CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 25, it By SHIRLEY POSTNIKOFF My husband and I went to Spokane recently for the weekend. It turned out to be not all that pleasant, but it was amusing, It might bea lot simpler to list what happened: a( My husband was eating Sunny Roy peanuts and got one caught in a rear tooth, b) Located a charming motel on the outside and found it to be rather tacky inside, All that was missing were the cockroaches. I hoped. c) Went to see the movie Carrie and was forced to sit two seats away from my husband because during the {frightening scenes I would scream and grab hold of him causing him in turn to scream. He figured this was bad for his image and so I wasn't allowed to get too close. I recall wondering whether Carrie was less of a menace than my husband. d) Next morning he got up crabby. c). Went downtown and he was unenthusiastic about shopping; made me irritable. f) Took husband back to tacky motel where he com- plained in a subtle tone that —— Coping Badl y &. he was quote dying unquote. g) I offer sympathy which he refuses to accept. Claimed I didn’t mean it. h) I marched out of door ina huff to go shopping. i) I drove in madhouse traf- fic, noting traffic statistic sign said Deathless Days— _ Zero. j) Risked my life in trattic only to find nothing in the store, k) Drove back to motel to find spouse wailing that his head hurts, Stayed for five minutes but couldn't take the pressure, so I went shopping again. This went on for most of the day. Spouse would not eat and so I sat alone in restaurant. - Returned to find him sleep- ing. Hallelujah. 1) Next morning I looked at him and discovered one side of his head, looked slightly bulbuous. Reminded me of beached whale. Could not control laughter. He felt better until he spotted the mirror. Became hysterical, ‘m) He refused to be seen outside motel room. This caused slight difference in opinion. »n) Convinced him nobody knows him in Spokane and so he reluctantly agreed to" &— go a! a cup of coffee. 0) Ran into friends from Rossland who immediately laughed, p) Went to Northtown to buy him a jacket and were met by screaming women who ran us down on their way to Dollar Special. q) Bought his jacket and found enormous lamp I wanted, rt) Lamp was in such a big box it wouldn't fit in car. Caused traffic jam in park: ing lot while trying to ram it into car. Finally convinced him it would not fit and so we remove it from the box. 8) He couldn't find any- where to dispose of the box.» t) Drove ‘home hearing about the trauma of an absessed tooth. u) Had lunch in Colville and he became paranoid about his looks after waitress told us to go to the back of the restaurant. He was con- vinced it was because he looked like a squirrel. v} Arrived home and he went directly to bed. w) I unloaded the car. y) Kept children quiet and explained why Daddy locked funny. z) Didn't get any attention all weekend. Rotten time. MIXED FLOCKS — Some: Region. Ducks Unlimited (Canada la) 1495 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg, Man. R&T 2E2 Mill POL . demonstrate interspecific flocking behaviour. Most spectacular are mallard-pintail feeding’ flights to stubble fields each autumn in the morning and evening. They also migrate to breeding grounds in mixed flocks. Mallards also tend to flock with black ducks where their ranges overlap. In spring, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, shoveler and gadwall feed together and are often seen in mixed flocks. Amongst diving ducks, most notable are greater and lesser scaups, which spend the winter in large mixed flocks, especially in the Great Lakes duck species frequenily © 206-77 Says International Scrabble Wizard Field of Tires. Makes Million For Big Saver Cecil Heidelberger of An- dover, Minn., has a backyard full of tires, between eight and 12 million. of them. Heidelberger, who has been in the used tire business for 30 years, says he's always known that some day, some- body would want those tires. - And now that mass of black rubber, up to 40 feet high, covering 10 acres, may make him a millionaire. An Oklahoma City man has offered Heidelberger about 39 cents each for the car tires and up to $5 for the bigger ones and will set up a huge tire shred- ding machine on Heidelberger’s land to recycle the rubber. “We dispose of these tires for fuel,” said Teddy Jo Bivens, who runs a \ tire salvage busi- ness. t Not Just a Parlor Game Scrabble is just a parlor game for a rainy day when