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PROGRAM EXPANDED

VICTORIA (CP) — Health Minister Jim Nielsen sald
the province's child immunization program will be
expanded to include for the first time a combination
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, He says the three
common childhood illnesses can now be prevented by a
single injection of the new vaccine that will be available at
no charge.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 24, 1981

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KILLED IN ACCIDENT
TAHSIS, B.C. (CP) — A 27-year-old man was killed
Friday in a chain-saw accident at the TahsisHemlock
sawmill on Island. A 7
identified the man as Fraser Pierce, “formerly of
Willowdale, Ont. The police and the Workers’ Compensa-
tion Board are investigating.

HOWARD A, SIMONS

VANCOUVER (CP) — Howard A. Simons, founder of
a Vancouver-based firm which became one of the world’s
leaders in forest products engineering, died Thursday at
the age 83 in Denver, Colo.

Simons founded H. A. Simons (International) Ltd. in
1944 which has engineered most of the 20 pulp mills built
in B.C, since then. The company's overseas subsidiary

d Simons’ beyond North
America to include South America, Australia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia.

ANNOUNCE EXPANSION

SARNIA, Ont. (CP) — Esso Chemical Canada Ltd., a
division of Imperial Oil Ltd., announced the start of
construction on a $35-million expansion of polyvinyl
chloride production at its Sarnia plant. John Arnold, vinyls
business manager, said the polyvinyl production capacity
will increase to about 100 kilotonnes a year from its current
level of more than 50 kilotonnes,

PRODUCTION DOWN

MONTREAL (CP) — Newsprint shipments in March
totalled 769,000 tonnes, down one per cent from 777,000
tonnes shipped during the same month last year, the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Association reports. Mill
inventories were 11.9 per cent higher at 235,000 tonnes.
Wood pulp shipments dipped 11.2 per cent to 632,000
tonnes from 712,000 tonnes and other papers down 7.7 per
cent to 204,000 from 221,000.

HELP FOR CONSUMERS?

TORONTO (CP) — Ottawa's proposed new bank-
ruptcy legislation coutd help reduce the soaring number of
consumer bankruptciés in Canada, says the man who is
responsible for the legislation. Yves Pigeon, superinten-

: dent in the bankruptcy department of the ministry of
consumer and corporate affairs, told the Ontario
Association of Credit Counselling Services the propose

ct is
arrange gual repayment at debts to creditors cathe
than go into bankruptcy.

MONEY SUPPLY DIPS .
OTTAWA (CP) — The money supply, narrowly
defined to include only currency in circulation and demand
deposits, dropped $603 million to $25.2 billion in the week
ended May 13, the Bank of Canada reported this week.
‘The bank said the figure was up $2.5 billion from a year
earlier.

COMMONS SEATS .

OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberal government is letting
the Commons turn into ‘ta bloated monstrosity" by
refusing to review rules that increase the number of MPs
every 10 years, Walter Baker, Progressive Conservative
House leader, said Friday.

The number of Commons seats will probably increase
by 30 to 312 for the next election, based on forecasts for
the 1981 census, Baker told the annual convention of the
Canadian Elevator Contractors Association.

If nothing is done to timit the automatic increase after
each major census, the Commons will eventually grow
larger than the British Parliament which has 635 MPs, he
added,

TERRY FOX DAY

OTTAWA (CP) — Terry Fox Day will be held Sept. 13
as planned but consultations will be held later to see if the
date should be changed for next year. Sports Minister
Gerald Regan said Friday.

Regan told the Commons he hopes more than two
million Canadians will take part in the Terry Fox run this
year to honor the one-legged man whose attempt to run
across the country last summer raised more than $23
million for cancer research,

TUNA FISHING

OTTAWA (CP) — While Canada and the U.S. are
expected to sign a treaty next week governing tuna fishing
off the West Coast, the fishing and boundary dispute
between the two countries off the East Coast appears no
closer to resolution.

Officials indicated Friday an announcement is likely
early next week on acceptance of a tuna treaty that should
prevent a repeat of the arrest of 19 U.S. tuna fishermen in
British Columbia waters in the summer of 1979.

Tuna fishing is covered by interim arrangement
between the two countries.

SAFETY AUDIT

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — A safety audit will be
conducted at the Weyerhauser of Canada pulp mill in this
city, as recommended by the Workers’ Compensation
Board.

The will be
tives of the Pulp, Paper and Sane of Canada
Union and Jim Snearle of the WCB on June 9.

