A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 5, 1983

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VICTORIA (CP) —_Pre-
mier Bill Bennett, who has
tightened his grip over the
provincial cabinet and Crown
corporations, is now taking
control of the province's in-
formation system.

Bennett has asked Doug
Heal, who was deputy min-
ister of ion services,

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to consolidate all information
services under his direction,
and to report directly to the
premier.

This is to include all gov-
ernment publishing and

This is to include all gov-
ernment publishing and
printing, as well as the oper-
ations of the Queen's Printer
which currently serves as-a
quick-print centre.

Bennett informed all dep-
uty ministers of the new
policy ata meeting May 26 in

the next budget,

July &.

Under the reorganlzailon,
all information staff, except
the director of information
for each ministry, will come
under tho ° jurisdiction aot
Heal’s organization.

The information programs
office in turn will provide the
ministries with communica-
tions planning, approve the
content. of news releases and
coordinate the release of in-
formation. ;

The service also will pro-
vide specialists to help the
ministries plan their infor-
mation programs and will
continue to approve all ad-
vertising plans — their ob-
jectives, content, timing an
frequency.

It is understood that the

advertising programs of

Victoria, and it

during three-days of closed-

door meetings with the pro-

vincial cabinet and senior

deputy ministers at the pic-
Ok

Crown cor also will
come under Heal's domain.
Bennett hopes the stream-
lined operation will save
money by dismantling some

Lake Re-
sort near Kelowna earlier
this week.

Heal and Bennett's princi-

‘pal secretary, Pat. Kinsella,

were very much in évidence
at the premier's side during
the Okanagan retreat adding
emphasis to the changes,
which are to be contained in

empires, re-
sult. in greater productivity
through better use of the
staff, and bring the dissem-
ination of all major informa-
tion under his direct control.
WRITE SPEECHES

It is unclear who will han-
dle the speech-writing chores
for ministers ‘and deputy

ly done by
information officers,

The premier said © Heal,
who is getting a new title be-
cause he acquired a “political
glow” during the recent pro-
vincial general election cam-
paign by working for’ the vic-
torious Social’ Credit. party,
will remain with the Ministry
of the Provincial Secretary
even though he reports dire-
ctly to Bennett., He will
retain his $65,000-a-: year sal-
ary as yell.

Much of the:new progrs

itlining his mail

: objectives, a

3 “The coordination’ clement
of our.

and needs of. people to the

program priorities and dniti.

CDTA:.
continued from na poge
“In keeping with this philosophy, this year DTA

members will see a redistribution of the workload so that
bers will have more reaponallity and a

ares of

areview ofall the best things
ministries are doing in var-
fous infor

plans at-
ted to cabinet Fubra
sions and decide how best to

: and distrib P d

the

the memo said.

“The. objective is to distill:
“the most effective methods

as recommendations for all to

use and to Fedues duplicated :

efforts.”

The inforrhation office will

: Also.und is
distribution of news releases
by Canada News Wire to the
major. weekly newspapers,
and radio and television sta-
tions at a cost’ of about
$175,000 a year,

voice in the decision- making process.

Although Rodgers is a relative newcomer to the
executive, and the community — he has lived in Castlegar
only two years — he is no stranger to the job he faces.

‘A teacher for 14 years, Rodgers bccupied similar
positions of responsibility in teachors’ associations in the
Northwest Territories where he taught for six years
prior to his Castlegar post. .

A strong believer in the “open” or. cooperative (a
word he used many times throughout the interview)
approach to relations, Rodgers says he is optimistic that,
the Ministry is ing toward a Polley of

‘ Further changes
in the budget include the cen-

was contained in a June,
1981, memorandum — from

Heal to the other deputy:

‘ings with mi

ore sa financial

“senior staff, establish a pro-
cess to relate the concerns

of
as well as the “tring of all
Bessonnel, é

consultation;

He noted that the past year his been “a ‘rough
period” during which former Education Minister Bill
Vander Zalm took “action without consultation.”

Now he says there are indications that the current
minister Jack Heinrich and the new Social Credit, cabinet

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Boundary change eyed

OTTAWA, (CP) — "A

‘Feport from an independent

‘has also suggested renaming 5 “The riding is carved from
this riding. Koot t_- the existing E:

he concluded.

commis. °

sion tabled in the Commons
Friday suggests that the ad-
jacent ridings of Kootenay
West and Kootenay . East
swap Creston and Revel-
stoke. 5
Creston is currently in
Kootenay West and Revel-
stoke is an awkward appen-
dage of the east riding.
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oo The ‘commission was given yative Don Munro. Esqui-"

the task of redrawing riding malt and: surrounding areas
boundaries. to ‘take popula-. become a constituency unto
tion growth and movement of themselves to be known as.
the last decade ‘into account..- Esquimalt,

Under ‘a complex redistri-. The commission recom-
bution formula, aimed at:en- mends the boundary between
larging the Commons. to 810. Esquimalt’ and Saanich-Gulf
seats, B.C.’ is entitled. to Islands be modified in part to.
another five federal ridings follow the Trans-Canada’
for a total: of 33, Highway.

