Castlégar News July 2, 1987 Fatty diets key WASHINGTON (AP) — The first evidence that dras- tically reducing cholesterol levels may open fat-narrowed iean Heart Association. Shine, dean of the medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles, blood vessels is added proof: said the highly fat-restricted that avoiding fatty diets is a key to redueing heart dis ease, U.S. experts say. “The California study rein- forces our conviction that there is a relationship be- tween cholesterol and heart disease,” said Dr. Kenneth Shine, president of the Amer- Optimists still bar women MONTREAL (CP) — Women will remain barred from the Optimists social club after about 5,000 dele- gates to the group's interna- tional convention didn't give enough support to an equal- ity amendment to their con- stitution. Delegates from the United States, Canada and the west Indies voted 63 per cent in favor of admitting women members, but that fell short of the twothirds majority required for a constitutional amendment. Several delegates argued their wives and daughters should be able to join the clubs, too. “We have to go with the times,” one man commented. But a dissenting American delegate, referring to a re cent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court requiring Rotary International to admit women, said, “We should be able to vote according to our conscience and not approve a proposal just because of a court ruling that’ forces us to do so.” The May 4 U.S. judgment directed Rotary, which had expelled a California chapter that admitted three women, to abide by a state law ban- ning sex discrimination. Some lawyers feel the ruling applies to other clubs that don’t admit women. A few unofficial women delegates are attending the Optimists’ convention but they weren't allowed to vote on the equality motion. diet and anti-cholesterol drugs used in the study are more applicable to those with diagnosed heart and blood vessel disease than the gene- ral population. However, specialists say, the study removes doubts that cholesterol plays a big role in atherosclerosis, the narrowing of blood vessels caused by a buildup of fatty deposits, and that even mod- est limitations of dietary fat can help prevent or slow dis- ease. Cholesterol is a waxy sub- stance in the blood that, de- pending upon the fatty pro- teins attached to it, can con tribute to heart and blood vessel disease. The sub- stance is a natural body com ponent, but its levels can be influenced by diet and exer- cise. SEVERE LEVELS Studies sponsored by the J.S. National Institutes of Health indicate half of all adults in the United States have cholesterol levels high- er than desirable and 25 per cent, about 40 million people, have moderate to severe elevations. The study of heart bypass patients contains the first solid evidence that past blood vessel narrowing can be re versed with a combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs and low-fat diets, health offi- cials say. The federally. -funded trial conducted by University of Southern California Medical School scientists found that in 162 bypass patients, 16.2 per cent of those getting the combination treatments showed regression in their restricted vessels, versus 2.4 per cent of control patients. In the drug-treated group, total blood cholesterol levels fell 26° per cent, compared with four per cent in the con- trol group who received a restricted diet. Dr. Basil Rifkind of the National Heart, Lunt and Blood Institute said the find- ings suggest this kind of therapy would benefit many patients with heart and ves- sel disease. The diet included small portions of lean meat, no-fat dairy products and lots of vegetables and fruit. The drug group had a diet limited to 22 per cent of cal- ories from fat, compared with 40 per cent in the typical American diet, and less than 125 milligrams of chok 1 Rocky View Tax & Bookkeeping Services * Small Business & Contractors * Personal * Farm-Logging No. 06-1545 Columbia Aven: Castleger, B.C. VIN IJ) IRENE MORTIMER 365-2362 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc.C.A Resident Partne: daily. The control group had a 26-per-cent fat calorie in- take and 250 milligrams of cholesterol daily. Heart association guide- lines, revised last year, limit total fat to less than 30 per cent of total calories. 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RCMP Const telephone book from booth outside Jim Straker Castlegar Motel during investigation death Saturday morning * cnbrind> into sudden CosNewsPhoto by Ron Norman wwii Co-op inquiry delayed By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer A delay in the release of a super intendent's inquiry into the defunct Teacher's Investment and Housing Co-operative has temporarily set back the plans of Alma McGauley, leader of a group of teachers suing the B.C. government McGauley, a Castlegar resident and retired teacher, was told the superin tendent's inquiry would be available in June but now it has been delayed until the middle of. July. “We're disappointed to learn that the report is not expected until mid July,” McGauley said. McGauley recently returned from a whirlwind of rallies through the prairie provinces to discuss the lawsuit. “Tl get a chance to get the paper work caught up, though.” B.C. superintendent of financial in stitutions, Allan Mulholland, is con. ducting the investigation after Con. sumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Elwood Veitch turned down at least two separate requests for a formal in quiry into the co-op’s collapse. “It (the report) will not say much about the government's role in this,” she said, but added that she expects it to give a clearer picture of the directive of the co-op management. “We have very little information right now We're speculating. This will provide some answers.” McGauley’'s lawsuit, under the legal counsel of Ken Mackenzie with the Vancouver firm Guild and Yule, has signed up some 2,140 former depos. itors, with each putting up $200 to fund the litigation The litigation committee only re quired 1,000 former investors to join before embarking on the lawsuit. “There is a potential of 9,800 fqrmer depositors,” said McGauley. “The more signatures we have the more assurance we have of keeping the fee at $200.” The litigation committee hopes to recover all the funds lost in the collapse of the co-op, and the B.C. government has been named as the principal de fendant. The approximately 45,000 co-op de positors, most of whom were teachers, collectively lost some $78 million when the co-op collapsed in November, 1985. The majority of those depositors kept their money with the co-op be lieving it to be operated and regulated like any Canadian bank. However, the investors were not making deposits, they were in fact investing. McGauley returned last week