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different set of procedural
bylaws be because
he said it’s not clear how the
board is run.

But trustee Rick Pon-

gracz’ suggestion that the
board adopt the sample set of
bylaws recommended by the
B.C. School Trustees’ Asso-
ciation was narrowly defeat-
ed.

Pongracz was newly elec-
ted to the board last fall with
trustees Kay Johnson and
Gordon Turner. He said one
of his “concerns since coming
to the board has been ac-
enuntability,” and set bylaws

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However, trustee George
A in di 4.

Trustee recommends
new procedural bylaws

saying the formal meeting

greed.

“I don't see where our
board has not functioned, or
needs any bylaws to tie itself
down as to how it operates,”
said Anutooshkin, adding
that the board “operates
right now without any prob-
lems.”

According to Anutooshkin,
the board follows Bourinot's
Rules of Order as guidelines.

Johnson said she’s asked
about board policy “a dozen
times” during the past two or
three months and “the board
doesn’t have it.”

Trustee Lovette Nichvolo-
doff attacked the suggestion
to adopt BCSTA bylaws,

dictated by the
bylaws would hinder the
board from freely discussing
issues “back and forth.”

The motion was defeated
four to three, with trustees
Anutooshkin, Nichvolodoff,
Linda Krull and board chair-
man Doreen Smecher voting
against.

Johnson said in an inter-
view that the BCSTA sample
set of bylaws “set down how
the business of the school
district should be run.”

“I'm constantly asking,
‘What is the policy?’ The an-
» we don't have one.

And it's frustrating. ~

Nelson pro-life group
protests abortions

By CasNews Staff

A Nelson pro-life group
staged a vigil for several
hours Thursday evening out-
side the Castlegar and Dis-
trict Hospital to protest

abortions performed at the
hospital.

Seven members of Nelson
Future Life — including a
pregnant woman and a
woman wearing a sweatshirt
with the words “Choose Life”
— handed out leaflets in the
rain to passersby and hos-
pital visitors.

The leaflets said, “Castle-
gar and Distriet Hospital has
abortion equipment for kill-

DOUKHOBORS

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Cran said the Sons of Freedom

ing unborn children. Please
do not allow your silence to
condone the killing.”

The leaflets also contained
a pamphlet printed by the
Right to Life Association of
Toronto, and a membership
form for Nelson Future Life.

The form says Nelson
future life is committed to
“the protection and enhance
ment of human life (human
life being defined as begin
ning at conception and end-
ing at death).”

Gwen Cavanaugh, secre-
tary for Nelson Future LIfe,
said the group is “surveying”
area hospitals to obtain 1984

statistics on birth and abor-
tion rates.

She said the group held a
vigil outside Kootenay Lake
District Hospital in Nelson on
April 4. That hospital per-
formed 94 abortions and had
307 live births in 1984,
Cavanaugh said.

She said she spoke with
Castlegar hospital adminstra-
tor Ken Talarico who prom-
ised to give her statistics on
the hospital's abortions in
1984. She hadn't received the
information by Saturday af-
ternoon.

Asked why a Nelson anti-
abortion group is holding a

vigil in Castlegar, Cavanaugh
replied that the Castlegar
hospital performed abortions
for Kootenay Lake hospital
while the Nelson hospital's
suction equipment was being
replaced.

As well, she said there isn't
a pro-life group in Castlegar,
though she added, “There are
a lot of pro-life people here.
They just haven't had a nu-
cleus” to get si

Cavanaugh also said she
may contact the local doctors
and ask them to see the pro
life video Silent Scream. Nel-
son doctors have already
seen the video, she said.

“We see it as just a beginni We
see it as a good start,”

Cran

in an interview that

he said.

there's “a belief amongst the Doukho-

April 21, 1985

Community
Castlegor
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On the positive side, Stevens said the Castlegar
RCMP detachment's “solve rate” on crimes was up in
1984, although again he didn't have any figures.

