By CasNews Staff Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen this week blamed a “simple migunder- standing” for a complaint about his spring report to constituents. Kristiansen came under fire in a letter in today’s Castlegar News (also pub- KERR WIDE MOUTH CANNING JARS 56.25 $7.25 ren ‘ZB. DOZEN Quast ‘zB. DOZEN lished this week in the Nel. son News) from Joyce Man- well of Trail. ( The letter and Kristian- sen’s responses in full are on DEEP COVE CHUNK LIGHT TUNA CENTRAL FOODS 2717 Columbia Ave. ot » ® mt. - % Compare our prices and save! Prices effective Aug. 20 to Aug. 26 or while quantities lest. Whole Oats... .... snus woot $0 Whole Wheat... ... ».»..$7.25 Scratch... .... sii GOLD 16% Lay Mash:;: $7.50 REGULAR PRICES HAVE DROPPED Eg: 16% Dairy ration $8.00 15% Rabbitt pellets ...... 15% Rabbit $8.50 Kristiansen x mistake a mix we AA). ‘ Manwell says Kristiansen apparently misquoted the director of the Canadian Medical Association in the spring report. The report said: “The Con- servatiyes recently shocked Parliament when they sup- ported laws to get tough with those provincial govern- ments which how charge ex- tra for hospital services as well as allow doctors to bill patients extra. This went against everything the Con servatives stood for. “But then it all became very clear when the director of the Canadian Medical As- sociation (which represents doctors) said that ‘they (the Conservatives) can see they'd be a dead duck if they went against medicare’ and that ‘when they got in power they'd make it right for us.’ ” Manwell writes that she was concerned a director of the CMA would make such a statement. “I followed this up with a telephone call to Mr. Kris tiansen’s office, and have on file his written reply inform. ing me of the name and ad dress of Mr. B.E. Freamo, the director of the Canadian Medical Association.” Correspondence shows Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) — The following people are asked to contact the RCMP for urgent messages: Custom Tailor 1 Wood * We Custom Build beauti- ful solid oak or birch-hand finished kitchen and beth- room cabinets. Leonard and Diane Besaw of Lethbridge, Alta. Robert and Mary Besaw of Stephenville, Nfld. Melvin Bossio of Fernie Mr. and Mrs. Fred George of Smithers Mr. and Mrs. George Mel. nyk of Calgary Caldsit GROCETERIA & LAUNDROMAT We Are Open 442-5/66 1038 Columbia wet re Helen Watson, Kristiansen's . told Mrs. Manwell certainly they . were ~ not quoted from any statements which I ‘had made,” wrote mo. or Manwell says in her letter to.the Castlegar News that she ls “confused and alarmed * that such blatant ststements can be quoted by our MP in- ferring that good affordable health care is not possible under the Progressive Con- servative government.” She adds that she has for- warded the letter to Kristian- sen and demanded’ an ex. planation and apology “for presenting erroneous infor- mation and misleading con clusions.” Kristiansen, who saw the letter in the Nelson News, issued a statement Thursday saying, “I wish to assure Ms. Manwell ...and your readers that the remarks quoted. in my Spring Report '84 were made by a director of the Canadian Medical Associa- tion.” He said the CMA director who made the remarks was not Freamo, but Dr. Wally Mydland and the remarks appeared in an article in the Edmonton Journal on Dec. 15, 1983. Manwell’s éonfasion arises from a simple fitis- understanding over the tel- ephone between herself and my constituency office sec retary and the CMA as to which CMA director was being referred to,” Kristian sen said. He added that the quota tion is “authentic.” Accident victim better Arnie Gundersen, the Castlegar man who was in jured in an automobile acei dent Tuesday, is out of in tensive care and his condition has “improved,” said a Castlegar and District Hos pital spokesperson Friday 1003-2nd St. 365-6534 ne — * 2 _ works yard facilities. 3522 Sou ee 4h AN OPEN HOUSE in the Birchland Heights Subdivision Sunday, August 19 from 1-3 p.m. Presents thridge Drive MOUNTAINVIEW AGENCIES LTD. SHOVELLING IT . . . Janice King (left) and Leanne Sylvest shovel gravel as part of their jobs under a Summer Canada Works grant. Nine girls were hired to make picnic and recreational vehicle sites near the Community Complex this summer. — Canbhews Phare WOMEN- continued from front pege Community Complex which is being authorized by the City of Castlegar. The site enhancement plan includes sprucing up the entrance to the complex by laying down a driveway with a circular drop-off, and putting in a strip of grass with trees and shrubbery along 6th Ave. between the street and parking lot. As well, Nancy Felde, a landscape designer, said a soft ball field is planned for the north side of the area, and a jogging track around the soceer field. Felde said