ot weak + + + Castlegar's New Year's baby Lizette and porents Derek and Patricia were at Castlegor Hospital Tuesday. : (from left), Tony Ackney, tems are moving through the province, giving just | Wong weit Senge nm pry Sneed rough cloudy skies prevailing but ony snow amounts to be small Temperatures will Castlegar 1,815 vehicles from Dee. 8 to Jan. 3. Of that total, only four people were charged with drinking and driving offen- ses, a news release from the Castlegar detachment says. In addition, there were no collisions involving aleohol. The RCMP laid a total of 20 charges under the Motor Vehicles Act. There were no fatal ac- cidents during the period and only one person injured as a result of an accident. omounts There were six accidents involving property damage. representing Cas: Hospital Auxiliary, Dr. Van Viiet on beha' B.C. Medical Association, Verona Walker and Sue Archambault of Alpho Phi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. Jon CostewsProte Ex-principal pleads guilty to charges - was refused bail today after he admitted in court Tuesday to fondling and masturbating 19 children of times from 1970 to 1985. was told Tuesday by prosecutor Barry that Noyes will prey on more victims if he is “No young child is safe when he is around,” Sullivan said. “He is extremely dangerous to young children.” While Noyes worked in five school districts, he sexually abused children who knew him as their teacher, principal or sports coach. The incidents involved children aged nine to 11 years. Mr. Justice Raymond Parris said he was concerned Noyes “might do something foolish” as pressure mounted on him during a sentencing hearing later this month and there was a risk Noyes would not attend the proceedings. The judge also said there was no guarantee Noyes would not come in contact with children if he was out on bail and that the public interest and in the 50 U.S. U whys Ailing dollar rebounds from record low TORONTO (CP) — The Bank of Canada’s mission to rescue the Can- adian dollar appeared to reap dividends y- But it left borrowers smarting as and other loan rates began to rise — and sparked a warning about a long-term cost to the Canadian econ- omy of defending the currency with ailing Monday's record low close of 71.15 cents U.S. to end trading Tuesday at 71.50. At one point Monday, it slipped below 71 cents — for the first time — before the central bank stepped in to buy Canadian dollars. Currency traders said Monday's de- cision by the chartered banks to raise their prime lending rates, available to favored corporate customers, to 10.5 from 10 per cent helped rally the eur- reney. That move followed several weekly inereases in the Bank of Canada’s trend-setting lending rate. The central bank has been trying to attract more funds into the country to boost demand for the Canadian dollar and enhance its value. But Michael McCracken, president of the forecasting firm Informetrica Ltd said such a policy could hurt Canada's growth rate. “The point I try to make is that if we attempt to stabilize the dollar through raising interest rates, this will damage the economy,” he said. RATES INCREASE The increases in the prime rate have already started to filter through to mortgage costs. The Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Nova Scotia STUDENT DRINKING continued trom tront page “There's not much else to do on the weekend,” he said. 10.75 per cent, respectively. Three- year, four-year and five-year rates are rising one-quarter of a point to 11.25, 11.5 and 11.75 per cent. The Bank of Montreal is increasing its one- and two-year mortgages to the same level but left its longer-term loans unchanged at one-quarter of a point less than the Royal and Scotia- bank. The Royal also raised its consumer loan rates half a point to a base of 12.25 per cent for fixed loans and 11 per cent for variable rate loans. There was better news for people with savings as some banks increased most savings rates by between one- quarter and one-half a percentage point. Daily interest savings accounts at Toronto-Dominion Bnk, for example, are climbing to 5.5 from five per cent. Despite Tuesday's recovery in the dollar; Dave Cameron, senior manager of foreign exchange for the Toronto- Domincion, suggested the Bank of Canada will have to continue raising its interest rates to prevent the dollar from slipping again. MEANS HIKE “That will mean another increase in the prime,” he said, adding that inves- tors are disappointed at the federal government's apparent failure to. cut its budget deficit. But McCracken said this is not one of the major factors behind the decline. He said -investors are afraid the weakness in metal prices and the expected decline in the cost of oil pose a threat to Canada, which produces large amounts of both commodities. However, he predicted C business will benefit from a lower 6 price. “I think the dollar will turn around,” he said. i of weakness in the Canadian dollar will be tourists from Canada and pur- chasers of imported goods. While it now costs $1.3986 to buy one American dollar on wholesale markets — which handle deals of more than $1 million — tourists will have to pay about $1.42, including That is up from about $1.36 last summer, when the Canadian currency was worth about 75 cents U.S. Imports from the United States will also cost more. Fire destroys Fire destroyed Hotel in Grand Forks early Monday. There were no injuries in the blaze and only minor damage was done to surounding buildings. Cause of the fire was not known. The hotel was built in 1902. A fire inspector from Cranbrook was called to investigate the blaze. you can make the point in three weeks, why go for six? Closkey also said the board's current policy does not TREET TALK Ut j i Canada, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 1G2. Memo reveals PWA wages EDMONTON (CP) — Non- union replacements for Pac- ifie Western Airlines’ 1,800 striking employees are being paid $8 an hour to do the strikers’ jobs, says union spokesman Chris Anderson. Anderson, a spokesman for Calgary's striking employ- ees, said a memo the strikers have obtained shows non- union workers hired from outside the company during the strike are to be paid $30 a day during training and then $8 an hour for an eight-hour day and a 40-hour week. Overtime pay is $12 an hour. Before they went on strike Nov. 20, Pacifie Western ticket agents earned an ave- rage of $14 an hour mech- anics $17.50 an hour and flight attendants got about $20 an hour for flying time, Assault case stayed The Crown has entered a stay of proceedings against a 34-year-old school teacher charged with sexually as- saulting an 11-year-old girl.at a Grand Forks school where he taught, a court official said Monday. Michael Leonard Thomp- son was charged for an pleaded not guilty but the Crown entered its stay of Forks’ superintendent of schools, said Leonard had appealed his dismissal for misconduct. A review panel, composed of a lawyer, and said Anderson. The workers walked out to protest concessions sought by the airline which it said were necessary for it to remain competitive under Pacific Western is Can- ada’s third largest carrier. “Obviously, the only reason the strike has cont- said he was unaware of the memo. Anderson said the strike contingency memo also guar- anteed newly hired, non- union flight attendants would earn a monthly salary of $500 regardless of how many hours they flew. Unlike unionized flight at- inued this long is because of , the enormously high unem- ployment rate in Western Canada,” he said. individual that ~is to cross picket lines and then work for that kind of money has got to be a pretty desperate person.” Airline spokesman Jack Lawless would not confirm or deny Anderson's figures. He time if they agreed to work during the strike. Quick tongue “A lot of us go drinking.” The student complimented King for putting the Counterattack program in the school, but said a successful preventative program would need younger teachers to whom the students could relate. Trustee Gordon Turner said he advocates a program that doesn't tell students not to drink but instead tells them how to use alcohol wisely. “It's something that's part of society,” Turner said. “I don’t tell my kid he shouldn't drink. But if he does drink, (he should) learn to use it wisely.” The SHSS student agreed with Turner, saying that telling students not to do something sometimes makes them television ads portraying drinking as a desirable thing to do. “You shouldn't tell students not to drink,” he said. “They'll just go and do it. Just show them what's going to happen if they do.” Director of instruction Lach Farrell said an anti-abuse program in the schools would have to overcome a lot, such as a desirable thing to do. “To be a hero, you've got to have a Miller Lite in your hand,” Farrell said of the TV messages. “That's a hard thing to overcome.” Farrell suggested a successful program would need to have “constancy” and should be geared to the 10 to 14 age group which he said is the most impressionable. Opinions were split on the board's policy of handing out three-week suspensions to students for drug and alcohol offenses, with one side agreeing with the rigid application of suspensions and the other favoring more flexibility, taking into account a student's degree of involvement. The board's policy states that “any student in ion of, A administration of justice was important. Sullivan said Noyes’s deeds went undetected by school administrators for years. He said the man, who is married with two young children, is an incurable pedophile and is a menace to youngsters. Lawyer Kenneth Young said in an interview he will use the Canadian Constitution in a bid to keep Noyes from going to prison for an inde! period. A hearing to have Nyes offender which would make him lii ate prison sentence is scheduled a dangerous to an indetermin. Jan. 20. Proposal w Housing Ministry says jobs 24 could be created by releasing up to 400,000 hectares of land from existing parks for min. eral exploration. ‘The forest council, which represents the major forest companies, says timber re- sources are already under pressure and cannot afford