THE FAMM! Donald Wallece w thank all the friends for their indness, sympathy and support our time of sorrow in the s Cortleper Ambulance thanks to Lawrence ivity scenes are available all year around in places like S. Clause on Piere 39 in San Francisco, Christmas Corner in the historic Butchertown section of Louisville, Kent. and Christmas Spirit in four U.S. Atlantic Seaboard re- sorts. Victoria shopping mall and Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Dining Under tive Palms TERRA NOVA MOTOR INN review The Castlegar News takes a look back at 1984. What made it special? Who did our cameras catch ++. D1-8 Columnist John Charters fas another foscinating fetter trom incredible deals = with cevoder's sub-cultures il The six winning numbers in Soturday’s 's Lotto 6/49 draw were 16, 19, 27, 30, 44 and 45. The bonus ,; Bumber wos 11. The $500,000 winning number in lottery draw There are regular subsidiary prizes and 55 bonus fumbers were also drawn for prizes of $55,555 Friday's Provincial Sach. is 7659649. possession of first place in the World Junior Cham- pionships . .. aaa Sunday NEAR ROSSLAND Drs. Streich, Bulloc Cas and Nixon, the nurses ot no Castlegar Honora: These kinds of shops, cur jously, are one sure sign a community has arrived as a another at the historic Whip- pletree Junction on the Is- land Highway south of Dun- a month in municipal taxes. Olsen was an interior de signer before she was a mer. those who visited, sent baking flowers and cords. Special s to the Pythian Sisters tor their unending support during Bon's illness ond all their help in the post w: Mary Wallace ond Fomily tourist destination. “In a tourist place like a beach, a Christmas shop is a novelty,” Christmas Spirit owner Shirley Chappelear can, B.C. Zala’s Victoria location is open 11 months of the year and her Duncan location, seven months. “You have to these backgrounds. chant. Zala opened her first shop because she wanted a place to make and sell crafts. Their inventories reflect ir Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certified General A TORONTO (CP) — The apparently picture perfect family life of orthodontist Dr. Ernie Fedum ended in a bloodbath. When the shooting was over, two of his children were dead, Fedun and his wife were seriously wounded and he was charged with murder The events last Oct. 17 at Fedun’s posh Toronto home ended with Kimberley, nine, and David, four, both dead, a family destroyed and a professional career hideously wasted. Fedun's case is a tragic extreme, but it reveals a level of stress in the dental profession that few would have imagined Dentists are the second-highest earners in Canada, with average gross earnings of $66,084 in 1982. But they also have among the highest suicide rates, along with doctors. The demands of their patients hardly seem in the same life-or-death category as those of doctors, yet experts say the field is fraught with problems that inelude high debts and stacked workloads. Derwyn Shea, an Anglican clergyman, was Fedun's neighbor and confidant before shots from a .22-calibre rifle shattered the Fedun family “He was too sensitive to the burdens of his shoulders, too concerned about the future of his family,” Shea says of his friend, today living in hospital under 24-hour guard, brain-damaged from a gunshot wound to Dentists have stress the head. “He had gone beyond reason with him.” sional stress. recently launched a new The most common stre: the point where you could Ontario dentists are becoming aware of their profes Their voluntary provincial association program to deal with work problems, marital break-up and substance abuse Confidential counselling, a special telephone line and treatment referral are part of the plan ss dentists face early in their career is financial. It costs about $100,000 to equip a dental office. Added to any student loans that may have been taken to cover $1,400 annual school fees, $1,000 worth of instruments a year during dental training, plus living and travel expenses, payments are crushing. If the dentist is in practice alone, isolation and constant demand can create terrible pressures. By law, a dentist must supervise the work of a dental hygienist, so if the dentist takes a holiday, the office closes. But salaries and overhead must still be paid, says Jeffrey Goodman, director of education at the Ontario Dental Association Dr. Kenneth Pownall, registrar of the Ontario College of Dentistry, says the ages of most stress are from 29 to 34. “That's when the big bills come in. By that time, a dentist has a wife and young children and needs a home. “He may be trying to build a practice by extending to two offices, becoming entrepreneurial and facing financial concerns.” OFFERS TO HELP Chris Christianson is a former Vancouver dentist and recovered alcoholic who started a full-time counselling