». The commission stands by’. Up Island, the commission
its report rel ding all of
in January to allocate those Lake Cowichan along with
new seats to the fast-g 4 of Lantzvill
regions of southern. ‘Vancou. and Wellington. in the new
ver Island, the central Okan-. Nanaimo-Cowichan riding
agan Valley and communities which it’ would rename sim-
south and east of Vancouver. ply Nanaimo.

On Vancouver Island, the In the Ok

the com:

will be more open to consultation.
. *I'think teachers as a whole agree with the ged for
restraint and the need for all parties to act responsibly,”

Meantime, both the Castlegar school board and
teachers are awaiting a decision from Compensation
Cc

arbitrated wage increase for teachers.

Ed.Peck’on a 4.6 Per. sent

continued from front page

BCRIC president Bruce
Howe. was not available for
comment.

Last year the government
removed limits on the num-
ber of shares that can be held
by one person or institution.

If Pezim acquires control of
five million ‘shares, he will
become. the largest single
shareholder of BCRIC.

HOLDS MOST SHARES

Ci

‘ commission recommends the — mission: says ‘ Conservative

new riding it. first: called MP. Vince Dantzer’s Okana-
‘Saanich-The ‘Islands, be re- gan North riding should be
named Saanich-Gulf Islands. known instead as Okanagan .
It will include’ much ‘of the Shuswap.

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“By GARY MASON
VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Premier Bill’ Bennett

received a hero's welcome Friday as he stolled to the podium
to address the annual gathering of the Vancouver Stock

the largest is
the Terry Fox Medical Re-
search Foundation’ with 4.6
million shares that it re-
ceived from .the p: i

per cent, but I have certain
“funds very friendly to me
back East and locally and I'm
going to have a big enough
position to be heard,” Pezim
said, “And the public will
back me.” ;
Friday's surge means: a

57.6-per-cent paper gain for _

BCRIC shareholders ‘who
bought the stock earlier this
year at its low of $2.57.
BCRIC has traded as low
as $2.40. The corporation was
formed in 1979 by the Social
Credit government to encom-
pass, the various rpsoures:

government but has never
voted. Second largest is the
Ontario Hospital Association,
with 1.4 billion: of the 96.2
million BCRIC has  out-
, Standing.

“Of course I can't afford 51

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cratic Party government and
turned into Crown corpor-
ations. Five free shares were
issued to every eligible Brit-
ish Columbian with a $6
value.

welcome

The premier, looking tanned and well rested following

cabinet meetings last week in the Okamagnas told the often- _
theri

that be reduced, red
tape. will be reduced, the ‘amount of legal acts and legal

Exchange and launched into a bearty:¢ of the
virtues of private enterprise. . :

Bennett's first public speech since his resounding
Provincial election victory last morith, was interrupted
several times by applause. And he wasted no time in
assuring about 250 people gathered that government wants
to encourage the private sector so it will stimulate the
economy.

“We will be assisting you by attacking the very rules,

courts, and a whole host of
government that has

will be reduced and
the private sector as the ‘engine of the economy will . be
allowed to go full steam ahead into the 1980's.”

IfB.C. is going to grow, he said, it will have to continue
to build up and ti to expand it

capacity thick today is 50 per cent of all the obs created in ~

British Columbia.”

“If we are going to have a broad economic base in the
future and if we are going to look to broaden that base with
high risk companies, your Exchange is going to have to be

that rather than helping, even though it seemed desirable a
few years ago, will remove a lot of the roadblocks to the
private sector in their wish to get things done and get things -
moving,” said Bennett.

, - His audience couldn't have been in a better mood —
earlier in the day the VSE had reported its best financial «
year ever and trading volume that shattered Canadian
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firms, be able to assemble the pools of capital needed to
finance those firms, knowing full well that all those won't be
successful.”

Bennett won a big round of applause as he expounded
on a theme that he repeated during the campaign—that
the major role in the economic recovery will be played by the
private sector, the risk taker, the entrepreneur and those
who show initiative,

Walker not charged

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wack, was homicide.

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neutral term, meaning that
no blame is attached by use
of the word.

