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PORK SHOULDER fuel-line valves shortly after landing Thursday, Johnson Officials said. ° NASA first learned of the fire Friday when technicians removed a panel and found the damage while preparing the shuttle for its trip back to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Glynn Lunney, the space centre shuttle program man- ager, said the problem must be understood before the next flight of the win no longer the promised land WASHINGTON (CP) — Nuclear power development around the world is hanging by a thin thread after a decade that has exposed false claims by industry and government that nuclear power’ would provide the cheap fuel of the future, the Worldwatch Institute says. The independent, non-profit research organization includes Canada’s Candu nuclear reaction program in a study that says the economic viability of the industry has eroded during the past decade and “nuclear power develop- ment hangs by a much thinner thread than most policymakers yet realize.” It traces the 20-year commercial history of nuclear power, saying it began with excessively low estimates of cost and has been marked to this day by cost overruns aided ,and abetted by governments which have given nuclear power an unjustified special status as an energy source. “The eighties are shaping up as a disastrous decade for nuclear power and the world’s nuclear industries are already feeling the pain,” says the institute, citing cancellation of all but two of 89 orders for nuclear plants in the United States alone since 1975. “In virtually, all countries, nuclear power costs more than * power generated by coal, oil or water, the study says. Nuclear costs have mounted as a result of safety regulations, materials and labor but also poor control over financing and frequent use of open-ended “cost-plus” construction con- tracts. The average current plant construction cost in the U.S. is more than $2 billion, five to 10 times their original budgets. é INEFFICIENCY Economist Charles Komanoff is quoted as saying reactor have been built in an environment of constant change, such as engineering changes required by safety regulators after plants are partially built, and chronic inefficiency has become a trademark of many nuclear industries. ‘ i “In Canada, the country’s Candu reactors have some of the best operating records among nuclear plants world- wide,” the study says. “But data released by Ontario Hydro, the builder of Canada’s Candu nuclear plants, shows that construction costs rose from $400 per kilowatt in 1972 to $1,700 per ‘VICTORIA — Despite doubts that a gas pipeline to” Vancouver Island will commercially viable, the pro- vincial government remains cominitted to the project. Energy, Mines and.Petro-: leum Resources 8te- phen Rogers also. predicted that) future’ price’ increases for electricity will be niodest = "thanks to B.C. “Hydro’s led to; utilities in‘the U:8: «, "Rogers said in an interview jlast week that “the. com- mitment to a’ pipeline ‘was - made two ministers ago,” but he ackowledged that it is still up to the federal government to. provide a subsidy as promised in the National En- ergy Program. 3 “The. study shows the ‘ pipeline is viable, it is in the national interest... and ‘if British Columbia is treated ‘thé same way as the rest of Canada is by the federal * government, by giving the same: assistance for this The B.C, government has committed only 25 per cent of the’ gas’ required by Dome Petroleum’s| proposed lique- fied natural gas’ plant on the northern B.C. ‘coast’ but: Rog- ers didn't rule out increasing the commitment to 60 pere cent, He said Dome must nego- tiate price directly with B.C. gas producers. When that’s “done, ‘ the government’ will decide’ what, royalty to im- pose. : However, Rogers said the B.C. government would ap- proach the Alberta govern- ment directly if Dome can't strike a deal with Alberta producers. i k PRICETOOHIGH | If Alberta insists'on a uni- form: border: price, {as )-Pre- . #* mier Peter Lougheed has‘in-' dicated recently,’ then the price to Dome in B.C. would be the U.S. export price, cur- rently. $4.50. (U.S.) a thou: sand cubic feet, That would make Dome's LNG nuncompe-° ititive on’ world markets. Rogers'said he has talked with the new Dome chair- | man, -John: Macdonald,’ and. WORKING HARD ..; . Construction workers. uta Castlégar News . 87 : Cohstruction should be finished by the ei down against’ its southern December:14,.1983 i Dollar dips below — ,80 cents MONTREAL (CP) — The Canadian dollar dipped below the 80-cent mark for the first time ‘in 16 months Tuesday, but money traders had mixed diagnoses about the health of the currency. .. The dollar was forced down 1-10 to 79.97 cents U.S. by the American dollar which gained 4-25 to $1.2505. The traders say seasonal year-end shoring up of Amer- ican funds is helping push down the value of the Cana- dian currency. Brian Griffiths, vice-presi- dent of international money markets with Royal Bank, said although the dollar is NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! Ma est Fomewt Beit o me Wes * Joyce 365-3091 Debor counterpart, it has held its A rah 365-3015.\ © own against other currencies ‘such: as the British pound, French franc and German mark, Ritohio Rubinoff Suits. © Made-to-Measure ¢ ,"Where Service Begins” Ladies’ & Wen's Wear Dome’s Japanese partner, —CosNews Photo Nissho Iwai Corp., and said both are still committed to : : = me _ ineling to cover the walls of the 27,000 spacecraft. But he said he SNOW CREATURES . . . 