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Mainly sunny Sunday for the final
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VOL. 35, NO. 33

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1982

2 Sections (A & B)

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Th
le Fair means many things t to ma

ople butt tor

By CasNews Staff
It's over. Exactly 77 days
er it started, Castlegar's
war has ended — and
Sith it the super savings,

Most area service stations
increased their pump prices
(Thursday morning, and by
noon Friday all had joined in.

The increase marked the
end of a bonanza for local
drivers, who during much of
the war were able to buy
regular gas for just 86.9 cents
a litre, while other West
Kootenay drivers were pay-
ing more than 40 cents a litre,

Local prices jumped to 41.7
cents at most stations — 4.8
cents a litre more or 25 cents
agallon. That means an extra
$5 every fill-up for a car with
8 20-gallon tank.

A survey of some station

} managers showed that most

‘didn't know why the prices

ey

jumped at this particular
time,

“They just did,” explained
Junction Shell's Shirley Woz-
ney. She: noted her station
and Columbia Gulf increased
their prices about the same
time.

She added that she lost
money during the gas war,

Across the street at Plaza
Texaco, manager Irv Ashton
said he didn't lose any money
during the war because the
oil company subsidized his
prices. i

Ashton said that since the
war's beginning Feb. 5, dri-
vers from all over the Koot-
enays had been coming to
Castlegar to buy cheap gas,

However, he said he be-
lieves his prices are about the
same as Trail now, and where
“we were supposed to be.”

He added that the war
lasted so long because no one
made a move to increase

Price increase ends gas war

their prices, “so everybody
just stayed there.”

He said the,reason it went
up is the same reason it went
down — because everyone
just followed everyone else.

Castlegar Turbo manager
Ken Flegel said he didn't
have any part in increasing
the prices at his station. He
said Turbo phoned him and
just told him to raise the
prices. i

“I don't know why they
-decided to put them up,” he
said. He called the move
“sudden” and added, “I guess
there the end of our gas

Flegel added that he didn't
lose any money during the
war because Turbo pays his
station for tho number ‘of
litres it sells.

Turbo territory manager
Dave Carter said in a tele-
phone interview Bom Leth-

WHILE ARMADA. FIGHTS WEATHER

bridge that as far as he knew
the price war is still on.

He admitted Turbo's prices
did increase, but said the in-
crease was only to recover
the federal increase in
March. "

Carter called the Castlegar

market one of the most
competitive,

He couldn't give any rea-
son for the war's demise,
noting “These things happen
in spurts... they come and
they go.” i

There really isn’t any ex-
planation for a-gas war, he:

id.

He said Turbo lost money
during the war. He pointed
out that the B.C, tax alone
accounts for more than six
cents on each litre. He said
the price in Lethbridge for
regular gas is 95.3 cents a
litre — and that’s without the
B.C, tax.

Britain eyes peace plan

From AP-REUTERS
With the British armada

* reported battling killer seas
| and hurricane-force. winds,

aura-Lee Hoggitt

ihe ‘vheel ef ) brand, new ti

yor

Provinélal energy, loess

, and

Gat Maa chairman’ of
the Castlegar Economie De-

minister. Bob McLelland told
a six-member Castlegar del-
egation : Thursday «that he
would ‘examine’a request to
advance the’ startup date for
installing generators in Hugh’
Keenleyside':dam ‘and ‘give
them a response within the
week.

The.d ion met..with.

which read the petition;
Mayor : Audrey:: Moore: and
public works:

good portion ‘of. tle- ist
munity.

Maloney added;the minis-
ter’ appeared aware of the

Igor, Zahnyacz: veprese'
the’city;. Mike O'Connor and
Charlie: Cohoe

nting --

support of Ki proj-
ect:has in:the community.
The huge :petition was the®
first ever in’ Mc

the Chamber of Commerce,
and“Len ‘Embree in a dual
capacity as an alderman and
the United

McLelland for about 45:min-
utes fo | his Victoria office and
prestnted’ him. with a 2,683-
namie petition supporting the
request for an‘ advanced
start-up date. ‘ _,

Brotherhood of Carpenters

‘and oa eee of America Local

eelosiy sald. MeLelland
was “suitably ‘ impressed”

with the cross-section of the _

Lelland's office, “Maloney
said.

McLelland told the dele-
gation he would send a letter
indicating what direction the
ministry would take with the
request after’ talking with
senior staff an lawyers,

The delegation asked Mc-

Israel evacuates last
nationalists from Sinai

By CasNows N lows Services

JERUSALEM AND
CAIRO — . Twenty, diehard
Jewish . nationalists. spent
Saturday, in ‘ Yamit.. syna-
gogue, the last: building. still
standing. in the, bulldozed
northern Sinai town. on the
eve of the area's handover to
Egypt.

Israeli officials said today’s
final, withdrawal from Sinai
was being marked by 4
minimum; of ceremonies,

“This is nota happy day for -

us,” one official said.

