De, Ab Castlegar News February 25, 1990 As_ Sastie on aemenres a a rremata BUSINESS pens 08 ENR ENE \ HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY TESTS — G ‘al Educational Dev (G.E.D.) Testing Schedule The G.E.D. testing progrém offered by the Examination Branch of the Ministry of Education, is available in the Selkirk Colley region. The G.E.D. tests provide ‘on opportunity tor individuals to earn an official document stating that they have secon G.E.D. Nest school equivalency standing Centre and Nakusp Sessions are from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pp i of Education 21 do registration fee of $13.00. For application forms and further information contact Don Parks, G.E.0. Examiner 365-7292, Local 256, Castlegar Campus or the Selkirk College Centre nearest you. & —-_ CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3J1 365-7292 Iki olle ns for the winter will be held on the following dates Sat., Mar. 17, 1990 at Selkirk College Castlegar Campus and at Selkirk College Grand Forks Centre, Kaslo ed. forms must be received by the Ministry ior to the testing date of your choice. There is Province to conduct -mill meetings REGINA (CP) -_ The Saskatchewan government bowed to series of hurried public meetings into a northern pulp mill. Provincial Environment Minister Grant Hodgins said four town-hall meetings will be held as part of the province’s environmental review of the $330-million mill near Meadow “I would hope that the public uld cope to these meetings, that the cials would provide much in- formation and the public would have any of their questions answered,"’ Hodgins said outside his office. Celgar Pulp Company THANK YOU Celgar Pulp Company wishes to express their appreciation for the questions, suggestions and general input that we have received regarding our~ proposed modernization. We especially thank those in both Castlegar and our surrounding communities that took the citizens Hodgins had said no public meetings were needed and only writ- ten submissions would be accepted. But he admitted Thursday that public concern forced the province to change its mind. The meetings, which begin Feb. 28, and run for less than a week, are only public information sessions — far less than formal public hearings. The Saskatchewan Environmental Society said the government has not set aside enough time. F “If this is worth doing, it’s cer- tainly worth doing well,’’ said society president Bert Weichel. ‘I don’t fully understand the need for a rush. That's going to detract from ‘the Process."’ PROVINCE PARTNER Weichel also said the province can’t conduct an independent review of the project because of its partnership with the Alberta-based Millar Western. The province is putting up roughly half the money for the project. Weichel said an independent panel should conduct the review. John and Dave show nixes debate limit public pressure and announced a * By PHILLIP DAY OTTAWA (CP) — John and Dave show came-to Parliament Hill again Thursday as the NDP successfully outlasted a government motion to limit finance committee consideration of the goods and services tax. Faced with a motion that would have given the com- mittee a deadline of March 13 to hear witnesses on the tax bill, New Democrats John Rodriguez and Dave Barrett responded with a filibuster of poetry, joke-telling and evangelistic speechifying. And the two raconteurs, together with spot relief from the professional New Democrat Ross Harvey, were ready to go all night and make the meeting a campout if they didn’t get their way. “We'd made arrangements for blankets to be brought in, sleeping bags and pillows — we'd already told our staffs to get it all together,” Rodriguez said in an in- terview after the meeting. The finance.committee is considering the bill to in- troduce the new seven per cent tax on Jan. 1, 1991. Tory efforts to push through the legislation have been thrwarted by the delaying tactics of Barrett and Rodriguez. The two are listed as backups for regular NDP com- mittee members, but were called in this time for their special procedural talents. ““We had a mission to »"’ said Rod motion, That forced Barrett and Rodriguez to continue talking. As the two raconteurs rambled on, Tories on the committee read newspapers and talked among them- selves, Rodriguez paused for breath and allowed a vote to be called on his amendment. When the amendment was defeated, he suggested anotffer — one that would have