there's nothing better to do, Right? Not so, says Lester Schon- brun, Schonbrun, who says he is one of the top ‘three Scrabble. players in the country— possibly in the world—refined his skills in New York City, where several chess clubs cater to the Scrabble crowd. Most of the top players are in New , York, he said. Advertising: helps you judge aed from bad. “When'l started, the good players were spotting me 150 1 or 175 points and still beating me,” he recalled. “But eventual- ly, 1 was ‘the one giving the odds and winning. Just before we left New York, in 1970, no one wanted to play me.” Schonbrun, who admitted he has hustled a few games with unsuspecting opponents, said the most he has won at Scrabble is $120. There is no official championship for the game, although there are some , tournaments on the East Coast, Scrabble was created in 1931 by architect Alfred Butts. It was originally sold by friends before Selchow and Righter Co, Pettitt Photos’ Super Special! was licensed to market it in 953. 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Cords & sors Disp in Window - legietacdve: Lfbrary.: Parliament: Bldgs.,.. SOY Victorias. Be Ce VEV 1X4 i Fabs .28 Published Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of ihe Kootenays” VOL. 80, No, 35 TWO SECTIONS (A&B) ag CASTLEGAR BRITISH COLUMBLA: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977 Construction on the Cas- tlegar-Salmo highway link is expected to meet the highway ministry's July 1978 completion deadline, minister Alex Fraser told the Castlegar News this week, | Contacted Tuesday in Vic- toria,’ Fraser said he saw “no big hitches" in the completion of. the -highway within the deadline. He said the final con- ‘tract. to bring the highway section between Champion Lake and Meadows Siding to a gravel stage is currently under-_ way. Asked whether there had been any interruptions of work on the project,’ Fraser said construction has “progressed constantly” since the Social Credit party was olocted as the provincial government in 1975. ‘Ray Baines, an assistant to the minigter, sald Tuesday the ‘final ‘contract for 6.57 miles gravel-finished highway. is al- ‘or. Ca ready 65 per. cent complete. Previously. completed to a .’gravel stage was the first con- tract for 9.82 miles cast from Castlegar and a second contract’ fen a further 6.85 miles, Baines sald: ntlnued on page Al2) : No Greyhound’ Depot Planned For Castlegar Reports that Grey: hound Bus Lines is planning a’ Castlegar ‘depot sre un- founded,’ a compariy vice- president told the Castlegar News Tuesday. © Contacted at the Grey- hound : head. office in’ Cal.. gary, Floyd -Mogen, in charge of sales and traffic, sald the company was -not planning to - ‘invest’” any (continued on page A18) Bargaining Continues _ For CanCel Workers. Cotitract negotiations con- tinue: for CanCel sawmill em- . ployees despite the, tentative 7 pagreement, reached between southern interior companies. Maurice Eggie, IWA Local 1-405 business agent, said local: negotiators hope :to reach an when ft : t “america and the other B.C. Talks Could Continue After Labor Day The. Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada said last week it will not. join the Canadian Paperworkers. Union ‘ in a complaint,to the .British -- Columbia-; Labor’: Relations. board: about “pensibn ‘improve- ments’ for retired workers. | The CPU has complained i resumes Tuesday. He said the terms of CanCel sawmill work- ers’ contract still differ. from — those of employees in the coast and southern: interior opera re OwAMthough- the Interior: Forest ° Labor-’ Relations ; As-. sociation is representing -Can- Cel, this year negotiations ona local basis are still Beceasaty he ‘said. : “There ‘are’ some things ‘better ‘and some ‘things worse in the CanCel agreement than f-Salmo Highway’ Link Work On Schedule | with the’ other “agreements,” £ ald. .