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By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer ROSSLAND — Liberal leadership contender John Turner stressed his western roots Tuesday by visiting his childhood home here, as part of his campaign tour of B.C. “There are people here who remember me in short

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pants when I went to church,” Turner said to 200 area residents gathered outside the Uplander Hotel.

After briefly greeting and exchanging reminisences with Rossland residents in the bright morning sunshine, the former federal finance minister walked up to 2418 Washington St. to see the house that used to belong to his grandparents — Mr. and Mrs. James Gregory.

“T lived in this house for about two years .. .,” said

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Turner. “And the Gregorys — my grandfather and grandmother — owned this house from 1896 until 1937, when: they ‘sold it.”

He said his grandfather used to work in mines in the Rossland area.

Turner further emphasized his connection with the town by visiting the Rossland museum, where he pointed out a wall mural which includes a portrait of his mother, Phyllis.

Turner ‘also showed interest in an old-fashioned hoistman's lift-chair from the old Le Roi mine.

Earlier that morning, Turner breakfasted with Liberal delegates in a closed meeting.

“Most of the delegates are uncommitted, so I don't know where their support is,” said Turner of the meeting, adding that they'd “had a good exchange.”

Turner, who spent over two hours in Rossignd, said he was optimistic about the future of the town.

“Rossland used to be a community that stood on its own two feet with the mines and all that,” he said. “Now it's become more of a bedroom community for Trail. But it's also a potentially great tourist area.

“I think it's important to the overall economie and social health of the country that towns like Rossland flourish.”

Turner — who didn't make a formal speech during his tour of Rossland — was questioned on his resignation as finance minister eight years ago.

“Well, you know the prime minister and I agreed that that matter was closed,” said Turner.

Pressed further, he added: “I got certain support on that particular issue, and I'm going to leave the matter at that.”

Turner said if elected leader, he would make sure the Liberal party represented the interests of the western provinces more closely

“In order for me to do well in the West, it’s for westerners to believe I know how they feel out here,” he said.

“And it's important for them to understand that I'm going to broaden the policy base of the Liberal govern ment to reflect western interests, and western priorities, and western perogatives — so that the Liberal party is a national party.”

Turner also made a subtle thrust at other Liberal leadership hopefuls now campaigning in B.C., saying that while other candidates have been “to other communities” the Kootenays, “no one else has been up to Rossland.”

Among residents who remembered Turner living in Rossland as a boy was Mary Santori, who said Turner used to play with her daughter — “a little redhead” — when she was a child

Then, Turner was remembered Santori

“a well-mannered little boy,”

By CasNews Staff Next month's Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa should be a noisy

Missing man found dead in Pass Creek

By CasNews Staff

Stevens said the bridge wasn't

scene inside the convention hall — and outside according to a Castlegar man.

Richard Bell says he is spearheading a group of unemployed workers who hope to marshall 3,000 supporters from across Canada for a protest at the June 18-16 leadership convention.

“It was my idea,” explained Bell. He said it came to him about six weeks ago, but he:figured he would need some

help ‘organising it, so he héaded to

Vancouver. There, he went to nemplorel action. wit”

Costmmittoe. The committee contacted other un- employed centres in communities

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stops in six cities before reaching

Ottawa June 14, “Theoretically, there are going to be

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says beisp get is for 8,000 unemployed We to descend on Ottawa, the ‘largest percentage of those coming from southern Ontiirio.

But Bell acknowledges the turnout will depend on the organizing in Ontario.

“A lot of it depends on what happens in the East.”

However, he said the actual numbers will not really matter. “We're going to Ottawa regardless.”

The protesters will make the trip by ear, leaving Castlegar June 7 or 8 and meeting the car earavan from Vancou- ver ‘in either Kamloops or Calgary.

Bell estimates there will be 15 car- Joads starting the trip from Vancouver, with one carload from Castlegar joining them.

The committee has also prepared a leaflet informing supporters about the trek. It eneourages unemployed and others to “come and let them (Liberals) know we want jobs not superficial peace plans. Come picket the Liberal leadership convention,”

The group hopes by staging the protest to put pressure on the govern- ment to create jobs for unemployed.

“Our presence is necessaty in Ottawa at this time to remind the Lib- erals of their nearly 16 years of mis- management of the Canadian econ- omy,” says the leaflet.

However, the group hopes to also focus @m conservative governments throughoyt' Ganada. It will picket the convention June 16, camp overnight on Parliament, Hill and hold workshops June 17.

Bell is co-ordinating local protesters trough the Castlegar Unemployed Action Centre.

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Chretien draws crowd

By RON NORMAN" Editor

It took a high-spirited, confident Jean Chretien to finally eoax Kootenay West Liberals out of the woodwork in large numbers.

More than 175 supporters — many sporting Chretien buttons — turned out Tuesday morning to greet the federal energy minister, the last of six Liberal leadership candidates to visit the riding in a span of five days.

And Chretien didn't let them down.

From. the moment he bounced out of the car that brought him.to the Fireside Inn from the Castlegar Airport, to when he swept through the crowd an hour later to catch a flight to Calgary, Chretien captivated his audience.

However, it wasn't all clear sailing. Among 40 well-wishers waiting outside the Castlegar hotel were three burly loggers who demanded to know what the federal government is going to do to create jobs.

