CASTLEGAR NEWS, sonia 12, 1983

Diesel ‘fever’ dissolves

Gas preferred

VANCOUVER (CP) — Diesel cars were supposed to
become the status symbol of the 1980s.

Four years. ago, some auto dealers wero quietly
accepting $1,000 bribes to beat the waiting lists.

The bribe was on top of the $600- or $2,000- premium
asked for the diesel option over the smoother running,
quieter, but not so fuel-frugal gasoline engine.

Thero are no waiting lists today,

Increased consumer acceptance of higher fuel prices,
buyer resistance to noise and the smell of the fuel — what-
ever the reason, the diesel is no longer the darling of the
auto industry.

Volkswagen was first to bring diesel power to the

General Motors followed, offering diesels for its pickup
trucks, Chevrolets, Oldsmobiles and Buicks, even Cadillacs,
Susonly th there were dicsel Toyotas and Darang, Volvos
ant

The 50-mlle-a: -gallon (17,7- liege -kilometre) world was
at hand, running on stove oil.

Diesel fuel pumps, once found only at truck stops with
an occasional gleaming Mercedes quietly tanking up like a
fur-wrapped blonde on a bar stool, sprouted at: self- tserve
stations.

That oil gurgle heard from Windsor, Ont., Christmas
Eve was the-diesel dream going down the drain, Chrysler

masses,

MONTREAL (CP) — Ten in the blazing ‘ sun, Ahmad is the current’ president of

years ago Ugandan dictator
Idi Amin announced he, was

“directed by God” ina dream :
to expel the 55,000 Asians in

his country.

One of the victims was a.

26-year-old businessman
named Tahir Ahmad, who
was picked up by police,

thrown into the trunk of a car’

and hauled off to prison.

In the dictator's eyes, Ah-
mad was a criminal because
of his race. Many years be-
fore, Ahmad’s great-grand-
parents came to Uganda from
India.

Abmad was also rich — a
millionaire with a 12-bed-
room house, a fleet of 105
rental cars and four air-
planes.

Beaten and forced to stand
12 hours in a barrel of water

Elevator finds new home

LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.
(CP) — If it seems impossible
to get one’s belongings
moved to a new-apartment
without shattering Aunt
Martha's gift of a ceramic
cookie jar, imagine the diffi-
culties involved in moving a
315-tonne, 3l-metre grain
elevator to a new home.. |

bought off his corrupt cap-
tors with a $1,600 bribe be-
fore secretly fleeing Uganda
on a Rome-bound’ flight,
leaving: friends, fortune and
family behind. '

Today, Ahmad is the man-
ager of a Montreal car-leas-
ing firm’ and one of 7,000
Ugandans who have settled
in Canada since their lives
were disrupted in 1972. ..

Most came with nothing,
yet most have prospered in
exile and have no desire to
return’ to Uganda, even
though Amin fell from power
in 1979°. when neighboring
Tanzania’ invaded.

“Obviously, I wish I owned
my own business again, and
sometimes it has been
tough,” Ahmad said in an
interview. “The funny thing

Ron Mix has been at it for
25 years‘but says he still
hasn't mastered every aspect
of the art.

“Very seldom do we move
a building where the circum-
stances are the same,” said
Mix, owner of Mix the Mover
Company. .

The Edmonton-based firm

Chaplain befriends
the ‘condemned’

EDMONTON (CP) — One
.of the rewards for Ray
Smith, during his 18 years as
chaplain: at Fort Saskatche-
wan jail, was the relati

to that happening was within
24 hours of an execution,” he
said. “Every prisoner sen-
tenced to death had their

he developed with the men
on death row and the changes
he saw in them as they pre-
pated to die. +

“When you can actually see
a person who is bitter and
indifferent and at odds with
the world, and you see a
person like that change their
whole attitude and their way
of life... that’s probably the
most pleasing aspect of this
work,” said Smith, winner of
the 1982 Worth American
Prison chaplain of the year
award.

The 60-year-old Salvation
Army major always dreaded
he would have to watch
someone die. But during the
five years he counselled and
befriended men on death row
no one was ever executed:

_ “The closest we ever came

to life

- imprisonment.”

People look at prisons as
“the other side of the tracks”
but the people who are there’
need help, Smith said.

“I find a lot of satisfaction
just being where the need
is,” he said. “The prison is my
parish and these people, good
or bad, are my people. When
people tend to be overly hard
on them, it’s overly hard on
me and it bothers me.”

BUILDS REPUTATION

" The native of Big Valley,
Alta., has built a reputation >!
of trust with the condemned
murderers and petty thieves
he works with. It’s a repu-
tation prisoners defend and
corrections officials praise.