had the committee studying the goods and services tax until March 13, 1991., Things got ugly when the bell signalling MPs to the Commons for a vote began to ring. fe] insisted the be ad- journed — as is the usual practice — so that they could go to the Commons for the vote. But Tory Don Politicians have brush with death By DOUG HAMILTON OTTAWA (CP) — A group of Canadian politicians had a brush with death when the nosewheel on their Ar- med Forces jet collapsed, sending the aircraft skidding down a runway at a military airport at Charleston, S.C. An MP aboard the Boeing 707 said it narrowly missed lines of U.S. air force planes parked on the run- way. “It slid several thousand feet down the runway with no wheels or landing gear on the front of the plane, with sparks and so on peeling off the front,’’ New Democrat MP Jim Fulton said Thursday from Charleston. “‘And becaue it was a military airport . . . there were lines of B-S2s and U.S. nuclear bombers all around the runway,”’ added Fulton in an interview with Broacast News, the boradcast affiliate of The adian Press. * “We were surrounded — by the time the plane refused. STARTS SHOUTING “You're nothing but a dictator, an absolute bloody dictator!’’ Barrett shouted at the chairman. “You should be ashamed of yourself, it’s a bloody disgrace what you're doing. “You're making up the rules as you go along.”’ The committee kept Gn going. After four hours of the NDP filibuster, Liberal Jerry Pickard to the motion that WASTES TIME He and Barrett had been stalling committee meetings over the last few weeks by filibusters and other time- wasting tactics. ~ : But when the Conservatives called the committee to everyone accepted. There would be no deadline for witnesses or for the committee’s report; there would be no travel, but the government would pay for group travel to Ottawa to ap- Pear before the committee; and all three parties instead of consider the time-li g motion, Rodri with an amendment that would have substituted another bill for the one on the tax. He would have had the committee legislation into bank service charges. Using Barrett as his tag-team partner, Rodriguez talked on his amendment as the scheduled noon breakup aproached. But Tory members cut him off by introducing a motion to adjourn debate and then defeating their own studying just Blenk would decide what witnesses would be heard. After a short break to consider the compromise — and apologies from Blenkarn and Rodriguez in the Com- mons for their transgressions in committee — the com- promise amendments were agreed to. “Mission accomplished,” siad Rodriguez. “There's a clear message to (Blenkarn) that Dave Barrett and I and Ross Harvey are hovering like vultures. ‘*We can go back in at any time.”” to a halt — by firetrucks and so on."’ There were no injuries among the 62 people aborad the plane, said John Whiteside, an official with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in Charleston. Armed Forces personnel at National headquarters were tight-lipped about the incident. “It appears the landing gear just collapsed,”’ said Capt. Alain Lefrancois, an information officer. Fulton said 53 passengers and nine crew members were aboard. They included 17 MPs and seven senators on their way to attend a meeting with U.S. congressmen. Only the names of three of the Canadians on board, jn- cluding Fulton, were immediately available. The accident occurred at 4:30 p.m. EST. “WE WERE LUCKY’ The aircraft is based at Trenton, Ont., and flew to Ottawa to pick up the politicians, their wives and aides. Nova Scotia Tory MP Pat Nowlan said he was shaken by the incident. “*We had a hard hit and then we bounced,”’ he said. “*It was something that could have been very serious. It could have been a disaster . . . We’re very lucky.’” Defence Once the plane skidded to a halt, the passengers, in- cluding 75-year-old Senator Henry Hicks of Nova Scotia, were told by the crew to leave by evacuation chutes. **We slid down the chutes and I was the first down,”” Nowlan said with a laugh. ‘‘I've never been on a chute in my life.”” Fulton, a British Columbia MP, and Nowlan paid tribue to the ArmedPorces crew for the safe landing. Fulton called it *‘a miraculous job.’ The runway, which is shared by the U.S. air force and a civilian airport, was closed for about 90 minutes, Whiteside said. Fulton said emergency crews arrived quickly on the scene. “*We were really luck there (to avoid a disaster),”” said U.S. air force Staff Sgt. Alex Smith. He said emergency crews used air bags to life the front end of the aircraft and then towed it off the runway. U.S. and Canadian officials plan a joint investigation of the accident. A Canadian Forces spokesman said some U.S. Politicians were aboard the flight, but Fulton said the passengers were all Canadians. The Boeing 707 is a four-engined U.S. built jet that is more than 25 years old. In its civilian configuration it can carry more than 175 people. A list released by the Senate, which Defence officials could not confirm, gave the names of MPs and senators who were to have made the trip. There were 10 Tory members of the Commons: Pat Nowlan, Barbara Sparrow, Darryl Gray, Clement Couture, Bill Attewell, Harry Chadwick, Stan Darling, Dave Worthy, Robert Porter and Bud Bird; five Liberals: Eugene Bellemare, Ralph Ferguson, Fred Mifflin, Joe Comuzzi, and Muarice Foster; and two New Democrats: Fulton and Len Taylor. - From the Senate were four Liberals: Henry Hicks, Len Marchand, H.A. Olson and John Stewart; and three Tories: Duff Roblin, E.W. Barootes and Roch Bolduc. Lawsuit filed over Westar points to Indians VICTORIA (CP) — Westar Tim- ber’s operating rules have fallen apart because of direct actions by Indians, a Westar spokesman said at an aboriginal rights conference. But company vice-president David Mitchell said he doesn’t blame the In- dians. . It is no longer certain just who con- trols the forests in northwest British Columbia — the provincial gover- nment or the Indians, he told about 300 delegates to the two-day con- ference. Westar holds a major forest licence in the Kispiox region and a smaller tree farm licence north of the Skeena River, employing several hundred workers at two sawmills and two chipper plants in the area. But all the timber the company is licensed to cut by Victoria falls within the traditional territories of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en people, who maintain unsurrendered owner- ship of the region. The Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. are currently engaged in a far-reaching land claims trial in B.C. Supreme Court. In their territories they are also engaged in a kind of non-violent guerrilla war that has featured several roadblocks and logging-road standoffs during the past three year: Mitchell criticized the provincial government for abandoning -the company when he firm’s loggers found themselves stuck behind logging road blockades. Westar, which employs several hundred workers in the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en traditional homelands, recently joined tribual leaders in a regional forestry committee that sets Ca * CASTLEGAR SAVINGS INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD. CASTLEGAR’S ONLY FULL SERVICE INSURANCE OFFICE stlegar Motor Licence Office Anderson Insurance Agencies Ltd. 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But interest rates are poised to fall with easing inflation and an extraor- dinarily wide gulf of five percentage Points between Canadian and American rates, Wilson said. Wilson conceded his entire budget could be derailed if he’s wrong on in- terest rates. “*I think the greatest risk is a com- bination of factors: inflation and in- terest rates, and they're obviously very closely linked.’” Wilson said interest rates will fall when inflation subsides, and he in- dicated that may be only months away. A mistake on interest rates could be painful for Wilson and sixth budget last week include provin- cial finance ministers, who are angry with the federal _government's-move to curb increases in transfer payments — just a one percentage point in- crease above the 11 per cent forecast adds $1.75 billion to the deficit. Higher-than-expected rates would force the government to trim spen- ding further to control the deficit, and Wilson refused to rule out another round of cuts before the next budget. CUT DEEPER Asked whether the federal gover- nment could slash spending like last December's three-year $1.4-billion cut, Wilson said with a smile and a shrug, ‘‘It’s not impossible, it’s not impossible.’” Wilson has been wrong before on projected interest payments. Taxpayers will shell out $41.1 billion in interest payments on the government’s debt in fiscal 1990-91, much more than the $34.1 billion figure Wilson predicted in 1984. Those second-guessing- Wilson's to the pgpvinces for health, ed and welfare. Several, including Ontario Treasurer Robert Nixon, have said Wilson is shifting his deficit problems. on to the provinces’ Backs by’ reducing planned transfer payment increases by $1 billion in 1990-91. Wilson said he wants to meet his Provincial counterparts and believes they will end up supporting his plan. “Bottom line, I think they'll say: ‘Well, you've got to do what you have got to do.’ ”” Although the Tories — criticized for the planned goods and services tax — have sunk to third place in opinion Polls, Wilson believes his government will be rewarded by Canadians for making tough decisions. “There's a lot of things that are controversial here, and it’s not sur- prising that the popularity of the government will be low, wee Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto and New York stock market moved slightly lower Friday after shrugging off another sharp drop in Tokyo. The Toronto Stock Exchange 300 composite “index fell 16.03 points in light trading to 3,652.59 for a loss on the week of 79.09 points. New York’s Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 10.58 to 2,564.19, bringing its loss over the week to 71.4. In Japan, the key Nikkei index fell 935.87 points, or 2.61 per cent, its fif- th-worst drop ever. The decline, to 34,890.97 points, was blamed on computerized selling -and concerns The fall came two days after the Tokyo market’s third-largest decline, which sent stocks plunging in London and New York before the U.S. market recovered for the day. Stocks elsewhere overseas also fell today. In London, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share in- dex slipped 32.5 points, or 1.4 per cent, to close at 2,236.7 in nervous trading. Problems in Tokyo had only a brief dampening effect in North America, said Don Dillistone, an analyst with Richardson Greenshields in Win- tinuing to scare the market - that’s the main factor,’ he said. High long-term rates hurt the stock markets by drawing investors’ money into bonds and other interest-bearing securities, he said. In Toronto, all but two of the 14 groups lost ground Friday. The sole gainers, merchandising and financial services, were up .21 per cent and .17 per cent respectively. Decliners outnumbered advancers 367 to 243 with 364 unchanged on 23.8 million shares traded worth $228,121,205. The students rhe appear in the peers ops or random by the SHSS Grad Council. CHERYL DUCKWORTH Name: Cheryl Duckworth Future plans: Psychology major at some university Interests: Skiing, hanging around Likes: People and shopping Dislikes: Nothing in particular si reading, Interest Dislikes: Astroligical homework Birthdate: Aug. 6, 1972 Favorite music: Top 40 everything and anything possible Words of advice: Be yourself "cause there's only one of you think — g class of 1990. jected a! “MICHAEL KALESNIKOFF Name: Michael Kalesnikoff Future plans: become an aircraft maintenance engineer at BCIT : Sports and learning Likes: Ski racing Stuck-up people and Astrological sign: Libra Birthdate: Oct. 5, 1972 Favorite music: Rock Exotic fantasy: To have enough money to live in Europe and ski everyday for the rest of my life Words of advice: Do things fast because time goes faster than you asbestos OTTAWA (CP) — The asbestos industry went to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight a lawsuit by a retired electrician who says he is dying of lung—cancer_because_of-a—‘‘eon- spiracy of silence”’ in thie industry. George Hunt, of Victoria, says-in his suit that he would have avoided asbestos if any company had warned of the dangers of the fibrous mineral. Hunt never worked directly with asbestos, but was exposed to it while working in a Victoria shipyard from 1940 to 1967. He says he was exposed to fibres sold by six companies. But he names another eight companies or institutes as sharing responsibility for his lung cancer because they did not tell the public about known dangers. Carey Canada Inc. and Flinktkote Mines Ltd., two of the eight com- panies alleged to be part of the con- spiracy, are fighting to have theri names removed from the suit. The Hunt trial is scheduled to begin in Vancouver on Monday. But the case will be limited to assessing damages suffered by Hunt until the Supreme Court rules on the conspiracy issue. At Thursday’s hearing, Jack Giles, a lawyer for Carey Canada, argued the dangers of asbestos weren't known when Hunt began working during the Second World War. 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