NO JURISDICTION
OTTAWA (CP) — Eniployees have no right to appeal
to an tinemployment insurance board of referees when
they believe their employer is not passing on to them a
proper share of reduced insurance premiums, the Federal
Court of Canada has ruled. -
The trial division ruling released Friday said the
board of referees can hear complaints only from
benefit not from
employees who are not receiving benefits. Thus, the board
has no ji over

BREAKS PROMISE
TORONTO (CP) — Bitter personal exchanges erupted |
when

MICHAEL HARNADEK of Blucberry C Creek has been
awarded a $500 scholarship by the B.C, Government
Employees’ Union after walitying by writing a 2,000-

word essay on the role o

publ

ic service unions in the

community. Students applying for the annual scholar-

ship awards must be a

of a BCGEU ber and

“Strike hits Victoria’

VICTORIA (CP) — Less
than a month after the Van-
couver area started cleaning
up the mess left from a
three-month civic strike, Vic-
toria’s garbage collectors,
parks employees and other
outside workers began walk-
ing off the job.

The walkouts Friday fol-~
lowed a breakdown of con-
tract talks between the Can-
adian Union of PUblic Em-

Outside employees ‘of the.

school board took a strike
vote Saturday.

About -1,000 civic, school
board and ilbrary employees
are involved in total.

‘They want a wage increase
of $3.16 an hour over ‘two
years, like the settlement
reached in Greater Vancou-
ver, plus catchup increases
for lower paid clerical work-
ers,

GVLRA chief negotiator:
Carl Anshelm said CUPE is
asking for “far more” than
the Greater Vancouver set-
tlement.

“They're way up there in
never-never land.”

Ho said the union was
seeking an additional 26
cents per hour every three
months for clerical workers
until their lowest rate is
equal to the Iaborer’s rate, a

ployees’ union
committee and the Greater
Vietoria Labor Relations.

Association earlier in the

lay.

Workers in various de-
partments began leaving
their jobs Friday morning,
even before provincial
mediator Fred Geddes repor-
ted to the ministry of labor.

The union cannot officially
calla strike until it receives a
copy of Geddes’ report, which
was in the mail and expected
Monday, said CUPE repre-

have an academic standing of C+ of better. Eleven
scholarships were offered: this year by the union.
Michael is the son of Mike Harnadek, ‘Chief Public

Health 1 . He

Selkirk

Peter Dreidger.
Joining the 300 outside

workers Monday will be in-

side and outside workers in

is

College, and has spent a year working in different par-
ts of Canada under the federal RATIMAVIK: program.
Michael plans to obtain a degree in psychology, and en-

ter the field of montal

alth. Eric. MacFarlane,

Regional Vice-President, made the scholarship presen-
tation recently in Nelson on behalf of the BCGEU.

Also in a legal strike posi-

. tion Monday will be Vic-

toria’s inside employees and
Greater Victoria school dis-
trict clerical workers, he
added.

Oil pricing talks

OTTAWA (CP) — .Oil
pricing talks between En-
ergy Minister Marc Lalonde
and his Alberta counterpart,
Merv Leitch, are to resume
in Banff on June 10, it was
announced Friday.

The energy ministers met
far several hours in Winnipeg
on April 13 in their first
attempt to reach an agree-
ment since the controversial
national energy program was
announced in the October
budget.

Both sides reported some
progress was made following
the Winnipeg session and a
further meeting was likely.

Officials from both levels of
government have been work-
ing on new proposals tabled
in the Winnipeg talks. There
has been little detail avail-
able on the substance of the
proposals.

Lalonde and Leitch have
avoided public comment on
the negotiations, saying only
that new alternatives and

Trudeau's

cards almost
shredded

The mystery remains. How
did some of Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau's Christmas
cards almost end up in the
shredder?

Tory” Walter Dinsdale
wanted to know whether it
was true that about 100 let-
ters — including cards from
the prime minister — were
discovered as they were
about to be shredded at IKO
Industries Ltd, in Brampton,
Ont.

Was it stilla mystery how
the mail -got into the re:
cycling plant and was an in-
vestigation ‘of the incident
carried out? =<

Gary F. McCauley, par-
liamentary secretary to Post-
master-General Andre Ouel-
let, said it was all true.

But “investigators were
unable to ascertain exactly
how the mail arrived at the
plant,” he ‘said,

Dinsdale was mildly dis-
mayed that it took three
months to get an answer to
his question in the House.

“The process is almost as
slow as the post office,” he
said.

