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Castlegar News

April 12, 1989

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-MONTHS INTERES

Neo-Nazis hail Hitler's 100

FRANKFURT (AP)-— Neo-Nazis
are preparing to mark the 100th an:
niversary of Adolf Hitler's birth in
Apritand-West-German-of ficial are
bracing for
rightist violence.

The Nazi dictator was born April 20,
1889, in the Austrian
Braunau just over the border
Bavaria, He committed
April 20, 1945, as Allied armies closed
in on Berlin

The 100th Hitler's
birth ‘tis the most important everit
had in a
Michael Kuehnen, West Geriian neo
Nazi leader

The

possible outbreaks of

village of
from

suicide on

anniversary of

we've tong time,”” said

West
Germans warily eye a rise in extreme
rightist sentiments in the country. In
January, for example, the Republican

preparations come as

party made a strong showing in West
Berlin’s elections by calling for the ex
pulsion of foreigners and asylum
seekers

Neo-Nazis from several countries

are expected at the “European Hitler

convention” specifically designed to
commemorate the dictator's 100th bir
thday, but Kuehnen declined to specify
exactly when or where it will take
place.

“We don’t want to give the country
time to gear up to prevent it,"” he said

but added that Spain or Scandinavia

were possible places, Federal law bars®
such a meeting in West Germany,
although Kuehnen promises smaller
birthday commemorations i Ure:
Frankfurt area

DEPENDS ON SPOT

The neo-Nazi leader, who often
wears a brown shirt and black pants,
said the number of participants at the
Hitler convention could range from
1,000 to **sevekal thousand’. depen
ding on the focation.

Kuehnen, organizing com
mittee even has a logo with the initials
“AH’ sisted there will
bE HO “Organized” vidlence’* on the
Hitler anniversary

“But we aren’t responsible for every

whose

in the centre,

young and
rowdy,"’ the 33-year-old neo-Nazi ad
ded in a telephone interview. Fringe
groups espousing neo-Nazi and rightist
occasionally disturb
professional in West

person every ‘soccer

beliefs
soccer” games
Germany

Kuehnen, who has spent more than
seven years in prison for neo-Nazi ac
tivities, has set up an office in Frank
furt to organize the birthday event with
the help of his followers. He’s hoping
neo-Nazis’ and right-wing extremists
France, Denmark,
Belgium and Norway as well as West
will attend the European

from Spain

Germany

convention

The conservative West German
newspaper Welt am Sonntag has said
officials are bracing for acts of violen
<e and that Jews and foreigners were
possible targets
EXPECT TROUBLE
Matthias Strohs, a spokesman on in

ternal security issues for the Badeg.

Wuerttemberg state Interior Ministry,
agrees that trouble could break out
“There's no question — you’ can
count on acts of violence,” he said
“The possible targets range
foreigners, to German officials and
allied military install
Strohs, speaking’ by:telephone from
his office in Stuttgart, said vandalism
and pro-Nazi slogans painted on walls
were also a possibility around the time
of the birthday
He said officials assume
generation Nazis will
memorate Hitler's birthday, but not
likely in public :
“The older ones are much more
Strohs
“They won't make such a spec
tacle out in the public
of an internal affair.”
Alfons Metzger, spokesman for the
Bavarian Interior Ministry also said

from

ions.”

older

also com

careful in the -way they act,"
said
It will be more

“violence can’t be ruled out’
possibility on the Hitler birthday and

as a

that police are alerted to it

Several smaller neo-Nazi groups

also routinely celebrate Hitler's birth-
day, and are expected to do so again
this year, Federal officials say there are
over 28,000-right-wing extremists

samong West Germany's 61.3 million

people.

The Deutsche Volksunion (German
Pgople’s Union), identified by federal
authorities as West Germany's largest
right-wing extremist organization, has
totally, disassociated itself from ‘the
Hitler commemorations.

