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CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 5, 1981

Refused to leave slain wife

PRETORIA (AP) — The
Soviet sergeant-major seized
during South Africa’s invas-

Express said Brig.-Gen. Ben
Roos was asked at the news
conference how the Soviet

t d, and

ion of h Angola was
captured because he refused
to leave the body of his slain.
wife, a military spokesman
told a news conference
Satudray.

South African miliary units
moved into Angola on Aug.
24 in an offensive against
black nationalists guerrillas
and officials reported two
Soviet officers and two Sov-
jet women in military uni-
forms were killed in a clash at
the Angolan town of NGiva.

The Johannesburg Sunday

Kootenay

Russian
lieutenant-colonels and two
women soldiers were killed in
a vehicle and the surviving
Russians fled except Sgt.-
Maj. Nicolai Pestretsov, who
went to the body of his wife
and would not leave it,
although she was dead.”

Roos said Pestretsov, 36,
was in the last Soviet vehicle
fleeing N'Give when South
African troops attached the
town and opened fire on the

Being promoted

A contingent from the
Kootenays will be travelling
to Spokane Tuesday, Sept. 8,
to spend four days promoting
the area as a great place to
vacation in the fall and
winter months.

: The trip is being organized
by the Kootenay Boundary
Visitors Association and will
provide everyone from hotel
owners to ski resort proprie-
tors with an opportunity to
promote their services.

Displays will be set up in
River Park Square Wednes-
day then move to the
Spokane Opera House Sept.
11, where Frontier Airlines,
Empire Bus Lines and Pacific
Western Airlines will also
have booths set up. On Sept.
9 and 10, an open line show
on RSPO radio will give a
spokesman from each com-
munity represented a chance
to talk about the attractions
in his or her home town.
;Denny Edgar said the
volume of tourists from
Washington and the north
western states has dropped
off approximately four per

cent over the past two years.

The campaign will “hopefully
make people aware of the
great opportunities in the
Kootenays,” Edgar said.

He added that other en-
couragements for Americans
to travel in Canada include
the U.S. dollar being worth
about 20 cents more here,
and gasoline prices are consi-
derably lower. Edgar said it
is primarily outdoor sports
such as fishing, hiking, ski-
ing, and boating which
attract people to the Koot-
enays.

Promotion literature has
encouraged members of the
delegation to ‘dress in
thematic costures. It sug-
gested straw hats and aprons
from Creston, golf attire
from Crawford Bay, nautical
clothing from the Balfour
Kalso-Ainsworth region,
heritage regalia from Nelson
and Greenwood, mining or
skiing from Rossland and
Trail, Doukhobor theme from
Castlegar and Renaissance
Fair costumes from Grand
Forks to emphasize its new
fall attraction.

Back -to~School
Bargains.

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A Western diplomatic
source had said earlier one of
the two women killed was the
wife of one of the Soviet
lieutenant-colonels.

Roos said both local and
international representatives
of the Red Cross have visited
Pestretsov and found him in
good shape, the South Afri-
can Press Association repor-
ted. It quoted Roos as saying:
“He is satisfied with our food
— the same as our soldiers
receive — and he has access
to reading matter and
music.”

Roos told-reporters he had
conversed with Restretsov in

Portuguese and the sergeant
d d

South Africa might try to
exchange hime for a South
African soldier known to
have been held as a prisoner
in Angola for more than two

years,

It is believed that Pestret-
sove is being held in Pretoria,
but he was not present at the
news conference held in the
Defence Headquarters in
Pretoria and South African
military officials said earlier
he would not be “placed on
display.”

