| Victoria, | veV-124 _ Progressive ‘Northwest " Legislative Library Parliment Buildings B.C. Serving the. - Comp. TERRACE— A new initiative ‘to help en-. terprising students create their own jobs this summer was announced on February . 28, 1984 by Labour Minister Bob McClellan and Industry. and. Small’ Business Development Minister, Don Philli , The " Student’ Capital Program will provide . interest-free, ° : repayable loans of up to $2,000 so that students returning, to school in the . ‘fall can start up their‘own: Small business during the summer break. The Royal ‘Bank of. Canada will. disburse the Jone and the, provincial government: will covering the Anteres! - created from the poner Arla Knight,” development officer in. In the ministry of labour, says that the total value of the loans and interest will -be about, “$2.4 million, Of that, ap- proximately $500,000 will be interest paid by the provincial government on the loans. * The program “will be running from. April I ‘Thursday, March 22, 1984 “Student opportunities Venture , September 50, with repayment of the loan oc- curring on that date. . When: asked what would happen If the . stident decided that the business. they. were running. was betier than going ‘back to. : “school, Kaight replied that the contract states that the loan must be repaid. by’ ‘September. 90, but if- the business” ‘ia running’ very: -well, end the loan has been |. ‘repaid, then the student is free id continue with ‘the " business. . _ She adds, however, that the prograni. with the latent, that thé work is only . for. the summer -. months and th the student should _ bee re urnin ~achook. - 2 munities in B.C) will’ be . program. offering — this- ‘through their '; local Chambers of. Commerce.’ The Terrace ‘and District Chamber af Commerce is establishing . - volunteer evaluation panels. to in- terview students and aasess thelr business plans. Chamber: of Commerce ‘Is tdeslgned’- +. Punningin Ontario for. the, >” pat 10-years’ and has met 25 cents President, Judy Jephson calls it ‘tan experience for students-to go into business on’a‘emall scale to’see if . they ean make it work"’. “She, says the evaluation ‘panels will be looking’ at ‘ idea 1s practical, whether or not it’s likely to work, and ‘whether or not It's going to make; enough money to repay the loan. ©. Information’ about the program. |s available- from Provincial’. ‘Government Information Ceritres, Universities, : Secotidary Schools, “Royal ’. Bank ‘branches ‘and ‘ your local. Ctiamber of Commerce. . Arla ‘Knight says ~ Bimllar program hds- been with great success, "The rainistry - -has’ targeted a figure of 1000 students. who will be taking part in the - program. If you would like more | information © about: this program, contact any one of ‘the above ~ mentioned -. Organizations or phone the Chamber - “office at 635-2068. Paving contract awarded TERRACE— A $157,913 ‘contract for miscellaneous intermittent paving of new bridge approaches on High- way 16, near Terrace, has bee awarded to Venture Paving .Ltd. of Victoria, announced . Tuesday by Highways" Minlster Alex ~ Fraser, lowest of five bids for the job. ; . - ‘Work, on “the ' project " “atarted on March 20, and up to 90 workers will be em- ployed from“ period: to * period. The schediled date. far. Completion is March 4, 1984. : The job will consist :of | paving bridge approachés - at Aberdeen: Creek, ‘Inver Creek, . and Ekuinsekum Creek, located: |. ap- proximately 99 kiometres, 101 .Kilometres; and 106 kilometres west of Terrace, ‘Pespectively.. ‘Alto Included. existing highway 16 alignment. . , The mixcelldnecis pivitg. . Will consist 6f short sections . . d : the CNR crossing: “at Tyee’ from 101 kilometres ‘to’ 108 kilometres west.of Terrace. The paving « contractor aie. ae Fite’ Sabet 1h i oi WU be “connections i ‘the will be responsible for grader trimming, finished |. rolling, and traffic control, ~ while construction of the. bridge connections will ‘be _catried ‘out by others.to a. » finished gravel sutface. ~The mptoring “public, ain - be allowed to conti we using. «he esti des. al. r vir Cheek .project’ engineering, l supervision and