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A number of Vancouver area mayors will also attend the meeting with cab- But Moore\said she will continue to seek a meeting with Premier Bennett because he initiated the partnership Robson - Raspberry irrigation District — ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING April 11, 1984 — 7:30 p.m. at Robson Hall RADIAL Save from '18-™ ¢o *31-° FROM. $1 2-99 P155/80R 13. All tires covered by Kal Tire’s own Road Hazard Warranty for as long as Hydro granted rate hike VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. Utilities Commission has granted B.C. Hydroa 6.5-per- cent interim increase in. its THE TRUSTEES A Quality Canadian Made STEEL BELTED “nounced that it expects its control centres at Vancouver, electricity rates, effective erating facilities in the next April 15, decade and its estimates on The average home con- annual electrical growth have sumes 1,000 kilowatt-hours of been dropped to between 3.1 "Hydro will”) oa ; Ra tention ta pn od and Gas rates are unchanged. constructing fi As the policeman the day seemed to have dulled — oh, what an awful day.’ ‘Stevens said once a shoplifter has been caught, “very seldom is there denial.” He said shoplifters come from “all walks of life; all ages and sexes. In Castlegar, shoplifters usually steal from hardware and grocery stores — usually taking small items such as meat, canned goods, cigarettes, cosmetics, and automo tive supplies. “= The shoplifter is just “your avera person, explained Stevens. “A lot of the time it’s chins er don't need — like costume jewelry. I don't really know why.” While the lift ly steals h small and stuffs it into a purse or a pocket, sometimes the thieves are more ambitious. “Last summer we had a guy — wearing a sports- jacket and tie — trying to take out a $200 stereo,” said Stan. “He had more guts than brains. Stan said McLeod's noticed a “dramatic increase” in hoplifti: inning last ber. Although some Castlegar businesses tend not to charge juveniles and senior citizens, McLeod's prefers to get tough with shop- lifters. “Our poliey is to prosecute bar none . . . if you start playing judge and jury, you're taking the law into your own hands,” said Stan. Methods used by Castlegar businesses to deter shoplifting vary. A local drugstore and a hardware store who asked not to be identified said they have found training staff to be on the lookout for thieves on an effective crub. Safeway and McLeod's both have floor-walkers who patrol the stores on a regular basis, and McLeod's also uses two-way mirrors and surveillance cameras. David Cummings manages the Regional Electronic Patrol Services in Krestova, and occasionally has employees doing store surveillance in nearby Nelson. He said store detectives often become alerted to ihoplifting if a is i nervous, or is hanging around a store but not buying much. One shoplifting ploy is the trick of “taking two items from a shelf, and only putting one thing back,” said Cummiings. Kosiancic said most of the shoplifting at Super-Valu is by juveniles but added that adult pilfering is more sophisticated. “The adults are usually pretty good at it Kosiancic, “They'll push a cart around like they're shop- ping.” While children take candy and cigarettes, adults B.C. Hydro has also an- lines, the redevelopment of total on fixed Island and Ver- assets to drop to $4 billion for _non-and it of ma- the period from 1984 to 1994 jor portions of the microwave from the of network by a steal more exp: items like film, fish and vitamins “at $3 or $4 a crack,” he said. Stevens said some of the shoplifters may not fully realize that shoplifting is theft — until they are con- = fronted with the grim reality of being arrested, taken to the police station, fingerprinted, having to pose for a $12.8 billion for the period change in the frequency al = 1983 to 1993. location required by the fed- ‘The company doesn't anti- eral Depar of Com- g-shot, and later having to appear in court. The i for most ifting — often a first-time offence classified as theft under $200 — is a cipate building any new gen- mi STEEL BELTED RADIAL* $500 fine, or six months in jail. But the criminal record — unlike the shame of being caught — doesn't go away. While all the businesses questioned were unable or unwilling to say how much shoplifting costs them every year, most of the larger stores concede that stealing “is a problem.” Fall was accident FERNIE (CP) — A coron- in this southeastern B.C. was part of a steel trough at Mining's Balmar operation on Feb. 4. The *¢rew was pulling apart pieces ‘of the trough with a cable and ndoy c a diesé! machine, using