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october 8, 1989 Castlegar News 3

a2 Castlégar News October 8, 1989

Chamber of Commerce
elects new executive

By CasNews Staff Credit Union,
Jim Craig, manager of the Kootenay treasurer.
Savings Credit Union, was elected to

succeed Ernie Turtaas president of the been named yet

become the

Craig said no committee heads have
However, he is

Castlegar Chamber of Commerce at its looking toa busy year for all groups.

Briefly

overnor general named

OTTAWA (CP) = Ray Hnatyshyn,

Government takes over Gainers

EDMONTON (CP) — The Alberta government moved swiftly
Friday to save Gainers Inc. from slipping into insolvency by taking the
meat-packing empire out of millionaire Peter Pocklington’ s hands.

a former Prog Conservative
justice minister, was named governor
general-designate on Friday in an ap
pointment that was praised by borh
former political allies and foes.
Hnatysyn, 55 will take over from
Jeanne Sauve iti mid-January, Prime

Canadian than to be named to this
position,”* he said
Hnatyshyn will be Canada’s 24th
governor general. His official term is
five years, although it can be extended
as has been the case with Sauvé, 67,
whose term expired in May
*‘IMPRESSIVE®

But the 15,000-member Monarchist
League of Canada was not enthusiastic
about a defeated politician getting the
job

Gary Toffoli, associate editor of the
league’s newspaper, said the
organization wanted thé job_to go
Prince Andrew or another member of

stitutional accord

With the job goes an annua
af $80,000, But maintaining a gover
nor general and operating the Rideau
Hall governor general’s residence costs
considerably more; $9.3. million’ is
budgeted for this year

annual general meeting on Sept. 27 “The transportation committee will cacediorhyea
Craig said he wants to see “what . look into the truck traffic situation in
ditection, our city is going to be” the city,’ Craiog said. He added the
taking,” with the recent expansion an- solution won't bean easy one
nouncement by Celgar officials The tourism committee ‘did a lot of
“The spinoffs (from the expansion) good work,” in the last year, Craig
will create a lot of changes in ourcom- said. He cited the new signs on the
munity,” said Craig highway to attract more tourists to the
Bryan Loewen, manager of an example.
Propane, will assume the vice  “*The Columbia River development
president duties and Robin Clarke, committee has: had meetings with
assistant manager of Castlegar Savings - Hydro and the city about development
along the river,"" he added
Craig also said the chamber will con
tinue to act as-a‘lobby group" for
businesses in Castlegar

Following an emergency cabinet meeting, Premier Don Getty an-
nounced the province was taking the company over because Pocklington
defaulted on a government loan earlier in the week

The government will pay out $32 million to reduce Gainers’ debt,
which now stands At $100 million, and provide a $10-million loan guaran.
tee to ensure the restructured company has aline of operating credit

Pocklington is no longer involved in management or ownership and
the government now controls all shares of Gainérs Inc. and Gainers
Properties Inc. But the retains hip of the
National Hockey League Edmonton Oilers, Palm Dairies and a handful
of other companies

Minister Brian Mulroney told the Mulroney said Hnatyshyn' — Con
Commons. The announcement was . servtive House leader ~1984-86. and Hnaiyshyn'’s appointment is 4 Cabinet ministers defeated when
greeted by loud cheers from both sides _ justice ministet from 1986 until he'was - departure from the norm because he is Mulrones’ team swept to a second
of the House, where Hnatyshyn was defeated in his Saskatoon riding last. not fluently bilingual. He spoke majority governmenttast November.
liked and respected November — will be an * halting French at his news conference Since then the affable lawyer has
At a news conference later, a and popular governor general.’ Friday, But Mulroney said Hnatyshyn —been-practising trade taw with an Ot
beaming Hnatyshyn, flanked by his Liberal Leader John Turner said — understands French“Canadians
wife, Gerda, promised totry to “foster Hnatyshyn has had a distinguished When Hnatyshyn was justice
a spirit of unity and. understanding career ‘‘marked by dignity and decen
among all Canadians.” cy.”” NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said important amendments to the Official _ cermonial; it includes attending of
“1 can't think of a greater honor ‘his warmth will bringa human touch Languages Act and was instrumental ficial functions and signing. bills

Blenkarn offers apology that can be given to an average toadignified position.” in forging the Meech Lake con- laws

Warrant Screen star dies

the royal family one of only a handful of Conservative

“impressive

tawa law firm
The role of the governor gene’
minister, Mulroney said, he brought in the Queen's representative, is largely

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beating” from the current industrial traffic, as are all
highways as they get older and trucks get bigger and
heavier, a road such as the one going in between
Passmore and Vallican would not be up to the standard
necessary to carry heavy trucks.

