PERSEVERANCE. . . Kris Stanbra shows Valley Vista students a poster of herself, prepared initially for the courts, of the short period in which she was for- personal a continual physical pain but she misses some sports, ; baseball. *&, ced to use a wheelchair. Stanbra finished her talks” this week which included most of Castlegar's schools. — CosNews Photo by Mike Kalesniko & te a3 SEF divorcee. “So what, I still make my dancing,” she says with a laugh. “Though I can't do the polka anymore.” 3 Surprisingly, Stahbra is not bitter about her upheaval. She says she is able to endure the ly Still, she intends to coach baseball next season and she plans to swim the 800 metre swim portion of a triathalon relay race next year. MAKES PRESENTATION : Last week Stanbra was asked to make a presentation to Rick Hansen when he reaches Castlegar sometime this ith. “I can't wait to meet him,” she said. “I wish I knew him. I feel like I do.” Stanbra said when she was asked to make the presentation at a recent Rick Hansen committee meeting STANBRA continued from front page some 20 miles outside of Kamloops when a car came around the corner in their lane. The collision forced the Stanbra truck to roll three times, throwing Kris out the back window and some 12 metres through the air. The two men in the oncoming car ran to a nearby house to call the police, then fled the scene. They were never caught. When the ambulance arrived, Kris's husband had escaped with several cracked ribs, a punctured lung and fractured hip, but Kris wasn't so lucky. She was found lying on top of a baseball-size rock, the object which snapped her spinal cord half-way down her back. ‘The Stanbra’s were taken to Kamloops Royal Inland hospital and Kris was later transferred to Vancouver. Kris said she remembered the shock wearing off and the two hours she spent without sedation. “Those were the two worst hours of my life,” she said. Despite the anguish, Stanbra says she could not Have made it without the support of her family. She said her husband, never left her side during her stay in Vancouver, both her mother and sister came out and her brother even chartered a plane from Castlegar to see her. The emotional support was necessary to help cope with news. Stanbra was told she would never walk again. She was told if she had an operation on her back, she would regain only 15 per cent of the feeling in her right leg and absolutely nothing would return to her left. “But 15 per cent was better than nothing,” she said and she opted for the operation. Today, seven years to she was over “Lhad no idea they would ask me,” she said. “I spent half an hour trying not to ery.” But Stanbra remains uncomfortable with speaking in front of crowds: “It's getting easier,” she said. “I'm never going to be totally comfortable. “I love those kids but I don't like being on display. I ignore everyone (adult) in that room and I talk to the kids,” she said. ‘Kids at that age have no preconceived ideas,” she said. “I had a parent phone me that her child was wrong, that Rick (Hansen) couldn't stand. And I said, ‘Yes he can. “She turned around and said she had to apologize then. She learned something from her child. “It’s the children,” she stresses. “The children are going to help teach the parents.” Prime OTTAWA (CP) — ye Minister Brian Mulroney t Ferdinand Marcos on Thursday after s hows report that Tory party funds were used to help renovate his official res shoes. residences and build closets for hundreds of i} “What kind of a guy requires 50 paits or 86 pairs of shoes?” asked NDP House Leader Nelson Riis. “The last time we heard of this many pairs of shoes was — good grief — with the Marcos family.” ks critic Don Boudria also referred to indirectl, ying part of t Puacrtve party are tax deductible, The Toronto Globe and Mail reported Thursday the PC Canada Fund paid about $308,000 over the past two years to renovate, decorate and furnish the official residences at 24 Sussex Drive and Harrington Lake. , ‘An unnamed source told The Globe that Mulroney's closet was designed to accommodate 380 suits and 84 pairs of shoes, including at least 50 pairs of Gucci loafers. ‘Te newspaper said Mrs. Mulroney's cloget contains space for 100 pairs of shoes. But Mulroney adviser Bill Fox, an old friend of the prime minister, defended his boss, saying “there was nothing illegal” and arguing there was ample precedent for private support of the residences of the prime minister and Opposition leader. Fox also questioned the attention paid to, the hoe closets. “A closet might be built for 50 pairs of shoes, but. how many shoes does it hold? It’s like saying a driveway was built for 18 limos.” Fox said he does not know how many Gucci loafers Mulroney owns, but said he does not have 50 pairs. ‘The use of the party funds for renovations is not illegal and doesn't violate the Canada Elections or Income Tax Act, said F.B. Slattery, director of elections financing at Elections Canada. The work on the residences, including carpentry, painting, ing and p ing of furnishii was not included in the $508,149.17 the government spent to maintain 24 Sussex Drive and the $437,754 it spent on Harrington Lake from September 1984 to December 1986. Montreal lawyer David Angus, chairman of the PC Canada Fund, told The Globe the payments were part of an agreement between him and Mulroney to help with ing costs. DEFECTOR TALKS Soviets encouraged to flirt WASHINGTON (AP) — As a young translator_for_ the Soviet government travel agency Intourist, Alexan- dra Costa was encouraged to flirt with foreign visitors, and “if a relationship developed, the KGB wanted to guide it.” “One of the conditions of the job was that I was to report to the KGB,” Costa said. “I was seeing one of the British guys, but nothing really developed,” she said in an interview this week. However, “one of the other girls fell in love with a British man,” and the KGB —__ the Soviet Union's stat security agency — wanted to run her as a “swallow,” or seductress. “My KGB handler complained that, ‘the wrong girl fell in love. She won't talk to us.’ ” The woman ended up marrying the man and moving to England, said Costa, who defected from the Soviet Embassy in Washington in 1977 and now works as a P in the Washi area. The woman who refused to co-operate was an exception in what Costa calls a “totalitarian state” where “most people don’t refuse to co-operate with the KGB.” “The state owns everything,” Costa said, “and if you want a job or an apartment, you play the game.” The game is often the “honey trap,” the oldest trick in the book of espionage — one that diplomats, businessmen and journalists are warned to avoid:in the Soyiet Union, but one into which many tumble nonetheless. * Officials in Washington reacted with outrage to disclosures that at least three U.S. marines apparently traded sex for secrets at U.S. diplomatic missions in Moscow and Leningrad. But over the last few decades, a British, a French ambassador and an American as well as a French military attache are among those known to have fallen into variations of the same snare. Cases that receive publicity are often intelligence failures, security officials say, because the seduction comes to light before the victim can be blackmailed into betrayal. Far more cases do not come to public attention, U.S. security officials say, and many probably are never reported. Bomb agreement reached WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union and the United States would deton- ate underground nuclear ex- plosions at each other's test sites under an agreement reached this week in Mos- cow, says U.S. arms control director Kenneth Adelman. The agreement could set the stage for the Senate to ratify two treaties arranged in 1974 and 1976 that limited test blasts to no more than 150 kilotons. “We've wanted better ver- rification for six years, and they have said yes. The Soviets agreed we can test at each other's test sites,” Ade- Iman said Friday. At a briefing for foreign journalists, he called it an idea that has been around for along time but one that the Soviets accepted only re- cently. Weather Cloudy with some sunny periods today with highs between 12° and 14°. More sunny periods and warmer temperatures on Monday. Probability of precipitation is 20 per cent for today and Monday. Sun sets tonight at 7:48. Union avoids trouble VICTORIA (CP) — The B.C. Government Employees Union says it does not want to repeat the 1983 illegal strike it mounted to oppose labor legislation not much different from the government's latest labor reform bill. Although 88 per cent of the union's 37,000 members voted to oppose the proposed Bill 19, president John Shields said they will avoid confrontation. f “| think it is. important that we try..to keep this as restrained and under control as possible,” he told reporters Thursday. When asked if he was prepared to lead an illegal strike against the industrial relations reform act, Shields said: “We'll have to wait and see. “It's very premature to talk about illegal strikes,” he said. y “We're trying to get a co-operative response from government. We don't ask people to vote on breaking the law.” Members of the B.C. Federation of Labor and its affiliates voted this week on whether to oppose the legislation. Results of the vote by the 250,000 members, including the g: P! » will not be known until at least next week. One of the government employees’ major concerns is a section that appears to allow employers to fire people without just cause. Shields said that's the issue the government employees fought successfully with the 1983 strike that coincided with other actions by the broadly-based Operation Solidarity. Labor Minister Lyall Hanson denied that is the intent of bill, but would not say if the section would be changed. “I am certainly looking at that,” he said. “There is a remedy in common law for anyone who is fired without just cause.” Bill 19 is divided into two main sections — dispute resolution and adjudication. One the dispute resolution side, Shields said his union opposes giving the industrial relations commissioner the power to determine salaries and benefits on thé basis of the employer's ability to pay. It ‘enshrines in legislation the d 'y powers of the Compensation Stabilization board, he said. On the adjudication side, Shields said the union opposes eliminating the Labor Relations Board, and its ‘13 years of rulings, in favor of an. industrial relations: council find commissioner. It's particularly offensive to give the chairman the power to recommend employees return to work because a strike or lockout is not in the public interest, he said. STOP RELATIONS Shields said the union wants to minimize the impact of its opposition on the public. Instead unions plan to stop normal labor realtions with employers, which Shigids said has far more serious consequences. The first step has been compared to severing diplomatic ties. The union has withdrawn from co-operative programs like