¢ Sou a2 Castlégar News 2uly7. 1995 * Installed by Professionals + Aluminum or Vinyl Soltits © Facia Cover : - Aluminum Siding or ce Windows and Patio D: ee petes tren he - NEW SUMMER eo HOURS SUN. TO THURS. COLUMBIA VINYL 9 A.M. TO 10 P.M. ‘FRI. & SAT. Day or Night 365-3240 9 Bary wie coke ons NOTICE Effective Sun., July 7, 1985 berry Imp District Water users are restrictedto * 2 (two) sprinklers only per Nola. Be a good neighb ‘and help conserve water. THE TRUSTEES “Rob hho PATRICK ARG LOG LOADER 4x4 full cab ROPS canopy; articulated, Ford Diesel, Clark powershift, 5 grapple & log forks. Good condition. $19,500 RICO EQUIPMENT Vancouver 434-6447 Ask for Val Wright “high for the next few day: SUNRISE — 4:54 A.M. SUNSET — SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure sits along the coast keeping skies sunny and temperatures s. 7:57 P.M. SPECIALS FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday THIS WEEK EVAPORATED TANG FRUIT DRINKS WITH REAL FRUIT JUICE eS | CASE OF 3 27 — $8.95 for PAPER ——— TOWELS es $729 ROLL. EACH .. *_ CARNATION STEAM FRIED COFFEEMATE| NOODLES $499 | cam 98° Community Owned & Operated 2717 Col. Ave., Castlegar el 2) Ee) &! $500,000 LESS Value of building ‘permits down The recently negotiated collective’ agreement be- tween the City of Castlegar and Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2262 has now been approved by Com- pensation Commissioner Ed Peck. “The agreement provides for net compensation in- creases of 3.58 per cent in Rent this space! Special rates for. multiple insertions. Phone 365-5210 crime, HOPLIETING No matter how you look at it, shoplifting is stealing. It's o and the person who shoplifts is a thief. That person could bea ona lark, o 1985 and 2.64 per cent in 1986; according to the ad- ministrator Dave Gairns’ monthly activity report to the mayor and alderman. The report also indicates _the total value of building permits to the end of May is down about $665,000 from the same period last year. At the end of May this year, 154 permits valued at $1,026,655 had been issued compared to. -163._permits valued at $1,692,235 last year. In May, 1984, 48 building permits valued at $533,125 were issued. This May the number of permits issued in- - creased to 55, but the value dropped to $352,155. Four permits for new resi- _dential units were issued in May, 1985. That is the same number as May, 1984, but the value of the permits last year was $212,000 compared to $160,000 this year, a differ- ence of $52,000. The number of permits for alterations to residential units increased to 46 in May: this year from 35 in May, 1984. However, the - dollar value was again lower by al- most. $2,000. : There was one fewer com- mercial permit issued in May, 1985. The five. issued are valued at $129,700, compared to six permits valued at _ $167,200 in May, 1984. No* industrial or institu- tional permits were issued in May this year. Province of British Columbia campfires does not apply Campgrounds. The further* notice. For 825-4415. NOTICE. - CAMPFIRE BAN Effective July 3,. 1985 at midnight ‘all in’ unsupervised areas are prohibited. This includes beach fires but phone Kootenay Lake Forest District at Ministry of Forests in Provincial Parks ban is in effect until e@ more information, TH Local U G a7S) Ores | TF vOU PREFER. cTION A JERGEN ON STRIKE . . . Nadine Holuboff forms pick: Co.'s Castlegar office. Strike action fices around the province. Holubof! UTS AY BE ee Y OR AT AWY GENCY “OFFICE & TECUICKL EMPLOYEES. UNiON Lovat 378 ON STRIKE - INLAND NATURAL GAs - Friedmann’s_ report, re- leased two days before his six-year term expired at the end of June, dealt with an investigation into complaints by the Nishga council, which represents Indian bands living north of Prince Rupert, about the degradation of forests in the area. Westar holds a govern- ment-issuded ' tree farm licence, entitling it to cut trees in the area, but also requring it to nurture new trees for future generations. Friedmann’s_ report said the ministry has condoned or tolerated Westar's practice of leaving useable timber to rot on the ground, logging the best trees and leaving behind poor quality timber. He said the Forests Min- istry “acted contrary to law in not fulfilling its statutory responsibilities! and in approving a conjpany plan that permits Westar to har- vest timber-below the util- ization standard used to calculate the- allowable annual cut. 7 -Tourist Alert VANCOUVER Tourist_Alert- for-Saturday, July 6, issued by the RCMP. —>_ __ j housewife or a businessman. It doesn't matter. What matters is that when caught, the shoplifter will be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the. law. Shoplifting serious crime. Don't the mistake of treating it lightly. is treated as a you fake | AS ATIRES LTD... Stedman's Store “Carl’s Drugs _ LAND DESCRIBED R.J, SKILLINGS CityClerk . City of Castlegar 2 White F. JULY BLITZ UNTIL JULY 31, 1985 e White Bone ® Ivory Bone OFF SUGGESTED RETAIL (On Sets & Open Stock.) ALL NORITAKE © Ivory Formal The ing people are asked to contact the riearest RCMP detachment for an ‘urgent personal message: Gunther Alzner, Burnaby. B.C. Donna and Gary