a roof strut as a brace. and Wednesd P155/80R 13 The roof support gave way, and Wenisch was buried for 14 hours in coal dust. this week a Pair ' INSTALLED 3 =» P215/75R15 P225/75R15 P235/75R15 The jury recommended an end to the practice of using a diesel vehicle to pull on an inadequate cable, DINNERS ou. 2..19° FLAKED LIGHT Canada has called for full public inquiries into the Aluminum Co. of Canada’s Kemano completion project, saying it is deeply concerned about. the development plan. The church is also asking for full intervener funding at such inquiries into Alean’s proposed $3-million hydro- electric water diversion and smelter project in northern British Columbia. LAUNCH DELAYED OTTAWA (CP) — Telesat Canada says it will delay the planned June launch of its Anik C1 satellite to mid-1985 because of requests by U.S. space authorities and unsolved mechanical failures which rendered two foreign satellites useless last February. Telesat, the country’s domestic satellite operator, also said it will reschedule the October launch date for its Anik D2 if the problems are not identified and solved. HOUSE PRICES UP OTTAWA (CP) — The average price of new housing rose by 0.2 per cent in February and was 0.4 per cent higher than a year earlier, according to Statistiés Canada. The agency's new-housing price index, based on the price for new houses in 1981 equalling 100, was 96.1 in February, up from 94.9 in January and 94.7 in February a year earlier. The index but does not give prices. CONSTRUCTION HALTED OTTAWA (CP) — The city of Ottawa has placed a stop-work order on construction of the new $90 million national art gallery because the federal government has refused to pay $800,000 in city building fees. The order, posted at the Sussex Drive site Friday afternoon, demands that all construction stop until building permits are obtained as required by the provincial building code, said city official Dev Tyagi. Construction crews continued working at the site Friday while Canada Museum Construction Corp. officials consulted their lawyers. changes in housing prices MINE FIRE GLACE BAY, N.S. (CP) — Special crews, working in intense heat&nd smoke, completed the sealing off of a burning section of No. 26 colliery early Saturday. Cape Breton Development Corp. officials said nitrogen will be pumped behind the concrete-block bar- riers to create an inert atmosphere and help smother the fire, which began Thursday morning. The fire area is about 1,600 metres down the slanting ‘system of shafts that lead 10 kilometres under the Atlantic sea floor. CAR CRASH MEMPHIS, TENN. (AP) — A 75-year-old woman ‘lost control of her car and 16 people were hurt, two seriously, when the vehicle careened into a crowd outside a downtown hotel, police said. Police Sgt. J.A. Davis said the injured were taken to local hospitals after the car driven by Mildred Nathan plowed into a crowd of about 225 people outside the Peabody Hotel late Friday night. CHURCH DEAD WASHINGTON (AP) — Frank Church, a onetime boy wonder of the Senate who rose to prominence as a stern critic of the Vietnam War but failed in his 1976 bid for the presidency, has died of cancer. He was 59. Family spokesman Cleve Corlett said the former Democratic senator from Idaho succumbed at home in suburban Bethesda, Md. on Saturday. He had undergone chemotherapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen- tre in New York for pancreatic cancer. RATE HOLDS ByBRENDADALGLISH: VANCOUVER (CP) -~ The future of Expo 86 hangs in the balance because Expo chairman Jim Pattison and British Columbia's construction unions were unable to reach an agreement allowing non-union lab& to on the site. Last week, Premier Bill Bennett said if the British Columbia and Yukon Building Trades Council could not guarantee labor peace on the Expo site, he would cancel the world fair scheduled to open in May 1966. In a news release Friday, Pattison said, “I regret to say that we have not been able to reach a successful conclusion on all outstanding issues and Expo's talks with the building trades council have been concluded.” Late last year, the province's Social Credit government said non-union companies would be allowed to bid on Expo construction projects on the waterfront in downtown Vancouver. ‘hangs in balance To date, however, only union companies have been awarded contracts. MEETS CABINET Pattison said he will present his recommendations to eabinet Wednesday. Roy Gautier, head of the building trades council, told a Friday afternoon news conference that the unions have made several concessions and they want the project to go ahead. “It was clear that the only obstacle to concluding