‘ Ps, a2 Castlegar News Febrvary 14,1988 February 14, 1988 Castlegar News A3 CELEBRATIONS... (clockwise from right corner) Susan Boulette and 15-month old son Ivan are dressed up for the cool weather. Kay Pullen, volunteer in the media services section The centre is working area for more than 2,000 print journalists. Pullen is mother of Castlegar's Stu Pullen, chief engineer at Adastra Aviation Olympic Plaza workers are setting up stage for torch welcomg ceremony Saturday. Olympic Plaza downtown Calgary a eek tan — rT} OLYMPIC By RON NORMAN Editor CALGARY — You hear about it in the restaurants. You hear about it in the bars. You can't turn on the radio ~~ Fever sweeps Calgary The Calgary media, of course, is waist deep in the Olympics. Local radio stations spent much of Friday trying to guess who would carry the Olympic torch on its final kilometre up the steps to light the cauldron in Stadium. without hearing about it. There's no ping it: Olympic fever. Calgary is going ga-ga over the Winter Olympics, And it’s not only some of the people — everyone is involved. Take a drive down a residential street, and you're liable to come across a Christmas light window display of the five symbolic Olympic rings. Nothing is sacred. Even the Husky Tower (renamed the Calgary Tower, but still called the Husky Tower by everyone here) hasn't been left out. Organizers have strung lights around the tower, giving it a festive air. But that’s the least of it. Saturday night the tower because a huge Olympic torch when organizers lit a flame atop the tower restaurant. It was all part of a gigantic civie party at the newly-constructed Olympic Plaza, site of the medal presentati: The Calgary Olympics are anything but an elite affair. Organizers have gone out of their way to include local residents as much as possible. Calgary-area school children skiied down the Canada Olympic Park hill with the Olympic flame Saturday evening, and a children's choir entertained later. There are a host of events throughout the 16-day Games that cater to local residents — and most of them are free. One of the better buys promises to be the nightly medal presentation ceremony at the Olympic Plaza — that is, if the temperatures don't dip any lower. A chinook had everyone taking their parkas off, but it disappeared as quickly as it came and the parkas were resurrected Saturday for a chilly official opening ceremonies in McMahon Stadium. And it seems half the residents of Calgary are official volunteers of one sort or another. Volunteers can be seen throughout the city dressed in their light blue ski jackets and white toques, at various venues dressed in their light blue ski sweaters. A typical volunteer is Kay Pullen, mother of Castlegar's Stu Pullen, chief engineer at Adastra Aviation. Kay is a volunteer in the media services and “having a ball.” “It's been absolutely fantastic,” “I wouldn't be anywhere else.” Kay said Saturday. And they encouraged listeners to call in with their suggestions. Favorites ranged from Rossland native Nancy Greene Raine to star sprinter Ben Johnson. (There was even a vote for Lanny McDonald, the Calgary Flames winger). It is all adding up to a good time for Calgarians, and they are on their best behavior. Everywhere are signs welcoming the anticipated 100,000 visitors, Beside those are other signs touting Calgary as a world-class city. Calgary is justifiably proud of these, the 15th Olympic Winter Games, the Games some here say will be the best Winter Olympics yet. THE RCMP dogs helping sweep the Canmore Nordic Centre for explosives are accredited by the Calgary Olympic Committee. The dogs wear passes with the name “Rover”. THERE ARE a total of 1,788 athletes registered to partici from 57 countries. THERE IS a 24-hour hot line for Canadians wanting instant Olympic results. The line, jointly sponsored by Sports Illustrated and CNN Sports, will provide results through a direct feed from the Olympic Results Centre. Callers from anywhere in Canada will be charged 50 cents for the first minute and 35 cents for each additional minute. The number is 1-900-410-GOLD. THURSDAY'S chinook sent temperatures from -25C to 10C in about 24 hours. THE GAMES will last 16 days with 10 medal events. They began Saturday r n with the Czech i versus West Germany hockey game and end Feb. 28 with a figure skating exhibition. A SPECTACULAR laser/rocket show will end each day. The five-minute show will conclude the nightly medal presentations at the Olympic Plaza. The show is called “A Celebration of Medal Winners” and is sponsored by Federal Express. It's a high-tech light and sound