C6, How. to. stop those’ starlings VANCOUVER (CP) — PUt a starling in ‘a burlap bag, shake him around a bit, make a tape of his distress .call, play: it at night to, thousands CASTLEGAR NEWS; duly, 21,9982 ‘Telephone 365-5210. of - roosting near your blueberry crop and you |, just might‘scare the squawk out ofthe starlings and Save, your. blueberries... / That's. one ‘recipe’ Wayne Weber proposes in an effort to rescue : beleaguered’ Van: couver area ‘farmers ‘whose blueberry crops are . being ravaged by the starling raid: ers.’ ‘DUNWOODY “&.C0. Chartered ccountants. Weber, 34, is the first» AS full-time bird control special- ist ever appointed to the crop *' protection branch of the pro-- vincial Agriculture Ministry. “The idea is to scare’ the starlings out of their roosting area,” Weber said. “They're doing heavy damage to the blueberry crops.” Another idea he's going to tryisa Japanese-made mech: ‘ anical hawk.! “Starlings are terrified of hawks,” said Weber. “You rig up the mechanical bird on a ’ wire between two poles and it will move back and forth and seem to flap its wings. It was sent over from Japan as a demonstrator model before . Istarted-the job in June. and we're about to do some tests to'see how well it-works.”:* He said starlings are: the: most serious problem,” par- ticularly ‘in, the blueberry, - season, but crows and water- fowl can also-be foes of far- me the worst comes to the worst, few people would be disturbed: if we had to Lev a few -starlings or crows” protect ‘the crops,” Wave! said. “They're ‘not protected species and the Lower Main- land. is ‘overpopulated with them.” On the other ‘hand, ducks and other waterfowl are pro- tected, but they too present a problem to farmers in grain- growing ‘areas such as the Peace River. :4It's a case of one resource, the ducks, eating another re- source, the crops,” Weber said. “It’s going to be a diffi- cult problem to solve.” : Bridge results Inthe Joy Keillor Bridge Club July 12, 8/2 tables were in play with the following re- sults: $ oe Nerth-South The average was 84 as Ben Gaboury and. 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Th Saturday's s annual ‘Ss the ‘overall Kk Off'and:runni ing are athe 7 ‘ompetitors = flower Run. Roger Pratt of Nelson, was iF inner and-captured the men's masters category as well. ~Catentha by Chay Walon ONCE BITTEN By Dianne Strandberg Staff Writers «|: ‘To some, the dog may be; to those’ stalwart men-and fend. them’-off- every! day while delivering, the: mail.;; have been bitten-since mail service was established in the area in 1973, :the local & office: reports..°; <).' man's best friend. But.not: women in blue who have.to:-= -In Castlegar, 84 postmen ~ 1 Black Labrador. He's been bitten nist once | in nine yea That's about four bites ae year. But many, more inci- dents have likely. gone un: reported, ‘says letter car-'- rier‘supervisor Art Wiebe. And. Wiebe = says: ‘he knows of one postman who has - been’: bitten seven times. (: f uSVery. ‘often it's ‘@ little nip that involves a tetanus shot,” he says,:adding that tetanus’ shots) last.. about esitlewnPhote by Oione 9 Sirondoerg Man’ s best friend ? five years. Although Wiebe ‘under- stands that dogs must have some freedom, he cautions that | they ‘should ‘be ‘kept* under control-when a post- man’ is in the area.’If a postman is harassed, mail - service could be suspended cand (the dog’s owners will have to pick up, their mail atthe post office. ‘continued Az Continued on page AZ = 400 dead in landslides ‘A“series’ of: staal’: forest 3 ‘which broke: out near Casino, about 20'km, south of control just hours after then began. late Wednesday. ae ‘Forestry Service spokes- man’ reported ‘Thursday that |: “about! 16” *men- put’ out ‘the * fires, contained within'a'four- ‘vaere‘expense of ‘land, which * began when ‘the cross arm of © a power pole broke dropping ‘a live wire onto the ground. ‘The spokeaman said teams Tot men from’ B.C. Forestry . Service and West Kootenay Power and Light drove four- wheel drive trucks’ with tankers over rough terrain to get to the scerie of the fires. ‘The ‘forest fire hazard warning for the area south to the Pend d’Oreille Valley and North to Fauquier: is’'from ‘moderate’ to low. Meanwhile, rain and below average ‘temperatures have reduced the number of forest fires burning in the province but: there are still twice as many fires as there were last year, ‘said the | B.C. Forest Service. Provincial duty officer Ted England said ‘Friday the number of active fires drop- ped this week to 121 from 166. England said ‘the ‘Forest Ministry reported 1,516 fires and “an ‘estimated "127,800 hectares (828,155. acres) burned to date | this. year -compared with the 704 fires and 9,980'‘hectares (24,661 acres) in.1981..