a satisfactory agreement was the ideological and political stand taken by the provincial government,” Gautier said. The main point of contention was the council's condition that all workers at the Expo site receive the samg- wages and benefits as union workers, he said. In return, Gautier said, the unions would guarantee that there would be no work stoppages and union workers would waive their right to refuse to work with non-union employees “a very major concession, since this contractual right represents our union security clause,” he said Expo officials were willing to agree to that com- promise, he said, but the provincial government will not. “I think the position is that it won't fly in Victoria.” Asked if the unions might agree to any further concessions, he said, “At this point in time that is our bottom line.” In his s , Pattison rei d the pr government's policy that all qualified people — union or non-union — should have a chance to work at Expo and that there must be no job discrimination. ° “As well, we remain very conscious that Expo is using the public's money and must get the best results possible through competitive bidding on this public project,” he said SERIOUS BUSINESS ~~~ Pair of youngsters are dea serious during close examination of exhibit at the Making Connections conference Saturday. Conference had-workshops tor-both adults-and-children.- Watch Wednesday's issue for a photo page on conference. CosNewsPhoto by Ryan Wilson WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. civilian r ment rate held steady at 7.8 per cent in March, breaking a six-month string of declines, as the expanding economy created just enough work to take care of new job-seekers, the government says. ‘A government report said about 250,000 jobs were created in March while the civilian labor force increased by about 220,000. The resulting decline in total unem- ployment was too small to change the overall rate. RECALLS PICKUPS DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. has recalled 767 Chevrolet C-30 and GMC C-85 pickups to check for improperly fastened tie rods that could cause loss of steering in the 1984 trucks. Owners will be notified by mail and dealers will make any needed repairs without charge to the eustomers. A spokesman for General Motors of Canada Ltd. said it was recalling 57 of the vehicles. CHINESE INVASION PEKING (REUTER) — Vietnamese troops are battling a Chinese invasion force that has crossed the border in a two-pronged attack, the Vietnamese Embassy said Saturday. A spokesman for the Vietnamese defence attache said the Chinese invaded Lang Son province Friday after shelling border positions for five days. He did not say how many Chinese troops were involved in the alleged attack. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman denied the allegation and called the Vietnamese statement a fabri cation. SOVIETS COMPLAIN MOSCOW (REUTER) — The Soviet Union has complained of frequent spy flights by western planes in the Arctic and warned that if any intrude into Soviet air space they will be shot down. Soviet pilots at an unidentified northern air base were quoted in the Soviet trade union newspaper Trud as saying NATO jets, reconnaissance planes and even heli- copters repeatedly patrolled on the very edge of the Soviet air frontier along the Arctic coast. “If the enemy should think of violating the border of the USSR, he will imediately be backed with the firepower of the air defence forces," one senior official told the newspaper. FILM YANKED PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL (AP) — The Israeli dis- tributor of the movie Yentl says it was yanked from a scheduled showing at director-star Barbra Streisand’s _ Fequest because of a hubbub in Petah Tikva over showing motion pictures on the Jewish Sabbath. It was replaced Friday night by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo. About 1,000 orthodox Jews demonstratéd at City Hall_on_Friday night against. running movies on the Jewish Sabbath — the period from Friday sundown tq Saturday sundown. A spokesman for Globhs Films, distributor in Israel of Yentl, said Si d | the international distri- butors in London and asked that her movie not be shown on the Sabbath. She wished to avoid any involvement in the-conflict between religious) and secular Jews. LIBERAL LEADERSHIP Turner the early pick By The Canadian Press John Turner appeared to were uncommitted. was di d at the meet- contacted said they ‘DAREDEVIL’ MOVE TODAY BY SPACE SHUTTLE CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) Challenger’s astronauts cast aloft a bus-size bundle of experiments Saturday that