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CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 15, 1981

Now on new schedule

OTTAWA (CP) — The ro-
mance of traditional rail
travel slipped a little closer
to history today, a victim of a
deficit-conscious govern-
ment's struggle to ease its
burdens.

At midnight Saturday
night, Via Rail was adopting
a new schedule, reduced by
about 20 per cent. But Frank
Roberts, president of the
federal Crown corporation,
said it will be Wednesday
before all the runs slated for
abandonment reach their
final

Tr:

Like ‘t Minister

with

Jean-Luc Pepin, Roberts ar-
gued the cits were essential
to give Via cnough money to
buy the equipment needed to
meet modern travel patterns,

The federal government
pours about $500 million a
year, a quarter of Pepin's
total budget, into Via. Critics
say it’s nowhere near enough
if Canada is to take full ad-
vantage of rail travel.

But the minister was faced
with a cabinet ceiling for rail

The final eastbound Atlan.
tic Limited pulled out of
Halifax Saturday with about
75 passengers bound for
Montreal.

From Winnipeg, the last
Super Continental departed
Saturday to wind its’ way
along a northern route
through Saskatoon, Edmon-
ton and Jasper, Alta., to
Vancouver.

As the service winds down,
pleas for court injunctions to
stop the cuts and appeals to
the Canadian Transport Com-
mission to intervene wind up.
The first case was settled last
week in Regina in the federal
government's favor and
against those who oppose the
cuts,

JASPER LOSES BID

In Edmonton Friday, an
Alberta court of Queen's
bench judge also in effect
favored Ottawa, saying he
could not preside over an in-
junction application by the
Jasper Chamber of Com-
merce because only federal
courts have jurisdiction in
such matters.

port of $500 million. He

cuts in service to reduce
operating costs so Via will
have enough money left to
buy LRC (light, rapid, con-
fortable) trains and new
diesel locomotives,

Roberts said orders for 10
locomotives and 50 coaches
will be placed by the end of
December for delivery in
mid-1983, When all the sa-
vings are realized, Via should
have about $190 million a
year for new equipment,
twice its current capital
budget.

Four die in wake of storm

By The Associated Press

Howling winds and driving
rain ripped off tree limbs,
turned parts of Puget Sound
into froth, knocked out elec-
tric power for thousands of
Washington and Oregon resi-
dents and claimed at least
four lives as a storm front
clawed through the area Sat-
urday.

U.S. Coast Guard Capt,
Frank W. Olson was killed
while attempting to rescue
three crew members aboard
a 13-metre fishing vessel
reported in distress early

SAUMAUR, QUE. (CP)
— Indians who blocked a
train near here to protest
Via Rail cutbacks let 20
passengers continue their
voyage Saturday but said
they would hold five rail
cars until Ottawa meets
their demands.

“We want federal
Transport Minister Jean-
Luc Pepin to meet us on
the reserve to diseuss the
problems caused by our
geographic situation,” said
Soter Newashish, a band
councillor from the nearby
Weymontache Attikame-
kwe Indian reserve.

Saumar is an isolated
village 250 kilometres
north of Montreal.

Via Rail spokesman Dan-
iel Rossel said the passen-

Indian blockade
lifted Saturday

gers, who spent two un-
scheduled nights on the
train, were taken to Her-
vey Junction in a sleeper
car. There they were
transferred onto trains
heading for Montreal and
Quebec City.

Rossel said that al-
though the sand and wood
used to block the track had
been cleared away, no
other trains would be al-
lowed to use the line before
Monday “or whenever the
issue is settled.”

The band which
stopped the train Friday
morning about five kilo-
metres east of this village
of 20 near the reservation
— is angry about cutbacks
in service scheduled to
start Monday.

Will remain separate

By CHARLES LA VERTU

VANCOUVER (CP) — Ef-
forts to make the Progres-
sive Conservative Associa-
tion of B.C. a wholly prov-
incial party failed

bund party out of the wilder-
ness.

