high pressure is in the process of bu’ @ drier tow of air to southern B.C., and temperatures will ‘over the province. That will bring very slowly. This pattern will con- tine through Friday, with a mixture of cloud and sun with little if any precipitation. Indian leaders reported safe ‘Hot’ edict upheld yancouven (CP) — The B.C. Court of Appeal bee baggage handlers and flight attendants. The Nov. . 20. of the ban on handling of advertising copy cancellation of ad bookings valued in excess of according to the judgment. Because the labor dispute at PWA is governed by federal law, the court ruled the B.C. Labor Relations Board contractual right in their agreement with the employer. PWA's argument that it should be granted an injunction on “the balance of ” also was The federation and the unions were awarded their costs for both the appeal and the original chambers application. PICKETS APPEAR The PWA dispute continued on another front today Burnahy and about 700 telephone workers wore off th jo, got an that sliintlonen atten choeied cha tee ditian eotene beans protesting work being performed on the PWA telephone reservation system. TERRY FOX MEDAL ED T HANSEN liam Saywell on behalf of her brother, said ce pend was very special to Rick. “Terry meant a lot to him and he got a lot of inspiration from Terry,” she said. “He (Rick) is very appreciative of at pe erm to turn his dream into reality,” he said. “The Terry Fox medal brings back to me wonderful memories of the times Terry and I spent together and makes home seem very close.” Betty and Roland Fox were guests of honor at the medal presentation cer- AT YOUR COMMUNITY FOOD STORE — Central Food Mart ~ emony. Biaoress have passed the $500,000 mark. to Hansen's wheelchair a Miskito village near the Atlantic coaast, and four civilians were reported kill- ed. “The timing of this new military offensive suggests that it is intended to caputre or kill Brooklyn Rivera and a delegation of North Ameri- cans travelling with him,” the letter said. ‘There was no response to the letter from the Nicara- guan Embassy in Washing- ton, Wiggins said. Centre officials said the Mi RY ANNOUNCEMENT Watershed group upset By CasNews Staff SVWA says that a Nov. 4 letter from Ken - Arnett, Arrow forest district mana- ger, to the village of Slocan states that the Forests Min- The work d line to Winnipeg. Under the aystem, BC. residents calling the airline would automatically be rerouted to a reservation agent in Winnipeg. resume this week in Calgary. Ticket agents and ramp workers, represented by the United Auto Workers of Canada, have agreed toa tentative settlement. but flight d: have not settled. The three unions say they will not return to work until all have agreements. The airline, the third-largest carrier in Canada, has continued to fly since the strike began. Storms kill LONDON (AP) — Severe winter storms sweeping southern Europe and Turkey with heavy snow, torrential rains and wind killed 43 people, downed power and hone lines, blocked been killed Tuesday. One of the dead was a pregnant ‘woman who left her home on foot to reach the local health centre to give birth, the re ports said. The three others were killed by avalanches. “The temperatures here are going to go very low by British “But the winds heading for us from Siberia could be the real problem,” it said. The winds could drive wind chill factors to -19. In Italy, three men were found crushed to death after an avalanche buried their van at a high pass in the Dolomite Mountains. Rescuers also discovered the frozen body of a 25-year- old man in his snow-covered Royalty * arrive . April 30 VICTORIA (CP) — Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, will be greeted in front of the provincial legis- lature on April 30 at the start of their visit to British Col- umbia, Premier Bill Bennett said Tuesday. The royal couple will visit the 43 people car on the Valles pass near the northern city of Trento, raising the total of weather- ees ic enue. from the Rhone Valley to the Pyrenees. About 64,000 electricity clients in southwest France were blacked out officials said, and 1,500 workers — including 100 soldiers of the elite Chasseurs Alpine moun- tain regiment — were brought in to help with relief operations. In D an Italian rains and heavy snow caused hundreds of millions of dol- lars in damage along the Ital- , ian peninsula. The sun came out over many areas of Italy on Tues- day, and floodwaters were receding from Venice's can- als. Tides there had reached their third-highest level of the century, 1.6 metres. The century's: worst flood was about 1.8 metres in 1966. .” said the weather office in London. “Low pressure currently forming over the Baltic will bring snow. ing day, then sail from Vancouver Is- land to the mainland on the flagship of the B.C. Ferries sleet, the Queen of the North. d snow fell over many mountain areas, and French authorities continued a state of emergency in four southern regions stretching LEAR NING continued trom front poge As well, the committee surveyed parents, teachers and administrgtors about learning assistance. The committee's report notes that of. eight administrators who returned questionnaires, all said in-service train ing is inadequate to meet the needs of assistance personnel. As well, six of the eight adminis trators said actual instruction time is insufficient to meet students’ needs and the number of learning assistance teachers in the district is not adequate. meet the needs of teachers and stu- dents.” Of the 54 parents or guardians who positive” assistance program and 79 per cent said the instructional program is ade- quate for their child. Seventy-six per cent of the respon. dents