A2. CASTLEGAR NEWS, January.10, 1982 “We've seen Castlegar grow from absolutely nothing to where we are now,” mused Omar Lightle, longtime Castlegar resident, who added that he “liked Castle- gar a lot better 20 years ago, “We knew everybody then. It's gotten so that I don't know too many people here now with new people moving in and all the old - friends gone.” One of the old friends was - Ralph: West. who’ * began West's Department, store. “He was one of the greatest guys. He's done more for this town than anyone I know. And he wouldn't take any of the credit for -it.".It was Ralph West, I learned, who put in the water system for the town and it was from Ralph West that Omar + bought his first few lots and began a Metis, of land de- veloping. May 18, 1938 Omar and Ora Lightle came to Castle- Omar a they told me that only ‘one other outfit had registered ;. more lots than I had.” ....- He, with avariety of bus-.” them, Vie’ Gofeski, Norman Wells, and -Cecil Watson — opened up many subdivi- sions; putting in roads and water, and eas up houses. “I sold the first lot for $200,” he told me; “now -,gar and bought two 30°x 100-foot downtown lots for $25 a piece from him. And Omar has been in the land developing , business ever since. He was the first person - to put up.a house in south , Castlegar and atone time owned much of the land from the ‘railroad tracks to Kin- berry. < “Once I went into the land “registry office in ee and just ‘wildlife. He once owned the “the. school house was on the corner of my‘dad’s farm. v,There.was one teacher and ahout.20 children.” During - iness _ partnera,.— ;' among’: the | summer holidays, he told me" "We never had-a va- ‘cation: We. had work to do during out vacations.” * » He had the Jeb, of keeping “the school clean, and lighting the fires: before the day: be- gan. “For. 155 cents ‘a, day, “saaw bis first ‘car. “The first ear ‘my dad? awned ‘was in - « which he operated for about a land that the Kinnaird Hall -. now stands-on, and dona‘ that to the ‘city’ ‘years : outside of Port Hope, Ont. town of about 5,000. “All niy people were farmers,” he re- members. Excursior went first to Saskatchewn, the next year to Alberta and then finally in.1987: he came all the way to'British Colum- : bia and has: been, here ever sinée. |” 3 Col ‘Ther because they didn’t etre for the long win- ters: there, moved down to Castlegar'a year. later. The first house he ' built;,was a "according to, has been added to and added -to. He ‘estimates ‘that’ this first home ‘cost him‘ in. the He and Ora lived in’ ‘Ross: “ land. while’ Omar’ worked at good time to build your own ‘hoose,. The.‘ sawmill: gave generous credit, 80 we could build." Very few people - had~ any ‘money in those,’ days.” He also travelled all over : the country: with: his” ’ Uke they're having now with this foam.” ° ** For eight sears he' ‘8 been retired, but as dctive as ever. :-His’ wife’ told ‘me that: the syear Omar retired “he put in .. ‘need in the towa, and opened » up the first hardware’ store |., came west.on'a ieee sawmill cutting tte bes ‘posts, and splitting cord: wood ‘for ‘Atime for looking back JOHN CHARTERS’ ‘ : Reflections & ‘Recollections: Since 1981 was the 25thY SHSS grad celebration year, and since this is the time of New Year resolutions, and I started to wonder what I had written for the occasion 25 years ago, and since the Castlegar News ran a news summary last aay any I:wondered had they ‘done «the same then, and since Burt « Campbell left me an ‘insinu- *.\ Therefore, I looked up the p “1966 Castlegar News files on the topics with the following results: ~. [knew instantly that I was ‘looking a austen centy back when I saw T-bone and sirloin steaks advertised at 65 cents per pound and lemons at six for 29 cents. I noted with regret that Bill Rigby, village commis- sion chairman and a man much involved in village ac- tivities, had died just after the new year, but was not in the’ least surprised to see that the commissioners were warning citizens about park- ing on roads and lanes in the snowy weather or to see a picture of a very youthful 4. Queen Elizabeth ‘II. ‘The first