One of them, Greg Wozny of Ymir, said the three took time off from their tree spacing project near the summit of the Castlegar-Salmo Highway to attend the Chretien meeting.

Wozny quizzéd Chretien on federal plans for forestry.

Chretien told him forestry is a provificial. concern. Later, in response to a question inside the packed meeting room, Chretien said there is federal funding available for reforestation.

He said Ottawa has offered to pay 50 per cent of reforestation if the BC. Lapialont ‘will also pay 60 per

he poked fun at the Tories and their leader, Brian Mulroney

Chretien met with the nine Kootenay West Liberal delegates behind closed doors for about a half hour before meeting the public.

“T have to meet the delegates first because I need their vote,” he told the crowd just before heading into the meeting.

He was given enthusiastic applause when he later entered the crowded hotel ballroom for the public meeting.

“¥ou have the sunshine and I have the good news,” he told the audience.

He said provincial party president Frank Lew and 11 other Vancouver East delegates had just endorsed him earlier that morning.

He followed -by saying that Peter Kendall, the Liberal candidate for Kootenay West in the last election, also notified him of his endorsation.

Kendall later said, “Turner is a little too cagey for me. He’s not alienating anybody. If he disagrees (with some- body's ideas) he says he will study it. If Chretien disagrees, he says so.”

An obviously buoyed Chretien told the crowd, “So we're winning.”

He also pointed to a new poll suggesting he is more gar with Liberals than his chief rival Turner.

The poll, released Tuesday, suggests Chretien has the support. of 40 per cent of Liberal supporters surveyed, Gompared with 35 per cent for Turner.

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“I don't know why they're not signing,” he said. He added, “We're getting out of the recession now,” to which one of the beck, “No way.” logger asked what the federal government can do to guarattee jobs for Canadians-in the futare, However, Chretien.said nobody can guarantee jobs. “The government eannot take everybody on the payroll Z ee ee ee He said it would be ” of him to future jobs. Chretien also said he might not be able to ¢

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him with a hand carved Doukhobor jadle in recog- nition of his work for Canadian unity. Chretien told the audience he is committed to“

“It's why I'm running. 'm running as a Liberal.”

He accused the Conservatives of “trying to be Liberals,” and pointed to the Tory position on three major issues.

He said Mulroney supported the Liberals’ position on medicare; agreed with the Liberals on the Manitoba French language ‘issue and on the peace initiative.

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The body of Alexander Hoodicoff, 79, of Raspberry Lodge, was found under a log jam in Pass Creek by a Nelson RCMP diving team at 11 a.m. Tuesday

According to Ken Miscavitch, chief of the Castlegar Search and Rescue team, Hoodicoff was reported missing from the lodge at 6:20 p.m. Saturday.

An extensive search was carried out for the missing man, using 12 RCMP and 40 search and rescue personnel from Castlegar, Trail and Grand Forks,

as two boats and two said Miscavitch. gir RCMP Staff Sgt: “John Stevens said he had “no idea” how Hoodicoff might have fallen into Pass Creek.

“You can only assume he fell in,” said Stevens. “I assume he walked down to the river.”

But Miscavitch thought that Hoodi- coff may have fallen from the Pass Creek Bridge — just upstream from where the body was found.

He said a Pass Creek resident re- portedly saw Hoodicoff on the bridge at 7 p.m. Saturday.

“We do suspect he went off the bride,” said Miscavitch.

He said the highway bridge is “in excellent condition” and there is “no hazard on that bridge.”

involved in the incident.

Miseavitch said the search was “in tensive” and covered about seven kilometres of Pass Creek, part of the Robson townsite, up to Brilliant, the Selkirk College area, and the Kootenay Doukhobor ‘Historical Village Village “it was rumored he had relatives up there.”

“Every area was searched four times,” he said, adding that 397 man hours were spent looking for the missing man.

The leg jam under. which Hoodicoff's body was discovered was taken apart for four hours by a search and rescue team said Miscavitch, but the body was removed by RCMP divers.

Because of the difficulty of freeing the log jam, various equipment belong- ing to the Castlegar search and rescue team was damaged, including a chain saw, hand-winches, rope and a $1,300 walkie-talkie, he added.

Stevens said one of the helicopters used in the search was from the Kelowna RCMP, and the other was rented locally.

Castlegar RCMP had asked Robson and Pass Creek residents to check their out-buildings Sunday and Monday in case Hoodicoff had taken shelter

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SWIMMING CHICKENS: MOSCOW — Soviet scientists have bred am- phibious chickens that fearlessly leap into poets ond spend hours pecking grain under water, Tass news agency

In a report from Leningrad, it said scientists ot @ research in- stitute also had carried out similar experiments with mice, rabbits, cats and monkeys and their offspring.

“Alter the fbll training course, the offspring not only swam and dived freely, but even ate and slept and, in o word, lived under water,” igor Charkovski, who conducted the tests, said.

His team had conducted thousands of such tests as part research into the effects of whderwater human childbirth and teaching babies to swim. Charkovski said they hod mele intentions creating human amphibians, byt that people should be_tavaiit master their “second environment” of water,

said Tuesday.