CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 2, 1982 ua i Traffic injuries decrease D4 business dinECTORY New Insertions, copy changes and cancellations for the Castlegar News Business Directory will i accepted before tho first week of the month only. Telephone 365-5210 WEATHERCAST Mixture of clouds and sunshine Sunday with the possibility of showers, High 20° and low of 7°, Outlook is tor a warming and Legislative Li Parliament Bld Victoria, B. Cs VICTORIA (CP) — Traffic fatalities and injuries in B.C. decreased during the first two months of 1982 d with the corresponding per- iod last year. Statistics released by the Ministry of Highways show a+ 95-per-cent decline in the number of traffic fatalities and a 12-per-cent decline in the number of injuries in January and February this year as compared with the first two months of 1981. In January and February last year, 101 people died in traffic accidents. This year, that figure dropped to 66. Nearly 5,800 people were injured last year in accidents while slightly more than 5,000 suffered injureis in the first two months of 1982, However, while a smaller number of people were being killed or injured in traffic accidents, there were more vehicles involved in acci- dents. In January and February, 1981, 29,000 vehicles were involved. During the same period this year, that number jumped to almost 42,000. The total number of acci- dents increased to 22,625 in January and February this year compared to 16,427 in the two months last year. White's team wins rescue competitions The mine rescue team captained by Bob White won the Cominco Kimberley - Operations Mine Rescue Competitions May 22, 23 and 24 in Kimberley. White's squad, which in- cludes co-ordinator Norm Walter, vice-captain Gerry Fitzpatrick and John Cun- ningham, Bruce Hooles and Bruce Reid, will be the Sullivan No, 1 team at the East Kootenay Mine Rescue Championships to be held in Kimberley June 12. Finishing second .was the team consisting of captain Bob Gyurkovits, co-ordinator John Wright, vice-captain Roy Almas and Stan Yaw- ney, Dave Baril and Pete Edwards. The Sullivan No. 2 team for the East Kootenay champ- ionships will be the squad consisting of captain Dale Craig, co-ordinator Dave ‘Walters, vice-captain Bill Mc- Neil and Frank Maille, Al Laviviere and Bill Bloomer. In the Senior First Aid Team Competitions which were held after ‘the mine rescue competitions, the Sull- vivan Concentrator squad of Mark Fisher and John Young DUNWOODY & CO. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 We've Got Your. Muffler MAIN ST. MUFFLER 1335 Columbia Ave. 365-5411 Caldlsct ——— Groceterio & Laundromat OPEN 364 Dayso Year 1038 Columbia Avenue (Bottom of Sherbiko Hill) Mon. - Sat, 8:30 - 10:30 p.m. .Sun, & Hols. 9- 10:30 p.m. Groceries, Tobacco, Confectionary & General Phone 365-6534 Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc., C.A. Resident Partner “The Complete Appliances Sold Maytag — General Electric Kitchen Aid — Jenn-Air “THE BEST” WARRANTY SERVICE INSTALLATION SERVICE EXPERT REPAIR SERVICE on all major appliances including fridges by qualified technicians. Authorized Repair Service Large Stock of Parts 365-3388 Castlegar Plumbing People OLIVER TRUSS PRODUCTS up. © Commercial & Res. 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Phone David Anytime 365-6810 © Asphalt Suppliers © Gravel Suppliers © Road Builders Serving the West Kootenays PHONE 365-6563 THE COLANDER SPAGHETTI HOUSE Specializing in Htallan cuisine. For Reservations Phone 364-1816 1475 Cedar Avenue Trall, B.C. » LEISURE TRAIL HONDA We don't make a lot of noise but we service what we sell and our prices are right. Don't buy another Honda until you check our price or you may be paying too much, Elliot Motors Ltd. ;gDBA Trail Honda 3377 Dealer D6014 TURF FARM instont beautiful lawn in one day. Seed varieties blendedfor . Southern Interior climate, For availability and rates, phone GRANT CHRISTENSON 866-5373 x phir . industital * Residential ‘é * Commercial aa ey 12-7339 CasNews Printing HIGHLAND LOG BUILDERS Handcrafted Homes 428-9678. Box 2686 Creston Letterheads, & Envelopes Business Cards Brochures Business Forms Any Printing! Trowelex Equipment Rentals 4450 Columbia Ave. 365-3315 j COHOE Agency Ltd. 269 Columbia Dial 365-3301 * Providing complete service eD © Singer Sewing Centre Castleaird Plaza §-3810 J&$ Appraisals Ltd. (Affillated with Interwest roperty Service) h R. Caruso won in against teams from the mine, fertil- izer operations and engineer- ing service. Stamps aid fight with cancer The-Grand Sessions of the Grand Chaper of the B.C. and Yukon Order of the Eastern Star were