Invites you to come in and meet | Sally Richmond, rep. from Husqvarna Sewing Machines on Fri., December 7 from 9:30 to 12 noon Sally will demonstrate all the latest sewing technology and ac- cessory use for the professional look_you want in sewing. YOUR VISIT WILL BE- WORTH THE TIME! Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed Christmas Should be a Robson man Funds for We, the children of the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, peace, appeal to all parents . . . THIS CHRISTMAS PLEASE DON'T GIVE CHILDREN TOYS OR VIDEO GAMES OF — VIOLENCE & WAR We wish you peace always! dies at Trail John Thomas Barr, 80, of Robson died at Trail Regional Hospital Dec. 1. Mr. Barr was born at Wasa, B.C., in 1904, and was educated there. He was em- ployed in heavy construction in many places in B.C. He came to Castlegar in 1961, and to Robson in 1964. Mr. Barr retired in 1972. He was a member of the Operating Engineers, Local 115 for 41 years. Mr. Barr is survived by his wife, Anne, of Robson; two grandsons, Stephen Wilson of Kelowna and Bobby Wil son of Terrace; a great Bea | CasNews Subscriber Call 365-7266 for home delivery. grandson, Jordon, of Kel- owna; three brothers, Gor- don of Golden, Francis of Al- berta and Clarence of Van- couver; two sisters Kenselly of Cranbrook and Vietoria Jolliffe of Cran brook, and many ‘nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by daughter, Eileen, in 1960. No service by request. Cremation has already taken place. tthiopia The Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ Peace (Committee is organizing a fund-raising drive to aid staPvihg people in Ethiopia. Donations may be for warded to the Doukhobor Village Restaurant, located across from Castlegar Air port. Donations will be sent to the Canadian Red Cross and Oxfam before the end of the year. Coroner says improve By CasNews Staff K Grolier #réport thto the Oct. 29 accident that killed two Grand Forks citizens sanding The Dec. 2 report by Castlegar. coroner Paul Og jow concluded an inquiry into the accident which occurred r P! sanding” on icy: area high ways. These da cou The Open Learning institute Offers over 100 courses that can turn your Career and life around Take a new course! improve yourself, have fun or earn a university degree, vocationat Certificate or high schoo! dipioma With OU there are no classes to attend Comprehensive course packages come in the mail containing alt the materiats you will need Assignment files, text ana, included in the course fee Tutors and aavisors are avaitable via toll on Hig 3 near the Nancy Greene junction, and claimed the lives of Larry and Mar. garet Doubisoff of Grand Forks, both 49. The Doubisoff's westbound 1979 Chevrolet automobile had only summer tires when it went out of control and ended up in the lane of an eastbound three-ton truck, which “unavoidably” crashed into them, according to Og. low. He says highway signs had been posted warning motor. ists of winter tire require equipment and facilities to be used by U.S..reinforcement troops in case of a ance favoring the Warsaw Pact is nec- essary to strengthen deterrence and a ‘The Warsaw Pact Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies, Coates told the NATO. allies that Canada wants to play ® bigger role in the western alliance and announced plans to increase defences through ex- tra manpower and modernization of weapons. Richard ‘Perle, a U.S. assistant de- fence secretary, said the NATO de- fence ministers plan to use the extra money for imporved communications equipment and new aircraft shelters, among other items. Police file An Ootischenia man could receive a maximum $500 fine or six months in jail if con victed on a charge of allowing his dog to “run at large.” Edward Koftinoff, 44, is charged by Castlegar RCMP under Section 16 of the Live- Calona stock Protection Act asa re According to RCMP, “en sult of an “altercation” Nov. forcement action” will be RARIN' TO GO... . Castlegar school board with new trustees sworn in Tuesday night. (Front row, from left) chairman Doreen Smecher, vice-chairman Lovette i Nichvolodoff. (Back row, from left) trustee Rick Pongracz, Kay Johnson, Gordon Turner, Lindo Krull and George Anutooshkin Costtews Photo 21 which involved “dogs run- ning in packs in Ootischenia,” according to Staff Sgt. John Stevens. He said no one was injured in the incident. reduces red wine prices VANCOUVER (CP) — Cal- ona Wines Ltd. is reducing its red wine prices in British Columbia up to 30 per cent today, the Kelowna, B.C.