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Castlesird Pless
pen Sunday -
Noon- 186-7 p.m,

men and.the wounding ofa
‘third Thursday afternoon ‘at

two unarmed guards. |
‘Police Chief Jack Ackroyd *

‘made a: personal appeal for
the suspect, whom he knew
professionally, to give him-
self. s

‘Th jooting, in an or-

LONDON’ (REUTER) "—
cut-price Laker Airways col-
‘lapsed in February, said Sat-
urday: he ‘has given up’ his
struggle to start a new Peo-

the'time being. ~~ :
Instead, ; Laker said’ he:

i

ye

Sir Freddie: Laker, whose.

. ple’s Airline. — at least for~

: East: Indian® community,

ton | by.
‘elections get for
a' Sikh ‘temple in’ the city.’
> Samra, former préaldent of
the ‘Shromani ‘Sikh ‘Society,
opposed a court action block-

ing. an‘ Injunction of an’ elec: ‘call

Of
ten alleging. pol ty
and racism.) 0 9!00°5 +

‘Toronto lawyer Oscar Fon-
seca, 51, who represented the
winning side in the civil case,
died’ at' the’ scene © with
wounds | in «the: pack ‘and
upper right leg.

His’ client, ‘Bhupinders
Singh: Pannu, 31,’ died in

“would” set up an ‘aviation
travel consultancy partner-
ship with the Lonrho trading
group, Lonrho was among he

‘first companies to try to res-:

cue Laker Airways when it

‘went. down with debts of

more’ than.$380. million.. -
Laker. told. reporters cash

hospital durjn, gery:
‘Alter Wed ota, were fired
}aman pped: a -chrome-
plated handgun in’ the
Lies “ ont
;;, Some reports say Fonseca
tried to talk his, will
pulling the trigge:

“before he, was’ gunned down _,

he ‘held up his* hands. and:
out: “Don't ‘do it.”

dy.

* ellents, fired’ again and “hit
the lawyer,: ‘spinning him
around and -knocking him:

{,over. Sars

With -that, the gunmai

+ stepped forward and shot the
Tawyer in’ the back, | say
sources close to the. inves-
tigation... sia

‘A third’ victim,’ Amarjit
‘Tatla, 34, was in’ hospital-in
serious condition, shot in the
left shoulder. and ‘right: leg
and unable to talk.’

the People’s’ Airline’ but it
had proved impossible to get
the project moving: quickly
enough because df, regula-
tions in the industry.

“We have worked hard for
a new airline but it,is not to

be," he‘ said, adding: that if

the “time was ripe” he might

court-
and’ Med? ¢.° © ILtvs!

SAN SREVADOR (AF

Jes on fquraDutke i6
ws towed ne
burns to indicate t

judicial officials said Satur-

day.

“The handwritten reports,
which noted the starting time
foreach autopsy, indicated it
‘took’ abgut one hour to’ con:

“duet.the autopsies on | the
tiffed

t
led’ flowera.atthe’.”

derp Haw3os brdeses eet up for. the ,
is i wit

ling sf arpa Many.
gut fo Was done at close range, Re
mi

he ‘consulate ‘were
shattered .during '#:) violent
anti-U.S. demonstration’ Fri-

day-night... peer
The | Nethorlands’- largest,
newspaper, De Telegraaf,
said in an editorial: “Nobody. -
can have trust in,the official
of a

four, plus a fifth
man, The reports, indicating
the. first autopsy started at
6:20 p.m, and the last at 7:15
p.m., were ‘shown to jour-
nalists.. Each examination

- took about 10 to 16 minutes,

said ‘the log.

The government claims all
were killed in a battle Wed-_
nesday between guerrillas
and government troops.

However, the Dutch gov-
ernment: says reports it has

* received indicate the report-

‘Laker gives up _

would have been available for ©

ers ‘may have been mur
dered. - °.

‘The ‘autopsy reports sald
‘all were shot at least twice
and apparently died instantly
t the spot they were found,
56-kilometres north of San.
Salvador, where they had
gone to cover the guerrilla

‘side of El Salvador's war.

In Amsterdam, demonstra-

* tors, protesting the deaths of

the four journalists slain in El
Salyador, placed memorial
candles in front of the U.S.
Consulate in the Dutch city
Saturday and burned an
American. flag outside the

.8, Enibassy in the Hague.

had Several : hundred. Frotes

ell hi
minutes found one female resid

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The. Salvadoran autopsy
reports said all five men were
shot at least twice’and ap-.
parently died instantly at the
spot they were’ found, 66°
kilometres north of San Sal-.
vador, where they. had ‘gone
to cover the guerrilla side of
El Salvador's war. y

‘They said Jacobs Jan Wil-.
lensen, & cameraman,
“of multiple gunshot wounds
that left his skull ‘and brain:
completely destroyed.” .

