A2. CASTLEGAR NEWS; November 26,1 1980 Snow may be pain to some, no ‘to ‘mafy ' C By ANGELIKA YOUNG Yesterday's snowfall, while a pain in the neck to many householders, was wel- comed by Castlegar retailers. People are already out sthere Christmas shopping but snow definitely increases sales. Say think snow is some- thing that’s needed to. give people incentive,” said toy shop. manager and part owner Elaine Audet. The annual spending spree is important to all re- tailers in varying degrees. , Audet says Christmas accounts for 60 to 70 per'cent of the toy shop's sales with Easter being the other big season. Castlegar buyers,. like = the rest of the country, are going for electronic toys in a . big way. Sales of high-quality 5 BERNIE THIESSEN swears he was only shopping around for a ring for himself. - : Hostages New message WASHINGTON (AP) — Algerian intermediaries met today with U.S. state de- partment officials to deliver a new message from Iran on its. terms for freeing the 62 American hostages. The day-long talks could: determine how far apart the “two countries are on negoti- ating the release of the cap- tives. They were greeted by Assistant State Secrefary Harold Sauders on’ arrival and. went-into-taiks-with-wn— American team bys oP : uty Secretary waka Ree topher, who had flown to Algiers 16 days ago with the U.S. response to Iran's four’ conditions for ending the crisis. | Meanwhile, in Beirut, Hojatoleslam Hashemi Raf- sanjani, speaker of the Iran- ian parliament, told a news conference: “If the United States makes a certain step, namely if it partially meets the Iranian conditions, we will set free a group of the hostages.” Rafsanjani arrived Tues- day as part of a tour of four Arab countries to éxplain Iran’s stand in the Persian Gulf war with Iraq. The United Bates says it has sel - artificial co name-brand toys are also good. ‘ For flower and camera Van Dungen, es just after Mother's in importance. He says his store does at least 30:7 cent of its shop owner Christmas || year's total, “We have to stock up a special selection for Christ- mas. There's more stock in the sons at well as a wider and ity retailers the store, “January from our experience is one of our bettér months. Miller said. the store does not stock many: special some mg xpanive items.” Bossa said people are | re, high’ carat gold ij * sales al ’ Al not soteri cenepite ers “Ne walls ‘more of its’ regular 8 fi ‘As furniture ‘is: high- pelea pagrahandlse, his store tof ‘its Christmas between mid- riand mid- Deters Sberswor, soi i. obARhmicloser it gets to, - Christmas, “British Columbians can do no less than extend the hand of friendship and help in this. time of need.” Bennett said in a news release that he extended the condolences of the govern- ment and the people of the prowines’ te 2 the Italian gov- 1 to the I time of year 3 items but just a ALREADY in the Cheisithos department in antlelpatién'c ‘of aottiny ot af t to others | | spirit sale old Gavin Mealing- pokes around a toy Ss ‘a nual list of suggestions to Santa. zine First lawstits filed in. MGM LAS VEGAS, NEV. (AP) — Fire investigators, have begun taking samples of water-soaked debris from the Tuins of the MGM Grand cano before an eruption in July, Hurliman said. “I think it’s some kind of foreplay for another. one (eruption),” he said. “Usually © the events we've experienced the last six months get some kind of activity prior to the eruption. “It's been steadily build- ing. It usually climaxes with an eruption.” Mount St. Helens has not erupted since Oct. 16 when the voleano had its fifth significant ash-and-steam emission since the May 18 blast that left 62 people dead or missing. Officials ‘on Tuesday, h ‘said the low-1 Hotel in hopes that lab tests will reveal why it took only seconds for deadly flames to roar through the giant hotel- casino. The speed of the fire that left 84 dead and 706 astonishing jeput: y Fire ote pane as Meanwhile, the first law- suit stemming from Friday's fire was filed in Los Angeles, It sought $250 million in damages on behalf of Mexi- cans who were staying in the hotel. And a Nebraska doctor recalled that he completed his will with the words, . “Smoke is getting heavier and wet towel on my face,” just before a firefighter res- cued him and 100 others from 15th-floor rooms. Dr. Jose V.G. Angel said Tuesday he'owed his life to a “brave fireman” and “if he's ever in Council Blufis, he's got.a free physical coming.” A team of county fire specialists on Tuesday began gathering samples “of inter- number of h less is esti- mated -at 100,000. Italian coheed general. i tremors are insig- nificant. “Canada West Foundation Libapale: show little sympathy come here to be insulted.” * FELTINSULTED - Later in an interview, Roberts was asked if he had felt insulted. : _ “Only by Senator La- ” he replied. the prestigious research group issued warnings Tues- day about the threat of west- Jern separatism. “The more you talk of i 5 the more you life was I felt.” Hammer said he had a history of hysterics, but when asked if he was under medical care or on medi- eation, he replied: “No, I'm not dangerous.” ' HAD BEEN INJURED He said he had