SM Mounties ready for ‘nightmare’ «: CALGARY (Reuter) The muffled thud of an ex ploding stun-grenade is the signal. A handful of houetted against clear winter skies swoop around the out side of a building, the crackle of their rapid-fire machine guns pierces the air. The ‘Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the world's picture-postcard police force, are rehearsing for the Olym. pic nightmare. Armed to the hilt, faces draped by balaclavas, the highly trained Mounties are in stark contrast to their popular international image. Six years of top-level train ing have turned their units into crack anti-terrorist forces. The brilliant red tunics and wide-brimmed hats have been replaced by camou flaged clothing, West Ger man-made Heckler-Koch MP-5 submachine-guns and Swiss-made Sigsauer semi automatic pistols. But the men ready to hurl themselves into action in the name of security at Feb ruary’s Winter Games are no imposters. “There are volunteers from the force, who, after training or exercises, return to their normal duti ex plained inspector Keith Thompson, operations com mander for the mounted police’s Emergency Response Teams. “Whatever situation de- velops in Calgary and what ever imagination you use to create the worst incident, I'm confident that we'll be able to deal with it,” Thompson said. The Mounties began de- veloping emergency teams about 10 years ago, but Thompson said the move was not a deliberate bid to toughen up the image of the Mounties, associated more with a horse than a hand grenade. men sil “That's something which has been built up by the media and tourism,” he said, adding that the government decided the Mounties, not the military, should‘develop the emergency response teams. Security has been a key concern at the Olympies since the massacre of Israeli ath letes in Munich in the sum mer of 1972. The core of the anti-terror: ist operation for this winter's Games is based in Ottawa, home of the Special Emer gency Response Team which was trained by Britain's Special Air Service. Thompson said the SERT is trained to deal with terrorist acts and has no direct role to play in the Games’ security operation. Police chiefs will reveal few statistics about the Games’ security operation, which is being shared by the Mounties and Calgary police at a reported cost of about $15 million The Mounties will be re- sponsible for security at the Games mountain sites of Nakiska and Canmore where the Alpine and Nordic skiing events will be held while Calgary police will handle security at the city arenas and athletes village at the University of Calgary There are no plans to involve the military in the operation, although 600-sold iers will be on standby throughout the Games ready to react if required. Inspector Gerry Befus, head of security at the village, said armed police would be positioned on roof. tops at the village 24 hours a day Yet police chiefs maintain the Olympies facilities and the host city will not be transformed armed camps. 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For all the latest lott 87. y results turn to The bonus President Reagan Reagan reassuring Ronald tried reassure Canadians Saturday about the tree- trade agreement . . to -A3 Sunday Vol. 41,No. 3 60 Cents astlegar News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1988 WEATHERCAST Thursday will be cloudy with after noon sunny periods, temperature high of -6C. and low of -9 with little ‘or no change for Friday 2 Sections (A & B) FUEL TRUCK TIPS OVER IN PASS CREEK By CasNews Staff A local Co-op tanker truck carrying about 4,200 litres of furnace oil tipped over Saturday afternoon about 10 kilometres up Pass Creek Road. None of the fuel leaked into the nearby Pass Creek. However, Pass Creek resident Sam Hadikin used a backhoe to dig a hole underneath the fuel intake and the Ministry of Environment placed plastie and pads in the hole in the event of a spill. Allan Janzen of Esso Petroleum began draining the fuel from the tanker into an Esso truck around 6 p-m. A tow truck was on site to pull the tanker upright. The driver of the truck, Jim Meiorin of Genelle, was unhurt in the accident. Meiorin was delivering furnace oil to a house owned by Lorne Hadikin and was backing down Hai driveway when the truck tipped over in deep snow. FLIPPED TRUCK . - Allan Janzen siphons fuet oit from tanker that overturned in Pass Creek yard Saturday afterroon. CosNewsPhoto by Bonne Morgen Woodroom goes to council By RON NORMAN Editor Ald Terry Rogers plans to ask Castlegar council to try and prevent the closure of Celgar Pulp Co.'s