Winning
Provincial

number
Th May 22 Provincial win-
ning ticket number is
5265707. This ticket, with its
number wins.

Friday in the Ontario
members said Premier William Davis broke an election
promise not to raise taxes when His gdvernment tabled its
budget this week.

Liberal Leader Stuart’ Shnith said Davis promised
when he called the March 19 election that his government
would try to avoid tax increases if re-elected.

Davis said he had no idea at the time exactly what the

next Ontario budget would contain.

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Additional prizes are
_ $50,000 for the last six digits;

$1,000 for the last five digits;
$100 for the last four digits;
$25 for the last three digits
and ted for the last two
digit

oe next draw takes place
this Friday.

‘
approaches are being dis-
cussed. The federal minister
has refused to say whether
higher oil prices for Alberta
have been put forward.

The current domestic price
for conventional oil is-$17.76
a barrel, less than half the
average world price.

Alberta, supported by the
petroleum industry and sev-
eral key business groups, has
been demanding more rapid
increases towards the world
price than those set out in the
budget.

DECLINES COMMENT

In Edmonton, Leitch. de-
clined comment on the likeli-

Pope plans
blessing

in square

ROME {AP) — Pope
Jonn Paul, out of danger
and in “very satisfactory”
condition recovering from
gunshot wounds, should be
out of hospital and back at
the Vatican within 60 days,
his doctors said Saturday.

One surgeon said the
@1-year-old‘Roman Catho-
lic pontiff might even be
discharged within two
weeks.

“The Pope could sit ‘at
home in the Vatican and
heal just as well as he could
heal here," Dr. Emilio
Tresalti, chief medical offi-
cer of Rome's Gemelli Poli-
clinico hospital, said in an
interview.

Barring complications,
doctors said, he will be out
of the hospital within 60
days, although they said it
might take longer for him
fo recover completely.

-Doctors‘Shave said the
‘Pope eds another oper-
ation’ to ‘reverse his colos-
tomy — an intestinal by-
pass procedure performed
in emergéncy surgery af-
er he was shot March 13.
The surgery could take
place either at the Vatican
infirmary or at Gemilli,
doctors said.

PLANS SUNDAY
BLESSING

Pope John Paul was well
enough Saturday to be
planning to deliver his
weekly Sunday blessing to
pilgrims and tourists in St,
Peter's Square by special
radio hookup.

Italian investigators
questioning Mehemet Ali
Agea, the Turkish suspect
charged with shooting the
Pope andtwo American
women, said they are still
unsure whether somecne
paid Ages to kill John Paul.

“We assume there was
complicity,” said Nicola Si-

hood of an agreement saying:
“We'll have to see what his-
tory writes.”

The meeting is scheduled
to take place nine days after
Alberta starts its second
stage of oil production cuts.

Alberta began March 1
limiting maximum . produc-
tion of light and medium
crude oil to 908,000 barrels a
day, an amount . which
worked out to be 60,000 bar-

rels a day less than the avail- .

able supply over the March-
May period.

Production will be cut by
another 60,000 Hacrels a day
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Test case
in child

pornography

COPENHAGAN (AP) —
Denmark took a baby step
back from its liberal sexual
attitudes with the conviction
of three men in a test case
involving child pornography.

The trial was the first
court test of a 10-month-old
law forbidding the manufac-
ture, possession or dissemin-
ation of sexually explicit

. Material using children under

the age of 15 as models.

Ten days ago an American
court struck down a similar
law as unconstitutional. The
New York Court of Appeals
ruled that the state law
violated the U.S. constitu-
tion’s first amendment pro-
tection of free-speech.

In Denmark, the issue is
not considered a matter of
censorship but of protecting
the young. “You might say
the children are victims in
this sort of thing,” said Ib
Veder, a policeman assigned
to the case.

Copenhagen City Court
rejected the defendants’
claims that the sales were
accidental and fined them
$285 each. All three operate
shops in Istedgade, Copen-
hagen's pornography area.

Funeral

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Acid” rain, the environ-

in Eastern Canada, is start-
ing to fall in British Col-
umbia,

Tests in the Vancouver
area show rain falling here
has a pH level of 4.9 — four
or five times as acidic as
clean rain that has a pH of
5.6.

The pH value is a sci-
entific measure of acidity,
with pure, non-acidic water
having a value of seven. A
value of six means the
water is ten times as acidic
anda value of five means it
is 100 times as acidic.

