TOUCH OF COMFORT In the form of a
footstool with a rocking base Is demon-
strated here by Its maker, 73-year-old John
: Stler of Robson. John, who In his earlier
days was 2 grain buyer in Alberta and prior

Tie
+ Burton General Store for 12 years, says he
“has always enjoyed carpentry. His first
footstool was made last March for a
Penticton woman who had the plans for the

footstool, * bul no one to make It. Working
from his garage In the summer and his
basement In the winter, John to date has
made about 68 of these stools which have
found there way to White Rock, Vancouver,
Arince Georaa,

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The Interior Universities
Programming Board has reject-
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“pnuc Public DTHC Public Meeting Told: Tofd:

The Nelson meeting was
attended by about 140 people.
id

posals for a field of study at
. David Thompson University
Centre in Nelson.
Selkirk College Council
‘ members are still optimistic
: that there will be some form of
education offered at DTUC,
with help from the provincial
+; government,
Members of the council
told people at public meetings
- in Nelson and Trail recently,
- that it is not likely that an edu-
~ cation faculty will be set up at
DTUC. The council's draft pro-
posal had d that edu-

ani
a the public led to lively
debate which Ottewell attri-
buted to the frustrations of the
community. Thirteen briefs

USCC Centre
- Reconstruction
Fund $32,420

A new total for the Union
of Spiritual Communities of
Christ community centre re-

cation be one of the corner-
stones for rebuilding an aca-
demic facility following the loss
of Notre Dame University.
Dame University.

Greg Ottewell, Nelson
council member and hearings
chairman, said the program-
ming board apparently feels
there are enough teacher-train-
ing courses offered at the
province's three universities
and there will be no further
planning until the McGregor
Report on Education is handed
in to government officials.

fund was reported
last week in the amount of
$32,420.74 by Steve Babakaiff
of Grand Forks, administrator
of the fund.

The USCC: is grateful for
the following contributions re-
ceived the week prior, he said:

Mr. and Mrs, Larry Swet-

likoff, Castlegar, $100; Mr. and ~

Mrs. Peter M. Ogloff, $100;
Pete F. Postnikoff, Shoreacres,
$50; Wm. M. and Annie Demos-
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were presented at the Nelson
meeting.

With council members out-
numbering the public at the
Trail meeting it took on the
form of an informal discussion.
It lasted about an hour before
Ottewell adjourned the meet-

. ing to hold,a council discussion.

Hppes for a fine arts
program were buoyed by an
announcement that the pro-
gramming board has asked
University of Victoria officials

to set up a-Bachelor of Fine.

Arts program at DTUC, in
conjunction with Selkirk Col-
lege.

There would also be some
supporting courses to coincide
with the degree program. -

Bob Tarplett of Trail sug-
gested to the council that
DTUC might be a more prac-
tical operation if it were less
academic-oriented than the
three Coast schools and geared
more towards the job market.

He listed a vocational fine
arts program, a school of
business administration and in-
corporation of the Rossland
Mining School as’ means to-
wards that objective.

Sam McBride of the ‘Trail
Arts Council said he was in
favor of developing the fine arts
programs to retain the quality
of education developed at the
Kootenay School of Art and in
performing arts pursuits at
NDU.

There had been hope thata
school of social work could be
established at DTUC but the
province and Selkirk officials do
not have common thoughts on
the matter.

Selkirk council members
have said they would like to see
a four-year Bachelor of Social
Work offered but Ottewell said
“The programming board does
not appear enthusiastic about
this idea.”

Selkirk Dean of Studies
John Peregrym said UVic offi-

Station CKGF
Applies For

Independence,

Grand Forks radio CKGF
may be applying to Canadian
Radio- Television Commission
to become a separate station,
independent from Okanagan
Radio Ltd., its present owners,

This is disclosed in Grand
Forks Cable Co, Ltd.‘s appli-
cation for a license to set up a
cablevision syatem in that
community, by Ken Davis,
president of Grand Forks
Cable.

