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August 23, 1989 >

BUSY BAKER .
Program Centre.

" mn ttopehnell, a client at the
rennet up a batch of mutfins during a baking session last w

Society for the

Stoschnoff and several other centre clients will be doing the baking for their new business,
Muttin Mania, to be officially launched tomorrow. Alll profits from the delivery sales will go

back to the clients in we form of a weekly

Hutchison said.

, society

Backlog clearing slowly

VICTORIA (CP) — Although the
nurses’ dispute is over, operating:
room schedules at Victoria’s two
acute-care hospitals will not return to
normal until after Labor Day, hospital
administrators say.

Hospital staff ‘said Tuesday they
were frustrated that hospitals weren’t
rushing to clear a backlog of about
1,000 opergtions built up during the
nurses’ dispute.

But it will be *‘after the Labor Day
weekend (Sept. 4) at the earliest before
the hospitals return to their normal oc-
cupancy level of about 95 per cent,””
said Pat Coward, administrator for the
Greater Victoria Hospital Society

Byelection

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to the Cariboo for the byelection.”

The Socreds have also announced

— A grant of $165,000 to Williams
Lake for acommunity forest proposal.

— A $50,000 loan guarantee for a
Quesnel feed company

— A $98,500 grant to a society that
will bring provincial Knowledge Net-
work programming to 1,000 residents
of Likely, B.C.

But though the Cariboo has never
been lost by the Socreds, Vander
Zalm’s popularity in the riding has suf-
fered there over his treatment of
Fraser, affectionately known as the
King of the Cariboo.

“This is an important test for Van.
der Zalm,”’ said Harcourt

“And he’s not popular after how
shabbily he treated their favorite son.””

Harcourt concedes the Socreds are

The current occupancy rate is about
75 percent.

The contract dispute between 144
B.C. hospitals and health facilities and
17,500 unionized nurses ended last
week with an arbitrated two-year
agreement. The union promised to end
an overtime ban imposed after a two-
week strike in June, but some nurses
say they won’t routinely accept over-
time anymore.

Coward said administrators are
paying close attention to the nurses
concerns.

“One of their major concerns was
they did not want to work overtime,”
said Coward. ‘And this is high

vacation time. If we went back to
nearly full occupancy level, we'd have
to rely on nurses working Overtime,
and they don’t want to do that.

“As well, there were concerns about
not wanting to perform non-nursing
duties and we're sincerely looking at
addressing those issues and they take
time.””

Hospital society officials estimated
it would take up to a year to clear up
the backlog of elective surgery, much

of it postponed since before the strike
in mid-June. The strike ended with a
settlement that the nurses later rejec-
ted

the favorite in the race. But though the
NDP is the underdog, Harcourt thinks
Vander Zalm’s reputation in the riding
gives his candidate a fighting change

The NDP is running Dave Zirnhelt,
a 42-year-old rancher who is also
chairman of the Chilcotin-Cariboo
School District.

Wark, the Socred candidate, is/a 60-
year-old auctioneer who has identified
himself as a supporter of Vander Zalm

LIBERAL CANDIDATE

Even fringe parties with no seats in
the legislature are hoping for a
breakthrough. The provincial Liberals
are fielding Darwin Netzel, a 47-year-
old insurance adjuster:

Reg Cullis, a Quesnel real estate ap-
praiser who left the Socreds over
disatisfaction with Vander Zalm, is
running as an Independent

Wark hotly denies his performance
in the campaign will effect Vander
Zalm’s future.

“It’s Joe Wark running, not Bill
Vander Zalm,” he said. ‘The only
person who has to answer for me losing
is me.""

Still, the NDP are predicting if the
Socreds lose the byelection Vander
Zalm will face a revolt against him by
his own party

The Ainsworth Lumber plant will
create 500 direct and indirect jobs,
Vander Zalm told a news conference.
The government has approved a pulp-
wood harvesting licence for the ‘com-
pany.

The plant, to be located in the area
of 100 Mile House, 290 kilometres nor-
theast of Vancouver, will use waste
wood to manufacture strandboard, a
plywood substitute.

Mine and workers return
to bargaining table

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP)
Highland Valley Copper and its
striking workers plan to return to the
bargaining table on Thursday after a
two-week impasse

But a company spokesman says it
has nothing to do with a ‘‘snotty’’ let
ter from Kamloops MP Nelson Riis
critical of the mine’s bargaining
strategy

Rod Killough, the mine’s industrial
relations and personnel manager,
blasted Riis for his pen letter to mine
president Poul Hansen. In it, Riis
questions why the company refused to
examine the union’s monetary
proposal.

The letter was outrageous, said
Killough.

