LETTER TO THE EDITOR SYNOPSIS: A strong ridge of high pressure covers the province of Alberto and eastern B.C. and is Gotlecting Pacific systems around the southern interior. An increase in cloud cover con be exper fed but precipitation should remain along the coast and central interior. The ridge will continue to weaken during the first port of the week so thickening clouds can be expected. DBA to continue downtown promotion special meeting Wednesday The Castlegar Downtown to determine the purpose of Business Association held a the DBA and to discuss ob- ia yeat! come alone > ee Prices effective Sun., Mon.. Tues. & Wed. We reserve the right to limit quantities Prices limited to stock on hand. ae DEWDNEY TOURS Gm. RENO COACH TOURS Prices listed Dbi./Twin — Seniors Discount of $10 on most Reno Tours. SPORTS FANS GETAWAY February 26 — March 1, 1986 Hockey Games in Vancouver vs. Montreal and Philadelphia CALIFORNIA — ARIZONA 16 Day Coach Tour Upcoming in March — Watch for Details DON’T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD! The 1986 World Ex position May 2 to October 13,1986 Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. jectives for 1986. DBA president Jack Par- kin said the members decided the main purpose of the DBA is to do marketing and prom- otion for the downtown busi- ness core. The main objective of the DBA, he said, is to continue looking after the revitaliza- tion of the downtown area. As well, the DBA will con tinue its advertising and promotion during the Christ- mas season and its sponsor- ship of the concerts in the Park during the summer, Parkin said. He added that the DBA will sponosor the Miss Castle- gar pageant if funds are available. In addition, Parkin said the DBA will serve as a catalyst for organizations that have ideas for promoting the area. PUBLIC MEETING A public meeting will be held in the Robson Community Hall, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. regarding the application for a licence to operate a take-out restaurant and neighbourhood pub. Coverage disappoints that the economy of Canada has population. The other 98 per cent of us fight over the remaining 20 per cent. If imp! d over the past three years, for whom has it improved? The West Kootenay is wealthy in both natural and skilled human re- sources, yet we have terribly high unemployment. A grim picture of the plight of the local poor was presented to the commission and ignored by your paper, in spite of an eloquent plea made in one of the submisstons that we stop turning our faces away and look at what is happening to our Unemployment is more than an un- seceptably high number. It is a lot of people who are truly suffering; losing their homes, their families, and their hope while getting by on starvation diets. There are homeless children living in the streets of Castlegar. Why does the media and our elected it is true, as the g states, BASSON SENTENCED continued from front page Basson’s lawyer, Jack Polonicoff, presented the court with 10 letters from local businessmen vouching for Basson’s good character. Polonicoff then proceeded to outline the circumstances leading up to Basson's crimes. Polonicoff told the court that Basson living in rented buy a house thinking it might help their marriage. Polonicoff said they borrowed money from friends to raise the downpay- ment, but that only “dragged them further into debt.” repr listen more closely to proposals that would aggravate rather than help alleviate this situation? Twenty years ago the hada relatively healthy economy, yet we can see in the news what mismanagement has brought them to today. We are sliding ever more quickly in a like dire ction. ‘This was made clear in the presen- tations to the commission on UIC. were made which could help halt this slide. I call on our local papers to present these as clearly to the public as they did the suggestion made by industry that special savings accounts be created where we can put money away for our unemployment as we used to do for our retirement. The story has not ended because the commission has left. Increasing poverty is still here. Lin Helfer Robson It was about this time, he said, that Basson devised a plan to borrow small amounts of money under false names. But that led to further borrowing to service the illicit loans, the lawyer noted. Polonicoff also cited other expenses Basson faced, such as paying for his son's travel to a military school in Quebec and support of his son while there and $6,000 to assist his daughter, who was a Rotary exchange student in Brazil. As well, he noted, there was the mortgage on his house and a credit union loan. At the beginning of 1985, Basson's marriage broke down and by October 1985, “the whole mess had taken its toll” leaving Basson “hpuilliated.” Polonicoff said. “He tendered his resignation (to the bank) and within a week's time met with the manager and disclosed all these illicit dealings.” Polonicoff pointed out that it was Basson's first offense and said Basson fully cooperated in the investiga on. He added that Basson conscientiously followed the terms of his bail, which ineluded remaining in the Castlegar area and refraining from