edition of the 1956 issue also ran ‘a 1955 highlights — I found it very - revealing relative. to the growth of our. community — ~January 6th: Hon. RE. Sommers, Minister of Lands and:Forests and Mines tells public meeting in St. Alban’s Parish Hall about new prop- osal under: which: the’ -B.C. -2 sovernment would build the storage dam near Castle; for the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemica! Corporation: with a $600,000 cash return annu- ally on’ its investment in ‘addition to-the 43,000 kw of power and $135,000 in taxes and rentals previously agreed on. January 13th: Building permits increase 300 per cent over 1958 building in Castle- gar — total $643.05. January 20th: Government okays purchasé of Castlegar: land for: hospital. January 27th: Preliminary “research proceeding for new Castlegar water tank . eon in- 8 Blueber- d to it _ty-Paulson probable route for Cascade Columbia River r 1. yauinadvancad bso oe “7 ll : cenced. sealers.” Dr. C.S. “Pat” Fowler and family leave for England fora. hospital preliminaries, archi- tect, Paul Smith instructed to roceed with drafting sketch - plans for 35-bed hospital. ‘March 17th: Associated Boards of Trade and Cham- bers of Commerce of South- eastern B.C. urge B.C. Gov- ernment to undertake imme- diately construction of No. 3 Transprovincial Highway via Creston-Salmo, Champion Lake, Blueberry Creek, Paul- son, Christina Lake, with a connecting link from Sheep Lake to Rossland. March 24th: Dusty streets to get oiling. March ‘31st: West's De- partment Store marks Silver | Anniversary. April 6th: Deer Park W.L holds oldtime dance April wor 14th: Matt Rohp “of Rens is the proud hunter” ho snared six large cougars. ee auy at Gladstone. April 2ist: District Grade 1 and those ready to begin Grade 1 children getting first polio shots this week. tiation”, “sy i, 624 last June. 4 ‘May’ 5th p00) pack Bap Voy Mr. Wad Mra 3. Wile prior to a five ‘months’ holiday’’ in Norway. June 2nd: 41 SHHS grad- -uates honored’ at annual Gerop, Garage offily opens appointed to ‘prineipalship at HHS. August i: Gaglardi gives assurances of early start on Blueberry-Paulson Road. August 18: RJ. Archam- bault appointed New Kin- naird Fire Chief. August 25th: Archdeacon" B.A. Resker leaves to attend General Synod of the Angli- ean Church at Edmonton. September. lat: School Dist: No.9 adopt shift system: until of now wing. with good intentions” and ‘the time is almost:at hand when most. of. us, will ;be laying down the foundations for the. infernal roadbed: ; After. examing the male and female approach to the subject, he continues: : The wiser’ brethern will stick to purely verbal agree- ho . this accustomed to the great. lis who lives here in Castlegar. ‘The Lightles travel a lot and make the yearly trip to Ontario to visit the relatives they left behind. - “Omar stated that his ments, “going tocat down ‘ ‘ont. smoking,” Sept. 8th: AF. Zuckerberg‘, rescues. swamped boaters from river during Annual Sept. 22: Dave Campbell reports on Kootenays Civil Defensive Exercise. never wait up to see the New.. Year Jin’ (it always gets in. a “paving stones that their less Pilot for 1956, receives Hud- son's pabrsd Trophy. Qetober 27th: Earl Cher- ington receives crest from the Cornwallis training school. Ne ber 17th: Theatre 600 attend Eucharistic rites at Close of C.W.L. Con- vention. June ‘Sth: Blood Donor Quota topped for third suc- cessive year. Projects Society plans 70 x 100 skating June 16th: Barbara Dower, Burton Campbell and Glenn York topped a record list of honored at the 1955 eee to 762, four times the 191 in‘ service at ‘opening July, 1950, February 3rd: New Kin- naird Post Office officially open3 ... . Work on three- storey addition to high school . Park, equipped» with radar and radio, sueceasor to,S.S. Minto, to do trial runs. February 24th: Hon. PAe ‘ Honors Day Assembly at HHS. Mr. and Mrs. Axel H. Niel- son and daughter leave for three nionths’ business. and pleasure trip to. Europe. June 28rd: Paving of Mile- filled to capacity for Remem- brance Day: Service. November 24th: -Paulson -route contract .is:let to P.F. Law Construction Co. - AOTS