October 16, 1988 Castégar News cs ‘Couple gives it all up By The Canadian Press “Jewish problem” in suburban Out. GREEN PARTY MEMBERS . . . Members of the Green Party are pictured here in Rock Creek. Jason Hughes (Ok From left: Dr. gan-Simil kameen-Merritt), Shuswap) and Michael Brown (Kootenay West | ). Connie Harris (Okanagan Pantsuit back ‘in’ LONDON, ONT. (CP) — The big news this fall is the return of the pantsuit, though the styles are nothing like those mannish things that died some years ago. Nor are they anything like those knit jobbies with the wide, flared legs of the early '70s. Instead, this season's pants are elegant, professional, tailored and, above all, feminine. Virtually every designer of note on both sides of the Atlantic included some version of the pantsuit in his or her collection. Their return should come as no surprise. Pantsuits came on the scene as an alternative to miniskirts back in the '60s. So when designers sliced skirt lengths last season, fashion sages prepared for pants to follow. But this year's pants are not dupli cations. Instead of the dated pants of the "60s, we have a new proportion and styling which enhance the female silhouette. Short, waist-defining jac- kets make legs look longer, matching soft trousers are cut quite full, reminiscent of those worn by Mar- lene Deitrich and Greta Garbo in movies from the-‘30s. Sophisticated daytime designs are meant for business wear. Dubbed “city trousers” by designer Edie Johne, they are finely tailored, double-pleated, belted and may have a high waistline. Leather accents or trim add a luxurious touch to some styles. Straight legs are pencil-thin or wide and flowing, so wide in some cases that they could be mistaken for skirts. Fabrics have a rich elegance — soft wools, pinstripes, glen checks and houndstooth for daytime. For ‘evening, pants get a touch of luxury with the use of satin, silk and velvet, topped ‘by organza blouses with voluminous sleeves, rhinestone- sprinkled collars and lush evening jackets or coats. . Radar installation may be utilized By LARRY JOHNSRUDE Canadian Press HOLBERG Perched high in the. clouds some 1,000 metres above sea level, two giant radar towers cast a shadow of uncertainty over a spit-and-polish military installation on the northern tip of V; “The philosophy now is to provide periphery defence,” said Penton. “What they look at now is stopping the enemy before they gét close. With today's technology, we don’t want to wait until they’ get to the Prairies before we identify them.” Island. Canadian Forces Station Holberg, with a military and civilian population of 650, is among a dying breed of air defence radar stations that once dotted the country every 300 kilometres. Unlike dozens of others, characterized by geodesic domes that look like giant golfballs, the Holberg long-range radar station is expected to survive. Plans are to make it the coastal link for a new air defence t, agreed to by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney President Ronald Reagan at their Shamrock Summit in 1985, What is uncertain is what the project means to those living on the military base and in the nearby logging and fishing community that acts as its service centre. FEAR JOB LOSS Updating obsolete equipment will likely mean fewer people will be needed to operate the station. That has led to speculation that there will be sizable cuts in base personnel, with the operation taken over by civilians or run by remote control with civilian personnewl flown in every few weeks to provide mnaintenance. “To say anything at this point would be sheer speculation,” said Maj. Bill Penton, base commander. “In the meantime, life in Holberg goes on in the same fashion it always has.” Like other radar bases that formed the so-called Pinetree line stretching across Canada like a belt around its middle, CFS Holberg was built in the early 1950s as part of the North American air defence agreement with the United States. GROWS OUTDATED Its purpose was to identify Soviet aircraft after they crossed the Distant Early Warning Line in the North. But technology has left the Pinetree line years behind the times. Bombers could drop cruise missiles over the Bering Sea without penetrating Canadian airspace. Jet fighters travel so fast that by the time The at the Holberg station is so outdated it's become a joke. SPURS JOKES A sign at the door of the radio building reads: “Welcome to Holberg radio museum.” Six bays of radio equipment, standing two metres high and about four metres long, date from the early 1950s and still use vacuum tubes. New transistor radios capable of doing the same work would fit into the building’s porch. The dozen screens in the radar nerve centre aren't .18 old. The newest ones date from the early 1970s. They can perform much the same functions as modern radar equipment but not as efficiently. The two domed towers — one locates an aircraft and another determines its altitude — could be replaced by a single tower that performs both functions. MONITORS AREA The station monitors a 600-kilometre radius which covers the craggy coastline stretching as far south as Victoria and reaching north almost to the Alaskan panhandle. Information on flights entering Canadian airspace is tr itted to Norad head ters at North Bay, Ont., where it is checked against registered flight plans for identification. The station also provides civilian services, including searches for lost airplanes and weather reports. The agreement to modernize air defence includes upgrading Holberg and stations along the DEW Line as well as building new ones. The cost of the total project is estimated at $7 billion, of which Canada will pay 12 per cent, or $840 million. The new line, to be called the North Warning System, will consdist of 13 long-range radar stations and 39 unmanned short-range radar stations. The agreement has meant that a string of bases across Canada has been closed over the last three years as the old Pinetree line was declared redundant. Some bases, which are self: schools, hospitals and recreation centres, have received they were picked up on the radar, it would be too late. a second life. KAL@TIRE WINTER RADIAL Kal Value All Season Light Truck e . 