show featuring rockets, lasers, intense light beams and syn- chronized music. The show was given a test run Friday night. — Ron Norman. Bab i ap ‘i «+. This infant may have been the youngest to show up for the anti-abor- tion rally held out in front of Kootenay-West MP Bob Brisco’s office yesterday. The rally was held in conjunction with rallies across the country at federal MP's con- stituency offices. About 100 people were on hand carrying placards announcing their oppostion to abortions. Pro-life stages rally About 100 members of area anti abortion groups .gathered out front of the Kootenay-West MP Bob Brisco's office Saturday afternoon to show their sup- port for the unborn child's right to life. The Nelson Future Life group and the Right To Life Societies from Trail, Ross. land and Castlegar marched in a circle carrying signs and placards reading “let them live” and “equal rights for the unborn.” Rally organizer and spokesman June Williams said “There's no question that a fetus is a living being. Look at any medical text book.” Williams said the rally was held to “let all MPs know that we're supporting legislation to protect all human beings.” She stressed that the fetus is human and alive regardless of its stage of development. “These babies should not be discriminated against be- cause of their size or age,” she said. “It's a human rights problem.” The rally was held as part of a nation-wide demonstra- tion put on by pro-life groups across the country on Sat- urday. Bob Brisco was not in his office at the time of the CosNewsPhote by Brendan Nagle : demonstration. nowhere near as strong Games. OLYMPIC Britons and Americans wintering in mountain valleys of Switzerland That's not to say today’s comp- etitors are anything like their pre- decessors of a century ago. Far from it. Today's competitors are top. continued from front page our guys do well. But nationalism is Winter Games as at the Summer at the Olympic W: events for modern sports. We great athletes in competition. We all feel good watching Fin. land’s Matti Nykanen sail through inter Games so unique in watch the the sheer thrill of seeing Ruling overturns court decision on privatization VANCOUVER (CP) — Members of the B.C. Gov ernment Employees’ Union placed the labor board under new legislation last summer, said the board erred because Emma Dempsey passes away A long-time resident of the Kootenays, Mrs. Emma Dempsey of Fort Steele passed away at the Cran brook hospital on Feb. 10 after a long illness. continued to live in 1958. The Dempseys oper: ated the Fort Steele Trading Post general store from 1958 to 1965. After retiring they their home next to the store, which And I would suggest that's be. cause the Winter Games are a bit of an anachronism. They are a throw back to another age. Many of the events were born a century ago, emerging out of the boredom of rich notch athletes in superb physical condition. It's just that the sports they compete in are from another era And maybe that’s what we find so appealing, and what makes the the air in the 90-metre ski jump, or the Italian luge competitors careen down a winding sheet of ice. And perhaps that’s really what the spirit of the Olympic Games is all about. 2 Knutson fights Environmental drug prices Carl Knutson, federal NDP Statistics released by Vic report finds nomination candidate in the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding announced this week that he has sent a letter to Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco with copies to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and NDP Leader Ed Broadbent calling for the immediate establishment of the Drug Prices Review Board and a roll-back of excessive price increases by the multina. tional pharmaceutical manu facturers of Canada. In his letter Knutson, a practicing pharmacist, re. minded Brisco that the gov ernment had promised a review board and that the Pharmaceutical Manufact urers Association represent ing the multinationals had promised that price increases would not outstrip the cost of-living index. toria in January reveal that brand name drugs rose by 7.2 per cent while the cost-of-liv ing index rose only 4.4 per cent since July, said. Knutson He also pointed out that compulsory licensing was es. tablished in 1969 after the Hadley Commission revealed that Canadians were paying some of the highest drug prices in the western world. One study has shown that prices of drugs subject to compulsory licensing were nine per cent higher than the United States in 1969 but two per cent lower by 1976. This proves the yalue| of allowing