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‘a2 tlegar News July 21. 1985

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B.C. Tel opposes CNCP
application, council told

By CasNews Staff

B.C... Tel’s public affairs
manager told Castlegar city
council Tuesday that his
company opposes CNCP’s
application to provide long
distance’ service at discount
rates in competition to B.C.
Tel.and Bell Canada.

Wally Donaldson explained
to council that cheaper long
distance rates can be provi-
ded only at the sacrifice of
affordable local service.

Donaldson said sudden in-
creases in local service rates
will occur if CNCP’s applica.

on_is‘approved right away
because CNCP refuses to pay
the same contribution to local
service that B.C. Tel pays.

“CNCP doesn't appear to
regard universal service as a
ferious priozity,” he «told
council.

He quoteu a top CNCP
executive as saying universal
service was “not completely
practical.” i

“I wonder how many re-
sidents of Castlegar would
like to be told it’s not prac-
tical for them to have a tele-
phone,” Donaldson said.

He said B.C. Tel is not
opposed to competition, but
added “if that kind of com-

petition is to take place, it
should be introduced only
after Canadians have had an
opportunity to express their
concerns about the services
they are receiving and ‘the
prices they are paying for
them.”

Council will be inviting a
representative of CNCP-to
present its side of the issue at
the August council meeting.

Wednesday's Castlegar
News incorrectly reported
council's vote in favor of
signing the provincial-muni-

y—cipal “Partners in Enter- 1+ cases if we held a byelee-

prise” agreement as 4-2.

The actual vote was 3-2 in
favor of signing the agree-
ment. — Aldermen Marilyn
Mathieson, Albert Calder-
bank and Carl Henne voted in
favor of the agreement. Al-
derman Len Embree and Bob
McBain were opposed.

Ald. Bob Pakula was ab-
sent and Mayor Audrey
Moore does not vote except
in the case of a tie.

Council will try to-save the
city’s taxpayers between
$2,000 and $2,500 by not
holding a byelection to fill the
vacancy on council that will

be created when Ald. Mari-
lyn Mathieson leaves at the
end of August.

Mayor Audrey Moore said
regulations in the municipal
act legally require Castlegar
to hold a byelection. But by
following a normal time-

* frame the byelection would

come two weeks before the
general election on Nov. 19.

Ald. Albert Calderbank
described council's position
succinctly:

“For the sake of two weeks
it’s ludicrous. Residents
would consider_us.complete

tion then. I don't care what
they say in (the ministry of)
municipal affairs.”

However, Ald. Len
Embree reminded council
that should someone come
forward and press the issue,
a legal problem could ‘result.

“If someone makes a ruck-
us, we'll have todeal with it,”
he.said. g

Ald. Bob McBain agreed,
saying “if someone chall-
enges this, we could be in
trouble.”

Moore said she had dis--

cussed the problem with the

minister of municipal affairs

and his deputy...

Patients sent to Calgary

VANCOUVER (CP) — S;
ce_for premature babies i
the special care nursery
Children’s Hospital is so ti-
ght that some women in pre-
mature labor have been sent
to Calgary.

Doctors say at-least three
or four women in premature

“labor or their premature bab-
ies were sent to Alberta
because there was no room in
the nursery for the infants.

John Te si

Margaret Pendray, head of
the special care nursery. -

More. often than not, all 60

_spaces in the nursery and 30
respirators are being used,
doctors say. :

Dr. Sidney Effer said al-
though, Alberta has about the
same number of births per
year as B.C., it has twice the
number of intensive care nur-
sery beds.

They have three centres,
two in and one in

of Children’s Hospital, con-
firmed the4last transfer of a
pregnant woman occurred
two weeks ago.

“It is not unusual over the
year to have three or four
transfers when the space is
full,"" he said. :

As technology has enabled
doctors to save smaller bab-
iessome weighing as little
as 500 grams, space in the
nursery has become harder to
find as each infant can oc-
cupy a bed and ventilator for
months at a time, said Dr.

