Castlégar News July 13, 1986
Langham may not
qualify for grant

ment’s cultural services
branch has told the Langham
Cultural Centre in Kaslo it
may not qualify for a match
ing grant to help pay off a
mortgage and keep the
centre operating, centre di.
rector Bernadette Lynch said
Friday.

“What we've been told...
is we're caught up in a lot of
red tape and it looks like a
negative,”

“We're disappointed.”

She said Richard Brown
say, head of the cultural
services branch, told her that
“none of the government
grants for the arts covers
mortgages on buildings.”

In light of the message
from the government, Lynch
said the centre's directors
have to keep open a
campaign for individual do-
nations that so far has raised

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more than $20,000.

The centre began the cam-
paign and set a July 5 dead-
line in an attempt to raise
funds to pay off a $25,000
mortgage and reduce the
centre's monthly payments.

By paying off the mort-
gage, the centre's directors
estimate they could reduce
monthly expenses by about
$500.

Kootenay West MP Bob
Brisco had written to Pro
vineial Secretary Grace Me-
Carthy, under whose office
the cultural services branch
falls, asking the provincial
government to provide a
grant matching the privately
raised funds.

Brisco could not be reached
for comment Friday.

Cultural

ard:

winning 93-year-old heritage

building, has operated for
more than 10 years as a place

where performers and artists
could show off their crafts.

It is a major tourist
attraction in the area but the
revenue the centre brings in
is not enough to meet the
$1,500 in total monthly ex-
penses.

Ogle
battles
cancer

OTTAWA (CP) — Rev.
Bob Ogle, a former New

at the

Medical Centre

operation Friday to relieve

pressure on his brain.
“Well, I'm alive,” a bright

and chipper Ogle told an in-

quiring reporter from his

hospital bed. “It was a

emerged from the recovery
room fully conscious at noon
“raring to go.”

STRIKE UP THE BAND .. . Trail Maple Leaf Band was a big hit with
crowd at SunFest porade Saturday.

DRUGS

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‘That quantity would be worth about
$200,000 at the current street value of
$2,000 per pound, Doidge said.
Another seizure near Nakusp yield-
ed about 2,600 plants, he said.
Doidge ‘said the drug section this
year has ‘identified 10 areas in the
Kootenays where marijuana is being
grown, four of which he said are a
by size.”
While not willing to give away the
RCMP’s methods of investigating

marijuana-growing areas, Doidge. did

say the drug section uses “a variety” of
investigative techniques such as air
surveillance and the use of informants.

‘Also, “we look around through the
bush ourselves,” he said.

Doidge agreed with the suggestion
that a lack of manpower at the small
border crossings in southeastern B.C.
is a problem when it comes to
combatting drug trafficking.

“The boys at the border are over-
worked,” he said, but added that the
customs officers are “doing a good job

PPWC fined $242,000

y-Boundary,
said his officers do the best job they
can given the situation.
“Certainly with the manpower we've
got and the areas that narcotics can be
with the job
Profili said,
adding,
statistics as to the volume of narcotics

adding that two recent seizures may
result in trafficking charges.

Profili said most of the southeastern
B.C. border crossings, such as Nelway,

aterson and Cascade, are staffed by
“at least” two officers.

Other crossings such as Midway and
Waneta that have one officer during
slower months are bolstered by extra
staff during summer months.

Coanews Proto by Ron Normon

POWERS——

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registered

Wyoming representatives of Powers
Inc., the organization administering
what. Dixie Powers said was “God's
plan to eliminate poverty from the
earth.”

Wyoming allege Meghan
Miller told potential investors that
investments of $1,000 would be
doubled in 90 days, using money
donated by rich entertainers such as
Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson
who contributed to the plan in order to
gain tax write-offs.

The maximum sentence on each of
the fraud counts in Wyoming is three
years in a state penitentiary.

Rilkoff

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VANCOUVER (CP) — A issued by an arbitrator in was an illegal strike. The

five-day illegal walkout over
work performed by super.
visors will cost the militant
Nanaimo local of the Pulp,
Paper and Woodworkers of
Canada $242,000.

The award was described
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British Columbia in recent
years.

The union has been order
ed to pay the sum plus
interest to MacMillan Bloedel
Ltd. as a result of the 1985
walkout at the company’s
Harmac mill on Vancouver
Island.

The award will total about
$279,000 when interest is
added, local president Jim
White said.

The walkout began when
non-gnion supervisory per-

1 conducted mainten
al work during a night

illan Bloedel argued
s lly that the walkout

“Repap

PPWC contended the work
performed by supervisors
amounted to an illegal lock.
out, justifying the walkout.

The award could cost the
1,100-member local about
$250 a member and the
workers will be hard-pressed
to come up with the money,
said White.

PPWC national president
Stan Shewaga said the award
won't cripple the union fin
ancially but called the dam
ages high, considering the
company “didn't go to the
Labor Relations Board for a
cease-and-desist order and
instead waited in the weeds
over it.”

closes

Westar deal

TERRACE, B.C. (CP) — A
Montreal firm, Repap Enter
has purchased Wes-
tar’s Prince Rupert and Ter.
race forest industry opera-
tions for $100 million.
The deal was closed Thurs-
day, although the two com-

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panies reached agreement on
the sale just over a month
ago. Repap purchased the

tions for $100 million.
Financial arrangements in-
clude a $75-million loan from
the B.C. Development Corp.