“Evacuating. the  settle-
ments. and. destroyin the
town of Yamit was a painful
and traumatic event.”

Today, the last group of
diehards, led by ultra-nation-
alist Rabbi Moshe Levinger,
were being removed and the
Israeli flag lowered’ after
nearly 15 years of Israeli
occupation.

An hour later the Egyptian
flag was beng raised over the
whole of Sinai, even though

the last Sinai dispute be-,
tween Israel and Egypt, over
a small stretch .of coastline
south of the Israeli Red Sea
port of Eilat, remains un-
resolved.
CONTINUES TALES

* The director-general df the
Israeli Foreign Ministry,
David Kimche, is in Cairo to
continue talks with Egyptian
officials and’ U.S. Deputy
State Secretary Walter Stoe-
sell to resolve the dispute.
The Sinai is to be patrolled
by a multinational pacekeep-
ing and observer force was to
begin its duties an hour after
the Israeli departure.

Although the withdrawal
marks the fulfilment of pro-
visions’ in. the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty signed
three years ago, most Israelis
say they are nervous about ,
the future and are suspicious
of Egyptian intentions, re-
‘cont public opinion polls
show.

The mood of gloom in. the

country was. deepened by

television pictures of Israeli

oops, grappling with hun-
‘eds of

Soe ieee with talks

Lelland to use his discretion
as minister to help circum-
vent the public hearing pro-

cess scheduled for the Keen:'

leyside installation.

B.C. Hydro plans to take
the project to the B.C. Util-
ities Commission along with
the Murphy Creek dam proj-

ect and its transmission line:

proposals.
However, Maloney noted
that: by allowing: the ‘Keen-

leyside project to go ahead on

its own, without going to the
utilities commission, prelim-
inary work could start by this
August.

He added that the dele-
gation wants McLelland to

clear the “bureaucrati¢ strue--

ture that. could’ impede«the
project” and push the-start-
up date even further back

agrees,.the project could get
going by early 1983 at low
water when Hydro could
start its coffer dams.
“Maloney said the economic
prospects of the Keenleyside
project are uf and it

te withdrawal from vant
and scenes of bulldozers flat-
tening the once-attractive
seaside town.

Education Minister Zevu-
lun Hammer proposed a
parliamentary bill which,
would prevent any future
government from agreeing to
dismantle Jewish settle-
ments as part of peace “nego-
tiations.

His proposal has the sup-
port of Prime Minister Men-
achem Begin, government

- sources said.

Meabwhile, in an attempt
to avoid irritating the Is-
raelis, .Egypt planned low-
key ‘celebrations today to
‘mark Israel's withdrawal
from the last third of war-
conquered Sinai,

“You know that the Is-

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has no environmental impact.
“All in all we came away

fecling very good,” he said of
the meeting.

goofedé

Yes, we did get things a
little turned around ‘in our
Daylight ‘Saving Time
story on Wednesday's
front page. In fact, the
clocks gained and we lost
last night.

Daylight Saving Time
officially returned to 2 a.m.
and clocks should have
been set ahead one hour.

, tions

Prime Minister ‘Margaret

Thatcher’:summoned an ~

emergency meeting of senior

“ nautie

” Foreign Secretary Francis

Pym, who conferred with
Thatcher for ‘two hours im-
diately after rning to

Hermes ditched in the sea
Friday night. It'said one crew
member was missing but re-
fused to confirm whether the
helicopter. sank. -

The’ task force's two air-
eraft carriers, nearly 8,000

*

“milés’ from home,

the main islands, 750 nautical

miles east, where an esti-

mated 9,000 Argentine

troops are dug in.
Chris

research organization, ended
a four-day conference saying
the United States should give
its full support to Britain if
fail and hostil-

chief pol-
itical correspondent of . Brit-
ain's' Press ition news-
agency who returned “from

have onl about 20 Sea King _.W

“now believes it is virtually

spescte om the mainland,
250 nautical miles from the

London. from: Washington
with the plan, said, “I think
you can say that is is a bit of
Progress.”

* Pym gave no details of the

* new peace plan or whether it
brought Britain and Argen- =

tina closer on the key ques-
tions of sovereignty and
British insistence on a with-
drawal of the Argentine
troops who seized the -Falk-
lands from Britain April 2.
But a wellpiaced British
source in Washington said
the proposals were not sat-
isfactory.