plans for the improvements — which began this spring — should be completed in eight weeks. She added that actual construction of the planned renovations depends on funds and resources available to the city. “It may be a three-year plan, it may be a 10-year plan. We don't know yet,” Felde said. “This is really a major site reworking,” she added. Wigen said the Kiwanis Club may do additional work on the pienie and recreational vehicle sites this fall. He added that another Summer Canada Works grant will be applied for next year, so that work on the sites can be continued. TRUCKS continued from front page project. In other council news, the city will spend $12,500 to spruce up the old It will replace the existing wooden fence along the east, west and south sides of the yard at city hall with a 2 metre chain link fence and a new entry gate. Cost is estimated at $7,500. As well, the city will pave the yard areas between the workshops, city hall and 13th Ave: at a cost of about $5,000. to Funds for the work will come from back. monéy saved from Celgar Road paving Fire chief Bob Mann has been asked investigate requests from the the _National Exhibition Centre and Koot enay Doukhobor Historical Society for fire protection. The driver's examination service has been reinstated at the Motor Vehicle Licence office in the Oglow Building, and council has been asked to change .ge parking in front of the building from no parking to 15-minute parking Council has instructed the city engineer to investigate and report The'city will not receive a provincial planning grant this year. The city applied for a $2,500 grant, but was turned down because its official community plan adopted in 1961 has not been in place for a minimum five years. Council wanted the grant to work on changes to the city plan evolving from proposed new highway inter change _Veto on sports events By CasNews Staff is not feasible for our. com- * Castlegar will probably not munity,” said Meigs, adding, be hosting. sny major sum-. “The major obstacle facing “However, the Bob Brand. son Pool cannot qualify for a meets of such calibre as it any event, couneil should re search the cost and problems with securing volunteers and 3404 Southridge Drive — at dur community is the lack of ig not a standard 25 metre ” es an organizing committee, he warned Ald. Bob MacBain, chair man of the Parks and Ree reation Committee, said he has not had a chance to dis- cuss the memo with Metge and asked that before council act that he meet with Metge. .- Court news ~Lawreties Kuske was fined mentioned, Castlegar: has a A. $100. fine was given to facility only for swimming. Héward Penner after he pleaded guilty to supplying liquor to a minor. ._ 2 « Robert Higgins was pul on & six-month peace bond. 63 pie Gordon Geisler was put on 2 six-month peace bond. Representatives of pendent Transit Union and the Metro Transit @ Co. are to} meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the office @fEabor Minjster Bob McClelland. é The transit company said the buses éould be rolling again within 36 hours of an agreement, . Closure rapped KAMLOOPS (CP) — British Columbia Ombudsman Kar! Friedman has criticized « plan by the Ministry of Human Resources to close Tranquille institution. The government wants to close Tranquille by the end of the year, dispersing most of the mentally handi capped patients into the community and transferring the rest to Glendale institution in Victoria. . Spy ship spotted VANCOUVER (CP) — The Soviet spy ship Semyon Chelyushkin, SSV 459 has moved in for one of the Soviet Union's regular checks off the British Columbia and Washington coasts. The vessel, which was first spotted Sunday, positioned itself about 50 kilometres southwest of Cape Flattery, the northern tip of Washington State, on Friday. The vessel was closely shadowed this week by the Canadian MCS i hi but the destroyer has now moved on to other @uties, said Lt. Colin Bowen of Canadian Forces Base Esquimault, where the Canadian ship is based. Cruise campaign 3 MONTREAL (CP) — The testing of cruise missiles over Canada in March was preceded by a government information campaign to make the tests publicly accep- table, according to Department of National Defence: memos published Saturday by a Montreal newspaper. The documents obtained by The Gazette under the Access to Information Act show defence and external affairs department officials developed a plan to shape public opinion and defuse opposition Largest ad deal TORONTO (CP) — The largest advertising deal in Canada — the $50 million a year ad contract initiated by the federal government will be awarded to a Liberal affiliated firm before the Sept. 4 election, says the Toronto Star The Star said in a story Saturday that finishing touches on the deal will be signed by the federal Depart