More
charges
laid

Two Castlegar residents
charged last December in
connection with $45,000 of
stolen property now face an
additional 27 counts of having
stolen property.

Nicholas George Veller, 27,
and Arlene Joan Skelly, 24,
were arrested last Wednes-
day and released the same
day on their own recogniz-

ance.

The pair will appear in
Castlegar provincial court
Feb. 21.

Police said the arrests
were made following further
investigation into the Dec. 15
recovery of a large cache of
stolen goods from a Castle-
gar residence.

Items found included rifles,
television sets, furniture and
household appliances.

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Former

Former Castlegar resident
Lorne Ernest Allam died
Jan. 29 at St. Joseph's Hos-
pital, in Comox. He was 70.

Mr. Allam was born in
New Westminster. As a
young child, he moved to
Ocean Falls, B.C., with his
parents and sister. There he
received his education, and
apprenticed as a machinist.

In 1939 Mr. Allam joined
the Merchant Marine, and
served on the ship Empress
of Asia. In 1942, he joined the
Royal Canadian Navy, then

transferred to the First Can-
adian Squadron Fleet Aire
Arm, and served overseas
until the end of the war.

He returned to Ocean
Falls, until 1952. Then Mr.
Allam and his family moved
to Vancouver, where they
lived until 1960.

That year, they moved to
Castlegar, where Mr. Allam
worked at Celgar, until his
early retirement in 1973. He
then worked at the Hi-Arrow
Arms Motor Hotel as a night
clerk.

In 1982, Mr. Allam and his
wife, Myrtle, moved to
Courtenay.

2) El 2

resident dies

Mr. Allam was a member
of the Royal Canadian Le-
gion, and the Air Cadet
League of Canada in Castle
gar.

A memorial service was
held Feb. 4 at Piercy's Fu
neral Home in Courtenay.

Mr. Allam is survived by
wife Myrtle; son Robert and
wife, Sue, and their children
Kristen and Jeffrey; his
daughter-in-law Fern and son
Kris; special friend George
Stein, and his children Barb
and Kevin; and one sister,
Inez, and husband, Adam
Bunch.

Parents speak out

By CasNews Staff

Practical, on-the-job train-
ing for;teachers is inadequate
There should be more screen-
ing in the selection of suitable
‘teachers, and teachers need
more incentives to take addi-
tional training.

Public schools require
more materials such as mi-
croscopes and
visual aides to carry out
experiments and projects.
Computers are an especially
useful tool.

Provincial exams are okay,

audio-,

to gather a community con-
sensus as to where we'd like
to see schools go in the next
decade,” Wayling explained,
adding that he will notify the
Let’s Talk advisory com-
mittee of this concern.

However, when Wayling
asked for audience observa-
tions on the Let's Talk meet-
ing Thursday evening, only
one woman expressed dis-
satisfaction with the pro-
gram.

She said there was too
much information in the

but public school
shouldn't be determined by
colleges and universities.

And home schooling is

- well, not such a hot idea.

Those are some of the
observatio! ind recommen-
dations which came out of
Thursday's Let's Talk About
Schools meeting attended by
about 35 residents in Castle-
gar.

It was the second evening
meeting held in Castlegar to
give residents a chance to
join other B.C. communities
in providing input to the re-
writing of the School Act, to
be introduced later this year.

Let's Talk meetings are
currently being held through.
out the province. Partici-
pants divide into groups to
talk about: education goals,
curriculum and instruction,
achievement standards, div-
ersity in schools and society,
community relations, rights
and responsibilities of par-
ents and pupils, technological
innovation and the use of
computers, governance and

pamp' ques-
tions for discussion, and too
little time (about 90 minutes)
to talk about the questions,

“To digest this and come
up with a simple sentence for
a recommendation, I thought,
was overwhelming,” she told
the meeting.

But school board chairman
Doreen Smecher said the
Let's Talk meetings are
worthwhile.