Environment Canada
has nine stations in B.C. to
test the acidity of rainfall
and federal meteorologist
Bob Morrin said Vancou-
ver rainfall has the highest
acidity levels among the
stations. Prince George is
the least acidic with a pH
of six.

the University of B.C. for-
estry department, said the
typical acidity of rainfall at
the Haney research centre
near Vancouver is pH 4.5.
Tests of the Seymour wat-
ershed rainfall show pH
values around five, he said.

“At the moment there is
no cause for alarm,” he
said, “but there is definite-
ly cause. for concern.”

Feller stressed that the
acidity of rainfall is. re-
duced: considerably:
through a filtering process
by the time the water
makes its way through the
soil into streams and lakes.

Most Vancouver streams
and lakes have a pH read-
ing of about 6.5 to 7, he
said, well above the 4.5
considered lethal to fish.

No definite conclusions
have been reached- of
where acid rain originates
in B.C., but there are sev-
eral theories, Feller said.

Acid rain
falls in B.C.

mental killer pouring down.’

Dr. Michael Feller, of:

The most common the- ,
ory attributes acidity in
rainfall to- pollution from
local industries and vehi-
cles. Feller said another
theory attributes B.C.'s
acid rain to pollution that
drifts across the Pacific
Ocean from Japan in large
air masses,

Pollutants contributing
toacid rain are sulphur and
nitrogen oxides and heavy
metals particles, Feller
said.

Critics say B.C. Hydro's
proposed Hat Creek coal
burning power plant near
Kamloops will contribute
to acid rain, although a re-
cently-released Hydro en-
vironmental impact study
concluded that the 250
tonnes of sulphur and ni-
trous oxides the plant will
release into the air every
day will have no significant
effect on the environment.

Although not on the
scale of acid rain in eastern:
Canada and the United
States — rain in north-
eastern U.S, can go below
pH four; rain around Tor-
onto is in the low fours —
parts of B.C. are parti-
cularly sensitive to acid

“As the snow melts and
enters lakes and rivers,
parts of these bodies of
water can become as much
as 100 times acidic in a
very short time,” accord-
ing. to Environment Can-

ada.-

‘“One of the first things
to start disappearing will
be B.C. salmon,” said Mi-
chael Perley, executive dir-
ector of the Canadian En-

Law h

iY
domand hesatd’ would cost as :
much as 66 per cent over the
two years,

Driedger reacted angrily -

to that statement, saying the
union had changed its . de-
mand to 25 cents every six
months, which would give
the clerical workers parity in
four years.

“That proves he ‘didn't .
even look at our Inst prop-
osal,” said Driedger.

And, he said, the quarter
would be applied only to
school board clerical‘employ-
ees, who work less than
others because of school holl- ;
days,

“He hasn’t offered any- .
where near the Vancouver ;
settlement,” said Driedger.

Anshelm complained -
CUPE had dug in on a de-
mand that there be no tech-
nological change or any other
change unless it is agreed to
by the union, a demand he
said could be a strike issue in
itself.

The GVLRA has offered a
two-year wage increase of $3
an hour plus adjustments for *
tradesmen and others, -he {
said.

The offer, which: would
cost the municipalities $15 -
milllion over the two years — +
a 83-per-cent increase on the *
current payroll — include ,
a hike of 49 per cent on the :
lowest pay grade, he added. -

Said Driedger: “Yeah, but -
49 per cent of nothing is still .
nothing. If you're only get-
ting $4 or $5 on an hourly ,
basis ... that sure as hell
makes a difference.”

Outside employees earned
$8.17 an hour under the old .
contract, while the common ,
entry rate for clerical work- .
ers was $1,040 a month, said t
Anshelm, ny

Driedger said a tentative ;
memorandum of agreement ;
was drawn up Friday night -
between civic officials and. :

another 700 CUPE members *-°

in Saanich, Oak Bay, Sidney
and North Saanich, the re-.
sult of separate negotiations...;
He said no details would be ;
released until next week.

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F ion and
of Acid Rain: The North
American Forecast.

B.C. Environemtn Min-
ister Stephen Rogers said
he plans to talk to ministry
officials to determine the
cause of acid rain in the
Vancouverarea.

"get
driving with a blood alcohol -
count. over .08 were heard.
Both entered guilty. pleas.

Gerald Conkin was fined
$260 or in default $0 days in

+ jail. Dale Jenner was fined -

$350 or in default 80 days in ,
jail. ; :

Health service cuts.

