| April 10, 1985 Opening Sat., April 20 THE COURTYARD BOOK and CURIO SHOP In “the new” Downtown Square Books bought, sold and traded Antiques and Cotlectables taken on Consignments. 365-3737 City of Castlegar COURT OF Water — Sewer Frontage Tax Assessment Notice is given that a Court of Revision will hear appeals and may correct the Frontage Assessment Roll as to: - Name - Address — Actual foot, frontage of parcels Taxable foot, frontage of parcels. COMPLAINTS shall be submitted in writing to the undersigned prior to 4:30 p.m., April 26, 1985. The Court of Revision will be held at City Hall on Tuesday, April 30, 1985 at 10:00 a.m P. Ozeroft, Collector City of Castlegar 460 Columbia Avenue, VIN 1G7 THE RIGHT TIME & PRICE! To Sew at Home with Machines from White. . . 3 DAYS ONLY Thurs. to Sat. April 11-13 KACTLY AS MLUSTRATED. SUPER SPECIAL *144 Buttonholer. Reg. $449 $ 299 The Wool Wagon Castleaird Plaza — 365-3717 Woaneta Plaza — 364-1066 Domestic Brand From White. Reg. $229 .. 9-Stitch, Open Arm, Canada Post to increase postal rates OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post plans to raise postal rates by two cents effective June 24, boosting the cost of a first-class letter to 34 cents from 32. The increase, the first since February 1983, must be approved by the cabinet but consent is expected to be routine. The move will generate an estimated $172 million in ex- tra revenue this year — $47.3 million from first-class letter revenue alone. The Crown agency is run- ning an annual deficit of about $350 million and is under orders from Parlia- ment to balance its books by March 31, 1987. Other changes announced today by Canada Post and scheduled on the same date, will affect a wide range of postal services, including special delivery, parcel post and advertising mail. Among the proposals: © The cost of mailing a letter to the United States will increase to 39 cents from 37 cents. e The rate for non-stan dard business letters will rise to 39 cents from 37 cents. © The overseas letter rate will rise to 68 cents from 64 cents. e Fourth-class rates for parcels over 2.5 kilograms will go up by between seven per cent and 10 per cent. © Unaddressed advertising mail rates will go up 10 per cent while the rate for addressed advertising mail will increase 8.7 per cent. e@ The rate for Canadian newspapers and periodicals will go up six per cent. e A subscription and news- dealer rate of 22.5 cents a kilogram is planned, along with a new single-copy min- imum rate of 4.5 cents. © Substription and news- dealer rates for second- class foreign publications mailed in Canada will rise 10 per cent to 12.3 cents for the first 50 grams, plus eight cents for each additional 50 grams up to one kilogram. Subscription and news- dealer rates for second-class foreign publications, printed in Canada, will increase to 29 cents per kilogram from 26.5 cents with a minimum charge of 5.8 cents per copy up to 200 grams. The current rate per copy is 5.3 cents. Canada Post also announc- ed that effective Sept. 1, it will begin returning mail with insufficient postage to the sender at no penalty. Short-paid mail now is de- livered to the addressee at a penalty equal to double pos- tage due. Payment is on the honor system and, while surveys show that most intend to pay, losses amount to an esti. mated $50 million a year, the agency estimates. Three to four per cent of all mail posted in Canada has in- sufficient postage, it adds. Smoking increases per capita TORONTO (CP) — Per capita cigarette smoking in Canada increased for the first time since 1983 because the federal government reduced a proposed tax increase, a Health and Welfare Canada official said Tuesday. Neil Collishaw told a Tor- onto cancer prevention work: S FERRARO’S ‘a Western Canadien Company YOUR SATISFACTION IS OUR MAIN CONCERN. 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU * Castleaird Plazo * Downtown Castleaird Plaza Store Open for Your Shopping Convenience Until 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays Prices effective until Soturday, April 13, 1985 SUPER THURSDAY 98° SALE ONE DAY ONLY California luscious red strawberries ..@ Taurus steer manure Castleaird Plaza Store Only. shop the number of cigar- ettes smoked per capita in creased by two per cent in the past five months over a comparable period a year be- fore. The increase marked the end of a more than six-per- cent decline in per capita cig: arette smoking that began in 1983, he said. That decrease had broken the pattern of an average two-per-cent per capita increase that started in 1949. Collishaw, chief of policy analysis for the Federal Bureau of Tobacco Control and Biometrics, attributed the previous reductions to hefty goverments tax in- creases. EST WANNA DRAG? . . . Two Castlegar tots eye each other bik: at Wagner Shows travelling fair earlier this week. ’s during ride CasNews Photo by Ron Norman 1985 Reno Bus Tours $ 1 DS count for seniors 4ENNE TRAVEL HEU changes strategy VANCOUVER (CP) — Rotating strikes at 11 British Columbia nursing homes — including Trail, Kiro Manor — will be replaced by full-scale strikes at all but one of the homes, the Hospital Employees Union decided Tuesday. Union spokesman Lecia Stewart said workers at Shaughnessy Manor will stay on the job, because Shaugh. nessy is the only facility affiliated with the Continuing Care Employee Relations Association that has agreed to the union's terms regarding a resumption of talks. Stewart said the union's strike co-ordinators decided to abandon the rotating strike strategy because it