Club accepts task of supervising Skating Rink. December Ist: Shift Sys tem over at SHHS — New - addition complete, ready to use, . December :8th:, Commis. sioners. discuss curfew with Corp: Cline. December 15th: Voting fe- sults in Castlegar made G.G. Atchison and J.H. Westwood Commissioners for 1966. and’. F.G. Warner and A.A. Lam- bert on the Boafd: for Kin- stone Road heads ds Kinnaird naird. loses sawmill and drive-in. . Flood threat essed. “Jely 14th: Joo Killough December 22nd: - Season's Greetings. Castlegar whapetkiniag 13 flex its muscles 25 years ago. And then, there was the cautious members : are, setting resum E individual - or.. society, ‘ thalh legal. and un-legal ter- mites are searching all that is not covered species by the law. In any case, possibly, it is better. to‘have tried to do something and failed, than to have done nothing and suc- ceeded. If this be so, then the New Year is too late, since weare living and able only in’ this nioment, or according to the motto that a kindly aunt of mine used to keep on the The spirit of the law is lost when it is reduced to details. The | spirit’of any good resolutions is lost when there +is an attempt to reduce that spirit to a series of “wills” and “won'ts.” “Any” good that I msy do__ Let-me do it now For I pass through this ‘world but once And will not pass this way again.” "And finally — a plague on Burt and his ‘Doonsbury’ — . history belongs to those who make it. Ss i “great hobby” is hunting. : e's “shot' about every kind says laughing, “1 wass't ost, but they all thought I was.” He ‘also enjoys fishing, of. especially deep sea fishing. You'd think with: a. fellow ‘outdoors he'd never Jose his “way.'He-and Ora ‘told me | bout the time this past fall “when “he | went. out’ picking hickleberries ] he got lot-and was. out. overnight. “I've never lived ‘that down,” he ‘Other’ loves :‘include”. crib, which he says he plays every. day; and refinishing antiques which he ‘and Ora \do. to- gether. Ora likes them. be-” cause “they've lasted so long, they'll likely last the rest“of ‘our lives.” x Through the years. Omar has been a member, of Ki- FIRST HOUSE fo be built in Kinnaird by Omar Lightle wanis and is a charter 1 mem- ber of the K.P. ‘Lodge since 1945. Talso found out that Omar has a new nickname. It seems that Omar can readily spot;a ~ place to drill for water. Re- cently when a water driller’ friend had ‘come up dry in‘ three locations, he called :. Omar who, after scouring the™- land, picked out a location: Sure® water, plenty of water “90 gallons a minute!” he said. Since that time he has been: kiiown‘as the “water witch.” E Ceramic engine |. Home with. class - The Royal “Doulton ‘of Rolls-Royces? Two Japanese companies have unveiled an automohile engine they say consumes 80’ per cent less fuel — because it’s. made of Motors holds a large share — and Kyoto Ceramics,-said the experimental 'three-cylinder 2,000 cubie-centimetre diesel | engine is an entirely new type which ba not needa cooling sys But you cast’ stick: it in It sure beats a battered jalopy full of cigar smoke and - Co! muddy: water: -North and West Vancou- ver know how to get you home with class —‘a fleet of Cadillacs ‘driven: by cabbies wearing suits and ties will soon start cruising the area, The BC. Motor ‘Carrier mmission’ announced .. re- cently -that Sunshine Cabs Ltd. has been granted .a li- cence to phase in 25 Cadillacs over the coming year.” “Home Jeeves —and keep the cae? Meek /PERCIVIL ja THERE SEEMS TO | BEASLIGHT "| MISONDERSTANDIN HERE. enough there was Censorship-fer;foreign correspondents lifted WARSAW (AP) — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Po- land's military leader, lifted censorship for foreign cor- respondents and met with Archbishop Jozef Glemp on Saturday in what appeared to be a dramatic sign that the Polish crisis is easing after four weeks of martial law. But the Communist regime said U.S. President Reagan's economic sanctions against Poland make it “still more difficult to overcome: the crisis” and termed the econ- omic situation in the country. “fatal? It said Poland’s foreign debt has risen to $28.5 billion and appealed for $6 billion in import credits and a western “bridge for financing.” Government press spokes- man Jerzy Urban said for- eign correspondents sccred- ited in Warsaw now can file uncensored stories, but only through the Telex at the government's foreign press centre; which is only open during regular business hours. It was not. known whether other transmission facilities for foreign corres- pondents will be opened soon. ° The Soviet Gak urged . NATO countries on Saturday to ignore U.S. calls for san- ctions over the Polish crisis, and compared President Rea- . gan with “Big Brother.” “Poles .. . resorted emergency measures for the sake of preventing a national catastrophe, for the sake of saving the Polish state froth disintegration,” the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said. “Of two evils it was nec- essary to choose the lesser. The choice was, naturally, in favor of the lesser evil.” The paper accused the Reagan administration in Washington of persisting support: of “political bank: - rupts who placed: Poland at the brink of civil-war. - > Although Western Europe has not joined Reagan's san- ctions against Poland and the Soviet. Union, Izvestia said this is “not due to any sym- pathy for (Poland's) General Jaruzelski in Paris, Bonn and London.” "Instead; western European governments believe that “threats and sanctions” will "Satellite -would aid Arctic rescue _ MONTREAL (CP) — The federal government is consid- ering placing a special sat- ellite in orbit for maritime and Arctic rescue operations, says Communications Minis- ter. Francis Fox. Encircling the globe every two hours, the SarSet sat- ellite would be able to pick up signals from emergency transmitters aboard stranged aircraft and ships, then pinpoint their exact lo- cation. If and when the SarSet project gets off the drawing board, it will take 10 years before it can be launched into space, the minister said. The projéct would repre- sent $200 million of work for Canada’s aerospace industry, \ Fox said, and Ottawa is hoping to interest other countires to participate in the project. ‘ Wendy King - appealing VANCOUVER (CP) — Wendy King, found: guilty Dec. 7 ofa shoplifting charge, is appealing her conviction. King, 88, was given a sus- pended sentence, placed on probation for 18 months and ordered to perform 125 hours ‘of community service. l The former prostitute, who ‘was. linked|ta former B.C. have no effect on Moscow or Warsaw, the paper asserted. “They ,understand that Americans will not save Po- land. It can only be saved by the Poles themselves.” pegaue a service from Warsaw to more than a dozen cities abroad’ — from Mon- treal to Moscow — will re- sume. on. Monday, Radio .Warsaw said Saturday. © But the official broadcast, monitored in Bonn, did not say what restrictions might be placed on travel out of the country when some regular flights by LOT, the Polish national airline, resume. The radio said there would be flights from’ Warsaw to Montreal on Tuesdays: and Thursdays. _ Other "jeatinations include Rome, Moscaw, Frankfurt, American Prague, Frankfurt, Copen- hagen, Istanbul, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Paris, Vi- enna, Tripoli, Stockholm, Zurich, Geneva, Damascus and Algiers, . 8 PARIS (AP) — The ex- ecutive director of CARE said Saturday: that Folod® martial law regime will lif travel restrictions for the agency's relief workers so they can’ dis- tribute food to needy Poles. Philip Johnston, who com- pleted a four-day: visit to Poland on Friday, also said. he had a confidential message to give President Reagan from Poland's military ruler Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. He would not give details. He said most Poles in Warsaw seemed resigned to martial law.” Federa! warrants Served: on ships VANCOUVER (CP) — Polish ships docked in ven couver harbor were served federal warrants Saturday for nonpayment of debt. A. spokesman for the Na- tional Harbors Board police said the action means the ships cannot leave the harbor until the matter is settled. ‘The'spokesman said it was a acivil action involving a large amount of