“Whether it’s going to do
all the things we hope it's
going to do is one thing,” she
said in an interview. “But it's
got people talking about edu-

t

cation — parents learning
about ed ”
Smecher said the gov- LET'S TALK . . . Castlegar school trustee Gordon Tur-

ernment has “assured” board
members that any previous
work already ol

ner records comments made by parents and teachers
Thursday at the Let's Talk About Schools meeting.

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n
the new School Act has been
shelved” until results from
the Let's Talk meetings have
been considered.

Wayling said a School Act
will be tabled this year in the
it based on informa.

and pi
alism of administrators and
teachers.

Results are recorded, sum-
marized, and sent to the
Ministry of Education (spon-
soring the program) before
the Feb. 27 deadline.

The public may also send in
written briefs, which must be
in before March 15.

Court

news

Gordon MacDonald was
put on probation for six
months and ordered to per
form 100 hours of community
service work after pleading
guilty to the cultivation of a
narcotic, this week in Castle.

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After pleading guilty to
common assault, Randy Mor-
rell was given a 60-day inter
mittent jail term.

* 2 «

Robert Henderson was
fined $200 and put on pro-
bation for six months after
pleading guilty to possession
of stolen property.

FOR THE
RECORD

A public meeting in Salmo
to form a society to operate
the proposed Salmo Valley
Wildlife Park and Rehabili
tation Centre will take place
on Thursday, Feb. 14 — not
Feb. 7 as reported recently in
the Castlegar News.

The meeting will be at
Trapper John's Restaurant.

Police file

The driver of a 1978 Ford
Bronco will be charged with
impaifed driving after his
truck left Celgar Road Thurs-
day and landed on nearby
railway tracks.

Castlegar RCMP estimate
the damage at $3,000. The
name of the driver was not
released.

Poor road conditions con
tributed to “a number” of
other motor vehicle accidents
Thursday afternoon, accord.
ing to police.

Pr ide results of
the Let's Talk meetings will
be combined with a Gallup
poll to be conducted in B.C.
The ‘poil will interview both
people professionally con-
nected with education, and
taxpayers not working in ed-
ucation.

Schools superintendent
Terry Wayling said in an
interview at the meeting that
participants in a previous
Let's Talk meeting in Castle.
gar had viewed the exercise
with skeptism.

He said a “straw vote” of
about 65 participants at a
Wednesday night meeting
suggested that they felt the
process was “too fast, too
hurried, not broad enough.”

“(They felt) it's impossible

WORK TO RULE

tion from the Let's Talk pro-
gram.

Gas
caused
fire

By CasNews Staff
After a search through
blackened debris, Castlegar
RCMP and the Pass Creek
Volunteer Fire Department
believe that the fire last
Monday at the Serge Bon-
deroff home was accidental.
Police say the most prob-
able cause of the blaze which
destroyed the house just off
Pass Creek Road, was an
overfilled chainsaw.

Apparently, the chainsaw
was filled outside and when it
wouldn't start because of the
cold weather, was placed in-
side the home near a wood.
burning furnace.

It is believed the heat from
the furnace caused the gas to
expand and ignite creating a
minor explosion.

POWER RATES TO
JUMP 3.7 PCT.

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

The B.C. Utilities Commission has granted West Koot
enay Power and Light Co. a 3.7 per cent increase.

The increase went into effect Jan. 1, said Steve Ash,
West Kootenay Power manager of commercial affairs.

‘The company had asked for a 4.7 per cent increase but
reduced the amount after the provincial government decided
not to increase water licence fees, scheduled for Jan. 1. This
would have cost West Kootenay Power $500,000, Ash said.

“The government decided that in the interest of helping
the economy, they wouldn't put the increase through,” Ash
said.

The main reason for the 3.7 per cent increase is higher
cost of purchasing power from B.C. Hydro and interest costs
as a result of WKPL refinancing some of its debt in 1984,
Ash noted.