generic competition which recent legislation has been designed to throttle,” Knutson said. pollution By CasNews Staff A report released by the Regional District of the Min- istry of Environment and Parks say there is a “need for the high priority placed by this ministry on improving the quality of emissions from Cominco Trail and Celgar Pulp Company operations.” The Castlegar Air Quality Report, released by Dennis McDonald, says monitoring showed an increase of am bient sulphur in the atmo- sphere during winter months. A computer model used to simulate sulphur emission effects on the area environ ment indicates that under certain atmospheric condi tions, emissions from Comin- co and Celgar can impaet the Castlegar area resulting in the accumulation of pollu. tants. The report provides a compilation and evaluation of air quality and industrial emissions data collected in the Castlegar area between 1975 and 1986. The report also says that during most of the year, in. dustrial emissions are dis persed naturally in this part of the Columbia River Valley without immediate effects on the local environment. There were a total of 142 ission ‘‘exceedence measured at the Castlegar Hospital over 49 non-consecutive days in 1986 the report says. can use contract provisions for layoffs when the B.C. government privatizes any of its operations, the B.C. Su preme Court ruled Friday. The ruling overturns a decision by the Industrial Relations Council. It could affect the Social Credit gov. ernment's plans to sell $350 billion worth of Crown corp- orations and services to the private sector. At issue is a tion of the new Industrial Relations Re- form Act which grants a union successorship rights when a business changes hands. Government employee James Verrin had launched a grievance, claiming he had a choice of either continuing on at his job at a government laundry, or invoking contract clauses governing layoff after the government sold the it gave employers and unfair double benefit by allowing them remedy against their original employer for loss of employment, in addition to continuing to work under the same collective agreement. FOR THE RECORD With regard to the Street Talk item on guinea pigs in Wednesday's CasNews, Dr. Dave Williams says the ges. tation period of a guinea pig is 60 to 90 days and the like lihood is that the female guinea pig was again preg- nant at the time the male guinea pig was operated upon. Born September 20, 1902 at Hannak, North Dakota, U.S.A. she ‘moved with her family to Saskatchewan at an early age. On January 11, 1927 she married Wendell Dempsey at Regina and they observed their 61st wedding anniversary last month. The Dempseys came to the East Kootenays in the 1930s and lived at Wild Horse Creek ‘and Moyie. They moved to the Castlegar area in 1940 and lived in the area for approximately 20 years. Mrs. Dempsey was employed at Cominco in Trail during the war years. They moved to Fort Steele when the restoration and de. velopment of the Fort Steele Heritage Park began about is the only private residence in the restored area. In later years they took great plea sure in visits from old friends from throughout the Koot- enays. Mrs. Dempsey is survived by her husband Wendell of Fort Steele; son and daugh ter-in-law Lew and _Ioline Dempsey of Surrey; grand son Robert Dempsey of Vic. toria; and great-grandchil- dren, Sheri and Michael Dempsey also of Victoria. A memorial service will be held for Mrs. Dempsey at the McPherson Funeral Home in Cranbrook at 11 a.m. Cran brook time on Monday, Feb. 15. Cremation will follow. The family requests that no flowers be sent. CIA victims insulted MONTREAL (CP) — Cheques for $20,000 from the federal government to nine Canadian victims of secret brainwashing experiments financed by the Central Intelli- gence Agency are “totally insulting,” says the son of one victim. “It’s telling the Canadian people that my father’s life was worth $20,000,” Harvey Weinstein said in a telephone interview from Palo Alto, Calif, where he teaches psychiatry at Stanford University. Weinstein’s father, Louis Weinstein, 82, is among dozens of Canadians who sought psychiatric help at McGill University’s Allan Memorial Institute in the late 1950s and trial is scheduled to begin in Washington, D.C, on June 7. The ninth, a resident of Brockville, Ont., has been barred from the suit because she waited too long. CLARK COMMENTS External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, whose department sent the cheques this week, said in a news release the money is “offered to help cover their legal expenses and is also a