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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978 : 25CENTS:

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In Mid-May? 12 : input is ‘Premature’

_.. This Friday and Saturday; April:21st & 22n soponing of Calg Alnor is mid May Ad, Sin Gouk sd
. : E bd opt an air tratfle controller at the airport, told city council -

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“The Prices You've Been Waiting. For Are Waiting for You Now at Beaver Auto”

the contractor who started paving the runway Monday said he

., would complete the work in “nine to 10 days” and federal transport

ministry officials indicated they had tentative plans for re-opening

the airport “somewhere between May 15 and 20” rather than the
June 30 deadline originally scheduled for the repairs,

‘The alderman stressed that the ministry officials’ statements

were unofficial and the plans for early re-opening were still

tending’ the’ event, >‘. :

Jeep lineup for 1978.

¢ Last year, Mazda sales -
grew almost twice as
fast as any other import.
Thanks to the GLC.

Jeep J-10
Golden Eagle

You sure see a lot of them around. Why?
Come to the Trade Fair and find out!

Located on the Trail-Fruitvale Highway at Beaver Falls oO

indefinite.

Runway resurfacing at the airport, originally expected to last

5 up to three months, began early this month.

Lions’ Trade Fair Sales
25% t0 30% Higher’

Selkirk Lions’ gross re-

.ceipts for this year’s West

Kootenay Trade Fair Friday
and Saturday were “26 to 80
per cent” higher than last year,
the club president said Tues-
day.

“Walter Tymofievich said
the club lost track of atten-
dance at the Regional .Recrea-
tion Complex but estimated

- that the number “of people

attending this year's event
the 12,000 admis-

» sions lsat year.

He said the Lions’ net sales
for the Trade Fair, which this
year featured more than 76
exhibits and covered more than

_ 40,000 square feet of display
area, will not be di for

ra’ re-

PAVING OF RUNWAYS

is mow under way at Castlegar

Alrport as contractor makes good progress with cooperation
of the weather. Alrport manager John Michelson sald he
does not really know when the Job will be ‘finished but

sponse to the Trade Fair was
“excellent” and will probably
lead to more extensive govern-
ment displays in the future, he
said.

“We had exhibitors who

wanted to pay us right on the
spot for a chance to come back
next year,” he said. “But we
will need more room next year,
and this is something we will
have to plan for immediately."

He said the club will con-
sider the use of portable build-
ings to offer more exhibit
space, in addition to plans for
more live entertainment and
bingo games,

Despite the size of the

jas ahead of schedule.

factor such aa a change In the weather and breakdown. Once
the runway Is paved, numbers and centre lines as well as
entrance II must be painted. Taking advantage of the
weather conditions the contractor has had his crew working
over the past two weekends. (See story In top Ie!
—CasNewsFoto by D:

at the wi
Michelson sald there Is always the chance of an unknown

crowd, an local Lions *

another two weeks.

Asked about the response
of those who rented booths for
this year's fair, Tymofievich

- said’ exhibitors were ."just ec-

static": about the crowds ai

membership, assisted by the
Kootenay Slocan Lions, con-
trolled inside pedestrian flow
without trouble while local CB
radio enthusiasts policed motor
vehicle traffic in the area, he
said, ral Cetin

College's $6M Budget
Means .05-Mill Tax Cut

~ Selkirk College's new
$6,892,958 - operating - budget
will mean a .05-mill tax cut for
Castlegar, Trail, Nelson, Grand
Forks and Arrow Lakes schoo!
district taxpayers.

That was the outcome of an
April 18 meeting between

, college and education ministry
officials, Selkirk College council
members were told last Thurs-
day.

College bursar Alex
Reibin, who attended the April
18 meeting, told the council
that although the budget for
April 1 to March 31, 1979
represented an increase over
the previous $6,751,083 budget,
the mill rate had been cut to
3.45. because Cominco was
paying more taxes on its Trail
area operations.

Ministry officials said they
based budget estimates on a

- 6.8-per-cent inflation factor, al-
though the gross budget lift
cited amounted to 10.89 per
cent, Reibin said.

Mayor's $1,800,
Raise Shrunk
To $251.88

The $1,800 yearly raise
an “embarrassed” Mayor
Audrey Moore received
April 11 will shrink to
$251.88, city council decided
Tuesday.

In response to Moore's
request that they reconsider
the decision at their last
“meeting to raise her annual
indemnity to $6,000, council
members reduced the figure
to reflect the same six-per-
cent increase approved for
aldermen.

In asking that the raise
be reduced, the mayor told
council she “did not fault”
the city finance it

Budget estimate high-
lights, outlined by Reibin and
principal Mitch Anderson, who
also attended the meeting, with
ministry officials, included:

e A 100-per-cent boost to
$10 million for requested ap-
proved courses lasting three to
eight months, as well as the
indication that RAC instructors
may be hired early to allow for

preparation and requests for *

some equipment;

e A16-per-cent increase in
Canada Manpower skills train-
ing support;

oe A 68-per-cent increase
for the vocational program as
well as $31,000 extra for night
school;

¢@ Provision of enough
funding to cover the needs of

* the nursing and aviation pro-

grams;

e Allocation of an extra
$80,000 for community educa-
tion services for outlying areas.