held in Victoria May 24, 25 and 26. There were more than 1,000 delegates and members present from all parts of B.C., in addition to visitors from the United States and other parts of Canada. A church service was held on Sunday, May 23. During the sessions Mrs.H. Schellenberg of Castlegar was installed as Grand Lec- turer for 1982 - 1983. It was interesting to note that the Chapters throughout B.C. have raised $10,934.85 through their cancelled stamp sales. This will be divided between cancer re- search and cancer dressings. Minto Chapter extend its most sincere thanks to all who save and donate their cancelled stamps. Those attending the ses- sions from Minto were Mrs. H. Schellenberg, Mr. and Mrs. C. Petts, Mr. and Mrs.C. Ackerman, Mrs. L. Green- wood, Mrs. H. Johnson, Mrs. D. Stewart and Mrs. N. Zuk. A.A.C.I. Real Estate Appraiser and Consultant Ph. 368-9949 CASTLE TIRE (1977) Ltd. SALES & SERVICE Pssssst Don't Miss the Savings During Castle Tire's SPRING SALE Save 20% on Set of 4 Potacest Tires S—> 365-714. 1050 Columbia 43 ue Hour Service GUS ADAMS jwpmorors D.L, #7089 FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Open9a.m. +9 p.m. 5 Days. a Week v8 Phone 352-3195 Oren, FOR SALES by R. 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Rivers Elementary School. d fora Castlegar deputy fire chief Roy, Percival ‘sai there is no damage estimate because: the home was old and rundown. He called the building “a firetrap.”- The fire occurred at 620-7th St. adjacent to Twin WATER ‘POWER sie Castlegar Volunteer fireman hoses down fire ot home at 620- " h Street.Thursd Home destro) ec By CasNews Staff Castlegar was devastated by fire early Thursday evening. Local authorities said-the cause of the blaze has not been determined, though arson a. Friday The home is on property by the Pente- costa! Tabernacle later this summer.’ Percival said firemen received the alarm at 6:30 p.m. “to battle the ‘blaze. Percival said it took firemen about a half hour to put ‘out the fire, though it flared up again Friday and firemen had to attend the scene to keep the smouldering remains under control. Percival said the firemen had some problems with the number of spectators in the area. He said firemen were “hampered” somewhat, However, he said the large crowd that watched the fire was on the whole very Nog Ss Ye Ste oS by fire | and by the time fire trucks arrived the home was in “total - flames.” Some 16 volunteer firemen and two trucks from -:the north:hall attended, though only one truck was used good, D, No progress at summit VERSAILLES, FRANCE" (CP) — There has been vir- tually no progress in having the United States lower its interest rates despite strong appeals from both Canada ministration moves to lower the huge U.S. government — budgetary deficit. However, Reagan was un- able to offer any guarantees and MacGuigan noted that the U.S. had and West Affairs Minister Mark Mac- Guigan said Saturday. MacGuigan, speaking to reporters after the second day of the annual economic summit of the seven leading industrial democracies, said President Reagan - believes interest rates should begin to fall this summer as his ad- promised at last year’s sum- mit in Ottawa that the rates would be down by the end of 1981 but failed to materialize. “So we find it more diffi- cult to go on through another summit with just that same kind of assurance,” MacGui- gan said. “We'd like some- thing a lot more than that.” Slocan By CHERYL WISHLOW Staff Writ iter MacGuigan quoted Prime Minister Trudeau as telling “Reagan “we seem to have a choice between crisis and catastrophe,” and joining West. German Chancellor also . Helmut Schmidt in telling the Americans that urgent action is required. When U.S. rates fall, Tru- deau and Schmidt said, rates in other countries can also be lowered without damaging the value of their currencies in relation to the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, Finance Minis- ter Allan MacEachen indir- ectly By BONN NORMAN B.C. eg at increase the generating capacity of its proposed Sree Creek- Kee: owerat it is not clear what each dam's generating capacity will be now. He said the un- certainty is because Hydro officials are still. examining y! ~. project“ by. 20 ee cent, the Castlegar News has learned. Hydro” spokesman Flint Bondurant said Friday in a telephone interview from Vancouver that the combined generating capacity of the Murphy Creek and Keenley- side dams will be 510 mega- watts. — up from the 424 megawatts Hydro had earlier announced. Until now, Hydro had said Murphy Creek dam will gen- erate 280 megawatts and K design changes for Keenleyside dam. Actually, Bondurant