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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Februarv 16, 1978

Hiking of Second Youth Worker

No Funds are Available

No funds are available this
year for the hiring of a second
$900-a-month youth worker to
work under the direction of
Castlegar's soon-to-be-appoint-
ed youth committee.

That was the message in a
letter from Human Resources
Minister Bill Vander Zalm, in
response to city council's en-
dorsement last month of a
request by the citizens’ group
People Interaction that the
ministry pay the salary of a
worker to deal with local ju-
veniles in a capacity similar to
that of the worker to be
salaried by the committee.

“As you are aware, pro-
grams such as this are deter-
mined on the basis of regional

priorities and funds are allo-
cated to the various ministry
regions on a per-capita basis,”
the minister said in the letter.

“While your application is
being considered at the region-
al level and priorities are
subject to some change,
cannot be too optimistic at this
point that we would be able to
give favorable consideration to
your request,”

Is Charged

Ald, Bud Godderis, health
and welfare committee chair-
man, told counell Vander Zalm's
response was “a very specific
and good example of why you
can't depend on government
grants for financing.”

Godderis also told council
“members of the new youth
committee being appointed at a
health and welfare

deris, the five to seven mem-
bers on the youth committee
will have a knowledge of the
community, willingness to de-
vote time and energy to com-
mittee work, personal integ-
rity, a willingness to co-operate
with the yet-to-be-hired youth
worker, trust and faith in local
youth, ability to relate to social
in 7

meeting March 2,
According to guidelines
presented to council by God-

and ability to communicate
with the youth of the com:
munity.

BG. Tel
Signs 3-Year Agreement

Union and management
representatives signed a three-
year collective agreement and.
‘agreed to return-t ‘k terms

Telephones and Supplies Ltd.,

sald agreement was reached

Sunday “after 10 hours of
"

late Sunday, ending an 81-day
strike-lockout at the British
Columbia Telephone Co.

. Bob Donnelly, president of
the 10,000-member Telecom-
munications Workers Union,
said most workers were back at,
their regular jobs Tuesday and
all workers were back to work
by Wednesday.

A joint statement by the
union, B.C, Tel and Canadian

Companies at Local Airport
Appeal to Council for Help

+ Companies located at
Castlegar Airport have appeal-
ed to city council to help them
avoid loss of income during the
federal transport ministry's
three-month shutdown of the
airport for runway repairs,
Letters to the city from
Adastra Aviation Ltd., a flying
school, and Hal-Aero Services
Ltd., an aircraft servicing firm,
said substantial losses would
result from the ministry's re-
fusal to allow the operation of a
temporary airstrip for small

"oT wérvelilele “aucident “aircraft during the constfuction that Adastra cawwapect to hae—~

Saturday afternoon on Colum-
bia Avenue in the $00 block has
resulted in Robert Earl C, Jolly
of Castlegar being charged with
moving a stopped vehicle when
unesfe to do so, eee

The Jolly vehicle sustained
an estimated $1,000 damage
when it was in collision with a
second vehicle driven by Bjorn
Nils Nelsson, also of Castlegar.

The Nelsson vehicle sus-
tained. an estimated $2,000
damage. No injuries have been
reported.

in April, May and June.

Hal-Aero manager Harold
S. Swartz said his company,
which services aircraft from
Castlegar, Trail, Nelson, Grand
Forks and Nakusp, generates
almost 50 per cent of its yearly
income between March 16 and
May 80 “when most aircraft
require their yearly inspec-
tions.”

“My company has two full-
time and one part-time em-
ployee, all of whom would be

RADIOACTIVE

Continued from page Al
monitor the water supply rou-
tinely to make sure the levels
are static and not increasing.”

Dr. Schmitt said one posi-
tive development in the moni-
toring of radiation levels was
the recent acquisition of new
testing’ facilities for the en-
vironment ministry's . labora-
tory in Vancouver. Previously
the equipment at the Van-
couver lab was unable to detect
any radiation level below .6
picocuries and the Castlegar
area samples had to be sent to
Ottawa for further analysis.

“Now the lab will be able to
establish more precisely wheth-
er the levels have elevated or
not,” he said.

Fowler said on Tuesday
that he had learned many areas

consume water “far in excess”
of the maximum acceptable
standard.

He noted the tests were
conducted on the groundwater
sources at a time of the year
when demands on local water
supplies are low.

“It would be interesting to
see what levels are presented
during the end of the summer,
when the wells are operating at
a higher capacity and being
pumped over longer distances,”
he added.

