spoon said they came too late to be distributed to the dele- gates, and she would be sending them to the caucus office in Victoria, “and it’s up to them to distribute them.” Premier Bill Bennett said he was not surprised that Skelly would make a pitch to the delegates SPECIALS FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week the most members. Provincial Secretary Jim Chabot said the letter should get the same fate such a let- ter from the Social Credit party would get from the NDP, and that is to ignore it. He said that Skelly was living in a political world and his letter may be connected with the Nov. 8 provincial byelections. Bennett said everybody _SPAGHETTI believes in cooperation, and noted that a special com- mittee of the legislature had been set up earlier this year to find ways in which all members of the legislature — could play a more positive 12 Ox. TIN..... tions Skelly supported were role. Fy Among the Socred resolu ; . & WANT Freedom for:— scctctaries, hospital workers; teachers, unionized workers; lawyers; housewives; nuns; book-keepers, writers auing what Silenced for simply fheu think! ones calling for the use of 8 child restraint devices in LOCKED IN PRISON . . automobiles; promotion of the bed and breakfast indus. try; and a push for better forest management. ROSE’S BOUTIQUE ASK ABOUT UAAS LAY-AWAYS (10% Oeposits) Gitte, Wicker ote CLOSE TO MOHAWK 6 Days o Week 10. Spm CENTRAL FOODS Court news YOUR CHILDREN HAVE ONLY ONE CHANCE! 3000 Teaching Positions Cut Large Crowded Classrooms Loss of Specials Programmes . Antoinette Halberstadt of Winlaw, a South African exile and Amnesty Inter- national member, was one of about 10 area women who were locked in a cage in the parking lot between the Marlane Hotel and Dixie Saturday to help Am- nesty International publicize the plight of arbitrary detention, torture or execution. CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk Joanne Langlois was put on 12 months probation this week in Castlegar provincial court for fraud affecting pub- lic market. . 8 «@ A, two-month prison term was handed to Ward Sills who pleaded guilty to com. mon assault, . ef 6 Thomas Gustavsson was ordered to perform 16 hours of community service work and put on four month prob ation after pleading guilty to being a minor in possession of alcohol. * 68 6 A $75 fine was given to Kelly Keraiff who pleaded guilty to consuming liquor in a public place. Vv~ie . Joe Da Costa was put on four months probation and ordered to perform 24 hours CITY OF CASTLEGAR NOTICE BUILDING PERMIT AND BUSINESS LICENSE REQUIREMENTS HOCKEY SHOP For Every HOCKEY STICK We Sell at Regular Price We will d $1.00 to Cast: Minor Hockey Effective the month of October — WHEN YOU SUPPORT US — WE SUPPORT YOU! Ski Season is Coming! Adult Ski Pack Dynastar Visa Skis Salomon 347 Bindings . Bert Club Poles ..... 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AGE OF a video recorder and t VIDEO continued trom front pege something they really like, they will go out and buy the veke Lebedow, who runs the Sunset Drive-In in Ootischenia, says both video and pay-TV movies are taking a toll on his business, which is “down quite a bit” over the past two years. He says business has “dropped down about $10,000 or $15,000" during the March to October season. This is a 1,000 person drop in drive-in movie patrons, said Lebedow, who has run the Sunset Drive-In since 1979. Like the video movies, most of films Lebedow shows were released about six to eight months ago, although he says lately he’s been getting more recent movies. But the drive-in admission is $4 a head — about the same as the average rental cost for a video cassette, which can be seen by a group of people. Lebedow, like Bennett, puts part of the blame for low attendance on the recession. . “Maybe people don't have the money for food, so they don’t have the money for a mvoie,” he said. Bennett, who's been in the theatre business for 25 years, and running the Castle Theatre for 16, says he had a stereo sound system installed over a year ago to keep movie goers coming. “It’s made some difference,” he said. “it's keeping some people interested.” But while Americans “are having the biggest year in the movie business they've had in 13 years,” Bennett has philosophically written off the decline in his business as being symptomatic of the times. “We've seen this type of thing before. You have some good years, and some bad years.” Like Bennett, Zaytsoff of Pete's TV and Fraser of Fraser Vailey video don't think that the competition of home videos is hurting the movie theatres. They say the main reason is video movie cassettes come out about six to eight moths ‘on thé average after a movie has been released to’ the théatres. “I don’t think this is butting into the movie business at all,” Zaytsoff said. Fraser agrees, and says many box-office block- busters — especially those directed by the likes of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg — have not even hit the video market yet. For example, he said the four-year-old film The Empire Strikes Back will finally