Castlegar News August 3, 1968 German pilot freed from Soviet jail MOSCOW (AP) Mathias Rust, the West German pilot whose dramatic landing of a plane in Mos. cow's Red Square triggéred a Soviet military shake-up, was freed from a Soviet prison today and expelled to his home country, the news agency Tass reported The official Soviet news agency said Rust “has just taken a flight from Moscow to the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany).” It did not say which flight he took, but he apparently was on board a West German airline Lufthansa that had been waiting at Moscow's Sher: emetyevo airport Tass said the Presidium of the Sdpreme Soviet, the country's high est executive body, decreed earlier in the day that the 20-year-old Rust “be freed from further serving his term and expelled from the Soviet Union.” “Having served just over a quarter of the term to which he was sen tenced by the court, Mathias Rust was released,” “The Soviet Un nion has shown its humaneness again.” On May 28, 1987, Rust, then 19, flew a Cessna aircraft to Moscow from Helsinki, Finland, landing on Red Square. Rust was sentenced Sept. 4 to four years in prison on charges of malicious mischief, but West German government officials have worked for his release. A West German government spokesman in Moscow, who did not want to be identified, said the Soviets contacted the West German Embassy early today to say that Rust would be freed. The source would not discuss any reasons behind the early release or say where Rust would be sent once he was given over to West German custody. Earlier, West Germany's ARD television network reported: “The highest Soviet court has pardoned Rust. 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(From left) fire chief Gerry Rem- Scientists confirm first known planet BALTIMORE (AP) — A group of -astronomers making routine measurements on a star have found the first confirmed evidence of a planet orbiting a star other than the sun. planet,” David Latham, who led the team that made the discovery, said the planet is 30,000 times larger than Earth and probably lifeless because it would have a surface temperature of hundreds of degrees. “It's at the upper edge (of being the size) of a Latham said. Despite its size, the planet is too small and too distant to be seen directly. Star HD 114762 is 90 light years from Earth, about 840 trillion kilometres away. Seeing the planet would be like trying to sight a single candle placed beside a powerful searchlight on the moon, Latham said. Instead, the scientists used calculations of the “It's much hotter than an oven,” Latham said. “This is not a place you would look for life.” The planet is so close to its star that it orbits once every 84 days, Latham said. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has an orbit of 87 days. Latham was to report on the discovery today at the 20th general assembly of the International Astron omical Union in Baltimore. possibility that finding them,” Latham and his team found the planet while running instrument tests on a star called HD 114762. He said the star was one of a group. called “candidate standard stars,” which astronomers have: been measuring for years to establish the characteris ties of basic star types. The study is being conducted to give astronomers on Earth a standard for calibrating instruments chances for ‘life.” LIGHT GATHERED Using light gathered by a 155-centimetre reflector telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachu setts, the astronomers précessed the star sightings through an instrument called the photon counting system. The instrument detected a slight wobble in the motion of the star that could only be caused by a nearby orbiting body. Latham said the planet would have to be massive, about 20 times larger than Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, in order to give star HD 114762 such a wobble. February Aviv, Israel Below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 PASTOR: BARRY WERNER * 365-2374 SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:30 a.m Morning Worship — 10:30a.m Evening Fellowship 6:30 p.m Wednesday Home Meetings 7 p.m Friday Youth Ministries 7 p.m HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 36: PENTECOSTAL NEW _LIFEASSEMBLY 602-7th Street + 365-5212 Near High Schoo! SUNDAY SERVICE Christian Education 9:45 a.m Morning Worship 11:00 a.m Evening Service 6:30 p.m WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Bible Study — Prayer Crosstire for Youth 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH “It wouldn't surprise me if more he said. “It would be pretty boring if there weren't lots of planets because that would mean there aren't many gravitational effects on the star to determine that another body was there. Latham said the discovery raises the intriguing “companion bodies,” or bodies orbiting stars, may be more previously believed. planet-like common than people started The technique that discovered the planet around star HD 114762 is not sensitive enough, he said, to find a planet the size of Earth. “We're far short of being able to find anything as small as Earth,” he said, because the gravitational effeet on a star would be too slight to be detected. Star HD 114762 is a magnitude 7, too faint to be seen by the naked eye. It is also a spring star, seen only from March through July. The tilt of Earth causes it to be blotted from view by the sun from August through Detection of the planet around the star has been confirmed by a Swiss astronomer, Michel Mayor, at the Geneva Observatory. Members of Stefanik, Richard McCrosky and Robert Davis of the Smithsonian, and Tsevi Mazeh of the University of Tel Latham's team include Robert =z Reagan approves CALVARY BAPTIST 914 Coiumbia Avenue Family Worship Service 10:00 a.m Youth Ministries Discipleship Ministries. PASTOR: ED NEUFELD Phone: 365-6675 ‘A Church that Loves the Castlegar Areal LivingWaters Faith WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan on Tuesday endorsed compromise legislation providing compensation payments of $20,000 US each to Americans of Japanese descent who were interned in the United States during the Second World War. 