CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 6,:1980 Answer for Sunday‘s Crossword Puzzle Answer for Sunday's, Cryptogulp: : NEEDED MOTELS AND MOTOR COURTS CATER TO TOURIST MILLIONS. / Wt ( rouce TP an? a om Dricis / Local RCMP investigated 49 complaints during the long weekend resulting’ in one driver having his driver's. licence suspended and one driver being charged for dri- ving while impaired. Peter Kinakin of Cres- cent Valley was taken to hos- pital with minor head injuries early Monday morning after the “1969 Toyota he was driving crossed over the road and rolled into s ditch. The incident, which re- sulted in approximately $3,000 damage, occurred on Highway 3A at’ the Ootis- chenia interchange. The accident is still un- der tt Gordie Walker top golfer The juniors who played’ fast Saturday in the ‘‘Top 20 Invitational’’ at Castlegar will remember that tournament for quite some time, The course superinten- dent Nick Sherstobitoff dupli- cated the provincial amateur championship lay-out with unbelievable tough pin place- ments and a full-length course of close to 7,000 yards. Gordie Walker of Castle- gar nearly “‘destroyed’’ that course on the front nine with five birdles, two of these were chip-in’s on No. 8 and No. 9 hole; and a 32; he added enother ‘bird’? on No. 10 hold before the unforgiving lay-out took revenge with a 41 for the back nine. Walker won the tourna-: ment with an excellent low gross score of 73 strokes. Mike Wichert of Castle- gar was close behind the leader up to No. 15 hole, with four birdies and eight par's, but drove into the rough and ballooned to a triple bogie on No. 16 hole to Balt in'second iJ Nelson, Ken Sherstobitoff of Castlegar, and Bruce Bradley -of Rossland-Trail, tied for fourth place with 79's, ahead of Rossland-Trail’s Brian Ed-. wards who carded an 81. Lyle Local Aquanauts swim at Oliver and Kimberley The Castleger Aquanauts sent swimmers to meet in both Oliver and Kimberley last weekend, and the results were very encouraging. In Kimberley, 25 Aqua- naut swimmers put up a good show and finished just 11 elght and under), Sherri Hermston (first 12}, Kei Kb Klimchuk (first and third in boys 11 and 12), Bjorn Gus- tansson (first in boys 13 and 14), and Grant Stewart (sec- Aggregate winners in Oliver included Tom Carew, Jason Leitich, Mike Berger, Chris Wanjoff, Alexis Walsh, Roy Yule and Gorton Cooper. The Aquanauts are now. preparing for the regional swim meet coming up this points behind first-pl Trail. There were several in-- dividual highlights, and many ond in boys’ 15 and 16). A big th ig you goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Lowcay for doing such a great job of the good ivi per- formances were turned in by first year swimmers. Tracy Carr captured first Here’s how you can save money on gas Higher gas prices getting you down? “Don't trade your car for a bicycle until you try some helpful hints that can im- prove your fuel efficiency by as much as 20 per cent,”” advises Kenneth W. Harrigan, Ford of Canada’s vice president and general manager. “The quickest way to better mileage is to try a slower way to reach your destination’, he said. “If you reduce your average highway speed from 110 kilometres per hour to 90 km/h, you'll get a 20 per cent fuel saving. For ex- ample, a family-size car with a 22 gallon fuel capa- city will travel an additional 218 kilometres”, Mr. Harrigan said. ‘ “This saving would be‘in addition to the nearly 50 per cent improvement in fuel efficiency you would achieve in a down-sized 1980 model Ford LTD or Mercury Marquis compar- ed with pre-1979 versions of these cars,”’ he added, Drivers of 1980 model cars and trucks will save additionally on gasoline costs because of techno- logical improvements, such as Ford’s automatic over- drive ission which compared with the equival- ent number of 1979 models,” he added. Mr. Harrigan listed these other gas-saving tips: e@Cut down on the load. Keeping such things as your golf clubs in the trunk reduces fuel efficien- cy by adding unnecessary weight. @ Maintain an even speed, when traffic ‘allows. Try to anticipate traffic lights so you won't have to stop. e@Shift into high gear as soon as you can. With an automatic transmission, lifting your foot off the accelerator