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A2 Castlegar News August 20, 1989

EAS plebisci

By CasNews Staff
B.C. Tel will not make anoth
presentation to Castlegar city council
about the upcoming plebiscite on the
proposed one-way toll-free telephone
service between Castlegar and Trail,

vice (EAS) “is quite straightforward.””

“The ‘ballot’ for
Castlegar to vote on EAS to Trail is
presently being designed and when it is
prepared will be shown to her worship,
Mayor Audrey Moore, by a B.C. Tel

residents of

on one-way toll-free service.

“It (the ballot) identifies current
monthly exchange rates, as well as the
new exchange rates for residential and
business customers if the plebiscite is
approved by a majority (50 per cent

the company’s public affairs ad- representative f
ministrator \for the Columbia region
says ina letter tocouncil

Ed Clark says the plebiscite process

for the toll-free, or extended area ser

Both sides

** ballot

k says the company will use a

rom our Customer plus one) of voters,”’ Clark says.

Service Department in Nelson,"’ Clark

The voting will take place between
Sept. 25 and Oct. 23 and B.C. Tel will

for all its plebiscites _ mail a **pre-plebiscite letter" Sept. 11

disgruntled

with nurses’ package

VANCOUVER (CP) — Neither side applauded it, but
a mediator’s binding decision ended a lengthy contract
dispute by awarding 17,500 B.C. nurses a two-year package
with a total wage increase of almost 21 percent

The hospitals said Friday they doubted the deal is long
enough to provide stability inthe nursing profession. The
nurses said it won't alleviate shortages in a province that
already needs 600 nurses

However, Health Minister
reviews of nurses duties and a search for ways to reduce

Peter Dueck promised

overtime causing job stress and encouraging some nurses to

quit

The settlement came after the nurses staged escalating -

strikes for 13 days in June. They also banned overtime and
refused to perform non-nursing duties for several months.
The last contract expired March 31
Job action may be over but our dispute continues,

said Pat Savage, president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union, “We
will begin now to prepare for the next round of negotiations
and develop mechanisms to make sure the public under
stands that patient-care problems are sure to result from
his short-sighted settlement.””

Gordon Austin, Health. Labor
Relations Association which bargains for 144 health care
facilities, said mediator Vince Ready’s ruling means the
two sides will be back at the bargaining table in 19 months

Overall HLRA is extremely disappointed with the
1m of this collective agreement,” Austin said of the pact
that will cost taxpayers an additional $151.2 million during

president of the

the next two years.

Ready’s decision increased the starting hourly wage to
$17.02 from $15.07. It will move to $19.68 by the end of the
contract. Elsewhere in Canada, nurses’ starting wages
range from $12.57 an hour in New Brunswick to $15.85 in
Ontario, the association said

Geralyn Hogan, an emergency room nurse at St
Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, doubted her colleagues are
happy with the agreement

**Do you think they’re happy when it’s no better than
what we campaigned against except it’s compressed into

they think it’s a crisis now, just wait — it's going to be wor
Yvonne Ennik, an orthopedic nurse at Vancouver
General Hospital, agreed negotiations for the next contiact
likely will be more acrimonious.
Everyone’s upset about what we're being given now
: what we striked for madea difference.”*
alls for salary increases of 6.25 per
April 1;
three per cent April 1

Itdoesn’t seem li
Ready’s rulid
cent retroactive t« 6.25 pet cent retroactive to
Aug. 1 1990; and four per cent Dec
1, 1990. That's acompounded increase of 20.9 per cent
DEALSIMILAR

The deal is virtually the same as the first two years of a
three-year offer rejected by_nurses last month. The only
difference is that the second increase this year is effective
Aug. | rather than Oct. |

Ready said he chose the shorter contract because issues
such as union frustration at nursing shortages had to be ad
dressed ‘*on a continuing basis."”

Negotiators for the nurses and the hospitals agreed
Tuesday to let Ready decide the contentious issues of wages
and length of the contract. The two sides had settled most
other issues

Premier Bill Vander Zalm had threatened government
intervention if talks broke down. Hospitals said elective
surgery waiting lists grew by an average of 30 per cent
during the dispute

The nurses, ignoring their union executive's recom-
mendation, rejected an offer last month that called for a
29.5-per-cent salary hike over three years. The union
originally sought 33 per cent over one year

Health Minister Peter Dueck said the government will
increase training positions for potential nurses and explore
recruiting of foreign nurses.

