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B6 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 2, 1981
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B.C.
tops

in auto
mishaps

VANCOUVER (CP) — An
automobile accident occurs in
British Columbia every four
minutes, Every 12 minutes
someone is injured and every
12 hours someone is killed.

The Insurance Corp. of
B.C. says the-high rate of
automobile accidents in the
province costs more than
$500 million a year.

Tom Holmes, president of
the Crown corporation, said
B.C. has the highest auto
accident death rate in Can-
ada,

There have been 509,000
claims filed with the insur-

§

On Jan, 1, 1982, B.C.'s two
million vehicle owners will
face an average increase in
auto insurance of 20 per cent,
an increase the corporation
blames on the increasing
number of accidents and the
spiralling costs of settling
claims.

Holmes said that during
the last year prices for auto
parts have increased 23 per
cent. Body shop costs have
risen 20 per cent, towing
costs 19 per cent, daily hos-
pital costs 89 per cent and
defence lawyer costs 30 per

Holmes also said an in-
crease in the number of ve-
hicles in B.C., a reduced seat
belt usage and an increase in
accidents, injuries and fat-
alities have helped cause in-
creased premiums,

“This increase should
really come as no surprise,”
Holmes said. “Motorists in
other parts..of Canada are
facing similar increases by
private insurance companies
for similar reasons.”

Holmes said the corpor-
ation is fighting to keep costs
down in all areas. ¥

we have no control at all," he
said, “is with the motorists —
the driver behind the wheel.

The corporation recently

School briefs...

driver
programs in a bid to create
better attitudes among dri-
vers,

The problems of drinking
and driving have been in-
troduced in ‘such secondary
school as

Castlegar school board, at
its inaugural meeting Tues-
day, added $1.76 million to its
1982 capital expense prop-
osal.

The money will be used at

social science studies, chem-
istry and biology. For in-
stance, chemistry students
learn how a breath analyser
works, , while biology stu-
dents study the effects of al-

ance corporation thislyeay. cent.

“But the one area where cohol on the human body.

Stanley Senior
Secondary for a number of.
projects, including: an addi-
tion to the gym; removal of
the existing stage and dress-
ing rooms; a storage addi-
tion; upgrading the change
rooms; upgrading the exer-

cise and weightlifting arca;
upgrading physical education
teachers offices; improving
janitorial storage area; up-
grading activity room; pro-
viding thrust stage and re-
movable bleachers; and re-
moving the existing field
equipment building.

The board agreed that its
chance of receiving provincial
funding for all the projects
were very low. It decided to
priorize the items with the

change rooms
the top of the list,
o gym change Fo
tech faoti, and finally up:
grading of the activity room.
The boar o approved a
recommendation to request
Ministry of Education ap:
proval to sell a lot to the B.C.
Building Corp. “for a fair
market value.” The lot will

make up part of the land for,

the new Castlegar court
house.

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CBC-TV returns to Slocan Valley

The towers are up, an:
tennas have been tuned —
CBC television is back on the
air in the Slocan Valley.

After several months with-
out service, CBC has been
brought back stronger than
before with the completion of
a $600,000, four-antenna sys-
tem of re-broad in.

clear view of every house in
town — a sure sign that good
reception is virtually certain
on the UHF band.

To the north, New Denver
was in site, confirming that
the passed-on signal will
reach that community for
local distribution and to be

stalled. by the Crown cor-
poration.

While bugs may take an-
other three weeks to sort
out, residents from Crescent
Valley north to Hills should
already have a clear and de-
pendable picture,

Non-profit community
groups had provided a lim-
ited-range CBC service until
recently, but despite their
best efforts the systems
would fail occasionally due to
severe weather or the limi-
tations of the equipment they
could afford to install.

When CBC began building
its long-awaited and top-
quality system earlier this
year, some of the community
re-broadcasters switched to
CTV in order to avoid dupli-
cation.

