Castlégar News September 7, 1968 COLLEGE REGISTRATION . . . Selkirk College students line up for registration and counselling services Tuesday. Students was the first day of classes. also took part in orientation activities and a barbecue. Today CosNewsPhoto by Bonne Morgan Cash fund alleged OTTAWA (CP) — Dozens of young Liberal supporters of John Turner got cash secretly to attend the 1986 convention that endorsed his continuing leadership of the party, the Ottawa Citizen said today. A book — Reign of Error, by Citizen senior political correspondent Greg Weston — says youth delegates supporting Turner. were often given a fistful of $20 bills, the newspaper said in a published report. “They got anywhere from $100 to $300 at a time to cover expenses,” a senior organizer for the party's Ontario youth wing told Weston. The book says that a pro-Turner group — known as The Friends of John Turner — set up a secret fund run out of Toronto. Another clandestine fund, run out of a Toronto luxury car dealership, the book says, was established to finance the rest. of Turner's bid to hang on to his leadership. The existence of the latter fund, called the Addison Fund, was a secret until Monday, when Maclean's magazine mentioned its existence. Knowledge of the Addison Fund was kept so tightly under wraps, the book says, that even the highest-ranking party officials outside of Turner's office were unaware of its existence during the tense lead-up to the 1986 convention. Turner won with 76.3 per cent of the 2,626 delegates backing his leadership. The book does not make clear whether Turner was aware that the Friends of John Turner were involved|in dirty tricks during the time of the leadership review. Another secret fund, the magazine said, was used to pay Turner's personal expenses after his 1984 leadership campaign. DENIES STORY In an interview Tuesday, Turner denied the Maclean's story that he benefitted from secret trust funds. “There was no personal trust fund set up on my account for my benefit or for the benefit of my family in any way whatsoever,” he said: Turner said he had spoken to Warren Chippindale, the accountant who chaired his fund-raising committee during the 1984 leadership race, and Chippindale would confirm today “that to his knowledge there was no personal trust fund.” “Mr. Chippindale called me and was distressed by the confusion in the Maclean's story — confusion between a trust fund for leadership purposes and a personal trust fund.” Trust funds, which are legal, have traditionally been set up by political parties to asstst candidates contesting party leadership. The names of donors are confidential and the money is restricted to expenses incurred contesting the leadership. Their purpose is to give each candidate a fair chance in the race. Turner, asked in the interview if it was possible some_of those funds were used after the 1984 ership convention, said “There may or may not have been some transitional use of those funds. “But here again, I made it my business to stay away from it.” Maclean's says the funds were established to ease Turner's transition to public life from his lucrative Toronto law practice and to help finance the fight against a leadership review that some Liberals wanted in 1986. BOUGHT VOTES The magazine quoted Liberal sources as saying that $300,000 was made available to the funds from roughly $2.2 million Turner's supporters raised for the leadership drive in 1984. The Citizen said that while Turner organizers quoted in Weston's book deny the Addison fund was used to buy votes at the review convention, they have no doubts there were payoffs. They claim the fund was used in part to pay for polls and consultants and hospitality suites, the newspaper says. The exact amount of money involved is not known, though Doug Richardson, Turner's former principal secretary, estimated the entertainment costs alone for the November weekend gathering was “something in the $50,000 to $75,000 range,” the book says. One organizer told Weston that the distributor of the cash — known as “Mr. X” — was going through thousands of dollars a day at the convention just trying to keep the vital youth vote firmly in the Turner camp. “We paid these delegates, the youth delegates,” the source told Weston. “Some of those little bastards were playing both sides of the coin . . . they got money and then voted against us. “They used to go to him and say if you don't give me the money I'll go public . . . I would sit down every day and hand (Mr. X) the cash, like thousands - I gave him $5,000 in one morning alone,” the book says. FETUS RIGHTS Marijuana may be legalized WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's chief administrative law judge has recommended legalizing marijuana as a prescription drug for treatment