“Why don’t they deal with the nurses who are already
here, doing all the overtime, keeping the hospitals run-
ning,”” Shelly. Waldern, an intensive care nurse at St
Paul’s, said of Dueck’s proposals

“*We're really critically short-of nurses and this is not
really an attractive enough settlement to draw nurses from

te coming

to all residents explaining to them the
voting process, Clark says.

The company will then
ballots to all residents on Sept
B.C, Tel will mail a reminder lewer
Oct. 4.

The ballots will be counted by a
representative from B.C. Tel’s
customer service department in Nelson
and a representative from Castlegar
city council, Clark says

As-well, B.C, Tel will initiate a
community awareness program in
volving local newspaper advertisemen
ts and a news reminding
residents that the plebiscite is taking
place, he adds.

If approved by residents, the one-
way, toll-free service would add $1.75
to the monthly bills of B.C. Tel
customers in Castlegar, increasing the
monthly charge to $9.15 from the
current $7.40.

Castlegar to Trail became ‘eligible
for the toll-free, one-way service under
new criteria the Canadian Radio-
television and Telecommunications
Commission established last Decem-

release

ber

Under the new criteria, communities
qualify if 60 per c
in the exchange requesting the service
call the requested exchange at least on
ce a month, three months out of four
studied by a telephone company. The
distance between the two communities
must not exceed 64 kilometres (40
miles.)

Trail to Castlegar, Castlegar to
Nelson and Nelson to Castlegar do not
qualify for the one-way toll-free ser
vice under the criteria

Among the communities included in
B.C. Tel’s plan for the one-way toll-

are Genelle to Castlegar,
Kaslo to. Nelson, Salmo to Nelson,
Slocan to Vallican, South Slocan to
Castlegar, Thrums to Nelson and
Vallican to Castlegar

t of the customers

Council briefs

Hospital expansion finalized

Plans. for the $4 million expansion of the Castlegar and District
Hospital have been finalized and sent to the provincial Health Ministry
for approval, Ald, Marilyn Mathieson told Castlegar city council last
week

If the ministry gives the go ahead to the plans they must then go to the
Treasury Board for approval of the funds necessary for the project, she
said.

“At this point, there’s no reason to anticipate that the Treasury
Board won't approve (the project), Mathieson said

If all goes well, she said, the project could go to tender in early Sep-
tember

Meeting on truck route

Council’s works and services committee feels that trucks should be
prohibited. on 20th Street from Columbia Avenue to 6th Avenue, 6th
Avenue from 20th Street to 22nd Street and 6th Avenue from 24th Street
to 27th Street

The city’s director of engineering and public works Kevin Laj
arrange two meetings one between the committee and owners of residen.
tial property in the area and a second between the committee and owners
of commercial/industrial property in the area to discuss the proposal
prior to making a recommendation to council

Council supports Games bid

Castlegar council will support the City of Trail’s application to host
the 1992 B.C, Summer Games.

“The hosting of the Games will be of major economic, social and
cultural benefit to the Greater Trail Region and council is confident that
the citizens of our area will rally together to stage an event we can all be
proud of,’’ Trail Mayor Marc Marcolin says in a letter to Castlegar coun-
cil asking its support and agreement to participate in the hosting of the
Games.

The deadline for Trail’s application to the Ministry of Municipal Af
fairs, Recreation and Culture to host the games is Sept. 15

WINS assistance declined

Council voted to refer back to its administration and finance com-
mittee a request for financial assistance from the Women In Need Society
(WINS) in Trail. The committee had advised council to decline the request
because many of the services WINS provides are already provided in
Castlegar by Castlegar Community Services, said Ald. Doreen Smecher;
chairman of the works and services committee.

