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CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 25, 1983

FIRA approves
sawmill sale

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Foreign Investment Review
Agency has approved the
purchase by Crestbrook For-
esty Industries Ltd., of Shell
Canada Resources Ltd.'s
Crows Nest forest products
division,

A spokesman for Crest-

brook, which is based in
Cranbrook, said details of the
transaction are still being
negotiated with Shell. Ap.
-proval for transfer of the
timber-cutting rights in-
volved still has to be obtained
from the B.C. Ministry of
Forests,

‘The purchase price has not
been disclosed.

> Co. Ltd. and

The Crows Nest operation
consists of a sawmill at Elko,
midway between Cranbrook
and Fernie-and related tim-
ber-cutting rights. The mill
has been operating for some
time on a one-shift basis.

The deal required FIRA
approval because Crestbrook
is controlled by two Japanese
companies — Honshu Paper
Mitsubishi
Corp. — which own 54 per
cent of its shares.

Shell originally put the mil!
up for sale in 1980. Crest-
brook was the highest bidder
then, but its purchase was
blocked by FIRA.

BARRETT

continued from front page

of the May 5 provincial gen-
eral election that saw his
party's strength dwindle to
22 from 26 in the 67-seat
legislature.

It was his third failure at
efforts to bring his party
back to power, and at 52, he
holds the dubious distinction
of being the longest-serving
opposition leader in the coun-
try.

Barrett is expected to re-
main leader until a leadership
convention is held — prob-
ably in November.

. The former premier stayed
on in 1975 after the defeat of
his NDP government, in
spite of the loss of his seat,

becausethere was no obvious
successor, In the process he
turned down an offer of
$165,000 to do radio and tele-
vision work in Vancouver.
Barrett was urged to re-
main after the 1979 provin-
cial general election cam-
paign because the loss was

seen by the rank and file and ©

the caucus as a stunning vic-
tory for the NDP which in-
creased its share of the pop-
ular vote from 39 per cent in
1972 to 46 per cent.

His decision to resign his
seat, which he first won in a
byelection in 1976, will pro-
vide anew leader, if selected
from outside the caucus, a

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Former labor minister Bill
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Revelstoke seat in the May 5
election, said Tuesday he will
decide by the end of June
whether to seek the party
leadership.

Barrett was first elected in
1960, and was premier from
1972 to 1975, also doubling as
finance minister during most

of that time.

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By SCOTT EDMONDS

BRANDON, MAN. (CP) —
The popularity of the Pro-
gressive Conservative Party,
in southwestern Manitoba is
hard to question after the

‘landslide win of history pro-

fessor Lee Clark in the Bran-
don-Souris federal byelection
Tuesday night.

Soon after the polls closed
it'was clear Clark was headed
for Parliament but the scope
of the victory was a surprise
even to some Tories,

The race was also a per-
sonal victory for Clark, a
soft-spoken spectacled Bran-
don University academic and
farmer whose grey hair
makes him look a bit older
than his 46 years. He proved
doubters inside and it

his ~ pe ‘wrong “bj

over the virtual fiefdom held
by Walter Dinsdale for 31

years until his death last fall. -

“Y think tonight’s victory
was better than most of us
expected,” Clark said as he
understated the devastation
he inflicted, on his opposition
in n the three-party race.

Second-place New Demo-
erat Bill Moore, 42, edged out
Liberal lawyer Joe Mullally
who was making his second
run at the seat.

SWEPT POLLS
Clark swept both urban

about eight out of 200 to
Moore. Mullally, who came
second in 1980, managed only
to tie one poll with Clark.

Instead of losing votes tied

“ws: the Dinsdale name, a

Pine Point to
reopen June 15

VANCOUVER (CP) — An
agreement by employees to
take a 10-per-cent wage cut
was a major factor in Pine
Point Mines Ltd.'s decision to
reopen its lead-zine mine in
the Northwest Territories,

has

workers and about 160 sal

aried staff back on the job.
A company Spokesman (

said a one-year contract has

gestion raised early in his
campaign, Clark added to
traditional Tory support in
the rich farming country of ©
Manitoba's southwest.
Clark had 19,289 votes to
Moore's 6,361.

