i a2_Casthégar News March 8, 1987 Kempf resi VICTORIA (CP) — Locks were changed Friday night on the door to Jack Kempf's office, while officials from the comptroller general's staff pored over his financial statements. In & surprise move, Kempf resigned as minister of forests and lands Friday. The resignation was announced by Premier Bill Vander Zalm, who said a full investigation of the financial administration of Kemp's office was underway. A member of the legislature sergeant-at-arms’ staff was posted outside Kempf's former office with orders not to allow him in, although members of his staff were allowed Kempf's i Rick P said the allegations in part concern the minister's expense account. “If anything was done, it certainly wasn't done intentionally,” Prokopanko said. Agriculture and Fisheries Minister John Savage was appointed acting forests minister until the investigation, expected to take several weeks, is complete. NDP forests critic Bob Williams said Savage, a rookie member of the legislature, can't be anything more than a caretaker of B.C.'s.most important ministry, which is bad news for the industry. Kempf refused to talk to reporters on Friday. His wife speaking through the intercom at the couple's her and was ly upset ENOUGH EXCITEMENT “We've had quite enough excitement for one day,” she “He wants an investigation to be done as quickly as ible.” ey Contacted again 7, Norma Kempf said her husband likely would n a statement until next week. She said he'll probably away from the legislature until the matter has been cleared up. “This job has cost us money, not made us money,” she said. “I hope they come and check our income taxes, everything. They can even’come and check my lingerie drawer. 3 Her voice cracking, she added: “I hope they are going to pay for my medical expéerises because I think I am ready for a crack up.” Vander Zalm gave no details about the investigation general's office were to continue examining ministry records over the weekend. | ae ee oe ae , Earlier Environment Minister Stephen Rogers resigned n ministry. prepuees poate tesdin tines tase op e J since winning Oct. 22 ds alle % pit nage aghesenry from the cv Bad scheduled for Monday. Varider Zalm‘said Kempf was shocked when he was » minister ‘warrant further action. Kempf d hi i wing @ meeting with Attorney General Brian Smith Friday morning, Vander Zalm said he and Kempf muturally agreed on the move. Vander Zalm said results of the investigation would be made public. Kempf, 51, was considered a maverick on the Social Credit back benches in the early years of his political career, * He represented the north-central riding of Omineca for 11 years before being elevated to the cabinet last year. At various times Kempt criticized the Socred government's restraint program, its agricultural policies, seatbelt legislation and his belief the government favored big logging contractors over small operators. He ‘once said he had never voted against the government but left the house when it was passing found to be unsubstantiated,” said Vander Zalm. The premier said allegations of irregularities in Kempf's office were brought to the attention of the deputy attorney general, Ted Hughes, last Tuesday. Hughes forwarded them to the premier, who ordered an dai while he lied to an Ottawa into Kempf's office finances. Staff oe a omtip a te LOOKING AT JUNK . . . Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce director Louvella Andreashuk looks at old washer lying on the banks of the Columbia River near CHAMBER SAYS > mk * has . i ‘ : the Castlegar-Robson ferry. She Wants area cleaned up in time for tourist season, —CosNewsPhoto by Surj Rattan meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, When he returned he was told the matter was sufficiently serious to Vander Za about se VICTORIA (CP) — Members arriving for the opening of the B.C. legislation on Monday might be excused for expecting to see For Sale signs on the legislature's flowered lawns. Premier Bill Vander Zalm was joking when he said the Social Credit government might have trouble selling some of its holdings, “particularly the Parliament buildings or thelegislature.” The premier is serious about shifting government programs, Crown corporations and agencies to the private sector, including hospitals and universiti “We're not drawing the line anywhere,” he says. . Privatization of government operations, changes to the provincial Labor Code, and funds for education are expected to be major topics of discussion in the first session of the legislature since Vander Zalm replaced Bill Bennett as premier last summer. The legislature last sat on June 17. Business in the house in the past has been described as warfare, with the raucous debate having little to do with even a modicum of parliamenatary . * Both the