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Soon after the Marcos adminis. tration collapsed, President Corazon Aquino’s government announced that the former first lady had left behind 3,000 pairs of shoes, most of them inventories reduced the figure to “only” 2,400 pairs; some were found in Marcos residences through- ut the Philippines. “I was shocked when I first saw them,” said Santos, one of 16 SALE PRICE EACH 120.95 122.95 124.95 P145/80R13 P155/80R13 P165/80R13 children. “When my mother's shoes wore a hole in the bottom, she'd get a new pair. That's the way it is with most of us Filipinos.” Santos said he spends every Fri- day brushing the dust from, the shoes. The rest of the week is- de- voted to polishing and buffing. By the subtle VANCOUVER (CP) — Critics of far-out fashion will have no fault to find with one important trend this fall The white blouse, once the main- stay of the private schoolgirl’s uni- form, is now an important ingredient of simple chic. As a counterpoint to the classic styling that has surfaced this fall, the Raincheck Kal Tire’s own Road Hazard vis TIRE Fema te jet oe Toll Free Cemere, at over 7Qyh h 707 Baker Street, Nelson 354-4494 2141 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar 365-3311 1-800-663-4612 B.C. and Alberta blouse has become de rigueur for both day and evening. Clean, crisp and cut in cotton, the blouse goes to the office tucked into the season's knee-length skirts or pants. The preponderance of mens- wear fabrics, from houndstooth and glen checks to plaids, are nicely balanced by a blouse or shirt with a neat-looking collar. It's worn bottoned to the neck and accented with a pin or a smartly tied scarf. _. . ‘s shoes still shine on time he finishes polishing every pair, it's time to start all over again. “I clean the shoes with shoe polish,” he said. “I have to use so many colors to match the shoes. We've had to wrap some of them in plastic now, just to protect them.” The collection includes elegant high heels, slippers with giant pom pons and one pair with battery- operated 12-centimetre heels that glow. Most are imported. Imelda’s size 8'/2, is hard to find in a country where the average woman wears a size six shoe. Santos says proudly that his own brown shoes are strictly “locally made.” Toledo said the government cannot get rid of the shoes until a court decides who owns them. The shoes, along with millions of dollars worth of property, businesses and other posessions, were seized by the gov- ernment when Marcos fled the coun: try. Toledo said the shoes must be con- tinually polished to prevent deter- ioration because of high humidity and poor storage facilities. About half the collection is stored in the basement of Malacanang Palace, beneath Imelda’s former bedroom. The palace is on the banks of the Pasig River, and water is seeping up from the basement floor. Toledo said that although the Mar- cos family spent a fortune acquiring personal possessions, they appear to have made little effort to provide for care and maintenance. Designers using details Designers are using subtle details to lift the blouse from the ordinary. Dressmaker touches include mono- grammed initials and crests, sout- ache scroll embellishments, contrast- ing edging and grosgrain ribbon. Watch also for French cuffs and cufflinks — they're back in fashion. Economically, priced shirts are’ available in boy's and men's depart- ment, if you're looking for styles without the extra fashion finishes. At the other end of the scale are designer blouses by Ralph Lauren or Laurel, where three-figure prices are the norm. Laurel offers several of the pretti est blouses of the season — old- fashioned styles in cotton and linen with delicate embroidery and lace trim, Abuse charges dog sect By TOM MeDOUGALL Canadian Press BARRINGTON PASSAGE, N.S. — “Cyclists wel. come,” reads a sign outside the Old Schoolhouse Res- taurant. With its three storeys and belfry tower, the restaurant juts out like a sore thumb in Barrington Passage, a southwestern Nova Scotia fishing village. There's nothing on the sign to indicate that this is anything but a restaurant, but it is more than that. It's a religious commune, and it is looking for converts. The place has a flower-child atmosphere, except that it is spotlessly clean and coffee is the strongest drug. A 40ish man in a lumberjack shirt fills the fruit-jyige coolers behind a circular wooden bar. He has ‘Two or three whacks on the hand and that's all they need’ —___________. a beard and ties his hair in a short ponytail. So do all the other men. A woman polishes the woodwork. She wears a plain, long dress, a large apron and has long hair covéred by a kerchief. So do the girls scurrying to and from the’ kitchen. BASE IN VERMONT The sect has no name for itself except The Community. But non-members know it as the Northeast Kingdom Community, a name which derives from its parent commune in northern Vermont. The Barrington Passage group was set up about five years ago when Quebecers started joining the Vermont commune but had trouble getting work visas in the United States. Those who join give all their possessions and their labor — they work in the restaurant or as general laborers in the community — to the