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STUDENTS TURNED AWAY

Overflow pleases Hagen

VANCOUVER (CP) — The overflow turnout for com- munity college registration is an indication the British Columbia government has done a good job of promoting education, says Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen.

The turnout was so great that more than 1,400 would- be students were turned away from two Vancouver campuses.

Hagen said he finds the situation “rewarding” be- cause he has spent the past

“There's: been a constant complaint that our partici- pation rate in the post-sec- ondary education system is lower than other provinces, and I've been saying to kids that it's good to continue with their education. Ob- viously, they're listening.”

But Hagen said colleges should re-evaluate their course offerings and empha- size courses “industry and commerce want beta that’s where the jobs are.

“The reason people go to community colleges is to

eight months travelling theposition themselves to get

province, trying to convince * young people to attend col- lege or university.

jobs,” he said. “The (course) emphasis is created by de- mand, and we're hearing that

Police file

‘A Castlegar man received injuries to his head and back Thursday in a single-vehicle accident in Thrums.

According Michael Laren,

Thrums, fell asleep at the wheel of his 1979 Thunder- bird early Thursday morning driving the car off the road.

Approximately $2,600 damage was caused to the vehicle.

The driver was charged

with driving without due care and attention. ._ 68 *

A single-vehicle accident in Castiegar has resulted in $750 damage to the vehicle.

The driver failed to negotiate a curve near Co- lumbia Heights Road and struck a cement guard rail Wednesday evening.

There were no injuries. The driver's name was not released.

the courses that are filled right up are the technically oriented ones.”

Asked if he would like to see fewer liberal arts and humanities courses in, favor of more, career-oriented pro- grams, Hagen said it's not up to him.

“I know I'm going to get hammered on this,” he said, acknowledging the growing debate at cash-starved edu- cation institutions over the merits of a liberal-arts edu- cation versus a job-oriented one.

“But the reality is that we have to provide ‘an education which will lead to employ-

That's what people

New Democrat Darlene Marzari accused the govern- ment of “mismanaging” post- secondary education and

driving B.C. residents to

funding for colleges and uni- versities.

Hagen said he hopes many of the 1,400 turned away from Douglas College and Vancouver Community Col- lege’s Langara campus will find room at Kwantlen Col- lege, with campuses in sub- urban Surrey and Langley.

But Kwantlen registrar John Patterson said the college could accommodate only a few hundred more and many wouldn't get the courses they wanted or be able to attend full time.

Simon Fraser University in Burnaby said it is also trying to all

SCHULTZ

A FRIEND TO MILLER

By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer

When Darlene Schultz was asked if she was interested in being an advocate with the Castlegar Citizen Advocacy Society she had to admit sie wasn't sure.

“| didn’t know what an advocate was,” she said.

Ironically, Shultz was already an advocate long before she was asked, to Jack Miller, « 22-year-old Castlegar man.

Miller, a former resident of the Tranquille institute, in Kamloops is handicapped, and though he and Shultz have been friends for some time, Shultz has only officially been part of the advocacy society for one month.

“But this isn't meant to be a formalized thing,” said Shultz. “It was never intended to be structured and I don't intend to structure it,”

Shultz is certainly more comfortable referring to

qualified first-year appli- cants.

Labor to bring out new measures

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The B.C. Federation of Labor plans to announce new mea- sures next week in its battle with the provincial gove?n- ment over recent labor legis- lation, federation president, Ken Georgetti said.

Georgetti maintained the current boycott has worked well. He said unions have been reaching new contracts

and resolving problems by and large without the inter- ference of the council.

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their as a friendship and, for that matter, so is Miller.

With the use of a “pic board,” a large folding card covered with hundreds of tiny images, Miller quickly points to the picture of friendship. .

‘And Shultz adds that her and Miller are simply that, friends.

She said they go for walks and go out for coffee or lunch. That afternoon they were planning on going shopping for school clothes.

But being an advocate doesn't always mean fun. Shultz has also become Miller's “voice” in the community. Today she was helping him find a better wheelchair but were so far unsuccessful.

“That doesn’t seem like a big deal to you and I,” she said. “But when you have a wheelchair that doesn't go around corners, it's a problem.”

