He said development will In an in! “main thrust” DINNERS we. 2199° CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP CENTRAL Church iP’ ‘Taylor,said he would like to 3 logging and mining, see the deficit included in the 1984 budget and paid off. “I don't see how we can go on like this,” Taylor said. cent — one Help Is Here Stop in or call us re- garding income tax preparation...today! they're hatched.” they wanted it. what's going on,” plan completely. in my community,” Fitchett the Slocan Vly aang the which make up David Groenhuysen of New Denver said local resi- dents weren't made aware of the Slocan Valley plan, and weren't given an adequate opportunity to say whether “The way I see it, somebody didn’t do his job when there’s this many people in the valley that don’t know said Groenhuysen, whose family has been logging and mining in the area “since the 1920s.” “I don’t think we need the Slocan Valley plan,” added Fitchett, to enthusiastic applause. “L aay let's forget the “I firmly believe I represent the majority of opinion he said to more applause. write y side-effects of. “We believe tourism has to be developed . . . but not at the expense of logging and mining .. . the primary economy of the valley.” The unemployment rate for the area is about 45 per of the highest in B.C. One audience member identified himself as a “land owner” and “mining manager.” He ‘said letting the “axe fall” on mining is like “squashing your chickens before . 3 * PLAN CRITICIZED . . . Slocan Valley ‘residents discuss controversial Slocan Valley vent program at meeting in New Denver community ha letters protesting the plan to the provincial government d that dis and area regional representatives, in addition to signing the plan. Wednesday. at the meeting. About 300 angry residents ‘fumed up Castiews Photo Kuzmic said a delegation of concerned residents from the New Denver area will travel to Victoria this week to discuss the plan with government officials. ANNUAL MEETING BLUEBERRY CREEK IRRIGATION DISTRICT Tuesday, April 3, 1984 7:00 p.m. Blueberry Creek School Everyone Please Attend BOARD OF TRUSTEES Presents Fashions Department Store WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWW WW WWW WWW MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM At Last! al@& introduces slip-on i ‘eathertouch Allin the latest Spring Shades. Sweaters & Blouses to match. TAN-JAY CLASSICS Stretch Gaberdine Red, White and Navy, plus all the basic shades. A great selec- tion of Slims, Skirts and Blazers. an {Jay 1217-3rd St. Castlegar 365-7782 MMMMMMMMMMMM = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = FISHING VIOLATIONS Nine anglers charged Charges have been laid against nine area fishermen under the B.C. Sport Fishing regulations. The offences oc- curred in the Columbia River area near Robson. Randy Lawrence Doubosiff and Henry Lyle Dorner of Grand Forks have been charged with failing to pro- duce an angler’s license. The offences took place Feb. 4. They can pay a $50 penalty each or appear in Castlegar provincial court on Tuesday. Donald Joseph Gaskell of 2052 Daniel St. Trail is charged with having no an- gler’s license. The ‘dffénte took place Feb. 19. He can pay a $50 voluntary penalty or appear in court April 10 in, Castlegar. Gaskell was also charged under the Wildlife Act with charged with using more refusing to state his name than one line while angling. and.address when requested by an officer. Gaskell can pay a $190 voluntary penalty for this offence or appear in court April 10. David Arvid Hwalstad of 8526 Carnation Drive, Trail has been charged with failing to produce a license. The of- fence took place Feb. 19. Hwalstad can pay a $50 vol- untary penalty or appear in court April 10. Gordon Albert Omand of Castlegar has been charged with having no angler's li- ‘cénisé. The Uffénté took plaice March 15. Omand can pay a $50 pool. or appear in wood of Nelson has been “Lhe offence took place Mareh~ 19. He is to appear in court April 10. Bruce Albert Whibley of Robson has also been charg- ed with using more than one line for an offence which took place March 15. He is to appear in court April 10. Randy William Hoskins and Aaron Drew Holt, both of Fruitvale, have been charged with unlawfully an- gling for- sturgeon. The of- fences occurred March 8. The pair will appear in court April 10. Two Trail men face char- ges April 26 in Fernie pro- vineial court under the B.C. Wildlife Act. . Garnet Lepine of 242’Cur- TERM DEPOSITS UP TO $500 MINIMUM Va percent (Rates@ubject to change without notice) % Add %% Interest If Calculated Annually. Other Term Deposit Opportunities: — 30 to 364 Days — Monthly Income — K-Term We Welcome All Inquiries. Kootenay Credit Union rie St. is charged with killing and possession of big game wildlife out of