suffered a head injury and a Partial encourage separatism in Western Canada,” snapped Liberg! Senator Carl Gold- eabere from Quebec. The only western Lib- eral to speak, Tuesday night, Senator Jack Austin from British Columbia, criticized the foundation for placing newspaper advertisements inviting the public to send coupons’ to. British Prime - Minister Margaret Thatcher asking her to hand over the whose . work is funded by the private sector and the four western governments, tabled recent surveys to-try to show that _ ‘The Progressive Conser- vatives were delighted with the foundation's presentation “It's the most author- - tiative on western many western Ci dians are ing to think seriousl hearing loss in a car Barker said he called for reinforcements when the cy- clist turned down a side street and di about leaving Confederation because of long-standing gri-. evances against the federal “He could go between the houses better than a motorcycle and I was afraid he would get away,” Barker said. Both told of a confron- tation ih front of Hammer's house, By this time, seven T can Pi were on the scene. Liberal Senator-Maurice Lamontagne from Quebet, . who billed himself as a former statistics teacher, at- tacked the method used in the surveys. -- Stan Roberts, founda- opinion I've heard in a long’ time,” said Senator Duff Roblin, a former Conserva- tive premier of Manitoba. — Vancouver consensus. Prime Minister Trudeau has rejected the idea of an . assembly. and snubbed the : Vancouver _ consensus, al- though: all provifices were prepared to Becept sit, “be- ‘ emotion when ior d drapes, any combustible material” for Grand Hotel fire ility and toxicity, Pappa- george said. “If any material didn't meet the code, we want to know about it,” he said. “Ifit did meet the code, maybe we should look into changing the code.” TRE TSCA SARA nuit is‘‘on ‘the Havishly"titnished cosine, where’ iat pedple Ber Dave Barrett raps Bennett: and Lougheed VANCOUVER (CP) — Peter Lougheed: and Bill Bennett are closet Western separatists out to preserve the interests of the foreign- owned gas and oil firms, which should be nationalized immediately Opposition Leader Dave Barrett said Tuesday, . “We see this timid, weak-kneed, repentant Lib- eral government saying, ‘We'd like a little share of the money.’ Then we see the Sheik of Alberta ere Peter L tests their future in Contedeection “If we used. our logic, we'd go it alone,” "Roberts said, he The is spend. ing most of its time listening _to groups representing ev- erything from the mentally there fi eee for Western Canadians, and his. puppet from B.C. saying, ‘Tl go * along with you, Pete, tell me what to do,’” Barrett told the annual convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor. He said he would re- verse the present division of .the petroleum ‘pie which gives Ottawa 10 per cent in taxes, while the remaining 90 per cent is shared evenly by the province and the oil himself as a classic faaniee _ His presentation to the cause ¢ would ‘be‘allowed to opt out of agreements reached be-* tween the federal’ -govern- ment and a majority of prov- inces.* TOO HASTY Speaking in French, Roberts began his presen- tation to the committee say- ing the federal government is, acting too hastily in forming .the constitution. The proposed changes were introduced in October; - the first round of debate was ended in Parliament by ‘clo- - sure and now the committee charged with studying the proposals -must. report jto The two of Joe Clark's consti- tutional planks — that a first round of amendments be re- commended to the govern-” ment by’ a constituent as- sembly of politicians and pri- yate citizens and that a -future formula be tion pi the senator to say: “I didn't patterned after the so-called by, Dec, 9° after little more than a month of hearings. This haste “is contribut- ing to the independence movement in the four. west- ern provinces,” Roberts said. He quoted Trudeau as telling westerners they should use logic rather than_ was delayed by 40 minutes ‘while Liberal .and opposition members argued about whether to invite the country’s leading . constitu-, tional experts to appear be- * fore the committee. “A motion by Lorne Ny- strom, New «Democratic Party federal-provincial. re- lations critic and MP for the Saskatchewan riding of York- ton-Melville, asking that a subcommittee be asked to invite constitutional scholars ‘to testify was defeated 14-9, The Conservatives supported . the NDP and all Liberal members opposed the mo- tion. Ron Irwin, parliament-* ary secretary to Justice Min- ister Jean Chretien, said earlier Tuesday in an inter- view that it was more im-‘ portant to continue hearing submissions from interest groups than from experts speaking only .for them- selves. 