And Stevens said community involvement in groups
that fight crime such as Neighborhood Watch and Block
Parents has increased over the past few years.

the “Ministry of the Attorney

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withdrew from the talks and declined
to sign the accord because houses be-
longing to their members in Krestova
and Goose Creek were burned in arson
attacks last year

“They see themselves as being vic.
tims because there are no answers as
to why, because there are no people
charged with the offence,” said Cran.
The unsolved arsons made the Sons of
Freedom “uncomfortable” and “they
wanted to make it clear that’s why they
were pulling out.”

But Cran said he was “pleased” with
the accord, which followed three days
of KCIR talks in Castlegar this week.

AVALANCHE

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Peter Tatham, owner of Canadian
Powder Guides, who was present
during the avalanche, pointed out that
heli-skiing is a hazardous sport.

Ta hire ia obvioqpaly Mbe, dapggr of ,
avalanghes,” be said: “Drastic, terrain
changes, freé@s on the KS" on
the slope, variable snow conditions.
The list is relatively endless.”

Tatham said the company recom.
mends that skiers should “have a

level of an ad d inter

The accord states that:

¢ all undersigned Doukhobor groups
condemn “bombings and arson of the
past, present and future; that each of
the groups will to the best of their abil
ity try to deter those who wish to
continue in acts of violence;”

e and that the groups agree to
participate in ongoing KCIR talks.

As well, John J. Verigin, honorary
chairman of the orthodox Doukhobors,
signed a declaration that states he “will
not curse anybody to commit acts of
violence, and he will not instruct or
counsel anybody to commit criminal
acts, such as arson and bombings,”
according to a press release from Cran.

bors that the leaders have the ability to
curse their members.”

The release says Verigin also signed
a separate statement saying “he never
at any time used curses for any
purpose whatsoever, and that, in his
view, the concept of curses is totally
alien to Doukhobor philosophy.”

Cran said talks between the groups
will resume in June, although he
doesn't know whether the Sons of
Freedom will participate.

The “key issue” will be further dis-
cussions on a CP Rail explosion in 1924
which killed then Doukhobor leader
Peter (Lordly) Verigin.

between 2 p.m. on the 28th, when the
snow profile was taken, and 10 a.m. on
the 29th, when the accident occurred.

Tatham agreed that “given the
appropriate conditions” the snow stab-
dlity ¢ould have changed, but added
that the weather “didn't change very
fhueh” overnight.

McKichan said the snow profile
taken Dec. 28 “did not really show any
weak layers — no sign of any great
instability.”

mediate skier.” He said before being
helicoptered to a run, skiers are given
comprehensive briefings on safety pro-
cedures, and the use of avalanche
beacons — portable radio transmitters
which emit a signal allowing quick re-
covery of a skier caught in an aval.
anche.

Tatham — who has been a heli-ski
guide for seven years and has a Level 2
course in avalanche training from BCIT
— said the skiers had completed
analysis of the snow called a “snow
profile” on Dec. 28, but not Dec. 29,
when the avalanche occurred.

Based on the snow profile — which
offers information on snow stability
based on factors such as crystal struc.
ture and size — Tatham said a con.
sensus was reached that “the snow
looked pretty good.” The test was car.
ried out by Melatini and Dean Walton
— both apprentice guides — under the
direction of Tatham.

The test wasn't repeated the next
day because “there had been virtually
no change in the snow conditions over.
night,” Tatham said.

“I didn't feel we were going to
encounter any problems on that slope,”
he said. “Certainly, if I had any appre.
hension about the slope, I would have
guided that section of the slope my.
self.”

Later during the inqiest Keith Ken
dall, Elzinga's uncle, asked if there
might have been a change in conditions

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. MeKichan pointed out that
the area where Melatini made his three
ski cuts wasn’t involved in the aval-
anche. He said, “My understanding is
the situation where you would be lead-
ing down people you would ski cut the
entire slope.” He added, however, that
this is “strictly a judgment call” on the
part of the guides.

Don Vockeroth, who owns a heli-ski
company and has 25 years’ experience
in avalanche predictions, didn’t agree.

“[do not believe in going all the way
to the bottom,” he testified. “You may
cut a longer line at the top. But I do not
believe you have to go all the way to
the bottom.”

