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All major presidential can didates are normally offered Secret Service protection beginning January 1 of the election year. Some, like Democratic frontrunner Michael Dukakis, turn it down. Jackson, at his re- quest, was granted protec: tion two months ahead of schedule because of. death threats. LOSES PRIMARY Agents travelling with the FORECT ACT (Section 11) the Ch = prove all applicanions. ‘and Lands Revelstoke, B.C NOTICE INVITING APPLICATIONS FOR FOREST LICENCE led. persons ly Area. (ISA) eplac Applications must be received by the rot Forester 1450 Bor 290, 1761 Celgar Rood, SO campaign said security con cerns had eased considerably with Jackson's departure from New York where he was soundly beaten in that state's April 19 primary. “We have received more death threats in this (New York) campaign than all the others combined because the climate has been so divisive and so virulent,” Jackson said of a campaign dominated by race and religion. Jackson and many neutral observers said New York City Mayor Edward Koch, a Jew, fanned racial animosity among blacks and Jews with two weeks of nearly daily assaults on Jackso Koch called the civil rights leader a liar who shown contempt for the city's large Jewish population. Death threats have been a fact of life for Jackson since his days in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The threats climbed sharp- ly in 1984 when he became the first black to make a major bid for the presidency. The threats increased again after his landslide victory in last month's Michigan eau cuses fuelled talk that he might win the Democratic nomination. SEARCH HANDBAGS Agents protecting Jackson became more aggressive in New York frisking on- lookers and searching hand bags at campaign rallies, Look-alike is Jackson decoy © pushing bystanders out of Jackson's path and asking in- dividuals in the crowd to the absence of weapons. In one incident, Jackson was forced to eut short a speech after Secret Service agents apprehended a man who approached the podium with a gun on his hip. The man turned out to be an off-duty prison guard. trying to photograph the candidate. To get from event to event within the city, the Jackson campaign typically travels in a motorcade escorted by local police. The motorcade includes a black limousine, one or two staff cars and vans, a few buses and @ station wagon bearing Secret Service agents and their gear. Occasionally, Jackson rides in the limousine. But he often travels on the bus while Romero takes the limo. Answer to Sunday Crossword Puzzle No. 311 DES wos) > Zim 4M 2/7 Answer to Sunday, May | Cryptoquip: WE'RE ADVERTISING FOR AN ALL-FEMALE CREW FOR THE VOYAGE. 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Turner joined CASTLEGAR-ROBSON FERRY No way, ministry told By RON NORMAN Editor Representatives from Castlegar and Robson made it clear to the Ministry of Highways Friday that the provincial government won't be able to transfer responsibility for the Castlegar-Robson ferry to either the city or the Regional District of Central Kootenay. “We feel that it is a transfer of the provincial tax to the regional taxpay- er,” Area J director Martin Vanderpol told the Castlegar News following a meeting with the ministry. “There is no bloody way that we are Prepared to accept something like that.” Vanderpol and two members of the Robson ferry ad hoc committee met with E. Lund, executive director of operations for the Ministry of High- ways. They were joined at the two-hour meeting Friday afternoon in Castlegar council chambers by Mayor Audrey Moore and aldermen Albert Calderbank and Patti Richards. Moore said the meeting was called to discuss the recent ministry press re- lease that called for the city or the regional district to take over the ferry and to find out how the ministry came to its decision that the ferry is no longer necessary. Moore said Lund was told of the impact the removal of the ferry would have. Moore also said they told the ministry that it wouldn't save any money by removing the ferry. Instead, it would simply be transferring the costs elsewhere within its own minis try — for instance, to make im provements at the interchange — and to other ministries affected by the move. Moore said Lund raised the prospect of a provincial subsidy to operate the “Si bsidies have a Moore added that the province shouldn't try to balance its budget by transferring provincial costs onto municipalities. She pointed out that the biggest problem in removing the ferry is that it disrupts settlement patterns that have developed since the ferry first began operating more than 75 years ago. Moore said Lund will report back to. the city by the middle of this week. Moore said she also raised the ferry issue with Finance Minister Mel continued on page A2 NAKUSP SET FOR SUMMER DUST STORMS Stanley said it is a 100-metre walk from the edge of the sandy beach to the defined swimming area. .Stanley said the swimming area is usually under about nine metres of water in the summer. Not now. Now it's at least another 100-metre walk to get to the lake. Stanley said the chamber and the Village of Nakusp have asked to meet with B.C. Hydro in order to find how high the Arrow Lakes will rise and to discuss the impact on the community of 1,500. “boon sticks” which mark the Hydro has not released its forecast for summer By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer It’s a long walk from the beach in Nakusp to the edge of the water. From the edge of the white sandy beach, there is still more than 200 metres of mud flats to cross before you reach to the waters of the Arrow Lakes. The problem is the water level. And with Nakusp’s summer season only three weeks away, things look grim for the community's main industry — tourism. past-president of the Chamber of Commerce, says he is frightened the lakes’ Denis Stanley, Nakusp. ©o*Peration, water level won't rise enough to accommodate tourists ing Nakusp. water levels, Hydro spokesman Peter MeMullan said in a telephone interview from Vancouver. MeMullan said Hydro has indicated that anyone who is running into difficulties should contact the Crown “It was more along the lines of moving a dock or helping extend a water pipe . . o” he said continued on page A3 the students as part of his whirlwind stop in the Kootenays. CasNewsPhoto by