sy. ws Castlegar News 0ctober 4, 1997 ’ We.need your Recipes for our 8th Annual 00k Book Send in the old family favorite recipe or your newest creation. Send us your recipes for: Main Dishes, Breads, Biscuits, Rolls, Meats, Soups, Stews, Casseroles, Salads, Vegetables, Pickles, Relishes, Desserts, Squares, Cookies, Cakes, Candy Fudge, Canning, Freezing, Wine, Wild Game, Microwave, or any other recipe ideas or General Cooking Hints. Send your typed or neatly written recipes to: a aN PIONEER HONORED . . . Friends and relatives sur- prised Al and Mary Laing with a party in their honor recently. (From lett) master of ceremonies Dr. John AL LAING: CASTLEGAR'S AIR PIONEER EDITOR'S NOTE: Columnist John Charters picks up his tale of local airman Al Laing. Last week's article lett off with Laing’s friends and relatives honori him with a party at the Sandman inn. ‘Master of ceremonies Dr. John Hall reminisces about his long friendship with Laing. He then went on to emphasize the important part that Al had played in the C Ith Air Training COMMUNITY NEWS Hall, John Laing, Mary Laing, Moyna Laing and Al Laing. ‘ Photo by Bruce Cherters had enrolled for lessons, the most strenuous he had ever taken in his life. After a particularly strenuous lesson he asked Al, “When do we get off the ground?” Al answered, “Next Lesson.” And they did. “He trains you so thoroughly that no matter what happens,” he said, “you are never completely scared.” ‘Thus, when he took his first solo and was to meet Al over Salmon Arm he found himself instead over an entirely different town. After a bit of confusion, he got a radio call from the waiting Al: “I'm over Salmon Arm. Where are you?” “Til be hanged if I know,” wered Albert. But with his thorough training he didn't panic. He got his instructions and found his way back — on his own and very proud of himself. “Tve had lots of-fun and enjoyed my association with this marvellous individual,” he concluded. And so each in turn stood and spoke warmly and program in Canada. Britain, at this stage in the war, was of the man they had come tg honor. t of Shy Paea ied ak eee ty ws GROWS OWN GEMSTONES ¢ By MARC PICHE oh Stafl Writer P Cominco Ltd. is growing sapphires, rubies, and gar- nets for use in crystal optic technology research. Lasers, infra-red optieal and optical are ce » © place duties on anything that Canada expotts to the U.S., Press ‘The Canadian. pulp and paper industry has exhaustive campaign in the United States to head off a new U.S. trade bill which it considers a major threat to its export markets. ‘ Howard Hart, president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper. just a few of the applications planned for the research begun recently in Victoria by Robert F. Redden and colleagues at Ctystar Research Inc. / The idea for growing the gemstones is Redden’s, who has been director of Cominco's Electrical Materials Re- search activities in Warfield since 1978, and is president of the new operation. He has been growing crystals for some time, but this new project is his most ambitious, The start-up costs were a half-million dollars to lease the building to pay salaries for four and to the says the industry is very concerned certain provisions contained in the bill now in the final stages of drafting by Congress. ‘The proposals would broaden the definition of what constitutes a government subsidy to an industry, thus making a wide range of Canadian exports, including pulp and” paper, vulnerable to countervailing duties. If the amendments become law, such things as water, mineral and timber rights or regional development programs could be considered hidden subsidies to industry. A conference committee of the Senate and House of equipment, which is currently being installed. The long-term resulta expected are high-tech additions to the Cominco product line. « Sapphires, for example, are used in infrared windows and lenses. A grown dapphire, says Redden, “is a single crystal of aluminum oxide, with a high melting point .. . very mundane materia) with extremely high purity. It has no color and is very unattractive from a jewelry point of view.” Redden said that the crystals are to be grown to a mass of 15.8 kilograms (85 Ibs), cut to make lenses and polished to precise standards. “Sapphire is the second hardest substance we know of, so we have to use diamond tools.” Part of the same family of oxides is the ruby. “Rubies are sapphires with _ Redden. High-powered solid state lasers are the most common application for growable crystals like rubies and garnets. The most exciting application expected is for more exotic crystals, such as lithium niobate, which can be used to control and amplify light signals much in the same way a transistor controls electrical signals. Redden says the crystals will be used “in a whole new signal processing technology of the future using light beams.” ‘The research branch is set up in Victoria because of the “very suitable buildings” left over from the early 1980s research boom in Victoria. Redden said that Crystar had to be located on the coast because of the need for a “very close liaison to the universities. We talk to the universities on a weekly basis.” Research facilities in the Universities have extra equipment and researchers to look into the suitability of the crystals to certain tasks. Pp! begins work this week to hammer out a compromise between two separate versions of the trade bill representatives version of the bill “would make counter- vailing duty cases both easier to launch and easier to‘win.” He said the proposed amendments would also spur retaliation by other U.S. trading partners, leading to an international trade war. Canada exported more than $9 billion worth of pulp and paper, about half its total production, to the United States last year — for the most part duty-free. The industry. employs about 140,000 Canadians. Anthony Richards, director of trade services with the association, said the proposed amendments could be used to not just pulp and paper. ‘ Rickards has been visiting newspaper publishers around the U.S. to alert them to the dangers of the trade bill. “We are conducting a campaign,” said Rickards, "People in this office have been around to see 30 or 40 publishers in the past two months, iG “We Sere telling them, “This is ‘a time bomb in Washington and if it goes off you're going to get bombed out As well as everybody else.’ ” i ' . MEET PUBLISHERS He said the campaign is focusing on newspaper pub- lishers because “they are probably the most t or information, call Kelowna ‘media in the United States in terms of the grass roots.” + In the past, countervailing duties have been rare in ‘U.8.-Canadian trade, although the United States came close to ‘imposing one on Canadian softwood lumber last. year. That duty was averted when Ottawa imposed its own tax on softwood lumber. In the softwood case, the U.S. government argued that timber-cutting fees in Canada were so low they amounted to @ hidden subsidy. ‘ hi Minnes said the same argument could ‘be applied to mineral, water and timber rights or cheap electricity. “The government owns so many of the resources in this country, it makes us very vulnerable,” he said. Even if the United States and Canada were to sign a free-trade deal/ Canada would still suffer from the con- sequences of the U.S. trade bill because of the reaction it would provoke in other markets around the world, Rickards said. “Canada is the world’s largest exporter of pulp and paper. If this bill is passed, and if other countries pass mirror legislation, we're going to be facing a tough time.” Temporary-help industry faces worker shortage MONTREAL (CP) — A Temporary Services. “We're robust economy is creating having to work harder to find problems for the temporary- new recruits.” r help industry in Canada: a shortage of workers to meet growing demands. There are about 450,000 61 million US last year, temporary workers in Can- is eetiina ada and about 110 job-place- (Perse | Gorin One, in ment agencies — twice 88 Montreal, thorugh its Tor: many as five years ago. onto-based affiliate. Howard Scott, president of °" 0 = pad Philadelphia-based CDI Rag hotoneawid pls Stock report Services Ine., cSineates the agencies gon, any in the United States with erated total sales last year of annual revenues of more than $650 million and their billings *470 million. are growing ata rate of more Workers are recruited by They are used to fill in for the agencies, who pay their full-time employees who are salaries and benefits, and ill or on vacation, or to help hire them out by the hour to peak corporate customers. U.S. stats show moderate recovery WASHINGTON (AP) — Analysts said the string of The U.S. government's chief gains in the index points the forecasting gauge of future way to continued moderate economic activity climbed.06 economie growth for the-rest "Collect 861-1833 . 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