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Treatment plant functions well

Cominco's new $9 million
effluent treatment plant has
had a very successful start-
up and is performing its
function very well, company
officials report.

Plant superintendent Ki-
eran Metcalfe said the zinc
recovery from the effluent
has been especially good. The
average zine in clarified
water going to the river is
approximately 1/10th of the
Waste Management Branch's
standard. The recovery of
cadmium and lead has also
been good, he said.

The plant, which began
operation in June, treats
effluent water from the lead-
zine plants. It removes met-
als present in small amounts
from about six million litres
per day of effluent water be-
fore the water is returned to
the Columbia River.

The plant produces a
sludge which is pumped to
the lead smelter for recovery
of zinc, lead and cadmium
values.

Metcalfe added the plant's
design, construction and
start-up have all been very
successful,

Throughout the period of
construction and through five
months of operation there
have not been any lost-tii

CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 1981

COMINCO'S $9 MILLION effluent treatment plant. At
the left is a pipeline which brings effluent water from
the Trail plants to the effluent treatment plant's surge
tank. At the back is the tall lime storage facility and

Idi

accidents on the new plant.
Although river water
downstream from the plants
is normally within drinking
water standards for metal
content, the treatment plant
was constructed to meet
strict environmental controls
required by the B.C. gov-
ernment. Its start-up was
well in advance of the Jan. 1,
1983 date for compliance.

Members
donate

to bursary

Members of Minto Chap-
ter Order of the Eastern
Star held their annual
Christmas Party on Tues-
day evening of last week
with 23 members and
guests present.

The hall, which featured
a Christmas motif, was
decorated by Mr. and Mrs.
C. Petts and Mrs. P.
Minnich. The tables were
centered with Christmas
arrangements holding
slender white lighted tap-
ers; which the serving ta-
ble was centered with a
poinsettia plant.

Grace was said by Mrs.
H. Johnson, after which
guests sat down to a buffet
dinner of hot turkey and all
the trimmings.

While the tables were
being cleared, all joined in
a sing-song of carols, with
Mrs. Marg Peachey at the
piano.

A social evening fol-
lowed, with entertainment
arranged by Mrs. J. Raine.
A game of finding out how
many words could be made
out of the word Christmas
was won by Mrs. Ruby
Partridge. Card bingo fol-
lowed, with several prize
winners.

Instead of having an ex-
change of gifts, each mem-
bers made a dollar do-
nation towards the bur-
sary, which they present

each year.

the tr plant b

The clarifier tank is at

Alberta is
bracing for

hospital strike

By JOHN WARD

EDMONTON (CP) — The
Alberta Hospital Association
says it is getting nowhere in
bargaining with the prov-
ince’s nurses and member
hospitals are bracing for a
strike.

Bob Heise, employee rela-
tions spokesman for the
association, said the nurses
are not bargaining in good
faith. He said the United
Nurses of Alberta came to
the negotiations with about
800 separate proposals,

“To date there's been less
than five of those signed off,”
he said.

He said the association
wants a mediator to join the
talks.

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DOGS MUST BE KEPT UNDER CONTROL AT ALL
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Heise said the nurses could IMES. City of Castlegar
strike New Year's Day. ANIMAL CONTROL

the right. The new plant

ne of many

“Under the labor relations
legislation, provided a strike
vote is taken and there's 72

hours notice provided to the
employers, and if the United
Nurses of Alberta were suc-
cessful in their strike vote
next week, they could be ina

improvements which are a major part of the com-
pany'’s $700 million modernization and expansion

program.

Burn victim makes Hele

MONTREAL (CP) —
tors at Hotel Dieu hospital
may have made medical his-
tory, at least in North
America, by saving a woman
who received burns to 90 per
cent of her body in an acci-
dent last June.

The chances of somebody
surviving burns that exten-
sive are almost nil, said Guy
Lemieux, a nephrologist at
Hotel Dieu who participated
in the treatment of the wom-
an,

“I studied 10,000 burn
cases in the United States,
and I believe we're the first
to have saved” somebody
that badly burned, Dr. Lem-
ieux noted in an interview
published recently.

