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— Costews photo

Growers doubt reports

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
Okanagan apple growers are treating
with skepticism reports of improved
apple crops in Ontario since the
removal of the chemical Alar.

“It appears to be a case of im-
properly analysed statistics,’’ said
Allan Earl, chief executive officer of
B.C. Tree Fruits Ltd.

Recent Ontario feports indicate
McIntosh apples are doing well
without Alar, with Ontario

Le) i hasn't

followed that pattern.

*‘We had more softening and drop
reported this year than for a long
time,” Said provincial porticulturist
John Price, adding orchards
lost 30 per cent of ripe apples
because of premature drop.

Packinghouse fieldman Stan
Swales said new Ontario Mcintosh

with drought
years in the 1980s, all give the ap-
pearance of huge 1989 and 1990 yield
increases.

But without Alar, more commer=
cial and cull fruit is\ produced,
resulting in less money jor orchar-
dists. The tendency of the these ap-
ples to store poorly hurts, he
said.

‘

101.7 million ki in
1989 and 82 million this year, com-
pated with 53.5 million and 56.7
million kilograms in 1986 and 1988
respectively, when Alar was still
used.

Alar, sprayed to make apples ripen
uniformly on trees so they could be
harvested all at once, was used
mainly on McIntoshes, whose weak
stems make them prone to falling off
trees before ripening.

The chemical also helped fruit stay
crisp sind red in storage. It was with-
drawn voluntarily when a U.S. en-
vironmental group reported that it
could increase the risk of cancer in
children.

Inustry officials predicted-growers
would be forced into changing
varieties, losing millions of dollars in
sales. Ontario reports say this hasn’t
happened, with production and sales
never better.

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VERNON, B.C. (CP) — The
Okanagan vegetable industry ‘will
likely show orderly growth and
expand profitably in the next
decade, an industry spokesman
says.
Vegetable farmers can make
decent livings now, and
producers should be able to con-
siderably expand the industry,
said Al Lypchuk, manager of the
Interior Vegttable Marketing
Agency Co-operative.

“New growers are faced with
relatively high initial investment
to get into initial production, but
returns should be good,’’ Lup-
chuk said, adding these oppor-
tunities are likely not there for

Farms show promise

> local

part-time or hobby farmers.

He said greenhouse production
will increase to serve a steady
Okanagan population growth.
There will be room for new far-
mers, especially those producing
long English cucumbers.

Okanagan potato producers
grow only about 50 per cent of
market needs, so this
product has “‘major
\possibilities,”” said Lypchuk, ad-
ding the key will be to bring
standards up to what consumers
demand.

“‘We have done quite a bit on
this, but our quality is sometimes
wanting because we don’t have
volume,”’ he said.

Hunger
strike
continues

VANCOUVER (CP) — Five
foreign-trained doctors will continue
a hunger strike despite an announ-
cement by Health Minister John Jan-
sen of a program to provide inter-
nship positions. »

Jansen said an ‘information
package will be sent this month to,
foreign doctors ‘‘who have
an interest in pursuing their medical
careers in this province.’”

But five foreign-trained doctors
who are in the fourth day of a
hunger strike say the program is
unacceptable.

“The fast stands and it stands
stronger. The group is united more
ahan ever and-they see this as com-
pletely a withdrawal of everything
that has been told to us,”’ spokesman
John Bitoni said Tuesday.

““We are demanding that they
fulfil the promise to us that these
five people would be taken care of
and fast-tracked, and then we can
talk about the long-range problem.”’

The doctors held a 16-day hunger
strike last July to protest against a
policy that gives Canadian-trained
doctors precedence over immigrant

5 for -

in B.C.

Protest_—

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operations,’’ he said. ‘‘We know for
a fact that in May they wanted these
closed.’*

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As a result of Johnson Matthey’s
“dishonesty’’, Saare said the union
will take the company to court
regardless of how many employees
are willing to take legal action.

“So many things were done under
the table and Johnson Matthey acted
in such a sleazy manner, we will be
taking them to court regardless,”” he
said. ‘‘This isn't a unique situation,
and it’s time someone across Canada
took a stand against corporations
like Johnson Matthey.

(They) may feel they’ve won the
battle with the help of the courts,
but they haven’t won the war.”

After the strike, the Health
Ministry said 10 internships would be
set up for foreign-trained doctors,
Bitomti said. :

He said two positions a year is not
enough to deal with the backlog of
foreign medical graduates.

“‘Let’s say a rough estimate is 40
people, that is a 20-year waiting list
— that is if the number stays -the
same, obviously it is going to grow,”
he said. ‘‘At that rate they will get a
pension before they get an inter-
nship.””

Jansen said the new program is
similar to other internship programs
for foreign medical graduates that
exist in Manitoba, Ontario and

Health Ministry spokesman Paul
Jeune said he did not know how
many doctors would be ligible for
the program or how soon the inter-
nships might start.

LOTTERIES

chives Assistance Program,
Provincial Secretary Howard
Dirks stated in a news release.

“We have for the past number
of years been collecting archive
material,"” said John Man-
sbridge, library director at the
college. ‘What we wanted to do
was make the archives accessible
to us and to the people at large.”

