CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 21, 1981 Crude oil prices stumble NEW’ YORK '(AP) .— Crude oil prices are tumbling . in the United States ‘and abroad, and analysts say the trend probably will lead to lower product prices for con- sumers. Iran and Britain have low- ered their oil prices by as much as $1.60 a barrel. And the Egyptian government oil . company disclosed that it cut its various crudes by be- tween $1 and $1.50 a barrel. “I don't see how this can help but lower pump prices,” sald Alvin Silber, who follows Budget cérrection An artleie ¢ on this year’s Castibgar school board budget in the international oll industry the O for Dean, Witter Teum Inc., a New York-based in- somewhat by ee The. vestment firm. “Itwon't be group's president has said he: dramatic, just a drifting.” is considering ‘calling a spec- ‘The decline in oll prices is’/ial. meeting in advance’ of due mainly to an oversupply ,OPEC's regular May session. | on world markets due to re-‘’ MUST MATCH DEMAND. cession in the industrialized '; . Few. sien foresee a col- ‘West and extensive conser-¢. lapse of OPEC's basic pricing. vation. Analysts also say ma’ .atructure that reats on Saudi of Petro- News included a budget analysis © showing the 1 Aes final budget, the 1981 final budget, and the dollar and percentage increase. Figures for the 1981 final budget were transposed in the. analysis. Below are the correct figures. However, figures’ inv the ‘story that accompanied the analysis, were correct: Holiday shots bring royal .: disapproval: LONDON. (REUTER): — ‘Two national apologized ‘Friday ° for the: ft ‘royal furor they ‘provoked ‘with. front-page pletures of Administration$ 397,105 jor cil. companies. are’ \de- pleting the high inventories they build up late last year, making: for even fewer buy- ers, Those events ‘have taken.’ Metered letters become VANCOUVER (CP) — Double zero on his postage meter spelled jackpot this week for city dentist Neil Basaraba. As an experiment, Bas- |. + araba set his office postage meter at 00 and it paid off with a jackpot postal deliv- ery. Basaraba’s experiment started out — like many brilliant inventions — in a small way. It began the day the postman delivered, a let- ‘ter to his office with’ only seven cents metered postage on the envelope. Basaraba was puzzled that : there was no postage die so he decided: to test the sys- tem. He set his office postage meter at. three cents and posted a typewritten enve- lope addressed to himself. It was delivered the next day, correctly machine /can- celled by. the post: office — again with no postage owing. Emboldened, | Basaraba carried his experiment a step further. He set the meter at double zero, or no postage at all, had his staff type 10 envelopes all addressed to him and mailed them from 10 different areas of the city. All 10° were delivered. . “Some;,came ~back-; machine - a look-at-this;"she:said;.vor= bargain cancelled,” said Basaraba. . “Some wer delivered but not cancelled. _ “In one week, I had 10 let- ters delivered for 10 cents.” Canada Post spokesman Jack MacLean is puzzled by the whole thing. - “Metered mail is entirely machinable,” MacLean said. “Only stamped mail goes. through a cancellation ma- chine.” fi He said the post office tries to Keep metered mail and stamped mail in two separate streams. “Metered mail goes through a high speed optical character reader that reads the metered postage set- ting,” he said. “Next it goes to a letter sorting machine and, finally, to the letter car- rier.” Because the letter. carrier is. metered mail's only human contact in the postal system, he or she is the ultimate watchdog of insufficent pest, age, metered or otherwise. “If a carrier gets a bunch of letters, particularly metered business letters, I guess he wouldn't think to check for metered postage,” MacLean said, adding that no mail letters with insufficient post- age is against the law. “I- imagine we'll be having _ | HOMEGOODS' ITURE WAREHOUSE - Tues.-Sat. 9:30-5:30 China Creek — "Drive a Little to Save a Lot Arabia's price of $34 a barrel * for its top-grade: crude. In- stead, analysts think OPEC will cut {on to match instruction '- $6,575,790 Operation = $785,485 Repairs and the’ slack ‘level of ‘aemand, Even that satrategy: isin’ ~ qitestion because. many: “OPEC — ‘most: ‘ 3 807,945 Conveyance . a wuxillary i $ °40,050 - notably. Iran — are eager to‘, inerease, - pr to \in- $9,034,530, * $7,453,970 $1,210, 215° $75,975 $123,555 $ tera! $ 11080 $1,580,560 crease ‘their hard’ currency. resérves. Iran needs revenue; ‘to finance its war with neigh: = -boring: ~ Iraq.