- based P. d ularity of white wine, which has resulted in large red wine surpluses. “In Ontario, the federal Tuesday. The reductions affect all 10 brands and various sizes of red wines produced by Cal ona, the company said in a news rel - The company said the re- duction is partly caused by an unforseen surge in the pop- and pi | governments joined forces to buy up a large grape surplus,” said company vice-president Wayne Newson. “We haven't seen the same initiative in B.C., and this has caused severe surplus situations and financial strain on B.C. win- eries,” Lung association raises money By CasNews Staff More than $2,000 has been raised in Castlegar so far for the 1964 Christmas Seal Campaign. The B.C. Lung Association, in a prepared release, says the 1964 total so far for Castlegar is $2,742. The pro- vinee-wide total is $580,431, representing 70 per cent of the 1964 campaign target. R.W. King, president of the association, says Christ. mas seals have been used in B.C. since 1922 as a means of raising funds to combat lung disease. Up until the early 1960s, Christmas seal dollars were directed toward the fight against tuberculosis. In recent years, it has expanded its attention to focus on all diseases of the lung, including hang cancer, emphysema, asthma and oc- cupational lung disease. Call cotlect to your nearest Open Learning institute advising centre Or. clip and complete the 3] J Norlabe December Blitz ii § taken “due to numerous on going complaints of dogs at large causing problems.” The Livestock Protection Act gives police the authority to kill dogs running in packs of two or more. . . Castlegar RCMP are in vestigating a break-in in a Blueberry residence — the third for the village in three weeks. Police are cautioning resi dents to lock up their houses and “report anything sus- picious.” Student wins award By CasNews Staff A 1984 Stanley Humphries Sehool, graduate Secondary has won the Imperial Oi Higher Education Award for scholastic achievement. Lestie Wilson, 17, of Castlegar, currently enrolled in an education program at Selkirk College, will receive funds to cover her tuition and compulsory fees for her first four years of post-secondary education, provided she is successful academically. Wilson will continue her education at the University of Saskatchewan and plans to become a teacher. ommittees named By CasNews Staff Mayor Audrey Moore did some thorough housecleaning Monday when she named her council committees, changing the chairmen of all six com mittees. Ald. Bob MacBain switches from parks and recreation chairman to chairman of the administrative and finance committee. Former finance chairman Albert Calderbank will con tinue to sit om the committee as a member, along with Ald. Len Embree. of health and welfare from Ald. Marilyn Mathieson, though Mathieson will sit on the committee as a member The third committee member is Ald. Bob Pakula. Ald. Carl Henne gives up his chairmanship of the works and services commit. tee to take over as head of the parks and recreation committee. Other members of that committee include Calderbank and MacBain. Pakula vacates his position APPOINTMENTS ATTACKED Mulroney den OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Mulroney denies that the recent appointment of at least a dozen Tory faithful and personal friends to plum government jobs and directorships is the kind of blatant patronage he attack ed during the election cam paign. “No, not at all,” Mulroney said Tuesday when ques tioned about the postings ap- proved by cabinet last week. “We've appointed some very distinguished Cana dians, men and women, rep- resentatives of ethnic com munities, to some important positions. “Not one of these people needed the job, not a single solitary one.” But opposition spokesmen were quick to denounce the appointments, which in cluded high-profile Tories as well as backroom strategists, and said they show Mulroney was not serious when he sug: gested during the campaign that political appointments stiould be screened by a par liamentary committee. “We've seen a couple of im partial appointees and now we're going to see the trad. itional patronage coming along in full,” said NDP Leader Ed Broadbent, re- ferring to the earlier appoint ment of Ontario New Demo crat Stephen Lewis as am bassador to the United Na tions and the posting of for mer Commons speaker Lloyd Francis as ambassador to Portugal. Those appointments, made just after the Conservatives took power, surprised ob- servers. But the early post ings have been eclipsed by the sudden round of political jobs handed out last week. LIST TORIES Some of the prominent Tories who got lucrative court appointments, director ships and other government jobs include: Jean Pigott A former Tory MP for Ottawa-Carle ton riding who was named director of special events for Mulroney in October Pigott was made chairman