Dean Walton, an eyewitness to the
snowslide, described what h

)

“I kicked off my skiis . . and immedi-

ately began to dig,” he said. “I un-

covered Jeff Elzinga’s left boot, I
think.”

According to Tatham, there was a
gash on Elzinga’s forehead, but he
wasn't bleeding. The buried skier
wasn't breathing and there was no
pulse, he said.

Elzinga was found in three to five

Castlegar and District Hospital within
30 minutes, where they were pro
nounced dead on arrival.

Tatham estimated the slide as being
27 to 30 metres across at the top, and
about 90 metres across at the base. It
was about 50 to 75 centimetres deep,
he said.

Ironically, McKichan said the aval-
anche was “quite small” as far as
mountain snowslides go. “The only
reason it is significant here it because
two people ended up dying in it.”

Asked if he'd do anything renee
given the chance, Tatham said he'd“.

t in our

after Melatini signalled for Elzinga to
ski down to him.

“Just as Jeffrey Elzinga approached
Peter Melatini, he was I would say 20
feet above him. It looked like he was
falling or caught on a tip. At that point
I realized he was sliding.”

Walton described it as “an airborn
avalanche” and said he heard the sound
of snow moving through the trees.

Tatham and Felix Belezyk — a
Castlegar native who is also a member
of the Canadian National Ski Team —
were two of the first skiers to reach
Elzinga and Melatini.

Tatham said he skied down the slope
making wide traverses until he picked
up a signal on his electronic beacon.

another way to test snow stability.

“It's a great expense to the operator,
but it’s something I rather not do
without,” he said. However, Tatham
said he couldn't judge whether the use
of explosive charges would have led to
the avoidance of the ski accident.

McKichan said explosives aren't
used often in ski operations because of
potential liability in case of an accident
involving the public.

Rossland coronor Dr. William T.
Armstrong, presiding over the inquest,
said Melatini died of suffocation, while
Elzinga died due to a “massive hem-
morage” caused by a chest injury.

Tests for alcohol and marijuana use
prior to the accident proved negative,
Armstrong said.

Home destroyed

An early morning fire
Monday destroyed a home

north of Burton.

a.m. and smelled smoke. He
put his hand on the door of
the room where the heater

BRIEFLY
MOVING PCB

KENORA, ONT. (CP) — Officials have 4 new plan
to move a transformer that leaked toxic PCBs onto the
Trans-Canada Highway in northwestern Ontario a
week ago, but they say the contaminated equipment
will have to stay where it is until at least the middle of
the week.

Ontario Ministry Gor-
don Van Fleet said Saturday if the plan is approved,
the electrical transformer will be lifted off its flat-bed
truck and loaded onto another truck provided by the
Edmonton company that was slated to receive the
hazardous load.

The transformer will sit on a drip pan on the new
truck, covered by a rubberized tarpaulin, Van Fleet
said.

RAIL PACT MADE

VANCOUVER (CP) — Native Indians and CN
Rail have reached an agreement that will allow the
railway to proceed with the double-tracking of its line
along a 16-kilometre stretch near Ashcroft.

Last week, Indians halted work on that section of
the $500-million project that will put a segond track
along the 1,200-kilometre stretch from jonton to
Vancouver. The track will go through apptgximately
70 Indian reserves.

GOV'T SLAMMED

VANCOUVER (CP) — Government involvement
in the forest industry came under fire during the
annual meeting of the Council of Forest Industries of
British Columbia.

B.C. forest industry representatives slammed the
federal government for its part in providing a
$150-million, 10-year interest-free loan to a Domtar
paper mill in Quebec.

Ron fife i i of Can-
adian Parent Products Ltd., said the Domtar loan is
contrary to free market principles.

“The Mulroney government can justify its
interest-free loan in terms of preserving jobs but what
they are really doing is pursuing the overriding
political objective of replacing the Liberals per
manently as the dominant political force in Quebec,”
Longstaffe told the meeting.

GINTER’S WIFE WINS

VANCOUVER (CP) — The widow of construction
and beer magnate Ben Ginter, Grace Ginter, will
receive one-third of his estate, not the $1,000 a month
she was left in his will, a British Columbia Supreme
Court justice has ruled.