“The agreement between
CKGF radio, whose official

name is Boundary Broadcasting

Ltd, and Okanagan Radio Ltd.
has been approved by both
companies,” says Davis,

ers of Boundary
Broadcasting Ltd. are presi-
dent Ken Davis, vice-president
and station manager Wilf War-
ner, and secretary of the
company and program director

, of the radio station, Jim Swet-

Ukoe. f

According to Davis, the
cable system proposed by
Grand Forks Cable Co, and the
CKGF radio operation “are two
community services which will
work well together and en-
hance community program-
ming, but will need the com-
bined income to be financially
independent.”

Davis is a Earvowner of

Forks, Penticton, Summerland

and Osoyoos,

clals have indicated they are
more interested in setting up a
post-graduate course in that
area, which Peregrym de-
scribed as “not that popular”.

The briefs presented in
Nelson tended to favor a fine
arts program and some were
ciritical of Selkirk's draft re-
port, saying it did not meet
Nelson's needs and did not go
far enough,

Selkirk College was ac-
cused of trying to look after its
own interests while administer-
ing DTUC's problems.

Education Minister Pat
McGeer has also announced the

will

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lease Maryhall, at DTUC, to
Nelson for $1 per year. Most
people appear to be skeptical of
the move,

Council chairman Bob
Buckley said there is not
enough information in the an-
nouncement to be able to make
any decision on McGeer's in-
tentions.

All submissions made to
the council will be put together
for a final report which will be
presented to the Selkirk Col-
lege Council so that a presenta-
tion can be made to the depart-
ment of education to get educa-
tion back in Nelson.

“There is a sense .of
urgency here,” said Ottewell.
“We're still hoping to have
classes starting in Nelson this
September.”

The final report is ex-
pected to be ready by the end of
February.

Total Of
$248,352,000
Invested in B.C.

The government says that
Canada Pension Plan funds
totalling $1.656 billion were
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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1978

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ass
MAKING CASE for second t access to 5 shewchuk subdiviaton
Is resident Tom Good, far teft, supported by 120 realdents’
signatures and the presence of a few onlookers In the ely
Council chambers Tuesday night. Good urged council to

Potential Shewchuk Second Access

a ae

CPR Prope

“K Marathon Realty official

Se. will determine by tomorrow
whether a toad on CP Rail land

can be leased or rentad by the
city for use as a second access
to the Shewchuk subdivision, a
Lakeview Street petitioner told
city council Tuesday.

* Tom Good told council
John Walsh, a spokesman for
the CPR's real estate wing, has
agreed to find out whether the
road could be secured in an
arrangement similar to the
jlease the city has on CPR
‘property from the underpass to

Weodland Drive North.

Accompanied by about 10
supporters and carrying a peti-
tion with the signatures of 120
subdivision residents in favor of
construction of the extra access
by:the city,-Good told council
the subdivision's population has

i doubled since last year and

increased traffic on Woodland
Drive North, the only access
route,

He cited accidents, con-
struction and other past inci-
dents which have resulted in
blockage on Woodland Drive
North of access by emergency
vehicles. He said he agreed
with city works superintendent
Alex Lutz that such incidents
were infrequent, “but we would
like to feel emergency vehicles
have ready access to our sub-
division.”

Good said local RCMP had
requested council approve the
construction of a new access,
and residents have in the past
contacted council or members
of the city administration to
request a second routess.<<.

“The road is possible be.
cause there is an access exist-

Assessment Cuts From City Court: ‘of Revision

~ Neighbors of Piant Get

By RYON GUEDES

r
A further 20-p t

Tom Biln and Tex Mowat
ordered the reduction for both

for three

land and imp on the
in

properties adjacent to the city’s
sewage treatment plant in the
Connors Road area was among
the adjustments ordered by the
city court of revision last week.