Police
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taken to hospital after he was
struck by a vehicle on Col-
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morning.

Samiel Gruden suffered
leg injuries when he collided
with a.1973 Toyota, driven by
John Reorda of Castlegar.

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estimated at $400, Castlegar
RCMP report.

21 CANADIANS DEAD

FBI says no foul play in jet fire

By PAUL KORING

CINCINNATI (CP) — The
Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation says there is no evi-
dence at this time to indicate
that the smoky fire aboard an
Air Canada jetliner which
killed 23 passengers Thurs-
day night had been deliber-
ately set.

An FBI statement released

trating on the earlier as-
sumption that it started in a
rear lavatory of the plane
carrying 46 people, which
was flying to Toronto from
Dallas when it was forced to
make an emergency pees

its own initiative,

On Friday, Engen called
the lighted cigarette theory a
possibility, but he said Sat-
urday further investigation
made that possibility more
remote,

The it i said a cir-

at Greater - Cinci ir-
port.

There was speculation that
the fire may have been

sai 'y
investigations “did not de-
velop any evidence of sabo-
tage or foul play.”

Twenty-one of the dead
and most of the 18 injured
were Canadians.

Donald Engen of the U.S.
National Transportation
Safety Board said investi-
gators are not sure how the
fire began, but are concen-

Crosbie

OTTAWA (CP) — John
Crosbie says he realizes he
made a gaffe when he said Ist
during his swing through
Quebec that not speaking
French was no worse than
not speaking German or Chi-
nese.

“I regret what happened,
but I was simply trying to
explain that one can under-
stand a people or a country
without speaking the lan-
guage,” the Progressive Con-
servative leadership hopeful
said in an interview pub-
lished in Saturday's edition of

started by a
lighted cigarette carelessly
tossed in the lavatory trash
bin. It was learned that all
Air Canada DC-9s have fire
extinguishers in lavatory
trash bins which are sup-
posed to be activated by
heat. An airline spokesman in
Montreal said it is not part of
regulations, that the airline
installed the extinguishers on

cuit breaker for the lavatory
electrical system tripped dur-
ing the fatal flight and the

pilot tried to reset it, but

“they would not reset.” He
added that he does not know
whether the incident occur-
red just before the fire was
discovered or earlier in the
flight,

TAILCONE INCIDENT

It was also. learned the
fatal Air Canada Flight 797 is
the same DC-9 that was in-
volved in a lost-taileone inci-

regrets mistake

speaking reporters had been
very “understanding” about
his inability to speak French.

But he maintains his frank-
ness is probably his only
drawback when it comes to
the language question. ‘My
mistake from the start was
being honest, saying that I
am not bilingual and that I
didn't think I'd become

bilingual quickly because of '

the time available to me.

“I should have said 1 was
fluent in French, or that I
could quickly become fluent.
In other words, (I should

the itreal La.
Presse.

He said he had been
“trapped” into making the

have) d or lied.
“But I'm not a liar and I
don't exaggerate. I can’t go
to » Quebec and say I'll become
if I'm

remark by E:
journalists a “hounded”
him even though French-

elected leader. Others can
say that, but I know it’s not

true.” .

The former Tory finance
minister also said that if he
were elected Tory leader and
then prime minister, he
would not have a “Quebec
lieutenant,” but rather “a
whole series of Quebec lieu:
tenants.”

“I would need to stay in
touch with more than one
person,” he explained.

Crosbie repeated his prom-
ise to move part of the prime
minister's office to Quebec,
and insisted it would not be a
merely symbolic act.

“If I'm being criticized be-
cause I don’t speak’ French,”
he said, “I have to take extra
action... Lo convince people
that I'm making special ef-
forts because of the language
problem.”

dent in 1979. The plane — its
aircraft number is 720 — lost
its tailcone on a flight to Yar-
mouth, N.S., from Boston on
Sept. 17, 1979, The plane
landed without incident;
there were no injuries.
Sixteen passengers were
taken to hospital because of
smoke inhalation, but all but

two had been released by’

Saturday.

A physician who helped
remove the 23 bodies from
the burned-out jet said an-
other half-minute could have
meant survival for many vic-
tims, whose bodies had "the
cherry red color” that indi-
eates carbon monoxide poi-
soning.

“They were so close,” said _

Dr. James Schrand, one of
several who re-

Report pessimistic on
‘nuclear arms talks

WASHINGTON (REU-
TER) — A Senate report re-
leased Saturday says U.S.

moved bodies from the
burned fuselage.