Applied for in September, the
grant, which the college also
matches, the monies will go
towards establishing procedures
and standars for arranging and
describing records contained in
the West Kootenay archives.

“We want to do this job
properly, so we'll hire someone
to come in and show us how we
should" handle: the archives and
the procedures inyolved.””

Finding the consultant maybe

Selkirk college ©
receives grant

the hardest part to do, said Man-
sbridge. The professional ar-
chavist will have to spend close to
two months examining the system
and making modifications where
needed. In addition, the con-
sultant will have a big effect on
the college’s decision whether or
not to hire additional staff. ‘It
may be that all that is needed is a
modification of the system."”

The Selkirk College award was
one ‘of nine announced by 6
under the program whi was
established last April. The other
successful applicants are in Vic-
toria, Port Alberni, Vancouver,
Burnaby-and Mission:

The Community Archives
Assistance Program contributes
up to one-half the cost, to &
maximum of $10,000, of
initiatives by non-profit societies
and community archives - to
establish repositories and acquire,
process or conserve historical
records. Grants are made twice a
year.

U.S. forestry
reports errors

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
U.S. Forest Service, subscribing to
“teconomic mythology,’’ has
overestimated the nation’s timber
production capabilities by about 20
per cent over the next 50 years, an
industry report says.

Leaders of the American Forest
Resource Alliance said the gover-.
mment agency was flatly wrong
early in 1990 when it projected
southern U.S. timber harvests and
‘Canadian imports will be enough to
offset cutbacks in northwest logging.

The industry group predicted
dramatic increases in lumber prices,
as much as 87 per cent, as a result of
the miscalculations.

Con’ 'Schallau, the group’s chief
economist, called on Congress to
demand more accurate esti of

Schallau said-the Forest Service is
wrong because it did not take into
account the growing environmental
restrictions on forests, such as
protection of the northwest’s nor-
thern spotted owl.

Logging cutbacks under the
govenrment’s plam~to save the
threatened bird are equivalent to 18
per cent to 23 per cent of the
nation’s annual softwood timber
supply, he said.

“We're approaching timber har-
vest gridlock,’ he said. ‘*With
demand outstripping supply, con®
sumers will have to rely on environ-
mentally inferior substitutes for
wood products, such as plastic and

a University of
assisted in the

the U.S. tigber supply through the
year 2040.

“We must substitute ‘Economics
101° for ‘Mythology 101,’ " he said
during a news conference at the
alliance’s Washington headquarters.

The report takes issue with. the
forest service’s 10-year report issued
in June, as required by the Resource
Planning Act. That assessment
predicted U.S. demand for timber
will increase 48 per cent over the next
50 years, but anticipated increased
southern production and foreign im-
ports would provide the needed sup-
ply. 7

report. He concluded that northwest
timber production will fall to 8.2
billion board feet by the year 2000 —
about 20 per cent less than the
government projects and about 35
per cent less than recent harvest
levels.

Forest Service spokesman Judy
Kissinger said the agency intends to
revise its projections as a result of
the logging cutbacks tied to the nor-
thern spotted owl.

Kissinger said the agency would
“‘not -necessarily’’ dispute the in-
dustry report.

IN MEMORY

1990, at age 57:

The winning numbers drawn
Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery
were 3, 5, 15, 29, 40, 48, 52 and 53.

The winning numbers drawn
Monday in B.C. Keno lottery were 5,
18, 19, 36, 38, 41, 44 and 48.

The numbers in Satur-
day's Lotto 6/49 were 7, 25, 28, 37,
44 and 48. The bonus number was
1.

The four Extra winning numbers
for British Columbia, were 15, 30, 65
and 75.

The winning numbers in the Ex-
Press draw were 774911, 660991,
245913 and 634216.

The winning numbers drawn
Saturday in Lotto BC were 4, 9, 34,
37, 39 and 40.

nine

at Park Memorial Cemetery.

Funeral Chapel.

Harry Knight

Eileen Coleman
Eileen Coleman of Castlegar passed away Tuesday, Dec. 25,

Mrs. Coleman was born Feb. 14, 1933 at Winnipeg, Man. She
lived in London, England and Vancouver before moving to Deer
Park in 1947. She married Roy Coleman in 1949 at Robson and they
continued living at Deer Park until moving to Syringa Creek in 1954.
While at Syringa Creek they operated a general store, post office and
boarding hotse. They moved to Castlegar in 1966 and she worked in
the family business, Coleman Excavating, as secretary. Mrs. Coleman
enjoyed reading, cooking, quilting and traveling.

She is survived by her husband Roy at the family home; children
(Craig (Gaye) and Lorne (Bev) of Castlegar; Keith (Karen) of Port
Coquitlam; Cheryl (Bill) and Karla (Dave) Melsted, both of Castlegar;
and parents, Curley and Tillie Law of Robson.