Load limits are placed on all roads and highways,
especially during the spring when roads are most suscep-
tible to damage, and the back roads are not given high-
enough limits to allow for chip trucks, he said.

Any trucker hauling a load that is over the load
limit for that route is ‘very heavily fined,” he added.

But with or without industrial traffic, the residents
say they fear for their children’s safety now that there is
a through road.

Reid, who lives just north of the bridge, said she
and her neighbors can no longer feel safe allowing their
children to play near the sand where the road used to
end.

Even with only Highways vehicles passing by each
day the road has become a hazard, Reid said, adding she
has a hearing problem and can’t rely or her ears to tell
her if her son isin danger.

“He got his new bike and the first thing he did was
rideit in front of a truck,” she said.

Burgoon, who lives on the Vallican side of the new
bridge, said her children used to float down the shallow
Little Slocan on innertubes to vistit the Passmore
children and them walk home.

The children won't be allowed to do that anymore
because of the traffic on the new road, she said.

Kenny, who said she can count about 10 logging
trucks each morning coming onto the Passmore
bridge her driveway is metres away from, said she is
worried about her children standing to wait for a school
bus beside a well-travelled road that used to be *‘a coun-
trylane.””

The people in the area were told the new bridge and
road to replace the current bridge into Vallican off
Highway.6, which has a dangerous approach and is
built for one-vehicle traffic, were being put in for the
safety of the children on the buses, Burgoon said.

“We seem to be exchanging one danger for
another,”” she said.

The-women say they want to see signs, lights and

speed bumps put in, especially at the Passmore bridge.

Eastman said any safety measures would be the
responsibility of the district manager.

Burgoon, whose family farms organic ginseng, also
worries about the quiet country life many people in the
valley moved to the Slocan to find.

“The valley allowed us to have a special lifestyle
and maybe it’s now catching up with us,’’ she said
‘Maybe its not so special after all.’”

The women say they and their families and neigh-
bors have not had a say in what is happening in their
communities and that must change. Alternative routes
for the road should be examined, they say, although
they stress they are not against a new, safe road and
bridge for the area.

Kenny said Barkley is not listening to the residents
and he has ignored a petition against the road with 300
names onit.

Barkley, who claims he did not see the petition, said
petitions are not the way to deal with problems in the
area

“They can get as many petitions as they want. They’ re
not going to change Highways’ mind and they're not
going to change mine.

He said he would be willing to discuss the residents
concerns if the would be willing to talk about what can
be changed and not what can’t

“They are still saying the road isn’t going to go
through,” he said.

A meeting on the issue was held Thursday in
Vallican, Kenny said, and although no consensus was
reached among the 30 to 40 people who attended on
what action should be taken, it was decided fundraising
will be started and petitions will be drawn up.

Castlegar lawyer Terry Dalton attended the
meeting at the residents request and they are considering
taking legal action in the matter, Kenny said, adding
court action was suggested to the residents by Norman
Evans, the lawyer for the Arrow Lakes Indian band.

The band has been fighting construction of the
road, which they say will run through an ancient Indian
village. The band is also claiming aboriginal title in the
area.

Kenny said the next meeting on the issue will be at
the Heritage Hail in Vallican Oct. 18 at7 p.m.

HAPPY

proposed nine-per-cent sales tax will probably be changed before it is
finally passed by Parliament

“We're going to endeavor in this committe not to act like children,
the portly Tory backbencher promised — one day after he was criticized in
Parliament for calling Albertan opponents of the tax stupid and out-to
lune

“*Please accept any apologies for our previous actions and I include
certainly myself and I know my colleagues probably feel the same way,”
Blenkarn said in an unusual statement as hearings on the controversial tax
resumed here

Blenkarn also promised that draft sales-tax legislation expected to be
introduced in Parliament during the next few days will not prejudice his
committee's report on tax, due on Nov. 28.

Hijackers won't be sent home

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand will not repatriate two Burmese
students who hijacked a plane and threatened to blow it up todemand the
return of democracy to their homeland, a senior Thai official said Satur
day

Thienchai Sirisamphan, the deputy prime minister who persuaded
the hijackers to surrender peacefully, told a news conference the Thai
government was considering how to deal with the students, temporarily in
custody of the Thai navy

“We will not hurt them,”’ Thienchai said. ‘‘They will not be sent
back to Burma. The Burmese government also does not want them back
So far they have not asked for asylum in any country.”

