Castlépar News september 16, 1987

Escaper fears for life

WEST VANCOUVER (CP) — The lawyer for an Alberta prison er charged with sexual assault with a weapon and unlawful confinement in the abduction of a Grand Forks woman asked in provincial court today that his client be placed in protective custody.

Tony Serka said Robert Watson feared for his safety if he was to be held at the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre.

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Watson, 43, had cuts on his face when he appeared in court today.

Judge Reg Grandison said he would recommend that Watson be held at the Van couver remand centre pend- ing his next court appearance on Sept. 23.

Watson was charged after a woman was abducted on Friday and made to drive across southern British Columbia. She escaped from her car at the government ferry terminal in nearby Horseshoe Bay.

Watson, who escaped from the Bowden, Alta., Ingtitute on Sept. 2, was arrested Saturday night in a quiet seaside neighborhood.

Police were alerted by a citizen who reported seeing someone suspicious.

Residents were warned to stay indoors as police set up roadblocks and canvassed the neighborhood.

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Watson escaped with Pat- trick Peterson, 39, by ram- ming a fire truck through the fence of the medium-security prison. Peterson was recap- tured a week ago at Innisfail, Alta.

Pat Warren, the publisher of the Bowden Eyeopener, said people believe Watson eluded searchers by hiding in a boarded-up store.

“The store had been brok- en into,” Warren said. “It would have been a perfect place to hid. It is pretty frightening to think he was here all that time.”

The search for Watson intensified Thursday, when a

mafiitried to abduct a woman in the Interior B.C. commun- ity of Sparwood.

But she broke from his

clutches as he tried to force her into a car. On Friday, the Grand Forks woman wasn't 86 lucky. ‘ About lunch-time on Fri- day, the woman of two school-age children, was ab- ducted.

Although police were alerted immediately, her kid- napper forced the woman to drive him to Van- couver in the family’s 1981 blue and black Pontiac.

Along the way, they by- passed police roadblocks at Osoyoos, Princeton and Hope.

Victoria opposes federal drug law

TRAIL (CP) — The pro- vincial government opposes the proposed new federal drug patent law because it will create higher medical costs by eliminating generic forms of new drugs, says Health Minister Peter Dueck.

The legislation, passed by the House of Commons, faces

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heavy ition in the Lib- eral-controlled Senate. It would give increased pro- tection to newly patented by , expensive brand name drugs ‘in return for #-promise of more research jobs in Can- ada.

Dueck says the gains of new jobs will be more than offset by the need for more taxpayers’ money to fund its

Pharmacare plan that helps the poor and elderly.

“We've opposed the new bill because we feel we would not receive much research money in British Columbia — not that much would be done here — and there's no doubt drug prices would increase,” Dueck said in an interview. “But it appears (the legis- lation) will go through any- way.

“We know the federal gov- ernment is prepared to pay the provinces to offset their losses but = => it was not‘teo many years ago that B.C. was spending $15 million a year on Pharmacare.

“By last year it was up to $162 million, no longer a smal] amount.”

Demers jailed for 30 days

By The Canadian Press

Jim Demers, a Nelson anti. abortion activist who was convicted of mischief and theft two years ago after destroying hospital abortion equipment, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail for breach of probation.

Demers could face addi. tional charges if he continues to ignore a court order to pay $2,020 for the equipment he destroyed. The 12 counts of breach of probation against

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him were the result of his continuing refusal to pay the money.

Provincial Court Judge Stewart Enderton said Tues- day a jail sentence should allow Demers “an opportun- ity to reflect more carefully on his actions.”

Demers said after sen- tencing he will never pay the money because “I could never contribute to some- thing that was used to kill people.”

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BROKERS

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total, and both only three months with Power:

Madigan said the four “facilitated Powers getting into the community.

“If anyone but them had been involved in this case it would have been stillborn,” he said.

Madigan added that the punishment must be harsh in order to send a clear message that “the law nor the court will tolerate the victimization of ordinary citizens.”

“I'm sure these four men have never seen so much money in their lives and will probably never see so much again,” hé said. “The question is, what is going to bring that message home?”

Madigan emphasized the role the four played in the scheme.

“She owed nothing to this community — they do. She was an outsider who came in here — they are locals.

“The signal must be clear, unmistakably, and it must hurt, no matter what their background, no matter what their circumstances,” he said. “The case is bigger than they are.”