contact with the Bank of Montreal. Polonicoff said Basson has expressed “shame and remorse” for his crimes and has lost the respect of his family and the community. He asked Enderton to impose a sentence of “something less than two years.” Mining option wanted pany supports a wilderness conservancy but said flexibil- ity is needed so mines have the option of exploring for minerals in wilderness con- servancy and park areas. Doug Anderson made the comments this week in Cran- brook in a brief to the sub- such as lead, zine, copper and silver, and -Cominco is looking for a replacement for its Sullivan Mine at Kim berley. The Purcell Conservancy covers 1,368 square . kilom- etres north of Kimberley. Anderson said because mining technology changes and the needs of the industry change, an area can never of the pi government's wilderness ad- visory committee. In wilderness conservan- cies, no forestry or mining is allowed and there is no road access into the area — only trails. Hunting and guiding are allowed in the areas. Anderson pointed out that the Purcell Conservancy has the potential for minerals We're Celebrating! SUPER MON. & TUES. Mon. & Tues. 2-pce. SUITS Men's and Ladies , Jan. 27 & 28 PLAZA CLEANERS 365-5145 Castleaird Plaza tis SUPER 98° DAY pletely be written off as far as mining is concerned. Dave Melenka of Cran brook, representing the Kootenay Lake, Cranbrook and Invermere Forestry Association, said the only threat to forestry is en- croachment of land. Forestry is not a sunset industry in British Columbia, he said, and the “greatest threat we have got is the erosion of the land base.” If forestry continues to lose its land base it will face a very serious problem, he said, and there are good stands of timber in the Pur- cell Conservancy. Melenka said there should be a complete investigation of all resources in the Purcell Conservancy. When it was established in Inquest slated By CasNews Staff Castlegar coroner Paul Og: low will be holding an inquest into the Jan, 18 deaths of two people in Nelson. Ogiow said Friday the in- quest will investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Janet Helen Carlson, 31, of Nelson and 34-year-old Donald Snowball. Nelson city police say Snowball fatally shot Carlson in her Uphill home then shot and killed himself. Oglow said that by virtue of Section 22 of the B.C. Coroner's Act, an inquest is mandatory in cases where murder or manslaughter is suspected as the cause of death. Ogiow, who will be as- sisted by investigating cor- oner Ken Pitt from Vancou- ver, said the inquest will take place in March or April in Nelson. Ban threatens jobs MONTREAL (CP) — Three thousand workers in Quebec will lose their jobs if the United States goes ahead with a recommendation to ban asbestos imports from Canada, says the Quebec dir- ector of the United Steel- workers of America. Clement Godbout made the comment after learning the U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency has proposed a ban that would be enforced gradually over a 10-year period. “If they ban asbestos, it would be terrible for the workers in Quebec,” said Godbout. “There are 3,000 jobs at stake in the asbestos industry and they're all in - Quebec.” put into the establishment of boundaries. The eight-member wilder ness committee was estab- lished last October to study and make recommendations on 16 wilderness areas and eight parkboundaries, includ. ing Kokanee Provincial Park. Bennett ‘good listener’ at education meeting VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett said he was “a pretty good listener” during a two-hour meeting with B.C. School Trustees Association president Eric Buckley and other education officials. “One thing we didn't talk about today was money,” said Bennett, outside his Join the Future ier Broker with iCanado's leading hange. Many areas available of Cials This Tues., Jon. 28 Robson Square office Friday. “We talked about the quality Relations between Victoria and the association have been strained in recent years over the government's restraint } program and its impact on which Education Minister Jack Heinrich also attended, was designed to improve consultation between the provincial government and various education groups, in- cluding the trustees associ- ation and contributors to the government's Let's Talk About Schools Report. “I wanted their thoughts on a number of areas and the process with which we pro- ceed from here,” said Ben- nett. BLOCK, ON 6th, Announcement Attention Residents of South Castlegar BETWEEN THE 1900 BLOCK, THE 3200 Sth, 9th, 10th, 11th AND COLUMBIA AVE. education. A poll included in the Let’s Talk About Schools Report showed that a maj. ority of British Columbians favored increased education spending. Dr. Arthur Kratzmann, a University of Vietoria pro fessor who participated in the Let's Talk About Schools Report, said “we felt we got a pretty good hearing from the premier and the minister of education.” A worldwide slump in de- mand for asbestos has'led to the shutdown of mines and refineries in Quebec's East: ern Townships, where most of the Canadian industry is centred. Several thousand asbestos workers in the region have