a3) cs _Castlégar News April 16, 1986 Bon ib your advertising dollars cdo better in.. BUSINESS DIRECT We WOULD LIKE to thank our relatives and trends tor making our 40th Anmversor such @ memorable event. Mike Nettie Sookochott ED CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. in memoriam donations. intor mation Box 3292 Cost! 5 S167, we? THE 6.C. HEART FOUNDATION tn accepts with gratitude donations which Auto Rentals TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, and cancellations for the Sesion copy changes a asd fo 5 p.m., April 29 for the month of May. vp sive & bldg Victoria, 8. Libgary. O01 Bel} Plumbing & ‘ cotinere Meaning MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. es HIGHWAYS TENDERS Electoral District: Nelson Creston, Rossiand-troil Boundery-Simikomeen ond Okanagon N. Nelson. Project or Job Description: Pavement Crack Sealing on Highways in the above Distr ts THE TENDER SUM FOR THiS e AP PROVINCIAL SALES TAX. Tender Opening Date: Moy 2 1986 Tender Opening Time: 2:00 am fender documents with en- velope TAXES $20 Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. stlegar Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS held at: Ministry of Tronspor totion and Highways, 310 Ward Street. Nelson, B.C. VIL 354 Dete/Time: April 22 9:00 a.m. 1986 Tenders will be opened at Munustry of Transportation ond Highways, 310 Word Street, Nelson, B.C. Vit 534 615 Columbi (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner Parents told to back off TORONTO (CP) — Dr. Miriam Stoppard, Britain's best-known child-care authority, has some advice for parents who want their children toilet-trained by 18 months or playing the violin by age three. Back off. “Why are we so arrogant?” she says. “Why do we assume we know how a child should develop? How do we know when the child is ready?” For pushy parents, she of fers a rule-of-thumb: “I ab. solutely believe that in everything, we must take our lead from the child.” Which isn't to say that the wife of playwright Tom Stop- pard and mother of two sons and two stepsons is a child rights activist — one of those types who think exposure to television is a form of abuse. She concedes that parent ing is tough sledding. “You're a success if you can find anything good amid the chaos,” she says. It would help, she adds, if men would get more involved in parenting — that is, if more women would let men do so. “The only thing standing in the way of men being good parents is women,” she says. ‘It's women who have to change to make men better parents.” Stoppard, a frequent mag azine contributor and the resident medical authority on several British TV shows, has just released her fifth book, Baby and Child A to ZO" Medical Handbook (The Body Press; $12.96). 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(Les) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7. 1947 to Feb. 15,1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher RON NORMAN, Editor, PETER HARVEY, Plant Foreman: U DA = KOSITSIN CAROL ad tist vertisin 9 HEATHER HADLEY, Circulation MARCEL 365-2537 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1986 The six winning numbers in Saturday's 6-49 draw were seven, 17, 26, 28, 42 and 48, The bonus number was 43. The $500,000 winning number in Fridey's Provincial lottery draw is 4211068. There ore also subsidiary prizes. ‘torte WEATHERCAST Mostly cloudy today ond Mon- . eccasional showers 2 Sections (A & B) jed for closure by a f Tower closure recommended TOWER CLOSURE . . . The Castlegar Airport Tower is one of four towers across Canodo recommend jederal government task force. mittees. spending recommends. month. Menager: MICKEY READ { Composing Room Foreman y By RON NORMAN Editor The Castlegar airport tower should be closed as a cost-cutting measure, a report on federal government The Task Force on Program Review suggests four of Canada’s 60 airport towers be closed, including those in Castlegar, Brandon, Man. and Sydney, N.S. The year-long task force, headed by deputy prime minister Erik Nielsen, brought down its report last Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco confirmed that the report recommends Castlegar’s tower be shut down, but said: “I don't subseribe to it on the basis of Castlegar being one of the most difficult approaches in Canada.” Brisco added that the report only makes recommen. Costtews Photo dations which must be reviewed by parliamentary com “These are recommendations by the Nielsen Task force; they are not engraved in stone,” Brisco said. Asked why the Castlegar tower would be included in the recommendation for closure, Brisco said it is strictly based on “economics.” He said Castlegar’s air traffic has steadily dropped over the last several years. , he noted that a decision on the tower wouldn't be made for “a couple of years” and “in two years’ time we can have those figures reversed.” Stephen Ryback, regional manager of public affairs for Transport Canada, said in an interview Friday that Castlegar is 50th of the 60 airports across Canada with control towers in terms of landings, and takeoffs. July. Castlegar registered 3,800 landings and takeoffs last July —_170 by air carriers with scheduled flights and some 2,100 by other commercial flights. Ryback said that compares with Penticton, which was 44th in the nation with 4,500 landings and takeoffs in He said Thompson, Man. was last in the country with only 1,080 landings and takeoffs. Baie Comeau, Quebec, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's hometown, was 58th with only 1,905 landings and takeoffs. continued on poge AS Cominco head optimistic Acknowledging that the past few years have been disappointing to shareholders and employees, Cominco president Bill Wilson said Thursday the company, in spite of the i has several outstanding opportunities. Wilson, addressing the annual gen eral meeting of Cominco shareholders in Vancouver, cited the proposed new lead smelter in Trail as one of the opportunities. “We have concluded that such a facility, when operational, would im- prove working conditions, the envir- onment, and would not only eliminate