money. He said the warrants were served by the’ Vancouver Sheriff's office al- though the Harbors police were present. A spokesman for Maritime Agencies Ltd. the fleet’s agent in Vancouver, was not available for comment. No further details were avail- able. SNOWSTORM Continued from page Al (the snow) been with us now a couple of weeks. They're learning how to drive in it.” Stevens also sald the snow. and cold weather usually cuts down on other problems as well. “People tend’ to stay inside,” he said. ~ Over at the airport, Pa. cific Western | Airlines’ morring flight was only 20 minutes late,.and the.rest of the Friday ‘lights were right on schedule. But that was only after crews workeil feverishly to dear the mai:: runway and ramp.. Airport snow. re- moval crews were at worl: by 6 a.m. and had the main runway ready three hours later, said airport manager John Michelson. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Sahuary 10, 1982 A3 Quake jolts Maritimes By CHRIS MORRIS FREDERICTON (CP) — sharp earthquake that “sounded like thunder” jolted the Maritimes and New En- gland on Saturday, rattling dishes and shaking furniture. « It was the first of two ea had it occurred in a veity, would have oe con: siderable damage. - However, the quakes ori- ginated in the unpopulated middle of New Brunswick, about 100 kilometres north of Fredericton and 80 kilome- tres’ west of Newcatle. Seismographs in Ottawa and Boulder, Colo., : its not the sort of earthquake that will kill people or cause buildings to fall down,” said Merrill Edwards, physics professor at the University of New Brunswick. The quakes were felt in all four Atlantic provinces, parts of Quebec and through the New England states to Con- necticut. 7 ‘No injuries were reported, but police in New Brunswick communities ‘handled hundreds of calls about dam- age to buildings, mostly etacked Walls and separ- ations, “It sounded soineth the first shock shortly before 9 a.m. AST at 6.5 and 5.9 res- ‘pectively on the Richter seale. Tie second quake hit at about 12:30 p.m. AST and it was recorded at 4.9. The last si earth- residénts can pean only isolated snow flurries to- day; according to weather- man Jin Fishwick —and not nearly the amount that fell Friday. However, despite the fact the weather has warmed considerably from the record low -20 Celsius temperature earlier in the week to near freezing by Saturday, the word is that the snow appears here to say. See page A3 for more on world, weather problems. Weather amok LONDON (AP) — Bitter cold and heavy snow gripped the British Isles for a second. day Saturday, bringing win- ter misery to motorists and isolating several towns and villages. At least 11 people are known to have died in the snowstorms. It was the same across yezpuch of Europe, where sev- ere flooding was reported. - In Britain, rescue workers fought throughout the day to - free more than 1,000 drivers who took their chanced on the. icy roads and lost. In Somerset, England, po- lice got so fed up with mot- orists ignoring their danger warnings that they erected giant at access -patch-from “news agency. Cars and buses crawled along, trains ran hours be- hind schedule and Moscow's streetcar system was dis- rupted by snow on the tracks. In Poland, four northern provinces, were hit by a winter storm, rendering a 40-kilometre stretch of high- sway: impassable, said a dis- the-East-German- Ferry routes were dis- rupted among Denmark's 400 islands when the sea froze. Winds reaching 110 kilom- - etres an hour toppled cam- pers and tore up houses in southern California as. road crews struggled to reach ‘roads to prevent cars getting _ , through to the expressways. ‘Air travel was also sev- erly affected, and travellers faced long delays at Heath- row and Gatwick airports. Weather experts said the bitter cold would last until Monday or Tuesday. In Sweden, the temper- ature dropped to minus 42 degrees. Celsius. An elderly couple froze to death outside their villa west of Stockholm. Bitter cold gripped much of the Soviet Union as temper- atures in Moscow hovered at minue 25 degrees Celsius. Annual bird count down Despite heavy