Ald. Len Embree suggest-
ed the test findings be for-
warded to the provincial gov-
ernment, which two months
ago ordered a $20,000 study of
the well near Selkirk College as
an alternative to the city's
proposed Arrow Lakes water
system,

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Attention
Performing and Visual
Arts and Crafts People

_. Individuals who have expertise in the above areas,
and who wish to appear In the Kootenay Regional Arts
Council Register of such people, are asked to send thelr
names, addresses, telephone numbers and area of

Castlegar and District Arts Council,

out of work if this closure goes
ahead,” the Swartz letter said.

‘The taxi way or the nearby
grass strip would be suitable,
for flying the aircraft in and out
of the airport for servicing, the
letter said.

A letter from Adastra chief
pilot John M. Laing said the
flying school’s revenue figures
over the past six years showed
an average of 25 per cent of
hours flown during April, May
and June,

“It can be seen, therefore,

during the period at least one
quarter of its revenue for the
year 1978," the letter said.
“Bearing this in ‘mind, the
company's fixed costs, payable

-..40. yourselves, remain the

same.”

The letter said the flying
school was considering moving
its operations to the Trail and
Nelson airports, but its licence
restricts its operation to the
Castlegar Airport. Adastra will
ask the Canadian Transport
Commission for a waiver of the
restriction during the closure,
the letter said.

The Laing letter asked
council to request from the
ministry the use of a temporary
strip during the closure period
allowing Adastra to fuel, han-
ger and maintain its fleet, to
support the temporary waiver
of the condition on the licence
and “to consider some form of
relief from our land leases
during the three-month pe-
riod.”

RUNWAY

Continued from page Al
dation by Ald. Gerald Rust, city
airport i shai

City council Tuesday sup-
ported airport committee chair-
man Ald. Gerald Rust's motion
that the letters be received and
filed for information and that
copies of the city's correspon-
dence with the transport minis-
try be forwarded to the two
firms. :

Could Be
A Blanket
Of Death,

their two sleeping children.
Then they quietly tiptoed out of
the room. Bob and Cindy didn't
know it, but they were never to
see their children again.

They creseed the Hat Ye

their own room, switched on
the electric blanket and went to
sleep.

At 2:12 a.m. a police patrol
called the fire department.
Passing the house, an officer
had noticed flames through
Cindy and Bob's window.

Forcing his way in, the
policeman found the louse
filled with smoke and fumes. On
hands and kneee he searched
the rooms, dragging the semi-
conscious children outside be-
fore the fire department ar-
rived.

Bob and Cindy were dead.
Their bed had ignited due to a
short circuit in their old electric
blanket. They had succumbed
to the heat and toxic fumes in
their sleep.

A freak accident? Not a
common one certainly, but it
happens. The National Fire
Prevention Association (NF-
PA) reports 31 fires started by
electric blankets in the last five

that the ministry allow the use
of a grass strip located between
the airport's taxi lane and main
runway. 3
Rust said a complete shut-
down of small aircraft facilities
would affect Hal-Aero Services
Ltd., an aircraft servicing firm,
and Adastra Aviation Ltd., a
flying school, which provide
services unavailable at other
airports in the region.

PUB LICENCE

Continued from page Al
Ventana's notice of intent
to apply for a neighborhood pub
licence, advertised in the
Castlegar News, requests resi-
dents or property owners lo
cated within a six-block area or
half-mile radius of the proposed
site to register any objections
with the LAB general manager.
Contacted this week, city
planning technician Andy Swet-
lishoff said the operation of a
pub—for which city approval
will be necessary after issuance
of a licence—is included in the
two lots “C-2" zoning.

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years, Thirty fires is a
small percentage of total fires,
but that doesn’t matter if you
or someone you know is in-
volved. :

Cominco's Trail Fire Chief,
George Swanson, knows two
people who were involved in
separate electric blanket fires.
It was this that prompted him
to request statistics from the
NFPA. 5

How can you protect your-
self?

First of all, buy your
blanket from a reputable manu-
facturer, and make sure that it
bears the CSA label.

Secondly, follow the in-
structions closely. Don't put
covers on top of the electric
blanket, and keep other objects.
off your bed.

Make sure that the supply
cord is in good order. If it splits
or cracks, replace it.

The inner workings of the
blanket wear out too, but are
invisible. The best protection is
to replace your blanket every
few years.

In regular use, it will look a
little ragged and tattered after
a while. You can be sure that:
the inside has suffered too. Buy
a new blanket, and throw the

old one away. Don't pass it «

along to the kids!

Projects National
Advertising Up
By 12 Per Cent

The president of the News-
paper Advertising Bureau said
recently newspaper advertising
is expected to go up 10 per cent
to $12.2 billion this year.