government and the Opposition New Democrats have said things may be different this time. ager epraeenpe vy niajor reason is that 40 of the 69 members of the edielstate slectod when ‘the Sotreds won the Oct. 22 Police File Inadequate brakes on a enger Kevin Kirby was treat- tractor- jon he couldn't support. Kempf's most public brush with controversy came when it was discovered he was living in a government- co-operativé housing project in Victoria while earning $71,000 a year as a cabinet minister. Compounding the embarrassment was the fact he had asked for an* inquiry into social housing after complaining well-off residents were living in subsidized housing, He later moved out of the building. Im serious ling B.C. provincial election 47-22 are rookies, including’ Finance Minister Mel Couvelier and three other. ministers. Vander Zalm has beeh a cabinet minister, but it’s his first session as premier. This session is also the first since 1941 that a Bennett — either party founder W.A.C. Bennett or his son, Bill — hasn't been in the legislature. “I think (in the past) we were dealing with personalities who really had trouble with each other,” says Socred House Leader Bruce han. “Those p to get in the way. “There were some pretty bitter fights and hard feelings between those members . . . but most of those people are goine now.” Bob Williams, Strachan's NDP counterpart, agrees that there's been more co-operation so far. “I hope there'll be continuing improvement because it's been a little bit too much like warfare around here,” says Williams, a cabinet minister in the 1972-75 NDP government. “It would be nice to work in a little bit more civilized manner.” Williams called the fall election, “a watershed” because so many new people were elected. Thirteen of the 22 NDP members are rookies, and he said that should make for an interesting session. i This session will mark Bob Skelly's final days as NDP leader. He resighed just days after the election, but his successor won't be chosen until mid-April. Lawyers offer reward for bomber City needs clean up By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer With the jet boat races summer tourist season just around the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce wants residents to help corner, the clean-up the city. hamber director Andreashuk says people should be more aware of maintaining a clean city, even if it means stopping to pick up a candy wrapper off of the sidewalk. In fact, Andreashuk says people should make more of an effort to drop their wrappers into garbage bins, rather than just onto the streets or sidwalks. “Whenever people come to any city, the first impression is always a lasting one. Friendliness is a very important thing that people look for in a city,” Andreashuk told the Castlegar News in an interview. “When someone sees a nice, tidy city, they will stop and look around. Tourists pay a lot of attention to the cleanliness of a city. If a city is not clean, then they will not be tempted to stop and look around,” said Andrea- and the shuk. Louella given city. effect. cans and a community.” She added that the Vancouver Visitor's and Convention Bureau in- dicates that a tourist will spend an average of $38 a day per person in any Andreashuk says tourist leaves in a city has a spinoff “A tourist dollar could be spent in a hotel or a gas station, but it has been trapped and $1 goes around 3.7 times in Andreashuk added that because of its natural setting and its tourism opportunities, Castlegar has become “quite attractive to tourists.” “We (chamber) are concerned that there is litter in various areas of the city. Some of it is household litter and people not using garbage cans on the street. Vacant lots will sometimes have old refrigerators, washers or old car bodies,” said Andreashuk. Sitting in her office, looking out onto 11th Avenue, Andreashuk said there is “This a lot of litter right in the city’s downtown. street (11th Ave.), is a dirty street. People buy stuff from the stores around the corner and drop the wrap- the money a_ pers on shuk. the street and there's a trash bin right on the corner,” said Andrea- She added that many people, includ- ing locals and tourists, use the banks of the Columbia River to fish from. But in some areas the banks are littered with garbage. “For the jet boat races, the city has indicated that they will help clean up the garbage along the banks within the city's jurisdiction,” said Andreashuk. She added.that some private land- owners have, also agreed to clean. up their property for the jet boat races. Hansen objects to treatment EDMONTON (CP) — Rick Hansen says he's still treated like a second-class citizen despite his round-the-world wheelchair trek. He said people her I could wheel myself, she called me a male chauvinist pig for