sitting on the apprenticeship board and has refused to hold information on the gcvernment-owned insurance company's campaign against dangerous driving. ‘The tabor minister said the intent and philosophy of the bill are not negotiable. But Hanson said he will discuss changes that may result from varying interpretations on specific sections. . In Prince George, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said he believes union members would support the legislation if they had “reasonable information" and could vote in a government-supervised secret ballot. “There is no way people would go in such numbers voting against it because worker's rights, the individual's rights have been strengthtened,” he said. Vander Zalm wouldn't say what the government will do if unions disobey the legislation or if opposition to the legislation includes work stoppages. 3 ‘ HOME BAKED . . . Brenda Mcinnes (left) makes her selection with the help of Irene Tamelin from the assortment of goods at the Rick Hansen bake sale at the Castlegar and District Hospital Thursday. The sale of goods and money donations reached $500. All proceeds will be donated to Rick Hansen. Casews Photo Man makes key WINNIPEG (CP) — A man deseribed as a slow learner beat the city’s new parking metre systerm by making a key that allowed him to break into 500 metres to steal change, a Winnipeg court was ‘told Thursday. Crown attorney Marica Kran said it took the man only three hours to make a key after he stole a parking metre in January, Jailed for 180 years BOULDER, MONT. (REUTER) — A 19-year-old Montana man has been sentenced to 180 years in prison in connection with thé shotgun slaying of the parents of Patrick Duffy, star of the television series Dallas. Kenneth Miller, was convicted in March for the jer 1986 of Terrence and Maria Duffy, who owned a bar in the small ranching and mining community of Boulder. ‘ A second man, Sean Wentz, also 19, has been charged in the double slaying. He is to go on trial May 1 but his lawyer said he may enter a plea for him. Oysters recalled | VANCOUVER (CP) — Concern about possible spoilage has prompted Canada Safeway to announce a recall of Sea Trader brand smoked oysters in the 104-gram size tin. The grocery store chain, with outlets in Western Canada, said there have been no complaints from customers. But there is concern about potential spoilage after the discovery of possibly defective cans in a Vancouver warehouse. ~ Safeway said the canned oysters may have been ‘on store shelves since May of last year. Sentence issued QUESNEL (CP) — A Quesnel man who took his estranged wife hostage last year in a desperate bid to talk to her has been sentenced in county court to nine months in prison for kidnapping. Orville Grennon, 39, a B.C. Rail employee, was sentenced by Judge Richard Law to three months each on charges of assault and possession of a deadly weapon. The sentences will be served concurrently. The charges arose from a hostage-taking last August. Grennon, upset by the collapse of his marriage, took his wife Sandra hostage, holding her at rifle-point in the local B.C. Rail yards for about five hours. Plane hits house PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A small plane crashed into a house and exploded on Friday, killing the pilot, while six people in the house escaped, including one who was blown out of the shower. There were no passengers aboard, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Kathleen Bergen, “It hit like an earthquake, and then it was a double explosion,” said neighbor Helen Ochs. The twin-engine Beech Baron aircraft crashed about eight kilometres northwest of the Westchester County Airport, its destination. Suspect killed MONTREAL (CP) — A man was shot and killed by police Thursday after a robbery at a downtown branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, police said. The man was fleeing on foot down busy Dorchester Boulevard after the robbery in the city’s main shopping district when he was pointed out to police by witnesses to the holdup, Jean-Pierre Auger, Montreal police assastant duty officer said. When two policemen approached the man, “the suspect pointed a pistol at one of the officers and the officer's partner fired twice, hitting the suspect twice in the abdomen,” Auger said. Smoking banned YELLOWENIFE, N.W.T. (CP) — The Northwest Territories, one of the few jurisdications where smokers are still in the majority, has decided to ban smoking in all government buildings. Jim Peterson, head of the tobacco program for the territorial Department of Health, says the ban will take effect June 1. “The idea is to change the environment to where non-smoking is the norm,” Peterson said Thursday in & telephone interview. Rebels surrender MANILA (CP) — Mutineers led by a former guard of ex-president Ferdinand Marcos stormed army headquarters today to try to free jailed comrades but surrendered as loyal troops prepared to attack. Gen. Fidel Ramos said one mutineer was killed and two hostages — a navy captain and a civilian — were slightly injured after the mutineers stomred Fort Bonifacio in suburban Makati. The attack was aimed at freeing prisoners jailed in connection with a January coup attempt. Alaska shaken ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (AP) — A moderate earthquake rattled south-central Alaska Friday, recalling for some a devastating quake that hit on Good Friday 23 years ago. Friday's quake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, occurred