any more reductions in the land base. It says the annual allow able cut of 75 million cubic metres is already insufficient for the industry when it is running at full capacity “At or near capacity, forest product manufacturing facil- ities can use in excess of 80 million cubic metres a year. Thus a shortfall of wood sup- ply already exists.” HARVEST DECLINES The council says the annual harvest will decline steadily during the next 100 years as ill cost jobs mature timber is cut and are large tracts of parkland there is nothing else to fall back on to offset additional forest land withdrawals. “Every withdrawal will have its particular effect on the ability of the forest industry to maintain produc- tion at current levels, and must be measured in terms of job losses . . . and erosion of B.C.’s competitive position in world trade,” the council says. It says a massive refor- estation effort could lessen the impact of forest land withdrawals but that would require an annual: expendi- ture of $800 million. The parks ministry brief consideration of a land swap that would bene- fit mining and the parks system. The ministry says there which “appear to have low conservation and recreation value and may not be nec essary to the (parks) system. “In particular, some of the large parks established dur. ing the 1930s and 1940s for multiple resource use were designated to include vast areas with little regard to their boundaries.” In suggesting land swaps, the brief says “much of the 400,000 hectares of possible transfer lands could be made available to mineral explor- ation for the first time in without the existing Tex Enemark, president of the Mining Association of 5 with, or under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs at any time on school property or while under the jurisdiction of the school shall be immediately dismissed from school.” The student and his or her parent or guardian then meet with the board’s discipline committee which determines if the student violated the policy and imposes s suspension that is “not normally less than three (school) weeks,” but may be any length of time, i i si leave room for a student to appeal. “If you're going to put in a time period, you don’t have to have a hearing with the board because (the student) is going to get three weeks,” Closkey said. “That could be handled by the administrators. “Something is missing here. There has to be an appeal process. The way (the policy), iw worded, guilt is implied.” However, King said that by the time a student comes before the board, his or her guilt has been determined by an extensive investigation on the part of the school's administration. “I will not bring a student before the board unless I know beyond a reasonable doubt he’s guilty,” King said. “The flexibility (in the policy) is in my office.” He added that an appeal process exists in the fact that the board takes the time “to look at the situation again.” act as “a tribunal of appeal.” However, he said the possibility exists of “building into the policy more flexibility in discipline.” Wayling said after the meeting he was “pleased with the input we got from a variety of people in the community.” He'said the board will probably instruct its staff to look delays holiday into revising the policy. Johnson said the meeting was “productive” and added, “Td like to look at the policy (and) come. up with something everybody could be happy with.” Little new at UIC hearings? VANCOUVER (CP) — 0t tawa showed contempt for its commission on unemploy ment ii by making For the past few years the board has invariably handed out three-week suspensions, regardless of a student's degree of involvement. A student is automatically expelled for a second offense. Gerrand said the policy “has been effective in being strict with students” but agreed there are differing degrees of involvement with alcohol. King. also favored sticking to suspensions. Suspending one student for one week and another for three weeks “could be a problem,” he said, adding the board would be “headed down the road for trouble,” if it did so. Farrell defended the policy as “definitive,” saying students “know what the policy is. “There is an arbitrariness (but) I don't think it's excessive,” Farrell said. And trustee Doreen Smecher said the board has never debated the degree of student involvement in alcohol offenses. “There has been no way to measure involvement,” Smecher said. But SHSS administrative assistant Jack Closkey favored more flexibility in the discipline of alcohol and drug offenses. “If a kid picks up a bottle of beer from the floor and another is falling-down drunk — that's not the same.” KJSS vice-principal Dino Zanet agreed with Closkey, saying there has to be a difference between law and justice. Zanet said the board's policy was law with no room for justice. “Maybe on oceasion Bruce (Gerrand) and I will see the need to interpret justice differently,” he said. “I feel the administrators have the need to apply discretion.” Smecher said the board may have erred in keeping to three-week “I think maybe where we