r] fh I SP Ny Sy I Thank You We would like to thank our patrons for making New Year's the Best Ever in the hi: KOOTENAY CATTLE CO, The staff wishes you all the best for 1997. VANCOUVER (CP) — Af- ter 18 years of living swad- GARLIC RING3Q¢5: CHEDDAR 104 G. Tin .. tv THE Pi PIECE. 00 G. MAKE 1987 THE YEAR YOU IMPROVE YOUR SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS! The Selkirk Toastmasters Club is offering on 8-week SPEECHCRAFT COURSE, which will involve 6 specitic 14 to March 4, 1987. Limit of 5 people. $35 tee includes all course manuals. Registration deadiine: Jan. 6, 1987. Time and place: Wednesday nights, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Jan. 14 - March 4° 1987, Monte Carlo inn Conterence Room, Castlegar. Io register. or tor more intormation, call: Louann McCurdy 364-1593, Bill Strongman 365-3548. 01 CASTLEGAR AQUANAUTS BINGO On Saturday, January 10 at the Castlegar Arena Com. plex. $1,000 Jackpot. £.B. 6 p.m., Regular Bingo 7 p.m. Advance tickets are $10.00 each for 20 regular games and are available at Wool Wagon, Macleods and Central Food Mart. Call 365-3828 to reserve a ticket. Admission at door Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.50 and additional words are 15¢ each. Boldtaced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words There is no extra charge tor a second insertion while the s half-price charge is $3.50 (whether ad is for one. two or three times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sunday's poper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesday's paper Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 |, BALONEY 29° Columbia Ave COMMUNITY dled in Chris Shir- ley, the Maple Ridge youth who travelled to West Ger- many in 1981 for treatment of a rare, crippling skin disease died in Children's: Hospital / Friday. “He gave us tKe fight. I think he wanted td:go,” said his father John. “After all the pain and what he's been through the last 18 years, I think he was ready for it. “We talked about it a year earlier and he said he would rather be dead sometimes. Anyway, he's free now.” Shirley said he and his wife, Susan, who has taken care of Chris throughout the years, “feel good in one way and sad in another. “It's a big loss. It will be a big void, but for Chris it may be a blessing in disguise. He had a hard row to hoe.” Shirley said Chris went to hospital just before Christ- mas after catching a virus CHRIS SHIRLEY . +. loses fight for lite and suffering severe diarrhea and dehydration. The strain on his heart was too much, and he died Friday morning when his heart gave out, Shirley said. Chris suffered from epi- dermolysis bullosa, a group of inherited disorders char- acterized by blistering of the skin. In him, the disease caused blisters to cover every part of his body éxcept his face, resulted in his fingers grow- ing together until his hands were just curled-up stumps and shrunk his tendons, leaving him unable to walk. Lottery numbers The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 8; 11, 16, 20, 27 and 44. The bonus number was 36. THe jackpot pool of $3,986,270.60 had no winner. The second-prize pool, awarded to those matching the bonus number, had 12 winners of $67,504.30. The third-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers, and 289 winners of $2,143.40. The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching ¢ four regular numbers, had 17,272 winners of $68.90. In addition there were 315,221 prizes of $10 awarded to those matching three reg- ular numbers. There was a 332,794 prizes $9,758,015.60. total’ of worth FREE DELIVERY 7 DAYS A WEEK STARTS AT 4:30 y= “QL ABRIEL’S P.M. 365-6028 f the Pizza with the Butter Crust VICTORIA (CP) — You could probably” He & book about the Robert Frisbee murder case, Tn fact, it might be the basle for s, novel for WiMam Deverell, one of Frisbee's defence lawyers and = prize-winning Canadiah author. Frisbee, 59, is charged with the bludgeon slaying of Muriel Barnett, his 80-year-old employer, Her body was found Aug. 19, 1985, in the blood. $2,000-a-day cabin the two shared aboard the cruise ship Royal Viking Star. The Crown alleges that Frisbee, the homosexual lover to Barnett’s late husband, Phillip, a prominent San Francisco lawyer, killed the woman who employed him as a secretary because she planned a change to her will that would cost him $1.75 million U.S. Defence lawyer William Deverell, 49, whose novel Needles, about lawyers and Vancouver's drug trade, won a $50,000 first-book prize, opened the case for the defence by cautioning a British Columbia Supreme Court jury that it wasn't