authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships. Ts foreword tp the 1964-95 adition, Capt. John Moore " in allowing the fleet to dwindle. Only four of Canada's 23 warships are less than 20 years old. Even the newest vessels are past the 10-year mid-life mark generally used for warships. And six new frigates, ordered last year at a cost of more than $3 billion after nearly a deeade of debate, won't be available until the end of the decade. Moore's annua! essay also levels criticism at NATO navies unless the t new frigates is enlarged, een Se eter Hy. 10 warsbipe by the 1990s, says ee criticisms echo ones made aforviaty by some NATO allies. . ‘They have pointed out that Canadi falls short of being able to fulfil its role of providing escorts and anti-submarine protection for convoys in the western Atlantic. Nor can any of Canada’s naval ships operate in ice. peniterasd — has no means of deterring submarines Canadian waters, generally for failing to develop broad-based policies to counter growing Soviet sea-power. He accuses Britain's Royal navy of post-Falklands smugness for saying “our ships have been proven in action” which, comments Moore, “is certainly not reflected in the comments of those who had to fight in them.” Britain fought land and sea battles against Argentina in a conflict over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic in 1982. SHARPEST ATTACK But the section on Canada contains the sharpest attack. Moore praises Canadian ships’ companies and shore support who have managed to keep the aged fleet operational, but adds they “have been placed in a most invidious position by the failure of successive governments to understand or accept the basic principles of naval planning.” Moore paraphases the navy's responsibilities as set out in the povorament’s defence policy, including “naval g the world, sur . control and defence of Canadian waters, defence of North America in conjunction with the U.S. navy (and) contributions to NATO and the United Nations.” He says “this high-sounding charter” gives a “totally false impression of the navy's current capability” and “another case of good men and women starved of the tools to do the job.” Ina interview he suggested Canada needs 30 warships and nine submarines to meet its commitments. Canada’s three submarines, all more than a decade old, are currently being modernized but Moore says new ones should be purchased. Most of the steam-powered surface fleet, including some ships built 28 years ago, is undergoing a second so-called ill =f evdisigrimeat have been laid on the bottom of straits between the islands of the Arctic archipel: but 270 Columbia Ave. Cast v Ph. 365-2151 senior Canadian balsas that both Soviet and US. waters with i Former U. 3. edi eriashey Hyman Rickover, known as the father of the U.S. nuclear navy, lias predicted that submarines operating beneath the arctic ice will play a crucial role in any superpower confrontation. Canada has no capability, either with anti-submarine surface ships or its own submarines for operating in the Arctic. As far as NATO is concerned, Canada's primary role is providing anti-submarine protection for convoys to reinforce Europe. Both British and U.S. admirals have said NATO currently has only 50 per cent of the escorts it needs in the North Atlantic. Canada’s lack of modern destroyers and frigates contributes to that shortage. However, as Moore notes in his section on Canada in the foreword, “the situation is very different” as far as the Canadian Coast Guard and Department of Fisheries and Oceans are concerned. “The former operates more ships, craft and aircraft than the navy and its vessels projects have advanced from preliminary cabinet approval to contracts in less than a year Moore suggests the reason “might be because the coast guard ships are not armed.” Contrasting the treatment of the coast guard and the navy, Moore suggests that “it looks to an outsider as though succeeding governments have lost balance in their maritime policy.” IN BUSINESS WORLD Women are succeeding WINNIPEG (CP) — Heather Patterson used to cause quite a stir when she walked into church — as 9 funeral rector. “I was a very big novelty when I started on services. “The clergymen were shocked and the people were shocked,” she said of those early days when she began being groomed to take over her father's business. Patterson, whose job is to counsel families and help them make funeral arrangements, said some of her clients. were reluctant to talk to her at first. “When I started, people would say they wanted to see my father — they didn’t really want to see me,” she said in ap interview. “Now, because I'm around long enough, I've sort of got a rapport. Now, they'll ask for me over my father.” LICENCE IN 81 Patterson, 27, has been working in her father’s funeral home for 10 years — ‘becoming a licensed funeral director in 1961 — and is already running half the businesss. Eventually, she will take over. She's not alone as a daughter moving to the head of a family business. Sons have long been schooled to take over their father’s ventures, but now many women afte ay tr encouraged to run the shop. the Canadian Federation of Independent pe rcanifinedl that women are starting new businesses at three times the rate of their male counterparts. Federation spokesman Marianne Antoniak says figures compiled in the United States show 47 per cent of all businesses started by women are succeeding compared with 25 per cent of those headed by men. SAME IN CANADA Antoniak says the federation is seeing the same trend in Canada. “We're very excited about it. The numbers of traditional problems that women have had are beginning to solve themselves because women are grabbing hold of the opportunity.” They haven't confined themselves to company boardrooms. Women are overseeing the operation of everything from dairy farms to lumber companies. Some do it because they like to be their own