Mr. Justice J.C. McKay said the estate was worth
between $4.4 million and $6.6 million, depending on
the value of certain property assets.

RATES FALL

TORONTO (CP) — Interest rates continues to fall
this week.

The Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of
Canada announced across-the-board cuts in mortgages
in response to decreases announced Thursday by the
Bank of Montreal and Toronto Dominion Bank.

The Royal matched Bank of Montreal and the TD
by dropping its one-year mortgage three quarters of a
percentage point to 10.5 per cent. That means a saving
to consumers of $308.46 a year on a $50,000 mortgage
amortized over 25 years.

Scotia, meantime, only cut its one-year mortgage
half a percentage point to stay high at 10.75 per cent —
a move that was identical to that of the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce on Thursday.

$ 100 000 DROP THIS YEAR

City share in RDCK budget down

By RON NORMAN
Editer

Castlegar’s share of the Central Kootenay Regional
Distriet budget has dropped by more than $100,000 this
year.

The city will pay $636,584 this year for the regional
district anid Castlegar and District Hospital. That's down
$106,888 or 15 per cent from 1984 when the city paid
$742,472.

The largest decreases came in the city’s contribution to
the hospital and regional planning.

Last year the city paid $168,582 for the hospital. This
year it will op Shans. only $101,510.

istrict Reid said the
decrease i in ne city’s | hospital contribution is because of a

I hospital

As eellt the city pulled out of the regional planning,
saving itself $48,991.

The largest chunk of the city’s funding goes to pay for
the Community Complex. This year the city will pay
$293,244 of the complex’s total budget of $575,681, down
some $600 from $293,851 in 1984.

The city pays about 63 per cent of the Community
Complex's costs with Area I and J picking up 29 per cent.
The rest is made up from user fees and interest.

The city’s share of general government services has
fallen from $17,615 last year to only $1,763 this year.

TWO NEW MEMBERS

However, last year’s figures included Castlegar’s grants in
aid. This year the grants in aid are under a separate
category totalling $10,502.

The city will pay $48,901 for administration costs, up
about $4,100 from $48,803 in 1984. The city’s share of the
economic development commission costs rose to $16,939 this

year from $9,567 in 1984 primarily because the pr isno

longer sharing the funding for the
office.

Castlegar’s share of the costs to operate the Ootischenia
dump dropped by about $1,200 this year from $57,583 in 1984
to. $56,303.

The dump costs $190,144 to operate in 1985. The rest of
the money to operate it will come from Area I, J and part of
the Slocan Valley.

The recreation commission will cost $186,997 to operate
this year. The city's share is just under $50,000 — down
about $9,000 from last year.

The Old Arena’s budget is up this year to $114,873 from
$87,732.

The city will pay $51,025 this year compared to only
$37,024 in 1984. However, $25,000 from the budget is
earmarked for renovations to the ends of the building.

The city will also pay $5,462 for regional parks, up only
slightly from $5,438 in 1984.

As well, Castlegar has picked up $4,000 of the $10,000
cost of the feasibility study on the expansion of the
Doukhobor Historical Village.

Board expands

A provincial Order-in-Council has in-
creased the number of members
serving on the Selkirk College Board
by two.

Board chairman Jack Colbert wel-
comed Nelson residents Gary Exner,
41, and Edward 27, to the
board at its meeting Tuesday night.
The appointments were announced in a
letter from Heinrich. This brings to
eight the number of representatives
serving on the college board.

The college was told by the ministry

that Father Walter Donald's roe
nation, dered last Di ib

the firm of Exner and Nishi of Nelson.
A member of the Certified general Ac-
countant’s West Kootenay Chapter,
Exner served a sa board member from
1973 to 1981 and was chairman of that
body from 1976 - 1978.

Exner has served the as

Pleased by his appointment to the
board, Exner said he feels committed
to furthering the interests of the
college region as a whole.

“Td like to see an¢ enhancement of the
education process,” he said in a pre-

honary secretary-treasurer on the
board of the Nelson and District
Chamber of Commerce, and was on the
Board of the Nelson Maple Leafs
hockey club from 1974 - 1980. He was
president of the Maple Leafs for one
year.