He said groups and individuals have 60 days after Jan. 1
to make submissions to the B.C. Utilities Commission. After
this time, the commission can either let the increase stand or
call for a public hearing.

Ash said various submissions have already been put
forward, mainly by municipalities. But based on the submis
sions, Ash said he doesn't think a hearing will take place. He
id groups making submissions recognized that the
ig costs were “completely out of West Kootenay
control.”

The increase means West Kootenay Power will receive
about $1.8 million more in revenue, but Ash explained that it
“only picks up the added cost” of paying B.C. Hydro and
interest expenses.

West Kootenay Power customers will be paying the
inerease on their next bill. Customers using 1,000 kilowatt
hours will pay about $1 more as a result of an increase.

continued from front poge

being filled by junior teachers earning
less than the senior teachers on sick
leave, the district is saving the
equivalent of one full-time teacher's
salary by only partially filling the
vacancies.

Smecher said the decision to lay off
noon-time supervisors and cut back on
sick-leave fillins was made last Novem
ber in order to absorb budget cuts for
the January to July 1985 short school

budget period. The decision was made
to avoid losing three teaching posi
tions, she said.

“When we chose not to lay off teach
ers in November, we had to find other
ways of finding the $90,000 that was
our shortfall. And noon-hour super
visors and not replacing sick leaves to
their full level, and other things, were
what we chose.

“No where in these cuts have we in
creased class-sizes or diminished pro

grams, and, of course, that is where we
look at first,” Smecher added.

The teachers’ association release
says that because teachers must fill in
for the noon-time supervisors “. . . the
school board has effectively reduced
the teachers’ time for extra curricular
activities such as intramural sports,
clubs and tutoring.”

Smecher declined to comment on the
teachers’ protest, which was decided
on at an Association meeting last
Monday

PROTEST RALLY —

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province, economically and education-wise, to a have-not
province,” he said to an enthusiastic crowd.

“Children in B.C. are simply not getting the
opportunity that you people and I had when we were in
the school system,” said D'Arcy, adding that B.C. has
“practically become a Third World country as far as
education goes.”

According to D'Arcy, B.C. under the Social Credit
government has shifted its priorities from health,
education and social services into “money-losing projects”
like northeast coal, rapid transit systems and Expo 86.

Castlegar school trustees Kay Johnson, Rick
Pongracz and Gordon Turner were at the demonstration,
although Johnson insisted they weren't officially repre
senting the school board.

“This is sponsored by the teachers,” said Johnson.
“Rick and I are here as parents who feel the cuts have
gone too fai

Pongracz, asked to speak by the teachers, stressed
that parents and the school board need to join together to
fight education budget cuts.

“You've got a mad government out of control, and

| they have no vision of the future,” he said. “They're
© dealing with things that just aren't real at all. And
} anyone who's laboring under the illusion that education is
|, not being harmed, torn apart, is really going to be
i missing the boat in the next couple of months coming
P down the road.”

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Pongracz said the 1985-86 Castlegar district budget
— scheduled to be made public later this week — will
affect not only teachers’ salaries, but everything from
“libtary books right down to the bloody paper you have to
hand out a message on.” .

Embree also spoke briefly in support of the protest,
calling for a “united front” in the community against
education cuts, and hinting that more protests may take
place in the future.

“If we have to get more sophisticated politically,
that’s what we have to do,” he said :

Teacher Dino Zanet from Twin Rivers Elementary
School said the protest is the teachers’ first

: step in
getting “public awareness.”

“We have some other things in the works,”
“but they have to be worked out
District Teachers
forward.”

he said,
by the (Castlegar
Association) first before we press

He said although other teacher protests against
education cuts have been happening throughout B.C., the
Castlegar protest wasn't planned to coincide with
demonstrations in other school districts.

Another elementary school teacher, who declined to
be identified, said the school board is being caught in a
Squeeze” between being required to provide services, and
not receiving adequate funding to do so.