Since then, delays have
created a gap in CBC service
which has only ended this
week,

Responding to complaints
about the lack of service in
recent months, MP Lyle
Kristiansen began working
closely with CBC to speed the
new system's installation.
Until alerted by Kristiansen,
CBC had not known that the
national channel was no
longer available to most of
the valley.

Using a rented helicopter
last week, a member of the
MP's staff joined CBC project
manager Bob Halliday in a
final inspection tour of the
four transmitters at Crescent
Valley, Winlaw, Slocan City
and New Denver.

At two locations workers
were on site making final ad-
justments or cleaning up the
debris of their work. In each
case the equipment looked
modern and expensive.

A blue sky and the snowy

tains were the backdrop of
Slocan City. Hovering just
above the 60-foot tower west
of the village, there was a

Missing boys
remain a
mystery

NEW LISKEARD, ONT.
(CP) — The case of two boys
and their supposedly missing
mother may remain a mys-
tery, says provincial police
Const. Larry Flower.

The case began Nov. 20
when a boy called a hair-
dressing salon in this north-
ern community, asking for
his mother.

On Nov. 23, he called back,
saying he and his two-year-
old brother were ina cottage
on a gravel road near &
highway across from a small
lake. He said he was from
Toronto, his mother was
driving a blue Volkswagen
and his family had relatives
in the area.

Police searched and a radio
station appealed for public
assistance, to no avail. The
next day, he called the Chil-
dren’s Aid Society, saying he
was on Lakeshore Road. Po.

hed

aimed th it beyond
Slocan Lake to the viewers of
Roseberry and Hills.

The Slocan village trans-
mitter perched on its tower is

transmitting to those below jm

on channel 89 UHF, which is
also picked up at New Den-
ver and distributed there on
channel 17 UHF.

Those living in the central
Slocan Valley south of Slocan

village will pick up their new %

signal on channel 12 VHF
(Very High Frequency)
transmitted from a snow-
bound antenna out of x te
above Winlaw on the east
side of the valley.

This location, the only one_

of the four transmitters on
the longer radio-wave VHF.
band, will be the most widely
received, not only because it
has 10 watts of power,
compared to Slocan village's
four, but because VHF sig-

nals travel farther and even ®:

bend around slight curves in
the valley.
Unlike UHF, which is vir-

tually line-of-site, the VHF ¢,

will be picked up by many
who will not be able to see
the Winlaw transmission site
from where they live.
However, there are limits
and not everyone is guar-
anteed a perfect picture.
While CBC engineered its
project to provide the widest
possible reception, there
could be some gap. The un-
lucky few may have to turn
to Kristiansen’s office for

By STEVE KERSTETTER

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Supreme Court of Canada
Tuesday chrew out the con-
viction of two British Colum-
bia women for soliciting, in a
case that seems certain to
increase the pressure for
stricter laws against prosti-
tution

Dana Leanne Whitter of
Burnaby and Karen Elaine
Galgot of Vancouver were
arrested by undercover po-
licemen in separate incidents.

=" on the streets of Vancouver

; their convictions ‘on

in 1979. -
Whitter was convicted of

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 2, 198)

Prostitution law lenient?

minutes before their encoun-
ters with the police, and ar-
gued that this was evidence
of persistence.

,. However, the Supreme
Court said there was no proof
the earlier approaches in-
volved soliciting and ruled
unanimously in favor of the
women.

The court’s decision came
just days after the mayors of
eight cities met in Toronto
and agreed to ask the federal
government to strengthen
the provisions of the Criminal
Code on prostitution.

Tv.

Vancouver Mayor Michael

in pi court

and sentenced to 14 days in

jail. Galgot was convicted
and fined $300. ch

Both. women appealed

the

grounds the Crown had failed

"to show any element of per-

Christmas mail deadlines

It's time, the Canada Post
Corporation reminds Canadi-
ans, to check the deadlines
for their Christmas mailings.