However, Ald. Marilyn Mathieson pointed out that WINS doesoffer
some services notavaitable in Castlegar

“I’m disappointed that we can’t fund a small amount because they
do serve some people in this town,” she said

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Briefly

Film
continued from front page
before moving on to other projects

Stark lost director Charles Jarrott to another film
recently and actor Gary Farmer has said he will no longer be
exclusively bound to Stark's film, Elias Koteas may take
another part Monday, Stark said, and if he does the film

Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) contracts on or

about June 9, 1989.""

cino., Calif., states:

A letter to Stark dated July 7, 1989 and signed John S
Kelly of Bresler, Kelly, Kipperman Talent Agency in En.

“*Per our conversation today, I’m writing to tell you

two years? I think they're going to lose a lot of nurses. If

other provinces.

Chemical spill closes
commercial fishing

A 9,100.
litre toxic chemical spill has forced

VANCOUVER (CP) -

closure of commerical and sport
fisheries on the Fraser River during the
biggest sockeye salmon run in 76 years

The timing of the spill is most un-
fortunate,”’ Steve Samis of the federal
fisheries habitat management division
said late Friday

This is the largest fish-run since
1913. It’s the Horsefly River run. And
given the toxicity of the spill and the
high volume, it’s considered very

serious.”

Tourist alert

VANCOUVER (CP) Tourist
Alert issued Friday by the RCMP. The
following persons, believed travelling
in British Columbia, are asked to call
he person named for an urgent per
sonal message

Clay Robinson, 100 Mile House,
B.C., call Charlotte Monkman or
Angie Grisdale

Cpl. M. Hollett, The Pas, Man., call
your office.

Hosea and Callie Rogers, Alabama,
call Rene Terry

Harold Hicks, Longview, Wasi
call Stitt residence

Peter and Lia Kreft, Nobleford,
Alta., call Paul Verhoff

About 9,100 litres of TCMTBS, a
highly toxic wood preservative used to
kill fungus and mould, spilled into
storm drains at the Fraser Surrey docks
when a tanker trailer flipped on to its
side at 12:05 p.m Friday as the
chemical was being transferred

After inspecting the site, Federal
Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon said the
closures, which will also affect the
Musqueam native fishery, will remain
in effect until testing shows the fish are
uncontaminated

We want to get the data as soon as
we can, so we can give the green light to
the commercial fishery — but there
will be a delay while we make ab
solutely certain that the fish in the river
are safe

Federal fisheries spokesman Fred
Fraser said the sports fishery will be
closed from Mission downstream to
the mouth of the river

The commercial fishery scheduled
for th entire Fraser River district will be
postponed until traces of the chemical

are below the danger level, he added.

A 24-hour commercial fishery had
been set to begin tody at 8 a.m.

The native food fishery will be sub.
ject to ‘moving closures” as officials
chart the movement of possibly con

taminated fish on their way upstream.

Lottery numbers

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) The
winning numbers drawn Thursday in
The B.C. Keno lottery were 10, 18, 20,
29, 31, 32, 35 and 52

The following are the winning num
bers drawn in Wednesday's lotteries

Lotto 6/49 — 9, 12, 13, 32, 34 and
35. The bonus number was 47

Extra — 5, 28, 30and 47

B.C, Keno — 8, 11, 26, 30, 31, 47, 53
and 54

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be considered
unofficial

will collapse completely because Koteas is slated to play the
lead role

Stark said the lose of his actors and director is the
result of the long delay from Telefilm, which expects the
producer to name the actors and director that will be in-
volved when the budget and script are submitted

Gray said letters from the actors and director are
usually submitted with the documentation to prove they are
interested in the picture. No firm committment is needed or
expected by Telfilm and changes in cast can be made with
Telefilm approval once the film is close to production, he
said

Stark said ‘‘it is ridiculous’’ to expect an expression of
interest from an actor or director who is in demand without
making a firm offer and putting down a deposit within a
specific time period

None of the actors slated to be involved with Stark's
project would look at the script until they had an offer in
writing, Stark said

A letter dated June 7, 1989 and signed Gary Goddard
of Gary Goddard and Associates, Ltd. in Toronto states
that “this will confirm our client Gary Farmer's par
ticipation in the film now known as The Dispossessed to
begin shooting Sept. 7, 1989 for a period of eight weeks.
Thésalary is agreed as per your letter of June 5

“We will expect ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian

that I have no choice but to consider Elias Koteas available
(for other films) until [ get confirmation of a guarantor for
his full salary

