oe, eae ee, sees spe Vander Zalm sails through confidence vote VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. Social Credit party, looking for a good bounce to take it into the final year of its mandate, appeared at least not to fumble the ball as its annual convention ended this weekend. Premier Bill Vander Zalm has been plagued recently by questions over the sale of his Fantasy Gardens theme park and. polls showing him lagging his own party in public popularity. More Socreds, page C1 But he sailed through a perfunctory vote of confidence. “I’m not a quitter,"” Vander Zalm told 1,200 cheering delegates. ‘“‘I never was a quitter and | never will be a quitter.” Vander Zaim hinted at his agenda for next year, suggesting as the con- vention closed that the government would impose public-sector restraints to cope with the recession. Vander Zalm later said he was not talking about wage controls “We're not talking about wage controls; we're not talking about price controls. “*We're talking about working together with the public sector to achieve something that’s reasonable.”” Vander Zalm’s predecessor, Bill Bennett, imposed a tough restraint program after winning re-election in 1983. But by 1986 the Socreds’ popularity had tumbled so badly that he retired. Fireworks were expected over a proposal to replace a_ reference recognizing ‘‘the supremacy of God BILL VANDER ZALM . .. ‘not a quitter’ and the rule of law." The new phrase was borrowed from the preamble to the Canadian Constitution. But the measure passed fairly easily. Party president Hope Rust said the change was vital to the Socred’s re- election hopes because it would en- courage diversity. “*It was time we moved into the 21st century,” she said. 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Socreds says motion wasn't anti-media VANCOUVER (CP) — The party delegate who tried to have the media expelled from the B.C. Social Credit convention Friday is a Surrey school board candidate in next month’s municipal election. But Heather Stilwell said her motion at the convention was not an- U-media and is not indicative of how she would treat the media if she is elected as a school trustee Nov. 17. Stilwell told the delegates before making the motion: “‘. . . We have a right to talk about what we would have our constitution be . . . without the fear of having the one misap- Propriate phrase that we use ap- pearing on the six o'clock news.” Stilwell said the constitutional issue was an internal matter, while school board meetings are public business that should be open to all media. Stilwell, former president of the an- “It wasn't an edia motion,"” said Stilwell, who is running for the Surrey Electors Team. ‘‘When the media is there (at the convention) and the cameras are on, it’s intimidating for most delegates. “*I made it very clear that as soon as the constitutional issue was settled, then everybody should be invited back in.”” The motion to conduct the vote on the controversial Christianity clause in the Social Credit constitution away from the prying eyes of the press was narrowly defeated. group Alliance for Life, lost the Social Credit nomination in Surrey-Cloverdale last June to Roy Pilkey, a masonry contractor and a former federal candidate for the Christian Heritage party She describes herself as a ‘‘parental rights’’ candidate opposed to sex education in the classrooms. “It is the duty of the government and school boards and teachers to assist the parents (in teaching sex education),’’ said Stilwell. “I think that any program should be geared to the parents.’’ Penticton council takes bungee plunge PENTICTON (CP) — Bungee jumping has spread to this Okanagan city, making it the second community in British Columbia to allow the ac- tivity: In a move to establish a new high profile tourist attraction for Pentic- ton, city council unanimously agreed to allow a mobile 30-metre crane to be situated on the rock area immediately west of the Okanagan Lake marina for a one-year trial period starting next summer. In bungee jumping — first prac- tised in the South Seas by natives as a test of manhood — participants tie a spring-like rope to their ankles and dive head-first off a bridge or tower or, in Penticton’s case, a crane. The rope stops them short of hit- ting the ground or water, causing them to spring back into the air. Ald. Jake Kimberley said he thinks bungee jumping could be another unique attraction for Penticton, similar to the parasailing operations on Okanagan Lake. A 40-metre bungee jumping site, believed to be the first such commer- cial site in North America, opened for business in early August near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It was set up by @ New Zealand businessman. Participants sign a waiver and pay $95 for each jump. IN MEMORY Suye Saito age 96. Suye Saito of New Denver passed away on Friday, Oct. 12, 1990, at Mrs. Saito was born Oct. 6, 1894, at Fukushima, Japan, and came to Canada in 1919. She first lived at Mission and then at Tashme before moving to New Denver in 1943 where she lived since. Mrs. Saito loved gardening and was a devoted mother She is survived by two sons, Tom of Castlegar and Mickey of Nakusp; one daughter Chiyeko Tatemechi of New Denver; three and one gr her husband and one son. New Denver Cemetery. Funeral Chapel. Family services were