2 Casthéjar News _ A002, 1 Tory MP supports capital punishment OTTAWA (CP) — The death penalty is needed to protect society from diaholi- man Gerry St. Germain said ‘Tuesday. sie nants Columbia eal, p Conservative eaveus ehair- that capital Scisancnaa must be applied Firemen douse Pass Creek blaze By CasNews Staff Area fire departments had their hands. full yesterday when a practice fire in Rasp- berry. Village was interrup- ted by a real fire. Robson Volunteer Fire De- partment, under the direc- tion of chief Bob Taylor, was conducting a. practice burn partment and\a tanker truck from Tarrys Fire Volunteer Department when they re- ceived word of an actual grass fire. According to Pass Creek fire chief Brian Bebelman, the two remaining trucks — a pumper at Tarrys and a tanker at Pass Creek — were called out to the junction of Pass Creek Road and Broad. water Road where a grassfire was blazing about 90 metres below the railroad tracks. About 122 metres of hose was required to control the blaze. Police file ee ee A tractor-trailer accident last week resulted in minor injuries for a Golden man. ‘According to Castlegar RCMP, Donald Tyler Dun- brack, 19, spent the night of April 22 in hospital after his 1979 Freightliner, full-load- ed with lumber, overturned about six kilometres west of Castlegar on Highway 3. The accident report, re- leased only today, said the highway was closed for one hour, but it was not stated how much damage was 8us- tained to the vehicle or what charges, } ifany, would be ce BRANCH 170 DANCE SATURDAY 9:30- 1:30 p.m. BAND: COUNTRYMEN Guests it be signed i Proper dress offer 9p.im. Some 33 firemen were on duty last night. “The chances of that (two fires) happening in one area like that are fairly rare,” said Bebelman. Cominco to sell assets By CasNews Staff The major American fer- tilizer assets of Cominco American Inc. are up for sale. Robert Hallbayer, Comin- co’s president and chief exe- cutive office, id the reason to sell off. tte asoclnie part of inco’s strategy to lower its total debt. The assets on the block include the ammonium ni- trate production facilities at Homestead ‘near Beatrice, Nebraska, the ammonia and urea facilities at Borger, Texas, along with its associ- ated distribution network, and the company owned re- tail outlets. The agent for the sale is [WOnbee nes NOW OPE At Downtown SuperValu Come Home Cooked Food Try.Our Merrill Lynch. that no other penalty would be adequate. St. Germain, a former po- liceman in his native St. Bon- iface, Man., and a onetime member of the Vancouver police morals squad, told the Commons the war on crime must be taken as seriously as any military i and are convicted contract for the death penalty. But he said later he has not decided what kinds of murder should - be punishable by death. « “I want to be very, selective,” he said. “. ithe has to he planned, deliberate and St. Germain said later he was not advocating the death Penalty for loan sharks, pros- titutes, gamblers or drug peddlers. But he would be prepared to look at capital punishment for mobsters who control such activities pr murder.” ROSSI RECONSIDERS MPs may hold a free vote by June on the principle of restoring the death penalty abolished by Parliament in 1976. NELSON (CP) — Yellow balloons bobbed in the breeze and yellow ribbons except for a few worn as grmbands by hero- worshipping youngsters — waxed from police car an- tennas, telephone poles and mail boxes Tuesday as 2,000 people welcomed Rick Hansen. The wheelchair athlete added to the holiday mood in this community when he made a special stop at a park where he greeted mobility-impaired resi- dents who live on. their own, as well as senior citi- zens from three hospitals. As Hansen wheeled out of the park, hundreds of excited runners, cyclists, skateboarders, walkers and backpackers fell in behind him. When the Man in Motion arrived at a ramped band- stand, blind AldermanJohn Neville, who has been ele- cted to five terms, said Nelson residents have al- ready proved their under- standing of one of Hansen's central points. “Tve been re-elected on 2,000 welcome Hansen \GERALD ROTERING . » . $50,000 cheque a regular basis, which shows that ability is res- pected over disability in Nelson,” he said as the crowd applauded. Mayor Gerald Rotering presented Hansen with a $50,000 cheque, represent- ing all the-money raised in the city ‘since a ski-a-thon was~held last April, the first community fund-rais- er for Hansen in B.C. 