The two students seized a Fokker 28 aircraft and 83 hostages during a
domestic flight in Burma on Friday. They ordered the crew to fly to
Thailand and the turbojet landed at the Thai air force base of Utaphao,
southeast of Bangkok.

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INegal immigrants sentenced

DEASE LAKE (CP) — The fourth member of an American family
living in a crude earthen dugout near a highway in remote northwestern
British Columbia has come out of the woods.

Larry Samms Sr., 44, of Denver walked into the RCMP office about
10p.m. Thursday, Const. Rob McTaggard said Friday

“*He identified himself, was arrested and charged under the Im-
migration Act.””

Earlier this week, RCMP arrested three Colorado residents and
seized a collection of rifles, spears, a crossbow and more than 4,600 roun-
ds of ammunition. The three were sentenced Thursday to seven days in jail
for violating the Immigration Act

Bouchard terminates inquiry

TORONTO (CP) — Federal Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard
has officially terminated a cross-country inquiry into the pricing policies
of Via Rail

But the National Transportation Agency will still have a chance to
derail Bouchard’ s plans to have the passenger railway charge higher fares.

The inquiry, headed by former cabinet minister Erik Nielsen, has
been suspended since May, when Bouchard first announced he was con-
sidering chopping Via's services to reduce its annual subsidy

issued
for priest

VANCOUVER (CP) A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of a
Catholic priest from the Kootenays
charged with two counts of molesting
children,

Dana Urban, the Crown prosecutor
in Nelson, would not comment on the
warrant issued for Rev. Luke Meunier,
except to say Meunier isin Florida

Meunier is one of more than a dozen
B.C. clergy to be charged or convicted
of sexual offences in the past two
years.

Rev. Robert Whyte, a 68-year-old
Catholic priest, will appear in Nelson
provincial court in January to enter a
plea on 16 counts of sexual assault
against boys.

Urban said Whyte is currently un
deroing psychological counselling in
the U.S. Some of Whyte’s alleged of-
fences took place near Radium Hot
Springs, while he was @priest in
Calgary

The minister at Evangelical
Covenant Church in Creston, Larry
Fullerton, 52, has had his trial adjour-
ned to Nov. 6.

During three days of testimony in
September, young girls testified Fuller
ton molested them at a summer church
camp

Numerous other - B.C.-related
molesting cases involving clergy are
outstanding

In Terrace, the former pastor of
Evangelical Free Church, William
Ruggles, has had his preliminary
hearing postponed to January on seven
charges of sexual offences against
children

NEW YORK (AP)
eyes inspired a song decades after her tough demeanor
helped create the film image of the independent woman,
has died of cancer, her long-time lawyer said today. The
two-time Academy Award winner was 81

Bette Davis, whose soulful

Davis died Friday night in a Paris hospital after
returning there from the San Sebastian film festival in
Spain, said her lawyer Harold Schiff

Davis — who appeared in more than 80 films, in
cluding Jezebel, All About Eve, and Of Human Bon:
dage — died of breast cancer tliat had begun spreading
about 18 months ago after a 1983 mastectomy, Schiff
said.

“The doctors had told us the cancer had spread,
that it was terminal,"’ he said. ‘The doctors had said let
her go on going about her business."”

French radio reported that Davis died in, the

American. Hospital in Paris. A. spokesman at the
hospital declined to confirm the report but said a
Statement would be issued later

Davis was nominated for Academy Awards 10
times and won two best actress Oscars, for Dangerous
in 1935 and Jezebel in 1938. She won an Emmy in 1979
for the television production Strangers — The Story ofa
Mother and Daughter

Her screen heroines were often strong women — as
uncompromising as the actress was off-screen and on
the set, said those who worked with her

“The person who wants to make it has to sweat,”
she once said. **There are no short cuts. And you've got
to have the guts to be hated. That's the hardest part."

She once suggested the lines for her own epitaph:
“Bette Davis She Did It the Hard Way.”* That in:
cluded her 1985 comebacek from the mastectomy, a
stroke and a broken hip in quick succession

Vander Zalm optimistic
following party meeting

VICTORIA (CP) — The day started

“*L listened to what it was different

Former deputy premier.Grace Mc-

with some Social Credit members caucusmembershadtosayaboutsome Carthy, a 23-year veteran of the

literally lost ina fog.

