The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotte 6-49 draw were six, seven, 17, 21, #@ and 49. The bonus number was eight. The $500,000 winning humber in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 3063479. There , ar@ also subsidiary prizes. TARRYS SCHOOL Kindergarten Costume winners Page B4 WEATHERCAST Cloudy with occasional showers today and with rain or wet snow. Highs 8, Lows 0" to 2° Chance of precipitation 45 per cont 50 Cents ad VOL. 37, No. 89 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1984 2 Sections (A &B) proposal on hold By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer A possible quick solution to the RESIDENTS STRANDED AFTERSNOWFALL By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer RECORD SNOWFALL { wont - Residents with shovels and DIGGING iT OUT . A record snowfall overnight Thursday left of Castlegar residents stranded in their homes, unable to get to work or school. A total of 38 centimetres fell on Castlegar between a 24-hour period from Thursday to Friday morning. clogging both side streets and main roadways. The snowfall virtually shut down all schools in the Castlegar School District. Schools superintendent Terry Wayling said the schools were “physically open” but no classes were being held as a result of low attendance. Wayling estimated that only about 200 of the district's 2,500 students showed up for school. Most of the students could be assured of a place to go were sent home, while others remained at the school working on various projects. Wayling said the decision to cancel classes was made as a result of the low attendance. Buses had been cancelled at 7 a.m. because of unplowed roads. Wayling said most of the district's teachers showed up for work, although some were waiting for roads to be plowed. Teachers who weren't able to get to school, were requested to do their duties at home, Wayling added. Wayling bimself, who lives in Nelson, said he had no major difficulties coming to work, although he admitted getting out of his driveway posed a slight problem. s were | a sight in Castlegor Fr os pted to dig th out of a record 38 cm of snow which fell between Thursday morning and Friday morning. Canbtews Photon by Ron Norman Gerrand noted that about 50 of 390 students showed up for classes. Gerrand noted that about 80 per cent of the students who attend KJSS, and the cancellation of buses left very few students to attend classes. He said most of the students were sent home if possible when the school board decided to cancel classes for the day At Selkirk College, campus director Jim Cromwell, who was manning the switchboard on Friday, said the decision to cancel classes was made at about 7 a.m. because of “general road conditions” College maintenance crews spent much of the day digging out of the snow. Cromwell said that at least 30 students werb&t the school, working on assignments, while between 30 and 40 per cent of the staff showed up for work Elsewhere, and District Hospital adminis- trator Ken Talarcio said that all the staff members at the hospital showed up for work. Unplowed roads left some motorists stranded in the snow, while some roads were simply impassable. RCMP Staff Sgt. John Stevens noted that road He said the roads to Nelson were Stanley Humphries sehool Lach Parrell said a total of 75 of 800 students arrived at the school Friday ie the area Friday were all in very poor condition. He said the snow did not cause any problems at the h just a “lot of inconvenience” for area residents, who weren't able {6 drive to work, and for others whose ¢ars were stranded in snowbanks. NE ere ne a a ne ee Mt Oe dil faced by a Glade couple who've been struggling since Septem ber to get full bus transportation for their five-year-old son attending kin- dergarten has been put on hold. On Tuesday the Castlegar school board chairman and district admin istration met with about 20 parents of children attending the kindergarten class at Tarrys Elementary school to discuss having the class — which now runs half-days until noon, five days a week — switched to full-day classes running two or three days a week. Most of the parents had reservations about the board's suggestion, and wanted to wait, said parent Carol Retzlaff Thursday “There seemed to be very strong feelings against an all-day kinder. garten,” she said. “I was surprised at the strength of the feeling.” Retzlaff had more at stake in the results of the meeting than other par- ents, because an all-day kindergarten would solve the problem of obtaining full busing services for her son, Caleb, who attegfis ‘Tarrys kindergarten. other students, he’s the only student Rail crossing still not smooth By RON NORMAN Editer The new Columbia Avenue CP Rail crossing is a victim of Murphy's Law: when anything can go wrong, it will. First, work on the crossing took six days to complete, rather than the anti- cipated 1 to 1‘ days. Then the City of Castlegar learned that the replacement rails were de signed to be installed four inches higher than the old rails, making the crossing four inches higher than Col- umbia Avenue. And before the city could put down who returns to Glade from Tarrys at noon. The board had previously eoareagive it is too costly and time dergartens throughout the district,” Smecher said, adding that this would save on noon-time busing expenses. transport one child back to Gide so 80 Retzlaff is forced to pick up her son herself at noon five days a week. If the parents of the kindergarten pupils had decided on full-day kinder. garten, the Retzlaffs son would have returned to Glade with other Glade students in higher grades later in the afteroon — thus eliminating the prob- lem. While Retzlaff admitted an all-day kindergarten “would solve all my problems,” she said she app “It's expe , and we're the only school district left out of Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and Grand Forks that is offering that (noon-time) busing service.” Smecher said. Smecher agreed parents at the meeting had “some reservations” about an all-day kindergarten, but pointed out that “there have been no com plaints to the teacher or the principal of the Robson school.” “The conclusion we've come to is that no one is unhappy with it.” the concerns of other parents. Retzlaff said some parents were worried that a six-hour day would be too long for some of the pupils, and that some children would find having kindergarten three days one week and only two the next “confusing.” She said the parents wanted to wait to see how the only other full-day kindergarten in the district — at Robson Elementary school — was working out. The Robson kindergarten has been run on full days since Sep- tember. “ . 