not letting a woman push me. “And all I wanted to do was be i ‘i ignore him and forget he wants cpntrol of his own life. “It's frustraing to be out | for dinner with (fiancee) Am. anda (Reid) an when the bill comes they give it to her be- cause the waiter doesn't even think I'm there,” Hansen said at a news conference. “And other times people have asked my friends ques tions about me rather than asking me personally.” The 29-year-old athlete re called he was denied the chance to push his own wheelchair when he landed in Japan in 1986. “The flight attendant in: sisted on pushing me through the airport and when I told Hansen said he hopes his Man-in-Motion tour to raise oney for spinal cord re- arch will help persuade people the disabled can be responsible for their own lives. He, admitted he had many doubts when he started his tour in March 1985. “If we were ever going to quit this thing, it would have been the sécond day on the road. I was injured and had headwinds and wondered if I had bitten off more than I could chew.” NEEDS REST Hansen said he desper. ately needs the five-day stop scheduled in Edmonton to rest for the last gruelling stretch through the Rocky Mountains. “Once we leave Edi fund now stands at more than $7 million. It was added to Friday we lock in on Vancouver. The Rockies will be difficult, but we've conquered mountain ranges before.” The 37,000 kilometres Han- sen has logged on his tour may have made him physi- cally tougher, but he still reacts emotionally to public gestures. Tears welled in his eyes as he was cheered by 7,000 fans Friday at the University of Alberta Butterdome, where a training centre for the physi- cally disabled and an indoor track were named after him. The Butterdome houses facilities used by the uni versity's physical education department. ‘The university raised more than $20,000 for Hansen. His night when Mayor Laurence Decore scored 18 times at an Edmonton Oilers game during a corporate- sponsored fundraiser. The mayor used something similar to a wristshot as he wobbled onto the ice at Northlands Coliseum before a National Hockey League game against the Los An- geles Kings. Twenty-six sponsors paid $2,500 for every puck the mayor managed to get into the net. Hansen also scored a goal — worth $35,000 — with the help of Oilers superstar Wayne Gretzky. : The Oilers won the game 9-3. 1978 Freightliner trailer resulted in an esti- mated $45,000 damage when the truck approached an intersection too fast and roll- RCMP say Christopher Hansen, 21, of Vancouver, rolled his truck Tuesday morning at the intersection of Highway 3 and Columbia Ave. Hansen will be charged under the motor vehicle act for inadequate brakes. . 8 6 Thomas Maartman of Elk- ford caused some $2,000 damage to a parked car on 2300 block Columbia Ave. when he struck the car with his tractor-trailer. RCMP say Maartman, 29, hit Al MeNicol’s 1986 Chrys- ler when making a right turn early Tuesday evening. Maartman will be charged with ~making an improper turn at an intersection. Two Castlegar men re- ceived minor injuries when the car they were driving left the road some three=kilom- etres up Pass-Creek Road Monday. RCMP say Lyle Stoush- now, 23, of Castlegar, failed to negotiate a curve and roll- ed the 1979 Volkswagen. Stoushnow was thrown from the vehicle and pass ed for minor injuries at Castlegar hospital and relea- sed. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $2,000 and charges are pending. . #8 An accident on Columbia Ave. Monday evening caused some $500 damage to a 1975 GMC pickup when the driver lost control and struck a fence. RCMP ‘say Kevin Henry Proud, 19, of Castlegar was making a left hand turn onto 15th St. when he struck the fence. The investigation contin. ues and charges are pending. . 8 « By CasNews Staff Kootenay lawyers have pitched in to help solve the mysterious bomb explosions aimed at a Kaslo lawyer and his family. Lawyers at the Kootenay Bar Association's annual gen- eral meeting in Kimberley Saturday unanimously voted to offer a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the explo- sions and acts of violence against Eric Watson. Watson and his family have been the target of var- ious bomb explosions in Kas- lo. RCMP are investigating the explosions, but so far have no suspects. About 60 lawyers are at- tending the weekend meet- ing, including David Tupper, master-treasurer of the Law Society of B.C., and Frank Mazko, the provincial law society's secretary. Two Castlegar lawyers were elected Saturday to the Association's executive. Ken Wyllie was elected president and Diane Piket was chosen secretary-treasurer. An vehicle mak- ing an illegal turn forced Dean Zurawick, 21, of Castle- gar into a power pole late Tuesday night. RCMP say Zurawick was forced to take evasive action to avoid hitting