CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 9, 1982

Edge towards all-out war

From AP-REUTERS

Fierce air and ground bat-
tles erupted between Israeli
and Syrian forces in Lebanon
today, the Syrians reported,
as Israel's anti-Palestinian
invasion edged toward all-out
war with one of its old Middle
eastern enemies,

A Syrian army communi-
que said more than 150 Sy-
rian and Israeli jet planes
clashed in major battles over
eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Val-
ley. It said 10 Israeli F-16s
and F-16s and five Syrian
MiGs were shot down.

only that two Syrian aircraft,
a MiG and a helicopter, were
downed.

A Syrian military spokes-
man in Damascus said the Is-
raeli jets attacked Ayrian

anti-aireraft missile batteries’

in the Bekaa, which lies be-
tween the Lebanese capital
of Beirut and the Syrian
capital of Damascus. Syria
deployed the missiles inthe
Bekaa last year and wit-
nesses reported that Syria
had moved at least two more
batteries across the border in
the last 24 hours.

On the ground, the pais
reported clashés with the Ist,

ft 16 kilometres south of

Beirut. The town was .one .

raclis in the highlands east of "of the guerrillas’ main bases

Beirut and with Israeli units
trying to push into the Sy-
rian- and Palestinian-occu-
pied Bekaa from the south.

The Syrian command said
its forces inflicted heavy Is-
raeli casualties, knocked out,
23 Israeli tanks and shot
down two planes in several
clashes. The Israelis acknow-
ledged battles with thé Sy-
rians but gave few details.

The Israeli military com-
mand

The Israeli did
not confirm that such a large
aerial clash occurred. It said

The Syri said
62 Syrian fighter planes en-
gaged the Israeli aircraft.

that its troops had captured
the coastal town of Damour,

Smelters studied in
relation to power

VANCOUVER (CP) —
to five new. metal cuales
could be built in B.C. during
the 1980s based on an abun-
dance of potentially cheap el-

‘ectricity, says a report com- t

iel one 100,000-tonne

d by the -pi
government.
The study, by Chase Econ-
ometrics, said B.C. could
support two new 150,000

zinc smelter, one 100,000.

tonne copper smelter and a
50,000-tonne ferrosilicon
plant producing metal at in-

pacity

Charged with
armed robbery

By CasNews Staff

Police have charged one
person and are looking for
another in connection with
Sunday morning’s armed rob-
bery in Castlegar.

Robert James Boyce, 19,
an Alberta resident, has been
charged with armed robbery:
and will appear in Castlegar

ial court

Police say Fraitzi was tied
up by the thieves, but man-
aged to get free a short time
after and call police.

The two suspects left in a
red late-model: pickup truck
with the letter “OK” on the
door, The truck was picked
up in Penticton at the time of
Boyce’s arrest and had been

(Thursday).

The charge follows an in-
cident in which Joseph Frai-
tzi of Selkirk Ave. was rob-
bed of a sum of money by
thieves wielding a knife.

ported stolen from Nelson
Saturday.

Boyce is wanted by author-
ities in Alberta for parole
violations and faces a.charge
of possession of stolen prop-
erty in Penticton.

SETTLEMENT

continued from page Al

sion at Broadwater eventual
lot prices. should not be
greately reduced in all
areas.”

The necessary zoning by-
law for the plan has been re-
turned to the regional dis-
trict and will go to fourth
reading.

Hale said one question that
still remains to be settled is
that of garbage disposal in
the Deer Park area.

“While the regional district
is presently requiring B.C.
Hydro to install a refuse site,
the Environment Ministry is
‘supporting Hydro's offer to
provide a compactor truck,”
she said.

prices.

However, the report cau-
tioned “there is a very spec-
ific danger” that as B.C. has
neither the raw material nor
markets for aluminum, “it is
not difficult to envisage a
scenario in which a B.C. al-
uminim smelter becomes a
toll. smelter simply trans-
forming alumina into metal
for a third party which con-
trols both the supply of the
raw material and the selling
price of the final product.”

Each of the plants, which
would be in addition to
known projects such as two
170,000-tonne aluminum
smelters planned by Alcan
based on its own power sup-
plies from the Nechako Res-
ervoir, would be needed to
supply excess demand for the
metals expected to appear
after 1986.
However, if all five plants
were built, they would con-
sume about 5,353 million kil-
owatt hours of electricity an-
nually — more than the out-
put of B.C. Hydro’s planned
Site C dam on the Peace
River.

