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Resident Partner Board reserves the right to reject ‘ony oF all tenders mie must be clearly “SCHOOL BUS TENDER”, ‘School, Soren No.9, Box 3220, B.C. 2/67 Family holds reunion Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Met- calf of Robson hosted a reunion of the Wilber Sever Metcalf branch of the Metcalf clan, in the Robson Commun- ity Hall on Aug. 5. Family members, number- ing 64 in all, came from as far away as Phoenix, Arizona to attend the event. Longtime friends Bert and Anna Kit- chen were also on hand to assist with festive occasion. An afternoon of feasting ‘EMERGENCY APPLICANCE REPAIR SERVICE & APPLIANCES SOLD ° MAYTAG © SPEED QUEEN © © GIBSON © GENERAL ELECTRIC © KITCHEN AID e@ JENN-AIRE 365-3388 CASTLEGAR PLUMBING & HEATING 1008 Columbia Ave. and by talented family artists, |. was followed by an evening of sing-song and a marsh- mallow roast at Syringa Creek Park. IRECTORY) Attend Church Sunday 1400 Block, Columbia Ave. Sunday Services: 8 a.m, and 10a.m, Sunday School: 10a.m. Robson Community Church, and 4t! Sunday of month: 10a.m. Rectory: Ph. 365-2271 Rev. Desmond Carroll 7471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Dirk Zinner: OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks south of Community Complex Summer Services: 10a.m. Except July 26th and August 23rd when we worship at the Robson Community Church, 10 a.m. 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m, orcing, Worship Pastor ive. ‘Johnson Phone 365-6762 713 - 4th Street Worship Service 9 a.m. ‘Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Rev. Lowell Kindschy "Ph, 365-3664 or 365-3662 Listen to the Lutheran Hour Sunday, 11:30 a.m. . on Radio CKQR MEETS SUNDAY \Oa.m. Pht 365-7973 352-5105 below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 Service for ps — 10:30 Sunday School « and Worship combined. 7 p.m. Fellowship Service Rev. Ed. 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VOW ERS Fe Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” WEATHERCAST The forecast calle for sunshine ihe weekend in the form of thun- howers. dersl VOL. 34, NO. 68 35 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1981 ar 3 Sections (A, B & C) PICKETS recently went upon the | 2800 * block of 9th Avenue when Sharon ° Willson felt her parents weren't her.a high enough allowance. Sharon ‘hed anc with her 5 and now receives a penny, more fi she used ‘to, bringing.the tatal up to $2:01 ». iving F PPWC picketing s VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. forest industry, slowly reviving production after a six-week strike, was hit today by platoons of pickets dispatched by the defiant Pulp, Paper and Woodwork- ers of Canada. Members. of the union's aggressive Harmac_ locan shut down MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.'s Chemainus sawmill on Vancouver Island early today plus company lumber, cor- rugated cardboard and bag plants in New Westminster. Unions cleared in court REVELSTOKE. (CP) — Chief Justice Allan Meetch ern Tradesmen also angry Union vice-president Ross McDonald said Tuesday that his union has drawn up a hit list of Mating targeted for — & we get back our right to negotiate local items,” ‘Mc- Donald said. The 48,000-member IWA strategy ‘certain to idle thou- sands of members of the In- ternational Woodworkers of America and the Canadian Paperworkers Union. “We'll go after everything that MacBlo, BCFP and Western Forest to work Monday, followed by the 7,000- locals be allowed to nogotiate local issues. WANT INJUNCTION Also hit by pulp pickets are three Doman Industries near L on ber CPU Tuesday, but the smaller pulp union has re- mained off the job at its nine mills and has vowed to dis- Vancouver Isiand. Doman Industries asked’ the, B.C. Labor Relations Board: fora restraining order against the rupt the rest of the. ind The PUlp and Paper In. and d to 're- ceive a decision today. own that has to do with the forest industry and then we'll expand later from there until Two apartment buildings |Rezoning over one hurdle A proposal to built a pair of apartment buildings on Woodland Dr.’ has received tentative approval from the Castlegar city council. ° The rezoning application needed for the two 48-unit court ., charges pares against -two unions. repre- ; senting CP Rail workers in- volved ina seven-day. work "stoppage. earlier this year. Lawyer Don Rosenbloom, presenting’ Revelstoke’ lo- ‘cals':of the® Brotherhood of our charged the: aalone’ from the, sof said. RCMP report ‘celedaad POLICE CAN BREAK LAWS OTTAWA (CP) .