will get you into high gear quickly. _ @Keep you car properly tuned and tires properly inflated. @Avoid long periods of idling and be sure your parking brake is fully re- leased when you start to move. e@Organize your trips. Chances are you can make one trip do the work of several “‘spur-of-the-mom- ent’” jaunts. -@Try walking on shorter trips. It's easier on your pocket book and just as good as jogging. ‘Ford of Canada, with a Pp fuel by Pp average fuel in girls’ eight and ig the Kimberley, and to Mrs, Schu- epfer for taking the coaches meeting — you did a fine job. * In Oliver, 22 Aquanaut i with under novice gory, while Alison Lowcay was third in that category. Clinton Taylor managed a third in boys’ eight and under novice. Another first year swim- mer, Tami Hurd, had a good meet as she set a new record in gitls’ 11 to 12 50-yard backstroke. : Aggtegate winners in- cluded Chris Kinaken and Denise Martin (first and third in girls’ eight and under), Jason Schuepfer and Jason Taylor (first and third in boys’ nine other teams and finished an excellent second, only 27 points behind Revelstoke. The Aquanauts did not have enough swimmers for relay teams, and that was where the team fell short — that is where participation wins swim meets. The individual perform- ances were very good, with the weekend’s top perform-- ance going to Doreen Innes, who won first aggregate in girls’. 11 and 12, and set several personal best times. Horseshoe pitchers club now organized Castlegar and District Horseshoe Pitchers Club has been organized. The neces- sary steps took place Monday at a meeting held in the Re- gional Recreation Complex. ~ Officers elected were secretary Annie Rayner, pres- ident Garry Rayner and vice- president Walter Kinakin. “The club’s aim is to in- terest others — men, women and juniors in this sport. “We have a few active players that participate in Modern economy for the roaming soul The traveler’s most popu- lar form of transit these days is that wonderful combina- tion of old-fashioned pioneer- ing and modern economy and up to 26 per cent, Mr. Harrigan said. “We've calculated that our 1980 model cars and trucks will —_ conserve approximately 18 million gallons of gasoline per year Community TV yy Night 5:30—Five-day outlcok on on the weather, 5:40—Castlegar library story time with Sally Wil- liams. 6:00—WARP update — War against rising prices — latest boycott list and update. 6:30—Midsummer hockey . — Trail Smoke-eaters . vs a team of former Nelsonites now turned . pro, includes the Gare Brothers. 8:30—Artists of the Koot- enay — an installation by Lynn Mauser Bain entitled Bridges. 9:00—Coming Back Alive — presented by the National Film Board, the program deals with boating safety. 9:30—The falldown effect — presented by the B.C. Forest Service. 10:00—Sign-off. Your Carpet Headquarters .... Carpets by Ivan Oglow 365-7771 of an 26.2 miles per imperial gallon (10.8 litres per 100 kilometres), has enjoyed a 15 per cent improvement in its fleet average over 1979. “To the best of my know- ledge, that is the best performance of any domes- tic car in the th aming,: rolling ‘‘home on wheels!” Recreational vehicles are now a common sight on highways and byways across the land. Some people opt for the luxury of a mini-motor home for their days of “roughing it."" Others buy vans: regular vans painted, d id i with industry,’ Mr. Harrigan said “We are particularly proud of our leadership in the area of fuel economy,” he added,.‘‘and savings we think this means for con- sumers,”” For example, he said, the owner of a four or five-year-old bil an every possible gadget, or ex- pensive customized vans —comfortable down to the built-in backgammon boards! Now there’s a way for ev- eryone interested in recre- ational vehicles to have all the comforts of a mini-motor home with the convenient maneuverability of a van. could save from $400 to $600 annually in fuel alone by trading up to a 1980 model, Home Co., one of the leading manu- facturers of mobile homes and motor homes in the coun- try, has introduced a totally new concept in recreational Maybe your car is still great transportatior But not worth investing much money in for a few muffler, ‘Well, Walker's Royal Scot is your answer, Top Quality