Castlégar News December 20, 1987

LEAFLETS
REJECTED

By CasNews Staff
and News Services

‘The Castlegar liquor store did not distribute anti-
privatization leaflets within the stores, as some other
B.C. stores did this week.

“We felt it wasn't proper to do it, to distribute
anti-government material with government employees,”
said Al Brown, manager of the Castlegar store.

‘The leaflets look like liquor store bags and inside
looks like a bottle — but they aren't.

‘The bag and its contents were produced by the B.C.
Government Employee's Union to publicize the union's
arguments that liquor stores should not be privatized.

The BCGEU spent more than $12,000 producing the
25,000 bottle-shaped cards in paper bags.

The bag’s message says: “Premier Bill Vander Zalm
thinks the privatization of liquor stores is in the bag.”

Inside, the bottle image resembles a Southern
Comfort bo‘tle, but carries the message: “Some Comfort
— to know that Bill Vander Zalm is going against his own
government's wishes.”

Government officials warned they would take dis-
ciplinary action against workers who handed out the
leaflets in liquor outlets.

Vander Zalm said it would be “foolish” for the liquor
store employees to slip the anti-privatization messages
into the bags of customers.

“I think the majority of people would find that
entirely inappropriate. They know they don't work for
the union, they work for the government. It’s the
government that provides their pay cheques, not the
unions.”

IN THE BAG... An -privatization brochure
iblished by B.C. G ployees’ Union.

PEACE AMBASSADOR . . . Canada’s Amb dor for

the amb ‘on his c treck were Paul

Disarmament, las Roche (second from right),
was in Castlega: is to address a group of
people at the Brilliant Cultural @ Centre. Accompanying

try
Bennett (left and Firdaus | Kharas second from “ahd
John Verigin Sr. is pictured shoking the

hand at a press

HANFORD DISPOSAL

Waste sites found

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The disposal of more than
two-thirds of the radioactive defence waste at the Hanford
nuclear reservation will begin next year at a cost of up to $16
nites US, officials said.

bout 440,000 cubic metres of high-level, low-level and
oxseanty long-lasting wastes are stored at Hanford, about
300 kilometres south of the British Columbia border, with an
additional 60,000 cubic metres expected to be generated by
1996.

They represent about two-thirds of the total volume of
U.S. defence waste.

The came as the g
fi " i

released a
on cleaning up

 envir pact
the wastes.

“After 40 years we are making positive steps forward
and proceeding with permanent disposal of wastes,” said
Hanford operations manager Mike Lawrence.

Disposal of some wastes is to begin next year, although
facilities to process and store more dangerous wastes will
not be ready for mere than a decade.

The remaining wastes — about 31 per cent of the total
—are too Ts to deal with pi ly, and
will be studied for 10 years more at a cost of $260 million,
Lawrence said.

The defence wastes came from nine reactors involved in
the p of —a key i in nuclear
weapons — at Hanford since 1943.

The U.S. Energy Department plans to release its final
decision on disposing of the defence wastes in February,
Lawrence said.

However, he said: “We assume we will accept the
preferred alternative and proceed with the steps outlined
here.”

Among those steps, which will cost about $3 billion:
CONVERT TANKS

— Highly radioactive wastes from 28 double-walled
tanks holding 3.8 million litres each would be “vitrified,” or
converted into a solid, glass-like substance.

The process would require construction of a $920-million
plant by 1999, Lawrence said. The waste eventually would
be stored in the first high-level nuclear waste repository in
the United States, which is proposed for Yucca Mountain,
Nev.

— Low-level wastes would be mixed with a cement-like
grout and buried in 70 underground vaults at Hanford,
beginning next year. Low-level wastes include paper
products, tools, protective clothing and other items.

— Cesium and strontium, used in medicine and
industry, also would be moved to the high-level repository at
the end of their useful life.

— Stores and newly generated transuranic wastes,
which have a low level of radioactivity but remain radio-
active for thousands of years, would be packaged and sent to
an Energy Department repository in New Mexico beginning
in 1989.