already lost their jobs over the last decade, especially since the mineral was linked to lung cancer. Godbout admitted that as bestos is a dangerous car cinogen but said Quebec has led the way in measures to ensure that workers canwork safely with it. He said he will fly to Pitts burgh on Friday to meet with international steelworkers president Lynn Williams to plan a joint method of fight ing the ban. “The EPA has asked for a ban before but they couldn't get one,” said Godbout, who Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Darcy Pro- kop pleaded guilty to im paired driving and was sen tenced to a nine-day inter. mittent jail term. Douglas Spender pleaded guilty to theft under $200 and was placed on probation for four months and ordered to perform 24 hours of com munity service work . Allan Dermody pleaded guilty to remaining in a li censed establishment after Briefly _ HAITIANS PROTEST, OTTAWA (CP) — About 75 native Haitians Haitian-Canadians watit the government to either stop foreign aid to the regime of President-for-Life Jean- Claude Duvalier or at least impose stringent conditions on the money. Foreign aid is an important source of income in Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, where an estimated two-thirds of the 5.5 million people earn less than $200 a year. SEARCH ENDS FORT ST. JOHN (CP) — The search for missing pilot Scott Trask has been called off after three weeks, search officials said Saturday. The decision was made after searchers covered the 17,000-square-kilometre search area two times. Trask and his Cessna 185, equipped with both skis and wheels, disappeared Jan. 3 on a 186-kilometre flight to deliver supplies for horses at Fox Pass Lake. The lake is about 340 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John. MAN HACKED TO DEATH JOHANNESBURG (CP) — Mourners at the funeral of a leading anti-apartheid black turned on a man suspected of being one of his killers and hacked him to death Saturday, returning to the church service chanting, “The dog is dead!” In another development, South Africa relaxed its border squeeze on Lesotho where a new, rightist military government began expelling refugees that South Africa argues are anti-apartheid guerrillas. South Afriea says its “bottom line” for good relations with Lesotho is expulsion of alleged guerrillas it says belong to the African National Congress, the main force trying to topple the white-minority government, DELAY POSSIBLE CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) shuttle Chall *s liftoff with hs McAuliffe aboard may be postponed again today by bad weather, NASA said Saturday. The forecast for Cape Canaveral was not good, with an approaching frontal system expected to bring rain showers and thunderstorms to the area this morning. The launch team has a three-hour period starting at 9:36 a.m. EST in which to get the shuttle off the ground. Cc = also were d to be inal at JUST WARMING UP . Chamber of C the chamber’s temporary quarters this week were thawing the ground by burning wood and assorted old tires. The ground must be solt so that gas and sewer lines won't be the site. when work begins on the chamber's new facility on Casttows Photo by Simon Birch FOREIGN STUDENTS continued from front pege though total revenue figures are close to those targeted. If the current trend continues the college could be faced with a deficit of about $100,000 by the time the college's fiscal year ends on March 31. “The situation will be closely moni- tored during January and attempts will be made to reduce this possibility.” Schatz said. He said in an interview he is still two emergency landing sites in North Africa where the shuttle would land in case of trouble a few minutes after liftoff. These transatlantic abort runways are at the international airports at Dakar, Senegal, and Casablanca, Morocco. BAN ORDERED MANILA (AP) — President Ferdinand Marcos will order a new ban against Filipino civilians carrying firearms after a report Saturday said 13 people have been killed and six ded in the presidential fid the college will come close to its budget. If not, then the deficit should be substantially below $100,000. Colleges aren't allowed to run deficits, but if the deficit runs between $50,000 and $80,000, Schatz said the college would probably have to deduct the deficit from the next year’s budget. In other news the board also approved a five per cent tuition fee increase slated for April Todd disagreed with the tuition fee hike saying an increase isn't justified in " maintain the highest level of education that it can with the funding available. Board member Elizabeth Fleet, said she “doesn't have any pleasure in voting for an increase in fees,” told Todd that raising fees are in relation to cutbacks. Under the new fee structure, Uni- versity Transfer students will pay $680 a year, Aviation, Business Adminis- tration, and Computer Information Systems Technology students will pay $790 a year, while students in Elec- tronics, Forestry, first and second-year Nursing and Wildland Recreation will pay $840 a month. Students in vocational programs will pay $75 a month, Adult Basic Edu- cation and Transitional