“The closest body was
about six feet back from an
exit. That's how close they
were to getting out. Whe-
ther one person became
bogged down, we don’t know.
One person blocks an exit,
and others can't get around
that person. Just 30 seconds
to a minute or so more,
maybe more would have been
able to get out.”

Exact cause of death of the
victims was not immediately
known.

f —_- Joe Clark
‘confident’

OTTAWA (CP) — Joe
Clark says he is so confi-
dent he can win the Pro-
gressive Conservative
leadership at next week's
convention he hasn't even
considered the possibility
that someone else may
walk away with the job.

“I frankly haven't con-
sidered that question be-
cause I think I'm going to
win and I’m focusing on
winning,” Clark said, in
response to a question
about who, besides him-
self, would make the best
leader.

“So I'm not considering

whom I might support in

the event I don’t win be-

cause I plan to win,” the
former prime minister said
in an interview with Stan-
dard Broadcast News aired
Saturday.

The party's direction has
been debated extensively
since he called a leadership
convention after getting
only a lukewarm endorse-
ment at the Conservative
annual meeting in Winni-

eg.

However, it is now “pre-
pared to support its leader
when he takes those tough
decisions and a party that
is prepared to come down
very hard on anyone who
might undercut the leader

ge nuclear mis-
siles will probably be de-
ployed in Western Europe
this year but that the Soviet
Union is unlikely to respond
by putting missiles in the
Western Hemisphere.
Deployment of the Ameri-
can Pershing 2 and cruise
missiles in Europe starting in
December is foreseen be-
cause no U.S.-Soviet agree-
ment on medium-range mis-
siles is likely to be reached in
Geneva in time to prevent
the deployment, the report
said. r
It added that prospects are
even worse for a U.S.-Soviet

at the separat
strategic arms reductions
talks in Geneva, the so-called
START negotiations,

It quoted an unnamed U.S.
negotiator as saying Presi-
dent Reagan would have to
“move fast and make drama-
tic changes” to achieve a
START agreement before
the end of next year, when
his first four-year presiden-
tial term ends.

The report was written by
five senior staff members of
the Senate foreign relations
committee who interviewed
officials in Moscow and Eur-
ope in preparation for ex-
tensive congressional hear-
ings this month on U.S.-
Soviet relations.

“The in Eur-
ope of Pershine 2 and cruise
missiles is likely to take place
but it will generate a harsh
Soviet reaction,” they con-
cluded.

“It appeared unlikely, how-
ever, that the Soviets will
deploy land-based nuclear
missiles in the Western Hem-
isphere in response.”

They quoted an unnamed
Soviet official as saying Mos-
cow would not put missiles in
Cuba because of the 1962
U.S.-Soviet understanding
which ended the Cuban mis-
sile crisis.

‘Soviet missile deploy-
ments elsewhere in Latin
America would seem to be
extremely dangerous.

U.S. spy caught red-handed

MOSCOW (AP) — The So-
viet Union said Saturday that
a U.S. diplomat was “caught
red-handed” spying and or-
dered expelled from the
country. .

The diplomat, Louis
Thomas, the attache of the
administration section of the
embassy’s security division,
is the second U.S. diplomat
ordered out of the Soviet
Union this year after being
accused of espionage.

“Louis Thomas was caught
red-handed during a spy ac-
tion in Moscow on June 2,”
the official Soviet news
agency Tass said. “In the
course of the investigation,
the evidence was obtained
which fully exposes this

patible with his official stat-
us.”

Tass did not say what
Thomas was doing when
“caught” by the KGB sec-
urity police.

Embassy spokesman
Frank Tonini confirmed
Thomas had been ordered
expelled, but said he could
not comment on the Soviets’

his home town and age, is
confidential, and would not
comment on the nature of his
duties in Moscow.
DUETO LEAVE

Tonini said Thomas was
due to complete the normal
two-year duty in Moscow this
summer and was to be trans-
ferred to an unspecified new
post. He had served in the
y for 22 months.

“He is
preparing to leave some time
next week,” Tonini said.

In Washington, the U.S.
State Department confirmed
Thomas was being expelled,
but would give no details.

Department spokesman
Sandra McCarty would not
comment on whether the So-
viets were retaliating for
U.S. expulsions of Soviet

by the. backd or by

leaks to the press.” J

ip as a per-
son engaged in intelligence
activities which are incom-

earlier this year.
She said personal informa-
tion about Thomas, including

Attempts to reach Thomas
by telephone were unsuccess-
ful.

On March 7, the Soviets
announced that Richard Os-
borne, a first secretary at the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow,
had been caught with a “por-
table intelligence special-
purpose apparatus for the
transmission of espionage in-
formation via the U.S. Mari-
sat communications  satel-