of the National Capital Com as chairman of protective services to take over as chairman of works and ser vices. Other members of works and services include Henne and Mathieson Meanwhile, Calderbank as sumes the chairmanship of protective services, with Pakula and MacBain as mem bers. And Mathieson will be chairman of the planning committee, taking over from Embree. However, Embree will sit on the committee along with Henne. Mathieson will continue as council's tourism co-ordina tor, while MacBain will take over from Calderbankr as council's liaison on the indus trial commission. Embree will represent the city on the Castlegar and District Hospital Board, while Calderbank will be council's alternate on the Central Kootenay Regional District board. Moore will be the regular repregentative on the regional district board. ies patronage mission at an annual salary of between $81,890 and $96,300. She was responsible for ap- pointments under Joe Clark's Tory government in 1979. Ron Huntington — a for mer Tory MP for the B.C. riding of Capilano who did not run last summer, Hunt ington was rewarded for his service with the chairman ship of the Canada Ports Corp Helen Hunley — A former Conservative cabinet minis ter in Alberta, Hunley was made the province's lieuten ant-governor. Huguette Pageau — Pag. eau, widow of Rodrique Pa geau of Montreal, an old friend of Mulroney's, was made a citizenship judge at a salary range of $41,220 to $48,490 annually. Rodrique, who died this fall, spent elec tion night with Mulroney in Baie Comeau, Que., despite his illness. Helga Paide — A former financial officer for the On tario Tories, Paide also be came a citizenship judge. Irving Gerstein — Called BUT CLINIC OPEN ANYWAY one of the “big boys,” Ger- stein, president of Peoples Jewellers Ltd., was made a director of the Canada Post toll over 1; BHOPAL, INDIA (AP) — As one doctor reported the A Union Carbide in Bombay bumian death count at more than 1,400, he and other doctors > warned today that disease could spread from the remains of thousands of people and animals killed by a poison gas fume leak at a pesticide plant. A newspaper reported that four accidents occurred at the U.S..owned Union \ previous Carbide facility in Bhopal. Doctors and offiicals at cremation grounds and mortuaries said at least 1,200 people were killed and more than 200,000 were affected by the leak early Monday. They said 20,000 people may suffer serious aftereffects, such as blindness. The United News Of India news agency reported the death toll had risen to 1,250:and one physician, Dr. R. Srivastra, head of Jairparkash Hospital, said more than 1,400 had died. Police and rescue workers searched house-to-house today for bodies and assisted in mass burials and cremations during the night that lit up the sky of Bhopal, a central city of 900,000 United News said nearly 800 bodies were buried at the city’s main Firdaus Manzil graveyard or cremated at the Chola Vishram Ghar cremation ground. The news agency quoted a gravedigger, Mubarik Shah, as saying: “Bodies are still being brought in by the dozens (and) we are in fact digging out old graves to bury them.” Arjun Singh, chief minister of the Madhya Pradesh state, told reporters he could confirm 670 deaths and said an estimated 50,000 residents had been treated for gas exposure. Most suffered chest pains, nausea, red eyes and breathing difficulties, he said Indian technical experts began an investigation to pinpoint blame for the gas leakage, inspecting the U.S.-built Union Carbide India Ltd. plant where the leak occurred Environmental Minister T.N. Khoshoo said investigators company is negotiating with Indian compensation to the victims, P.K. Akerkar, the geben said the would pay jon but dec! specify whether the government had requested payment. Vasant Sathe, India’s minister of chemicals and . tilizer, said he expects Union Carbide to provide financial compensation to victins and their families acedrding to American legal standards. Negligence victims in India typically receive considerably less in damages and com- pensate than those in the United States. “I expect Union Carbide management in the United States to rise to the occasion and provide relief as it would have done had this incident occurred in the United States,” Sathe told a news conference. He also alleged that Union Carbide failed to provide the same safety standards as it would for a U.S. plant. “We knew it was a dangerous industry,” he said, “but what could we do when we were uninformed about the safety devices in the factory?” Union Carbide Corp. has halted production and ship- ment of methyl isocyanate, the gas that leaked, in Bhopal and at its plant in West Virginia. Most of the dead were children and old people who could not withstand the methyl isocyanate as leaked from an underground tank at the U.S.