The B.C. Tories have 16
seats in the Commons but
Li not held a seat in ths

at the group's annual meet-
ing

The move to separate the
federal wing from the prov-
incial wing was supported by
provincial party leader Brian
Westwood but opposed by
some federal Members of
Parliament and the federal
body which last year had
initiated the separation pro-
cess,

Opposition Leader Joe
Clark, who addressed the
three-day convention on Fri-
day, refused to get embroiled
in the debate.

Clark has said repeatedly
that he personally supports
the provincial party but has
refused to throw his official
backing behind the group.

This led to considerable
bitterness against the federal
party, particularly when
Scott Wallace and his suc-
cessor, Vic Stephens, were
provincial party leaders and
Clark refused to support
their efforts to lead the mori-

le;
ae since Stephens lost in
the May, 1979, provincial
general election.

The provincial branck has
been fuming for years over
what it feels are backroom
deals of mutual support be-
tween the provincial Social
Credit party and the federal
wing of the Progressive Con-
servative party.

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

Westwood said the vote
against completing the split
was a vote of confidence by
the federal people for his
leadership and for the pro-
vincial party.

He said many people who
supported B.C. Premier Bill
Bennett have indicated over
the last 24 hours, and again
through the vote today, their
support for the pi

spoken in the arena of the
public or in the arena of a
convention like this about the
provincial party.”

He said, however, that the
provincial party will go ahead
with plans to open its own
office on Jan, 1.

Fraser said the federal
party would have been forced
to set up its own organization
had the motion been suc-
cessful.

He said a decision by the
delegates means there is no
chan;

“Nothing has changed ex-
cept that within the happy
family, (the B.C. Tory party)
we have respected, on a
democratic basis, the right of
people to go and vote the way
they want wherever they
want to go and vote.”

Fraser does not believe the
federal Tories made a com-
mitment to the provincial
body over the Social Credit
party.

near Coos Bay,

The Christina J. and its
crew were still missing.

Grady E. Scarborough, 538,
of Albany, died early Sat-
urday when a falling tree
slammed through his mobile
home and struck him as he
slept, fire department offi-
cials said.

A Salem man died after
wind gusts felled a tree on his
camping trailer at Tillicum
Beach State Park about 30

Officials at the Medford-
Jackson County Airport re-
ported winds at 100 kilom-
etres an hour.

The Washington state De-
partment of Emergency Ser-
vices reported heavy storm
damage in the southern part
of the state, with 90 per cent
of Clark County without
power. Clark County officials
declared their county a dis-
aster area, with 50 to 60 per
cent of all roads blocked and

10 electrical substations out
of service.

The Evergreen Point float-
ing bridge across Lake Wash-
ington between Seattle and
eastside suburban commun-
ities was closed because high
winds whipped waves over
the sides.

Seattle City Light re-
ported at least 5,000 cus-
tomers out of service because
of the failure of two major
feeder lines.

The one death reported in
Washington was that of a
69-year-old man.

King County Police Sgt.
Forrest Inslee said high
winds blew a tree across the
power line leading to the
man’s home on Maury Island,
located between Vashon Is-
land and the mainland.

“It caused his power to go
out,” the officer said. “He
went outside with his wife
and attempted to move the

wire with a stick or pole and
was electrocuted.”

The weather eerie said
the high winds came from a
patant! storm centred about
240 kilometres west of the
mouth of the Columbia River
and heading toward Vancou-
ver Ilsand.

Air B.C. reported delays
and cancellations of flights to
and from Vancouver, Victoria
and Nanaimo harbors, the
Gulf Islands and Comox.

Shot at teenagers’ dance

BELFAST (AP) — Irish
Republican Army gunmen
shoved past 60 horrified
teenagers at a dance Satur-
day and shot and killed Rev.
Robert Bradford, a hardline
Protestant member of the
British Parliament. The gun-
men also killed a caretaker at
the door as they fled.

