seen |) source of his millionaire status, BE PREPARED ‘ya the premier: “You learn as many trades as you ibfy can so you always have something to fall back on.” Bulletin Board WIN A SPECIAL PRIZ SUNFEST ‘87 repeo : Castlegar area on Thursday, February 26. Check local listings 2s SUPPORT RED CROSS February 28, 1987. Boke Table, Craft Table, Castlegar Credit Union, Saturday, February 28,10:000.m. 2/15 SHROVE TUESDAY Name Address new of marching ordet st tantial changes the all, levels of the B.C. to” any Zalm’s not on the air, hile voice is, is and pment project Lea, ‘electronic materials division in ‘Trail will be funded fm part by a $614,347 federal government bate ‘The project, which is expected to exceed $1 5 i vetting out to further purify single crystal gallum arsenide wafers. i wafers could be r chips where high speed is particuarly important, such as satellites and aircraft. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco made the announce- ment this week on behalf of Bernard Valcourt, minister of state for small business and tourism. In\a prepared news release Brisco states that the ‘venture is “extremely promising” and should have “an important impact in the Trail region.” ‘The funds are being provided through the defence industry productivity program, which objective is to “develop and maintain strong defence related industries across Canada.” ‘The programs funds are used in such industry sectors as electronics, avionics, transportation equipment and engines, hinery, igatic i Ih gy and space technology. to sex education and jobs, “He sure looks like a TV star,” said one youngster. “I like the Donahue format of the premier sitting in a circle,” said a member of the crowd. “He leaves himself wide open and that makes it informal.” GOOD BUSINESS Vander Zalm, an affable Dutch immigrant, says he sees PANCAKE SUPPER Recreation Hall. 4:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. March 3, Robson Adults $3.50, children under 12 $1.75. 3/15 Phone Theme 7:00 p.m. AIR CADET GARAGE SALE February 28, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Kinnaird Hall. Anyone wishing to donate items please call 365-3692 or 365-6136 or 365-7038. 42 Coming events -of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 15¢ each. Boldtaced wor- ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is no extra charge for-a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seven’ Monte Carlo Restaurant Starting Fri., Feb. 6 SUPER SALAD BAR ON SUNDAY “The Restouront for The Whole Family’ Columbia Ave. COMMUNITY Bulletin Board Bring Your Teddy Bear to the Mall Administration, February 26th & 27th for display. Deadline Feb. 27th at 5:00 p.m. Categories: Biggest, Smallest, Most Antique, Most Loveable, Most Unusual. New Teddy Bear Awarded to the Winner of each category. Magician — Saturday, February 28th - 1:00 p.m. €) Chahko- Mika (all 1150 Lakeside Drive, Nelson Ope? Thursday and Friday Nights Until 9 p.m. afd Oregan, that’s terrific,” he says. In the Netherlands, he is already known to tabloid readers as “Wimpie,” the premier who makes the women swoon. The name ly has diffe ions over there. The movie he’s in is called Sinterklaas Fantasy, a film about the tradition of Santa Claus in the Netherlands. Vander Zalm got involved in the project with Vancouver- based Corporate Concepts last February before re-entering fe d three-y’ ical. He acts as telling his ies of Ch as a boy. Earlier filming for the movie, for which Vander Zalm says he doesn’t expect any money, was done at Fantasy Gardens — the biblical theme park and garden that Vander Zalm's wife, Lillian, runs in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond. Once the movie is finished, Vander Zalm try to, complete his Gatdening with Bill Vander Zalm video. Work? on the‘hourlong' video began in 1985 following the successo: | ALT TI ’ February 22, 1987 _Castlégar News a3 ar ews = SELKIRK COLLEGE NELSON CAMPUS requires a FINE WOODWORKING AND CARPENTRY INSTRUCTOR The successtul applicant will provide classroom instruc- tion and shop training to students interested in developing portable woodworking/carpentry skills. Ap- certification in an ap- contracting, | proper- licants with prior teaching experience or training will receive preferential consideration. This is a full-time, on- i ition commencing in April, 1987. Salary and its In accordance with the collective agreement with the Setkirk College Faculty Association. Pleose submit including three by March 13, 1987, to: Personnel and industrial Relations Box 1200 of his book, the Pacific Northwest Gardening Almanac. Vander Zalm says he’s not making any money on the deal, but producer Peter Reusch says he routinely gives the stars of his videos 10 to 15 per cent of the net profits. EE le Police file reer eee Two Castlegar premises were broken into this week. According to RCMP, the Airport Coffee Shop was en- tered early Monday evening and approximately 40 pack- ages of cigarettes are miss- ing. Airport personnel noted someone walking across the prehended. The investigation contin- ues. Also, the Unemployed Ac- tion Centre was broken into last weekend. Again, only a few packages of cigarettes were taken and the investigation continues. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Louis Hool- aeff pleaded guilty to one count of an order prohibiting driving. He was fined $350. * 28 « Russell Marshall pleaded guilty to one count of failing to comply with an appear- ance notice and one count of theft. . He was fined a combined total of $225. LOCAL MEETING . THE KOOTENA’ upcoming Peace Vigil In Castlegar on FEB. 22 — 6:00 P.M. at the Courthouse. 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Tainted mushrooms VANCOUVER (CP) — A jar of preserved mushrooms appears to be the cause of a suspected botulism outbreak at the Pan-Pacific Hotel's posh Five Sails restaurapt, Dr. Ted McLean, Vancouver health department Mi ceciso, said today, MeLean told a news conference that laboratory tests which would confirm the presence of botulism have not yet been completed but it's believed a single jar of Chanterelle mushrooms poisoned at least nine diners at the restaurant. All but one of the diners who fell ill ate at the Five Sails on the weekend. Another dined there~ on Monday. Condom ads KITCHENER, ONT. (CP) — Private television broadcasters are willing to run commercials on the use of condoms to prevent AIDS, a spokesman for the industry says. And, unlike the CBC, the private broadcasters are willing to go a step farther by running ads that identify specific condom brand names, spokesman Pat Beatty said Friday. Beatty, executive-director of the Telecaster Com- mittee of Canada, which previews commercials for private br s, said the committee has polled its 20-member stations on the subject. “We got unanimous consent that everyone would be willing to run condom ads,” she said. Visa rate drops TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto Dominion Bank lowered the interest rate on its Visa credit card by 2.7 percentage points Friday, but said the move had more to do with attracting customers and stable interest rates than the controversy over high credit card rates. The interest rate on the bank's Visa cards drops to 15.9 per cent March 1 from 18.6 per cent. The bank will also cut the annual fee for the cards — currently $12 or $6 plus 10 cents per transaction — to a flat rate of $6. Aquino meets ~ NAMULANDAYAN, PHILIPPINES (AP) Philippine President Corazon Aquino sat down with villagers under a mango tree Saturday to find out if it is true their kin and friends were massacred by soldiers pursuing communist guerrillas. A spokesman said she was “visibly moved” after listening to survivors, one family at a time, in a grass hut, and promised them her government will protect civilians in its renewed war against the insurgents. The fighting has escalated since a 60-day ceasefire expired Feb. 8. Closure threat VANCOUVER (CP) — The threatened closure of the Quintette coal mine in northeastern British Columbia would be a major blow to the provincial economy, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Friday, but he doubts it will happen. “It's unfortunate if such should occur, but it’s purely speculative,” he said. “I doubt it will happen.” Eyeshadow blindness TORONTO (CP) — Canadian women should stop using two types of eyeshadow because they may contain bacteria that could cause blindness, the federal Health Department warned Friday. No. 31 pink. eyeshadow by Annabelle and Berrywinkle shade eyeshadow manufactured by Mega Beauty of Toronto are part of a huge U.S. recall of all the eye cosmetics manufactured by a New Jersey company. CALLS FOR CHANGES VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia's mining industry wants the provincial government to make a series of changes in taxes, regulations and incentives that would cost the cash-strapped provincial government at least $137 million a yeaf. The cost would be “substantially offset through a more active and profitable industry,” said the Mineral Industry Task Force report, presented to Premier Bill Vander Zalm. The money would come from a $109-million reduction in government taxes — not including lost income if the government approved sales tax changes recommended by the committee — $12 million for increased government investment in such things as exploration assistance, mapping and roads and $15 million worth of tax incentives. Vander Zalm said British Columbia, which is facing an estimated $1-billion deficit in the coming year, can’t afford : that kind of relief to the industry that employs more than 64,000 people directly or indirectly, and “I think they know that,” ‘Tom Waterland, executive director of the B.C. Mining A jation and the it said the group didn't expect to get all that was recommended, but hopes there will be something for the industry in the provincial budget March 19. WANTS CHANGES He admitted that a world glut of most minerals produced in British Columbia plus currency rates affect the