December 31, 1986 December 3), 1986 BRIEFLY A very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to everyone! CHICKE 214, 99° Government halts downgrading service By CasNews Staff cannot be imposed arbitrarily and uniformly without A proposal by Canada Post to trim operating costs by recognizing the sensitive needs of the regions,” said Cote. downgrading service to rural customers, “has been brought “It pleases me that the government has responded so to an abrupt halt” by the federal government, says Kootenay quickly to Canada Post's proposal to downgrade rural mail West MP Bob Brisco. delivery,” said Brisco. “It was an unfair and unwarranted plan, and obviously the wrong place to try to cut costs.” Brisco added he is disappointed that the Canada Post is being allowed to increase postal rates. “If Canadians were receiving first class service from the post office, I don't think they would mind having to pay a The plan called for the amalgamation of some rural post |ittle more,” Brisco states in a news release. offices in an attempt to cut costs. “There is going to have to be a significant increase in “A great number of Canadians receive mail through the level of service before I'll be able to swallow this rural post offices,” Brisco told the Castlegar News Tuesday. “The community is built around the post office not Mailing charges on religious publications and weekly infrequently. It's a focal point.” newspapers will not increase, but the rates on other According to a prepared news release, the minister published materials will be subject to a “modest increase.” responsible for Canada Post, Michel Cote, stated there will Further increases in the basic letter rates, effective be no amalgamations of rural post offices “without local Jan. 1 of each year, will be held to not more than the rate of consideration or without giving 90 days’ notice of proposed inflation service changes. “I think we've gained a lot more than we've lost,” said “A simple amalgamation of some rural post offices Brisco. Hansen stronger MARATHON, ONT. (CP) — Wheelchair mara- thoner Rick Hansen looks “pretty strong” after recovering from a stubborn bladder infection, a crew member said Tuesday He hopes to pick up the pace today as his westward tour winds along the hilly terrain north of Lake Superior, said Sam Cumming. Tour managers hope Hansen can cover 85 to 100 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway today, which would take him to Terrace Bay or Schr r. That's comparable to peak daily mileages he managed before the six-day delay in Wawa over Christmas because of the infection UTILITY CAKE CUTTING... Elio FRESH FRYING. B.C. HOME GROWN .. . k: DePaoli and his wife Joan share cake cutting duties at the retirement party held Dec. 24 in his honor. DePaoli worked as an electrician for School District No. 9 tor 22 years. CHICKEN BREASTS] CHICKEN THIGHS) CHICKEN DRUMS fn WINGS 9158 $198 $929 $969 Ottawa made the aro in response to the dations recei yy the Standing C on Government Operations, eae reviewed the post office's new corporate plan. fave. $4.59 /kg FavING. FRYING. $5.69/kg a 72% $4.81 /kg STEAKS 2. ..... CROSS RIB ROASTS $998 STEWING BEEF LESS. $6.57/kg. ...---- BONELESS. . i N S CUT INTO CHOPS OR $ ROASTS. WHOLE OR HALF kg. — DELI DELITES — PEPPERONI REG. WIENERS OR BEEF. SCHEIDERS. . 7 $917 MOZZARELLA. ..,, $298 7 UP OR PEPSI 77 “rs, om 9° (El CLAMATO JUICE = $4.79 wc mh O° FROZEN “PEAS 19 Oren CIGARETTES SUNDAYS CHEEZIES Court approves abortion MEDICINE HAT, ALTA. (CP) — A 16-year-old pregnant Medicine Hat girl is mature enough to decide whether to have an abortion, an Alberta Court of Queen's Bench judge ruled Tuesday Mr. Justice L.D. MacLean quashed an injunction obtained by the girl's Mormon parents last week that prevents her from having an abortion. But he also granted a request by the girl's Mormom parents for a stay of proceedings so their lawyer gould find an appeal court judge to review the ruling. GRADE A KG. $43")... increase.” co. 95° ly. 573 /u. Names in the news By The Canadian Press The Hudson's Bay Co. has removed a holiday fortune cookie from its stores after a Brampton Ont., man Reactions vary aot —— BOB BRISCO post offices a focal point ES ROAST BEEF Reactor restarted RICHLAND, WASH. (AP) — Operators re started the Hanford nuclear reservation’s N Reactor on Tuesday after replacing a defective monitoring device that shut down the plutonium-producing facility for nearly two days, a spokesman said The reactor was returned to service shortly before noon Tuesday, said Steve Irish, a spokesman for UNC Nuclear Industries, the company that operates the facility for the U.S. Department of Energy. A defective water-flow monitor in one of 1,003 process tubes malfunctioned Sunday