“He didn’t take the time to enquire
as to the other side’s position,”
Killough said. ‘*He just heard one side
and then fired off a snotty letter.””

Riis talked to union members at a
picnic Saturday in Logan Lake for
local 7619 of the United Steelworkers
of America

Union spokesman Richard Boyce
said he wasn’t aware that Riis had writ
ten a letter after the event, but added
that he had asked for Riis’s help.

“Nelson asked what the problem
was, and I said it was monetary,” said

Boyce. ‘‘They wouldn't hear our
proposals. Nelson said he'd write a let
ter, but that it would be neutral.””
Riis, backpacking in the Stein
Valley, was unavailable for comment
Some 1,200 workers at the mine in
Logan Lake, about 60 kilometres

Chief

southwest of Kamloops, went on strike
July 6.

Killough said the union has deman-
ded a 20-per-cent wage increase in the
first year of atwo-year contract.

“We've told them no double digits
in the first year,” he said.

blasts

government

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The
white man’s way of protecting the en-
vironment spells death to natural
resources, a K chief said

herbicides and dioxins have been
linked to human cancer.”
Bolton, speaking on a conservation

Tuesday at the annual of

panel, called for a new

the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

“Fishermen speak of drinking watey
from the Fraser River in the early part
of the 1900s,” said Chief Cliff Bolton
of the Terrace Indian Band. ‘*Now, the
water is unfit to drink and fish kills are
common.

“Fish are turning up with cancers
and they call this progress. The gover
nment told us dioxins were not har-
mful and now, after 45 years of use,

Video

continued from front page
But Attorney General Bud Smith
said he is not planning court action
“Pm not inclined to waste the
court’s time on the issue,”’ Smith said
Schein said will not receive money to
distribute the film and the movie

theatres are not being paid to air it

The Film Classification Branch
classified the video as mature. Branch
director Mary-Louise McCausland
said she did not feel a warning was
necessary. There is no nudity, coarse
language or suggestive scenes

p to deal with . He
said of that

Newspaper hiring
draws union's ire

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Van-
couver Sun won't give in to @ union
demand not to hire a South African
journalist as its new business editor,
says the newspaper’ s editor-

The hiring of Gerald

”* Hills

faith *‘with a view to pi the
public with the highest quality product
possible.”"

The collective agreement between
Pacific Press, which operates the Sun

been ‘‘in accordance with the letter and
the spirit of the collective agreement
we jointly negotiated, and ‘in accor-
dance with management's mandate to
hire on the basis of merit,"’ Nick Hills
wrote in a letter to Mike Bocking,
president of the Vancouver-New
‘Westminster Newspaper Build.

The guild’s executive said last week
that it was prepared to file a complaint
to the federal Department of Em:
ployment and Immigration unless the
Sun reversed its decision to hire
Prosalendis.

Prosalendis, most recently general
manager of South African-based
Times Media Ltd., which has interests
in newspapers, magazines, radio and
television operations, is coming to
Canada on a temporary work permit.
He was formerly editor of Business
Day, South Africa’s leading financial
daily.

The guild argues that there were
qualified Canadian journalists who
could have done the job.

But Hills wrote that the decision to
hire Prosalendis was made in good

Pass Creek
pool
reopened

By CasNews Staff

The Pass Creek pool has reopened
following a cleanup due to complaints
from swimmers suffering from skin
irritation.

Andrew Zibin, an attendant at Pass
Creek Park, said the pool was drained
and fresh water has now been put in.

The problem, commonly referred to
as swimmer’s itch, results from bac-
teria accumulated from a stagnant
pool of water, said Zibin.

“It’s common throughout the
Kootenays and the Okanagan,’’ he
said, adding that it is recommended to
towel dry after swimming rather than
letting the sun dry the skin.

“That’s how the infection starts,””
Zibin said.

However, he said the water is now
“‘swimmable’’ and opened to the
public.

Dr. David Bullock of Castlegar
treated one of the youths affliected by
the infection and said it was more a
nuisance than a serious infestation.

Court win
proves
costly

VANCOUVER (CP) — A man who
won a lawsuit against people who ac-
cused him of attempting a satanic
human sacrifice now is trying to get a
reversal of a ruling on costs that turned
him from a winner into a loser.

Justice W. J. Wallace reserved
decision Tuesday on an application for
leave to appeal a trial judge’s award of
costs in a defamation suit filed by Lion
Serpent Sun of Victoria.

In 1988, Sun, a self-described bishop
of the Gnostic religion, won a jury
award of $10,000 and costs against
Pentecostal minister Leonard Olson,
televangelist David Mainse and the
program 100 Huntley Street.