B.C. industry, but “we thing that the major problem we are faced with is charges imposed by government — mainly non-profit related charges. “If some very fundamental changes aren't made right now, within a decade in British Columbia, we're not going to have a very significant mining industry,” Waterland said. Vander Zalm told reporters that British Columbia is “probably one of the highest taxed areas. We have a lot of impositions on the mining industry. It makes good sense that we try to provide relief wherever we can, if such relief is in return for jobs.” He said he hoped there may be an innovative way that the government could continue to get revenue from the mining industry, but at the same time “give them (the industry) hope and the knowledge that if they do certain things, there will be a profitable return.” But he added that much of the problem is with the oversupply in the world market and the resulting decline in prices. TAX BREAKS The committee’s requests, and the cost involved, include: Removing sales tax on goods used in the process of exploration, mining, milling and smelting ($48 million); Removal of the coal royalty ($35 million); e Removal of the water tax rental fee ($18 million); e Elimination of the tax on fuel used to transport mining products to market ($8 million); - Soviet tramps spread disease MOSCOW (AP) — Thou- diseases in the Soviet Union, sands of Soviet tramps live in freight cars and cemeteries, taking odd jobs to survive on the fringe of the law, a Soviet weekly has reported “Many thousands” of vag- rants drift from one corner of the Soviet Union to another in search of food, shelter and jobs like berry-picking and lumberjacking, said the Ogonyok magazine article. The story, result of an undercover investigation by reporter Alexei Lebedev, was published in the maga zine’s latest edition. Some hobos have lost all Ogonyok said. It noted since vagrants do not carry internal passports required of .all Soviet citi- zens, they cannot receive medical care in state-run clinics. Doctors often cannot save ailing vagrants because their diseases are too far ad vanced when they are finally examined, the report said. “God forbid that the AIDS virus break out among them,” Ogonyok added. Soviet officials have said that there are only 20 people with acquired immune defici- ency syndrome in the Soviet self-respect and the ability to Union, and all are foreigners. hold a job, the magazine said. Lebedev wrote for six They exist by foraging months, he wore old clothes through garbage heaps for and went on the road in bottles they can sell back to search of the Soviet Union's stores. “Bichi” (Social outcasts) and Medical experts have es- “brodyagi” (Tramps). tablished vagrants are large- “The geography of the ly responsible for the spread outcast is the whole of tuberculosis and veneral country,” he wrote. LETTER TO EDITOR Death penalty opposed In response to the interview with Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco published Feb. 18, I would like to present Amnesty International's position on the death penalty. Our policy is to oppose the infliction of the death penalty in all cases, without reservation. This position was taken at an international conference held in Stockholm, Sweden during December, 1977 and included participants from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and the Caribbean region. Andrei Sakharov of the USSR submitted a paper as he was unable to attend in person The salient points of their conclusions were that death penalty is frequently used as an instrument of repression, execution is an act of yiolence and tends to provoke violence, the death penalty is brutalizing to all involved and that the death penalty is increasingly taking the form of disappearances and extra-judicial execution. In all jurisdic tions the death penalty is used disproportionately on ethnic minorities, the poor, political dissidents and those on the margins of society Amnesty International, in defining the death penalty as a violation of the right to life guaranteed by the charter of the United Nations, calls on the state to set an example in respecting the sanctity of life. The behavior of the state is a model for all its citizens. That this is a valid and responsible position can be judged by the European countries who carry out executions. This is certainly true, also, between the United States and Canada. Within the United States, the south carries out more executions and has a higher incidence of murder than does the north. The state, if it is to be an instrument of vengeance and retribution, will not be credible in its condemnation of violence. The reduction of violence is essential for the protection of potential victims. I would like to address two points from your interview with Mr. Brisco. The “poll” mentioned was a questionnaire circulated by Mr. Brisco in which he invited a response on the death penalty question. This is not the precise scientific poll which we have come to associate with the term. The