4 mi- norities oa t The new Liberal "the move by the Liberal majority on the joint com- mittee studying the resolu- tion on the constitution .to vote against the calling of constitutional experts as wit- nesses is but ‘the latest in a series of jes that has g energy p: wants to take 24 per cent and give 43 per cent to the prov- ince and 38 per cent to the industry. ‘ Barrett's share would give 45 per cent each ‘to the federal and provincial marked. the hearings of this committee,” Jake Epp, ‘Pro- gressive Conservative fede ral-provincial relations critic and*MP for the Manitoba riding of Provencher, said after the vote. ‘The constitutional com- ence Tuesday night with a persistent heckler, ~ An unidentified middle- aged woman in’ the audience shouted frequently through- out the proceedings and was cautioned several: .times “by security guards to remain silent. She had spoken a few words from the audience on previous occasions but had not reacted so boisterously to earlier discussions, mittee had its first experi-. holding the oil G firms to 10 per cent, If the oil companies paid a proper tax of 36 per cent before write-offs, he said, then the federal government would receive $5.1 billion in annual revenue, instead of .the $1.4 it currently gets. -Barrett said the oil in-, dustry’s 1979 profit was $4.6 billion up 58 per cent’ over: “Now Trudeau is over in. Algeria and Arabia doing his little dance. That dance has wotked well in Canada why nat show it to the Arabs," : aid Barrett. * “He's there to buy oil at international prices while we sold our“oil to the United States for far-less. than’ in- ternational prices.” then, . split . Provinces would name half senators appointed By ALAN Parana OTTAWA (CP) — -vincial would : The other provinces woul keep. their’ present repre- dictage -o one-half of the ap- pointments to an enlarged Senate under Proposals Fe: leased today. The proposals from a Senate subcommittee also + say the consitution should be amended to enshrine a fed- eral-pravinclal council of first ministers that would nego- _ tiate constitutional change, among other things. Senators | would sit for a syatem of / with full would increase to eight sen- ators from six. ‘The Senate would give p its’ ly “deau has introduced: his own package of constitutional re- forms, which leave the Ben i Dates over sera pr but would be able to hold up bills j for. six months to force the Commons and the public to se wishing it, ment - would | It says this would be" preferable to replacing the Senate with an upper cham- ber dedicated exclusively to provincial interests, The recommendations by the Senate on legal and constitutional affairs call for the four western provinces to get 20 more Senate seats and New- foundland two more. The Senate would grow to 126 seats from the present 104; headed’ by Quakes: Maurice ‘ Lamontagne,” ‘says Alberta and British Columbia. should have 12 seats each, up’ from six, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan ‘would gotol0 from six. Newfoundland. Central OTTAWA (CP) — The real blame for western alj- enation rests:with the econ- gale establishment. of Cen- tral Canada, not the federal government, Labor Minister Gerald Regan said Tuesday. © Speaking during & spec- ial six-day ‘debate on federal energy policies, Regan told the Commons that in his former role as Nova Scotia premier, he had to deal with, 100 years of Atlantic region's antagonism and criticism for Central Canada. “can toa considerable degree sympathize with some of their Q adians) points, of view.” But Ottawa is the wrong target for such sentiments in the. West, he indicated. “I think in the private sector, there needs ibe a great'deal done | rela decentralization” of “cl ate and econoniié power, now: based predominantly in Tor- onto and Moritreal. | i Other "Botntiies! notably the United ” States, i em, i The tadcnatipicginaial council would negotiate con- ; stitutional amendments, ap- prove federal acts affecting + provincial jurisdiction before Se Parliament considers - them goals. It’ also would the use of ate unte ° ROLE ASA FORUM The federal-proyvincial council would take: care. of much of the regional con- cerns; but the report asks the constitution give'the Senate . ‘a specific regional role so it will “look, on a systematic basis, at the regional impact } “of federal’ policies and, be- come a. forum where regional ' grievances would | ‘The report calls: f ators to have clearer ri he constitution gives jtederal government, adgrhe: report was pre- ared:in advance of the un- “successful first ministers’ ‘conférence on the consti- tution’ in September, but - delayed by. Since gests that the Senate strike han- 74 standing. committees‘ dle items ‘such ‘as -regidnal concerns rights. It Bropose® ally Pasind regional caucuses‘ to board: then, Prime Minister rou! too inuch of a sling that if . you go as far as Oshawa, (about 50 kilometres east of Toronto) you are in the frontier region.” Regan also said the op- position parties were really uite: pleased with the gov- nt’s energy package and continued to attack it only for show.: ° “ire & The’ ‘Progressive Conser- 2 Va Toitvest have attacked the Liberals for trying to “na- concerns. Bits “and gas pecaeatiae by 1990. The New Democrats have criticized the’ federal measures because too’ much +. control of the oil ‘industry -would remain in the hands of private companies, especially the major foreign-owned cor- porations. . Regan said the govern- ment-has reason to be con- fident in its energy policies since the NDP and Conser- vatives are attacking from opposite directions — one have learned to snrend. their “*tionalize evorrtning tt sight” . saying the government is wealth around “ly, Regan said.