“And the crunch is being felt at th:
he added

classroom level,”

:

BRIEFLY
LUMBER PROFITS

VANCOUVER (CP) — MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.
net earnings increased almost 49 per cent in the fourth
quarter of 1984 compared with the similar quarter of
1983, the company said in a news release. :

The forest products company earned $13.7 million
or 25 cents a share, compared with $9.2 million or 15
cents a share in the final 1983 quarter.

Net earnings were $19.3 million in 1984 compared
with $2.8 million in 1983 before an extraordinary gain
of $21.1 million, which increased net income to $23.9
million.

STUTTER DISCOUNTS

VICTORIA (CP) + People with speech impedi-
ments deserve a discount on their telephone long-
distance rates, says Jean-Pierre Mongeau, a panel
member of the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission.

“It takes us longer to get to the point,” observed
Mongeau — himself a stutterer — after a presentation
by a handicapped action committee.

GRIT CONVENTION

TORONTO (CP) — Top Liberals voted over-
whelmingly Saturday to hold a reform convention next
Movember and their decision was lauded by one dele-
gate as a victory for the party's grassroots.

“It’s fun when you feel the grassroots have won,
said Lauriss Talmey, president of the party's women’s
commission.

The vote in favor of the special convention, which
will debate proposals to reform the party's organiza-
tion and structure, was overwhelming, said New-
foundland provincial president Paul Dicks.

The party is $3.5 million in debt and must hold
another full convention in 1986.

CRIME IN U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly half the U.S. public
feels crime has made their lives more dangerous in the
last three years, and one in six carries a device for
defence, an NBC News poll says.

About one-fourth of the 1,598 adults surveyed by
telephone said they or a member of their family has
been a crime victim in the last three years, the poll
conducted by the network said.

Forty-seven per cent of the respondents said their
lives had become more dangerous because of crime,
while only six per cent said they felt safer, the poll
said.

MAN GETS 100

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man convicted of
robbing and raping a woman and then driving around
the city, displaying her to groups of people, has been
sentenced to 100 years in prison, less than half the
maximum term requested by the victim.

Phillip Wayne Harvey, 29, was sentenced to one
10-year prison term and 10 consecutive nine-year
terms by Circuit Judge John McCormick, who said the
July 15 kidnapping and rape of an 18-year-old woman
was “the most nightmarish activity I've ever encoun.
tered.”

MRS. CARSON LOSES

LOS ANGELES (AP) Joanna Carson, the
estranged wife of Tonight Show host Johnny Carson,
has been denied a $6,000 increase in her monthly
$35,000 support payments.

Mrs. Carson, who filed for dissolution of her
10-year marriage to Carson in 1983, claimed in court
papers that taking over payments on her $6,000-a
month New York City hotel suits had pushed her
expenses to $54,000 a month

Judge Frances Rothschild rejected the request
without comment

BIRDS GET DRUNK

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (AP) — Hundreds of
birds are reported flying into cars on U.S. Highway
101 after becoming intoxicated on fermented berries,
officials said Saturday.

Although no human injuries have been reported,
the birds, mostly robins, have been dying by the
hundreds. At least one multicar accident has been
reported in a boozed-bird incident

Karen Fraad of the Santa Clara County Humane
Society said the birds become drunk after eating the
small red berries of the pyrocantha plant which grows
on the east side of the freeway, about 80 kilometres
south of San Francisco.

The California Transportation Department said it
plans to trim the bushes as soon as possible.

U.K. LOVES U.S.

BOURNEMOUTH (AP) Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher told a youth rally of her Conser-
vative party Saturday that nothing can divide Britain
and the United States.