— Soli- citor-General Robert Kaplan - police. New regulations ' urged for police By Gerard McNeil” OTTAWA (CP) — Police in Canede. would no fonger be able to lie, cheat .and steal their way into convicting .sus- pects if recommendations: jn the McDonald report: on the RCMP are carried’ out by Parliament, Mr. Justic David ‘McDonald, in a report made public Tuesday, recommends that judges be empowered to throw out evidence obtained illegally by police. He also proposes that police entrap- McDonald Commission see page AZ Background see page B4 ment - _ - luring a person into J&N Upholstery Studio For all your upholstery needs §14 Front St.. Nelson 352-9419 ig e (s the Place for a Complete Line of Upholstery Services... * FURNITURE & AUTOMOTIVE, UPHOLSTERY & SALES 3465-3055 650 - 23rd $t., Castlegar a crime, then arresting him — be grounds for dismissing a charge. Ee These are radical proposals long fought off by the RCMP. and police in general as “techn icalities’” ‘that would allow criminals to go free. McDonald says the result has been a ‘‘significant gen eral attitude’? among Moun ties that because judges don’t criticize un-ethical or illegal means of gaining evidence 4 through unauthorized wire- taps or searches without judi- cial warrant, for example — they are con doning such methods. He refers to a number of court decisions that senior Mounties viewed as support for their position that what they were doing was legal. FOCUS ON SECURITY The focus of the report’ 's 285 is on ‘the fight against espionage, * mail, obtain confidential. per- every two weeks. government quickly adopted the key proposal — creation of a civilian agency replacing the RCMP sccurity service to give. more’ sophistication to of laws “despite a warning from the McDonald commis- sion that this is asking for trouble. Mr. Justice David C. Me- said today he will still author- terriorism and subversion. Solicitor-General - Reobert Kaplan, releasing the McDonald report, announced Donald, in his report, said that justice department offi- cabinet ministers cannot au- cial Fred Gibson, 46, has been - thorize RCMP to break laws;: To do so would “violate fun- damental constitutional prin- ciple.” McDonald . recommended that necessary police behav- ior such as speeding be made legal. appointed to creat and run the new agency. The report also strongly. ‘condemns top RCMP officials - in the 1970s for not ‘doing anything about - widespread Mountie Law-breaking. The one-million-word re- But Kaplan. tela a news port. by . Mr. Justice conference he and the justice McDonald, an Alberta Court department don't.agree with of Queen’s Bench judgé, would give the new agency, — police is illegal. In fac,t he and’ in some cases police in had already instructed the general, legal power to open - RCMP to engage in ‘high- speed chases. sonal “information from in- come tax and other such files, ~ and prowl through the homes of suspected spies, terrorists or subversives. But he proposed elaborate systems for that that ‘such powers aren’t abused. Important recommenda- Kaplan said “I think there's a lot to be said for the present system where the police have to believe that it's reasonably necessary to take i step in the course of law enforcement. “Asked where ‘he draws tions affecting all police the line on polie lawbreaking, would allow judges to declare he said he wouldn't condone evidence inadmissible if destruction of property or immoral or illegal means were used to gain it,,such as beating a confession out of a suspect of enticing hime to commit a crime. VANCOUVER (CP) — torney-General Allan Will- SURGERY DONE iams said Tuesday that infor- In recent years, police in mation contained in the Mc- Quebec and Albert have had Donald report on the RCMP doctors perform surgery on has convinced him to reopen suspects to get at evidence — an investigation into RCMP national security. And the full of hashish. wrongdoings in B.C. Continued