By late Friday afternoon, Premier
Bill Vander Zalm declared that a
special caucus meeting had cleared the
air

The premier had called the caucus
together three weeks early in an attem:
pt to calm Socreds stunned by the
resignation of four backbenchers and a
fifth straight byelection loss

“Let me say we had a very positive
caucus meeting,”’ Vander Zalm saiod
after the 22-hour session, delayed for
four hours by fog that held up flights
into Victoria

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of the political difficulties that we have
faced and may continue to face

“I think it was very beneficial for me

I intend to continue on leading the
party and continuing to provide good
free-enterprise government for the
province, and the caucus is united in
thateffort.”"

And, he added: ‘*I expect the elec
tion will be some ways off, hopefully,
but I certainly intend to be around a
while

Asked if this included the next elec
tion, Vander Zalm said: “Yes.”

Looking upbeat despite a politically
harrowing week, the premier—was
flanked by more than a dozen caucus
members as he talked to reporters

legislature who resigned from cabinet
last year Over differnces with Vander
Zalm, did not join the phalanx

“I'm not divulging anything that
goes on in caucus, but I think that
everybody is coming away feeling a lit-
tle more positive than when they went
in — and I certainly feel that,"? said
McCarthy

“I think that everybody has felt that
they can support the premier,” she ad-
ded

“I think he’ll be leading the party
through the next election."

Norman Ruff, a political scientist at
the Unitersity of Victoria, was sur-
prised that Vander Zalm didn’t resign

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Relief workers kidnapped

SIDON (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross
suspended operations in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon Satur
day after two Swiss relief workers were kidnapped, a Red Cross official
said.

“‘Our operations have been suspended in Sidon pending the release
of our two abducted comrades,” said Mohammed Bizri, the Lebanese
representative of the Red Cross in Sidon.

The announcement came a day after masked gunmen grabbed
Emanuel Cristen, 32, and Elio Elliquez, 23, shoved them into a car trunk
and drove toward a suburban Palestinian refugee camp. The two were or-
thopedic technicians who helped fit artificial limbs for victims of
Lebanon’s 14-year-long civil war.

Leak investigation underway

WINNIPEG (CP) — The Winnipeg police department is in
vestigating whether officers leaked information about two suicide notes
Insp. Ken Dowson wrote before taking his own life more than two weeks
ago.

Crime Supt. Joe Gallagher said the department is trying to determine
if any copies were made and distributed to CTV News. The network
reported Thursday night that it had learned thecontents of the two notes.

**As far as we've been able to determine, both letters are secure and
have not been tampered with,’’ Gallagher said.

The network reported that Dowson, 43, blamed himself for mistakes
made in the department’s investigation of the death of native leader J.J
Harper.

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Bush defends non-intervention

WASHINGTON (CP) — U.S. President George Bush is defending
his decision not to intervene militarily to help overthrow Panama's Gen
Manuel Antonio Noriega, while his aides try to quash criticism that the
administration operated in confusion during t failed coup.

But Bush said Friday his inaction should not be read as a signal that
he would act the same way if another attempt is made by Panamarijans

“*I would not rule out any option,’’ he told reporters when asked if he
would send in the U.S. military next time.

Bush said that after reviewing information about the coup, he
believes he was right not to unlease U.S. forces stationed in the Central
American country.

Licence decision reserved

REVELSTOKE (CP) — The Motor Carriers Commission has reser
ved decision in a dispute over a log-hauling licence application in the
Revelstoke area.

A ruling is expected by the end of the month, commissioner Gerard
Moore said Friday at the end of two days of hearings.

At issue is an application by Receiver Transport of Salmon Arm for
certification of 17 trucks to haul logs for Westar Timber

“This is not a simple licence application,’ Vancouver lawyer Barry
Dong, representing 140 independent logging truck owner-operators who
oppose the application, told the commission Friday

“The reason for the application is not dictated by need or necessity as
applies under the (Motor Carriers) act but by the desire of Westar."*

The real issue is a long-standing dispute between Westar and in.
dendent logging contractors and truckers over rates, he said.

OTTAWA (CP) The federal
cabinet has yet to agree on a national
abortion policy, and no date has been
set for bringing legislation before the
Commons, an aide to Justice Minister
Doug Lewis said Saturday

“‘Nothing’s been approved,’” said
Myles Kirvan, the minister's chief of
staff. ‘The decision-making process is
still under way."”