Another South African of-
ficer at the news conference
said the prisoner is not being
interrogated. “We rather
treat hime like a VIP,” he
has not given us valuable

PP ave
his wife's death “stoically.”
Angola was a Portuguese
colony before it gained inde-
pendence in 1975.
HAS TWO CHILDREN
Roos said he had learned
that the Pestretsovs had a
son and a daughter, ages 11
and six, who are living with
the sergeant’s mother in the
Soviet republic of Kazakh.
The brigadier said
Pestretsov is not “strictly
speaking” a prisoner-of-war,
but declined to say what
would be done with him.
There is speculation that

The South African Press
Association quoted miliary
sources as saying Pestretsov
had been in charge of an
army workshop in N'Giva
and supervised seven Angol-
an mechanics.

Roos reported Pestretsov
said he had joined the army
when he was 18 and had been
in Angola since 1979.

South Africa’s white-
minority government has
said it invaded Angola to
smash guerrilla bases of the
South-West Africa People’s
Organization.

Youth sentenced
for extortion

DELTA (CP) — A 17-
year old youth who tried to
extort $5,000 from the
parents of a missing Surrey
boy was sentenced Friday in
provincial court to two years
less a day in jail.

Richard William Hong of
Sureey had pleaded guilty to
extortion.

Hong had told the parents
of nine-year-old Simon
Partington that if they wanted
to see their son again they
should deposit the money in a

,paper bag inside a garbage
can behind a Surrey rest-
aurant.

At the time the extortion
attempt was made, the Part-
ington boy, who went missing,
July 2, was already dead.

A 41-year-old Coquitlam,
man has been charged with
first-degree murder in the
deaths of Parington and eight
other children.

Judge R.W. Greig agreed
to a defence request that
Hong serve his sentence at a
provincial forestry camp.

Fire small;
concern grea

Blazing barbage, the third
fire of this type in the past
week and a half, resulted in
firemen fighting flames late
Wednesday evening at the
read of the Sear's building.

An alert put in the alarm
allowing firemen to extin-
guish the flames before any
amount of damage occurred.

Concern, however, has
been expressed by Deputy
Chief Roy Percival who says
the handling of refuse by
merchants is far from satis-
factory and is not just

restricted to the area of the
most recent incident.
Percival, who would like to
see more care taken in the
handling of garbage by the
local merchants, says he is
afraid an incident of vandal-
ism will result in an uncon-
trolable blaze which would
cause the loss of a store or

stores.

Cause of Wednesday's fire
is unknown, says Percival
but children were seen run-
ning from the area in which
the incident occurred.

THE CORPORATION OF THE
CITY OF CASTLEGAR

BY-LAW NO. 322

WHEREAS pursuant to the provisions of the
Municipal Act Section 574, it is deemed desirable
and expedient and in the public interest to close

ortions of a right a way in exchange for other
fonds for Highway purposes.

NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the Corporation
of the City of Castlegar in open meeting assem-

bled, enacts as follows:

1. That part of District Lot 12353 and.12354,
Kootenay District:and shown outlined in cross
hatched on survey plan prepared by Alex
Ch Id B.C.L.S.

4, 1981 is

tistics /

/ Vital Sta

Bil
BROTHERS — To Mr, and Mrs,
Monte Brothers of Warfield, a
daughter, born Aug. i

CAMERON — To Mr, and Mrs.
Michael Cameron of :Crescent
Valley, a son, born Aug. 28.

CUPELLO — To Mr. and Mrs.
August Cupello of Fruitvale, a
daughter, born Aug. 26,

FRENCH — To Mr, ond Mrs, Len
French (nee Diane DePaoll) of
Rossland, a son born Aug, 26.

GOODY — To Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Gor of Nelson, a daughter,
born Aug, 31.
eo oe
GORDON — To Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Gordon of Nelson, a
daughter, born Aug. 31.
oe

GUAY — To Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Guay of Salmo, a son born July

Cen
HARASYM — To Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Harasym of Nelson, oscn,
rn Aug. 28.
JACHETTA — To Mr. and Mrs.
Marlo lachetta of Montrose, a
daughter, born Aug. 22.
easwenine

INGRAM — To Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Ingram of Castlegar, a
son, born Aug. 23.
ee
LEVESQUE — To Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Levesque of Rossland, a
son, born Aug. 29.
ee

REMPLE — To Mr. and Mrs. Rem-
ple of Nelson, a daughter, born
Aug. 30.