program in 1982 for dentists and their workers In the first 10 months, he found one-third of his clients came with emotional difficulties, one-quarter with problems of alcohol and drug abuse, and the others with career, financial and family matters. Pownall says dentists are obsessive constantly working in fractions of millimetres with sharp instru ments. He says it’s a character trait that tends to carry over into family life as “bitchiness.” From his own experience, Christianson says: “You thought you were going to be a self-employed profes sional and you're trained as a skilled technician. “But instead, you're running a small business, with staff to train and bills to collect.” Santa in ‘space age' have the right stuff? By KIRK LaPOINTE The Canadian Press As the countdown to Chri stmas Eve approaches, que stions remain about the dec ision this year by Santa Claus to forgo his reindeer and enter the space age SCS1, the first Santa Claus Shuttle, is scheduled to lift off Monday night from the North Pole and replace Don ner, Blitzen and the rest of the four-legged brigade With Santa at the helm, the shuttle will sweep over Canada's households. Its modified Canadarm will del icately bring gifts down the chimney, place them under the Christmas tree and pluck some milk and cookies in return for its jolly old astro- naut CBC-TV will link with the Polar Network 30 minutes before the historic launch Christmas Eve for full coverage of Claus: Mission "84, 2 one-hour “news” pro gram tailored for the young set News Anchorman Frank Lam eter (Robin Gamell) is joined by Anna Harper (Jacqueline Mahon), a nine-year-old San ta trivia champion. There will be network rey from mission control and the lau nch site Coverage includes a tour of Santa's toyshop, an interview with the chief toymaker and the reindeer trainer and a glimpse at elves amid their daily workout. SOME UPSET The shuttle mission was recently announced but, for several reasons, not widely made public — fol lowing a decision this year that Christmas was too im portant an event to be left to Santa and his eight reindeer But the shift to high-tech has left many sour and the experiment is believed to have caused a great deal of unhappiness in the Claus camp. The 17-storey shuttle was built at great expense in a grat hurry, but doubts have arisen about whether it can orbit so close to Earth and carry so many gifts. Experts also point out that reindeer flew because child. ren wished it so, but there are concerns the scientific shuttle mission has dri the magic from Christmas and won't inspire children to dream in the same way There are other questions If the shuttle doesn't lift off as scheduled, will some chil dren have to be passed over this year? 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Neptune near CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. 365- Room : 4 S00, OMe Manager; CAROL W, Advertising ral ose y SKI FUN. . . Recent hea: snowtall may mean nothin; but headaches ig ‘or holiday travellers, but for cross- Ross! claimed the lives of two men skiing there Saturday morning Rossland RCMP were withholding the names of the dead skiers Saturday pending notification of relatives. ‘The men were part of a group of 10 skiers who had been transported to the mountain by helicopter through a Rossland ski touring outfit called Can adian Powder Guides, according to police. The avalanche occurred on Mt. Nep- tune — 16 kilometres north of Rossland at approximately 11 a.m., said Sgt Gary Day of Rossland RCMP. He ssid the two men were located ; - ing the avalanche, and were transferred by helicopter to Castlegar and District Hospital where they were pronounced dead. The snowslide missed the other skiers, who escaped uninjured Day said the avalanche was about 100 to 130 metres long, and approx imately 90 metres wide OF TRAIN ISSUE He said it was an “unusual oecur- ence,” adding that he “wasn't aware of anyone ever skiing that mountain be fore.” The men were skiing on the mountain for the second consecutive day when the accident oceurred, Day said. Police and Castlegar hospital de. clined Saturday to reveal specific causes of death, pending an autopsy to be carried out this morning. Canadian Powder Guides also re- fused to comment on the accident be- fore ig & prepared which was unavailable at press time. Council to stay out? By RON NORMAN Editor It appears unlikely that Castlegar council will get involved in the debate over cabooseless trains. City inistrator Dave Gairns said Friday thiit council hasn't prepared any submission “that I know of,” and he is unaware of eguncil’ 's position regarding eabooseless trains. However, Gairas said the issue may be rgised at the Jan. 8 council meeting. Council indigated at a recent meeting with the United Transportation Union that it would prepare a submission for the Canadian