$ Speculation about a special’ .OPEC meeting arose, after, Iran cut its oil prices by $1.a barrel, to $83.20 for its top grade. That move could lead to a series of price cutting by other OPEC members eager. to hold their share of the’ market. Also, Britain, which.is not a member of OPEC, | cut prices of its North Sea oil by $1.50 a barrel to $35. And prices in the spot market, where oil not on long-term contract is traded, continue to fall. Larry Goldstein, an econ- omist at.the Petroleum In- dustry Research Foundation, said he expected some OPEC members to continue offering '- discounts to sell their oil. Urban denies : crackdown:on Catholic Church WARSAW (AP) — Polish government spokesman Jer- zy Urban disclosed Friday that a Roman Catholic priest arrested after the start of martial law Dec. 18 is on trial’ for sanders the state an Wojciech Jaruzel Premie: ren ere tig ase in’ Tear pela Family: violence ‘reports heard OTTAWA (CP) — A hus- band’s |, frustrated desire to exercise. absolute. control over his wife's behavior is the ‘moet ‘commion: ‘report - bat- tered women give after being abused, a. Commons commit- tee. vatudying family violence was told. : ” Other factors’ cited by the Vancouver-based Women's - ‘Centre include “a age battered woman, saying the victims come from di- verse circumstances and s0- _cio-economic backgrounds." ° Some’ are’: financially.’ in- dependent of their husbands, of but “like: the” majority: of © Canadian women, most bat- tered women are. economi-’ cally. dependent on their hus- bands’ or-have skills and training that equip them for. : lower-paid occupations.” saree nancial problems, such as husband's refusal'to provide’ “enough ‘money to” run household. “Women'’> reported - being’ beaten when they. asked their’ husbands for money for ‘their: -children’s clothing or for cro- ceries for the farnily,” centre’ spokesman Jan. Barnsley, said in a brief’ presented to the committee.- f “Some ‘said they were as-. saulted when their husbands battered women in- the Princess of “Wales in a brief bikini. The pictures were taken earlict ‘this week of the newspapers." 3 : conn TOKE: St Seeds i at Valley di GROW LAMPS & FIXTURES "AVAILABLE NOW NURSERY, DESIGN SERVICES & ESTIMATES * PLO, Box 34, Winlaw, B.C. 726-7220) 20-year-old | Princess | lazing and swimming with her hus- band, Prince Charles, ona Private beach in the Baha- the vacation shots upset, Buckingham Palance and the Queen condemned ‘the photos. as “in’ the’ worst possible taste.” : The palace delivered .a stern rebuke Thursday to the offending papers, ‘The Sun and The Daily Star, which promptly recalled their phot- ographers ‘and ‘reporters from the Bahamas, Incensed members of Par- lament signed a motion crit- jeieta oh the two papers. and the Press Council, watchdog of the British media,’ said it would investigate whether KOKANEE TAX - "Your Estoblished Tax Service’” OPEN MON.-FRI., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. SAT. 9 a.m.-noon (neues bau re nl eee 365-6161-. 278 ColumbiaAve. |. 365-2416 the photos were an invasion million ‘copies, printed | an ‘applogy Friday on Page 1'— and reprinted alongside it ‘one of the controversial pic- tures of the bikini-clad ‘Prin- cess, just over five months d '-vio- ence in their parents’ homes. But others had not‘and said day’ or. every. ‘week — while for. others. it-is ‘a sporadie problem. ? ‘many ‘women batter: singe While for others it be- gan later in life, often during. pepe? or. when children had spent ‘all their Household arris money on drinking or gam! ling or when the ills pile Bow z - “For many women, visitin; - with friends, coming. home’ lat mrvinterview--with-—keeping-in! families by telephone, or let. t gan when the childrun were ‘western reporters, Urban vigorously. denied. a’ West German newspaper report,of- ‘a possible government crack- own on the Roman Catholic ters: :-precipitated ‘violence.° . Church that would. include ‘ mass’ arrests of priests.” The priest reported on’ visors of the household: require their wives to wo trial was not and Urban gave no further de- tails. Urban also sought to end that the Com-. attention Men & Boys! 