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The switch on the chair Robert Wayne Williams, a was pulled at_1:06 a.m, and former choirboy convicted in Williams was pronounced the shotgun slaying of an el- deadsat 1:16 a.m.,, Correc- guard tions “Undersecretary Mike lee: -Martin-aaidi...». : Rees ‘PATHS watden'told me that! cuted, parly today. first rexpeution in Lo he went peacefully and there Williams shot to death supermarket ° guard Willie Kelly, 67, with a double-bar- rel shotgun during a robbery in.Baton Rouge on Jan. 6, isted murderer’ who ,had “been since 1961. Williams, 31, was put to leath at the state prison in Angola after Gov. Dave Treen, a federal judge, a U.S: appeals court and the U.S; spare his life. At 1:02 a.m. CST, prison warden Ross Maggio and i Wil- scheduled to'die in, Georgia's electric chair today-won a stay of execution Tuesday night, ‘but a .second con- demned man in that state lost an appeal -and is to-be ex- ecuted Thursday morning. The ‘U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to grant:a-stay of werg. no problems at all,” rif’ said. ;-Before he was put to death, Williams declared he had -made peace with the Lord. :Mment is no good and never was any good. I'd like all the people: who fought capital ish guards - liams.on the 30-metre walk from the death cell to the shed containing the electric to keep on fight- ing. Not only on my behalf, but on behalf of everyone else.” execution for Alpha Otis Ste- phens, 87, who was to have been put to death at 8 am. today. Si , In a brief, unsigned order, the court said Stephens should remain alive until’a federaliappeals court decides EVANGELICAL |__FREE CHURCH _ — Fellowship — Worship — Bible Study Family Bible Hour :45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service 1.a.m., Legion Hall Bible Study & Prayer Tues 7:30 p.m. at 1201 - Ist Street Pastor: Tom Mulder Phone: 365-2281 ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Ave, Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Robson Community Church 2nd & 4th Sundays, 10a.m. Rev. 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SN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF PENTECOST Below Castleaird Plaza Phone: 365-6317 Pastor: Victor Stobbe Phone 365-2374 SUNDAY SERVICES" Sunday School 9:45 am Morning Worship 11:00 Evening Fell "30 another case that raised the -same issue in Stephens's ap- peal: whether the death pen- said in an interview the annual increase of six per cent in capital costs in Canada’s case “is better than most other countries but that’s only in relative terms.” The study shows only France, singled out as having the best cost controls over its nuclear industry, had a lower annual rate of increase than Canada at five per cent. Highest escalation of costs was in the United States at 18 per cent. Other rates were 11 per cent in Japan, nine per cent in West Germany and eight per cent in Sweden. NOT ECONOMICAL Canada's Candu is included in the conclusions of the study that question the economic viability of nuclear power, especially when compared with other sources of electrical power such as coal and water. * “Canada is in a fair amount of trouble in just atting the niimber of’ orders t6 sustain’a commercial jevel 6 ment,” Flavin said, noting that Canada has made developing countries a major target for export sales of nuclear plants. of Inveat-~ the LNG plant. iG 2 i pecokiniaadition bythe mid- _ B.C.'s large natural gas dle of' March on the pipeline . Toute and which company should build it. WILL WAIT Rogers said British Colum- bia is prepared to wait for a new government in Ottawa if users haven't yet to the government's decision to fix the gas price at 65 per’ cent of the domestic price of .; oil. ‘The provincial government is “in the! midst of delicate the current Liberal govern- negotiations”:with Ocelot In- ~ ment won't providethe sub- dustries Ltd. over gasp 3 sidy.. ‘ y _ for its methanol plant’at-Kit-. Other’ highlights of the imat. Ae theses A The plant is known ‘to. be © Hyfro.is close to an ar... Pista ale sceghcare None injured in London blast LONDON (AP) — Police evacuated a major London shopping street Tuesday and blew up a bomb that had been left ina brown satchel outside a restaurant. No one was injured, Scot- land Yard said. The blast, which followed police warnings of a Christ- mas IRA bomb blitz, shat- CALVARY BAPTIST: alty as administered in’ Ge- _ orgia, discriminates against blacks. murdered, Smith, 58, is scheduled to be executed in the same chair Thursday. tered windows along Ken- sington High Street, the main shopping street in west d London's fashi Ken- Eldon sington district. After a search of the cor- doned-off street, police were ‘ investigating two other “sus- “Georgia's other John 809 Merry Creek Road Past Fireside Motel Pastor: R.H. Duckworth Family Bible Hour 9:45 a.m. -: Morning Worship 1:00.a.m. Evening Praise - 6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY NIGHT PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Wednesday: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 pm HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY - 9365-7818 CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School :45 a.m. Morning Worship liam, Pastor Ira Johnson Phone 365.6762 GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. Rev. 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Army, fighting to end British rule in Northern Ire- land, was planning a pre- Christmas bomb blitz, both in the province and in the Brit- ish capital, A Scotland Yard spokes- man said the satchel contain- ing the bomb was noticed by passers-by. Army bomb disposal ex- perts and Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad were summoned and officers with loudspeakers evacuated the street, he said. , When the experts con- cluded it would be too dan- gerous to try to'examine the device, they decided to set it off in a “controlled” explo- sion, the police spokesman said. Sunday Morning Worship 8:30 a.m, and 11 a.m. Christian Education Hour 9:45 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6p.m. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer 7:30 p.m. ST. RITA'S CATHOLIC Rev. Michael Guinan Ph. 365-7143 Saturday Night Mass 7p.m. Sunday Masses at 8a.m. and 10a.m, ST. MARIA GORETTI Genelle — 12 Noon Par for this Co Canadian Money is at par on your room bill with this coupon. 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Rogers said that re- cently there has been “mod- est success on the oil side,” in the province. - Wandering workers. hit B.C., Alberta — OTTAWA (CP).— Alberta, British Columbia and the | : two territories held: the most. attraction ’ for wandering’. workers between 1976 and 1981, ast re . _ Statistics Canada reported labor forces in those areas.in. 1981 had the highest proportion of workers who had been living in other parts of Canada in 1976, ‘ z as show the rate was 85 per cent in the Yukon, ° 82.5 per cent in the Northwest Territories, 19.7 per cent‘in Alberta and 10 per cent in B.C. Rees Quebec posted the lowest migration rate, with ohly 1.2 per cent of its labor force coming from outside its borders, compared with a national average of six:per cent, The information is based on 1981 census material, which showed 431,625 men and 288,845 women were residing ina different province than they had been living five yeats earlier. 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