Contacted by the Castlegar
News, chairman Burt Campbell
said he and fellow members

prop after h
the area complained to the
court that the ‘sewage’ plant
‘smelled, was visually unattrac-
tive and had a

consider teasing an access road on CPR property to develop
Into a second route for the subdivision.
—CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes

riy toi

ing there now which is not on
city property,” he said,

“Mayor Audrey Moore
pointed out that the 2,000-foot-
long CPR access was not within
city limits,

“It would be rather ironical
for us to own property that’s
not in our boundary,” she said.

Good told Moore the CPR
property the city was already
leasing from the CPR was also
outside the city boundary. He
added that the Castlegar and
District Chamber of Commerce
issued copies of a map which
included the proposed access in
the city boundaries.

He also urged city council
to widen the corner at Wood-
land Drive North and Celgar
Road. Motorists at the corner
find it hard.‘to turn . without
violating another lane of traffic,
he said.

plant a 20-per-cent assessment
reduction on their land,” Camp-
bell said. “The 1978 court made
two field trips to the area, on
one of them accompanied by
city works superintendent Alex
Lutz and members of the B.C,
A Auth

effect.”

., “The 1977 court of revision
had granted four properties in
the immediate vicinity fs the

Proposed Site on Seventh Ave. S.

Licence Sought for Pub

Two lots on the Seventh
Avenue South 500 block make
up the proposed site for a local
company's plans for Castlegar's
first neighborhood pub.

Ken Denneus, a share-
holder in Ventana Holdings
Ltd., Tuesday:.confirmed re-
ports that. his company has
applied to the Liquor Adminis-

Welfare Costs Cut,
But Not Service

Castlegar’s expected $25,-

to wel-

$28 saving in welfare costs
yearly vill not result in a
reduction of services, Human
Resources Minister Bill Vander
Zalm has told city council.

In response to an inquiry
by the city last month, Vander
Zalm said the recent 30-cents-
per-capita reduction in the

PEER E

- Rebels Take
‘On. Warriors
in Playoffs

Play-offs in the Kootenay
International Junior Hockey
League got underway iast night
at the local arena as the Castle-

is lenees standings,
third place Rossland Warriors.
._ Thisis the beginning of the
best of seven games. The next
game will be played in Rossland
pe ered followed Bye the third
Rebels’

fan opeay

fare costs ie the result of

“Mr. Lutz agreed with the
charges that the sewage treat-
ment plant did smell, and said it
did contrary to the assurances

tration Board for a licence to
operate a 150-seat establish-
ment at 519 and 621 Seventh
Ave. S.

Although the company—
which applied to the LAB about
three weeks ago—cannot start
plans for the establishment un-
less it receives a licence,
Denneus said the pub will be
aimed at a clientele who prefer
relaxed surroundings.

“It would be tastefully
decorated, with a relaxing
warm yh with the

and procedure | that have allow-
ed us to keep welfare rolls at a

-- significantly lower level than

they were some years ago."

“We have done this at the
same time that rates for
welfare recipients as well as
other categories of beneficiary’
have been increased,” the min-
ister said in the letter. “We
have just recently announced a
new $9 million family support
program and are proceeding
with other very positive ser-
vices to assist people in need.”

Challenging the minister's
response, Ald. Bud Godderis,
health and welfare

Proper type of music, and a
place where people want to go
and enjoy themselves,” he said,
“Not a place where people
would go and get into a brawl.”

Ald. Albert Calderbank,
works and services committee
chairman, said members of his
committee “have been seriously
considering” improvements to
the corner.

Calderbank said the com-
mittee would investigate the
points raised by Cook “par-
ticularly on the railroad proper-
ty" and make a report within
one or two weeks. -

ty in Local Wells |

Uranium Mining Couid Increase Hazard

of local wells-is “well within
safe limits” but uranium mining
in the area could increase the
hazard, Ald. ©, 8. Fowler
reported Tuesday.