CF Sih ass
WALLACE — To Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Wallace of Trail, a
daughter, born Aug. 28.

OBITUARIES
BARRETT — Melbourne Perc)
Barrett, 65, of Fruitvale died sud-
dently at home Aug. 27. Funeral

service was conducted Sept. |
from St, John's-St. Paul's Church
at Fruitvale with Rev. Des Carroll
officiating. Cremation followed.

BEREKOFF — Mrs. Julia Berekoff,

e Appledale Hall,
erry Siding
Cemetery. |

BOYDEN — Jean
iden, 53, of Victoria, formerly
of Trail, died Aug. 30.

eo
Jennifer

all, died Au; + ural
Regional Hospital after a leng!
lness. Rosary was recited Aug.
27 from Carberry’s Memorial
Chapel with Funeral Mass fey 8 28
from St. Anthony's Catholic Chur-
ch with Father Harry Clarke of-
ficlating, Interment was at Moun-
tain View Cemetery.

DYER — Bradley Norman Dyer,
16, of Park Siding died Aug. 26 in
Kelowna. Funeral service was
held Aug. 31 from St. John's-St.
Paul's Church in Fruitvale with
Rev. Jim Hillson officiating. In-
ferment wi t Fruitvale
Memorial Cer
McLELLAN — Irene Georgine Mc
Lellan, 65, of Salmo died _Sept.3
In Kootenay Lake District
Hospital, Service was held Sept. 5
from Sacred Heart Church in
with Rev. J. F. Monaghan
officiating. Interment was at
Salmo Cemetery.

epee uae
RICHICH! — Leonard Arthur
Richichi, 23, of Nelson died Sept.
2. Funeral service was held Sept.
5 from Cathedtral of Mary Im-
maculate Church with Rev. D.
Wilson officiating. Interment was
at Nelson Memorial Park.

NOTICE

FOR THE SAI

KE OF THE

SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN

If a school bus is stopped on the
highway with red lights flashing

ALL motorists
DIRECTION MUST
not proceed unti
stop flashing.

from EITHER
STOP and must
| the red lights

Board of Trustees
_ School Disiners No. 9

Derailment

Passengers injured

HATFIELD, Mass. (AP) —
Nine of 10 cars were derailed
on an Amtrack train bound
from Montreal to Washington
early Saturday injuring bree
passengers in a Labor Day
weekend accident, an Amtrak
spokesman sald.

Jim Stiner, vice-president
of corporate communications
for Amtrak, sald two of the
three injured passengers
were treated and released at
nearby hospitals, while one
was admitted for observation.

MAINTENANCE
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ELECTRICIANS (M/F)

Terrace, B.C.

B.C, Hydro’s North Coast Division, Production Depar-
tment has an immediate need for wiremen (M/F) to main.
tain diesel-electri hydro-electri units,

Hatfield is a small western
Massachusetts community
about 30 kilometres north of
Springfield.

Stiner said about 300
passengers ‘were riding the
train, named the Montrealer.

“We still don’t know of a
reason,” he sald.

Stiner daid Amtrak will
conduct an investigation and
that the National Transporta-
(ition Safety Board lusually
investigates such accidents.

rk-shops are located In Terrace, however
ignments (1 - 3 weeks In duration) are
required into remote location.

travel and as:

Applicants must be certified journeyman Electricians
in trouble-shooting o

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hereby closed ‘and. disposed of in exchange
for that part to be established as roadway;

being part of Lot A and B, Plan 9697, District
Lot 12354 Kootenay District and shown out-
lined in red on survey plan prepared by Alex

heveld B.C.L.S. ber 4, 1981 is
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This By-Law shall be advertised in the Castle-
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September 6th and 10th, 1981.

. This By-Law shall be cited for all purposes
as Roadway Closing and Exchange By-Law
No. 322 1981.