said the combined capacity of the two dams would increase by 30 per cent — awatts. But calculations show that would only increase the combined capacity by 20 per cent, to 510 meg- | the expected seasonal draw- down will Murphy Creek Castlegar Economic Develop- ment said the particularly during spring. Bondurant said those de- sign changes will be con- firmed within the next few weeks, As well, he said Hydro has delayed its application for a water licence by three months, Hydro had intended to apply for a water licence in September, but Bondurant said the “target date” is now December. Hydro had also ie in April that the was il for comment on the discrep- ancy. ‘Meanwhile, he said the proposed design changes. to, project could be delayed be- cause of the unexpected length of its Site C dam hearings i in Fort. St. John. i d that 144 However, Bondurant said the Ke will also mean that much of Grad drugged during party ~_ By CasNews Staff Castlegar RCMP are inves- tigating an incident in which an 18-year-old Stanley Hum- phries Secondary School stu- 3 Tent was apparently drugged during a: grad party. | Dave Kinakin was. taken to: mtly _ slipped @ ‘a drug into his. drink. Kinakin. was ‘released: from hospital. Thursday. +. ROMP Const: Dale:Hock-: ley told the Castlegar News’ the RCMP is aware of the incident, but hasn't been able to confirm if anything was slipped into Kinakin’s drink, and if something was, what it * was. He said police are current- ly waiting for a doctor's report on the case. Hockley said the exact lo- cation of the incident is also difficult ‘to determine be- cause the party didn’t remain in one place, but moved around. He said at one point there were more than 100 youths at’ the party. Meanwhile, Kinakin’s aunt, Virginia Swetlikoff, told the Castlegar News the party started at 4 p.m. at a local that he is considering bring- ing ina new budget later this month to improve the Can- adian investment climate and create jobs. MADE NO DECISION Asked whether he . had ruled outa new budget before the end of June, Mac- Eachen replied: “I haven't ruled it out. I haven't ruled it in, I haven't decided yet.” continued on page AZ Trower's home has been assessed at $28,000 and he said She said Kinakin, a goalie with the Nelson Ju- nior Maple Leafs of the Kootenay International Hockey League, had been drinking beer — but not to excess. Swetlikoff said the hallu- cinations started around mid- night. “About midnight he started going funny. He had been fine up to that point.” She said Kinakin doesn't remember anything after that. He remained in hospital . until Thursday because the iver houseboats KINAKIN hallucinations kept recurr- ing, she said, He has since stopped hal- lucinating, but Swetlikoff says, “They have no idea what he's going to be like... with drugs like this nobody can say what's going’ to happen because everybody's different.” She added that Kinakin has no idea who might have given him the drug or why. Swetlikoff said Kinakin is supposed to write his grad- uation examinations in two weeks but “he's not capable of writing his exams — not at this point.” She said at times his tongue doesn’t function and at other times “his legs won't hold him up.” “It's sick — he doesn’t use drugs,” she said. Meanwhile, Swetlikoff said Kinakin wrote a letter while he was in hospital under the drug's influence. Continued on page A2 — and isn’t of much use on land. Friday, noting the project will be affected if the B.C. Utilities Commission hear- ings on Site C carry into the fall. Elsewhere, Richard Mad- docks, secretary for the commission is still pushing for an early start-up date for the Keenleyside generating project, Maddocks said the commis- sion has yet to hear from Bob McClelland, Minister of En- ergy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, concerning the meeting the group had with McClelland’ more than six weeks ago. At that meeting McClel- land promised to respond within a week to the com- mission's request for an early start-up. “We're waiting with bated breath,” Maddocks said. He pointed out the issue was raised in the Legislature last week, and Mayor Audrey Moore and commission presi- dent Gary Maloney have been in touch with McClel- land's office asking for a re- ply. PWA cuts two morning flights. By CasNews Staif : »Phelfic. Western confirmed #1 iat it is has 24-hour reservation ser- lines vice out of Vancouver and Castlegar. customers,can take,; we laying off two Castlegar em: advantage of that simply ‘be ‘ployees and cutting back on ‘its morning flights between ‘Castlegar and Vancouver. ‘. The. moves come in the wake of a fourth straight ‘month in which PWA