VICTORIA (CP) — Cuts in
health services are being
considered to offset a 41-per-
cent increase in medicare
fees. currently being con-
sidered by the. B.C. govern-
ment and the 8,700 fee-for-
service doctors in the prov-
ince, Health Minister Jim
Neilsen said Friday.

Neilsen said cabinet still
has not agreed to the prop-
osed settlement which calls

‘for an average increase of

$89,000 compounded . over
two years for each doctor.
He said he is. concerned
about its impact on ‘the
plik all health ministry bud-

a have to look and deter-

mine now whether certain.

other areas within the health
‘ministry are going to have to

be trimmed a bit to try and--

accommodate that cost,” he
said in an interview. _
Earlier, the minister said

service

for Donald Paul

Funeral service was held
Saturday morning for An-
drew Donald Paul, 94, of
Castlegar -who passed away
‘Wednesday in the Trail Re-
gional Hospital.

Born Jan. 31, 1687, “at

mone, official
for the Rome police de-
partment. He said someone
tight have given Agea the
money he used to travel
around Europe in ‘the
months before the shoot-
ing, might have given him
a gun.or might have dir-
ectly paid him to kill the
Pope. He did not elaborate.

Paul came to Canada in 1899

settling in Glasgow, .Man., .

moving to British Columbia
in 1926 to New Westminister.

"He began working for the
Canadian National Railway in
1923 and. retired in 1951
when he moved to Prince’
Rupert where he worked for
the Department of Fisheries
until he came to the Castle-

gar-Trail area. in 1960.

He married Olive Brown in
1928 in Winnipeg.

Mr. Paul was ‘a’ member of
the Castlegar-Robson and
Trait legions. *

Mr. Paul is survived by one
son, Richard of: Castlegar;
two daughters, Donna Paul
of Toronto and Marion Watt-
Smith of Montreal; 10 grand-
children and nine great-
grandchildren and one
brother, John of Victoria,

Rev. Desmond Carroll and
the Castlegar Legion branch
No. 170 officiated at the ser-
vice. Cremation followed.

medicare fees will have to in-
crease 80 per cent this year if
approval is given to the ten-
tative agreement reached
May 7. .

This, he said, means the
taxpayers will have to com
up with an additional $80
million while individuals will

~ have to pay about $4 a month

more,

Promier Bill Bennett and
Nielsen have hinted the gov-
ernment may reject the
proposed pact because it is
too expensive.

Bennett said the govern-
ment also is looking at it from
the point of view of other

provinces and the federal ©
government: because - it ‘
doesn’t want a settlement «
that would estroy the medi- +
care system in the rest of i
Canada.

Under the previous con- ‘
tract that expired March 31,
doctors earned an average of *
$64,000 a-year after expenses

but before taxes. te

The B.C. Medical Asso- *
ciation will .vote on the °
agreement knowing that the
government plans to outlaw
the surcharing of patients by -
their doctors. Ballots for the’
fee schedule vote were
mailed Friday and will be -
counted June 15, :

(Vital Statistics ?:

DewoLr — me "ere and Mrs,
Grant DeWolt of Sgstlegar, a
daughter, born May 22.

* *
HALL —To Mr. sand eh nine Hall
of Trail, ad

Cremation fallowed,

id we
CAMPBELL — Melvin Campbell, ;
74, of Fruitvole, died suddenly
May 20 at the Trail Regional °
Hospital. Funeral service was

&
HENNE — To re and Bars, Allen
Henne of Castlegar, o son, born

STANTON — To Mr. “and Ars,
John Stanton of Rosstand, o son,
May 20.

SOVRAN _ to Mr. ond Mrs,
Sovran of Oasis, a
\

Seashten born Moy 16.

VOYKIN — To Mr. and Mrs. Cyril
Voykin of Castlegar, o son, Born
Mer i

if

IRLEY — To Mr. ond Mrs. Ar.
thor Worley of Ganello, "a
doughter, born May 21.

aiiis:
BROWN — ealth Mery Brown, 75,
of Nelson, died Alay “15. in
Kootenay Loke District "tos ital,
Memorial services were hald May
2) from the chapel of tho Thom:
Pion Funeral Home-with Re

Jomes 0, Wilaon officiating,

May 23 from St.-Pauls :
wv. Don Wright of-
ficlating. Intel nent was af Fruit-

vale Cematery.

