‘ a2 Castlégar News August 21, 1968 STANDING BY. . - Two CP Rail police officials were present at the Brilliant crossing Thursday watching over the protestors as they blocked the that day. track. Officials asked the protestors to clear the tracks but the group refused to do so until the rail company agreed not to spray the area with Spike CasNews photo by Brendan Nagle Homosexual issue dogs United Church By GARY KINGSTON VICTORIA (CP) — A key committee of the United Church’s general council continued its search Saturday for a compromise that could ease tensions over the role of homosexuals in the church. But as they met privately, some council delegates continued to call for a vote on a recommendation that, if it is brought forward, may create even harder feelings on either side of the controversial issue. That which the could not agree on, asks the ghurch to affirm that sexual orientation, in itself, not be a barrier to ordination. Council delegate Art Anderson, and many others, wants the proposal put to a vote. ‘I don’t think there’s any question that we need to take the temperature of the church,’’ Anderson, presi- dent of the British Columbia conference of the church, said in an interview Saturday. The council, the church’s governing body, adjourn- ed for 24 hours Saturday afternoon. On Monday, the council is scheduled to begin voting on a variety of reports and petitions, many of which are tied to the report Toward a Christian Understanding of Sexual Ori i Lifestyles, and i Some believe the recommendation will ignite an Spokesmen for Affirm, the national church group for gays and lesbians, say they are encouraged by the statement and sense a growing willingness on the church's part to actively engage the homosexual com- munity in dialogue. The council, which opened its meeting at the Uni- versity of Victoria on Wednesday, completed first reading Saturday of more than a dozen divisional re- ports on everything from the role of children in the church to abortion and free trade. The council then broke for a 24-hour period. A service is scheduled for tonight at which time newly elected moderator Rev. Sang Chul Lee will be formally installed as head of the second-largest Christian denomination in Canada after the Roman Catholic Church. LOOKS TO EXPAND Lee, a Korean-Canadian born in Siberia, wants to expand the ethnic diversity of a church largely seen, even by its leaders, as representing mostly white, middle-class Canada. Howie Mills, the church’s general secretary, said Lee’s election will help the church adopt a more global perspective. * ‘*Many ethnic leaders, not only in our church but in others, tend to be more inward-turning and con- explosive debate on the of sexual ori . particularly whether it implies practice of a particular lifestyle. Conservatives within the church also insist that any such recommendation carry a qualifier requiring gay and lesbian ministers to be celibate. The 24-member committee which met Saturday was chosen by the church executive to help lead the debate on the issue of sexual orientation and homosexuality. It will present its final report on the issue Monday. The committee's meeting was to consider the res- ponses of council delegates to its preliminary report on Thursday which suggests the sexuality report simply be received by council. It also suggests there be more dialogue among the 860,000-member church before a decision is made. In its preli y report, the ittee prop a 10-point statement that suggests the church acknow- ledge participating in the Christian community’s history of injustice and ‘ion of the ity. st tive,’’ said Mills. ‘‘He is conserving but he is also very outgoing and participates in all issues that come before the church."’ Lee’s election was also seen as a victory of the church’s liberal wing. While saying he didn’t think the church was ready to make a final decision on the homo- sexual ordination question, he cautioned the church not to be judgmental or negative. He also downplayed the furor over the issue. “We share all kinds of different understandings of scriptures and di ways of i i i . and several times we are exchanging hard words but, in my eyes, that’s the way we grow,’’ Lee told reporters after his election. Lee, 64, replaced Anne Squire, who concluded her two-year term as moderator with a strong speech Thursday. Though she avoided direct statements, framing much of the speech in the form of questions, the tenor was clearly a call for a more inclusive church. SPRAYING continued from front page Gilfillan said he was stopped by August 21, 1988 Briefly YOUNG DEMONSTRATORS... The sign says it all for Reanna Tipping and Leigha Manson. Gilfillan said the spray truck pro- ceeded past the dam toward Coyk- endahl. Early Friday morning Gilfillan and Dodie Zerr were trying to follow CP RCMP sought lie test Rail and provincial pest control offi- cials in their cars when Zerr was cut off in the parking lot at the Sandman Inn on Columbia Avenue. The two were tailing the officials in the hopes of locating the spray truck. Gilfillan, who was driving one of the chase cars, said Zerr was cut off by CP Rail officials in the parking lot so that the car carrying Stuart Craig, regional manager for the pesticide control program, could ‘‘get away.”’ Gilfillan said he got around the cars in the parking lot and followed Craig's car toward Trail. the RCMP in Trail and the car he was following got away. He said both he and Zerr located the spray truck in Rivervale and followed from the highway as the truck moved north- ward along the tracks. “‘We found them in Rivervale and they started spraying as soon as they got on the tracks,’’ he said. ‘‘When it got to the Kinnaird crossing it pulled off and headed back toward Trail on on the road.”’ Gilfillan said he was pulled over again by the RCMP as he tried to SPIKE continued from front page have been committing an offence under the Pest Control Act,’’ Dalton told Evans at the crossing as the throng looked on. ‘‘I'm sorry to say that I will need to place you all under arrest."’ The bewildered Evans fell silent for a moment before speaking “You're a lawyer and you're going to place someone under arrest?” Evans asked. ‘I thought the police did that."’ Dalton told Evans that he wanted to see all the permits for the spraying in the area. Evans complied and the two went over the permits and licen- ses. “I think whatever we're going to do to resolve this, we should try to do it here,’’ Dalton told Evans. “It’s already been resolved, I understand the courts have already handled it,’’ Evans said. Evans told Dalton CP Rail would not be spraying Spike in Castlegar, Taghum or Shoreacres but protest organizer Wayne Peppard said, ‘We do not intend to have you spray any- where between here and Nelson."" Dalton asked to speak with Stuart Craig, regional manager of the pro- vincial pesticide control program, who was accompanying rail officials to oversee the spraying operations Dalton and Craig poured over per- mits, licences and the applicator it- around and headed back to Castlegar to the cheers of the protesters. During the protest Evans said CP Rail ‘‘could talk it out and see what we can do.’’ When asked if the rail self — a truck d on rollers fitted to the train tracks. The truck was loaded down with containers of the herbicide which is applied through a boom sprayer on the rear of the truck. Sign-carrying protesters continued to mill around the crossing and about 35 sat down on either side of the tracks in front of the speeder and spray truck, preparing for arrest Two CP Rail security officers asked the protesters to clear the tracks. At this point, Evans told Dalton and Peppard the rail company simply wanted to turn the truck around and take it back to Castlegar. The protesters refused to budge but the officers did not attempt to forcibly remove them from the tracks. Instead, Dalton agreed to hav@ the protesters clear the tracks and°CP Rail agreed not to spray the area Thursday. The railway also agreed to notify Dalton four hours ‘in advance of any attempt to spray the area turned 1:30 p.m. the truck pany had other means of dealing with the protesters he said, ‘‘No." He also said that spraying Spike on the tracks was the most economical way to control the weed problem. “‘Any other option at this point is just far too expensive,” he said ‘“‘Ballasting is $50,000 to $100,000 a mile. Manual labor — I don’t think you’d keep up with it And the cost of the pesticide is very minimal in comparison.” Evans couldn't estimate the cost of the Spike spraying program. Peppard| called it a small victory for the protesters but said he will continue to try and keep the rail company from spraying. “We got a little bit of respite here,’’ he said. ‘We're still going to continue with the program we started a week ago, and we do not intend to let any spraying happen.” The demonstrators will continue their trackside vigil at Brilliant and Taghum until the spraying permit expires on Aug. 31. Real estate dea By The Canadian Press prop ig to elimi price-fixing in the real estate industry will either clear the air by setting national standards or create confusion over who was guilty. The interpretation depends on which real estate board is speaking Ottawa-Carleton leads opponents by saying it won't the standards for all of Canada and that’s a very large, onerous task. Whenever you do that . . . you can’t make everybody happy.”’ The agreement was worked out during 15 months of iati between the and the Bureau of Competition. CHECKS BOARDS In March 1987, the bureau investigated nine boards sign the agreement — even if it means from the Canadian Real Estate Association, while Toronto and Windsor say that’s an option their members may consider in the coming weeks. Others like the Montreal board say they're just pleased a deal was reached. Dennis Oliver, president of the London and St Thomas board, said such divergent opinion should be expected considering the scope of the agreement ac- cepted in a 188-to-55 vote by local boards last weekend. “*The (federal) competition peopte set out to lay out g that agents who offered discounts to the usual five- to six-per-cent sales fee were denied use of the computerized listing service called Multiple Listing Service. If the association hadn't accepted the order, the nine boards could have faced charges of conspiring to limit competition, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $10 million. e ag a int for an order the bureau is seeking from the Federal Court. of Canada which would apply to the association and nine NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — The RCMP was prepared to drop the in- vestigation of a man accused of sex- ual assault if he agreed to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence, Const. Georgina Smillie testified Fri- day “They must have been doing at least 90 miles an hour to try and lose me,” Gilfillan said. ‘‘I was trying to keep up with him so I knew where the spray truck was."’ day. follow the truck back to Trail. He said he hasn't seen the truck since. CP Rail also sprayed the track east of Nelson toward Cranbrook on Fri- The man, who was accused of sex- ually abusing an ex-foster child in his care eight years ago, committed sui- cide about two months after the former foster child lodged the com- plaint. At an inquest here into the man’s death, his wife has said her husband would be alive if someone had listened to her pleas to consider the reliability of allegations against her husband. A three-woman, two-man jury was to return Monday to deliberate and possibly make recommendations con- cerning future treatment of sexual assault allegations by police and Social Services Ministry employees. Council undecided. Traffic tips Bill Ma in Although the poll found 68 per cent of people support the con- cept of freer trade, on the free- trade deal itself 40 per cent were in favor and 40 per cent were opposed. About 20 per cent were Council said opponents of the deal appear to have been B.C. DIVIDED ON FREE TRADE VANCOUVER (CP) — A poll conducted for the B.C. Business shows British Colum- bians are divided on the issue of the Canada-U.S. free trade deal. estry and small business will be harmed, but in fact they will benefit frm free trade, Matkin said. “This says there’s still a selling job to be done,’ he said in an interview. The poll also asked people to identify the major issues facing British Columbians. Thirty nine per cent said the economy, 37 per cent said the provincial government, 28 per cent said Premier Vander Zalm and 18 per cent said free trade. = The poll, conducted by Mark- president Castlegar RCMP remind you that at an intersection controlled by a red light, you must come to a complete mation about According to the poll results, British Columbians think for- ing misinfor- the agreement. trend Marketing Research, terviewed S04 people and has a margin of error of plus or minus four per cent 19 times out of 20. stop first before making a right turn. | lauded, boards, while the larger agreement ties the rest of the country’s 114 boards to following the terms of the order. The terms are to remain secret until it’s approved by the attorney general and the federal court, possibly by the end of the summer, a bureau spokesman has said. Several real estate board spokesmen said the agree- ment interferes with their day-to-day operation. For seven years, for example, the boards must inform the competition bureau of agents denied membership on a real estate board and the reasons for the denial, sources said. As well, local board bylaws must be reviewed by the federal director of competition policy. Wies Wrobel, president of the Windsor-Essex County board, one of the offices investigated, said the bureau has ‘‘gone too far’ by dealing with the entire industry rather than specific problems, and published reports are incriminating all brokers. Gerard Carignan, executive vice-president of the rapped Montreal board, another of those investigated, said the agreement involves no admission of guilt and will help educate the public about the industry. “I'm glad this happened,” he said. “For the people will know what our practices are."’ Several board presidents said it'll be at least six weeks before it’s certain which boards will refuse to sign the agreement, and risk expulsion from the national association. But g P' ives, i Con- sumer Minister Harvie Andre, have said the boards must comply with the Competition Act and the agree- ment is an attempt to achieve that. The government says the deal is designed to in- crease competition in the industry, but most board representatives surveyed say it isn't likely to result in lower fees, that brokers and not boards set their fees, and fees generally average five to six per cent because that’s what is needed to run a business. Billing numbers rise VICTORIA (CP) — In the wake of a court decision that took away the province's right to restrict medical billing numbers, the B.C. Health Ministry said there has been a huge increase in the number issued. The ministry has issued more than 1,700 billing numbers to doctors in the last two weeks and there are 452 applications pending from elsewhere in Canada and around the world. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled earlier this month that the province had no right to restrict medical billing numbers that allow doctors to charge the province’s Medical Service's Commission for their services. Government lawyers are seeking leave to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. Mandela responding well JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) — A Swiss lung specialist has examined Nelson Mandela, the jailed South African black nationalist, and said he is well to for losis, Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital announced Saturday. Prof. Heinrich Hertzog, president of the European Society of Pneufology, had seen Mandela, the hospital said in a statement to reporters. It did not say when the examination took place or at whose Mandela is well to our "the statement said. ‘‘He is cheerful and is up and about."’ Bus crash kills eight BILBAO, Spain (AP) — A bus carrying West German and Port- uguese nationals veered off a highway and rolled into a ravine Saturday, killing eight people and injuring 40, police said. The names and nationalities of the dead and injured were not immediately known, but the official said most were West Germans or Portuguese. The official said five people @red-immediately and three more died after being taken to hospitals Thousands rally BANGKOK (AP) — Thousands of people rallied Saturday in Burma's capital Rangoon to demand a return to multi-party democracy, one day after the government named its first civilian leader in 26 years. State-run Radio Rangoon, monitored in Thailand, said 112 people were killed Aug. 8-12 in Rangoon in rioting that led to the ouster of hard-line leader Sein Lwin. Earlier government figures put the death toll at about 95. An Asian diplomat in Rangoon estimated 4,000 people rallied peacefully in front of Rangoon General Hospital, which became a gathering place for protesters after troops were reported to have fired on doctors and nurses Aug.2 Mourners jam mosque ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of mourners jammed the grounds of the world’s largest mosque on Saturday and chanted praise as Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq was buried Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said he asked the United States to help investigate the ‘‘dastardly crime’’ of the crash that killed Zia, the U.S. ambassador and 28 other people aboard a military C-130 plane Wednesday. ““We do suspect that a C-130 is such a stable plane that it doesn’t disintegrate into thin air. Ishaq Khan said at his first news conference since taking office as president ‘The enemy has penetrated the inner defences of the country he said, adding that he has no proof sabotage was to blame and it would be ‘‘pure speculation’’ to cast suspicion on any group Coal strike spreads WARSAW (AP) — Top military leaders met in an emergency session in Poland and troops moved across the southern region of Silesia on Saturday after workers at four more coal mines joined countrywide strikes to demand legalization of Solidarity. Poland's leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski and Defence Committee reached ‘‘appropriate decisions,"’ news agency PAP said. But the brief dispatch gave no hint about what the government planned to do about the strongest challenge to Communist authorities since Solidarity, the independent union federation, was crushed in 1981 - the national the state-run President found dead KOROR (AP) — President Lazarus Salii of the Pacific-island country of Palau was found shot dead in his home Saturday, the second Palauan president in a row to die by gunfire in a country split by a dispute over a proposed pact of association with the United States It was not immediately known if Salii, 54, killed himself or was shot by an unknown assailant. Police officer Theodore Obak at first said an unknown gunman fired the shot, but a government spokesman said later a gun was found and suicide has not been ruled out Vice-President Thomas Remengesau, who also was Palau’s minister of justice, was sworn in as the new president. Remengesau. 