on A7 Williams said he received ize RCMP to break a number” McDonald that. speeding by. ‘ injury to innocent people by ‘He said police can do things other citizens can't. “It’s a matter of reasonable necessity,” he said, adding ‘that the policeman must ac- count for his actions. ‘When a reporter asked whether the extent to which police can break the law in the ‘line of duty will be spelled out to the public, Kaplan replied: “I recently made public the high-speed chase regulations. The RCMP which has drafted them, brought them to us, we considered them in the sec- retariat. I decided to be pre- pared to accept responsibility Yor them, and there they are. “They authorize the police to speed under circumstanc- es,-even though there's no statute in Canada,. except. perhaps in New Brunswick, that indicates that police are ever allowed to speed.” But he said he doubted, that the rules for lawbreak- ing would ever be categori- cal. “There will always be a margin of judgment where the officer on the beat or the security service officer is going to have to make judg- ment. B.C. to reopen probe 10-year-old information from Ottawa in 1980 concerning an alleged illegal incient in B.C. An investigation at that time found nothing illegal, but Williams said there is new evidence in the McDon- ald report. dis in the 1700 block of Woodland Dr., was con- sidered by the council during a special meeting last week, and a, bylaw to rezone the two read- property passed inn said Ald: Charlie Cohoe, . (AP) — trouble aboard the U.S. space vehicle ‘Voyager 2, perhaps caused by, a collision with particles from Saturn's: rings, inter- rupted the flow of ii PASADENA, CALIF. Mechanical dustrial Bureau and the 5,600-member pulp union are deadlocked over the union's insistence that chairman of the council's planning committee. It has been referred to a public hearing, to be held prior to the council eles forest industry tradesmen voted solidly against a contract offer ac- cepted by the three unions. about to start construction of a 48-unit building on an adja- cent property. tn Cohoe algo said the city's community plan bylaw and rezoning the city’s planned industrial park to an indus- trial’ zone will also be heard during .the hearing. Cohoe said the eases complex was’ proposed by Harwyn Properties, ‘which A pictures”, were taken. “We can't point the cam- eras at the proper targets,” Wood said. “The other instru- ments are working. It’s just the optical i that and. revealing pigeesrs the planet toda; Pat scientists said the mis- sion is still a “high-per- centage success.” Voyager now is racing away from Saturn for a 1986 enenunte with distant Ura- ek platform carrying Voy- ager’s camers apparently got stuck, limiting the cameras’ aim. Project controllers could not fully analyse the prob- lems until they receive cru- cial tape recordings later to- day, a spokesman said. Scientists had, said that passing” through. Saturn's rings posed a danger of col- lision: for Voyager with ring particles. a Whether Noyager did in- with’ ring par- brats has yet to be termined. ‘CRUCIAL PICTURES’ He said scientists hope to learn from the tape Seording made when Voyager 2 w: behind Saturn the extent ‘of the cameras platform prob- lem and also whether it oc- are pointed by the platform.” Although .many of the: critical close-up transmis- sions were received as Voy- ager 2 approached Saturn, “There were some crucial pictures taken during the ring-plane crossing which we - hope is on the tape-record- ing,” Wood said. Until today’s hitch, the project had been proceeding bic think it is the most flaw- - less, perfect encounter I've ever been through, and I've been through 3 lot of them,” said Noreee reject. mana- vis after. the: spaceship daa its closest approach to Saturn Tuesday night. After travelling across al- most 2.6 billion kilometres of space since it left earth Aug. 2, 1977, the ship. arrived within 60 kilometres of the bullseye just 3.1 seconds early, Davis said. As it raced away from Sat- urn today, the one-ton robot explorer began a five-year its permit by- law passed final adoption during the special. meeting. There were only a few minor changes le in the plan after the public meeting in the Gand apd there is a ourtiey to'distant’Uran F