The most controversial decision is the plan of further
study for the 149 single-walled storage tanks, which contain
the oldest radioactive waste, some of which has leaked over
the years.

The leaks prompted the department to remove or
evaporate the liquids, leaving a radioactive sludge at the
bottom ofthe tanks the departments does not have the
expertise to deal with, Lawrence said.

Removing the wastes without further study would pose
too great a danger to workers, said David Stewart-Smith, of
the Oregon Department of Energy, at the news conference.

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Castlegar to receive
UNA branch office

By BRENDAN NAGLE
Staff Writer
Castlegar will get a United Na-
tions Association branch office in the
near future, says Canada’s amb:

local people to decide,” said Roche. “It
doesn’t make any difference really how
large the association is, it's the quality
of the people and the effort to develop
the

for disarmament.

Douglas Roche said Wednesday
that Castlegar would be the ideal place
to have a UNA branch office because of
the local residents’ genuine “want for
peace.”

During a working brunch with
Nelson, Trail and Castlegar dignitaries
— including Castlegar Mayor Audrey
Moore, Trail Mayor Mark Marcolin and
former Kootenay West NDP MP Lyle
Kristiansen — Roche circulated among
the group at the Brilliant Cultural
Centre outlining his quest for peace,
before attending a peace conference
and a public forum there as well.

“We've come to give encourage
ment to the start of a United Nations
Association branch here in Castlegar,”
Roche said. “Now that there is an
opportunity to establish a branch that
will serve Castlegar and this region of
British Columbia, I believe that it’s an
opportune moment to move ahead.”

Roche said he didn't know how
large the branch may be, or where it
will be located. Instead, he said it
would be up to the local people to get
the ball rolling.

“Well that, of course, is for the

There are now 22 United Nations
Association branches across Canada
from St. John's, Nfld. to Victoria.

John J. Verigin, honorary chair-
man of the Union of Spiritual Com-
munities of Christ, was at the press
conference and said that the regional
support for the office is “outstanding.”

“We have already established the
grassroots, here today,” Verigin said.
“That is a stepping stone.”

Roche, who was a Conservative
MP for the Edmonton south riding
from 1972-1984, complimented both
Verigin and son John Verigin Jr. for
their organization of Wednesday's
meeting.

Verigin Jr. was on his way to New
York Thursday to continue discussions
with Canada’s disarmament ambassa-
dor on the branch office plans.

, “We want the éommunity feeling,”
said’ Vi Sr, Qa Thursday> “We
want the understanding that we're
standing together.

However, plans for the branch
office are not yet even on the drawing
board.

Verigin Sr., when contacted
Thursday, said that aside from the

announcement of the branch office,
nothing is happening yet. He hopes to
have more details when Verigin Jr.
returns from New York.

“We will formulate the details
later with the ambassador,” Verigin Sr.
said.

When established, the branch
would be involved in informing the com
munity on United Nations programs
including disarmament, hunger relief
in Third World countries and all other
aspects of UN programs.

Roche said it is imperative that the
UNA branch out, particulary where
the issue of peace and disarmament is
concerned.

“The enlargement of public under-
standing in the community about the
global issue and the extent of the arms
race and the solutions are a key factor
in establishing a branch office,” Roche
said. “The public must be informed of
these issues.”

Citing the recent nuclear arnis
accord signed by the U.S. and the
Soviet Union, Roche said a first
important step has been taken toward
better relations between the two
superpowers.

It is up to people in communities
like Castlegar to keep pushing for more
cutbacks in nuclear arms, he

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in Western Canada
have risen this year, a fact
that pilots blame on competi-
tion under deregulation
causing some airlines to cut
corners on maintenance.

Transport Canada officials
blame the higher numbers on
increased traffic.

So far this year, there have
been 91 aviation accidents in
the western region — cov-
ering Alberta, northeast Bri-
tish Columbia, the Yukon and
the western half of the
Northwest Territories.