“CanCel f ‘bars in good faith because it refuses: -, to. discuss’. ‘pension ; improve-' ments for. retired workers,’ / Ceontioued on page Als)" ByRYON GUEDES Editor, Castlegar News. ’ According to Steve Paszty; it’ all ‘started with” antique bottles. »Paszty—the Castlegar weekend prospector who, with partner Alec Terekoff, of Thrums, staked claims on more than 6,000 acres covering an unusually rich vein of uranium in the South Slocan Valley this summer=said it was only with the intention of expanding ‘his collection of bottles dating back to the 1800s that he bought his _ first. meta] detector. Seven Mile Lookout Ready: . This: Weekend The new tourist observa- £ tion “building. overlooking the *» construction ‘scene at Seven Mile hydro-electric : develop- ment: on .the.;Pend’. d’,-Graille River will be’ ready for-use ‘by. ‘visitors over the Labor: Day ~ weekend, ° Perched on cliff-edge on ihe north bank of the river, the observation deck of the lookout provides a spectacular: view of the damsite hundreds of feet below.” . Built’ for -B.C. Hydro. by Fame Construction Ltd. of Trail, the ‘new ‘visitor facility -_ provides a 82-4 foot frontage for viewing. Hydro:tour. guides: will be on duty over the long weekend to’ direct’ visitors to the new lookout ‘and ‘to, answer ques: lions. “Access , to Seven Mite development i is by way of the. new paved: road that intersects the’ Waneta Road at Columbia: Gardens, ! 7 A’. company spokesman, said visitors are ‘asked to plan their trips to Seven “Mile on | weekends.’ * Heavy’ traffic in. the con- “atruetion’ ‘area of, work days ~'tinakes, both access: and viewing pitti cult, ‘the Spoke snitn said. with: the local) since -1967.” “The two-year, “pact for southern interior. Wworkers;, an- nouneed. iby: Jack Munro,‘ ~- (contin page Ag)" : o“ jaaghe: aimetal detector to locate dumps where I’ could - find old’ bottles,” he: told. the Castlegar News. "After I got the metal detector I decided it would be useful in the detection of ore, so1 took it into the field and Started discovering - ore rocks.” “The problem at that time was that I couldn't . identify ~ anything,” he added. The search for information on minerals led to membership in the Castlegar. Rock Club and eventually » to an -eight-week | course offered in Nelson by the ~ chamber of mines, Paszty said. covered in the course failed to make’ it “any easier to: dis- tinguish “uranium. from * potas- sium’ and thorium, the two’, other minerals which ‘give off radiation, Faery said. Forest Fires: ‘For August Total 30 “The back is broken,” says Forest Ranger Hugo Wood in response to the Castlegar News’ inquiry of the local fire situation. There have been 30 -fires this year with. the last. one on Aug. 21—a’ small ‘bush. fire blamed on a. possible careless: smoker. \ The biggest fire of the sea- son was the blaze which spread , through 60 acres of forest three - miles ‘south of the Blueberry- Paulson Highway in the early part of August. It was originally reported _as covering 45 acres ‘but ‘the: Third Alternative Omitted st “CROWNING ToucH bestowed a pon, .. B.C, Interior Jane Kenelly of Cranbrook by Miss * ‘Kerr, Wood and : behalf of the not examine the cost of the “1 was. mildly interested © then and I- bought a geiger. counter’and discovered a thor- ium vein in the Slocan Valley,” he said. "I was quite disap- pointed when I found out after sending it in for, assay that it ~ was. thorium.”. ) But it was while taking the ~eourse that. Paszty. and Terek- ‘off, both employed at the Can- Cet sawmill, learned of their mutual ‘interest. in minerals, © Paszty. said." They both wrote and passed their rock identifi- cation exams, invested in some new equipment and went pros- pecting, io We'd go out after work with ° (ultra-violet) . mineral lamps,” Terekoff said. “We'd : explore’ rock’ ‘cliffs, road cuts \ and logging F roads.” pecting was not 2 “pres limited tothe “South Slocan Valley, Paszty said. He said he has covered the Syringa Creek and Nancy Greene Lake areas himself. .: “There are very few. hillsi this area we haven't covered,” Terekoff said. “We've covered the Arrow Lakes area, the east * «and west sides of the Valhalla ~ Tange, and’ with the course we've covered a lot of territory all the way up.to Greenwood." Nor did they confine them- selves solely toa uranium hunt. Tungsten was among the other minerals they: kept a lookout * for, ‘Terekoff said. “Usually you don't look for one particular mineral,” Terek- off said. “It puts you at a-dis- a advantage.” we eins a seentillo: meter, which was amore: ex: pensive machine, and’ went to South:Slocan,”, Paszty ‘said. Radioactivity at ‘South ‘Slocan’ .was © “slightly. ‘above usual" andthe. two ‘Spent ‘several nights - looking’: with mineral lamps ‘for. ‘autinite—a fluorescent: form of uranium— he said. “We tracked it up the ith side and came to a spot where «there was quite a bit of radio-° activi he’ said. “We im- mediately’ took samples and, - sent them in for assay. . “It was uranium."