A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 3, 1962 How wet was 1981? VANCOUVER (CP).— Vancouver and British Col-. umbia's lower mainland, those who sloshed through the year may remember it in terms like Hydrocaust, Floods '81 or The Big Wet One. How wet was it? It was so wet that even the ducks in Stanley Park left the lagoons for higher — but only slightly drier — ground. It was so wet that one newspaper featured a front- page photograph of a slug basking in the rain, © And it was so wet that mudslides at the arca’s res- ervoirs turned the normally crystal-clear drinking water into a disagreeable brown soup. It stayed that way for seven weeks, at no risk to health but ruining millions of cups of coffee. It rained 1,459.2 millime- trea — 40.7 millimetres more than 1980, which was the * wettest since records began in 1987. The normal amount of precipitation yearly is 1,068.1 millimetres. Although it rained more. than in any of the last 44 years, much of it fell in spring and summer, drowning nor- mal ‘outdoor activity and washing away many a vac- ation. The spring was so wet that at summer's start, The Prov: . ince newspaper offered a tri; to sunny Las Vegas for the best rain-inspired poem. *" : The drenching continued to the start of August and broke, miraculously, for: a month of blistering heat and drought. In late “fall, the downpours came again and led to the deaths of at least 11 people in three accidents. Farmers lost millions when UNFAIR TREATMENT Continued from page Al sible for unsefe working conditions, as long as they are applied fairly. “If it can be clearly dem- onstrated that there is a lack of cooperation from a par- ticular employer in a situ- ation where workers are en- dangered I think whatever is necessary to get that em- ployer to act is appropriate,” he said. “But there's a very sharp’ distinction between cases where an employer can do ‘’ something and is not doing it, and. cases where it is not possible for the employer to act,” he added. , Hamilton was responding to recent statements by new compensation board chair- man Art Gibbons. . Gibbons said the board wants to impose steeper fines against employers who refuse to comply with com- pensation board require- ments, He also said that small -fines against .offending em- ployers can sometimes be- come a “licence” to continue defying board regulations. He indicated he will ask Labor Minister Jack Heinrich i the fine spring rains ruined, much of the Fraser Valley's fruit and vegetable harvest. Only a few had crop insurance. Fall rainstorms caused mud-and-rockslides that killed 10 people on the Squ- amish Highway — two-lane 70-kilometre stretch _ of rozd hugging the moun- tains alongside Howe Sound north of Vancouver. Nine died one night when a 25-year-old wooden trestle Motor vehicle _ license fees © to increase VICTORIA (CP) — Fees for motor vehicle . licenses, vehicle inspection and admin- istration will increase in 1982, according to Transpor- tation Minister Alex Fraser. Fraser said vehicle licence fees will increase by about 14 per cent, starting March 1. A motorist who currently pays an annual fee of $25 will now pay $29. Vehicle inspection fees will be hiked to $5 from $3 for passenger vehicles and to $7 from $5 for a commercial © vehicle with more than two ‘axles, effective Feb. 1. Also at that time, it will cost $8 instead of $1 "to transfer ownership of a ve- hicle, the first increase in nearly $0 years. Fraser said the increases are n because of ris- per costs for highway safety to $100,000° from about $20,000 against employers guilty of gross negligence re- sulting in injury or death. ant services. T hikes will provide an estimated increase in rev- enue of about $13 million a year. to his ministry. bridge at’ M Creek was sheared from its foundations | and their vehicles plunged through the darkness to the creekbed below. : ‘Three days later, on Hallo- ween, a 16-year-old boy awinding,drowned when he tried to cross. a rampaging North Vancouver, creek. : During” the Halloween» floods, residents were forced from their homes in scattered locations .from the lower mainland through to Pem- berton, 140 kilometres north _of Vancouver, ‘Damage to “homes, industries and high- ways was in the millions of dollars. ‘Seventy sallicotes fell during the two-day storm. - Particularly | hard-hit — Renews ‘appeal for old photos 1982 marks, Robson's 75th anniversary, and to help kick it off the Castle- gar News has decided to print a series of articles on Robson's early history by one of its pioneer settlers — Marjorie (Fowler) Gal- braith. Earlier this month we issued a request for old photographs of the area to use in the paper with the articles, However, response | to the request has been slow, so we're asking again for your help, “All photos . will be re- turned. If you can help us call Lois ‘Hughes, manag- ing editor, st 8658517, : From CasNews News Services A high Communist party mixed group of generals and " government.” ° The official, who ‘insted source sald ti ‘that a mixed group ‘of generals and top party leaders was