‘ Yet in Canada, “There is Heavy ratte By.CLARA HEMPHILL Ss NAPDES,. ITALY: .(AP).. " —"Heavy rains and ‘more aftershocks added to the misery of earthquake sur- . vivors in the Naples-Sorrento area.of southern Italy today as workers kept digging for bodies. The chief of relief operations said he is planning the evacuation of many thou- sands of the homeless, The interior ministry reported 3,000 bodies have been récovered, at least 1,800. more people are missing, 5,000 were injuted and: 200,000 people were made homeless by the earthquake . Sunday night. It was Europe's deadli- est quake in 65: years, since one in 1915 killed $0,000 people in the’ Avezzano re- gion of.central Italy, The continuing tremors brought down buildings that - escaped the earthquake Sun- day night and frightened hundreds of thousands of survivors camped in. parks, beaches and other, open spaces. “We have offered them School buildings, but they ‘don’t want .to go in with ‘anything over their heads, said Salerno. health official Antonio’ Ercolano... “It. is underatandable because they were so shocked and fri- ghtened.” Bleary-eyed soldiers, po- lice and firefighters helped * grieving villagers dig out the living and dead ‘from the quake that hit Sunday night. Rescue teams worked slowly. ‘ because) they. did not have Delays continue. Continued delays are being experienced by the Castlegar Airport which has been waiting for its new fire truck and the go-ahead to hire firemen. Ministry of transport public affairs officer Steven Rybak says work’ is being done on a fire truck in the Abbotsford plant but there is likely a delay in delivery. Two factors, which de- livery hinges’ on, must be given consideration. One is an adequate ‘place. to store _ the truck and the other, ap- proval is required from the Treasury Board to ‘add fire- - men to the staff of three. Fire ‘coverage now is handled by the fire chief with the regular men , Another delay .is also possible with the firemen should Treasury Board give approval. .The MOT would also have to negotiate with Adga Systems International; the firm that holds:the con- tract to operate the airport, A restaurant is also be- ing considered by the MOT said Rybak. A pre-tender briefing meeting was held in Castlegar Nov. 6. Proposals now being evaluated. Once evaluated, a second stage, . that of presenting an actual figure as to what the suc- cessful tenderer is willing to pay for the contract, will have to be studied before the go-ahead is given, sald Ry- i as, auxiliary firemen, v ' If a new structure is necessary for the fire truck, ! said Rybak, construction would have to wait until the new fiscal year which begins April 1. Your Carpet Headquarters ... Carpets by Ivan Oglow - 365-7771 We' re. Moving | Dec. 1, 1980 201- 507 ‘Baker St. Nelson, B.C. .~ ie VIL 4J2 a KOKANEE COLLECTORS :-& BAILIFFS LTD. Orriss Business Services plans‘to See 50-per-cent_ Canadian oe of oil going too far and the other saying it is not going far enough, : add to woes} enough bulldozers or other equipment. ‘allen stones and ¢ol- lapsed bridges blocked many roads, but an interior min- istry official said relief teams had arrived at every. com- . munity in the stricken region by Tuesday evening. LOOK FOR BODIES The military command estimated the death toll at 3,182, The parish priest in Sant’ Angelo dei ‘Lombardi said he believes 1,500 bodies are beneath the ruins there. . Officials in Laviano, 75 kilo-. _Metres east of Salerno, pre-- dicted they may find 700 bodies under the rubble in their town. © A The interior - ministry said 2,400 bodies have’ been recovered and 200,000 people, are homeless. It was Eur- opé's most deadly earth- quake since a 1915 quake killed 80,000 ‘people in the Avezzano region of central Italy. “We will set up a well- organized exodus for those who have survived in‘ the towns choked with thousands of deaths,” - said. Giuseppe Zamberletti, who was put in charge of relief operations on : Monday. “The model ied itl guide us will remain the F Friuli emergency,” he told'a 3 news conference. In 1976, .when two violent tremors and torrential rains killed about .1,000- people in. the northern Friuli region, Zam- berletti bused‘ and trucked 120,000: survivors to requi- sitioned hotels, pensions and private homes for the winter on the Adriatic coast. About 95 per cent were abld to return home eventually, but about 35,000 still live in pre- fabricated housing. “We will ‘give ample | margin to local mayors, while using military support facil- _ ities in various areas,” he said. “But we will not have . the benefit: of the numerous military bases of northern ‘Italy, so we will have to fly many soldiers down.” AIDS QUAKE VICTIMS The’ Canadian govern- ment has given the Red Cross $100,000 as the ‘first installment of assistance to earthquake victims, External Affairs Minister Mark Mac- Guigan said Tuesday. The minister said in the House.of Commons that Canada will make a further contribution when the. 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