woodroom. “I have concerns with the closure,” Rogers told the Castlegar News in an interview, adding that he is especially concerned about the 18 jobs that will be lost because of the closure. Celgar announced Dec. 9 that the woodroom, which is the pulp mill's chip-producing area, would close at the end of the year, but that none of the 18 workers would be affected until the end of January. However, the woodroom continuing to chip roundlogs. Rogers said he plans to place a resolution before council asking it to request that Celgar and the Ministry of Forests reconsider the woodroom’s closure and that Celgar continue operating the woodroom. Rogers called the request “reason- able and responsible", adding that council has a duty to “act responsibly for the future economic welfare of the community.” He suggested that if there is a surplus of chips available from area sawmills, then Celgar should look at its mill to make use of the is still Composing Room Foreman.” } A DOCUMENTS FINALIZED Water line set to go By RON NORMAN Editor Work on a $26,000 permanent underground emergency water line from the City of Castlegar to Blueberry Creek is scheduled to begin Monday or Tuesday. Kevin Lagan, the city's director of engineering services, said the city and the province were to finalize lega! documents Friday, clearing the way for the water line. The city has been supplying Blue- berry with water since Dec. 9 when residents lost their water supply because a CP Rail tanker truck spilled 30,000 litres of gasoline and stove fuel oil into the creek after sliding off an icy road during a snowstorm. The city has run 400 metres of 1 ‘-inch firehose from its industrial park to the Blueberry Creek junction to provide emergency water to the community of 800. However, a more permanent emergency line is needed after health officials ordered that water from the creek not be used until June 30, 1988 at the earliest. Lagan said the new underground line will not only provide water now, but can be used in future emergencies. However, he said the city doesn’t have any plans to provide Blueberry with water permanently. “There is not sufficient water,” Lagan explained, adding that the city would have to upgrade its system before it could add Blueberry resi dents. Mayor Audrey Moore confirmed that the .city can't supply Blueberry with water. “Their water demands in the summer are horrendous,” Moore said, adding that is a time when Castlegar’s water system useage is near its maximum. However, Moore said council plans to discuss the Blueberry water issue at its annual retreat this weekend at Lemon Creek Lodge. “That's one of the things for my workshop.” She added that simply adding Blueberry- residents to the Castlegar system is a “very quick and easy solution,” but the issue is more “complex.” “It's very complex and it would take a lot of discussion,” Moore said, noting that she’s doubtful the city can sell water to Blueberry as cheaply as the residents get their water from the ereek. Moore added that there are a number of other issues to be con sidered before the city could supply water to Blueberry on a permanent, regular basis: Teachers to vote on union By CasNews Staff Castlegar area teachers will hold a union certification vote here tomorrow. In order to be formally certified as the local bargaining agent, The Tea- ching Profession Act requires a ma- jority of newly signed-up teachers to vote in favor of certification. The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation collected 98 per cent of local teachers’ signatures during a sign-up drive late last year. Mike Rodgers, president of the Castlegar and District Teachers’ As- sociation, said 138 of a possible 141 teachers signed union cards. “We were very pleased,” he said. Most locals signed up about 90 per cent or more of their members and seven locals signed up 100 per cent of their members. The seven are: Hope, Queen Charlotte, Windermere, Kere- meos, Shuswap, Summerland and Fort Nelson. BCTF president Elsie McMurphy says it is important for locals to pass their representation votes with strong majorities. “We want boards to know that teachers will be coming to the bar- gaining table this spring in unity and in strength,” she said in a recent BCTF newsletter. Horswill drops out of race By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Marty Horswill cannot give the Kootenay West-Revelstoke federal NDP nomination his all, and so has withdrawn from the race. Horswill, a management consult ant from Nelson, says “personal and family reasons” have led him to the decision to concede the nomination