Screaming and crying

kilometres south of No
Floyd W. Russell, 64, col-
lapsed apparently from a
heart attack when he and his
wife Sylvia attempted to get
out of the crushed trailer.
WITHOUT POWER

At least 200,000 homes
throughout Western Oregon
were without power because
of downed power and trans-
mission lines.

U.S. 101 from the junction
with Oregon 42 at Coos Bay
south to the Oregon-Cali-
fornia border and U.S. 30 be-
tween Astoria and Portland
were closed because of
downed trees and power
lines, the Oregon State Police
said.

Residents in the south part
of the coastal town of Bandon
were evacuated for a short
time when the wind knocked
over oil and gasoline tanks,
Ramsby said.

for
cover under tables and one
hurled a chair at the fleeing
gunmen, who fired six bullets
into Bradford and three into
the caretaker. None of the
youths was hurt, but wit-
nesses said some were taken
to nearby homes and treated
for shock.

Police accused the out-
lawed, Roman Catholic-based
IRA of trying to provoke
“virtual civil war,” and Brit-
ish Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher vowed “to cleanse
our country of the evil of ter-
rorism.”

The IRA wants to drive
Britanin from Northern Ire-
land and unite the mainly
Protestant British province
with the predominantly Ro-
man Catholic Irish republic.

The slaying — the first of
an Ulster legislator and sec-
ond by Irish nationalists of a

Pankoff service
concludes today

Funeral service began Sat-
urday evening at the Kres-
tova Russian Hall and con-
tinued today for Alex Pan-
koff, 81, of Castlegar, for-
merly of Krestova, who died
Thursday. Burial is 1 p.m.
weey in the Krestova Cem-

as Pankoff was 3 born ay,
11, 1900 in Sask

moved into Castlegar to live
with his youngest daughter
Mrs. Elsie Shukin.

He is survived by his wife,
Vera, of Castlegar; three
daughters, Mrs. Fred (Elsie)
Shukin of Castlegar, Mrs.
Fred (Mary) Potapoff and
Mrs. Fred (Tina) Zmaeff both
of Krestova; nine grand-

hil t

came to British Columbia "
1910 settling at Glade. He
then moved to Krestova
where he married Vera Anti-
faeff in 1920.

Mr. Pankoff worked most.
of his life as a carpenter and
handyman. He lived at Kres-
tova until 1978 when he

g
dren; one brother, Mike Pan-
koff of Trail, and one sister,
Elizabeth Gretchin of Castle-
gar.

He is predeceased by one
brother, Massey.

Funeral arrangements are
under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

membr of the British Par-
liament — came hours after
the IRA blew up the London
home of Britain's attorney-
general, Sir Michae) Havers,
and set off a bomb in Lon-
donderry that wounded a
British soldier and a woman
bystander.
HAVERS IN SPAIN

Havers and his wife were
in Madrid, Spain, for a legal
conference. No one else was

Levesque;
Take it or

leave it

QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec
will never accept a new con-
stitution unless it recognizes
the concept of two founding ca
peoples English and
French — in Canada, Premier
Rene Levesque said Friday:

As well, Quebec wants the
right to override language
and job mobility clauses, a
power of veto over future
constitutional changes and
greater financial compensa-

in the house at the time of the
explosion, which caused
heavy damage.

Bradford was the first
British MP killed by the IRA
since Airey Neave, the Con-
servative party's spokesman
on Northern Ireland, was
killed in a car-bombing out-
side the House of Commons
in London on March 30, 1979.

Bradford was a fierce critic
of the IRA and close friend of
militant Protestant leader,
Rev. Ian Paisley. Bradford,
Paisley and other Protestant
politicians were planning a
tour of the United States
next year to counteract IRA
propaganda. Paisley called
the killed “diabolical.”

Police said two or three
men took part in the attack at
the Finaghy Community
Centre, on the outskirts of
Belles and send in a waiting

bureau, said it claimed “res-
ponsibility for the execution”
of Bradford, calling him “one
of the key people responsible
for winding up the Loyalist
paramilitary sectarian ma-
chine in the North.”

