ment decision to cut funding for a 27-year-old cerebral palsy victim will kill her, say her parents and a local advocacy group in Trail. Gayle Salewski, who is wheel chair-bound, will be shifted into the ~ care of the health Ministry on March 31 and moved from her group home in Creston to an extended care ward at a Trail hospital. Brian Ross, Human Resources Min istry regional manager for Creston, said the decision to move the woman was made on the basis that she is eligible for extended care and should automatically be under the care of the health Ministry. Her status is determined by the fact she cannot move herself from a wheelchair toa bed without assistance. And the Creston centre is not licensed to look after someone who has been deemed eligible for extended care. “In all honesty, this will be Gail's demise,” says her father, Wilf. “She'll go much earlier than her alloted time if she's in a hospital.” Salewski said his daughter spent three months in a hospital setting — “she lost 30 pounds,” and was going “downhill? — before moving to the Endicott Centre in Creston more than two years ago. Dr. Erie Paterson, chief physician at the Endicott Centre, said Gail has improved steadily since she's been at the centre and has settled into a routine there with a group of friends. “She's much better than when she first came. She laughs in response to what people do around her and that's truly amazing.” Paterson said she won't get the level of staffing and personal care she needs at the extended care facility Norma Collier, president of the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped which runs the Endicott Centre, agreed the move would be detrimental. ARMENIAN TERRORISM “Our concern is she'll die in an extended care facility,” said Collier. “She's made tremendous improvement at the centre. She's much more alert than ever before.” Despite the licensing regulation, Collier said several other residents at the Endicott Centre who are eligible for extended care are staying there and their needs are being adequately met. “I'm not sure who made the decision (about Gail), but the decision was not made at my level,” Ross said. Peter Kagis, Human Resources regional manager for Trail and the man who first informed the family that Gail's funding would be cut, also refused to comment on the case, but said: “I find it distressing that a client's life is being bandied about in the press.” The only way the two ministries will comply with the parents’ wishes to keep Gail in Creston is if they come up with the $90 a day it costs for her care. Federal gov't blamed for death OTTAWA (CP) terrorists,” Chretien says. The Mulroney government bears some responsibility for the death Tuesday of a security guard during an attack on the Turkish Embassy by Armenian gunment who “were certainly not former Liberal external affairs minister Jean trained Clark suggested to reporters a Canadian government official erred “in relation to the information passed on to us” and said a full investigation had been ordered Chretien said in the interview taped Thursday the day before Clark admitted he may have been wrong that the Mulroney government was guilty of at least “bad “They (the government) were warned,” Chretien said in an interview broadcast Saturday by Standard Broadcast News. “They did nothing. So that is their responsibility.” External Affairs Minister Joe Clark admitted Friday the Turkish Embassy may have requested tighter security just days before the attack, which resulted in the death of Pinkerton Canada Ltd. guard Claude Brunelle administration” in its handling of the matter. NOT WELL TRAINED Chretien suggested prompt action to beef up security at the embassy might have meant a different result since the three attackers “were certainly not trained terrorists. “I'm told that everything was extremely amateurish,” ae morch7.1985 CastiégarNews a BCGEU raid was okayed VANCOUVER (CPj — A raid by the British Columbia Government Employees’ Un- jon on the Food and Service Workers of Canada's 1,100 members at White Spot rest- aurants has been rejected by the Labor Relations Board. The board found no merit in the Food and Serive workers’ objections to the raid: But it also found that the BCGEU “has been unable to demonstrate that it has the required evidence with respect to membership in good standing.” The board found irregul- arities in application cards the BCGEU circulated among prospective members, and in the documentation of the $1 fee worker wanting to join the BCGEU. The Food and Service workers claimed the BCGEU violated the Labor Code by enticing White Spot workers to wine and cheese parties with door prizes, and also charged that the government employees’ union was vio- lating its own consitution by moving into the private sec- tor, The LRB ruling says the BCGEU's organizing conduet “does not on the surface amount to either coercion or intimidation.” On the union constitution issues, the board “has con- sistently applied a policy of not referring to the consti- tution and bylaws of the trade union” in required to be paid by each such matters. War injustice talks will continue By DAPHNE BRAMHAM VANCOUVER (CP) — The National Association of Jap- anese-Canadians is preparing for another round of talks with the federal government on redress of injustices suf- fered by the community during the Second World War. Roy Miki, national chair man of the redress com mittee, said the association has completed a report on the feasibility of doing a full socio-economic survey of los- ses suffered by the 20,881 Japanese-Canadians interned during the war. The survey would calculate monetary losses when the Custodian of Enemy Pro- perty confisciated and sold land, houses, fishing boats and household property, as well as cost of disrupted educations and other losses including pensions and life insurance coverage. “If there is a document, then any compensation sum will be more acceptable to everyone because they will be able to see what that amount is based on,” Miki said. He said the association hopes to meet within weeks with Multiculturalism Min. ister Jack Murta. In January, Murta broke off talks with the association and was prepared to move unilaterally in Parliament to provide an official apology and some sort of financial compensation. The association mustered a strong lobby and stopped Murta saying any acknow ledgement of the wrongs and any compensation must first have the support of the Japanese-Canadian commun ity Once Murta has seen the feasibility report, the as- sociation wants to begin meeting federal officials to appoint an independent gr- oup to do the study. Miki said the survey would be the basis of any com- pensation estimate as well as a document of that historical period. “Even though the gov- ernment says the people know all of this (history), I don't think they really know the extent to which the Japanese-Canadian commun- ity had to pay for its own internment, how the pro- perty was liquidated or the manner in which the pto- perty was appraised,” he said. “That information is not really in the public and