The study, completed last
year by Chase, an inter-
national and con-

subjected to frequent Israeli
air attacks. It was a Christian
community until seized by
the Moslem. PLO during the
1976-76 Lebanese civil war.
The Christian militias are sl-
lied with Israel in the latest
fighting. *
Syrian

vise on the Lebanese capital
and other Palestinian
strongholds, re
TWO-PRONGED PUSH
Forty kilometres to the
south, the Israelis launched a
two-pronged ground push
northward toward the Bekaa
Valley, behind massive air
and artillery bombardment,

_ the Syrian command said.

were reported putts into
Lebanon, Informed sources
in Damascus said the number
of Syrian troops in Lebanon
had been more than doubled,
to 65,000. Reports on the
number of Israeli troops in
Lebanon range from 20,000
to 60,000,

The Syrians said they had
stopped the northernmost
units of Israel's invasion
force as they tried to cyt the
Beirut-Damascus highway in
the hills 20 kilometres east of
the Lebanese capital.

Israeli armored units were
airlifted into the area Tues-
.» day in a lightning thrust
aimed at closing the Israeli

were
reported to have moved into
the Bekaa after fleeing the
Israeli cross-border invasion
earlier this week.

The Syrians claimed to
have halted the two-pronged
southern offensive, mounted
from the Israeli-captured
town of Hasbaya, 16 kilom-
etres north of the Israeli
border.

Informed sources in the
Syrian capital of Damascus,
who asked not to be iden-
tified, claimed Syrian troops
at Beirut’s international air-
port foiled an Israeli attempt.
toland airborne troops in the
airport area, on the capital's
southern approaches.

Canadian dollar.
continues to slip

MONTREAL (CP) — After

an initial morning ,rebound,~

the Canadian dollar resumed
its slide today, reaching 79.10
cents U.S. by noonhour EDT
on international currency
marekts.

The dollar opened at 79.29,
a share above Tuesday's
closing quote of 79.26, and
then zipped up to 79.57 in
what traders said was “a
technical adjustment.”

But heavy corporate sell-
ing sent it down again,
despite what traders said
was “aggressive” interven-
tion by the Bank of Canada,
which tried to shore up the
currency by buying un-
wanted dollars,

There has been no change

ene on the currency —

bleak Canadian economic out- |
look — and analysts expected
the dollar to lose still more
ground.

“The market is extremely
pessimistic about the chances
of a U.S. budget settlement,”
said one trader. “And as long
as there is no

“We affecting all curren-
cies right across the border,”
said another trader, with the
Canadian dollar suffering
particularly badly because
the market views it as inher-
ently weak to begin with.

The dollar lost almost half
acent Tuesday, tumbling toa
record low for the third time
in as many sessions during a
day of hectic trading which
reflected the market's un-
certainty about Ottawa's re-
solve to shore up the buck-
ling buck.

The Bank of Canada, which
last week bought massive
amounts of dollars to keep it
above the 80-cent threshold,
is not intervening as heavily

peace in factors, exerting downward. this week, traders ra Bek

Some Fale
‘ulated t ted be

“ of value means that the cone
tral bank has

By CasNews Staff

The new Tarrys fire hall
is proceeding on schedule
and should be finished in
July, Area I fire commis-
sion spokesman Fred Boj-
ey said this week.

But the outlook for the
other Area I fire hall at
Pass Creek isn’t as bright.

Bojey said the Central
Kootenay Regional Dis-
(ict is having,trouble pury
chasing. a site for the J
Greek hall and he's’ not

Fire hall well on way

sure when construction
will begin.

He said the original site
was rejected by the health
department because it had
two creeks on it and could
not support a septic sys-
tem.

He said the regional dis-
trict is now.looking at two
or three other sites.

been completed — and
both halls should be in by
September.

Axis Construction of Sal-
mo was awarded the con-
tract to build both fire halls
— the Tarrys hall for
$96,000 and the Pass Creek
hall for $97,000.

In May pickets went up
at the Tarrys site in pro-
test to Axis’ use of non-

However, he said cittie
site-should-be, finali >
for a July, pe teh
once the Tarrys hail has

policy of shoring up the mailer
and will instead let it find a
new level below 80 cents.