season. Carl Lepine of 2082 Daniel St. is charged with posses- sion of big game Wildlife con- trary to regulations. The offences for Garnet Lepine took place Oct. 18, 1983. Carl Lepine’s offence took place Oct. 20. Judge says RCMP callous’ VANCOUVER (CP) — A British Columbia county court judge has delivered a seathing judgment of the RCMP saying it is incapable of controlling the excesses of its officers and unable to en- sure they follow policies of Police file police say four weniles are being. alte for acts pag 58-5 damage” caused to City of Castlegar vehicles in work yard over the March 10-11 weekend. The investigation is con- tinuing, and that is all police would say. Nine city vehicles sus- tained more than $3,000 in the weekend | etnies Walter Kabatoff was fined $100, put on probation for four months, and ordered to perform 82 hours of com- munity service work after pleading guilty ‘to impaired driving this week in Castle- gar provincial court. . 8) Frank Markin was fined $300 last week for failing to come to a stop after having been signalled to do so by a officer. unlawful search methods and questioned the ethics of a Vancouver doctor who as- sisted them. i)Jadge’ Hogarth acquitted} Paul Truckanek, 26, Friday on a charge of possessing heroin for the purpose of trafficking saying that the accused rights under the Charter of pn aig were in- fringed by Noting ergo police denied Truchanek his right to ap- pear in court within 24 hours of his arrest, the judge said: “I would suggest that those who deliberately would deny (him) this right ally them- selves in principle with poli- tical forces found elsewhere in the world,” The judge said Truchanek concealed a balloon contain- ing $11,000 worth of heroin in his rectum in March, 1983. He said members of the RCMP Vancouver drug sec- hold” in an attempt to pre- vent him from swallowing gave him a “skin search” and then took him to a doctor to retrieve the drug present Treen Cobinens and Vanities by | s eonieina OF KELOWNA. Sales and Showroom NOW OPEN 600 - 23rd Street, South Castlegar (next to G.L.S. Electronics) Tartooy —— == PHONE WALTER HOLUBOFF 365: AT tor layouts end price quotations. 6971 Cr SPeee We pay gas money to Castlegar Customers pice purchaser tom A $5 Gas Voucher is vis given every @ District GERICK Cycle & sports 491 Bay Ave,, Trail 364-1661 province, about 70 kilometres east of San Salvador. WORKERS MARCH ROME (AP) — y ina C government's 10-per-cent limit on automatic wage in- creases. The police estimate of the rally’s size made the protest the largest single labor demonstration ever in Ttaly. On Friday the Senate, in a vote of confidence, approved the wage decree by the government of Socialist Premier Bettino Craxi. Saturday's demonstration, backed ahd the opposition Italian Communist party, was peaceful. with inflation. It has been blamed for much of Italy's galloping annual inflation rate of more than 12 per cent. SOLDIERS WOUNDED BEIRUT (REUTER) — Five French soldiers were slightly wounded Saturday in the centre of Beirut only days before the scheduled departure of all French troops from the Lebanese capital, state-run Beirut Radio said. They were hit by shrapnel from a mortar shell near the demarcation line dividing mainly Moslem West Beirut from Christian East Beirut, the radio said, quoting the French military spokesman. SHIPS DESTROYED NICOSIA (AP) — Iraqi aircraft and warships des- troyed four ships, including oil tankers, south of Iran's main oil terminal of Kharg Island, Baghdad Radio said Saturday. The report was not confirmedand Iran made no comment. “Fire engulfed the stricken vessels while the attacking Iraqi aircraft and naval vessels returned safely to base,” said an Iraqi war communique quoted by the radio. It did not provide details or identify the targets in the 3 a.m. attack. OIL AIRLIFT LONDON (REUTER) — About 200 alhnen were air- surprised them just north of Teeolnea in San Vicente i Pre d i FAMILIAR SIGHT . . . shows Castlegar continued from front poge Martin Vanderpol, chairman of the Castlegar: Robson Ferry Users Ad Hoc ittee, said he was “very happy” lifted off: North Sea platform by 0 on y after an caused a fire on the rig, the company said. There were no serious injuries in the blast, which occurred in the Piper Oilfield, 110 nautical miles off the Scottish port of Aberdeen. The explosion happened in a natural gas conser- vation module on the platform, which produces 200,000 barrels of oil a day. RESCUED SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Robert Redford’s daughter was rescued from a river by three passers-by after her car plunged over an embankment and landed in the water. Shauna Redford, 23, was driving west Friday when her car bounced off a guardrail and plunged over an embankment, landing right side up in