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Cents WEATHERCAST Sunny Thu tinving Inia F creas around See to 18 wah ‘overnight lows near O°, morning, con: riday vii In- Hi | be CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1982 rade 4 Sections (A, B& C) 4 bus service ‘postponed’ | i “plan. by* ‘First City Invest. ° ‘ments “Ltd. of Vancouver for a mall at 1602 Columbia Ave.;'and:a bid by First Commercial Properties Ltd. of Winnipeg’ to build a tall on the liptical site NM MAL SITE... _ fropened # site for First City, behind Gastleaird Plaza. “The third possible mall is "Tuesday decided to ask the firm if {t'is still interested:: in: building a: mall.’:: She noted Boel and Sons has a sign up- on the property ,announcing the coming of a.new mall. She said council will give B iclosed' mall, Boel and Bons io” days ‘to : the ‘Boel and Sons? prop: _...Ald..Bob build last year. Ina meeting last week ? * with’ “counell’s £- planning : : ‘committee, First City. said jpcicd by Gotso lag seer we “It’s a small'one (mall),” "she. explained, ‘The proposal calls for an 80,000- -square-foot en- on: the: same ‘ate the firm -wanted to: building pos? : * The final request is con- trary to” “council * policy, Moore ‘noted, though she id the 2 property prior' to submis-“* sion of detailed drawings or an EE for a Victim of Bennett restraint program By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar’ residents who expected to ride the bus this year better. start dusting off their walking shoes. ‘The city’s proposed quart- er-million-dollar-a-year trans- it system has fallen victim to Premier Bill Bennett's public ; sector restraint program. In’a March 11 letter to Castlegar council, Urban Transit Authority. chairman Frederick Macklin said the premier's restraint program has forced the UTA to “postpone” Castlegar'’s prop- osed bus service. Two new 16-seat buses were scheduled to start oper- ating sometime this spring between Castl Blueber- year, with Castlegar and Areas I and J residents paying the other 25 per cent. But Macklin sald, “Follow- ing the premier’s announce- ment of the Stab- isting transit systems result in cost savings, those funds will be made: available later in the year for new programs - such as Castlegar’e. we shall lization Program . for the province, the board of the authority (UTA) has recon- sidered its 1982/83 pro- grams, “A new budget that: re- flects the expenditure guide- lines has‘now been submitted to government.” Macklin said the new bud- get — which includes proyin- cial subsidies' of more than $91 million — can only cover bus services that are now in’ existence and presently funded by the UTA. ‘to the terms of . Ys Baboon, Raspberty Bril- liant, the ‘existing cost-sharing we have reached ‘hrums and higrearres Under the}: provincial tran- sit agreement between coun- cil, the Central Kootenay Re- gional District arid the UTA, bus users would have paid 30 _ per’ cent. of the total. cost through fares, — . The UTA would have then picked up.76 per cent of the ti hi : an, advanced ‘stage in the process of evaluating the feasibility. ‘of transit service ‘for your, community,” Mac- klin said. “However, ' implementation of services, if approved by your ‘council, must, be -post- poned.” _He said if measures to im- _ Prove the efficiency’ of ex- sésealiate our ability to fund new services during the preparation of our 1988/64 Z , budget.” However, the UTA’s move to axe the Castlegar’ bus system’ even before it got started, did not sit well with council, “This is a ‘very, very crit- ical letter,”‘commented Ald. Albert Caldérbank. “This shatters me.” He said council has been working for five years to get a shia service for Castle- ont think it's most important that we make damn sure we're at the top of the list (for the 1983/84 budget),” he said. Mayor Audrey Moore. sug: gested council write to Mac- klin pointing out that Castle- gar and Areas I and J have already approved the bus service, and request that the service. be started this year and not prstponed until ios. = : Army commander-seizes _power in Bangladesh *.NEW, DELHI (AP). — army commander.who Saeed control of Bangladesh in an clude an 85,000-squarefoot : d D, Mitchell Supply reopens — ‘By CasNews Stait Leas than | three vee after. it was’ shop again. Last week: the -company opened a temporary out of a ted by fire Mitchell eet Ltd. has opened its doors. — though in'a slightly different location. The “80-year-old Castlegar bulding “ supplies business was burned to the: ground Feb. 26 in ‘a fire} police suspect was started by.arson. Local - ROMP are. still, in- the case and have shed and warehouse adjacent to to the blackened ruins of the” old building. - +, Mitchell's; spokesperson Cathy Horcoff said the firm is “selling only what it has in the warehouse and what it sal- sign was. erected on the indicated they have several leads, though no charges hhave been laid. Damage. from the blaze was more than $1. million. But that hasn't stopped Mitchell's from setting up roof to let-resi- dents know -the company. is. back in business. But Horcoff couldn't say if there are any plans to rebuild the store. - “As far as building again, I haven't got a clue,” she said. 126-UNIT APARTMENT Harwyn project delayed By CasNews Staff B.C.'s, continued economic downturn has. thrown a wrench into a Lower Main- land development firm's plans to build: a $7. million 7 pa project in Castle. ey Shockey, project man- ager for Harwyn Pro perties, said Tuesday ina ‘talepboas interview ‘from his’ Vancou- vor home ‘that the project will be going ahead — but he isn’t sure just when. The project calls for three, ‘apartment .