Bailey, who admitted he had not read any of the previous testimony and was not present in the courtroom during the trial, stressed that imprisonment of the men would be too harsh a penalty.

“These men were used in such a way that virtually the

it them,” he said. “I think it

Bailey doubted the four could pay “massive fines.” He described how the lives of all four men had been in -the ity because of the

irrep: scheme.

He said Voykin, who once had a successful massage therapy clinic, has been forced to move with his wife and two children to Vancouver Island.

He said Stoopnikoff, who is a bondable insurance agent, could no longer be le after impri faces the possible loss of his job at a local mill and he said Chursinoff, who had many of his relatives invest in the scheme, now has “no relationship between him and those relatives.”

“I think the immensity of this pyramid scheme has left its indelible mark on these men and the whole community.” WANTS MISTRIAL

Bailey last week filed a writ with the B.C. Supreme Court calling for a mistrial of the entire proceedings.

Bailey, bespectacled, balding and bearded with a ponytail tucked in the back of his shirt, accused Fabbro of being biased since Fabbro served as judge during both a small claims hearing related to the case and a bail hearing for Powers.

Bailey, who is a machinist by trade and has no formal legal training, also asked the court to grant him immunity from being charged with contempt since he was repre- senting the four men as a citizen.

Bailey argued that under the Canadian Charter of

Rights, the four men were allowed to be represented by their choice of legal council.

But Fabbro, who later refused to step aside or grant a motion of mistrial citing insufficient grounds, granted Bailey a right of audience in the courtroom.

However, Fabbro said he was concerned that Bailey did not have the experience to deal effectively with the pro- ceedi

gs.

‘I'm not satisfied and I don't believe Mr. Bailey has the sufficient expertise,” he said. “He may be limited by his ability to deal with the complexities of these proceedings.”

During the approximately four hours of proceedings that followed, Bailey, who was not being paid for his services, was frequently interrupted and corrected by Fabbro and was even warned not to delay the proceedings.

After the sentencing, Bailey declined to comment on whether he would appeal the decision. He also did not say whether he would continue to act as legal counsel for the men or whether he intended to continue pursuing an application for mistrial.

POWERS RELEASED

Meanwhile, as the four brokers head for imprisonment, Powers, the mastermind of the pyramid scheme, has completed her incarceration and has since been released from the Lakeside Correctional Institute for Women in Vancouver.

Power, 37, also known as Laura Grace Gibbons, described herself as a welfare recipient scratching out extra income as a tarot card reader.

In fact, according to courtroom testimony, it was Powers's inclination towards the occult that lead her to meet another self-described psychic named David Guardino and a supposed Las Vegas lawyer named Harry Gardner.

Powers claimed these two men were the real strength behind the scheme, which lasted 16 months, finally coming to close when in April, 1986 police carried simultaneous raids of the’ residences of the four brokers and of Powers.

The scheme involved investors making a minimum investment of $1,000 on the promise that within 60 to 90 days they would see their money doubled. Investors were then given the opportunity to reinvest.

Powers described to investors something she called “God's plan to eliminate poverty.” She claimed famous American entertainers such as singers Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton were financially backing her scheme in return for tax breaks.

Hydro to build line near Trail

By CasNews Staff 1993 and be compieted by B.C. Hydro has begun pre- 1995.

September 16, 1987

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THE NECKTIES on the power poles between Bal- four and Kaslo continue to get a lot of ink and a lot of air ‘ime.

The latest national exposure occurred this week when CasNews publisher Burt Campbell reacted to a CBC Party Line reference to the matter. But this time, new light may have been shed on the subject by Richard Maddocks, director of the Castlegar Development Board.

A telephone caller to Party Line host Marie Lind- Hamon reported seeing the neckties on the power poles and was reacting to an item on the show about “shoe” trees. The caller, from Alberta, had seen the neckties but didn’t know their significance.

Campbell was listening to the program while traveling down the Slocan Valley. Because of the time difference, he wasn't able to cali Hamon until Monday but took the time to check with Kasle Mayor Jack Morris first.

Morris confirmed Campbell's belief that the neckties were put on the poles by a Beatle fan as a tribute to John Lennon ig his ination on Dec. 8, 1980. The story is that one of the Beatle records jacket covers has neckties all over it, and hence the neckties on the power poles.

However, Campbell also checked the accuracy of this with Maddocks, a self-confessed Beatles freak who was the subject of a feature story in the Castlegar News last June.