“*As I stated today, I'm expecting an offer for Elias
that will conflict with The Dispossessed. | certainly will not
accept such an offer without further discussions with you,
but | am compelled to inform you that there is some urgen
cyto this guarantee

It is and always has been Elias’ desire to appear in

your film, but I can’t allow him to pass on acceptable em
ployment on the speculation that-your—film—wilH-come
together

Stark said producers are usually given two to four
weeks at the most to put down money to back up an offer

In Hollywood, the saying is “pay or play — not pay or
play five months later,”* he said

Gray said Saturday Stark has no guarantee of anything
from Telefilm and should stop suggesting he has a right to
expect something from the agency

“What I told him in June is what it is,"’ Gray said

Stark has been looking to private funding through the
Royal Bank of Ganada but that backing is contingent on
the project having a full cast and director, he said.

And finding a new director and replacing any lost cast
will be contingent on being able to make a firm offer and
put downa deposit, he said

Canadian economy lagging

OTTAWA (CP) Canada’s
economy will perform below average
this year and next after outpacing
almost every other major in-
dustrialized country last
Conference Board of Canada said
Friday

Canada's

interest rates.

Court news

In Castlegar provincial court last
week, Douglas R. Parker was given a
suspended 15 days
probation for failing to have a break
mechanism for

sentence and

away device, a

releasing a towed vehicle

Taxidermy

continued from front poge

Moore said thee information was
contained in a ‘‘confidential memo"
from city staff and would not reveal
the exact nature of the information,
although she said it referred to *‘sort of
achange in Mr. Davis’s plans.

The mayor said the receipt of the
new information after the closure of
the public hearing on the issue puts
council in a difficult position. She
described by the rules governing bylaw
amendments and how much additional
information a council can receive after
a public hearing as ‘‘a tricky piece of
law

We're in a position now of trying
to decide after the public input and af
ter a sort of change of some other facts

Mr. Davis has tabled with us,”
Moore said

She said the planning and develop
ment committee will discussgM@ Tssue
at its next meeting scheduled for this
week

Meanwhile, Davis said he may be
forced to wait another year to move
unless council approves the amen.
dment afjits Sept. 12 meeting. He said
October is the busiest time of year for
the business and it
possible to move at that time.

The opportunity to get funding
(from KREDA) looks
Davis added, although the
won't be available until next year. In

would not be

excellent,
money
the meantime, he said he has set up a
lease-to-purchase deal with the owners
of the building into which he wants to
move in case he gets the green light

from council

VANCOUVER (CP) — Con
tract talks between B.C. Hydro
nd 2,300 of its employees will
resume Tuesday for the first time in
almost seven weeks, a
n Said Friday
Strombs

union
spokesm

Paula spokesman
for the Office and Technical Em
ployees Union, said company offi
cials phoned the union earlier in the
day and agreed to a union request
that workers at three new sub
sidiaries would also be covered by
any new deal

She said the concession paved
the way for a resumption of talks
but Hydro spokesman Verne Pi
said the union also made a con
cession

“The
union has agreed to withdraw its

trade-off was that the

proposal on contracting out,’ he
said

B.C. Hydro already had
provisions in the contract enabling
it to contract out work, and the
union wanted to stop the practice.

Contract talks
will resume

than Canada’s

tries for the

Board's
Research Centre.

“I think it’s a step forward,’
Prior said of the new positions of
each side. “‘It’s one step towards a
collective agreement.”

The board has already predicted
economy
recession, despite the burden of high

year, The But the research
most economies in the world’s seven
major industrial
called G-7 countries, will grow faster

countries, the so:

“After being at virtually the top of
the leader board among the G
past several
economic growth in Canada is expec
ted to be near the bottom,”” said Ranga
Chand, director
International

The average forecast of four major

international economic groups is for
Canada’s economy to grow by 3.0 per
cent this year and 2.2 per cent in 1990
after adjusting for inflation, the Con.
ference Board said

That's than the average
growth of 3.2 per cent in 1989 and 2.8
per cent next year predicted for the G-7

will skirt a

group now says
slower

economies as a group.

Last year, Canada’s economy grew

by 5.0 per cent, faster than every other

7Tcoun- G-7 economy except Japan’s, which
expanded by 5.7 per cent in 1988.