Antis, Surrey, B.C. Mrs. John An- derson, Howie, Que. Ricky Thomas Fairman, Edmonton, Claude Picknell, Edmonton, Jim Schwab, Winnipeg, Dennis Michael ‘Sheeshka, © Shoal Lake, Man., Dale and Sheryl’ Wheele, _ Prince (cP) —. BRIEFLY NEW UBC HEAD VANCOUVER (CP) — A former president of the University of Toronto, has been named-head of the University of British ‘Columbia: David Strangway, a geophysicist, will take over his new duties Nov. 1, announced’ David McLean, chairman.of the UBC board of governors. a 5 president of the University of Toronto for one year until September 1984. Strangway, 51, replaces George’ Pedersen, who resigned as UBC president last March, citing his’ opposition ‘to “provincial: government education re- straint policies. Pedersen now is president of the University of Western Ontario. 4 $14,000 GRANT VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial government has presented $14,000 as its annual grant in support of the B.C. Wildlike Federation, says the Environment Ministry. -Environment Minister Austin Pelton said the goveriment recognized the useful role played by the federation in: the conservation of fish and wildlife in the province. “ COUNTERFEITERS VANCOUVER (CP) — Five people have been arrested after RCMP and city police seized $200,000 in counterfeit United States $100 bills. Charged with conspiracy to~possess and utter counterfeit money are: Roland Trudel, 53, of Burnaby. B.C., and David Wong; 58, Steven-Mayes, 36, Sheila Ashford, 46, and Wilfred Thorne, 43, all of Vancouver. Police said the bills were of above average quality — good enough to be passed easily. The five suspects were arrested in nearby, Port Moody. OPEC TO POOL OIL. VIENNA (AP) — In a radical new effort to save OPEC, ministers from the 13 oil-producing countries that make up the cartel said Saturday they are considering pooling their petroleum for sale, the sharing the revenue. ” S The ministers attending the Organization of Pet- roleum Exporting Countries meeting in the Austrian capital, pressed their debate of the préposal behind closed doors, Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto said. Subroto, president-of OPEC, told reporters the ministers had reached a consensus,to keep a basic price of $28 U.S. a barrel and to keep the present system of. limiting overall OPEC production to 16 million barrels of crude daily. MUGABE WINS HARARE. (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, more powerful than ever after a landslide victory in Zimbabwe's national election, has threat- ened tough action against minority whites and black opposition leaders who stand in the way of his plan to create a one-party state in the next five years. The black-majority leader said Saturday that whites “who have not accepted the reality of a political order in which the (black) Africans set the pace have to leave the country.” Mugabe. told a news conference hours after election results were announced that he would not feel nd by the British-drafted consitution of the former , which protects rights of minority political partiey until 1990. MINERS QUIT UNION MANSFIELD, ENGLAND . (AP) — Notting- hamshire’s moderate coal miners quit the National Union of Mineworkers on Saturday in protest against rule changes that make leftist leader Arthur Scargill president for life. = The move could signal the breakup of the~ 143-year-old national union, which Scargill led to defeat ina year-long strike that ended last March. “The men at this conference will not bend their knees at the altar of Arthur: Scargill,". Nott- inghamshire unioin treasurer David Prendergast told reporters. Seah Police file Castlegar RCMP are in- vestigating a two-car calli- sion’that occurred on Broad- water Road Friday afternoon at 5:40. Four people were taken to Castlegar District Hospital bound-C) Tom Stuckless of Robson. Names of those taken to hospital were not available. - The pick-up was. turning left into Brilliant when the accident occurred. Cpl. Marv_Gorrill of ‘the Castlegar RCMP said Sat- TANKING UP... John Homegreen loads Firecat water bomber with chemical retardant at air tanker base at FOREST FIRES feet” of hose from Alberta, Saskatche- wan and Ontario where there are fewer. forest fires than usual. Much of that equipment has already arrived and been dispatched to’ the worst hit area around Nelson. WEATHER BAD There is no end in sight as hot, dry weather accompanied by lightning is forecast for many parts of the province. If the situation does not improve in the next few days, Lines said, the ministry will, consider a-full woods continued from front poge averaging $700,000 a day this season jumped to $900,000 a day for the last two-days, he said. By Saturday, the proyince had spent alsmot $23 million to fight forest fires, with the fire season less than half finished. Campfires now are banned in almost half the province, including the Arrow Lakes forest District. Lines said the province has asked for 80 portable pumps and “thousands of Castlegar Airport.