Tourist ©
Alert

VANCOUVER (CP) —
RCMP tourist alert for Sat-
urday, July 20. The following
people are asked to contact
the nearest RCMP detach-
ment for an urgent, personal
message. Douglas and Cyril
Jones, Cdalmont, B.C., Bruce
and Vanita, Omaha, Neb.,
Randy and Phyllis Mueller,
West Vancouver, Jack West-
hover, Halifax.

Calgary.”

Effer said B.C. needs more
facilities here, but most doc-
tors do not believe Children’s
Hospital should be expanded
as it is already one of the
largest units in the country.

“It becomes an adminis-
trative headache. Some of
neonatal colleagues believe it
is not possible to have a good
intensive care unit over 35
beds. In order to manage our

facility we have divided it
into three, and those sections
are-run by three different
teams.""

Health Ministry spokes-
man Ian Smith said the num-
bers of intensive care nursery
beds in the province is ad-
equate for the population.

He said the ministry wants
to encourage co-operation
among the four hospitals in
the Vancouver area that have
intensive care nursery beds.

“The best approach when
Children’s is reaching capa-
city is for the more stable
infants to be sent to the
Royal Columbian, St. Paul's
or Lions’s Gate."”

The three other hospitals
have spaces for about anoth-
er 60 infants, but only Chil-
dren's Hospital is equippe
to take babies born under 30
weeks. i

Natural Gas
talks break off

VANCOUVER (CP) — Ne-
gotiations between. Inland
Natural Gas and the Office
and Technical Employees
Union broke off Friday at the
Labor Relations Board offi-
ces. *

The Company isn’t willing
to negotiate a settlement and
has rejected all proposals put
forward by the union, said
Gerri New, spokesman for
local 378 of the union in
Quesnel. : g
~The two sides are far apart
on the issue of wages, she
said. The union wants a

6.5-per-cent increase over
three years while the com-
pany has offered 4.5 per cent.
But fit has agreed to a
$1,100 signing bonus.
. Picketing continues at In-
land offices throughout the
province’ with management
carrying on operations.

The strike-lockout began”

June 27, affecting 160 OTEU
members and 140 members
of the Brother-

EXPO EXHIBIT . . . Scale model of the Expo site is the ”

Herman
funeral
Tuesday

Carl Otto “Herman. of
Robson passed away’ Thurs-
day, July 18-at the age of 70

e
= Funeral service for the late -
Mr. Herman will be held on
Tuesday at the. Castlegar
Funeral Chapel. Cremation is
planned. <
Mr. Herman: was born
June 18, 1915 at Red Deer,
Alberta and spent most of his.
life in B.C. working. in the
construction field. He worked
as a heavy equipment op-
erator.on various dam and

2) road projects in the province

and-in-this-area.He has lived
in Robson since 1965 and was
a member of the Castlegar-
Robson Legion. Mr. Herman
enjoyed playing his banjo and
violin and was an avid card
player.

He is survived by wife—
Mary;-one daughter, Donna
Young of Toronto and one
son, Allen of Toronto, two
grandchildren, two sisters,
Hilda’ Franklin of Portland,
Oregon and Madge Chater of
Burnaby.

Should friends desire, con-
“tributions may be made to
the Cancer Fund, Box 3292
Castlegar. eyes

Funeral arrangements are
under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

centrepiece of a display travelling British Colurobia

telling people about Expo,

the Coquihalla Highway,

transit, the B.C. Ferries system, and tourism. The

exhibit wa seen by thousands of shoppers at Nelson's
Chahko-Mika Mall this past week where it was on

display for six days.

BRIEFLY —

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President P.W. Botha

PARIS BOUND

—_—— VANCOUVER (CP) —

“EMERGENCY =

‘Wheelchair-athlete Rick _

lansen—was-heading-toward Paris Saturday after
resting overnight in the french port city of Dieppe.

