December 13, 1967 REFUGEE VIGIL . . . About 20 people turned out for a candlelight vigil at the courthouse and then marched through downtown Castlegar Friday night. Vigil was to focus on the need to amend new refugee | oifet Residents to pay to use Robson Ferry Rossland-Trail NDP MLA Chris D’Arey says the provincial government is ramming through its plan to cut service and charge user fees on B.C.'s 15 inland ferries. In a prepared release D'Arcy said the provincial government has “fast- tracked” a report by a two-member action group investigating the inland ferries, which will be before cabinet by March 1 of next year. “It's clear that the speed-up was ordered to ensure that recommenda- tions made by the action group on user fees and service cuts could be included in next year’s budget,” said D'Arcy, adding that the report was originally due April 30. If the plan goes ahead, D'Arcy says inland ferry users in B.C. would pay up to $10 million each year to cover CHRIS Y . feport fast-tracked crossings that have bridges,” said D'Arcy. He said ferries are an essential service in the West Kootenay, and have been lumped in with highways and bridges as vital for health and safety, as well as supplies and trans- portation. “The government's flip-flop of this policy unfairly targets Interior com- munities and will mean a double whammy for local residents faced with user fees and increased costs for foo@, fuel and other essentials that must be transported in. “And if service cuts go ahead, communities will be paying a lot more for a lot less.” D'Arcy said the Interior and the North will also be hurt by the impact of ferry fares on, the growing tourist Briefly operating costs — a move he says is “blatant discrimination” against local residents and transport companies who use the routes on a daily basis. D'Arcy said that in the West Kootenay, residents using the Castle- gar/Robson Ferry — in operation since 1919 — would be footing the bill for the $200,000 annual operating cost. “That doesn't include capital ex- penditures, which will increase total costs substantially if factored in,” he added. “The government's action group — comprised retired Admiral Yarrow from the Maritimes and Kelowna lawyer James Doak — is not looking at capital and operating costs on other VALHALLA PARK industry. “This is clearly a discriminatory act that will inconvenience the public and damage the economy of the In- terior and North,” said D'Arcy. He urged taxpayers to voice their concerns to Highways Minister Step- hen Rogers and the action group before a final decision is reached. Field study done now before the Senate. Both i li and those with business Strike affecting AirBC By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer While admitting traffic on AirBC routes has dropped 30 per cent since the strike by groundworkers at Air Canada — AirBC's parent company — a spokesman for the regional airline says traffic to and from Castlegar has not to Vancouver and Vancouver to Castlegar route is a local market,” said Moore. He added that the airline has seats available on its morning schedule from Vancouver to Castlegar until Dec. 24 and that there are also a few seats left on the afternoon flights. flights are operating normally and the airline is not experiencing any delays. But Moore said many AirBC passengers have connecting flights with Air Canada and that link has hurt the regional airline during the labor dispute. The drop for the airline contrasts with other airlines scrambling to find been affected. “Not noticeably,” Ron Moore, AirBC’s director of marketing and sales said when asked by the Castlegar News if there has been a drop in traffic on the Castlegar route. “The only thing we've lost are our Air Canada connections. The Castlegar Moore. “Going out of Castlegar to Van- couver the same is true. The morning flight has lots of seats open. We have lots of room at the time being. We also have seats from Calgary to Castlegar and from Castlegar to Calgary,” said He added that all other AirBC seats for travellers. AirBC has about 110 flights daily to 20 destinations in B.C., Alberta and t« Seattle. Its groundworkers belong to the Operating Engineers International Union, while groundworkers for Air Canada belong to the International Association of Aerospace Workers. Inmate set to fast to death VANCOUVER (CP) — A Vancouver woman serving a federal prison sentence for murder is prepared to fast until death if she is not allowed to serve her term in B.C., the woman's sister said Friday. B.C. School for Hong Kong set VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia gover ment will pay $442,000 to set up an independent school in Hong Kong in September 1988. The grant was included in a miscellaneous statutes