Fowler, chairman of city
council's select water commit-
tee, ssid the tests conducted on
wells in the ‘city and near
Selkirk College by the provin-
cial health ministry's Radiation
Protection Service and the
federal health and welfare min-
istry’s Radiation Protection bu-
reau showed radiation contami-
nation resulting from under-
ground flow of the water
through uranium ore bodies,

“It was also disclosed that
there was an indication that our
present water system has an
elevated, but safe, level of
radon gas, a chemically-inert
by-product of radium disinte-
gration,” Fowler continued. *

Fowler said RPS head Dr.
M. W. Greene told council in a

groundwater systems are more

susceptible to both types of
contamination than are surface
water systems,

“Under questioning from

founcil, Dr Greene admitted

any change in the flow course of
our present groundwater sys-
tem could, potentially, increase
contamination levels to an un-
acceptable degree,” he said.

“Also, as we are in a
potential mining area with ex-

City Runway Request
Still Under MOT Study

3 The federal transport
ministry's civil aviation and
are: still

during a scheduled three-month
shutdown for main runway re-

considering the: city’s request,
fora .temporary.;.small-craft
airstrip at Castlegar‘ Airport.

given by the consulting engi-
neers who designed the plant."

In addition to adjusting
assessments on the three prop-
erties immediately south of the
plant, the court—which heard
appeals on more than 60 parcels
throughout the city—ordered
six property owners further
south on Connors Road be
given a 10-per-cent reduction
on the value of both their land
and improvements, Campbell
said:

Biln said the decision
stressed the city’s responsi-
bility for any damage or depre-
ciation caused to property by
its actions.

Asked about public res-
ponse to the hearings, Biln said
he was surprised there was not.
a greater number of appellants
appearing before the court.

‘Tm dis more

facing, a ministry spokes.
man ‘said ‘Tuesday, +
- oy Sames Westover, regional
manager for’ designated ‘air-
ports,.told the Castlegar News
the ministry received city coun-
eil’s request “about a week ago”
but had not yet decided wheth-

‘er it would be safe to allow

small aircraft. to land during
reconstruction in April, May
and June.

” Westover said the ministry
turned down asimilar request,

calling for a temporary strip -

with $60,000 worth of black-
topping, made by the city in
December.

He said the ministry will
close to tenders for the con-
struction—approved late last
month—on Feb, 22.

“We're hoping to be able to
start work on April 1 and we
hope to be able to open the
runway by the end of June,” he
said. “If we have a-contractor
who can handle the work and if
the weather stays with us we'll
be able to meet that.”

Although the cost of the
resurfacing will not be known

See ‘Companies’
Pg. A20 Col. 2
until a tender is accepted,

ministry engineers have al-
ready run estimates on the

people didn't come just to sit in
and I am disappointed more
people didn’t appeal,” he said.
“I think most people who did
benefitted from it.”

“People should come be-
fore the court if they think their
assessment is unfair compared
to their neighbors’,” he said.
“The decisions are very fair,
and the democratic process
does win in the end.”

jected cost, said.
He said the resurfacing plans
will include putting a foot-deep
layer of crushed gravel and new
seal over the existing runway.

Depending on the type and

frequency of traffic at the |

airport, the new surface will
last "10 to 16 years without any
major repairs,” Westover said.

City council voted late last

month to support a recommen: .

(Gon't. Pg. A20,Col. 3)

underway, ‘mining
activity could have a very detri-
mental effect on the radiation
levels in our groundwater sys-
tem."

Fowler said council is
satisfied that the existing well
water source “appears to be
safe, in light of present know-
ledge,” but is convinced the
only proper solution to the
water problem is a system from

the Arrow Lakes where radia-
tion levels were not detectable.

“The latest information
only adds to the undesirable
characteristics prevalent in a
groundwater system such as
we have in Castlegar,” Fowler
concluded,

But the director of the
West Kootenay Health Unit
yesterday said the findings do
not provide a convincing argu:

Two Local Women
Among 42 Victims

Two Blueberry Creek
women were listed among the
42 passengers killed when a
Pacific Western Airlines jet
crashed and burned in a snow-
storm at Cranbrook Airport
Saturday.

child strapped to a three-seat
section beside her dead mother.
The three walked to rescue

_ vehicles. Two other survivors

crawled through the snow to

the nearby forest to get away

from the burning plane.
Listed in 207:

ment in favor of changing to an
Arrow Lakes water supply.