said they are satisfied with the progress made by their children in the programs. However, 53 per cent of parents said they were not asked to contribute teachers who resp to the committee's survey said “time con straints appear to restrict the ability of the (learning assistance) programs to i during of their child and 46 per cent said they were not informed about the on-going progress made by their child. alpine city of 20,000 on the Swiss border, about 200 fam- the threat to their homes by avalanches. talks to continue PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Representatives of the Can- adian atid U.S. governments are scheduled to meet in this central British Columbia city Feb. 12-14 to continue trade talks on lumber. The Canadian delegation, led by Percy Eastham, dir- ector-general of the U.S. Re- lations Bureau, will meet with officials of the Office of the U.S. Trade Represen- tative to continue discussions started last month in San Diego, Alan Sinclair, spokes- man for the Council of Forest Industries confirmed Tues- day. U.S. producers have called for tariffs on cheaper Can- adian lumber being imported into the United States. Sinclair said it is expected the delegations will take field trips to see logging and mill- ing operations here. Issues expected to be dis- trip was designed to give the foreign Indian leaders a chance to meet Miskito In- dians and understand their demands that an autonomous Indian territory be estab- lished in Nicaragua. January warm and wet By CasNews Staff It wasn't quite beach wea- ther, but January in Castle- gar was warmer than normal by about three degrees. But the mild the contents of Arnett’s let- ter at the Jan. 25 meeting of agreement signed by repre- sentatives of the Ministry of Forests, Ministry of Environ- ment and the SVWA in which it was stated that a cutting “To date, this hasn't hap- pened,” the release says. It adds that John Ander- son, a Silverton alderman Dayton Creek cutting per- mit, Anderson said, “it's the water consumers who should have the last say.” Arnett was unavailable for comment. A spokesman at the Arrow district office in Castlegar said he was not due back at the office until Mon- day. For the last five years, the SVWA has been involved in efforts to resolve the prob- lem of protectint Slocan Val- - ley water supplies while ities of the government at the RDCK meeting. “For proper land-use man agement, you've got to state your priorities and you've got nderson - to stick to them,” Ai lation of a memorandum of said. “In domestic-use water- sheds, it goes without saying that water is top priority.” Referring to the proposed allowing resource develop- ment, the release says. tention to issue a cutting permit in Dayton Creek, the SVWA has suspended negoti- ations that began last April with the forests and environ: ment ministries. Funding for education? VICTORIA (CP) — Pre- mier Bill Bennett appears to be preparing to shift public attention away from his cab- inet troubles to the of an improved British Col- umbia economy in the year of Expo 86. Government officials are The warm and wet wea- ther was caused by a ridge of high pressure moving slowly inland followed by a number of weak Pacific disturbances, says the monthly weather ature for January was -0.5. Normal for the month is -3.7. The mean maximum tem- perature was 1.8 and the mean minimum was -2.8. Both are well-above the nor- mal maximum and minimum daily values and dividing by the number of days recorded. Maximum temperatures of 10 and 20 on two consecutive Rainfall for January amounted to 25.0 mm, slight- ly above the normal 20.1 mm. The weather office at the Castlegar airport recorded 61.6 em of snow, 10.4 cm below the normal accumula- tion of 72.0 em for January. However, the snow that fell during the month ac- counts for almost half the snow that has fallen this win- terr, the report says. Total precipitation for the month was 79.1 mm. Normal for January is 76.7 mm. The highest temperature bama! recorded during January was 7.7 on the 19th. The coldest ments assess royalties on timber cut — in the two countries. ded was 9.0 on Jan. 8. Sunshine for the month was 35.7 hours, down 5.8 hours from the normal 41.5 hours. of a snap election call before Bennett appears on tele vision at 7:30 on BCTV to night with a taped message. Details of the speech are being kept secret, but the government has been expec- ted for several weeks to an- mounce more funding for education. Opinion polls have shown that many British Colum- bians think the Social Credit government has provided too little money for education. Changes could also be on the way for the Compensa- tion Stabilization Program, set up in 1982 to control Gov't recalls bon found to contain high levels of the chemical ethyl ‘The program was modified in November 1984 to reflect changes in the economy, and could be changed again to take into account recent economic developments. The speech comes at a time when several members of his cabinet have been embroiled in controversy. Tom Waterland resigned last month as forests minis- ter over conflict-of-interest d " Bennett has rejected sim- ilar allegations against En- ergy Minister Stephen Rog- ers and Finance Minister Hugh Curtis, but Rogers is being investigated. for com- pliance with legislation re- quiring elected members to disclose personal invest- ments accurately. CALLED AS WITNESS In addition, Health Min- ister Jim Nielsen was beaten by the estranged husband of a woman he was visiting, and Industry Minister Bob Mc- Clelland was called as a de- fence witness in a court case which convicted the operator not expected to dwell on his cabinet problems. His television chat is ex- pected