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HEINEMAN — ga tovra

Helnemon, 64, of tna jelson, died i

May i. Funoral service was held
jay 23, es

LAUENER™ a Awittionn Louis”
Louener of Mencouver formerly of
Trall, died M lo service +

“was held ot fis: oun requast. i
*

. 50, af Nolson,

SIMON — nina eliteda Simon, }
15.

je: Sacrament
Catholic Church with
Benedet celebrant.
was atNalaon Memorial

_ WILSON — Joseph Wilbon, 68, of |

Salmo died May 18 at Kootenay +
Loke District Hospiial. Legion sere
vice, conducted Ey Ken Denis of
he Saimo Legion, was held May!
mer Gt Royal Conadion Legion in :j
cs

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KIM SMITH: protégé of the fashio

involved in

all aspects. of

the .business from books to

waiting on customers,

admits buying
exhausting.

Twa'weeks ago, Kim Smith
went to Vancouver and
bought all her winter clothes.

She and her mother spent
three long and tiring days in
a gigantic, windowless ware-
house-type building sifting
through small airless rooms
where they selected blouses,
slacks, coats, sweaters and
dresses — all in next aut-
umn’s latest colors and
styles. “Santana” jeans?
“Imagine 1°. jeans? How
about a few pairs of “Jenny
B." pants?

Kim and her mother, Kar-
en Smith, were in Vancouver
buying clothes for Update
Fashions, clothes they feel
that Castlegar women would
“wear, enjoy, feel comfortable
in and look in,

Her mother has been work-
ing at or managing Update
Fashions ‘since the store's

tege. She looks after the
books, waits on customers,
helps to pick out the clothes
for the store, and recently
has been given cheque-sign-
ing privileges.

“I thought it would be
boring,” said. Kim, but is
happily surprised ‘that she
was wrong. She loves
clothes, enjoys her work and
finds that there is “always
something” to keep her in-
terested.

Kim and her mother make
that weekend buying trip to
Vancouver four times a year.
They. buy fall clothes at the
end.of March, “holiday” ap-
parel in July and August,
spring garments in Novem-
ber and summer, wear in
January. “Kim admits that it's
“kind of hard to get tuned
ue the > Fight season” when

Bea se aaa roam

Decoy artist

Unable
up with.

WEST NANCOOVER
(CP) — In ancient a
waterfowl ‘hunter decopsd
wild gaine with a few captive
birds, When technical or
legal difficulties ruled that
out, he switched to crudely
shaped straw or wood imi-
tations.

In the last few years ima-
ginative carvers and crafts-
men have lifted decoys into
the realm of art, sculpting
and printing wooden bird fi-
gures of exquisite beauty —
sometimes valued at thou-
sands of dollars.

Some fianncial circles say

antique decoys and their
highly developed modern.
equivalents are becoming.
North America’s hottest art
investments.

To some the carving is a
hobby, but to a few it is a
career, the way to an inde-
pendent and rewarding life.

One of the few is Dave
Jackson, 40, of West Van-
couver, who got fed [Up | with
the retail

Kim
trips can be

LINDA

HALL

_ Getting to Know Your Neighbor

experimented with different
styles and shapes of clothing.
They are ig a: new
clothing size now — petite.
Kim's “amazed at the number
of women in Castlegar who
are petite.” These are in

regular misses sizes but with
shorter waists, lengths and’
sleeves.

Kim is excited about a new
line of jewelry’ they will be
carrying . shortly. “Gorge-
ous” is her description. These

: " pleces of jewelry are indi-

ALIVE with enthusiasm, Kim ‘admits she thought
working in fashions would be boring. She now finds

there is always jh

you're choosing clothes that
are one season or more ahead
of what everyone around is
wearing.

Show Mart is the name ‘of
the warehouse which houses
all the major clothing lines.
Nine a.m, is usually their

’ first appointment to view and

they don’t get away until 6:30
p.m. “By the time you get out
you're just so sick of seeing
everything,” she- said. To
choose a wide variety of
stylish apparel within a bud-
get can be “mentally ex-
hausting,” she said.

Kim. told me’ that at Up-

went se tea ie caer,

to keep

demand

, 19th century ones made of

“straw to local models carved
out of Douglas fir. So I treid
my hand at it, just hacking

away to see what I could do.”:

Jackson showed some of
his work to a friend who took
the decoys to a gift fair in
Cal

“To my shock and surprise
-~ I had no real supply of
equipment or material —he
came back with orders worth
$5,000,” said Jackson. “I was
in business and to this day I
haven't been able to keep up
with the demand.”