ment of Supply and Services and Canadian Media Corp. before the election Ferarro gives in WASHINGTON (AP) US Geraldine Ferraro, hoping to put aside an issue that has dogged her vice-presidential campaign for a week, said Saturday husband John Zaccaro has reconsidered and agreed to release his income tax returns. “I am pleased,” said Walter Mondale. The Democratic pr didate in the B ber elec tion was campaigning in Missouri while his running mate, Ferraro, was in New York City Mondale and Ferraro both conceded that the issue of Zaccaro’s tax returns was interfering with their ability to get across the message of their own campaign. Ferraro had said publicly on several occasions that she hoped her husband would reconsider his original refusal to release his tax returns. Congresswoman DeLorean reborn This should include “total shoreline clean-up and burn- ing next spring when the lake is at the lowest levels, to avoid a reoccurrence of this (debris) problem next sum mer,” says the letter, dated July 30. . Brisco writes: “The quan- tity of floating debris this year has increased and ex ceeds anything ever pre- viously witnessed. The B.C. Hydro response that ‘when Syringa Park have had to wade through drift wood in order to swim. Water skiing is hazardous for the skiers and the operators. Pleasure cruising is anything but a pleasure.” Brisco concludes that only the “aggressive action” of clearing the lake through a joint work program “will re- solve the problem once and for all.” Fed leaders to come here By CasNews Staff New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent and Progressive Conservative Party leader Brian Mulroney will visit Kootenay West this week. Mulroney will arrive at the Castlegar airport at about 11 a.m. Thursday to speak brief ly to constituents, and then will drive to Nelson where he will speak to an open-air rally to be held at Lakeside Park at noon. The Conservative leader's four-hour tour of the area is part of a campaign swing through B.C. On Wednesday Broadbent is scheduled to speak at an old fashioned borscht-and rolls free lunch in Nelson. Broadbent will arrive for the lunch at Maryhall at David Thompson University Centre at 11:45 a.m., and will speak at 12:15 p.m. The event is open to the public NDP incumbent Lyle Kris tiansen, and recently-elected B.C. NDP leader Bob Skelly will accompany Broadbent. Broadbent will touch down in Castlegar at 10:40 a.m., and will leave for Cranbrook in the afternoon IWA says no to mill offer NELSON (CP) - A businessman's plan to make a purchase offer for the Westar Timber Ltd. sawmill in this city and reopen it has been,stymied by the local of the International Woodworkers of America Roger Crosley, a former general manager for Westar's operation in Nelson who now runs his own business, and a ry CANVASSING . . Conservative environment critic John Fraser Vancouver South was in Castlegar this week, and part of his visit included door-to-door can vassing, along with Tory supporters Sheila Brisco and Ron Ross. Fraser also visited Trail and Nelson. prepared release trout.” those areas. health care encourage conscious. conscious Canadians to At a non-partisan forum in Balfour, Progressive Conservative candidate Bob Brisco spoke on several subjects and faced a number of questions, according to a Responding to a question on fisheries in Kootenay Lake, Brisco said, “A federal presence is needed. That presence should be evident in the area of research. The federal government should be considering the enhance- ment of the fisheries particularly in terms of the gene tically unique Gerrard and Kootenay Lake Rainbow Brisco also reaffirmed the Conservative’s commit ment to medicare and pensions, saying it is necessary to do this in response to the continued attack by the NDP, who claim a Tory government would reduce funding in “The NDP’s statements are not true. A Progressive Conservative government will establish a homemakers’ pension within the Canadian Pension Plan,” Brisco said. “It will restore to 50/50 the cost sharing arrangements between the provincial and federal governments. It will zero in on preventative health care in response to a more Canadian public would health and become even more Brisco in Balfour It will increase the funding to the Medical Researeh Council. This funding would be predictable and over @ long period. This would avoid the difficulties of the past where uncertain funding has resulted in incompleted projects and fost talent.” a Brisco was criticized for his party's proposal to create a new federal ministry of forests because it would only add to the bureaucracy. Brisco replied: “The bureaucracy exists already. The Progressive Conservative proposal is to make the present bureaucracy more efficient by establishing a single window.” As well, Brisco cited an example