to be optimistic, as was the talk he delivered Tuesday to businessmen about high “This is going to be the biggest, most exciting event that most of us will ever see: And we will have the world on our doorstep.” The premier is likely to make another push for freer trade with the United States im his televised address. “I do not agree with those who are fearful of expanded trade markets and a new agreement with the U.S., be- cause our products have al- ready proven we can do it,” Bennett said. If the province made the most of trading opportunities anid the economic spinoffs of the world’s fair, he said, “British Columbia's greatest years will be beyond Expo it- self.” The fair opens in Van- couver on May 2. The last time Bennett went on provincewide television was nearly a year ago and he outlined planned tax breaks and other government moves for a “partnership for econ- omic renewal” with the pri- vate sector. The address was widely which came several weeks later. The premier could make similar announcements this time and possibly reveal a recall date for the legislature, Police file A single-vehicle accident Sunday evening sent a Cal- Stuart Gibbon was driving a 1975 Ford pick-up with camper when the vehicle left the road at 9:15 p.m. about six kilometres east of Castle- gar on the Castlegar-Salmo highway, police say. . 8 «8 Earlier Sunday, a two-car collision resulted in $1,600 damage to the vehicles. Castlegar RCMP say a 1982 Buick driven by Peter Zeeben of Castlegar pulled out of a parking lot on Col umbia Avenue and was in collision with a 1978 Chrysier driven by Nadine Stefoniuk, FIRST SNOW . . . 10-year-old Elizabeth Sisson of Brisbane, Queensiand, Australio, saw her first snow here this morning. The camera caught her as she prepared to throw first snowball oe — her father. Elizabeth thought the snow looked lik: ss News TREET TALK THE CHAD MITCHELL TRIO, the 1960s folk group best known for singing satirical songs such as The John Birch Society and Barry's Boys, has reunited for the first time since 1965. The occasion has interest for local residents because one of those originals, Mike Kebluk, was a Trail lad. The group started out in Spokane where Kobluk, Mitchell and the white sand beaches back home! Don Sisson, is @ speech writer in the office of the premier of the State of Q He and days letters “come and go” could be recorded: But the most important aspect of the card was a little table listing 20 points against which the contents of letters could be measured. (In fact, an added practical aspect of the cards was a three-inch ruler along the top with the admonition: “Measure Up Your Letters Home”). With young people leaving the parental nest in increasingly larger numbers today to seek employment and education elsewhere, perhaps parents might consider marking the appropriate phrases on those 40-plus-years- old ecards and giving them to their young adults‘as they set out in the world: “A — The Cheerful Start Joe Frazier were di at G In 1965 Chad Mitchell left the trio to continue as a single so the group took the name Mitchell Trio and the fellow who joined them, Jehn Denver, became pretty famous in his own right. The original threesome made their dramatic surprise appearance a week ago Saturday at a gala concert in Washington, D.C. They said afterwards they might think about doing a limited tour or a live reunion album, but no permanent reunion is planned. Mike Kobluk is director/manager for the City of Spokane of the Spokane Opera House, the city's convention centre, the coliseum and Albi Stadium. His brother, Joe, is marketing manager for Kootenay Savings Credit Union while his parents, Peter and Pauline, still live in Trail and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary two years ago. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE the more they are the same... During the Second World War, Canadian soldiers serving in Europe were provided by their chaplains with a small card to keep in their paybooks. As well as advising those carrying them to “remember to pray for your loved ones,” the card had a calendar on which the 1. Ci at time of writing. Thanks for gifts. (Be specific.) Answers to letters. (Have them there.) Greetings — Birthdays — Anniversaries, ete. — News ‘A word about your pals (no gossip). Wisecracks and jokes. (Sterilized.) Interesting places you have been — on leave. Some people you have met. Remarks on news from home. Your entertainment lately — shows, etc. The general war situation. — REQUESTS . Information wantéd of family, business, etc. . What the next parcel might contain. — PLANS, HOPES AND AMBITIONS . Concerning your duties and rank. . The next leave. When you return home. E — THE ENDING 17. Some praise for someone. 18. A reference to a lovely memory. 19. Love. 20. Never end without a ‘God Bless You.’ BRESRROSSeenaa wee Ottawa holds memorial for crew OTTAWA - seven killed in last week's U.S. space shuttle explosion were bright, “ener. getic people who believed in living life to the fullest with no regrets,” Canadian astro- naut Mare Garneau said at an (CP) z later. a visibly upset U.S. Thomas Niles told the congregation that the shuttle tragedy had been You Geto Sense of Secur De Business With A Leader! KEN F. BABAKAIFF cal and said the shuttle pro- gram is the first step in travel to other solar systems. “They carry out g ing: with them as mankind awk wardly breaks free of Earth's gravity, if only to soar a few masrepetemn eaty Sante Sy So SALESMAN OF THE MONTH We would like to congratulate MICK ELLIS on being our top sales producer for the month of January, 1986. Thank you, Mick, for your great effort! 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