will be smacked by meteors, pelted by cosmic rays and corroded by oxygen atoms before being retrieved by another shuttle crew in 10 months time. Deployment of the Long Duration Exposure Facility - LDEF in space jargon — made room in the shuttle’s cargo bay for today’s daredevil attempt to retrieve a crippled satellite and bring it in for repair. “That worked just like they said it was going to,” shuttle commander Robert Crippen said after the LDEF, a 10-tonne smorgasbord of experiments, was cast adrift in a 500 kilometre-high orbit. “It was steady as the rock of Gibraltar and just about as big.” Crippen said. Television showed the aluminum cylinder, nine metres long and 4.5 metres in diameter, floating away in the distance, one end pointing toward Earth, the other toward space. The steadiness of the LDEF was important; scientists expect it to stay in the same attitude while orbiting the Earth and exposing 57 experiments to the harsh environ. ment of space until it is picked up by another shuttle crew next February. “It's the first of what will be many leave-and-retrieve missions,” said mission specialist Terry Hart before the flight. He was in control of the shuttle’s 15-metre, Canadian-built remote arm as it lifted its greatest mass yet and released it. The “LDEF represents a new factor in the amount of * stieiice per déliar that we're able to get out"of d Satelitay-™ Hart said: More than 200 scientists in the United States and” eight other countri are involved in the experiments. Some are as simple as checking the survivability of 13 million seeds, some only involve exposing large numbers of coating materials to space, others study cosmic rays. Many materials are being tested as possible space station components. Meanwhile, Challenger was steadily closing in on the ailing Solar Maximum satellite that is to be pulled into the orbitting repair shop by man and robot arm today for the first in-space overhaul. By this morning, the shuttle will be flying in formation with Solar Max, just 60 metres apart. Astronaut George Nelson will use a rocket-powered backpack to scgot across the void, lock himself to the satellite and stop its slow spin by firing his nitrogen gas jets in the opposite direction. Then, Crippen and pilot Dick Scobee will nudge the shuttle to within 30 feet, and Hart will grab the satellite with the robot arm and gently place it in a rack in the open cargo bay where Nelson and James van Hoften will work on it for be the early favorite as Lib- erals began selecting dele- gates this weekend for the party's leadership convention June 14-17 in Ottawa. More delegates committed to or leaning towards Turner, a former federal cabinet min- ister, were picked at meet- ings held in Winnipeg, Tor- onto and Saskatoon than for any of the other five candi- dates. In Winnipeg, 14 delegates were chosen among defeated Liberal candidates from the last provincial election. Nine were committed to Turner and the other five said they Among the four delegates picked from Liberal clubs at two Winnipeg universities, three were for Turner and one for Energy Minister Jean Chretien. In Toronto, in the riding of Mississauga North, three del- egates supported Turner, three supported Chretien and three were undecided, said Barbara Fisher, a dele- gate backing Chretien. Fisher is the wife of Doug. las Fisher, MP for the riding and a key organizer for Chretien. SUPPORT CLOSE Fisher said in an interview Saturday that a straw poll Tax returns ‘ OTTAWA (CP) — Rev- enue Canada is starting to brag about getting tax re- turns processed on schedule. “We've already assessed 2.3 million returns this year, 2 million of which are re- funds,” said Jean Mare Le- gault, assistant director of assessments for the depart- ment. “This time last year, we had 324 returns completed.” Legault blamed last year’ “horror story” on delays in passage of the federal budget through Parliament and “sys- tems problems.” This year the returns are humming along at full speed. Legault said his staff has re- ceived 6.3 million returns of a possible 16 million. The average refund so far this year is $563 and the av- erage wait for cheques to ar- rive is four weeks, although “you should wait at least eight before you start getting upset,” said Legault. The wait may get a little longer because the first re- turns received are generally the most simple. Complicated returns are submitted later and take longer to assess. The deadline for filing is midnight April 30. Legault said with the wait- ing time shortened, people shouldn't feel such a com- pulsion to race to the nearest tax discounter, where they'll pay up to 15 per cent of their return to