He was responding to a report by
Standard Broadcast radio stations in
Toronto and Montreal, saying cabinet
has been considering a bill that would
allow free choice early in pregnancy
but restrict abortion later

The bill reportedly would impose no
restrictions up to 12 weeks. Between 12
and 20 weeks the consent of one doctor

would be required, while after the ap:
proval of two doctors would be needed
the abortion would be allowed only if
the mother’s life were threatened

There have been similar reports in
the past, and there has been
speculation the government might act
as soon as next week, before Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney leaves for a
Commonwealth conference in
Malaysia.

FACE DELAY

But Conservative backbenchers
point out that once cabinet has reached
a decision that matter will also have to
be discussed in the full Tory caucus.
They suggest no bill is likely until late
October or early November

OTTAWA (CP) — Skylink
Airlines’ operating certificate has
been cancelled effective im
mediately, Transport Minister
Benoit Bouchard announced
Friday

The cancellation follows the
suspension of the certificate last
week, which took place after—a
Skylink Metroliner crashed Sept
26 near Terrace, killing all seven
people aboard

A release from Bouchard’s of
fice Said an aydit of the airline has

\Skylink licence

found problems with aircraft
maintenance, unqualified pilots
carrying passengers and
falsification of safety documents
required under the Aeronautics
Act

Rene Mercier, a spokesman for
Bouchard, was unable to provide
specifics on any of these
irregularities.

He said in an interview Friday
night the cancellation comes even
though the minister does not yet
have the final report of the audit

Water

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payments to Chatten for costs she in-
curred over the leak such as legal fees,
phone calls and damage to her
‘basement from water seepage:

Dalton said he is making the claim
for compensation on the basis that the
sign was erected over Chatten’s
easement and is therefore in trespass.
Chatten’s costs were as a result of that
trespassing, he said

However, Dalton stressed he is not
suggesting Petro-Canada is respon-
sible for the leak

Ogston said he has not discussed
with Dalton the payment of anything

Injunction

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hadn't yet seen the document and
couldn't comment on its contents.

The ministry recently obtained an
injunction that gives Highways and its
contractors full access to the road-and
bridge area that the native people
blockaded in mid-August

The band is opposed to the road,
saying it will run through an ancient
village of which the heritage site is only
apart

except the digging and capping of the
line

Chatten was told by the RRID board
her water would be turned off in early
September if she -did-not-dig-up her
line and cap the leak

Chatten said the leak was not her
responsibility because it was caused by
a heavy new Petro-Canada sign erected
over her water line easement by her
neighbor, Johnny’s Grocery owner
Larry Koftinoff.

RRID board chairman Bruce Austin
said at the time that it was up to Chat
ten to dig up the line and prove her
allegations since the RRID is respon

sible only for bringing water to the
corner of &&ch property along the main
water lines

Water lines on private property are
the responsibility of the owner, Austin
said

Previous digging by the RRID had
found Chatten’s pipes to be old, dif
ficult to find and corroded, Austin
said, and they should be replaced

The leak was likely due to the con
dition of the pipes rather than the sign,
he added.

However, Chatten and Dalton said
Ed Sorenson, the contractor who dug
up the line, told them the pipes should

last another 30 to 50 years.

Wanjoff said the pipes the RRID
dug up were probably a set of smaller
pipes that are closer to the surface of
the ground and have deteriorated.

Chaiten says she feels she was badtty
treated by the RRID board and she
would like to see Robson put in better
water system. But she is also tired of
the battle over her water line and wants
to see the matter settled.

“Enough is enough is enough and
now lets progress to something better
suited to meet our community needs,””
she says in a letter to the Castlegar
News.

Evans said that on Oct. 16 three
justices of the B.C. Court of Appeal
will examine the appeal court's
decision to turn down Evans’ request
for leave to appeal the ministry's in
junction.

Evans added that also on Oct. 16 he
will be seeking an injunction against
the general contractor of the road
project, Bill Berg of William Berg
Construction Ltd., to stop work on the
road.

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled in
favor of the band’s statement of claim
against Berg in default because
documents on Berg’s behalf were not
filed in time, Evans’ associate Sandy
Bartlett has said

Berg's lawyer, Donald>-Skogstad,
said last week documents to allow Berg
to file for appearance in the case were
delayed in reaching the Nanaimo court
registry

For that reason, the court will over-
turn the ruling, Skogstad said

Evans said he will be seeking an in-
junction on the'strength of the default
judgment that willstop all work at the
site until damages can be assessed
against Berg, based on the band’s
claim Berg is trespassing.

The claim against Berg is part of the
band’s claim of aboriginal title to part
of the Kootenays, including the area
near Vallican, Berg has said