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Our NATO forces

in West Germany

EDITOR'S NOTE:. Can-
ada armed forces are pre-
paring to fight a war in
Europe. This story exam-
ines our forces’ in West
Germany.

By Bob Douglas

LAHR,’ WEST GER-
MANY (CP)'— The aver-
age Canadian soldier sta-
tioned in Lahr, West Ger-
many, lives contentedly,
aware he is generally wel-
come in the community and
that his skills are res-
pected by NATO allies.

But what if war breaks
out?

His superiors here are
concerned he would be
stretched to the limit be-
cause they say there are
not enough men in the
Canadan brigade in Lahr.

They worry, too, that he
and the rest of the 3,400
Canadian troops in Lahr
and airmen in nearby
Baden-Soelligen would be
vulnerable to air attack
because the equipment
used for air defence is
out-dated.

If the shooting started,
the average soldier would
find relief supplies and
men from Canada hard to
come by. Thousands of
miles of sea and a powerful
Soviet navy would stand
between him and Canada.

Back in Ottawa, his chief
commander, Gen. Ramsey
Withers, acknowledges
there are shortages but
challenges anyone to find a
better brigade in NATO's
central flank.

NOW HAVE TANKS

Certainly, the Lahr sol-
dier has better equipment
than he did five years ago.
He can point to new West
German Leopard tanks
which replaced ancient
Centurions three years

ago.

And he knows that four
years from now the pilots
in Baden-Soellingen will
get new F-18 fighter air-
craft to replace’ the old

- CF-10@ Starfighters.

That's good for-morale,

especially for soldiers and~

airmen who lived through
the lean years in the early’
1970s. when the’ govern-

“ment clamped a freeze on

the budget, . drastically
and

Lahr will never, have to go
to war, that a nuclear war
would be too horrible for
anyone to risk.
Meanwhile, the troops in
Lahr and Baden-Soellingen
prepar for conventional

war,
NEED MORE SOLDIERS
“We can perform our
tasks but we are hard-
pressed,” said Maj.:Gen.
James Hanna in an inter-
view here just before step-
ping down as commander
of Canadian Forces Eur-
ope. “We tend to be on the
slim side.”
Sitting in shirt-sleeves in

Their position
should war
break out?

his office in the low-slung
headquarters building,
Hanna said the Lahr forces
should be at a somewhat
higher level and that the
government is taking a
hara look at the problem.

The soft-spoken diplo-
matic man said that in an
emergency the brigade
would have to manage for a
while with the men it has

but it is expensive and is
not being produced any
more.

Hardened shelters now
provide some protection
for Canadian planes, said
Admiral Robert Falls, Can-
ada'’s former chief of de-
fence staff and how head of
NATO's military commit-
tee.

Gugknecht is optimistic
abot NATO's ability to
halt a Soviet conventional
attack in Europe, a view
not shared by everyone’in
Canada’s NATO forces.

But the problem of ship-
ping troops, weapons and
supplies to Europe from
North America after war
explodes is a major handi-
cap for the Atlantic alli-
ance, said Gutknect.-

.NEED TO SUPPLY

“We have a very large |

problem in resupply .. -
That whole area is one that
I personally believe re-
quires more attention than
we have been giving it.”
The Soviet navy’s sub-
marine fleet is far more
powerful than the German
pack which played havoc
with allied shipping in the
Second German pack
which played havoc with
ied

until rei ar-
rived.

Wartime strength would
be more than 5,000, up
from 3,400 now, but “we
feel that figure is too
small,” Hanna said.

“We feel that to meet

allie
ond World War. Canada
has the added disadvan-

tage of not having its own _

merchant fleet.

The government has

been negotiating with Air
Canada and CP Air to con-
vert

wartime requil that
figure should be substan-
tially increased.”

Like many military men,
he talks of the next war as
a “come-as-you-are party”
with no time to gradually
build up strength as Can-
ada did in the Second
World War. 5

MONEY A PROBLEM

Back in Ottawa, Gen.
Withers, chief of defence
staff, said in a joint inter-
view with Defence Minis-

aircraft
into troop and supply
transports during war.