carried fewer passengers in and out -of Castlegar than it did during the same period last >year. Steve Bullock, PWA cor- porate manager for the west- -ern region, said Friday in a telephone interview from Vancouver that the two em- ployees will be laid off ef- fective June 21. | That will leave a total of “seven employees at PWA's :Castlegar location. Bullock said the two em- ployees — members of the Canadian Airline Employees Association — will be given the chance to “bump” junior employees at any of the com- pany's othen 30 bases. However, indications are the employees will file a grievance over the layoffs. Meanwhile, Bullock said PWA will be cutting out the Tuesday and Thursday morn- ing flights to Vancouver ef- fective June 15. PWA cur- rently flies six, morning flights between Castlegar and Vancouver. But that will be reduced to just four. Last fall PWA cut back its Sunday flights to Vancouver. Bullock said one reason for the layoffs is that PWA now dialing a Castlegar number. He said declining passen- ger loads were another major factor. Bullock pointed out that in May passenger lolads in and out of Castlegar fell 24 per cent from the same period last year. April was down 20 per cent from Arpil, 1981; March was down 17 per cent and ,Feb- ruary was down two per cent. He said passenger loads actually increased 17 per cent in January. However, he said the Jan- uary and February statistics are difficult to assess, be- cause weather might have been good and more flights may have landed in Castlegar than for the same period last year. “The trend is certainly dis- couraging,” he said. And it's a trend that is occurring all over the world and to other airline companies. : “You're not alone,” he added, noting the PWA’s passenger load for May for the western region (B.C. and Seattle) is down 31 per cent from May last year. He called it a “North American-wide problem,” and said when demand in- creases PWA will increase its flights. However, he said the com- pany just can't fly planes that are “vacant.” evicted Trower has applied for a five-year lease land, but said Grant Trower is a single parent with two children who . has chosen to live ona floathome, on the Slocan River north of Lemon Creek. However, life is: never that simple — especially: in ~ Trower's case. He has received a six-month eviction notice from the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing because the ministry contends he is trespassing on Crown land — the river foreshore. Trower and his neighbor Sandra Arnold—who has also received an eviction notice — are appealing-the decision but so far haven't had much success. They. feel part of the problem is the way they've been ‘treated. “We haven't even been treated like people,” Trower told the Castlegar News in an interview this week. “We are a file number. “We feel we are being discriminated against ina sense as homeowners,” added the 30-year-old unemployed house builder. he isn't about to simply walk away from that investment. “If I was employed and had money, I could buy land and move my house onto it. But I'm backed into a corner. It's almost a form of terrorism.” The Trower and Arnold cases raise to 13 the total number of known houseboats in the West Kootenays ordered by the ministry to vacate. Last week the Castlegar News reported that 11 goats at Tulip Creek north of Syringa Creek were also ordered to move—most of them in 60 days. Trower. and Arnold are hoping to work out a ise with the g “Thave to fight i” he said. “What else can I do? I am prepared to go to jail, I'm prepared to get injured. There's no other options available: “If I sell it, that would help. But there are so many places up for sale. No one is buying. It doesn’t make sense in troubled times that people are having to live under these kinds of threats.” But Trower added that his float alone is worth $10,000 “J think eviction is a totally outragous threat to be living under as we go about our daily lives, trying the best we can to feed, clothe and shelter and house our children in a happy, healthy manner,” said Trower. He pointed out that the real problem isn’t the fact that he is trespassing, but the fact that the government doesn’t have a policy on flathomes. “We are in violation of regulations. Just because we are breaking laws, we shouldn't be forced to lose our homes. Floathomes don’t have.a legal status and the government doesn't have a policy.” Arnold's floathome was the first on the river. Trower said that the person she bought her home from had gone to the B.C, Assessment Authority, Ministry of Health and Welfare and Land Registry office before starting con- struction. He received