mae <=| Labor wins battles _Hostages to be tried in Iran

government had agreed to subsidize their wages, but e BEIRUT (AP) — Some of the eight American hostages

$1.5 MILLION TO RETRAIN

missing Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was twice taken to Iran for talks with Iranian officials. The paper did not say whether Waite was still in Iran.

‘The Lebanese magazine said Hussein Ali Montazeri, the man chosen by Iran's supreme ruler Ayatollah Ruhollah

an estimated $3.6 billion US in frozen assets, as ordered bya special tribunal in The Hague. The transfer of the funds was completed last month.

The Americans have repeatedly said the financial dispute is not linked to the hostage issue.

them as fs kidnapped in Lebanon have been taken to Iran, where a

ECTS IDEA “They (the woodeutters) asked for a subsidy but we

powerful anti-American Islamic faction wants to put them on trial, a Beirut weekly magazine reported Saturday.

can't consider something like that — we'd have to offer the same thing to every other sector,” the labor minister said. Mombourquette and Hatfield said theré would be Ash-Shiraa, which last year broke the story of secret

Ministers meet SINGAPORE (AFP) — External Affairs Minister

WOODCUTTERS

if the cutters stopped their three-week

mill — the largest employer in the}

FREDERICTON (CP) — The provincial government will put up $1.5 million to retrain woodcutters in silviculture — the care and maintenance of timber stands — in a bid to help those being edged out by new technology.

The program will provide 750 jobs lasting 10 weeks for people who have worked in the woods for at least the past two years.

However, while retraining may appeal to some of the woodcutters demonstrating near the Consolidated- Bathurst pulp and paper mill in Bathurst, it has little to do with their ongoing dispute.

About 150 woodsworkers maintained their vigil on a highway near the plant, determined to stay until

more progress protest which has disrupted operations at the sprawling C 4.

nor New city.

“It's the government's view that it's essential some form of order be restored before we can proceed any further,” Hatfield said during question period in the house.

About 150 woodcutters continued the Bathurst.

NANAIMO (CP) The

bor movement has beaten the provincial government at every turn in its battle over the industrial relations re- form bill, Ken. Georgetti, president of the B.C. Feder- ation of labor, said.

“We have shown British

had pi the

delivery of logs to the Consolidated-Bathurst yard,

effectively starving the mill. Aggressive police action,

including RCMP riot squads and tear gas, virtually ended the blockade.

Trucks now are going in and out of the yard,

although local truckers still refuse to violate the

Th. A :

offers them more money for the wood they cut.

The woodsworkers currently earn about $3,000 for 10 weeks’ work.

Labor Minister Joe Mombouquette and Premier Richard Hatfield both said they hope the New Brunswick Woodcutters’ Association, which is staging the Bathurst

will begin i with the contrac- tors why buy their wood.

The government has offered to make Labor Depart- ment officials available for any talks that might develop, but that’s the only commitment it is prepared to make.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society

property is attected by the following amendment to Zoning Bylaw 160, an opportunity to be heard or to present written

Monday, June 22

7:00 p.m. at Hobbit Hill “ALL WELCOME”

NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING

Bylaw Amendment.

BYLAW 487

9 matters

The intent of Bylaw 487 is to change the zoning

B', Block 32, District Lot 181, Kootenay Dis 650 (as shown below) from 'P! — Schools, Institutional and Public’ to 'R: r:

'2-Single and Two-Family Residential’.

in the Zoning

e pany is using out-of-p1 truckers to drive its own trucks. About 25 police officers remain at the scene.

The 's hope their ation will put pressure on the province to settle the dispute.

But Mombourquette said there's only so much the government can do.

“This is a free country — the mill is out to get the wood at the cheapest possible price it can because they’re in competition with other mills and the contractors themselves want to get the wood cut as cheaply as possible. It's a free-market system.

TALKS

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benefits could be dropped off at offices of the Canada

Employment Centre if the letter carriers strike.

Newman added the post office has its contingency plan, “but it’s certainly not where we're focusing our efforts at the moment.”

In the event of a strike, however, “we do intend to continue to move the mail and we mean it.”

Jean-Claude Parrot, president of the inside workers’ union, has said mail sorters and other inside postal: workers will do everything they can to hamper postal service if the letter carriers strike.