bill introduced in the legislature Friday. The school, which will employ B.C. teachers, will have about 100 secondary students, including 10 B.C. students who will receive scholarships to attend the school. “The school will be fin. ancially self-sufficient when established and there will be no cost to B.C. taxpayers,” Education Minister Tony Brummet said. “The presence of a B.C. accredited school in Hong Kong will facilitate cross- cultural exchanges in lang: wage, culture and trade.” The ‘school will use BC curriculum, textbooks examinations and the minis. ter said it should “increase awareness of British Colum bia as a place in which to live and invest.” Marlene Gillan said her sister sister Gayle Horii, 44, is on the fourth day of a total hunger strike — no food or water — at a medium-secur- ity men's prison in Mission because she is desperate. “She feels she can’t go back to Kingston penitentiary (in Ontario). It’s a life-or-death issue with her. Her husband is seriously ill and she feels if she leaves she'll never see him alive again,” Gillan said. She said one of Horii’s big- gest objections is that while serving her sentence in On- tario she is separated from her family in B.C. But male prisoners can serve federal jail terms in virtually every province in Canada. Kingston penitentiary is Canada’s only federal prison for women, “My ‘ister’s never been alone and she’s very, very fragile right now. She just can't stand it. So she's trying todo this not just for herself, but for all women. And she's willing to die for it,” Gillan said. Horii was convicted of the 1985 second-degree murder of her stepmother Lee Wing Der, 63. SENT TO KINGSTON The former stockbroker was sent to Kingston in August 1986, but after an 11-day hunger strike in Oc- tober she was given a 30-day transfer to Mission to be close to her husband who has a history of heart trouble. Diane Brown, a Canadian Penitentiary Service spokes- man, said because of a Fed- eral Court of Canada decision that denied Horii's transfer application to B.C., correc- tions has “the freedom to transfer (back to Ontario).” “She will be transferred, but I can’t say how or when that will happen.” interests in the Silverton-New Denver-Nakusp area agree that Valhalla Provincial Pfrk should be left as natural as possible. Those are the findings of a park planning study done by students in Selkirk College's Wildland Recreation program during the past two months. The students’ field survey involved interviewing resi- dents of the Upper Slocan Valley. Their assignement was to formulate a park’ development proposal that would best satisfy the needs of the broadest spectrum of park users. This involved a detailed inventory of existing resources in the Valhalla Wilderness park as well as a close look at the ecology of the area. Interviews with residents of the area adjacent to the wilderness park gave the students a sampling of the public's opinion of what development should occur in the Valhalla Park. “People living in the area have their own ideas and are B store house of information,” ‘attording to Bob Crosby, one of the students who participated in the public opinion surveys. Questions posed by students ranged from the very general: “How lofig have you lived in the area? and “How often do you use the park? to the more specific, such as “Would you like to see park access improved? or “What areas do you think should be developed? As expected, the survey found people in the communities surveyed were either pro-development or totally against any development whatsoever, said instructor Len Dunsford. Environmentalists tended to want on minor improve- ments, but felt rone were really needed. Representatives of the chambers of commerce and the business community felt park development could bring more tourists which would result in an improved economy. i longer trails, glacier-side cabins, suicoottey skiing and heli-skiing are among the improve- Dalkon Shield victims upset ments deemed desirable by a portion of the population who would also like to see easier access for hunters and fishermen, yet still try to leave the park as natural as possible. Environmentalists, on the other hand, are concerned the wilderness will be ruined by any development and would result in the destruction of animal habitat. These are the concerns revealed by the students’ survey. Back at the college this information, together with the data collected earlier — resources inventories, animal habitat studies, and ecological surveys — will be carefully weighed by the students and evolve into a development proposal for the Valhalla Wilderness Park. The students’ proposal will be presented to the Parks Branch and will go to the Valhalla Park planning team whose job it is to