‘ August 17, 1968 Ancient travels mapped VANCOUVER (CP) — A priceless collection of colorful and sometimes nessman or traveller might want to visit along the route. maps from pi di Japan is tangible proof that the island-bound Japanese have loved travelling the world for centuries. The University of British Columbia collection of more than 900 maps and guide books — with one map di back to 1645 — provides an im- portant glimpse into how Japanese people lived and what travellers did, says Asian studies professor John Howes. “The Japanese tourist is not a new invention,"’ said Howes. ‘‘In 1843 there was a great deal of travel — it was mostly business."’ The university took possession of the collection in 1964 from George Beans, a philadelphia businessman A university spokesman said the col- lection, which carried a price tag of $14,000 at the time of the sale, is considered priceless today although one estimate has the value pegged at more than $10 million. An 1843 map of the Yodo River, its colors still clear and strong, includes towns, villages and even scheduled public transport such as ferry cross- ings. It lists points of interest and Places to eat that a walking busi- The icality of the map is typical, said Howes. Unfolded, it is huge — 4.5 metres long. and 18 centimetres wide — yet when folded it fits neatly into a pocket. A select group of maps from the collection is being prepared for an intenational exhibition set to preview at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1989. The maps, carved on wood or printed on paper, are considered works of art as well as being valued for their historical accuracy. Some even have notes scrawled on them from those who have used them. “I would say that for the period this is probably about the best collection,’’ Howes said. ‘‘This is one of the areas where UBC is unique."” But the maps weren't anything special when they were made, Howes said. Some of them were likely copied in the thousands as printers worked to keep up with demand, he said Mulberry bark was used as paper for many of the maps, said Howes, and copies were reproduced by wood block printing, sometimes using up to 14 overlays to provide detailed colors on each. Northern village gets telephones VANCOUVER (CP) — The com- munity of Metlakatla, having con vinced B.C. Tel it is located in north- western British Columbia and not Alaska, can look forward to improved phone service The Metlakatla plea for full B.C Tel home-subscription service was one of 13 interventions at a Canadian Radi and T - tions Commission hearing Monday. The 43-home village currently has two pay phones and one desk phone, all hooked to the same party line. Calls are routed through a marine operator in Prince George Lawyer Jack Woodward, repre- senting the village located 13 kilo- metres outside Prince Rupert, sub- mitted a letter from B.C. Tel in which regulatory manager A.R. Russell i y the ity’s remote location on Annette Is. land was part of the reason for the denial of service The Metlakatla on Annette Island is a different village and is in Alaska B.C. Tel lawyer Peter Butler, noting ‘‘perhaps there has been some mistake as to whether it was in Alaska or B.C.,"" told the commission “there appears to be considerable merit to what they’re advocating,”’ and promised to look into the matter. When the hearing reconvened in the evening, B.C. Tel official Roy Metlakatla application was approved in July Osing, calling the situation ‘‘re- grettable,"" said he could only sur- mise why the Prince Rupert regional manager had not advised the com- munity of the July decision “I would imagine it’s simply an issue of communication,"’ he said. A B.C. Tel spokesman said Tues- day the village was to receive ap- proximately 40 residential phone lines and five to seven business lines by next May. She said the service would cost B.C. Tel more than $200,000. 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Call | 365-6616 | 6616 Castlegar * 605-18th Street Below CSCU Office Trail * 1560 Bay Ave. Zenith 1-800-224-8647 Vol. 41, No. 67 SS. r News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1988 WEATHERCAST sunny on Monday with highs 25°- 27°, Chance of precipitation is 20 per cent today and zero on Mon- day. 2 Sections (A & B) SPIKE Protest over rail spraying By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer determined protesters located a Mid- land Vegetation spray truck in Trail. The lawyer rep West Kootenay residents opposed to herb- icide spraying on railway tracks in the area says the spray truck has left the area. Terry Dalton told the Castlegar News Saturday that the truck, which was scheduled to spray Spike on the CP Rail line between Castlegar and Nelson, is believed to be headed to Calgary, though that hasn’t been confirmed. “We understand the truck was leaving our area,’’ he said. “We believe it’s back in Calgary.”’ However, Dalton said he’s had no confirmation from CP Rail on the truck’s departure. Area protesters have not seen the vehicle in the last day. CP Rail officials were unavail- able for comment. The rumored departure of the truck — owned by Midland Vegeta- tion Control Inc. of Regina — has renewed optimism among area pro- testers that Spike will not be spray- ed. That follows a large five-hour demonstration Thursday at the Bril- liant railway crossing where pro- testers blocked the track preventing the spraying. The demonstrators were back in Brilliant and Taghum on Friday but the groups were far smaller as the spray truck did not show up in either of the communities. A B.C. Court of Appeal decision turning down the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s bid to halt the spraying had sent protesters scramb- ling to the tracks in Brilliant and Taghum Thursday morning. In his decision, Justice Charles Locke said there was not enough evi- dence to show Spike is dangerous when applied safely and gave CP Rail the go ahead to spray in the area. A game of cat and mouse began as The p followed the truck to Castlegar and protesters at the Bril- liant crossing were alerted. Protes- ters who had gathered in Taghum also showed up in Brilliant Thursday morning to assist with the track-side demonstration. The group gathered at the Brilliant crossing in anticipation of the spray truck arriving in the area and Dalton advised the group on how to conduct during the tion. The plan was simple: to block the track and prevent the spray truck from spraying. Dalton advised the group that they would be breaking the law if they blocked the tracks. He said the likely charge would be mischief — in this case the unlawful interference with the legal use of land. He cautioned the demonstrators about the potential charges. “*You should know if you are con- victed there will be a chance for a criminal record,’ Dalton told the 40 people around him Thursday. ‘The effect of that criminal record could mean that you won't be able to get a passport and you won't be able to leave Canada."’ Undaunted, the protesters rallied around the crossing, waiting for the spray truck to appear. The truck arrived at the Brilliant crossing at about 11 a.m. and the group, which had swelled in size to about 150 people, assembled on the track crossing forcing the truck and the CP Rail speeder to stop. Rick Evans, deputy superintendent for the CP Rail’s Nelson region based in Cranbrook, climbed out of the speeder to speak with Dalton and protest organizer Wayne Peppard. “I have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that all of you continued on page A2 ~whr BON KUN BLOCKING THE TRACK . . . Protestors sat onthe tracks at the Brilliant crossing Thursday to keep a truck going toward Nelson and spray the herbicide Spike. The protesters were successful. The truck CP Rail managed some spraying By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer CP Rail managed to spray Spike on some of its rail lines Thursday and Friday — but not before protesters were removed from the tracks by CP Rail security. Bob Dean, 59, of Crescent Valley was one of the protesters taken from the tracks near the Celgar pulp mill Thursday afternoon. Dean and sev- eral other protesters, including Keith Light and Michael Gilfillan, followed ithe spray truck as it left Brilliant They tried to keep the truck from ad- vancing down the rail line. leading out of Castlegar past the Hugh Keenley- side dam Barbecue warning issued By CasNews Staff The Castlegar fire chief has issued a warning to owners of gas barbecues to regularly check the brass fittings on the barbe- cue. Bob Mann said a recent fire was started when tiny hairline a propane leak. The fire melted the plastic hose connecting the propane gas tank to the barbe- cue. Mann said while the fire wasn't serious, he's afraid of similar occurrences. A spokesman for a local pro- pane company says fires as a result of tiny cracks in the brass fittings are not uncommon. “We see it probably a half dozen times a year,’’ says Brian Loewen, manager for ICG Liquid Gas Ltd. However, Loewen cautions that there is no danger of an ex- FAULTY FITTING . . . Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann with brass coupling that started fire in a gas barbecue. plosion from the fire . fire could never go into he explained, be- cause the tank is pressurized, forcing the gas out. He said the concern is that the fire could spread to the barbecue owner's home. Loewen said the cracks in the brass fittings are more of a problem here than elsewhere in CosNews photo the B.C. And he guesses they are caused by the corrosive emissions from Celgar pulp mill and Cominco's lead and zinc smelter. “It seems as though brass fatigues a little quicker in this area than in other areas,"’ Loe- wen said, adding later “Whether it's the atmospheric (conditions) . . . | don't know." “I was gently escorted from the tracks at the second crossing after the ferry,"’ Dean told the Castlegar News yesterday. ‘‘At the last cross- ing by the dam they actually ran the speeder car up against me gently and escorted me away."’ Dean said the CP Rail officials were not rough with him. He said they just escorted him from the tracks. Michael Gilfillan was also out at the rail crossing by the ferry and said he was asked to leave the track “We had a few people at the crossing by the Robson ferry,” he said. ‘‘They didn't forcibly remove me. It was more like maneouvring for me."" continued on poge A2 did not pass the group but instead turned around and headed back to Castlegar. — Cosews photos by Brendon Nghe WAITING GAME. . . Mickey Kinakin catches up on current events while waiting for the spray truck to show up. Union seeks plant RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — A group of steeiworkers whose jobs are threatened say they want to buy their plant — but the company si i not interested in detailed talks at this time About 400 jobs would be saved if workers buy Western Canada Steel from Cominco Ltd. before the plant is set to close in September, said union spokesman Harold David Both union and non-union jobs at the plant in this Vancouver suburb will be lost forever if the plant shuts down, he said, because it’s the only one of its kind in British Columbia. “We want to be in the steel business and Cominco doesn't,’’ said David, an official of the Canadian Until the union assures Cominco it has the financial capability to con- clude a deal, the company is not interested in detailed talks, said Stone, the company’s vice-president for finance. ‘They have given me no indication so far as to what kind of money they are prepared to pay.” The company locked out the union on July 6 in a contract dispute David said Cominco owes the em- ployees ‘‘many millions of dollars"’ in severance pay, vacation pay and pen- sions and that money should come off the purchase price of the plant Truck crash sends driver to hospital By CasNews Staff An 18-year-old Rossland man was taken to hospital with minor injuries Allied and Workers. He said he expects the two sides will have negotiated a price within three weeks. But Cominco spokesman Bob Stone said negotiations with the union are in a very preliminary stage, while talks with another unidentified party are ‘well advanced."’ y evening after the dump truck he was driving apparently blew a tire and crashed near Fairview on Highway 22 Timothy Mayer was taken to Cas- tlegar and District Hospital where he remained overnight before he was re- leased the next morning Castlegar RCMP say Mayer was northbound on Highway 22 about 6 p.m. in a 1978 Ford dump truck loaded with gravel. Police say a wit- ness heard a ‘‘loud bang"’ just before Mayer lost control of the truck and it swerved to the right, rolling down an embankment. The truck, owned by Mayer Con- tracting Ltd. of Rossland, was exten- sively damaged Meanwhile, charges are pending following a spectacular two-car crash Thursday night on Columbia Avenue continued on page AS