The unidentified woman,
who has recovered sufficient-
ly to continue her convales-
cene at home, was burned
June 18 when her clothes
caught fire as she lit a bar-
becue. She suffered second-
degree burns to 60 per cent
of her body and third-degree
burns to another 30 per cent.

After four days in inten-
sive care at a local hospital,
she was brought to Hotel
Dieu, which has been trying
for almost two years to get
promised government recog-
nition and additional financial
help for its advanced burn-
treatment unit.

The woman stopped
breathing on several occas-
sions but was revived each
time. She was unable to sleep
during those first four days
because of the intense pain
and doctors doubted she
would live much longer.

Finally, an anaesthetist at
Hotel Dieu came up with a
combination of drugs and al-
lowed her to doze off.

KIDNEYS MONITORED

It was essential to ensure
she didn't suffer kidney
breakdown, said Lemieux.
The woman also was given

Two-way mirror
costs man $87,000

PHOENIX, ARIZ. (AP) —

against Bradley Schulz, who
lived in a neighboring apart-

Three apartment
were awarded a total of

ment, after a three-day jury

$87,000 for invasion of pri- trial.

vacy after discovering a
two-way mirror in their
shower and a peephole in the
wall behind it.

The three plaintiffs — a
man and two woman — won
the judgment in a_ suit

The plaintiffs contended
that Schulz installed the
two-way mirror and put a
1.5-by-15-centimetre peep-
hole in his apartment wall
behind it. They said Schulz
hung a picture in front of the
peephole on his side.

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daily hydrotherapy in a
whirlpool and localized treat-
ment with anti-bacterial oint-
ments.

She received a special diet
of 4,000 to 5,000 calories daily
to encourage skin-regenera-
tion. She had her gastric
system specially cleansed
and was administered regu-
lar doses of fats, carbohy-
drates, amino acids and vit-
amins to promote healing.

She was unconscious for
a month and suffered 21 in-
fections, any one of which
conceivably could have killer
her. She only began talking

theSSay

A CANADIAN CHRISTMAS TRADITION

at the end of July — a month

and a half after the incident.”

Skin-grafting began in mid-
July. Doctors took small bits
of skin from where there had
been second-degree burns,
and grafted them to where
her body was most badly
burned.

Only after 70 days were
doctors certain she would

‘survive. She must return to

hospital for further surgery,
but Lemieux and his col-
leagues say they are confi-
dent she will be able to re-
sume a I life.

her, it was because of a mir-
acle, luck, and the excep-
tional health of this lady and
her will to live,” said Lemi-
eux of the mother of four.
There have been reports of
a similar case in China, but
the Hotel Dieu case appears
to be the first reported
recovery from 90-per-cent
burns in North America, he
said, adding that the same
hospital recently saved an-
other patient who had re-
ceived burns to75 per cent of
his body, and that this was
I at the

“If we were able to save

time.

position to a work
stoppage Jan. 1.”

He said the hospitals will
reveiw contingency plans for
a strike next week, as the
union takes a strike vote.

Heise said the association's
latest offer would mean a
17.6-per-cent salary increase
for the average nurse by July
1, 1982, bringing that salary
to $26,347 from $22,478. In
the second year of the con-
tract the nurses would get a
raise equal to the increase in
the national Consumer Price
Index for 1982.

In addition the hospitals
-have offered to increase shift
differentials to $1 an hour by
next July from 30 cents and
add a 60-cent-an-hour week-
end premium.

He said the nurses, who-

originally asked for wage in-
creases of 40 per cent to 50
per cent, have come down to
about 33 per cent.

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3 pecore (A, B&C)

—- brary x not dead

“But refers

The proposed $1 million ;

Castlegar regional library is
not dead.

The Castlegar and District
library board decided Friday
to push ahead with the proj-
ect with 100 per cent local
funding after the provincial
government announced ear-
lier all recreation grants have

" been cut for the next 18

months,

The board had anticipated
receiving a grant for one-
third the total cost — ‘or

“nearly $835,000 — under the

provincial Recreational Fa- .-

-cilities. Assistance Program

). Fund.

