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CHAMBER secretary-receptionist Ann Stasila six hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. However, he said the chamber direc- tors will have to pick up some of the slack left from Peacock’s departure. The directors-will have to take on some of the activities,” Moroso said. The chamber has 150 members. “That's pretty good for the area,” said Moroso. He estimates there are 180 potential members in the Castlegar area. “We've got good support from the business area,” he pointed out. “We're not unhappy with that at all.” Still, he said the chamber “may have to pull our horns in a bit” in the Moroso said today’s chamber may be the difference between a $75,000-a year chamber and a $40,000-a-year WALLY PEACOCK . ‘can't afford manager’ “We may be a $40,000 a year cham- ber.” WESTAR MINING l=} ey Le) E) Ee) ) VANCOUVER (CP) — Coal, port operations post quarterly rise recent devaluation of the mining and port operations Mediator in talks Negotiators for Cominco and the company’s 4,000 employees in Trail and Kim- berley met for the first time this week with a private mediator behind closed doors. The United Steelworkers of America and the company have signed a letter of VINYL SIDING Installed by Professionals Aluminum or Vinyl! Soffits COLUMBIA Day or VINYL Crossword Spring Sales . . . answer in Wednesday's Paper agreement not to strike or conduct a lockout while med- iator Richard Longpre is i: volved in the talks. Longpre arrived in Trail Thursday to mediate the negotiations. He met with Cominco officials Thursday afternoon and representa- tives of the two Steelworker bargaining units Friday morning. The union representatives then went into caucus Friday afternoon. The main block three-year contract with no wage increase for the first two years and cost-of-living increases in the thii The union say the offer is not enough but have not publicly released their de- mands. On Monday the unions’ members voted 94 and 96 per Westar Mining’s coal and port operations’ showed an increase in the first quarter of 1985, despite increased costs for labor and materials and lower prices for coking coal from the company's Greenhills mine in south- eastern British Columbia. Coal shipment revenues increased to $145.8 million in 1985 from $117.9 million in Australian dollar has put Canadian coal producers at a severe disadvantage, leading to depressed coal prices. He said coking coal prices are fixed with major buyers until March 1986. Over all first quarter net earnings for the 67 per cent held B.C. Resources sub- sidiary were reported at $9.3 showed a marked first quar- ter increase in 1985, up from $139 million in 1984 to $177.5 million. Net earnings for oil and natural gas recorded a drop to $2.8 million in 1985 from $3.2 million the previous year, due to fluctuations in foreign exchange and higher tax provisions. However, the actual production of oil and cent in favor of strike action to back contract demands. 1984. However, Westar pres- ident Gary Livingstone said million, compared with $8.9 million in 1984. lidated natural gas liquids from Westar’s 7.7 per cent interest The last contract expired at midnight Tuesday. the outlook for the of 1985 is dismal because the r in the South Brae oil field in from North Sea oil as well as the North Sea increased. appears to be money. The company has offered a HAPPY BIRTHDAY “QUINCY” CASTLEGAR’S SKIPPY DELGADO You sure were a cute baby! 92 Seeks to attain 100 Priestly vest. 411 Sport group 114 Negat ie Ronda -_ Bridal path tot Headed bolt }08 Fragrant UL i = sears i rige Ht i i H 4 ETTUGEE fF 61 Small snacks 62 Soup server aft rt stw 2 3338 a serss 6 Confuse 7 Burden i i ZIHTBHIO cRYPTOQUIF YHTVLA ZA Y uw SNVTOAZ sears Coypenesip Gor S equals DDHIO Vv vo RCSB VJ aAVT c This Cr 'd Puzzle d by the following busi COLUMBIA COIFFURES Ph. 365-6717 1205 Bay Ave., Trail TRAIL MOTORS LADA — SUZKI 364-2555 SCHNEIDER'S iano ee SUPPLIES LTD. TRA 368-6466 P Wenete Junction, Trail PAUL’S PLACE LTD. CHRYSLER — DODGE — PLYMOUTH 368-8295 continued from front poge Rifles from B.C. Earlier, the young soldier had been badly wounded in a mine blast in Holland, and was on a seven-day leave from Belgium, after recuperating in hospital from three months. “In. London -for-the, first day,~they were. doing snake-dancing. Everybody joined. It would be blocks and blocks in length.” While the celebrations were rambunctious, Melnick said things didn't get out of hand as some cities. h Halifax, VE Day developed into a two-day victory rampage led by a mob fuelled on an estimated 150,000 lotted bottles of beer, wine and liquor. (Two men died, and destruction to the city was in the millions.) Melnick returned to his regiment in Belgium, and spent the next four months