of where inefficient fragmentation could have created problems locally. “It took the Progressive Conservatives only seven months to bring Arvick on stream, where as before the Progressive Conservative government of "79, six federal ministries had been dealing inconclusively with the matter for several years.” Arvick,” Brisco noted, “is important to Cominco as it was the northern expertise gained from this operation, which led to Cominco being chosen by Alaskan Eskimos to develop Red Dog. ‘Red Dog is vital to Kootenay West as it has meant Cominco has secured a principle source of ore when the Sullivan mine is exhausted.” LOS ANGELES (REUTER) John DeLorean, a self-described born-again Christian, says he intends to devote the rest of his life to church programs. DeLorean, acquitted Thursday on charges of cocaine trafficking to save his failing Northern Ireland car company, had said he hoped to get back into the car business — “the only business I know.” But DeLorean, a onetime General Motors executive, is now more philosophical, saying he wants to become involved in church programs without identifying whieh church. He says he had been baptized by a fundamentalist preacher in the swimming pool of his New Jersey estate at the request of his wife, mode! Cristina Ferrare, shortly after his arrest two years ago. Hawaii in dark HONOLULU (AP) — Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island, was blacked out Saturday by an explosion at a power plant, shutting off electric water pumps and forcing hospitals and the heavily travelled Honolulu airport to operate on emergency generators. The blackout on Oahu, where 80 per cent of Hawaif's 1.2 million people live and where tourist hotels line the beach at Waikiki, occurred at about 12:50 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (3:50 a.m. Castlegar time), said Civil Defence administrator MaeColm Suasel. Service was being gradually restored, with some areas getting their lights back in as little as 90 minutes but other areas expected to remain without power for hours. group of associates proposed to the laid-off unionized sawmill workers that if they would take a 24-per-cent cut in wages and benefits, the group would offer to purchase the mill and put it back into production. “The union wasn't interested in the idea, so we didn't get as far as making a formal purchase offer to Westar, Crosley said. “We might be interested in pursuing it if we got a favorable response from the employees.” The proposed 24-per-cent cut would bring the present total average hourly rate of $21 ($15 in wages and $6 in benefits) down to about $16. It had not been decided how such a cut would be apportioned between wages and benefits, Crosley said There would have been employee representation on the board of directors and the wage structure would have been reviewed every six months, he said. About 150 hourly-paid workers had been employed at the mill, which also provided work for a number of loggers. The mill was shut down June 8, but has operated only intermittently over the past three years. L. Jack Smith, president of Westar, said the mill's future hasn't been decided yet, but a decision will probably be made within the next six weeks. ‘it won't generate cash profits at prices,” he said Crosley said the mill needs several million dollars worth of improvements, but that his group “saw an opportunity to go ahead with an initial cash injection of $1 million, in today's lumber By CasNews Staff Ald. Bob MacBain, chairman of the parks and rec reation committee, took a little ribbing on the condition of the Kiwanis soccer field this week “I don’t now if anybody's been up to see the field,” he told council at its regular meeting, to which Mayor Audrey Moore interjected: “We've all been too scared to look Nevertheless, MacBain said the field “looks very green and we may have overcome our problems City crews repaired the field earlier this year, filling, levelling, seeding and fertilizing it, to bring it into shape for next season. A total of 93.5 per cent of city property taxes for 1984 were paid by the July 3 due date, administrator RAMS SSCSRE S88 NOIR INERT Soccer field better Dave Gairns reported this week Gairns said the city invested just over $3.5 million on July 3 in short term deposits at Kootenay Savings Credit Union. The city received quotes from both local banks and both credit unions. * * There were 17 complaints to the city’s animal control officer during July, down from 26 in June. Only one dog was impounded during July, compared to eight in June . . Castlegar fire department answered three fire calls in July and had two false alarms. . 