focated here in the past,” but wouldn't speculate if there was
a connection with a Doukhobor sect. Minletry.

Mealing said if the bombs are connected with a But Bourne said in an interview that whoever's res-
Doukhobor sect, it “may be somebody that considers the  Ponsible for the hombs might be trying to interrupt the
fervor is going out of the zealots, and wishes to awaken it.” Progress of the meetings.

He added that the most “zealous” Doukhobor faction is 1 made it clear (at the meeting) if someome tries to
the Sons of Freedom — a group of about 60 people based at interrupt the progress we've made, we would not be de
Gilpin. terred,” he said.

No group has come forward to claim credit for the Bourne added that he was “very encouraged by the
bombs, stressed Mealing. progress of the talks.”

But he added that “whoever set the bomb” may have According to Mealing, the meeting was interrupted
done 80 to “recognize the meetings” and make those attend. momentarily Tuesday morning when “three or four” Free.
Se Dato ol ir prosnace in’ theloren: domite Doukhobor women undressed as BCTV and CBC
camera crews appeared to film the meeting hall at the
Fireside Place prior to the conference.

But Mealing said the gesture was made “primarily for
the benefit of the cameras.”

The women remained undressed for most of the
morning, he said.

Freedomite Doukhobors have disrobed as a form of
protest at previous KCIR meetings, said Mealing.

The bomb incidents which occurred Monday follow a
pair of similar events which happened April 9 near Grand
Forks.

One explosive device blew up at CPR tracks near
Christina Lake, and another undetonated bomb was dis-
covered by a “private individual” three kilometres away, ac-
cording to Sgt. Dan MacKay of the Grand Forks RCMP.

‘The bomb which exploded caused about $1,000 worth of
damage to CPR tracks, MacKay estimated.

The other bomb was deactivated by a police bomb squad
from Vancouver.

“No one's claiming responsibility, and we're still in-
vestigating,” said MacKay.

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program and ordered to perform 30
hours of community service apiece.

The council arranged to have the
youths work forthe city. However,
that ran into a roadblock when the
union reprsenting the works crew —
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Local 2262 — told council it did not
want the youths working on city

equipment or property.

Heinrich said his ministry
has made every effort to
keep the centre going but it
is too expensive.

“The demand is not there,
and on a per capita basis it’s a
very expensive operation,”
he said.

The union also’$aid that if council
went: ahead withthe work program,
the union Wanted tlie youths paid union

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The issue came up briefly at a recent
council meeting, but Ald.
gested council move the matter into a
special meeting to explain the problem
before discussing it in public.

The union and the city
came up with an agreement that was

The agreement allows the four
youths to perform their community
service work at Kinnaird Hall without

VICTORIA (CP) — The
any pay.

chief mechanic at the com-
pany whose bus crashed on a
mountain road Jan. 30, killing
two high school students re-
turning from a day of skiing
with classmates, has never
taken a mechanic's course
and hold no trades papers.
Kerry Griffith, 29, told a
coroner's jury Tuesday that
he once wrote the British
Columbia mechanic's trades
examination, but “have yet to
complete the test.”
That was four years ago.
Adam Kerr, 17, and Scott
16, students at

Embree sug- “It is felt by both the city and the
loeal (union) that cleaning and minor
repair of the Kinnaird Hall will be con-

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damage caused,” city clerk Ron Skill-
ings said in a prepared statement.

in Victoria, were killed when
their overcrowded chartered
bus crashed into a ditch on
the steep, winding road down
Mount Washington, outside
Courtenay.

A total of 64 passengers
were in the bus, chartered
from Conmae Stage Lines
Ltd. the bus had a seating
capacity of 45.

Griffith told the inquest
that he was driving the ill-
fated bus.

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Class 1 driver's licence,
which covers all commercial
vehicles through 18-wheel-
ers, about 10 years ago, and a
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Field's store on Columbia
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according to Castlegar
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A FORMER CASTLEGAR man who attended Stan-
ley Humphries in the early 1950s, Harry Kelly, was back
in town last week visiting his parents, Jack and Kay
Kelly, and looking up old friends.