On a motion by Sun’s lawyer,
Robert Moore-Stewart, that the jury’s
award be confirmed; trial judge Justice
William Davies appeared to make the
order, but it was never entered in the
record.

Two months later, Davies hear sub-
missions in chambers where the defan-
dants’ lawyers argued that a jury has
no. toaward costs.

could affect the environment is essen-
tial

Bolton decried the depletion of
salmon populations in the Skeena
River, which he said his ancestors
fished for thousands of years.

“Salmon is our singl impor-

In a decision handed down last Oc-
tober, Davies ruled that the defend:

\ they be phased out of the

and the Province, and the
guild calls on the company to hire em-
ployees without regard to, among
other things, national origin, Hills
wrote.

‘The company will continue to
weigh job applicants on their merits
and will not discriminate on the basis
of where the applicant may now or

pi have been
wrote.

The guid now will consider drafting
a letter to Employment and. Im-
migration, Bocking said Tuesda

“There is nothing new in his (Hills’)
letter,”’ Bocking said.

“The collective agreement refers te
the hiring of Canadians whatever their
national origin. It does not refer to
competition between Canadians and
non-Canadians.”’

Pacific Press is a subsidiary of the
Southam Newspaper Group.

Single ambulance
service urged

VICTORIA (CP) — Some
firefighters are upset at a provincial
government report recommending

Alberni, Campbell River, Nelson,
Kitimat and Fort St. John.
“Iv'll end ‘the turf war between

and the ser:

business.

“It’s strictly a political decision,””
said George Tate, Campbell River’s
assistant fire chief. ‘In my opinion,
there’s no reason why B.C. should
have just one ambulance service.
We've been doing this for over 40
years.”

A report by chief provincial coroner
Vince Cain, released Tuesday, recom-
mends phasing out fire department
ambularices and handing them over to
Emergency Health Services, which
runs the rest of British Columbia’s
ambulances.

Seven B.C.

vice,’ said Del Collins, director of in.
spectors for Emergency Health Ser.
vices. ‘‘There have been some inciden.
tsof friction."’

Collins said takeover negotiations
will start as soon as possible. Cain
began his inquiry after disputes bet.
ween the ambulance service and

running fire der
ambulances.

Collins said the ambulance service
was also concerned about a case in
Campbell River in 1987, when a man
died of a heart attack. The local
coroner found the fire department's
ambulance attendants weren’t as well-

would be

affected: Oak Bay, Saanich, Port

trained a: ice staff, said
Collins.

Cool temperatures
quell forest fires

By CasNews Staff

All's quiet on the forest-firefighting
front as the cooler temperatures and
showers have allowed crews to ex-
tinguish all fires in the Arrow Forest
District, says Dave Fitchett, the
district’s fire control officer.

“«There isn’t much going on,”’ Fit-
chett said.

He added the showers and cool tem-
peratures have kept lightning damage
to a minimum. ‘‘If anything pops up,
there isn’t much danger of it
spreading.””

Fitchett said there were only three
fires reported in the last week and all
were caused by lightning. As of yester-

day, there were no fires burning in the
district.

“We have a low hazard pretty well
throughout the whole district. Cam-
pfire bans have been lifted and burning
permits are being issued,” he said.

To date this year, there have been
219 fires reported destroying 103 hec-
tares. Last year only 33 fires had been
reported, burning a total of 63 hec-
tares. This year a total of $1,050,000
has been spent fighting fires while last
year only $194,000 was spent by this
time of year.

Fitchett said the forecast is for con-
tinuing cool temperatures and showers
keeping the fire hazard to a minimum

Experts study
driftnet fishing

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — No
Canadian salmon were caught this year
in the legal squid fishing area of the
North Pacific during a just-concluded
research cruise by the Arctic Har-
vester, a team of experts who have
returned from the high seas said
Tuesday.

But some 30,000 tonnes of salmon
were caught by Asian driftnets last year
and fisheries scientists think much of it
was caught outside the legal squid-
fishing boundaries by Asian driftnet
ships.

The scientists estimated the size of
the legal Asian squid fleet at some 700
vessels.

“A typical Asian squid vessel can
fish between 30 to 50 kilometres of net
per night,” said John Davis, regional
director of sciences and a member of
the research cruise team.

The Arctic Harvester, chartered by
the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans to observe squid driftnet
fishing, left Nanaimo on July 12 and
sailed some 2,400 kilometres to gather

Tourist alert

ts’ costs should be set off against the
amounts they would otherwise owe
Sun.

Moore-Steward said the legal costs

tant heritage, as important as our
language and culture," he said.

Lytton Band Chief Ruby Dunstan
delivered a fiery speech on native
unity, criticizing natives who ‘‘sold
out”’ their heritage.