-built Union Carbide facility DIED IN SLEEP Some died in their sleep and others while in flight from what officials call one of the world’s worst industrial accidents. A state government spokesman said today officials were recording “one death every minute.” The poison forced a mass exodus from the city where leaves on trees were shrivelled and yellow and streets were have yet to determine the cause of the leake. littered with thousands of dead animals Corp. He and Hal Jackman are two of the Tories’ main fundraisers in Toronto. Gerstein is listed in this year’s Canadian Who's Who as the vice-chairman (Ontario) of the Progressive Conservative Canada Fund. A government official says two other Tory campaign workers advertising spec ialists Bob Byron of Toronto and Jean Peloquin of Mon treal have been awarded contracts giving them charge of the government's adver tising management group, which was the main Liberal agency for controlling pa tronage advertising The appointments made last week included some which had no apparent par tisan motive, such as the naming of Loraine Thors rude, president of the Organ: ization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils, as a member of the Canada Council Liberal spending hefty OTTAWA (CP) — Spend ing by Liberal cabinet min isters on their personal staff in their last full year in office grew almost four times faster than the five per cent they were asking others to accept as part of their anti-inflation drive, figures tabled Tuesday in the Commons show The largest increase in the 1983-84 fiscal year — 140 per cent went to then trans. port minister Lloyd Axwor thy, whose budget soared to $2.3 million from $964,000 the year before Spending overall on per sonal staff grew by 19 per cent to $36.6 million while the government was applying the second half of its six-and five restraint program to other sectors of the economy. Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret, who re leased the figures, told re porters he hopes to cut that amount by 10 to 14 per cent or between $3.6 million and $5 million. Liberal Leader John Tur ner immediately accused the Conservatives of “playing games with the reputations of their predecessors” and warned “that’s a game that can be played both ways.” Axworthy charged that the Conservatives were try ing to do a “hatchet job” on him. “These guys weren't sat isfied in winning; they want to destroy people. thy told reporters outside the Commons. “They are a very mean lot of politicians and I think it goes right from the top.” RELEASES FIGURES De Cotret released the figures after The Globe and Mail, using information leak ed on the initiative “from the highest levels” of the gov ernment, reported Axworthy was wildly over budget in the 1984-85 fiscal yer. From the start of the fiscal year on April 1 to the Sept. 4 election, Axworthy's office spent amost $900,000 more than its entire annual budget of $1.2 million, the news paper said De Cotret denied there was any attempt to smear anyone, saying “no, not at all,” denied any knowledge of where The Globe and Mail's information came from and insisted he was only releas ing information the public is entitled to. Some observers speculated de Cotret chose this week to release the figures to divert attention from the first raft of Tory patronage appoint ments. Moreover, Prime Minister Mulroney appeared to exag- gerate somewhat when he told reporters that “by him self, Mr. Axworthy managed to spend more than almost all cabinet ministers in this gov ernment put together.” De Cotret's estimate of a 10- to 14-per-cent saving over the Liberal figures would still put ministers’ office budgets at about $30 million Axworthy transport min ister under John Turner and Pierre Trudeau and a key figure in Turner's campaign for the Liberal leadership over much of the period cov ered by The Globe and Mail report, admitted he had hired extra staff but said it was all properly approved and his office's spending was “within that budget the whole time.” ' 883 a8 sseast SGsza3 § 9989888 3888839888 Prices Effective until December 31. 