helping retrieve army vehicles, tanks and guns out of Germany. He then returned to B.C., eventually getting a job on the Castlegar-Robson ferry, where he worked until his retirement about 10 years ago. itlegar Ald. Bob MacBain, 66, also remembers the celebrations in Britain on VE Day. MacBain, then a 26-year-old flight engineer with the Royal Air Force, was stationed at Weathersfield, near London. He and friends went to that town and “took over all the local pubs. You couldn't move in them.” amazing how much free beer was being given away,” added MacBain. “Ithink the pub owners were opening the taps and letting you have all you wanted.” VE DAY RECALL ED But war victories are two-sided, and MacBain, like Vanderpol and Melnick, also remembers the horror of battle. During the 96-day Battle of Britain in 1940-41, MacBain was walking with a friend near Leicester Square when a local nightclub suffered a direct hit during a bombing raid. “It had come right through the roof and landed on the dance floor. It had exploded. That was one of the most vivid memories I have of the disaster of war, when I saw what it had done to a group of people . . . at least 90 per cent had been killed.” MacBain recalls being chosen to inform the parents about the death of an air force buddy killed shortly after his plane had taken off in Britain, due to a malfunction. “Time erases these things,” he said. And time also changes how veterans view the Second World War. Vanderpol says his former hatred of Germans resulting from war experiences has softened over 40 years. “I believe that Germany was in a sense of victim,” he says. “It's ridiculous to claim there were no decent people in Germany. Of course there were. They were victims.” MacBain said that while being in the RAF may have seemed “pretty glamorous” to the young men who joined during the war, he now thinks it’s a stupid thing. I don’t want to see anyone else involved in it. There's nothing glamorous about it. “Of course,” added MacBain, “the next war that comes along is going to be different altogether . . .” AEG Fy? OPEN THIS SUNDAY 365-7269 SPECIALS FOR You day Wedne this week OLD DUTCH POTATO CHIPS 89° TWIN ack. BULK SLICED COOKED HAM . $998 66¢/100 G. CENTRAL FOODS BRIEFLY Police have suspect KELOWNA (CP) — Police say they have a suspect in the slaying of French tourist Florence Deflers, whose corpse was in March from a Keremeos orchard. However, RCMP S.Sgt. Art Diack said a lack of evidence is preventing an arrest. Diack declined to disclose any specifies, saying only: “Put it this way, we have a suspect.” Deflers, 26, last wrote to her parents on June 15, 1984 from Clinton. She had been touring since August 1983, and was at that time planning to return to Mexico. Negotiations adjourn TORONTO (CP) — Negotiations to end the five-month-old strike by Eaton's workers at olx By CasNews Staff Education and jobs are top priorities among youth today, according to two commissioners with the B.C. Youth Forum. Three travelling members of the youth forum were in Castlegar this week talking to youth and people who work with youth about the concerns of those in the 15-24 age group. The B.C. Youth Forum is a project of the Vancouver Branch of the United Nations Association with funding from the Canada Employment and Immigration Centre, the Federal Secretary of State, and a Canada Works Grant. The forum is made of three travelling commissioners and one commissioner in the Lower Mainland. The commissioners are visiting B.C. communities to encourage discussion and activity among youth and other concerned groups and individuals. Castlegar is just one of the communities the commissioners are visiting on their Kootenay tour, says commissioner Colbey Peters. Cc i La K southern Ontario stores adjourned for the k late Friday morning. Provincial mediator Ray Illing said the two sides agreed to reconvene Monday morning. “It was the wish of both parties to adjourn,” Illing said. “There are some things for both sides to look at and reflect on. Discussions were useful but that’s not to say there was any progress.” Car sales up TORONTO (CP) — Agressive sales campaigns are paying dividends for Canada’s major domestic automakers as deliveries jumped 27 per cent in April and records tumbled. General Motors of Canada Ltd. says its car and truck sales established an all-time April sales record, Chyrsler Canada Ltd. had its best truck deliveries ever and sales of Ford of Canada’s Temp and Topaz models hit new highs. GM dealers delivered 63,591 cars and trucks last month, 34 per cent more than the 47,346 racked up in the same period a year ago and well above the company’s previous best April of 60,423 in 1980. 