yes. Expensive, no. Plus, there's a Royal Scot to fit most cars on the road tod: Rugged unitized construction for strength... designed for positive sound contro! and long fa. Lauden Wheel Alignment 121A Columbia Ave. 365-701 looking for a quality muff. ler] at an economy e 3 EF ailegar Cont look any further . +2:$88 US SOON. ‘Weill give your: car's exhaust system a free inspection al tournaments in other areas,” said a club spokesman who ‘stated, ‘‘We can also boast of having the 1980.B.C. Champ in our area, Walter Kinakin of Thrums.” ~ 5 ‘ “Two of our members will also be participating in the 1980 B.C, Summer Games in Kelowna Aug. 14-17,” he said. . ‘The groups will be meet- , ing Aug. 13 at 6:30 p.m. next to the Regional Recreation Complex. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. in Nelson. Stoushnow. had the longest drive on No.9, and Greg Adams was closest to the pin on No. 17 hole. This tournament was the last one of the Savoy-Inn/ Lord Nelson Zone 4 Citcult 1980. The top eight juniors will form the West Kootenay team and are: er G. Walker, Cas, G. Adams, Nel. B. Bradley, Ross.-Tr. K. Sherstobitoff, Cas, 147.33 P. Birukow, Ross.-Tr. 140.83 - This Zone 4 team will plan against Vancouver (Zone 2) and the Okanagan (Zone 3) at Kefowna’s brand new Gal- lagher's Canyon course on Sept. 6 and 7, The West-Kéotenay tir- cuit point team championship was won by Castlegar, (52) followed by Rossland-Trail (36), Nelson (32), Kasto (11), Christina Lake (8) and Salmo with (1) point. Tribute to local | goifer Jerry Wicheri | final Junior Golf Tournament, to select the eight-man Zone team which will represent Zone 4 in the inter-zone play- offs. Tournament results are Isewh in the man Bill Bradley of Ross- land-Trail Golf Club, get to- gether and plan the tourna- ment schedule for the year. This involved eight tour- naments all played on dif- ferent Zone 4 courses. , a Money has to be found ir 2Royal Canadian Legion| Branch No. 170 rl. ing Frt. LAND! BROS. L.A. SUNDAY BINGO ” STARTS AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER BIG ROCK REALTY LTD. 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This tournament was the reason our course was set up for maximum distance, with tough pin placements, which caused some of our members to consider quitting the game. feel it’s time to pay tribute to the local golfers who for the past three years has been Junior Development ‘Chairman for the Castlegar Golf Club. ‘ : This is our own Jerry Wichert, since 1978 Jerry has spent. many hours and much Of his spare time organizing junior tournaments for our club and -Zone 4 as co-chair. man for Junior, Development in the Zone. 2 : Jerry’s golf year starts in March when he and co-chair- Garry Kilpatrick of the’ Savoy Inn/Nelson was the major sponsor 1978 and 79 with Gus Adams of the Lord Nelson Hotel sharing this sponsorship in 1980. These people are to be commended for their interest in the area juniors. There are over 90 juniors involved in the 1980 program, many of whom are excellent young golfers, This is Jerry Wicherts last year as the executive. His partner this. year, Hugo ‘Wood, will be picking up the runs next year. It's thanks to the efforts of people. like Jerry’ Wichert that'Castlegar is a good place to be a junior golfer. jor this PUBLIC NOTICE SLOCAN CHIEF CABIN in Kohanee Glacier Provincial Park WILL BE CLOSED FROM SULY 16 TO AUGUST 9 in order that repairs can be made to the roof. We id wish to a remind hikers contemplating a trip into this area to be properly equipped for @ Province of British Columbia y wae SELKIRK WZ COLLEGE requiresa CO-ORDINATOR CONTINUING EDUCATION ARROW LAKE REGION Selkirk College requires an experienced adult educator to assess needs, plan programs and co- ordinate courses for the adults of the Upper Arrow Lakes and Kootenay Region. The successful candidate will have abroad educational background, along with community devel skills and ad P The programs include vocational, adult basic { arts and i courses, This is a full administrative position in Nakusp, B.C. E; ive travel will be ired Selkirk College offers an attractive salary and benefit package. Interested applicants should send their resumes in by 12 August, 1980 to: Personnel Manager, Selkirk College, Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN3J1 vehicles that bines. the best of both recreational “motor worlds” in one com- pact vehicle. 