A2__CASTLEGAR'NEWS, August 28, 1983 POLICE WON'T DIVULGE NAMES Politicians implicated in ring SPECIALS FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week MED. MILD CHEDDAR CHEESE 5615 lb. $2 ae MACARONI & & CHEESE DINNERS 3° VEGETABLE OL $369 peices Vito LOS ANGELES (AP) — The roster, of clients for a child pornography and pros- titution ring involving more sai than 100 “naive young boys” may have included two elected Canadian politicians, police say. Two men have been arr- ested in the case, although both have since been re- leased from custody. At least two others are under inves- tigation in connection with the ring, which is said to have lured teenage boys with visions of becoming movie stars and models, Los Angeles police said Friday. Authorities said they broke up the operation with of CASHMERE BATHROOM TISSUE 6 II pack $199 CENTRAL 2717 Columbia Ave. CASTLEGAR. the arrest Allan Licht, 46, of Los Angeles. Earlier this year, police in Vancouver arrested John Michael Lewis, 35, who has already been yet,” said Los Angeles Det. Ralph Bennett. Lists of cli- ents have been recovered, he “There's no question that a’ lot of those kids were hurt,” said. Bennett. The victims, numbering more than 100, were between 18 and 17 years old, he said. The youths were “naive young boys that thought they were going to make it big in movies, modelling, commer- cials, things of that nature,” Bennett said. “These kids are just naive and they’re no match for these adults playing these types of games. . . It happens all the time.” RECOVER BOOK A book listing “customers, acts of sex, amounts paid and other individuals who have similar records of this type of to a prison term in Van- couver. Vancouver police told Los Angeles authorities at least two elected Canadian poli- ticlans may have used the ring’s services, but “they won't divulge those names as behavior” “was from the Vancouver home of Lewis, said Los Angeles Det. Michael Brambles. Licht was parrested, fon Vancouver and pleaded guilty to,six counts of gross indecency and buggery’ in- volving three youths. Two were 15 and one was 16 at the ‘time’He was sentenced in ‘Aptif%o six months in jail. guilty, to. sex crimes against juveniles and was placed on three years’ one ,condition of which was that he end his with the boys were “intimidated and exploited in committing ‘Lancaster OK | after surgery wd LOS ANGELES (AP) ~ Actor | Dan Lancaster was in stable condition Saturday recovering from a 5%-hour teenage boys, police said. “There's at least two more persons under investigation,” Bennett said. “I do anticipate another arrest.” Bennett said Lewis alleg- edly recruited boys who wanted to succeed in Holly- wood from Canada and north- ern Mexico. When they arrived at the offices of Male Image, a mod- . elling agency where Licht worked in West Hollywood, acts,” said, ¢ f The 11-month investiga- tion began last August when Lewis took, several hundred’ negatives to a Fotomat store PI Lewis was arrested when he ‘ erossed back into Canada. Bennett said Lewis also 2 under bypass heart sae that went “incredibly well,” his secretary said. ‘The 69-year-old Oscar-winning actor underwent surgery Friday after doctors discovered blockages in his arteries, % coronary Obrhomsly,Chisiis 8 werd, ethos overs tot ao ey comes out of it and is ready to go play golf,” said related cases in Los anes San Diego and St. George, Utah. Aykroyd busted ‘SEILLES Tl, (AP) $50 cash bond. stance believed to contain = “ Qonjedian D: has been dates with poss- essing marijuana but doesn't have;,to appear. in “unless he wants to,” police , said Saturday. date, ‘police Chief’ stephan: Aykroyd will not be required to.return for further legal roceedings, | ‘An. Oct. 6 court date’ was | set for, Aykroyd, who was arrested Friday night on the charge in‘Mar- distribute and eaiee chia Pornography, accessory child molesting and eens the court date, hell es forfeit’the hates (ud 'that'll be collet about 110 Kilometres it,” Harve! Chicago, _ authorities eur Aykroyd, 81, posted a KOOTENAY SAVINGS CREDIT UNION LABOR DAY WEEKEND OFFICE HOURS Fri., Sept. 2 Sat., Sept. 3 Sun., Sept. 4 Mon., Sept. 5 Tues., Sept. 6 Castleger, Waneta Plaza 10-6 10-3 CLOSED CLOSED 10-5 South Slocan 10-5 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 10-5 !. & ey: Savings « Credit Union Nokusp 10-6 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 10-5 i es Sali ian 10-6 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 10-5 478 *caak “found 85 grams ‘ofa ‘sub- unneiineareini bis,” Harvey said. “He was, Saree with possession of cannabis.’ The driver of the car identified. himself with a Massachusetts driver's licence in the name of Daniel _ unidentified man of about the same age, who was not charged, police said. Aykroyd was unavailable Ll was stable and ead well” on Saturday, said hospital spokesman Liz hie actor Te eageiled tavonla id the cardicc surgery intensive care unit for two or three days, hospital officials said Friday. A spokesman for Lancaster who asked not to be identified said the actor would remain hospital for a week to 10 days “at the most.” L is schedule to begin sh a Dina. De Laurenis film called Firestarter in October in North - Carolina, and the surgery will not delay the filming, the spokesman ‘said. Lancaster won an Oscar in 1960 for his portrayal of an evangelist in Elmer Gantry and was nominated for his performances in From Here to Eternity in 1958. The SSS eee Jurofs express. doubt in Ng trial SEATTLE (AP) — Five members of the king County recogni- Superior Court jury that Saturday Night Live and several movies. -“He'd seen him on the boob convicted Benjamin Ng in the in Ng should die, his sentence c under shit state law spare his life automatically became life ‘in doubt that he shot any of the prison without Possibility of 14 victims, a member of the parole. tube,” Harvey said. “I talked Panel , to him (Aykroyd), but I recognize him. I didn't saw that movie.”. “There was some doubt about whether he) shot sbi 80 = MULRONEY Geom Felderhoff said it was not easy to lay nuclear issues: on ie table 22 8 Tiding where people are being courted by a national leader and have everyday worries like roads. PP’ e the first member of the panel to discuss the deliberations of tencing Sept. 28 on 23 counts- of aggravated first-degree murder and one of first- degree murder and one first- degree assault in the Feb..19 shooting deaths at Wah Moe, ee pee tional District. | Anquiry held in Slocan death S, &, me ‘Ag ioualry, has | been ibeld Oglow said no foul play is suspected in the death of Gor- don, whose body was found in the ashes of his home, which by fire in the , was destroyed early morning of July 16. guns account of how many actually ‘ fired their weapons. Also charged with the same offences of which Ng was convicted are Willie Mak, 22, who faces trial Sept. 12, and Tony Ng, 26, no relation, who remains, at ‘i court this week, Edward Lampard was sentenced to 10 large. Z When the eight-man, four- School District No.9 (CASTLEGAR) | Kuehn slams minister's speech rey: VANCOUVER, (CP) — eaveation Minister Jack Heinrich's no alternative but to change service levels once again, and increase once more the numbers of children to be served by indleate the most Gasgaccan expect from 1984 salary each teacher,” he said. negotiations is a two-per-cent wage cut, the president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation said Friday. Larry Kuehn said Heinrich’s comments, included in a speech delievered Friday to the B.C. School Trustees. Alsat tuted that Higher elses sizes don't mean productivity Association, are outrageous. Noting that Heinrich said there is no money available for wage increases in 1984 and that to pay for that out of their own pockets or they'll fire teachers.” Both Kuehn and Leach d das 's Earlier in his speech, he said the C Stabili- .zation Program commission is only expected to allow increases if there is an increase in productivity, but it has ore nsked cue a question-and: -answer period what would increased for length of service) add two per cent to the total salary bill, Kuehn said he can only conclude that teachers can expect a wage cut of two per cent. which were many yeags ago and highe for teachers, Heinrich admitted he didn't know. DECREASES POSSIBLE / Kuehn was angered by another statement Heinrich made that teachers must be, prepared to accept salary earned by experience are now to be counted as if they area decreases if any of a school district's costs rise. salary increase. So you have to decrease everybody's salary scale by two per cent to pay for this.” » Ina speech that Kuehn and trustees’ describ as full of - “If other costs increase the teachers are not prepared to accept decreases, the school board, under Bill 8, as a Joy Leach Heinrich made it clear he was trying to senpen's any hopes teachers might have of salary increases in 1! Noting that eet limits set for each board for the next three years assume no ‘increases, he said the salary government would “find it almost impossible” to come up with money for a 1984 raise. If there were any increases, “We would have virtually yer, may have to ft the appoint- ments of some teachers,” “the minister said. Kuehn said this would mean that if B.C. Hydro raises its rates and a district's lighting costs rise, “teachers will have that the “normal bargaining process is intact” and that bargaining between teachers and school boards will proceed as usual this fall. Trustees at the meeting laughed out loud when the minister urged them to“bargain hard, but be fair” and said “bargaining will be more important in 1983 than ever before because the potential for serious damage to the education system exists unless the boards and government work together,” Kuehn said when the) minster has set school board budgets and told compensation commissioner Ed Peck what he should allow, there can‘, be any real bargaining. Leach said underthe new the traditional bargaining process willbe an expensive farce. The norma! process is that if boards and, teachers groups can’t reach an‘agreement by a specified date in the fall, they must go'td‘binding arbitration. DESPITE POLICE CRACKDOWN RCMP searching Pot harvest in full swing for clues to link missing children VANCOUVER (CP) — deaths or disappearances of three chil- Sunday, July 24, about a month before her eighth @ren are being by an RCMP analyst in Vancouver to find possible links or similarities, an RCMP spokesman said. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Mike Fluker said a mteting was held during the week in ere launched for both Pedersen and Scalf. Also under investigation, and — according to Fluker — discussed at the meeting, was Tom Hai Sun, who was 16 when he was last seen on repre- T Feb. 10, near his Veriase OE ae Like arene earyeate: BC. the s] for a change in the be heather. Unlike other farmers, they'ré‘aléo on the lookout for low-flying ‘aircraft that may herald the arrival of the police. The annual marijuna harvest is in fu el aero B.C. But police say many marijuana growers are ay; voiding t! the risk of growing it outside and are starting plantations in their homes where there is less of a chance of heing discqvered. More than 1,600 plants have been confiscated: from isolated plots on Vancouver, Lasqueti and Texada islands in recent weeks, but RCMP Supt. Marvin Young; head of drug enforcément in B.C. feels police have Had ony inuited, b success. This is the harvest season, but we're not coming up with = very much,” said Young.’ John Smith (not his real name) has been qrontie Fe off and on over the past 10 years on one of the of the Rich Langley and Chilliwack de- tachments to study the at However, Langley Norm Leibel said his = partment has never talked to Richmond about its cases. Under examination are: —Therese Martin, whose body was found floating in the Fraser River June 5. She was killed by a blow to the head, police say. The girl was 14, but looked younger, family and iene say. home in Rich d. Police say Sun was an honor student who was not known to have any friends or acquaintances at school and who kept to himself at home. He was only four feet, 11 inches tall and weighed 73 pounds. “Tom Sun might be just a little different circumstance from the others,” said RCMP Staff Sgt. John Kovalick said. He is older than the children involved in the other three cases and is male, but small, is grocery store on Saturday, Feb. 19. —Terri Lynn Scalf was seen playing near her Alder- grove home around 4 p.m. on TOURIST ALERT VANCOUVER (CP) — RCMP tourist alert for Sat- urday, Aug. 27. The Police say it is impossible - Gulf Islands. While he worries about the Police; thieves area greater problem. “Some people hesitate to take what isn't theirs, but where this crop is concerned, most feel free to help themselves — if they can find it,” said Smith. Like many other growers, he has abandoned sunny clearings for natural terraces on steep hillsides. “Even if the police spot this stuff from the air, they will have one hell of a time getting to it,” said Smith. However, Smith may be among the last of the outdoor breed. Cuntinued police surveillance, insect pests, predators and thieves have induced many cultivators to change their methods. : GROWING INDOORS ~ Police raids in the Vancouver area and on Vancouver alaiend shave. turned up: sophisticated indoor plantations “" RCMP Const. Richard Wadden of the Nanaimo drug en- forcement section, had “never seen anything like it” before a raid on a Nanaimo‘house last weekend turned up plants “growing under automatically-timed artificial lights. ‘The confiscated ‘plants had flower tops, purple in color with crystallized clearly visible. Arthur Jones (iio¢ his real name), who has been growing marijuana indoors for the past year, agrees his product is different. Following instructions laid out in a manual printed by Sun Magic Publishing Co. of Seattle, Jones is able to turn out - wo to three of high-grade every three jonths. . The indoor marijuana sells for $200 to $250 an ounce (28 + grams) compared to an average of $500 a pound (450 grams) gfor the ordinary de estic garden variety. ${UONES PLANTS “T still don’t know enough about it to develop hybrids,” _ said Jones, who clones his plants with a comme: . preparation from cannabis indica,.a potent strain of mari- juana native to Afghanistan. Apart from the manual, which has not been allowed into Canada, but is readily available in Washington, Jones said sseverything he needs can be hought from most commercial “It’s the metal halide light that made this all possible,” he said. Originally developed to illuminate night sports events, metal halide lights have been embraced by indoor gradeners with growing. C with high-output and ordinary lights, the metal halides produce conditions similar to Hawaii at high noon. " Wayne Nelson, owner and manager of Rainbow to’ say if the d and Martin's death are conn- ected or not. Langley-RCMP Sgt. Norm Leibel said “leads have tap- ered off a bit” but there are still many reports coming in on Scalf. “You don't realize how many blonde, blue-eyed * seven-year-olds there are running around.” Chilliwack RCMP Const. Robin Blair said he has read some of the crime are asked to contact the nearest RCMP detachment for an urgert message. Mary Klassen, Kamloops, B.C., Eunice and Richard Martin, Edmonton, Annette and Jim Semple, Wain- wright, Alta., Bob Smith, Vancouver. pable of p: ‘potent id: Similar