Still, Gutknecht said,
Canada is as up to date as
anyone in the Alliance in
new armored vehicles and
tanks.

Certainly, the Canadian
force in Germany seems a
fixture, desired politically
by the allfes, a contribution
to the local economy, and
valued for iis skill.

In ‘peacetime, life in

ter Gilles L It
that he'd like to have more

men.

But the budget limits
what he can do, he said.
“Europe is not the only
thing I have to think
about.”

P
stopped buying new equip-
ment.

However, some Cana-
dian militarymen and out-

‘side observers suggest the

outlook for Canadian ser-
vicemen in Europe would
improve if Canada had
fewer NATO commit-
ments.

In addition to the force
in southern Germany, the
small, 80,000-person armed
forces must supply 4,000
troops to Norway in an
emergency and participate
in NATO fleets in the At-
lantic. Defending Canada is
yet another task.

Dropping Norway would
simplify supply atid train-
ing problems, said a num-
ber of serving and retired
officers in interview in
Europe and Canada.

WOULD TAKE WEEKS

The troops assigned to
Norway are based at Can-
adian Forces Base Pet-
awawa, Ont., about 190

kilometres west of Ottawa. .

They'd need weeks to get

established in Norway be-

cause most of their heavy

equipment would have to

go by sea from Canada.
A ‘

And the brig-
ade in an emergency can be
used as a signal to the
other side to cool down or
face a serious conflict, he
added.

“I submit to have the
strongest brigade in the
whole of the central flank

mz
3

of NATO,” said the defence .

chief who

Can- -

nega iny seems
relatively plesant for the
mei of the Fourth, Cana-
dian Brigade Mechanized
Group in Lahr and the men

in the Sec- ©

Pledge
| Stay up wit
Jerry
and watch
the stars
come out.

ewts Labour,
1 puro Ano

ss 8g,
my a

) ATLANTA, GA. (AP) —
The trail of Wayne Williams,
charged with two in a series
of 28 slayings of young
blacks, has been delayed
indefinitely to give a judge
time to review’ a state
investigation of the black
free-lance photographer.

Williams appeared at the

, hearing ina heavily guarded

courtroom Friday. He is

One-time _
lawyer wants

reinstatement

WINNIPEG (CP) —’ A
one-time lawyer who was
involved in a 1966 gold
bullion robbery has applied
to the Law Society of Mani-
toba for reinstatement, é

Harry Backlin, who served
20 months for his part in the
robbery and was barred from
practising law, said he longs
to return to the legal profes-
sion.

“I miss it, that’s all,”
Backlin, now a real estate
salesman, said in a telephone--
interview Friday from _hia,.
home in Prince George, B.C. -
“And if I want to. practise
manywhere, I have to get

in ”

crewing the 55
ers at Baden Soellingen.

ON GOOD TERMS —
The soldiers and thei
families are on good terms
with the 40,000 inhabitants
of this town of tall, narrow,
wood and stucco buildings.
Some men have married

German women.

Servicemen roll out of
Lahr frequently for exer-
cises in open areas at least
120 kil

ada’s forces in Europe in
the mid-1970s.

Speaking with suppres-
sed passion, he said a brig-
ade commander measures
the quality of his sup-
ported company groups
and, by that the

away and
sometimes farther. They
also join other allied forces
in joint exercises every
autumn. :

They are highly skilled
— a few years ago Cana-
dians won an allied tank

Canadian. brigade is
stronger than other NATO
units.

“We have the equipment
and I submit we are one of

the best prepared in terms';

of ammunition holdings.
We have shortages but so:
has everyone.” . * ‘

However, defence
against energy air attacks
on ‘airfields and ground
troops is a weakness men-
tioned by Hanna and other
officers at. Lahr.