mark of our continuing support.” But several victims expressed disappointment at the amount offered. “We've been waiting more than seven years for this,” said Jean-Charles Page, 55, admitted to the Allan Institute became human guinea pigs to test CIA b 4 techniques. “My father has had no life since age 49.” in 1959 for aledh “It's very Page, of St-Andre-Est, east of Montreal, maintains he was given electric-shock treatment and bombarded with Citing brain damage and lifelong p | effects, eight of the victims are suing the CIA for $1 million each. A Sandman given second chance In the Vancouver Province A B.C. Supreme Court judge has given the Sandman hotel empire a reprieve. Judge Harry Boyle this week gave Sandman Inns Ltd., Northland Properties Limited and four related companies until April 8 to finalize a refinancing proposal. The Sandman group, owned by Vancouver bus. inessman Bob Gaglardi, owns 20 hotels, including one in Castlegar, and five high-rise buildings in B.C. and Alberta. At issue is repayment of $47.1 million worth of bonds which the Sandman companies issued to the Bank of Montreal to refinance eatlier loans. The companies defaulted in Royal Trust Corporation, trustee for the bonds, asked the court to appoint a receiver manager. The companies opposed the move, requesting an adjournment, Boyle noted that the refinancing proposal would provide the bank with $30 million cash and a mortgage for the balance owing. Under a receiver manager, he said, the probable recovery would be only $20 million. Godfather busted to be turned into ious “repatterning” messages during 36 days of drug-induced sleep. Page says recurring memory blackouts caused by the experiments have prevented him from working for the last eight years. “My brain cells are burned.” Page pointed out that a government report prepared by former Conservative MP George Cooper recommended that the victims each receive $100,000. Another victim, 72-year-old Rita Zimmerman, said she was happy to be sent some money, “but it’s not enough.” Zimmerman said she still suffers bouts of depression because of her ordeal at the institute. “I wake up some nights and realize, ‘My God, it's starting again.” NEC FUNDS MISSING Nelson RCMP are investi- gating a complaint from the McKernan said Nelson subdivision is still “recon Kristiansen slams free-trade deal Former Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen slammed the free-trade agreements as “nothing more than a phoney ‘quick-fix’ attempt to solve the Mulroney government's political problems, prompted by the Reagan administration's concern at the prospect of a new Canadian government that would for the first time in our history — stand up for Canada.” Kristiansen made the comment last week at a public meeting in Revelstoke. He was in Revelstoke for the week as part of his campaign for the NDP nomination in the new federal riding of Kootenay West-Revelstoke. He reminded his audience that “the Americans can read newspapers and watch TV, too, and they've seen the same pro-NDP poll results as we have.” “There's no doubt in my mind,” Kristiansen said, “that the word went out from Washington to Ottawa, and the word was, ‘Let's make a deal’; a deal that would guarantee American access to, and eventual American control over, Canadian energy and Canadian resources at an American price — in return for locking subsequent Canadian govern ments into a submissive and regressive conservative economic policy whether Canadians, in future, liked it or not “That's what the Tories get in return for this sellout,” Kristiansen charged. “That, and the chance to boost their immediate political fortunes with a trumped up “There's nothing freer than free trade, my friends’ campaign slogan in an election where the pro-Canada option is divided between two opposition parties. “Well, we in Kootenay West and Revelstoke have heard that song before. Remember, those were the words — ‘There's nothing freer than free, my friends’ — that then-premier W.A.C. Bennett used when, in concert with the Diefenbaker Conservative government and the Pearson Liberal government, he sold us down the river with the High Arrow Dam and the Columbia River Treaty, and we became the sacrificial guinea pigs for a continental energy deal. “And that's what we've got now,” Kristiansen said, “a continental energy agreement as part of the Mulroney-Rea gan pact: only this time all Canada is being taken for a ride.” Kristiansen said he doesn't blame an American government for fighting to defend American interests just as\he wouldn't blame a Japanese government for fighting ‘to defend Japanese