night, causing an automatic shutdown at the plant, 300 kilometres south of the British Columbia border. The reactor produces plutonium for nuclear weapons and steam to generate electricity. The reactor will be shut down for at least six months, beginning Jan. 7, while $50 million U.S. in safety modifications are made. Via Rail expects to promote whale-watching tours along OF BEEF the Bay of Fundy as a way to boost passenger travel 100 G. between Halifax and Yarmouth, N.S. BOLOGNA Marketing spokesman Norman Richard said Tuesday BY THE PIECE. OLYMPIC the Bay of Fundy is a better spot to observe whales than the coast of Maine, where 19 vessels take 1.5 million people a Settlement reached wo es WASHINGTON (CP) — Minutes before a deadline, the agreement gives U.S. lumber companies a chance to officials agreed that Canada will put a 15-per-cent tax on its compete more fairly with Canadian producers who have softwood lumber exports to the United States. been selling lumber at “bargain-basement prices” for years. “We've got a deal that's good for Canada and I think But Adam Zimmerman, president of MacMillan Bloedel good for both sides,” said Don Campbell, the chief negotiator Ltd., described the agreement as bizarre and sickening for the Canadian government. “In one step it creates an industrial paraplegic out of the The agreement was reached Tuesday night, just before lumber industry,” Zimmerman said in a telephone interview. a midnight deadline set by the U.S. Commerce Department. Analysts and Canadian industry spokesmen have The department had been expected to impose a penalty on estimated that a tax of 15 per cent will cost Canada’s Canadian softwood lumber exports if no agreement was softwood industry $600 million Cdn. a year. reached EATS UP PROFITS Last year, Canadian softwood lumber exports to the “That's more than the whole profits of the industry,” U.S. were worth $4 billion Cdn. and accounted for 32 per Zimmerman said. cent of the U.S. market. But the premier of British Columbia, which exports Forestry Minister Gerald Merrithew said in Ottawa much of the softwood lumber, said the agreement is some Canadians will lose their jobs because of the “terrific.” agreement. But he said it will keep money in Canada that “I have said all along that we couldn't win, with all the would have gone to the United States if an import duty had politics and with all the protectionism we could not have been imposed. won, so this certainly is the best way,” Premier Bill Vander The deal was reached after 30 hours of almost continual Zalm said. talking and months of disagreement. Merrithrew said the money Ottawa collects will be Merrithew said the government will introduce given to the provinces and he hopes they will use it to legislation to impose the tax when Parliament resumes Jan. improve their forest industries. The product, called New Year Fortunes and marketed by the Montreal-based Nova Mark, contained such phrases fe) iT @) WoO as “Sell your soul to the devil, you will be glad you did” and “Keep drinking and smoking, the government needs you.” “I just felt the item was totally inappropriate for this By The Canadian Press time of year,” Joe Bartello says. “Just imagine if you invited your minister to your home for dinner on New Year's Eve. and he happened to open one of the cookies.” Bartello says his wife bought the cookies at The Bay at the Bramalea City Centre shopping mall and gave it as a The announcement that Canadian and U.S. negoti. stocking stuffer to their 10-year-old daughter for Christmas ators have reached an agreement in the long-simmering They were shocked when the girl opened the first of 20 softwood lumber dispute was greeted in Canada with cookies in the package. adjectives ranging from “terrific” to “sickening.” Among the other phrases contained in the cookies were The 11th-hour deal requires Canada to impose an “Live your life as you want, nobody else cares” and “Tell you immediate export tax of 15 per cent on softwood peers where to go, you may get lucky and they will.” shipments to the United States, worth $4 billion Cdn. last The company investigated Monday and then ordered all year. It is expected to cost Canadian lumbermen about of its stores across Canada to remové the produét $600 million a year. In return, a coalition of U.S. lumber companies is dropping a petition which led to a U.S. Commerce Department preliminary ruling that slapped a 15-per-cent punitive duty on Canadian pine, spruce and fir imports into the country. year tg observe the sea mammals. Would you believe someone who said he had noise-proofed his goldfish? Or who remembered winter weather so cold it froze the watts in a lightbulb? If so, you should meet Clarence Klott of Herman, Mo., named World Champion Liar of 1986 by the Burlington, Vt., Liars Club on Tuesday Klott beat 305 other entrants from around the world with a story about a man who bought some land, was alarmed to find it was dry and asked an elderly neighbor if it ever rained. “The old neighbor replied, ‘Well, you read in the Bible about 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Well, that time we got a quarter of an inch.’ ” The club only picks a first-place winner and there are no prizes. Several others are awarded honorable mentions. One of the honorable mentions was this tale from Roy Chappel of Walmer, South Africa: “My wife can't sleep if there is any noise. In fact, I have to wrap cotten around the fins of our goldfish so they won't 239° SMOKED OYSTERS $719 SEA HAUL. .. SARDINES BRUNSWICK aoe BUTTER $929 keep her awake as they swim around the bowl.” SPAGHETTI SAUCE Reagan sends greetings PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. (AP) — The United States will beam a New Year's message from President Ronald Reagan to the Soviet people, despite Moscow's rejection of a U.S. proposal that the two No. 1 QUALITY 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. HEINZ BAKED BEANS TOMATO S$. Lalonde funeral superpower leaders trade televised addresses. The White House said the radio message would be broadcast from Voice of America headquarters in Washington on New Year's Eve. Because of the time difference between the two countries, the speech would be heard in the Soviet Union on New Year's Day. Whites only beaches JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Signs saying whites only went up on beaches packed with vacationers, and extra police were sent to enforce segregation laws after mixed sunbathing sparked Christmas beach battles that wounded five people. The Port Natal police commissioner, J.C. Van Niekerk, said Tuesday he has ordered an extra police helicopter patrol and temporary police posts north and south of Durban on the Indian Ocean Rain kills 28 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Torrential rain in southeast Brazil has killed at least 28 people and left 10,000 homeless in the last three weeks. Mudslides and lightning caused the deaths. Civil defence officials say 300 houses and 26 bridges collapsed because of the rain and 10,000 people were driven from their homes in Minas Gerais, Rio and Sao Paulo states. Bomb blasts resort MERANO, ITALY (AP) — A pipe bomb exploded early today just outside a ski resort hotel where Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti was staying. police said The blast blew out windows but caused no injuries A Foreign Ministry official said German-speaking separatist groups have occasionally carried out bombings in the region, and said this bomb did not appear aimed at Andreotti Officials meet THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (AP) U.S. and Iranian banking and legal officials held an unexpectedly brief meeting today in their negotiations over the return of nearly $508 million U.S. in Iranian assets frozen in the United States Both sides reported progress in a meeting Monday. However, a meeting planned for Tuesday was cancelled without explanation and the two sides left today’s meeting 30 minutes after it began Chinese protest PEKING (REUTER) Chinese officials said today Taiwan has stirred up student unrest on the mainland, and they warned the protesters away from a planned New Year's demonstration In a statement in today's newspapers, the prosecutor's office said the Taiwan Voice of Free China radio issued instructions to clandestine agents on the mainland on Dec. 17 urging them to select a good opportunity to start their activities. 19. The tax will be retroactive to Jan. 8. WITHDRAWS PETITION A spokesman for a group of U.S. lumber companies said the group will withdraw its petition to have a duty imposed on the lumber imports. And the U.S. has withdrawn a temporary 15-per-cent import duty on the lumber it imposed in October. At issue was the fees that provincial governments charge lumber companies for trees cut on government land. U.S. lumber companies said the stumpage fees were so low they were an unfair subsidy David Lange, a spokesman for the lumber coalition, said The export tax will apply to all kinds of softwood lumber, like spruce, pine, fir, hemlock and cedar. Twenty companies were excluded from the C. Department duty in October on the grounds they don't benefit from any subsidy. Lange said they will keep their exemption under the new deal. The U.S. industry has blamed Canadian imports for driving down U.S. prices, forcing plant closures and putting thousands of sawmill workers out of jobs. The U.S. industry originally wanted a penalty duty of as much as 36 per cent on the imports, most of which come from