penalty for capital murder is life imprisonment with no option of parole for 25 years. The prisoner may apply for parole after 25 years of the life sentence but parole is at the discretion of the parole board. A judicial review of the life sentence can be requested after 10 years but is granted only in exceptional circumstances Amnesty International is working with a national coalition of religious, voluntary, and professional organiza tions which for theological, ethical or sociological reasons has come together to oppose the return of the death penalty to Canada. Member groups include most major Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church, Jewish organizations, and human rights groups. The national coordinator is Eleanor McDonald of the Elizabeth Fry Society George Richards Castlegar EASY DOES IT . . . Provincial tourism minister Bill Reid steps gingerly onto the makeshift dock built for his arrival at Zukerberg Island Saturday morning. John Charters lends o hand. CasNewsPhoto by Mike Kolesniho MP pleased By CasNews Staff While conceding that Wednesday's federal budget is “unusual,” Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said he sees a lot of good things in the document. “I'm very positive about the budget,” Brisco said in a telephone interview from Ottawa. He said he is particularly pleased that Finance Minister Michael Wilson is “right on track” with his deficit reduction program. “It’s just great,” he said. Brisco pointed to the budget's “unglamorous” elements — the decline in the deficit, lower interest rates and lower inflation — as its “most important” parts. He said inflation is running at about four per cent a year and'“interest rates haven't been this low for I don’t know* how long.” ‘ The result is a saving for homeowners, Brisco said. He said a $50,000 mortgage is $124 a month cheaper at today’s interest rates than when the rates peaked in 1981. And homeowners aren't the only ones to benefit from lower interest rates. Consumers and small business people are also getting better rates from the chartered banks, he said. Brisco agreed that the budget was not in the tradition of past budgets which introduced tax increases or decreases and a number of new programs and initiatives “I think that is unusual,” Brisco said. However, he said this budget was intended more as a “state of the nation budget speech” in which Wilson set out Canada's present economic condition, what it was and what it will be next year. Brisco said the budget tells the business community and with budget outside investors “that our economy is stable and fiscally we are on the right track.” He said it also tells Canada that “financially it is in a lot better shape now than it was 2'/: years ago.” Brisco said he izes that at high levels in Kootenay West, adding: “If we had full P! then ding in Kootenay West would be at record levels.” Unfortunately, he said consumers in Central Canada are the best off and “we are supplying the raw materials.” Asked why the federal budget didn't include’ specific measures to address regional disparities and unemployment in places like Kootenay West, Brisco responded: “Those initiatives are not part of the budget, but are part of our policies.” He noted that the five-year forestry sub-agreemeat signed last year by B.C. and Ottawa calls for $68 million to be spent this year in B.C. Part of that will be spent in Kootenay West, Brisco said. ‘he Nelson district office — as every regional forestry office in B.C. — have a five-year game plan,” he said. Brisco also pointed to the Castlegar Airport expansion as another federal initiative not included in the budget. And he denied that because the budget doesn’t contain specific regional initiatives that it benefits Central Canada — whose economy is booming — the most. “I don't see how it should benefit them the most,” Brisco said. “Where are the massive tax increases? They're not there. Where are the handouts? They're not there.” Asked why Ottawa always singles out gasoline for increased taxes, Brisco replied: “It generates revenue.” As well, he said it signals a need to provide support to Alberta's oil industry,” which is really crippled.” Crossword Happy Birthday! . . . answer in Wednesday's paper 73 Trig. func 10ak 1 12 Lions’ prides? 13 Part of spec 14 Strong-running a be. 15 Caper (Churchill) of 96 Saint 100 Watered Téth century 102 HST's pre. 96 Central American trees 97 Swiee capital 98 Nickname for golfer Palmer 99 Brass or bronze 28 Liu jerary Tom or Jonathan ac 33 Leather band 34 Biblical 118 Big bargain slang 119 One type of ‘art According to 2 Debtor 3 Wash 4 Irregularly notched, as 2 6 Roman 1.554 6 What a denture 1.God of war eQat QAIXKFQ 8 frebatabie naire for Seeding for Oe DWH ONT 10 Train aeain aT verage solution time: 67 minut cRYPTOQUIP uwMc wR wt FO OONTLUCK WNWE, "WE co FKX 1xk FDC LOPPXK MoN FQKA Today's Cryptquip clue W equals 1 This Crossword Purzle sp ed by the following businesses . . . 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