GUNS ARE OLD

At the moment, Canada
protects its airfields with

ace

n » sug:
gested by a military expert
at Washington's Brookings
Institution, is to shift the
force in Lahr to Scotland

where it would be able to |

move to Norway more
quickly.

Time, say military think-
ers, would be far more im-
portant in a modern Eur-
opean war than it was in
either the First or Second

World Wars. Most experts:

expect such a war would

last just weeks, perhaps

ending in a world-wide
nuclear conflict.

It is .virtually certain
both sides would use tac-
tical nuclear weapons on
the battlefield but Ottawa
has ruled out any nuclear
role for thé’ Canadian
Forces.

Of course, the top brass
‘at NATO headquarters in
Brussels and in defence
headquarters in Ottawa
are betting the soldier in

ft ins taken
from the old Bonaventure
aircraft carrier and shoul-
der-fired Blowpipe mis-
siles.

“If we were going to do
it properly, we would have
radar-guided anti-aircraft
weaponry around our air-
fields,” said one Canadian
officer in Lahr.

“In comparison with cer-

tain of the other forcés —-

the Germans, the Amer-
icans, the British — our
brigade doesn’t really have
an adequate, modern, low-
level air defence,” says
Ltd.-Gen. Rene Gutknecht,
a big, greying, good-hu-
mored man who is Can-
ada’s fepresentative on
NATO's military commit-
tee.

The big hitch in replac-
ing the outdated anti-air-
craft guns is cost. Gut-
knecht said in his Brussels
office that the Germans
developed a good system

with

German Leopard tanks be-
fore they got their own
Leopards. They are regu-
larly praised by alles, in-
cluding NATO Secretary-
General Joseph Luns.

‘< They have their own
Fadio network, clubs,

+: sports facilities.

‘Some servicemen and
their wives complain pri-
vately about costs and -ad-
justments in housing and
living allowances.

“I was back in Canada a
few months ago,” said a
blonde.woman shopping in
the Lahr base store. “It’s
more expensive here.”

But David Bryant of.

Toronto, manager of the
base store, produced a
price list comparing his
prices with those of a
leading Canadian store
chain and it showed quite a
number of the Lahr items

people
and
find their prices are better.

Living allowances have
dropped in recent months
as living costs in Canada
move closer to those in
Lahr. That prompts some
complaints, but one soldier
said “the dollar is going
up” in value against the
German deutschmark so
that he can buy more.

“I have been over for
two Sears and I like it,”
said one young private ina
black jersey who was out
shopping with his new
bride.

“Backlin said he does not
know why he got drawn into
the scheme along with four
others — including the late
Kenneth Leishman, a pilot
know as the flying bandit —
to setal $380,000 at Winnipeg
International Airport.

Police found 10 gold bars
buried in a snowdrift behind
Backlin’s Winnipeg house
and an 11th bar was discov-
ered in a brief case in his law
office.

“I made a mistake and I
-paid for it dearly,” Backlin .
said. “Now I'd like to be
returned to the bar in my
home province.”

“I. paid my debt, as they
say. I went to jail, lost all that
Thad. I think things are even

ow.”

know why I did it. I. didn't
need the money. It was more
of a subconscious sort of
thing. Once I was drawn in,
that was it.”

“But I do know that I didn’t
really hurt anyone else. They
all got their money back.”

“The only person who
really suffered in all this was
me.”

on mail

MONTREAL (CP) — A
Gallup poll conducted during
the recent. postal strike
shows that nearly half of the
Canadians questioned (49 per
cent) said they were getting
along quite well without mail
service.

Another 38 per cent said
they were managing but with
some difficulty and 13 per
cent said they were having
real problems.