Tories win byelection

nore Dinsdale for the Tory
nomination and in many ways
that race was more exciting
than’ the byelection, with
roughly 3,000 party members
and onlookers turning out for

trailed with 5,405. In 1980,
Dinsdale had 16,098 votes
while Mullally, 51, was about
6,400 behind and the NDP
trailed with a total of 5,609.

Clark battled widow Le-~

‘VIDEO GAMES

and rural polls, losing only -

a massive | meet-
ing.

Clark said he plans to leave
his wife and two daughters at
home’ in Brandon when he
goes to Ottawa, at least until
the next general election.

Take a break

E West by this September, Ungerman ‘said.

= language Basic.

after 30 minutes

"By DANIEL DROLET

elping' children develop cer-
QUEBEC (CP) — Used ‘

tain visual skills.

under proper’ conditions,
video games won't hurt the
eyes of most children, and
they can even improve visual
skills, says the Quebec Asso-

ciation of Optometrists.
“The games aren't danger-
‘ous — it’s just a question of
"” Jean-Marie Rodrigue,

been™ i with the
United Steelworkers of Am-
erica, which represents the

president of the

says. “When the norms are

respected, they are a good
tool.”

the

Pine Point, a subsidiary of
Cominco Ltd., said it will
start preparing June 15 for

workers,
of the union local voted 81
per cent in favor of a mem-
dum of which

resumed production. The
mine has been shut down
since Jan. 2.

Actual production is ex-|

pected to start fairly soon
after June 15, putting the
mine's 435 unionized mine-

P155/80 R-13

BE SURE TO ENTER

includes the wage cut and a
freeze on cost-of-living allow-
ances.

Rodrigue and Carole Mel-
ancon, an optometrist who
has studied the impact of
video games on vision, met
with reporters as part of a
symposium organized by the

The also stipu-
lates that wages will be rein-
stated to previous levels on
expiry of the contract (April
80, 1984), or before that time
if metal prices improve suf-
ficiently. 5

on vision and vid-
eo display terminals (VDTs).

Melancon said the basic
recommendations for use of
video games. are about the

“They .can .be used, for

example, to rain hand-eye a
5 about politics or literature?

co-ordination, or eye mobil-
ity, or the ability to focus 2
rapidly — all those skills
‘which: make for good visual
functioning.” .

But she cautioned that the
use of video games for vision
training should be carried out
by

Robot
resembles
 R2D2.-

TORONTO (CP) — In the fable The Sorcerer’ ‘8
Apprentice, a lazy apprentice uses his boss's magic to
train a broom to carry water. The feat is too successful -
the apprentice almost drowns.

The moral of the story: Don’t turn on what you ‘can't
turn off.

An American robotics company has just introduced a

robot on the Canadian market that works along.the same
a ines it does what you want — as long as you know how
to program it.

RBSX, which stands 58 centimetres high, weighs 12
= kilograms and slightly resembles R2D2 of the movie Star
= Wars, was introduced to Canada at a news conference
= Tuesday. RB bumped into one reporter, politely ‘said
= “Excuse me,” and then proceeded to bump ‘into another.

me,

RB also vacuums floors, fetches papers, delivers
offee and mail, recites poems, sings songs,’ guards
roperty, feeds himself and turns himeelf off. He costs
2,295, batteries included.

Soon he will be sophisticated enough to, ‘play
ide-and-seek with the kids, detect fires and sound an
alarm, said Joseph Bosworth, president and chairman of
B Robot Corp. of Golden, Colo., which invented RB.

Micro Marketing Canada of Toronto will be dis-
tributing the robot in Canada, said representative. Larry

Ingerman. RB will be introduced to Ontario computer
lealers first’ and should be available in Quebec and the

The robot is designed to be compatible with any
ome computer and can be programmed in the computer

RB is pudgy, with a grey plastic case adorned ‘with
flashy stripes and a smoky plastic helmet that covers red,
green and yellow flashing lights. It has tactile sensors

hich tell it when it was run into something, a sonar

The robot company is manufacturing between 100

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ind 200 RBs a month and “we haven't caught up to our
backlog yet,” says Bosworth. He said most of the people =
ying the robot are either professionally invotved inz
computers and robotics or enjoy them as a hobby. They =
re using the basic RBX6 to develop new software = =|
rograms compatible with it, he said. . -

Bosworth sees a day when robots will talk to cach
ther on the telephone, engage lonely senior citizens in
onversation and, after a hard day's work, review and

memorize what they learned and check their equipment
or repairs,

The only limitations are physical — batteries are
ulky and must be recharged for three hours after one =

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n. the telephone?: Bosworth is, asked. a ‘
“It could call‘a maintenance computer and - ‘ask for
repairs,” ‘he replied.
And surely a robot couldn’t carry on a conversation

“Never say never, I always say,” Bosworth replied. =

= “They can play chess. Some clever person could Program & 2

it to respond to a conversation.”