Finance Minister Allan
MacEachen told the House of
Commons on Tuesday that
the federal g

“The resi i
will be asking the regional
district to reconsider Hydro's
offer as the Pollution Control
Branch will not support the
idea of a refuse disposal site
in the area.”

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sulting firm, was commis-
sioned jointly by the ministry
of industry and the ministry

of energy, mines and pet- :;

roleum resources.

Seniors

Castlegar and District Se-
nior Citizens held its monthly
business meeting June 3 in
the centre. Mrs. Jessie Don-
nan welcomed the 69 mem-
bers, visitors and new mem-
bers and hoped they all en-
joyed the meeting.

Happy Birthday was sung
for six birthday members.

Bev Perepolkin and Joanne
Baker weté introduced au

they spoké'on the Woodlarid'‘

A ican interest rates will

stay high or go even higher.”

‘The prospect of rising U.S.

rates has made for an ever-
Ameri

no plans to devalue the iol
and will instead let market
forces reign. The Bank of
Canada, he added, intervenes

dol-
lar.

only to stabilize major swings
in value.

discuss housing

Thanks was extended to
Mrs. R. Hunter for acting as
secretary for the afternoon.
Mrs, J. Stone is sick and the
members wished her a full
recovery.

Letters were received
from the Kootenay Reporter,

from Mrs. ‘Judy Campbell on,

the United Way, meetin, ing, and
He

Park Housing Complex. They ‘ii

said the,cooperative is to help
those on a fixed income and
senior -citizens and, they ex-
plained. how to become a
member.

More information’ may be
obtained from this group by
contacting either of these
ladies. A vote of thanks was

was a success. Bills were or-
dered paid after being ap-
proved by the finance com-
mittee. \

All is finé in the kitchen
department and get well
cards have been sent to sick
and shut-in members. En-

d to the and
they then left the meeting.

tertai is well in hand.
Arrangements have been

LOCAL REALTORS
RECEIVE ANNUAL AWARDS

At a recent Kootenay Real Estate Board an-
nual meeting bold at Fairmont Hot Springs the

1) RUNNER UP:

(Nelson Office)

RUNNER UP:

3) Bry UP:

realtors MS dived the following awards:

TOP OFFICE AWARD FOR 1981 VOLUME
Realty World—Rosling Real Estate Ltd.

2) TOP SALESMAN OF THE YEAR 1981
John Lum — Boundary Real Estate
(Grand Forks)

Mildred Ross — Cooper Agencies Ud
(Grand Forks)

}ALESMAN OF THE YEAR 1981 BY VOLUME -
Howie Hornby — Century 21 Burns Realty Ltd.
(Nelson)

and

made for the anniversary
dinner. It was decided to
purchase more long tables for
use in the centre.

Mrs. Donnan who was del-
egate to the annual provincial
convention in Kelowna, gave
an interesting report of the
sessions. The report was well
received by members and
Mrs. Donnan was thanked.

It was noted that June 23
is to be proclaimed Senior
Citizens Week. Molly White

Bankruptcies
Figures staggering

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Personal and corporate bank-
ruptcies in B.C. soared 34 per
cent in May to 236 from
April's 176 and a staggering
140.8 per cent from 98 bank-
ruptcies a year ago, figures
released Tuesday show.

The increase in B.C. bank-
ruptcies was well above the
national increase of 4.4 per
cent in May over April and
30.6 per cent in May, 1982,
over May, 1981.

The numbers for the coun-
try and B.C. would be sub-
stantially higher if other
business failuyes not record-
ed by ‘Ottawa’s bankruptcy
superintendent, such as re-
ceiverships, were included,
says one of B.C.’s most ex-
pereinced bankruptcy trus-
tees.

who had also the

+. convention gave a report of

the officers for the provincial
board who were elected and a
report of the raffle draw held
at the convention. Several of
the prizes came this way,
including those to Mrs. Bat-
chelor and Mrs. R. Maze of
Castlegar. Mrs. White was
thanked for her report.

The members were most
pleased to hear that hand-
rails have been placed along
the stairs going down into
the .basement, Thanks to
those who did the job. Dates
of trips and information ‘will
be placed on the bulletin
board as they become avail-
able.