Training stu- dents will pay $50 a month. The subject of weekend library hours also came up again. Todd called on the board to either re-open the library on Sunday after noons or make materials available to light of all the y bi election campaign. A presidential palace news release reported Marcos, who is being challenged by Corazon Aquino in the Feb. 7 special election, as saying he wants voting to be peaceful. It said Marcos will announce the ban today at a caucus of his New Society Movement. ‘The release did not mention the joint military and police report on pre-election violence. It said only that Marcos has noted many civilians carry guns despite a law barring people from carrying firearms outside their homes during elections. TANKER SALVAGED ROTTERDAM (REUTER) — A supertanker which drifted ablaze in the North Sea after colliding with a trawler was safely under tow toward Rotterdam y, a salvage pal said. The ship's cargo of 550,000 barrels of light crude oil was no longer spilling into the sea and a fire aboard the vessel had burned itself out, the spokesman for Smit International said. A firefighting vessel equipped with foam sprays was standing by. Salvage workers aboard two tugs managed to get tow lines aboard the 76,142-ton Orleans during the night despite high winds and 7.6-metre waves, the spokesman said. d have faced. Colbert told Todd that tuition fees are being kept as low as possible. He explained that if funding is not coming from one source it has to come from another source. He said the board is trying to on The library has been closed Sundays due to government cutbacks. The college re-opened the library four weeks before final exams last semester to monitor demand. An average of 40 students attended each Sunday. Figures showed University Transfer students were most represented among the library users, while Nursing students were second. “If the board can’t find a way to keep the library open for nursing students there should be some way they can get hold of material on weekends,” said Todd, an Allied Health student. “I don't see any justification for cutting back on library hours in light of the number of people using it.” Richard Hallett, dean of program services, said although the library is having budget difficulties, it is the col- lege's intention to open the library on Sundays prior to final exams. Hallett also noted that the library has overnight loans on reserve mater. ial Todd replied that there are some nursing materials students are forbid- den to take home. “It's something we can look at,” Hal- lett added. “Access to books should be possible.” College bursar Dale Schatz said that to make a response now would put severe strains on the budget “Partial opening may be the way to handle it for now,” he said. He said consideration will have to be given for next year. PWA to seek injunction By The Canadian Press Ff i af fi r McTeer favors free choice TORONTO (CP) — Mau- Pacifie Western Airlines says it plans to go back to court for another injunction to limit picketing following what it calls a violent inci dent Friday in Vancouver A flight crew that had re placed striking workers was “kicked, pushed and shoved” by about 200 pickets, many wearing masks, airline spokesman Jack Lawless said Friday. The incident occurred at about 12:30 a.m. at the Van couver Internationa! Airport, he said. a confrontation took place, but said fewer than 150 pic kets were involved. Several people were arrested, said Staff Sgt. D.G. Rowett. Lawless said the Calgary based airline had been pre pared to remain silent about violence by strikers, but with the “i ing incid and agents, flight attendants and machinists have been on strike since Nov. 20 in a con- tract dispute. Meanwhile, in Winnipeg. a city security firm and a man charged with placing illegal wiretaps will be investigated by the provincial Law "En- intensity of assaults on tem- porary employees, as well as certain threats made again- st the lives of management and their families, we felt it was time to respond to the ded claims of Services branch, a government spokesman said this week. The decision to launch the investigation came after charges were against David Robert MacKenzie, 28, harassment.” About 1,800 employees, of and Security Ltd., said Des DePoureq, director of the Wiretapping equipment was found in the same hotel being used as local head. quarters for the striking PWA workers and police haven't ruled out a con nection between the two. PWA, which had hired Seaforth to protect its em ployees and equipment dur- ing the two-month-old strike. immediately fired the firm after the charges were laid and hired two others. A spokesman for the air line said PWA gave no in structions to Seaforth to use bugging devices and, in any event, it wanted no further Voyager makes new discoveries PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — Voyager 2, sweeping to within 82,000 kilometres of Uranus, has discovered a 10th ring, a 15th moon and a north pole that angles downward, scientists said Saturday. “What we've seen thus far has been spectacular,” said Ellis Miner, deputy project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “What has