Corp. indefinitely postponed its plans to build.a $200-million:
diesel-engine plant for cera and small trucks. s Hs

Alive and well and ©
living in prosperity —

Uganda has invited. ‘our
whole family to go’ back.. But
who knows what could hap-
pen there? It could be a foo!’s
paradise. Besides, this’ coun-
try has grown “on: me.”

- Things were tough at the

beginning, recalls Nevin Har--

ji, who was a 22-year-old
school’ headmistress in the
Ugandan capital of Kampala

‘in 1972. Now she runs a gro--

cery store in Montreal with
her chemist ‘husband, ano-
ther Ugandan Asian.

Harji was one of 4,500
Ugandan Asians selected by
Canadian’ immigration © offi-
cials and flown to. Montreal
for “processing” and resettle-
ment across. Canada. «:

“elt was hard at the begin:
ning,” she said. “The only job
-I could find was as a baby-

is Canada’s major mover of
buildings with high centres of
gravity, Mix said. Over the
years, he's relocated: barns,
churches, houses, hotels, re-
finery tanks, schools, taverns
and grain elevators,

Mix faced his. greatest
challenge when he agreed in
spring to move a 31-metre
elevator from Steart, Alta. to
Wilson, Alta. :The commu-
nities, eight kilometres
apart, are just east of ae
bridge.

‘The Alberta Wheat "Pool
decided to move the elevator
to make it more accessible to
farmers after roads in: the
area are realigned. =~

The building, built ‘for
about $35,000 in 1950, would
have cost $760,000 to replace

y- E

“It's the biggest single load
we've Put on wheels,” Mix
said,

‘TIME CONSUMING

It was also among the most
costly — Mix was paid
$76,000 ‘for the job, which
began in April with the
fabrication of moving equip-
ment designed specifically
for the job.

It took about three weeks
to lift. the’ elevator with
hydraulic jacks more than a

metre above its foundation.
Six sets of 16 tires were then

placed under the elevator.

The primary tow vehicle
was a redesigned Second
World War -tank retriever
with 60 forward.and two re-
verse gears.

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@NO DRUGS
@ NO CONTRACTS

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sitter. in-a Noms in Hamp-
stead -(a wealthy Montreal
suburb). And then there was

the culture: shock ‘and’ the: in its

cold.”

car to Kampala’s much-fear-
ed Makindye prison’ ‘and
forced. to sign a confession,

“From my cell I could hear
other prisoners being beaten
and killed,” he remembers. .
He was ‘released within 24
hours, upon payment of ‘a
$7,000 bribe. Soon ‘after, -he
learned of the daath of a close |
friend whose body was found,
eyes plucked out, in a Ka
pala garbage dump.

De Mello came to Canada
and found a job in Saint John,
N.B., after months of unem-.
ployment: Later he bought a

mobile home, drove to Mon-?

treal and settled on the sub-
urban South Shore, where
many of the approximately

700 Ugandan Asians in. Mon-~

treal first set up house’ He
had managed a travel agency
in Kampala, and now owns +
his own agency in Montreal.

The Ugandan — refugees
atlick together event thoiigh
they are’a fragmented group,
including Moslems, Hindus,
and Christians, as well as five
language groups.

“We always lived’ as a
community," said Sultan

Somani, now a Bell Canada’

programmer. “Being a minor-
ity is the best way of sur-
viving.”

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Res. 359-7058
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‘The diesels were going be built in an old v8 gasoline
engine. plant. that had been shut down because those ‘gas

guzzlers were|no longer, selling. They were going to Kad
jobs’ {¢ .

save Chrysler ‘and {provide

WEATHERCAST
Sli rere ere eat
snow or rain, Monday cloudy with
qunny Weaeeen Highs of a aad

Pfolffer, director of pyblle affairs for Chry
“We got into this in 1980’ after the'fi
by the Iranian But now, in the U.8, —
“and the reason we were going to build the plant was the U9.
market. — fue 1 prices are yiuble or drifting. downward.” 4s
Chrysler had Sable the: diesel’s' market share
increase eet to20

SALES DOWN

" But aales of diesels fell by 90 per cént {a North America .
a evens ‘although’ car sales generally dropped only 10 per *

the motoring’ public has hecome accustomed:

enerally
tothe Ch Het eatd ee an ee ne ater ot Sroddred
to live with it,” said Terry Hall, sales manager at’
Motors. '“The charisma ‘has died off now.” :
‘ cost’ $600 éxtra for an’$8,
Rabbit, about. $2,600 for an‘$11, 000 Chev and $1,600 Le
000 Cadillac, ;
Be 2 dods things differently, putting a.diesel.
‘Sasoline in’ Vancouver costs $62,
Peugeot : -dealers ‘were thi only
in the V 3

i Jol
1982 are down to less than half of one per cent this year. In
1977, the year Chevron started adding diesel pumps at its
gas stations, sales were one per cent and expected to Brow.

th

Diesel fuel, as drivers have observed
years, now costs almost ‘as much as ro;
J becai