“Weare convinced that on April 20,

there will be several birthday
celebrations for Hitler,” said Bernd
Droese, spokesman for the party,

chaims a membership of 25,000,
“Bifty per cent of them will take place
in loony bins, where some people
assert they are the reincarnation of the
Fuehrer

1989,

“The other 50 per will be
organized by agents.and provocateurs
who want to let the spectre of the
Fuehrer ghost wander around.””

cent

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) A
man Who drove off in a go-cart af
ter dumping its seven-year-old
owner on the ground didn’t get far
before the boy's moiher chased
down the stolen vehidle in her car

Danny Henneman was driving
his go-cart in a church parking lot
near his home when a man ap:
proached him and ‘‘picked Danny
up and just him on) the
ground," said the boy’s mother,
Diane Henneman

threw

While Danny went home crying,
the thief drove off in’ the go-cart

Man steals
boy's go-cart

Danny said~he-didn't-know-the
man, but talked to some people
who knéw him.

As other family. members: con:
soled her son, Henneman jumped
in’ her car and gave chase. Some
youths in the parking lot toldher
the name and address of a man
When she got to the liome about a
1.6 kilometres away, the man’s
brother volunteered to help her
track down the go-cart

William Centers, 19, was being
held by police for investigation into
charges of second-degree robbery

Nurses say they
should be free

. . Brent Heric of Castlegar fiddled up a storm
and placed Tat in the Novice Class at the Oldtime Fiddlers’

competition Saturday.

Fiddlers compete

The following is the list of winners
from the annual Oldtime Fiddiers’
competition held Saturday at the
Castlegar Community Complex. The
event was sponsored by the B.C, Old
time Fiddlers — Kootenay No-9.

CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS

Ist — Bob Montgomery, Oyama;
William Werbenuk, Penticton;
Vic Ukrainetz, Revelstoke; 4th
or Roll Gileichen, Alta.

2nd
3rd —
Elen

Ron Gemmill, Castlegar; 5th — Albert
Minchou, Creston
SENIORS CLASS
Ist — Curly Ratcliff, Castlegar;
2nd — Tony Smandych, Creston; 3rd
=Jack Regnier, Trail; an — Ane
Taylor, Kelowna; Sth — Elmer Jay,
Priest River, Idaho.
JUNIORS CLASS

ist — Diana Lynn Kuhn, KelOWna;

Kambara
scholarship
winner

A $50 Lawless Scholarship has been
awarded Sonoka Kambara — of
Castlegar for her outstanding
achievement on her 1988 Royal Con-
servatory of Music Grade Two Theory
examination, receiving 100 per cent.

Sonoko is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Hiroki Kambara, She is studying
piano and theory. with -Helen
Dahlstrom of Rossland

Lottery numbers

The following are winning numbers
inFriday’s lotteries

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45. Bonus number 29
$2,347,992.60
tickets, one purchased in Ontario and
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ning numbers were 15, 45, 67 and 87

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49 and 54

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Mystery writer to read
at library during tour

By JUDY WEARMOUTH
Head Librarian

For the second time in one month,
the Castlegar library will be the host of
an author reading.

Novelist and mystery writes, L. R.
(Bunny) Wright, will be visiting
Castlegar Monday, April 17 to give a
reading in the library at 7:30 p.m, as
part of a National Book Festival tour
of the Kootenays

Wright has six _popular-novets 16
her credit, intluding iwo mysteries,
one of which, The Suspect, won the
Mystery Writers’. of America Edgar
Allan Poe Award for.the best novel of
1985. Her Other mystery, Sleep While4
Sing, has been published in Japan,
Italy, West Germany, Scandinavia and
Great Britain. An earlier novel, The
Favourite, was a Literary Guild selec
tion

A former journalist for the Calgary
Herald, Wright has also Worked-as a
for a Californian adver
and as an actress in a
that

copywriter
tising agency
children’s
toured elementary
throughout B.C
Mystery fans and readers of general
fiction can be sure of an entertaining,
interesting evening next Monday and
the usual libéary hospitality will be of

theatre company

and high schools

fered to all comers

VISITING AUTHOR. . .L.R. bape aoe novel The Suspect won the

Mystery Writers’ of America E
novel in 1985.

gar Allan Poe Award for best

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HAHPAX—EPY Ftorence
Nightingafé never had to look over
in the 1850s for
mission to patch up sabre wounds on
the battlefields of the Crimean War

If she were practising
woman generally considered to be the
founder of modern nursing would be
surprised to find she no longer had that
kind of independence.