Tour spokesman Muriel Honey said Friday in

~Canyon
community
evacuated

_ VANCOUVER (CP) — The

~Fraser Canyon community of

forth Bend was evacuated
after. an out-of-control forest
fire moved to within a kilo-

-Saturday declared the first state of emergency in
South Africa in 25.years, Igiving police broad new
powers in 36 cities and”towns to combat mounting
anti-apartheid rioting.

The state ‘of emergency, ‘which begins today,
comes after 10 months of violence that has killed more
than 450 blacks. It empowers police to make arrests
without warrants, impose curfews, seize
property and limit press coverage in unrest areas.

Police reported new clashes in black townships
late Friday and early Saturday, with one black dead
by police and another killed by a crowd.

RADIO ADDRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A smiling President
- Reagan, saying he feels great, checked out of Bethesda
Naval Hospital on Saturday a week after cancer
surgery and went home to the White House with his
wife Nancy. s :

Before saying farewell to his docotors and nurses,
the president delivered his weekly radio address, the
first words he has spoken publicly since entering
hospital on July 12. z e

“I'm feeling great but I'm getting a little restless,”
Reagan:said- “A lot of-you know how it is when you
have to endure some enforced bedrest: you get this
feeling that life's out there and it’s a big shiny apple,
and you just can’t wait to get out and take a bite.

19 SURVIVORS —

STAVA, Italy (AP) — Nearly 5,C00 rescue workers,
using bulldozers and trained dogs, reported Saturday
they found 19 survivors in the mud and debris left by a
dam collapsé that in seconds killed about 200 people.

The wall. of water washed away this Dolomite
mountain resort on Friday and left it a wasteland.

Offers of help poured in from around the world,
including from governments in the United States,
France, Britain, West Germany and_Japan.

Vancouver that Hansen has the flu and will rest in
‘Rouen tonight.

She said Hansen is still averaging 80 kilometres a~
day and has covered 8,368 kilometres since leaving —

Vancouver March 21 on his 18-month round-the-world
odyssey. He is expected to arrive in the French capital
Monday.

Honey said he has raised more than $400,000 so
far for spinal cord research.

FONYO VIDEO

VANCOUVER (CP — The 14-month cross-Canada
run by Steve Fonyo has been chronicled in a
fe ute video pi by the V: -based
film-maker Western Video.

The one-legged runner was at a downtown
nightclub Friday to attend the premiere of Journey
For Lives — A Tribute to Steve Fonyo.

The video, a effort will be
free to media outlets in Canada. It features the song
Run Together, Run As One. :
 Fonyo said the. video was “fantastic.”

JET ‘BROKE UP’

NEW DELHI (AP) — A U.S. expert assisting in
the probe of the Air-India crash said Saturday that
analysis of voice recordings made in Ireland indicate
the plane apparently broke up in the air before
crashing last month, killing all 329 people on board.

Paul Turner, an expert from the U.S. National
Transport Safety Board, said the tapes Yeeord

recorder had stopped. Z

Turner, speaking by telpphone from Bombay, said
he was flying to London efrly Sunday to review the
findings with British aviation experts.

metre of the town Saturday.
Ross McIntyre of the pro-
-vincial emergency program
said about 50 of North Bend's
300 residents — both CP Rail
employees and volunteer fire
department members — re-
mained.behind to put out any
spot fires that might develop.

The evacuation order came
at about 6:30 a.m. PDT
Saturday, but McIntyre said
many residents left Friday
night.

“People were evacuating
voluntarily as:they saw the
flames come over the crest of
the mountain,” he said.

Many residents left via the
cable car that runs above the
turbulent Fraser River,
connecting North Bend with
Boston Bar, McIntyre said,
while a few people left by car
on the logging road that runs
on the west side of the Fraser
to Lytton.

Forest service spokesman
Frank Ullman said 150 men,

” four cats and air tankers and
helicopters were working on
the fire, which covered more
than 1,000 hectares.