running the martial law gov. ernment in Poland. In other so said there-have been two deaths as a result of martial law. in’ addition to the eight deaths publicly’ acknow- ledged. The independent official media lashed ra a students for trying to break martial law, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was reported to have set three conditions for meeting with authorities and the: government ‘admitted workers Were engaging in passive ‘resistance to the martial law clampdown. In‘an uncensored report reaching the West, the Com- munist ‘party: ‘source ~ des- eribed ‘the. current govern- again was which often gets wet in low-lying areas during nor- mal years. For people in Squamish, - who were still without road service after the M Creek disaster, the lack of adequate diking in their community . was the last straw. Community leaders ran a vigorous campaign for a new inland highway and a new ‘system of dikes. Both have met little success with the B.C, government so far. But that was not the last of Squamish Highway closings, or tragedy. During another rainstorm, a pregnant 31-year-old wom- an was swept away the night of Dec. 4 while trying toes . cape the rampaging waters of Strachan. Creek, which spilled its banks after a five-metre wall of rock and debris became lodged on the bridge 100 metres above her seaside home. ment as a’ strange hybird, a Canadian Moslems... raising funds TORONTO (CP) — A large number of Moslems in Can- ada have rallied to the finan- cial support of the families of | those charged with assassin- ating ii President ening “serious: consequences” if the trial Aprinted petition, display- ing’ a: photograph of .Lieut. Khaled Ahmad ‘Shawky al ib the main“ defen- Anwar Sadat. In Toronto, more than $10,000 was raised at a re- cent dinner from about 2,000 Moslems, sajd Abdur Rarak, one of the organizers of the event which was supported fie the Jami Mosque in Tor- oer, a ‘Toronto business- man, called the late Egyptian president an “enemy and a traitor of Islam whose death was relief to the Moslems.” Organizers said. similar dinners have been held ‘in Halifax, Ottawa, Hamilton, Kitchener, Ed- PEKING (AP) — ‘his hangover afterwards. _- A Peking newspaper, The Evening ‘News, reported Saturday that the so-called “relief and sobriety” syrup of in the capi ital. Details on the composition of the syrup were not TRIPOLI, LIBYA (AP) said the formula was being prepared for pains and sale. ‘KHADAFY QUOTES BIBLE — Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy told Christian and Moslem_heads ‘of state Saturday to‘“love your enemies” and turn the other cheek, the offiical JANA news agency reported. Quoting extensively from the ew Testament, WORLD NEWS BRIEFS... IMBIBER'S DELIGHT A Peking food research laboratory claims to have found an aid for the serious drinker — a sweet syrup said to double an imbider's capacity ¢ and eure ~ monton and Vancouver, 28 well as several large U.S. cities. The dinners are ofganizcd by the Committee of Con- . cerned Muslims for Islamic Affairs. The group demands freedom for the 24 accused of -an assassination. plot and.a ; total conversion of Egypt to dant, is. circulated at the meetings. In Canada, more bessal 6,000 Siena have union darity, claims 72 people have been killed. The source said one of those killed was a policeman who died in fighting Dec, 18 at the Wojek coal mine in Katowice, where striking miners tried to repulse an at- tack by security forces. Sev. en miners were officially acknowledged to have died in the clash and authorities said one striker was- killed in street fighting in Gdansk. SETS CONDITIONS The other death, the offi- cial said, was that of a man who suffered a heart attack during the suppression of a strike at the Wroclaw Poly- technic Institute. Earlier in- dependent reports had cited the death of a man referred to only as Kostechi in Wro- claw, and said he died as a result of a blow to the head. Meanwhile, other sources said Saturday that Lech Walesa, the Solidarity lead- er, is under house arrest at a development housing the In- is rior Ministry, general army that wil be sont to the Bgyp. tian Embassy in’ Ottawa. ~The petition demands the release of all’ the Moslem scholars and’ youths. jailed and of the 24 accused, oe guing that “the trial... sully illegal and wear said the money nea will also help the fam- ies of those jailed by Sadat and his successor, Hosni Mu- barak. : Winning Western “numbers Winning Western numbers for the Dec. 80 draw for $100,000 are an-Islamic:Republie; threat- « pee ath} Police refuse to overstep their bounds. OMAHA, NEBR. (AP) Franc] wishes the Douglas County Sheriff's Department had overstepped its bounds. Khadafy, a Moslem, said in his New Year's message: | “As we celebrate the end of 1,981 years from the birth of the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, and... the start of 1982, we must not get drunk, but... ought to read the “book of God, to know His words transmitted by His prophets.” The JANA dispatch said Khadafy deserited the words from the New Testament as “the best words that I can give you... for the New Year.” The Reagan administration has accused Khadafy of sending an assassination squad to the United States to kill top U.S. officials, * : : IRAN NEARING BANKRUPTCY PARIS (AP) — Former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr said Saturday that Iran is heading towards bankruptcy and that its clerical leaders fear an end to the war with Iraq because “they would have to deal with economic issues.”