existing cash losses from lead but would increase cash flows by $20 to $30 million annually through reduced oper- ating costs,” he said in his speech, copies of which were made available to the media. Wilson added that he is optimistic negotiations with the provincial gov- ernment to reduce Cominco’s water license fees — the last stumbling block to the project — “will be concluded successfully within the next month.” In a speech earlier, Cominco chair. man Norm Anderson said he expects “A simple law of physics says that what goes up, must come down. There is also a basic law of economics that are sound and our turn is coming.” POWERS INC. RCMP conduct investigation Dixie Dee Powers, a self-proclaimed Castlegar psychic who says God revealed to her a plan to eliminate poverty from the world, is under investigation by the RCMP. “A large number of complaints re- ceived at various detachments in the East and West Kootenay has resulted in an RCMP investigation of the financial affairs of Powers Inc., and its principals,” said Staff Sgt. Alan Tom- lins of the Nelson RCMP, reading from a news release. “As part of the investigation, a series of search warrants was executed on & number of residences in the Castlegar area on April 14. “No charges have been laid and the investigation is continuing,” the re- lease says. Head of the Castlegar RCMP detach- ment, Staff Sgt. John Stevens, con- firmed his detachment has received complaints about Powers but would not comment further on the investigation saying it is in the hands of the Nelson office. News’ calls Friday and Saturday. In an interview with the Castlegar News in January, Powers said she has helped more than 500 needy people and small businesses in the Castlegar area with her plan. In an advertisement placed in the Castlegar News, Powers says “God's plan is that the rich and poor unite to benefit each other.” “Basically, God guided me to some of the world’s richest men who realize that poverty threatens to destroy them, because it threatens to destroy the fabric of civilization. “These rich men advance monies, with tax advantages to themselves, naturally, to be given to the poor.” But during the interview, Powers would not reveal the identities of the “world's richest men” with whom she has contact or specifically how her plan works. , “There's a hell of a lot of rich people in the world,” Powers said. “I know a hell of a lot of them. They put up the funds and they trust me to use it properly. The money is handled But she would not explain exactly how it is a tax write-off, saying only “because that’s the way it is.” “It's a tax write-off. They use their money to help people. “T've had it checked out by lawyers,” Powers “I: know it’s legal. It’s been in the works for a long time. This is just @ start.” Repeated attempts Friday to contact POLLUTION CHARGES Westar found not guilty By CasNews Staff Westar Timber Ltd. was found not guilty Thursday of charges that the company’s Celgar Pulp Operations vio- lated its pollution control permit on 28 days in May 1985 by emitting excess amounts of bivalent sulphur com- pounds from the mill's recovery boiler. In dismissing all 28 counts against Westar, Judge S.W. Enderton said he was not satisfied the Crown had proved beyond a reasonable doubt Celgar’s re- covery boiler was the only source of the bivalent sulphur compound hydrogen sulphide in the Castlegar area at the time the alleged violations oceurred. Carl Johnson, head of the industrial sector of the Waste Management Branch in Nelson, in the courtroom for the decision, said he doesn’t know if the Environment Ministry will appeal Enderton’s ruling. “TM have to look at the written judg ment and pass it to our legal people in Victoria,” he said. Celgar general manager Wilf Swee Iso present for the judgment, ‘m pleased with what the judge decided. That's about it.” The Crown had based its case on measurements of hydrogen sulphide taken at the mill and from an Envir onment Ministry measuring instru ment located near Castlegar Hospital. about seven kilometres from Ceigar: Nelson lawyer Donald Skogstad, acting for the Crown during the two-day trial in March, contended the levels of hydrogen sulphide during May in Castlegar clearly exceeded the level of 150 parts per million of the chemical allowed under Westar’s permit. In a 15-minute summation of the case before handing down his decision, Enderton cited several highly technical specifications laid out in the pollution permit's appendices which he said the Crown had not explained during the trial. One of the appendices, Enderton noted, indicates another source of hydrogen sulphide at Celgar other than the recovery boiler. The judge also reviewed testimony by Johnson, who said, to his know- ledge there is no other source of hydrogen sulphide in the Castlegar area other than Celgar. Enderton said Johnson's testimony “leaves open the suggestion there may have been other sources.” “The evidence before me does not continued on poge A3 Hewitt meets with school boards By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Education Minister Jim Hewitt met with four West Kootenay school boards in Castlegar Thursday but had “noth ing new” to say, Castlegar school board chairman Kay Johnson said after the meeting “| don't think we heard anything different,” Johnson said. “He's listen ing (but) I don’t know if he can do anything. “| wasn't unimpressed, I wasn't im Johnson said the Castlegar board covered a number of topics with the minister during the half-hour meeting She said the board asked the minister to consider increasing the dis trict’s fiseal framework — the prelim- inary budget that the provincial gov- ernment handed to the board in March. In particular, the board wants in- creased funding for special programs — such as programs to help students with severe behavior problems. Johnson said government funding has not kept pace with social changes in those areas “We also talked about the Russian immersion program and how we feel we need funding for it,” she said. But she said the minister told the board that the program is unique to continued on poge AZ