Ullman said _ firefighters

Mi “tere trying to burn off a

fireguard on the fire’s south-+
eastern portion as a means of —

bringing it under control.
“Helicopters are attemptin

to confine the spread’ of the

fire along critical sectors

Arson fires cost money

VANCOUVER (CP) — It
has_cost the provincial gov-
ernment $580,000 to fight 71
deliberately set forest fires in
the British Columbia Inter-
ior, Ron Reeves, district
manager of the Chilcotin for-
est district, said Friday.

Reeves said since April 15
there have been a total of 122
fires in the district and more
than half were arson.

Fifty-one fires were still
burning Friday, but most
were under control or being
mopped up. One was contain:
ed but still out of control.

Reeves said no arrests

‘have been made for any

arson fires in the central
Interior this year.

He said the forest service
believes fires are set by
people who want work on

hood of Electrical Workers
who are refusing to cross
picket lines.

crews, alth
there are also thrill-seekers
who enjoy the excitement.
Arson fires are costly

make-work projects for pro-
vincial taxpayers.

Of the 151 arson fires in
B.C. forests last year, 51
were started in the Chilcotin
district and cost the pro-
vincial government $253,520.

Because the Chilcotin is
rugged and remote, it is

_almost impossible to catch

arsonists at work.

“A lot of arson fires are lit
on horseback trails,” Reeves
said. By the time the blaze
has been spotted, the arson-
ist is long gone.

Reeves said the prime
indicator of forest arson is
several. blazes set in
sequence.

He said the Chilcotin
seems to attract arsonists.

“It's traditional, That's no
excuse, but it’s always been

reward of up to $5,000 for

information leading to the
arrest and conviction of ar-
sonists. :

Meanwhile, in the Cariboo
region, which includes the
Chilcotin district, there have
been 241 fires, and although
92 fires are still burning, the
area is coritained. “_

In the Vancouver region,
four new fires started Fri-
day, bringing the total to 201,

said forest service spokes-
man George Doi.:

The fires in the Vancouver
region have ranged from 15
hectares to about 100 hec-
tares, said Doi.

More than 3,300 firefight-
ers in the Nelson forest dis-
trict are holding their own
against 266 forest fires in
tinder-dry southeast B.C.

near the town of North
Bend,” he said. ig

“We've lost 175,000: cubic
metres of timber, which is

_« the equivalent of about a

third of a year's cum for
Boston Bar. We've also lost a
logging tower, worth a quar-
ter of a millivn dollars.”

The North Bend fire is one
of about 800 fires burning in
B.C. the largest of two fires
which had threatefféd the
twon of Canal Flats in south-
eastern B.C. was burned
through 17,000 hectares and
firefighters expect to contain
it soon.

continued from front poge

snow in the winter into the trees that
were supposed to act as the noise
barrier, knocking them down.

Ron Young, manager of CP Express
and Transport, said Friday he would
rather not comment until he had been

DUST PROBLEM

“sorry if we

After hea
plaints, Ald.
“it’s obvious

officially

.@ talking to a

something about this.
Till have to go up and take a look.”
Mayor Audrey Moore a:
Sr etarine probk ‘ ite ssured the
and had seen the petition.

He did say, however, that he was and bringing your concerns to them.”

are causing problems.”

ring the residents’ com-
Albert Calderbank said
we're going to. have to do

at “we will certainly be
Il three crporate citizens

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SUNFEST ‘85 . . . Scenes from the SunFest. weekend (clockwise): Miss
Castlegar 1985 contestants, equestrian paraders, float from Colville,
Wash., skit from Friday night's Queen pageant, pipers on parade,
Queen pageant dance number, close play in Bronco Zone baseball
playdowns, float from neighboring Trail, and blowing a bubble at the
Kiwanis Funfest in Pass Creek Park. 5 zs

— CasNews Photos by Chery! Calderbank, Simon Birch and Ryan Wilson

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