mom Caste News ‘2 Gorbachev poses test talks MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev asked U.S. President Ronald Reagan on Saturday to meet him in Europe as soon as possible to negotiate a nuclear test ban agreement. He made no mention of the superpower summit that is supposed to be held in the United States this year, which the two leaders announced at their first meeting in Geneva last November. Gorbachev said i in a national television address that the Soviet Union's | nuclear test — now in effect nearly eight months — will expire Monday, but that no Soviet tests will be held unless the U.S. continues its atomic weapons testing. The United States conducted an underground nuclear explosion in Nevada on March 22. “I am ready to meet President Reagan in the nearest future in London or Rome, or in any other European capital that will agree to receive us, in order to reach agreement on this question (of ending nuclear tests),” Gorbachev said, adding that he does “not see any insurmountable obstacles to this — political, technical or any other.” “What is needed is the necessary political will and understanding of our mutual responsibility,” he said. “We propose to meet, exchange views on this crucial problem and issue instructions to draft an appropriate ag x In Santa Barbara, Calif. where Reagan is on vacation, White House spokesman Dale Petroskey said there would be no immediate reaction to the Gorbachev announcement. He said a statement is expected after officials have time to study the Soviet leader's speech. The Soviets announced in August a nuclear test moratorium to last through 1986. Gorbachev later extended the unilateral test ban to March 31, and then said the Kremlin would refrain from tests if the United States did. Gorbachev said of the Soviet moratorium: “I can say that it is, as before, in effect until March 31, 1986. But even ferten te emeey ont welt” See ee ee CLOWN CHARGED NORTH PLATTE, NEB. (AP) — A man who travels the United States and Canada as Windy the Clown to teach children to avoid sexual abuse has been ‘Thursday the West Kootenay can no longer rely on panies for jobs, but “must do things 2 different ways “We have to get together,” he said. asad sad adhed. decision — to end nuclear explosions, failing whieh, the Soviet Union will resume testing. This must be absolutely clear.” Gorbachev said the March 22 U.S. test was “by no means accidental” and was timed with the expiration of the -Aagphasienntmemend ms hapa ac caamebeediuats were “incensed” over the test. etry digress cP mor 9 actions of the American Miuhbns tects Goustp GARIIGe Giants vata angie ane done is also quite important: pointedly, arrogantly and with also to the whole world . . ..” Gorbachev said. “Everything shows that the United States ruling grouping has placed the narrow selfish interests of the military-i circles above the interests of the whole of mankind and of its own people. The manner in which this is is also quite important: pointedly, arrogantly and with disregard for the opinion of the world community. There is neither a sense of realism nor of responsibility.” The United States has rejected a test moratorium, month Reagan sent the Soviet leader a detailed sophisticated new verification plan. Reagan also Soviet experts to view the next U.S. nuclear test blast. “We set certain hopes Kearney, said Lincoln County attorney Charles Kandt. SIKHS ATTACK NEW DELHI (REUTER) — Sikh extremists killed up to 15 people and wounded many others Saturday when they sprayed an open-air brickworks in Punjab state with machine-gun fire, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The attack near the central Punjab town of Nakodar followed machine-gun attacks Friday in the state's main industrial town of Ludhiana in which 16 people died. Press Trust said six extremists in a jeep drove up to the brickworks in the village of Malian Uchian and opened fire on dozens of workers there. West Kootenay, there was a consensus that the area cannot rely on big business for the area's future job creation growth. tive global market with low prices for the products sod production over-capacity, he said. “What they are most concerned with is staying open,” Glover said. “The only resort they can achieve is reduction of costs and this very often results in layoffs.” Glover cited statistics where 80 per cent of the development in a community comes from within the community itself, not from outside the area. “We cannot rely on other people to do what we know we must do ourselves,” Glover said. “Unless we try, we are not going to achieve anything.” Glover said the enterprise development centre is trying to make sure those interested in business are not going to fail because of a lack of business knowledge. “We don’t intend to put people in business who are not prepared to do the work that is necessary,” he said. “The bottom line of our centre is creating jobs,” he said. The enterprise development centre was set up by Selkirk College with funds from the Ministry of Education's Local Economic Renewal and Development fund. The centre is one of 14 throughout the province set up by colleges and institutions. Glover said that after meeting with college principal” Leo Perra it appeared that there was a great need for