57. is to serve out the remainder of Salii's term, which ends later in the year. Ferry sinks, 50 dead KINSHAS (AP) — An overloaded ferry sank in Lake Tanganyika and more than SO people are feared dead, naval sources in Zaire said Saturday Little information on the sinking was available in the capital Kinshasa, 1,600 kilometres west of the lake The sources said the ferry, which sank Wednesday, was owned by a citizen of nearby Rwanda. They did not know where the ferry sank on the lake or its route The sources, speaking on conditon of anonymity, said the ferry may have gone down because it was overloaded. They had no word on survivors or the number of people who were aboard the vessel Shooting explained MULUNGUSHI ROCK, Zambia (Reuter) — Angola said Saturday that Botswana President Quett Masire’s executive jet was flying over Angola's war zone without clearance when it was shot down by an Angolan fighter plane earlier this month Botswana has said Masire’s BAE 125-800 was following an inter. national route duly cleared with Angotan authorities when attacked, losing one of its two engines on Aug. 7 ‘That is not true,’ Angola's ambassador to Zambia Luis Neto Kiambata told reporters in Mulungushi Rock, Zambia. ‘‘They did not wait for an answer from us permitting passage because that is onf of the routes in the war zone."’ it was TRUCK CRASH . . . Castlegar RCMP inspect dump truck that went out blowout. Driver was taken to hospital and released the following of control and crashed Wednesday evening in Highway 22 near Fair- day view. Police believe accident may have been caused by a tire TRUCK — continued from front page outside city hall. Police say a 17-year- old local youth was northbound on Columbia Avenue about 9:10 p.m when his vehicle crashed into a second vehicle parked on the east side of the street across from city hall The force of the crash sent the parked vehicle flying into the air. where it landed on its roof. Police estimate total damage to the two vehicles at $4,000. The driver of the car suffered minor cuts to his face and body Police say alcohol-related charges are pending Hunts found guilty NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal jury found Saturday that the Hunt brothers conspired to corner the world silver market in the late 1970s, but the panel failed to assess d rs in the i conspiracy case After the partial verdict was an- nounced, U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker sent the jury back to continue deliberations. The jurors found that the three sons of renowned Texas oilman H.L Hunt had conspired to monopolize the world silver market, to the detri ment of the plaintiff in the case — the Peruvian government's mineral marketing company Minpeco S.A All of the Hunts but one — Lamar, 56, owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs — were found to have engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity. Since the case is a civil one, there would be no criminal penalties attached to the finding The findings came on the jury's sixth day of deliberations, when the three men and three_women sent a note to Lasker saying: ‘Very sorry to say we have been unable to reach a unanimous decision."* When Lasker asked them to read the findings they had reached, the jury foreman answered ‘‘Yes'’ to everything except the racketerring charge against Lamar Hunt. However, when she reached the section about damages, the foreman said the jury had not determined how much Minpeco lost on its short silver futures contracts as a result of price increases engineered by the Hunts The jury did determine that the Hunts cost Minpeco $24.5 million US in interest on loans to pay for its losses and $12.2 million in future trades. However, the jury also said the damages should be offset by $33.4 million that Minpeco earned in profits on silver it held during the same period. CosNews Photo by Ron Norman Tory caucus gives Blais-Grenier boot By EDISON STEWART Canadian Press ST-HAYACINTHE, Que. — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney expelled Montreal MP Suzanne Blais-Grenier from his caucus on Saturday after her claims that Canadians routinely pay kickbacks to get government business. He also promised to prohibit political donations by corporations, unions and associations “I think it’s the way of the future,'’ Mulroney told reporters after meeting with his Quebec caucus Donations from corporations and labor organiza- tions to provincial political parties haven't been allowed in Quebec since 1977. “Political parties have to go out and get their money from ordinary citizens, in limited amounts — I think that's good for democracy and I think that's the way it should be,"" said Mulroney He promised a re-elected Conservative government would bring in such restrictions nationally Mulroney said caucus voted unanimously to expel Blais-Grenier, a former cabinet minister, after her allegations that people pay kickbacks to the Tory party to get government business. “My colleagues in the Quebec caucus are honest people arid they want their reputation unsullied and I'm not going to sit idly by and let Suzanne Blais-Grenier or anybody to attack honorable people who have loyally served Quebec and served Canada,’’ Mulroney told reporters HAS NO DETAILS The RCMP said