“One thing is for sure, the mail will not move,” he added.

Canada Post has threatened to suspend or fire inside postal workers who don’t show up to work and plans to keep the mail moving by replacing the letter carriers with non-union staff and casual workers during a strike.

WORK TO RULE

Parrot said his union can still support the letter carriers by discouraging casual workers and working to rule.

He said there has been confusion about how the two largest unions at the post office will co-operate if the last-minute talks between the letter carriers and the post office fail.

Officials at both unions have said the letter carriers had agreed to lift their picket lines to allow the inside workers to get to work.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is also trying to negotiate a new contract, but won't be in a legal strike position until August at the earliest.

Canada Post is seeking a wide range of concessions from its unions this year and plans to trim 8,700 jobs to cut costs.

Transplant expert assembles team

The above bylaw and further information are available ot City Hall. 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1G7 during office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or phone 365- 7227,

BETTY PRICE City Clerk City of Castlegar

VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. health ministry has hired an Ontario organ trans. plant expert to assemble a team of doctors for a heart and liver transplant program that will be operating in B.C. next year.

Dr. Paul Keown, hired from a transplant centre in London, Ont., will head a team based at Vancouver General Hospital, Dr. Robin Hutehi the ministry's

senior medical consultant for hospital programs, said.

Hutchinson says the B.C. transplant program has no budget yet, but he is confi- dent it will be funded by the government.

The program will initially concentrate on adults. Chil- dren needing liver and heart transplants will still have to leave the province.

Hutchinson estimated the

An Invitation

on INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AT SELKIRK COLLEGE June 17, 1987 at 7:30 p.m.

Room M-14/24

Selkirk Colle; — PROGRAM — | Education C

, Castlegar Campus

Dr. Bruce Fraser, Inter International Education”.

Rorri McBlane, Executive Director, International House, University of British Columbia: “The Significance of International Students.”

Craig Andrews, Director, International Education at Selkirk College: “A

Report on International Education at Selkirk.”

Reception to follow

Sponsored by Selkirk College and Association of C

Colleges (ACCC)

RSVP, Selkirk College, International Education Office

—___________CASTLEGAR CAMPUS

“The Significance of

province spends up to $6 million a year sending pati: ents to hospitals in other provinces and the U.S. for transplants.

C. exactly what kind of government they elected,” Georgetti told the convention of the B.C. wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

“We have shown them (Premier) Bill Vander Zalm deliberately misled people when he told them everyone in the province would have input into the process of de- veloping the new labor law.”

The 180 ion dele-

Georgetti with applause, in- cluding several standing ova-

“T'm proud of every work- ing man and woman in this province who stood up last June 1 and told Bill Vander Zalm what he could do with his legislation.”

The federation led a day- long general strike against the bill which took an esti- mated 250,000 workers off the job June 1. The proposed legislation gives cabinet and

and called on Attorney Gen- eral Brian Smith to apologize or “bloody well ." for suggesting it in an injunction’ application last week. The application was later quashed by the B.C. Supreme Court.

‘The federation plans to continue protesting the bill

urge them to “get political” and support the NDP,

Harcourt drew applause and laughter when he walked into the room sporting a headband which read Stop Bill 19 and 20.

“I think I should add this to Lillian’s “said Har.

by boy ig its pI + said Georgetti.

He said the boycott would be prolonged and would hurt unions to carry it out but that its success depends on the

an com- missioner broad powers to intervene in disputes “in the public’s interest,” CALL TO RESIGN Georgetti triticized the government for accusing union of sedition in

gates frequently interrupted

their protests against the bill

Leaders’

views

VANCOUVER (CP) — The leaders of the B.C. Fed- eration of Labor and the B.C. Business Council have differ- ing views on the effective- ness of the provincial gov- ernment’s new economic ad- visory council, named Friday.

Business Council president Jim Matkin says the council is not only a good idea but a timely one. But Labor Fed- eration president Ken Geor- getti said he seriously doubts whether Premier Bill Vander Zalm will listen to the coun- cil’s advice.

The 23-member private- sector council includes 14 members from B.C., two from Ontario and one each from Japan, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, West Ger- many and California.