the Jordan River, said a Utah highway trooper. Three passers-by saved Redford’s life when they swam halfway across the river and pulled her out of the She was taken to hospital and listed in satisfactory condition. THE BEEF? CHICAGO (AP) — Clara Peller’s had no beef with new contract with Wendy's hamburger restaurant chain, a deal that will put her face on T-shirts and coffee cups and allow her to do other commercials and acting jobs. wh the decision, although somewhat i with the in hours. He said he doesn’t know how many people who work early shifts at Celgar will be affected by the 7:15 a.m. ferry starting time. “That could be difficult, and people View from atop Lion's Head ferry with north Castlegar in background. Ferry, a familiar sight for the last 64 FERRY WILL STAY who want to go to town at night will be forced to go around.” But he added: “It’s better than what we bargained for.” Vanderpol said he felt the people of Robson had been put through an “agonizing period,” which wasn't really necessary. “T believe had the Department of , we would have not been put in this situation. I'm quite confident they didn't know what was happening here.” 1 BY REGIONAL DISTRICT By CasNews Staff A brief requesting that B.C. Hydro be denied permission to export surplus electricity until it pays taxes directly to Central Kootenay areas from which the power is generated will be presented at National Energy Board Hearings Mon- day in Vancouver. The hearings are to decide if B.C. Hydro will be allowed federal permits “She's elated,” lawyer Joel » who the 82-year-old star of two commercials for Wendy’ 's, said. Peller, who lives in a residential hotel, was a beauty shop manicurist before being discovered several years ago. In the Wendy's commercials, she indignantly asks in a throaty voice: “Where's the beef?” Her new one-year contract with Wendy's is worth between $250,000 and $500,000, Weisman said. The contract provides for a third Wendy's spot and includes licensing for a number of products such as T-shirts, coffee cups, lunch boxes and stadium seats that will feature Peller’s likeness and the Wendy's slogan, Weisman said. . JACKSON LOOK-ALIKE INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 17-year-old entertainer looks so much like superstar Michael Jackson that he is besieged by lovestruck girls and jealous boys who have tried to set his hair afire, his manager says. With his lean physique, breathy speaking voice em snd glittery Jackson costumes, Anthony Tyrone Dodso. looks so much like the Grammy-winning star that young girls besiege him with calls and love letters, says his manager, Yvet Bailey. Bailey says young boys who are. “just jealous” have tried to set Dodson's hair on fire. “They say they want him to look like Michael Jackson making a Pepsi com- mercial,” she said. Although he cannot sing, Dodson has been asked to make appearances at parties, skating rinks, fashion shows and on cable television, the manager said. During that, he must have security- guards watch over him. “You would think that only teenagers would be after him,” Bailey said. “But all age groups just go crazy when they see him. He really needs security.” He was banned from an Indianapolis shopping centre because he attracted such large crowds. Now, Dodson, who is not attending school this semester, will only shop during a weekday when most high school-age youngsters are attending classes. “It got to the point that security guards would ask me to leave to calm things at the shopping centre and for my own safety,” Dodson said. HELP TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Forty people, including a disabled senior citizen and some recent college graduates, have applied forthe $500-a-job Lgrncaorls as wey dergey's, | official executioper, corrections officials: “We wanted people with a medical background vid Ao we have goes many who fit the bill,” said Cor -y Hilton. “T Sern cede but thet realy Ga’s te ony Mekal toe peogile are respected members-of society.” to match p ial licenses granted March 19, giving Hydro official permis- sion to export surplus electricity over the next six years. Under the provincial licenses, Hydro will be allowed to sell up to 15.65 billion kilowatt hours of electricity to the U.S. over a six-year period starting Oct. 1. The six-page brief, to be presented by Central Kootenay regional director Corky Evans on behalf of the regional district, argues that B.C. Hydro must not be allowed to “enter into long-term agreements to sell hydro power outside the province of British Columbia until the (provincial) government requires B.C. Hydro to pay municipal, regional, hospital, and school taxes inside the province at the point of origin of the hydro electric power.” TORONTO (CP) — A spir- ited performance by Jean Chretien in