recommend what and how much development occurs. “Other classes have conducted surveys of this type, save for the interviews,” said Dunsford, :who recalled that “most of the recommendations submitted by his class of two years ago were eventually incorporated into the changes in the Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park boundary changes implemented last spring. “The students’ work in that area had a definite impact on the ministry's decision about what to incorporate and what to secede in Kokanee Park,” Dunsford said. “The class's proposal was the only one received by the Parks Branch relating to that issue,” he sai AIRPORT continued from front poge He said the parking will be metered with costs ranging from 30 cents an hour to $1.50 per day. “It will probably come down to being an honor system,” Hall said He said the fees are to try to eliminate “very prolonged parking” at the airport. Hall also pointed out that Trans port Canada has spent $4.4 million since 1988, including: $800,000 for a new firehall and maintenance garage in 1983; © $400,000 to repair and remodel the aircraft apron; e $525,000 for a pumphouse and water syétem; © $500,000 for a new powerhouse and electrical system; © $75,000 for repairing the heli- port; $65,000 for repairing the taxi- way; © $500,000 for the parking lot; e $1.5 million for the terminal building. Hall said the building is currently within budget and is expected to be finished under budget. Meanwhile, Hall said statistics show Castlegar’s poor reputation for completing scheduled flights is un. deserved. In 1979 Castlegar Airport showed a 91.8 per cent completion rate for scheduled approaches. That jumped to 96.5 per cent this year through the end of November, Hall said “Phis figure reflects the sincere efforts of commercial operators,” he said, and is likely equal to Vancouver International Airport's completion rate. However, Hall said he doesn't know the Vancouver rate. The number of aircraft movements — takeoffg7and landings — has dropped steadily from 1979 when there were 47,268 movements. By 1986 there were only 28,086 movements and so far this year there have been just under 26,000 movements. Hall attributes the decline to the recession and the rising cost of flying aircrafts. On the other hand the number of passengers passing through Castlegar Airport has been on the increase since they peaked at 95,302 in 1979. By 1984 only 66,836 were recorded. However, Hall said since 1984 the numbers have increased every year, to 68,980 in 1985, 79,450 in 1986 and 71,735 so far this year. He said pro- jected total for 1987 shows 86,082 passengers. “In general there has been a very significant and steady growth,” he said. VANCOUVER (CP) tims of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device are upset with the $2.5 billion set aside by a U.S. judge for payments because they fear it's insuf- ficient to compensate for the injuries they received from the device. “It's peanuts,” said Laura Jones, speaking on behalf of Dalkon Shield Action Can- ada. which represents the estimated 100,000 women in Canada who used the object that is now linked with pelvic inflammatory disease, infer- tilty and miscarriages. million dollars wouldn't com- pensate for losing my fer- tility,” she said. But Christopher Kay, a lawyer representing the claims of more than 115 B.C. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week Michel Gren- ier was placed on probation for eight months and given a 90-day intermittent jail sen- tenct for trafficking in nar- cotics. . 8 6 Maria Jackson was given a — Vic. women thinks the settlement is fair and he'll advise his clients to accept. U.S. district..court judge Robert Merhige said the TUD's manufacturer, A.H. Robins, should settle the claims with $2.48 billion. Contract issue KIMBERLEY, B.C. (CP) — A problem has developed with the contract reached in August between Cominco and the steelworkers’ union in Trail and Kimberley. Mike Walsh, president of the Kimberley office and technical workers local of the steelworkers, said the union has found that pension porta- bility is less for his members than for the production and maintenance workers. Walsh said the issue will become a factor when the Sullivan mine near this southeastern British Colum- bia community winds down in five to seven years. He said the company re- fuses to move on the issue, so a membership meeting will be held next week. The 3,300 Cominco work- suspended sentence after pleading guilty to driving without due care and atten- tion, ers in Trail and Kimberley struck for 17 weeks last summer. BOB WADEY - Murmansk medal VETS “We just suffered from the cold and the ice and the storms,” says Wadey modestly. Wadey’s recollection of Murmansk is of a “typical port” city — with one difference. “The stevedores and dockworkers were women — and they did a damn fine job,” said Wadey, adding: “They weren't much to look at.” Like Moore, Wadey made two runs to Murmansk before he was transferred. Moore went home to Canada where he was stationed out of Newfoundland and worked in the North Atlantic. He made a career of the navy, staying in for 30 years. Wadey also returned to Canada where he picked up another ship. A year later he was on the Valleyfield when it was torpedoed off Newfoundland. He was one of 38 of a crew of 170 who survived. Cedar nominated VANCOUVER (CP) — Natives use the tree for their totem poles and masks and dugout canoes. Other cultures use its fragrant wood to line closets and saunas, or take advantage of its natural Preservatives to make everything from shakes to sun- decks. It is western red cedar, an advisory council's choice as the province's “official tree.” Forests Minister Dave Parker, who still hasn't made it official, said the council considered “public nominations, a student essay contest, the distribution and characteristics of the species, and the cultural, historical and economic importance to the province.” Prostitute jailed VANCOUVER (CP) — A young prostitute, who killed a — dealer with his own drugs, has been and to four years in prison. Alisha Marlene Dyke, 19, has been in custody awaiting trial since her arrest March 18, three days after the death of Dennis Leo Auger, 40, at his home at West Vancouver. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lloyd McKenzie, who heard the case without a jury, said Dyke's testimony, which her earlier was not to be believed. Villagers mourn CAIRO (CP) — Sobbing Egyptian villagers trudged to the cemetery at Kafr Abu-Sir in separate y, carrying the shrouded bodies of 41 of the children killed in a bus-train disaster. Women wailed and men wept as the bodies were taken to their graves at the village cemetery on the northeastern fringes of Cairo. The children, ranging in age from six to 12, were among at least 57 people killed Friday when the bus carrying them home from a picnic was smashed by a train at an unmarked rail crossing. The dead included 50 children, six teachers and +he bus driver, hospital and police officials said. 40 people rescued MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A U.S. navy warship and a television helicopter rescued 40 terrified people Saturday from a blazirg supertanker hit by an Iranian gunboat in the southern Persian Gulf. A pregnant woman was among those saved. The chartered helicopter with a team from the CBS television network and smaller from December's, 67 Castlegar News 42 Shultz urges arms spending COPENHAGEN (AP) — U.S. State Secretary George The government wants to increase the defence budget Shultz urged the allies Saturday to increase conventional forces now that intermediate-range panded missiles are to be scrapped. by six per cent over inflation by 1992. Opponents want merely to keep pace with inflation. INCREASE STRENGTH “It's up to all of us to increase our to NATO,” Shultz told reporters after meeting Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen. The 16-country North Atlantic Treaty Organization has kept the peace in Europe for 40 years, Shults said, “and it is J said the g wants to spend more money on equipment and favors an increase in the number of soldiers drafted into the Danish armed forces. According to Foreign Ministry figures, Denmark spends 2.2 per cent of its gross national product on defence, d with 6.8 per cent in ‘the United States and an due to the Shultz is expected to repeat that view when he travels to Norway today and West Germany and Britain later in the week. Shultz’s trip to Western Europe follows the signing by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington last Tuesday of a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear Shultz's remarks were particularly pertinent in Denmark, where government and opposition parties are engaged in a lively debate over whether to boost military spending. average of four per cent among NATO countries. ‘There has been a controversy in Western Europe over fwhether conventional armaments need to be increased to offset the loss of intermediate-range nuclear missiles affected by the treaty signed at the U.S.-Soviet summit. U.S. Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci was quoted Saturday as saying that NATO's first priority following the treaty-signing should be to upgrade conventional forces. “The planned improvement and modernization of our conventional weapons will now become especially im- portant,” he was quoted as telling the West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag. The interview, to appear in saying, “this is not the time to throw defence budgets out. the window.” “Thé temptation is going to be there to say, well, you have INF (the missile pact) so I can lop this off... the defence budget,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. NATO and the Soviet bloc are trying to arrange talks on reduction of conventional weapons, and “you need long-term programs to stay strong while you negotiate these lower levels,” the official said, REJECTS VIEW Svend Auken, leader of Denmark's opposition Social Democrats, rejected this view. NATO should negotiate with the Eastern block before increasing defence budgets because an offer by Gorbachev to discuss imbalances in forces could lead to reductions, he said. the destroyer USS Chandler lifted the crew from the 282,164-ton Cypriot oil tanker Pivot. Jan. 17 election PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A new electoral council picked up Haiti's military-dominated junta was sworn in Saturday and pledged an election Jan. 17. The junta was forced to form a new council because the old independent Electoral Council “failed at its mission,” Chief Supreme Court Justice Pierre Jeannot said as the 12-member court prepared to swear in the nine new council members. The four major presidential candidates have said they won't participate in a junta-run election. Armed troops patrol MANILA (AP) — Thousands of armed patrolled the streets Saturday and thé Philippine capital resembled a city under siege as it awaited the arrival of Southeast Asian leaders holding their first summit in a decade. President Corazon Aquino said her government's reputation was at stake and urged security officials to do their utmost to prevent terrorist attacks during the two-day meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Leaders of the six memeber countries are to arrive in Manila today for talks Monday and Tuesday. U.S. deficit cut WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The Senate passed a S. federal deficit by joint congressional negotiators will start ironing out differences over the measures next week. The 72-21 vote ended nearly 17 hours of debate on a $606-billion spending bill that will fund the govern- ment for the rest of the 1988 financial year, which began on Oct. 1. The bill includes $5 billion in defence cuts and $2.6 billion in domestic reductions for the rest of the 1988 fiseal year. 40 held hostage SEOUL (AP) — A South Korean soldier armed with a M-16 rifle held more than 40 people hostage in a bar in Pusan on Saturday after killing at least one customer and injuring two others, news reports said. Yonhap, the Korean news agency, said the soldier broke into the bar in the southern port city’s bathing resort of Haeundae about 2‘ hours before midnight and opened fire., Military and police squads surrounded the scene, but the soldier resisted pleas to surrender, the agency said. OPEC holds price VIENNA (AP) — OPEC tentatively Saturday to hold the cartel’s oil price at $18 US a barrel and renew its existing, but largely STUDENTS DISPLAY PHOTOGRAPHS CLOSE-UP LOOK .. . Interested patron takes look at photographs on display at Selkirk College. Photos are by photography program. Half of seni collection of students’ personal work and half is based on assignments in the first three months of program. CosNewsPhoto by Sur Ratton FEW CHANGES IN_ FINAL FREE TRADE TEXT By WARREN CARAGATA OTTAWA — The tonnes of paper representing the final text on free trade moved Friday under police escort but there seemed little in the document to warrant the security. And there seems little in it that will change many minds in the political debate that began in October when trade negotiators from Canada and United States put their signatures to the deal’s rough sketch. When people look back at the deal 25 years from now, they will view it “as an act of nation-building and an act of leadership in the international trading community,” Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said. “It represents the first step toward our becoming the 51st state of the American union,” Liberal Leader John Turner said. And NDP Leader Ed Broadbent again called on Mulroney to call an election on the issue. But whether Mulroney calls the election now or ANALYSIS later, free trade is likely to be a key issue in the campaign and the government was at pains in the documents released Friday to spread the good word. Some of the good word went out Thursday, when leaflets glorifying the agreement were packaged with cp 4 allowance cheques. accompanying the’ legal wording ing’ goes! eaten ont province ‘in ‘outlining’ the’ Behéfits of the agreement, which eliminates tariffs along the Canada- U.S. border over 10 years and imposes other measures to make