The board did not specifically rank
growth among the seven major
economies, but said economic perfor
mance in Canada, the United States
and United Kingdom will be below
average in 1989 and 1990.

years,

the Conference
Business

Stromberg agreed: ‘We're very,
very happy with that. We're still a
long way from a settlement, but at
least step one has begun

The union announced earlier

In memory

this week that it would escalate its

strike action daily to press for a
new contract. Selective strikes
aimed at hurting the company
without inconveniencing the public
started a week ago.

About 110 Hydro employees
have been called out on strike by
the union. Neogotiations broke
down July 7 when the two sides
could not agree on the status of the
subsidiary employees, wages and
contracting-out issues, Stromberg
said

The union wants wage increases
of 10 per centin-each year of a two.
Hydro has offered
four per cent and five per cent

year contract

George Nevokshonoff

George Nevokshonoff of Thrums passed away Aug. 16 at age 83

Mr. Nevokshonoff was born Jan. 1, 1906, at Regina, Sask., 2
came to B.C. with his parents and settled at Ootischenia. He married T
Salekin March 30, 1930, at Thrums and lived there since

During his life he worked as a lumber grader for Kootenay Forest
Products, retiring in 1968. He was a member of the USCC and enjoyed
gardenifig, especially taking pride in his strawberries

He is survived by one son, George of Williams Lake; two daughters,
Helen Kinakin of Thrums and Mable Frederiksen of Peace River, Alta.;
five grandchildren; and—one~ brother, Fred of Valemount. He is
predeceased by his wife Tina and one sister, Annie Stoochaoff

Funeral services were held at the T
with burial in the Shoreacres Cemetery

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel

arrys Hall on Friday and Saturday

Solidarity activist
nominated

WARSAW
Wojciech nominated
Solidarity Tadeusz
Mazowiecki on Saturday as premier,
paving the way to end 45 years of
Communist leadership in Poland

A statement released by the official
news agency said the president decided
the new Solidarily-led coalition gover-
necessary to help solve
Poland's economic problems and end
widespread public discontent

“The president thinks that the for
mation of such a government will be
conducive to expeditiously over-
coming economic difficulties . . . and
statisfying the needs and aspirations of
Polish society,’ the PAP news agency
said

Mazowiecki, 62, must be approved
by the Sejm, or lower house of the
national assembly, which will receive
the nomination Monday. Approval is
virtually assured because Solidarity
and its two coalition partners have a
majority in the body

The new government will be the first

(AP) — President
Jaruzelski

activist

nment is

in the Soviet bloc not led by Com
munists since Soviet dictator Josef
$talin consolidated communist control
n the late 1940s.

“I am terrified,"’ Mazowiecki said
in an®interview on Polish state
televisign. But “I think... wecandoa
lot, that we can release the forces in
I think that it will not be

ourselves
easy, but it is possible

Lech’ Walesa said: “It is an_in-
credible success for our struggle. But
now let us see it in practice. This is just
the beginning.”

WALESA ‘FREE’

Speaking by telephone from Gdansk
home, the man who has led Solidarity
since it was founded in 1980 said he
now feels free to leave politics to others
and to devote himself entirely to union
affairs.

Once approved, Mazowiecki will
have several weeks to form his cabinet,
which will include Solidarity, Com
munists and non-Communists

Mindful of the Soviet

Union's

Ottawa told to help

end Lebanese violence

OTTAWA (CP) — Lebanese-Can
adians said Friday they are disappoin
ted with Canada’s efforts to help end
the violence in their homeland

About 2,000 Lebanese Christians
marched from Parliament Hill to the
External Affairs Department, where
their leaders met briefly with senior of
ficials. They were protesting the seige
of the Christian sector of east Beirut by
Syrian troops and their Lebanese-
Muslim allies

They called on Canada to condem
Syria's actions and to use every means
possible to help bring about the with
drawal of all foreign troops from
Lebanon,

“We are not satisifed — Canada
should do a lot more,"’ said Frank
Hbeich, a McGill University student
and one of the organizers

“They should do everything in their

Flight

WASHINGTON (AP) — Only
three months into his job as an air traf
fic controller at Sioux City, Lowa, 27-
year-old Kevin Bachman broke into
tears after the fiery crash of United
Airlines Flight 232 last month

Buta tape of his radio conversations
with pilot Al Haynes, released Friday,
show only a calm, cool intensity during
the 36 minutes they struggled together
to find “something solid"’ on which to
land the out-of-control airline.

