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Four Wheel Drives = Front Wheel Drives ¥,-Ton Short Boxes = Buick Skylarks ¥-Ton Long Boxes = Pontiac J-2000s %4-Ton Long Box = Pontiac Phoenix’s = Pontiac 6000 LE | FULL TERM FINANCING ON NEW 1981 VEHICLES Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. DL. 5058 Castlegar 365- 2155 Parliament Bldgs. Victorta, B. ae + 502 Ber V8V 1x4 ‘4 ‘e Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” Beginning late S show ilurries, iighe will be 2" with overnight lows VOL. 34, NO. 95 35 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1981 3 Sections (A, B & C) Sandslide death accidental By RON NORMAN Editer A fi ber C. suffocation as a result of a cavein at a sandpit on Drive near her coroner's jury ruled’ Thurs- day that the Sept. 12 death of a 10-year-old Ci girlin home. The jury also made three a sandslide was accidental. The three-man, two-wom- an jury said Marrissa West- hoff, 2912-5th Ave., died of to coroner Paul Oglow: e that the filled in to prevent any. ther incidents. e that properties ‘tise development be left in a safe condition and Properly posted with e that residents bo encour- aged to report to the proper Drive Sandpit be levelled or Council bids Cohoe farewell Castlegar council Tuesday said goodbye to Ald. Charlie Cohoe. Tuesday was the last § council meeting before the Dee. 7 ingugural meeting for newly-elected council mem- Cohoe did not run for re- election because of business and family concerns. Mayor Audrey Moore told. f Cohoe, “You've been a great A presented fellow to work with” and him with his nameplate and pen set. Choe,-who served a single two-year term, advisory planning commis- sion and the recreation com- mission. “I will miss this place,” he noted, adding later, ‘“I like’ thanked 9 CHARLIE COHOE see “outside money” coming into the city during elections, or candidates criticizing city staff. He also pointed out an incident of property damage this city. I have no plans of to a campaign worker's leaving.” However, he criticized’ ‘some ofthe ‘tactics. used: in _ the Nov, municipal elec- ions, saying he' did ‘not ap- “prove of “big city election home. He called the act “political thuggery” which has no ina small community. to think we're beyond that.” Cohoe did:not identify the phe wis” © Coheed he dda ke to to. Christmas greetings assist handicapped Shanti Taylor of Johnson's Landing (near Kaslo) keeps herself occupied atthe Christmas ras Fair at the complex this weekend. - s Ends in hung parliament would have to be held, he declared. WELLINGTON (REU- TER) — New Zealand was plunged into political uncer- tainty Saturday night after a general election resulted in the first hung Parliament in more than 60 years, leaving Prime Minister Robert Mul- doon without an over-all majority. The election result, which gave the balance of power to gain of four from Muldoon’s Conservative National party, which fell to 46 seats. Social Credit retained its two seats in the 92-seat Parliament. There was some uncer- taiuty about how accurate the election result is because several seats are held by tiny majorities which could be overturned in the next few eeks by ‘recounts or special ballots. the ly Social Credit party, climaxed a traumatic year for New Zea- land which two months ago was deeply divided by a tour .by'the South African Spring- _boks rugby team. The opposition Labor party won 44 seats with a net Muldoon, 60, appeared elated by the result despite the erosion of his power and said he is in no way daunted by the protest of a hung Parliament. But Labor party leader Bill Rowling said he is bitterly Send in those letters to Santa - Hey kids, here's your - chance to ensure your letters get right to Santa Claus at the North Pole. Juse write, your letters to: Santa Claus, care of Castle- gar News, Box 3007, Castle- B.C. VIN 8H4, and we'll do the rest. We'll try ‘to publish as many letters as we can in the Castlegar News, space per- mitting. Letters individually written will be given every consideration. As well, this year we'll be drawing 10 letters from those submitted and each of the 10 letter writers will receive two tickets to the Castle Theatre. So, if you want to write a letter to Santa, don’t forget to remind mom and dad that The result appeared to re- flect disillusionment. with Muldoon, under whom there have been five years without economic growth, . inflation has risen to 15'per cent and unemployment hit more than five per cent. Transit But there was also a re- luctance to trust Rowling, 54, who has tried to shake off a weak image. It .was also a clear success for Social Credit, which has been mouled into. a political force almost entirely by the skill and charisma of its leader, Bruce Beetham, 45, who compares the rise of his party with that of the British Social Democrats. |“ system public meeting Residents in and around Castlegar are invited to at- tend a public meeting Tues- day on the Proposed transit system. Representatives from’ the Urban Transit Authority will its second transit study to Castlegar council. The second study will identify specific bus routes and provide detailed cost estimates. Among the first routes to _ be put in service will be a bus your letters must he mailed to the Castlegar News no later’ than Wednesday or brought to the Castlegar News office at'197 Columbia Ave. by noon on Thursday so that they are received well before Christmas. run from Castlegar to Selkirk College. Mayor Audrey Moore pointed out the bus service will be a regional function and financied on the school tax base. That means residential taxpayers will pay just 21- vantageous to start the tran- sit system on a regional basis, Mecre said. The transit system is ex- pected to be in place by next spring. Tuesday's. public meeting starts at 7 p.m. alo Christmas qtr thet send of the Castlegar News and at the same time assist the Kootenay Society. for the These names will be pub- lished in this paper just prior to Christmas and will extend the donors’ season's greet- ings to all their friends and Boxes, in’ which : people may place their names and make a donation to the society, are located in several of the downtown and area stores. % . This