Fey oma at bd Ae CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 31 + 1982 i ; Government can‘tc claim credit TORONTO (CP) — The federal government. can't spend, fey disproportionate amount ‘of thelr income on the'last 12 years, says the’! director Keith Battle’ says s the cred it“ should 5° to piesa f wives, “If there are fewer poor families than’ there were ‘in 1969, it's not’ because people are ‘getting larger wages’ or more, from government Bro. ams,” he said in| day. “It’s ‘mostly’ due’’ to women going out to rok | to which ‘had ‘the lowest We algw the poverty, line, “erty in Canada in 1960 — are’ bleak. POVERTY FOR MILLIONS Despite the decrease in tle ; number. of poor families, al- most three million Canadians lived -in poverty in 1980, ‘neluding 10. per cent of all families and 81.4 per ent of single Battle said those, who are poor are falling “farther and farther behind.’ i Families in the lowest in- come group — those earning “Jess than $12,603 a year — had only 5.9 per cent of total The council, ‘set :up to vise the federal : Ministry, Health and Welfare,’ defines is poor families ‘as those who i MOVING. ALONG + 22 Work at the new Castlegar courthouse is ‘proceedin well lespite the heavy sni td jcotings. ll this winter. Workmen puts finishing touches on. forms —CosNews Photo by Ron Normah ee Ministers in the West Kootenay United Church ’ A white explorer trekked day after long day through the jungle, followed by his faithful natives bearing their heavy loads, One morning, however, the natives refused to move. * Through an inleepocter, the explorer asked what was the matter. He was told, “They are waiting for their souls to catch up to their bodies.” I think I know what those natives meant. Sometimes I have been going so hard, day after long day, that my soul, too, gets left behind. I forget what I'm doing it all for, my: belief in my own activity fades, but still I trudge along. -When that happens, it's time to do what the natives © did. Stop. Let our souls catch up. For me, it's have’ some fun with the kids; read’ good book, pray, Lapin out* some where with my wife; to gain’ + perspective, to slow down in- side — to rest. ‘s That's the idea of the Sab- both. To let our souls catch up by resting, or at least by not doing the same old thing , .we've been working at all “week. ‘Will Rogers used to say, “I always get up earlier on Sun- day morning so I can have a longer time to rest.” He had a point. We need that break. 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Poverty was more preva- - lent in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec than elsewhere in Canada, lenses withdrawn. WASHINGTON © (REUT- ER) — Bausch and Lomb has agreed to stop polling it its new: Drug: Administration said. The FDA aid ‘ha eyeglass ‘firm agreed: to halt all sales, distribution. and marketing of the:,lenses, introduced’ last September: “The isaue is hot _ safety,” said an FDA spokes- man, “but effectiveness.” Figures for. those two re- _gtons showed Poor family “rates of $3.8 per. ent and ‘13 pared with British te —— GROCETERIA & LAUNDROMAT & SHAKE SHOPPE sonal Poverty rate of 6.8 per cent. Battle’ said the statistics: also showed ‘an “astonishing” 41.5; ‘per ‘cent: -of » families - ‘ headed by women, were .:be; :: Easterner gives show for Klein Calgary Mayor Ralph, Klein: has ‘discovéred ' that “eastern bums" “come in . interesting varieties, Klein, sharing a platform ata shopping mall recently to’ proclaim Military Week,\was' surprised When Am-Marie, a 22-year-old ‘model-actress | from:Toronto, jumped up'on: stage and began dancing a partial strip-tease _ before” Printed i large eters on, the back of her panties iwas: ‘the! message: : “Hey' Ralph, all easterners = aren’t'‘bums,"' a novel ' ref- erence 140. Klein's ate “month about tale“ ‘creeps ait being unwelcome in Calgary But‘ as a. writhing ‘J Marie handed her black dress top to ‘Klein, the — mayor tossed it back at her and re-” treated from the platform.:: ° “Later ‘informed about the : message cross « the - lady's ‘posterior, Klein was asked if he had a message in return. “Well, I think she made a ‘bit of an‘ass of herself,” he: ~ KOKANEE TAK _ SERVICE — “ OPEN MON, - FRIL,9 a.m: - 5 p.m.: or Call Jill or Janet for a special appointment. 278 Columbia Ave...’ Fs 965-2416 | 8,690, care "Weekly and B i-Weekly Repayment Plans. at: Kootenay Savings red it Union. “teed with n paying. the equivalent of Big Savings TIME ( peyote Jone MONEY (: the first day 6} 147 # This saving possl = onl f you adopt thi OFFERED NOW AT. lg Kootenay Savings. — eee Union UTRAIL: ~" FRUITVALE: CASTLEGAR SALMO NEW DENVER SOUTH SLOGAN .. AKUSP : WANETA PLAZA.” REVITALIZATION ... Continued from page Al merchants havo a loan at\9.6 per. cent ‘over 10 years, she. said, As well, he sald the prov: ince has a promotional ‘aid grant for merchants whe work together, “ He said ‘that’ Includes 25 per cent of joint p the: downtown‘ parking aitu- ation is settled, nothing can go ahead. ! He: called’ on "Castlegar ‘council to bring in necessary‘ ‘parking legislation. {, As well, Ward said the. community. is starting to shave a larger. core of ‘older In: the, who need or $1 per capita, rh is least, Thus, for a town of 4,000,, the. merchants ‘must spend $16,000 for ‘promotions and He suggested the dees ott section of Wood Street could be.turned into. a. plaze. Ward: albo., veregtad would pick a $i 000" of that. He Suggested. merchants set up a management’ ad- program’ more. peered : than’ beautification, Thomas said he'd rather. see money spent ja cooperative mar- keting. acheme -before it's spent on’ beautification. Thomas also said shopping: centres don't start setting up unless they see weakness in the downtown businesses. “They will run away as fast as.they can when they see a strong downtown core,” he: said. Thomas also suggested’ Cardiff, Wales. SO Miainy “hard core” merchants, who the d open their basements and connect them ie sake a mall effect. - Solida iy Thou: sands of Europeans ‘marked Solidarity ‘Day on, Saturday at rallies in cities and towns across the: continent ‘with, speakers calling for an end to “martial-law in’Poland, More than 100 rallies were held in West German cities. “Thousands of people listened “to speakers in Vienna, Brus- sels and London, as well as in Nottingham, ‘England, and: want t h town should: just “1 ram” the: changes down the throats of those businesses who are too lazy to take. part. Dr. Roy Ward agreed that what is needed to bring about changes is “muscle, democ- racy.” Ward also said that until 1p leaders, whose ‘governments have been reluctant to join the © U.S. in economic: sanctions against the Soviet atid Polish governments, agreed to take part.in a‘ special television program .‘produced by the U.S. International Communi- cations Agency. Ald. Bob MacBain. advised merchants look at an open air market to bring consumers into the downtown area. MacBain said ‘those taking part in the market, could sell’ ‘products. they've either grown or made themselves. “It might be unique,” he said, He added that the 'mer- chants might even put on a sale for the occasion, Thomes said he liked the suggestion, and said \mer- chants should‘look for other ways to make Castlegar unique. G rity Day West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in his com- ments for the program, said, “Together with our friends in Europe and America, we de- mand of the Polish leader- ship: left martial law, let the detainees go free, return to the national dialogue. with the (Roman Catholic) church and with the elected leaders . - Solidarity.” He called the oppression of freedom in Poland “a severe moral challenge.” SPIRIT INDOMITABLE ' British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had this" message: “In Poland today, the flame of freedom’ may seem to burn less brightly., But it has not been extin- guished — nor can it be. Sooner or later, the oppres- TELL OF VISIT Continued from page Al “He caniheal ‘others and P very possibly he could have helped himself if-he had any ‘notion’ this! was going to happen. But a stroke is something you don't plan for.” Charters has herself trav- elled on the.’ mountainous highways on which 11 Can- adians were killed. Tourists are* normally flown from Manilla to Baugio City, but if the weather is poor, tourists travel by bus. Charters says she flew to Baugio both times she was there, but was forced to re- rallies sors’ will understand | that they cannot impose their will upon mena nd women who ask only ‘that- Poland may truly represent the indomit- able spirit of fhe Folieh peo- ple.” Some 500 people, ‘many of them’ Polish exiles,’ demon- strated and gang songs at a rally in downtown “Copen- hagen. Asmall crowd held in vigil in front of the Polish’ Em- bassy in Brussels, and about 600 gathered at a‘ square. in the east Belgian city:of Liege * to shout .support ‘for Soll- darit “with a Freese to arrange a in nounced its support of Soli- darity Day, a London-based * spokesman said. turn by bus because of ty- hoons. “The roads are not nearly as wide as ours are," she says, “They are very narrow and very twisty — far from. ideal.” But she says the drivers are excellent, “I still don't feel it (the accident) has anything to do with the drivers,” she says., She says the accident could have happened here in Can- ada. “We have lots of accidents as well. I think when your time has come, it has come.” The accident hasn't de- terred her from returning to the Phillipines, “I would go back if I needed to. I hopeI never do,” she says. She adds the Phillipines is a “very special” and inter- esting place and the people there