Soundman Hans Lodewifk
‘Ter Laag was shot, twice’
through the aide with bullets
that atruck his heart and left
lung, and direetor Jan Kor-
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twice in the face,and had a
wound in the stomach ares -
that could have been ‘from
grenade shrapnel, the re-
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Pincher Creek, Alta., moving °§
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married. Barbara Ackerman
in 1947 and came to Castlegar
in 1964 following her death
that same year.

Rev. Dave Laity officiated
at the service. Burial was at
the Nakusp Cemetery.

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airport crash

JAKARTA (AP) — A Gar- plane crashed while landing
uda Airlines Fokker F-28 at the airport in bad weather.
jetliner’ ‘with 28 people | No, foreigners were
aboard crashed Saturday at aboard, he said.
the Lampung Airport . in Details on the surivors and.

A South Sumatra, killingall but the cause of the crash were
two people aboard, a spokes- not available. “
man for the state-owned air- The. twin-engined, Dutch-

yline said. built jet was on a flight from .

Jakarta’s Kemayoran Air-

port,

_ Clark looking
§ better says poll

MONTREAL (CP):— A_ cent disapproved and 23 per
Gallup poll conducted last cent didn't know, while in
‘month. s more Cana- 's case, 20 per cent
dians’ approve of the jobs disapproved of the way he is ~
being done by Progressive performing and 83 per cent
Conservative -Leader Joe didn't know.

as

The spokesman said the

\ Clark ‘and New Democratic
Party Leader Ed Broadbent.

SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA

Robot arm the key -

OTTAWA (CP) — The
$100-million robot cargo arm
Canada contributed: to. the
U.S. space shuttle program:
gets its first full workout
after Columbia's third launch
from Cape Canaveral, sched-
uled for ‘Monday.

As long. as. two

shoulder, elbow:
joints worked. thrusters.and ‘the ‘speed at

d ‘wrist , ination cauged by the firing of ‘

- Missionairies arrested

MANAGUA (AP) —'Gov-
ernment’s ‘forces . arrested
nine Jehovah's Witness ‘mis-
sionaries,”: including ‘three
Ae and

Mission astronauts ;Jack which it e i
Lousma and’ Gordon‘ Fuller- . Firing ‘of\:the” thrusters
ton have said the arm's lifting while Canadarm is working

experiments have top prior- simulates conditions on fu- *

ity even if the voyage is cut’ ture missions when the shut-
short, and it was last Novem- tle crew will have to mano-

. poles, the 16-metre arm will

lift, and deploy. two gadget-
loaded packages, each. the
size, of a filing. cabinet and
weighing 364 kilograms on
Earth,., during .40° hours. of

testing on, the | seven-day ;

mission.
The Canadarm is built to
place into orbit and retrieve

_ —in the weightless environ-

ment of.Earth orbit — satel-
lites as-large as a railway
boxcar, 4.6 metres wide and
18 metres long. Ps
Columbia: is expected to
land at 9.4.m. PST March 29
at Edwards Air Force Base in
California,:. :
4 avgnkap for, thes
first time on-the space shut-
tle's . second mission. last
Noyember. It was successful-
dy tested empty. to ensure its

‘College
“to pay |
- double

1" By CasNews Staff
., Selkirk College.“will pay
mére than. double’:the ‘cost
this year. for fire protection
at its Castlegar campus.

At a> meeting Tuesday
night, college board members
approved a new fire protec-
tion agreement with the city
of. Castlegar. ae

The new agreement. sees
an. increase. of $8,500 from
$1,600. ;
But the. college is - still

getting a’ good deal. If the
\ college was within city boun-
daries and taxable, it would
have to pay about $9,616. The

, for the hospitals, met for’

ber for, mechanical euvre the arm poised ‘to re-
The arm will grapple*a trieve'a satellite. ’
sophisticated ‘electronics » “By the' mere process of
-package to sniff the space ‘firing jets, Columbia con-
around Columbia and mea-. taminates space,” said Art
sure the amount of contam- Hunter. t

REGINA (CP) — Elective SEIU members, fighting
surgery has been trimmed for better wages and sched-
and duty schedules -drasti- uling, work in hospitals in
cally altered as labor strife Saskatoon, Swift’ Current
has spread to scores of Sas- and Moose Jaw and in smal-
katchewan hospitals. * ler communities such as As-

‘The problem worsened Fri- siniboia, Coronach, Kipling,

on
- took:them to an undisel

location, a missionary said.