During the first. week in
August, Gallup asked 1,060
people across Canada -18
years and over two ques-
tions. _

The first was: “In view of
the postal strike which is
currently preventing mail
‘service in Canada, how well
would you say you were
managing — would you say
you are getting along quite .
well, that you had some

ies but are

_ “When I think back, I don’t in

-Conducts poll

to MD

The Jerry Lewis Muscular
Dystrophy Telethon takes
place each year on the Labor
Day weekend. Again this
year, the Warfield Volunteer
Fire Department is com-
mitted to operate a pledge
centre in the Warfield Fire
Hall, from 8 p.m. Sept. 6
through to 8:80 p.m. Sept. 7.

Last year the fire depart-

+ment pledged $24,000.

This year it is reaching for
$25,000.

The pledge telephone num-
ber will be 368-9184 in the
Trail area, and collect calls
will be accepted. The number
will be aired on KREM TV,
channel 2, Spokane. CJAT
radio station will be broad-
casting live from the pledge
centre.

All money pledged in Can-
ada stays in Canada.

Trial is delayed

charged with murder in the
deaths of Jimmy Ray Payne,
21, and Nathaniel Cater, 27,
the 26th and 28th victims in
the string of slayings of
young blacks in Atlanta area
since the summer of 1979.

IN

After the hearing got
under way, a 41-year-old
woman was arrested.outside
the courtroom when a loaded
.22-calibre pistol was discov-
ered in her purse. The
weapon was found by police
using a metal detector to
screen everyone entering the

urtroo!

ro) m.

Ruby Cleveland of Atlanta
was charged with carrying 2
concealed weapon, carrying a
gun without a licence and
carrying a weapon in a public
building, said Chief Deputy
LeRoy Stynchcombe.

He said the woman was
released on $500 bail because
deputies felt she did not post
any threat to Williams. The
woman said she forgot the
weapon was in her purse,
Stynchcombe said.

Castlegar
not one of 37

reciprients

Castlegar's city status
means it is one of the munici-
palities at the back of the line
when it comes to getting the
outstanding homeowner
grants, owed it by the pro-
vincial government,

Thirty-seven small muni-
cipalities are receiving the
money for the grants, the
provincial government an-
nounced earlier this week,
bu Castlegar is not on that

it.

Castlegar city administra-
tor Bill Krug said Thursday
that the 37 are small villages,
and cities have to wait, prob-
ably for several more weeks.

He added the decision by
Finance Minister Hugh Cur-
tis to withhold the

CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 5, 1981

Sends gifts to
robber’s family

LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) —
Gifts of cash and food have
been showered on the family
of a man who said he robbed
a bank because he was
jobless and had to feed his
wife and baby daughter.

Anthony James Francis-
coni, 26, also is charged with
armed robbery of a gasoline
station in Bristol in which $40

Are stripped of ©

was taken. He denies com-
mitting that holdup. 2
Since his arrest, donations,
of cash, groceries, transpor;;
tation and gift certificates,
have arrived at the family's;
$860-a-month apartment in:
Levittown, e
The donations have alsa;
included a job offer, which
Francisconi said he plans ta:
accept when he is out of jails:
+f
3s

their authority

CAIRO (CP) — Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat has
stripped the Coptic Christian
Patriarch of power and out-
lawed some Islamic groups in
a package of aimed

is hurting Castlegar, al-
though it is not creating a
serious situation. It means
the city is losing the interest
payments it would normally
earn on the money being
withheld.

Castlegar had already re-
ceived more than half of its
payments before the minis-
try of finance froze the funds
while a cash-management
study is carried out. ~

Krug also said the Castle-
gar is contining to make its

to

at curbing religious strife,

Sadat disclosed in a three-..

hour speech to Parliament
Saturday night that more
than 1,500 people had been
arrested in. a ‘government
crackdown this week on
religous extremists and poli-
tical critics.

He said they were suspec-
ted of contributing to secta-

ian strife between Moslems *

and Christian Copts which

led to violent street battles in
June.

d said he

le gi
bodies it collects funds for,
including another provincial
government ministry ‘and a
provincial Crown corpor-
ation.

The Regional District of
Central Kootenay, School
District No. 9 the Central
Kootenay Regional Hospital

District and the .C. Assess-

ment Authority and the min-
istry of human resources all
receive payments from
Castlegar. .