. : |. -, Ina telephone interview from his headquarters ,in - ; Paris, Bani-Sadr blamed’ Iran's economic plight on the ,15-month-old war and the lingering effects of a boycott imposed after the seizing of the Embassy in Tehran in November, 1979. > Bani-Sadr, a French-educated “economist ‘who. served: ‘for 1 months as Iran's first elected, president until: hollsh Khomeini him June 22, said ~. unemployment in the country of 36 million had reached four million and hard currency reserves had fallen to $600 million compared with $14 billion in 1980. TOWER TILTS SLIGHTLY PISA, ITALY (AP) — The 800-year-old Leaning Tower of Pisa recorded its smallest increase in tit’in1981 in at least 15° years, scientists said Saturday. “It's quite exceptional and it’s a mystery why,” Toniolo, ch of the city ¢ responsible tower, "said ina telephons inter view with The Associated Press. - _ Scientists who watch the tower said the increase in its famour lean last year was just 0.07 i That PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN blame him for not-Keeping his promises and 12 per cent were not sure. ie . IL TANKER SHELLED BEIRUT (REUTER) — Unidentified attackers shelled _ an oil tanker and cet it on fire Saturday off the northern -Lebapese port of Tripoli, oil industry sources i «They said the tanker,;the '20; been.on its, way to Trippli to epllect’ ‘of oil for a refinery -at,Zahrant souther! ‘The sources said-one oil stérage on ‘the vessel had been hit and firemen were stili fightlhg the blaze. FRENCH PLEDGE SUPPORT ADDIS ABABA (REUTER( — French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson ended a four-day visit to Ethiopia on Saturday, pledging financial assistance for developing: the Marxist country. ‘France is anxious to co-operate better with Ethiopia in the economic: field,. Cheysson told reporters before . leaving for. Cairo. “We development and tho overall transformation if-its economy.” Cheysson mentioned no figures but said an Ethiopian team would visit Paris at the end of the month to discuss _ details, TYPHOON HITS PERSIANGULF - A typhoon struck Hormuz Island at compared with an annual verage increase of 0.12 centimetres over the period during which the current measurement system has been in use. The tower leans 5.1 metres off the vat BEIRUT (AP) — to the oil-rich Persian Gulf, killing three Iranians and injuring four, the official Iranian Islamic news agency reported Saturday. It said the typhoon, which hit Thursday, involved The tower started to lean almost iramediately after it was built because the ground shifted underneath. REAGAN STILL POPULAR NEW YORK (AP) — Events tarnished President Reagan's popularity in bis first year in office, but his honeymoon with American public opinion is still far from over. In ne latest Poll by The Associated Press and NBC New: random tel of 1,602 adults Dec 14-16, 45 per cent said Reagan has kept the promises he made during the 1980 election campaign. But the latest opinion polls showed that of those who felt Reagan had broken campaign promised 51 per cent (a it hasn't been his fault, while 87 per cent said they several storms and a tidal wave. The storm caused “extensive damage which has not bee clearly assessed yet,” said the report, monitored in Lebanon, POLICEMAN jUNDS RENTERIA (AP) — A policeman fired his submachine- gun at attacking ene and three people were year-old boy, Spanish . officials said Saturday. They said a member of a Civil Guard patrol returning to headquarters opened fire when a group of people shouted insults and stoned. his car Friday night. The incident occurred shortly: after hundreds of people marched through Renteria shouting for amnesty for Basque activists serving prison terms for political terrorism. When. vandals pelted his house with eggs, he called the sheriff and “about six,cop ears” arrived, he’ said, but “nobody could do anything.” It turns out that the part of Fracl’s house that was hit by the eggs — which forms the walls of his kitchen and living room — is within. the city limits of Omaha, and the deputies told him they had no jurisdiction. “It was kind of a big “joke.” Francl said recently at the Omaha City Council meeting, where he asked for his entire house to be annexed. The council said it will rule on the request Jan. 12. . Francl’s house is on a eul- de-sac and he attributes the boundary: problem to a sur- veying error made in the mid-1970s. The egg throwing occurred last spring and Francl said he caught the youths and made them pay. for part of the damage. Semi-tractor trailer taken . for ‘joy ride’ New’ Year's Eve fun started early for one Castle- gar resident as local RCMP