there anre many people in the Cau casian community who still don't realize the absence of security risk and they say that war is war and what was done was necessary.” Documents released three years ago show the RCMP and the Defence Ministry both agreed Japanese-Can adians did not pose a security risk by remaining on the West Coast even after the bombing of Pearl Harbor Miki and other members of the redress committeee met Japanese-Canadians in On tario and Quebec last week. He said most people at the meetings had been interned, while a few who were young er came to learn more about what had happened to their parents. One major concern was that any foundation set up by the government as compen sation should be controlled by Japanese-Canadians, not government appointees Districts need Clark interrupted normal business in the Commons to he said. “these guys were not experts.” Fun Flights Every Week on PSA 150 Passenger Jet wer panara 1028 am Gurdey Mon. ri. 8:30 Call Now! (509) 534-1111 Spokane, WA Beate EXPRESS aes ru vy mn. It is designed to prevent overfishing and also to add to existing stocks, with both 3939 $5.27 /kg countries pledging to part ieipate in enhancement pro- grams. HOSTESS POTATO CHIPS APPOINTMENTS Le} CASTLEGAR SAVINGS INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD. Te \= av» DOUG GREEN Pen. 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Central Credit Union i CENTRAL G bine RICHARD McALARY wt McAlary will also address the Castlegar Savings Credit Union Annual General Meeting Wed. night power conipany in Adama, and Andrew James Baldwin, the Briton who teaches English at the Cukurova University there, were arrested along with the Turks on March 3 and accused of violating Turkey's secularity laws by holding religious meetings with the aim of proselytizing. Equals predecessor JASPER, Ind. (AP) — William Schroeder missed his son's wedding Saturday, but it was a historic and happy day for the second artifical heart recipient, who equalled the 112 days’ survival of his predecessor. “He's in really good spirits today,” said Larry Hasints, clinical director at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky., where Schroeder remained Saturday. Doctors had decided that 145-kilometre trip to Jasper for his son Terry's wedding would have been to much stress for him. Instead, the hospital took the wedding party to Louisville on Friday for a dress rehearsal and dinner which Schroeder attended Directors fired OTTAWA (CP) Transport Minister Don -Mazankowski has fired 13 members of the Air Canada beard of directors and will soon announce rep lacements Mazawkoswki spokesman Tom van Dusen said Air Canada chairman Claude Taylor and president Pierre Jeanniot will remain on the board. apologize for insisting earlier in the week that Turkey had made no request since mid-February for stiffer security. His earlier statements contradicted acting Turkish foreign minister Yesut Uilmaz who said Canada was one of several countries warned about possible attacks after long sentences were imposed March 2 by a French court on Armenian terrorists convicted in a 1983 Orly Airport bombing. BUDGET continued trom front poge wanted an across-the-board reduction in fuel taxes, which, he said, makes up about half their cost in some cases. Also in the budget is a tax credit for small businesses which allows them to deduct $300 per employee, which will save them an estimated $150 million over the next two years — a move which D'Arcy applauds. “I think it’s a great idea,” he said. ‘It's basically going to help the small businessman pay for all the govern ment paperwork he has to do per employee.” Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore was unavailable for comment Friday. But Ald. Bob MacBain, chairman of city council's administration and finance New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent took the same tack Friday, call Clark “incompetent” and saying it's possible the life of Brunelle, 31, government had taken proper precautions. Meanwhile, Pinkerton guards, disputed suggestions by the RCMP and the security firm that Brunelle violated basic procedures by leaving his bullet-proof guard house and might have been saved if the shooting at terrorists committee, said the removal of in dustrial property taxes on machinery and equipment will mean less money for municipal coffers. He said Westar Timber used to pay the highest tax in this category in the Castlegar area, although he added, “I don't know off the top of my head what the tax is we're getting from them on machinery.” MacBain said it's likely that res idential taxes will have to be increased to offset some of the industrial taxes which have been cut It hasn't done much for the little man,” he said. Like D'Arcy, MacBain said he would have liked a reduction in water taxes, since it indireetly effects the price the City of Castlegar pays for hydroelectric energy MacBain also advocated an across the-board reduction in fuel taxes. He said the budget will need further study by council, and pointed out that sections require further explaination from the provincial government For example, a $30 million increase in revenue sharing for municipalities was announced as part of the budget, but it’s not yet clear in what area the revenue-sharing will take place, said MacBain. An additional $31 million for revenue-sharing was promised on a “long-term” basis. Castlegar Chamber of Commerce president Paul Moroso was unavailable for comment on the budget Friday. $100 million VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia's 75 school districts need another $100 million to maintain existing programs and ones based on 1984 instruction levels, a spokes man said Friday The B.C. School Trustees Association has also asked Education Minister Jack He inrich to set up a meeting with Premier Bill Bennett to explain the problems faced by the school boards, said association president Bill Le feaux-Valentine “What we would like to do with the premier is to discuss two concerns — the adequacy of funding that is available and the priority that the government places on public instruction, and the central ization of authority which has resulted in a lack of flexibility on the part of school boards to manage those dollars in an efficient and effective way, he said after a meeting with the minister. Lefeaux-Valentine said the association asked Heinrich to set up a royal commission on education to provide a “thor. ough review of the goals and needs of education.” The trustees’ president rejected the “let's Talk Ab- out Schools” review cur rently under way, saying it does not have the confidence of the public Lefeaux-Valentine said the $100 million shortfall results from teacher salary increases that will be awarded under the compensation stabiliza tion program, an anticipated four-per-cent increase in in flation and the reductions built into the government budget for school purposes. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis presented a $9-billion budget Thursday which pro- vided for a $20-million de crease for school budgets.