Castlegar News _Jo.wary 20. 1985 who enjoys sports and outdoors. Write Box 3007A, Castlegar, 8.C. 7. ON BEHALF OF ALL OUR Fomily we would like to express our sincere gratitude Doris Ozerott inks to friends and who attended the relatives funeral ond contributed baked goods. Hlowers, | memorial jonations, cards and calls. Moy God bless you alll. Husbend Nick, Children: Jone ‘ond Bill Faminott, Nick and Maxine Oxerott and families BABY NEW YEAR. Norelle Shelley would like to all the merchants and organizations of Castlegar who donated gifts and my mother's stay an en ioyable one. Bob and Tammy Sookorukoft. The B.C. Heart Foundation ac gratitude “in donations which helps promote Heart Research. Cards sent to next-ot-kin. Box 3023, Castlegar, B.C. 52/8) Iehonwds) B.C. gives $500,000 to fund VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbians have donated $500,000 — one- quarter of the total given by Canadians — to OXFAM Canada's Ethiopia relief fund, OXFAM program director David Gallaghere said. Gallagher praised Vancou- ver Mayor Mike Harcourt's appeal for $1 million for Ethiopian famine relief. ‘Twelve agencies are working together on the fund- raising drive, which includes a benefit concert Feb. 3. “I don't think anything else like this is going on across the country,” Gallagher said. “B.C. always leads the way.” The money raised is help- ing starving thousands in the war-torn provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where OXFAM now is concentrating its ef- forts, Gallagher said. OXFAM is spending $500,000 to feed Tigrean farmers for six months while they stay on their lands to develop water catchment systems and land terracing. Crops must be planted-dur- ing the June rainy season for harvest in November or another famine is feared for next Christmas. Waterfowl refuge may have to close DELTA (CP) — The Reifel waterfowl refuge, a sanc- uary for migratory birds, captors and shorebirds at the mouth of the main arm of the Fraser River, is struggling to remain open. The federal government's paring of the Canadian Wild life Service late last year has already led to elimination of the sanctuary's wildlife in terpretation program as of March 31, and shelved is a program to maintain and de. velop the 325 hectares of Reifel Island that are open to the public. The interpretation _pro- gram was one of five elim inated by Environment Can. ada following Finance Minis. ter Michael Wilson's Nov. 8 economic statement. Reifel Island and the sur. rounding marsh and tide flats isa habitat in the Fraser estuary — a key nesting and staging area for millions of migratory birds on the Pacific flyway. Snow geese, for instance, nest in the Soviet Union and winter on the Pacific coast of North America — about 20,000 of them at the Reifel sanctuary. The wildlife service pullout also means the B.C. Water. fowl Society, which has-been gradually turning over con trol of the area to the service, can't afford to run the refuge. “We've got about three or four months left, and then we're really in dire straits,” sanctuary manager Trefry said Monday. “If the wildlife society is not here, then the place will close, with no public access, or we'll open it all up with no if they open it all up, it would be a disaster. It would be worthless as a wildlife are: Rob Butler, senior wildlife. service interpretive biologist at the Reifel sanctuary, said it could be completely closed. “That wouldn't "be very popular, but that is an option,” said Butler. “I'm not terribly optimistic — the government just doesn’t want us involved. George C. Reifel, a gen. tleman farmer and hunter, settled the island and re- claimed much of it from the dikes early in the century. In the 1960s, he donated 40 hee tares of land, through a long-term lease, to the water. fowl! society to maintain as a bird saentuary. The provin- cial and federal governments eventually acquired the rest of the island. The society's membership fees and b weren't Brian L. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certified General Accountants 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 enough to keep operating and the number of visitors began to dwindle from about 100,000 in the late 1970s to only about 30,000 last year. Education spending re. straint left schools little money for student field trips. Stores using 2 measures WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) — While the move away from metric may be popular with shoppers who have trouble telling their pounds from their kilograms, many meat managers are seeing double — double prices, that is. Since the federal govern ment decided not to prose- cute two Toronto service station owners for pumping gasoline by the gallon, the steady progress of Canada's conversion to the metric sys- tem has ground to a halt and the metric laws are under re- view. But for butchers and meat cutters who have opted to sell meat by the pound again, the