listening to 4 whodunit. We don't have to prove who dunit. That is the duty of the Crown.” The trial, which is adjourned for the Christmas holiday, is scheduled to resume Monday. In earlier proceedings, Deverell told the court that the, Crown must not only prove Frisbee killed Barnett but that he did it with a normal, conscious mind. WRITES IN JAIL “ Frisbee, dapper man, has also been busy with the pen. In his ficti phy A D Parasite, written in a San Francisco jail, he describes Victoria as a “small English paradise” that offers a “charming Victorian salute to the past.” x Prosecutor Dennis Murray called evidence from a shorthand expert that Frisbee wrote “tonight she must die” in the autobiography, a development disputed by the defence. The Crown contends the tranquility of Victoria changed when Frisbee and Barnett were in their cabin preparing to go to the captain's farewell party as the Norwegian liner steamed toward San Francisco after an Alaskan cruise. Frisbee has testified that he laid out his tuxedo and fixed himself several stiff drinks. He then took two capsules of Librium, a mild sedative, before taking a nap. Deverell and Jeff Green, the other defence lawyer, have called psychiatric evidence that Frisbee was in a state of of his conscious mind. “non-insane automatism” the night of the slaying. They say if he did kill Barnett, he acted independently By calling several wealthy witnesses who knew the Barnetts, Murray attempted to show Frisbee would lose the $1.75 million U.S. from Barnett’s will. He also called evidence to show Frisbee, with the widow's power of attorney, wrote a $100,000 U.S. cheque on Mulroney fai OTTAWA (CP) — His- torians, economists and legal scholars give the Mulroney government a failing grade in its handling of the softwood lumber dispute with the United States. They say the government has jeopardized Canada's sovereignty by caving it to American demands and im- posing a 15-per-cent tax on lumber exports. And they say there is no precedent in Canadian his. tory for a deal that gives Washington a voice: in how STARTS ‘CLEARANCE Up to 50% OFF all Ladies Winter Stock All Coats & Jackets All Dresses Including Knit Dresses Suits, Mix & Match Wool Blend Sportswear All Assorted Sweaters & Blouses Selected Jewellery f- Angora Sweaters All Jeans Ladies Thermal Underwear Knit Gloves Hats Scarves NX “95 Flannelette Sheets Flats & Sets Remaining Winter Fabrics L 20% Off BLANKETS Including Electrics 10-30... KNITTING YARNS 1217 3rd St. Castlegar Department Store Canada its lumber industry. Maxwell Cohen, an expert on international law, said Friday that the lumber deal creates a dangerous prece dent that threatens Canadian to allow someone to monitor our own stuff,” said Cohen, a former Canadian chairman of the International Joint Com- mission. ‘RIGHT TO KNOW?" “They maintained the uni- lateralness of something that is going in effect because the Americans have a right to know everything about Can- ada's activity, information or anything else.” Cohen said Canada should have insisted on a joint commission to adminster the agreement and solve dis- putes which are bound to arise. The agreement is ad. versarial in its very nature, he said. Edward English, professor of economics at Carleton University, said it would be independence. “It is a strange procedure foolhardy to allow Washing- ton control over how Canada Coming Soon... See the Castlegar News of Sun., Jan. 18 WILLIAM DEVERELL . defence attorney the woman's account which was cashed the day after her death by Daniel Kazakes, Frisbee's homosexual lover. Frisbee, who has “admitted milking money from Barnett’s bank account, said she authorized the‘ cheque for. Kazakes because she wanted to acknowledge his kindnesses toward her. Frisbee testified to a sordid life as a young man who was exploited by older homosexuals until he made his way into San Francisco high society as a personal secretary to Phillip Barnett. He said he became the couple's devoted secretary— companion, spending much of his time in their luxury home. However, he contended that he wasn't well paid for his work, starting at $50 U.S. a month and rising to about $500 a month after the husband died in 1984. One witness said Frisbee was treated as a slave by the Barnetts. ls on lumber spends the $600 million a year to be collected from the export tax. Senior U.S. government officials have indicated they believe Washington has a say in how Canada manages its lumber industry. For example, under the agreement tax money col: lected from lumber exports cannot be used to aid the lumber industry. University of Toronto economist