° ‘The costs of fighting the . fires is up to $25.6. million from the'1981 figure ‘of $8.5 million, ‘ England said the majority, ‘of fires were burning in’ the Prince George. and - Prince Rupert regions, ‘120. people, ij 63, 216 ‘missing and th homeless by official count. . - Police said more than 6,000 -end’ of; a slong drought, -dumped 41 to 56 centimetres *Prail, were brought: under ~ ‘The ‘elty hardest hit was Nagasal the Port where an falling Friday, suddenly. changed into a downpour,” one sur- vivor said. “It was like some- one had turned over endless barrels ‘of. water.” a drought. te The Kyushu got'a season's * worth of precipitation in one storm: Prior to Friday, water was .being, rationed ‘in some parts of the island. because of A lorie of that ‘asputade: ai is capable, of :.widespread, followed « ‘the ‘large one and:” ied shocks, the agency said: The Richter scale is a air' and rail transportation and some areas were without “electricity, ‘gas, ‘water and telephone service Friday and Saturday. said more than 30 centi- ‘metres ‘of .rain’ fell in the ‘Nagasaki area during a single three-hour period. Early. Saturday, police said waist-high streams of muddy water were still surging through parts of the city. Casualty figures from other areas included seven dead in Oita Prefecture, four in Tokyo, the Central Meteorological Agen- cy recorded. 11 earthquakes between late’ Friday. and Saturday. i The first, with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale, jolted Hokkaido, the north- ernmost main island, and eastern Honshu just: before midnight Friday night, local time. x measure of ground motion as’ ” dedion hs’: - Every increase of one num-' ber means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger that one of. 6.5. An earthquake of 3.6 on” : the Richter scale’ can: cause slight damage in the local’ -area, 4 moderate damage, 5. considerable damage, 6.sev- ere damage. A 7 reading is a: “major” earthquake, capable . of widespread’ heavy. dam-~. age; 8 is a “great” quake," capable of tremendous dam-_ age. Restraint appeal made Johnston ‘appealed. to: the Canadian Construction: Asso- ciation on’ Saturday.‘ to.join the federal government's cru-. ‘sade against large wage. in- ‘eréases and ‘help * pall the : \eountry ‘out of: the recession. Johnston: challenged dele- gates to the © association's annual meeting to adhere to federal wage restraints of six per cent this year and five {per cent, in 1988. “In asking this of you, I 2m of course aware that the con- struction : industry's’ recent record ‘on’ negotiated pay settlements has been hardly exemplary,” he said. Meanwhile, while Johnston and about 500 del more:to the cost, he said. The federal subsidy on housing announced in the, June 28 budget barely covers the amount of pay. creases lead to a corres- ponding inflation level, he said, noting. when people ‘grasp that point it’s easy { to them that somehow this ‘catching up’ process has no. inflationary . impact,” he said. Johnston said current in- in excess of the targets -government has ‘established, he said. “What do you think our re- action is when we subsidize capital projects’ to generate construction employment, “and then see the costs rise to cover wage increases of 15 “per cent or 50? RECOGNIZES PROBLEMS He said he recognizes the special problems the industry faces because of the: frag- mented bargaining process among the various trades and because of the provincial to i f is in their long-term interest. “We have been slaves for “too long to the ridiculous notion that we are entitled to pay increases equal to the rate of the inflation — that terest-rate levels have been . described by almost every- one in the construction indus- try as a principal obstacle to the industry's recovery, but he didn't offer any hope the © rates will drop substantially. Iran and iraq still fighting AP-Reuters Tran erred Saturday’ to lunched on cold cuts, about 60 members of the Public Ser- vice Alliance of Canada held a demonstration against wage controls ‘outside, the down- town hotel. Johnston said raises for electricians, carpenters and” roofers in Ontario have been in the'range of $2 an hour for each of the next two years and even higher in Alberta. of construction unions. “What continues to sur- prise me, however, is the inability of the construction industry to co-ordinate man- agement’s bargaining ap- proach... I would hope that your response.to our call for wage restraint will produce a tougher Management pos- ture.” Federal officials are on- d there is a: much If of 8 house is d to be o1 of labor, that adds $4,000 or broader i of ‘how. 12-per-cent®' wage. in- iation by Algeria in its war with Iraq but only on Iranian terms, and both sides claimed victory in renewed fighting around the southern Iraqi port of Basra. “We said we accept medi- ation as long as it functions in the direction of our terms for ending the war,” Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hassein Musavi told Tehran radio after meeting with Iranian leader Ayatollah. Ruhollah Khomeini. There was no -immediate reaction from Iraq to the. Iranian announcement, But an Iraqi military com- munique said its forces crush- ed an attempted Iranian ad- ‘vance into Iraq near the strategic Iraqi oil port of Basra, 24 kilometres west of . the frontier, and killed 2,500 Iranian soldiers. Meanwhile, former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani- Sadr told a Paris newspaper the conflict could benefit only the United States and Israel. Musavi reported to the 82- year-old Khomeini on the re- continued on poge A2 _