The bursar said the official
indicated they would approve
budgetary requests for all voca-
tional programs as well as for
additional groundskeeping
costs, Administration, which

(Con’t. Pg. A2, Col. 1)

Committee
Awaits Reply

On Access

* Marathon Realty has not
yet supplied the information
the city’s works and services
committee needs in order to
make a recommendation on the
proposed use of a CP Rail-
owned dirt road as a second
access for the Shewchuck sub-
division.

That was chairman Ald.
Albert Calderbank's update
Tuesday night on the commit-
tee’s study of a request by

for -recommending the
7$1,800 increase to her $4,198
annual indemnity, but she
said she had not been con-
sulted about the increase.

Aldermen's indemnities
were raised by council at the
April 11 meeting by six per
cent..to $3,498. Ald. Len
Embree was the only council
member at the era
0] granting the $1,
raise to Moore, who said she
was embarrassed by the size .
of the increase.

subdivision resid that the
road be used as an alternative
route to Woodland Drive
North.

Calderbank told council
Marathon Realty, CP Rail's real
estate arm, had sent the com-
mittee two letters bearing “
contradictory information on
the access road. :

He said his committee will
hold the previous Marathon

City residents’ belief that wells are unsuitable as 4
water source for Castlegar ‘‘is not valld.”” Ae
That was Environment Minister Jim. Nielsen’s
response to a petition in which nearly 1,700 Castlegar
residents told Premier Bill Bennett they want provincial
government aid In securing the city's proposed Arrow

PILLAR OF SMOKE from the Robson ho: as well as shingles on the roof of a nearby house. One side of
clearly visible from the Castlegar side of ¢ the ferry ramp was eventually shut down to prevent traffic
Bernie Van Rassel, local stant to the fire marshal, sald - from going too close to the fire.

heat from the blaze melted the Insulation on telephone lines —CasNowsFoto by Ryon Quedes

Threatens Nearby Homes, Phone Lines in Robson

Unchecked Blaze Levels House

A fire of unknown origin
destroyed an unoccupied house
in Robson less than 50 feet from
the Columbia River ferry ramp
Monday. .

Flames leaped more than
20 feet in the air and smoke was

clearly visible from the other
side of the river.

Bernie Van Rassel, Castle-
gar Airport fire chief and local
assistant to the fire marshal,
said no injuries resulted from
the 90-minute blaze, which

Rotary. Bingo Features

Over $10,000 in Prizes

And under the “G” is the
call this Saturday as the Castle-
gar Rotary Club spotisors its
first Annual Rotary Car and
Boat Bingo at the Regional
Recreation Complex.

There are $10,000 in prizes
ready to go to the lucky
Participants. Besides the two
major prizes, winners will walk
away with a microwave oven, a
stereo, $200 in paint, two

separate prizes of $200 in”

groceries, a deepfreeze, dish-
washer and a cut-off saw.:
Win or lose, those taking
part will all be aiding the
community. Monies realized
from the profits of this giant
bingo will go towards the
development of the Rotary
Community Tennis Courts
being developed adjacent to the
Regional Recreation Complex.

_ Further Cuts Made
In 1978 City Budget

City council's finance committee has made ‘further
reductions” in the proposed 1978 city budget to restrict its burden
the i hai

on the Castlegar taxpayer,

ding to

Ald. Gerald Rust told council Tuesday the budget—scheduled
for adoption in an open meeting May 9—was reduced “in an
attempt to keep the 1978 mill rate as low as possible.”-

Rust also told council his committee would recommend all
future requests for city ‘grants-in-aid be processed through
Castlegar's portion of the Regional District of Central Kootenay's
grants fund as a means of limiting the amounts of money paid out

by the city.
Grants-in-aid for 1978 are

“in

.and delay recommendations

until it receives a further letter
of clarification. ‘

Rust said.

d to cost the city $10,000,

He reminded council members the budget would be given

* preliminary discussion at a special closed budget meeting May 4.

apparently started at 4:45 p.m.
in a bedroom in the building.
Van Rassel, who attended
the fire, said the family renting
the house had reportedly left it
to go shopping.
Van Rassel said he and

‘other off-duty airport firefight-

ers, as well as RCMP and West
Kootenay Power employees,
attended the blaze but had no
equipment to fight it.

“The people next door had
a garden hose, but it was a lost
cause,” he said. “I told them to
use it to wet their own houses

- down.”
Residents across the road.

hosed down their homes as
well, he said, while heat from
the fire melted the insulation on

Asked about the suspected
cause of the fire, Van Rassel
said it was difficult to deter-
mine because the blaze had
burned through to the base-
ment of the~ stuccoed log
building.

“Five to six feet of rubble”
remained at the site and was
still burning when he inspected
it Tuesday night, he said. He
said he had not yet been able to
contact the owner or tenants of
the building.