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Ted Bristow 365-8337 or 365-7814 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbie Ave., Troll 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 164’ previously objected to some features of the bill: But the president said Tuesday the version approved by a House of Representatives-Senate conference committee and passed last Wednesday by the Senate “is substantially improved over the ver sions previously considered.” 713-4th St. Office 365-3664 REV. GLEN BACKUS SUMMER SCHEDULE Worship Service 9am Listen to the Lutheran Hour Sunday, m. on Radio CKQR ~~ GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. REV. J. FERRIER © 365-3182 Morning Worship 10:00 a.m CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m Morning Worship 11 a.m Pastor Ira Johnson * 365-6762 reparations bill The House is to vote on the measure today In a letter to House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) and House Repub- lican Leader Robert Michel of Illi. nois, the president said: “We are particularly pleased that the bill provides for a measured {disburse ment of the amounts authorized for the trust fund.” The compromise sets disburse- ment of the tax-free payments over a 10-year period, for a total cost. of more than $1 billion US. Of the 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry detained during the war, about 60,000 are still alive and eligible for the payments. CasNews Photo Chinese allowed two kids BEIJING (AP) — Chinese farmers whose only child is a girl are now allowed to have a second child in the hope that they have a boy, a family planning official said today. Thé policy marks a break from China's usual program of con- trolling population growth by limiting each couple to only one child. Li Yong, a spokesman for the State Birth Control Commission, said China is now permitting peasants “in almost every prov- ince” to have a second child if their first was a girl. Peasants make up 80 per cent of China's 1.07 billion population. Li said the new policy was adopted because too many peas- ants were ignoring the one-child limit after they had a girl. The peasants’ belief that boys are economically more produc- tive than girls and Chinese superstitions favoring male chil dren are the main reasons the one-child policy has not worked, he said. Li acknowledged that some families abandon girls. The China Youth News reported Sunday that the number of abandoned children found in Beijing was increasing “at an alarming rate.” CHILDREN LEFT In 1987, it said, 151 children were abandoned in the city. The annual average over the pre vious five years was around 81. The report said most of the abandoned children were healthy girls or handicapped children of both sexes. Since economic reforms began in 1978, China has been trying to limit each family to one child. Fines for having too many children vary from region to region but generally amount to the equivalent of $325 Cdn or more a year for five years, about twice the average rural income. In recent years, increasingly affluent peasants have had the money to pay the fines. China’s population growth rate jumped from 1.1 per cent in 1985 to 1.4 per cent in 1987. If the growth rate continues, its population could swell to 1.5 billion by 2010. Summer Sale! 2 FOR 1 SHOE SALE BUY 1 AT REG. 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Premier Bill Vander Zalm's economic advisory council following months of publicity and a police investigation into his financial relationship with day that Toigo “had had enough of it,” “He didn't want to have any flak or underway. Both Husky Oil Ltd. and Occi- dental Petroleum Corp. have stated their interest in the Can- adian operation in the past. In addition, Icahn said in June he had discussed a Texaco take- over with both Husky and Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. The talks were aimed at forging a joint venture but apparently Texaco Canada, including the possible sale, merger or joint venture of some of all of the stake. James Kinnear, Texaco’s pres- ident and chief executive officer, said “we have concluded that pursuing negotiations tow: sale of our interest best mi p-announced it the objective of maximiiNg Texaco Cana company and its shar 's-value to~ the were Texaco defeated Icahn in a proxy fight for five seats on the oil giant’s board. Kinnear said in a statement the possible sale “would repre- sent another major advance” in the company’s restructuring ‘would-sell its West German 25 billion to ish-Westfaelisch Elek- The company said in a~state- ment it might be interested in retaining certain Texaco Canada assets, particularly its foreign exploration ventures with Tex- aco. Texaco Canada owns refineries and two lubricant blending. and Sperone plants in Canada. The subsidi two trizitaetswerk AG. Also that month, Texaco entered into a $1.28 billion deal to sell 50 per cent of its refining and market- ing operating in 23 states to Saudi Arabia. The company has said it even the that he was there in any wy other than to serve,” Vander Zalm said. Toigo had tried to buy the former Expo 86 site in Vancouver, as well as from the government late last year. He tried to circumvent the process established by the B.C. Enterprise Corp. and had his bid taken directly to cabinet and the Crown corpor- ation’s board by Vander Zalm and his principal secretary David Poole. The RCMP investigated Toigo's ties to Vander Zalm after complaints were made to former attorney gen- eral Brian Smith. The police said earlier this month there was no evidence to support charges of influ- ence peddling against Vander Zalm. “To see these people discouraged as he's been discouraged by all of the and flak directed at him is parks, lands and the Whistler said Vander Zalm. centre Avgvet2, 1900 CasthégarNews « - BONNIE’S FRUIT STAND T. by ie sits 59° | B.C. 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