3 Trade-marked the Trans- Van, it’s Champion's answer to the public’s demand for bigger and better vans. It looks like a van from the front, could pass for a mini- motor home when you view it from the rear, and offers buyers the advantages of both—the room and com- © forts of a mini-motor home: and the low, sleek styling ofa van. QUESTION: Can my lug. gage and contents be in. sured against theft and other loss just for the dura- tion of a vacation trip? are several of handl this, and wee could prs you. ANDERSON Insurance Agencies 61 Maple" 365-3392 CASTLEGAR It’s that time of year \\ jain — for school bells to ring and classes to begin once more. Get your family ready for the first bell of the new school year. Start your school shopping at Castlegar Drug. ® Pens, Pencils, Erasers ® Geometry Sets . We have everything for your school supply needs- ® Notebooks, Graph Books « Stationary Supplies SCHOOL LISTS AVAILABLE FOR REFERENCE AT THE STORE UNITED PHARMACIES 50 Pine $#., Castlegar CLOSED THIS SUNDAY CARL'S DRUG NOON -1P.M.&6P.M.-7 P.M. * Lunch Boxes & much, much more. Phone: 365-7813 OPEN: "Vander Z Bs Orc WS Fret el 3 CONSTRUCTION is well underway on the new nm ake oo : mea: Gulf Oil bulk plant being constructed near the Imperial Oil plant. Gulf Oil decided to move their operations from Nelson to Castlegar because of a need for more space. The plant will deal in bulk sales of gas and diesel for industry, home heating, etc, THE A proposal for reorganizing re- gional districts within the province may eventually include the districts of Koot- enay-Boundary and East and Central Koote Affairs Bill Vander Zalm said recently. Vander Zalm suggested that the : three districts be redrawn to form two _ county units. : Before any such changes occur, — the is a similar situation in the vba i CAST LEGA NEWS im revamp proposal sible changes elsewhere. in the prov- ince. Some legislative changes would be needed to set up such a county system and Vander Zalm said it was unlikely: they would occur during the ‘current sessions. 2 . Wander Zalm is also considering eliminating one and possibly two of the four regional districts in the Lower . Mainland. _ He added he is not “looking at a Queen Charlotte Islands. The success of me g regional government, li- brary, hospital and school boards into a county system there would mean pos- change, but at changes the regional districts could agree to, such as changes in boundaries.” “there's the opportunity there for ben- eficial boundary arrangements where people living'in one could better fit into another.”’ ,. Last October, the minister pre- sented a report that favored counties _ over regional districts. The counties would contain both and Book review : If the Mica Dam collapsed - The book ‘‘The Wave'’ is a con- troversial novel centered around col- lapse of the Mica Dam. It has created great interest, par- ticularly amongst those who have made important studies of the Columbia River ‘and the Columbia River Treaty. Nakusp resident Donald Water- field’s continuing interest has surfaced again with this review of The Wave in the Arrow Lakes (Nakusp) News, Waterfield’s documentation of the events and proceedings surrounding the - Columbia River Treaty are famillar to many CasNews/Mirror readers ‘who have read his books ‘‘Continental Waterboy’’ a Land Grab! 7 By DONALD WATERFIELD The Wave, by Christopher Hyde, McClelland and ‘Stewart, is a highly controversial book. Although it is pri- marily a novel it is not entirely. in- -vention. Of its more conventional and imaginary parts I am not qualified to comment and anything I say may be discounted as prejudice. The ‘‘bad guys” are excessively nasty and the sex quite explicit, I hope it has areas and to one or more existing schoo! areas. Vander Zalm said he hcpzd there will be co-operation among regional districts, school boards, hospital boards and the Ministry of Education to avoid By the rest of the province, Vander Zalm said to’ achieve his goals. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS Minister Bill Vander Zalm (right) accepts o cheque from R.J. Perrault, P.C. leader of the the overnment in the senate. The cheque [s granted under Cc Frog Salmo receives partial payment for water well and main The Village of Salmo recently re- ceived a $10,000 payment as ‘part of a $30,000 total to aid in the financing of a new well and water main extension, The money was given to the village as part of a federal government Com- munity Services Contribution Program established in 1979, The program makes federal funds available to assist communities \ in providing sewer and water treatment facilities, Municipalities are designated extension to receive a total of $15.15 for projects started in 1979 and $25.2 m'tlion for * projects started in 1980, The Salmo system “‘only became operational this summer” Henry Rus- sell, Salmo Village Clerk said Tuesday. value, but for me the less lurid but far more interesting hydrology of Columbia River is a great deal more exciting. The Wave is the astounding result of the collapse of Mica Dam. Don’t panic. Mica is not about to fall. But if it did it would take two Canadian dams and 11 American with it. If Mica lets go when full, Hyde says . July 4 after Revelstoke. Dam is filled, everything in the Columbia valley in- cluding Portland in Oregon, must be’ swept into the Pacific and he may be right. It is Mica’s vast reservoir in . Canada and its position, poised (I am sorry about the menace of that word but it is descriptive) nearly 3,000 feet above a great city with 14 other artificial and intervening lakes, all in the Columbia’s narrow gorge, that is the danger. ” Mica’s reservoir near the top of the river has considerable capacity. The stream flows at an average rate of 20,500 cubic feet every second. To fill «the reservoir required the river’s flow for nearly two years. Stored water is measured in acre-feet, not in gallons, and McNaughton Lake, as the reservoir is called, holds 20 million acre-feet when full, and there must be over 20 MAF in the storage below. Hyde suggest that a large rock slide, not a gigantic one like the Hope Slide but still a substantial one, washes a wave against Mica Dam which has previously been deliberately weakened. He tells you how to do it and the is horribly building, assured me that he never at any time had qualms about the safety of the dam.. So I asked him why he in- creased the width.. He replied, ‘To the public."” Although accidental, the Hope : Slide was probably caused by human agency, by cutting a road on the hillside: years before. Now, the marge of Mc- Naughton is softened every spring by the high water. Formerly it was per- petually dry and stable; now it is wet, slippery and decidely unstable every summer. 3 Besides these and other disquiet- ing thoughts, dams have not earned reliable reputations historically. os The Valmont dam in Italy was over- “topped by a wave that drowned, they say, 3,000 people. It was a concrete dam and still stands. ‘ ae Nearer home, the Teton Dam, holding 4 MAF, earthfill like Mica, on a tributary of The Snake which is a tributary of the Columbia in the U.S.A., let go in 1976. The loss of life was moderate, although two heroes with bulldozers suicidedly tried to plug the leak from the lower side. A load of hay dumped over the © higher side might have been more ef- fective. We were amazingly lucky at the Whatshan plant near Fauquier, but despite these and other portents it is unlikely there will ever be a large slide into the south end of McNaughton or that Mica will ever give way. Before a rock slide can occur the side of a mountain must be compar- atively unstable, and one would think that Mica Dam was an accident waiting to happen, but the northern part of the Columbia Valley is of glacial origin. Ten thousand or more years ago it was full of ice that moved; the ice must have scraped and scoured most of the loose- rocks off the mountains. There may have been, at one time, danger that the dam itself could have laked and collapsed like The Teton, but since nothing disasterous occured when it was first filled, it is not lixely to leak in later years. With time, the great structure be- comes welded to the earth; however, there must have been some anxious engineers six years ago. The specifications for the top of the width of the dam were originally 11 feet. . Now the width is actually 36 feet. Those