ae yorld h never belgie eeen yy 3 close. is The encounter ’ ‘Jeft scient- reads Bob Clayton, president of the Forest Industry Trades ‘Association, says the strong disagreement shown by his group's 2,500 members in- creases the possibility of a new, union, The association represents disgruntled tradesmen in all: three unions. The main complaint of for- estry tradesmen is that their pay scales lag ‘far behind tradesmen ‘in other indus- © tries. lot of room for the council's discretion, he added. Still to come is a redrafting of the city’s’ bylaws. One change apeing: ae is 2, insert. wider multi- family sings, 6 cig the city more contro) and ting it offer a wider eae densities in any area, he said. The.new zones would specify the number of dwelling units, ists over d by a flood of data and pictures.of sights no human had ever'geen from the ‘exotic planet. > “Te” closer .we? look, the more . puzzling are,” said chief sctontist! Edward Stone. ‘Atithe moment of its clos- est approach to Saturn, Voy- ager darted by at 86,000 kilo- gs: metres an hour and) wasn't looking at the rollingiclouds of gold, brown and other soft hues. Its television ‘A’ grcap of a dozen bus SE ee ee eine closed as the ship rolled itself into a new position’ for/more experiments. Just 36 minutes aftet dart- ing past Saturn at 11:24 p.m. EDT, Voyager 2's ra as expected, went silent ‘as. the ship passed behind the planet. while diving ~ through’ ‘the sparse Suter E-ring. The en- counter was not may added Paul Management different,” neil 100 a.m, today,: eben the message aries at the Jet. Propulsion La story tn in Pasadena.;*) “This is exploration at its finest,” Andrew Stofan, act- ing space jaciences chief of the acted. i ly and caused the public'a lot of in- convenience.” ‘The contract offer to the U.S. and Space Administration, said Tuesday. Fifth round of talks Oil ministers meeting MONTREAL (CP) — Fed- eral Energy Minister Marc Lalonde: and his Alberta counterpart Merv Leitch be- gan their fifth round of oil pricing talks today without giving any indication of how close they are to an agree- ment. As he entered the hotel suite where the meeting is being held, Lalonde said offi- b: cials from both sides had met in the last two weeks “and that should be helpful.” Leitch, asked if an agree- ment was imminent, an- swered with 2 curt, “We don't know.” Lalonde said: “There is only so far that we can go... this is a critical meeting.” Both ministers have said that the. next step in the ‘a meeting between Prime Minister Trudeau and Al- berta Premier Peter Lou- gheed. Lalonde referred further questions to a news con- ference to be held at the end of the talks either today or tomorrow. Alberta still plans to go ahead with a third 60,000- -a-d: fi consumption. A hil erage $1.55 an hour in each of two years, ‘Acceptance of the contract offer appeared in doubt ear- lier Tuesday as a 10-member mechanics committee recom- mended ‘all transit workers reject the offer Board William of Quebec and Ontario are rubbing their hands. Since they impose their own gaso- line taxes tied to the federal tax, every time the price goes up they too get a tankful. Central to the latest talks is Ottawa's national energy d last Oc- y oil p cut Sept. 1, part of a series of reductions intended to pro- test the lack of an agreement. The first two cuts prompted Ottawa to raise its taxes on gasoline by a total of 1.6 cents a litre — ostensibly to pay for expensive im- ported oi] needed to fill the gap in domestic production — even though analysts believe Alberta's cutbacks have been Pp ly will be d for by reduced prog! Alberta wants the well- head price of its oil, now $18.75 a barrel, to rise to- ward the world price of about $48 a barrel much faster than the energy program wi allow. ; Ottawa had offered annual. increases of about $2 a barrel for the next two or, three Reid would not comment on. whether the company would resume negotiations, main- taining the two sides had al- ready agreed to a contract before the walkout. NOON DOLLAR MONTREAL (CP) — U.S. Dollar in terms of Canadian funds at noon today was up 7-100 at $1.2134. Pound ster- ling was up 1.34 at $2.2393. In New York, the Canadian dollar was down 1-20. at $0,8241 and pound sterling was up 1.00 at $1.845S.