Argentina - reported two
missile-carrying frigates
from the British armada in
the South Atlantic about 50
nautical miles off the Falk;

lands dependency of South -
‘British Defence Ministry in-

Georgia, but Argentine naval
sources in Buenos Aires said
they considered an imminent

The British Defence Min-
istry said a Sea. King heli-
copter from the armada’s

: earrier-flagship HMS

The BBC noted weather
reports of 120-kilometre-an-
hour,’ winds and 10-metre
waves in the seas round the
Falklands, increasing the
hazards of any attack. -

cher might have decided not
to attack ahead of Monday's
meeting of the Organization

of American States, when-

Argentina plans to invoke a

. mutual assistance treaty in

cases of aggression against
member countries.
Argentina’s foreign minis-
ter, Nicanor Costa Mendez,
was flying to Washington
from Buenos Aires, where he
told a BBC interviewer the
chance of war was “half and
half.”
For the third day, the

sisted its armada “has not
landed anywhere.”
, SPECULATION me

The BBC also said That- -

3 for the crisis to be’
resolved without a shot being
fired.”

Moncrieff said Pym, who
met three times with U.S.
State Secretary Alexander
Haig, “has told close friends
... that he thinks the crunch
will come in days rather than
weeks.”

In Washington, the mod-
erate Republican Ripon So-
ciety, and the Bow:Group, a
British “Conservative , party

ities. erupt over the Falk-
lands, .

“ait. these efforts _ prove.’
tary fruleldss,” ‘the “U.S. “govern:
ment has an obligation to

‘make clear that aggression

by mid-level powers is as,
reprehensible as aggression
by great powers,” they said.
in a joint statement.

To demonstrate support.
for Britian, they streased, “it
is vital that the U.S. gov-
ernment follow the lead of
the European Community
and British Commonwelath
in cutting off all Argentine
exports to the United States
until the crisis is resolved.

Government seizes
life savings

WINNIPEG (CP) —
Winnipeg Free. Press says
Revenue Canada has seized
the $116,000 life savings of a
Winnipeg couple because offi-
cials suspect the money be-
longs to the couple's son, who
has been charged with drug-

sisted that - Britain will’ a at
tempt to land marines ‘on
lightly occupied South Ge-
orgia before any attack on

Changes made
to new hotel

By CasNews Staff
There will be changes to
Castlegar’s $5 million Sand-
man Inn hotel project, says
the company's public rela-

director.

Don Colotto said Friday in
a telephone interview from
Vancouver that the two
raquetball and two squash
courts included ‘in the ori-
ginal plans will not be con-
structed because there are

Colotto said those are the
only changes to the project.
Plans will still include a
dining room, coffee shop,
lounge, meeting room, ban-
quet room and self-service
snack bar. As well the whirl-
pool, sauna, and two roof-top
tennis courts are still plan-
ned.

Colotto said the company
has had many inquiries about
holding small business meet-

private
in .developing. recreational
facilities in the area. The

project is located on Colum- *

bia Ave. across from the
Monte Carlo Motor Inn.

Instead, more hotel rooms
will be added, bringing the
total to 139, from 115. This
also increases the number of
executive suites from six to
eight.

ings and at the
inn, and it looks as though
there will be more of these
type of meetings than ex-

He. said the project is
nearly right on schedule —
only about one week behind,
and has 36 employees on the
site, He said he didn’t know if
any more workers would be

hired.

The newspaper said in a
copyright story Saturday
that the couple also have
been told they owe about
$84,000 in back taxes.

Kenneth and Victoria
Hayes said in an interview
that RCMP officers broke
into their home last Nov. 6,
arresting their son Garry, 86,
and seizing various financial
documents held in theire
name.

About a week later they
received a notice from Rev-
enue Canada which said they
owe taxes on $316,000 in un-
reported business income in
1980. At the same time, un-
known to them, their bank
deposits were turned over to
the tax department and two
parcels of land they own in
rural Manitoba were seized
until full payment of taxes is

le.

When Mr. Hayes, 61, ques-
tioned local tax officials, he.
was told that it appeared that
they were holding money for
their son and that large
amounts of money seemed to
be going through their ac-
counts unaccounted for.

Mr. Hayes denied the
charges, saying all their
money consists of live sav-
ings.

The couple's lawyer,
D'Arcy McCaffrey, said a
notice of objection has been
filed with Revenue Canada
which states that the Hayes,
who have never been in busi-
ness, received no business
income in 1980. ° .

It also states that the
income tax department failed
to. provide documented evi-
dence to support the re-
assessment,

“It is unreal that some-
thing like this can happen in
Canada to a couple like this,”
McCaffrey. said. “They are
both being held responsible
in a most unfair, punitive
manner for what happened to
their son.”

Harold ‘Garland, assistant
deputy minister in the De--
parrtment of National Reven-
ue, who ordered the seizure,
said such measures are in-
voked when there is strong
evidence to suggest that a
person who owes Revenue
Canada a large amount of
money plans to sell property
and leave the country.

It is not unusual for RCMP
narcotics officers to hand
over tax information to Rv-
enue Canada, Garland said,
adding that it is also not
uncommon for his depart-
ment to act both in the ab-
sence of charges and prior to
a person being found guilty.

‘MAD AS HELL’

Mr. Hayes said he ap-
proached Winnipeg tax offi-
cials immediately after learn-

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