That represents a 14-per-

accidents a year ago and 82 in
1985, according to the Can-
adian Aviation Safety Board.

Accidents are cases where
there is serious damage to
aircraft or where there is
injury or death.

‘The number of “incidents”
— defined as near-accidents
or instances of minor damage
to aircraft — has risen to 149
so far this year, up from 130
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where airlines, the smaller
airlines, are under the finan-
cial gun and have cut cor-
ners,” said Roger Burgess-
Webb, of the Canadian Air
Line Pilots Association.

“There are very few areas
where airlines have room to
move in terms of costs,” Bur-
gess-Webb said. “One area
they can move is mainten-
ance.”

DENIES PROBLEM

Transport Canada official
Don Davidson said Friday
the increases aren't viewed
as much of a problem.

“If there are changes in
levels, they're generally re-
lated to aviation activity,”
said Davidson, the depart-
ment’s regional director of
aviation regulation.

Air traffic has increased
about one or two per cent in
the last year, he said.

ment has hired more inspec-
tors and staff to make sure
that airlines comply with
safety regulations.

About eight per cent more
staff are being hired na-
tionally to deal with the in-
creased activity brought
about by deregulation, he
said.

The department's western
region — responsible for reg-
ulating 175 aircraft comp-
anies, 5,000 aircraft and
12,000 employees — is most
concerned with smaller air-
lines and will devote more
staff to them.

Davidson said the federal
government has allowed de-
regulation to take place un.
officially for the past few
years. Official deregulation
will go into effect Jan. 1
under a new National Trans-
portation Act.

Regional District
gets free park

The provincial government
has given the Central Koot-
enay regional district a free
Crown grant of 1.75 hectares
for a regional park.

The property, with an
estimated value of $157,000,
is on the west arm of Koot-

Court news

In Casi

court this week, Gary John-
son was placed on probation
for three months and ordered
to perform 24 hours of com-
munity service work after
pleading guilty to possession
of a nareotic.

enay Lake, opposite the City
of Nelson. It is the former
site of James Johnstone Pro-
vincial ark.

The Ministry of Environ-
ment and Parks cancelled the
site’s provincial park status
in favor of management by
the regional district as a

liminary plans include four
picnic tables, two barbeque
pits, and sanitary and wash-
room facilities.

“It is the government's

rage sw rynigen

Shooting finished

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — Shooting wrapped up
this week on a TV Christmas special starring
Bill Vander Zalm, but the show won't make it on the
air until next December.

The one-hour show, called Sinterklaas Fantasy,
features Vander Zalm and his wife Lillian in a
semi-biographical tale, Vander Zalm rides a magic
rainbow from his wife's Fantasy Garden World in
Richmond to the Netherlands, where he recalls his
childhood.

“It's me remembering the way things used to be
and the relationship between Sinterklaas and Santa
Claus,” Vander Zalm said. Sinterklaas, the 14th
century patron saint of merchants and sailors, is the
Dutch version of Santa.

Hart leads polls

WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Gary Hart leads the
fi race only three

days after to the ii a

Post-ABC television poll shows.

‘The poll published in Saturday's editions of the
Washington Post also showed Senator Robert Dole,
who won news media attention this week by endorsing
the U.S.-Soviet treaty eliminating medium and
shorter-range nuclear weapons, moving closer to Vice-
President George Bush in the Republican race.

Short problems

BEIJING (AP) — Short men are given short
shrift in Beijing’s marriage market and wearing high
heels doesn’t help, a news agency said Saturday.

Many Beijing girls prefer a five-foot-eight spouse
— above average for Chinese — and consider anyone
shorter to be handicapped, the official Xinhua news
agency said in a tragi-comic article on the plight of the
short.

“Nowadays girls put height first and academic
level second when they look for a husband,” Wang
Xiulan, who works at a matchmaking centre, told
Xinhua.