Of the 296 people aboard the DC-10,
111 were killed when the plane en route
from Denver to Chicago and
Philadelphia burst into flames July 19
while trying to make the emergency
landing.

That 185 survived is widely credited
to the performance of Haynes, Bach
man and rescue-response efforts on the
ground ‘at the airport and in Sioux
City

According to the tape, it was a 3:23
p.m. CDT when air traffic controllers

power to get all foreign troops to with:
draw from Lebanon. A United
Nations cease fire won't solve anything

the Syrians will still be there and ina.
year another war will start.””

Chanting Wake "Up Canada, they
waved | Canadian, Quebec and
Lebanese flags and placards that read
Syria:| Assassin and The) Christian
Comniunity is in Danger of An-
nihilation. Several men carried a large
cardboard cedar tree, their national
symbol, some carried a large cross and
others waved large photos of badly
wounded children

Ina statement read to the crowd, the
federal government called for the
withdrawal of all foreign troops from
Lebanon. The Arab League's efforts
remain the best avenue for achieving
national reconciliation in Lebanon,
the statement said

as premier

Solidarity has
agreed that the Communist party will
retain control of the ministries of
defence and interior, which oversee the

Strategic concerns,

army and police

In addition, local governments and
the court system will remain controlled
by party members

Premiers likely
to form alliance
against sales tax

QUEBEC (CP) — Most provincial
premiers are expected to band together
against the proposed federal sales tax
when they begin their annual meeting
in Quebec City this weekend

“ see the possibility of an
alliance,"” Newfoundland Premier
Clyde Wells said. ‘‘And I think it
would have a significant impact on the
federal government, but I don’t know
whether it would change their
mind.””

Alberta Premier Don Getty, who
last week slammed the nine-per-cent
levy as unfair and inflationary, has
promised to lead the fight against the
goods and services tax slated to come
into effect in January 1991

Other premiers opposed to the tax
include David Peterson of Ontario and
Robert Bourassa of Quebec, leaders of
the two largest provinces

Bourassa, has argued the tax could
be an into provincial
jurisdiction and has suggested he will
make the tax a key issue in the cam
paign leading to the Sept. 25 provincial
election in Quebec

The tax, which has been widely
criticized by business, labor and con-
sumer groups, would apply to most
goods and services and replace the
existing 13.5-per-cent manufacturing
tax.

The ailing Meech Lake con
stitutional agreement, though not on
the official agenda, will likely also be
addressed at the get-together, which
begins Saturday and ends Tuesday

“Look, it (Meech) always comes up
privately,” New Brunswick Premier

incursion

Frank McKenna said in an interview

“Ill come up privately when I'm
meeting Peterson. It'll come up
privately meeting Clyde
Wells. But the (Toronto) Blue Jays
come up privately, too.

New Brunswick and Manitoba have
not yet endorsed the agreement, while
signatores Newfoundland and British
Columbia have expressed reservations.

The deal, which among other things
recognizes Quebec as a distinct society,
must be ratified by all provinces before
the deadline next June

when I’m

Peterson and McKenna agree that
formal discussion of Meech is inap
pr@priate because of the Quebec elec
tion Sept. 25

Getty, who said Meech Lake “tis
bound to be discussed in some man
ner,’’ also wants discussions on Senate
reform. The Alberta legislature passed
a bill this week to allow an election to
fill Alberta's vacancy if the Senate

Premier Grant Devine of Saskat
chewan_ said
agriculture, the
family policies shogld also be brought
up.

Wells hopes the premiers can discuss

interest rates, trade,

environment and

regional economic disparities, while
a@other McKenna priority will be to
win support for his proposal to have
Ottawa spend $1.5 billion to have the
Trans-Canada Highway built through
New Brunswick

Peterson also hopes education and
environment issues, such as auto
emission standards, will be on the

table.