He has diversified as much
as he can, maintaining his
original high levels of hand
crafting, yet varying his out-
put from relatively simple
decoy-like duck ‘carvings to
sculpture of canada geese so
realistic. that people would
try to feed them if he put
them in Stanley Park. His
prices range from $150 to

His ‘models include photo-
i and car-

about five years ago and
began looking for a different
vocation,

It took a visit to a Van-
couver junk shop to turn
Jackson on to bird carving.
One day he spotted an old~
wooden duck, offered $10 for
it and took it home: '

“I was fascinated by the
thing and did some reading
about decoys, from the mid-

" graphs,

casses of real birds, carefully.
stored in friends’ freezers.
He ‘has some sophisticated
equpment but his eyes and
hands account for 99 per cent.
of the beauty he produces.

Success has had its price.
Jackson has damaged his
hands ‘more than once with
slips of his razor-sharp knives
and one time:he almost lost
his left index finger.

to keep her

date they continually strive’
to keep their clothes up-
to-date and fashionable, a
place for women who “want a
little. change and different
atyles.” They only sell two of
any style of dress “so you
don’t sea yourself walking

down the street.”

The Smith women have

jometimes: are :aevers.
actually ‘aware, of the inti-
macy, the essentialness of
some creature or thing until,
we no longer have it in our
possession, or as a part of our
environment,

The sailor is unaware of
the ship's motion until he is
aghore, and then the pitching
and tossing of the dry land
plagues him sometimes for
days. A person who lost an
arm or a leg is bothered for
years by the very real aches
‘and pains in his non-existant
fingers and toes. :

For years now, a familiar
part of my memory environ-
‘ment has been a small black
and white mongrel dog — a
kind of comer by-chanee’ bor-
der collie.

He loved to go for a walk,
whether it was 50 feet or five
miles, so that over the years
my almost automatic words
on opening the door to go out
had been “come on Toby.”

‘This invitation, if he were
not already outside, was a
signal for a jet-propelled
hysterical ‘dash through the
door, regardless of the size of
the opening, or who might be
in the way;a four-wheeled
brake stop on the other side,
followed by eager yelps and
expectant grin.

He never learned to ‘heel,’
therefore one usually had a
view of a curled ostrich-
plume of a tail waving from
side to side, and a pair of
baggy ‘trousers’ jogging up
and down as he raced ahead, —%

vidually handmade'/out of
hammered brass by a woman. .’
in Vancouver, copies of. a
1928 collection. Because they.
are handcrafted she told. me, .
“each ‘piece is different.” ..

I learned that Montreal
decides what the ‘fashion: of.
Castlegar will be. "Most: of
the clothes come from Mon-
treal,” Kim admits that many
of the eastern styles just. -
don’t go over well here at all.,

“We saw ‘duck pants’,” she.

too narrow.” Baggy, straight-
legged pants, painter pants
and jeans-.“with zippers all
over them” are very popular
now. | 2
Longer khaki walking
shorts pro! to be a pop-

ular summer item, and jump- |

suits will be coming back into
vogue, Skirt lengths will fall

. to just below the knee. Skirts:

to the ankle have still not
come back into style,’ and

according to Kim, girls look- .

told me. “What in the world | */%

are ‘duck pants’?’' I asked
her. “Flannel pants with little,
ducks all over them.” (What.
else?) “People in’ Montreal
would wear them, but people
here wouldn't wear: them at.
all.” So Kim and her mother
declined to order ‘duck pants’
forthe store, —

T asked her to give me a
‘preview of this summer's
styles. “Pastel colors are
very in. Designer jeans are
the rage right now,” she said,
“but most athletes can't fit
into Sesigner. jeans — they're

JOHN CHARTERS

Reflections &
Recollections

ing for long grad dresses will
have a hopeless time of it this
year, “We can't even get long
dresses,” she stated. “Only
one or two suppliers even sell
long dresses. The only place
tolvole might be a bridal Htion
that cari is bridesmaids

dresses.”
_ Kim never. thought she

would enjoy selling fashion so-

much. In high school at Stan-
ley Humphries she had her
i hts. set, on becoming an

deep wade, while he lapped
at the water flowing by. The
water at the edge never
seemed suitable for drinki

wounds, all the while moan-
ing piteously in an obvious
‘bid fot sympathy. These,

somehow. Perhaps bathing in
it improved the flavor — for
him. The salt water of the sea
was a great disappointment.