Bradford, 40-year-old min-
ister at the Suffolk Methodist
Church, nine kilometres
south of Belfast, had been a
bitter critic of the IRA since
his election to Parliament in
1974 s as a member of the
Protestant Official Unionist
party.

Will woo
American
shoppers

By CasNews Staff

fired on the car but it was not
known whether anybody was
hit, witnesses said.
Witnessed said the gun-
men shoved past the youths
on the dance floor and opened
fire on Bradford in an ad-
joining office. The MP used
the community centre on

tionfor any it
might opt out of.

The demands — described
by Levesque as a “take it or
leave it” proposition — con-
stitute a resolution to be pre-
sented and discussed in the
Quebec national assembly
next week. .

Speaking with reporters,
the premier said his motion is
not open to change.

“It is not a question of
negotiating,” he said. “This is
our fundamental position.”

Quebec is the only holdout
from the compromise on a
patriated constitution that
was signed 10 days ago be-
tween Prime Minister Tru-
deau and the nine other
provinces.

Levesque's demands are in
line with those which his
government has been making
all along and he saw no rea-
son Friday why Trudeau —
who is keen on taking Quebec
into the compromise
should not comply.

to meet
with constitutents.

‘STRICKEN WITH FEAR’
“They (the teenagers) did
not seem to realize what was
going on,” said a father of one
of the youngsters. “They

Don't be d if you
see an American or two
trying to beat you to the bar-
gains in Central Kootenay
shopping centres this Christ-
m

as.

It’s all part of the regional
economic development com-
mission's promotion to bring
U.S. residents across the
border to do their Christmas
shopping.

The commission Nov. 4
agreed to put $1,500 into the
promotional scheme, which
they hope will bring Ameri-
can visitors to the region's.
areas this Christ

were and some
were hiding under tables.
You could almost feel the
fear. One little girl went
completely berserk and ran
off. It was an hour before
they found her again, com-
pletely stricken with fear.”

“All the kids were scream-
ing and shouting and I told
them to get under the ta-
bles,” said a 15-year-old boy
who was changing records at
the dance. “It was pande-
monium. The gunmen pushed
the kids out of the way to get
at Mr. Bradford, and then
shoved them aside again to
get out. It was then that I
threw a chair.”

The IRA, in a statement
issued from its Belfast press

party.

“Bill Bennett's the guy that
lost here. People like John
Fraser (PC — Vancouver
South) have never been out-

To air apology

Monday

By RON NORMAN
Staff Writer

CBC Radio Friday apolo-
gized and retracted an alle-
gation that former Castlegar
city administrator Bill Krug
was fired last month.

The allegation was in-
cluded in a province-wide
roundup of municipal elec-
tions and issues aired early
Friday morning on CBC's
Daybreak program.

Daybreak producer Dave
Kirkham told the Castlegar

News in a telephone inter- ...

view from Vancouver that an
apology would be aired Mon-
day morning.

Kirkham said he also spoke
with Krug, explained the sit-
uation and apologized.

Krug is currently working
in Vancouver as an admin-
istrator on the provincial
government's Tumbler Ridge
townsite proposed for north-
eastern B.C.

Kirkham said he received
the information from another
Interior publiciation though
his informant there now de-
nies he told him.

“Thave it in my noted and I
don’t know why I'd dream

morning

something like that up,” he
said.

Kirkham added he hopes
the issue ends here.

Meanwhile, Mayor Audrey
Moore and Ald. Albert Cal-
derbank both called CBC to
protest the allegation.

Moore said she was “in-
censed” by the story. They
were false statements, she
said flatly.

She called the allegation a
“cheap shot” at Krug. “If
someone wants to get at me
fine, but they leave the
staff alone,” she said.