And, if RB can cut the grass, deliver coffee, wake tnd =
wher up in the morning and recharge itself, can it also be =
rained to rob banks or murder. people? :

“Yes,” Bosworth admitted. “But it can also be pro- =I

However, Rodrigue and =
Melancon said some people
do run the risk of developing
problems with their eyesight
from improper use of either
video games or VDTs, or be-
cause they fall into a vaguely
defined high-risk category.

“There are reports that
.VDT use can bring about the
development of near-sighted-
ness or accentuate it,” said
Rodrigue, easing that the

same as those for
viewing: keep the lighting
low, intain a proper dis-

| Police
Briefs

_ Castlegar RCMP are inves-
tigating a: break-in at Sen-
tinel , Builders’ Supply in
Thrums Friday night in which
about $200 in cash wasstolen.

The RCMP handled a total’

of 30 over the

tance from the screen, and
limit watching to avoid eye
strain.

. Melancon ‘recommends
that video game players
maintain a distance from the
screen equal to four or five
times its width.

She also recommends a
10-minute break after 30
minutes of play for school-
children and after every 15
minutes for pre-schoolers.

holiday weekend.

SCHOOL YARD SALE
Fri., May 27

2-7 p.m.
at Pass Creek School

Mel: said the way a
child plays with video games
can indicate cither eye strain
or vision problems.

LEARN SKILLS

Curiously enough, Melan-
con said, in some cases, video
games can be a useful tool for

RADIATO!
REPAIR

study to Took | into the matter,

Melancon said it is impos-
sible to give a broad defin-
ition of who might be at risk.

Only a complete eye exam-
ination can determine that,
she said.

But ‘as if to prove their
point about the safety or
video games, the association
was sponsoring a draw for
participants in the sympo-
sium.

The prize? Video games.

Bank
records
profit

_ ‘VANCOUVER (CP) — The-
Bank of B.C. announced
Tuesday net earnings for. the
six months ended April 30
were $6.8 million or $1.43 a
share, compared with $6.2
million or $1.40 a share for
the same period in 1982.
Bank chairman Trevor Pil-
ley said the three-per-cent

to guard banks and intercept robbers and mur- = g

| Roitwoller
‘people dog’,
says expert

KELOWNA (CP) — A woman-charged with negligence
in connection with dog attacks on three people last year
wept in county court Tuesday as an RCMP: constable
described how two of the woman's Rottweiler dogs lay
obediently in the back of a van while a veterinarian gave
them a lethal injection.

Vera Mayerhofer, with her husband Manfred, is
charged with three counts of criminal negligence following
the incidents on April 19, 1982, in which Shawn Fraser lost
his right arm and much of his scalp and Susan Tolnai and her
young son Paul suffered severe bite wounds in attacks by
the dogs.

The Mayerlofers are charged with “allowing vicious
dogs to run at large.”

Vera Mayerhofer wiped her eyes as Const. Harold
Grouette ¢ described now te of the dogs — Barbie and Igor
— were dest: d by after the inci
Five other dered s owned by the Mayerhofers were
also destroyed.

Grouette was called by defence lawyer Griffin Layne,
who streésed in his questioning that the dogs were docile
and obedient as they went to their deaths.

Earlier Tuesday, veteran dog handler Ian. Hall of
Surrey, described Rottweilers as a. “loving, affectionate
people dog; the most people dog of any breed I have worked
with or owned.”

ROTTWEILER EXPERT

Hall, a former RCMP senior dog master and acknow-
ledged by the Canadian Kennel Club as a Rottweiler expert,
said a vicious Rottweiler is generally one that has been made
80, by training.