of multiple sclerosis and nausea suf fered by cancer patients in chemo therapy. The judge, Francis Young, found on Tuesday that “marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. “By any measure of rational analy sis, marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care,” Young said in a set of recommendations and findings. “The judge realizes that strong emotions are aroused on both sides of any discussion concerning the use of marijuana,” he said. “Nonetheless, it is essential for this agency, and its administrator, calmly and dispassionately to review the evidence of record, correctly to apply the law, and act accordingly.” The recommendation isn't binding on the DEA’s administrator, John Lawn, who must make a_ final decision on whether to place mari- juana on Schedule II, the list of drugs that can be given to patients with a doctor's prescription. Young rejected as “specious” the argument that medicinal use of mar- ijuana would encourage its use as a recreational drug. “The fear of sending such a signal cannot be permitted to override the legitimate need, amply demonstrated in this record, of countless sufferers for the relief marijuana can provide when prescribed by a physician in a legitimate case.” Canada swamped with refugees TORONTO (CP) — Federal im- migration officials have asked the government to pass an order-in- council imposing a visa restriction on travellers coming to Canada from Panama, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported today. The newspaper quoted sources saying the recommendation is a re- action to the arrival of more than 700 Panamanians claiming to be refugees in August alone. On Monday, 46 Panamanians claiming refugee status walked off an Air Canada flight from Miami at Toronto's Pearson Interfational Air port, So far this year, more than 1,000 Panamanians have asked. for refugee status in Canada. About two-thirds landed in Montreal aboard regularly scheduled flights from Miami. The rest arrived in Toronto. Tan Sadinsky, a spokesman for Im- migration Minister Barbara McDou- gall, said the minister is “reviewing the situation very carefully and very seriously.” He also said McDougall is looking into a number of options, including requiring visas from Panamanian visitors. “However, the imposition of a visa is not a decision taken very lightly,” Sadinsky said. Currently, Panamanians do not need visas to visit Canada. All they require is a ‘valid passport. ” Over the last few years, the fed- eral government has imposed visa requirements on several countries after large numbers of citizens from those countries began claiming refu- gee status upon arrival in Canada. Last year, Ottawa imposed visa requirements on eight countries — Brazil, Fiji, Turkey, Honduras, Boli- via, Mauritius, Gambia and Sierra Leone. Gerry Maffre, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, said the refugee backlog as of mid-August stood at more than 58,000 claims, At the current rate of almost 3,000 people a month arriving at various airports in Canada claiming to be refugees, federal officials estimate the backlog could top 70,000 by the time the new system is operating in January.’ Party stays green VANCOUVER (CP) — Delegates at the Green Party of Canada convention last week decided they liked the color of their party so. much that they've come up with yet another name for themselves. And you guessed it — they're sticking to their favorite political hue. “The Canadian Greens will be synonymous with.the Green Party of Canada,” the party announced in a news release Tuesday, Not only do they call themselves the Greens, but delegates also uphold “Green principles” consistent with “Green thinking,” the release said. The party, born in Germany in the 1970s as an environmental move- ment, saw about 100 delegates travel to White Rock, about 40 kilometres south of here to discuss party policy. , Among the resolutions accepted | by was a motion the free trade agreement between the United States and Canada. The party says the agreement “sacrifices long-term sustainability in favor of short-term econemic gains.” Murder suspected in bizzare fire VICTORIA (CP) — RCMP have not ruled out homicide in their. investigation of a “very bizarre, very complex,” brush fire Monday in a Victoria suburb that left a young boy dead and sent another boy and a woman to hospital with critical burns. A five-year-old girl was found nearby with minor injuries, police said. Police believe the woman and chil dren are members of a Victoria family, but names of the victims have not been released. “It's a very bizarre, very complex situation and we don't want to re- lease anything until we're sure we've got it all right,” Cpl. Orv Robson said Tuesday night. = He said the possibility the death was a homicide has