reported the theft of aSafe- way semi-tractor trailer unit _from the Hi-Arrow Motor parking lot early Thursdsy morning. Police suspect the culprit took the truck — valued at + $80,000 — for a “joy ride.” But the ride was short. RCMP found the tractor trailer unit behind the Silver-, wood ‘Apartments | across from the Dairy Queen on 18th Street. No damage was re; ported, ‘and police still have the inci- dent under investiagion. ° Numbers ‘for the $10,000 prize are: 1168847, 1489712, 3565025, 2676026. and 3018618. Last six digits win $1,000; last five digits win $100; last four digits win $25 and the last three digits win five —Ed dollars’ worth of Express tic- kets. If the first two digits and’ the last two digits on your ticket are 38 (first two) and 68 (last two) you win $25. The same for 18 (first two) and a (last two). y and a pri- son on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw. They said he has set down three conditions for nego tiating with the government. One was that the talks be Polish government — on neutral grounds, He has also demanded that the rest of the 18-member union pre- Val’ sidfim ‘as well'as three ad- . visers be present, i : Union sources’ say there have been at least three meetings between Stanislaw Ciosek, the. minister ‘in charge of trade union affairs, and Stanislaw Rusinek, a member of the leadership of Solidarity’s Warsaw regional organization, However, they say these and other low level contacts have produced little progress. Local men charged in robbery | Three local men have been charged following an invest- igation into a break-in’ and theft of an undisclosed. amount of money front. the Marlane Hotel office, ... Charged with break, enter, theft and possession of stolen property are Philip Robert - Graham, 20, of Robson and Karl Duske, 18, of Castlegar. David Philip Graham, 21, also of Rabson, has been charged with possession of. stolen property. The robbery occurred ;in the early morning of Dec. 29. The amount of money taken has not been ‘released, though police report some of it has been recovered, The amount taken’ is not believed to be substantial. Prisoners released. after five days ._ PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Most of the prisoners at the Prince George Regional Cor- rectional Centre who have been locked in their cells for five days were released Thursday and given use of their prison blocks, the cen- at e76, : victs, whom he described as agitators, would remain locked in pe cells for an unspecified Following the from two convicts on Dec. 28 that a riot was planned, the centre's riot squad and the RCMP tactical’ squad swept into the prison and locked convicts in their cells. Rafuse, who met with prisoners at the medium- security institution earlier Thursday, said the convicts -promised that if they were released no trouble would occur. * Earth station OTTAWA (CP) — Com- munications Minister Francis Fox is changing the rules to make it easier for Canadians to tune in radio and television prograrhs from Canadian sat- cllites. Until now, only cable tele- vision companies, TV broad- casters, provincial communi- cations authorities and tele- communications carriers signals other than radio and Tv also are He said the prisoners who were allowed outside their cells Thursday will be per- mitted in the centre's general yard Monday. Court rules . couple may sue doctor The Pennayivanla Supreme Court has ruled a couple may sue doctors over the birth of husband's vasectomy and the wife's abortion. .The girl, Francine,:was born on April 25, 1975, even though the father said he hed undergone a vasectomy and the mother said she had undergone an - abortion. rules” Canadian Satellite Com- — Can eligible for earth station li- cences. Such services could include news wire services, stock market information, weather and other business services. Broadcast News Ltd. — the national news agoncy as- sociated: with. The Canadian Pregs and: ‘serving radio and’ com — is beaming the: signals of CHAN-TV Vancouver, CITV Edmonton, CHCH-TV Ham- ilton and a French-language channel along with signals from eight radio stations to communities poorly served by existing signals. The CRTC decision means this service now is officially such as phone were eligible to operate earth stations to receive: satellite transmission. Under new rules announced Thursday by Fox, radio broadcasters will also be able to apply for licences, opening the possibility of a satellite radio network. But the ban remains on . using the earth stations .