the other ve. hicle and accidently struck the pole, causing some $500 damage to his 1970 Maverick. There were no injuries and no charges will be laid. 7 + 8 RCMP reported a break in at the north end Dixie Lee ‘restaurant. A window was broken to gain entry and it is not known if anything was stolen. Court news In Castlegar provincial court, Douglas Baird was sentenced to 61 days total imprisonment, with 30 of those days concurrent, when he pleaded guilty to one count of failing to comply with a condition, one count of common assault and one count of causing a distur. bance. . . * Louis Harold Hoodicoff was sentenced to seven days SENTENCE HANSEN continued from front page Kettle River on an inner tube. Court was told he spotted Horkoff at a popular swimming hole on the river, assaulted her and held her under water until she drowned. Witnesses saw the last minutes of the act and apprehended Hemmons as he attempt- ed to flee. In other news, two Cranbrook men pleaded guilty to charges of man- slaughter when they appeared Thurs. day in provincial court. Timothy Van Loosen, sentenced May 5. 19, and 21-year-old Robert Kelly, 21, still the tentative The committee i: will visit will be" continued from front poge be renamed Rick Hansen Lake but will retain the name Summit Lake. In other Hansen news, April 20 is arrival in Castlegar. The local Rick Hansen Man in Motion C it is working to set up a civic reception for the wheelchair marathoner at Stanley Humphries secondary school. The committee hopes ‘to close 7th Avenue between 6th and 8th streets to vehicular traffic for the reception. the special date for Hansen's in jail and was, given nine months’ probation for one count of common assault. Weather Sunny today with some cloudy periods. Highs near 7. Outlook for Mon- day is for increasing cloud. Chance of precipi- tation is nearezero today and 30 per cent Monday. just down the street on 7th Avenue on his way to the reception. Meanwhile, the Kootenay Broadcast- ing System plans a 12-hour pledge day to be broadcast from the Castlegar Community Complex. The radio station will devote 12 hours of air time to raising Iso hoping Hansen to Trail, needs class about the ial of disabled people and to help raise funds for the Canadian Trust Fund for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sport. The pledge day is set for April 9 from 6 a.m. -6 p.m. and will be broadcast live Castlegar, Creston, Nelson and the surrounding area. MEANS SAME hig pM eat pade Oy Mulroney couldn't win OTTAWA (CP) — Former Newfoundland premier Frank Moores said Saturday the Mulroney ment could not win an election if it were now, Moores was quoted as saying in an interview with The Sunday Express, a weekly newspaper based in St. John’s, Nfid., that he has severe doubts Prime Minister Bridn Mulroney can turn around his govern-- ment's problems. Petro-Canada sale CALGARY (CP) — The federal’ government is ready to sell Petro-Canada, the Crown-owned oil company, to the private sector, says Finance Minister Michael Wilson. “I think we can move ahead here,” Wilson said to ppl from of the Macdonald-Cartier Club. “I don't believe that Petro-Canada has any public policy role.” Legislation wrong TORONTO (CP) —. Restricting the flow of refugées into Canada is a mistake because “only the toughest and smartest” from Central America make their way toa new country, says U.S. actor Ed Asner. Asner, a political activist, said newcomers work hard and are a positive force. “They pour back much more into the economy than they ever take,” he told a news conference. “You guys are missing a great bet.” T-4 slips gone NORTH BATTLEFORD, SASK. Hundreds of T-4 slips destined for it who i year have disappeared in the mail. John Gormley, MP for Battlefords-Meadow Lake, said the slips, containing income information vital to filing tax returns, were lost somewheree between Bathurst, N.B., and Saskatchewan. Bathurst is the records centre for the Unemployment Insurance Commission. (cP) — Saskatchewan insurance last New low MONTREAL (CP) — A new poll suggests Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's personal popularity has hit a new low and his Progressive Conservative party is still in third place. The poll also indicates the federal New Democrats are as popular in Quebec as the Liberals. Conducted by Angus Reid Associates from Feb. 28 to March 4, the survey of 1,666 adults found that two-thirds of Canadians — 66 per cent — say they disapprove of Mulroney's performance as prime minister. Indians arrested AMRITSAR, INDIA (AP) — Security forces entered the Golden Temple Saturday after plaincloth. es police were shot inside the Sikh shrine, and a police source said a dozen people were arrested. Witnesses said about 100 police and security force members entered the temple complex: after the shootings. They