Free enterprise ff on rise in USSR YEREVAN, USSR (AP)— vate enterprise the b apht ism” and argue the concepts with Arabyat Garnikyan and his family organized a co-oper- ative in February to sew When an injury prevented ative in February to sew chil- hand materials. Now the 15 workers of the Novinka shop are sewing all night to keep up with orders. The co-operatives in Yer- evan, capital of Soviet Ar- menia, are sutcessful trib- utes to some tentative pri- year to close the huge ~ between state supplies and May Day when a new, “in- dividual labor” law took ef- feet. The program encourages citizens with time ontheir hands to supply goods and services that state enter. prises have been unable to fill. Soviet officials are reluc- tant to describe the co-oper- atives and individual labor as “free enterprise” or “capital- Soviet men’s life expectancy jumps MOSCOW (AP) — A maga zine says the life expectancy of Soviet men dropped four years within 1 decades be- fore beginning to rebound with the help of Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev's fight against alcoholism. Western demographers long suspected an absence of official statistics hid a sharp drop in life expectancy, prob- ably tied to alcoholism and rare for a developed society. Soviet publications recent- ly began providing more in- formation on population stat- istics, such as life expec. taney. The report in the magazine Ogonyok was the most detailed so far. In an article on widows written by demographer Mark Tolts, the magazine said the life expectancy of Soviet men increased rapidly after the Second World War, reaching 66 years in the mid-1960s. But “toward the end of the 1970s . . . the average life expectancy of men fell to 62 years,” he said. Tolts said the trend was halted in the early 1980s, and life expectancy increased one year. “After measures were taken for a decisive struggle against drunkenness, it rose another year. And now . . 809 Merry Ply Road Past Fireside Motel Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning: Worship 11:00 Evening Service 6:30 p.m TUES. 6:00 P.M. AWANA — Children's Program Kindergarten to Grade 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT Study & Prayer 8 p.m. Church 365-3430 or 365-5052 EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH 914 Columbia Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Family Worship Service a.m Bible Study & Prayer Tuesday 7:00 p.m Ladies’ Bibte Study Thursday, 9:30 a.m Youth Ministries Phone 365-3269 or 365-2605 FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.O.P.) ANGLICAN CHURCH GRACE PRESBYTERIAN the average life expectancy of men is again 64 years.” An average Canadian or American male born in the early 1980s could expect to live about 70 years. Tolts said alcoholism play- ed‘a part in the decrease in life expectancy, but the costs of technical progress and the failure of medicine to react quickly enough also were to blame. The average Soviet woman can expect to live nine years longer than a male, to age 73. everything from . baking bread to tending gravesites — and to set prices at what- ever the market will bear — nudges the lumbering Soviet economy a little closer to western models. SMALL PLACE The private ventures are expected to retain only a small place in the national economy for the next few years, In Armenia, more than 2,500 applications for private businesses had been filed by last Wednesday, said Mikhail kotanyan; economics chief of the republic's Com munist party. Sabir Stepanyan, Armen- ia’s procurement minister, said 10 co-operatives are al- ready in business in the republic of 3.3 million. Four more are planned soon. 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Races continue again today with heats at 10 a.m. and again at ! p.m. CosNews Photo by Ron Norman AIDS program a hit By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer Castlegar school board has received overwhelming written approval from area parents to permit their children to take part in the school district's self-designed AIDS education course. Only six of 325 children at Kinnaird junior secondary school were denied permission to take part in the AIDS education package Terry Wayling, School District No. 9 superintendent of schools, said the permission slips did not request a reason for denying students entry to the course, but he maintained the By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar council has unanimously appeal to the Ministry of Economic Development for help with its $2.4 million industrial park debt. Ald. Nick Oglow, chairman of council's planning and the move in the wake of a special auditor's report on problems facing the city-owned committee, p park However. Len Embree called the appeal for help from Victoria “motherhood and apple pie.” Embree pointed out that council provincial assistance with the industrial park debt for two or three years, and is currently awaiting a decision from the ministry. Embree also suggested Ogiow's proposal is part of a response to AIDS education was “well received.” Wayling told the Castlegar News that AIDS education is merely one part of an intricate “Family Life” program which deals with a range of topics from sex education to drugs and alcohol use. Wayling said the Ministry of Educa tion is providing $17,000 for Castlegar's program, part of some $3 million allocated by the provincial government for Family Life programs throughout B.C. The entire program, intended for Grades 7 through 12, will also require written permission from parents. ty to seek h “campaign.” “I guess the political campaign is still on.” Mayor Audrey Moore also said council working with the Ministry of Economic Development to solve the debt problem. agreed to formally summer. According to a provincial news re- lease regarding the funding, school districts will also be requested to assist parents who choose to instruct their children at home by providing “nec- essary background “naterial.” Another 700 permission letters are being sent to the parents of SHSS students. Most parents were already given a chance to view the AIDS video. The presentations were given by medical health officer Dr. Monty Arnott and AIDS public health nurse Cheryl Yates. Yates will also present the AIDS program to the students. he said. has been Moore said the debt issue was included in the city's brief to cabinet .ministers during their visit to Castlegar last As well, she said she was recently in touch with the ministry's deputy minister and with the Union of B.C. Municipalities about the issue. has been seeking Still, Moore said there is nothing wrong with making an appeal for help “once more with feeling.” However, Oglow said in an interview that the city n't made a direct appeal to the ministry, but rather to the civil service. Mike . Rodgers, Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association president, says teachers won't part of the Royal Com- mission on education when it comes os Costleger:| Tuesdoys.. 