are very gentle, “L-can't see that one acci- dent could possibly change anyone's mind.” For the record In ar article in the Jan. 27 Castlegar News on a recent public economic forum, a Castlegar resident was re- ported to. have referred to the,tl “local Chamber of Com- The resident indicated he approached the chamber 1,500-perso: CASTLEGAR NEWs, January 31, 1982 MANILA (AP) — Anto- nlo Agpaoa, a Filipino faith healer who claimed a wide following among Canadians and other foreigners, died early Saturday of a cere- bral hemorrhage, ’ the official Philippine News Agency reported. He was 42, Eleven Canadians were killed Wednesday when a minibus taking them to visit Agpo.aoca and another faith healer col- lided with a.bus carrying Chinese tourists. Dr. Hector Lopez, medical. director of the Saint Louis General Hospi- tal in Baguio City, 200 kilometres north of Manila, ssid Agpaoa died at the hospital one week after suffering a stroke, the agency reported. Agpaoa was the most well-known of the scores of faith healers in the Philip- pines. Since the none he treated . mostly patients from the: “United States, Canada and Europe with bare-handed “psychic surgeries,” using what he he claimed came from God, the news agency said. Filipino faith healer is dead said were special powers fined He owned and operaed the International Spiritual Centre :and Resort Complex on a Baguio hill- top formerly used by Roman Catholic priests as a retreat, Before being admitted to hospital, he and his five assistants are reported to have received up to 1,000 visitors — both patients and tourists — a ys Although Agpaoa, like the many other Filipino faith healers, said he never charged fees for Ihis * services but merely accepted “voluntary dona- tions" from grateful patients, a recent issue of Asiaweek magazine described him as a “million- aire many times over.” Although some of Agpaoa's patients had exposed his well-publicized “Cures” as frauds and U.S. authorities branded him and other Filipino psychic ; the \ a A3 ‘Hotel fire ‘claims life of two men MICA CREEK (CP) — Two men died in a fire early Saturday at the single-storey Mica Creek Hotel, 160 kil- ometres north of Rovelstoke on highway 23, Police have not officially released names of the vic- tims, The fire started shortly after 1 a.m. when the men were checking a propane leak, police. Ten other people at the hotel were sent to hospital, two.in critical con- dition with burns and broken bones, Bodies : victims of looters VANCOUVER (CP) — ports of looting of the bodies of the 11 Canadians killed Wednesday in'a bus crash in” the Ph will. be in- healers as news agency said many of, This paitnets swore by his treatment. Agpaoa had confined his -vestigated by officials there, ‘The Sun reported Saturday. The: Philippines. Tourism Miniser {has announced - he will e Philippines .after being $250 . for’ illegal practice of medicine in Manila in 1959. _/ Costieay put was twice re: . uffed. - ne Castlegar News has since learned that the cham. ber referred to was in fact Continued from page Al : Instead of receiving three hours service every reek: & he's getting three hours every two weeks. “It's impossible, he says. Beth Rogers, 56, of Robson saw.a reduction in ce: in July along with her 86-year-old mother, Susan Danchella, _. Rogers says she doesn't want to be a “whiner,” but on the other hand, she isn't thrilled. with the cutbacks, Rogers, who has suffered a heart attack and’ two strokes, and her mother — who has extremely bad legs — shale pew to giana hes week from ah. for their homemaker, Emma ‘Turcotte, to get much done in the few hours she's. there. SUSAN DANCHELLA +. .one who needs homemaker service “And of course there's wash to do,” says Rogers. 4.“We don't have an automatic washing machine. “Our “place is not set up for that.” The clothes are hung up outside, but with the Bae weather, the wash hasn't been (___ CUTBACKS FELT... = a not the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, but the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, and that the chamber president, to which the resident. re- ferred at the forum was poneiay chamber manager Employees sell drivers’ WINNIPEG (CP) — At least. 100. Manitobans have paid employees of the prov- ince’s motor vehicles branch for drivers’ Hones says the — not the nian Chamber . presi- dent. Winning : Wesiern RE EERtY (cise Winning Western numbers for the. Jan..20' draw for $100,000: are 2842689, 187. 