| I ba: Lidvary, Bligs,, 50l Bellevsits sz due Mila and Brian Mulroney are expecting their fourth child on or about Wednesday . . | AS Mayor Audrey Moore says she doesn t like the way some area residen- ts-treat,| Westar Timber . . _. The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49, draw were three, nine, 13, 15, 27 and 30. The bonus number was 42. The $500, ' number in Friday's Provincial ‘lottery draw ‘is 5116047. 000 winning out Jerry's kids Castlegar and Robson firefighters are helping with the annual Jerry Lewis campaign for muscular dystrophy . Castlegar News - the afternoon and early evening. . and lows 6-8. Outlook i jttle drier and| warmer ind Tuesday. s é 50 Cents VOL. 38, No. 70 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 - WEATHERCAST Sunny today with cloud building betore noon, scattered showers or isolated thunder showers in . 1985" 2 Sections (A & B) NUCLEAR WEAPONS Youth delegates call for test ban By RON NORMAN Editor CONFERENCE WIND-UP ... Youth delegate listens intently to discussion during final session Saturday of World Youth — Peace Through Communication conference at the Brilliant Cultural Centre. f CostewsPhoto by Ron Norman YOUTH HAPPY WITH PEACE - CONFERENCE By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer ffective” and “ '—those are some of the words youth delegates used to label the five-day peace which y y at the Brilliant Cultural Centre. “It's been a great exchange of information. I've really enjoyed it;*-said- Nai Navai-25; an-Iranian-who-h: BEATRICE SIBBLIES NAI .- morale booster + AVAL . enjoyed it She said non one seemed interested in finding~ solutions to world problems, such as poverty and the arms race, she said. “I looked and searched but the apathy was very frustrating.” However, Sibblies’ morale has received a boost from the peace | conference. completed his degree in chemistry at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby. Navai has spent the last eight years in Canada and “recently moved to Calgary. As a member of the Baha’i faith he would face persecution if he returned to his homeland, where he said 700 Baha'is are in jail and have no human rights under the oppressive rule of the Ayatollah Kkomeini. “I think it is important that we share ideas and through ideas we will find a solution to the world’s problems.” Navai said he doesn't believe in the present political system because of built-in prejudices which do not allow input from,a large nt of the populati ‘Ecame-here-and jwas-very- glad-to-seethat students—| all over want peace.” She said she would like to see more emphasis placed on re-educating people, and feels that education is one solution to the world’s problems. “Mankind is diseased in its way of thinking. We can't get peace by trying to make people in the Soviet Union think of Americans as horrible people.” Jamie Dawson, an American delegate from Seattle, had much the same view as Sibblies, saying, “It's essential that there be contact between citizens of different nations.” . Dawson, 16, praised the conference for helping establish contact between people from different The optimistic Navai also said he doesn’t think changing the system will be hard and compared the task to moving a mountain. He said-if you dig away at the mountain piece by piece it may take a long time to move it, but “at least you're moving it.“ “If we all participate, that is what will change the system. Beatrice Sibblies, a 16-year-old Jamaican who is attending Lester B. Pearson College on Vancouver Island, said she came to the conference “optimistically cynical.” She said when she talks to youth in Victoria and on Vancouver Island all they are interested in is “clothes, boyfriends and TV.” Fito Garcia, an 18-year-old Guatemalan refugee,.saw the conference as ‘a means of bringing attention to the situation in Central America and in particular Guatemala. “(The conference) will help the youth of different countries of the world know about the situations in Central America.” Garcia said he is chiefly concerned with-the lack of justice in his country. “You can’t have peace without justice first. That is why I'm trying to say what I know about my country.” Garcia said the Guatemalan government is system- atically ‘eliminating opposition to the regime. “The problem is a lot of people are ing and D to the World Youth — Peace Through Communication confer- ence ended their five-day gathering Saturday with a resolution calling for a moratorium on nuclear testing and a comprehensive test ban treaty. “Conference delegates urge the citizens of countries with nuclear capability to pressure their govern- ments to end the nuclear arms race and the proli ion of nuclear pons, ‘ said ‘the resolution. ~ “To facilitate this we recommend that countries with nuclear capability . follow the recent Soviet example of a moratorium on nuclear. testing and furthermore a “do all in their power to take concrete and effective measures to reduce the threat of nuclear war.” Other resolutions included: establishing a global peace institute at the David . Thompson University Centre in Nelson. The delegates said they, consider an inerease in jeation® bet sister cities “to facilitate better communication between the U.S. and USSR.” *-» holding a World Youth —Peace. Through Communication Conference annually in different communities around the world. Delegates to the ay to app! h their governments for support for people living in countries of different social, economic and political ersten to be “important.” e urging young people to take “positive and effective action against those regimes which deny their citizens basic human rights and interfere in the internal affairs of other states.” The r also stated that the sive test ban treaty.” The resolution was one of 10 that came out of a five-hour session at the Brilliant Cultural Centre involving \ about 60 of the youth delegates. Many of the