1 don't have any con- cerns about it for my own kid,” she said. Board chairman Doreen Smecher said although the changeover could have been made as soon as Nov. 5, the board is prepared to wait until the parents have fully made up their minds on the “We hoped with co-operation from the parents, we could have all-day kin In the Retzlaff presented the school board with a letter Thursday requesting that her five-year-old be dropped off at the Glade ferry landing two days a week at noon, and be driver across on the ferry to the Glade bus-stop three days 4 week. Previously, she'd asked that her son be dropped off at the ferry landing five days a week, but the board said they would agree only if they were absolved from legal responsibility for the child after he was dropped off. Retzlaff said she and her husband wouldn't agree to that, but they would agree torrelieving the district of lega! responsibility two days a week, if the board agrees to bus the student to Glade the rest of the week. The board has said it would be impossible to have the child bussed across on the ferry at noon-time two days a week because the bus is needed at the same time to transport children from Tarrys to Shoreacres school. continved on page A2 India bids farewell to PM Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi, “immortal mother” to India’s mournful masses, was cremated Saturday in the perfumed flames of a sandalwood pyre, NEW DELHI (CP) — bid farewell by a country now consumed in its own fires of retri bution. In smouldering cities across India, the death toll passed 1,100 in four days of anti-Sikh rioting that erupted after Prime Minister Gandhi was assassin ated by ber Sikh security guards, police and Indian news media reports ds of Sikhs were Gairns said the CPR didn't tell the city the new rails would be higher than the old rails, so ¢ity crews only removed a small chunk of pavement on either side of the crossing to allow for repai He said the city still must pave about 35-40 feet on either side of the crossing in order to smooth out the four-inch bump. “It will be a smooth and crossing,” Gairns assured the Castle gar News in an interview. “It certainly worft be « bump.” But he says with the sudden snow. storm, the eity was “damn lucky even to get the asphalt in.” “We're not any happier with it than anyone else,” Gairns pointed out, but be said there really isn't much the city can do. It needs dry weather to pave the “You can't lay asphalt on top of snow,” he says. Gairns noted that the higher replace pr if the was closed due to Highway 22 to Trail massacred in one New Delhi district alone. The new government, under Gan dhi's son, Rajiv, was coming under sharp criticism for failing to control the violence. Reuters quoted Press Trust of India as reporting police opened fire on riot ers in 10 places in New Deihi, killing seven people. Agence France-Presse reported that tanks and armored personnel carriers were sent into New Delhi city streets. An finite curfew was Saturday night on the capital in wake of the new riots, the agency said. AFP reported 2,000 people have been wounded across India and another 10,000 people have been arrested for arson and looting. About 4,000 were detained in the capital, AFP said. Gandhi's son and successor, Rajiv, toured riot-scarred areas of the city following the state funeral for his Clark, and at least one million Indians. Meanwhile, Mohinder Singh Gesal, president of the Federation of Sikh Prime Minister Mulroney, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, UN Sec retary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Pope John Paul urging them to personally intervene to stop the sectarian violence in India. In the sundown cremation ceremony beside the holy river Yamuna, climax to the solemn three-hour funeral pro cession through New Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi first walked seven times around the log-stacked bier where his mother’s body lay, then gently touched a blazing torch to her head and feet Hindu priests chanted mantras, and dominated Indian policial life for two decades. Some 400,000 sorrowful Indians thronged the riverside site, and dozens of presidents, premiers and other foreign dignitaries, including Clark and U.8. State Secretary George Shultz. stood nearby in silent tribute, hands over their hearts. Earlier Saturday, Shultz met with Gandhi, assured him of Washington's desire to improve U.S.-Indian relations and invited him to visit the United States. The new prime minister's first challenge was to restore calm to India The Hindu-Sikh violence was blamed for the relatively small size of the funeral day crowds — smaller than those that attended the cremation along the same riverbanks of Indira Gandhi's father, Prime Minister Jawa harial Nehru, in 1964, and a the d Indian ind leader Mohandas Gandhi in 1948. The Gandhis were not related Public buses were not operating in the capital beeause of the unrest, and many Indians apparently stayed away violence.