Dr. Nick Schmitt, who
attended the Feb. 6 meeting,
said’ he supported the city's
efforts to secure its propose
new supply, but he pointed out
the radioactivity levels found in
the Castlegar ares “were not
‘unusually high.”

“At this time there's no
cause for alarm,” Dr. Schmitt
said. “All surface and ground-
water has some level of radio-
activity.”

He said the test findings
showed an average level of 3
picocuries—units used to mea-
sure radiation in drinking wa-
ter—compared to the federal
government's maximum aceept-
able level of 10 picocuries.

He confirmed reports that
the health unit “will continue to

(Con’t. Pg. A20, Col. 2)

40, and Mrs. Myfanwy Olsen-
berg, whose 11-year-old daugh-
ter Lynn. was among the seven
survivors in the tail section
which broke off as the aircraft
disintegrated and hit a snow-
bank at the end of the runway,
reportedly after avoiding a
collision with an airport snow
sweeper,

The Castlegar-bound sir.
craft crashed before noon with
43 passengers, one infant and a
crew of five aboard,

Investigators said they
could not speculate on the cause
of the disaster, but PWA
officials said Sunday there was
a snowplow on the runway
when the doomed airplane
made its final approsch,

Jack Cooke, PWA's west-
ern regional vice-president,
said, the 117-seat jet did not
actually hit the orange snow-
blower. He’ said the pilot
attempted. to “abort the air-
plane, cleared the snowblower
and was seen to tail off to the

* left-wing direction."

The survivors were six
passengers and flight attendant
Gail Bunn of Edmonton. She
and passenger David White of
Calgary walked out of the tail
section through an emergency
door and found the 11-year-old

dition in hospital at Cranbrook
‘Tuesday were the child and T,
R. Sprague, 38, of Calgary.

Ronald Simms of Calgary
was in critical condition and
was transferred to a hospital in
his hometown: The other un-
named survivor, described as a
40-year-old woman who suffer-
ed severe burns, was trans-
ferred to hospital in Vancouver.

PWA spokesman Brian
Johnson dismissed as specula-
tion comments that the crash
could have been avoided had
there been a control tower. He
said Cranbrook is a well-run
airport and the airline had no
complaints.

W. W. Howes, a Transport
Canada aviation safety bureau
investigator stated some clues
as to why the plane dived to the
left instead of taking off nor-
mally may be. provided by a
flight data recorder’ that was
shipped to Ottawa but word has

since been received this has

vbeen destroyed.

Howes said while the ex-
terior of the device was charr-
ed, officials had hoped the tapes
would. remain - intact. Only
Transport, Canada personnel
had access to the recording
device.

° RIDDLE: What local’
television program is as
popular as My Mother the
Car and as exciting as My
Three Sons?

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Page BG
e REPORT: A mining con-
sultant’s findings indicate
potential for a major ura-
nium mine at China Creek.
Page BL
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the Border Bruins, . but
choked by the Smokies |°
and singed by the Flames
in weekend Kootenay In-
ternational Junior Hockey
League play.
Page AS

e REVIEW: Theatre Ener-'
gy keeps theatre alive in

the area,
Page A3

AnnLanders ... Page A6

Federal Tory Leader
Speaks Here Feb. 24

A speech at Selkirk Col-

lege and a public dinner in Trail
next Friday will highlight fed-
eral opposition leader Joe
Clark's first visit to Kootenay
West in four years, MP Bob
Brisco announced this week.

Brisco said the Progressive
Conservation leader, accom-
panied by his wife Maureen
McTeer, is scheduled to arrive
at Castlegar Airport at 9:30
p.m. and to speak at a public
meeting in the college lounge at
4:30 p.m.