group and the Jesus whom they call Yahshuah (Hebrew for God’s salvation). They live upstairs in the restaurant or in commune. owned houses next door. The sect has about 55 people in Barrington Passage, several hundred in other communes. It operates the Myrtle Tree Farm commune near Waterville, N.S., and has communes in France and New Zealand. Child-abuse charges have dogged the sect in both the United States and Canada. None has been proved in court. DISTURBS SOME. Commune members brim with love talk, but neighborhood families worry the sect will lure people and brainwash them. Restaurant owners say they are struggling to compete with an outfit that pays no wages. Carpenters and electricians say they suffer from the group's cut-rate contracting. Some people in Barrington ‘Passage, whith has a population of less than 1,000, are concerned The Community will buy properties at bargain prices as distressed villagers move away. “It’s frightening,” says Ernie Hewitt, owner of the nearby Victoria Hotel and dining room. “Just the thought of losing our home, losing our way of life, being maybe inevitably forced to either move or join them. “Suppose a day comes when they owned a majority of the community,” he says. “There won't be any need for schools and schools will shut down. There will be few people outside of themselves that belong to any religion, so the churches will close.” KIDS A CONCERN Town residents are concerned for the welfare of children in the commune, who don’t attend a regular. school. They know about The Community's run-ins with the law over child-abuse allegations. The most well-known case was in 1983 in Vermont when ex-member Roland Church complained that. his 13-year-old daughter, Darlynn, was ordered to strip to her underwear and beaten with a rod at 15-minute intervals for seven hours. Church charged a senior elder with assault, then the case lay dormant in the courts for a year before Church and his daughter recanted their sworn statements. Wiseman, a carpenter from Florida who joined The Community in 1974, is now 40 and the leader of the Barrington Passage commune. He says his people aren't child abusers but they do believe in frequent corporal punishment, using a flexible plastic rod on the child's hands but never in anger or frustration. “They sting but they don't hurt,” he said in an interview at the restaurant. “They might suffer a temporary welt but no physical injury Without anger, we are able to communicate to our children what their its are, and as soon as they go beyond those limits then we can discipline them. “Two or three whacks on the hand, and that’s all they need.” Some former members in the United States said in a newspaper article in the early 1980s that discipline goes beyond that. Ex-member Juan Mattattall once played a tape recording for a newspaper in which two of his daughters, then eight and five years old, equated love with beatings. “We want to feel decent,” says one of the voices on the tape. “If you don’t discipline us then our hearts will never change. Yeah, do something like that. Do something like spanking us, or hit us.” DRAWL HARDENS Wiseman speaks forgivingly of people who leave the group in goodwill. But his southern draw! hardens bles he speaks of God's judgement on defectors who If people come in here with false motives and they know the truth of what's going on here and they reject that truth and they start working against us and trying to destroy us and speaking all manner of evil against us, then I doubt very seriously that they’te going to find any mercy.” Amid the upwardly mobile pro- fessionals of the world there are still people willing to give up the chase for the almighty dollar and devote themselves to another cause. Grace and Dennis Rathwell are two such people. Two years ago they sold their home in Sault Ste. Mffrie, Ont., and taking their two teenage daughters, moved to South Carolina to attend bible college. Now they're heading to Zaire to work as missionaries for the Anglican church, Dennis, 44, gave up his job at Algoma Steel to dedicate his life to the Lord. Grace, 39, admits their daughters were bitter about the idea in the beginning. “They weren't bitter about us serving the Lord,” she said. “They were bitter about us selling our home because they had grown up in it, Daughters Karen, 15, and Dawn, 18, will live with their oldest sister Marianne in Sault Ste. Marie while their parents are away. In addition to teaching scriptures, Dennis will help build houses while 130,000 Soviets use drugs MOSCOW (REUTER) — More than 130,000 people in the Soviet Union are regular drug users and 51,000 of them are seriously ill, said to police figures reported in the Communist party newspaper Pravda. Pravda quoted Vitaly Boyarov, deputy head of the Soviet customs board, as saying the Soviet Union would have to fight drug use at home before success could be achieved in the international fight against nar- coties trafficking. Police figures a year ago showed about 120,000 Soviet drug users, a sharp increase from 75,000 in 1984. Soviet press reports say the rise, although small, is causing concern. Boyarov noted that a law passed in 1987 outlawed cultivation of opium poppies or hemp, but described the Soviet climate as ideal for drug production from’ plants grown in the world. health care. To treat or not to treat is a question critical-care doctors routine ; face, Dr. ‘Mare Baltzan, pai president of the Canadian Medical Association, told a recent gathering of the Catholic Health Association of ikatchewan. The decision to extend or end a patient's treatment is based on sev eral principles, he said. “The frst one is that I am hired by the patient. 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