have gone wrong with our policy is we've stuck to three weeks,” Smecher said. “But if the * three-week changes to pensions while the inquiry is under way, the International Woodworkers of America’s western re- gional president said Tuesday. Jack Munro, one of the in- quiry’s six commissioners, was referring to regulations forcing claimants to declare pensions as earned income when calculating benefits. Munro also said he was disappointed that little new or innovative had been sug- gested during the hearings. The Business Council of a wasteof time and a smoke- screen to mask the govern- ment’s plans to further cut unemployment insurance benefits. “That's why we're here telling people that they be- tter wateh out what's going on,” she said. Zander said it is a gross insult the five commissioners are paid $400 a day and $125 a day in expenses, while commission chairman Claude Forget is paid $750. Forget's wages and expenses for one dry are double what soméone on welfare gets in a month, she said. Margaret Wiebe of the National Anti-Poverty Or- B.C. r ded the bene- fit period be cut to 26 weeks from a year. “That's not living in the real world,” he said, noting forest companies are mem- bers of the council. Munro has said 30 per cent of his members are out of work. While the commissioners heard briefs from labor urg ing improvements in work- ers’ benefits and from busi- ness calling for cuts, about 25 unemployed people demon- strated outside. Kim Zander of the Van couver Action said the unem- ployed have lost thier dignity because of a poor system. She urged that an ade- quate guaranteed annual in- come be put in place. Wiebe launched an emo tional, heated attack on bus- iness. “They don't seem to care about the employee. They don't care about his family,” she said. “The nomcating They will continue to protect their own world.” The Vancouver Board of Trade also favors tightened Centre said the commission is q' ond shortened benefit periods. incident on June 26, 1965, at Hutton elementary school in Grand Forks. The girl was not physically injured, police said. Leonard had chosen trial by magistrate on Oct. 8 and one representative each from the British Columbia Teach- ers’ Federation and the B.C. School Trustees Association, was expected to hear Leon- ard’s appeal late this month or next month, he said. Crews begin replanting VICTORIA (CP) — For- estry crews are replanting grass and trees in areas of the Columbia Valley burned out by major forest fires last summer, the Forests Minis- try said Tuesday. Salvage logging and grass seeding have been carried out in the burned areas, and the ministry is developing plans to rejuvenate the for- ests in the Invermere forest district in southeastern Brit- ish Columbia, where seven major fires broke out during the summer. It was the area’s worst fire season since 1958. At the site of the Giby fire 40 kilometres east of Fair- mont Hot Springs, 200 kilo- grams of lodgepole pine seeds were sown from the air over 435 hectares. The effort is expected to produce 1,500 trees a hectare, the ministry said in a news release. Board agrees on committees By CasNews Staff The Castlegar school board has reached a compromise on a revision of its committee structure, board chairman Kay Johnson said Tuesday. “We aren't finished com. pletely,” Johnson said, add ing that the compromise, in draft form, will be sent back to the board's senior admin- istrators for fine tuning. Johnson said the proposal will be discussed publicly at The compromise — reach- ed at a special committee structure meeting Monday — is an amalgamation of the existing committee structure and a proposal submitted last month by superintendent of schools Terry Wayling, John- son said. Wayling’s proposal called for five committees: property and finance, personnel, edu- cation, communications/plan- ning, and management. The board now has seven VANCOUVER (CP) — Torsten Tropp, 19, wishes he'd been a little more pati- ent with a U.S. immigration officer. Now he’s stuck in Canada, with his planned six-month holiday in the Untied States on hold. The West German tourist had expected to spend an hour at Vancouver Interna. tional Airport changing planes on Dec. 27. “I thought there'd be no trouble because I'd got a visa in West Berlin,” Tropp said Tuesday. “My plane was leaving in 10 minutes and I asked him (the U.S. immi. gration officer) to hurry up. “He just told me to go back to Germany, and then I swore at him. I guess I shouldn't Have done that.” Tropp, who was a high school exchange student in the United States two years him the $600 U.S. he was carrying wasn't enough. A few days later, his par- ents sent him an additional $1,350, but then, he said, the officer told him to prove that he was going back to West Germany. He got a letter at- testing to a job he had lined up for August. Armed with the letter, and his return ticket dated June 1, Tropp went back Tuesday to the airport. “Now he says he doesn't care how much money I have, he says he doesn't like my personality,” Tropp said. H.J. 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