race. “I found that-I am not able to give the undivided |attention to the NDP nomination it deserves,” Horswill said in a formal statement. So far, four other candidates have declared their intention to run: Ron Schmidt, a Steelworker official who lives in Castlegar; former NDP MP Lyle Kristiansen of -Nelson;, Don Scarlett, an engineer from Kaslo; and Dorothy Kinakin,a—Nelson school distriet custodian: But Horswill wouldn't say who he favors for the nomination. “I haven't had the time to consider the other candidates,” he told the Castlegar News. Horswill, who announced his can. didacy Oct. 13, says he still an enthusiastic NDP supporter.” Horswill says that although there are many important jssues in the next federal election, free trade is the main one. “Once we open our borders to the multinational corporations . .. as Mul continued on page A2 chips. But he said it shouldn't close the woodroom. Meanwhile, Ed Conroy, a spokesman for the Arrow Lakes Tugboat Society, says the woodroom's cost to the company is minor compared to the recent increases in pulp prices. Conroy said the cost to operate the woodroom is about $4 a ton more than the cost of chips from area sawmills. But he said the difference is less than ‘4 per cent on the price of a ton of pulp. Conroy pointed out that pulp prices rose by seven per cent or $45 Jan. 1 to $680 a ton. As well, he says Celgar made “roughly $48 million in 1987. So why couldn't they have taken a couple of million of those dollars and worked the woodroom over and turned. it into an efficient chip producing piece of equipment?” But Conroy says his society, which represents individuals who work on the tugs that transport logs from Westar Timber’s Tree Farm Licence 23 to the Southern Wood Products sawmill and Celgar’s pulp mill, isn't only concerned about the loss of jobs. “In a sense we are crying because . . 35 people have lost their ‘jobs. That's the tragedy. But there’s a further tragedy. The other tragedy is that we're not going to have proper forest management in our area. It (the woodroom closure) is a double-edged sword.” Conroy said the pulp mill should be using the decadent roundlogs from the tree farm so that the area can be properly reforested. “In our area now, where we have such a yast amount of decadent wood. those are the areas that have to be harvested and reforested so we've got some timber for the future.” 7 Trail Daily Times pressroom to close By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer The Trail Daily Times pressroom will be closed and the paper will be printed at the Nelson Daily News beginning next month. However, Ster. ling Newspapers Ltd., which owns both papers, says it has no plans to amal. gamate the papers. Sterling will “definitely not” com bine the papers, B.C. vice-president Steen Jorgensen said in a telephone interview from Vancouver. The closure of the Times press will affect four pressroom employees, members of the Graphic Communi. ¢ations Union. However, a spokesman for the Communications Workers of America local 226, which represents composing room, newsroom, advertising and clerical workers at Trail, said there is some concern that the press merger is the first step in amalgamating the two papers. “There has been some uncertainty created by it,” said reporter Ray Masieck. “People think their jobs might be the next to go.” Masleck had said éarlier: “There's certainly a concern that composition will be the next to go,” he said. But he explained that the comp- any discussed and rejected combining the two papers’ composing rooms because “technically it doesn’t work.” Jorgensen noted: “We recognize each community wants its own paper. “It would make no sense at all—either from a business or political standpoint (to amalgamate the papers).” Jorgensen said the decision to move The Nelson Daily News to an afternoon paper from a morning paper had nothing to do with closing the Trail pressroom. “Those were separate decisions,” he said. “If we hadn't consolidated we would have (made Nelson an afternoon paper anyway).” Jorgensen’ said “cost” and prob- lems winter conditions * ceaated for carriers were responsible for the decision to publish in the afternoon. “We had difficulties in getting carriers,” he said. The. Nelson News plant is larger and has room for future expansion. Sterling said in a news release there will be more?“ cost savings” in moving the printing to Nelson because both presses have been under “under utilized.” The four pressroom employees af. fected by the change will be given jobs elsewhere in the newspaper's chain or “compensated.”