‘U.S, Embassy sources said
the embassy was investigat-
ing and that it had asked the
Foreign’ Ministry for an ex-
planation, *

The Nicaraguan govern-
ment, meanwhile, announced

Labor strife spreads

need more money to bring
wages in line: with - those
found elsewhere. «9°.

_ Hagen's conciliation ‘effort
.with CUPE: was: the first
.since March 10, CUPE mem-

day when the Service ‘Inter- Legder,: Melfort, ‘Moosomin,
dto- a ine

national Union thr x ‘and i
‘Ajoili'a” strike “already beud™ George Wall; "an?" SEIU
by 8,400 ns and sup-: rep’ > in
ort staff represented by the: said the association's last of-

Canadian. Union ‘of: Public“ fer didn't recognize that ”

Employees. some ‘specific ‘occupations,
‘The ‘SEIU, which: repre- such as X-ray* technicians,
sents “about ‘3,300 hospital
support. staff, voted 60 ‘per
cent in favor of strike'action,
Its threat came as nego-"
tiators for CUPE* and ‘the
Saskatchewan : Health-Care
Association, which bar

Jury rules

DUNCAN (CP) — A native
‘more. than 12 hours Friday. Indian man's,death during a
The talks were scheduled. tribal initiation: rite earlier
to resume today. t
Union spokesman Jim‘Hol- ural causes, a coroners jury
mes and provincial concili- ‘ruled Friday. _
ator ‘Cliff Hagen’ declined . Frank White, “31, of the
comment but Homes said.the‘ nearby © Vancouver Island
* conciliation meet will not’ of i
prevent further escalation of * inan Indian longhouse Jan. 8,
the strike. following: the sixth day of a
CUPE members have Salish Indian initiation ritual
walked off the job at hos- considered sacred by the In-
pitals.in Regina, Prince. Al- dian community. -
-berta, Yorkton, Weyburn, . The five-member jury rul-
Preeceville, Rosetown, Mel- ing: in’ the. inquest into
ville, Humboldt, Kamsack . White's death found he died a
and North Battleford. natural death caused by ary-
CUPE represents . 5,000..thmia. A pathologist testified
hnical and support, work- during the hearing that sev-

city amended the figure
of, only $9,500.

ers at 78 hospitals. eral’ problems created the

this year resulted from nat-.

r botltto
is “also involved ‘in riegoti-"

ations for a new contract
with 4,400 members of the
‘Saskatchewan Union of Nur-
ses at 17 hospitals.

Death was.natural

heart problem, including a
degree of starvation, dehy-
dration and hy

gure Skating Club during their. roduction of “Broadway.”

‘that-a Nicaraguan Moravian
pastor, under arrest. for
“counter-revolutionary acti-
vities” was killed when he
tried to escape from his cell
in‘Puerto Cabezas in north-
east Nicaragua.

.Vern McDaniel of Omaha,
Neb., his voice cracking, said
ina telephone interview from
the house where the arrests
took place, that the nine

Jehovah's Witnesses had ©

been led off with suitcases in
hand.

“J'm told there are agents ©

now at my house,” ._McDan-
iel said. “My wife and I are
géing there now. I suppose
they are going to arrest us
too.”

He said he had-no idea why
the government was round-
ing up the group. _

“We've had no trouble,
nothing.’

paratist victory
{at Libérals

SPRUCE GROVE, ALTA.
(CP).— The election of the’
separatist Western Canada
Concept candidate in an Al-
berta byelection last month
was a message for -the Lib-
erals in. Ottawa, Opposition
Leader Joe Clark said Fri-
day.” fxg ’

“I believe the election in
Olds-Didsbury was the result
of very deep frustration

The jury was told that
during the sacred ceremon-

ies, initiates are taken from —

their .daily routine :to’ the
longhouse where they are

led garbed in ceremonial dress

and take part in traditional
_dances, fasts, bathing and
rigorous physical activity.
The jury found there was
adequate clothing and shelter

for White at the longhouse-

and said food and drink were
available. yh

Testimony showed 47 peo-
ple have been initiated in the
same ritual on V Is-

+ aimed

at the na-
tional government,” he said.