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Sin publication” ‘and: were” ere” Snapped ‘secretly ‘by: hidden‘ photographers. tributed to. their -husbands | Two .months . ago, the not wanting to take respon- Queen made a personal plea bility; finascially and other. ' to newspaper editors not to harass the young. princess SMany .women said their out Meier] concern that the con- ds also threatened to stant giare of the press could harm her health. munist:regime had hed an attack. on the Roman’ Catholic:clergy through the state-run media. “It is not in the interest of the ‘state to conduct a war over crucifixes,” said Urban, referring to a Warsaw Radio’ broadcast Thursday that said ‘one priest had told people to oppose remvoing crosses from schools even if finer - were shot at. their what housework. should -be: done and ‘inspecting the win- dow ‘sills, ‘stoves or tops or doors to determine whether. proper standards had been met.” In some cases, women were beaten for not doing the housework fast enough, she said. - + ‘ INJURIES VARY The centre's research shows injuries inflicted range from bruises to broken bones, internal injuries, torn - ligaments aud dislocated joint ry. : they could — not talking so much, talking more, staying “selves, - husband. 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They. defeated the com- binéd forces of the Conser- vatives and New Democratic Party 184 to 1s ‘= a rowdy by blindly supporting a bad federal budget. Hoping to crack govern- ment unity, Opposition Lead+ er Joe-Clark had challenged Liberal MPs .to preserve: their honor and support the Progressive Conservative motion. . But the - government benches erupted into guffawa when he threw out the chal- lenge and when it came to what Clark said would be “the moment of truth,” the Tory. MPs howled loudly and shouted ‘Shame’ as sev- eral Liberals known to har- bor concerns about the econ- omy rose to vote with their party. ‘IT'S ATRAP" “It was a pure partisan political‘ game and we were not going to fall into that trap,” Health Minister Moni- que’ Begin said in an inter. view. Evern since Begin, Minis- ter of State Serge Joyal and eight Montreal’ Liberals’ wrote Prime Minister ‘Tru-. deau:a letter urging him to stimulate housing construc- tion and create more jobs for Canadians, the Tories have been calling on them to.put their’ votes where thelr. mouths are. +, Clark said later the ‘Tories will continue to try to defeat the budget and draw atten: ‘: tion to Liberal’ MPs who - criticize it one minute: and vote for-it the next. f Employment, Minister Lloyd Axworthy called Clark's speech “high comedy” and said it was tragic Clark should be depending on votes from Liberal MPs. : : 200,000 affected by Bennett’ s restraints VICTORIA (CP) — ‘Pre. mier Bill Bennett's intention to restrict public sector’ pay raises will hit more ‘than 200,000 B.C. workers’ or about: one in six of all the peaple who were working in A survey shows Bennett's action will hold down the raises for members of some ‘36 different unions and asso- cistions, from the B.C. Gov- ernment Employees Union — the largest with 49, 000 mem- bers — to the seven-member Victoria senior police officers’ association. In addition, there is a as-yet-undetermined number of, management “employees throughout the public sector who will have their wages frozen until the government ‘decides their guidelines. Ben- nett did not make it clear if all the government's mana- “gers will catch the chill. Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Vander Zalm confirmed Saturday. that legislation + -would have tobe passed in the house before the ceilings can be imposed. 10PER CENT AT MOST Energy Minister Bob Mc- Clelland said Friday in an in- terview that under the prop- osed guidelines, he doesn't expect. any civil servants to get more than 10 per cent, except in unusual circum- stances. . But he did make it clear thatthe public sector's fat- test cats will be hit with “stricter guidelines.” Vander Zalm -said B.C. ; father denies: Williams hit him a trol and she is undermined by economic: dependence and Tropical who has the right to. make decisions in a family.” “Thei hit them in the head and face, punch or ag sa ee eae md IN APPRECIATION TO PAST CUSTOMERS » AND THE BUILDING NOT LEASED — WE'VE. ACCEPTED FACTORY OFFERS. ON... Top quality, 100% cotton. 115 cm. ... t16em eo OM CORD 85% cotton!15% poly. VELVETEEN 100% cotton. 90cm. ........-0-000e _UPHOLSTERY $25-$60 reg. value, wide widths . AND men MORE 50 359, 554, yd. up O0DS 'N. ENDS remnant -shop BETWEEN THE NEW BRIDGE AND SAFEWAY — 1801 2nd Ave., East ‘Teall OPEN 9:00 A.M. TO 9:00 P.M. 