interests. “That's their job,” he said. “What I want to know is why can’t Canadians have a government that stands up for Canada?” Kristiansen said that will be the NDP’s job in the next federal election. “New Democrats must challenge Canadians to ‘give Canada a chance’ and preserve the freedom of choice for future generations to choose the kind of Canada that they want to live and work in.” He said to give Canadians a real chance to make a “pro-Canada” choice will require that the New Democratic Party present Canadians with a slate of the most ex. perienced candidates, campaigners and legislators that it can muster. “On the basis of my own record, in the community, in the party, in labor, in parliament, and at the polls — from 40 per cent in 1979 to over 45 per cent in 1984 — I have no hesitation in asking for your support and your votes as your New Democratic candidate on April 23.” While campaigning in Revelstoke, Kristiansen also discussed a number of area concerns with several local business people, community leaders and senior staff at city hall Prior to and following his Revelstoke visit, he stopped to campaign and hold meetings in New Denver — Silverton, Hills and Nakusp. Next stops on his itinerary are Slocan, Castlegar, and Rossland-Trail = Death blamed on courts PUKATAWAGAN, Man. (CP) — Indian Affairs must accept blame for a 17-year. old Indian boy who got drunk and froze to death last month, because his life was disrupted when he was sent to school in Winnipeg, says a member of the Mathias Gol. omb band council, “We have more John Big. hetty’s who we're trying to help,” Coun. Ralph Caribou said in an interview. About three weeks ago, Bighetty was found frozen to death on the side of a road near a friend's house on their reserve, located about 250 kilometres north of The Pas, Man. Had had a blood alcohol content almost three times the legal driving limit and an investigation is underway into why he was released on his own by the Awasis child and family services agency to return to the reserve. The agency was seeking to gain custody of the boy so it could send him to a_ training program but the court case was delayed. Caribou said Bighetty’s problems started when he Set se was taken from his home as a young boy and sent to Winnipeg to attend special classes. He had learning dis. abilities and wasn't as bright as other children Caribou said children be. come alienated and lose touch with their own culture if they are sent away and should be helped on the reserve. “Tt takes a lot of time and a lot of work and a lot of patience on our part, and a lot of money. That's what is boils down to.” A spokesman for the In. dian Affairs Department said to a point Caribou is right, but things are changing. Robert Buchan said the department will meet this year with bands to review funding and programs avail. able for children in need of special education. However, Buchan said in most cases the problem isn't money but a shortage of tea chers with the proper train. ing who are willing to work in the north, as well as bands that lack the initiative to develop such programs. business and a new employer Court news took over. Police file Arbitrator Richard Bird In dismissed the grievance, ac. cepting the government's argument that Verrin was not laid off when the laundry was sold to the private sec- tor, but continued employ- ment under the same con. tract. bation for assault. Verrin appealed, and the . * . labor relations board over- turned the arbitration ruling. But the Industrial Re- lations Council, which re- Castlegar urbance. pleading guilty to assault. provincial court this week, Andrea De- rosa received a $150 fine and was placed on probation for eight months for causing a di: She also re- ceived a $250 fine and an eight-month concurrent pro- Donald Maitland received a $300 fine and was placed on probation for 12 months after One driver was taken to hospital for injuries sus. tained in a three-vehicle acci dent on Columbia Avenue near Cedar. Manor on Thurs day evening. Approximately $12,000 in damages resulted from the accident in which alcohol-re lated charges will be laid, Castlegar RCMP report. A north-bound vehicle driven by Richard McLeod of Blueberry was followed by a ed to avoid a coll Dianna Kootnikoff, then Garrett's. pital, treated and released. A breathalyzer was made of Kootnikoff. second vehicle driven by Denise Garrett of Castlegar. Police say McLeod swerv n with an oncoming vehicle driven by also of Blueberry. Kootnikoff's veh- icle struck McLeod's and Garrett was taken to hos- demand MONTREAL (CP) — Two Quebecers, including