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Other recommendations made by Oglow, the Workers Compensation Board and Cel- gar’s safety committee in- clude removing the manual override on the electric eye on Celgar’s conveyor, enfor- cing” éorrect procedures on lowering forklift forks to the floor and enforcing forklift operators to remain on their machines while transporting bales. Robert Leigh Lalonde, ‘a 20-year-old employee at the Celgar pulp mill warehouse died Dec. 22 after a bale toppled over from a forklift and crushed him. Oglow’s report says human error was to blame for the accident and no foul play was involved, and that Lalonde was not intoxicated at the time of the accident. Oglow's recommendations are already in place and additional safety features haye been installed at the pulp mill. RCMP caution motorcyclists By CasNews Staff Castlegar RCMP are not expecting an increase in motorcycle accidents this summer, despite the fact that riders are no longer required to wear helmets. A recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling lifted a law that required motorcyclists to wear helmets. An RCMP spokesman said they are powerless to ticket riders who are not wearing helmets. “Around six months ago some supreme court in B.C. in their wisdom judged that the law was invalid, so that “kisses that goodbye,” RCMP Cpl. Dave Day told the Castlegar-News. “He added that there have not been any motorcycle ac cidents in Castlegar since the helmet law was lifted and that he does not expect many during the summer. “I don't think we'll see many people being injured because generally we don't get very many motorcycle accidents in Castlegar,” said Day. But he cautioned that rid ers face a very serious threat when riding without their helmets. “It's assured that someone will munch themselves up pretty good if they do have an accident. They'll crack their head up pretty good,” said Day Weather Cloudy with sunny period and occasional showers Thursday and Friday. Highs 21°-23° and lows 5°-8° SIGNING DEAL . . . Cominco and Airco executives sign ‘ for the c if co's Trait prornee , Bill Robertson, Cominco's vice- @ 145 million oxyaan ern for Cominco’s Trait ‘operations. Deal wel .8 John Tindale, president of ne ‘Oxygen Ltd. and David Troast group vice- at Cominco's Trail, Seated trom left to right are Ron Honey, Comin- center in of Western Hemisphere Gases. $45m plant planned By SURJ RATTAN wi Cominco Ltd. and Canadian Oxygen Ltd., a subsidiary of Airco, have signed a contract for the construction of Canada’s largest oxygen. plant to be built at Cominco's Trail location. Airco will finance and build the $45 million oxygen plant and when it is finished in 1989 it will produce 1,100 tonnes of high purity oxygen per day, which is to be. used at Cominco's modernized lead smelter, currently under construction. During construction 50 people will be employed for two years. The oxygen plant is being designed by BOC Cryoplants, an Airco associate company but Cominco engineers will provide project management services and-Cominco employees will construct the plant, expected to take two years to build. said Troast. quired.” The plant will employ 15 full-time people when completed, all Cominco employees on loan to Airco. In addition, Airco will be producing argon gas from the plant which it will sell in the Pacific Northwest. Nitrogen gas will be produced out of the same plant for Cominco's smelter. Airco vice-president David Troast said negotiations with Cominco took more than a year and this is the first time that Airco will be using another company’s employees. “We are certainly pleased to con- clude these negotiations. The contract is for 25 years and this is the largest investment we've made in Canada,” “We think Cominco in Trail offers us a tremendous oppor- tunity to produce the oxygen re- Ron Honey, manager of Cominco's Trail operations, said he is happy with the deal. “We hope it will be a long and happy marriage. The negotiations have been interesting and I think both parties are happy.” Honey added that the investment by Airco is a sign that will continue to have a strong future in Trail. “This large investment in our com- munity by another industrial company reaffirms that Cominco has a long, stable future ahead of it in the lead-zinc industry and in Trail,” said Honey. Airco is the trading name used by the BOC group, a British-based com- pany that is one of the largest gas companies in the world. They have about 25 plants in the United States and the investment in the plants range from $25 million to $33 million U.S. Psy (iu. PASSENGER SERVI . - « Though it may have looked like it, you wou! ve had trouble buying a ticket. students from il, decompdnted Oy ee se TREET “TALK IF YOU WERE down by the CP Rail station yesterday morning andthought you saw a passenger car pull up, you were not seeing things. Five students from Brazil, accompanied by several local ‘Rotary officials, stepped off the passenger car, tacked