were searching rooms on the Parikrama, the area around the holy pool in which the Golden Temple sits, the witnesses said. Bakker drug dependent FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Christian television personality Tammy Faye Bakker is being treated for drug dependency and may be away from the PTL ministry's daily broadcast for a year. Mrs. Bakker, 45, and her evangelist husband, Jim, made the announcement in a videotape shown at the PTL (Praise the Lord) studio Friday and scheduled for broadcast Monday. . Mrs. Bakker already has been absent from the show for two months. On the tape, Jim Bakker said doctors told him, “Tammy Faye is a very, very sick woman and if you want her well you're going to have to do something to get her help.” Anti-AIDS laws TOKYO (REUTER) Tough anti-AIDS laws being drafted in Japan will bar entry to foreigners infected with the disease, but the idea of jail sentences for AIDs carriers who engage in sex has been dropped, government officials said. Officials said the Health and Welfare Ministry is working with other ministries on exactly how to stop victims from entering the country Suppliers sentenced LONDON (REUTER) — An American and his British girlfriend were sentenced to four years in prison for supplying heroin to British singer Boy George. Steven Luben, 36, and mother of four Diane Feiner, 35, both denied charges they supplied Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, with the drug Soviet executed MOSCOW (REUTER) — A 25-year-old student in Soviet Georgia has been executed by firing squad after he stabbed a person to death for a pair of jeans, the republic’s Communist party newspaper reports The newspaper, Zarya Vostaka, said authorities had refused clemency to the student, G. Kvanchiani, in view of the seriousness of the crime. | | Sebel # > a rahe LOGGER SPORTS . College's Forest Stephen Mei fae logging events were just part of the fun at Selkirk ry Departments’s forestry days. (From top, clockwise) Bruce Kethum may be interested in the action, but Ruffles pref ke and Chris Lauder put their backs into the men’s doubl ick; Brent Turmel and Barb Penner take on the responsibility of feeding the hungry woodsmen; Barry Janzen checks out Ken Owens axe throw. cameramen; 49 DEAD MOUNT EVEREST British ferry capsizes ZEEBRUGGE, BELGIUM (REUTER) — Forty-nine people are known dead and at least 115 were missing after the capsize of a ferry carrying 543 people in near-freezing water just off the Belgian coast Friday night, Belgian officials said this morning. A: total of 379 people were rescued from the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, according to the official Belgian toll “I am afraid there are no more survivors,” naval Commander Jacques Thas said early today. The Herald of Free Enterprise, a passenger and car ferry plying between Zeebrugge and the British port of Dover, keeled on to its side and sank into a sandbank in unexplained circumstances moments after leaving the Belgian terminal in calm seas. Thas told a news conference divers had searched all of the ship except some inaccessible cabins and the control room . Thas said about 40 divers involved in the rescue operation had abandoned their attempt to find more survivors nine hours after the disaster. “They had gone to the very limits of human risk,” he said. The commander said bodies were rising to the surface, and three ships were circling the wreck to pick them up. Describing the panic as the ferry keeled over, survivor Rosina Summerfield said: “The lights went out and all you could hear was the water coming in the side that sunk and everywhere there were people floating about and children crying.” Asked whether women and children were taken off first, she sobbed, “God no, everybody just scrambled.” Harbor officials said the temperature of the sea was about three degrees Celsius, and in water that cold a person could not normally survive for more than 15 minutes. Rescue helicopters converged on the area quickly after theTerry capsized at about 7 p.m. local time (2 p.m EST). Within the first four hours, about 300 people were plucked to safety by boat or air. Authorities said the vessel had been carrying 463 passengers and about 80 crew First reports said it rammed a pier but officials later said it may have(hit a sand bank. The’7,951-ton vessel rolled on to its left side, trapping many people below deck A British television report said divers had reported seeing people alive inside the vessel through portholes. Air pockets appeared to be the best chance of survival for some passengers and divers plunged repeatedly into the bitterly cold water through the night to rescue those feared trapped The cause of the accident was unknown, said Raymond Nothomb, a representative of Townsend Thoresen, owner of the vessel. “It was fine, it was calm,” he said. “We do not know what happaned Whatever the cause, the capsize happened so quickly that the crew had no time to send out an SOS, a coast guard official said. Rescue teams from belgium, Britain, the Netherlands and France were taking part in the operation, co-ordinated by Belgium. “ry Many passengers and crew were trapped ‘below decks while others were flung into the water, witnesses and authorities said. “We were very lucky the boat was so close to shore,” said survivor Richard McKenny, 65.