He will also attend a public
dinner at the Cominco Gym in
Trail at 7 p.m. and a breakfast
meeting with local PC execu-
tive members the following day
before leaving for Edmonton,
Brisco said,

“Naturally I am very
pleased Joe's coming to Koote-
nay West,” Brisco said. “He has
always shown a lot of interest
and concern for the needs of
this area, and now he'll have

another chance to talk to people
here on a face-to-face basis.”
He said Clark firat visited
the riding in February 1974,
touring the area and speaking

‘to students in Trail and at

Selkirk College “when he
wasn't quite as widely known
as he is today.” -

Clark was elected PC lead-
er in 1976, He was first elected
to the House of Commons in
1972, and re-elected in 1974, He
represents the Rocky Moun-

tain, Alta. riding.

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City Wins Reprieve
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Castlegar's exemption from policing coats has been extended":

for another year, according to Municipal Affairs Miniate1

Curtis.”

r Hugh

Ina Jan. 90 letter to Mayor Audrey Moore, Corts said the
last ys

He said the application for
the pub “has taken a lot of time
and a lot of paperwork.”

Although the licence would

+ permit the sale of alcoholic

beverages between the hours of
9a.m.and 11 p.m, the company
would have hours similar to
those of existing beverage
rooms in the city if they. win
local or municipal authorities’
approval, he said.

(Denueus said the LAB
the of *

chairman, told council that
while the cost of living in-
creases the hasic rate for single
welfare recipients stays at $175
monthly.

“The difficulty is that while
costs go up, welfare recipients’
basic rate of help has not been
proportionately increased,”

deris said.

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neighborhood pubs near
churches, playgrounds or ac-
cesses to busy highways.
“They want it in the neigh-
borhood where people can walk
to it rather than drive,” he said.
He said the proposed site of the
pub is “not too close” to any
residences,
1 (Con't, Pg. A20, Col. 3)

A radio hotliner’s ref-
erence to Castlegar Airport
as “a.Mickey Mouse opera-
tion” drew criticism from
airport commitee chairman
Ald. Gerald Rust Tuesday
night.

Rust told council he had
overheard Bob Sharples, an-
nouncer for the CBC pro-
gram Daybreak, making the
remark this week in a dis-
cussion of the Pacific West-

Cranbrook Airport Satur-

day.

ern Airlines aircraft crash at:

Alderman Hits Airport Criticism

‘Mickey’ Label Unfair

“I think that’s a very
irresponsible statement to
make," Rust said. “The air-
port has limitations—how-
ever, there are many safe-
guards built into the Castle-
gar Airport system that are
not in other airports in
Western Canada.”

Rust noted the news
media had shown an interest
in Cranbrook airport's ex-
tensive emergency services
program,

“The city has such a
Program at the Castlegar

Hospital,” Rust said. “If any
accident of that nature did
occur here there is an emer-
gency program which will be
put into effect.”

Mayor Audrey Moore
agreed with Rust's criticism
and said she resented the
frequent downgrading of the
city's airport.

Ald. C. 8. Fowler " sug:
gested Rust

policy
municipalities from police ae for five vars, after their’

“As you know, the letters patent amalgamating Castlegar -

provided for a th:

ich was

A last year”

whi
by the government for a further one-year period,” Curtis said’ fo

the letter.

“As the policy for the five-year sumption ue now been fixed,” > :

I can give you assurance

that Castlegar will

be given the same

treatment as that afforded Prince George, Nanaimo, Kamloops.

and Kelowna.”

The minister's letter said information on the amount
assistance available or the expected date of payment would not be:
available until the legislature votes onthe

estimates for 1978 to 1979,

Ald. Gerald Rust, administrative services ‘and finance
committee chairman, told city council Tuesday night his reaction
was “a sigh of relief that this letter comes this year,” but pointed
out the city has only one more year of'a police costs moratorium. -

“Unless the B.C, Police Commission's review! changes the
picture, as it exists today, we will be subjected to more significant

costs in the future.”

Sharples and discuss the
matter with him on his radio
program,

The icipal affairs

ministry extended Castlegar’s three-

year exemption last year with a $112,500 tt to cover policing |
costs for the last nine months of 1977. Ais A