2,300 OFF JOB Cominco strike not lighthearted By The Canadian Press The skies were clear Saturday over the normally smokey smelter city of ‘Trail a8 2,900 members of the United Steelworkers of America began a strike against Cominco. Another 650 workers were off the job at the company’s Sullivan lead and zinc mine at Kimberley. The company also employs 150 people at a fertilizer plant there that will close sometime this summer. Fifty picketers gathered at the main gate of the Trail operation, listening to a bagpiper play union songs and Scot- tish reels, and joking with supervisors entering the plant. “There is a togetherness here,” said Jim Saare, president of steelworkers local 9705. “(But) the members aren't taking a light-hearted view of the strike.” The last strike was in 1983 when Cominco was shut down for eight days in a successful battle by workers to avoid concessions and maintain the contract with cost-of-living protection. “The strike came as a surprise,” said Sgare. “ “But there isn't the panic there was in '83 when people said ‘we can't , affofd this. They still can’t afford a sitike, but they can’t afford not toy eithér. “I don't believe these people are going to take concessions,” said Saare, noting that Cominco showed a first quarter profit of $7.5 million after several years of losses. The strike comes as Trail is in the midst of its annual Silver City Days festival. The celebrating is masking some apprehension with union officials saying the strike could be a long one. “We're dealing with a company now that has no community conscience, it has ne conscience relative to the work Fewer teachers next year By CasNews Staff There will be slightly fewer teachers in the pale School District, next year, according to superintendent of schools Terry Wayling. Wayling said the school district's new operating budget of approximate- ly $8.5 million Will see a drop in teaching staff by about the equivalent of 1.5 teachers. The equivalent of 124.1 full-time tea- chers will be on staff next fall, compared to 125.55 this year. The reduction will occur through at- trition (such as rettrements and mat. erhity leave) as opposed to actual lay- offs. Wayling said the reductions are due to an expected overall drop in student enrolment in Castlegar. He said the continued on page A2 LOCAL I105 ON STRIKE FIRST DAY OUT. . . Mike Bourchier (left) and work mates spent their first day on the picket line Saturday as Cominco shut down for its first strike since 1983. Those on the picket line agreed the strike will either last a matter of a few short days or several long months, but nothing in bet- ween. force,” said Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor and a former president of one of five United Steelworkers of America locals repre- sented at Cominco. Georgetti said the steelworkers set- tled for modest wage increases in 1983 and 1985 because of the company’s financial difficulties. He said they joined with the community in lobbying for government grants to rebuild and modernize operations. “All that assistance that the union and the community's given Cominco and they're coming back trying to take things out of the collective agreement, offering zero contract.” Cominco operates a smelter in Trail and a fertilizer plant and mine in Kim- berley. NO TALKS Negotiations broke off last weekend and no new talks are scheduled. The employees’ last agreement expired April 30. Jim Saare, president of the Local 9705 rep g office and employees, said “bargaining was not progressing because the company was “flatly refusing” to bargain the issues of cost-of-living and wages. continued on pege A2 elp with debt “This is much more specific,” debt problem is “pressing.” In a written statement handed to the media,” Oglow says the city is faced with “an impossible task.” He says the city has only 23 lots available for sale and a debt of $2.44 million as of Dec. 31, 1986. “Even if we were to sell all 23 lots at $100,000 each today we would realize $2.3 million and this would be an impossible task,” he said. Oglow said that over the last six years the city has used the combined efforts of: city staff, Castlegar realtors, two paid agents of the industrial commission, the Castlegar and District Development Board and the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce to try to market the park, in addition to paying $3,000 to a consulting firm he said, adding that the price.” Oglow points out that the entire debt is due in four Castlegar,” years to come.” “All this massive effort has produced no sales, at any years — “at the latest.” any debt remains after all the lots have been sold, it will have to be paid off through taxes. also__notes_that according. toa government publication, B.C. has approximately 200 industrial parks. “Over 90 per cent of these developments were created at no cost to the local taxpayers, but not so in the case of Ogliow said. He adds that the city owes the Bank of Montreal and B.C. Development Corp. “almost 10 times as much principal as we have paid in the last five years. In four years’ time or less this could have a profound effect on every aspect of our municipal services, as well as our tax structure for many He adds that the audtior says that if continued on pege A2