Visual Aids

Special demonstrations of
aids for visually impaired
persons adjustment to blind-
ness programs, orientation
and mobility training, vo-
cational guidance and coun-
selling and job placement
Programs, provided by The
Canadian National Institute
for the Blind, are helping
blind and visually impaired
persons join the Canadian
workforce. Contact your local
CNIB office for further infor-
mation.

NEW CABLE for Castlegar Ferry was installed last woek by high-
ways crew. Cable is replaced every year and usually takes about four

to downtown.

th own

hours to install. Robson residents were forced to ° drive around to get

The Nelson chamber of

commerce will also chip in
1,500.

Areas targeted for the
campaign include Castlegar,
Nelson, Creston, Silverton,
Salmo, New Denver, Nakusp
and Kaslo.

The commission warns
that if there isn't much inter-
est the idea will be dropped.
But with the low Canadian
dollar, Americans should
take to the scheme — at least
that’s what the commission is
hoping.

Revitalization
program
will provide
parking

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar council Tuesday
agreed to waive on-site park-
ing requirements for down-
town businesses provided
that the downtown revitali-
zation program goes ahead.

The revitalization program
— which is still in the
planning stage — intends to
supply sufficient parking out-
side the congested downtown
core, but within walking dis-
tance of shops and busi-
nesses,

By providing additional
parking in the downtown
core, council is hoping to
make it more attractive to
consumers and businessmen
alike.

Currently businesses look-
ing to expand or develop
must provide a certain num-
ber of on-site parking spaces,

However, some businesses
find that difficult with the
lack of space downtown,

Council is banking that
more off-site parking will
encourage expansion and de-
velopment.

If the revitalization Pro-
gram does not go ahead, the
normal on-site parking re-
quirements will be enforced,

Meanwhile, council is look-
ing at relaxing its on. ‘site
parking bylaw throughout
the city.

One alderman suggested
with the smaller Modern
cars, smaller parking Spaces

are

By Gary Kingston
NELSON (CP)
Through five years on Nol-
son city council, Ald. John
Neville’s blindness hasn't
caused any problems,

He is on the regional
distritt board and has
served on various commit-
tees.

But as the 97-year-old
physiotherapist seeks the
mayor's chair in the Nov,
21 municipal election
against three other candi-
dates, he is finding his dis-
abilty is becoming some-
thing of an election issue in
this community of 10,000
nestled in the mountains of
southeastern B.C,

“I think there was def-

two or three weeks ago,”
Neville, who has topped
the aldermanic polls three
times, said in a telephone
interview Friday. “A lot of
people here responded
angtily to that.

“Subsequently, some of
the candidates who were
pushing that have backed
off.”

But an undercurrent of
doubt persists. Can he
handle the tremendous
amont of work and res-
ponsibility that comes with
the job? What additional
burden will be disability
place on staff at city hall?

Incumbent Mayor Tex
Mowatt, who is not seeking

re-election, refutes the
claims of a “whisper cam-
paign,” saying the issue is
being talked about, and
that, in fact, it was only
raised openly when Nevillo
campaign workers were
quoted in a local news-
paper’ story three weeks

initaly a whisper campaign .&

JOHN NEVILLE

‘SYMPATHY VOTE’

“It's unfortunate ‘ be-
cause he might get elected
by the sympathy vote,”
Mowatt said. “I don't think
that’s right and I don't
think John would - want
that. I hope it doesn’t turn
out to be an issue.”

However, Mowatt says
there are legitimate ques-
tions to be asked about ihe
burden that Neville’s pos-
sible election would put on
his family (he' is married
with two chlidren) and
staff at city hall.

Functionswith blindness!

Mowatt, who has served
five years as mayor, won't
say ifhe feels Neville could
handle the job, because “I
couldn't respond in a way
that would be fair.”