“If you look at

historical perspective, you'll

her shoulder per

today, the

nursing from a
lize
that nurses were very autonomous,”
says ‘Joan Mills, executive director of
the Registered Nurses Association of
Nova Scotia
And somehow that seems to have
gotten lost and nurses went into a sort
of subservient or handimaiden stage.**
Mills says Canadiz
knowledg:
aren't free to use their skills

nurses have the
nd the expertise, but they
Today's
nurses, who often have
degree, want to apply their training
beyond changing bedpans and ban

a university

dages

They aren’t seeking to invade doc
tors’ turf but rather to’ have a larger
role in a revamped health-care system
At the very least, they want recognition
for the job they already do.

Concerns about the direction of
nursing,-working conditions and pay
are shared across the country, says
Anna Taylor

practice consultant

a Halifax-bases nursing

“There’s a prevalent myth ,that
people are cared for by physicians,"*
she says. ‘In fact, nurses are often the
first
munity, in hopital emergency rooms

and 24 hours a day in intensive-care

assessment people in the com

units
Nursing leaders are optimistic that
the focus of health care will gradually
shift from large, expensive institutions
like hospitals to community-based
‘clinics emphasizing education and
prevention
“Nursing will eventually take a lead
role there,’’ says Taylor
“We have in the
programs in

university
educated

nurses for decades for that kind of role

able to fulfilit.””

this country

but they’ ve not bee:
In Nova Scotia

has been set up between the provincial

and the

association to discuss areas of com:

a liaison committee

medical society nurses”

mon interest and contern.

Beyond extending their professional
skits; nursesneed—more—tangibte
recognition, says Tom Patterson of the
Nova Scotia Nursés Union. He says
many leave the profession because they
are frustrated

And that can
sequences at a time when some parts of
the country are already experiencing a
shortage of nurses. In parts of On
tario, for example, severe shortages
have overcrowded

have serious con

contributed to
emergency rooms and long waiting
lists for elective surgery

‘Nurses believe that they ought to
be compensated better than they are,
especially when they compare them
selves with teachers, policemen and
other professionals, he says
hospital ad
ministrations often reject demands for
improved shift schedules, job sharing
and day care for a profession that is 97

per-cent female

Patterson says

Nurses’ salaries in Nova Scotia start
at about $26,500 and climb to $31,300
In British Columbia, they start at
$29,400 and rise to $34,000, while in
Ontario the range trom
$30,900 to $36,200.
RESPONSE VARIES

Doctors are sensitive to some of the
concerns, but Dr. Vincent
Audain, president of the Nova Scotia
Medical Society

is higher

nurses
says the response
depends upon the individual prac
titioner

I think it's correct to say that some
physicians don’t want to delegate cer
tain types of responsibility to nurses,
but then on the other hand you might
have those who want to delegate too
much,’ says Audain
“It depends on the individual and
the trust he has in that nurse.’

Jane} Knox, a Halifax-based nur
sing education consultant, believes the
direction of nursing may change
because of the emphasis now being
s prevention by Health
and Welfare-Canada

placed on illnes
and. severat
provincial governments
‘CHANGE LIKELY
We just can’t keep people healthy

enough by focusing on illness care,”*
says Know, ‘and that means the role of
nursing will change because they will
have to have somebody who can fill
that need.

“Nurses are ready and willing to do
it

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ts there Grants/Bursaries?
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Caring for elderly
workshop to be held

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and Selkirk College
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recognized expett in.the field of geron
tological rehabilitation to Castlegar to
present a three-day workshop

Support
have

“Caring for the Elderly Person at
Home” is the topic of the workshop
that is designed for

professional

families and

care providers. Moyra
Jones, director of a consulting group
specializing in the rehabilitation of the
elderly, is presenting the workshop at
Castlegar's Sandman Inn April 21 10
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with a free public forum

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derstanding the etfects of Alzheimer’s
disease, and practical strategies or
home care

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Sunday, April 22, to 3
p.m., and has been designed for home
During this wrap

from. 9 a.m.
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up,session entitled ‘1 he Challenge and
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Jones will investigate the process of
Alzheimer’s disease, the ellect of
depression, strategies tor daily living,
and effective interaction with clients.
While the Friday evening toruns is
tree of charge and open to public par
licipation, workshop tees are $30 per
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tinuing education

Jones writes, lectures and consults
subject of rehabilitation in
gerontology. In 198
nominee for the YWCA’s Woman of

onthe

Dinstinction Award for her work in the
field of Alzheimer’s disease and was
awarded the 1987 Canadian V olunteer
Award by the Federal Department of
Health and Welfare

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