from Alberta and Manitoba where she held informational meetings with former in vestors there. “People there were very interested in this (litigation) opportunity,” she said. “They were feeling quite cut off from information.” McGauley mailed 10,000 Igeters in May to inform investors who lost more than $5,000 about their intention to pursue legal action. continued on page A2 RCMP INVESTIGATE Man found dead in motel room By RON NORMAN Editor A 36-year-old Castlegar man was found dead in his motel room early Saturday morning and RCMP are not ruling out foul play. Philip Robert Harshenin, a resident of the Castlegar Motel at 1370 Columbia Ave., was found about 8 a.m. after the Castlegar RCMP detachment received a call reporting a “sudden death” at the motel. “The cause of death has not been determined,” Sgt. Lyle Kennedy, head of the Nelson subdivision General Investigation Section, told the Castlegar News late Saturday after- noon. “Foul play has not been ruled out,” Kennedy added. Kennedy said police are not prepared to say anything more about the incident at this time. Police swarmed over the motel all day Saturday, cordoning off the main entrance with yellow police ribbon. Coroner Paul Oglow was also on the scene for much of the day. Police were seen collecting evidence, ineluding dusting for fingerprints on a nearby telephone booth. Police also removed some of the booth’s contents, including a telephone book. The booth was stained with blood and a large pool of dried blood had collected on the floor. Police also marked out a route that appeared to connect the man’s motel room to the telephone booth. Another resident of the motel said he didn’t know anything about the death FOREST FIRES MOTEL ROOM . . . Castlegar Motel unit where man was found dead early Saturday morning. until he returned home from fishing Saturday afternoon. John Stooshnoff, 75, lives in a motel room just a few doors away from Harshenin's room. “I never heard nothing,” Stooshnoff told the Castlegar News. “I went to bed Officials fear By CasNews Staff and News Services Forests Ministry officials fear this year could be a repeat of the disastrous 1985 forest fire season, when British Columbia spent a record $127 million fighting fires. Some 3,500 blazes that year des troyed 241,000 hectares of forest — an area about half the size of Prince Edward Island in a province where forestry is the primary industry. “The situation this year — the dry. ness, lack of snowpack, and relative humidity — is about as bad if not worse than 1985,” forests service the blazes, however, no heavy equip- ment is being used. The forest service was concerned about a lightning storm forecast for Thursday night, Evans said. But the storm never really materialized. “It didn't really result in a lot of fires,” Evans said. The majority of lightning activity was between Castlegar and Nelson, he added. Air tankers spent most of Thursday evening dousing the lightning strikes near Nakusp, Evans said. Three fire- cats, one DC-6 and a “birddog” spotter plane are d at the Castlegar Ken Lines said in Victoria. As 437 fires burned across the pro vince, and firefighters gained control of the worst blaze covering 1,800 hectares near Penticton in the Okanagan Valley, the fire hazard rating remained ex treme in the Prince Rupert, Prince George, Cariboo and Kamloops forest regions, and high in the Nelson region. Even though cloudy, cooler weather has replaced the heat wave of the past several days, campfires are banned throughout the Cariboo and parts of the Kamloops and Nelson regions for the first time since 1985. “The ban is on open fires,” Lines added. “It does not include camp stoves.” There is no ban yet in the Arrow Forest District. To date, there have been 1,298 forest fires in B.C. compared with 1,400 during the corresponding 1985 period But the area burned is about one-tenth the 132,000 hectares consumed two years ago. Lines noted, however, August are traditionally months for forest fires. In Castlegar, forests service spokes man Ted Evans said seven fires are burning in the Arrow Forest District — six near Nakusp and one in the southern part of the district. “They're all contained,” Evans said, and none is “major A total of 27 firefighters are battling July and the worst Airport air tanker base. FOCUS SHIFTS Weary firefighters hired by the gov ernment gained the upper hand Friday on British Columbia's largest forest fire this year, while the action shifted to —ConewsPhoto about 11 o'clock (Friday night). I was up at 4:30, but never left until 7 o'clock this morning to go fishing. There was nothing there.” Stooshnoff said he returned home Saturday afternoon to find police continued on poge A2 worst the Prince George region from the Okanagan. About 100 of the 150 firefighters were mopping up after the 1,800-hec tare fire 10 kilometres southwest of Penticton was brought under control. The fire, believed started last Sun. day by a careless smoker, suddenly doubled in size from 730 hectares during the Canada Day holiday, coming within 30 metres of one of the homes at St.-Andrews-By-The-Lake and within 500 metres of houses at Twin Lakes. Residents at St. Andrews — most of whom have cedar shingle roofs — hosed down their homes to prevent fires from flying sparks, said local volunteer fire chief Stan Knowles. None of the homes were damaged, and there were no injuries. “The action seems to have shifted to continued on poge A2 By CasNews Staff Westar Timber’s Southern Forest Products ratified an agreement last week with the International Wood. workers of America that would see the present contract extended for one year The extension, until June 30, 1988, provides for a wage increase of 40 cents per hour. The contract affects more than 250 workers in both Castlegar and Nakusp. Klaus Offerman, business agent with the IWA Local 1-405, said the union only wanted a one-year contract to synchronize it with the expiry dates of most collective sat ls throug ag B.C He said the new contract, which only took one day to conclude, retains such things as full retire ments benefits at age 60, optional WESTAR, IWA SIGN ONE-YEAR CONTRACT early retirement at 65 and full pro- tection against the contentious con. tracting-out issue which ground IWA operations across the province to a halt for more than four months last year. “This gives us good protection against contracting out,” Offermann told the Castlegar News Friday. “It doesn't take care of past problems but it addresses present and future ones.” Offermann said the ease with which the agreement was concluded is a good sign “I think the employer has made a good recovery from the recession that all our mills went through,” said Offermann. “They want to keep operating,” he said. “They want to have the security of an agreement and the peace of mind that comes with it.”