it easier for Canadians and Americans to do business with each other. The final text, which took almost two months to negotiate, is important for Premiers John Buchanan of Nova Scotia and Frank McKenna of New Brunswick, Both have avoided taking sides in the debate until they could see what the lawyers came up with. The support of both is crucial to Mulroney's attempt to sell the deal. Without them at his side, five provincial govern- ments will be |. Ontario, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island have already said it isn't good enough. And the government's strategy to sell the deal as Canada’s most important regional development progam ‘FT’ day is Jan. 1 OTTAWA (CP) — Jan. 1, 1989, will be the first day of the new age of free trade between Canada and the United States. On that day, the enor- mously complicated pro- visions of the agreement will begin taking effect, assuming that no political snag throws the schedule off the rails. There are fears in Wash- ington that anti-free-trade elements in the U.S. Con- gress might block ratification of the agreement, and both opposition parties in Canada have criticized the deal and said they would change it. But if all goes according to schedule, tariffs in both coun- tries will begin to fall on the first day of 1989. For sectors of the economy that are ready to compete with the Americans — and vice versa — tariffs will be eliminated. Tariffs on other goods will be phased out over five or 10-year periods. Under the current scen- ario, the initial cut in tariffs will apply to about 15 per cent of all goods traded be- tween the two countries, in- cluding such major items as computer equipment, some pork and some unprocessed fish, animal feeds, furs and system of production quotas, officials said. The decision, expected to be formally adopted today, was disclosed by Ecuador's oil minister, Fernando Santos. He said Iraq will be left out of the accord and more talks are needed on the issue of how long the deal will last. Also on Jan. 1, 1989, Can- adian reviews of business in- vestment and takeovers by will be On Jan. 1, 1994, U.S. Customs user fees regula- tions on trade zones will be i to Canada’s bene- loosened. On ‘Oct. 1, 1989, tariffs on exports to the U.S. on spec- ialty steel products will start to be lifted. As with many other provisions in the agree- ment, they will be lifted in stages. On Jan. 1, 1990, tariffs will be dropped further. One year later, the rules governing foreign invest- ment in Canada will be loosened still further. After Jan. 1, 1991, direct takeovers valued at less than $100 mil- lion will no longer be subject to review. Indirect takeovers worth less than $500 million will not be reviewed. Tariffs will drop further and the 35-per-cent U.S. duty on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles will be dropped. On Jan, 1, 1992, foreign in- vestment reviews will be loosened again. Indirect take- overs will not be subject to review, regardless of their size ENDS EMBARGO On Jan. 1, 1993, tariffs will be lifted on another 35 per cent of such duty-laden goods as paper, paints, telecom- munications equipment, most chemicals, furniture and most -y. The embar- restrictions on movements of automobiles across the border. Canadian markups on wine and spirits will be eliminated. go ends on the import of used cars from the U.S., and the Americans will drop its curbs on Canadian lottery mater- ials. fit. By then, the agreement envisions new rules gov erning countervail and anti- dumping meagures. For the next two years on Jan. 1, tariffs will drop and duties will be eased in stages. By Jan. 1, 1998, tariffs will have ended on textiles and appare) softwood plywood, steel, appliances, beef, rail cars and tires. But the two countries will retain for another 10 years the ability to maintain tariffs on some varieties of fruits and veg- etables. ident Anne Jones letty, oa hospice eq would be with three of four governments in Atlantic Canada opposed. McKenna said Friday his government will be deciding whether to follow Mulroney within two weeks. In several of the most contentious areas, there were either no changes, limited changes or some elaboration. Cultural industries retain their protection but a section that would have ay ay the government to drop or reduce postal for Canadian and magazines did not make it into the final text. Rules governing foreign investment will remain as outlined in October. In energy trade, the U.S. will keep the right it won in teed Crities had complained the energy part of the deal would make it impossible to charge higher export prices. Rol Mae oe Mieisig ripple mattress with pemp donated and His the ity ol jicer Margaret Pryce show Mayor Audrey | ‘Moore new fare Bab Meddocke