Like last year, the 1981.

greeting card postage rate is
15 cents. This year, however,
Canadians have their choice

d booklets
how to make the most of
available TV signals.
The fourth it is

of three different Christmas
stamp designs all bearing the
same

at Crescent Valley, again on
the east side of the river.
Here signals on channel 33
UHF are beamed in two dir-
ections; north up.the valley
again and roughly west to

Christmas cards to Eur-
ope, Australia, Africa, Asia,
and Central and South Amer-

ica must be airmailed no later
than Dec. 5. In the case of
Great. Britain and Northern
Ireland, your Christmas
cards can be airmailed up to
Dec. 12.

All greeting gards going
overseas, whether. by surface
or airmail, must be left un-
sealed and marked “printed
papers” to meet international
requirements. Christmas
cards sent in Canada and to
the U.S.A. must be sealed,

and those addressed to the
U.S. must. be marked
“printed paper,” and mailed
by Dec, 138.

Cards and parcels for local
delivery must be mailed no
later than Dec. 17. Christ-
mas cards and first class par-
‘cels for out of town must be
mailed no later than Dec. 13.

Parcels sent out of town by
other than. first class mail
must be mailed by Dec. 5.

sistence or pressure, a re-

quirement for supporting a ,

charge of soliciting under the
Code.

at the
time that a prostitute has to
put a wrestling hold on a
customer before a charge of
soliciting will stand up in
court.

Justice William McIntyre
said Parliament may have in-
tended the Criminal Code to

The Crown said each of the $i

women had approached a
number of men on the street

Red Deer
area more

cancer prone

RED DEER, ALTA. (CP)
— The Red Deor area in cen-
tral Alberta shows a higher
incidence of breast cancer
than the rest of the prov-
inces, says Dr. G.B. ‘Hill,
director of the provincial de-
partment of epidemiology.

The department is drafting
a research proposal to ‘in-
vestigate the problem, he
said, adding there is no ex-
planation for the higher inci-
dence.

“It's a bit of a: mystery. I
guess the only way we'll find
out is to go and see what the
risk factors are like in that
area.”

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be applied in .a\ way that
would have upheld the con-
viction of the two women.
But he said the way the code
now is written doesn't allow
that.

“If change {is desirable in
this respect. it is my view
that legislative action would
be necessary,” he wrote.

Justice. Minister Jean
Chretien told a ons
committee meeting today
that the court's decision will
be reviewed to see if further
changes in the law are
needed. x

Following an earlier de-
eision by the Supreme Court
along the same lines, several
cities enacted municipal by-
laws against soliciting, in ar
effort to plug the loopholes in
the Criminal Code. But some
of those, bylaws are under
challenge in lower courts be
cause, they conflict with the
federal criminal law. i

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The ‘nearby Shoreacres
and Kootenay: River region
should already be served by
an existing CBC transmitter
at Bonnington on channel 13

Various channels are used
to avoid “ghosting,” as one
signal overlaps another on
the same channel. ‘Because ,
the ranges of the four trans-
mitters cannot be set to meet *
exactly, some people will find
they have CBC reception on
two channels, perhaps 12 and
33 in the central valley.

Some viewers will wonder
why higher-number channels
are being used by three of
the transmitters on the UHF.
band. According to project
engineer Halliday, although
there may not be local broad-
casting on. several of the
channels below 18, they
would be interfered with by
distant stations if put into
local’ service. $

Avery few people will find
they have old television sets

which cannot pick up UHF *

signals above channel 18. As
signal converters are difficult
to find, these people might
want to invest in a more
modern TV, all of which are
required to have UHF tuners
and dials. F

BRICKS AGAINST PROPS

Nothing more has been
heard from the boy and at-
tempts to locate: his mother
have been unfruitful.

MON.,

CITY OF CASTLEGAR
THE 1981,»

INAUGURAL
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. CASTLEGAR

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