” He recalled meeting the Mayerhofers several years ago
when they lived near Mission. He said Manfred Mayerhofer
described how one of his dogs had jumped a fence and killed
a neighbor's cow, “like that was really something, a

SURPRISE WINNERS. . . Assistant recreation direc-
tor Rod Irwin presents Ald. Marilyn Mathieson with
trophy following recent Celebrity Relay Race. Math-
teson, along with teammates Ald. Carl Henne, Ald.

Street talk

FOR THOSE wae plan to attend. the official

‘ Sunday at the seiert there are a few things to

remember — after all we're dealing with the Queen's
representative in Canada.

The first thing to keep | in mind is that when you
address the g Lit is, “Your
not “Mr. Schreyer” and definitely not “Ed.”

The second thing to remember is that during the
playing of the “Vice Regal Salute,” spectators should
remain quiet. Other than that, the public is invited to
attend the welcoming ceremony and will have a chance
to see the governor-general close-up.

FOR THE LAST five or so days Castlegar has been _
in the grip of a heat wave — and loving every minute of it.
We've even been Canada’s hot spot once or twice and: set
record warm temperatures in the process.

But things can be taken a little far. In this case, it's a
tourism article on Castlegar put out by the provincial
government and carried in the May 18 Arrow Lakes
News of Nakusp. The article says Castlegar has “some of
the hottest temperatures in Canada (40°-C)."° «+

\ Now that’s going a little overboard.’ We know. the

Bak Pakula and city ad Larry Ci

surprised many observers by capturing the first an-
nual-relay race. Heavily favored recreation com-
mission was runner-up. —CosNewsPhoto

weather here is nice on 4 does get hot at times — but
40° C on a regular bas!

The only place in B, rd that hot that often is Lytton.

Still, the article does have many nice things to say
about Castlegar, among them, “most of all Castlegar is
friendly people, living at a relaxed pace enjoying a
vibrant cultural heritage." Now we can go along with
that 100 per cent!

ACHIEVEMENT OF THE WEEK: Kinnaird Junior
Secondary School "Marching Cobras” took firat place for
marching units in the Junior Lilac Parade in Spokane.
The.150-member band, which is under the direction of
Ken Nelson, beat out 42 other bands for the honor. It is
the eighth year the KJSS students have marched in the
Lilac Parade.

THIS FRIDAY in Vancouver 7 the date set for the
formal iling of The Ki six works
by artist Mal Gagnon. The works were commissioned in
honor of Cominco Ltd.'s 75th anniversary and presented .
to the B.C. Central Credit Union by Kootenay Savings
Credit Union.

WORD OUT OF Vancouver this week is that
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was canned because the non-profit group that coordinates
it — Outdoors Unlittered — ‘couldn't get the necessary
funding from the B.C. government. The program cost
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By The Canadian Press
For the third straight year,
Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton
Qilers has been chosen Na-
tional Hockey League player
of the year by The Sporting
News.

In a poll of 326 NHL play-
ers by the St. Louis-based
weekly sports publication,
Gretzky received 176 votes
and Boston Bruins' goalie
Pete Peeters got 116.

Gretzky had 196 points —
71 goals and an NHLrecord
125 assists — during the
1982-83 season to capture his
third straight scoring cham-
pionship.

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some who know little about
the player known as The
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. #

Women alcoholics face
more social pressures than do
men who abuse liquor, says

former U.S. first lady Betty ,

Ford.

The 65-year-old wife of
former President
Ford said women alcoholics

Gerald .

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they are overly protected by
their families, are slower to
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Ford, who has been treated
for hol: “For the

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native Nicaragua and in El

and

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when she followed Honduran

Ona visit in 1981, she said,
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refugees. “(The men) felt we
could do them harm if our
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Rottweiler killing a cow.”

Under questioning from Crown prosecutor Jim
McClellan and defence lawyer Griffin Layne, Hall said apart
from being trained to do so, a Rottweiler might attack if it
was unusually aggressive, if a “fear scent,” believed to be
given off by humans, was particularly strong, or if another
dog had incited an attack in which the Rottweiler joined.

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sively or fiercely unless signalled or ordered to. Anyone who
walks on to the property are friends as far as (the dogs) are
concerned.”

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