British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario. Four die in bus crash SWIFT CURRENT, SASK. (CP) — Two grief-stricken fathers tearfuly tried to make sense of their sons’ deaths Tuesday following a bus accident in which four young members of a junior hockey club lost their lives The bus, carrying players and personnel of the Swift Current Broncos, slid off a treacherous Trans-Canada Highway and into a ditch, four kilometres east of this southern Saskatchewan city of about 15,000. The team was en route to a Western Hockey League game against the Pats in Regina. Brent Ruff, 16, of Warburg, Alta., Trent Kresse, 20, of Kindersley, Sask., Scott Kruger, 19, of Swift Current, and Chris Mantyka, 19, of Saskatoon, were killed when they were thrown out of the back of the bus. Coroner d’Arcy Morrice said it is almost certain the deaths were instantaneous and caused from multiple injuries. stocks most calculates in the dividens Forest gain TORONTO (CP) — Forest company stocks have gained more in value than any other industry group on the Toron to Stock Exchange this year, coming only a hair's breadth away from matching their 1978 record increase Prices for shares of forest producers included in the TSE’s paper and forest index were 56 per cent higher at Tuesday's close than on Dec 31, 1985. This is the closest the group has come to the 56.74-per-cent increase re corded in 1978, the index's all-time high and its biggest gain since 1956 The group's total return index closed Tuesday at 5,790.96, up 60 per cent from a year ago. While the first index measures the performance of the 10 companies in the group, the total return index paid on these stocks The paper and forest group consists of Abititi-Price Inc., British Columbia Forest Products Ltd., Canfor Corp., Cascades Inc., Consolidated. Bathurst Inc., Domtar Inc., Donohue Inc., Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd., Mac Millan Bloedel Ltd. and Scott Paper Ltd Spurred on by better prof. its from rising commodity prices — notably pulp, news print and containerboard this group shows the largest growth of any of the 14 TSE subgroups Among the individual stocks that posted the big gest gains this year are Abit ibi, up 70 per cent to $27.50: MacMillan, up 64 per cent to $41, Consolidated- Bathurst class A, up 67.5 per cent to $30.50, and Great Lakes For est, up 60 per cent to $31.50. Morrice has called an inquest and said the deaths mighi have been avoided if the bus had been equipped with seatbelts. Nineteen people received mostly cuts and bruises. But three — players Bob Wilkie, 17, of Calgary, and Kirk Lackten of Kamsack, Sask., and backup trainer Doug Leavins of Swift Current — were injured seriously enough to have to stay in Swift Current Union Hospital. They were listed in satisfactory condition Tuesday night. The hospital, strained in trying to cope with examining the accident’s survivors, released no further details. FATHER CRIES Leeson Ruff cried openly as he explained his son wanted to follow in the footsteps of his three older brothers who play professional hockey. The best-known of the three, Lindy, is a defenceman and captain of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres. “Brent wanted to make the big time, just like his brothers,” Ruff said. “I don’t know why he had to go out on the road like that.” The winger was in his first season with the Broncos. A shocked Walt Kruger described his son Scott as “a hell of a guy (who was) loved by everybody. He loved playing hockey and he was a good ball player.” Scott's brother, Trevor, is a goaltender for the Broncos, but escaped the bus accident unharmed The tearful senior Kruger, at times incoherent with grief, said he learned of the accident when called by the hospital. He added the family is taking it exceptionally hard “I'm not doing bad so far,” he said. “I'm hanging on, but his mother is not too good. His uncle works as the assistant coach and he is having a rough time.” For most parents, the news was good Bill and Evelyn Polgiase sighed in relief when their 17-year-old son called them from the hospital “Clark received only a few minor scrapes in the accident,” Mr. Polgiase said in an interview from his home in the Edmonton bedroom community of Sherwood Park. “He was sitting at the back of the bus too, but he said he was able to hold onto the racks to keep from being thrown out There were 28 people, including bus driver Dave Archibald, aboard the converted school bus painted in the team's green and white colors. The players, ranging in age from 17 to 21, and team officials were from throughout Western Canada Temperatures were hovering near zero and wind gusts of up to 56 kilometres an hour were whipping freshly fallen snow when the accident occurred “All