The group, which has been established to work with the govérnment’ on economic planning and development, will be headed by Vander Zalm and Economic Develop- ment Minister Grace Mc- Carthy.

Matkin, whose organiza- tion represents 140 major employers, applauded the government for setting up the council.

Third prize number changed

By CasNews Staff

The third prize winning number in the Sunfest button lottery has been changed. The new winning number is 0479. The first prize number is 3680 and the second prize number is 3340.

Winning button owners should contact the Chamber of Commerce before 4 p.m. Thursday to claim their pri- zes.

As

&

1986 to 1.7684 in 1987,

ossessment on their property

NOTICE TO RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY OWNERS

The 1987 Tax Notices have now been mailed and if you have not received yours please contact the City office

Please note that the Home Owner Grant must be claimed at the City office even though various financial institutions may be paying the taxes on your property

Those residential property owners with large increases in their total taxes are reminded thet the City is not entirely responsible for these increases

1s taxes on behalf of the School Boord. ict, and other agencies and ask that you com. pare your Tax Notice to last years for each category

This is what happened for 1987 residential taxes

the Regional District tax rate increased from 1.0459 in an increase of

the City tax rate increased from 7.1793 in 1986 to 8.2220 in 1987, an increase of 1.0427 per $1,000 assessment, the school tax rate increased from 6.6592 in 1986 to 9.0257 in 1987 an increase of 2.3665 per $1,000 assessment many property owners received the benefit of a decreased

The above intormation explains the basis for 1987 residential taxes. Should you require any further informat

7225 per $1,000

ion please

ene

Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3/1 — 365-7292 Local 261

contact the School Board Ottice (365-7731) or City Hall (365. 27)

CITY OF CASTLEGAR

differ

KEN GEORGETTI + +. council a contradiction

He said the council was timely, given the controversy over the government's labor legislation. “It might help the government understand the . - - perspective of the outside investors,” Matkin said.

Georgetti, who speaks for more than 250,000 affiliated union members, said he be- lieves the council is a con- tradiction in terms of Vander Zalm's personal style of gov. erning.

of union mem- bers.

NDP Leader Mike Har- court told delegates he couldn't advise the unions on how to minimize the con- sequences of the bill if it passes third reading but did

Labor halts

PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — The British Columbia Labor Relations Boards has quashed an attempt by the International Union of Oper- ating Engineers to raid the steelworkers bargaining unit at the Quintette coal mine in northeast B.C.

The board decided that ballots in a recent represen- tation vote should not be counted.

“It's essentially ruled there was duplication and failure to pay the required sign-up fees,” said Eric Spears,- president of the United Steel- workers of American local that represents the workers.

Herb Robinson, mining co-

court referring to the trade- mark fashion accessory of Premier Vander Zalm's wife.

Meantime in Prince Rup- ert, local labor council spokesman Jim Rushton said the federation plans a one- week campaign beginning Friday to collect signatures for an open letter to Vander Zalm opposing the labor leg- islation.

Board raid

majority of the workers in its raid of the bargaining unit. But the steelworkers appeal- ed the decision and the ballot boxes were sealed while the board heard arguments from both sides last week.

The raid and the ensuing labor board battle were the latest rounds in an ongoing battle between the two unions for the right to repre- sent the Tumbler Ridge workers.

In 1985, the steelworkers successfully wrested control of the bargaining unit from the operating engineers in a raid. The operating engin- eers had won the right to represent the workers at the new in May 1983.

for the op engineers, said there was also some question about the cards of workers who had signed and then left their jobs at the mine. He said the union will appeal the board's decision.

The representation vote was called after the board determined the operating engineers had signed up a

Weather

Sunny today with thn. creasing clouds. Highs of 30°. Monday will see in- creasing cloud with iso- lated showers.

ees for years to come.

them,” added Elliot.

notorious pesticide.”

of any citizen. That

aired,” said Bower.

has declared

UNIONS

continued from front page about Spike 80W and the pesticide could end up affecting CP Rail employ-

“We were told at one time that DDT, 2,4-D and Agent Orange were all safe

istry office in

spraying will plies.

district boundaries. Stu Craig of the Environment Min.

the CP Rail tracks to determine if the

In a recent

Penticton plans to tour harm local water sup-

interview with the

for use, and look what happened to

Lawrence added that Spike 80W “has a half-life of up to two years, This means it could take up to two years to lose 50 per cent of its potency. That's an astounding figure, more than twice the half-life of Roundup,

CP Rail spokesman Don Bower, said in a telephone interview Friday from his Vancouver office that the four unions have the right to appeal the spraying permit granted CP Rail by the environment ministry.