— sophisticated, dish-shaped antennas —to pick-up pro- grams from U.S. satellites. Despite this ban, it is esti- mated that more than 700 unlicensed dishes are already taking programs off Ameri- can satellites. z Resource camps, such as those engaged in “logging, mining or petroleum explor- ation, now will be ‘permitted to own and operate varth stations to receive’ sive both radio and TV programs’ from Can- adian satellites. And these amps won't bavet togoto the , remote and able operators — plans to put its service on satellite. The an- nouncement from Fox means clients will be able to own earth stations to receive the service. ’ CRTC LICENCES The ilable to 16 remote com- munities in the. Northwest Territories, British Colum- bia, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Nova Scotia. The . commission’ is ex- pected to give the ‘xo-shead shortly for reception and as the Canadian Radio-tele vision and Telecommunica- tions Commission haaded out the first batch of licences to 16 operators who will redis- tribute a new satellite broad- easting service in rural and of the service in many more communities. The minister also says he will consider “réquests to open negotiations. with the U.S. to allow reception of American satellite. programs in isolated or underserved Hilton Hotel Waterfront bid KELOWNA (CP) — Deadline for the bids was Okanagan city moved closer Thursday. to getting a waterfront hotel -and convention centre Thurs- day when Hilton Hotels filed a bid: for the project. Civic officials said they’ tos for a ical as mally req had been bids from. area. at least two other major hotel pie but the federal bud- and organi: tions wishing to -receive reduced the eee of interested parties. ‘> Hilton is bidding $2.5 mil- lion for the waterfront prop- erty. Its plans‘call for twin hotel towers withi250 in addition to tha convention Kelowna couineil will de- cide at the end of January whether to accept tlie bid, or extend the deadline. amanage Is your jewelry hot? TORONTO (CP) 8 60-60 chance that sparkling pleco of jewelry you eer for —'There's Stambolis, in‘ charge, of re- gional customs: intelligence ‘ operations in Toronto. “With to. their net te euntey Donald Klinger, president of the Canadian Jewelers Association, estimates there is as much smuggled jewelry sold every day as there is legitimate jewelry. Despite the air of romance * that has surrounded jewelry smuggling in fiction and movies, the crime has ‘a telling effect on the jewelry industry. Klinger says, the CJA, which represents about 900 manufacturers and half of Canada’s 4,000 retailers, has calculated that factory ship- ments of jewelry dropped 17 per cent from 1976 to 1980. Many jewellers blame cus- toms officials for not doing enough to prevent smug- gling. Toronto jeweller Mark Sutkiewicz estimates that more than half the watches € nk, they, could,be — better.” Charles Nowlan, Canada Customs intelligence -direc- tor, estimated that only five to'10 per cent of smuggled jewelry is being stopped. \ x-ray equipment, such as that used ealrier this year by cus- toms officials in a postal ‘de- ,pot jn Mississayga, Ont., to find two large diamonds hid- den inside a wooden African statue. Those diamonds ‘becanie part of the 17,508 pieces con- fiscated in the firat eight months of this year, with a total estimated value of less than $1 million, In 1980, 18,479 pieces were confis- cated with a total value of, $2.1 million. ‘ » The Royal ° Canadian Mounted Police estimate that, between ‘$200 million and $400 million worth of jewelry © was smuggled into Canada from 1978 to 1979, This com- pares with the -$54-million _ worth. of jewelry'.imported, With the help of the CJA . into Canada legally in 1979.' Although international smuggling rings exist, offi- cials believe most jewelry is amuggled. in by individuals, The i 1 and jewelry C: smuggled. CO-OPERATION LACKING However, customs officials * complain they don't receive enough co-operation from the jewellers. “I find it strange that the ‘Jewellers estimate that so much jewelry is smuggled in *. and they do not provide us © with information,” said Ange) By Barbara Klich TORONTO (CP) — Elderly people in most of Ontario now have access to the latest in fashion, thanks to Caravan Clothes. © The company, started in + 1976, ‘has tyo vans stocked . with clothes which travel the province visiting church ;. groups, nursing homes, sen- ior citizens’ apartments and groups. Jody Godfrey, manager of + the company, says almost all her customers are more than 85 Sane old. FS Ait Wise Caravan - oe a aes stock of dresses with*Véicro closures. “Many older people and people with’ arthritis find buttons hard to so we use Velcro. .,which sticks the garment to- c” Most of the dresses have no is jewelry Pro- * grams for its officers, uses. sophisticated gadgets to de- termine the carat content of precious stones and metals and has stepped up its spot checks. escapes paying the 25-per- cent import duty, the 10-per- cent federal excise tax and the: nine-per-cent federal sales tax. © The unsuccessful smuggler faces a fine and possible However, “we haven't’ imprisonment and the possi- been very successful,” says Nowlan. Other weapons in the fight agalant smuggling include Pally of paying the value of the goods’ as determined by’ customs officials, plus duties and Corhaes for the. elderly “back zippers, oaes men: tioned that some women com- plained that back zippers are only useful if “you have a husband around!”” Most elderly shoppers also say they want pockets to carry odds and ends; bright colors rather than drab, dull shades; and sleeves with some width for