Ian Drummond said he can't believe the Mul- roney government would. ac- cept American claims that provincial stumpage fees are a direct subsidy to the lum- ber industry. “It may be true that the stumpage fees are, in some sense, too low (but) that’s really nobody's business but the provinces that own the lumber,” Drummond said. Interest to be laid on penalties OTTAWA (CP) — Interest will be compounded daily on unpaid income tax, tax penal ties and late tax payments but that will also apply on money the government owes taxpayers, REvenue Canada has announced. The interest rate remains at nine per cent annually. “Interest will be computed at the beginning of each day on the total amount owed by taxpayers or amounts owing to taxpayers which are eli gible for refund interest,” a news release from the tax department said “The day's total amount, including the interest, will be the basis of the following day's calculation. This daily calculation will continue until the amount owing is paid in full or the overpayment is refunded or applied.” The department said sim ple interest has been the Come in to Madeleine's for our semi-annual CLEARA NCE SALE Madeleines fashions Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-2663 method of calculation on any unpaid taxes but, as of Jan. 1, 1987, “all taxes owing ... late and-or deficient instalments, penalties and interest will be subject to daily compound interest.” For those expecting rée- funds, compound interest will apply after Dec. 31, 1986. The department said peo- ple wanting more details should contact their local tax office. Edmonton youth locked up A 17-year-old young of. fender from Edmonton has been placed in custody in Castlegar this week Castlegar RCMP say the offender will be charged in relation to a local break-in Police are continuing to in vestigate other such local incidents which might be linked to the young man. In other news, RCMP report no major vehicle acci- dents during Friday night's record snowfall and said both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were uneventful. SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING Spree omar sean Sart teem sora marnobte ingurty: bobget 15 Plus Yeors Experience to Help You! OFFICE AID 365-6658 Evangelist's son charged CALGARY (CP) — The son of a Calgary evangelist who was bludgeoned to death has been , arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Wafa Farag, 29, of Calgary, was charged in the death of his father, Wadie Farag. The man was found dead. in the garage of his riorthwest Calgary home New Year's Day. Farag was a travelling evangelist with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Guards want prorection OTTAWA (CP) — Federal prison demanding bite-proof clothing as a protection agaioat prisoners who have AIDS. Jack Hewitt, spokesman for the Public Service Alliarice of Canada, said a grievance has been filec against the Solicitor General's Department for bite-proof attire. It was launched after a Kingston penitentiary prisoner threatened to bite his guards. The prisoner is in isolation. ‘Tutu condemns MELBOURNE (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Saturday called apartheid a ‘Frankenstein’ that must be destroyed. Tutu, the black prelate from Johannesburg who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, said some countries mistakenly believe South Africa's system of racial weparation can be reformed. ‘We don't want apartheid reformed — who wants a Frankenstein reformed — we want apartheid destroyed,” he said. Payment by plastic WASHINGTON (REUTER) — The U.S. govern- ment is considering allowing.income-tax payments by credit card, Internal Revenue Service commissioner Lawrence Gibbs said. If approved, payment by plastic would not be possible for another year at the earliest, Gibbs said. Napalm dropped N'DJAMENA (AP) — Libyan aircraft dropped napalm on the nothern Chad towns of Zouar and Fada on Saturday, the army high command announced. An army communique broadcast by Radio Chad claimed the attacks “were mainly aimed at the civilian population.” It said government forces shot down a Libyan helicopter at Fada. The communique made no report of casualties. Explosion rocks city JOHANNESBURG (REUTER) — An explosion apparently caused by a guerilla mine: rocked prestigious skyscraper in central Johannesburg on Saturday, seriously injuring a black woman, police said. The blast came three weeks after the government tightened its emergency rule to counter an alleged terror campaign by black nationalist guerrillas. Police and witnesses-said the mine was planted outside Sanlam Centre, a 