get cash immedi- ately. Tom Delaney, of the Con- sumers Association of Can- ada agreed. “The discounters are ex- ploitive. A very proportion of tax refunds are ing Friday night and the re- sults were 116 for Turner, 111 for Chretien and minimal support for the other candi dates. In another Toronto riding, York South-Weston, five del- egates were selected. There were conflicting reports as to whom the delegates sup- ported, but Turner appeared to be the favorite. John Lenchak Jr,, one delegate from the ridiag Jpatd in an interview Saturday, ke ~ is leaning towards@furner and he suspects the other delegates are as well. But some of the other were undecided. Fisher said she expects the York South-Weston dele- gates are all Turner sup- porters. In Saskatoon, Employment Minister John Roberts pick- ed up two delegates from the Liberal club at the Univer. sity of Saskatchewan. Less than 2,000 of the 3,500 delegates who will attend the leadership convention are elected. The remainder have automatic delegate status. These include MPs, senators, riding presidents and ex- ecutive members. on schedule’ going to be discounted at the expense of the poor.” Delaney said the discount. ers thrive on processing re. turns for low-income earners who qualify for the $343-per. child tax credit. “It's scandalous. That credit is supposed to give them a break, a leg up. It's meant to distribute the wealth a little. It's being re- distributed right into the hands of the discounters.” Delaney said the govern- ment should pay the child tax credit to low-income families ons year-round, regular in- stalment basis, not in a lump sum with. the tax return. Peter Premachuk, Ottawa manager of H and R Block, which now does both prepar- ation and discounting, said the early response to the dis- counting service was from “poverty-line, social-assis tance type of people. They started coming in around January.” But in recent weeks, mid- dle- and even upper-income earners have been coming in for discounting. “They want to go on a trip, and they don’t want to wait,” he said. “Besides, we offer a two-day turnaround to the government's four weeks.” He said Block has more than doubled its discounts this year, noting the service was offered in only a few of- fices on a triat basis tast year. six hours. The astronauts will replace an attitude control system that failed three years ago and prevented Solar Max from pointing its instruments precisely to study solar flares and other mysteries of the sun. Solar Max cost $77 million in 1980, but its replacement today would be about $235 million, official say. The rescue cost has been calculated at between $45 million and $55 million. Tuesday, on a second outside excursion in the cargo bay, Nelson and van Hoften will replace a failed electronics box on one of the satellite's seven scientific instruments. The technicians at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland will perform hundreds of checks to make certain everything works. Elderly lived in SEATTLE (AP) — Two el derly sisters lived in squalor and possibly subsisted on dog food for the last few years despite having more than $42,000 worth of cash, un- cashed cheques and bonds in their home, police said. Their plight was discov- ered Thursday, when one sister was found dead in the living room of their run-down Seattle house. Police said the woman was in her 80s and died about a month ago. The only food in the house was some dog food warming on the stove. The surviving sister appeared to have been eating it, said Officer Dane Bean, who d toa call P huk said di: t ing is like offering a high-risk loan. If the Block assessor makes an error, and the cli- ent’s return is less than ex- pected, it’s not easy persuad- ing him to hand back a por- tion of the money. to the house. The woman was taken to Harborview Medi can Centre for observation. The Fire Department had been summoned to the home, although officials were not certain who made the call or sisters squalor why, and firefighters called police when the body was found. The surviving sister could not remember the dead woman's name or the cir- cumstances of her death, authorities said. George Brown, investiga- tor for the King County med- ical examiner's office, iden- tified the dead woman as Margaret Gunderson and her sister as Doris Gunderson. Brown said Margaret died of heart disease. The house also contained three dogs and was strewn with dog and. cat feces._One neighbor reported not seeing lights in the house for years. Bean said $6,652 in cash was found in the house in addition to cheques, annui- ties and bonds made out to both sisters with a face value of about $36,000.