Brenden Nagle Crack in hull not that serious By CasNews Staff The Castlegar-Robson ferry has a small crack in its hull and is taking on water, a Ministry of Highways main tenance crew discovered this week. . a High p says the crack isn't serious and won't prevent the ferry from operating once the water level on the Columbia River rises. “It's not a major deal,” said Seymour Young, regional maintenance manager. “There is some repair to do to it. It’s under control and is not a concern at this point.” The ferry has been out of commission for nearly two weeks because of low water levels but expect the ferry will be back in operation today when B.C. Hydro increases water flow through the Hugh Keenleyside Dam However, a Robson businessman told a publie meeting Thursday night at the Robson Hall that the hole may be the reason the ferry isn't running — not the low water level “Tt has run in water lower than this,” said Elmer Pellerine, owner of the Lion's Head Pub. “I think it should be running,” he said, adding later: “I feel somebody is being negligent.” But Young said low water, not the hole, is to blame for the ferry not running. “It (the hole) is not the reason why the ferry is not operating,” Young said, adding later: “(The water) is too low to run.” He pointed out that the water is four to five inches below the end of the ferry ramp on the Castlegar side. On the Robson side some “works” are immedi. ately below the surface that the ferry would hang up on once it was loaded with vehicles. Young noted that the ferry will eventually have to be drydocked to repair the crack in the hull. leadership By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer In a stop reminiscent of his 1984 leadership campaign visit, John Turner made a whirlwind tour of the West Kootenay Friday along with his wife Geilles. The embattled and beleaguered fed- eral Liberal party leader appeared weary but comfortable in the familiar surroundings of his boyhood home in Rossland. His stops included a tour of the Cominco Zine smelter facility in Trail, a question-and-answer period with Rossland high school students and a walk through the house he used to live in across the street from the school. Turner, who has been rocked in the last week with inner party discord emanating from the strong Quebec wing of the party, insisted it is normal for a party to “disagree” on certain issues. The latest allegation coming from the Liberal party ranks is that the federal party is in deep debt and that Turner is responsible. “In terms of money management, the leader has never had the ultimate responsibility of fundraising for the party,” he said. “Our executive, our president, our chief financial officer (Michel Robert has since been relieved of his financial officer's duties within the party but will remain federal party president) are getting that in shape. I'm assured that in terms of the money we collect throughout the country we're going to be in excellent shape to finance a national election.” Some figures have the federal Liberal party debt at as much as $6 million. “When I. became leader of the Liberal party I made it an open party,” Turner told a crowd of Grade 10-12 students in the Rossland high school gym. “Part of the price of a free party is you're going to have disagreements.” He told the group that the latest push for his resignation from certain members from within the party did not continued on page AZ Couvelier says rural tax rates good deal By RON NORMAN Editor Finance Minister Mel Couvelier says rural taxpayers are getting a deal despite a 28 per cent increase in provincial taxes. “Rural B.C. is getting a very good tax rate,” Couvelier told the Castlegar News Saturday, adding that the tax inerease for the average rural home owner will be only $39 a year. “We're not even covering the cost of policing rural B.C.,” he said. Couvelier added that services cost more every year and those costs “have to be covered.” Residential taxpayers living outside municipal boundaries will be slapped witha 28-per-cent tax hike effective Jan. 1, 1 Rural residential taxes will jump 60 cents per $1,000 of assessed land value, from $1.70 to $2.30. The increase is over and above the taxes rural home- owners pay to the regional! district. In the last six years rural residential taxes increased some 130 per cent, from $1 per $1,000 of assessed value in 1982 to $2.30 in 1989. Couvelier was in Castlegar as part of a one-day whirlwind tour of the West Kootenay. He arrived early Saturday morning at Castlegar Airport and was whisked away to a private breakfast with local Social Credit members. He then huddled with Castlegar council behind closed doors before meeting with representatives of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce and the Castlegar and District Develop- ment Board. He was on an open line radio program later Saturday morning, before leaving for Trail where he met with that city’s council. He continued his tour with a stop in Salmo. The chamber questioned Couvelier's decision to cut the Tourism Ministry budget by $7 million. The Tourism Ministry in turn reduced its funding for tourism marketing programs, such as the Partners in Tourism program where the province matched funds put up by private tourism operators. One of the group's affected by the reduction was the Kootenay Country Tourist Association, which saw its Partners in Tourism budget come up $183,000 short of what it expected. continued on page A3 Lewis says poverty, arms race must end By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Ending world-poverty and the arms race are the keys to a safer, stronger, more environmentally secure world, says Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. Stephen Lewis stresséd that “disar- mament and development” are the focal points for a more successful global economy in his address to about 300 people at the Brilliant Cultural Centre Thursday night. Lewis is the final speaker this season in Selkirk College's Distinguished Speakers Series. Lewis, who was the NDP party leader in Ontario from 1970-1977, was appointed UN ambassador in 1984 by the then newly-elected Progressive Conservative government led by Brian Mulroney. It was a questionable move at that time given that Lewis was a til NDP leader rep Tory government. But Lewis said he leapt at the chance represent Canada at the United Na on page A2