snows, cold winds and -2 Celsius temper- ature, the West Kootenay Naturalists’ 10th annual Christmas bird count was down only slightly this year from previous years. ‘The count was held Dec. 19 — a week earlier than usual as part of a one-year experi- ment — and at first organ- izers were afraid the weather would work against them. “Surely no sensible bird would show so much as a beak on such a day,” was the feeling of many of the 92 bird watchers who took part, said spokesman Betty Drew. But the weather decided to cooperate, clearing at noon so that by 8:30 p.m., when about half the participants met at Selkirk College to tally sight- ings over a cup of hot coffee, it becamie apparent that the count wouldn't be down too touch from other years. However, there were some chief ‘justice John Farris strange results. three years ago, was accused, | withra friend, of-stealing two boxes of cigars worth more ithan $200, two bottles of laftershave lotion and four packets of makeup last April from a department ‘store. . The Pine Siskins — tiny © seed-eating finches — nim- bered only 22, the lowest count in 12 years. A tofal of 1,640 were tallied in 1975. At the same time Coots were higher than at any time all week by snow to the north in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Civil defence officials in Idaho kept a wary eye on iee-jammed rivers’ as the search for bodies in Calif- ornia continued: for .bodies buried by mudslides. North-. ern California storms claimed 26 lives.. Meanwhile, bitterly cold air pushed across the middie Mississippi Valley, Ohio; Val- ley and lower Great Lakes this morning, producing snow squalls in the Great Lakes region, the U.S. Na-. tional Weather Service said. in the 12-year history of the count — numbering 2,712. Also a record were the number of pygmy owls re- corded — a total of five. As well, the naturalists counted three birds new to the West Kootenay: a Fer- ruginous Hawk sighted near Castlegar by Colin Price; an Earred Grebe spotted on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake by Margaret Barwis; and a Meadow Lark in the Slocan — which is farily common during the summer, but hadn't been previously seen in winter months. Ravens numbered 301, compared with a peak of 613 in 1979, Naturalists predict the number of ravens will continue to drop in- future since garbage dumps are now being covered. It was also reported that a Virginia Rail had been found dead in Trail Dec. 18 after it had flown into a window. / Naturalists say it is very un- usual for this pond or shore hire to be found in the south- ern Interior — especially in winter. Of the well-known birds the watchers counted, there were 108 House Sparrows, Snow also _ prevailed through Montana, northern Idaho, South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, southern Wiscon- sin and northern Illionis. ‘Temperatures were below zero from eastern Montana to northern Wisconsin. In B.C. the West-central section is struggling under 180 centimetres of snow that has falled since Tuesday. | At least. one death: is- - blamed on the weather. A young man riding a snow- mobile in Kitimat, south of Terrace, was killed Friday night when his vehicle col- lided with a snowplow. He has not been identified. Highway 16 between Ter- race and Prince Rupert was closed because of. several snowslides and the Canadian National Railways-line from Terrace to the coast also was impassable. In addition, Highway 87-A between Meziadin and 8te- wart in northwestern. B.C. was closed becatise- ‘of the weather conditions, In southeastern B.C., the Salmo-Creston. Hig! was quake in the Maritimes and Newfoundland occurred Nov. 18, 1929. It was followed by a 10- metre high tidal wave in the Burin peninsula on the South Coast of Newfoundland that killed 27 people and des- troyed scores .of homes, wharves, and fishing boats, causing damage of $2 million. There was a two-metre tidal wave in Sydney, N.S., which also reported a few fallen chimneys, collapsed barns, ruined springs and wells, and broken crockery. The quake was felt in Atlan- tic Canada, and in parts of Quebec and New England. The epicentre of