comfort. As well, Caravan has a supply of capes which can be worn with high style by peo- ple in wheelchairs. The capes come only to the hip and -won't interfere with the’chair itself. The business has been so successful that Carer is now seustomers ‘compla The need for good clothes designed for seniors is great, says Godfrey. ‘Older women in particular want some fa- shion, but also some durab- ility and comfort.” All of the fabrics used in the lines are carefully chosen for strength and washability, and even some of the winter capes can be safely washed. Along with the goods, Car- avan customers also receive expert advice on buying ev- erythiag from lingerie to win- : ter. coats. '™ Godfrey notes mit -that shopping in crowded depart- ment stores is too difficult and outlet in Florida, and has opened a safon in Toronto for shoppers who want to visit a store, rather than have the store come to them. . “Many of my. clients need special attention,” she said, “and often sales clerks in busy stores can’t be bothered."” ‘Fine fashions her “teenie tame fs JOHN CHARTERS! Reflections & Recollections while again with ily’and frievids at Tm al cold after a whole week.” Lynn Sniecher, daughter of Doreen and Hugo Smecher of Castlegar, is home on va- cation from Dallas, Texas where the average tempera- ture is now in the mid-70s F. ._ and “real cold” is 40 degrees F. She is taking training ina rogram for which many a * fashion- conscious young woman would give her eye ” teeth — the merchandising and retailing of fine fashions. The training takes place at ; the Miss {ade Fashion Mer- . chandising College, a private- ly-owned. organization lo- cated on the sixth floor of the huge Dallas Apparel Mart — which, among other things, contains 8,000 manufactur- . ers’ fashion show rooms. Not », for nothing is Dallas the inain fashion distribution centre for the continent. Lynn enrolled in the col- lege in September after a careful study of the offerings - of a number of fashion mer- chandising schools and is . most happy with her choice. The training program, which consists of four three-month quarters, has a variety of dif- ferent subjects in each quar: ter. This first quarter, for ex- ample, Lynn took art illus- tration, fashion design, art history and world. civiliza- tion, accounting and business communication. Each: of the CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 3, 1982 AZ A new country, new experience “I like all, I like Canada. I like everything here,” says 18-year-old Adriana \Leon- ‘Magana who’ has only been’ jj out of her home country of Mexico | less than. four months,': She. arrived in Castlegar in September, a little nervous, a little frigh- ~ tered, 8 little excited, and not speaking a word of En- glish. LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor Adriana is ‘part of the § Rotary student © exchange i am and is currently living with the Paul Oglows. During her -year here, ‘she will be staying with the Don Wicketts and.the John Ken- nedys. “This gives everyone a chance to get to know Ad- riana,” says Mrs. Betty Og- low. The Oglows have quickly become her ‘new family and Carol Oglow, age 17, is very. much Adriana’s “adopted” sister. “My ‘family’ helped * meall the time. My ‘family’ is - very nice,” she told me. “While I talked with Ad- riana and Carol I couldn't help but see the close com- raderie these two girls had developed. Adriana constant- || ly referred to her as “sister.” And when Betty Oglow.came down the stairs it was “mom” from both .of.'them, “The family adopted me and I adopted them.” Adriana is a very pretty girl with brown hair and lively, expressive dark eyes. The whole time I was thore I don't. think “ that cheerful smile ever left her face. marveled at her command at English: after having been - here so short a time. And she - seemed totally unafraid of trying new words. Adriana is in Grade 12 at Stanley Humphries Senior Secondary School and is en- rolled in three English pro- grams: English 10R; English as a Second Language, a special program for all our foreign high school students: plus she gets extra help in English during her study periods, She also studies En- aglish at..evening .. echo! two; of her anights. Biweek.. - ©. +: Beside: her- intensive: Eog- driana She says she enjoys all her subjects very much. The evening I was there she was nervous. The following day was her acting exam. ADRIANA LEON-MAGANA (left) with her adopted sister Carol Oglow Castlegar is different than her home town of Celaya in many ways. Climate is only one of the ways. Although Jay’s summer's are “not extremely hot,” they don't get any snow in the winter. Adriana saw snow for the first time in November. The Oglows took her on a trip to Calgary, and when Adriana saw the snow on the skyway she leaped out of the oe laughing like. a little kid tt Christmas. According to Carol, “she jumped into it ith her shoes and every- thing: T guess she didn't wit some snapshots of Adriana laughing and up to her knees in the white stuff. “I've got: lots of pictures to send home!” One. lightweight. beige sweater