materials will - $200,000. ‘whether or not the business -- of' Commerce — " :: gecurity” - fewwed the new w bridge will” The’ “total cost. of. ‘the including. | EE ’ Telephone Tony Jones, standing in for Ray Homentuk (chairman of tha local Employess Community Fund), presents Betty Camp. bell, Terrace Unit President for the B.C. Heart Fund, with a cheque for $315. Although this years total for donations Is down by &$1,00 ‘Established 1908. - from last year, Mes, Campbell considers the chive a corpiele success. She says that another $2,000 was raised by the weekend Bowl-A-Thon, bringing the total for the Terrace drive to ap- proximately $10,124. Hijacker diverts Britis TAIPEI (AP) -— A hijacker who claimed he was armed with explosives commandeered a British. Airways jumbo jelliner en - route to. Peking from Hong Kong, diverted the plane to Taiwan, and. asked -. for “political asylum, govern- | “ment officials said. | Liang Weljiang, . “surrendered. peacefully, ~ once’ the plane™ ‘landed - "al, port int “Talpel "arid. ” Giang & Kai-shek: sirpa ub ibn” - officials. there reported they found. no explosives or other 4 Weapons” on him, ‘Liang, who wap taken ‘to.a security area .° far ‘questioning, told officials he was married to a Taiwanese . woman who ds ving in US. Soviets in hostile. encounters. WASHINGTON (AP) — The crippling of a Soviet tanker. . ‘by a mine off Nicaragua’s coast has produced strongly’ « worded accusations and bostile encounters belwéen senior Soviet and American diplomats in- Washington and in Moscow. The two superpowers are holding each other responsible ' for Tuesday's incident off: Nicaragua's Pacific Coast, in which the mine planted by U.S,-backed rebels exploded and blew'a bole in the hull of the Soviet ship, ‘Five Soviet sailors were injured, prompting the Soviet hews agency Tass to say that Moscow may Sek com: . pensation. At'the heart of the dispute are Soviet concerns over U. S. , support for anti-goveramenit rebels in leftist Nicaragua and American allegations that the Soviets -are to! blanie for ’ much of .the tenaiona in. Central: America through? thelr’ hacking for Nicaragua and the insurgency in El Salvador. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko summoned U5. charge d’affairs Warren Zimmerman and banded; ‘him a note claiming the United States was responsible ifor the - “grave crime, an act of banditry ‘and piracy,” Tass said, US. officlals, who asked not to be identified, sald they vere struck by the tone of the statement. Because Moscow went public with it; ‘the State Department responded in kind, first with a statement by deputy spokesman Alan . Romberg and later with a rare public accoynt of a ‘Tmheeting . : between State Undersecretary Lawrence Bagleburger and ' WASHINGTON. (AP) ~- Pentagon officials are. “blaming a Soviet attack submarine for a collision + involving the - nuciear- wered sub and the 80,000- - e U.S. aircraft carrier - Kitly Hawk: : _ manoeuvres in the. Ben of ” Japan. Wednesday's.’ mnishap ‘resulted in no. apparent ” damage to either vessel, ° : officials said. . There were no casualties - ; aboard the Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy said, but it was ‘not known whether any of ‘the submarine's crew members were hurt. The Soviet ship — a 5,200-tonne craft of the Victor I class — moved away frem the collision scene vader its own power, Pentagon officials, who spoke only on condition that they not be identified, oar the submarine - travelling “without : navigation lights. during’ . We think the submarine hit the’ Kitty Hawk ap- parently as the sub was + coming up througti the sea," said one navy official. “Vn a statement describing ‘the: ineldent, t the Pentagon paid:, a a noticeable * shudder which was felt _; thrdtighout’ the ship, ob- eervets ‘on the. starboard side of Kitty Hawk saw the ‘ outline of the ‘sall!of!.a submarine resembling that ! Of a Soviet Victor. class moving away.” oe HAVE NOT poueT.: Although the” tifteation of the Victor was Bornewhiat qualified in the Biatement, Pentagori- | of- ficlals said they have no | doubt the craft belongs to the Soviet navy, Neilher China nor North Korea owns