Transport Commission's Jan. 14 hearing in Vancouver. The CTC has been holding hearings across the country on CN Rail's and CP Rail’s proposal to operate trains with out cabooses. The hearings started Dec. 3 in Hull, Quebec. Old Arena needs new name By CasNews Staff Shakespeare once asked, “What's in country skiers like this pair, it's seventh heaven Laattows Photo by Ph:! Colderbank a name?” Well, the Regional Recreation Com mission thinks there's plenty in a name and hopes to have a new moniker for Castlegar’s “Old Arena” by the end of January The commission will be sponsoring a name the Old Arena contest through out th® month of January. Anyone interested in. icipating in the contest can send suggested name to the recreation office in the Castlegar Community Complex The winner will be notified in early February and will receive a dinner for two at a local restaurant The Castlegar Old Arena, because of its sand floor, is used exclusively as an ice rink and is in operation from the Thanksgiving weekend to the end of March A normal week for the facility con sists of 62 hours of booked ice by minor hockey, figure skaters, adult hockey chureh groups and miscellaneous book ings. An added feature is the mini-ice, whieh can be booked on a regular basis by parents who want to teach their youngsters skating skills. “We're extremely concerned that with dangerous chemicals running through our community that the trains be safe,” Mayor Audrey Moore said at the time. The United Transportation Union, whieh represents workers at both CN Rail and CP Rail, has argued that cabooseless trains afte unsafe. “Our union adamantly opposes that approach . . . because it is a total disregard for safety,” said Vern Walsh, chairman of the Nelson UTU local. “We're not here as a labor organ ization to represent our members in a job loss issue there's no job loss here.” Walsh said any workers displaced because of the elimination of cabooses will be relocated “We're here for one specific issue and that's safety,” he said CN and CP have applied to the Transport Commission to operate cabooseless trains “wherever operation will not reduce the safety of employees or the public.” It has proposed moving the con ductor from the caboose to the engine, thus maintaining the train's three member crew. In place of the caboose and conductor would be an “end of train unit” which would measure air pressure. WAYNE STEWART caboose unnecessary Both the union and railway compan ies met with council. Both sides pre sented slickly made videos and hand some brochures outlining their positions. The union contends that the railway firms have been earrying out a cam paign of “deception and fraud” con. cerning the safety of cabooseless trains. continued on page A2 Kidnappers release Bata shoe LA PAZ (CP) Bata shoe company executive Antonio van Es was released unharmed Saturday after the Toronto-based company paid his kidnappers an unspecified amount of ransom money, official and company sources said. Van Es, director of the company’s Bolivian subsidiary, was freed eight days after the abduction in which his housekeeper was shot dead, officials in the central city of Cochabamba told re porters. Company sources said they had paid a ransom of “something less than half.a-million dollars” for the release of van Es. The kidnappers had originally demanded $1 million and there were unconfirmed reports the company had made a counter-offer of $260,000 Officials said troops and police were watching all exits from C. executive where van Es was seized, to prevent the kidnappers escaping. In Toronto, Basil Baker, secretary of Bata Ltd., said in an interview he had no details en the ransom payment. However, he added there was no indication the affair was related to any labor strife or that it had a political dimension. “It was presumably just an oppor tunity to make some money,” Baker said. “It was a straightforward kid. napping. I see no other reason for it. “How it (the kidnapping) happened we really don't know, but we're just glad he's out of danger. The big news is he's safe and he seems to have been well treated.” Earlier, the kidnappers threatened to amputate a leg and an ear if the ab- duction were made public. They also on pape A2 HAPPY NEW YEAR By CasNews Staff This is the last issue of the Castlegar News for 1984. Included in it is a special pull-out section our news department has prepared looking back at the year's local, regional and world affairs. Because of the Jan. 1 holiday on Tuesday, the next Castlegar News will — be published Thursday morning in stead of Wednesday afternoon. The Castlegar News office will be open until 4 p.m. on Monday, Dee, $1, closed Tuesday, Jan. 1 and open again on Wednesday, Jan. 2. The C News staff and gian- agement as well as all the carriers wish our loyal readers a happy and progper- ous New Year. —