boss. Others, like Patterson, are introduced to it through the family. “I don’t know if I even would have thought of doing something like this is it hadn't been in the family,” said Patterson, who took an eight-month embalming course as part of her training. But working with people you are close to can also have its rough moments. “When you're dealing with family members your voices tend to rise easier than they would with a stranger,” Patterson said “You ‘tem to not hold back your thoughts sometimes it means battle royals. The staff here, I'm sure, has heard us screaming at each other before and I don't know’ if that always happens in an office.” Patterson, who helps oversee a staff of 14, said when the going gets rough, she and her father usually work out a compromise to solve a particular problem DO IT BETTER As well as not always seeing things just the way her father does, Patterson feels there are some things a woman funeral director can do better than a man. “It's a business that . . . has to do with people under stress and emotion and women handle it much better than men. “I think it's a great business for women to be in because they get a better response.” Patterson, who is expecting her first child in November, said she has learned to separate herself from her work. “You're around death all the matter-of-factly. “You do put up a block. 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(TIM) ALLAN ‘vvuroepenoeesetenvouavevuusenoueocsugnuevenecautomeeetusvneeveqnoaverescteeui cedar niece uae nanneeeeeageeeeeoneeg vette tve eect UenUuic c spuaucnaeo ease Dustin LePage of Robson feeds goat parents Philip and Violet Popott, who with son Wayne are hoping to set up a small zoo on —y The goat is one of the domestic eady acquired by the family. Comttews Photo by their animals alr: Chery! Coldertenk FOR ROBSON Family zoo pro By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer A small family 200 could be operating in Robson by next spring if a rezoning application is approved by the Central Kootenay Regional District. Philip, Violet and Wayne Popoff have applied to rezone their land at 3547 Broadwater Road located across from the pulp mill, to establish a 200 where small farm animals would be kept as an attraction. At the regional district's Aug. 26 meeting the board requested the Area J Advisory Planning Commission to hold meeting to allow community input and report back to the beard. So far, a date for a meeting has not been set. The seven-acre property is ideal for 2 z00 says Violet Popoff. In fact, it's the same land on which the former Robson 200 was situated when Allan Woodrow operated the Robson Zoo many years ago. Popoff says all the original cages are still intact and will be used for the new animals. In addition, the Popofis hope to establish a picnic area. “e's like a park setting,” she says. ‘The Popofis have already gotten together some of the animals they plan to include in the soo. Their livestock presently includes goats, rabbits, ducks, geese, chickens, gern ghee aprornbstsie Unig ans “They're young farm animals,” she says. “There's nothing ‘ere anid ber family wants to open a 200 because “there's nothing in the ares for families”. sen 20osed “It's no big domtmercial deal,” she added. * where people could take their children.” There has been good response from people, now with young children, who used te go to the old 200, Popoff said The old s00 hasn't been in opera*tca for about 20 years. The property was rented for many years, and it wasn't unti} the Popoffs purchased the land thrée months ago that they decided to do something with it. “We wanted to have it operi for the summer and we made an application in the spring but we couldn't do anything this summer,” Popoff said, “We were kind of dis couraged. “Now we won't be able to start until spring (if the application is approved).” The property is currently zoned for residential use. When the property was used as a 200, there was no zoning bylaw in the area, said Don Harasym of the regional district planning department. But when the z00 shut down, the area was zoned fesidéntial. Popol said. when her family first bought the property it was to be for thelr own use, but the family felt it was “just » shame” it wasn't Bought as a park. But the afided that the decision is up to the people im the area and the regional distriet She said letters wete sent in the spring to community or ganizations informing tiers Of the 200, but so far there has been sauek cpm “It's a place x ‘hitar fom local residents about the can write\to the Popofis at Site 32. Congusttena HA. Ha kt detoen, BE PROTEST PLANNED Mother fight stop son's move By RON NORMAN Editer A Castlegar woman left for Kam- loops Saturday afternoon in a last-ditch bid to halt the provincial Ministry of Human Resources’ transfer today of her son from Tranquille Institution to Glendale Lodge on Vancouver Island. Gerry Grunerud insists her 24-year- old son Russell should be placed in a community home in Castlegar or one of two possible group homes in Creston. ton. Russell, a cerebral palsy victim, is one of 56 mentally handicapped people being transferred this morning by plane from Tranquille to Glendale, despite an earlier agreement with the ministry to relocate the patients in group homes near their families. Grunerud and Norma Collier, pre- sident of the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped, plan to join other fam- ilies — including four other families from the Kootenays whose relatives are scheduled to be relocated to Glendale — on a picket line to prevent the transfer. SOF RESTRY CREWS MOP UP FIRE By CasNews Staff Forestry crews were mopping up Saturday after three days of fighting the area's largest fire in five years on ~ the hillside above Glenmerry south of Trail. About 17 people spent Saturday keeping an eye on what was left of the blaze and putting out any hotspots, said Peter Berukoff, duty officer for the Ministry of