Greenpeace pays

LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court ordered
two members of environmental group Greenpeace to
pay damages for trying to block the discharge of
radioactive waste from the world’s largest nuclear re-
processing plant.

During a private court hearing, Judge Igor Judge
also granted permanent injunctions against Hans Guyt

nd Willem Beekman to keep them from interfering
with an underwater pipeline at the Sellafield plant in
Cumbria, in northwestern England.

Space station

MOSCOW (Reuter) — A new crew will blast off
Monday. for the Soviet space station Mir where their
takeover from the present crew will apparently signal
the start of the Earth-orbiting laboratory's permanent
occupation.

The official news agency Tass said a Soyuz TM-4
rocket is standing on the launch pad at the Baikonur
space centre in Central Asia and one of two crews will
be chosen today to blast off at 6:18 a.m. EST Monday.

Soviet economy

MOSCOW (AFP) — Soviet Prime Minister
Nikolai Ryzhkov denounced what he termed economic
shortfalls and technocratic inertia blocking the Soviet
Union's path to reform in the central Asian Soviet
republic of Kazakhstan, the Communist party news-
paper Pravda said Saturday.

Ina speech delivered on Friday in Alma Ata, the
republic's capital, Ryzhkov voiced the “serious
concern” of the Soviet leadership over poor economic
results in the republic whose premier Gennady Kolbin
was among those present.

Ryzhkov criticized industrial delays in fulfilling
the economic plan of the Soviet Union for 1988. Less
than 70 per cent of the republic's enterprises had
achieved the targeted results in early December, “one
of the lowest in the country,” Ryzhkov said.

Streep in U.S.S.R.

ROME (AFP) — Soviet movie director Nikita
Mikhalkov is to shoot a film in the Soviet Union next
year featuring U.S. actress Meryl Streep, sources in
the Italian film industry said on Saturday.

The film, The Barber of Siberia, takes place at a
nuclear power plant in Siberia and tells the story of an
American scientist — to be played by Streep — and
her Soviet colleague.

Korean riots

KWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of
protesters skirmished with riot police in downtown
Kwangju on Saturday as onlookers applauded and

por the blared
through loudspeakers.

Smaller demonstrations flared in nine other cities
in the region, an opposition stronghold, against what
the opposition called a rigged presidential election last
Wednesday.

Government candidate Roh Tae-woo defeated a
split opposition in the balloting, taking 36.6 per cent of
the vote to Kim Young-sam’s 28 per cent and Kim
Dae-jung’s 27 per cent.

Christmas ceasefire

MANILA (Reuter) — Philippines President
Corazon Aquino and Communist rebel leaders said
Saturday their forces would still their guns on
Christmas.

“We are in a season of the year that calls for peace
and love,” Aquino said in ordering her troops not to
attack Communist insurgents during the Christmas

i} and New Year's sams

Queen slams Irish violence

LONDON (Reuter) — Queen Elizabeth broke from
tradition and included an attack on’ violence in Northern
Ireland as part of her annual Christmas message, Several
newspapers reported Saturday.

The newspaper said the Queen would call for “toler-
‘ance not terrorism” to solve Northerfi Ireland’s political
troubles in her pr d message, to be on
Christmas Day. :

‘They said si 0 twould single cut the, boulbap Ue
Irish Republican Army at a war memorial service in
Enniskillen last month that killed 11 civilians and
wounded 60.

“Never before has the Queen moved outside the
spheres of family and Commonwealth to confront the
rind of terrorism on Britain's doorstep,” the Daily Mail

Prince Charles, her son and heir to the throne,
visited Enniskillen with his wife, Diana, soon afterthe

the Queen to mention the tragedy.
d were started by the
‘George V, in 1982. They've

prouy

years. Some 2,600 people have been killed in violence in
the province since 1969.

Among the IRA's victims was Lord Mountbatten, a
close relative of the Queen, who was killed“in 1979 with
three companions when a bomb destroyed his boat off the
Irish

coast.