method of exchanging local Christmas been practices ‘Yor several peal paiyeeoltap hati popularity each year. from seven witnesses, includ- ing Geraldine and Frank Finney, 8520 Southridge Drive, whose two children were p) g with Westhoff. in the sndpit at the.time of the mishap. Geraldine Finney told 't inquest she was at home when she learned of the acel- dent. i She said Westhoff come to the Finney residence earlier that morning to play. with her two children:je7, seven-year-old Kerry Jo and five-year-old Jeremy... _ . She said the three eae played in the house “for. quite. awhile” before going outside, - About 2 p.m. she said hae son. Jeremy came. into that maybe he was’ teasing, said Finney. Finney said she and her: son ran out of the house the sandpit — about 160, metres away. She was the first adult the scene, though a few place er like » ments later an older later ‘identified as Mr. Mrs. Alfred got out and started .to help. asked her daughter to point out where she had last seen pines were also in the sandpit with a shovel and helping ae Finney said: Mrs. Alpine suggested she Bas the police, but she said she wanted to dig. “I had to get her out.” When the Finney’s oldest son'arrived on the scene she Etsy him to ‘call the Prat the point where she told of finding Westhoff, Finney broke, down, “I saw a yellow shirt...” she said. An unidentified man discovered the body, at which point Finney: went to tell Mrs. Westhoff, who had been waiting nearby. Finney told Alex Perehu- doff, solicitor for the West- hoff, family, “Never in my wildest dreams jdid I ever think of how dangerous it (the sand; ” She band had taken their child- Fen. to the sandpit when the” moved to the area and in- structed them not to ‘play there because of the danger. Frank Finney testified that the sandpit wasn't as eee when the family first moved to the | area, about two. years ago. “It. was about half the size Finnel said the pit was.ex- cavated over the four to six months preceeding the Sept. 12.aceident. not contacting city, council or the developer himself to - Iate-night shopping hours that it is recommending to its membership. The DBA says participat- ing stores will be open until 9 p.m. this Thursday and Fri- day (Dec. 3 and 4), Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10 and 11, and::then Thurs., Dec, 17 through Wed., Dec..28 with the exception of Sat., Dec. 19 when regular closing hours will be observed. Extra ordinary measures WARSAW (AP) — Po land's Communist leaders called on the Parliament on Saturday to adopt “extra- ordinary measures” to end the country’s labor disrup- tions and protect citizens and the state. “The Central Committee decmt it necessary to’equip It did not spell out the powers it wants the Parli-’ ament to confer on the gov- ernment, but “But Anda is laying the groundwork for. such a move’ and it stems from of- they would include a ban on strikes and possibly marches and other protest devices used by the independent union Solidarity. “It will be up to the Sejm with full rights | for an effective So to d to decide what sort of powers to give to the ” official tions which destroy the ie try and its economy, and threaten the Socialist state, law and order and public sec- urity,” the police-setting party committee said in a resolution. _New hours in ‘82 for city hall Castlegar city hall will have new operating hours starting Jan. 1. City hall is presently open from 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m., but starting in the new year it will be open 15 minutes later in the morning and close a half hour earlier in the even- ing — from 8:30 p.m. - 4:30 cents of every transit dollar, p.m. while industry will pay 61- cents and commercial prop- erty only 10-cents. It is very financially ad- City hall will revert to'its old hours for one month every year — from June 1 - July 2. That's the month tax state- ments go out and payments come rolling in. City staff feel they need the extra time to get statements out and re- ceive the payments. Ald.. Len Embree sug- gested:the new hours be in- stituted on a probational basis to see if they meet the community’s needs. He said if the hours don't meet the community's needs, council should go back to the old schedule. sources said. The ban on strikes, if on- acted, probably would be temporary and limited to vital industries and sectors of the economy, including coal, copper snd sulphur mining, that they are fully convinced Poland is in the grip of ter- rible turmoil. “There is no turmoil: in Poland, and Solidarity is res- ponsible for that.” perma to press for academic freedom, Tear gas turned on demonstrators. TEL AVIV. (AP) — Israeli the sources said. Solidarity's i spokesman, Marek Brunne, said such a move would be “an ultimate gesture” by the Parliament because “the first uncontrolled strike called in its wake would put a question mark over the whole ven- ture.” Brunne called’ the possible strike ban “politically erron- eous and morally tactless,” and said: “I would be surprised if that actually happened be- cause the Sejm refrained from passing such a law during a previous session which took place against a backdrop of provoked strikes.” id 200 Arabs and Jews in the oc- -eupied West Bank town ‘of Ramallah on Saturday ‘to break up a demonstrstion against both the closure of a Palestinian university and an Israeli policy of dynamiting Arab ‘homes, a military spokesman siad. Forty-nine protesters were jailed after: they called. on townspeople to join the dem- onstration, the spokesman said. The ‘said The military spokesman said he could not confirm the claims of demonstrators but said: “I do know force was used when the demonstra- tors didn’t obey orders to After the demonstration, a bottle was hurled at an Is- raeli patroi in the town, but no one was injured, the mili- tary said. Bir Zeit University, a cen- tre of Palestinian nationalism in the region, was closed this month in an Israeli military crackdown on Pease they were beaten by soldiers and that two Israeli women protesters were injured, Is- rael Radio reported. the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Irrael seized from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.