31-storey luxury office building which houses one of South Africa's biggest life insurance companies. Aquino accused MANILA (AP) — Former defence minister Juan Ponce Enrile called President Corazon Aquino’s government a dictatorship on Saturday and urged voters to reject a draft constitution. Enrile, 62, is the most prominent Filipino to come out against ratification. Aquino launched a campaign for approval of the charter in a plebiscite scheduled for Feb. 2. Striking workers PARIS (REUTER) — Police removed striking train workers’ pickets from train lines Saturday, as authorities scheduled extra buses and planes to take thousands of winter holidaymakers home this weekend. On the 17th day of a national train strike, police cleared the tracks in Chambery, railhead for Alpine ski resorts, as well as Metz in the east and Caen on the Channel coast. Authorities, expecting the most serious transport disruption since the strike began, have laid on some 3,500 buses and more than 300 extra internal flights to get holiday travellers home in time for the school term on Tuesday. Student unrest PEKING (REUTER) — Officials tore down all but one of the illegal posters at Peking University today after 1,000 students there defied authorities with a march to Tiananmen Square to secure the release of classmates. Witnesses said the posters had called for democracy and press freedom. One had urged law students to sue the official media for inaccurate reporting of countrywide campus unrest. Only one poster was left. It praised the official Peking Daily for what it called the first accurate report in the official press during a month of student unrest Production increases ADDIS ABABA (REUTER) — Africa's food production increased by more than three per cent in 1986, outstripping population growth for the first time in 15 years, Adebayo Adedeji, executive secretary of the UN Econoime Commission, said. The growth in agriculture is significant, he said, especially consider- ing the locust threat and severe drought the year before. But he noted a catastrophic drop in world commodity prices has cut Africa's export earnings by 25 per cent BABY GIFTS... Castlegar's New Yeor baby for 1987; Liso Letnick, parents Dale and Robert, and sister Michelle are s! with gifts. From left, Or. Jon Van Vliet presents an infant safety seat on behalf of the B.C. Medical Association; Kathy Corbett and Verona Walker ereeert ts from Cai “merchants on it of the Beta Sigma Alpha Phi Chapter; and Muriel Wilson presents gift on behalf of the Ca: ic and District Hospital Auxiliary. Newfoundland may mean television shows a telephone interview. “I thought there was lots of others that would probably be born a minute after midnight. Newfoundland baby first By The Canadian Press Hospital in Pointe Claire, a Montreal suburb. He had been expected New Year's Eve. half-hour later than the rest of the country, but it also gave Joshua Alphaeus Nathaniel Ridedut-a tread start in taking the honors as Canada’s first baby of 1987. Baby Rideout arrived 10 minutes after midnight Thursday in Twillingate, 400 kilometres northwest of St. John's on Newfoundland’s northeast coast, and tipped the scales at eight pounds, eight ounces. But his time of 12:10 a.m., Newfoundland time, doesn’t stand up against the times of other births in other provinces, their time. The baby born closest to midnight was Sarah Marie Ellithorpe who entered the world two seconds into the new year at Edmonton's General Hospital. Technically, though, Ellithorpe was born just under three hours, 20 minutes after Rideout. While delivery nurses across the country kept eyes peeled to clocks as midnight approached, Angela Rideout said having a New Year's baby wasn't on her mind when she and her husband, Frank, arrived at.Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital shortly after 7 p.m. “"T haven't really thought about it because I didn't think it would ever happen to me,” she said Thursday in a “But everyone else was thinking about that. The nurses were watching the clock — ‘12:10,’ they said.” The Rideouts, who have an 11-year-old son, had to drive about a half-hour from Cottlesville, a town of 400 on Notre Dame Bay, to reach the regional hospital. Sarah Marie Ellithorpe actually entered the world a little late for her parents’ liking. “We started in 1986 and finished in 1987,” said a smiling Eric Ellithorpe, 26, at the bedside of Sarah's mother, Linda Schaub. Schaub, 23, said that during labor she wasn't overly concerned about the stroke.of midnight — only that it be over and done with. She was already four days past her delivery date when she went into labor. Sarah, who weighed six pounds, two ounces at birth, is the Edmonton couple's second child. Her four-year-old brother, Shaun, also picked a‘special day to be born = July 1. In Quebec, Tadiie pestions woneieiing twyiegpiel'es 2 ithe first born, in the year in the-province»«.