“My understanding is that they are appealing the permit. That is the right

the forum where concerns can be

Castlegar News, Craig said the minis- try may alter the permit or delete cer. tain areas from spraying if he feels water supplies will be harmed.

But regional district chairman George Cady, said he has told Craig that he doesn't want the permit amended, but wants the spraying stop- ped altogether.

Meanwhile, New Democrat MLA Joan Smallwood says the environment appeal process will not work and that is why the regional district is going after a court injunction.

“Spokespersons from the regional districts have said themselves that the major reason for going to court is be- cause of the appeal changes,” Small wood said in a recent release.

another

certainly is

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has applied for a court injunction to stop the spraying. The regional district is arguing that since it itself a pesticide-free zone, CP Rail should not be permitted to spray its tracks within the regional

She was referring to recent changes to the environment appeals process. Under the changes, public hearings are no longer required for environmental appeals. Applications must be made in writing, and the appeal board can de cide whether to hold a hearing.

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Canada must end arms race

VANCOUVER (CP) — Two Vancouver doctors who attended an anti-nuclear con. ference in Moscow say Can: ada may have a role to play in ending the international arms race.

Dr. Ken Chetty and Dr. Dorothy Goresky joined more than 70 other Canadian delegates in the 5th congress of the International Physi. cians for the Prevention of Nuclear War held in Moscow May 29 to June 1

“There could be a very important role for Canada to play” in halting the arms

race, said Chetty, a Vancou ver pediatrician.

“It’s time for the middle- size and small countriés to stand up and say to the superpowers — any country with nuclear weapons: *‘

to listen to us because fate that’s being decided,” Chetty said

Chetty said Clark's move “highlighted the unfortunate absence” of official Canadian representation but won't damped enthusiasm for the next conference, set for Mon. treal

Joe Clark arrived Saturday to meet with Southeast Asian foreign minister after they conclude a three-day gathering that begins Monday.

Clark is to meet the ministers Thursday, officials said. ’ The Association of Southeast Asian Nations — ASEAN — groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Near miss

SEATTLE (AP) — An Alaska Airlines jetliner and a small twin-engine plane passed within “several hundred feet” of each other Friday as the jet was making a landing approach to Seattle-Tacoma Inter- national Airport, officials said Saturday.

Alaska Flight 173 from Portland, Ore., had to level off its descent in a slight evasive action to stay safely above the smaller plane, said airline spokesman Jim Johnsen.

The incident occurred shortly after noon Friday, about three kilometres north of Seattle-Tacoma airport, as the jet was descending from the north.

Pope praises

LODZ, POLAND (AP) — Pope John Paul praised Christian iti in his C is hi i

U.S. arms sales to Iran, added that a more moderate Iranian faction favors freedom for the hostages, but only in return for U.S. weapons bought by Iran and never shipped.

In Washington, a U.S. State Department spokesman,

Pete Martinez, said:

‘If such reports were indeed true, we

would consider it a matter of the utmost gravity and would hold the Iranian government directly responsible for the safety and well being of the hostages. The very notion of a ‘trial’ for the hostages is outrageous.”

The renewed U.S. di d:

that American

hostages be freed, saying they are inndcent victims.

In a related di

i-official

Allttihad, a

newspaper in the Persian Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, said

DIVING FIRM

INVESTIGATES

SHIPWRECK

HALIFAX (CP) — A Hali- fax-based diving firm*may be about to solve a mystery

Saturday, a day after police clashed with Solidarity supporters following a papal mass in Gdansk.

The Polish-born pontiff began the fifth day of his pilgrimage in Czestochowa, site of the country's holiest shrine.

He took a 30-minute helicopter flight from there to Lodz, an industrial city best known for its textile manufacturing, for an outdoor mass before hundreds of thousands of pepole.