be released for video distribution Nov. 12. But Fraser pointed out another trend which could harm the theatres. He said many movie goers deem certain movies — such as the action-packed Cannon-Ball Run I], starring Burt Reynolds — as being not worth the $4.50 or $5 charged at the theatres. Such movies, however, are often run-away successes as video-cassettes. “People don’t expect as much out of a video cassette when they're watching at home,” Fraser said. Police file schools and 9 $340/month includes gos 365-3113 Days 365-5847 eves. tigating a break-in at the SuperValu (Plaza) Central Foods Dairy Queen Rumford Place Mohowk K &ATires Fron Farkas Marge Lalonde LITTLE PEPSI CHILD IDENTIFICATION Iris Johnson and Linda Krull, Co-Chairmen of Little Pepsi wish to thank the following for their generous support: Castlegar Lady Lions Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club Kootenay Soft Drinks, Trail, B.C. Bruce Titus, General Binding Corp. Mr. Terry Rogers, Principal, Twin Rivers Rotiieniory Mr. Paul Phipps, Principal, Kinnaird Elementary R.C.M.P. — Castl Bob Mitch Vogue Studios — Michael Mayrohfer Sateway Canada (Castlegar) Castlegar RCMP are inves night. ant in Ootischenia Thursday A quantity of chocolate Doukhobor Village Restaur- bars were stolen. jar, Cpl. Marv Gorrill, Il (Security & ID) Evelyn Johnson on Harvey our tographer Kim roth glad ale Brenda Hadikin Paige Lightburn Anor Brennan Arden Ackney Shortie Nelson Little Pepsi was o successful venture, which saw approximatel rity dren fingerprinted and photographed, at wrrotel coat of THIS PROGRAM WILL BE REPEATED PRIOR TO SCHOOL CLOSURE JUNE 1985 Spanish vessel ‘sinks LAND’S END, ENGLAND (AP) — One of 16 Spaniards rescued Saturday'from a sinking trawler accused an Irish patrol boat ‘of opening fire without warning and raking the Spanish vessel with almost 600 shots. The Irish Defence Ministry said the 380-ton trawler, the Sonia, was fishing illegally in Irish waters off County Wexford in southeast Ireland on Friday. It said the vessel ignored all internationally recognized signals to halt as well as warning shots fired by the fishery protection vessel Aisling. During a five-hour chase in gale-force winds, the Sonia repeatedly tried to ram the Aisling, which res- ponded by firing 596 rounds of rifle and light machine-gun fire, said a Defence Ministry spokesman, who spoke on condition he not be identified. The Spanish news agency EFE quoted Spanish Ambassador to Ireland Luis Jrdana de Pozas Fuentas as saying that the Spanish vessel sank. Reagan blamed NEW YORK (REUTER) — Rev. Jesse Jackson, saying that “war drums continue to beat” under the Reagan administration, called Saturday for a special prosecutor to investigate President Reagan's policies in Central America. Jackson, speaking at a rally to protest a goodwill visit by the nuclear-armed battleship USS Iowa, blamed Reagan for the mining of Nicaraguan harbors, for the death of Americans in El Salvador and for the Central Intelligence Agency's “death manual” for U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels. “We cannot expect two weeks before the election for Mr. Reagan to have a full and impartial inves tigation,” Jackson said. “. We need a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Reagan, (CIA Director William) Casey and our entire Central American policy,” he said. Economy redefined PEKING (AP) — China redefined its economy Saturday, shifting to a freer system that relaxes Communist party control, compels factories to compete, and confronts consumers with the prospect of their first big price increases in 30 years. The changes also set a December 1985 deadline for replacing unqualified factory managers; promise diligent workers that they will get wage increases, and declare that in a socialist system, “common prosperity cannot and will never mean absolute equalitarianism.” The governing party's policy-making Central Committee announced the restructuring in a 16,000- word document issued at the end of a full committee session in Peking. “The profound changes that have taken place in the 35 years since the founding of the People's Republic are an_ initial demonstration of the superiority of the socialist system,” the document says. “But this superiority, it must be pointed out, has yet to be brought into full play.” Gallery drive begun OTTAWA (CP) A fund-raising drive to supplement the $165-million budget for the new National Gallery and Museum of Man have been started by national museum officials despite opposi tion from the Conservative government Officials are approaching about a dozen corpor ations and wealthy citizens with a goal $20 million but have been unsuccessful so far, Hector McIntyre, president of the Canada Museums Construction Corp., said Friday During the recent federal election campaign, the Tories said they opposed private fund-raising In a letter from Tory headquarters to the Canadian Museums Association, party officials said a Conservative government would provide any extra money needed to complete the projects. Heart transplanted LOS ANGELES (AP) The heart of