during the dinner hour and was centred about 50 kilometres northwest of Anchorage, said Alec Medbery, a spokesman at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Palmer, Alsask. A smaller quake followed 12 minutes later with a magnitude of 4.5, Medbery said 7] | PUBLIC SPEAKERS . . . Por- ticipants of the Twin Rivers elementary school public speaking contest are: back row lett to right Christine Street, David Nunes — second place junior; Con- nie Alves and Kerrie Abietkoff — both third place seniors; Tammy I — second place inella . Mid- dle row left to right Elina Alimkulov — third place junior; Denny Terry — first place = junior, Irene Guglielmi — first place’ senior, Tanya Todd and Dena Zoobkotf. Front row from left Clinton Myers, Richard Machedo, Tony Medeiros and Robert Bl CosNews Phato ISSUE UP TO OTTAWA Whites were TORONTO (CP) — Native Indians were executed in disproportionate numbers to non-native, English-Canadians while the death penalty was in effect, a statistical study of TO DECIDE REGINA (CP) — It's up to Parliament to decide what changes are requred to alaw which allows police to fingerprint suspects arbitrarily, lawyer William Herle said Thursday. Ina unanimous decision Tuesday, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled the law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is of no force and effect. Ken MacKay, director of public prosecutions in Regina; said it hasn't. been decided whether’ the ruling will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. He expects a decision by Tuesday. Herle represented Frederick Higgins, 48, who refused to allow RCMP to take his fingerprints after he was charged with fraud. He was eventually acquitted. Herle said Thursday the law should be changed so that police would have to seek a judicial hearing before fingerprinting a suspect. He did not explain what sort of hearing should be used. Howard McConnell, a University of Saskatchewan law professor, said it would be absurd to force police to get a judge’s permission for fingerprinting. GOT TO BOARD? He said it appears more likely the ruling will mean police would have to go to a procedure board of some type that would examine the case and rule on whether fingerprinting was warranted. Consulting a judge every time for permission to fingerprint suspects “would be bureaucratically impos- sible,” McConnell said. “That judicial hearing term is a little ambiguous. A board can give you a judicial hearing. I'd be flabbergasted if it meant you had to go to a judge every time.” McConnell also said he believes the ruling will be appealed and that it may be overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada. Herle said it’s up to Parliament to determine what process would be followed to protect the rights of suspects. He said the appeal court didn't deny there may be times when police must take fingerprints, but current laws on the subject are unconstitutional. The Identification of Criminals Act gives sweeping, arbitrary power to take the fingerprints of everyeone charged but not convicted, Herle said. “[ suppose it does create a problem for law enforcement agencies in terms of how they obtain fingerprints in those cases where they may be justified in attempting to obtain them,” he said. CALLED ARCHAIC “The problem has been brought about because of an archaic law that simply was behind the times.” Herle said the Saskatchewan ruling isn’t binding in other provinces, but said it is “a persuasive authority for any court in another province.” In Ottawa, Richard Mosley, a senior federal Justice Department official, said the federal government was not involved in the case and it is up to Saskatchewan to file an appeal. Federal officials haven't had a chance to study the ruling and wouldn't comment on possible changes to the law. Sgt. Carl Stoski of the RCMP said the force has not been told to change its fingerprint policy Mosley and Stoski said if fingerprints can't be used for criminal record checks, police will be in trouble. In Saskatoon, Police Chief Joe Penkala said society faces “no end of problems” if the ruling stands. Police generally fingerprint anyone arrested and charged with a criminal offence. Fingerprinting is used both to identify and to find past records. Penkala said Thursday the ruling is radical and drastic. “It’s a very, very serious matter,” he said. “If the ruling stands, it will create havoc in the justice system.” He said his officers will continue to fingerprint suspects until the provincial Justice Department decides otherwise. d murderers The Univeristy of Victoria study, which used computer models to even out all other factors, included virtually every capital murder case from 1926 to 1957 — a total of 440 cases. The study found that English-Canadian murderers had a “substantially” better chance of avoiding a date with the hangman, its author, Prof. Kenneth Avio, said in a recent interview. Statistics on French Canadians were not immediately available. Avio, 44, an P at the university, said he uncovered frequent memos from the then-ministry of Indian affairs recommending native offenders be executed because native people “need special deterrence.” “There is no question that if you were native, you were more likely to be executed,” he said, adding Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans had the second highest risk. FAVORS WHITES Avoid found 17 of 21 non-white murderers whose victims were white were executed, and the four whose executions