Noting that he was giving first communion to 100 children, the pontiff called the event a “great holiday in the life of a Catholic family.”

Machetes brother

“ MANILA (REUTER( — A man hacked his brother to death and seriously injured another man during an argument over whether Diana, Princess of Wales, is prettier than Imelda Marcos, the Philippine News Agency reported Saturday.

It said the three men were drinking one night this week and began to compare the graces of the former Philippines first lady and the wife of Prince Charles.

“Don't belittle Tita Meldy (Marcos), she’s still the most beautiful woman in the world!” the agency quoted the suspect as saying before ending the debate with a machete.

He is being sought by police.

Princess honored

LONDON (AP) — The Queen has honored her daughter Anne with the rare title of Princess Royal, making her the seventh princess in British history to hold the rank, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday.

It is believed the honorary title, which is solely the gift of the monarch, was given in appreciation of Anne's work for charity. The Queen's only daughter has been president of the Save The Children Fund for 17 years and has travelled widely promoting the work of the charity in Third World countries.

Courthouse bombed

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A courthouse was damaged by a bomb, and eight people, including two policemen, were injured in firebombings and stonings on the first anniversary of emergency rule, police said Saturday.

Police ters, reporting on inci on Friday, said three black men had been detained for questioning about an explosion that caused serious damage at the magistrate’s court in Athlone, a township near Cape Town. Police said no one was injured by the blast, believed caused by a limpet mine.

lran warns

BEIJING (AP) — Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati warned the superpowers Saturday not to interfere in the affairs of the Persian Gulf and said Iranians “know how to defend our interests.”

Velayati, speaking at a news conference, also criticized Kuwait for seeking to put its ships under Soviet and U.S. protection, saying that move has led to an “escalation of tension” in the region.

He did not say how Iran would respond if confronted by U.S. warships protecting gulf shipping. “When the reaction takes place you will see,” he said.

Tanker sinks

WELLINGTON (AP) — A British tanker sank off Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific Saturday, but all 29 crew members escaped into lifeboats, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

Pitcairn was the refuge found by the mutineers of the British warship HMS Bounty in 1789. The small British dependency, which includes islands, is 2,540 nautical miles east Australia

three other of Sydney,

Nuns protest SEOUL (AP) — Dozens of nuns holding pink flowers and singing hymns guarded the Roman Catholic cathedral in Seoul on Saturday to prevent a South Korean government attack on students barricaded inside the cathedral compound.

all the elements of a blockbuster novel — the disappearance of millions of dollars in gold coins, a web of international political intrig- ue ahd a tragic shipwreck.

A ship carrying ‘a crew of divers is heading for the wreck of the SS Republic, a White Star passenger liner that sank off the coast of Nantucket, Mass., in 1909 with $3 million in American gold coins believed on board.

The coins are estimated now to be worth between $400 million and $1.5 billion, depending on denomination.

Martin Bayerle, vice-presi dent of Sub-Ocean Salvors International, found the wreck in 1981 after 10 years of studying documents, gov ernment reports and old newspaper articles concern ing a $3-million loan made by two New York banks to the Bank of France.

The money was believed part of a $228-million inter- national loan to Czarist Rus: sian syndicated by the Bank of France.

Although. never officially registered as cargo, the gold is supposed to have left New York on the SS Republic. There are records of gold being disbursed by the banks shortly before the Republic set sail.

NOT REGISTERED

The diving firm says the gold may not have been registered for security reas. ons and also because any loan to Czarist Russian involving U.S. banks would have been a sensitive international is. sue.

The SS Republic sank 80 kilometres off Nantucket on Jan. 23, 1909, after colliding with the Italian liner Florida.

More than 2,000 passen. gers from both ships were rescued in one of the largest open sea rescue operations ever completed, but the gold believed to be aboard was never recovered. A total of

six passengers and crew per- ished in the accident.

Bayerle went public with the results of his exhaustive research after obtaining sal vage rights to the wreck in 1983.

Because the wreck lies in international waters, the United States government has no claim to any treasure that may be aboard. The government will get a chunk of revenue in the form of taxes when any articles sal- vaged from the wreck are sold. The 85-metre ship DSV In- spector was to arrive in New York during the weekend and will have a short stop- over in Newport, R.I., before heading to the site of the wreck.