232 tape released

first notified Sion. City that a stricken
jetliner 60 kilometres away was headed
for it

“I’ve got a United aircraft coming
in, lost No. 2 engine, having a hard
time controlling the aircraft right now
He’s out of 29,000 (feet altitude)
and descending to Sioux City right
now,"’ the Minneapolis
said. ‘‘As soon as | get comfortable,
I'l ship him over to you and he'll be in
your control.””

controller

Three minutes later: “Okay, so you
know we have almost no control
ability, very little elevator and almost
noaileron,”” Haynes tells Bachman

At 3:32, Haynes tells Bachman the
DC-10 has no hydraulic fluid knocking
out virtually all controls

Pl DOW N ANYWHERE’

1 have serious doubts
making the airport,’ Haynes says,
with a gasp. ““Have you got some place
near there that we might be able to dit
ch? Unless we get control of this air

about

plane, we're going to put it down,
wherever it happens to be

Bachman repeatedly asks how many
people are abord the aircraft

Twenty seconds later, Haynes says
“Two hundred ninety-two souls on
board United 232.”"

At 3:43 p.m., Bachman asks Haynes
if he can maintain the plane's altitude
“Negative,” Haynes replies
At 3:51 p.m., Bachman tells Haynes
to “widen out just slightly to your left
to take you away from the city

“Whatever you do, keep us away
from the city,"* Haynes radios back

Two minutes later, Bachman advises
Haynes about a four-lane highway
where the plane could touch down

At 3:57 p.m., Bachman says, “Ah
United 232, if you cannot make the
airport, sir, there is an interstate that
Tuns north to south to the east side of
theairport.’

“We're just passing it right now

Haynes responds. “We're going to try

for the airport."*

At 3:58 p.m. Haynes to Bachman
“Have runway in sight. We'll be with
you very shortly. Thanks a lot for your
help.

Bachman gives Haynes figures on
wind speed and direction and tells him

You're cleared to land on any run
way

Haynes chuckles and quips: “You
want to be particular and make it a
runway, huh?

At 3:59 p.m., Haynes ask Bachman
for the length of an unused runway and
is told it’s 6,600 feet

* At the end of the runway, it’s just a
wide open field,"’ Bachman says. “So,
sir, the length won't be a probtem,*

Four seconds later, Haynes replies;
“Okay.”

Eight seconds later a voice says
“Pull up, pullup.”

The tape goes silent, United 232 is
down

Cape Town police beat blacks

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuter) — Riot police used rubber
whips and batons to beat hundreds of black protesters who streamed onto
a whites-only beach on Saturday in defiance of apartheid

At least four people were injured as police whipped and chased
demonstrators along ther Bloubergsirand beach, about 10 kilometres
west of Cape Town

“Here you had unarmed people,”’ said Anglican
Desmond Tutt ,
the beach
threaten to shoot. It’s unbelievable

Archbishop
leader of the beach protest. **They just wanted to walk on

The police come with guns and whips and dogs and they

Tutu mediated between police and demonstrators, persuading a
hostile crowd of about 1,000 blacks and pebdple of mixed race to leave the
beach after the police action

Pollution closes Banff river

BANFF, Alta., (CP) — Contamination levels in Banff National
Park's Bow River have risen so high that park officials doubt it will'be
open to the public before mid-September

Acting chief warden Keith Everts said Friday that efforts to repair
Banff"s faulty sewage treatment plant have actually caused more un
treated waste to be released into the river

“The plant simply can’t cope,”
August type of phenomenon."

Everts said. **I think it’s an

Water samples taken Thursday at the national park's east gate reveal
the amount of fecal coliform in the river has risen to 6,100 parts per 100
millilitres

A level of 1,000 parts was measured after the plant failed last week,
causing the parks service to issue a warning against all recreational use of
the river

lranian cabinet submitted

NICOSIA (Reuter) Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, submitting his new cabinet to parliament, ignored a plea by a
majority of deputies to retain anti-western hardline interior minister Alik
Akbar Mohtashemi

Iran's official Islamic Republic news agency said Mohtashemi,
regarded as the leading Islamic purist in the government, has been
replaced by Abdollah Nouri, formerly government representative with
the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

Mohtashemi had been publicly at odds with Rafsanjani on many
issues, including the newly-elected president's stated desire to improve
relations with the West

Bravery honored in Vernon

VERNON, B.C. (CP) — Two men who went to the same Saskatoon

h school 14 years ago were honored Friday for their attempst last sum-
mer tosave a man from drowning in Wood Lake

Vernon resident Terry Burrill, 29, and Merle Adam, 30, formerly of
Vernon and now living in Burnaby, B.C., were awarded Royal Canadian
Humane Association honorary testimonial certificates for their bravery

Although Albert Otke, of Vernon, later died in hospital, Vernon
RCMP Staff Sgt. Jerry MCRaé thanked the pair for endangering their
own lives.