“Any attempts to drive a wedge between Britain
and America will fail,” Thatcher said in an apparent
reference to British reservations about President
Reagan's space-based, anti-missile program

Earlier, police threw a security cordon around
this coastal resort where she addressed the party's
first national gathering since the Irish Republican
Army tried to kill her and members of her cabinet at
the Conservatives’ annual convention last fall

EXCHANGING IDEAS . . . Canada World Youth student
Shobha Chary gives instructions to Stanley Humphries
Secondary School student Maya Kalmakov on playing

nen GN
B.C. gov't
against hold
on lumber

VICTORIA (CP) — The
British Columbia govern-
ment will take whatever ac-
tion is necessary to stave off

sented Thursday to the U.S.
Congress which aims to limit

the flute. World Youth student Lisa Wray looks on. The
World Youth students visited the high school Friday.

@ bill that would curtail Can-
adian softwood lumber im-
ports into the United States,
B.C. Forests Minister Tom
Waterland said Friday.

Waterland said it cost the
provincial government
$250,000 two years ago to.
oppose a bid by U.S. forest
companies to get counter-
vailing duties on Canadian
softwood imports on grounds
Canadian lumber was unfair-
ly subsidized.

“Every time government
makes a move it takes money
to support that move, and
whatever is appropriate will
be done,” Waterland said in
an interview.

CosNewsPhoto by Chery! Colderbonk

shingles and particle board to
25 per cent of the domestic
market for a-period of five
years.

“I know that the Canadian
Council of Forest Industries
certainly is involved with the
federal government right
now in trying to develop a
strategy,” said Waterland.

IMPACT FEARED

The minister said the bill,
co-sponsored by 22 members
of both parties, would have a
“very negative” impact on
British Columbia.

He noted that Canadian
sales total about 30 per cent
of the U.S. market, and of

Timber flowing

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At the same time, Fulton called it
“foolish” for anyone to think Westar
Timber has the money to invest in a
new mill. He said any money the
company had to spend on the Celgar
mill went to pay severance pay for
employees put out of work when the
company shut down its Nelson mill last
year.

But Ferreira doesn’t see it that way.
He says the IWA is concerned that
Westar may let the mill deteriorate to
the point where the company will
simply shut it down.

He noted that the mill's maintenance
crew has been cut from a high of
around 80 employees to “the 30s — and
it’s still declining.”

Ferreira said the small log mill is the
only one of the three mills that make
up the lumber operations that is well
looked after.

Wester isn't willing to maintain the
lumber operation's older A and B mills,
he said.

Ferreira said the plant committee
would like to see Westar maintain

those mills “to a level. At

least we would see they are inter.
ested.”

Ferreira added that despite the fact
that the mill was rebuilt after it was
destroyed by fire in 1978, much of the
equipment is still “23 to 24 years old”

use the company simply over-
hauléd old equipment that wasn't des.
troygd in the blaze.

le says that equipment is beginning
to show its age and pointed to the two
head rigs which need réplacing.

Ferreira also said he is doubtful that
the record production levels can be
maintained because experienced main-
tenance employees who knew how to
avoid problems before they happened,
are now gone.

“I doubt it very, very much if that
(record production) is going to carry
on,” he said.

However, Ferreira doesn't blame the
mill management for the situation. He
said the management has to stay
within its budget.

“They can't expand the maintenance
crew,” he said.

Instead, Ferreira blames the senior

“I don't think Mr. Fulton under-
stands this is an old plant and needs
some major bucks put into it,” Ferreira
said.

But Fulton contends Westar Timber
just doesn't have the money to upgrade
the mill.

He said Westar spent a total of only
$8 million on capital projects in 1984.

On top of that, Fulton says the
company is faced with making improve
ments to the pollution control system
at its Celgar pulp mill.

Westar has received an extension on
its present pollution control permit
until 1987, after pleading that market

conditions make it virtually impossible’

for the company to undertake major
capital projects at this time.

And the pollution control improve.
ments are major.

One option will cost the company $28
million, Fulton said, but will add to the
mill's production costs. The second
option will reduce production costs, but
cost $46 million.

Both options represent a “horren.
dous amount of capital”, Fulton said.