8 . The city has issued 395 business licenses to date, compared to 389 issued for the same period last year Mulroney t SEPT.ILES, QUE. (CP) — A poll showing incumbent Liberal Andre Maltais trailing Conservative leader Brian combination with the d wage n IWA spokesmen could not be reached for comment Urban voters get extension OTRAWA (CP) — Urban yoters have been given an 11 day extension to get on voters’ lists because of prob lems trying to catch up with Voters who are not on the list by August 18 will lost their right to vote in the Sept. 4 election. The deadline for getting on the voter's lists i in the sprawling Manicouagan riding has little validity because of the way it was conducted, a spokesman for Maltais said Saturday “Let's not oyerdo the sensitivity of that poll.” spokesman Guy Verreault said in a telephone interview. “In Clarke has lead on prime minister The poll involved 418 res pondents. A poll of this size is said to be accurate within six VANCOUVER (CP) Conservative Bill Clarke, the would-be giant-killer in Van people away on vacation, Chief Electoral Officer Jean Mare Hamel announced. - ' The deadline is now Aug 28, Hamel said in a press re lease. in rural areas was August 15, but a rural elector can still vote on Sept. 4 provided he or she is vouched for by a qualified elector from the same polling division. Hearing on _Expo sites? VANCOUVER (CP) — Unionized ¢ontractors want the B.C. Labor Relations Board to hold a formal hear. Relations Association, said “nothing was resolved” dur ing Friday's informal bearing into the Expo question. The : is Expo 86 fairgrouhd i# one construction site or many it- dividual sites. Chuck MeVéigh, predident of the Construction Labor will ask the hoard Monday morning for a formal ‘hearing, MeVeigh aid ‘We would like this re solved as quickly 2s possible. couver Quadra, reacted with surprise Saturday at the re sults of a Carleton University poll which shows him with a 23-point leaf over Prime Minister Turner among de cided voters in the riding I never expected such a big difference during this campaign,” said Clarke, who has held the riding since 1972. “I thought it would be mueh closer.” The poll, done Aug. | to 9 for Southam News, showed Clarke has the stpport of 50 per cent of decided voters to 27 percent for Turner and 21 per cent for New Democrat Ray Cantillon. Sixteen per cent were undecided and six per cent refused to say which party they would support per cent 19 times out of 20. The percentage of unde cided voters is down consid erably from a Vancouver Sun poll released a week ago, which showed the number of undecided voters in the rid ing was 34.4 per cent Clarke said the drop is due to “people making up their minds as we get closer to election day.” T've been looking for the undecided voters at the door step so I ean find out what issues they're interested in. The number of undecided voters has definitely gone down.” In 1980, Clarke won the riding with a 7,000-vote mar gin over Liberal Peter Pearse rails in poll I don't think it's a riding like we have? Come on now valid poll.” The poll commissioned jointly by Southam News and Quebec City’s Le Soleil showed Mulroney with the support of 63 per cent of decided voters compared to 29 per cent for Maltais. Ten per cent of respondents were undecided. The Manicouagan survey was taken by the Montreal polling firm Sorecom. It is based on 382 telephone interviews conducted in the riding from Aug. 10 to 12. A sample this size is accurate to within 5.3 percentage points, 96 times out of 100. Verreault said the number of respondents would have to be at least 1,000 before the poll could be taken seriously He said the results would also be affected by communi cations in the riding Northern settlements, Indian reserves and isolated St Lawrence River communities where telephones are scarce would be poorly represented in the sample, he said SUPPORT STRONG In urban areas, said Verreault, Conservative support was strongest in Mulroney's home town of Baie-Comeau We don't expect to win Baie-Comeau, let's be realistic.” he said. However, he said, Maltais would do well in outlying areas where he has visited often. During the campaign, he said, Maitais has made one complete tour of the riding and would do another before election day “I can't say that much for the other candidate,” he said Mulroney has spent four days in Manicouagan since the election called. He is scheduled to visit small towns in the riding today and Monday Verreault said Baie-Comeau has only 6,200 voters of the 46,000 in the riding. “It's impossible,” that Mulroney could win based on his Baie-Comeau strength, he said Maltais, » 36-year-old teacher, won the riding with a 16,000. vote pturality in the 1980 election. He spent Saturday campaigning in Port-Cartier and Anticosti Island. Reports from the riding say voters are preparing to switch their allegiance to the Conservatives bechuse of the chance to elect the next prime minister and reap the rewards.