Aé CASTLEGAR'NEWS, December 14, 1980 _ .C CROSSWORD y, Around the House... answer in Wed's paper acnoss “ With 6 Across, ‘aS necenaary evil 6See1 Across $8 Youths S1Stopt (Navt.) 00 E AUBlow duet €2Goat Geeminate,aa | 36 Nursery TNateeatss sufi ete, 2 Once around 3 Chara gia ‘M4 Sphere of tas Novahate gala Garden frame « DOWN 1 Holds in high eater her children Middle (Law) ee Eazly Persians 121 Treatise Howie Mord 1 Engl author ‘In provincial court Thurs. day Patrick Kulbaba was given a suspended sentence and placed on probation for four months after pleading guilty toa charge of failing to 4 remain at the scene of an Conditions also New Guinea town Delineated «1 Walked heavily Beira beehive en Kitchen ‘39 Engllah sand hills 95 Leaves the Paper fasteners stage Uterary works 96 Mislay lish peseccs The rabble uses Inder (poetic) 180 Masculine {rong (01 Far: comb. drink form Drnamental 10? Siatenof Ares containers 104 Part ol KKK. ‘ fixture chair 92 Make a joumey 6 Azure ‘7 Some may be wl 8 Pindsric work, Acurlothalr 97 Author Bagnold 9 Lack of the (anglole.) 10 Yiddish ravioll 37 11 Kitehen dining 42 Worth 13. Mishnah, sa Perfectly vertical supe At Mine entrances $5 One of the deadly sins Me Style of type st Decree 84 French painter included a! given amount of work serviced In provincial court , Tuesday Jozsef Molnar Pty ese inne of solution 6& minutes, cRyProquiP NZUSINW AnETU NZSF-TNTVF OFJOHF ILTAVW TE LTAP Totay's Cxyplogalp clues J equals 0 Ah the loving art Yellow bugte 16 Accomplished SECRETARY-TREASURER John Dascher of School District 5 Nes 9 meditates with his pipe while composing at his C office in —CetNewsFoto by Don Horvey Castlegor. 'b By BRUCE'LEVETT. THE CANADIAN PRESS Knockers'of dottle the world over Wil nod in their sagacity and@J8ympathise. There. in this day of equality,’ uch uniquely male pleast those attenddat upon the smoking of & pipe. One leany back, buckled into a world\ of calm and contemplati}n, breathes gently outwarg to get things going properly -and views, through slitted eye, the bub- bles as they. waft heaven- ward. Bubbles? “Dammit, Terry — have you been washing my Barl- ing?” “But it was dirty...” How to explain that she has desecrated that which was graven with tenderness from the innermost secrets of the burl of a briar root that was old when the children took ship for the Crusades? Destroyed utterly is a Ratina ennobled by a lifetime of loving application of nose- oil, “But it was DIRTY...” “It's SUPPOSED to be dirty. That's what pipes are. They are reamed, gently, in ICBC increases its — auto body shop rates The Insurance Corporation of B.C, has announced a two stage increase in the rates paid to the Province’s auto body shops. The first is effetive immediately while the second becomes effective April 1, 1981. ° The categories are also changed. There, will be just two shop rates, One covering hours involving general body material use and a second. involving paint work. The rate increases are as follows: The shop rate for basic labor was $25.60 an hour and the rate when using body materials was $28.80 in 1980. These are now combined and President ‘Tom , Holmes said, “The Corporation has been involved in extensive discussions with industry | representatives and believes the i e ‘itabl the new. rate ‘effec immediately is $29.25. It will increase to $32 on April 1, 1981. When using paint materials, the rate was $32.80 in 1980. The new rate effective immediately is $35.66 an hour. It will increase to ae AO on April 1, 1981, Extension given. park moratorium NELSON (CP) — A pro- vincial moratorium on log- ging in the proposed Valhalla Wilderness Park has been extended until the end of | 1981. Forests Minister Tom Waterland said the exten- sion, the third since 1974, will allow time for a complete study. of resources in the Slocan Valley. - Local resource-use agencies will meet Monday in Nelson to review terms of reference for the planning study which will examine resources through the valley including the 60,000- hectare area of the proposed wilderness park. 24-HOUR | TOWING 365-6218 _ 359-7358 After Hrs. WOODLAND PARK ESSO ar both to the industry and the ‘Corporation representing the motoring public.” The entire series of increases will cost the Cor-' ° poration and B.C. motorists an estimated $13 million more in 1981. This is over and above the repair industry bill which stands at about $120 million in 1980. “By Carvil Moorey: ° HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues. - Sat. 