6 killed in fire ST-MATHIAS, QUE. (CP) — Six people were killed early Saturday when fire ripped through a senior citizens’ home in this town along the Richelieu River, police said. A seventh resident of the Pavillion ‘St-Matthas was taken to hospital for shock treatment, a Montreal radio station reported. Firefighters from St-Mathias, Chambly and Carignan were still battling the flames more than two hours after the first alarm was sounded at 1:35 a.m. EDT, Quebec provincial police said. Death toll rises STAFFORD, ENGLAND (REUTER) — The death toll in an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Britain rose to 29 on Saturday, equalling the number killed when the disease first appeared in Philadelphia in 1976. Two elderly people, a 79-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man, died in the hospital, the latest victims of the disease. Four more people were sent to hospital on Saturday, bringing the total undergoing treatment to 68, four of whom are in critical condition, a Stafford health authority spokesman said. Legionnaires disease is a severe form of pneumonia that kills about 20 per cent of its victims. Nicaragua gets aid WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran is preparing to send Nicaragua a large shipment of military equipment, including more than 9,000 Soviet-made AK-47 rifles, U.S. officials say. The equipment, reported to include several million rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and land mines, was sent by Iran to the North Korean port of Hungnam where it is awaiting delivery to Nicaragua, the official said. The officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said much of the weaponry is believed to have been captured by Iran in its 4'%-year-old war with Iraq. Sextuplets born CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND (AP) — Sextuplets born to a woman who suffered from the fasting disease, anorexia nervosa, are not well, staff at the Rosie Maternity Hospital in Cambridge sasid Saturday. Jane Underhill, 28, gave birth Thursday night to two girls and four boys. The premature babies weighed a total of only nine pounds at birth. Hospital spokesman John Edwards said the six babies were in incubators in an intensive care neo-natal unit at the hospital. “There is always real concern for premature babies delivered at 26 weeks and this is inevitably increased by a multiple birth,” he said. “The six are (doing) poorly and are being intensively nursed and constantly monitored. 33 drown in India NEW DELHI (REUTER) — At least 33 people were drowned when a river steamer taking them to a wedding capsized in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, All India Radio reported Saturday. The Press Trust of India news agency said 31 other people were rescued after the boat capsized on Chambal river Friday night. The radio said the steamer was carrying a party of 78 to a wedding in Rampur. Among the victims were 10 children. It added that six bodies had been recovered and divers were searching the river for those who were missing. said that findings show jobs and education are the priorities with youths. He added that with high school age youth the priority is education, but with youth who have finished school the concern is jobs. The commissioners noted that the unemployment rate among young people is almost double that of the rest of the The general level provi wide is 15 per cent and the youth rate is 25 per cent. But this doesn't include people who have never had a job or who have stopped looking for a job. The youth unemployment rate in Salmon Arm is 60 per cent and Peters estimated it is about 40 per cent in this area. Peters noted that drug and alcohol awareness and the problems with it are also a concern, as is nuclear war. Court new: Clarence MacAskill was given an eight-month jail term after being convicted of driving while impaired this week in Castlegar provincial court. MacAskill also re- ceived a four-month term to be served concurrently for possession of stolen prop- erty. . 8* « P Kelly Keraiff was ordered to perform 50 hours of com- munity service work and was put on three months proba- tion after pleading guilty to theft. . . A $75 fine was handed to Terrence Sanders after he pleaded guilty to consump- tion of liquor in a public place. . 