a candidates’ de- about 2,000 delegates. never seem him before and I Kootenay Canal, Keenleyside Dam, and Seveén-mile Dam are among B.C. Hydro dams in the Central Kootenay area. “We do not argue that Hydro is in- sufficiently taxed,” the brief reads. “Our position instead is that Hydro pays most of its taxes and charges to the provincial government rather than to the municipal governments at the point of Hydro’s activities.” The brief argues that because taxes owned by B.C. Hydro to Interior regions of B.C. are only “a few per- centage points of its income,” it follows that Hydro should be denied the right to export “even a few percentage points of its generating capacity” until it pay taxes to areas “at the points of power generation.” According to the brief, when the provincial government turned Koot- enay Forest Products into a Crown corporation, it was judged a taxable business as opposed to a public utility “in spite of its importance tq, British Columbia,” and, as such was to pay local taxes. “The federal government has a lot of such step-children operating in the “‘Tve delivery. didates is their method of years, will keep on running after government rever- sed decision to close it. Coshews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk Vanderpol said Fraser was poorly served by his staff. “As a result, local residents, in pre- paring the brief and trying to convince the minister and approaching the press, were put in a position to do the work the Ministry of Highways should have been doing.” « Vanderpol added, “It goes to show how hard work by local residents does pay.” . Hydro license opposed public interest and selling commodities as diverse as oi] and wheat and fish and uranium, and we presume that all of the above are required to pay taxes in the communities where they operate.” If the NEB allows Hydro to export power to the U.S., then “calm, peace- ful, patient negotiations” will be unable to change the existing tax structure because “our small interest will be buried” in the larger interest of the B.C. government selling and the U.S. buying power, says the brief. It says 90 per cent of the area elec: torate voted in a referendum last November in support of B.C. Hydro paying taxes directly to the Central Kootenay region. “It has become clear to us that water and power are to our future, what timber and silver have been to our past,” says the brief. “If Hydro power is not going to be consumed primarily on the Lower Mainland by British Columbians and Canadians, then we cannot any longer be asked to forego taxable values for the ater good of British Columbians and Canadians.” Chretien duels Turner “It think probably it would be a tie between Mr. Chre- tien and Mr. Turner (in the was impressed. “We've had a long period of bate Saturday suggests the federal Liberal leadership race is more likely to be a photo finish than a romp for John Turner, several poten- tial delegates from Ontario say. Patrick Meany; a delegate from Mississauga South to the weekend Liberal party of Canada (Ontario) policy con- ference, said a hine-minute speech by Chretien which “He has that passion, that {commitment I look for,” “I think Mr. Turner's a media creation,” he added. “I think in the end it will come down to Turner or Chretien. The press are going to have fun now in watching a contest. I was surprised watching this to see how many people were sitting on their hands as Mr. Turner spoke.” Meany gave Justice Minis- ter Mark MacGuigan and Economie Development Min- ister Donald Johnston marks for strong content, but said they “didn't put it across well.” Mary Ann Outwater, from with two or three of the can- time with a leader who has a good style of delivery and I- think people have expected that the leader is an out- Employment Minister John Roberts — Roberts appeared to make he ee ore uncommitted debate) and Mr. Roberts would come in a close second . I think Mr. Chretien will win a lot of support and I think the eventual kingmak er could be Mr. Roberts, I think he could be very in. strumental in the ultimate result.” “The press is always around him, but when you talk to the delegates on the floor, they think Chretien's got a really good chance.” Turner, a former finance minister, spent about half of his allotted eight minutes clarifying his controversial remarks last ere on official Credit union elects new directors By CasNews Staff Castlegar Savings Credit Union members elected one new director and re-elected two others during the March 19 annual genera! meeting. Norm. New, a shift super visor at BC Timber and a dormer Castlegar Savings Credit Union director for eight years, was elected, along with incumbents Andre Lamarche and Ed Rohn. The trio beat our new comer Earl Grewcock, co- owner and manager of the Castlegar Dairy Queen