not been ruled out in the investigation. Robson denied media reports sta- ting police believe the woman and children were doused with a flam mable liquid and set on fire. “We certainly didn’t make those statements,” said Robson. “Until we're sure of the facts, we're not dis: closing them because it would be speculation.” Results of an autopsy conducted on the dead two-year-old Tuesday were to be released today by coroner Darryl Stephens. The boy was found by firefighters shortly after 6 p.m. Monday in a wooded area near the intersection of Helmecken and the Trans-Canada highway in the View Royal district near Victoria. Police said a seven-year-old boy found beside an abandoned railway line is in critical condition with ex: tensive burns. The woman is in critical condition with burns to 70 per cent of her body. Police file The driver of a 1988 Toyota Tercel escaped injury this morning after the vehicle plunged into the Columbia iver, in a single motor vehicle accident. Castlegar RCMP report that the driver lost control of the vehicle causing it to go into the Columbia River and become completely sub merged. The Car sustained approximately $10,000 damage. NDP plots strategy tlégar News TREET TALK THE SANDMAN Inn has a new manager. He's Harry Rosenbrock, who has transferred to Castlegar from the company’s Regina, Sask., hotel. With the Sandman Inn chain for 10 years, Harry Harry started in the hotel business in northern Germany and came to Canada in 1952, The former Sandman Inn manager, Larry on. has traded a hotel job for a farm, moved to the Osoyoos area where he will tilts rabbits. WEST KOOTENAY Power and Light Co. Ltd. has a new name and a fresh corporate logo. WKPL will now be known as West Kootenay Power Ltd., dropping the Light Co. portion of the name. The Ppp coincides with the adoption of a new has managed hotels at V; Lethbridge and Calgary, in addition to Regina. He says he and his wife Ethel, who will be joining him shortly, are pleased “to be back in corporate » which is the same as the utility's parent company — UtiliCorp United Inc., of Kansas City, Mo. UtiliCorp purchased West Kootenay Power FOODS \immza BONELESS. .. CANADA GRADE $988 kg. $635/,.. ... CANADA GRADE A Pe heed | Court considers ruling By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP) — A British Col- umbia court ruling that the fetus is part of the mother until it is born raises a fundamental question about the power of the state to limit abortions, the Supreme Court of Canada was told Tuesday. “If this (ruling) is correct, it raises the question: Has the state the power to limit the mother's right to terminate a pregnancy at any stage?” two Vancouver midwives say in a motion for permission to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. The B.C. Court of Appeal, in a July 28 judgment, threw out the convic tion of midwives Gloria Lemay and Mary Sullivan for criminal negli gence causing death (of the fetus) in an attempted home delivery in 1985. Instead, the court of appeal convicted them of criminal negli gence causing bodily harm to the mother, a charge on which they were acquitted at trial. The acquittal wasn't appealed by the British Columbia government. Lemay and Sullivan are question ing the power of the appeal court to convict them on the bodily harm charge. They are asking the Supreme Court to dismiss their conviction QUESTION RULING They also contend the appeal court made a mistake in ruling the fetus is part of the mother until) birth. The common law and the Criminal Code have always regarded the fetus as “an entity separate and apart from the mother,” they say. The appeal court ruling is the first to say the fetus is part of the mother until birth. “It is not right for' the courts to legislate on this issue,” they say in papers filed with the Supeme Court by their lawyer, Thomas Berger of Vancouver. The need to settle the status of the fetus is urgent, they say, and the Vancouver case presents a real case for the Supreme Court to deal with If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the appeal, it may be heard as early as next month. The Supreme Court's first hearing when the fall session commences Oct. 3 will involve fetal rights. Anti abortion crusader Joe Borowski of Manitoba will contend the fetus is protected as a person under the Constitution. AWAITING LAW The federal government will ask the court not to make a ruling in the case until a new abortion law has been passed. The Supreme Court struck down the abortion law Jan. 28 as an un. constitutional invasion of women's rights. The court did not deal with the question of whether the fetus has rights. B.C. Attorney General Bud Smith said the province isn't appealing the July 28 ruling because it is up to Parliament to decide the status of the fetus. However, it appears unlikely a new abortion law will be introduced before a general election expected this fall. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said recently the government would like to wait until a decision is handed down in the Borowski case. By DAPHNE BRAMHAM PENTICTON (CP) — The Opposition New Demo- erat caucus, returning to the site of a spring byelection win, starts meeting in Penticton today to plot a two-year strategy aimed a dislodging B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s Social Credit party. The New Democrats, who will wrap up the meetings Friday, found the area to their liking in June when Bill Barlee posted a 5,000- vote victory in the provincial riding of Boundary-Si he win The scandals have ranged from accusations of cronyism to an RCMP investigation into charges of influence peddling concerning Vander Zalm and millionaire friend Peter Toigo. The RCMP later said their probe turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. Vander Zalm, who left Tuesday for a 12-day trip to Australia, managed to quash a near-revolt by his caucus ata testy three-day meeting in early August. His caucus agreed to give the premier a chance to change his erided the Socreds’ 22-year stranglehold on the riding The Social Credit party still has a healthy majority in the legislature with 45 members to the NDP’s 22. There is one independent and one seat vacant. The New Democrats have held power only once in the province, from 1972 to 1975, while the Socreds have governed for 33 of the last 36 years. NDP Leader Mike Harcourt, who has maintained a low profile in recent months while the Vander Zalm government has been rocked by one scandal after another, says his party is still working on a comprehensive platform. But the former Vancouver mayor, acclaimed as party leader 18 months ago, says he'd happily fight an election now to get rid of what he calls the “extremist, incompetent government.” Both parties will have a chance to test their appeal in a byelection that must be called by mid-October in the Vancouver Island riding of Alberni, vacated by Bob Skelly after the former NDP leader decided to run federally. The Socred government, which has another two years’ leeway before having to call an election, has been plagued by. problems in recent months. ule style of leadership before the party's October convention. Political scientist Norman Ruff says the NDP must come up with a “concrete, non. threatening plan” to attract the four or five per cent of the popular support that has traditionally tipped the balance between a party governing or being in opposition. “The fear of a hidden agenda goes back to the early left-wing roots of the party and those fears have been fuelled by the Socreds,” said Ruff, a professor at the University of Victoria. “But I think people are now starting to realize there is no hidden agenda and they want to know now what the actual agenda Ruff said there is a grim determination within the NDP not to “screw up this time” like the party did in 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1986. But he said Harcourt’s approach needs to be more aggtessive. “Harcourt doesn't give off a sense of momentum which you would think he would have with the way things are going,” said Ruff. “You just don't get a sense that he is riding the crest of the wave.” The Socreds also plan to converge on Penticton this year. The party has scheduled its annual convention for . October in the Lake Okanagan resort city. beautiful British Columbia.” from Cominco Ltd. last year. CURTIS VERIGIN massage therapist Curtis Verigin graduates Curtis W. Verigin, son of William and Laura Verigin of Castlegar, has recently graduated from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. He is a registered massage ther. apist in British Columbia and is a member of the Association of Physio- therapists and Massage Practition. ers, Part III, of B.C. Verigin graduated from Stanley Humphries secondary school and at tended Selkirk College before at tending the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. He is now practicing massage therapy in North Vancouver. Union leader passes away WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) — George Burt, one of the fathers of trade unionism in Canada, died Tuesday. He was 85. Burt was one of the founders of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers — since splintered from its American parent to become the Can adian Auto Workers union, headed by Bob White. A plumber by trade, Burt lunged at the chance for a job on the assembly line at the General Motirs plant in Oshawa, Ont., in the 1934s amidst of the Great Depression. By 1938, the American UAW organizing the Oshawa plant ahd Burt was elected its first treasurer. Within a year