Forests field office in Castlegar, “They're just mopping up.” he ex plained. But Berukoff said as many as 50 people were rushed into the fire on Thursday. The fire started about 1 p.m Wednesday, said Berukoff, and was quickly spread by the gusting winds that preceded Wednesday night's rainstorm. He said the fire covered 120 acres, though nothing of value was lost. Berukoff said the area is nearly all rock with “very Mtthe timber.” He said the forestry service flew in 34 firefighters Wednesday after it received calls from area residents who had spotted the blaze, located midway between Bear and Beaver Creeks. He said the firefighters had to be flown into the scene because there was no other access. While crews fought to put out the blaze, others worked to construct a four-kilometre road into the site. Berukoff also said five water bombers were also called in from around the province to help contain the fire in its first day. The bombers, two four-engine DC-6s and three twin-engine Firecats, came from Cranbrook, Kamloops and the Lower Mainland. Berukoff said some water bombers were stationed at Castlegar airport during the summer but were reassign ed when the fire hazard dropped in this area. He: said crews built a fireguard around the blaze by hand until the access road was completed and heavy machinery could be brought into the well, ” aid a GERRY GRUNERUD . wants son closer Collier said in an interview Saturday that the B.C. Government Employees’ Union has promised not to cross any picket line. “We may be standing there until noted, jupreme ~ Friday to issue an injunction to stop the transfer. (See separate story, page A3). Collier and the families of 54 other patients sought the injunction on the grounds that the transfer is a violation of the rights of the handicapped When the plan to close Tranquille was announced in July 1963, Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy said the money saved would be used to integrate the 323 patients into comm- unity care facilities. It costs an average of $45,000 a year or about $124 a day for each Tranquille patient. But last year, the human resources ministry decided that 56 of the patients — including Russell Grunerud — were “medically fragile” and could only be cared for in an institution. Collier said the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped has been involved in planning for the return of 22 Tranquille patients to the Kootenays since Sept. 9, 1983. She said five ef those 22 patients are labelled “medically fragile” and will be transferred to Glendale. However, Collier said there is no reason for Russell Grunerud to be in an institution rather than a group home. When the Tranquille closure was first announced, a “project team” consisting of two members from the ministry, a society member, Russell's parents, staff from Tranquille and loca! home rep 4 sat down to outline just what kind of services Russell would need. The team spent two days of “in tensive planning sessions”, says Collier and emerged with a detailed, eight page plan for transferring Russel] from Tranquille to a Castlegar group home The plan outlined Russell's require ments, staffing needs, the community's mts and the Kootenay Soc iety for the Handicapped’s role. “The was very, very intensively done ani showed Russell could easily be served in the comm unity,” says Collier. The plan called for Russell to be a patient in a three or four-bedroom home and “eventually attend Selkirk As well, Collier said the plan showed Russell had no medical requirements that could not be met in the comm unity She pointed out that he lived with his family until be was 13 and was only institutionalized at Tranquille because there was no support for his family and his mother could no longer lift him easily. Collier said the group home in Castlegar would have cost $130-$140 a continued on poge AI Canada ready for first papal visit QUEBEC (CP) — The welcome will almost certainly be warm, but Pope John Paul will face an increas ingly resistant Roman Catholic flock in Quebec when he arrives today to start his Canadian tour. The Pope is not expected to make any new doctrinal pronouncements during his 12-day visit to eight provinces and Northwest Territories — a 18,000-kilometre trek that is the longest of his 24 foreign excursions. But a public opinion poll of Que becers, released on the eve of his arrival, indicates 68 per cent reject its stated ban on divorce and remarriage. Seventy-two per cent .said they believe priests should be allowed to marry, while almost 60 per cent disagreed with the ban on women priets. Forty-two per cent disagreed with the church's ban on abortion. The survey, commissioned by the Montreal Gazette and Le Devoir, was conducted by the University of Mon treal in May and June on 2,014 Quebee Residue federal election posters were replaced by yellow papal banners along the pontiff's route through the walled city. At Laval University, site of the first papal mags, workmen sealed hol d “18,000 and placed 10,000 plants and flowers. Organizers expect 240,000 people at the mass and another 200,000 to line tbe stroete 0 meee Oe Tere atve by roney says he turned down invitation by outgoing Prime Minister John Turner to greet the Pope in Quebee City, saying he would rather wait until later in the tour, once his government is sworn into office. The tour, organised around the theme Celebrate Our Faith, will feature similar religious services and major addresses in all 18 cities John Paul will visit in Canada. He will travel by train to Trois Rivieres, Que., on Monday and arrive for a 36-hour stopover in Montreal that evening. In Montreal, organizers scheduled a dress rehearsal Saturday for medical services at Tuesday's papal mass at Jarry Park, where organizers expect 350,000. Nine ‘first-aid stations will be set up under tents, each with eight beds, two to have a heart attack Tuesday,” said Jeah-Paul Guillemette, in charge of health services.