held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Monday and burial of the ashes will take place in the family plot in the Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar . She was by Number is 365-2212 Selection, Quality, Vari Action Ad Phone for our 11th Annual Cook Book Deadline for Receipt of Recipes is 12 Noon on Wed., Oct. 24 Send in the old family favorite recipe or your newest creation. Send us your recipes for: Main Dishes, Breads, Biscuits, Rolls, Meats, Salads, Soups, Vegetables, Stews, Casseroles, Pickles, Relishes, 1989 Cook Book Cook up a Tasteful Feast in Your Kitchen Desserts, Squares, Cookies, Cakes, Candy Fudge, Canning, Freezing, Wine, Wild Game, Microwave, or any other recipe ideas or General Cooking Hints. Send your typed or neatly written recipes to: Cook Book, Castlegar News Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4 or deliver to: Cook Book, Castlegar News 197 Columbia Avenve, Castlegar REMEMBER: Include, your name, address and telephone number. DEADLINE: 12 Noon, Wed., Oct. 24 Feel welcome to submit as many recipes as you wish. October 17, 1990 Castlegar News c1 . Castlegar News CTION ~ Where You Belong Forestry dean says more wood possible VANCOUVER (CP) — Foresters must learn to produce more wood products with less land, says the new forestry dean at the University of British Columbia. Instead of tapping B.C. woodlands for profits alone, Clark Binkley says research money should be spent now to learn about all the things the forests are capable of —jandi; producing. “*I don’t think we know the capacity of forest land in British Columbia to produce commercial forest products to begin with, let alone the other goods and services,’’ Binkley said in an interview. “That is, if we wanted to produce more wildlife in a particular area, we don’t know well manage lands to do that. “*My sense is the capacity of land wood, commercial wood per unit area, than the current levels of output per unit pany’s profits. While a public seeing mountainside clearcuts tends to distrust foresters, Binkley blames that on a widely held belief that a forester’s chief responsibility is to his com- Instead, he likens foresters to being i in the middle of a 4 ry owned 95 per cent by the public. the landlord.”’ enough how to “And I think anybody who's ever rented or leased a house knows that it’s difficult to be either the tenant or Binkley, 40, a former Yale University professor, says increasing yields on less forest land doesn’t necessarily mean more lands for parks. in B.C. to grow is far, far higher “I don’t want to say ‘set them aside’ because-the to park is preservationist area."’ bankrupt. “‘I think that’s well understood by those who study biology and landscape ecology, that the way isn’t to draw a line around them and conservation to preserve park: leave them alone. The best forester, Binkley says, realizes forest land has many uses and values and the trick is to be in a position to manage all of them. “Is the forester’s duty to the resource or to the com- panies? I'd have to say the answer to that is neither. The forester’s responsibility is to society. forests to produce the goods and services society wants from those forests.’” Having said that, Binkley is aware that large segmen- ts of society are exerting ¢normous pressures to reduce the amount of forested land allocated to commercial tree farming. He’s also aware that a growing number of people distrust the current licence arrangements by which a han- dful of large forest companies have long-term cutting rights over vast tracts of Crown forest land. Some groups, iat want the such as the Truck Loggers to turn more forest land over to open, competitive bidding to improve the current forest tenure system. It is to manage bid on it. “*Now I would go one step further and open up the bid to anybody who wants to bid on it,’’ “*So if there were very strong environmental interests for a particular tract of land, (environmental groups) too could Binkley says. “*And there, of course, their use of the land would be to withdraw it from production or to leave it in produc- tion in some other form of forest management if they thought clearcutting was inappropriate to those values.”’ Minister asks for cuts VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. provincial government ministries must submit 1991-92 budgets that are five per cent less than their allotments for the current fiscal year, says Finan- ce Minister Mel Couvelier. “I've said I want the ministries to come back with a budget t! is 9S per cent (of this year’s budget),”” he said. The reason is the economic slowdown and possible recession, he said. “I want them to deal with the Prospect of a lower dollar allotment. I’ve asked them for a mental toughness in their outlook.’’ But although the gdvernment remains concerned about public sec- _ tor wage increaes, he said, it will not implement some sort of wage controls on the public service. “‘We are not planning any because we see no need to do so,”’ Couvelier said, adding there are various pieces of legislation in place designed to make controls unnecessary. He also said he prefers each ministry identify areas of priority, rather than leaving it to his ministry's dollar-oriented treasury boards. Couvelier asked all ministries — ex- cept for health — in August to slash 1.5 per cent of their budgets in the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. That cut was made necessary because revenues are going to be lower than first expected, primarily because of an unforeseen drop in cor- porate income tax, he said. The current cut will be applied to the total budget and not just to what has been spent and collected in the fir- st six months of the current fiscal year, he said. Because the Health Ministry's $5- billion budget is excluded 'from the overall budget of $15.2 billion, the total_cut in. ing translates to | about $150 million or just under one per cent. During the Social Credit party an- nual convention, which ended Satur- day, both Couvelier and Premier Bill Vander Zalm warned that the provin- ce could be headed toward serious economic difficulties if there is a recession. Couvelier said Sunday that the five- per-cent i cut in is the best arts and craft: By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre in Castlegar.— one of several local organizations and facilities which receive fun- ding from the United Way — has connections. Artistic connections, that is. And those connections — to art galleries across Canada and the federal Department of Com- munications — allow the local gattery—to— bring high-calibre exhibits and art shows from across the country to the West Kootenay, the NEC’s new director says. The quality of those exhibits can rival what people see in Van- couver, Lou Lynn said, adding that the exhibition centre has some exciting new shows planned for the coming year. The gallery will have more not a final figure. The last time the government or- dered ministries to prepare for a budget cut was in 1984 and it held the ministries to that cut. Last year, Couvelier told ministries to prepare for a zefo increase in spen- ding, but actually increased spending by 11 per cent. thr shows, in- cluding one on Peruvian textiles and an exhibit on woodworking. And exhibiting the best work in Canada also means displaying art and craft pieces by Kootenay ar- tists, Lynn said. A number of the NEC’s shows focus on the talents of local artisans. sculptures by John McKinnon of Nelson. Exhibition centre has artistic connections UNITED WAY FEATURE Lou Lynn (above), director of the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre, says exhibiting 1s in Canada means g work by West K y artists such as TosNews Tle photo Poor market forces industry into recession VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia’s forest industry is well into a recession, Forest Minister Claude Richmond said Monday. “The forest industry is in a recession — make no mistake about that,’’ Richmond told members of the Vancouver Board of Trade. ‘‘Market conditions are to blame. U.S. housing starts are the worst since 1982, the Canadian dollar is too high (against the U.S. dollar), interest rates are too high and the downturn in pulp affects the price of chips, an impor- tant source of revenue for sawmills."” The forest industry accounts for more than 247,000 direct and indirect jobs, about one in five in the provin- ce’s workforce. It is also the largest Producer, representing 50 per cent of manufacturing shipments. Following his speech, Richmond told reporters: ‘‘I will do what I can’’ to alleviate the hardships facing loggers and other forest industry workers in the southern Interior. But, he pointed out, although government can help to smooth out down cycles in the , there is CLAUDE RICHMOND ... market conditions to blame Progress report later this month or early in November,”’ he said. Lumber prices reflect the market's softness. The bellwether Western not much it can do when market- related conditions hit an export-orien- ted industry like forest products. The minister acknowledged that timber-cutting fees (stumpage) in B.C. are too high for current market conditions, but there is little the The NEC also strives to help “rea résidents, especially children, to have a greater-appreciation for artwork, she said. For that reason the gallery regularly holds sessions for_local students, such as one conducted recently where the artist himself visited the NEC to help interpret his work for the students. ‘The NEC also brings in scien- tific shows and helps explain their significance to children, although those shows usually come with kits to aid in discussion. In the coming year, Lynn said she would like to see more artists come to the gallery to talk to school students and adults and hold hands-on workshops. For instance, an artist who works in felt could demonstrate how the cloth is made and studen- ts could try the technique, she said. There have also been some changes to the gallery staff recen- tly. Beth Howarth of Rossland has been hired as gallery manager, a new position that will free Lynn, who has been with the NEC for about four months, from the day- to-day operations of the gallery. She was interim director until she received her permanent appoin- tment from the NEC board in September. Some of the costs of bringing in exhibits, as well as running the gallery, are funded by the Depar- tment of Communications, Lynn said. The gallery also receives funding from the provincial Ministry of Tourism, the City of Castlegar and the Castlegar school board But the NEC has been informed that the current level of federal funding has been fixed as of this: year and no adjustments