“I don’t liketo hear about that hap-
pening because the government loves
it,” Dunstan said. ‘‘They know that
some of our people can be bought.

“It’s time to get rid of the program-
ming we’ ve had instilled in us and start
thinking like Indians because that’s
what we are and nothing’s going to
change that."

of the represented by two
major Vancouver law firms, far ex-
ceeded the plaintiff's costs and his
$10,000 award. He said the trial judge
was aware of this and knew he would
be “taking away the jury’s decision.”

During a seven-week trial, Moore-
Stewart argued that Sun was defamed
by being called a satanist on the TV
program, and by Olson's claim that
Sun led a group that intended to
sacrifice Olson and his wife to Satan
during a 1972 ritual.

Sun and his witnesses said Olson's
story was untrue and appeared to be
based on drug-induced hysteria

VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist
alert issued Tuesday by the RCMP.
The following people, believed
travelling in British Columbia, are
asked to contact the person listed for
an urgent personal message:

Peter Novac of Prince Albert, call
Laura Mitchel...

Alex Cameron of Merville, B.C.,
call Courtenay RCMP.

John and Lorna Brown of
Washington, call your family.

Shauna Zimmer of Manitoba, call
Denise or Ruth Zimmer.

Daryl Armstrong of Vancouver, call
Barbara Armstrong

Alexander Kisenia of Yellowknife,
call Thomas Duke.

Tom and Erma Devlin of
Oklahoma, call Tom Devlin.

information on the number and origin
of salmon caught by high seas squid
driftnets. |

Heroin
seized

VANCOUVER (CP) — They
looked like two well-heeled tourists,
but their stiff walk in brand-new run-
ning shoes aroused, the suspicions of a
Canada Customs |inspector at Van-
couver International Airport

A search found 1,300 grams of pure
heroin, worth $8 million, inthe soles of
their shoes.

The seizure Monday marked the
second time in a week that-customs of-
ficers found heroin secreted in the soles
of shoes.

“They were wearing brand-new
runners and walking very stiffly,” A\
Wilson, acting manager of Canada
Customs intelligence division, ‘said
Tuesday.

COOL TREAT...
Ambulance Ser

ices dish up a root b
float sales went to the Easter Seals fund.

leen Popoft and Steve Spence from the Castlegar brarich of the Provincial
float to Natalie Barabonoff. Money raised from the

Panther leader shot

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuter)
Huey Newton, co-founder of the
militant Black Panther party in the
1960s,-_was—found-—-shot—to—death
Tuesday, police said

Newton, 47, was found on the
sidewalk in an Oakland neighborhood
known for drug activity, police said.

His organization of young blacks in
jected a tough, militant tone into the
civil rights struggle

Police said he has been shot three
head
vestigators cordoned off the area and
went from house to house questioning

times in the Homicide in:

residents

Newton co-founded the Black Pan.
thers in 1966. The party addressed the
masses of poor black Americans and
split with more moderate civil rights
groups’ by preaching that blacks had
the right to armed self-defence

BLACK POWER

The Panthers tried to show blacks
they could defend themselves at any
time against what the party considered
an oppressive power structure that had
long taken black subservience and
timidity for granted

The Black Panthers clashed with
authority early on when members

began following policemen about the
streets, with guns and
lawbooks, and interfering when they
felt black citizens were being harassed.

They’also ran programs to feed ghet
to children and fight drug pushers,
black or white

armed

For all his insistence that guns
should be used in self-defence, Newton
opposed violence for its own sake

That led toa split_withhis-most
famous disciple, Eldridge Cleaver,
who felt armed revolution was the only
answer for American blacks

Johnson sentenced to

probation

TORONTO (CP) — Ben Johnson
received a conditional discharge and 12
months’ probation Tuesday for poin
ting a starter’s pistol at a motorist who
tried to prevent the sprinter from
passing in his sports car

Johnson, 27, who had earlier
pleaded not guilty to common assault
and possession of a dangerous
weapon, agreed Monday to change his
plea to guilty after the Crown dropped
the weapons charge

“It was agreed by all parties that it

was a serious charge,"’ Judge Tan
MacDonnell said today when senten:
cing Johnson on the assault charge.

for assault

Last October, Johnson pointed a
starter’s pistol out an open window in
his black Porsche at a driver of a
pickup truck who had attempted to
keep him from passing on the shoulder
of the six-lane Highway 401

When Johnson tried to pass on the
inside lane, he was also cut off, said his
lawyer, Martin Kerbel

“The defendant told police that he
hated shoulder runners and if he tried
he would have squashed him,”" Kerbel
told the packed courtroom

“‘He (Johnson) overreacted 10 the
situation ... certainly not wanted to
harm anyone but just to be left alone.

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