government's position has them in a quandary. Some say their customers have never really learned to use the metric system and most orders are still placed in Imperial measurements. But all say that they and their staffs have adapted. Ida McNamara, inquiries co-ordinator with the Metric Council of Canada in Ottawa, said the decision not to pros- ecute those people who do not follow the metric laws “is not a reverse,” but she ad- mitted it is a “setback.” CHANGED SCALES Until the government de- cided to overlook infringe- ments, meat vendors were required to change their scales to measure in kilo- grams, advertise in metric units and print the metric weight on each package. The Imperial weight could be printed as well but had to be less prominent than its met rie equivalent. Now that pounds are once again acceptable, several stores are using the two different measures. Dominion chain stores, for instance, display both the metric and the Imperial weight Ron Lavoie, assistant meat manager of a Windsor Do- minion store, said the chain has opted for the dual meas. urement “because the metric prices are very confusing toa lot of people.” But he said younger buy ers seem to accept the metric system. “I'm starting to catch on myself. If people really want to apply themselves, they can learn it.” Lavoie said for those items which don't carry an Imperial tag, he and his staff advise customers to multiply the weight by two and add a little bit. MARK IN IMPERIAL Jerry Dawson, a meat cutter at another Windsor food store, said meat is also sold in kilograms but the price per pound is displayed on the ticket at the counter and employees mark the pound weight on each pack age. Most order meat in pounds, he said, although European people seem to have a good grasp of the metric system One Windsor quality meat outlet simply never bothered to change to the metric sys. tem. A spokesman for Sch wab's Finest in Meats stores said most customers prefer to buy meat by the pound. “People who shop in the chain stores are converted to metric but since we never sold in metric, our customers didn’t have to switch over,” he said. Gerry Schinkel, owner of Schinkel’s Meat Market in Essex, said the meat is measured in kilograms but the price per pound is listed on the wall. He said he doesn't mind telling the cus. tomers the price of meat in pounds, “but personally,’ I wish the government would stick to their guns. The public is not learning (metric) fast enough.” With planned metrifica tion, “everybody was in the same boat. I think it's a bet. ter system. This half and half is no good.” Births & Funerals BIRTHS BARSALOU To Jennie Bor salou of Trail, @ girl, born Dec 19. BUCKLEY To Mr. and Mrs Thomas Buckley of Rossland, a girl, born Dec. 30. CHAMBERS To Mr. and Mrs Jim Chambers, @ boy, born Dec 2 CHERNENKOFF To Mr. and Mrs John Chernenkotf of Crescent Valley, a girl, born Jon 2 D'LERMA — To Mr. and Mrs. Ed DiLerma of Kaslo, a girl, born Jan. 4 DUNNETT To Ryan Dunnett and Tracy Wallace of Argenta, a girl, born Jan. 6 EYTCHESON — To Mr. ond Mrs Eric Eytcheson of Robson. a girl born Jan. 14. FONTES To Mr. ond Mrs. George Fontes of Blueberry. o boy. born Jon. 10. GABLE — To Mr. ond Mrs. Dun can Gable, a boy, born Jon. 6 HALVORSEN — To Mr. ond Mrs Vider Halvorsen, @ girl, born Dec. 31 JOHNSON — To Mr. and Mrs Bruce Johnson of Nelson. o boy born Jon. 1 LoFACE — To Mr. and Mrs. RA Loface. a boy. barn Dec. 27 MARKIN To Mr. ond Mrst Terrance Markin, of Castlegar. o girl, born Jon. 12 MONTGOMERY — To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Montgomery. a girl born Jon. 4 NIELSEN — To Mr. ond Mrs. Glen Nielson of Prince George. o gir born Jon. 6 POPOFF — To Mr. and Mrs. Rick Popott of Nelson, @ girl, born Jan SALEKIN — To Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Salekin of Robson, o girl Jon. 14 born SCHEITEL — To Mr. and Mrs. Tim Scheitel of Nelson, a girl, born Jon. 11 STANBRA — To Mr. and Mrs Larry Stanbra of Castlegor, o boy, born Jan. 10. TARASOFF — To Mr. and Mrs Bill Tarasolt of Siocon Pork, a boy, born Jon. 8 THANEUF — To Mr. ond Mrs Poul Taneut of Nelson, o boy born Jan. 10 WALKER — To Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walker of Castlegar, o boy, born Jon. 4 DEATHS BERNDT — Floyd Max Berndt, 62 of Montrose died Jon. 12 in Trail Regional Hospital. Memorial donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family as expressions of sympathy. CONTIN — Nicole Contini, 83, of Yountville, Calif. died Jon. 4 following a long illness FREDERICKS Former Trail resident Leona _ Eleanor Fredericks died Jon. 13 at her home in Abbotstord, She wos 56. Mrs. Fredericks Cominco in Trail betore being transterred to the Vancouver of fice, later moving to Abbotstord. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Conadian Cancer Society, B.C. or Yukon division McDICKEN Mary McDicken Auxiliary elects The Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Robson Volunteer Fire Department have elected Silvia Wilkes as president Other newly-elected offi cials are: Zella Ozeroff, vice president; Sharon Taylor, secretary; Gail Markin, treasurer; and Bev Postni ~ koff, public relations. In their annual report, the Auxiliary said. “We have succeeded in our activities to (their) fullest The following Auxiliary events took place last year a donation of $100 in Jan uary towards a reward for the dog poisoner. © a “Valentine honeygram” event in February © a bingo at Robson Hall in March; ea bar and concession at the Fireman's Annual Pool Tournament in April; © the Auxiliary bought crests. It also donated $25 for the Little Lassie ball team; @ held second annual Fire. man's Competition at Pass Creek Park in July, and also catered the supper at the B.C. 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Commercial & Industria 1008 Columbie Avenve. 365-3388 & GIBSON NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Full, complete ond sole The Plumbing & copyright in ony printed mat ter produced by Castle News Lid. is vested in and belongs to Castle News L1d.: provided, however that copyright in THAT PART AND THAT PART ONLY of any advertisement uzzi* Crane * Duro Pumps & Softeners * PVC Pipe Fittings * Septic Tanks and belong to the advertiser CASTLEGAR NEWS Established Aug. 7, 1947 Twice Weekly May 4.1980 Incorporating the Mid-Week Mirror published from Sept. 12, 1978 LV. (Les) CAMPBELL ALL TYPES OF Publisher Aug. 7, 1947 o AL PRINTING to Feb. 15. 1973 © Letterheads © E BURT CAMPBELL © Brochures * Roftle Tickets Publisher Ete., Ete. RON NORMAN. Editor Perer OFFSET & LETTERPRESS HARVEY, Piont Foreman WEB PRESS FACHITIES CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. 345-7266] Feb; VOL. 38, No.7 By RON NORMAN Editer Castlegar council had good news and bad news when it unveiled its 1985 provisional budget Monday. The good news is the provisional budget totals $7.7 million, down about $35,000 from last year’s final budget. The bad news is that taxes will still increase by 3.73 per cent this year. Taxpayers will pay $2,136,380 — up $76,850 from $2,059,530. The first provisional budget presented at the Dec. 3 council meeting, proposed a 1.08 per cent increase in general taxes. That budget included a garbage collection fee for homeowners. Without the garbage fee, the increase in general taxes would have been 4.5 per cent. However, council has decided against introducing the garbage fee until it has completed a study of the proposal. As well, council cut back in certain areas and anticipates a $20,000 surplus from 1984. That accounts for the drop in the tax increase from 4.5 per cent in the original provisional budget to 3.73 per cent in thé provisional budget passed Monday. Council could still change the budget between now and the May 15 deadline for the final budget. A breakdown of the provisional budget shows that general government services — things like council and ini i buildin, and el CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 23, 1985 3 Sections (A, 8 & C) will total $106,113 this year, up from $79,750 last year. Recreation and cultural-services — which include the Kinnaird Hall, parks and the library — will total $203,780, up from $179,100 in 1984. The major savings comes in the area of fiscal services, which includes the city’s debt servicing costs, reserves, and the capital fund. This is down about $160,000 to $1,089,360 from $1,257,163. City budget down, taxes up Council has also put aside $5,000 for planning and development of a training area for city firefighters, and $5,500 for four sets of breathing apparatus. The city plans to contribute another $10,000 toward downtown revitilization and $20,000 toward beautification of the community complex. In other council news, First City Investments Ltd. of Vancouver has asked for a 12-month extension of its 4 — will increase about $4,000, from $496,500 in 1984 to $500,334 this year. Protective services will also increase slightly, from $643,300 last year to $659,130 this year. Transportation services, which includes the city yard and road maintenance, has been cut from $878,430 in 1984 to $844,140 this year. Garbage and cemetery expenses will increase from about $130,000 to $137,000. Environmental development costs for things like planning and the industrial commission hile, the city’s capital ii only slightly from the first provisional budget presented in December. Included in the capital expenses are $33,500 for a five-ton dump truck with plow, $18,000 for two half-ton pickup trucks, $3,000 for completion of the water line to Zuckerberg Island Park and $10,000 for toilet facilities for the island park. As well, the city has earmarked $35,000 for paving projects, including four blocks on 4th and Sth Avenue in permit. First City plans to construct a shopping mall at 1540 Columbia Avenue and was granted a development permit a - year ago. Under the terms of the permit, work on the project must begin within a year and be completed within 18 months. The permit also instructed the city to return the land to its original zoning — single family residential — should First City not comply with the terms. However, council has decided to seek advice from its north Castlégar, and another $84,000 for storm sewers. By CasNews Staff The Central Kootenay Regional District has received #equire more land for fi * i He weit [iy eet aig Pe? Hie il 4 t iH i DIRTY WORK . . . Garbage at Ootischenia dump is covered with fill. Dump will double in size too accommodate commercial users. —_ si CosNews Photo by Ron Norman INTO MENGELE REPORTS Mulroney wants inquiry NEW YORK (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has ordered an inves tigation into old Canadian files on Dr. Joseph Mengele, including a 1962 ap plication by the Nazi war criminal for a visa to Canada, it was disclosed today. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wisenthal Centre in Los An geles, announced at a New York news conference that the prime minister's office advised the centre's Canadian representative, Sol Littman, of the ac “tion this morning. Hier said the prime minister called upon Justice Minister John Crosbie and Solicitor General Elmer MacKay “to launch a vigorous investigation” into the case of Joseph Menke, the alias Mengele used when he applied to the Canadian Embassy in Buenos Aires for admission to Canada as a landed im migrant The Wisenthal Centre has asked Mulroney to make public Canadian in telligence correspondence with the United States involving Menke or Mengele that the Reagan administra tion refuses to release on national security grounds. “It seems our own (United States) government has not taken this matter seriously . .. and we again call upon the United States to release four docu ments involved in the case of Dr. Joseph Mengele,” Hier said. The Wisenthal Centre plans court action in Washington in the next few days to try to obtain the documents from official files. tries. ity check. under the Freedom of Information Act. Hier said new documents already uncovered by the centre's investiga tors indicate that Mengele was ar rested by U.S. authorities in Vienna in 1947, but there is not confirmation yet The centre wrote letters to both Mulroney and President Ronald Rea gan, urging them to formally launch in vestigations in their respective coun. So far, the United States has refused to open all of its files on Mengele. Mulroney wrote to Littman today saying that he wanted Crosbie and MacKay to report their findings to the prime minister immediately. Littman wrote the prime minister that Mengele, under the name Menke, applied for the Canadian visa in Buenos Aires in late May or early June, 1962. A copy of the letter made public said the application was apparently for. warded to West Germany for a secur. Documents now in the hands of the centre reveal that the Canadian visa control officer in Cologne, G. Mel Bailey of the RCMP, made a request for background information on Joseph Menke from the U.S. Army Central Registry on June 18, 1962. On June 26, U.S. intelligence res ponded that Menke was one of Men gele’s several aliases. “What is particularly distressing,” Littman wrote the prime minister, is that neither immigration nor the RCMP seém to have any record of the application or any notation that Men gele’s application for admission to Canada was rejected “Nor is there any evidence that Can adian authorities, having learned of Mengele’s identity and whereabouts, made any effort to inform the West German government.” West German arrest warrants for Mengele have been renewed regularly. As head surgeon at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, he has been directly blamed for the deaths of 400,000 Jews. Littman, who also held a news con. ference on Mengele in Toronto today, told Mulroney that there is the “fright ening possibility” that Mengele may actually be living in Canada. Hier did not strongly support that theory. Mengele, now 73, has been re ported seen in various Latin American countries. Some late reports claim he has been seen in a Mennonite village in northern, Paraguay. The Wisenthal Centre wants Mul roney to release the Canadian side of the 1962 correspondence on Mengele contained in U.S. government files. This is denied to the centre under Executive Order 12356 of the Freedom of Information Act which specifies that documents of a foreign government should remain secret. Nelson lawyer guilty NELSON (CP) — Lawyer Ronald Walter Khadikin was jailed for one day and fined $2,000 Tuesday after being found guilty of attempting to obstruct justice by threatening the life of a witness. Judge Kerry Smith noted Khadikin would likely lose his licence to practise and said that was also a punishment. Testimony was given that on Oct. 21, two days after Khadikin was