were commuted had “very compelling” grounds for communication. Two were under 18, one was an accomplice to the real murderer, and the trial judge said the other one could easily have been found guilty of manslaughter. In sharp contrast, only one of five whites who murdered a non-white was executed. “I think the point is that discrimination can be so subtle better off that even if you have public servants of the highest quality, it is still possible for p in,” Avio said. He spent parts of the past fre years poring over files in the National Archives preparing the study, which will be published in the Canadian Public Policy journal this year. During the period studied, the federal cabinet routinely reviewed each case to decide whether to grant clemency. In making those decisions, the cabinet relied on judges’ comments, police and psychiatric reports, and comments by the now-defunct Remissions Service. About 72 per cent of the 440 convicts were executed. Avio's method was to narrow down 36 factors involved in these decisions to a Isit of 18 that had particular significance. These included provocation, brutality of the crime, record of violence and co-operation with police. From thesé data, he was able to determine the relative impact on the cabinet of factors such as racial origin, gender, color and job status. In one particularly dramatic case, Avio used the data to create a hypothetical killer of a white person. Then, he used a computer to manipulate one factor — the race of the killer. He found that, given the same set of factors, there was a 2t-per-cent risk of execution for an English Canadian. Fora native, the risk jumped to 96 per cent. “The question is, if you suppose that capital punishment is brought back to Canada, could you build in safeguards to ensure there are no vestiges of discrimination?” Avio said. “One could still legitimately be in favor of capital punishment if we could devise a system where there is no discrimination,” he added. Murdered girl’s mother voices opposition to death penalty TORONTO (CP) — The mother of Alison Parrott, an 11-year-old Toronto girl who was raped and murdered last summer, has spoken passionately against the return of the death penalty. Lesley Parrott's comments were used with her permission by Anglican minister and Liberal MP Rev. Roland de Corneille in a Good Friday sermon against a movement within the federal government to restore capital punishment. “Let the message be clear and unconditional: human life is sacred; killimg is always wrong,” Parrott said in an eloquent letter to de Corneille on March 5. “Please consider my deep-felt views and vote No to the return of the death penalty Alison, a talented track and field athlete, was raped and strangled last July 25 by a killer who lured her from home. Her naked body was found two days later in the west-end suburb of Etobicoke. The killer has not been found. Parrott wrote that before her daughter's death, “I had always been opposed to capital punishment . . . based on very deep Christian beliefs that it is wrong to kill another human being, no matter what the circumstances. “Alison's murder has given me a very personal and agonizing experience of the horror of violence and killing.” However, she said, “It has more than ever convinced me that we as a society cannot ever and (must) not ever condone killing, whether by state or individual, in any shape or form.” In his sefmon, de Corneille said he feels a personal “agony” as a member of a Parliament that may bring back capital punishment, and at a time when most Canadians polled indicate that they agree. The state killing of criminals would simply be a barbarous act of revenge that will not prevent murders, recognize the rights of the victims, protect the innocent, or address the many social problems that cause crime in the first place, the minister said. The Anglican Church of Canada is one of many major Canadian churches that officially reject capital punish ment, which the federal Conservatives plan to debate in the next few weeks. B.C.'s lumbe VANCOUVER (CP) — Offshore markets for British Columbia lumber are booming and it couldn't come at a better time, picking up the slack from falling North American sales. “It's very active right now,” said Ed Cameron, senior vice-president of Seaboard Lumber Sales Co. Ltd. of Vancouver. “Our sales to Europe in the first quarter this year are three times what they were last year, and prices are up 12 to 15 per cent,” he said. Lumber exports to offshore markets from B.C accounted for just under 15 per cent of production in 1986, according to B.C. Council of Forest Industries statistics. That's small, compared with the 30 per cent of production consumed domestically and the 56.4 per cent shipped to the United States, but it still represents almost rin demand $1 billion in revenue for the provincial economy, said the council. Cameron said the falling value of the Canadian dollar compared with the European and Asian currencies has provided a big boost as Canadian wood becomes more competitive. The Japanese market is not as buoyant as the European scene, said Cameron, but B.C. producers are still pleased STARTS UP “The fundamentals are good in Japan,” he said. “Their housing starts will hit 1.4 million and that's the highest level in seven years.” While traders are expecting U.S. housing starts, and therefore lumber demand, to stay relatively healthy this year, a number of factors will hurt Canadian producers trying to compete, said Cameron