“We should know within a month if the gold is there,” said Bill Flower, operations manager for Sub-Ocean. “And even if the gold fails to turn up, the jewelry and ar- tifacts aboard will finance the cost of the salvage.”

OTHER TREASURE

Apart from the gold, there is an estimated $3 million to $4 million worth of jewels and personal effects left be- hind by passengers, who in- cluded a cross-section of U.S. high society.

Flower would not reveal the estimated cost of the project, but said it would run into millions of dollars.

A crew of 20 divers will be working 30-day shifts and living in pressurized satur ation chambers when they are out of the water.

“It's dangerous work,” said Flower. “There is no question about that. The divers will be dealing with strong currents, poor visibility and old, riv eted steel.

“The waters are also infes- ted with sharks — from small sand sharks to great whites.”

A one-man submarine call ed Duplus II will assist divers by providing additional light- ing and will proceéd ahead of them to investigate poten. tially dangerous areas.

Black angry with bishops

TORONTO (CP) — The social teachings of Canada's Roman Catholic bishops have been reduced to a naive “sophomoric mishmash” of false prophecies, factual er. rors and prejudices, financier Conrad Black says.

Black, chairman of the board of Argus Corp., ac cuses the bishops of moving from a hard anti-Communist, pro-free enterprise line in the 1940s to an anti-capitalism stand that spells ruin for Canada's economy

With the passing of the years, the bishops have be come more “trendy, biased, misleading and desperate for attention,” Black says in a critique published in the summer issue of the Jesuit magazines Compass.

While Black raps the bis. hops for their position on nu clear weapons, Central America and national de fence, he reserves his most scathing attack for their more recent statements on

the y which he des

cribes as a “luddite assault on the twin ‘enemy,’ technology and capital.”

Black was among theologi ans, social scientists, a bis. hop, a businessman and a diocesan social action dir ector invited by Compass to respond to a recently pub- lished collection of the social teachings of Canadian Cath olic bishops since the Second World War.

Compass, with a national circulation of about 2,000, is published quarterly by Can ada’s English-speaking Jes uits.

Black says the church has the right to speak out on secular issues that have moral implications. But, he says, he is not convinced the “local successors to the Apostles have an unarguable right to do violence to the credibility of their venerable institution by identifying it with a sophomoric mishmash of false prophecies, ‘factual errors (and) reflective pre judices.”

Khomeini to succeed him, “demands that the American

hostages . .

. be brought to trail, especially since some of

them have already been taken to Iran.”

Ash-Shii

» Feported to have good ‘sources in the

Iranian government, attributed its information to unnamed sources “close to Montazeri's office” in the holy city of Qom. OPPOSE COMMITTEE

The magazine indicated Montazeri and his radical followers have-rejected the views of a top-level committee formed by Khomeini to supervise the negotiations for release of the foreign hostages.

Ash-Shiraa also reported earlier Iran wants the United States to release Iranian assets frozen in American banks.

The United States has already paid Iran $451 million of

The Abu Dhabi daily Al-Ittihad said Waite was flown to

Tehran for talks while “intensivg contacts” were under way

between the Church of Engla:

and Iran for the release of

British hostages kidnapped in Lebanon.

Waite dropped out of sight Jan. 20 after leaving a hotel in West Beirut. He was reported on his way to negotiate with a prolranian group holding two American hostages.

No group has claimed responsibility for Waite's disap-

pearance.

Apart from the eight Americans and Waite, at least 16 foreigners are missing and believed kidnapped in Lebanon. They include six Frenchmen, two Birtons, two West

Germans, an Italian, an Irishman,

South Korean, an Indian

and two unidentified foreigners.

HERITAGE AND PRIDE

Project Pride, the task force on B.C. Heritage, met in Nelson Thursday as part of,

their province-wide tour. Pictured above are: (from left) Colin K. Campbell, director of the heritage con-

servation branch of

HERITAGE

building trades for restoration work. “We have plenty of work but few of the specially skilled workers,” said one. Wednesday night was an open house at which the public viewed the Project Pride slide show on heritage projects throughout the province and met with members of the task force. Castlegar, with the highest number

continued from front page

Ainsworth, the Regional District of Central Kootenay, Kimberley, Rossland and the Vallican

on behalf of Kaslo,

Archeological site.