Harry, who joined the air force direetly out of high
school, has had a number of interesting jobs as a private
pilot since leaving the armed forces. ‘

He's sold Lear jets, has been a private pilot for a
number of large Canadian companies, and for the past
five years has been Dome Petroleum’s instrument stand-
ards check pilot.

Currently he's flying 737's to the Beaufort Sea area
in the Arctic for the company.

Harry and his wife, Fram, who met in North Bay,
Ont., have two grown daughters. Fran is active politi-
cally, cochairing Brian Mulroney's Alberta campaign
when he successfully sought the federal leadership of the
Progressive Conservatives last year.

STAFFERS AT Century
21's Castleaird Plaza office
are bursting the gold jac-
kets with pride at the
awards garnered by Glen
Wilson at the recent Koot-
enay Real Estate Board
annual meeting held at
Fairmont Hot Springs.

Glen was named top
salesman for 1983 for both
the East and West Koot-
enays. Not only that, but
he was runner-up fer vol
ume sales for the year and
monthly sales winner for
both September and De-
cember.

Century 21 at Trail won five awards, making this the
first time that the West Kootenays has, swept the
majority of the awards over the East Kootenays.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS announced Tuesday
they have signed Darren Jensen of Creston, a former
University of North Dakota goaltender named most
valuable player and rookie of the year this season in the
International Hockey League.

GLEN WILSON

closed. ‘ 4

The five-foot-nine goalie fet 5, calla
with a 40-12-83 record for Fort Wayne His |
2.92 goals-against average was best in the league. ‘

At North Dakota, Jensen led his team to two
National C Athletic A ‘iation champ’

He was a fifth-round draft choice of Hartford Whalers in
1980, but was not offered'a contract after attending
training camp last summer. ;

THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Trail, some good and
others not 86 good. The not so good news is that the
Assessment Authority of B.C. is in its last month in Trail.
‘The office is scheduled to close at the end of May and all
but one of its 11 employees has accepted a transfer to
Nelson.

Derek Turner, district assessor, has accepted a
transfer to Victoria. The Trail office and staff will begin
the move in the last week of May, so the hours of
operation at the Bay Street location will be uncertain for
that week.

MEANWHILE, the good news is that vehicles will
begin arriving this week to stock the showroom of Trail’s
new General Motors dealership. The dealership will be
located on the premises of the old Kay Motors.

Riverview Chevrolet-Oldsmobile will be opening this
weekend under ownership of Guy LaBossiere. La-
bossiere, 35, is a first-time owner but was previously a
general manager of a Victoria dealership.

He has hired a staff of 25 and will be offering a full
range of sales and service.

Tommy McLachlan, a major shareholder in the old
Kay Motors, will be among the new employees at River-
view Chev-Olds. He will be working in sales.

THE QUESTION we're asked time and again is why
prices for regular gasoline in Castlegar are in the
49-cent-a-litre range, while Nelson, Trail and Salmo sell
the same gas for 47.3 cents a litre. Does it really cost
two-cents a litre to haul the extra distance to Castlegar?
Sorry, we don’t have the answer.

NELSON’S KOOTENAY Forest Products plywood
mill was auctioned off Friday as about 300 interested
buyers turned out to pay a quarter of a million dollars for
the plant's equipment.

The firm, Hedgewood Bros. and Merritt of Portland,
Ore. owned the mill and the equipment and arranged for
Ritchie Bros. to conduct the auction.

Griffith said the mechani-
cal shop did not keep sep-
arate logs on the buses, but
said each bus had a trouble
book for drivers to note
problems and give duplicate
notices to the shop for re-
pairs required.

But a driver would not
know if the repairs were
done unless he asked or
looked, he said.

Griffith said the company
had not set policy for deter-
mining roadworthiness of its
vehicles. He said he would
assess this along with the
company's two other mech-
anics — one of them an ap-
prentice.