+ “It. just proves again the
need for fire p ion in outer

Lakes water supply.

Nielsen, to whom the premier had referred the petition, anid
in an April 17 letter to petition organizer Ald. Jim Gouk the
the

in the petition that a water’

supply from any source other than the Arrow Lakes would‘ be
temporary and unacceptable “have not been fully acquainted with.

the facts.”

He said the Selkirk College campus well—reportedly under
study by bis ministry's water rights branch—may prove capable of
“supplying large quantities of good quality water.” If the
investigations yield positive results the technical and financial
advantages for the Castlegar area could be “considerable,” the

minister said.

“There is, I believe, a
locally fostered opinion that
groundwater per se is an
unacceptable and temporary
solution to municipal water
supply,” Nielsen said. “The
experience of many public
water supply agencies indicates
that this opinion is not valid.”

“With essential technical
and financial elements of res-
ponsible decision making still
unresolved and, therefore, un-

known to all concerned, such
public involvement could be
considered premature,” he said
in the letter. - sited

The minister said he
agreed the city’s groundwater
sources of supply “pose prob-
lems of quantity and quality”
and would require supplemen-
tary sources to accommodate
future growth in Castlegar and
outlying areas. But he said the
urgency. of the groundwater

Daylight Saving
Switch-Over
2 A.M. Sunday

Daylight Saving Time
etarts at 2 am. on Sunday
morning.

If you don't want to be late
for church or work on Sunday,
residents of this area should
put their clocks ahead one hour

hen.

retiring. Saturday. eve:; |

“The lost hour's sleep will’
‘be made up when the province |.
reverts to Standard Time at 2 -

:a.m. on Oct. 30...
Remember, your: clock

Springs Ahead in the spring, |

and Falls Back one bour in the

City Studies
Firemen’s Pay

Raise Bylaw .
City .council gave third

reading Tuesday to a bylaw |

which would provide increases
of up to $1,005 annually in
Castlegar Fire Department
members’ remuneration rates.

Presented to council by
Ald. C. S. Fowler, protective
services committee chairman,
the bylaw would increase re-
muneration from $2,050 to
$8,055 for. the fire chief, from
$850 to $1,600 for the deputy
fire chiefs, from $450 to $600 for
engineers, and from $250 to
$350 for captains.

by upon
local remedial regulatory mea-.
sures being taken and to
interpretation.” :

Nielsen’s letter questioned
the petition preambles state:
ment that the delay in investi-
gation of the Selkirk College
well was a strong argument for
adoption of. the Arrow Lakes.

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The rate of i
per practice and per hour of
firefighting was raised from
$6.50 to $7 for firemen and all
other fire department mem-
bers,

The bylaw, which resulted

from weeks of discussion be-,

tween fire department repre-

areas,” Van Rassel said, “We're
going to get caught short with a
major fire loss one‘ of these
days.”

and pi ive ser-

f Weekend
Weathercast

CLOUDY with. sunny
periods during the afternoon
and little chance of pre-
cipitation. This trend ‘is.
expected to continue over-
the weekend. ‘J

vices b is
expected’ to be given final
approval at council's next regu-
lar meeting.

For convenient home delivery
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telephone lines overhead as
well as shingles on the roof of a
nearby house.

He said ke had to request
one side of the Robson ferry
ramp be shut down to prevent
motor traffic from going too
close to the blaze. Trees and
grass around the house ignited
and had to be hosed down, but
the fuel tank beside the house
did not catch fire, he said.

Tax Deadline
Moved Ahead
To May 1

The deadline for filing per-
sonal income tax returns has
been extended one day to May
1, Revenue Minister Joe Guay
announced Monday.

The extension from the
usual date of April 80 was being
made because the normal dead-
line falls on a Sunday.

L

Selkirk College will
launch a yearbook adver-
tising campaign in an at-
tempt to lure the region's
high schoo) students to the
college after they graduate,
-the student services dean
said last week.

Blake Frisby told Sel-
kirk College council mem-
bers last Thursday adver-
tisements “developed speci-
fieally with high schoo) stu-
dents in mind” would be
placed in students’ year-
books throughout Castlegar,
Trail, Nelson, Grand Forks

t Selkirk Campaign to Recrui
| Prospective College Students.

and Arrow Lakes school
districts’ high schools.

“It's an attempt to make
it look like a place where
they should be going,” Fris-
by told the council. “With
something to offer both aca-
demically and in the sense of
a good time,”

Frisby told the Castle-
gar News the ads—which
include pictures of various
college buildings and activi-
ties, as well as slogans pro-
moting the college as “your
first choice"—are in three
different sets which are
ready for reproduction and
will allow the schools to run

a new ad annually for the
next four years,

The campaign arose out
of a request by several high
schools for advertisements ~
on what the college had to
offer high school students,
Frisby said. He said the cost
of the advertisements had”
not yet been determined.

Asked whether the
campaign was an attempt to
improve enrolment figures
at the college, Frisby agreed
enrolment was a factor and
said the market for enrol
ments was “becoming com-
petitive.” ‘1

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