“Urea

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar homeowners
with urea formaldehyde foam
insulation were told Thurs-
day they must apply by Jan.

20 to qualify for the:

provincial government’: Ss
special

une vigk ims

ory proof that the foam is in
their homes before they will

receive a break on their ©

assessment,

Turner said a copy of thé»

foam insulation contract
would be fine, and if not,

program.
spore Turner, head of she

need a special

form from the assessment

Trail, told
concerned homeowners that
they must supply satisfact-

about i

office which must | be
i and

Turner said the Jan. 20
deadline has been set up so
homeowners can reduce the

difficult ‘to change the 1982
assessment, he said.

Under the provincial |

scheme, homeowners with
the foam will receive a
reduction on their assess-
ment—Turner called it “the
cost to cure.”

That means the assess-
ment authority will inspect
each home and place a value

MacEachen announces
new budget changes

OTTAWA (CP) — Finance
Minister Allan MacEachen's
earlier retreats from his Nov.
12 budget turned into a rout
Friday but that did not sat-
isfy critics who claimed the
changes weren't enough.

MacEachen, who has al-
ready changed the budget
twice, said he will delay some
measures, water down others
and is willing to send still
more to a_ parliamentary
committee for study.

But the cost of the changes
—$150 million a year out ot a
$75.4 billion tax grab —
not significantly alter Biles
ected revenues, finance offi-
cials said.

Opposition MPs, howling
scornfully during the minis-

. ter's 18-minute budget’ an-

noucement in the Commons,
called for “a new minister
and a new budget.”

MacEachen told a stormy
session of the Commons just
an hour before it recessed for
a five-week holiday break
that he has “no intentions of
altering the principles” of the
budget.

-In i he referred

But he promised to revive
some tax breaks for persons
who borrow investment in-
come and to alter tax rules to
make it easier for farmers to
pass on their property to
‘their children.

Progressive: Conservative
finance critic Michael Wilson
said MacEachen “is eating
crow for Christmas and not
turkey.”

NDP finance critic Bob

* Rae applauded the minister

for easing up on the rules pf
retirement allowances, but
said the other ‘changes only
respond to powerful interest
groups and fail to deal with

the fundamentai weaknesses yy

of the economy.

Outside the
Tory Leader Joe Clark said
the changes satisfy many of
the complaints of farmers,
business, consumers and la-
bor.

Commons, _

much investors can deduct
from their taxable income for
interest on loans to finance
new investment will be eased.
to encourage investment in
private small businesses.

— For interest on money
borrowed to buy shares: of
taxable Canadian corpora-
tions, up to $10,000 in inter-
est may be deducted from tax
on non-investment income.

— Employees who retired
prior. to Nov.-.18 will be al-

lowed to transfer, tax free, .

their entire retirement allow-
ance into a Registered Re-
tirement Savings Plan, even
if the money jis received after
lov. 12.

— Employees who retire
after Nov. 22 and before Jan.
1 will be allowed the same
exemption if, before Nov. 12,
there was a written agree-
ment to retire.

But he called hen's
budget “the most incompe-
tent budget ever brought in.”

Among the major changes:

— Plans to sharply reduce
tax deductions for businesses
g in new plants and

to the closure of tax loopholes
which he said benefit the rich
at the expense of others and
the need to reduce the deficit
to fight inflation and ease
interest rates.

equipment will be dropped
for assets'acquired before the
end of 1982, if arrangements
for those acquisitions were
underway before Nov. 12.
— Measures limiting how

— A. three-p gi
point reduction in interest on
loans under the small busi-
ness bond. The budget would
have increased the rate.

— Platis to tax low-interest
emloyee ‘housing loans have
been postponed.

Plans to tax medical and
dental plans remain un-
touched.

(For more on the budget
see page A3).

on how much it will cost to
remove the foam, put new
insulation in, and return the
home to its former condition.