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Wayne Williams, 23, is charged with murdering Natheniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two of 28 ‘young blacks whose deaths during a 22-month period have been ‘investigated by police. No arrests have been -made in the other 26 deaths. During the eight-week . trial, ‘prosecutors have d evid of 10 additional slayings of young blacks that they contend are part of a pattern of killings that includes the deaths of Cater and Payne. During lengthy Friday, Assistant District Attorney, Jack Mallard asked the elder Williams: “Isn't it true that Wayne assaulted you in the spring of 1981 over your refusal to rent anotior vehicle for his friend, Willie Hunter?" “No sir," Williams replied. : “Didn't he grab you, sling you around, throw you out of a car and hit you?” Mallard asked. “No sir,” Williams replied. . ‘ASSAULT YOU?" “Isn't it true tha the assaulted and choked you in your home over your refusal to write him another check, after which you got a shotgun and threatened to shoot him?” Mallard asked. “No sir, that didn’t happen,” the elder Williams said, his gravelly voice rising in volume. Homer Williams also said the green carpet in his home, which prosecution witnesses have said could have been the source of green carpet fii fibres found on 12 victims, was purchased in 1968. Prosecutors tried to show earlier in the trial that the Williams’ earpet came from a northern Georgia firm that manufactured that type of carpet only between December, 1970, and December, 1971. Since only a small: amount of that carpet was manufactured, FBI fibre expert Hal Deadman testified that such carpet would be found in only one of every 7,795 homes in the Atlanta area. But Homer Williams said his family’s carpet was installed in 1968 and produced a photographic slide dated December, 1970, that showed the green carpet in his house. In other testimony, the elder Williams disputed a prosecution witness’ claim that he saw Wayne Williams and Cater holding hands walle coming out of a downtown theatre about 9 p.m. May 2: Wayne Williams came to the attention of police early May 22 near the Chattahoochee River after a police officer reported hearing aloud splash in the river and spotted Wayne Williams’ car on the bridge. Prosecutors contend Wayne had just dumped Cater's body i in the river. Cater's body was found in the river two days later, about two kilometres downstream from the bridge, in the same area where Payne's body had been : for the babies, found a month earlier. & , Hydro chairman Bob Bonner and Tom Holmes, a CRUISING ALONG . . . Cross country skier glides along well-trodden: route on Mud Lake at the Paulsen ski trails, ‘LkesNewsPhoioby Ron Norman BRITISH AFRAID OF MOVING TOO FAST of the . Insurance’ Corp.’ of B.C., are among those who will have their salaries fro- zen, Others to be affected 1 range | from deputy ministers . to municipal managers and se- nior staff to hospital ad- ministrators — “everybody who's non-union and in man- agement positions,” Vander Zalm said.. Arts Centre meeting The annual general meet- ing of the Trail and District Zhald at tpn. Tueeday nt ‘The meeting will include the election of officers for the coming year and reports on. the progress of the Esplan- ade Centre theatre project. Society representatives Norm Gabana and Bob Far- mer will report on a weekend meeting in Vancouver with project architect Bruno Fres- chi and designer Ron Kellett. In preparing the design, the Freschi firm has worked with specialist consultants in Vancouver. Theatre groups and technicians in the local El area have also been consulted as the design have devel- oped, in sessions co-ordinated by Jim DeLong. The society plans on hav- ing a detailed report of the design, costs and financing for presentation to the re- gionalization’ commission in March, with Freschi and Kellett on hand to assist with the presentation. | Everyone interested’ is welcome to attend. : | Nediees _ defy pickets continued from page Al were « -violating an - under- standing that the nurses were .to. work only on an emergency basis. “The administration has made absolutely no effort to train personnel to care for the intensive care nursery babies,” said Sharon - Lea, United Nurses of Alberta representative at Holy Cross. Lea said the hospital could no longer be considered in an emergency, situation because the provincially run Foothills Hospital — whose nurses are