The grants normally are
sent early in July.

Curtis has said most of the

municipalities have to wait’

until the end of the month to
receive their money. All pay-
ments should be made by
Sept. 30.

The
would show them no mercy.
“Every person who paved
the way .. I am not going to
let them go, not this time,” he
said.

. Sadat said Pope Shenouda,
patriarch of the Coptic
Church since 1971, has done
great harm to the Coptic

community and that he has

papal duties and said he
hopes they would purge the

_ church of extremism.

Charging that Islam
groups are corrupting youth
and provoking unrest, he
issued decrees dissolving
some of the organizations and ©
freezing the funds of @&.
number of others. He did not!
indentify the groups to be!
dissolved. a3

Sine the crackdown begany
last Wednesday, the Govern
ment has temporarily closed
_down six relirious and oppos?
ition journals. Sadat said he’
intends to shut some news};
pepers and magazines pers
manently, but did not name?
them. iW

DAMAGING UNITY

He accused the opposition
parties, which command only}
a handful of seats in the 3922
member People's Assembly,
of damaging national _unity.t
But Sadat said he is not
closing them down. ee

He announced eight*
decrees in all, amoung thent®

decree which

to move

. a

Pp | the
churchs election of the Pope
as its leader.

Last year Sadat was ang-
ered when Shenouda can-
celled the church's Easter
celebrations after Moslem-
Coptic clashes in upper
Egypt.

Sadat named a committee
of five bishops to carry out

from their present posts iff

national unity. a

He also said he is going to”
hold a national plebiscite, but*
did not say what issues would
be put to voters or when if
would be held.

Bridge's future:still unsettled { |

The future of the historic
Doukhobor suspension
bridge at Brilliant still is un-
ce °

Two provincial govern-
ment ministries are studying
the,structure, but a decision
has not been made about
what should be done with it.

The area ministry of high-
ways office is preparing cost
estimates for several options,
to be considered -by senior
staff in Victoria, Roger Mc-
Ewan, Rossland Highways
Area manager, told the
Castlegar News Thursday.
The highways ministry is
responsible for the bride.
Dismantling the bridge is one
of the ministry's options, the
ministry's regional manager
has said. :

The provincial Conserva-
tion Branch i§ also involved
discussions about what to
do with the structure.

Russell Irvine, the B.C.
Heritage Trust's director and
executive officer, said Thurs-
day in a telephone interview
from Victoria that the talks
are about how the bridge
could be preserved, or failing
that, how the:site canbe rec:

on:

: The trust is\ not- consider-

service

or that you are having real
problems getting along with-
out postal service?”

The second question was:
“From what you have seex or
heard about the postal dis-
pute, would you say. the
compensation package being
offered to the postal workers
is more than what should
normally be expected or just
about right for this kind of
work?"

More than half (62 per
cent) thought the govern-
ment’s offer was more than
what should normally be
expected and only five per
cent said it was less.

Gallup sdid, 82 per cent-

thought the government's
offer was about right and 12
per cent couldn't say.
Gallup says the results of
the poll should not vary bey
more than four percentage
points at a 95 per cent

level.

ing buying the bridge, Irvine
added.

He also said the suspension
bridge could be an unusual
heritage site, but not a
unique one, adding that other
bridges in B.C. have been
preserved, but are not used
as bridges.

The highways ministry,
which became responsible for
the structure about 12 years
ago when a new bridge was

honiltuo tes

built at Brilliant, has said the
bridge is unsafe and © is
deteriorating to the point
where it will soon be too
hazardous to be used for foot
traffic.

The ministry is unwilling
to renovate it because of the
expense and the limited use
it receives, and because

cost that would have to
considered.

‘The bridge dates back
1914, when it was built by the
Doukhobor community, wit!
all the work being done

id.
Spokesmen for the Douk!

heritage sites are not part of

the ministry’s mandate. Li-
ability ge is. another