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New Democratic Party Leader Bob broke the law out of necessity, “raises fundamental issues Rae, whose party supports the concept of independent about the role of the jury in the criminal justice system.” abortion clinics, angrily denounced it, . McMurtry said FOURTH ACQUITTAL Send a gift If left unchallenged, the verdict could leave defence The acquittal was the fourth for Morgentaler, who in Leoceadidet cle to warm the heart. lawyers open to urge juries to find certain laws are wrong the mid-1970s, was acquitted by three juries in Quebec Roxy . and should be flouted, and could encourage Crown lawyers before the provincial Justice Department ordered a halt to Kilkee Send the Candle Lamp” to suggest juries ignore traditional legal safeguards for further prosecutions and recommended the federal ive Chviite Bouquet — you Five defendants to secure convictions. government amend the abortion law onrst “This has profound implications for our jury system and Under the Criminal Code abortions are legal only under F He to procure a miscarriage, the Criminal Code term referring to abortion. McMurtry, a candidate to succeed Premier William Davis as Ontario Conservative leader, said outside the legislature he couldn't guess when the appeal will be heard but it would be impossible for the court to deal with it before the leadership convention Jan. 24-26 He said he made his decision Monday night based on the unanimous recommendation of a wide range of lawyers within his ministry. His candidacy didn't play a role in his deliberations, MeMurtry said, and all of his rivals for the leadership supported his decision i India scene of death By HARBAKSH SINGH NANDA BHOPAL, INDIA (AP) — Daya Ram carries his dead one-year-old son covered with a red towel to the smoking cremation grounds. Young Shanaz Bee and Abram Khan mourn their father and mother Everywhere the survivors and the dead are side-by-side. The blind follow the blind Thousands of dead cattle lie bloated in the streets and pastures. Leaves on trees are yellow and shrivelled Turnips and spinach are chemically scorched and covered by fine white film. Ponds are discolored and lurid. The stench of death hangs over Bhopal, mingled with the smoke of mass funeral pyres. Gravediggers open mass trenches. Tailors stitch shrouds. Doctors struggle to prevent an epidemic The city’s 900,000 people are stunned and grieve the hundreds of loved ones choked by a plague of poisonous gas that leaked in the dead of night from a pesticide factory. Many of the survivors are poor and illiterate, and don’t understand what happened in their slums of mud, 2 a3 8 oococce oa 353 BISRSSRSNSaRSeES B Fy 2 Hundreds died in their sleep and hundreds more were overcome as they fled, coughing and vomiting. They stampeded out of the city. Some were run over by cars and buses in the panic “We were choking and our eyes were burning,” Ahmed Khan said. “We could barely see the road through the fog and sirens were blaring. We didn't know which way to run.” “Everybody was very confused,” police Maj. Girish Tiwari said. “Mothers didn't know their children had died, children didn't know their mothers had died and men didn't know their whole families had died “Anyone who was left alive ran away blindly.” “The whole city became like a big gas chamber,” said Indira lyengar, chairman of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity who were nursing the stricken. 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Many said Eight-year-old Manu rubs his burning eyes and begs his father for toy goggles. But Kedar Nath knows his son is going blind and the only glasses he will ever wear are black they thought the plant manufactured medicine Some said they didn't know something terrible could happen and that when they heard the factory siren they should run for their lives. In the Jaiprakash Nagar neighborhood, more than 200 people died. At least half were children too weak and undernourished to outrun the gas and too frail to fight its affects. Many of the dead were discovered when authorities broke down shanty doors bolted from within. The people had sought to hide from the gas that turned their shacks into death chambers. his approval In Ottawa, Justice Minister John Crosbie said he plans no changes in the country’s abortion laws because there's no social consensus how the laws should be changed Morgentaler said the Toronto clinic is getting round-the-clock police and additional et guards have been hired in light of a spate of bombings abortion clinies in the United States. Morgentaler still faces abortionrelated charges in Winnipeg, but Manitobs Attorney General Roland Penner said Tuesday no action will be taken on the charges until the Ontario case is resolved. Mr. Justice William Parker of Ontario Supreme Court, erred It is a sin to bury two bodies in one grave but we must bury three and four and more together.” Abdul Karim said. “I pray Allah I never have to do this again.” At the Chola Ghant cremation ground bodies were burned in stacks of 25 because there was not enough firewood. 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