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pom 2. 30 %
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upgrading insulation in homes _
built prior fo: 197 Pa

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tl the.
noting that ‘the ‘area, will. remain minimu: 1 five-nere ‘and
or Zpned. low ; intensity. development. Z
\;The -regional district . was’ forced. ‘to’ “hold the
ber of ‘uaniges to the.

tour event,
+ dollars .in; prize mone)

number of ae cainmieial

projects ° got underway’ last’

year, helping to more’ than

triple the value of commer-’

cial - building: permits: issued
in Castlegar in‘ 1982. from the
year’ before. HW

The city’s. annual building
permit report shows that
Castlegar ‘chalked : up $1.6
million in commercial build:

-department, showed

ie ee issued” in ‘1982

cemented tn only 080.060 t.

1981,..-

At the same time the ‘valu
of. industrial permits totalled
$874,500 in. 1982 -— alm
double the 1981 total
$440,800.

But the ‘annual report,
drawn up by the: building
that
even though the value ‘of
commercial permits rose las!
year, the number of permits

seco “inside

ng Values trip

ment complex under. con-
' struction by Castlegar Pente-
costal Tabernacle helped sta-
bilize the number of building

issued for; commercial rok:
ects dropped from 54 in 1981
, to 88 in 1982. The number of
industrial j ‘permits issued re-
mained at'10 for both years.
‘projects. ~The. $1.1, million

di Saturday heis “not very op
sen the gap. between rich ‘and | poor fone can start.

permits’ for multi-residential :

Alfred “Ambrosone retired
Friday after 22 years,with the
- Castlegar school district, ‘

Monte Carlo Motor. Inn.

365-2177 or

Borpin esuranon Scevices Lio.
at 765-1454 (collect)

> Prices in effect. Jan.. i. 14815

IN THE CASTLEGAR STORE

ADA BAPEWAY LimiTaD

SALES IN RETAIL: QUANTITIES ONLY.

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Theatre Energy brings its new theatrical pro-

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on to C

schools starting this week, page A6

© The Vancouver Canucks trade Ivan Boldirev,
and Chicago and Philadelphia battle to a 4-4
draw.: It's all.in our ae night NHL pack-

age; page BT”

*‘Linda Hall features

master marksman Bill

. Rempel.in her. weekly Sunday morning feat-

ure Getting to Know Your Neighbor, page B3

anwhilo, high’ interest “

tes in 1982 continued to
plague potential homebuyers
resulting in’ a: 54 ‘per cent
drop.in the value of permits
for residential single family
‘dwellings. i
wan @ value of tlie residential
dropped . from: $1.9

fnilliod in-1981-.to $861,500 _

last year. ‘And in 1982, only
17 building permits were is-
sued for single family homes
compared to-41 in 1981. °
This: drop in i

complex accouints for most of

- the $1.2 million worth of per--

mits issued last year in this,
category: -Permit values to-
talled $1. million in 1981;

In both 1981 end 1982, the
city. issued permits for 36
units. A

Other projects which got
underway last year included
the $300,000 Calvary Baptist
Church, a'$95,000 veterinary

- clinic and a $216,000 ware-

of residential homes resulted -

in a slight overall decrease in
the total number and value of.
building permits issued..The
city reports only 895 building
permits were issued last year,
compared to 444 in 1982. The
value dropped one per cent

from $5,987,625 in 1981 ‘to.

~ $5,899,844 Jast year. or only
000:

As well, the value of per-
mits for institutional projects

dropped from $1.5 million in’.

1981 to just $451,800 in 1982
although the number of per-
mits increased from’ 15. in

# 1981 to 21 last year.

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house being

a 34-unit apart-

1 by
C.P. Transport.

Mayor Audrey Moore said
Friday the drop in residential
building permits reflects the
uncertainty of employment in
the area “what with the
shutdown at Cominco and the
uncertainty at B.C.. Timber.”

‘But .she noted that the
major projects which have
begun in the city in the last
“year bode well for the city’s
future. :

“It looks like . Canada
Safeway. will be’ building in
1983 which indicates. that
industry has a lot of faith in
the future of Castlegar,” she
said.

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‘TORONTO (cP) =

i: tion has had such an janes

on: the:.cost, of living that

unless you.earned 2.4 times.

as ‘mueh’ money in 1981 as in

.-1971, you were a loser in the’. a

real-income sweepstakes, :
The. key term: is -real
income — the value’ of. your
income: ‘in ‘terms of - your
ability to buy goods. Figures
based on the Consumer Price
Index-show that a basket of

“essential goods that cost $100

in 1971 cost. $242.40 in. Sep-
ember, 1993." -

Unless your income rose at
least’ by :a- . corresponding
amount ‘you. ‘can consider
yourself'a real-income loser.