onto the end of a CP freight train. several local Rotary officials, rode the special passenger train that pulled into Castlegar's CP Rail station yesterday morning. Story below, —CasttewsPhoto by Suri Betton He is William Wheeler, whose family resides in Rock Creek. Currently, Wheeler is a sergeant in the USAF, stationed at George Air Force Base in southern California, and works as a dental technician at the base hospital. Wheeler was selected Airman of the Year by the George AFB selection committee. As winner of that honor, he is entered in thé competition for Outstanding Airman for the 12th Air Force. Wheeler has decided an Air Force career is for him, and in addition to his regular duties as a dental technician, he teaches CPR on the base and also sits on a The five Brazilians are on a study and will be touring and studying with people in the West Kootenay in the same professions. UNDER THE “It’s a Small World” category is the following item. Castlegar News publisher Burt Campbell remembers film producer, writer and actor John Stark from their days together at Ryerson, in Toronto more than 30 years ago. Stark, who is to write, star in and co-produce a mjnute teleplay called Chekov, and who plans to make a Kor ‘ture film about the Doukhobors (see the entertain- ment item on Aé6), lived on the floor below Campbell in Toronto in 1958-59. The credit for jogging Campbell's memory actually belongs to another former Ryerson student from those days — Ernest F , now vice-president of programming for Shaw ‘Cable in Edmonton, lived in another apartment on the same floor as Campbell during those days in Toronto. Poscente was most recently in this area April 5 when he appeared as a co-host on the West Kootenay Children's Development Centre telethon on Shaw Cable that raised more than$25,000. A graduate of Selkirk College's Aviation gram ‘has gone skyhigh in the United States Air Foreé. for the base hospital. As if that isn’t enough, Wheeler spends his weekends working toward his bachelor's degree in aviation and upon ion, plans to apply for his commission as an officer in the Air Force. In an interview reported in the Kettle River Echo, Wheeler is quoted as saying, “I really appreciate the good supervision I've been afforded. That's extremely vital to the retention of good airmen in the Air Force. 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CasNews photo by Mike Kolesniko TEACHERS continued from front page “If we don't do something today,” he said, “Two years down the line they will say that we didn’t complain abogydtic philosophy of the bill so why complain now.” Rick Pongracz, representing the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, also addressed the teachers regarding Bill. 19, the proposed labor code. “They call them amendments to the labor code, I find that kind of interesting,” said Pongracz. “What they (the government) are introducing is a whole new attitude of how labor relations will be handled. “What we have in Bill 19 is ‘right to work’ legislation without the words ‘right to work,’ ” he said. Pongracz pointed to several of the southern states in the U.S. which have so-called ‘right to work’ legislation. He said the economy there does little to attact investors and he said, since few wage earners mean fewer people Federation president Elsie McMurphy recently wrapped up a six-hour meeting with Education Minister Tony Brummet, but nothing was accomplished The proposed Bill 20 states that all teachers must belong to a College of Teachers which will oversee such things as discipline and teaching standards. The bill also proposes that teachers join a local teachers union within their own district while continued membership:in the BCTF will be voluntary. The BCTF, in a prepared brief, outlines some concerns about the proposed bill The federation states that the sped with which the government tabled the bill in the legislature and the lack of consultation with teachers “casts doubt on the government's real intentions.” The brief also said the postponement by one week of a previously set one-day withdrawal of services had no paying taxes, money spent on public edi “It's obvious that we've been moving in that direction,” said Pongracz. “I don't see anyone wanting to come to this province and invest here.” Darlene Shultz, president of the local Canadian Union of Public Employees which represents non-teaching staff in the school district, applauded the teachers’ efforts. “As educators we have to let the generak public know what these bills will do,” she said. “Whatever it is you want us (CUPE) to do, if it’s within our power, we'll definitely do in Rodgers also informed the group that B.C. 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