Charles's trip to EnniskiJlen was his first to the
provinee since the death of Mountbatten, whom he was
said to have regarded as a mentor.

known only to the Queen's advisers and a handful of
reporters given a preview.
‘The Queen's press secretary, Robin Janvrin, said in a
of the Queen's Christmas
until on Ch

“This, ‘that some
have chosen to publish reports of certain aspects of the

to one report, the»visit to

ASTONISHING WIN

Kasparov retains title

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — World Chéss champion Garri
Kasparov retained his title Saturday with ‘an ‘astonishing,
64-move victory in the 24th and final game over challenger
Anatoly Karpov.

Experts described the coutest between the two Soviet
players as the most dramatic finish in World Chess
Championship match history.

The 24-year-old Kasparov evened the score at 12-12,
which under tournament rules entitles him to keep the chess
crown for another three years.

When Karpov resigned after Kasparov's 64th move, the

Health officials

issue fish alert

BOSTON (AP) — Health
officials have issued an alert
against eating mackerel after
a naturally occurring poison
was found in samples of the
fish eaten by up to a dozen
whales found dead on Cape
Cod beaches.

“We found residues of the
paralytic shellfish: toxin in
the internal organs of the
mackerel,” said John Stob-
ierski, for - the

ledge, the substance has not
been found in fin fish before,”
Stobierski said.

A team of experts as-
sembled by the New England
Aquarium to investigate the
deaths of humpback and
minke whales washing up on
Cape Cod since Nov. 28 pro-
vided some of the mackerel
samples tested by the state
agency, he said.

state Health Department.
Paralytic shellfish poison is
derived from algae found in
what is called red tide, Sto-
bierski said.
“To the best of our know-

said samples of
fish caught off the Mas-
sachusetts and Maine coasts
were also tested and the
poison was confirmed by the
state agency and other lab-
oratories.

crowd in the ‘7TO00-seat Lope de Vega Thestee stood and burst
{ints ‘applause.

For eight minutes, Kasparov and Karpov, 36, sat
together at the board and discussed the game.

‘The 24th game adjourned Friday with Kasparov a pawn
ahead in an end game. Going into it, Karpov led 12-11.
Kasparov needed a victory to keep his title, since a draw is
only worth one half-point.

on stat d Spanish
tators Leontxo Garcia and Richardo Calvo said canarovs
victory ushers in a new era in chess.

“Kasparov is the best thing that happened to chess
since (American) Bobby Fischer. He’s dynamic, outspoken,
he's good for marketing the game, and today he played a
genius,” said Danish International master Bjarke Kristen-
sen, who has been in Seville through the 10-week contest.

WANTS ENCORE

After the players left the stage, the crowd rhythmically
clapped for 20 minutes and refused to leave until Kasparov
reappeared.

When he came on stage, there was an enormous cheer.

Kasparov's arch. iy, Florencio C: a Fili-
pino who is president of the World Chess Federation, came
on stage and “he was jeered twice,” said Paul Lamford,
editor of the British magazine Chess.

The. audience applauded when Campomanes shook
hands with Kasparov and Karpov.

When play resumed Saturday, Kasparov employed
some super subtle manoeuvring to gradually seize territory
with his queen.

At move 59, Kasparov, playing white, penetrated with
eat a yg cll tl

Karpov set.
timed his attacking
break,

but K,
es so Karpov's defences had to

he was

Realizing to lose, Karpov spent 45 minutes
pondering his 57th

SHELLFISH

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Department. “Just getting the name of
the entity doesn’t solve all these other
problems.”

ISOLATE TOXIN

Scientists at the National Re-
search Council in Halifax and Ottawa
and at Health and Welfare Canada
were almost convinced by Thursday
afternoon that they had isolated and
identified the toxin in the mussels. But
findings were not confirmed until a
further meeting of scientists in Ottawa
on Friday.

Earlier news reports. that the
problem was caused by a species of
plankton proved incorrect.