Maddocks has just about every Beatles record that was ever released commercially, and doesn't recall any neckties illustration “unless it was a bootleg record.”

His mother, . though, is visiting from Yuma, Arizona, while Maddocks’ wife, Louise, is in hospital with their newborn son. Margaret sent Richard back to his collection recalling “there is a tie.”

She was right.

Richard found an album recorded by John Lennon and Yoko One titled “Two Virgins,” and illustrated with John and Yoko nude, except John is wearing a tie!

Since Lennon was shot down outside the couples’ New York apartment, a connection between the neckties on the power poles and this particular album is probably the true story about this much talked about subject.

Incidentally, the neckties are fading now, and Campbell suggested on the show that the Kaslo Chamber of Commerce consider replacing them because of the con- tinuing publicity they generate.

In other Beatles’ news, a story on Sunday out of Liverpool, England, reports that the Beatles’ hometown is to get a $9-million bronze statue of John Lennon.

The five-metre- (16-foot) tall statue is being donated

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by Los Angeles businessman Richard Saxby. The sculp- ture, by an Australian artist, will take four years to complete.

Now, that’s being an avid fan!

NELSON'S Greg Adams may be the bigger name of the two, but Creston native Darren Jensen is getting the ink these days in Vancouver papers. Vancouver Sun sportswriter Mike Beamish writes about Jensen's bid for the No. 1 goaltending position with this year’s version of the Vancouver Canucks.

Jensen is one of seven goaltenders vying for Richard Bredeur’s job at the Canucks’ training camp in Duncan.

‘ve come from Philly and they always make sure there's plenty of stiff competition at training camp, so this is something I'm used to,” Jensen told Beamish,

Jensen was 16-9-1 with the Flyers in 1985-86 but spent last season in Hershey.

“I don't even worry about that. I feel I'm in a good position because they wouldn't have traded for me if they didn’t think I could do the job,” he said. “Sometimes when you go (to training camp) you know who's going to be No. 1. But they're saying here that the job is up for grabs.”

IF YOU'D BEEN wondering whatever happened to the movie Housekeeping, which was shot in Nelson and Castlegar last year, don't worry, it hasn't been shelved.

The movie will make its debut at the Vancouver International Film Festival in October before beginning its commercial run.

The movie marks the first drama by Scottish di- rector Bill Forsyth. Christine Lahti plays an eccentric woman who takes charge of her two orphaned nieces.

And by the way, watch for CasNews reporter Mike Kalesniko’s big film debut in the movie. Kalesniko played an extra who — get this — waves. He also played an extra who sits in a boat and takes on a lady's bags during a flood.

QUEEN Elizabeth and Prince Philip will be visiting B.C. in October for the opening of the Ci

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COUNTRY HARVEST Deli at 1436 Columbia Ave., is under new ownership. Kathy has plans to remodel the store, adding a lunch counter. Bublinger says she still plans to carry fancy meats and cheeses, party wars oe and imported foods.

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Tuesday night. Proceedings were punctuated by muffled groans, and finally a unanimous scream as Team Canada’s dynamic duo, Gretzky to Lemieux, put away the dangerous Soviets in the last two minutes of play.

“A storybook finish,” commented one board member after regaining his composure.

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Contract awarded

A $770,774 contract has been awarded to M&T Fab- ricators Ltd. of Revelstoke for maintenance, cleaning and painting of the Trail Bridge.

The firm was the lowest of six tenders for the job.

Trail Bridge crosses the Columbia River on Highway 8 in the City of Trail.

The job calls for power- wash cleaning and painting the entire surface of all steel work above the concrete deck and sidewalk including fence posts and fence panels. The steelwork ‘below deck level will be carried out by another contract.

liminary environmental and engineering studies on route options for a proposed 230- kilovolt transmission line near Trail.

The line will connect Hydro’s Selkirk substation near Trail to a Washington Water Power Company sub- station near Marshall in southwest Spokane County.

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The new line will allow WWP and B.C. Hydro to coordinate their respective systems in the mid-90's and will provide B.C. with ad- ditional access to U.S. MARKETS.

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new line will be on the B.C. side of the U.S. border and will cost about. $10 million, Hydro said in a prepared re- lease. Almost all the route within B.C. is expected to run adjacent to existing trans. mission corridors.

Including the U.S. section, the total cost of the 200-kilo-

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