The soft-spoken Neville,
who relies heavily on his
wife Sue, also a physio-
therapist, replies easily to
the concerns, saying that if
he felt his dirability would
mean any extra financial
burden for taxpayers, he
wouldn't have run for
mayor,

Sue spends 10 hours a
week reading aloud docu-
ments which Neville types
onto a braille machine. He
says the workload in the
mayor's office could be ar-
ranged so each piece of
correspondence is read to
him, “and then I could
make decisions immediate-
ly.” A few years ago, the
CNIB transcribed the Mu-
nicipal Act into braille for
him. :

Neville, blind since
birth, said he's saddened
that people who would
suggest it would take extra
time and money for him to
function as mayor have
never approached him per-
sonally.

FINDS DEPRESSING

“I find it a little de-
pressing in this year of the
disabled .. . 'm surprised
that these are

” he said. “I feel it’s
somewhat retrogressive
that this sort of attitude
has come to the fore.”
Neville is aFURINS
ry it fellow lerman
gains!

CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 15, 1981

B7

Canada’ s $100 million gift

By DAVID BINET*
TORONTO (CP) — Very
little was accomplished Fri-
day at Spar Aerospace In-
dustries Ltd. — everybody
was watching television to
see how Candarm, Canada’s

Maglio, who served 10
years as mayor in the late
1060s and early 70s, and
Wray Suffredine, the local
Chamber of Commerce
manger.

Neville, who moved here
in 1976 from England, is an
active politician. When a
new garbage dump became
a council issue, he joined
the garbage committee,
walked sites and rode the
new disposal trucks under-
going tests by the regional
district.

Although he must spend
more time preparing than
his counterparts — “it en-
sures I do my homework
before I got to any public
meetings” — he still finds
time to waterski, snow ski,
canoe and hike.

Neville and his guide dog
Ingrid are a familiar sight
walking among the old
mining town's
heritage buildings, 2 con-
cept he proposed four
years ago to salvage Nel-
son’s floundering down-
town area.

If elected, Neville would
become the first biind
mayor in a North Ameri-
can city, according to re-
search by the Canadian

\ Instit

for the

to the Columbia

the black sky with Earth a
tiny blue ball in the back-
ground.

Hugh MacLean, director of
public relations and aver-
visiing for Spar, chuckled,
shook his head and said:
“Thank Canada is

space shuttle, fe

Workers who helped make
the 16-metre arm applauded
as pictures showing it ex-
tending from Columbia's car-
go bay were flashed on TV
sets hooked up with mission
control in Houston.

Many gasped at the sight
of the arm — sheathed in a
white heat blanket with Can-
ada’s name and flag emblaz-
oned on it and extended in

spelled correctly.”

Spar employees and guests
roared wiien astronaut Dick
Truly, who had been to the
Toronto plant four weeks ago
for a final training session
with a simulator, told the
world that Canada’s $100-
million gift to the U.S. is
“working great.”

“We've fiddled with it a
few times and it works fine.”

Says ICBC hike
is excessive

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Consumer's Association of
Canada said Friday a 21-per-
cent increase in compulsory
automobile insurance for B.C.
drivers is excessive and un-
necessary.

‘The ‘price index, but the con- |

sumer price index doesn’t
relate to the business we're
in,” said ICBC spokesman
Bev Penhall.

“Every one of our costs are

“Those are pretty stiff a

hikes, far i of the cost

of living,” said association
administrator Janet Fast.

The Ii Corp. of

He called the increase un-
but said it will not

B.C. announced Friday the
a -per-eent increase in com-

insurance plus an
lepeheeat rise in optional

taking a reverse ap-

Blind.

y,

Constitutional standoff poll

MONTREAL (CP) — A
public opinion poll published
Saturday indicates Quebec-
ers are almost evenly split
over the constitutional stand-
off between Quebec and the
federal government.

The poll, commissioned
and published by the Sout-
ham newspaper chain, found
40 per’ cent: of those: jater-’

viewed support Premier
Rene Levesque's refusal to
sign the patriation comprom-
ise reached 10 days ago in
Ottawa.

But 42 per cent said they
thought Levesque should
have joined Prime Minister
Trudeau and the nine other
premiers in signing the pact.
Eighteen per. cent said they,

didn't know what to think.