not allowed to strike — has. room to take the’ infants. However, Dennison said “there is no.room at Foothills and until nurses crossed the picket line ‘only oné supervisory nurse had experience in the speci- alized area of nursery care. However, she said there had been no problems with caring for the infants. Constitution not here til April _ By ROGER SMITH LONDON (CP) — The new Canadian constitution likely won't be home until at least early April because the Brit-| ish government, afraid of. of- fending ‘MPs and lords by of speeding up normal process- es, wants to ease thepatri- ation package through West- mins! iter. In a surprising develop- ment, Hotise government has not sched- uled a second day or third reading of the Canada bill for next week,. it appears the Commons won't give final approval until the first week of March. At that rate, the House of Lords wouldn't begin debate until at least March 11. There had been speculation the lords. ‘might rubber-stamp the ill but the Leader Francis Pym ‘told Canadian Justice Minister ‘Jean Chretien in a private meeting that committee con- sideration in the British Go Since tho * Conservative ‘Deaths. SAN SALVADOR (REUT- ER) — Three U.S. congress- cautious approach signalled “by Pym over drinks with Chretien on Thursday indi- cates the lords will probebly take about troy weeks to deal with ity. . + After the Commons agreed Wednesday to the principle of ‘Can- replacement for the 114-year- old British North America Act ete with a char- adian officials hoped MPs would .send the new consti- tution off to the lords before Chretien played down the latest hitch, telling reporters he wants the constitution home as quickly as possible ‘but will leave timing and tac- tics to the British. ‘The Canada bill calls on the British to exercise control over Canadian constitutional changes for the last time by acter of rights and an amend- ing formula so future changes can be made in Canada. Approval of the lords in late March means the Queen wouldn't deliver the new constitution before April. , Canadian officials are ready’ to throw royal visit plans into ‘operation any weekend the sovereign is available. Earthquake hits WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong earthquake has oc- Richter aclae,” Kelly said. The Richter scale is a curred near the Santa Cruz oe of the energy released Islands in the as mea- Pacific, the U.S. Geological shar by the ground motion and i 8, on" a nee::E! i aedaly ports of damage or injury,. ber on the scale means that Survey spokesman Don the ground motion is 10 times we Canisarou nd for complex? : By CasNews Staff - The ad hoc committee that emerged out of last month's Castlegar public economic forum fs already working on four_ideas to help boost the local economy in the short-term, a said Richard Maddocks, committee secretary, told the men say they are Castl News the is working at setting up a backed junta-had lied about city ite at'the complex, and is pressuring Be. . Hydro to hurry up with its plans to install Dam. the alleged army of civilians. The congressmen, all op- ponents of the Reagan ad- ministration’s military aid to El Salvador, said the official version of the event did not fit the facts. Democrats Thomas Har- kins of Iowa and James Oberstar of Minnesota and Republican James Coyne of Pennsylvania said they had visited San Antonio Abad, a slum suburb of San Salvador, . where about 20 people were killed at night three: sweeks ago. The army version was that the victims were caught in crossfire during a battle with ' guerrillas; But relatives said soldiers had taken people from their homes and shot them through their heads. The congressmen believed the relatives, “What happened at San Antonio Arad was a massive cover-up by the military,” Harkin said. He said soldiers “just went into the homes .