was proving to be an inconvenience to patients without applying “I think it is difficult to say what impact it will have on the residents, but I would think it would be less disruptive to them,” she said. Stewart said the employers have refused to accept the notion that their workers deserve wage parity with acute care and other long-term care workers in the province. “We've struggled for three years to get a collective agreement with these facilties. It's been three years. We go through negotiations, we elected to arbitrate, we got our award, the employer diodn't like it so it had it quashed in the Supreme Court, so what option do we have?” Stewart said. Arnold said she intends to contact the union today to clarify any “misunderstandings” it might have about sufficient pressure on the ployers’ “We had hoped that rotating strikes would force the employer back to the bargaining table with no pre-con ditions,” Stewart said. The dispute involves 600 dietary, housekeeping and care workers. The long-term care facilities have been for a ion of talks. She said the parties have 45 contract language proposals to discuss, apart from wage issues, and 40 of those items are union demands. “We won't agree to the standard acute care agreement _ up front, but we want to get back to bargaining to get these issues out of the way. There is a significant operating with the i of shutdowns. Association spokesman Joanne Arnold said the nursing home residents will likely prefer a full shutdown to the hit-and-run variety. 's during the April} xe 20th] —— 8 DAYS Now taking names for 2nd bus Now Booking | | Tours | | for} | May} | 4th i Riverside 7 DAYS ! ] TRAVE BREAKFAST OFF THE GRIDDLE: “HOW WAF- For Reservations (800) 848-9600 Or your local travet agent Canadian Currency at Par for Room Sheraton- Spokane Hotel S 3) 322 Spokane Faits Court t, Spokane. Washington 99201 ability-to-pay problem here.” The union wants wage increase of 17 per cent over the life of the agreement but the association has offered 12 per cent with a wage re-opener this November. Chabot to welcome Fonyo VICTORIA (CP) — Pro- vincial Secretary Jim Chabot said Tuesday he will be at the B.C.-Alberta border to wel come Steve Fonyo to the province. Chabot indicated the gov ernment might provide some money to Fonyo's Journey for Lives cross-Canada run for cancer research. “I never left the impression that we wouldn't be making a contri bution,” he told reporters. Chabot said cabinet would discuss today whether the B.C. government will follow Alberta in matching private donations to Fonyo's run, dollar for dollar. “I think that was an in teresting concept, and a very generous one,” he said. The ministry of intergov ernmental relations will be making a submission to cab- inet, he said. “The matter will be exam ined, and an answer will be forthcoming as soon as a cab inet decision has been made.” As Fonyo pounds the pave ment towards the Blackfoot Indian Reserve, elders meet to consider the name the one legged runner has earned for himself. Our Action Ad Phone Nomber is 365-2212 Weekend Cali For Business to provide lead VANCOUVER (CPP) — Canadians are looking to business instead of government to lead the country through the economic revolution now taking place, Bruce Howe, president of the British Columbia Resources Investment Corp., said Tuesday. “People are looking to business for some hope, and for some leadership,” Howe said in a speech to the Rotary Club. “It is time for business to respond. April 10, 1985 Drunks damage brain WASHINGTON (AP) — “Canadians are no longer ii to build their economy and create jobs. They. are counting on us. And we had better deliver.” If business wants to maintain its new credibility with the public it will have to take steps to fill the leadership role that it sought and now has been given, he said. “Right now in the middle of a business memory ies that can be temporary or cannot afford to sit back and expect everyone to know and love us the way we know and love ourselves.” Howe listed several steps business should take to improve the long term economic climate. First, he said, it must inform the public about general economic facts of life. - “The ground rules of—business life — things like debt-equity ratios, or return on capital invested — might as well be a foreign language to most Canadians.” TELL PUBLIC And it should be outlining its own financial after the person stops drinking. In answer to those who be- lieve “moderate” drinking rather than abstinence can be a goal for alcoholics, Eckardt said his studies have shown greater susceptibility to brain damage among alcoh- olics who do not return to a test Hams ss! me es * Connie 365-7601 abusive drinking. “The public should be made aware, for example, that B.C.’s 10 publicly traded forest companies must now begin to Detalis. GIGANTIC GARAGE SALE Saturday & Sunday April 13814 10 a.m. - 4p.m. “Good Aprt 6-9 1418.8 25-78 1985 105 Pinewood Drive « in Woodland Park crea. WAITING FOR INSPIRATION . . lic reading April 15 at the will give a free pul « Author Paul St. Pierre Castlegar Library. St. Pierre has written such novels Writer to give reading By JUDY WEARMOUTH Monday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Castlegar Library are the date, time and place for a special National Book Festival event. Paul St. Pierre, author of such well-known and well loved books as Chileotin Hol- iday, Boss of the Namko Drive and Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse, will give a free public reading in the Castlegar Branch of the li brary. St. Pierre