remained unseen to this point is going to turn out even better.” The newly discovered ring, designated 1986U1R, is located between the epsilon and delta rings, which had been Uranus’s two outermost rings, said Brad Smith, Voyager imaging team leader at the laboratory, which operates the unmanned space exploration program for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ‘The new moon, designated 1986U39, is the 10th moon discovered by Voyager. Five others were discovered previously from Earth. The latest moon measures about 50 kilometres in diameter and orbits the planet every 10 hours, 23 minutes at a distance of 50,000 kilometres. It is inside seven of the moons Voyager discovered and outside the two “shepherd moons” the probe found herding the epsilon ring into its narrow shape, Smith said. It was seen more than a week ago, but scientists at first confused it with one of the shepherd moons, he added. PLANET TIPPED Scientist Norman Ness said study of Uranus’s magnetic field showed its magnetic north pole points toward and below the sun. Uranus is tipped on its side, and scientists previously thought the pole facing the sun was the south pole. Richmond police confirmed including ticket and cargo branch. association with the firm. being asked to leave and was Coach tours to Expo "86. Your choice of 3 days, 4 days, 5 days or 6 days. Alll tours include accom- modation at Sheraton Hotels with meal coupon; Expo poss; courteous and reliable driver, ex perienced escort. CUSTOM GROUP PACKAGES AVAILABLE Procdem. 10s BLUSHER & EYE SHADOW $1% No Coty mint Travel. Rag. 62.49 There will This power customers. ¢ Ccarl’s Drugs 365-7269 be a power Tuesday, January 28, 1986, b 2 p.m. lasting approximately 2 hours. upgrading of facilities in the area. West Kootenay Power apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause their on- outage on inning at outage is due to the fined $100. * 28 6 Halvard Knutson pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol count over .08 and was fined $400 on RENT-A-BOBCAT | (With Operator) ogee MALL CONSIDERED MONTREAL (CP) — The owners of a $900-million Edmonton shopping mall, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest shopping mall and indoor amusement centre, say they are considering Montreal as the site of an even bigger complex. Montreal “is on the short list,” the Montreal Gazette quoted an unnamed spokesman for Nadere Ghermezian and his brothers Eskander, Raphael and Bahman in a dispatch from Edmonton published Edmonton Mall boasts a 10-metre-deep indoor lake, a 25-metre-long Spanish galleon, four 24-passenger submarines, a live dolphin show. a 12-storey high roller coaster and a hockey rink where the Edmonton Oilers occasionally practice. COMINCO SHUTDOWN continued trom front pege Cominco president Bill Wilson has said the smelter modernization is contingent on a reduction of the water rental fee charged by the provincial government. The fees are levied on the electricity Cominco generates from its dams for its own industrial use in the Kootenays. down from a profit of $24.2 million in 1984. ‘The 1985 loss includes an after-tax provision of $36 million for the write- down of Cominco’s investment in Pine Point Mines and Vestgron Mines, and an extraordinary gain of $9.4 million on the sale of part of the Cominco holding in Pine Point Mines. After provision for dividends on pre ferred shares but without counting the writedowns and extraordinary gain, the per-share loss for 1985 was $1.30, compared with earnings of nine cents a common share in 1964. The writedown amounted to 56 cents a share, the extraordinary gain to 15 cents a share. Cominco, 58-per-cent owned by Can adian Pacific Enterprises, saw its revenue decline to $1.46 billion last year, from $1.59 billion in 1964 There was a $20.3-million operating loss in the mining and integrated metals operations, blamed on lower profit margins on zinc, lead, silver and gold, partly offset by firmer copper prices The chemicals and fertilizers division had an operating profit of $26.4 million, down from $66.5 million in 1964, while the potash division lost $13.1 million on operations, down from a $14.3-million profit in 1984 As scientists studied incoming pictures of the rings as well as craters, faults and valleys on some of Uranus’s iey moons, astronomer Richard Terrile said researchers were surprised by the relative “paucity of dust” in the rings. Ring dust was found when Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 explored Jupiter and Saturn between 1979 and 1961, he said. Terrile said Uranus’s rings have 100,000 times less mass than Saturn's rings. “Right now we're a little bit puzzled,” he said. “We're all tired, exhausted, excited and delighted — and a bit puzzled Uranus has done it to us again.” Scientists are not sure what the rings are made of. But they expect to learn more from Voyager, which now is heading on a 3n-year trip to Neptune. as they evaluate the data it collected Friday Because Uranus was between Voyager and Earth for 82 minutes, blocking radio contact, and because the probe gathered so much information, most of the scientific bounty was stored on an onboard tape recorder