Jack Kauffman told the
convention of the International
Newspaper Advertising Execu-
tives the bureau is projecting
that national advertising would
go up 12 per cent to $1.9 billion,
retail advertising up 10 per
cent to over $6.8 billion and
classified up eight per cent to

“Cindy and Bob looked in on |

“The compromise solution,

was reached in a spirit of co-
operation and an earnest desire
to achieve a harmonious re-
sumption of work,” the state-
ment said, ”

“Both sides are confident
that the agreement reached
will be the start of a new
industria! relations climate be-
tween the parties.”

At a meeting Saturday
union members voted 91.4’ per
cent to accept the three-year
collective agreement.

A tentative agreement be-
tween company and union was
reached 12 days ago but the
two sides had been unable to
agree on back-to-work terms,

Based on the settlement
recommendations of inquiry
commissioner Justice Henry
Hutcheon of the B.C. Supreme
Court, the contract provides for
wage increases of 45 cents an
hour in the first year, 32 cents
an hour in the second and six
per cent in the third year. The
pact is retroactive to Jan. 1,
1977.

A journeyman’s wage rises
to $11.14 an hour under the new
contract,

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Government, Tourist Industry

Promotes More Travel at Home &

Government and industry
tourism officials moved earlier
this month to promote more
travel by Canadians at home
through a package of new low-
cost tours,

The ‘program, which in-
volves the country's two major
airlines, Air Canada and CP
Air, as well as railways, hotel
chains and travel agents, was
announced following a one-day
federal-provincial tourism min-
isters' meeting.

The ministers agreed at a
news conference after the
meeting that the program,
which includes 64 tours, will not
wipe out Canada's estimated
$1.7 billion 1977 travel deficit
but will attract more Canadians
to vacations within the country,

Industry officials said it is |
difficult at this point to put any |

dollar value on the plan.
Industry Minister Jack

Horner, who announced the

program, said governments and

industry want to keep Cana- |

dians at home by offering prices
that are affordable and compe-
titive with “anything being
offered south of us”.

Industry spokesmen added
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But Grace McCarthy, Brit
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she does not think any of the
ministers or industry spokes-
men feel the new program will
be the “be-all and end-all” for
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NEWS

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Thursday, February 16, 1978

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: ANTICIPATION of the final seconds to the
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Peretra as he Is urged on by his guide.
one of over 40 blind ani
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the Sons of Norway Lodge 76 hosted the
st Inter-provincial cross-country ski race:
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Wharf Facility Needs Ignored —

‘The federal government is
ignoring boating facility prob-
Jems in Robson and other
Koot West

Keenleyside Dam—during the
winter.

“It would take a depart-

while trying to channel main-
tenance funda into Liberal
Party MPs’ ridings,

‘That was the charge level-
led in the Commons last week
by Kootenay West MP Bob
Brisco during debate on the
new Fishing and Recreation
Harbors Act.

the skiers and their escorts who were
making ready for the Sunday races. They are
alded by six instructors from Vancouver.
Sunday's activities concluded with a supper
and trophy presentations, followed by a
dance with music provided by the Canadian
National Institute for the 6lind Band.

—CasNowsFoto by Doug Harvey

Saturday was a day-long practice session for

Hydro Sets Aside $20,000
For 7-Mile Impact Projects

B.C. Hydro has agreed to
set up‘a fund of $20,000 for
specific projects in communities
affected by the Seven Mile Dam
construction program. The fund
is available for projects recom-
mended by the Project Impact
‘Carmmil d by

cil, with $2,000 going towards a
feasibility study for a cultural
centre for the Trail ares.

At the same meeting,
regional district planner John
Baron reported on progress of

“the impact study, due to be

d next month.

and app
Hydro.
The announcement was
made by Seven Mile Project
manager Ed Quirk at a recent
meeting of the PIC. The com-
-mittee, said chairman Graham
Kenyon of Rossland, is now,
prepared to consider proposals
for any worthwhile project in
the local communities.
The fund was set up as a
: response to recommendations
by the. PIC,. stimulated by
various proposals from com-
munity groups during the past
year. The firat grant from the
fund will go to the Trail and
District Community Arts Coun-

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#1, 401 Front St., Castlegar}

Impact of the study—
which will cover the period of

peak employment at the dam—
has been minimal to
Baron said,

Meanwhile, the Regional
District of ‘Central Kootenay
board voted last Saturday to
wait to see the study before
negotiating with Hydro for

wht “his “Magara Fails. ridiag.