Several professional architects and restoration experts asked that the government set up training programs to prepare the specialized skills in the

the Ministry of

Tourism,

Kim Campbell, MLA for Vancouve

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Point Grey

and chairman of the Project Pride task force; and Jack Charters, chairman of the Castlegar Heritage Ad-

visory Committee.

CosNews Photo by Burt Compbel

attending represented by Mayor Audrey Moore, advisory committee members John and Bunny Charters and Dr. Bill Sloan and Pete Oglow of the Kootenay Douk- hobor Historical Museum, who quoted an old Russion proverb for the benefit of the task force: “The person who does not know about hig past has no future.”

from one town, was

FAWN HALL/DONNA RICE

Women share friend

McLEAN, VA. (AP) — What do Fawn Hall and Donna Rice have in common?

They're both blonde, slim, and instant celebrities thanks to their connection with major news events in the United States.

They're also friends of Tricia Erickson.

Erickson, 34, said in a recent interview she's trying

forum will allow Rice to tell her story, he said.

Rice has been devastated by the ordeal, which has caused her to lose weight and develop flu-like symptoms, Erickson said.

Erickson talks often with Hall, her friend for the last six years.

Hall, 28, recently finished two days of questioning by

to prevent Rice from being loited by her iati

legislators on the Iran-Contra committee, about her work

with Gary Hart, who withdrew from the Democratic presidential race last month after allegations Rice spent the night with hinm. Rice, a phar and actress, has been considering her options, Erickson said. “Iam strongly urging her to continue acting,” Erickson said, adding that Rice's next public appearance may be an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters. That

as a personal secretary for Lt.-Col. Oliver North, formerly of the National Security Council.

“The first thing she is going to do is clean her room,” Erickson said.

Hall, who lives with her parents in Fairfax County, Va., has turned down scores of offers to pose for photegraphs, returning instead to her job as a Defence Departmént secretary.

Two arrested at parade

LONDON (AP) Police said they arrested two men on weapons charges Satur- day at Queen Elizabeth's birthday parade before the monarch arrived to review troops near Buckingham Pal ace.

A Scotland Yard spokes man said the men were being questioned about “suspected offensive weapons.” The spokesman would not say what type of weapons, and the men were not identified

Police wouldn't comment on reports the men were car. rying tear gas canisters as they stood among hundreds of people gathered for the annual military pageant known as the Trooping the Color.

The ceremony marks the monarch’s official birthday.

The Queen was born April 21, 1926, but her official birthday is celebrated in June on the chance of better weather. Saturday, it was overcast and 14 degrees.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, re-elected to a third term in Thursday's British general election, was among dignitaries at the ceremony

The Press Association, the domestic news agency, said the arrested men never came near the Queen or other VIPs.

Trooping the Color, the year's biggest display of military pageantry, is held at a parade ground at the end of the Mall leading to Bucking. ham Palace. The parade ground is directly behind Thatcher's official residence at 10 Downing Street.

Letter arrives decade late

OTTAWA (CP) — Joey Ireland, a Grade 5 student, was “tough and mad” after a police constable gave him a warning ticket for riding his bike in the wrong direction.

So Joey's mother decided to teach her 10-year-old son a lesson and made him write a letter apologizing to the con stable.

The hand-written apology, tucked into an envelope with 10 cents worth of stamps, was postmarked September, 1976.

Last week it reached the police department, located one kilometre from Ireland's home in suburban Nepean, Ont

“I think a snail must have pushed it,” Nepean Chief Gus Wersch said Friday. “We've had (mail) delays of a few months, but nothing like this.”

A Canada Post spokesman wasn't the least bit amused when told the story

“I have absolutely no ex planation,” said Edouard Hall. “If I could, there would never be another incident like it.”

He couldn't speculate on how a letter could vanish for more than a decade and them suddenly find its way into a letter carrier's bag.

The police constable, Ken Giroux, now a 13-year vet eran on the police force, doesn't recall the incident

Joey Ireland is now a 21-year-old student at Queen's University in King ston, Ont

“ll ride my bike next time,” said Ireland, when asked how he would deliver future letters to the police department.