na_Castlegar News _ september2. 1907 VANCOUVER (CP) — Pavement on the Coquihalla Highway was often ‘laid in temperatures as low as -20 degrees, despite a Highways Ministry policy stating no paving should be done in temperatures under two de- grees, the commission prob- ing the cost of the highway was told Tuesday. John Shields, president of the B.C. Government Em- ployees’ Union, said em- ployees on the project were forced to work in such bad conditions to meet “an un- realistic deadline” imposed by the former provincial government. “Construction in unaccept- able winter weather con- ditions to complete the high- way before Expo 86 opened was a major factor in the waste and overruns,” Shields said of the $159 million extra spent on the first phase. ‘The ministry used a special machine, a “scarifier,” nor- mally used for emergency winter patching only, to thaw BRAND NEW . . . 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Kempf made the allegations ina newsletter distributed to his constituents in the northern riding of Omineca, He was travelling in his large, sparsely populated riding Tuesday and was not diately available for it Smith said in an interview Tuesday evening that Kempf raised the issue with him in June or July but when he checked, he was told by police they were not tapping Kempf's telephones. He said that if he had been told there was a tap on either. Kempfs legish or i hi he would have complained to the RCMP because it would be a breach of legislative privileges. “If it (tapping) is going on, it is not being done by the police or law enforcement officers,” Smith said, “but a private citizen might be able to do it without the proper authority.” Kempf said the phone taps began while he was under investigation by the RCMP and the attorney general's office for financial irregularities in his ministry and allegations that he had had private meetings with American forest company executives during the U.S.-Canada dispute over logging prices that eventually led to a Canadian export tax on lumber. “I have been told on very good authority that during those days and for some four months after, my phone lines — office, home and constituency — were not only monitored but also taped,” Kempf wrote in his Aug. 25 newsletter. CAN BUG His informant, Kempf said, “is involved in communi- cations on a daily basis,” and told him “there is a system in place through which any of the 67 members of the B.C. provincial legislature in Victoria can have his or her phone conversations automatically taped simply by pushing a button in Vancouver.” “ Kempf also charged there “is an entire department of one ministry designated to do this type of surveillance not simply of elected members . . . but of whomever is selected for surveillance.” But Smith said he knows of no such system. He said that if a member's telephone were to be tapped in the legislature, the Speaker would have to be informed. And Smith said the only time he could imagine a telephone being tapped in the legislature would be if a member were suspected of trying to use his legislative position to commit a crime. Premier Bill Vander Zalm fired Kempf from the Social Credit cabinet in March after a comptroller general's investigation found Kempf had outstanding travel advances and had misused airline bonus points gained while travelling on government business. Kempf has since repaid the $5,600 he owed. Kempf was also found to have misused ministry staff to do constituency business and misused his constituency allowance as well as having failed to divest. himself of an interest in a Washington state lumber company. He was never charged for failing to divest his interest. Staff shortages a problem Money’s Sliced Mushrooms 284 mL 99: Money's Mushrooms Stems & Pieces mi 69° Admiral Chunk Light Tuna 184G. Sea Haul Solid White Tuna 184G. $189 VANCOUVER (CP) — The provincial govetnment should increase health care funding if it wants to alle- viate hospital bed and staff shortages during the summer months, Jack Gerow, a spokesman for the Hospital Employees Union; said Tues day. 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Jardim decided back in high school that he was going to be a biochemist. “Chemistry came easily to me,” says the 23-year-old. “| didn’t have to work at it, and I got satisfactory marks, satisfactory to me.” Jardim went to Selkirk College for a year before heading to the University of Victoria. At Victoria, he plunged right into the Co-operative Education Program that had attracted him to the island campus in the first place. _ Fresh Watermelon Californie grown ¢ whole 31g 14 Assorted. Now in his fourth year, he has comp four work terms with employers in Alberta and British Columbia, working at a fish pharmaceutieal plant, Dow Chemical, Syncrude, and UVic. This summer he is continuing a research project begun last year at the university. “| haven't regretted it,” says Jardim of his decision to enter the Co-op Program. “It takes a little longer, but it gives you a good idea of what you're doing.” Through his work experiences, Jardim has dis- covered the biological aspects of chemistry and is studying one strain of a disease that has afflicted over 25 million people in South and Central America, Africa, Spain, Italy and parts of Mexico. Jardim and his supervisor, Dr. Robert Olafson, are working on a vaccine to immunize people against the parasite called Leishmania donovani, which attacks the viscera and is lethal. Creating a vaccine is a difficult task because the parasite “hides from the immune system inside the cells,” says Olafson. ‘The researchers hope to develop a vaccine that will catch the parasite as it enters the bloodstream (by the bite of a sand fly). There are at least seven other strains of the same disease being studied around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) rates it as one of the top five parasitic diseases which do not have a vaccine, says Olafson, who has applied to WHO for funding to work in Africa. . The research Jardim is involved in suits his needs. Immunology for Third World countries could lead to travel, and maybe something more. One part of the drive Jardim admits to is a dream. “Everyone in this field has another underlying drive whether they admit it or not, everybody wants a little bit of fame.” : Jardim has only two courses to complete before finishing his degree at Christmas this year, then it's on to an MSc, and a PhD. 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