—ThreeFirécats are p stationed at the base. ULING WON'T AFFECT ean) : By CAsNews Staff =o) and News Services A suit brought against the Ministry of Human Resources by five former Tranquille Institution patients — including a Castlegar man — will not be affected by a_ judge's ruling last week that former patients cannot start a class action suit, says Norma Collier, president of the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped. Collier explained Friday that the suit brought by the parents of Castlegar’s Russell Grunerud on his behalf, and four other former patients, will still-be heard. The judge's decision means that other patients must be named individually, she said. Al Etmanski, executive-director of, British Col- ians for y d People, said, “We had hoped the five people would have been representative of the different groups of people. i “This is more of an inconvenience than anything. It means that the other families involved will be asked if they want to join the case and their names will be added to it.if they do.” = /~ County court Judge Kenneth Murphy, sitting in Victoria as a B.C. Supreme Court justice, said claims for damages would have to be assessed individually: Starting last September, 55 patients from’ Tran- quille, including -Grunerud, to Hospital in Saanich and to community care centres on southern Vancouver Island : Five patients began a suit against the Human Resources Ministry and Tranquille administrator Terry Prysiazniuk seeking a review of the decision to transfer | the patients, an ‘order prohibiting the placement of patients without their consent and damages for “false ce impri: arbitrary and ‘The patients d by Victoria lawyers David closure. That would mean that no one would be allowed to leave the hii P Vickers and Dulcie McCallum, ‘then sought to have the legal action include the rest of the patients who were transferred. é But Murphy said a class suit must cover people with the same interest in the legal proceedings. Murphy, referring to the claim for damages for false’ except to reach businesses or homes. The region that includes the nor- thern quarter ofthe province around Prince George had the largest area blazing with 133 fires burning over 82,682 hectares. ‘The area around Prince Rupert and Smithers had 14 fires over 50,246 hectares, centered around Williams Lake had 65 fires covering 2,120 hectares: while the Cariboo region Watermelons pulled > By CasNews Staif and News Services *_Castlegar's three major retail grocers have volun- tarily removed their stock of California watermelons from the shelves in the wake of this week's contamifiation scare. The watermelons, contam- inated .with the pesticide aldicarb, were confirmed as ~ the cause-of two cases of sickness in the - Vancouver area © Friday, “said Jack Forbes, regional director of the Federal Health Protec- tion Branch. It is not know how wide- spread the contamination is, and retail grocers are playing it safe. Larry Angelucci, manager of Castlegar Safeway, said .C., Dwight and George, B.C. Ellie Wilson, Cheshire, Ore. Rubber Stamps Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS “197 Columbia Ave. Phone 365-7266 Castleaird Plaza © Noritake Ireland * Contemporary ® Legendary © Formal Crystal Stemware © Stainless Steel Flatware © Gold Plated Flatware ‘CARL'S DRUGS 365-7269 KEN OLSON Won 50 litres. —Are-You Next? To be drawn every Friday. CASTLEGAR MORAWK 1415 Columbia Ai + venue, Castlegar 365-7811 aftera pick-up driven by Edward Arishenkoff of Castlegar coll- ided with an eastbound Chev- - rolet station wagon driven by urday that both vehicles were demolished. The accident is still under investigation, he said. Water level down . By CasNews Staff oe ae tinttal —— _ not ment says it is blocking off ‘two of the three pools so that up at the Pass Creek Region- al Park pools. The hot, dry weather has _ caused the water level in Norns Creek — the feeder ~ supply-for the pools —_to drop ‘substantially, says the recreation department. The pools are also losing ‘water through seepage and evaporation. As a result, the depart- water can be a on the main pool. The department is trench- ing the water intake to the pool to increase the volume of water supply. Water is also being diverted__from.. the creek to the pool. The department, gays it hopes to raise the’water in the pool to a reasonable level over the weekend. Saturday his. store has “pulled them all off the shelf.” “We've been telling people not to eat them and we'll gladly refund the customer's money for any watermelons that have been bought.” The Super-Valu- at 635 Columbia_and Central Food Mart have done the same. “All the watermelon we had this week we've pulled off the rack,” ~Super-Valu manager Bernie Kosiancic said Saturday. i Mike Bondaroff, manager of Central Foods, said his store had alsb removed all its watermelons fromthe shelf. All three managers ex- pressed concern that the incident might get blown out of proportion. “It's probably just an iso- lated case,” Angelucci said. The health protection Forbes said the contamin- ated watermelons showed/ sldiar}fevels up to 10 times what i to be the branch was i a If. d cases in British Columbia. | : At least 72 people have fallen ‘“ill-in four western states, a California health official said Friday. Forbes declined to say exactly where the cases in Vancouver were confirmed. Aldicarb