the 1928 earthquake was 402 kilom- - etres south of St. John’s, Nfld, and the tremor reg- istered 7.2 on the openended Richter scale at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one num- ber means a tenfold increase in magnitude. "the description that goes with a Richter event of about 5.5 is that poorly built houses might end up with cracked ceilings and foundations, bi ICBC « eyes" offenders bank accounts VANCOUVER (CP) — Un- less some 90,000 B.C. moter- ists pay their overdue insur- ance payments to the Insur- ance Corp. of B.C. by. Jan. 15, the Crown company will go to the offenders’ bank ac- counts to collect. And ICBC plans to charge 1.5 per cent monthly interest on the overdue amounts. The problem occurred when ICBC was unable to closed because of heavy snow and 4 threat of avalanches, and the Trans-Canada was © subject to closures in the Revelstoke area near the Al." berta border for avalanche control. Pp from bank accounts of motorists who finaticed:their Autoplay “premiums lest March and _April with payments ending in’ September and October because of the strike by 2,200 employees, members of the ~” Office and Technical Employ- ees Union. Motorists were asked to mail their. checks, to IC! 421 d Chickad 106 Robins, 233 Canada. Geese, 1,407 Bohemian Wax- wings, and 741 Evening Grosbeaks. - The count covered Trail, Rossland, Castlegar, Nelson, Kaslo, New Denver, Salmo and Argenta. All reports excepting ‘Sal mo were received. fig- ures will be forwarded to the -provincial museum in Vic- toria, where they are used to help menitor bird life across the province. . The 92 participants. trav- elled a total of 107 miles by car and 82 miles by foot. West Kootenay Naturalist club president Jim Street — who was also collator and eonvenor for the bird count — thanked all those who made time in their busy pre-Christmas period to take part in the annua! count. Club outings in 1982 will start in mid-January, and the annual dinner will be held Jan. 22 at the Fireside Place in Castlegar. : Ron Routledge, informa- tion officer for the provincial parks branch, will be guest speaker. ‘ mailed letters t to 180,000 , motorists, warning. that if payments were not uit an airplane but the aaa was grester — it was really shaking the house,” said Marion Pray of New Den- mark, N.B., “It sounded something like thunder when it really roars.” Late-morning risers .in downtown Fredericton were jolted from their beds as the first quake hit, shaking pic- tures off walls, rattling dishes and shifting heavy ob- jects. It jolted the needle off the recording drum of the seismograph at the Univer- sity of New Brunswick. The first quake lasted up to a minute in some parts of the province and scared people into the streets from shops and homes. The Emergency Measures Organization in Fredericton was flooded with calls from frightened people wondering what had happened and what e they should doin the event of a more serious quake. WORRIED ABOUT MINE Jessie Rosborough, an em- ployee of Brunswick Mining near Bathurst, N.B., near the epicentre of the quakes, thought there had been an explosion in the lead and zinc mine. Society seizes By EUGENE ELLMEN BRADFORD, ONT. (CP) — Burning bales of hay and two parked cars failed to deter -Ontario Humane So- ciety officials from seizing about 150 cattle from Cesidio Romanelli on Saturday. “They (the cattle) will be taken to our farm in New- market where they will be cared for until such time as the law — nott he law of the mob, not the law of the media, but the law of the land — decides who is going to have these animals,” said Tom Hughes, executive vice- president of the Ontario Hu- mane Society. The breeding herd of Char- olais was taken after irate farmers, members of the Canadian Farmers Survival Association, prevented a sei- zure on Friday by receivers ane for Romanelli's bank, the ‘Royal Bank. ‘The farm was placed in re- ceivership’ Dec. 31: after ‘he: we'unable to repay's $935,000 Joan and $123,000 in interest. ““[m going to ‘sue every single truck driver, the hu- mane society, banks, law- yers, everything, if I can,” said the 48-year-old farmer. “['m going