4901, 2987601, 3318162" and 1654429, +, Rogers says they manage to do bits of clothing in the ae “I am 54. I should be snapping around. I can't do it,” “says Rogers who can hardly lift her left leg. “I don't know why the government makes the cutbacks, especially when they're giving themselves big pay hikes and hige non-taxable expense accounts. “Makes you wonder what gives,” she says. “And I keep thinking, yes, they want B.C. Place and this and that sbuilt’. % . “We ask for very little and complain very little. We're : scared to say. anything. Can't do anything but sit back. - lea ) MARY POPOFF f doesn’t understand cutbacks : “We ean to be aptahetic, “I know’some one who’gets care every day,” ‘she says. “If they can get it why, should I squawk as long as they don't step too much on my toes?” Rogers hasn't written to any politicians to capes about the cutbacks.. “Can't afford to write the Politicians,” she saya. “And if you.do, will they ever hear you?” she asks. “She says she's also. afraid of hurting her current: situation and says this is the feeling of many. people under long term care. ‘ “A lot.of people are afraid to say a lot of things,” she says. +.Turcotte says she doesn't like the cutbacks because she ‘Bas’ ‘to rush‘through her work in half the time and only gets to do:the basics — like sweeping and general ning. If she had her regular hours back, she could put more _ time into doing “little extras,” she says. “Before I had a little more time to visit. Now I have to sit there and watch the time,” she says, though they still manage a few snatches of conversation here and there. But Turcotte is hoping the situation will improve. “The older people do need it (the service),” she says. “At home they are better. They have their personal . items there. They can move around on their own free will and it doesn’t cost as much (as being in a facility).” “They're their own people.” : Mary Popoff of Castlegar, is another dissatisfied client. Her hours were reduced. to two hours every second week from two hours a week. She says it’s not like it used to be, because it means ‘ \waiting too long to have the house cleaned. She also says it’s too long to wait for the laundry to be done. Popoff, 67, lives alone and either wears her clothes longer or waits for a “good day” when she's feeling better to wash her clothes, instead of waiting two weeks for the ‘homemaker. Her homemaker gets the basic cleaning done, but she ‘always has'to rush,to do it, says Popoff. . “Tcan't understand (the cutbacks),” she says. “It’s not i that. I'm mad at someone — it's just inside me I can't cunderstand why. I can't do nothing. I just know they cut “me off,”’ she says. through her tears. . , \“If I weren't sick I would do it (the work mayeelf,” she ‘says, hey or am getting at least a bit of help." BETH ROGERS . learn to be apathetic * Popoff says she has'friends who are getting three hours a week and are not any sicker than she is — some even healthier. “But the government isn't here, He doesn't know about me,” she. says. for the $10,000 prize are: 1119926, 2481402, 9385980, 2073186 and 1934- 826. Last six digits win $1,000; last five digits win $100; last _ four digits win $25°and the last three digits “win ‘five dollars’. worth of Express | tickets, .If the first two digits and the last two digits of your ticket are 28 (first two) and 55 (last two) you win $25, The same for 21 (first two) and 74 {last two), No-election until 1984 KELOWNA (CP) — mier Bill Bennett, home Sat- of motor vehicles, e n _ Peter Dygala said his de- partment may never know the total number of drivers’ licences that were improp- erly obtained because rec- ords are routinely destroyed =&fter two years. “t' “No one can really say,” he “aaid in an interview. “We don’t. know how long this practice was going on.” Dygala refused to confirm or deny statements made by a department employee, who licences refused to be identified, that would-be motorists pafd as much as $1,000 for a driver's licence and $100 to $160 to pass a written examination. The information was un- covered by a joint investi- gation carried out by the de- partment and police, result- ing in the suspensions last month of two senior employ- ees of the Manitoba Motor Vehicles Branch. Carl Procuik, deputy reg-_ istrar of the branch, said the two employees were sus- pended for selling licences at Hi a set fee without following proper procedures. Their « names have not been re- leased. couver travel agency that ar- ranged the ill-fated bus trip. Freelance reporter Sol ‘Vanzi ‘said in a telephone interview with The Sun from Manila Friday that an in- vestigation also has been launched into allegations that bodies were looted of rings and valuables following the crash. The Canadians were trav- elling in a mini-bus to see a faith healer when it was hit almost head-on by s larger bus carrying 34 Hong Kong Chinese, all of whom sur- vived. : In Creston, a memorial service will be held today at 8 p.m. at the Creston Valley Recreational Centre for the four Creston cot ples killed in the''collision.” “The service open to the public, will be in memory of Hugo and Leona ae feld, Bob and ‘Shel Leonard nd Edith oft and Rune and Mary Anderson. The four couples were among the 11 Canadian tour- ists that died in the collision. Red Brigade dedicated Police said they crippled. VICENZA, ITALY (AP) — Brig.