TheFP Conserva-
tive MP cited problems in the
Robson area on the Lower
Arrow Lake, the four-year
delay of renovations to Proc-
tor’s wharf and the lack of boat
launching facilities north from
Nelson to the head of Kootenay
Lake while accusing Liberal
MP Roger Young of trying to

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“more than its fair share" o!
government funds budgetted
under the Act for the up-
grading of facilities. The Niag-
ara Falls MP had made no
attempts to arrange cost shar-
ing with municipal and pro-
vincial governments - respon-
sible for that region, Brisco
‘said.

Meanwhile, Brisco said,
the federal and B.C. govern-
ments have failed “to get their
act together” over snow clear-
ance on-the Robson wharf—
which provides access to the

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study.

No Extra Charges
For Chronically Ill

Chronically-ill patients
occupying acute-care beds will
not be billed after all, Health

Minister Bob McClelland said -

last week. x

McClelland said that a
letter sent out by an ‘admini-
strator earlier this month say-
ing the patients would be
charged up to $165 a day was a
mistake.

The letter, sent to hospi-
tals and dated Jan, 25 over the

signature of Dr. David Long-

ridge, medical consultant on
B.C. hospital programs, said
billing would begin after a

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be held personally responsible
for the charges.

“T don't understand exactly
why people got so upset about
that particular letter,” McClel-
land told reporters,

He said hundreds of such
“letters have been sent out over

the past several'years. .

~ “It’s been a policy of the
government for about eight
years, but nobody that I'm

aware of since we assumed .

office has ever paid those rates
and we don't expect anyone to,”
he said.

A health ministry official

cleared up'another mistake last -

week when he told the Castle-

gar News the government's fj

new 35-per-cent surcharge im-
posed ‘on “non-Canadians” will
not discriminate against landed
immigrants, - ¢

Peter Breel, senior direc-
tor of ministry hospital pro-
grams, said ‘the letter from
associate deputy minister John
Glenwright announcing the
new surcharge had been un-
clear about the ministry's pol-
icy on immigrants.

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Arrow Lake below the Hugh .

ment of high truck about

10 minutes to clear that wharf,”

he said. “However, they do not

do that. Asa result, no one can
. use it.”

Although the wharf is still
maintained by the federal en-
vironment ministry, Robson
residents still face “a struggle
with the B.C. government” for
arelease of other available land
for expansion of facilities, Bris-
co said,

, The Kootenay West MP
said the wharf at Nakusp “has
been allowed to deteriorate.”

“When it gets. into a
shabby state because of the
terrific rise and fall of Arrow

_ Lake, due to the Columbia

River and B.C. Hydro, the |

village is expected to handle
the movement of that wharf
facility when the water is low,
to allow the dockage points to
be moved out, and to have them
~ brought in when the water is
high,” Brisco said.
Brisco said Canada Works
and the environment ministry
Started construction last month
on new facilities for Procter,
after his efforts since 1974 to
discover which ministry was
responsible for the wharf main-

tenance.
“What this means is that

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the federal. government are
spent in an unduly high propor-
tion in Central Canada,” Brisco
said outside the House of

Commons. “More pointedly, the
people in Kootenay West are
paying a portion of that regions
boating facilities while prob-
lems with our own are being
ignored.

“At a time when problems

of regional disparity are smol- .
dering, one would think, and
indeed one should expect, the
federal government is to be
more even handed in its ap-
proach to the various regions of
Canada.”

Consultant’s Report Shows
Good Uranium Prospects

Findings of.a mining con-
sultant’s report indicate the
potential for a major uranium
mine at China Creek.

Representatives for the
mining firms involved say their
findings indicate this may be-

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ceeds to the Castlegar Commu-
nity Band will be part of this
year's Bonanza Days, spon-
sored by the Castlegar Down-
town Businessmen’s Associa-
tion.

Bonanza Days will be held
March 16, 17 and 18 with’ the
draw being held at a Bonanza

‘Days dance organized by the

Castlegar Kiwanis Club the
evening of March 18.

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smaller mining companies have
banded together to form the
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and Gordon Brady ere in the
charge of the draw, and Bonan-
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Consultants last year to drill in
the area and report its findings.

The consultant drilled 52
holes in a line a mile long, the
two mine promoters said, and
dug one shaft five feet by five
feet and 15 feet deep.

From these_ore was ship-
ped for testing to laboratories
in Vancouver and Lakefield,
Ontario. The results, which
were nearly identical, show just
less than half a pound of
uranium per ton of ore in that
area. oe :

With uranium selling at
$50 per pound, Consortium
spokesmen say they feel certain

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members of the association who
will have them for sale in their
places of business.

As well, members of the
Community Band will be selling
the tickets.

they mine the
ore ina vast area around China
Creek. ;
Although the actual ura-
nium content is not high, it is
the size of the deposits that
make mining seem likely, ~

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