Mrs. J. Heslop gave a short
reading, “The Joy of Living”
and received many thanks for
same. Mrs. R. Worthing re-
lated:an Irish story she had
heard on TV. She was also
thanked for bringing humor
to the meeting.

A delicious lunch was en-
joyed, including a birthday
cake. The final meeting for
the season will be held on
June 17 — a pot luck supper
at 6 p.m. in the centre.

by BR: Job

BC. iabilities —
debts declared by bankrupt
companies — surged 1,030.9
per cent to $28.5 million last
month from $2.62 million in
May, 1981. They were ac-
tually down 14.6 per cent
from Arpil's $33.4 million.

Canadian corporate liabil-

cities jumped 138.7 per cent to

$161.9 million in May from
$67.8 million in May, 1981.
Don Henfrey of Vancou-
ver, a bankruptcy trustee at
Henfrey and Co. Ltd., said
today the situation is in fact
much worse.
FIGURE DOESN'T SHOW
“Take BowMac (a Van-
couver car dealership),”
Henfrey said.
“It owes $20 million to
creditors _ but, since it is in

stall bankruptcies by bor-
rowing against the. increase
in the value of property they
owned to support their bus-
inesses or personal expenses
whereas prices never took
that big of a jump in the rest
of Canada as a whole,” Hen-
frey said.

Statistics released -Tues-
day by the bankruptcies su-
perintendent show consumer
bankruptcies constituted the
biggest factor in the May in-
crease in B.C., up 52.3 per
cent to 166 from 109 in April.
Corporate bankruptcies were
up only 4.47 per cent to 70
from 67 in April.

Compared with May, 1981,
corporate bankruptcies were
up 169.2 per cent and con-
sumer bankruptcies up 133.8
per cent,

NUMBER WOULD

would be at least double if
not higher.

Receivers are ‘put into
companies by secured credi-
tors, those who hold colla-
teral against their loans;
trustees in bankruptcy sell
assets with the consent of all
creditors.

Consumer bankruptcies
also are so high in B.C. be-
cause property values are
down and interest rates and
unemployment are up, he
said. This means fewer peo-
ple can file for orderly pay-
ment of debts, which is per-
mitted for people whose in-
come is sufficient to retire
their debts over a three-year
period.

Total bankruptcies in B.C.
for the 12 months erided May
31 were up 64 per cent to 981

from 698 the corresponding ~

‘ period the previous year.

Henfrey said that, if re-
ceiverships were added to
the corporate bankruptcy
statistics in B.C., the number

Nationally, there was a 22.6-
per-cent increase to 15,855
bankruptcies from 12,932 the
previous year.

Golden man seeks
land exemption

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
man who recently won pro-
vincial cabinet approval to
get 3,500 hectares of land
near Golden removed from
the Agricultural Land Re-

.serve said Tuesday he will

try and get an additional
8,100 hectares in the same

the
don't show u up in bankruptcy
statistics.”

B.C.’s bankruptcy rate is
sharply above the recorded
national rate because it is one
of the last provinces to be
hard hit by ‘the recession,
largely due to B.C.’s “gal-
loping prices and skyrocket-
ing inflation,” he said.

- “In the last 1 years, peo-
ple in B.C. have been able to

area as well.
Duane Crandall, Columbi:

The land, roughly three-
quarters the size of Van-

, couver, is south of Golden, in

southeastern B.C. and about
a three-hour drive from Cal-
gary.

Early in May, cabinet re-
leased 3,500 hectares north of
Golden even though its ap-
pointed Agriculture Land

Shuswap regional district
manager, said he will will use
the same -technique in this
bid as he did in getting the
original aldn out of the re-
serve,

That technique, said Cran-
dall, would be a proposal and
support by the regional dis-
trict and finally a favorable
decision by cabinet.

pany it.

Crandall, a businessman
who represents the unorgan-
ized area outside Golden, said
his first move will come June
24 when he asks the district
to back a motion to remove
the 8,100 hectares,

He said the matter will

then §0 to the land commis-
sion,

perro een mes

are Alesrayran oes th ee uh th t

Emile Marsheldon

Most of the time it’s not
too bad. I think if the kids
police themselves it will
solve a lot of the problems.
You take an adult who
starts telling kids what to
do, what happens? Kids

each other.

their own age can talk to :

| ON THE STREET

QUESTION: Do you think that grad party concept Is getting out of hand?