Victor-type subniarines. A Soviet criliser of the Kara | class," the . Petropavlovak, “was said by “the Pentagon to be near the iden- - NO BASIS Minister Counsellor Oleg Sokolov of the Soviet Embassy. . Romberg suggested the Soviets had no basis for com- _ plalning because the mining of certain Nicaraguan ports. “had been “widely advertised: " While regretting the injuries and damage caused by” th. incident, Romberg said the’ dangers in the area were well . known, But Romberg refused to answer questions about whether the mine was supplied by the United States. He said he was not authorized to comment on allegations about intelligence activities, © : Hours after Gromyko met with 2mmerman, Kagleburger summoned Sokolov to the State Department. An official statement. ‘released afterward said Eagleburger rejected the Soviet ‘protest note in its fatirety . and said the Soviets should raise the issue with the , Nicaraguan government because the incident occurred i in that country’s waters. The statement contrasted sharply with normal practice in that it not only diselosed that the meeting took place but also gave details of what customarily is treated as a private discussion. -The department’ 8 custom i is nol to announce meetings between Soviet and American diplomats, but when they are disclosed, the: subject matter normally remains secret. - Pentagon. blames. Soviet sub submarine,” Which "-was described as travelling.at 4 slow five knots on a nor- therly course iri the general direction of the main Soviet naval base at- Vladivostok, . The- Kitty Hawk wes continuing -, - operations, the navy said. The’ collision’ _ occurred ’ about . 150 nautical’ miles . east of the South Korean | coast wine the carrier was taking part - in ain annual ~U.S.-South- .Korean” war’ ‘Spirit ‘A, a JPentagon of- its © normal . fame called Exercise Team * ‘ficial said. The Soviet navy customarily keeps a close wath on U.S. naval manoeuvres, using sub- mazines, surface ships and aircraft, The United States tracks Soviet ship Hy ina's Henan province. He “initially told authorities he was from Guangdong province in southern China, ; _ but he was carrying a Hong i Kong, resident identificatip ipn card, The : plane had. 334 passengers aboard, and - 28; .: Hone were hurt, the officials * ys sald; All crew members also were, reported safe, ‘ Dif- fering “numbers? given -by falwanese:...and:« \British _ Airways offictals indicated” _ the initial report ‘of a‘ 17- member crew might not be . precise, . The officials said crew‘ members’ reported. that _ Liang, ‘who said he’: “came | ‘from Guahgdong- province "in southern China, passed a note toa stewardess shortly . after Flight 003 took ‘off from Hong ‘Kong, reporting that he’ was armed with - explosives and wanted the flight diverted to Taiwan, seat of the rival Nationalist Chinese government. The stewardess delivered the nate to the plane's pilot, who -radiced the control tower at Taipei airport for permission to land. In. Hong Kong, British Airways spokesman Roger Medecalf said the plane would fiy to London instead of Peking after taking on a new. crew'in Hong Kong later today. He sald British Airways wold try -to put all passengers on flights by . other airlines to Peking as Soon as possible. He added thet passengers ‘who could “pro vith hotel accommodatiois. h Airways jet Medcalf said 221 of the 338 passengers boarded the London-to-Peking Flight 003 in Hong Kong. He said British Airways began its weekly flight to Peking from London less than two years ago. The airline was allowed to pick up passengers in Hong Kong starting from Jan. 1.. There is no ‘sanctioned alr traffic directly from’, ‘China. |: to Taiwan, divided for.niare’ than three decades because . - Taiwan. of bitter political dif- ferences between the - mainland's. ruling Com- munlsts and the island's _Toling Natlonalists. Last May, ‘six . Chinese hijacked a Chinese jetliner to South Korea and asked for political asylum in South Korean authorities refused their “request, 1 convicted ‘them of hijacking “and sentenced them to mt terms ”pangin eee to six” : years. Terrace woman fined VANCOUVER (CPi - A “former Terrace, ‘B.C.. womati was fined $500 in Vancouver provincial court Wednesday after pleading guilly- to practising medicine without a licence. Edith Cowden, who -now lives in Alberta, entered the - guilty plea in absentia. Four other counts ‘of practicing ‘medicine without 4 licence: ‘were stayed by the Crown. Special ~ prosecutor Douglas Clarke told Judge Wallace Craig that Cowden, believed to be in her‘mid- 405, set up business in a Vancouver hotel and “treated” a . 