A visit to the island, (Mr.
Zuckerberg’s), ‘meant a fur-

‘were the
and, in any case, the joy of

ious,rustling of leaves, ashe @

made a giddy pattern of legs
and yelps amongst the silver
birch in fruitless pursuit of
the rabbit who called him in-
sulting names from the
hazels.

I was never certain whe-
ther he liked to fight or
whether he didn’t. Certainly,
taking him to town was.an
invitation to trouble, but it.
was a sort of “Dulles” trouble
—anattempt to approach the
edge of the ‘precipice’ with-.
out actually falling over.

Thus as we approached.a
possible opponent this neces-
sitated making certain initial -

warlike overtures with the /

understanding that if the:
other dog refused to be

cowed by the show, I was to ~

order him back — a neat
face-saving manoeuver, .
which sometimes backfired
en the other dog was not

paused to autograph every only bigger, but believed that

available rock, bush and hy-
cent, chen ig: sagged dizzily
er the

‘the best mode of defence is
offence.’
xt in his enthusi-

order
tons nothing that niche be

mA ‘visit to the river meant a
mad gallop along ihe rocks
and a slow dignified ‘helly-

asm he forgot to provide
himself with a ‘face’ and then
he would return home, look-
ing the picture of sorrow and _
defeat, while he attended his '

PERCIVIL

Rving each minute for itself
would doubtless have erased
any concern. for’ the possi-
bility of future‘ ‘accid ents.’
The only shadows’ in his

ambulance assistant or a ‘fst
afd attendant for a large
company.

After graduating in 1979
she went to Kelowna to study
industrial first ald and book-
keeping. Last December she
earned her CPR ticket (Car-
dio ‘Pulmonary Resuscl-
tation). First aid is still. very
much an interest of Kim's,
and she would like to pursue
itat some time in the future,

Kim was born in Trail, but
has lived most of her life with
her parents in Castlegar. She
has a brother Jim and a sister °
Dana: While ini high school
she was a member of Job's
Daughters, “worthwhile
organization” - which she

“really enjoyed.” In 1979 she

., was. the. honored |. queen,
i os as

therwisé unclouded life
were a cross word, an the
fear of being left behind. To
be’ told to stay was to. des-.:
pair; to have us come back
again was a joy accented by
ear-piercing evies' and whirl-
ing dervish gyrations. Was
this a self-centered devotion? ©
— I'm sure-it wasn't.:

He would, for instance, ait,
for hours in the driveway. if

“my. wife was away,: looking
ears"

down: the road. with:'

which meant that she did a ©
lot of the organizational work
for the group. As of ‘this
coming, June 10,; she, will
become a council member.

Kim loves sports and was, :
athletic representative of the
school when she graduated.
She enjoys tennis, horseback
riding, skiing on both water’
and snow, swimming, and is ..:
now on a juvenile softball
team. Since Valentine's Day.
she has been engaged to .
Bruno Tassone with wedding
plans for next May.

But for ‘another year how,”
at least, she'll be “helping
women to choose the perfect,
fitting dress for the occasion. °:
T love clothes, 1 like’ to’ see
people uth Bsed in ‘what they,

/pricked up and tail curl

back in‘utter unconcern for
_sup, rain or snow. And: he-
never forgot the’Pitts from |
whom we got him. They had
had: him only a few. days,
after picking ‘him up
stray pup in Castlegar, but
he never forgot the kindness.

Frequently,” therefore, “a,
visit to town had to include a
visit to the Pitts' Drug store.

And_ now ‘he’ is dead
nephritis, the’ vet~ said ‘—.
though it. makes little real
difference. It was* painless
‘and swift, a few days only, a
“thin sign, a small cry and he~.3
was gone: Chasing a shadow" ;
rabbit through’ a shadow. is-
land perhaps — for when’I':>'

uried him

It has been years now, bit’.
‘Tatil cannot leave the house:
‘without 'a) mental“come’ on’
Toby,” and have the phantom ¢
form ' making a, hysterical
“dash. through ‘the door. *

ough,

_ He races ‘along the'shore of .
time and adventure;

: : Far, across the fields of stars

forever.
‘I ‘would: like to dedicate

‘this column ‘to my children;

Jack, who :is in Vancouver,
and about to have a milestone
birthday; .to ‘Tanya, on
Hornby Island —-I know. that

Firemen hive been Kept
hopping at © the‘. National
: Horse. Show. in. Del’ Mar,
Calif.

Puzzled: firemon °.were
about .to leave ‘the’ stables
without finding a fire or the

culprit who oat. off the false a

‘alarm. °