That cost will then be
deducted from the total
assessment.

Turner’: said the’ local

get brea

head of the local
dehyde foam in
action association,
program “one step"
right direction.” °°;
Kassian noted he doesn’t
qualify for the assessment
because. he has

lormal.
lation

office is
assembling figures now on
the costs for each home,
based’on size and quality.

He said figures from Van-
couver contractors ranged
from $7-$12 a square foot’ or
$10,000-$20,000.

He asked if any home-
owner has an estimate for
removal of the foam to
contact. the assessment office
in Trail. “We're flying blind
almiost,..\with only these
Lower: Mainland costs, he
said. 3

Turner said that home-
owners .who have already
taken the foam insulation out
of their homes will not
qualify for the assessment
program. |
“We're working on the
premise that when it is
removed the house is back to
its former market value,” he
said.

already removed the foam
from his\ home.

He added that the assess-
ment program “is just about

all we can expect from the.
provincial government.” -

: Homeowners niust — now

‘expect some movement by

the federal government, he
said.

Kassian said the ‘local
group should join with the
Vancouver action tiation,
which also part of a ational
association.

Those larger organizations
appear to be making some
advances, he said, pointing to
federal consumer affairs
minister Andre Oullett’s
recent anmouncement. that
the federal government will
be providing. some compensa-

tion for homeowners with, the
foam.

continued on a page,A3

Cominco to lay
off 50 workers

Cominco will lay off 50

employees at its Trail oper. '

ations, the company an-
nounced Friday.
Company spokesman Jim

“Cameron said the layoffs

were a cost-saving measure
and would not detail where
the layoffs. would be made.

Union officials met with
Cominco Friday afternoon to
discuss the layoffs. .

Last week Cominco an-
nounced its lead refinery
operations would be closed
from Dec. 24 - Jan: 4 to cut
costs.

That closure affected 190
workers, most of whom opted

to take vacation time:

Last. month . Cominco
spokesmen denied any lay-
offs were impending until the
after the first quarter of 1982
— sometime around the end
of March.

The layoffs had been ru-
mored for some time, and
grew after. ‘Cominco regis-
tered a poor earnings. per-
formance in the first nine
‘months of this year.

Company ‘profits on its
mining and ‘metal operations
were down $67 ‘million from
$169 million for the same
period last year.

;esa has called

However, in a Dec. 9 letter’

to municipalities and'regional
districts, provincial secretary
Evan Wolfe announced the
fund has been frozen because
the province is short of

board had
thought: it had an excellent
chance to receive the grant
because until the freeze the
province had not turned
down ‘an application in the
history of the program.
Now Castlegar and Areas

‘I and J taxpayers ‘will be

asked to pick-up the whole $1'

‘approval tojhold the refer-

endum — afid that approval
hasn't come through yet.
Ward said‘he understands

3 “the referenduin wording has
Meanwhile, Al in, ©

been approved’and it now

“If he turns us down then I
don’t know what we'll do.”

Ward said the present li-
brary is much too small.

IN POLAND

DR. ROY WARD
“We're going ‘to ‘be closed
down by the fire marshall if
we don't go ahead.”

Sounding dejected,, Ward
pointed out the ministry in-
structed the library board
not to apply for the grant
until it had referendum ap-

proval. . "

The board would have ap-
plied immediately for the
one-third grant if ‘the ref-
erendum passed.

Still, Ward is hoping the
province will ‘find money for

for four years.
“We've been struggling for

four years with this thing,”

he sajd, adding it took more

than a year to prepare for the.

referendum.

Nevertheless, Ward said
the © additional $835,000
shouldn't be too much of a
-burden for local ‘taxpayers.
“/-For a Castlegar ‘taxpayer

Season 's
biggest
snowfall.

By CasNews Staff
‘Castlegar was :hit by. the
season's biggest snowfall Fri-
day night and Saturday as 17
centimetres of the white stuff

weatherman Jim ©

says. we. are far

- below the 15-year average

for this time of year.