has long enjoyed a reputation for being one of the West's best, and most prolific writers. His columns in the Vancouver Sun first brought him a devoted fol- lowing in the ‘60s, and he scored subsequent successes with his TV series, “Cariboo Country” and his own radio program. He's also been a Member of Parliament, (and, incidentally, author of the name of the riding Coast- Chileotin he represented), NATIONAL FESTIVAL DRIVER'S LICENCE CASE as Chilcotin Holiday, Boss of the Namko Drive and Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse. and a police commissioner. “Chileotin Holiday” and “Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse” are considered west- ern classics and U.S. critics hail him as Canada’s Mark Twain. His latest success is “Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse,” now out in paperback to rave reviews. Residents can hear from “the horse’s mouth” all about the legendary Smith and his spirited neighbors — Ol An toine, the ancient Indian “who confused past and present and everybody else;” Frenchie, the would-be cattle baron with a wandering wife; Court appeal planned VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern ments plans an immediate appeal of a court decision overturning a driver's licence suspension, Attorney Gen eral Brian Smith said Tues. day. County court Judge J.P. van der Hoop ruled last week that using the Motor Vehicle Weather records missed By CasNews Staff Records for maximum hours of sunshine and min imum amounts of precipita. tion were almost set in March until poor weather set in on the 20th. During the first 19 days, the fine weather was the result of a high pressure ride over the southern portion of the province, forcing Pacific disturbances throughout northern B.C. Act to automatically suspend Pritpal Singh Hundal's li- cence because he accumulat- ed too many demerit points was unconstitutional. Hundal, an admitted speeder, had accumulated 88 traffic violation points, but the judge said that once the right to drive is granted to a person, the Charter of Rights does not allow it to be denied without a hearing. Smith said he hopes the B.C. court of Appeal will hear the case before the summer, but warned that in the in terim, police will still charge people with driving while under suspension if they drive after their licences have been automatically sus pended. He said that any driver ac- cused of a traffic violation already has the right to con. test it in court before demerit points go on his record. “Nobody gets points with out the right toa hearing,” he said. And after enough points are accumulated to merit a suspension, “anyone has a right to contest that suspen- sion and they can appeal it in a proper hearing.” If the appeal fails, Smith said, he will look at amending the law. Unsorail ntional” yonivenition Centre of its The ride of high pi was then replaced by a trough of cold, moist air. The last 12 days of March had lit tle sunshine, with mixed rain and snow. Temperature averages for the month were slightly be- low normal. Recorded sun shine was 157 hours — 40 hours above normal and 20 hours less than the record of 176.9 set in 1969. Rainfall at 10.2 mm was one-third less than normal, while snowfall was normal at 21.8. SOUTH DIXIE LEE Under new management. 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Book early to avoid disappointment Bayshone Inn ‘4 Box 38, Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta, Canada TOK 2M0 Phone (403) Toll-free reservations trom Alberta locations after May 1st: 1-600-552-6008 659-2211 and a bank manager who ac- cepted “four queens” as sec- urity for a bank loan — who share life on the cattle ranges in a beautiful corner of British Columbia. dig out of some $530 million of losses suffered over the past three years.” Business should also: — Create new methods of capital formation, such as flow-through shares (which by legislation allow tax benefits that would normally be claimed by companies to be passed on to investors) to offer greater incentives to investors. — Continue to press government to reduce or eliminate barriers to ii in govet tax systems. — Establish a private-sect issi of business and labor, to find new ways of bringing investment into British Columbia. — Talk about the need to maintain a quality education system in the province and back that up with direct investment in the education system. Gia Royal Canadian Legion | Branch No. 170 CABARET Friday & Saturday Dancing 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. OPEN AT 12 NOON SIX DAYS A WEEK. Proper Dress Fri. & Sat. after 9 p.m. Playing Fri. & Sat. SKIP & DAN Must Be SIGNED In L Teoredey and Sunday Bingo Sincerely, A Letter of Appreciation to Kootenay Residen We have made our application to the federal government for help towards building a new lead smelter at Trail. We presented our case as effectively as possible. Now, we await the decision. Regardless of the outcome, | must convey the most sincere appreciation of Cominco to thousands of people in the Kootenays who supported our application — young people, senior citizens, workers, housewives — citizens of every walk who felt it important to help. In Ottawa we had the firm assistance of our Members of Parliament, Bob Brisco and Stan Graham, with mayors Chuck Lakes of Trail, and Jim Ogilvie of Kimberley, and Ken Georgetti, president of Local 480 of the United Steelworkers. The help we had, in this, from so many people has been wonderful. We thank you. [iE We Vice-President, B.C. Group "4, E. FLETCHER April 8, 1985 Bird — 6p.m. J Se |