He’ said Ottawa: was ,im-

“policies, such as metrication
:and reductions in Via’ Rail

service, that create resent-’

‘ment in Western Canada.
The Progressive Conser-

vatives: offer a free enter-.

posed: many programs” and-

than in a poll taken last year.
The poll, ‘published Satur-

day, also suggests that Can-

adians' opinion of Prime Min-,

McDaniel said the arrests hes td pped slightly since

took place about 10 a.m. EST ‘ ai
and that he was informed of Of 1048 joan as

the. ‘arrests by -neighbors O harrier e mee
when he arrived at the house,

19 kilometres southeast of 80 per. cent approved of the

job. -Fifty-eight disapproved>
and:18 per cent didn't know.-
: Forty-two per cent of res-
pondents approved of Clark’s
work and 47 per cent said
Broadbent is doing his job
well. In Clark's case, 85 per

Managua. -

He said the neighbors kad’
told him the nine-were loaded
aboard :vehiclés and driven
off. There was no- further
elaboration. ©

A’ West German citizen
and a Scotsman also were

. among those arrested.

McDaniel said those ar-
reated were: Reiner and Jean
Thompson of California;
Kevin Block of Minnesota’
and his Canadian wife Ruby;
Canadians Kén and Sharon
Brian; Elfride Urban of West
Foster PO) LA PRAIRIE,
of:Jowa; and Jan Hunter’ of MAN. (CP)'— Military offi-
Scotland.. No h di: two

ister Trudeau's performance ”

last month, Gallup says. only -

- Approval. for % Trudeau's
performance is ‘down: two
points from’ that ‘in a poll
taken last November. Appo-
val for Clark's performance is
up 10 ‘points; for. Broadbent
up eight points.

Gallup ‘says ‘its sample
shouldn't ‘err by more than
four: percetage. points in'19
cases out of 20: But statis-
ticians stress that this mar-
gin of error: means there

way Trodeau is handling his ‘ could ‘be no real significance .

injfigures such as today's.
*The -question asked was:
“Do:you approve.or disap-
prove “of the way (Pierre
Trudeau), Joe Clark or Ed
Broadbent) is handling his
job?” i

‘

Crash victims
are identified |

tree-covered country 25 kil-
ometres west of here. a

were immediately available. of three servicemen, both
from Quebec, who were
killed ‘when their single-en-
gine plane crashed during a
-rroutine training mission.~._:
:‘The-two were Lt. Claude:
Cormier,.24, of Laval, Que.,
identified asa pilot instruc-
aoe + ‘tor, and Michel Gean, 19, of
eased'by a national govern- Donnacona, ‘Que. a student
ment that is’ determined to pilot. -  ” ae
Tet, Western Canada ‘grow " Name of the third victim
‘freely within Canada,” Clark has not yet been released.
told.a group of about 90 sup-. ‘The plane crashed Friday
porters at a meeting in his shortly after takeoff in hilly,
Yellowhead riding just west © -
of Edmonton. i:
Clark spent’ much ‘of the
hour-long question-and-
-answer session glowing with *
pride over his party's actions
in the two-week “episode of
the bells". when the Con-
servatives blocked the fed- .
eral government's attemptto | VANCOUVER (CP) — A
bring in an omnibus energy charge. of common assault
bill, “ against Charan Gill, : presi-
““It was a tremendous dent of the B.C. Organization
risk,” “he’ said of his party's to Fight Racism, was. dis-
decision to let the Commons missed in provincial court
division “bells ring for two Friday. eres
weeks to force government Provincial court Judge Ed-

prise, I. gov
ernment more in keeping
with the feelings and phil-

: osophy. of the West. The_
Conservatives could relax -

the tensions and frustrations

land.

felt by he said.

“I believe they ‘can be,the-party.

‘“The principle mund Cronin ruled there was
was worth the risk.” “a reasonable doubt” whe-
The battle over theenergy ther Gill assaulted Charles
bill d public i Boylan, president of the Peo-
from the fhner wranglings ple’s Front Against Racist
among Conservatives,
Clark said that was good for 4 confrontation between the
. two rival anti-racist groups

and and Fascist Violence, during .

The

plane left the Canadian Forc-
es Base here shortly after 2
p.m. PST on a training mis-
sion. It was reported missing:
anchourlater. oy res 3
An nerial’ search: located !
the plane about 6:80: p.m.
Helicopters landed near the
crash site where the: bodies

were recovered. |
- Shank said the aircraft did
not appear to be badly dam-

aged.
“Tt looked all in ne piece.”

‘Common assault —
charge dismissed

Oct. 4 at a Vancouver Park,

“T'm finding it (the charge)
is not. proven beyond a rea-
sonable.doubt,” he said. %

In dismissing the charges,
Judge Cronin said the rally
was called by the B.C. or-
ganization to protest thé or-
_ganizing. drives of the Ku
Klux Klan and that “Mr.
Boylan’s group arrived” with
placards. and tried to take
over.