Ontario's high schoo! tea-
chers, for example, saw their
average sslery incréase by
‘ues 49 per cent ¢ during the

to $80,500 from
$20.8 300 but in real terms,
their. incomes ‘decreased by
38: per cent.

Electricians ‘in. the ship:
building ‘industry, ‘on . the
other hand, had a whopping
268-per-cent wage increase,
which translates‘ into a 53-

per-cent. jump in. real buying ,

power.
‘UNIONS BIG
comp! by the
federal’ Labor : Department
show that generally the big-
gest winners over the decade
were in unionized jobs, while
the losers ‘were in profes-
sional categories,. suth: as
docters, lawyers, accoun-
tants and architects. _
The figures are based on
averages across the country

“and may vary from province

to province.

Among the bigger winners

petite
or PG :

Pres’

. Trudeau, a strong "proponent of the north: south’
dialogue on world development, gave.no details but said if
the talks failed it. was because of radicals in the Group of TT.

who. P

During ‘his, stay\here, he held” private..talks with :
‘Ferdinand Marcos ° Prime Minister’ Comat | -

"He also“toured a rice research institute, partially

: », financed by Canada, and said he was encouraged by Marcos’ -

ling about future Canadian investment in the Philipines.

These investments include a proposed coabfired power
plant, a new railway and an investment by Petro-Canada
Anternational to help, the eee develop indigenous.

Southeast: Asian Nations in order to diversify
trade’ routes, traditionally to the US. and Europe.
“As for his visit to Japan for talks with Prime Minister

+ Jasuhiro'Nakasone, Trudeau said he.wants to discuss the
“ world economy and other multilateral issues.

‘were bread:makers, food-

store cashiers and telephone.

operators’ supervisors.
Workers in those categories
saw: their salaries in real
as 3 me by more than 20

Bit. mudi pity ies _ i

Trudeau's visit to Tokyo marks the first time a western
leader, has: gone there for talks with the new Japanese
leader, who | Monday for it a three-day visit
and talks with senior Anierican officials, including President

~The ‘major trad “isaue between Canada and Japan:
remains Japanese car exports, which Canada | wants placed *
under tighter.control ‘to protect its ailing auto industry.

“More talks between the two countries are acheduled for --

this month in.a ‘bid to. set a limit on Sapanene ‘care: :

ducers and doctors, who tha
real income losses in excess
of. 20°per cent. ©"

Why such a large disparity
‘when inflation is supposed 1 to
be Kitting everyone equally?’
One factor is the presence of
unions. ‘

“Registered nurses across
Canada had a real salary.
increase of 27.8 per ‘cent,

“because our salaries were so
low. to’ start with,” said
Peggy Mace, spok for

oer count

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: By CasNews Staff
* Improved garbage dump_
+ control has reduced the
raven Population almost by
half,’

the Ontario Nurses’ Associ-
ation.

Their biggest gains in On-
tario came between 1974 and
1976, just after they became
unionized.

For Onterio’s teachers, a
big. problem |has been the
allocation of government
grants to school boards. -

GRANTS FALL SHORT

“Our salary goal in the past

“four years has been to get the

cost of living plus two per
cent,” said Jim Bethune,
head of bargaining for the
Ontario Secondary School
Teachers’ Federation. “But
we haven't been able to get
even the cost of living.”
Bethune said school boards
have been “unable to recog-
nize inflation. The govern-
ment is giving grants fairly
close to inflation but forcing
the school boards to spend on
new things all the time.”

accumulated tg the West
Kootenay Naturalists.

signted during the associ-
ation’s annual bird count,
compared to a total of 518
in 1981. The association
reports that 57 members
turned out Dec. 27 to count
the birds in each pros-
cribed area.

During the count, 1,985
Bohemian Waxwings were
sighted dining on the red
berries of the Mountain
Ash. And in the bays along
the West Arm near Nel-
son, 1,161 Conts were
sighted.

As well, the association
reports that 648 Black-

‘ capped Chickadees were
counted.

The ‘association noted
that for the first time in 18

years, nota single Evening

down this year

Only 257 ravens were |

Grosbeak was sighted.

Some unusual sightings
included a Killdeer and a
Red-winged Blackbird —
summer birds which were
keeping company with the
48 Robins in the area.

A total of 8,803 birds of
63 species were counted in
the West Kootenay. And
the species ranged from
the tiny three-inch Winter
Wren to the Bald Eagle
with the 80-inch wing-
spread.

The statistics are for-
warded to the Provincial
Museum for cataloguing.

This month, the natural-
ists will be holding their
annual banquet which will
replace the regular meet-
ing. Dr. Bristol Foster of
the Provincial Museum will
be a guest speaker.

This is the second.time |
Dr. Foster has been guest
speaker; his first speech to
the naturalists was made
10 years ago at the asso-
ciation’s first banquet. »,