- oe ~ > ‘Each: aided” by ‘a * $2,000 government “grubstake™. granti. Paszty and Terekoff decided to surround the area with a single {continued ‘on page A13) : Local Developers Unveil ‘First Major Subdivision’ c Ful ully-serviced lots on, yhat has been called “the first major 2 subdivision in’ the West Koot- enays” have been approved fo sale, a spokesman for. the’sub- division’s sales agent: announe- ‘ed. this week. Dave Cooper, president of) Cooper Agencies, told the Cas tlegar.News the ‘superintend- ent of insurance:has approved. * the prospectus for High Mea- ‘dows,’ an.11-acre‘development. . on Meadowbrook: Drive: which consists of 45: building sites gas, water and-sewage ‘sys tems, +, Cooper -said the * cost of developing he: site, which -is ‘and * with. underground, electricity,‘ j “figure has since been ded. This week marked the de- parture ‘ofthe student crew and the supression ‘crew. While ‘no curbed: rads, was more than. $500,000 i "He a. the developer, official | “water . bombers based: .at: the Castlegar "Aiport left yester- 3 has been», * ‘obtained, indications are’ the donated sya000 to'the: city to.” defray: the - future - cost. of ,a ' water supply. ~~ ‘ bos “The: entire development pe ty dn have to put up one te ‘said :the lots, which ie average 70 fect by 100 feet in area, range between’ $12,900. - and $21,000 in price. All trees which did not conflict ‘with struction of the roads and lots . .. The omtssion of a “third alternative” from the first draft of a water feasibility report for Castlegar and outlying’ areas has delayed approval of tho report by the Lower Solumba g Water Study C for try and, develop new ground- water sources and supplement them with water from the Arrow Lakes, “The, third one was going tothe Arrow Lakes for a supply week, Ald. Brian Kilpatrick said Tuesday. Ald. Kilpatrick, chairman of the city’s works and ‘services committee, said the report— presented last week as the second phase of a study con- ducted by the engineering firm Leidat on ission!—did and ig all other sources,” he said, “They (Kerr, Wood and Leidal) said that would be the + most expensive,” he said. “We know it's going to be the most * expensive, but I think it's the way the outlying areas want to go—the same as the city.” The report will be re- to the happy with the delay they ‘coud appreciate the need for further study by the firm, he said, Vanderpol said representa- tives of water boards and-im-' provement districts in his area to whom he had presented ‘the report earlier had made-'a number of suggestions .on water requirements to pass on °.” I to the engineers. Several‘of.the suggestions would probably ‘be incorporated in. the revided ae draft, ht said. ne Copies of nen new draft will e i in which next week after the third al- atives of Castlegar and regional electoral Areas I and J were especially interested. . “The first allernative in- volved the use of water from the Arrow Lakes and supple- . menting them with existing water wells,” ‘Kilpatrick said, “The second was to is drafted, Kilpatrick said. Area J director Martin ‘ Vanderpol said the omission has resulted chiefly from a “misunderstanding in terms of reference” between the en- gineering firm and the com- mission members. Although city were not. the water boards and meroeneae .dis- tricts for discussion’ with. the engineers soon after it ‘is. submitted, Vanderpol said.-- Mayor Audrey Moore said the ‘meeting. was productive: despite the delay in finalising ¥ the report, 5 “T'm sure we'll all be very satisfied with the report when, it is returned,” she, said. . Government to Transfer CanCel Shares... New Company Created * Cancel i is involved in last week’s provincial government, bill to set up a B.C. Resources Investment Corporation, a pub- lic company that will operate in the private sector. The. legislation—Bill_ 87— follows up on Bennett's earlier announced goal of establishing acorporation to encourage B.C, residents to invest in their own province. The legislation allows the government to transfer its as- sets in four companies to the new: company. Involved are 9,848,453. government shares of CanCel, ‘1,157,125 ‘common shares in West Coast Transmission Ltd.; - : nt’ more than one per. cent of the issued’ and voting established to. ‘provide _ 0 shares of the company while mutual. shares—that is, funds me ical care of annuitles—will' be (continued on page A18)::-> Motorist Gains Miles In Switch to Metric When speed limits are changed to kilometres an hour . it is the motorist who will gain. All 20: mile-an-hour limits will change to 50 kilometres an hour—which works out to just over. 31 miles an hour. that has kilometres multiplit by five and divided by eight to : come up.” with approximate 2 miles, there is an easier (continued on page A13) But motirists still will have to be on their feet. There will be no inching slowly into the metric changeover—it will bea short. Sharp shock. is all ‘adasiek highways - and ited : saiediee and: na-*: tural “gases leases,’ licenses, ‘reservations or permits rights, he .Premier ‘Bennett said’ ‘the * value of government -holdings will: be ‘determined ‘by. inde- pendent appraisal and. evalua-_ tion. He added that he hopes a prospectus will be issued b; fh vend of the year.’ : The act stipulates that no person. will be allowed to buy » know metric most municipal’ signs ‘will: be converted to their metric equiv- alents. =?! “The. government. war - “There. will be, no. dual signs) nj displayed, no period: of transi- tion. Drivers will be 2 Fequired te. 5 -mileage speed limits and to ae : cepta cold-turkey change with- *. in tWo:to three weeks.” While newspaper ad- vertising by the highways de-: partment suggests a conversion. Sagging Wall Termed ‘Second Priority’ Item ‘A+ 12-foot concrete re- ‘taining wall. on’ the verge of collapsing onto a Columbia Avenue sidewalk was left out of this year's public works repair budget because it qualified as - only.a “second-priority item.” Ald. Brian Kilpatrick, works and;services committee ‘chairman, said the wall, located at 2 Columbia Ave., was among areas considered by the com- mittee last spring for repair. “The ‘committee. divided them into ‘first and’ second- / priority itetns,” Kilpatrick said. “The wall was classed as\a second-priority item.”’ Kilpatrick, said the exclu- sion of the wall repairs‘from the -budget this year did not neces- Committee's Public Inquiry Here Sept: 14 All: aspects of ‘food. pro- duction in B.C. will be discussed - at the legislature's food prices inquiry at the Regional Recre- «ation Complex Sept. 14. were ‘left ‘standing and over- head street lighting of the same type used by the'city has been’ installed in the: subdivisio: ‘In one. of a series of public ‘hearings throughout the’ pro- vince, | the standing 10-member will? sarily. mean it: would. become A first-priority item next year. “I think that wall has been like that for a number of years,” he said. * Lucey. Brodman, owner. of. the property: at 2° Columbia Ave., said the wall has been in its present condition—one sec-* tion leaning six. inches . for-: ward—for two years, She said she does “not tions: of government: gamb- lings\/ Page B6 BLUNDEE: The. ‘Separai _-Movement . was - inevitabl according to Fred Merrinial ‘Page AS: « SUPER SPY: The man mio: , responsible © for.. the ” Pearl Harbor attack ‘has received. remember when the wall was ° put up by the city to retain the bank on her property: but she ‘remembers having trouble with: holiday.“ weekend.’ ‘Isolate, jhowers are. expected today, the ‘wall's- sagging “three sor four. years ago." Mrs. Brodman “said the city, in’ response. to_ her. -re- quests to stop the wall from sagging, claimed a tree stand- ‘(continued on page A138)... Monday. Daytime highs will be in the mid 20's ‘with overnight lows down to 3'to 6 degrees. :- Sauwntaniteiciimesenitaie tt tie ae receive prosoniatlons from pro- ducers, distributors and whole-” | salers as well as private briefs. * -=Chaired by Shuswap MLA * ‘Len Bawtree, the committee— which includes. Rossland-Trail. “MLA Chris D'Arcy and’“Agri- + culture Minister, Jim: Hewitt— minimum : standards for build. : (continued ‘on page A13) will eventually.use the informa: - ‘tion presented at ‘the. hearings. “to prepare an overview of the food. price situation as it’ is (continued on page A13) will:be in effect: + Display Adv. Relaxing Monday, The ‘Castlegar News will publieh on its usual day 1 week, on Thursday morning. -- "However, because. Monday is a legal holiday.and ‘o employees will, not. be’ working that day, the following: Deadline is 3 p.m. today for ‘savertisers who’ normally: Provide us with their. advertising copy on Fridays. Real: Estate. Advertising: 12 ‘noon Friday. Entertainment’ and Sports Pages: 5 pam. Friday. . CanCel Bulletin Board: 5'p.m. Friday. News and ivhotos:/11' a.m. ‘Tuesday. ertising: 12 noon Tuesday. Classified/Want Ads: 10. am. Wednesday. The co-operation of our’ advertisers and: Teaders’ is; “requested so that we can ‘publish next: ‘Thursday: a rather than delaying the’ paper. until Friday.” : y