Otke suffered a heart attack or seizure while launching his boat. His
car went down the launch ramp, trapping him inside

Burrill, a former life guard, grabbed a hammer from his vehicle and
tried to smash a window to free the trapped man. He was spelled by
Adam, an ambulance attendant on his way to work in Kelowna, B.C., but
the car slid further into the water

They eventually hooked a tow line on the car from a large truck. As
soon as the car was pulled free
resuscitation on Otke.

Although Adam had experience with such situations, Burrill said he
was stunned by the incident and had nightmares for a week

‘It’s something you don’t forget,”” said Adam

the men began cardiopulmonary

Exxon to end spill cleanup

ANCHOROAGE, Alaska (Reuter) — Exxon Corp. said Friday it
will withdraw its main Alaska oil-spill cleanup force Sept. 15

But Exxon said in Valdez, the community closest to where the Exxon
Valdez supertanker ran aground March 24, that the company will keep an
oil-spill monitoring force of 300 workers in Alaska during the winter

Exxon said beach cleanup activities would have to end by mid
September because of increasingly severe weather in Prince William
Sound, the site of the spill, and the Gulf of Alaska

“Exxon has made a major effort —
that,” Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper said ina statement

**But there’s still a lot of oil below the surface, there’s a lot of oil on

there is no question about

the beaches and there’s a lot of oil in the water,”’ the governor said. "We
think that oil ought to be cleaned up as best it can

Bourassa stages election show

MONTREAL (CP) — Premier Robert Bourassa sought to turn the
tide on a controversy-strewn re-election bid as he officially launched the
n Friday with a showbiz-style estravaganza, complete
with laser lights and showering fireworks, at a downtown nightclub

Liberal campai

Bourassa, whose first 10 days of campaigning have been dogged by
the problem of disposal of PCB wastes from a warehouse fire, accused his
Parti Quebecois opponents of exploiting the issue for electoral gain

‘Mare Levy is their own creation,"’ Bourassa told about 500 suppor-
ters, referring to the owner of the unsafe PCB warehouse storage site at St-
Basile-le-Grand that caught fire last year. He said the storage pe™it was
granted to Levy by the previous PQ administration

The PQ Opposition is *‘proposing nothing realistic, they have no
* said Bourassa, showir

short-term solution, a feistiness lacking in his

earlier campaigning for the Sept. 25 general election

Hydro workers join PCB protest

MONTREAL (CP) — The Quebec government is sticking to its plan
© send PCBs to the Manic 2 hydroelectric plant near Baie-Comeau
even though 700 Hydro-Quebec workers have joined a growing protest
movement to block the shipment

The workers are backing longshoremen at Baie-Comeau who say
they won't unload any PCB cargo.

But Quebec Environment Minister Lise Bacon said Friday the Manic
site, 30 kilometres from the town,

2 is the option chose and that’s the
option it’s going to be

Bacon, trying to cool environmental fears while campaigning for the
Sept. 25 Quebec election, said PCB dangers have been exaggerated

First woman commodore posted

VICTORIA (CP) — Commodore Laraine Orthlieb, the first woman
to hold that rank in the Canadian Armed Forces, has assumed the post of
senior naval reserve adviser in Victoria

‘Whether man or woman
and I intend to do it,’
wenttosea in 1974,

Ihave a job to do for the naval reserve
said Orthlieb, a 21-year reserve veteran who first

Orthlieb takes over at a time when the reserve’s size and role grows,
but full-time forces are being cut. She assumed the command from Com
modre Gerald Peer who retired after two years at the post

Orthlieb comes to Victoria from Calgary, where she lived with her
husband and three children