But Shultz emphasizes that people interested in being advocates have nothing to fear.

“Tm completely comfortable,” she said. “Some people tend to be critical of my attitude because I really don’t treat Jack any differently than anyone else.

“But some people have misconceptions like a lot of handicapped people are violent,” she said. “But that's simply not true.”

Norma Collier, one of the society's committee members, agrees.

“Everyone is afraid initially,” she said. “But it’s extremely rewarding. Most people join hang in there and you don’t hang in there unless you are getting some sort of reward from it.”

Collier explained that’ part of the ‘need for the development of the society was the concern the families of the handicapped have about the care and happiness of their children once they are gone.

“You ask yourself, what is going to happen to my son or daughter when I'm not here,” she said. “It's a question of who is going to take care of my son or daughter. It's a question all the parents ask.”

But Collier explained that this kind of “care” is really the simplist of ingredients for any full and happy life.

“Put yourself in the person's shoes,” she said. “Is the life they are:living the life you would like to live? Once someone cares for you, feels concern for you, it’s an un- conditional concern.”

Dee Aberdeen, president of the advocacy society you chose Your friends, did you ask them for a resume?”

FRIENDS . . . Darlone Schultz and Jack Miller enjoy doing things together as do all the people connec- ted with the Castlegar Citizen Advocacy Society.

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said the group tries to keep the society to its simplest of form.

“We avoid formalizing it, institutionalizing it,” she said. “We want to encourage the natural development of friendship and advocacy.”

Aberdeen explained that the group has taken a new turn in its development with the recent success of a theatre production in Fairmont.

At the annual general meeting of the British Ce For Mentally d People in Fair- mont last June, the Castlegar group was responsible for the evening’s entertainment.

The group chose to put on a play about the frustrations of being handicapped, as well as some im- promptu skits, and the response was overwhelming.

“It's a perfect opportunity to discover themselves through the creative process of theatre,” explained Aberdeen. “They improve communication skills, and provide an opportunity to express themselves.”

Aberdeen said the theatre also gives the community a chance to better understand the handicapped and to grow more familiar with them as creative and productive members of the community.

“It brings the and the i d together in a non-threatening environment.”

But Aberdeen said the group's focus is not to create a/ theatre company but simply to use the theatre experience to help “realize the full potential of the person.”

Though the advocacy society receives donations from individuals and some local groups, the majority of its funds come from the Castlegar and District United Way.

Aberdeen explained that the funds are used to basically “enhance the life of the handicapped.”

She pointed to members going to Expo 86, attending the annual meeting in Fairmont and attending the Disabled Women’s Conference as just some examples of how the money is used.

But for Miller, the society’s role is that of friendship.

“That's why he and I go out for coffee rather than staying in,” said Shultz. “It’s a chance for Jack to meet new people.

“And anyone can be an advocate,” she said. “When

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TORONTO (CP) — The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks has won a battle against the Canadian Auto Workers to represent about 2,800 passenger agents at Canadian Airlines International Ltd,

In balloting conducted by the Canada Labor Relations Board and counted Thursday night, the Brotherhood won 1,463 votes to the CAW's 1,138,

The vote was called by the board because of the merger of CP Air and Pacific Western Airlines into Canadian Airlines late last year.

The Brotherhood represented passenger agents at CP Air, while the Pacific Western agents were CAW members.

Defence suit filed

VANCOUVER (CP) — A gynecologist being sued by a woman who claims she was infected with the AIDS virus during an artificial-insemination pro- cedure has filed a statement of defence denying any liability.

‘The defendant doctor, known by the pseudonym Dr. Richard Roe, says that “until the fall of 1985 the transmission of the AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) virus by artificial insemination was un- known to medical science and the means of testing semen to determine the presence of the AIDS virus in the semen was unavailable.”

The doctor agrees he performed aftificial in- semination on the plaintiff, known only as Jane Doe, between 1961 and 1985, “using sperm which was sold to this defendant by the defendant John Smith (not his real name).” But the doctor denies he was negligent.

Lockout warning

VANCOUVER (CP) — Employers at 18 long-term care homes in British Columbia have issued notices for lockouts — each to last 30 minutes — to 200 nurses and advised them that nurses at two Lower Mainland homes will be locked out next week.