9:30 - 5:30 China Creek . “Drive a Litte to Save a Lot” sive rencnal: Geniiy in- uran rage restricted to. the United States and Canada like some automobile In- surance? ANSWER: No. Most such policies are world wide In thelr coverage. ANDERSON Insurance Agencies , 61. Maple ~ 365-3392 CASTLEGAR left to us as, © ob fli of pipe smoking: the dark of the moon on al- ternate Thursdays. They are left to lie fallow‘on alternate fortnights. They are buffed- _ with love and dried inwardly with delicate ministrations with soft cloths. “But they are NEVER — and by that I mean NOT EVER ‘never are they LAUNDERED!" To be fair, the chancellor of the family exchequer is increasingly cognizant of our deficit guilty to ‘two - separate charges, One for driving while’ impaired, for which he was fined $350 or in ’. default 80 days in jail, and one.for refusing to take a ‘breathalyzer test, for which he was fined $200 or in default 30 days in jail. oo Raymond Bacon was fined $260 or in default 80 days in jail after pleading guilty toa | charge of driving while his driver's licence was under suspension. Alta. town. helps , Mother Teresa By THE CANADIAN PRESS - ST. PAUL, ALT. (CP) — An offer to help -Mother ‘Teresa six years ago will net almost $600,000 for her work with lepers in- India. A group of residents -from this‘town of 4,200.about 200 kilometres north of Ed- . monton met Mother Teresa Budget after budget, federal greed has spiralled the cost of her only-vice to three times that of mine. Guilt can be a bloody spur. “But, this was a Barling, darling . td don't care if it was a spruce, Bruce, ifI'm going to « take up pipe-smoking, the Pipe at least shall be clean.” And so it began. There were ‘nightly les- sons in the breaking-in of the, pipe. It's care. It’s lighting — “No For God’s'sake, not with. a lighter!” - The choice of tobacco, from a weaning beginning with Field and Stream, on through Presbyterian, Three in| at the 1974 Habitat Conference. Im- pressed with her. efforts, they formed the Mother Working with the local , Knights of. Columbus, the members of the institute got local tradesmen and com- panies to donate time and materials dnd built'a two- bedroom house on property donated by the St. Paul diocese.’ The house was bought this summer by Leprosy Re- ‘lief Canada Ltd., a Quebec- based organization, for $115,000. As its donation, the Teresa Habitat Insti of Alberta. EARNINGS DECLINE LONDON, ONT. (CP) — Earnings of John Labatt Ltd. fell’ slightly in the first six months of its fiscal year be- cause of work stoppages.and slowdowns in Alberta and \British_ Columb! ‘pany said’ éarhiti ~ yeat “webe ‘ $22.2" $1.69 a share, compared ‘with $23.6 million or $1.70 in the similar Period a year ago. re turned ‘ownership of the - house to the institute. - Alberta matched the ori- ginal $115,000 donation and the federal government matched these ‘donations to bring the total to $460,000. Mother Teresa asked the institute to sell the house, now valued at $125,000. — livered to Mother Teresa in Calcutta after the house is sold. Nuns and and into the deeper mysteries of Cap- stan full-strength. Gentle blending came next — the delicate marriage of a mild Virginia with the . robust authority of Balkan Sobranie. Oh, she slipped occasion- ally. “.... It keeps going out. Every time I put it down, it keeps going out.” “Gently, my sweet. Such. 2 is the nature of pipes. Attention Men & Boys! For All Seasons Bonnett’s ,, Ao 288 Columbia It’s Boys & ens Wear 385-6761 Remember, 10% OFF for Cash COMINCO TURKEY DISTRIBUTION. Cominco employees in the Trail, naird,; Rossland and Fruitvale ‘areas may pick up their Christmas Turkeys at the Tadanac Hall on the ‘ following dates and times: Wednesday, December 17 — 9:00 a.m. -.8: 00 p.m. : Thursday, Castlegar, Kin- December 18 — 9:00 a.m. - 5: 30 p.m. Cominco employees living inthe Rossland area may pick up their Christmas Turkey at the Boy Scout Hall, Spokane Street on: Wednesday, December 17 — 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. DISTRIBUTION AT ROSSLAND ON ONE DAY ONLY. PLEASE. BRING YOUR TURKEY CARD Turkeys can only be given to those presenting their cards at the distribution centre. ‘For further information phone Trail 364-4304. perValu CASTLEGAR eal. XMAS — - STORE HOURS. an Mon., Dec. 15 oa Wed., Dec. 17 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m; ‘Thurs. & Fri. December 18 & 19 9 a.m.-9 p.m. ‘Saturday, Dec. :20.. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21 10 a.m.-5 ee Monday, Dec. 22 9 a.m.-9 p.m. | Tuesday, Dec. 23 i 9a.m.-9 p.m. | Wed., Dec. 24 +] om, poms | Open with our regular hours | - on Dec, 27 © 9 a.m.-6 p.m. CASTLEGAR |S SuperValu OTTAWA (CP) — An. oil’ industry spokesman says’ as many as 200 drilling rigs from Western Canada could shift to the United: States’ or be, out of service'within the . next 100. days as,a-reault of | the’ Oct. 28 federal budget and energy policy. Selby Porter, president of the Canadian Association of Birchland mall'd First City Investments! ‘Oilwe Diilling’ Contractors, htol that’ servicing industry, was efor directing $4.5: research’ has confirmed oil and gas exploration in. this country will drop by'40 per cent in' 1981, fei The . oll-drilling industry will feel the effects of that cut within the next few months, Porter. said. In 1980, the drilling and cathe t* build a’ 76,000- foot mall, but a later Ltd. of is \ ex- pected to visit’ Castlegar. again “either in January or: February” with’ working> drawings for the.proposed Birchland Square: shopping mall on Columbia ‘Avenye, ‘| City administrator: Krog was commenting:on a report that quoted First City spokesman Tim Clark as say- ing, the company’ has * pur: chased two pieces’ of} land, including.a 4.2-acre parcel, and “will definitely. start con-. struction in’ April.” |: i Krug said Firat City al- ready has received condi- tional approval from city bid to rezone additional par- cels to- accommodate ‘a 164,700-square-foot enclosed mall has only received second reading, pending acceptance +, of a traffic study in the 1500 block. The study has been’ ‘ssubmitted. to the: city for consideration.’ Krug said it's possible council’ would give, final ap- -.proval for the smaller mall, if ' . First ‘City. pays related -charges, picks up.a building * permit and satisfies council it will alleviate possible traffic congestion. However, he added, it " pillion | -into‘the '] economy. through wages, services and purchases: of steel}, vehicles and specialized equipment, he sald: “We can expect a reduction of $2 billion in the purchasing poweniy of our industry in 1981.” 93 enki would polity to council to decide whether © to. “allow “Birchland to ‘start. off as a small,mall which- later could be expanded. Clark said the size of the mall hasn’t yet been decided but noted a junior. depart. ment store, a clothing store, tworestaurants and a realtor have already ‘leased 80,000 square feet,with. the -likeli- hood that Super-Valu. would move on the site from its present location. » Mayor Audrey Moore said the press seems to know more about First City's plans than does the city officially. - Rabbit spurts ahead - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Volkswagen Rabbit gets the best age ofall carson the American market, the Ford Escort is the cheapest to.fix, and the Pontiac Le- mans has the lowest average insurance claims, a new U.S. transportation | department publication says. . The booklet does not tell consumers which car to buy, nor does it rank the best and worst. . But ‘The Car Book does | . give a lot of facts and figures . that .could help: interested consumers, It tells which cars passed government crash . tests, which get the best fuel mileage and which are the least expensive to maintain. : For example, the 1981 model‘ with the best mileage Downtown Edmonton's . face changes again a Y the way for the $600-milion, Eaton's Centre downtown development, but secretive’ negotiations and last-minute concessions have left: some councillors confused and up- set. * f Representatives Triple. Five Corp. of Edmonton, joint developers with T. Eaton Co. Ltd. of Toronto, . appeared last week before council demanding six conce- ssions before proceeding. Five were met by council Bankruptcies : down in B.C. + VANCOUVER (CP). — B.C. is the only province in which bankruptcies de- creased this year, says E.H. Henderson, the province's bankruptcy administrator. From March 80 to Nov. 80, there were 691. non- business and 301 business bankruptcies in B.C., aécord- a oe Bere ne en OH : -mumber of times; the com- panies dropped the sixth. “We were pushed into a corner and were making de- cions on things even our staff didn’t know about,” Ald. Lois Campbell, who opposed some of the concessions, said. “It was typical of this project. . “Their mode of operation has been to come in at the last minute and give us a deadline or the whole