actor Jon-Erik Hexum was beating in another man hours after being taken from Hexum’s brain-dead body and a week after he shot himself with a gun loaded with blanks. “The surgery went very well,” said Nancy Millhouse, spokesman for Pacific Presbyterian Hospi tal in San Francisco, where doctors Friday removed Hexum’s heart, kidneys and corneas. Millhouse said she expected Hexum's corneas to be transplanted “in a matter of days.” And doetors are trying to match his kidneys with potential recipients. The heart recipient's wish is that his identity be kept secret, Millhouse said. She said only that he was 37 years old and was from outside California The man’s own heart was weakened by cardio myopathy, a degenerative disease of the heart muscle, she said. Hexum was pronounced brain-dead Thursday night in Los Angeles. Six days earlier, the co-star of the new CBS.TV series Cover-Up accidently fired a 44 calibre Magnum blank cartridge against his right temple. Parents shocked VANCOUVER (CP) — Welfare parents say they were shocked to read that Human Resources Minister Grace MeCarthy says they receive $15,840 a year McCarthy on Thursday had urged members of the B.C. Social Credit Women's Auxiliary not to feel guilty about the poor, because they are well ‘treated in British Columbia. McCarthy told them a children gets $15,840 a year But Barrie Alden, a Mission welfare activist, said Friday his family of five receives $1,000 a month. To get by, he said, people on welfare must swap goods, shop in second-hand stores and rely on handouts. The benefits McCarthy talked about are now being denied to welfare recipients, Alden said. Social workers are under pressure to keep costs down, and that means programs that offered special assistance for unique si i ‘are no longer he said. ingle mother with three ANS OF T “Set . COMPUTER FAIR . . Interested observers at the Selkirk College computer fair held Saturday observe the marvels of computers. As well as stocking the latest in computer wares tered hourly seminars were of osNewsPhoto by Ryon Wilson Peace Watch begins By CasNews Staff and News Services A weekend Peace Watch on Parliament Hill began Saturday with the arrival of two caravans from East and West and petitions for peace signed by more than 400,000 Canadians supporting nu. clear disarmament, including 1,250 signatures from Castle. gar residents. About 250 people greeted the caravans as they con verged under sunny skies in front of the Peace Tower af ter travelling the country for three weeks and collecting signed petitions in more than 70 communities. Names of Canadians who signed the petitions were being read aloud during the weekend in an effort to draw attention to growing public support for the disarmament cause. “The main message we are making here today is that the peace movement is growing,” said caravan organizer Michael Manolson, shortly before organizers released a sea of blue balloons symbol izing love and peace. Organizers said people signed the petitions to regis ter “their deep concerns,” CHAMBER TOLD about cruise missile testing in Canada, to affirm their support for establishing Can a nuclear weapons free zone and to support the con version of jobs in the arma ments industry to peaceful enterprise. “A lot of people consider peace as strength in the form of weapons but this caravan has shown that a wide vari ety of people support peace in the form of disarmament,” said supporter Jennifer Stonier of Montreal. Caravan organizers will meet with Prime Minister Mulroney, Liberal Leader John Turner ahd NDP Lead er Ed Broadbent om Monday at the start of International Disarmament Week. The petitions will be presented to party representatives. Meanwhile, local petition coordinator Olga Kittson said more names than the 1,250 would have been added to the petition but organizers “just ran out of time.” “We just couldn't get to all the areas,” she said Organizers thought they had until Oct. 5 to obtain names, but found out that they had to have the petition Visitors must By CasNews Staff Attitude and co-operation are two important compon ents in attracting tourists to the area, says the Kootenay Boundary Visitors Associa tion's outgoing manager. John Donald, who is re signing to become Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's admin. istrative assistant, told about 20 Castlegar Chamber of Commerce members at a noon luncheon Thursday the area needs to develop a “sense of welcome.” “People must leave the area with the sense and feel ing that they were welcome,” Donald told the chamber. “To adopt a positive at titude for the region is to operate on a co-operative ba sis no matter what we do,” Donald said. “Co-operation will help us in these more difficult times. “If we really are affected by changes, co-operation is one thing that we ean do to soften that problem of change,” he said During the question period after Donald's talk, one chamber member asked if the KBVA will be remaining in come up until some time next year. The KBVA is presently located at the Castlegar Air- port Chamber member Charlie Cohoe, questioned the fact that there is a lot of com petition between ties for tourist dollars. “We have to go out and sell people in communities the concept of co-operation is working,” Donald said The chamber's about adequate signs was also addressed to communi concern highway Donald noted that the Tourism Industry Associa tion has prepared a brief to Highways Minister Alex Fraser to change signage regulations. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore questioned the justi fieation of welcome signs posted at the Nancy Greene junction by communities of Trail, Rossland, Fruitvale and Montrose and one south of Salmo on Highway 3 pointing visitors to Salmo and Nelson. . Donald said that if an existing route has been by passed, signs are permitted as an alternate. Moore also pointed out that a recent regional tour ism study noted the area has not been properly marketed Donald responded that there is no easy solution to that problem. He said if there is a change in attitude, there is nothing stopping the area from becoming the hospital ity capital of the country “We have to say we are going to make visitors hap in Vancouver by that date, cutting short the canvassing by about a week. Kittson said the 1,250 names were gathered over about 10 days. Petition supporter Ann Godderis added that she had residents stop her in the streets asking to sign the petition The petition was taken to Ottawa Saturday by a six member peace caravan from the west. The caravan out from Victoria on Sept. 28 Another caravan started the same day fram St. John's, Nfld. and the two met Satur day in Ottawa ENDS MONDAY The 43-hour Peace Watch, which included speeches, po etry readings and music ends early Monday morning Regional support rallies for the caravan were held Sat urday in Saint John, N.B. Montreal, Toronto and Ed monton. The caravans involving cars and a camper bus left St John's Nfld. and Victoria on Sept. 29. As they travelled they gathered petitions and supporters along the way The arrival of the caravans ends an eight-month national disarmament campaign which involves more than 250 groups and coalitions across Canada. It won support from the Canadian Labor Con gress, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bis- hops. Saturday's demonstration coincides with a legal con ference in Ottawa on the peaceful settlement of such international disputes as dis- armament and arms control. Allan Beesley, Canadian ambassador to the Commis sion on Disarmament in Gen- eva, said in an interview it is clear the new government is committed to continuing Can- ada’s role in the current round of international dis armament talks. “There have been a series r. ¥ ¥e Video sales harm small movie theatres VANCOUVER (CP) — Canadians are succumbing to home video almost as fast as they catch annual winter colds. Sneeze, and somewhere a Canuck has handed out cash for a video recorder. By 1985, according to optimistic industry estimates, 25 per cent of Canadian homes will have a video recorder. Con servative estimates say 10 per cent Whatever the growth, 90 per cent of what is watched is feature films. The trend is harming individually-owed, small town movie theatres and independent urban second-run houses, but industry executives and analysts say that instead of driving patrons away from major urban movie houses, home video has whetted the appetite, and provided cash backing, for more and more films. “The video cassette hasn't hurt major exhibitors; in fact, if anything the effect has been the contrary,” says Toronto stockbroker Myron Gottlieb, vice-chairman of Cineplex Corp., whic recently acquired the Canadian Odeon chain to make it the second largest (with 149 screens, 36 of them in Vancouver) movie chain in the country after Famous Players (389 screens) Gottlieb, whose company put 12 tapes on the home video tape market last fall through its distribution sub- sidiary Pan Canadian Films, sees the video and theatre markets as complementary “Those who go to the movie theatres are generally in the 15-to 35-year-old age range and they go out for an uvent,” says Gottlieb. “The video user is generally older, has a family and wants to save money by staying at home. The young people will continue going out to movies no fhatter what.” HELPED FILMS Gottlieb, who says he sees signs that videos are height- ening interest in movies and bringing back the older patrons, says that revenues from video and the need for more product on video has increased film production Late this month, Famous Players is planning a trial rental scheme ($1.99 Monday to Thursday, $3 to $5 on weekends) at Toronto's six-screen Cedarbrae and two- sereen Hollywood. Each location will carry 200 to 250 titles, most of them current films. Such attempts to live side by side with video are not midguided, says market analyst Mark Reily of New York's F. Eberstadt and Co. investment firm. Reily agreed with Gottlieb that there are two markets and that pay television and home rental are attracting more people back into theatres. “Major chain theatres in urban areas are tending to do well, particularly in multiple-theatre