charged ith buggery and gross indecency, he visited the home of lawyer Philip Goody, who had given police a state ment regarding those charges. Goody testified that Khadikin had half closed his eyes in what Goody des cribed as a “melodramatic look” and said, “You realize further there's a contract on your life.” Khadikin testified that he would not have wanted to coerce Goody because he didn’t consider Goody's evidence to be harmful “In fact, there were parts of his evidence that I thought could help me,” he said. He repeatedly said his com ment to Goody “was intended as a joke and taken as a joke.” But prosecutor Richard Cairns said it was not a joke but was intended to frighten Goody into changing his tes- timony. Passing sentence Tuesday, Judge Smith said: “The only issue is whether the accused lied in saying this was a joke.” solicitor before making any decision on the extension. You'll have a say about education By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Castlegar residents will have a chance to tell the provincial gov- ernment what they think about the B.C. school system. In an independent study commis- sioned by the Ministry of Education, residents across the province will be given the opporturiity to express their views about the school system through public meetings, gallup polls and writ- ten submissions. Castlegar school board chairman Doreen Smecher announced the study at the board’s meeting Monday night. Smecher is also member of the three- person committee which will co-ordin- ate the collection of data. The committee also includes schools superintendent Terry Wayling and re- The district also has a 27-minute video tape, available to groups which summarizes the questions in the dis- cussion paper. Two tapes are available to groups to borrow at no cost. Providing the pamphlets arrive on time, the first public meeting intended primarily for parents and students in Grade 11 and 12 will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Kinnaird Junior Sec- ondary School gym. Anyone else who can't make the on another night will be able to attend this meet- ing. A meeting for various community organizations will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at KJSS. Employee groups will meet with the committee at 5 p.m. on Feb. 5 in the SHSS library. Smecher said the committee is also source centre Jean Chris- tiansen, who will also be the project director. A series of public meetings are ten. tatively scheduled for February to give residents a chance to respond to 41 questions asked in a discussion paper called, Let's Talk About Schools. Before the meetings parents will re- ceive a pamphlet outlining the topies in the discussion paper. Parents will have two weeks to look over the pamphlet before the meetings are held. Wayling said the district hasn't re- ceived the pamphlets yet, but as soon as it has the pamphlets will be sent to parents through their children at school. Copies will also be sent to groups like service organizations, fraternal organ izations, church groups and municipal councils. —inside TOOLS FOR PEACE: The West Kootenay Tools for Peace campaign collected @ staggering $136,000 wor th of goods to send to Nicaragua. For an update on the campaign and where the tools will be a4 about 50k ot STRONG AND FREE?: WINNIPEG billions of dollars in nuclear submarines, Canado’s Department of National Defence is spending $160,000 on aluminum canoes. Misty River Marine Ltd., based in the town of Blumenort, Man. prep: to hold a special noon hour meeting with the senior secondary students if they wish. As well, the committee will be in the board room of the school board office from 2 - 4 p.m. Feb. 6 and 7 to receive written or oral briefs Smecher said all information from public meetings must be submitted to Vancouver by Feb. 27 and written briefs must be submitted by March 15. The Gallup Poll organization has also been retained to interview a random sample of citizens throughout the province. Two types of interviews will be conducted — 45-minute face-to-face interviews with taxpayers who are not involved in education; and 35-minute telephone interviews with people who are directly involved in education. During the interviews, respon. 2 continued on poge A: DEATH INQUIRY: A coroner's inquiry has ruled that a Shoreacres woman died as a result of heat exhaustion in a sauna 2 While other nations invest tract to supply 200 canoes return for a fill-up... A2 over the weekend... 8 peg. has been awarded a con- They will be delivered to six Armed Forces bases across the country by the spring and are intended mainly for water training in survival courses and for recreational uses. MAC ATTACK: A Tory back-bencher isn't pleased with the new Petro- Canede promotion that offers a coupon worth $1 off a Big Mac in LEGION WINNERS: The Wes Guymer foursome from Castlegar cap- tured the Royal Canadian Legion West Kootenay zone ploydowns 1