8 «6 Selena Jenner will pay a $250 fine or spend seven days in jail after pleading guilty to reporting an offence which hadn't been committed. ._ 2 * Daniel Venasse was hand ed a three-month jail term and a $300 fine after he pleaded guilty to three counts of impaired driving, and one count of failing to submit to a breathalyzer test. Layoffs could be hazardous BLASTING OFF . . “They (youth) are pretty worried,” Peters added. “They are feeling pretty hopeless about the future.” She said a point was made by one Grade 10 student in Castlegar that if all the money put into defence was put into food, health care and education, most people could live comforable lives. Peters said they have found that a lot of youth are concerned about the forest industry and think more money should be put into reforestation. While in Castlegar the commissioners met with three high school classes, the Unemployed Action Centre, Human Resources and Ministry personnel and probation officers. They also met with Community Services and had a public meeting to find out the issues facing young people today. As well, they attended a Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ youth conference meeting. As a result of the discussions and interviews in the Castlegar area, the commissioners feel alcohol among youth in one of the problems. Peters said that in a conversation with a probation officer, alcohol-related offences were common. She said she learned that probation officers refer youth to groups such as Ala Teen, Access and school counsellors, but said there is a lack of mental health services for youths in the area. Peters said they also heard a lot about the lack of public transportation, which she said is one of the reasons there are a lot of alcohol-related accidents. She said she was told that three summers ago there were 12 deaths among youths in Castlegar: two suicides and 10 alcohol-related accidents. Peters said suicide is a major problem in general, but it’s not something youths talk a lot about in the schools. She said the commissioners haven't dealt enough with agencies to gather information on suicide but added that she definitely thinks it is increasing. . City worker gets down to serious business as he sandbiasts off VICTORIA (CP) — The painted crosswalk at Columbia Ave. and 4th St. Crosswalk was one of two at layoff of more than 50 employees has left the gas intersection and was removed because city felt one crosswalk is suff nt CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbank division of B.C. Hydro under staffed and may result nays. _ Caste News. 12 ate) LAWRENCE KOOTNIKOFF COLBEY PETERS Information gathering and contact making is the first phase fer.a province-wide youth conference to. Ko held: Nov. 8-11 in Mission. The forum hopes to have a couple of representatives from each community they ve Baie: the people i about the problems of youth and getting plat in decision making. Kootnikoff says a report will be prepared after the conference which will be sent to provincial and federal governments as well as Stephen Lewis, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, who has requested a copy. It will also be sent to the media and will be available to the public. Fonyo brings campaign home to Vernon VERNON (CP) — Steve Fonyo is home. The one-legged runner brought his cross-country campaign to raise money for cancer research back to where it all began, ending his day's run on Friday six kilometres north of this North Okanagan valley city of 20,000 where the Fonyo family has lived for the past two years. Fonyo who has been saying for days he couldn't wait to be home, has been slipping into Vernon to spend the night at home since Wednesday. Ther was hugging and kissing, however, when the 19-year-old runner met his girlfriend, Sonja, at the Kelowna Airport soon after his arrival here. The Strathmore, Alta., teenager, who met Fonyo when he ran through her community a month ago, will be spending the weekend in Vernon méeting with Fonyo's family. © Fonyo will not be making any public appearaneemuntil 4 p.m. today when the city’s official welcome for him will begin with a parade he will lead. Fonyo has been loaned a gold Trans-Am for the weekend by a local car dealer. FAMILY TIME They'll also spend time with mother Anna, sister Susie and grandmother Ilona, and get in some meals at the Fonyo family restaurant, the Pyrogy House, where the walls are covered with plaques, pictures and other mementoes of the run, which has taken Fonyo over 7,000 kilometres during the last 13 months. Ootischenia woman dies Molly Konkin, 85, of Ootis- chenia, died May She was born Sept. 14, 1899, at Benito, Mi later moving to B.C. Mrs. Konkin married Peter P. Konkin at Brilliant, they moved to Camino, and then to Ootis chenia in 1926, where they resided since. Mrs. Konkin was a mem and entertaining friends. She is survived by two sons, William of Ootischenia and Sam of Castlegar; one daughter, Anne Oglow of Fernie; and five grandchil dren. Funeral services were held Friday and Saturday, with burial in Ootischenia Ceme- tery. safety hazards for the public, New Democrat Chris D'Arcy said Friday. During question period in the legislature, the Oppo sition energy critic cited an internal review at the Crown corporation in July last year which stated staff in the gas division was spread too thin. The review said the