°. . They dragged out young people, some old people, and assas- sinated them in the streets.” Allegations by human rights organizations that El Salvador's armed forces com- mitted atrocities have stif- fened opposition in the United States to’President Reagan's policy of support for the ruling junta. The White House plans to send aid worth $185 million this © financial year, including arms and equipment worth more than $80 million, but the con- gressmen told a news con-* ference at the U.S, Embassy that they would continue to try to stop the military as- sistance. — The coanmation is chaired by local car dealer Gary Maloney. Other members are: Castlegar Savings Credit Union manager Harold Webber, Mayor Audrey Moore, Central Kootenay Regional District economic develop- ment officer Stefan Lauer, economist Larry Brown and business consultant Sean Rooney. ig feasibility and studies, the com- mittee hopes to announce implementation of at least two plans by the middle of March, Maddocks said. More ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated and can be sent to Castlegar Savings Credit \ Union, 601-8th Street in Castlegar,” Maloney added. J ‘SunFest' meeting . on Thursday Castlegar Chamber ‘of year from July 17 to 25. Ann Kelly said the quake hit an area about 2,240 kilometres northeast of Brisbane, Aus- tralia, at 5:27 a.m. PST Sat- urday (12:27 a.m. local time Sunday). ‘Preliminary estimates put the nagnitude at 6.9 on the greater. A quake of magnitude 6 can cause severe damage, while an earthquake register- ing 7 on the Richter scale is considered a major quake capable of wideapread des- truction. Local pilots on survival course A winter survival course, involving CFB Comox 442 Search and Rescue Squad- | ron and local pilots, began yesterday and concludes to- day. The exercise — the first in which the squadron has. co- operated with the civil branch of search and rescue program in an overnight sur- vival training exercise — in- volves app’ 50 pi- lectures and actual field ac- tivities. The exercise was organ- ized by John Hall, regional air chief of the Provincial Emergency Program, on be- half of pilots who fly is in east- ern B.C. The exercise is designed to train the pilots in the event their plane goes down in bush area and under adverse cir- lots from as far away as, Golden “and. who spent last’ night in the mountainous area. west.of Castlegar.“ = A bivousc was built giving night survival in sub-zero besa nahi busi- nesses, clubs and organi- zations who wish to par- * ticipate in Castlegar's Sun- fest 82 are urged to attend. Commerce is calling an or- - ganizational meeting at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Ho- tel on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. SunFest will run this are to be eva- cuated by helicopter today in a simulated rescue. Capt. Don (Smokey) Blair of Comox is in charge of the Squadron 442 Comox is the most decorated military unit in Canada in peace time, with 100 awards in-12 months for -missions flown for rescue the pilots a lesson in over- pr urposes. Among these is the Mynar-, ski Trophy. The highest award — the Star of Courage — has also been awarded Capt. Gary Flath of the 442 Search and Rescue Squad- ron, Kinsella dumps furniture VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia. government's message of restraint has reached Premier Bill Bennett's office, and as a result his deputy Patrick Kinsella will have to make do without fancy new expensive furniture in his office. Kinsella, who joined the premier’s staff last October at an annual salary of $65,000, announced in a terse news release Friday that he had cancelled the order for new custom-made furniture valued at more than $15,000, Bennett came under criticism for allowing the expenditure while calling on British Columbians to tighten their belts in the fe eorerneT battle against the current recession. a special television broadcast Thursday evening, inappropriate even for an office where delegations and international visitors often wait when they come to see the premier.” Kinsella said he was surprised at the cost of the furniture and “asked that the necessary steps be taken to cancel the order.” At first, Kinsella indicated he had spent only about $8,000 for furniture, and figures given to Finance Minister Hugh Curtis by the purchasing commission listed only that amount. But government officials confirmed Thursday that an additional $7,000 was authorized in two more orders for Kinsell's it from a Canadian ponnitt outlined a program of restraint limiting increases in public spending to 12 per cent : and increases in public sector wages to from eight to 14 per cent. “Costs got out of hand since the items I needed were identified and put out to tender,” Kinsella said. “Now, that I know what the total cost would be, I find it manufacturer. They said no purchase commission requisition form was completed for the $7,000 order, a departure from the usual method. Instead, the B.C. Building Corp., which provides furniture and housing to government, made the purchase using an authorization order.