Joanne Arnold, executive director of the Con- tinuing Care Employee Relations Association, which bargains for the homes, said that 16 nurses will be locked out at Langley Lodge on Monday morning and 12 nurses will be locked out at Kinsmen Lodge on Tuesday afternoon.

Certificate pulled

VANCOUVER (CP — A man who taught for 27 years at a city high school has had his teaching

ifi by the provincial government after he was acquitted on a sex charge.

The provincial cabinet eancelled Robert Gallo- way's certificate after examing court transcripts and the Vancouver man's statements to school district officials before the case came to court, Education Ministry spokesman Judy Birch said.

She said cabinet found Galloway, a former teacher at King George Secondary School, had not acted pro- fessionally and was not “a fit and proper person” as required by the School Act.

Galloway, 52, was charged last September with gross indecency involving a student who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged offence.

Five shot dead

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Reuter) — Five people were killed and two wounded by two gunmen in an apparent holdup at a supermarket late Friday, police said on Saturday.

The shootings, which occurred around 11 p.m. CDT Friday, came just as the National Food Store was closing for the night, said St. Louis police spokesman Linda Hancock.

No arrests had been made but police were seeking two male suspects in the attack.

Kidnapped man dies

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — A member

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morning and had to use the runaway

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no if the driver was hurt in the incident,

which saw the truck jackknife at the top of fhe runaway lane. Castlegar RCMP did not issue any in-

formation on the mishap.

WILDLIFE AREAS

Victoria delays

VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment is holding up efforts to have the United Nations recognize three sites in the province — including two in the Kootenays — as areas of international wildlife impor. tance, says a Canadian Wild life Service official.

The service, a branch of the federal environment de- partment, identified Bound- ary Bay south of Vancouver, the Columbia River wetlands and a Creston Valley water- fowl area more than a year ago as places that qualify for designation under the UN's Ramsar Convention.

Pacific region director Art Martell said Victoria has in-

formed him Creston is still a.

possibility, but the other two areas are not.

Of the three regions, Boundary Bay yas con-

sidered the leading candidate because of its enormous bird populations. The bay is used by migratory birds as a “staging or overwintering site.

Earl Anthony, assistant deputy minister of environ ment and parks, declined to discuss the issue, saying the matter is still before the B.C. cabinet.

Martell said the service cannot get UN designation without provincial support because the province owns the land.

There is no cost attached to UN designation, but-Mir- tell said the province may fear an international spot- light on the site could impede future industrial or resi dential development.

Barry Leach, Canadian western representative for the International Council for Bird Preservation, said he is

Government info released early

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Information obtained with government money was re- leased prematurely to an Al berta-based airline by the constituency office of Social Credit member Bud Smith, a for Time Air Inc,

of a prominent media family died after he was buried alive in a homemade box with a portable light and a jug of water while his abductors sought a $1-million US ransom, authorities said Saturday.

Kankakee police chief Timothy Nugent said three suspects have been arrested and authorities are looking for more. He said the suspects will be charged with aggravated kidnappifig and murder in the death of Stephen Small, 39, who was abducted early Wednesday morning.

Small’s body was found Friday night in a box buried about one metre deep in sand in a wooden Brea southeast of Kankakee.

Princess gives birth

MONTE CARLO (Reuter) — Princess Caroline of Monaco gave birth on Saturday toa third child and she and her new son are doing well, a spokesman for the principality said.

The baby, delivered without anesthetic, weighed 7.3 pounds and is named Pierre.

The 30-year-old princess, daughter of the late American actress Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier, is married to Italian entrepreneur Stefano Casiraghi.

Told to leave

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Kuwait told five Iranian diplomats to leave the country, accused Iran of firing a missile into a populated area of Kuwait, and asked the United Nations for urgent action on Saturday.

U.S. warships, meanwhile, escorted the latest convoy of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers toward the Persian Guif's exit at the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has deployed antiship missiles at the strait.

Iraq said its. warplanes attacked three ships off Iran's gulf coast and Iran said its forces began new ground operations deep inside Iraqi territory in the northern front.

has confirmed.

Dwight Jensen, planning manager for Time Air, ad- mitted his company was given the jump on its com- petitors with advance infor- mation from a government- funded study.