-Gen. James Dozier on Saturday called his Red Brigades’ kidnappers smart and dedicated and the leftist terrorists vowed to free “the comrades” jailed for the ab- dunction. ~ “They are a bunch of dedi- cated people,” Dozier told réporters outside the apart- ment~ buildiig in Verona where he was abducted Dec. 17. “They are smart. They believe!.in what they are doing and they are very ser- ious about it.” As he spoke, the Red Brig- ades sent a message declar- © tend to call an election until 1984. ment ‘has to. work hard te help the economy recover. “There are a lot of aust decisions to be “made,” he said. “Ours is not a’ govern- ment that will run away from difficulty.” “We believe in facing facts,” he said, promising programs of restraint and a review of public sector spending at all levels before the budget is-introduced in mid-April. Six-month pay raise delay, -announced VANCOUVER (CP) — Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd: announced a six-month delay in pay raise. for 610 salaried employees in British Colum- bia, Ontario and Quebec. About a dozen senior man- agers in B.C. will face a one-year deferral in their pay increases, said Larry Lemon, director of public relations for Canada. Bennett said the govern- Ss ing “the of Dozier awa not succeed in stopping current - revolutionary erases yowhich will triumph : “The comrades held in the state's concentration camp will be liberated, and imper- ialism destroyed,”: said the leaflet, signed with the Red Brigades symbol of. a five- pointed star in a circle. . Police said they believed the message was authentic. It was found in a--waste basket in’ Porto Marghera near Venice after a journalist received an anonymous tele- phone call saying where tc find it. Police-sources said during his 42-day captivity Dozier was forced to wear head- phones for hours listening to recordings of classical music, apparently to keep him from the they are -staying. They wanted to pick up clothes at the apartment and, in the general's words to one jour- nalist, “to thank my neigh- bors for their prayers.” The general's streetside talk with reporters was his first question-and-answer session since his release. It was interrupted several times by shouts of “Viva il generale!” — “Long live the general!” — from a crowd of- about 50 neighbors and others well-wishers. Walesa WARSAW (AP) —.,Po- land's martial law regime has formally detained Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, side- tracked his offer to open talks and may close factories in Gdansk for the’next two weeks for fear of riots over ‘ food. price increases, union sources said Saturday. The sources said Walesa has been informed he. is “detained,” rather than se- questered as first reported when martial law was im- ‘and his union sus- pended Dec. 18. They said he the Red Brigades “column” in northeastern Italy that ab- ducted Dozier. They picked up 18 suspected terrorists and supporters Friday, in addition to the five arrested in the raid that freed the general, One of the five terrorists holding Dozier, Giovanni Ci- ucei, visited Libya last rear, quoted by’ the Italian news agency ANSA. Broadcast claims - very ili... has accused the Communist. ‘ regime of “dishonesty and warned that. people should not trust the government.” In Britain, a ham radio operator said a clandestine broadcast ‘from Poland Fri- day night claimed Walesa is seriously ill in a Warsaw jail and that Solidarity is arming to battle the government. Previous reports from Po- land said Walesa was well treated in a villa outside Warsaw and that Solidarity leaders still at large were urging passive resistance. (COURT NEWS / sonversation and. street noises that. might have helped pinpoint their posi- tion. LEADER RUDE They also said the ‘Rea Brigades’ leader who inter- rogated him was pushy and rude bit the terrorists did not injure Dozier physically. Dozier and his wife Judith were driven to Verona, 50 kilometres away, from the U.S. Army base here where ges of deve with a sere eteobel count over .08 were heard in provincial court Jan. 26. Pleading guilty and fined $400 or 30 days were Robert Smith and Jeffrey Calder. s 2 «6 Three separate charges of being minors in Possession of” liquor were heard. ’ All charged entered guilty pleas. Edward .Draxel was fined $200, Mary and Debra Pereversoff were fined $100 1 7 Dern Jeckinan was fined $76 after being charged un- der the Fisheries Act for _ having too many fishing lines in the water. . . t ‘Georgé Markin was sen- “tehced to a 30-day intermit-:{) tent jail sentence for im- paired driving and was placed ‘dn probation until the is which ignited, said . the ‘\Van- >