divi- sion had 919 employees in 1982, 892 in 1983 and 858 in 1984. “Further reductions in personnel may be viewed as the deliberate withholding of certain vital services, which may have serious ultimate consequences for public safe ty,” the review said. “Natural gas is classified as a hazardous commodity, and in today’s society too lean an operating corps would not be acceptable and might be per. ceived as negligent.” D'Arcy asked the govern ment why more than 50 staff of the division have been laid off since the review. Energy Minister Stephen Rogers was out of the coun- try. His parliamentary sec- retary, Rita Johnston, took the question on notice and promised a response. A B.C. Hydro spokesman said it is company policy to let the minister respond to questions raised in the leg islature. < SUMMIT ENDS No date for new talks BONN (CP) — Despite the best efforts of Prime Minis ter Brian Mulroney the 11th annual economic summit of the seven major industrial ized nations ended Saturday without a date being set for a new round of trade talks. Mulroney came to the West German capital last week hoping he might be in strumental in breaking the deadlock between the French and the Americans on when the next round of multilateral trade negotiations would take place. U.S. President Ronald Reagan was determined to emerge from the summit with a specific date. French President Francois Mitter. rand was equally adamant he would not. The issue dominated the three-day summit and was the topic of a number of late-night discussions and early-morning negotiations. Mulroney, who backed Reagan but vowed not to iso late France, tried his best to find middle ground all could agree on. He was joined by some of the other leaders, but all their talking was to no avail The final communique signed by all the leaders called for negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to begin as soon as possible, and added “most of us think that this should be in 1986.” PREDICTS PROGRESS A tired-looking Mulroney told a news conference after the summit ended that there was a general feeling the talks would be held next year and France would agree to participate. Mitterrand was singing a different tune at his news conference when he repeated reservations about starting the talks without agreement on the agenda or partici. pants He said he still wants par allel talks on monetary re form and does not want agriculture to be the priority when the negotiations begin Mitterrand said Mulroney prime minister's fault that things didn't work out. There was an oblique criti cism in the French presi dent's comment that when things came down to the wire, Mulroney had to go where his priorities led him and that was to Reagan. The U.S. president, mean. while, was said to be dis appointed in not realizing the one tangible achievement he hoped to get out of the Bonn summit. “We regret we cannot get agreement on 1986,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker. Joy Ramsden Bridge Eleven pairs competed at the April 29 meeting of the Joy Ramsden Bridge Club. The average was 54, with the following winners: Etuka Cameron and Pearl Palmer with 67, Rita Perrier and Hubert Hunchak with 61, Phyllis Matteucci and Libby Weaver with 60, Stan Jenkin son and Bill Gorkoff with 56", and Helen Batchelor and Sally Walters, and Ron Richards and Ron Perrier all with 54" ber of the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, and enjoyed gardening, singing Funeral arrangements un der the direction of Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Villa society needs manager By RON NORMAN Editor Things aren't as tough as they appear. At least that’s what Paul Oglow is beginning to think Oglow, on behalf of the Castlegar Villa Society, has been trying to get a manager for the Society's Rota Villa complex for more than a month — but so far hasn't had any luck “I can't. believe people are community,” says Oglow The Society has had an advertisement in the Castlegar News and has posted the position with Canada Manpower for the last month — without any results. And it’s not as if the job is undesirable. Oglow says the manager is only required to perform light maintenance duties like changing light bulbs and cutting the lawn at the 40-unit seniors’ complex. In return, the manager receives about $570 a month and free living quarters. So far the Society has received just one “solid” application — that one from a person in Edmonton. There have been other applicants, but they expect too much money, Oglow says. “It's hard to believe,” he adds incredulously. Ogiow says the position would be perfect for someone with early retirement who needs a few extra dollars. The job became vacant when manager Al Richards announced he is retiring from the post starving in this i i een a