sites where they can spread out the costs over three or more theatres,” says Reily. “I only see one danger: if pay-per-view movies become more popular, as they are in the States, and the release dates of pay-per-view films are moved closer to or become the same as those of the video stores.” Pay-per-view allows cable companies to bill customers for movies ordered by phone and then sent to addressable units in private homes and apartments. Reily says that pay-per-view convenience would attact those movie hoase customers who still see little difference in effort between having to go out to a video store to rent a film and having to go out to a movie. It also might draw back to video those beginning to venture into the theatres once more. At ‘the recent Las Vegas convention of the Video Software Dealers Association, the president of MCA Home Video, Gene Giaquinto said that pay-per-view will be of pr making clear that this is a foreign policy priority issue,” he said Referring to nuclear dis armament, Beesley told the conference of the Canadian Council on International that: “If there is an issue which engages public opinion, this is it.” Law feel’ welcome py. It doesn't cost, but it takes a long time for people to begin to see that this is important,” Donald said Still, Cohoe questioned how to get the hospitality industry educated or excited noting that no one can buy a meal or gas im Castlegar after 10 p.m “You have to bring some one into the process,” Donald said. “Don't give them the luxury of saying, ‘I can't do anything.” “You've got to keep trying. you've got to be positive and see some light at the end of the tunnel,” he said Donald said there is a great challenge for the com. munity of Castlegar,” noting that having a new chamber office is somewhat of a solu tion. But he added that the best location for the office is near the weigh scales on Highway | Donald suggested setting up a temporary tourist booth at that location in the sum mer Children will soon have to buckle up PENTICTON (CP) — Chil dren under six will soon have to buekle up in British Col umbia, the same as their par ents and older brothers and sisters. The province already has legislation covering everyone over the age of six, but Highways Minister Alex Fra ser had resisted extending the coverage, saying it was parent's responsibility to pro teet their children, not the government's. During debate of a resol ution at the party's annual convention Friday, however, Fraser said the government will respond to the concerns expressed by the British Col umbia Medical Association, which had produced a 94,000 name petition backing legis- lation covering all children. The resotution, urging the government to “introduce legislation as soon as possible requiring the use of suitable child restraint devices for children while riding in an automobile,” passed despite pleas by Len Bawtree, a former member of the legis lature, who labelled the seat belt law “socialist legisla tion Bawtree asked if he might properly belongs at a soci alist convention.” lable in six million U.S. homes by the end of 1964 and in 20 million homes by 1988. Pay-per-view was considered by the Canadian Radio and Tel ations Ci in its original pay television hearings but the commission decided it wouldn't work in Canada in the initial stages of pay Bennett says B.C. contributing more PENTICTON (CP) — Brit ish Columbia, the province hardest hit by recession, is country have special legisla contributing more than its tion and special opportunities share to the country, Pre to attract those industries mier Bil) Bennett said Fri- that are not here now and day will not locate here in the Bennett said he will be future unless we compete asking Ottawa for changes to with the other countries and federal taxation and foreign states of the American union investment policies to stem for those industries to em the flow of capital from Brit- ploy our people.” ish Columbia and to encour- He Also called for special age industry to set up shop zones “in which we can trade here. competitively” with other It is unfair that B.C. shonld nations, and “special incen- be paying out $1,700 more tives to develop industry per family of four than it is everywhere in our province getting back while the same as another tool in employing family in “the mighty prov- our people.” inee of Ontario” is contri Bennett said there are new buting only $200 to the Can- opportunities in micro-elec- adian economy, Bennett told tronics, in communications delegates to the Social Credit and transportation as well as party's annual convention y The premier said he is looking to Ottawa for equal ity with the rest of Canada, adding that that money should be kept in the prov inee “to employ our people, to develop our energy, to build our ports and our highways, to attract industry to rebuild our economy.” As well as a review of tax. ation policies, Bennett said he also will be calling for new initiatives to encourage in. dustry to invest in Canada, at dency on resources “I will advocate that this to develop the economic base “to end our single depen-