people to know how to get into small business. The centre acts as a consultant service with a resource facility for people in business who are having problems, people wanting to get into business and people wanting to expand their business. “We are able to guide them through the process,” Glover said. “We don't do the job ourselves.” He said people are assisted in their business plans, market plans, pi of financial statements and cash flow. “We are most concerned that the majority of people applying haven't the slightest idea of what they are getting into,” he said. Glover noted that he’s had 48 clients in the two months the centre has been open who are finding it useful to talk the United States in June, but officials say there has been no Soviet reply. Soviet officials have said the Kremlin still wants a summit but that it has to be productive. VOLCANO'S ASH SPREADS ANCHORAGE, ALASKA EVIDENCE LACKING ROME (AP) — An Italian court has acquitted three Bulgarians and three Turks — “the Bulgarian connection” — of conspiring to murder Pope John Paul in St. Peter’s Square in 1981, saying not enough evidence was offered to justify a conviction. The defence said the jury's decision Saturday demolished Italian prosecutors’ claims that Bulgaria and the Soviet KGB intelligence agency conspired to assassinate the Polish-born Pope because of his support for the now-banned Polish free trade federation Solidarity. Howevef, the jury of two judges and six civilians did not clear the def of Italian courts have the option of making an outright declaration of innocence or ruling that evidence was inadequate to convict, as in this case. T RABBIT... 0 coud of youngsters traditional Easter egg hunt Saturday at the Community gather behind the Easter Bunny ready to start on the Complex. BCTF considers report VANCOUVER FF if | i ri 1f Gipv' . bottom line is creating jobs a f g (CP) Code with the rights of other short of money for basic operating purposes. Delegates will be asked to adopt a report of the fed- eration executive committee that calls for the restoration of school funding to 1981 lev- els, a return of local auton- The enterprise development centre also has facilities where potential businessmen can view audio visual materials on topics such as marketing and the management process. Glover stressed that the centre is not a funding office. “We are just an advisory and consultative mode,” he ‘ Th i E F 4 af VIOLENCE ERUPTS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Factional violence that killed at least two blacks and injured about 20 Saturday marred the start of a conference at which said. a5 HL sf The centre also works with other financial agencies and an Her is not coon to Dave omy to the province's schools and fair treatment for teac- hers. The delegates will also sel- ect a new president. Two people are running to suc- over their ideas. “Some are exciting, some are excellent and some need a lot more work,” he said. is in with groups from Nakusp to the U.S. border and from Kootenay Lake to Beaverdell. black teachers, parents and students will decide whether to resume a black school boycott in South Africa. Police said members of Inkatha, a Zulu tribal group, attacked delegates preparing for the confer- ence in the port city of Durban. an appreciable effect on eli-* mate, said Betsy Yount, « U.S. Geological Service geo- logist. “At any one time in the world, several voleances aré ty l In the ensuing clash between attackers and students registering for the conference, one Inkatha member was fatally shot and another was burned to death after a gasoline-soaked tire was placed around his neck. dent Pat Clark called the government's March 20 bud- get a “catastrophe and a farce” for education, saying it still leaves school boards APPROVAL IN PRINCIPLE WESTAR TRIAL— continued trom tront pege trial, Carpenter in his closing argument raised the point that B.C. Timber Ltd. and not Westar was the holder of the pollution permit at the time of the alleged violations. Carpenter pressed the point ceed Clarke: Elsie McMur- phy of Saanich, federation first vice-president, and Mar- garet Woodlands of Rich- mond. erupting,” Yount said. “The atmosphere is continuously receiving this type of mat- erial.” The volcano is a 1,226 metre peak on an uninhab- BODIES FOUND about 280” metres HOW TO VOTE. .. Castlegar city clerk Betty Priceex- at Castlegar plains fundamentals of voting to Peoro Luis Costaand Ceremonies will be held Claudine Cancella during Canadian citizenship classes Canadians. Primary School Wednesday night. April 12 and 13 for new Costews Photo by Ryan Wilton 1985,” Carpenter said. “Westar Timber was not the holder of a permit in May 1985.” But in his closing argument, Nelson lawyer Donald Skogstad, acting for the Crown in the case, cited the Companies Act which states that a change of name The document would then be He also pointed out that the charges submitted to the federation’s clearly relate to the maximum allow- able daily emissions and said the evi- dence from the mill's own reports to the waste management branch and the ministry of environment's readings in show that the emissions MISSION (CP) — The bodies of a father and his Thursday, it ended weeks of Budget gets go ahead VICTORIA (cP) — Credit