Repap plans to reopen
Prince Rupert's Watson Is-
land B mill by the end of
September.

today.

Lucy Rilkoff of Blueberry
Creek passed away July 11 at
the age of 85.

Funeral service will begin
tonight at 7 p.m. at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel
and continue Monday at 10
a.m. with burial at 1 p.m. at
the Brilliant Cemetery.

Mrs. Rilkoff was born Aug.
2, 1900 in Saskatchewan and
came to British Columbia at
an early age. She married
Pete Rilkoff in 1917.

She lived in Ootischenia
and Raspberry Village most
of her life, living at Blueberry
since 1967. She was a mem-
ber of the USCC, enjoyed
gardening and singing.

Mrs. Rilkoff is survived by
one son, Sam and family of
Blueberry Creek; two
daughters, Anne Podovini-
koff of Grand Forks, and
Mary and husband Paul
Drazdoff and family of
Castlegar; 11 grandchildren;

great-grandchildren;

predeceased by
her husband Pete in 1970.
Funeral arrangement ere
under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

CASTLEGAR HYUNDAI SALES

Tot resuscitated

LONDON (CP) — Six-year-old Matthew Ekroth of
Tsawwassen, B.C., briefly suffered respiratory failure
Saturday in a London hospital where he awaits a
possible life-saving heart and lung transplant.

Doctors at Harefield Hospital managed to
resuscitate Matthew, whose breathing had virtually
stopped and heart rate had slowed, his father Don
Ekroth said.

15 killed in riots

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuter) — At least 15
people died Saturday in religious riots that spread
across western India's Gujarat state as thousands of
Hindus and Moslems fought pitched battles in the city
of Ahmedabad.

The deaths brought to 35 the total since riots
began in the city Wednesday after Moslems stoned a
Hindu religious procession.

Jell-O pulled

NEW YORK (Reuter) — Jell-O products have
been removed from stores in six states, and
Lemon-Lime Slice soft drink bottles were taken off
store shelves in New York following anonymous
telephone calls claiming the products were poisoned.

~ “Health authorities in Chicago ordered Jell-O
products removed from sale in all city stores after its
manufacturer, General Foods, received two separate
calls reporting tampering of boxes of Jell-O on sale at
supermarkets in Detroit and Chicago.

Crash site sealed

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Armed U.S. Air
Force guards sealed off a wide area of a national forest
Saturday around the burned crash site of a mysterious
aircraft widely speculated to have been an experi-
mental stealth fighter.

The air force imposed strict secrecy and said little
other than to identify the pilot and that he was
stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Woman found

PINE FALLS, Man. (CP) — A 49-year-old,
partially paralysed woman who was lost in dense bush
for almost.a week was found alive Saturday afternoon
by RCMP and civilian searchers, a Canadian Forces

jpokesman said.

Maj. Greg Hogan said Madeline Grisdale, who
disappeared last Sunday while picking blueberries,
was discovered at about 2 p.m. in a secondary-search
area.
Hogan said she is suff from shock but is in
stable condition. She was airlifted by helicopter to
hospital at Pine Falls, about 110 kilometres northeast
of Winnipeg.

Typhoon kills 21

PEKING (AP) — Typhoon Peggy battered
China's eastern Guangdong province, leaving 21
people dead and 297 injured, the state news agency
Xinhua reported Saturday.

The report said flooding stranded 30,000 people
Friday after more than 20 centimetres of rain fell in 24
hours, but troops so far have rescued two-thirds of
them.

Xinhua said 680 bridges were destroyed,
thousands of houses collapsed and almost 390,000
hectares of farmland flooded.

11 killed in battle

MANILA (AP) — Soldiers killed 11 Communist
guerrillas Saturday but lost two dead on the second
day of a battle in the southern Philippines, the official
Philippine news agency reported Saturday

The agency said the rebels had taken workers
hostage at a logging camp, but the hostages were
released after four hours. It did not specify the
number of hostages.

The latest deaths brought to 33 the number of
people reported killed since Wednesday in rebel
related violence throughout the country.

Nixon in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuter) — Former U.S. president
Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow on Saturday on a
private visit amid speculation he might be trying to
help set up a summit between President Ronald
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Nixon's spokesman, John Taylor, said the former
president is on a fact-finding mission similar to those
he has made to Eastern Europe and China.

He had consulted Reagan before he left the
United States but was not carrying a letter from
Reagan, Taylor told reporters.

Mourners defy decrees

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A thousand mourners
sang banned songs and chanted outlawed slogans at a
funeral Saturday in Soweto in defiance of the South
African government's emergency decrees.

In another neighborhood of the sprawling black
township romans horeanrernachs scores of families fled
to escape street bat! between
a migrant workers and

The Meadowlands residents told local reporters
the fighting in the past few days left five people dea’

Irish march

PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Pro-
testants marched Saturday past charred debris, from
the previous night's sectarian violence, to hail their
ancestors’ victory at the Battle of the Boyne and
condemn a London-Dublin pact on Northern Ireland.

Authorities deployed extensive security for this
edition of the march staged yearly to celebrate the
1690 victory by William of Orange over the Roman
Catholic king James II. The victory is considered the

ning Protestant domi:

— inance of Northern

Clashes involving Protestants, Roman Catholics
and police broke out across the British province after
nightfall Friday, but Saturday's marches in 19 cities
and villages were largely peaceful.

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