figures sound modest but the extra width is presumably held for the full depth of the dam. Dr. Gordon Shrum, who was chair- mat of B.C. Hydro when Mica was But at the time the public was blissfully unaware of any hazard. Dr. Shrum, on the other hand, must have appreciated the danger and authorized the expenditure of many ‘millions. If there is validity in Mr. Hyde’s story, the City of Portland may owe its continued existence to the chairman. To continue the narrative, the huge mass of water surges down the valley, . growing, drowning a nuclear plant at | Hanford and disintering nuclear waste from a ‘‘cemetery’? downstream. The vast poisonously lethal flood, headed for Portland, is quite impossibly arrested by plugging the valley with the explosion of Castle Rock. Mysteriously, gtavity is arrested. Intriguingly, there is a vicious character in the book called Bonner who bears, I hope, not the slightest re- semblance to the present chairman of Hydro. And another, ‘‘good buy’’ called Halleran who must be Mike Halleran and known to many. He was born and raised at Duncan. The village of Duncan was a casualty of the Columbia River Treaty and its site is now bencath Duncan Lake. Mike has never forgiven the Can- adian and American negotiators of the Treaty for destroying his home, and I sympathize with him. I can understand his loathing for the killers of his valley ee I do not understand his apparent infusion of Hydro’s servants with the treaty’s negotiators, with Mr. W.A.C. Bennett. To my sorrow, Halleran is killed off early in the story; one does not know who his murderer was; perhaps Bonner. Now “I ain’t as wise as you lawyer guys’’ and I haven't seen Mike for two years but I am sure it was he who gave the author the complex geography and the hydrology of Columbia. And I suspect that Mike and Hyde are the same person. Mica Dam is the largest and the highest in the Western world: twice as high as Grand Coulee, much higher than Niagara and many times the mass - of Cheop's:pyramid. The professionals who buit it are, naturally, immensely proud of their achievement, and to Suggest that the dam might fail or endure for less than a thousand years must be infuriating. ‘Red Mt. repairs completed Cominco has completed its three-year safety and re- pair program at the.old mine workings at Red Mt., accord- ing to Ken Davies, general superintendent, mine engin- eering. . The work involved block- ing off and capping the shafts and stopes which broke through to surface on the south slope of Red Mt. near Rossland. Most of the holes were fixed by bulldozing. Several holes were filled or otherwise made safe by a combination of bulldozing, drilling and blasting. Relatively small charges ‘ver. were used for the blasting because the goal was to dis- lodge large chunks of rock to block off the openings. The field work this year was done in five weeks by Edco C of Vancou- man, and Iron Mask claims. The biggest single operation involved reducing the pit walls around the well-known War Eagle ‘‘glory hole” to a gentle slope. Cominco’s last mining The program was planned and supervised by Cominco’s mine engineering group in Trail. This year a total of 38 holes were made safe, bringing the total num- ber fixed in the three-year program to 80. . The safety work this year was mainly on War Eagle claims. Other work was done to. holes on the Josie, Poor- ion at Red Mt. closed in 1926. The problem with the holes was mainly a result of work done close to the surface by lease miners in the 1930's and early 1940's. In 1933, Cominco author- ized the opening of all the company’s Rossland claims to small leasers. This provided work for up to 280 men during the difficult depression years. During this period close to 120,000 tons of ore were mined from the old workings. In the period since the- lease mining, water and frost action caused a number of underground stopes to cave in, opening hazardous holes to the surface. Despite warn- ing signs and barbed wire fencing, there has been a con- siderable amount of trespas- sing in the area. People tres- passing do so at some hazard as it is possible some new holes may appear in future. Davies said Cominco has spent approximately $250,000 in the three-year program in the interest of public safety.