32-year-old woman by using a machine with metal rods and a metal probe attached. .Cowden would use the ‘probe to point to the toes and fingers of the patient telling her each was -in- dicative of an organ in the body. Clarke said ‘Cowden told the woman that a reading on. ‘a graph of below 50 was indicative of “pre-cancer" Boeing 737 lands in CALGARY (CP) -— An undetermined number ot passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries this morning after a Pacific Western Airlines 737 jetliner caught fire on takeoff from Calgary International . Airport. movements the same way, . Last Nov, deatroyer and u Soviet - guided-missile frigate _ brtshed against each other “in the Arablan Sea, U.S, . Navy officers also blamed ‘that ‘minor. collisién on the - Soviets. mo WASHINGTON (Reuter)— John’ ‘Hinckley, who shot ‘President Reagan three years ago, has asked Reagan to forgive him because 'I was mentally ill when 1 pulled the trigger and not responsible for my actions.” - in a letter to the Washington Post, Hinckley wrote: “Lam very sorry for the shooting. 1 thank God no one died, but I still live with the fact that James Brady Is partially paralysed and his life is less than what it shauld be." Brady, chief White House spokesman, was crippled by 1. shot from Hinckley's gun. Two security officers were tlso wounded in ihe Washington attack, 7,3 US. Passengers scrambled for their lives as the burning plane, a shuttle flight destined for Edmonton, taxied to a halt. An RCMP constable at the airport said the aircraft was almost destroyed by the fire. “I understand it's just about hed it,” he said. Flame and aparks flew from the plane as it aborted ité takeoff and‘ turned back onthe runway. - Kim: Krujer, who was driving by the airport, said the aircraft was on fire as it came’ down the tarmac. "T sort of saw a ball of flames going down the runway," Krujer sald. “The airplane popped the . (escape) chutes and about. , 60° people got off,” said Blake Thomas, a Cargo Western Airlines emplayee. ‘A 737 has a passenger - Capacity of upto 139. ° Randy Burlington Northern ‘sales Slywha, a . representalive, said it _ appeared all the passengers and crew escaped. “The crew had everything well in control and it was well organized, ” Slywka and one of over 50 “in- flamed cancer". She diagnosed inflammation of the bladder, high stress, precancer of the ovaries and hardening of the ar- teries. She also advised the™ woman to stop smoking and: prescribed a bottle of pills and two bottles of drops for which she charged $100, She also charged $50 for the visit, The charge was jaid by the B.C. College of Physicians, and Surgeons. . flames. “IL looked everybody got out.” He said he saw sparks coming from the wheels or engine as the plane coasted - in. like Olympic torch feud ‘LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘feud - between Greek Olympic officlals and organizers ‘of the Los Angeles Games over commercialization of the Olympic flame has reignited, less than a day after the Americans an- nounced a “complete ac- cord and settlement.”’ A high-ranking Greek — official sald Wednesday he was "shocked and amazed" that the Los Angeles Olympic Committee planned to continue taking con- tributions for the con- _ troversial torch relay across the United States until April 19. ‘ "As far ag we're con- ‘Hinkley asks Reagan’ s forgiveness Hinckley, a 8 27-year-old drifter from Colorado, was found not guilty by reason of insanity but has been confined to St, Elizabeth's Hospital in the U.S. capital. He asked The Past to publish his letler on the third an- niversary of the March 30, 1961, shooting. 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