So far this year we've had
only “48° centimetres,” while
the average is 80. And if the

trend over.the last 15 years ©
‘contin:

~we-should
bot have less. snow ‘this

PRichards ‘said ‘that in five
years periods from 1966, the
average annual snow/all has

new library: and then apply-
ing to the province for. the
grant when’ ‘the freeze is
lifted in 18 months, a
He said a ministry official
told him, ““they -have-never
given retrograde funding.”
However, the board is ask-
ing for special consideration

_ because it has been applying

From 1966-71 the average
yearly snowfall was 287 cen-
timetres.-But that dropped to
265: centimetres from 1971-
76, and fell even more — to
an average annual snowfall of
just 177 centimetres — be-
tween 1976 and 1981; a drop
of nearly 40 per cent in 10
years. i

Call for resistance

PARIS (REUTER-CP) —
Solidarity leader Lech Wal-
for passive
resistance to Poland's martial
law government and ap-
pealed to leaders of the Ro-
man Catholic church to sup-
port the independent union,
says a Solidarity tract that
has reached the West.

Travellers arriving in the
West by train from Warsaw
brought copies of the tract,
which they said had been cir-
culating in the Polish capital
for 48 hours.

Word of Walesa’s appeal
came amid an

the idea that he might be
having heart problems and
thereby demoralize his fol-”
lowers.

Meanwhile, the travellers
said the tract was based on a
letter Walesa is reported to
have sent to the Polish Coun-
cil of Bishops on Dee. 15, two
days after: martial law was
declared.

The travellers said the let-
ter was given by the bishops
to Solidarity leaders who
printed it in the form of a
tract which was being dis-
tributed | in Warsaw and, they
in Po-

report on French radio that
the Solidarity leader had suf-
fered a heart attack.

The report quoted a
French music student who
had just returned from War-
saw as saying Walesa suf-
fered the heart attack after
learning that seven miners
had been killed in a clash
with security forces in Sil-
esia.

The student said he heard
of Walesa’s condition from
various circles in Warsaw,
adding that members of the
union leader's family had
been allowed to visit him.

Walesa, 39, is known to
have had heart problems and
the villa where he is reported
to be under house arrest. is
pear Kenan a spa town
used by

land.

“It said Walesa was being
held in a villa in Chyloczke,
near Konstancin, a small re-
sort town near Warsaw and
that the villa belonged to a
former deputy prime minis-
ter, Tadeusz Wrzaszczyk, a
close of former

“2— Support mass strikes.
in the major industries and
‘passive resistance in small

businesses.

“3 — In case of the use of
force .by the army, try to
avoid the spilling of any
blood. :

“4 '— Let us unite. Let us
show that: our union (Soli-

darity) lives and can still
act.”

Doors.

left
unlocked

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar ‘council ex-

pressed concern again this
week about the number of

Communist party leader: Ed-
ward Gierek. Both Gierek
and Wrzaszezyk were ar-
rested. aftere the military
takeover last Sunday.

‘DON'T BE CRUSHED’

A copy of the tract said in
full:

“The /presdient of Solidar-
ity Walesa now is interned in
Chyloczke near Konstancin in
the villa of Wrzaszezyk, a
former leader of Gierek.

“We received the

mae ‘with heart trouble.
Some Polish sources spec-
ulated that Konstancin might
have been chosen as Walesa’s
place of detention to promote

message sent by Walesa to
the church leaders ‘on ‘the

‘morning of Dee. 15;

1, — Don't let us be

leaving doors un-
locked after hours.

Protective services com-
mittee chairman Doug Mac-
Kinnon told council that
during November police
found nine businesses whose
doors were left unlocked af-
ter hours.

“That concerned me a bit,”
MacKinnon said.

Ald: Carl Loeblich agreed.
“It's a.- continuous thing
throughout the year.”

Loeblich

said.it seems that, -

to im-,

/

the more police try
press that businessmen lock

‘their doors at night, the more

“lax” businessmen become.
“I don't know what the
answer is,” he added.

Se