Domoic acid is a chemical that
apparently stimulates nerve impulses
and eventually causes nerve cells to
deteriorate, but its precise effects on
humans are not yet known.

Officials said the toxin appears to
be relatively mild, because low doses of
it have been used in Japan to treat
parasites in humans.

One reasomt may have hit older

people the hardest is because they
were not in perfect health, said Dr. Joe
Losos of the Laboratory Centre for
Disease Control in Ottawa.

A.J. Liston of Health and Welfare
Canada said there is no easy way to
determine the presence of domoic acid
in shellfish. That means samples. of
mussels and other banned varieties of
shellfish have to be collected and made
into extracts for tests on laboratory
mice.

SALES POSSIBLE

Liston said it’s still possible that
some shellfish from certain areas could
be shipped again by next week for
marketing.

The search for the toxin, which
began Nov. 26 after several illnesses
were reported and tentatively linked to
consumption of P.E.1. mussels, have
been described as akin to searching for
a needle in a haystack.

Mussels contain several thousand
different chemical compounds, some of
them in quantities of one part per
million or less.

The big breakthrough came late
Thursday morning when Doug Dewar,
an NRC chemist in Ottawa, was able to
pick out domoic acid as the most likely
candidate.

Researchers say they achieved in
about 104 hours what in a more normal
‘situation would have taken four or five
months.

Domoic acid is known to be one of
the compounds in a type of seaweed in
Japan that is similar to the chondria
found in the Atlantic. Japanese kits to
test samples helped establish its
presence in the P.E.I. mussels.

Officials speculated that chondria
growing in Prince Edward Island last
summer or early this fall may have
been the source of the toxin and that its
effects on mussels were not felt until
the seaweed itself had disappeared
with the onset of cold weather.

Unless scientists can find samples
of chondria being cultivated for re
search purposes, they may have to wait

Playschool
annual Chritmas Party
sday. Almost 20
children, two to five
years of age attended
and received a visit
from Santa Claus in the
basement of the
Castlegor United
Church.

ROBSON VALLEY
TREES FALLING

TOO QUICKLY

PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — More than half the woods
industry in the Robson Valley will be wiped out in 20
years if current forest practices continue, a Forest
Ministry report says.

The report says unless new roads are built jobs and
economic benefits in the region east of this central B.C.
city would be cut by 60 per cent as the volume of trees
harvested dropped to less than 150,000 cubic metres a
year from the current 500,000 cubic metres.

The report outlines options for management of the
region.

Named after the towering Mount Robson which
heads its eastern end, the valley, home to five sawmills, is
about half the size of Vancouver Island, and is inter-
sected by the CN Rail line and Highway 16, which link
Jasper, Alta., and-Prinee George.

About 4,200 people live in the 15-kilometre stretch
from McBride to Valemount where dairy farms and
ranches bolster the region's forest-driven economy.

The report says the scenic valley's landscape could
suffer and water supplies adversely affected because of
the of logging in areas.

DENTS

The report comes at a time when Robson Valley
communities remain divided on the future of forestry in
their region. ‘

The Fraser-Fort George Regional District board was
deluged with letters this fall from residents concerned
about the possible clear-cutting of trees. They fear moun-
tains will be scarred, hurting the area's budding tourist
industry.

McBride alderman Bob Balcaen says the village
favors an option that calls for $3 million worth of new
forestry roads to be built over six years to areas of
mature timber.

Charles loses big
in stock crash

LONDON (Reuter) —
Prince Charles . lost the

equivalent of up to $16 mil-
lion Cdn in the October stock-

equivalent of $286 million,
hinted at his loss during a
speech to the London Stock
Exchange.

Referring to the market
slump, Charles said: “Not
everyone has managed to
keep their shirts since the
events of Monday, Oct. 19.”

An official of the prince's
Duehy of Cornwall said it had
raised money over the last
seven or eight years by
selling some of its London

propertieis.
“Sometimes the money is
invested into stocks and