Teacher William Wilkie
testified that the drive from
Victoria was uneventful untif’
they neared Courtenay,
when a palm-sized chunk of
rubber peeled off one of the
tires, forcing Griffith to stop
in Courtenay for repairs.

At the parking lot at the
base of the mountain, they
were joined by a group of
students from one of the
three buses being left in the
lot because of mechanical
reasons.

Wilkie said the addition of
extra passengers . did not
make him feel concerned
about safety.

BLAST OF AIR

On a return trip, Wilkie
said, after about 15 minutes,
he heard a loud blast of air
from the left front side, fol-
lowed, by three fading air
blasts. =

Wilkie was sitting directly
behind Griffith.

He said he heard. Griffith
say something which he
couldn't hear, but the tone
was ominous. “I knew there
was a problem.”

Wilkie said he did not
notice Griffith gearing down
as the bus accelerated.

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CORRECTION

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year the teacher was hired, the amount
of continuous time worked, the amount
of substitute teaching done before a
teacher was hired, previous teaching

experience in other districts,

date when a teacher's letter of ap-

pointment was written.

The agreement also covers provi

sions for re-hiring, the establishment of
seniority lists and severance payment.

tween teachers and

and the over B.C., he added

Although Rodgers said the agree-
ment is similar to ones negotiated be-

greater provision for (teachers) being
called back to work,” than most.

Rodgers said he was happy with two

school boards all

lained.
that it includes “a Py

months of negotiations that led to the
agreement.

“In the past year a responsible at
titude has been developed between the
school board and the (CDTA),” he ex.

The CDTA's dispute is with the
provincial government and Bill 3,

which calls for the laying off of “anyone

under any conditions,” said Rodgers.

Fraser

KISS RAISES EYE

BROWS

accused of Prince makes headlines

contempt

VICTORIA (CP) — The
New Demoeratic Party has
accused Highways Minister
Alex Fraser of contempt of
the legislature for announc-
ing that the government will
not reimpose mandatory test-
ing of motor vehicles.

When the government first
closed motor vehicle inspec-
tion stations last year, Fraser
indicated responsibility for
testing would be trasnferred
to the private sector. Last
month he said mandatory in-
spections would not resur-
face in any form.

But New Democrat Lorne
Nicolson said a special leg-
islative committee has not
completed its discussions on
motor vehicle safety and has
not reported back to the
house. That, he said, ap-
peared to be a clear case of
disobedience of the rules of
the legislature.

Firemen
attend
workshop

Approximately 180 area
firefighters and policemen
attended a stress manage-
ment workshop Monday at
Selkirk College.

The seven-hour workshop
was given by Dr. Fred Van
Vliet and was sponsored by
the fire chief's association in
conjunction with Selkirk Col-
lege.

A workshop for fire de-
partments’ ladies auxiliary
was held Tuesday

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LONDON (AP) — Pictures
of Prince Charles greeting
his brother Prince Edward
with a French-style kiss on
the cheek made front page
news in Britain today, and
raised a few eyebrows.

“The French do it, the
Greeks do it, Argentines and
Sikhs do it, even Russians in
the streets do it,” wrote The
Daily Mail. “But the British
can’t bring themselves to do
it... until yesterday, when
the royals did it.”

It happened at Cambridge
University, where Edward,

20, is an archaeology and an-
thropology student at Jesus
College, Charles arrived for
lunch and Edward stepped
forward to greet him, ap-
parently expecting his
brother to shake his hand.
Instead, Charles, 35, gripped
his brother's arms and plant-
ed a kiss on his cheek.
Photographer Ken Lennox
of The Star, another British
tabloid that put the picture
on the front page, was quoted
as saying that “in 14 years of
covering royal news, I have
mever seen anything like it.”
Suggesting Charles may

have launched a new fashion
among British men, The
Daily Express commented:

“In other times in Britain a
kiss between men has been
quite the done thing. But
then of course men — and
people in general — were so
much more innocent of the
homosexual overtones that
have complicated the manly
kiss for us in this century.”

A Buckingham Palace
press officer said: “It’s not
something that needs ex-
plaining away or commenting
on.”

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