~~-« Marco Mario Amalfi, eight pounds, one ounce, was born at four seconds after midnight at Lakeshore General “I'm excited but relieved,” said Marco's mother, 24-year-old Marie. “It’s a nice way to start this year.” Father Philip, 26, a window assembler who has been unemployed for two months, said he was still on a high. Just four seconds after Marco arrived, at 12:08 a.m., a seven-pound, eight-ounce baby girl was born at Hotel-Dieu hospital in Levis, across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City. A name for the daughter of Claude and Odette Auger of Se-Croix-de-L iere, al of Quebec City, was not available. Frank James Glaese, son of Debbie and Frank, took honors for the first baby born in Ontario — five seconds after midnight at Victoria Hospital in London. He weighed six pounds, nine ounces. In Winnipeg, Cheryl and Michael Gray weleomes daughter Patricia Kristen seven minutes into the new year. She weighed eight pounds, 15% pounces. And on the West Coast, British Columbia's first baby= was a six-pound, ll-ounce boy. Franklin James Boddenchuck, son of Theresa and Frank, was born in Victoria three minutes past midnight. No commitment Clock ticking on leadership VANCOUVER (CP) — The ning,” said longtime organ- Harcourt, who now repre- “It's very rare, almost made yet on icebreaker NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — A decision on the awarding of the $400-million contract for construction of the Polar 8 icebreaker is “imminent,” Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski said Saturday. But Mazankowski gave no commitment that the lucr- ative contract will go to Ver. satile Pacific Shipyards, which along with the British Columbia government has been actively lobbying for the contract. Mazankowski was at the shipyard to participate in the launching of the $92-million coast guard icebreaker Hen: ry Larsen and there was con siderable speculation he might announce the Polar 8 contract — which shipyards in Eastern Canada are also after. Ottawa when the decision is finally made,” said Mazan- kowski. “It’s something that’s imminent and we hope it’s a decision we can 4n nounce very shortly.” British Columbia NDP lead- ership convention is three months away, but party of- ficials say time is running out for people to challenge the only declared candidate — former Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt. “There's been no serious izer Margaret Birrell, a can- didate in 1984. “And neither labor nor the left wing of the party are talking about presenting can. didates.” She said no one else is declaring because Harcourt, a popular three-term mayor, sents Vancouver Centre for the NDP, declared his can- didacy six weeks ago and party insiders say they have not heard about anyone else preparing to enter the race to succeed Bob Skelly. Skelly announced his res- ignation after the NDP lost amazing, for any party to have only one candidate for a leadership convention,” said Ron Wickstrom, Harcourt's campaign manager. “The positive thing about having no other candidates is that you don't end up with the acrimony that's always left “rumors, ‘about “a woman run- discussion, not even strong beat. is considered too hard to Credit. the Oct. 22 election to, Social after a leadership contest. We can stay united.” Versatile Pacific presiden David Alsop said earlier his sources in Ottawa had told him the cabinet has given the go-ahead for the icebreaker to be built by his company. He said the only stumbling block that remains is to separate the financial affairs of the shipyard from its troubled parent, Versatile Corp. of Vancouver. Alsop said if Versatile gets the contract, modular tech- niques will enable the vessel to be built, at both its North Vancouver and Victoria divi: sions with final assembly and “There's certainly lotewps, Outfitting to be done in Vie enthusiasm here for it andI will try to transmit that en- thusiasm to my colleagues in The work would take 3' years and create 900 jobs Surgeon loses left hand MONTREAL (CP) — A New Brunswick surgeon who had his left hand cut off while repairing an airplane is in satisfactory condition after an 11-hour operation to re: connect the hand. Dr. Bruce Williams, who headed the 10-man team that performed the surgery, said Dr. Zak Effendi, a 55-year old general surgeon, was conscious and in