“If it had been further out, that would have been it.” McKenny’s 15-year-old son Wayne said he eseaped by smashing lower-deck windows and clambering up a rope thrown down from an upper deck. “There was lots of screaming and crying after the crash.” LONDON (AP) + Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will travel to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge where a British ferry capsized withhundreds of Britons aboard, a spokesman for the prime minister said today. Spokesman Terry Perks. said Thatcher would fly to Zeebrugge today via Ostend, Belgium. “This is a tragedy of enormous proportions and we are deeply shocked,” Thatcher told a news conference earlier. “Anything that is required will of course be done. We're just racking our brains dnd our minds to see if there is anything else that we can possibly do.” The Queen sent Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, to the accident site to meet survivors and rescue workers. Buckingham Palace spokesman Michael Shea said the couple was expected to arrive at the Zeebrugge naval base later today “I have been deeply shocked and saddened by the news about the terrible disaster at Zeebrugge,” the Queen said in a message addressed to the British transport secretary, John Moore. SENDS SYMPATHIES “| send my deepest sympathy to the families of all those who have lost their lives so suddenly and tragically,” she said. Shea said the Queen has received many sympathy messages, including one from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Most of the victims killed in the accident are believed to be from Britain. The ship that rolled over Friday at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge was one of 114 ferries that ply the world’s busiest waterway, carrying nearly 50 million people a year. The eastern end of the English Channel is a spiderweb of shipping lanes regulated by British, French, Belgian and Dutch authorities. There are keep-to-the-right rules, and designated lanes for the myriad ferries and cargo vessels travelling between the continent and ports in Britain and Ireland. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mount Everest may not be the tallest mountain in the world, after all. Preliminary results of a new high-tech survey sug- gest that another Himal- ayan peak, K2, is taller. An American K2 climb- ing expedition found that the mountain may be as much as 275 metres taller than its previous stated height of 8,619 metres, ex pedition leader Dr. Lance Owens said. That would make K2 more than 30 metres taller than Everest's 8,848 me- tres, he said. “I guess if K2 is one inch higher than Everest, it means that everybody's been climbing the wrong mountain,” Owens said in a telephone interview from Pasadena. “T think a lot of moun. taineers would prefer that K2 be the highest moun tain because, for most, it's considered the harder mountain to climb.” MAY NOT BE TALLEST K2 is 1,500 kilometres northwest of Everest, near the Pakistan-China border. Owens’ eight-member expedition climbed K2 from May to September of 1986. Heavy snow and av- alanches kept the group from reaching the top. But a device called a sat- ellite transit surveyor that was left at the base of the peak homed in on the radio signals of navigational sat- ellites and used variations in those signals to judge altitude, Owens said. The Pakistani govern- ment claimed to have sur- veyed the peak in the last decade and found it higher than reported, but the claim’ was never verified, Owens said. “We really did not think that we would find the mountain higher than Ev- erest, but the data that we have presently obtained leads us to believe that that might be ‘the case,” he said. Copper mine plans lay offs PORT HARDY (CP) The Utah Copper Mine plans to lay off 180 employees within the next year, a com pany spokesman said. Craig Aspinall said the layoffs will be carried out in two stages with the first phase starting in the fall. The company plans to work with the unions and government agencies to try and find other jobs for those workers who are laid off, he said. The company also plans to cut production from 150,000 tonnes a day to under 100,000 tonnes. The mine is located on Rupert Inlet, 18 kilometres from this northern Vancou. ver Island community.