to work the rest of my life to pay (lawyers), if I have to.” His wife Anna became very emotional and screamed at police, humane society of- many of whom were local men familiar to the family. Hughes said his actions were authorized by a humane society seizure order passed in December. _ It was issued after Roman- elli dumped three dead ema- ciated cattle in front of a Toronto bank, claiming they starved to death because the bank refused him credit. The order, suspended when the bank told the society’ ‘it would take over the animals’ care, was re-insti- tuted Saturday when Hughes Teanred the bank could not meet its promise. Many cattle were thin and had patches: of missing hair. During the last week they have been cared for by sur- vival association members. Lawyer John Gorman of Midland, Ont., said he plans to take Hughes to court for wrongly seizing the animals and will appeal the receiver- ship order. Gorman and some survival: association farmers moved in with the Romanellis about two weeks ago. George Bothwell, the asso- ciation member who organi- zed the protest, claimed vic- tory. ‘ “It’s not the receiver that's taking them (the cattle), it's the humane society,” said Bothwell, an Owen. Sound, Ont. farmer who is well- “It started out sounding like an underground blast which usually only lasts a few seconds, But it went on for what seemed like minutes, although I suppose it was only one minute, ard then I thought, ‘Oh my God, what's happened'?” Brunswick Mining said there were no injuries or damages and operations con- tinued. There were fears about the Point Lepreau nuclear gen- erating station, under con- struction near Saint John, NB. There is no nuclear fuel there and New Brunswick Electric Power Commission: spokesmen said there was no damage. ~ Point Lepreau is being built to withstand an earth- quake of 6.0 with an epi- centre within a 20-kilometre radius. cattle After the seizure, Bothwell was’ arrested by York Re- gional Police and charged with trespassing on the hu- mane society farm in New- marekt, about 20 kilometres southeast of Bradford. POWER RATES Continued from page Al watt hour while West Koot- enay Power received just 28,.6-cents per kilowatt hour. The local company had been seeking a S2-cent per kilo- watt hour increase, Meanwhile, local residents could possibly be hit with still another rate increase later this year. West Kootenay Power is hoping the 13.5 per cent in- terim increase approved in December will be raised to 22 per cent increase that the company originally applied for. If that happens, it would mean another 8.6 per cent hike for electricity users in the area. The utilities commission has still not made a decision on the 22-per cent increase. As well, the December in- terim increase — which was the fourth interim hike since May, 1979 — is subject to refund with interest should known fe farmers’ ficials and truck drivers,’ the decide not to finalize them. received in 10 days, the j money, plus interest, would be withdrawn from their bank accounts. - The deadline for payment without interest was later extended to Jan. 15 from Dec. 29, Overheated cooking oil causes fire Overheated cooking oil is blamed for a stove fire Thursday at 83808-8th Avenue which caused approximately $2,000 damage. Fire chief Dan Fitger told the Castlegar News that _pumper trucks from both halls responded to the 1:30 p.m. call but the tenant of the basement suite in which the fire occurred had already put out the blaze with a fire d from WAX AWAY... Sigge Bjorklund | ded the clinic Thursday, sponsored by removes wax from a cross-country ski'in Selkirk College Continuing Education, a waxing night ina cross-country ski clinic held ret the a neighbor. The $2,000 estimate in- cludes both fire and smoke older | Recreation Commission No. 1, and funded by. Recreation and Sport Branch, The clinic continued Friday ot of a level four certificate in the C Association of Nordic Ski instructors, perates a ski shop and runs a ski school ae Vancouver. About 100 people atten- the on the Winter Games course at nad Mountain, and concludes theré today. . <5 CarMews Photo by Cheryl Wishiow