Currently eargh sits on the ee

and

been accepted. Donald has since en
appointed to the Open Learning In-
stitute board.

Exner, a Nelson resident since 1972,
is a Certified General Accountant en-
gaged in public practice as a partner in

mission. He remains active in Sees,
belonging to both the Nelson Maple
Leafs Oldtimers Hockey club and the
Nelson Blue Lakers, a gentlemen's
hockey league team. He also enjoys
skiing and golf.

pared

“Cutbacks and and restaint have
gone far enough. There's a point to how
much can be cut and we've reached
that point.”

Mannings, a lifelong area resident, is
an invesmtent broker with Midland Do-
herty’s Nelson office, where he has
been employed since graduating from
UBC with an honors degree in Com-
merce and Business Administration in
1981. He current?) serves as a director
on the Nelson Economic Development
Commission and says he is, “looking
forward to working on behalf of Selkirk
College and the community.”

Scouts off to Guelph

Fourteen local Scouts and
Venturers will travel to
Guelph, Ont. July 3 for eight
days of Scouting activities at
the Canadian Jamboree.

The First Kinnaird group

A Pacific Western charter games,
plane will pick up the group
and will stop at other major orienteering,
centres en route to pick up
Scouts and Venturers.

The Scouts and Venturers

eight-day event.

canoeing,
crafts, archery, underwater
hiking and
windsuring will highlight the

In addition, all groups will

shows, rides and interna-
tional restaurants.

Parents of the First Kin-
naird Scouts and Ventures
will be conducting a series of
fund raising events.

sailing,

has the most boys and girls
per capita in B.C. attending
the Canadian Jamboree.

Local

Jacob Holger Pedersen, 87,
of Castlegar died Friday,
April 19.

Mr. Pedersen was born in
Denmark in 1898 and first

came to Canada in 1923.
He returned to Denmark

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Annual

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Saturday, April 27

At the Community Hall.

Waterbeds
pose danger

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer

Central Kootenay Health Unit nurses will be told to
warn parents that it’s unsafe to let infants sleep on
waterbeds, following a Castlegar News inquiry.

The Castlegar News contacted health unit director
Monty Arnott Thursday following a report that two
5'/2-year-old boys died of asphyxiation in Ottawa April 13
after they were put to bed in an adult-sized waterbed

According to the medical authorities, young infants

have poor control over their stomach muscles, and if they
flip onto their stomachs, they have difficulty turning over
again.
“With a child in that age bracket . they would
probably just lie there and suffocate,” agreed Arnott
“It's not unknown for | that to happen with soft
mattresses.”

Arnott said he “hadn't considered” telling public
health nurses who visit homes to advise parents of the
dangers of waterbeds “because it's the first time I've
heard about it.”

However, he said he'd issue a directive to the unit's
supervisor of public health nurses to tell nurses to warn
against letting babies sleep on waterbeds.

Arnott said “presumably” public health nurses now
emphasize in prenatal classes the danger of allowing
babies under 12 months to lie on surfaces such as soft
mattresses, eiderdowns “or anything that would prevent
the air supply to young infants.”

Anything that could possibly block infants’ air passes
should be kept from them, said Arnott. This includes
some toys — and even cats.

He said he occasionally hears reports of cats who
jump into a baby’s crib, and, feeling the warmth of the
infant's breath, settle down for a nap on its face.

“I wouldn't say it's all that rare,” said Arnott. “I've
heard of it on more than one occasion.”

and returned to Canada again
in 1929 and was followed by
his wife Vilhelmine shortly
after. They moved to Castle-
gar in 1939 from Rossland
and lived here since.

Mr. Pedersen enjoyed his
carpentry workshop, bee-
keeping and was active in the
Lutheran Church for many
years. He worked at Cominco

A Nelson woman who
claims she was discriminated
against because of her sex,
appeared before the B.C.
Council of Human Rights in
Castlegar this week.

will participate in a variety of
outdoor activities and
courses of instruction. Water

passes away

from 1929 to 1961.