is the extent of Adriana’s winter attire, and “we had to borrow a winter jacket for her,” says Carol. driana is the oldest of three brothers and two sis- ters. Her father, a freelance photographer with his own highly-equipped. darkroom, takes pictures for their local newspaper-“E! Sol de Bajo." _ In front of their home, which Adriana says is smaller than most, Castlegar houses, her mother has -a. little. shop where she sells baby clothes, many of which she crochets love “Dallas from that here? LYNN SMECHER . .’, studying merchandising and retailing of fine on probation; if their attitude and effort continues to be poor, they are expelled. “We'started with 185. stu- dents (95 per cent women),” says Lynn. “There are now 140 and I wouldn't be sur- prised that after the Christ- mas exams there may not be many more than 100. No jnext three will have d diffe subjects again. The school, she saye, is no : place for “social butterflies” — adress code is maintained and students who fail te ob- tain: a 2.0, standing (4.0 is tops) in spite of the efforts of . their inatructors, are placed work; the four, Gamelan students, she said, are doing well. At the end of the training year, the college makes a two-week European “tour with visits to the fashion houses and top designers of London, Paris snd. Rome. fashions, Graduates are accredited in all colleges on the North American continent. More significant, perhaps, bi is the fact that not only is she ‘assured of a job at the end of her course, but that she now: has two part-time jobs — one with Calvin Klien, . interna- tionally- famous designer of ° jeans, and ‘another with Candy Althuser, a noted free lance designer who also does custom patterns for large dress manufacturers. “I learn a lot from them while I'm working,” observed Lyan. and knits herself. I learned that Celaya is quite a bit bigger than “You get tke feel of Castlegar, with a population wealth,” says Lynn, “con- of around 100,000. Adriana siderable wealth: — but it is told me that in that city there not flaunted. There are noold are three colleges, eight pub- cars in Dallas and many ex- lic high schools and many pensive ones, Then there are private ones. In her. high Is life very different in the accents — from sll over school she takes mathema-. 14, the continent, but I love the ‘ties, phyaics,-chemistry, slow soft southern drawl At Spanish, English (at this times, I forget that Iam the groaned to herself, “yes I one who has the hard-to. study English, but it is so understand accent, and not different herel”), psychology them. It is good ‘people train- and history. ing.’ My spelling is different,. They start school at 7 a.m. too, but here I was lucky — and go straight through until my instructor had taught in 2 p.m. with no lunch break, England, so two styles of only 10 thinutes between spelling were accepted in my classes, just enough time for — American and Brit- the students to grab a quick sandwich in the cafeteria. Their five school days are the What strikes the visitor same, in other words, no rot- more than anything else, however, are the Dallas people. In-spite of the fact ‘that the society is divided along racial lines, everyone is incredibly warm, friendly and gentle — an expression typified by the words of one black taxi driver: “The only color that really matters in Toronto long way from Australia Donald Drury of Toronto was surprised the other day people is the color of their hen he found a letter at his hearts: home that. hind supposed to And the price of all these go to Austr: goodies? It’s high — $12,000 The totes “which came plus groceries and extras, as from the United States, was well as a great: deal of sac- clearly addressed. rifice.and hard work. Social. Drury amazed by the let- butterflies need not apply. _ ter, said “we do occasionally Lynn is working part-time get letters” from “around the during her holiday and re- corner.” turns to Dallas to continue A Post Office spokesman her studies in the beginning said officials would be happy of January. to look into the matter. ating schedule such as they have at SHSS. There the students stay in the same - classroom and it is the tea- chers who move from class to class (here the students move). Adriana enjoys sports and trys. them all; basketball, tennis, ll, and she. herself and all the other run- ners-up and | cesses: She told me with pride that it was her’ father who did’ all. the photography. I was impressed when I saw a news clipping of herself and last year’s Miss Universe standing in a aie of shoes. loves to rollerskate. She has never ice skated, but she is anxious to try. After school and on week- ends she works at a sports club; teaching and organizing games and programs for all z ages. During ‘schoo! holidays orks the rey all. ete ' Finaliahh one of the Joeal ‘merchants gave new pairs of shoes to all of the contestants, and Miss Universe was invited down. to receive a pair. “That was vinteresting,” recalls Adriana, “that girl ‘spoke nothing Spanish and I spoke nothing ‘driana told ‘me that she lige to sing and dance, and teaching them evimming and other skills. ° ‘Last Christmas Adriana became famous in her home- town. Representing the newspaper, Adriana was chosen as Queez-of Celaya. She showed. me albums of news clippings and photos of ches taught her new “family” many Mexican dances. One. evening after a dancing ses- sion with Adriana, Carol said she could hardly walk the next day. Mexican dances aren't the only dances. Adri- ana loves. She enjoys square dancing and loves to disco. Auctioneering ate es formed. a ‘circle, and with sheepish grins on their faces began shouting: ‘‘Rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber , baby buggy bumpers.”’ Again and again, the tongue-twisting words pounced off the walls of the ‘large meeting hall. Suddenly they, stopped, glanced arqund in apparent ‘emberrassment and began yelling‘sequences.of numbets and fractions at each other. For 27 students ranging in ©: age from 19 to 53, the bizarre- spectacle was a daily ritual earlier this month while they attended a two-week course at the Western Canada School of Auctioneering in. this com. munity 130 kilometres south of Edmonton. Like more than 800 others before them who passed through Canada’s only auc- tioneering school, opened in .1972, they started each 14- hour day with tongue-twisting warm-up exercises designed to expand their lungs and get’ their mouths flexible for bid- callivg. 7 Any professional auction- eer worth his salt does the same thing before he starts working, said John Pomer- deau, president of the school and a full-time auctioneer from nearby Red Deer. “You don’t just come in here cold turkey. It’s like a baliplayer —. you've got to warm up in the bullpen before you go out on the mound and pitch."” Pomerleau, in stetson and boots, told the students they should practise their auction- eering techniques all the time. ' “You want to get so you're driving down the road selling the -haystacks and fence- ” ‘CAML of his: pupils listened: intently. They weren't paying $750. for tuition, plus room and board, for nothing. REPRESENTS CAREER For Harry Kryhul, 49, auc- Honeeting represents a ‘‘third fr” after 28 years with the RCMP ‘and two as security chief with Dome Petroleum at its Beaufort Sea drilling oper- ations in the Arctic. Stan Gatchinski, a 20-year- ‘elt musician’ and economics student at the University of Saskatchewan, said auction- eerifig’ was Simply “a good way to meet'a lot of people.” Most of the other students in the course, including air force and navy veterans, rea- Itors, housewives and farm- ers, agreed auctioneering of- fers a chance to capitalize on Mr. Oglow, who joined us at this point said, “and she makes beautiful cheesecake!” What do you’ think of Can- dian food? I asked her. “I -LOVE the borsch!” she an- swered with enthusiasm. So far Adriana hasn't whipped up any Mexican food for the Oglows, but they are waiting for her to make for them a dinner of beans, tacos, en- chiladas, tortillas. Adriana has never before been away from her family and understandably misses them very much. She writes often to family and friends, kp van oM Selpphene. £2 fala a ways anaes for’ “ ee ts hour!” Adriana's future plans in- clude more travel, (this has just whetted her appetite) and eventually university in Mexico and perhaps then be- coming an executive secre- tary and an English teacher. We wish you well, Adriana! an art Canada’s high interest rates. “In the next couple of years a few of the farms around me — maybe even my own — are going to. go under,” said Richard Walton of McAuley, Man. “I'd rather be auction- eering ‘off theic farms and seving my own with the money from it.’* To ensire his students . make the most of the current - auctioneering boom, Pomer- leau spent several hours every day recording th¢ir work with a television camera - and playing it back to themto show where improvement was needed. They also visited an auc- tion, staged one among them- selves and held one for the public. They learned some of the subtleties, such as making money Sound smaller by ask-- ing for 10 hundred dollars in- stead of a thousand. Lottery error hard to take * Brendan Foley of Hamilton thought he was a rich man recently but when he re- turned from an afternoon at the races he found it was alla mistake. “I felt sick,” said the dis- appointed Foley after finding out that he wasn't the $60,000 winner of the Pro- vincial lottery. After reading what he be- lieved to be the winning Pro- vincial lottery number on the front page of a Toronto newspaper, the 31-year-old unemployed father of three children decided he would return to his native New- foundland and start over. He gave his 1974 Pinto car to his sister-in-law and: a stereo to his brother-in-law. He even spent the $376 that he won at the races on drinks for friends and gave one woman $50. But upon returning home he found the number printed on the front page of the newspaper was wrong. It had inadvertently published the previous weeks’s winning number on the front page. However the proper number was published in the paid lot- tery advertisement. on an inside page.