good spirits, but probably will never be able to perform surgery again. “A lot of small bones in the hand were fractured and fragmented and the prog nosis is not that good,” Williams said. Williams, also 55, said the surgery had gone well and the hand was warm and had good color. However, it will take at least 10 days to de- termine whether the opera tion was successful, and sev eral months before sensation returns. “It’s a real possibilty he won't be cutting again and he knows that,” Williams said. LETTER TO THE EDITOR + Lofty goals gone awry I agree with Marcia Braundy (Dec. 14 Castlegar News) that the position of Secretary of State for the Status of Women was created to improve the condition and statu. of all Canadian women. Unfortunat@ly, over the past 13 years of generous federal funding, those lofty goals have gone-awry. I was shocked to discover through the Access to Information Act that many millions of our tax dollars are used annually to further the interests of the gay/lesbian movement, legalized prostitution, and the killing of human beings by abortion, Because those causes are not a part.of my personal philsophy, I had to search for an organ ization whose objectives were more closely aligned with mine, and which would try to obtain a fair share-of the women's program-funding pie to fur ther those objectives. (Please notice that I did not say that funding for the radical-feminist causes should be de nied or curtailed, but only that the millions of dollars now being spent annually to espouse radical feminist causes should be shared with the majority of Canadian women who hold traditional, pro-family views.) Now, if any thinking person were to analyze the problems in today's soci ety. whether child or wife abuse, drug abuse, alienated youth, or an aging population, it will become apparent that the family is the key to these problems and that in order to have a 8 i ada needs a strong positive family life. Then, some years ago, I discovered REAL Women (Realistic, Equal, Ac: tive for Life), an organization com- prising thousands and thousands of Canadian women and growing daily. I was intrigued to learn that like me, this organization believes that social and economic problems of women today must be resolved by taking into consideration their impact on the family and society as a whole. And when I read their motto: “Women's rights, but not at the expense of human rights,” I knew that REAL Women was the organization I had been searching for. While we must admit to being anti-choice when that term applies to the killing. of unborn human beings — because when a woman “chooses” to kill, it is an indisputable fact that she does just that — REAL Women do not deny the important part that women play in society. Neither do we deny the reality of women’s lives. (I'm wonder. ing where Marcia picked up that erroneous quote that REAL Women believe that “women belong in the homes where they can be taken care of, and not out in the real world competing for jobs.” REAL Women has prepared position papers on all issyes that are important to Canadian women. And in a letter dated April 15, 1986, to the Members of Parliament, we made many positive recommendations which we believe will promote equality and advancement of women. Among these were recom mendations regarding: options in career choices, increased flexibility in workplace because of family respon- sibility, ailing marriages and financial maintenance programs, battered wives and children, single-parent families, child care, equality and survival bene- fits in pensions, child rearing drop-out provisions extended to 16 years, pension benefits to continue after mar- riage breakdown, financial recognition of caring for elderly parents or other dependent family members in the home, support of home services for elderly and handicapped in the home. I can't understand the constant attacks by radical feminists against another group of women, especially a group as large as REAL Women. I am sorry that Marcia Braundy, for exam- ple, feels so threatened that she is lobbying to have funding denied to other Canadian women simply because we are trying to find new ways to equate and balance the rights and traditional values of women within the home, workplace, or both, for the benefit of ourselves, but also that of society as a whole. If Barbara McDougall is serious about enhancing the status of women, surely she will not fail in her duty to hear all Canadian women and not just the few who have been financially privileged for many years and who apparently want to continue receiving the whole pie. Gwen Cavanaugh Nelson create