- blocks : totalling:, 126 units — 86.in the ‘first block, 48 in the second and 42 in the third — to be built at 17th Street and Woodland Drive behind Maloney’s. Shockey told the Castlegar Newa in December that foot- ings for the first’ block had’ - already been’ poured and construction was expected to‘ start. “just about: immedi. ately.” + However, that never hap- pened and Shockey later said work on the first apartment block would begin sometime in’March, On Tuesday he pushed the : start-up date back even fur: ther, ‘blaming project financ- ing for the holdup. “Obviously I- wanted | to. start by now,”:he said. However, ‘he’ denied . the project is “on hold.” “It's just. 8% not working out as quickly as we'd like,” he explained. | He said finding financing for the: huge project is “not Owner Terry Ackney. also wouldn't say what his” plans are and referred all questions Horcoff. '- In."the® ‘crews Bloodless coup in Guatemala | GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - iene officers who ous- have started cleaning up the remains from the fire. Elsewhere, city works su- perintendent- Igor’ Zahynacz denied that there were any .,, Problems with water supply for fighting the fire. Zabynacz said the only problem was the water mains in’ that part of Castlegar, which are only six and eight- inch mains. He said those. mains were “the best that there was” when they were installed continued on poge A2 getting any easier” with cur- rent economic conditions. “It's very difficult,” he said, adding, “I think the reasons are apparent.” : Shockey said the BC Tim- ber mill closures’ in Nelson and Castlegar and the Comin- co shutdown for five weeks this summer played : a part in the. delay. - Shockey ‘said “time lines” for, developers trying to get projects on’ stream have in- creased and banks have be- come more:wary. “Everybody's the same,” he said, The only developers going ahead with projects at this.time are those who are “; committed and can't slow them down, he noted. Shockey couldn't give a three-man junta say they -acted because ‘elections ear-' lier. this month were rigged 's ring-wing' ‘Haagen “and installed’ a Junta leader Efrain Rios Montt, a retired general. who ran unsuccessfully’ for presi- dent eight years ago, told re- porters he will dissolve con- -gress and rule by decree with- junta colleagues Gen. Hor-- to prolong an and corrupt regime. : Tanks and soldiers ringed the presidential palace in the coup Tuesday but no violence - was reported. It was the first military takeover in 19 years in Guatemala, Central Amer- ica’s most populous nation racked by hundreds of poli- tical killings and a leftist re- : bellion, firm date as to when con- struction would. begin, though he said the project has to go ahead sometime in 1982 under the federal gov- ernment’s MURB (Multiple Unit Residential Building) program. The apartments were first ; acio. Shad and Col. Francisco Gordillo. = In a televised address la- ter, Rios Montt promised re- forms and asked leftist guer- Tillas to lay down their arms, saying “subversion should not continue.” \ continued on poge A2 coup early today says he was sav- ing the Asian state from a corrupt civilian ‘government and certain disaster, the of- ficial Dacea radio reported. ‘Army chief Ltd.-Gen. H.M. Ershad imposed martial law and proclaimed himself chief administrator and head of the government, said Radio Bangladesh broadcasts mon- itored in Calcutta. The radio quoted him as saying he will appoint a-president of his choice and a council to advise him. Ousted président Abdus. Sattar, making’a broadcast statement - before Ershad, said he supports the army action. Bangladesh radio reported separately. that the capital city of Dacca remained quiet but nonetheless has been placed under a dawn-to-dusk, curfew. Government and re- lated offices were closed and all banking transactions ban- ned. Schools were also shut. In Tokyo, a Japanese For- eign Ministry . spokesman said it has’ received uncon- firmed reports from its em- bassy in Dacca of fighting north of the Bangladesh capital. The report added that Dacca was peaceful with soldiers stationed at all major points in the city. NAMES DEPUTIES Ershad moved to stren- gthen his position by naming the heads of the navy and air- force, Rear-Admiral Mehboob Ali Khan and Chief Air Marshal Sultan Meh- mood, as his deputy martial- law administrators. The country was divided into five zones, with a regional martial law commanders placed in charge of each. In a radio address hours after the coup, Ershad said he seized power “to protect the freedom of the nation, (restore) law and order and save the nation from a crisis.” The 52-year-old career of- ficer said Bangladesh was “facing a crisis on every front — economie, political, social and law and order.” Ershad said Sattar ad- mitted last February when he reorganized his cabinet that many. of his. ministers were corrupt. But some of the same men were ap pointed to the new cabinet, he complained. S “This government has com- pletely: failed,” the military leader ‘said. “The people ex- pect the army to come to their. afd.” Sattar, who spoke briefly on, the radio, said the situ- ation had deteriorated to the point that “in the interest of the Bangladeshi people, mili- Ershad announced the dis- solution of Parliament and the suspension of the gov- ernment and constitution, He said “a new president will be elected to run the adminis- tration.” proposed asa MURB scheme, 'f but then shelved when fed- eral Finance Minister Allan MacEachen's Nov. 12 budget eliminated ‘the’ program.” However, the project was revived’ when . MacEachen decided to extend the MURB program until May 31. “The project could employ. 2 as many as 35 workers dur- ing peak building.