resolutions came out of the workshops held during _ the conference and were then refined during Saturday’s final session. One of thé resolutions was that the ‘conference appoint a committee to write a letter to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and UN Sec- retary-General Jarier Perez de Cuellar including tHe reSotutions adopted by the Conference. : The letter will also ask the three to conference participants express their “solidarity” with the delegate from Guatemala and “condemn the existing state of affairs in that country.” ° urging young people to investigate the “ actions of t: an annual conference. There was also a resolution calling for the delegates to sign a petition saying they feel strongly about the abuse of human rights. “Let it be known that these same people regard the existence of nuclear weapons as a threat to their basic human rights as defined under the United Nations Charter of Rights,” said the resolution. The conference will send the petition to the UN Human Rights Commission. Finally, the delegates approved a resolution stating that where relevant, the peace movement should make corporations” and called for-a: boycott of companies and organizations that “sustain repressive regimes and fuel the arms race.” e to request leaders of the world's religious, spiritual and secular organ- izations to define their positions on war and peacé, and- “urge them to implement guidelines to help build . . peace and social justice.” making Washington and Moscow FOR VALLEY VISTA military di and ion of military industries to civilian uses a main issue in elections. The delegates wound up the final day with a banquet at the Cultural Centre. They will spend today on an outing ‘at Christina Lake and travel to Grand Forks on Monday where they will take part in a tree dedication ceremony. The delegates will thén travel to Vancouver for a Fecenuen and tour there. Busing reinstated By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board has decided reinstate noon-time busing for lergarten students returning home half-day classes at Valley Vista primary school. The decision, made at a special board meeting Thursday, came less than a week before the start of the new school year. School trustees had decided last March to cancel all noon-time busing for kindergarten students as part of a package of. cost-cutting’ measures needed to meet the district budget imposed by the Ministry of trustees reinstated noon-time busing for kindergarten students at. all the schools except Valley Vista. Board chairman Doreen Smecher said at the time that the board didn't | rejnstate busing at Valley Vista because it was assured that parents of Valley Vista students were prepared to arrange their own transportation. Smecher also said it would cost $5,000 to reinstate busing at Valley Vista. “However, the decision not to include Valley Vista drew protests from some parents of the 40 kindergarten stu- dents enrolled at the school. Secretary-treasurer John Dascher However, at a July 3 board meeting, 2 Inland Gas workers OK contract KAMLOOPS (CP) — Striking office and technical employees at Inland Nat- ural Gas have accepted a company con- tract proposal. No details of the contract or the vote result were released by Jerri New. a “negotiator for the Office and Technical Employees Union, representing 150 ‘people who have been on strike since June 27. They stopped work after voting against a three-year contract with a. lump payment of $1,100 in the first year, a 3.5-per-cent raise in the second year and a one-per-cent increase in the third year- About 140 members~ffythe—Inter-- national Brotherfiood Electrical Workers refused to cross picket lines at installations owned by Inland, which distributes gas in the Okanagan and dying. They're being killed by the army and the security forces of the goVernment.” n British Columbia. New said the OTEU members will return to work at the end of the Labor ul Day told the C. News that the board's transportation committee in- vited about a half dozen of the parents to its Thursday meeting. . “They went over the ‘whole thing.” said Tascher. The transportation committee agreed to recommend to the board to reinstate noon-time busing. The board then held a special meeting immedi- ately following the transportation committee meeting to approve the rec- ommendation. : Board chairman Smecher was un- available for comment on the decision. Meanwhile, the board has also decided to bus six kindergarten stu- dents’from the north end of Castlegar to Woodland Park elementary school. Dascher said tHe students would normally attend Castlegar Primary school, but the kindergarten class there is full. In othér school news, students we won’ ont be going back to school until Wednes- day. Dascher explained that Tuesday is an in-service day for district teachers. The students’ first day will be Wed- nesday and it will-be a full day. Castlegar driving southbound on 3A in a 1981 Acadian, failed to yield the right-of- way when turning left to a north- bound car driven by Mike Glendin- Rozansoff. All were initially taken to Castle- gar Hospital. Mable Markin was then trans- 2 tory condition in Castlegar Hospital, a spokesman there said Friday. The other passengers were.treat- ed and released. - Lena Markin had just finished performing with a choir at the peace © cohference in the Brilliant Cultural Centre when the accident occurred. _ Castlegar RCMP say the accident is still under investigation. Meanwhile, there was more than A veliicle driven by 19-year-old Alex. Ferreira of Castlegar was southbound on Columbia Avenue at 2nd Street when it collided with a northbound vehicle on Columbia Avenue driven by Lillian Kemper- man, 30, also of Castlegar. - There were minor injuries in the ‘secidant; which occurred at 8:45 p.m. However, no one was taken to hospital. Ferreira was charged with failing to yield the right-of-way.