Asked how the deadlock
should be Ercken, 44 per cent
favored continued negotia-
tions, 17 per cent opted for a
referendum on the issue, 14
per cent for an election and
10 per cent for a Supreme
Court referral.

Ifa referendum were held,
37 per cent'said they would

Little psychiatric help

KINGSTON, ONT. (CP) —
Canada’s only prison. for
women is seeing a rash of
self-mutilation by depressed,
prisoners, but prison officials
admit the women have far
narrower access to psychi-
atric help than male convicts.

During the first six months
of this year, 31 cases of
self-inflicted wounds — using
anything from glass to shar-
pened combs — were re-
ported at the prison for
women.

By comparison, the men’s
maximum-security penitenti-
ary with four times the pop-
ulation, reported only 12
“lashings” during the same

period.

p Under existing conditions,
if one of the women needs
psychiatric help, she must go
to St. Thomas Psychiatric
Centre in southwestern On-
tario. Kingston Psychiatric
Hospital does not accept

prison patients because it-

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lacks security facilities and
the Cen-

mates are being put in moni-
tored, d cells and

tre within Kingston Peni-
teniary does not* accept
women, either.

FACES OBSTACLE

Warden George Caron con-
cedes that the women’s nar-
row access to psychiatric fa-
cilities is a major obstacle to
overcoming the slashing
problem.

“The administration is con-
cerned, the inmates are con-
cerned and special- sera

are concerned,” Car-
or said in an ‘interview.
“Unfortunately, the problem
is a recurring one.”

But Caron said some im-'

provements have been made
the last couple of months. It
used to be that female con-
viets who injured themselves
were treated’ for their
wounds, then charged with
an institutional offence and
sentenced to “the hole.”
Now, Caron said, such in-

referred to psychiatric coun-
selling, usually twice a week.

But Maggie MacDonald, a
member of the prison’s in-
mate committee, says the
women most likely to slash
are those least likely to qual-
ify upon release for super-
vision at a halfway house,
where more stable women
are wanted.

“They have nowhere to go
and nobody wants them,” she
said.

Plans have been submitted
to build a 12-bed psychiatric
facility for women at Collins
Bay, but its construction is
not certain and would take at
least five years if approved.

ge for collision and

other risks. This averages to

an over-all 20-per-cent in-

crease in Autoplan pre
miums.

“I think there's a balloon-

ing of costs that comes with

* the monopoly ICBC has on

vote for the Ottawa com-
promise and 84 per cent
against. The remaining 29
per cent were undecided.

The telephone poll was

car insurance,” Fast said.
“My feeling is that ICBO
spends a lot of money it
doesn't need to, and is not as
efficient cs it could be.”

She said if private com-

based Centre de recherce sur.
Topinion publique. -

About 66 per cent of the
1,000, Quebecers reached ag-
reed to reply to the ques-

d to sell in-
surance, consumers would
get a better deal.

“Sure, the increase is

. greater -than the consumer

have serious implications for
drivers. “Insurance is,a rel-
atively small part of the costs
of running 4 car.”

He added, that private
companies could not offer a
better deal than ICBC.

“Through economies
seale our administration
costs are 17 per cent,” Pen-
hall said. “Administration
costs in the private sector
are, on the average, twice as
much. So we've got to believe
we are offering a better’

tions, p ig results
which are accurate to within
four percentage points 95
times out of 100.

On another ‘question, the
poll found 36 per cent would
vote for the Liberals if a
Quebec election were held on
the day they were ques-
tioned. Thirdy per cent said
they would vote for Parti”
Quebecois and 13 per cent for
the fading Union Nationale.

A majority of respondents Ri!
— 57 per cent — said they
were dissatisfied with the.
results of the constitutional
conference, and 36 per cent
thought they would hurt the
PQ's crusade for an inde-
pendent Quebec.

Thirty-one per cent figured
it would help.