thing will collapse. I feel as though Tve been manipulated.” Nader Ghermezian, | Triple Five managing direc- tor,. told council the Eaton * company, which is still nego- tiating with Triple Five, re- quired the concessions or it would withdraw. With the concessions, the 10-year project is ex- pected to start in February on’a 2,2-hectare, two-city- block site in the heart of the city. INCLUDES TOWERS ' It includes two 40-storey office towers, one of 89 storeys, apartment towers of 51 and 52 storeys and a ing pe) athe provincial con- affairs Gepecaeat Figures for the ‘same period last year were 186 and 466 respectively — a ‘decrease of 12 per cent for non-businesses. and 35. per. cent for businesses. “Even in Alberta, they are increasing in both cat- egories,” Henderson ‘said. “Oddly enough you tend to get failures’in a boom be- cause lots ..of people , who,: shouldn't be in business are inclined to. climb on fhe , bandwagon. when: thdy shouldn’t be there.” The rise in the real es-, tate market is the reason for” a decline in personal bank- rupteies, ‘said Craig Bushell, a~ bankruptcy ‘trustee for Coopers Lybrand. ~. “Lean think of a number of people who were facing bankruptcy 12 months ago, who saw their property in-” crease in value by $60,000, or more this year, enough to pay off their creditors,” he said, One reason B.C.'s bank- ruptey figures are, better than Alberta's is that B.C. has the highest number of proposals (an’ arrangement:. between debtor and creditor ., to settle a debt instead of declaring bankruptcy) on a per capita basis than any other province, Bushell said. 32,000-sq! tre shop- ping mall, Eaton's demands were in a letter, seen only by Mayor Cec Purves and one alder- man, said-Campbell. +. “We asked tosee itor at least hear it- read, but he (Purves) got nervous about it and said it was highly, highly confidential.” Purves wanted a guar- antee the contents of the let-" ‘ter wouldn't leave the cham- ber, byt: councillors refused. Campbell described "4 ae et the concessions: waivi a redevelopment Neévy, Which couldn't be cal- culated because the bylaw imposing it hasn't. been passed; not insisting on a roof restaurant .on one of the ‘ individual cars, the is the VW. Rabbit Deisel, - which gets 67.2 kilometres (42 miles) per U.S. gallon, or. five . Canadian litres. - ‘The worst-mileage cars — at 25.5 kilometres (16 miles) per gal- lon — are the Buick Riviera,” Chrysler Imperial, Ford LTD and Mercury Marquis. The transportation de partment compilation of facts is available without charge - - by writing The Car Book, 3 Pueblo, Colo. 81009, Besides information .on ‘booklet offers the following ‘general of} | deiting “contractors Canada: showed that! of ie 570 rigs available, at least 70 would’: leave the’ country . before“ the end ‘of June. About 180 rigs have ‘either had long-term | or: winter drilling contracts cancelled. Losing 200 rigs’ translates into ‘a loss ‘of: /1,200'- jobs in western Caniads, he said. ee they're: ing the ide found a mi Clar! iZ feet 'in'Birchland, has neither confirmed nor denied he made the com: ment, nee Dam road e Fay option’open Whether a road across the top will be included in the design: of ‘the 'p Murphy Creek dam south of Castlegar is a moot point... “The highways depart- ment has asked ‘us to leave that option open,” said a spokesman for B.C. Hydro. 7..“We ‘don't: know “until such time as the. provincial government «gives “‘us the’ okay to go-ahead with the! hydroelectric project.” Hydro, however, doesn't / know when — or if — it will - seek permission to start con- * striction, in 1984. Bonds to yield 12.21 per cént 0 miles). per gallon over -con- Sait ventional tires. — A manual transmis-, sion is generally more fuel- efficient — up to five perc ‘cerit = than an: automatic.” — Some cars are cheaper to insure. They. cost less to fix and some companies pass these savings on to owners. — Installation of a cutoff switch that automatically dis- connects the air conditioner during rapid accelerations can increase mileage by four per cent. — When buying a used car, the best purchase is gen-: .. erally two to three years old. That is old enough to be de- preciated from the pew-car price but young enough to present few repair problems. In the crash tests, The Cadillac Seville, Chevrolet Citation, Dodge Mirada, Ford. Mustang, Ford Thunderbird and two-door Plymouth Hor- izon were the only Ameri- can-made cars to pass all six checks after being crashed