Friday it- interviewed the former minister, who is fighting attempts by the party or ganization to nominate another candidate in her riding There were ‘‘no details of any activity which could permit the RCMP to initiate a criminal investigation Mulroney said Blais-Grenier was suspended be. cause she was invited to explain herself and refused He also hinted that if Blais-Grenier wins a Con- IRA bomb OMAGH, Northern Ireland (AP) At a news co! Protestant MPs are demanding the King said official government of Northern Ireland be- dence’’ the explo servative nomination for the next election, he may not sign the official papers required for her to become a candidate. Some Quebec MPs want Mulroney to take similar action with Sinclair Stevens, a former Toronto-area minister found by a judicial inquiry to have been in a conflict of interest 14 times Energy Minister Marcel Masse, Mulroney's Que- bec lieutenant, told reporters the caucus feels Blai: Grenier *‘stabbed them in the back at the worst possible moment."' An election is expected this fall and there are concerns her allegations will revive memories of the government's scandal-ridden first years in office, including influence-peddling charges against Montreal MP Michel Gravel CLEAN MORES The plan to outlaw certain political contributions follows a report from Secretary of State Lucien Bou- chard, who wrote that the government has the “‘op- portunity to contribute to an unprecedented cleansing of our political mores."* Bouchard called for new measures to clean up the awarding of government contracts. which ‘remains, potentially, the thorniest issue and, in any case. the one that gives many people their negative impression of political activity."’ Mulroney's Quebec MPs have pushed for measures to clean up the political process since 1986 On Friday, they decided to run their local associations as if the new funding rules were already in place with a ceiling on individual contributions of $5,000 The party outside Quebec has largely opposed the idea, as have many fundraisers Multoney said ‘Canadians can be persuaded of its value.” He suggested the Liberals renounce corporate con- tributions and the NDP reject contributions from unions. kills eight inference Saturday Is have osives were part of The predominantly Roman Catholic “some evi- IRA is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the 60- gin locking up guerrilla suspects without trial after the IRA blew up a busload of British troops. killing eight Seven men died in the Friday-night blast and one of the most seriously injured died Saturday afternoon, the British army said. Twenty-seven in. jured men survive The massacre dealt the British army in Northern Ireland its costliest single blow since 1982, bringing the military death toll to 26 in a summer IRA blitz in Ulster, mainland Britain and continental Europe The Irish Republican Army claim ed responsibility for the attack Sat urday in a statement to Irish news media and threatened: ‘‘We will not lay down our arms until the peace of a British disengagement from Ireland is granted to our nation.” Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King said: ‘‘We have no choice but to fight and to stand and to defeat the men of violence."" several loads of Libyan armaments reported smuggled onto the island in recent years. He didn't elaborate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke off a holiday in Cornwall and flew to London to meet with Ken Maginnis, in whose County Tyrone constituency the bombing occurred and who's one of several Northern Ireland Protestant MPs who demand ed the return of ‘selective intern ment'’ — a controversial policy of* locking up guerrilla suspects without trial, last used in 1975 Thatcher has refused previous in ternment calls, but Armed Forces Minister Archie Hamilton said noth ing was ruled out, including intern ment Internment was last used between 1971 and 1975 to hold 1.981 people mostly pro-IRA suspects. It dam- aged Britain's human rights record and moderate politicians warned Sat urday its reintroduction would hand the IRA a propaganda victory per-cent Protestant province with the 95-per-cent Roman Catholic Irish Re- public The outlawed IRA appears to have shifted tactics away from attacking local police and militiamen and has concentrated on army personnel from mainland Britain On June 15, a bomb blew up six their van in Lisburn, outside Belfast. Five more have died in IRA attacks this summer in Bel- gium, Holland, West Germany and north London Of the nearly 2.700 people killed in Irish-related violence since 1969, 76 have died this year, compared with 93 in all of 1987 “They (the IRA) want people in Britian to think, our young people are getting killed over there in a never. ending war, it’s been going on for 20 years, there doesn't seém to be any end to it,” said Lord Fitt, formerly 3 prominent Roman Catholic leader in Northern Ireland soldiers in