He said a riot broke out
when Boylan’s group tried to
take over the speaker's area.

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56.2 per cent for this area. This includes people seeking work,
or in the work force between the ages of 16 and 69... “Pessimism hasn't set in yet to any great extent.

. Jim ‘Switzer, manager: of the -Trail office, says these .- “Once layoffs (at the mills):do occur I think we will see a
“‘figurea ‘cannot’ be translated to what is happening :in- ‘decline.” ” : :
. Castlegar because. of the large area the figures cover.

‘But. Switzer says the number registered at his office

seeking employment has been increasing both month by
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get in on the housing market because of high interest rates,

But consumers, who can’t afford to buy cars or houses,
seem to be buying lower priced items — such as cameras.

Atleast that's the opinion of George Fontes, of Focal Point
camera shop. .

For Foca! Point, business isn’t “too bad,” though it's not
“the greatest,” Fontes said.

He added that business should be better, but it's

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Unfortunately those workers will -have to accept
out-of-town jobs, like in the coal fields in the East Kootenays
and in the dam project in Revelstoke. © : 3

.Nevertheless Embree said; “Construction looks as good in
1982 as last year.”

~ - x In “1981, carpenters worked more hours than . ever
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Baty royale Hane lowers, es Towels and Face one Hand ‘OF The. Canada Employment Centre in Trail at the end of

~ : February; recorded 1,548° people seeking employment
MANY. compared to 1,338 in January. oo
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: UNADVERTISED . the office ‘and, seeking. employment, and” includes those ‘4 y18witzer said BC Timber and Cominco are going to have a

But the figure does not include those not
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“Castlegar has always been unique in the. West
Kootenays, he said. “I think it has more of an optimistic
outlook than. others.” ‘
He also noted that there are no more.
84 FOUND JOBS. ‘ normally. ~ e ESA,
He said that in February 84 persons were placed on jobs “We are being very flexible and very dating ... sacs ome iis
by the office; and there were 28 oditstanding job vacancies at in doing our best to help,” he said. a He also noted that consumers are more cautious in their -
the end of the month. : - He also pointed out that Castlegar has never faced sucha buying. They are going for items which will last the longer,
‘He said a fair number of the job openings came up in the rather than cheaper. products. .
community business and personal, services sector, © : Ken Dawson at Radio Shack in Castlegar reports a
Others ‘called ‘for. highly skilled persons,’ such‘ as slowdown in stereo sales but not in computer sales.
it d_ electrici: Maddocks, who is secretary of ‘the Castlegar Economic “We just got an order for 10 more,” he said.
0 ce itee, said the it has req’ d Radio Shack sells its computers mainly to businesses and
a meeting with BC Timber. officials to find out their long schools in Castlegar and the surrounding area. “. -
range plans for the area, which he says would help the Dawson said the mill shutdown will affect normal sales but
‘committee to‘gear up for what plans they have. not computer sales.
Th is ‘ing a petition to urge B.C. Hydro He said computer sales are what will keep the company
to start up machining of the Hugh Keenleyside dam in order together during these hard times.
to provide job opportunities for the unemployed in the area. Stereos aren't the only thing hurting now.
. The petition will be presented to the Minister of Energy, Liquor sales have also been affected by the poor economy.
Mines, and Resources April 22 in Victoria. Joyce Courtney, communications, mapager for the
‘Terry Sabourin, manager of the downtown branch ofthe province's liquor ibution bra: a uver,” SAYS
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said there has been a sales have flattened out a little in sfiedar, by in other
areas of the province.

noticeable slowdown in consumer type loans for things such .
‘as cars, large appliances, boats, and other luxury items. . Courtney said the mill shutdown could fae sales.
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high level of employment before and its residents have
never had high mortgage payments like they-are presently
experiencing.

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tae) cent were males: its tS 2
1 ‘Figures: for February, 1981, showed: .1,122 seeking
employment, with 1,169 lookitig for work in January, 1981.
‘The Trail office!‘covers . Castlegar, Trail,: Rossland,
Warfield, ‘Fruitvale, \Montrose, and points in between.
Statistics Canada in February reported an unemployment
rate of 14.6 for the economie!region which Castlegar falls
into. This includes ‘the. central Kootenay and Columbiz
Shuswap regional distri Sok oyhe

“I don't think it will cd ly close the but
other employers will be laying off or not hiring where they
would usually “hire,” said. Switzer. “Opportunities for
students -will be reduced.” ieee R a at

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Richard ddocks, officer manager of Castle-
gar Savings Credit Union, says loan demand is surprisingly
high. * :

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