Politicians will return April 7 to debate in detail the and-gloom gang” that did not know ne ee it was talking about while criticizing the budget. He stood by his forecast of a four-per-cent growth in the for 1986, enues from an improving economy. Opposition Leader Bob Skelly said during debate that British Columbians can see “the rest of Canada has and said other forecasting agencies are in general spend about a quarter of the budgeted amounts for the year starting Tuesday. The funds should keep the gov- ernment operating for three months. Closing debate, Finance Minister Hugh Curtis said the Opposition was a “doom- British Columbia's 12.8 per cent unemployment rate is higher than the national av. erage, Curtis admitted, but said the same thing happened during the New Democratic government of 1972-75. He said 21,000 of the 26,000 jobs created last year were full time jobs, contrary to the NDP’s claim that most were part time. The budget contained no tax increases and predicted a lower deficit and higher rev. r from the interna- tional recession. It's only in British Columbia, under the kind of economic policies that this government has, that they are co The public knows ‘that “be- fore every election there is a little bit more expansive and positive attitude that's being imparted on the part of Social Credit ministers.” Six feared buried in avalanche VALEMOUNT (CP) — avalanche rumbled down a mountainside and buried up to six people Saturday as they rode snowmobiles through an alpine about 50 kilometres south of Chernoff passes away William W. Chernoff of Castlegar, formerly of Apple- dale passed away March 27, at the age of 83. Mr. Chernoff was born on Jan. 9, 1903 in Saskatchewan and came to Ootischenia in 1912. He married Katie Mar kin in 1927 at Ootischenia, and then moved to Appledak During his life he worked in sawmills and as a car penter. He enjoyed the out of doors, singing and travelling. He is survived by his mother, Katie Chernoff of Castlegar; sons, Harry Cher noff of Gabriola Island and Bill Chernoff of Richmond; where he lived until coming to Castlegar in 1982. hter, Ruby wife, one brother and one sister. Funeral services began Friday at the Appledale Hall this eastern British Columbia dogs, were searching for the others. Late last year, avalanche worst in years in British Col- umbia because of wide varia- tions in temperature at the and with burial at the Perry ‘Siding Cemetery. Funeral arrangements un- Winlaw; five grandchildren; and brother, Pete of Rasp der the di of Casth Funeral Chapel. FREEDOMITES continued from front poge to sign parole applications on their own. Braun and Zmaeff both have long records of offences inspired by their religious belief that God demands purification by fire. Their hunger strike was in protest against their They died during a imprisonment for acts which they see as fulfilling divine will. along with fellow Free- domite arsonist Mary Astaforoff, who fast last November — were granted a federal pardon in 1983 but shortly afterward burned down a I 2 the Crown's introduction of the B.C. Gazette list of companies which iden- tifies Westar as the successor company to B.C. Timber. “It's abundantly clear permit was issued to Westar on June 4, VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia women are using abortions as a form of birth control, the province's new health minister says. But Stephen Rogers won't step up financing for preven- tive programs because he says women already know how to avoid becoming preg: nant, just as they know they shouldn't smoke, should drink less eat healthy foods. In an interview this week, said women are “either blase (about birth control) or whatever. They don't think about it.” Asked if women are using abortions as a form of birth control, Rogers said: “You know it's true. I know it's true. Of course they are. “I would jet prefer, ond I think it's phy cannot affect any against a company. that the B.C. Timber. straint budget, saying that most people, teen- agers, are aware of birth- control methods. It is not the state's job to ensure every- body takes care of them- selves and the problem is one of attitude, not ignorance, he added. OBEY THE LAW Rogers said that because abortions _ under Ottawa's Westar Timber, Skogstad said, was obligated to continue to comply with the pollution control permit issued to legal proceedings exceeded the limits. In his reply to the defence's closing prbndaprseen Skogstad noted that the time discrepancy would have weight in the argument only if the emission levels had not been constantly high during May 1985. Rogers raps abortions say if he would lobby Ottawa to tighten abortion laws. “If Ihave any thought on it at all, I think there should be a broader dissemination of birth-control information (with ‘available funds) for people to avoid unwanted ied under Dr. Henry Mor- a oy he ee Although he admitted he expects to be pressured by interest groups on the subject, he refused to said woman who wanted to have an abortion, that is a “dev- astating, traumatic experi- ence,” and the number of her patients who do not use birth control is very small. “The far, vast majority of them use birth control. There's a small group of teenagers, you know, who think it won't happen to Conley said in