for the last five years. New replaces Bob Proctor, who is leaving Castlegar shortly to work in Cran brook. Lamarche has been a dir. ector for 17 years, and Rohn a director for 13 years. The election was required when Rohn first decided he would not run because he did not have enough time for the job, but reconsidered and was nominated from the floor at the meeting. Meanwhile, credit union general manager Harold Webber reported, “In spite of the negative effects of the recession, it was our busiest year ever for loan granting, with new records being set.” Webber said the credit union faces “more aggressive competition within the finan- cial marketplace.” But he added Castlegar Savings wel- comes the competition “as it causes us to examine all aspects of our operation, to be sensitive to new areas in which we can better serve our members, and to improve existing services.” Webber said 1983 was “a good year for the credit union even though it was a diffieult one for many of our mem- bers.” “Castlegar Savings is, how- ever, fully committed to helping our members, and our employees stand ready to HAROLD WEBBER . busy year discuss financial problems and to provide counselling.” He mentioned that the on-going staff meetings pro- vide many sound suggestions — one of which was to have the credit union handle all utility payments. Webber also pointed to events in which the credit union participated in 1983. He said the staff put on pancake breakfasts at the Lions Rodeo, the Slocan Park Fall Fair and the Castlegar and District United Way kickoff day festivities. “As we head into 1984, we begin in sound financial con- dition,” he concluded. “Given the human resources and fin- ancial strength, our potential for continued growth and leadership has never been better.” Suzanne Raschdorff, a dir- ector for the Nelson Credit Union and a B.C. Central Credit Union director, said the strong turnout for the Castlegar Savings annual meeting showed “the credit union movement is alive and well in Castlegar.” She advised members, “It's up to you to make it tick.” Board chairman Sam Gru- den paid tribute to the credit union's founding members in honor of the Castlegar Sa- ving’s 35th anniversary. PICKETS DEFY UNION DECREE, COURT RULING VANCOUVER (CP) — In spite of a union decree that unionists to consider their position. got MacEachern told the stop ata construction site in False Creek nine pickets were there Saturday in defiance of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that such picketing is illegal. crowd of trade unionists, lawyers and spectators in the courtroom that the building trades council leaders ac- tively encouraged large num- bers of d 3 at the Roy Gautier, presi of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, said Friday afternoon that he told miem- bers to stop all demonstra- tions and allow non-union contractor J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. to begin work on site “until the situation be- came explosively danger- UNDERSTOOD ANGER The justice said he under- stood the trade unionists’ anger, but “the picketing must cease ly; that the luxury Pickets had delayed con- struction for three weeks. The pickets at the site Sat- urday said they were there at their own initiative. Meanwhile, Saturday in Kamloops about 30 building trades pickets were up at the Kerkhoff construction site there after union leaders vowed the fight against non- union construction companies would continue. Chief Justice Allan Mc- Eachern Friday found the council guilty of contempt of court and ordered an im- mediate end to the picketing. The council's executive reached the decision after meeting with its lawyer who explained that sentences could include jail terms and heavy fines, Gautier said. “Everyone is is what the law says and that is what must be done.” The court decision followed a B.C. Labor Relations Board order banning picketing at the site. That order was filed with the court Monday, ma- king it a court order. In deciding to comply with the court decision, Gautier said the executive also con- sidered that police riot squads were ready to go to the site if picketing con- tinued. Gautier said he doesn't see the guilty verdict as a defeat by the council because the picketing has raised the pub- lic's awareness of the serious issue of union versus non- union contractors. Martin Kerkhoff, the proj- ect’s general project man- ager, said work at the site will begin Monday. He said if about going to jail,” he said. “But if the leadership is in jail, it wouldn't assist the overall effort.” MacEachern said anarchy Some dologates said it was something that had to be Pr at the site and that was an affront to the law. He deferred sentencing to next Friday to allow the trade there are di ators there, “I would hate to be in