“All they've done is gather information for us,” Jensen said in a telephone interview with the Kamloops News. “From our point of view been a sharing of infor- mation.”

Smith said he lobbied Tourism Minister Bill Reid for a three-month study of tourism potential in this southern Interior region.

Upon hearing that Time Air had been given access to the information, Reid id the material would be av: able to all airlines as of Friday.

Smith rejected suggestions the project amounted to a feasibility study for Time Air, one of several airlines he has spoken to about running more routes out of Kamloops.

He also said that any infor- mation gathered in the study, which is being conducted out of his office by Kim Ped- ersen, would not have gone to Time Air.

disturbed by the B.C. govern- ment’s position, noting Vic- toria is currently promoting its search for an official provincial bird.

“The government is spend- ing money on emblems but it won't do anything real,” he said. “This is utterly ap- palling.”

Rob Butler, a service bio-

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plan

logist and expert on the Boundary Bay delta, said the area is the most important bay on the entire B.C. Coast for water birds.

“In winter alone the num- bers are something like 75,000,” he said. “During mi- gration that swells to about 130,000. There's nothing on the Coast that comes close.”

Postage prices jto be increased

OTTAWA (CP) — The cost of mailing a first-class letter within Canada will increase one cent to 37 cents, while the cost of mailing parcels will rise an average of 70 cents, effective Jan. 1.

Canada Post proposed rate changes Friday to raise $87 million next year, when the Crown corporation is ex- pecting to show its first profit in recent memory.

Under the proposal, which will be submitted to cabinet in 60 days for approval following public comments, rates for first-class mail to the United States would in- crease one cent to 43 cents and first-class mail inter- nationally would rise two cents to 74 cents.

The biggest increases come in parcel posting. Some examples:

e A first-class, three-kilo- gram, Halifax-Ottawa parcel would cost $6.94 to mail, up from the current $5.48.

e A fourth-class, three-kilo- gram, Halifax-Ottawa parcel would cost $3.26 to mail, up from the current $2.50.

e A fourth-class, one-kilo- gram, Calgary-Winnjpeg par- cel would cost $2.86, up from $2.07.

e A first-class, one-kilo- gram, Toronto-Montreal par-

cel would go to $3.95 from $3.74.

There will be no changes in lock-box fees. A five-cent re- duction. for Christmas mail will continue.

There will be no changes in mailing rates for second-class publications. A Canada Post spokesman said such rates are being examined by the Communications Department and any changes will be an- nounced separately by the department later.

Canada Post also proposes an easier-to-use system for oversized mail. It now costs

'g amounts per 50 grams; as of Jan. 1, it will cost 37 cents per 100 grams.

In the current fiscal year ending next March 31, Can- ada Post expects to lose $30 million. In the following fiscal year, it expects to make $38 million.

Overall, rates increase 3.5 per cent.

In a news release late Friday, Canada Post said the slight changes in first-class mail rates “will Canada’s standing as ha one of the lowest postal rates” among major coun- tries. H

No mention was made in the news release of the siz- able parcel rate increases.

Cosby is the richest

NEW YORK (AP) — The richest captain of industry

Cosby heads a glittering list of show-business notables

TELETHON - SET >

By MIKE KALESNIKO ‘The 11th Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is ready this Fire Chief |

year’s event, which begins today at 8 p.m. and ends Monday at 3:30 p.m., will be a little different from other

years.

Nelson said that Ken dward will be perched ‘atop a 23-metre high ladder for the duration of the telethon and will only climb down when either the telethon ends or an empty fireman's boot at the Warfield firehall is filled with donations.

“He's going to be well taken care of up there,” said Nelson.

Nelson said this year the fire departments, which include participation from all the area departments

Trail, Fruitvale, Nelson and

Nelson explained that with the job situations this year he expects that many families will be strapped for funds.

“T'll be happy with whatever we can raise,” he said.

Last year, a total of about $16,000 was raised in pledges and some $1,500 was raised in the dicker sale and the individual donation bowl.

‘The dicker sale is a simply “giant garage sale” where people can go to the firehall and dicker on any number of donated items.