also was respon- sible for 125 cases of sickhess reported last month after people ate tainted English cucumbers grown at a farm in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver. Aldicarb is registered in Canada for use only on potatoes and sugar beets. safe limit. Poison information co-or- dinator Gillian Willis said the B.C. poison control centre at St. Paul's. Hospital in Van- couver received about 50 calls late Friday from people concerned that they might have eaten contaminated watermelon. Some callers described symptoms which suggested aldicarb poisoning, Willis said. Valhalla to get. - $100,000. VICTORIA (CP) — The government has allocated $100,000 to improve public access to Valhalla Provincial Park in the Slocan Valley. A trail along the west shore of Slocan Lake will be built to link the village of Slocan with the existing trail system in the park, the Lands, Parks and Housing Ministry said. Signs and information facil- ities are to be put up for visitors. [rose Winning numbers: arbitrary and ruled the damages sought would not accrue to the class, but reflect individual loss. : ae “The former residents of Tranquille were not an association or a group that, as a group entity, suffered’ injury,” he said. ‘he provincial gi closed T ile last year as part of its plan to integrate handicapped people into the community. Former speaker cites corruption OTTAWA (CP) — Electronic bugging. sexual pro- curement, ° kit an dered ets worth millions of dollars were common practice on Parliament Hill for years before 1980, says former Commons speaker Lloyd” rancis. - ~ > In an interview taped last fall-for the Public Archives and broadcast by the CBC on Friday, Francis describedan operation “in which girls of the House of Commons were procured for parties in which members of Parliament were involved, senior administration,” %, Francis, now ambassador to Portugal, said in a telphone interview Friday that all his statements were true, but the tapes were not Supposed to be released for 15 years.’ ric Spicer, the parliamentary librarian, was derelict in his duty,” Francis said. “I felt an obligation to put all this down but I had a solemn undertaking the tapes would be sealed and not made available for 15 years.” Both the CBC and Spicer said Francis never requested that the tapes be sealed. Francis said that when he was appointed Commons deputy speaker in April 1980, he learned of the corruption from a private report in 1979. It was from the former auditor general James MacDonnell to Jeanne Sauye, then Commons Speaker. , TWOREPORTS ~~ “He wrote two reports,” Francis said. “One was public and one was private forthe Speaker. She couldn't believe it but to-her credit Jeanne decided not to stand for any nonsense.” The two began an investigation that uncovered the procurement of: whomen for entertainment at parties. attended by MPs. Francis also sasid a, women about 30 years old came to him‘and explained why she didn’t have a job. He quoted her as saying: “| was invited to party and I attended a party and it was in an apartment. And a very senior personnel officer told me I was to take my clothes off and I refused. “He took me aside “and said, ‘If you don't take your clothes off, you're not going to have a job.” Francis said the network of corruption had become so, pervasive the people under investigation kept one jump ahead of investigators -by bugging offices and committee rooms. = He said Bell Telephone Co. told him that the House of Commons had ordered sensitive bugging devices and they had been installed. The winning numbers for the June 30 Superloto ‘$1- million grand prize~ are: 2419848, 2419964, 1471832, 2015152. There are also sub- sidiary prizes. . The five winning numbers for the $100,000 draw. are: 621B182, 033A998, 963A819, 281A642, 652B468. had Sauve then ordered an investigation by the RCMP, = which found the bugs and removed them. 4 He said Pierre Trudeay, then Liberal prime minister, become aware. the government caucus room was bugged when certain expressions he used began appearing in the press. ROOM BUGGED “Trudeau had tested the thing again and found there wasn't any question there was a leak. And the leak was of a very literal nature.” He also described a practice that involved secretaries aba 63 5 ART OPENING ... . Silverton artist Fred Clark ‘with “Light Blanket,”-o soft winter scene in watercolors. Clark’s watercolor exhibi Homestead Soupe and Sandwich Shoppe. Story and more photos in Wednesday's” CasNews. opened Friday night at the _—CosttewsProto Court news Peter Legebokoff was sen- tenced to two concurrent 16-month jail terms this week in Castlegar provincial court after_pleading guilty to two counts of gross indecency. hired by the Commons throught = pi ‘Ye years, about 60 per cent of their salaries were turned over to the agency as part of a kickback scheme involving their supervisors. = During the reforms undertaken by Sauve and Francis, many Commons staff were fired_or demoted. By the time he succeeded Sauve as Speaker in January 1984, the corruption had been largely eliminated, Francis said. . Francis also described the activities of am MP who was “absolutely totally useless.” 4