Nazi hunter

TEL AVIV (AP) — Vienna-based Nazi hunter Simon
Wiesenthal has accused the Canadian government of not
co-operating with efforts to bring to justice some of the:more
than 200 Nazi war criminals believed living in Canada.

In an Israel radio interview broadcast Saturday,
Wiesenthal, 76, a survivor of the Second World War Nazi
concentration camps, said he received “no answer” from the
Canadian government on an inquiry concerning 28 suspects.

The radio quoted Wiesenthal as saying he believes 218
former Ukrainian officers of Hitler's SS (elite guard), which
ran death camps in Eastern Europe, are living in Canada

Wiesenthal said his friends tracked down 28 suspects
using telephone books and checking social security numbers

The list was sent to the Canadian government but
Wiesenthal said he has received no reply. He did not say
when he sent the list

POOR COMPARISON

“If they (the suspects) lied about what they did in the
German army, then there's a law saying they're not eligible
for Canadian citizenship,” he said.

“In contrast with the United States, in Canada, you can
do nothing, absolutely nothing.” he said.

The United States justice department has investigated
more than 300 cases of suspected war criminals since 1979. It
has filed more than 30 suits to strip suspects of American
citizenship and deport them on grounds of lying about their
Nazi past when they immigrated.

Wiesenthal was in Jerusalem last week for a three-day
mock trial of Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who sent
hundreds of thousands of Jews to gas chambers and

Agreement on
doctors’ fees

VICTORIA (CP) The
British Columbia govern.
ment and doctors in the
province have reached a ten
tative agreement over fees
for the next fiseal year which
begins March 31

Health Minister Jim Niel
sen refused to disclose any
details of the agreement
which still must be ratified
by the provincial cabinet and
the B.C. Medical Association.

He said the doctors are re
quired by their constitution
to hold a referendum on the
matter.

During the last year, which
ended March 31, 1984, the
Medical Services Commission
paid doctors $850 million for

services rendered. Medical
sociation president Gerry
Stewart said this means gen
eral practitioners netted only
$72,693 after deducting 44.4
per-cent overhead from their
gross income of $130,748.

Specialists netted $107,421
after deducting their 32.5
per-cent overhead from their
$159,143 gross income.

Nielsen said he is pleased
that the tentative agreement
could be reached in a spirit of
co-operation

He said he particularly
appreciated “the professional
conduct they exhibited dur.
ing the past few months
while we've been negoti
ating.”

slams gov't

performed cruel medical experiments on prisoners of the
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Mengele, who would be 73 if still alive, is believed living
in South America.

There have been reports that Canada missed an
opportunity to capture Mengele when he allegedly
attempted to enter Canada under an assumed name. Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney has ordered an investigation.

“It is a very heavy bill —
but there is a lot at stake.
The minister said he will
be checking with Ottawa to
find out what action it is
taking to fight a bill pre-

this 70 per cent comes from
B.C.

“So any reductions in our
opportunities to sell lumber
there would be very broad
for British Columbia.”

Pelech won’t

pay wif

VANCOUVER (CP) — Millionaire John Pelech won't
have to pay maintenance to his destitute ex-wife after all, a
British Columbia Court of Appeal judge has ruled.

Pelech, 59, was ordered last year to pay $2,000 a month
to his former wife, Shriley Mae, in spite of the fact that she
had accepted a lump-sum payment in 1970 in exchange for a
promise not to seek maintenance.

At the time of the last year’s ruling in county court, she
was living on welfare while Pelech was worth about $1.8
million and had an annual income of about $95,000.

But Friday, the appeal court overturned that decision,
saying settlements such as the one the couple reached must
be respected by the court.

The Pelechs were divorced in 1969. At that time, Pelech
had a small contracting business, but his total assets were
only $128,000 and his income was not large.

Pelech was considered to have greater financial
requirements-than the wife because he had custody of the
couple's two children.

Through lawyers for both parties, Pelech agreed to pay
his former wife $28,750 in two lump sums and 12 monthly
payments. The last payment was made on Oct. 15, 1970.