Funeral service was held Dec. 29, 1990 at 11 a.m. at the
Funeral Chapel with Rev. Dorothy Barker officiating. Interment was

Should friends desire, contributions may be made to the Cancer
Society, Box 3292, Castlegar, B.C. or the Castlegar Hospice Society
¢/0 1464 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar

Harry Knight, of Robson, passed away Dec. 30, 1990 at
Kootenay Lake District Hospital after a long illness bravely fought at

771.
Born in Revelstoke in 1913, he worked for the Highways

Saturday, Jan. $ at 2 p.

‘There will be a memorial service in the Robson Church on

Bee mea. Make your move.

January 3, 1991

And

rhe og
holidays

FORT ST. JAMES (CP) — About
200 workers in northern British
€olumbia are getting an unwanted,
extra-long Christmas holiday after a
fire at a sawmill.

The Canadian Fofest Products mill
at Fort St. James, 580 kilometres
north of Vancouver, had been
scheduled to re-open today i

Coming Soon . . . See the

Castlegar News of Wed. Jan. 16

i

a shutdown for the Christmas
season.

Butwe fire at the mill on Sunday
destroyed a filing room and planer
mill

“It’s a major blow to Fort St.
James,”’ said the town’s mayor,
Sandra Kovacs.

‘“‘CanFor is the largest employer in

Port, ( )a
Excellence Award from

first i ‘
Premier Bill Vander Zalm and a

Strachan. Port was awarded a medal of recognition and a $5,000 scholarship to be used at any
B.C. university, college or institute. Port says he will “most likely” be atte

of British Columbia in Vancouver next year.

student at Selkirk College, receives the Premier's town. The effect will be passed down

Bruce the line. Not only will mill workers
be hit, but also loggers and truckers,
and then it filters down to merchan-
ts.”

An estimated 140 people helped

ling the University

STREET TALK

fight the 12-hour blaze, which is
believed to have started as a result of
a leakage of natural gas.

a city about 300 km. east of Mosc
the idea, particularly because of t!

and weak Russian heritage.

JEGAR may be getting a new sister city,
h city in Russia. Mayor Audrey Moore met
with a Russian delegate recently who proposed
Castlegar enter a ‘‘twinning’’ agreqment with Chern,
. Moore liked
city’s strong
Russian heritage and large Doukhobor population.
An agreement with Chern would mean dropping
earlier ideas of twinning with a city in the Ukraine,
one that was not as favorable because of its location

GORDON TURNER, School District No. 9
board chairman, is one of the lowest paid chairmen

I ighters were p by
temperatures of -32 C and a near-
blizzard.

“It was a real struggle,’’ said
Kovacs. ‘‘I wouldn’t have wanted to
be one of those people on the fire
lines.””

RCMP Const. Hugh Malone said

in the province, according to last year’s figures
recently released by the British Columbia School
Trustees Association.

The figures: show, that at last year’s
compensation of $6,750, Turner was the third-lowest
paid school board chairman in the province, with
only West Vancouver and Creston/Kasio trailing residents rallied to help out the
behind. He received ahout $4,000 less than the volunteer firefighters.

Cranbrook school district chairman and about $8,000 “It was great to see sO many

less than Vernon’s chairman. people come together and work so
y < hard,"” he said.

‘ This year, Turner reduced his pay to $7,000 Damage is estimated to be several

rom $7,500. pa

million dollars.

Ottawa
assures
luxury

By DAVID SOMERVILLE
Ottawa has been nicknamed

“Wonderland on the Rideau’’ and
no wonder — it as.

TI Politicians whe live
and work there Have insulated them-
selves from some of the unpleasant
realities of the world — realities
which the rest of us taxpayers musi”
endure every day.

For instance, members of
Parliament never have to worry
about receiving the medical care they
want, when they want it. Many
Canadians are now suffering on long
waiting lists for heart operations or
hip replacements. Most of us have
spent time in the waiting rooms of
doctors or hospitals.

MPs don’t have those problems

because they can simply breeze into —

an Ottawa clinic established specially
for them, where they are treated im-
mediately,

This exclusive clinic has a doctor
*on staff whose only duty is to treat
MPs and senior bureaucrats. The
country’s health-care system might
be falling apart, with people dying
on waiting lists but our elected
leaders are guaranteed medical care
at their convenience:

They have also guaranteed them-
selves a worry-free retirement: MPs
enjoy one of the most lucrative pen-@
sion schemes in the world.

After only six years in office.MPs
are guaranteed a pension with
unlimited protection against in-
flation. Worse, the pension is
payable on the very day they leave
office, regardless of their age.

Then, of course, there are all the
wonderful perks of office MPs en-
joy. The generous tax-free allowan-
ces, the free travel, the six months
severance pay if they lose an elec-
tion, the expense accounts and a
whole host of other privileges paid
for by taxpayers.

MPs have set themselves above the
Canadians who voted them into of-
fice, as a privileged ruling class. This
is something we expect to occur in a

_Place like the Soviet Union — but in
Canada?

Pity.

MPs are held in deep disrespect by
Canadians and they have earned it.
If they want to win back our respect,
the respect they should have as our
elected representatives, they will have
to earn it. For starters, that means
no special medical clinics and a fun-
damentally reformed pension plan.

David Somerville is President of
The National Citizens’ Coalition.

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