S cneralisns are thought to exist in the ‘interior. “Some of the indoor marijuana we tested showed THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) content of 12 per cent,” said Young. Young noted that marijuana grown under licence for scientific testing in the U.S. has an average THC content of 2.5 per cent. B.C. growth forecasted VANCOUVER (CP) — drop dramatically, the British Columbia's real gross council said, and probably reports and is actively trad- domestic product should rise ing information and names of 2.6 to three per cent this suspects with theLangleyde- year, the Employers’ Council tachment. of B.C. says in its mid-year Richmond Sgt. Ed Spaans economic outlook. said his detachment read But the province's unem- reports from Chilliwack and ployment rate of 18.9 per Langley, “and they're read- cent for the first six months ing our reports/” of the year is not expected to will be 13.8 per cent by the end of the year. “Even with a forecasted’ growth of 2.5 to three per cent this year, we are still 4.5 to five per cent below 1981 levels,” council president Jim Matkin in a news release. i. a Victoria company catering to indoor gardeners, observes creased interest in-thé topic.'A handful’ of stores similar to Nelson's have ed in Victoria and \ in the past two years. “I don’t ask my customers what they grow, I just assume their interests are similar to mine,” says Nelson, 3 vegetarian. Because of the province's dependence on exports, the U.S. economic climate will dictate B.C.’s long-term out- look, the report said. * “Should a significant in- crease in the American in- terest rate occur, the present economic comeback would be snuffed out,”° said Matkin. CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 28, 1983 FIGHTING TO BE FIRST NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) — A New Westminster cardiologist still hopes to be the first Canadian in space. Dr. David Hilton is one of more than 1,800 Canadians who the preliminary screening process to qualify for a trip on the U.S. space shuttle. The National Research Council received 4,880 applications by the deadline two weeks ago and has chosen 1,816 for closer examination, council spokesman Estelle Dorais said. “I am very pleased,” Hilton said. “I want the position and once I'm out, I'm out. I'm not out yet.” Hilton said he is not sure why he made the first cut, but believes his medical knowledge is an advantage. Hilton said his friend, family physician R. Robert Vroom, also passed the preliminary screening. Vroom is in Europe on family business and could not be contacted. The fi will further reduce the number to 76 by mid-October and then sconduct individual interviews during a cross-country tour. From that group, 20 will be asked to come to Ottawa for more interviews and complete medical examination. The final six will be chosen by the first week of December. They will be trained, but only two of them will actually fly aboard the shuttle. They are’ in late sheduled to fly on 1985 and early 1986 to carry out experiments. involving the motion sickness and C: arm. Soviet offer a ‘breakthrough’ MOSCOW (REUTER) — Moscow's offer to scrap some 885-20 missiles as part of an East-West arms accord is a step in the right direction, but will not mean a break- rcial through at the Geneva arms- reduction talks, western dip- lomats said Saturday. The diplomats, echoing officials in Washington, said Soviet President Yuri An- dropov’s offer, made in an in- terview with the Communist party daily Pravda, could be a positive sign but that Moscow's basic position remains unchanged. “The offer does not tackle the central issue,” one diplomat said, “which is that Moscow wants to keep a monopoly on medium-range missiles and not allow the West'to deploy anything similar.” was speaking of the sort demand, unchanged in ‘Andropov’s latest proposal, that the United States not station its new generation of Pershing 2 and cruise medium-range weapons while Moscow retains 162 88-20 missiles aimed at Wes- tern Europe. This equals the number of French and British land — and sea—based weapons that Moscow wants to include in any accord at Geneva, and which NATO allies stead REQ! 4 Diplomats said the slight shift in position will not be enough to signal a break- through at the next round of arms talks in Geneva, Swit- ‘zerland, due to start Sept. 6. They noted that Friday's offer.to scrap all. 8S-20s negotiated away in "Geneva arnis accord was first time Moscow has clearly stated its intent towards weapons it would have to re- move from’ Europe under an agreement. For Your Convenience We're OPEN MONDAY - CASTLEGAR SCHOOL _OPENING | A. Secondary Schools Tuesday, September 6 is an “In Service Day" for secondary teachers only; hence, students enrolled in grades 9 to 12 at Stanley Humphries Secon- dary and grades 7 to 8 at Kinnaird Junior Secondary will NOT attend classes on Tu . However, students in grades 7 to 12 who are NEW to the District should register at the appropriate secondary school on esdoy: Report cards from the last school attended should be presented at this time. B. 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