Only 22 Hughes
heirs recognized

HOUSTON (AP) — An
aunt and 21 first cousins of
the late Howard Hughes are
the only heirs to the eccentric
billionaire’s fortune, a pro-
bate judge declared Friday.

But lawyers for the re-
cluse’s heirs said it could take
up to five years before any
money ‘is handed out, pend-
ing a variety of appeals.

Probate Judge Pat Gre-
gory signed the maces,

final judgment that capped
the relatives’ 5'/-year court-
room battle to keep Hughes's
estate, worth up to $2 billion,
out of the. hands of pre-
tenders.

Only lawyers representing
the heirs, who range in age
from 18 to 81, attended the
hearing.

Hughes died April 5 rey

\YNES
Richard Shap of Nelson, a pes

LUCAS — To re “and Mrs. \
Robson,

born Nov. vB.

.

RIEBALKIN — ir. and Mrs.
Fred Riobaikin ns Crescent
Valley, a daughter, born Nov,
ue se
OFF — To Mr. and Mrs. Stan
Rilke Tot Blueberry Creek, a
daughter, born Nov. 13. .

“ANDREA — Alfonso D'Andrea,
Fe tral died Nov. 10 nr Teal
Regional Hospital. Funeral Mass
was celebrated Nov. 13 by
Father Charles Molvihl from St
Francis Xovi Church,
Cremation fol lowed.

DAVIS — wanita ‘Davis, “50, of
Fruitvale died suddenly in Frult-
vale. A fomily pers, ‘wos con-
ducted Nov. .6 by Rev. Don
ina ss

rT formerly
di lov. 12.
began y: esterday and con’
today at 1 p.m. from
Krestova Russian Holl. Burial wail
be at 1 p.m. today at Krestova
rammoct — ‘tom et eli (au
Partridge, 69,
suddenly Nov. 6 ot ae
from St. fob Anglican church
St. in
nee avid W .

abroad an
eal flight from his pHicness
i seaside hideaway to a Hous-

In
dicombe otficiating. Interment
wos at Fruitvale, Memorial
Comet

they Castl ¢ Funeral
ith Rev. TSS Bristow of-

/ Vital Statistics

TURNER — Cyril Frank Turner,

77, of Nelson died Nov. 4 in Trail
Regional Hospital. Memorial

chapel of the Thompson Funeral

oe

Home with Conon R. Bray of-

Heiney Interment: wos In
Nelson | Park.

WILLIAMS, _ pee A. AL Roger:
itvale died

Frank Stasila

WILL MOVE CARGO

Canadarm and other arms
Spar will produce will be
used to move cargo in and out
of space shuttle cargo bays.

Some of the tests had to bee
cancelled and others moved
up to Friday from Saturday
because of Columbia's shor-
tened trip. Failure of one of
Columbia’s three  on-
board fuel cells has meant the
scheduled five-day trip was
cut short.

Three Spar employees are
in Houston to provide gui-
dance and analysis for every
movement the arm makes.
After the shuttle returns,
computer data will be sent to
Toronto to be analysed by

ferns

The Bahais of C

AN INVITATION

A TRIBUTE TO THE
Al MARTYRS IM IRAN

But as Wayne Houston, a
systems engineer, said, “one
look at the arm on TV is
worth a. thousand bits. of
analyses.

“We all knew it was going
to work. It is beautiful. I wish
I had a photograph of it.”

Alastair Jenkins, a Spar
engineer, said “even those of
us who aren't directly in-
volved in the arm feel we are
part of it.”

The ability of the arm to
handle cargo won't be tested
on this voyage because, of
several refinements that
need to be made to the end of
th earm.

Spar is an independent
Canadian company, also in-
volved in satellite and avi-
ation production and servic-
ing, employing 1,900 people.

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if a
and nemional service to remember,
honour and pray for Bahais who have
died for their faith,

7 p.m.
Saturday, November 21
Nordic Hall, Castlegar

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