Yvonne Paulls J
I think it is, Look what

. happens with drugs, If you

can take drugs you don't
know what's going on. It’s

W,, not the same like when we

graduated, You have to
watch yourself now days.

Peter Debeque .

They're getting pretty

rough, all these parties. I

don’t mind the parties if it

§ goes in the right direction,

: but not if it leads to des-
truction.

Sharon Pike | - ic
* [don't really know much
about it, but in my opinion
they should always have
grad parties. That's a part
of school. It is getting out %

They should still
graduations, but just

and'mind their own bus
iness.

Lil Molnar

Yes, What can you do?
Stop them altogether?
Keep them under control a
little bit.

Mable Makortoff
, Could be that they are
getting a bit out of hand.

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CP Rail construction

_To spend $137 million

CP Rail will spent approx-
imately $187 million for new
construction, maintenance,
upgrading and equipment in
its 1982 Pacific region works
season.

Of the total, more than $96
million will be spent in Brit-
ish Columbia.

The Pacific region works
expenditure represents a
71.5 percent increase over its
1981 program and is more
than double what was spent
in 1980.

The commencement of

‘preparatory work on the

proposed double-tracking
and tunnel Project through
Rogers Pass in the Selkirk

Mountains and the installa--

tion of more than 68 miles of

May’ gave
fine spring
weather

By CasNews Staff
May was a good month —
atleast on the weather front.
The Castlegar Airport wea-
ther office's month-end re-
port shows that total rainfall
for May was 65 per cent of

- normal,

A total of 35.4 mm fell for
the month — about one-third
the record breaking 102.8
mm which fell last year.

A strong ridge of high
pressure anchored off the
B.C. coast gave fine spring
weather to the West Koot-
enay region for much of the
month, Numerous weal dis-
turbances moved over the
top of the ridge and skirted
our area, giving cloud and
light showers.

On two notable occasions

—the 17th and 26th — string -

disturbances moved through
the ridge and across the In-
terior and we recorded signi-
ficant rainfalls.

Still, total sunshine was
28.2 hours above normal — a
total of 267.4 hours. That led
to mean daily. temperatures
above average.

However, clear skies at

_ night gave lower than normal

minimum temperatures. Dur-
ing the night of the 4th we
recorded a low of -1.7°, which
tied the previous low set on
May 1, 1972.

new continuous welded rail
highlight the B.C. works pro-
gram,

This year $22 million has

‘been allocated toward the

$500 million Rogers Pass
project. Work to be done this
year includes:

excavation of the over-
burden to reach the rock face
of the east portal of the
nine-mile-long Rogers Pass
tunnel;

@ construction of the west
approach to the Rogers Pass
tunnel;

e_clearing the surface
route right-of-way and con-
struction of access roads

“along the surface route;

e carrying out required
geotechnical investigation;

¢ finalizing all engineering
on the surface route.

Work projects on CP Rail's
Kootenay division amount to
$8.1 million, a four-fold in-
crease over 1981.

The division trackage in-
cludes all southern B.C. lines
from Crowsnest in the east to
Midway in the west and from
Fort Steele north to Golden.

Of the total, $1.4 million
will go toward replacement
of approximately 50,000 ties.
Work crews will be installing
almost~ 15,000 ties between
Fort Steele and Golden,
14,000 between Kimberley
and North Star, 5,100 be-
tween Cranbrook and Nelson
and 11,500 between Covalli
and Fort Steele.

Over 180,000 cubic yards of

crushed ballast . will ‘be in-
stalled along the rail line,
mainly between Sparwood
and Caithness, at a cost of
nearly $3 million.

Three miles of new CWR
will be laid at Fort Steele —
total cost $900,000.

Bridge and culvert ‘proj-
ects on the division account
for $1.2 million. Bridge crews
will be continuing work on
the replacement of a 158-foot-
long timber trestle at Koot-
enay Landing, just west of
Creston ($500,000). They will
also start work on three
two-year projects to replace
three trestles north of Cran-
brook, near Canal Flats
($90,000); north of Radium
($108,000) and south of Lux-
of, ($108,000).

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