will be made to allow for inflation, Lynn said. As well, provincial funding has remained at the same level for some time now, she said. That means the exhibition cen- tre must rely more on its own fun- draising efforts, including sales from the gift shop, and United Way funding, Lynn said. Hanford buries nuked dogs SPOKANE, Wash. (CP) — The remains of an unusual Cold War radiation experiment — 828 dead dogs — were shipped to the Hanford nuclear reservation for burial last month. Coming next: 15.9 tonnes of their radioactive excrement. The reservation, about 350 kilometres south of Castlegar, already is a repository for millions of litres of radioactive wastes left over from decades of nuclear weapons produc- tion. The federal site has also accep- ted defunct Navy nuclear subs and retired reactors for burial. Reservation also to get radioactive excrement The dead beagles, shipped from California in gasoline drums, were buried in trenches at Hanford a few weeks ago. Their remains had been stored in freezers at the Institute of T and Health on the University of Califor- nia-Davis campus. Their wastes are still being studied in California to determine whether they contain toxic chemicals as well as radiation, Westinghouse ~Hanford— operates the 1,450-square-kilometre reser- vation in south-central Washington for the U.S. Department of Energy. The last dog died at a canine-old age of 18% in 1986, 27 years after government-funded beagle ex- periments began. The dogs left behind tonnes of urine and feces. Because the wastes are radioactive, they also must be buried and shipped under regulations governing low-level radioactive waste. The beagle cleanup, estimated to cost $22 million, is part of a nation- wide Department of Energy effort +o @ can do so long as the Dec. 30, 1986, memorandum of un- derstanding between the Canadian and U.S. governments continues in its present form. The memorandum was signed after forest industry interests in the United States complained Canadian forest companies were subsidized by gover- nment through lower stumpage fees, or charges for harvesting timber. The two countries agreed to set a 15-per- cent duty on products exported to the United States.— British— Columbia's government complied by raising rates by a amount. “Talks to revise the MOU are un- der way and we should have a spruce-pine-fir two-by-fours were quoted at $178 US per thousand board feet late last week, a drop of $18 from a month earlier, and the lowest since November 1987. Some mills say that if prices are forced any lower, their next step will be to shut down or curtail output. Layoffs are already widespread. In addition to Westar Timber Ltd.’s indefinite shutdown of its logging operations and the layoff of more than 400 workers, the Interior Lumber Manufacturers Association in Kelowna estimates that about 1,000 workers have already been laid off by its member firms (which have some 13,000 employees in total). “The number of laid-off workers could double by the end of this yea: warned John Marritt, association Logging and trucking costs for association members rose by $47 million in 1989 over 1988, and Marritt said: ‘‘I see no reason to expect any lesser year-fo-year increase in 1990.”” Unions dismiss restraint talk VANCOUVER (CP) — Leaders of British Columbia's largest unions have dismissed Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s talk of a restraint program against public sector unions as the sign of ‘‘a desperate man fishing for an election issue.’” “‘He’s a guy with a voodoo doll and a pin, desperately trying to provoke some kind of a reaction,’’ said John Shields, president of the B.C. Gover- nment Employees Union. Shields and other labor leaders say if Vander Zalm is looking for a return to the confrontation of the early 1980s under former premier Bill Ben- nett, he'd better think again. “I’m not going to think anything more about _it,’’. IWA-Canada ‘president Jack _ Munro said in a clean up at university labs where government research was conducted. “They're no longer cute little dogs — they're just a radioactive waste problem," said Bern Shanks, director of environmental health and safety at UC-Davis. . “I'm just going to relax and enjoy the rest of Sunday evening Vander Zalm told delegates to the Social Credit Party convention during the weekend that British Columbia must tighten its belt as the province slides into recession. Ministries have been asked to cut their budgets by five per cent for the remainder of the fiscal year. And Vander Zalm said a lid must be kept on public-sector wages. “*I realize the (political) risk, but I also realize the needs,’’ Vander Zalm told convention delegates. ‘‘(Wage) controls are an option, we'll certain go through the budget very carefully.’’ Vander Zalm said later he was not referring specifically to wage controls like those adopted by his predecessor Bill Bennett but rather getting co- operation from public-sector unions. Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, said Van- der Zalm simply wants-to-pick a fight with labor in hopes of getting an issue to go to the polls with. “It’s painfully obvious Vander Zalm is looking for an election issue. And he may be wreaking havoc in the process.’” Georgetti, Munro and Shields all say his latest rhetoric could do more harm than good by frightening away investors.