a man French police describe as the Godfather of the Canadian Mafia, were among 30 people arrested in France earlier this week when police seized 170 grams of heroin worth up to $100,000, police said Fri- day. French police said Pas quale Di Nunno, 69, a Mon treal cafe owner, was picked up by police six days ago in a Paris suburb. Police said Di Nunno had been involved in drug smuggling during the 1970s when the French Con nection ring was smashed. French police identified the other Quebecer arrested as Michel Hebert, 38, of Montreal. French police said when arrested, Di Nunno had 100 grams of heroin and 500 grams of morphine-base ready heroin. They said the drugs were turned over to Di Nunno by three known deal- ers who were under sur- veillance for several months. RCMP Staff-Sgt. Jacques Grilli said the two Quebecers were arrested after a year- long investigation _spear- headed by French police with help from the RCMP and U.S. authorities. Of the 30 people arrested in raids in Paris and at a clandestine laboratory on the Mediterranean island of Cor. sica, 10 were released after questioning. Grilli said information re ceived from French police and the U.S. Drug Enforce- ment Agency indicated the heroin was bound for North America. No arrests were made in Canada, Grilli added. West Kootenay National Ex- hibition Centre that “monies were misappropriated” from centre funds. “We are still trying to determine how much,” Con- stable Pat McKernan told the Castlegar News Friday. structing” the centre's books and that the complaint was received at the end of Dec- ember. The NEC fell into financial trouble and was considering temporary or ‘permanent closure in November. MINI OLYMPICS . . . Castlegar Primary and Twin Rivers Elementary schools hold their “mini-olympics,” at Twin Rivers school, Friday. Competitors take part ina game of snow hockey and a flag post is removed by an eager spectator. Presidential contender says kill Gadhafi (Reuter) an infant daughter and wounding two of his sons. President Ronald Reagan said Libya masterminded the bombing of a West Germany disco where an American soldier was killed. Reagan said he ordered the attack to WASHINGTON — Republican presidential contender Pat Robertson says he would not have hes itated to kill Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. “My sentiment was that we should have taken him Matthew doing well OTTAWA (CP) — Mat thew Fedor, the four-year-old boy who underwent a historic bone-marrow transplant, has Bakker for being immature and materialistic “He wanted to be like Johnny Carson,” Robertson said, referring to the late giready passed out his Val night talk show éntines. heet, “He gave “Johnny Carson was re television them to the MINI OLYMPICS . . . A young olympian akes part in diand Park el y's ski j ing event as the school held its's Mini-Olympics Friday afternoon. Each member of the relay team did a standing jump in an anernet to gain the greatest distance from the start ine. . prisoner, gone after him, somehow taken his power . base away from him, what ever that took,” the former television evangelist told David Frost in an interview “Or killed him,” he added “I wouldn't have hesitated to kill him. He's a mad man and he was a terrorist.” He was commenting ap- provingly on the U.S. air raid on Tripoli on April 14, 1986, in_which American fighter. bombers struck at Gadhafi's barracks compound, killing deter terrorism. SPEAKS OUT Robertson, who finished second in Iowa caucus voting ahead of Vice-President George Bush and is cam paigning for the New Hamp shire primary, said killing Gadhafi would be an act of war. “So, in war I don't_ think shooting an enemy is con sidered murder,” he said. Robertson also criticized evangelists Jim and Tammy puted to make $5 million a year. He (Bakker) wanted $5 million. If Johnny had a house in Palm Springs, he wanted a house in Palm Springs. If Johnny rode in a Rolls-Royce, he wanted a Rolls-Royce.” Robertson called the Bak kers “two children, very im mature, who were incredibly materialistic.” The hour-long interview will be broadcast today and published in U.S. News and World Report this week. people in the cancer clinic and his family,” said his father, Stephen. Officials with the Chil dren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario said Friday that Matthew was “doing as well as expected.” His father says the little boy is acting like any other four-year-old, “He had a full breakfast and a full lunch and he doesn't even know this is a big deal,” Fedor said. Doctors are waiting to see if Matthew's operation will eure his leukemia.