he was elected regional director — a post equivalent to pre sident of the Canadian union. It was a job he held almost un. challenged for nearly 50 years. He retired in 1968, handing the reins of the union to Dennis Mc Dermott, later the head of the Can- adian Labor Congress and currently Canada’s ambassador to Ireland. When Burt retired, union mem- bership exploded from the 600 work ers who first joined the UAW to more than 110,000 by the mid-1960s. In 1980, Burt recalled the union's beginnings during the depression — a time when union supporters were often jeered as communists “or worse,” he said. “Our families were maligned and scoffed at,” Burt said in an interview eight years ago. “We were humili- ated... because we dared to fight for our rights at the bargaining table.” Facing antagonism from industry bosses and the general publi had to meet in basements and in hole-in-the-wall offices. We had little or no funds and often went hungry.” What kept Burt and his colleagues going, he once said, “was the fact we -never doubted we were on the right road.” In an interview from Dublin, Mc Dermott recalled Burt as “very dedi. cated trade unionist. “When he became director, it was a fledgling union —not very sophis- tiecated at all. Collective agreements were one page affairs back then and it was his task to put it together and put it on the map.” In 1957, during a visit with striking workers on a picket line in Brantford, Ont., Burt first met Bob White. He recalled being impressed with White's abilities and hired him as an organizer at the union's Toronto headquarters. White praised Burt for making the union “a very, very strong instru ment in Canada.” “He was an excellent bargainer and an excellent administrator,” White said in a telephone interview from England, where he's attending a labor convention. “Everyone respected George Burt, from the workers and management to those in international unions.” Scientists check for PCBs MONTREAL (CP) — Children in communities near St-Basile-le-Grand were still on vacation Tuesday as scientists checked test results to de- termine if it is safe for evacuees to return home. About 3,300 residents were forced from their homes in the town east of Montreal after a warehouse con- taining toxic polychlorinated biphen yls burned two weeks ago, A team of seven scientists from Canada, the United States and Europe began to study tests of soil samples Monday to determine the level of contamination in St-Basile and surrounding areas, People won't be allowed back until they have completed their work, Environment Department officials said. Jacques Masse, director general of the Montfort school board, said his board and the Chambly school board had postponed the opening of schools in the evacuated areas until Sept. 12. He said the schools may open sooner if government officials decide it is safe. Marie-Andree Jobin, an aide to provincial Environment Minister Clifford Lincoln, said Tuesday a de cision on allowing people back may be made today. “If the experts need one more day, Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued Tuesday by the RCMP. The following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal message: Gary. Schultz, Kitimat, call Shaughnessy Hospital Raymond Auger, Edmonton, call Roland Auger Ken Thomas, Maple Ridge, call Rob Weizel Ken Erickson, Page, N.D., call Mrs. Burly. we're not going to pressure them,” Jobin said from Quebec City. “We don't want them to make a mistake. Our agenda is being set hour by hour.” New York state has lent Quebec a mobile laboratory to take air samples in some evacuated houses. The unit is able to detect low levels of con- tamination. Besides the 3,000 residents evac- uated when the black, toxic smoke settled over picturesque St-Basile during the Aug. 23 fire, another 300 residents_in the area were told to leave their homes Aug. 28. Environ. ment officials noticed that a change in the wind direction had enlarged the affected area. Results of medical and blood tests conducted on about 4,400 residents show only low levels of PCBs as well as dioxins and furans, more dan. gerous toxins produced when PCBs burn at low temperatures. Tests on firemen and policemen who spent hours close to the fumes without wearing mask, did reveal higher than normal levels of toxins in, their livers, however. Test results from air, soil and water samples also show trace amounts of the chemicals, which have been linked to cancer, genetic dis: orders and skin irritation. Alain Chapleau, a former public works employee in St-Basile, was charged with arson after the blaze Chapleau, 27, is to appear in court today for a bail hearing. Developed in the 1930s, PCBs were mainly used as coolants in elec- trical transformers. 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