an interview she has never yet met a i y doesn’t he fund a birth- control clinic or more plan- ned-parenthood groups?” Canada Post decides not to ship sex tapes British Columbia has the highest abortion rate in the country, with 27 abortions for every 100 live births. In 1984, there were 11,446 abor- tions in the province. The next ranking province is On- preventive-program funds for groups as Planned in the 1983 re- KITC! ONT. (CP) — After receiving more than 100 complaints, Canada Post has decided it won't deliver any more bulk mail for a supplier of sexually explicit videotapes. southwestern Ontario spokesman. “We don't want to be caught in the middle any more.” More than 2,000 glossy The mailings were part of a Canada-wide advertising ex- periment by Playtime Video of Burnaby, which says it of- fers “highest quality erotic XXX video ‘movies,” by mail order. Among those who com- plained about receiving the yers had decided it was legal to send the leaflets through the mail. But the Crown corporation changed its mind after nu- merous southwestern Ontar- io residents complained the bulk mailings were being sent to offices and churches. Bowness said Canada Post two young children were found in a home in the nearby Fraser Valley community of Hatzic on Thursday night, but police were releasing few details. On Saturday, an RCMP spokesman would not say how the man, his 11-year-old daughter and five-year- old son died or if foul play is suspected. ACTOR CHARGED LOS ANGELES (REUTER) — Actor Todd Bridges, who plays Gary Coleman's older brother on the television series Diffrent Strokes, has been arrested on suspicion of making bomb threats to an , & police ik: said Sat y- He said Bridges, 20, was arrested at his Los Angeles home Friday and later released on $5,000 U.S. bail. Police said Bridges threatened to blow up the car of engineer Greg Tyree, who was employed by Bridges to make design alterations to his cars. BOY FOUND ALIVE PEKING (AP) 13 years ago after — A three-year-old boy, entombed being presumed dead, has China K-Mart fined $100,000 TORONTO (CP) — K-Mart Canada Ltd., one of the coun. try’s largest retailers, has been fined $100,000 after being convicted of 15 counts of misleading advertising and other consumer-related of- fences. In handing down his de cision in provincial court in Brampton, just west of Tor onto, Judge John Smith said the fine would act as “a de- terrent” to other companies. “If you put out a flyer telling people there are bar. gains, you better make sure they're there,” Smith said. The 190-store chain plead ed guilty to five counts of misleading advertising, five counts of attracting custom- ers by advertising a product that wasn't in stock — called “bait and switch” — and five counts of sales above adver. tised prices. In seeking the $100,000 fine, federal Justice Depart- ment lawyer James Leising asked the courts to impose a fine of $10,000 on each of the five counts of misleading ad- nized a large store chain such as K-Mart would have trou. ble policing its thousands of employees. But customers have the right to expect to be vertising, a fine of $7,500 on each of five counts of bait and switch and fines of $2,500 on each of the five counts of sales above the advertised price. In agreeing with the re- quest, Smith said he recog- Thousands gather for Easter vigil ROME (AP) — Thousands of pilgrims, many with their children i in their holiday best, reappeared alive, the official Eng! Daily reported Saturday. The boy had been thought dead after being sent to hospital with stomach pains, the newspaper said. But at dusk on the day he was buried, the boy's father, Long Wenze, found the hillside tomb open and his son's body missing. Apparently a passing farmer had heard the child erying inside the tomb in the southern province of Guizhou, dug him out and took him home, the news| r said. The mystery remained unsolved until the farmer who took the child decided to look for the real parents. The report sid not say why he had waited 13 years, nor where the boy, Long Jun, would now live. MAN ARRAIGNED QUEBEC (CP) — Michel Couture, 33, appeared in court Saturday for arraignment on charges of dangerous use of a firearm and forcible detention of nine people in a seven-hour incident in a suburban Beauport bar. He was also accused of making threats and concealment of a firearm. Couture is to appear again Wednesday on further charges. He was arrested Thursday after giving himself up to police, who had cordoned off several blocks around the bar. Police said a gunman inside helped himself to liquor and fired random shots while holding nine hostages. @ Saturday in St. Peter's Square for Pope John Paul's Easter vigil. Tour operators reported Rome hotels and pensions booked to capacity. They es. timated more than 500,000 pilgrims and tourists are visiting Rome for Easter Sunday, the holiest day in the Christian year. Many of the visitors at tended the Roman Catholic pontiff's torch-lit way-of-the cross procession Good Friday in the pagan ruins outside the Kidnap RIO DE JANBIRO (REU. TER) — British Ambassador John Ure confirmed Satur. day that Brazilian police foil ed a plot to kidnap Princess Anne and hold her hostage for the release of a jailed drug dealer. Ure said the princess was informed