‘This year’s dicker sale items include a pool table, a camper, an archery set, furniture, bicycles, clothing and numerous items.

Nelson explained that this year, there will only be six phones set up instead of the usual 10.

The smaller number made it difficult for Nelson to accept the help of all those who volunteered to answer phones.

This year he was forced to limit the phones to only the Warfield village council and the local community queens.

“So many want to help,” he said. “The tone is always 80 positive. People have been very generous in the past and we know it's going to happen again.”

Nelson said people usually ask him if any of the money raised locally goes to any local victims of muscular dystrophy.

“People in this area do get help,” said Nelson. “But we can't disclose the names.”

In , the South Fire Hall was open Saturday

donations or pledges, but the North Fire Hall will not be open for the telethon. Muscular dystrophy has been adopted as the fire- year, its raised some $8 million towards fighting the disease. In B.C. alone approximately $300,000 was raised. ‘This year the Jerry Lewis telethon gan be sgen

still smokes a big cigar.

Comedian Bill Cosby is the world’s highest paid enter tainer with estimated earnings of at least $84 US million in 1986 and 1987, according to Forbes magazine.

The stogie-ch Cosby — star, best-sell ing author and ubiquitous commercial pitchman — is a one-man growth industry, the magazine says in its Sept. 21 issue.

Cosby's earnings will jump from $27 million in 1986 to at least $57 million this year, Forbes says.

« And that doesn't count the syndication value of this year's episodes of his hit TV series, The Cosby Show, or his investment in such enterprises as a Florida television station and a Coca-Cola bottler in New York.

“If Cosby continues to rack up earnings like this,” the magazine said, “he is all but certain to be the first entertainer to become a billionaire.”

By comparison, American's top-grossing executive, Chrysler .'s Lee Iacocea, collected a measly $32 million US over 1986 and 1986, the most recent two-year period for which Forbes has kept.executive pay records.

who rake in millions of dollars per year, according to Forbes. The top 10 for 1986 and 1987, in addition to Cosby, are: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky and Rambo star, $74

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Mulroney urges for cooperation

OTTAWA (CP) — It is imperative that the govern- ment, the business commun- ity and labor work together to help Canada meet its eco-

petitors in the industrialized world.

Although Canada has achieved an enviable record, “more remains to be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are shared equally by Canadians across the country,” Mi said.

Meanwhile the head of the B.C. Federation of Labor said in his Labor Day message that working people in Bri-

KEN GEORGETTI . . labor will grow

last year.

“On this Labor Day, we know that we have a premier who has no intention of con- ducting the open, fair-minded government which he prom- ised,” Ken Georgetti said. “Over the next year, the labor movement will grow in size and strength.”

Georgetti was referring to provincial legislation that the labor movement claims is

million.

Bruce Springsteen, rock singer, $56 million.

© Charles Schulz, Peanuts cartoonist, $55 million.

Eddie Murphy, comedian and actor, $50 million.

© Steven Spielberg, movie maker, $50 million.

© Madonna, singer and actress, $47 million.

© Whitney Houston, recording artist, $44 million.

© Michael Jackson, pop singer, $43 million.

© Johnny Carson, star of the Tonight show, $40 million.

‘The magazine notes that the top 10 averaged at least $20 million for the last two years. Iacocca is the only chief executive who approaches that income level.

The Forbes ranking also contains another 30 enter- tainers, the lowliest of whom — TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey — earned $10 million over 1986 and 1987.

Eighteen of the 40 made their fortunes in the music business, and five of the 40 are women.

In addition to Madonna, Houston and Winfrey, the other women on the list are Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand.

aimed at weakening trade

unions. The federation spon-

sored a° one-day general

strike in June to demonstrate

labor's opposition to the |tion.

legislation.

“Bill 19 has drawn working people and their trade unions closer together,” said Georg- etti. “The government may believe Bill 19 will shatter the labor movement, but the result will be the opposite.”

In his Labor Day message, the president of the Business

of the unsettling effect this

BRIAN MULRONEY ... work together

has had on employers and employee rights.”

Jim Matkin said historic strides have been made in co- operation between unions and employers, but “now is not the time to become dis- tracted and lose sight of the many common areas of in. terest that labor and manage ment share.”