He is survived by his wife
Vilhelmine; one son, Ove of
Nelson and wife Alice; four
grandchildren Karen of Tor-
onto, Kenneth of Prince
George, and Donald and Lori
of Nelson; four great-grand-
children.

Funeral service will be
held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at St.
Peter's Lutheran Church
with Rev. Terry Defoe of-
fieiating.

Flowers are gratefully de-
clined. Friends may make
donations to the charity of
their choice.

Human Rights
hears complaint

Leslie Thring filed a com-
plaint against the Heritage
Inn in Nelson on the basis of
sexual discrimination.

Thring worked as waitress
for the Heritage Inn in 1983.

have an opportunity to visit
Wonderland, the Ontario
park which features live

One of these fundraisers is
a giant garage sale May 4 at
Kinnaird Hall.

provines tan Sot soths 955 SSRSNEEDaEE toe
institutes which submit acceptable proposals for
fostering economic renewal and development in B.C.

Individuals and community groups are invited to
contact Selkirk College with suggestions for local projects,
Perra said.

Projects can inelude: More efficient use of _aponio

of new
cmudive uatiuting BO goede aba: Saien= 908
encouragement of growth of small business.

“We are busy making contacts to see whether or not
ther are projects that exist in the wider community, to do
something directed at economic recovery,” he said. “Our
emphasis is to focus on economic renewal

But Selkirk College Faculty Association president Mar-
garet Nickle voiced concern that the projects would be an
added burden on faculty members.

She said changes already in place in the faculty

's coll re mean an increase in
faculty workloads.

“There is very little, if any, capability or plannig for any
other activities because of the need for faculty to address
reassignments or workload,” she said.

Nickle said she wouldn't want the administration and
the board to think there is any capability to do much work in
this area.

But Perra said although he can accept this concern,
there are already a number of departments responding
positively to the project, wanting “a piece of the action.”

“There are people still finding time and energy,” he
said. “I respect that in some areas it's difficult. We may even
have to look to outside assistance to do some of the leg work
with respect to pulling some of these proposals together.”

Deadline for the first round of proposals is June 1.

In other news, the board agreed to a request from the
Kootenay Society of Applied Arts to buy some wool.

The society leases Mary Hall at the former David
Thompson University Centre, where it is conducting classes.

College bursar Dale Schatz explained that many of the
Selkirk College's assets are still on the campus. The society
approached the college about buying some weaving wool
before it rots on the shelves.

The board agreed to sell the wool to the society for $150,
even though the price was less than market value.

In other news, Grant Fisher, assistant deputy minister
of post-secondary education wrote the college saying he had
received the board's letter explaining measures the college
has taken to cope with restraints. The college letter also said
that further reductions in funding will seriously affect the
quality of programs the college offers.

He said a report prepared by Perra was studied with
care.

“I Wave'some sympathy With:the points that you
raised and shall endeavor in-the 1086/86 pe pee
some "y funding of
special needs at Selkirk,” Piker eal ts the letter: However,
he added he is not in a position to indicate the level of
funding, should he be successful.

Perra pointed out the letter was dated a week after the
college was notified of extra funding. He said there may be
some more positive responses forthcoming.

Board member Bob Buckley added that the board has
perhaps not been as visible as faculty and students would
have liked in protesting the cutbacks, but the strategy the
board followed paid off.

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. . .anwer in Wednesday's paper.

Castlegar

man

Fernando H.P. Raposo of
Castlegar passed away
March 28 in Vancouver Gen
eral Hospital after being hos-
pitalized for 4% years as a
result of a motor vehicle
accident

He was born March 24,
1950 in Sao Miguel Acores,
Portugal. He came to Canada

on March 22, 1974 to start a

dies
new life with his new bride,
Eduarda M.C. Raposo.

Mr. Raposo led a simple
life of hard work, working for
Pete Kalesnikoff and Kal-
esnikoff Lumber. He loved
fishing as a hobby.

He is survived by his wife,
Eduarda Raposo and daugh-
ter, Lisett, both of Castlegar.

Funeral services were held
in Vancouver.

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