lremember is glass breaking and then a sign broke the front windshield — seconds later there was a tremendous bang.” described John Foster. Premier Bill Vander Zalm of British Columbia, which exports much of timber, called the agreement “terrific” and “good news for B.C.” But Dan Zimmerman, president of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., one of Canada’s largest lumber companies, called it “bizarre” and “sickening.” “In one step it creates an industrial paraplegic out of the lumber industry,” Zimmerman, also chairman of the Canadian Forest Industries Council, said in an interview. Zimmerman, other industry officials and the Ontario government had called the U.S. Commerce Department ruling politically motivated and asked that Ottawa take it to an international court, claiming Canada had an excellent chance of winning the case. ‘FEES TOO LOW The U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports had asked for a tariff of up to 36 per cent on Canadian lumber, alleging low timber-cutting fees on Crown property in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec consti. tuted an unfair subsidy The $600-million yearly cost of the export tax to lumber companies “is more than the total profit earned by Canadian lumber producers in 1986, a year which saw some companies report their first profits in over five years,” Mike Apsey, co-ordinator of international trade for the forest industries council, said in a statement from Washington. Charles Widman, a Vancouver-based forest industry consultant, said the deal will put pressure on the lumber industry and result in mill closures. Forestry Minister Gerald Merrithrew agree in Onttawa that the deal will cost jobs in Canada. But he said it protects the rights of the provinces to manage their own resources, will keep the tax revenue in Canada and will avoid setting any precedents which could damage Canada's trade interests. “The consumer in the U.S. will end up paying,” said Vander Zalm. “The forest companies, I'm sure, will survive and continue to log and life will go on and we'll continue to log and mill and do all of the wonderful things that create employment. last Friday Robert Leigh Lalonde of Castlegar passed away Dec 22 at the age of 20 Mr. Lalonde was born Aug 29, 1966 at Castlegar where he grew up and attended school graduating from Stan ley Humphries secondary school in 1984. He was cur rently attending Douglas Col lege in Vancouver He was active in basketball and rugby and enjoyed water skiing and hunting. After his graduation from Stanley Humphries he worked at Celgar Pulp mill and then did relief work during his school holidays. Funeral service was held Friday and Saturday at St Calgar) At hie, Mai LiMinrowah Rita's Catholic Chureh with Rev. Fr. Herman Engberink officiating. Cremation fol lowed Mr. Lalonde is survived by his parents Lucien and Lynne Lalonde of Castlegar; sister Michele of Castlegar; grand parents Joe and Rita Lalonde of Sparwood, and Oliver and Agnes Salvador of Sidney; many aunts, uncles and cou sins. Friends wishing to do so may make contributions to the Rick Hansen, Man In Motion Fund Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel 5 Fun Tele) ne OO les CFL FOOTBALL For a romantic getaway ora family treat John Stewart of Castlegar, passed away suddenly Dec 22 at her home Saturday at St. Rita's Catho Park Memorial Cemetery frey of Calgary; one grand child: one Murlak of Courtenay; sisters. the Mary Jones of Calgary, Lor Chapel Fruitvale youth faces adult court VANCOUVER (CP) — A youth identified so far only as L.A.M. has been ordered raised to adult court to face a charge of second-degree mur der The B.C. Court of Appeal reversed a ruling made Feb 21 by Mr. Justice Kenneth Meredith of the B.C. Su preme Court, who said the trial should be in youth court under the Young Offenders Act. L.A.M. was one month short of his 17th birthday when he was charged in youth court in connection with the death of an 11-year old boy near Fruitvale in the West Kootenay Cale Clarkson had been fishing in a creek near his home on July 12, 1985, when, the Crown alleges, he was stalked, seized and choked to death, then dragged to a shallow grave and covered with rocks. A provincial court judge originally transferred the ac cused to ordinary court prior to the review by Meredith Writing the reasons of the appeal court, Mr. Justice Brian Carrothers said “the reviewing judge focused al most exclusively on what would be in the best interests of L.A.M., rather than on the interests of society.” jus Sf QO oh W Fun in-house! hour from Bantt theatres and restaurant 7 Jowntown and neice te airport Reserve Now Brng this 1 Room Rate We're more than justa place tostay! 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