Mrs. Pelech agreed to accept the amount “in full
satisfaction of all present and future claims.” The settlement
was formalized in court.

DIDN'T REMARRY

Pelech prospered and by the time his former wife's
claim came to trial in 1984, he was worth $1.8 million. His
children were self-sufficient and he had not remarried.

Because of illness, Shirley Pelech, who did not remarry
either, was unable to work for prolonged periods. By 1982,
her savings were exhausted and she was forced to live on
$430 a month welfare.

In December 1982, Mrs. Pelech, now 53, filed a claim for
maintenance against her former husband.

QUOTABLE QUOTES

One-legged runner Steve Fonyo on
hockey star Wayne Gretzky: “Gret
zky's a wimp.”

Fonyo on Vancouver Canucks: “No
body likes the Canucks.”

Gretzky on Fonyo: “With the winds
and the weather, My God, you can’t say
enough about what he’s doing. I think
it's (Fonyo’s cross-Canada run in -30
temperatures in aid of cancer research)

Mill upgrading

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424,425 cubic metres, and in 1983 the cut was 883,559 cubic

metres.
“It's not a free ride,” said Fulton

year for that TFL

for our own needs.”
The management

1985, Westar now has a one-year

Ministry of Forests, and must get its plan approved by Jan.

1, 1986.

Prior to final approval, public meetings on the proposed
management and working plan must be held both by the
to give the public an
according to Rod

Ministry of Forests and Westar.
opportunity for input

office.

Following the Ministry of Forests meeting. the public
will have 30 days to respond to the plan with written
submissions, which are then sent with the plan to the

ministry's chief forester for approval

One of the central issues surrounding Westars plan re
view is the complaint by small-time sawmill operators that
the company has undercut its tree farm licence over the past

five years

MacLeod says forests minister Tom Waterland can.

We pay rent every
The principle is. we need that resource

and working plan for
five-year tree farm licence — one of the largest in B.C
expired at the end of December 1984

Although the company was scheduled to submit a new
plan before June 30, 1984, with final approval set for Jan. 1
extension from the

into the plan
MacLeod, spokesman for the Nelson Ministry of Forests

50 times tougher than playing hockey.”
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Fans of X-rated movie star Marilyn
Chambers took the title of her show,
Feel the Magic, a little too literally
recently

Chambers was charged with solicit
ing prostitution and engaging in lewd
conduct in a public place after she
allegedly allowed the audience to touch

her nude body.

Chambers said the show was “a lot
tamer” than others she had performed
in her 13-year career.

“I sing and I dance and I remove my
clothes. On my way out, my fans like to
be close to me,” she said. “Making
movies, I don't ever have that personal
contact.”

under the Forest Act, take away the part of Westar timber

quota that it has failed to harvest below the 90 per cent level

over the past five years.

MacLeod said that from 1966 to 1979, Westar cut
between about 81 and 89 per cent of it's allowable harvest.

Although under the minimum 90 per cent level, Westar

Westar's

its quota
says MacLeod

wasn't penalized, said MacLeod
But from 1980 to 1984, Westar cut only 65.5 per cent of
“the worst situation we've seen in five years,”

He said none of the five tree farm licences in the Nelson
forest region have ever before fallen significantly below the
minimum 90 per cent or climbed above maximum 110 per

cent harvesting limits.

1985,

in 1982

history.”

One of these tree farm licences
licence near Greenwood
but they're overcut,

Fulton said reasons for Westar's undercut
one-month lost per year due to labor disputes, and because
the whole

the Pope and Talbot

is up for renewal at the end of
MacLeod said

include

went the most

industry through

traumatic depression it's ever gone through in its entire

As well, he said that 20 per cent of Westar’s annual

allowable cut is pulp logs, which “we no longer need”

operators.

because the company’s buying pulp logs from local private

Asked if he thought Westar might lose its undercut
following the review, Fulton said:
be pure speculation on my part.”

“I have no idea. It would