of the plot while she was at a farm outside Rio de Janeiro, where she spent Colosseum, recalling Jesus's agonizing walk to his death by crucifixtion on Mount Cal vary in Jerusalem. The Pope fasted Good Fri day. He was to lead the vigil in St. Peter's Basilica before midnight mass celebrating Jesus's resurrection. On Easter Sunday, the pontiff will deliver his trad itional Urbi et Orbi (to the city of Rome and the world) greetings to tens of thou sands of pilgrims. The ser vice will be telecast live to millions around the world In the Italian capital's cen tral Piazza Venezia, crowds of young West Germans, who travelled over the Alps on motorbikes, ate ices and tan ned themselves in warm weather. Some young visitors don ned bathing suits and took in the sun at the Trevi Foun tain. Others headed off by train to nearby Ost‘. beach. Rome newspapers said store owners, seizing the chance to clear stocks, re ported a good turnover. But many Italians left the Rome area, continuing a tradition of visiting relatives at Easter. plot confirmed part of her last day in Brazil before returning to London on Thursday. “Princess Anne acted calm ly, was cheerful and ex pressed confidence in the capability of the Brazilian police,” Ure said. “To leave her hotel, Prin cess Anne took a side door and did not use the official Jaguar to go to the airport. Her flight was delayed by three-quarters of an hour,” he said. He quoted police as saying able to purch items that are advertised in flyers, he added. NOT ISOLATED Leising told the court that the charges weren't isolated but occurred on a nationwide basis and stemmed from fly ers distributed between April 7 and April 15, 1983, between April 25 and April 30, 1983, and between May 9 and May 14, 1983, in major cities across Canada. He said the offences in cluded not providing custom- ers with rain checks although the flyers indicated they would be provided if the products were unavailable and charging higher prices for advertised items. “None of the instances in dividually would be of any great significance, but col lectively they amount to either a deliberate policy of corporate dishonesty or, if T'm to be charitable to the company, gross negligence on their part,” Leising told the court. “It's at best gross negligence and at worst gross dishonesty.” Since 1972, the Brampton based company has been convicted of 54 counts of mis leading advertising. Fines included $51,000 on 17 counts in Quebec City inJanuary and $30,000 for 30 counts in Longueuil, Que., on Sept. 24, 1980. K-Mart lawyer Glenn Les lie denied his client deliber ately engaged in dishonest the was planned by a gang led by the notor ious drug dealer Jose Carlos dos Reis Encina, who is known as Escadinha. Police considered the gang to be capable of “a major armed operation,” Ure said practices. While the company could have defended the charges, it decided to plead guilty and accept what he described as “an i steaming with its first erup- tion since 1976. By Friday afternoon, the voleano’s periodic eruptions had smoothed out to a stead- ier pumping of ash and gases. Occasional bursts shot ash as high as 14,300 metres, Young he ash probably will con- tinue travelling around the sibility of a violent explosion, said Young. Trade hearings to open WASHINGTON (CP) — One of two congressional committees with the power to veto the Reagan admin. istration’s request to open talks on a new U.S. trade pact with Canada will hold hearings on the proposal April 11 An aide to the 20-member Senate finance committee said witnesses will probably include representatives of the Reagan administration, as well as officials from U.S. industries that have a stake in the freer-trade talks. Democratic Senator Max Baucus, a committee member and leading advocate of blocking and start of talks until a dispute over imports of Canadian lumber is re solved, applauded the deci: sion to hold hearings. “We cannot afford to sit down at the negotiating table with Canada with our eyes closed,” Baucus, who repre sents the lumber-producing state of Montana, said in a statement President Ronald Reagan notified the Senate finance committee and the ways and means committee of the fine” rather than become in volved in a lengthy court battle, he added. House of Rep: in December that the adminis tration wanted to accept the Mulroney government's offer in April to open talks on a new Canada-U.S. trade pact. Under U.S. trade law, the two committees have until the end of April either to re- ject the idea with a vote or allow the talks to proceed by remaining silent. The proposal has stirred little interest on Capito! Hill, although it was raised during two meetings Prime Minister Brian Mulroney held with members of the Senate and House foreign affairs com- mittees during his visit to Washington last week. The House ways and means committee has sought written comments from U.S. industries and interested parties on the proposal. But aides say there is little opposition among committee members and no hearings are planned. The U.S. lumber industry says the fees Ottawa and the provinces charge lumbermen to harvest trees in Canada are so low they constitute an unfair subsidy. The Canadians reject the subsidy charge and say the flect a harsher climate and terrain.