into a wall. Cars failing four of the six checks, the worst score, included the sovets he : per-cent bonds carries a price of 100.25 pér cent. The bonds are exchange- ‘ able at the holder's option on or before Feb: 1; 1985, into an equal-par value of Ab percent bonds due May-1, 1980, to yield about 12.95 per cent = | from Dec. :22, 1980, to mat- urity in 1990. ‘No word yet on expansion at’ pulp mill No announcement is ex- pected until “possibly early in: the new year” about expansion: plans at’ CanCel’s [eeeurityof energy sup; The ‘aseoclatio approached: the’, Ci ; Labor *, Congress > al “Ontario Federation of to! ‘help’*in — research determine how the cut drilling activity affects jobs. As ‘the news confdrenco was being held, the jlabgr congress. rele: agate tp ment giving qualified Hppe .,will do nothing. to ensure owned. The industry supplies. rigs and’ servicts! to ‘oil companies on a contract OPEN TODAY SUNDAY, Noon-7 p.m. le cd Pens before’ the budget’ of 500. * fet ‘Meanwhile, ‘1981 had ‘been in’ place this ‘yyear, Maier. and Hudson's gand taxes ‘as not leaving " tadustry with enough |: revenues to finance future xploration .and develop- ment, bE In. the ‘United . States, drillers can expect a $25 ‘return on each barrel of oil, compared with: slightly less than $8 in {his country, ‘Jones Slightly, ‘less | than “9,000 wells will be drilled in 1980 in estern: Canada, they said, hat ‘number will drop to tween 6,500 and 6,800 next year, compared with projec- in Calgary, Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co. tJ has reduced its; 1981 Canadian exploration budget yy more than 45 per cent ause of the “punitive” ‘Coimpany Maier said ina release, many of the company’s projec! planned ‘for: joer “have nt 4 Yani rvicing’ ‘become uneconomic because industry, which it says is about 90-per-cent ‘Canadian of new taxes, federal snersy: pricing Lsiasare tees oth nee Measures contained budget and pia banat If the megsyres.sched- Bay would have “had: a 60-per-cent drop in profit. The company's exploration budget in 1981 will be'$203 million, $175 million less than’ originally planned. Most: of the’ cuts involve. Programs in Alberta. Hudson's Bay is a member of the nine-company consor- tium planning the Alsands oil sands project, which recently announced a cut in spending because the project has been - delayed by Alberta inthe . energy-pricing dispute. Outside of Canada, the company -will- spend. m than $100 million in’.1981,° more than half’ of it: in Indonesia. Other projects are in Austrialia, the :United- Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Brazil,. ‘Gabo the United States. level of government.” ONLY 10 RIGS. c ose drop~ ped’ wells are in sthe he Lloyd minister heavy oil area whieh: tchewan border, he said. d See Pg. AS uled to come jate,effect in, RTE TENT Stretch those Christmas Shopping $ FaatyssabusssasosounnedcabaeeatiSe " GALAXY XMAS WRAP 20 assorted sheets $499 YARD WIDE ~ WRAP. For those large Xmas packages’ 8 298 % a 5 — ———____— te ALL PLUSH TOYS AND ANIMALS Mias Piggy, Musical Dolls, Pajama Bags, Old-fashioned Teddies, Bean Bags, etc. REDUCED. .......20008 0” 15 lights $588 "Old fast 1 Xmas "" i 16 COPS. ses seseseseeessees BOXED XMAS CARDS oe Ekco Assorted colors.. BATHROOM SCALES said officials are still awai the second part of financial study “from consultants fore making a recommen- - dation to corporate officers and .’the . owner, .. British Columbia Resources Invest- ment Corp. ‘Tercel, 1 Supreme and the Buick Riv- fera. Not .all models were tes 5 Equity shares may be. sold by credit unions -. VICTORIA (CP) — Brit- ish Columbia credit unions will be allowed to introduce equity shares for their mem- GROCETERIA & LAUNDROMAT We Are Open 364 ’ Days o Year hips under , to the Credit’ Union Act introduced in the legislature Friday. Lebos Ms All shares now issued are but because towers; and | inter- est rates on money owed to the city for land it bought for the developers. In two related conces- sions, council agreed to ease setback requirements and al- low developers to use $5 million of city land they .would normally have had to buy. The concessions resulted from appeals against condi- ,tions in the city's develop- ment agreement, which coun- cil still must be approved. The city also has to issue building permits, : they can be withdrawn on demand,they cannot. be ‘in- cluded ina credit union's reserve, . 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