CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 3, 1978 Lightning Adds to B.C.’s Critical Fire Situation Lightning strikes aeross southern B.C. have sti y al forest fire situation and rain during the latter half of list week. doing lite to reduce hazards which remain high to extreme over most areas, HL G. Doerkson, provi forest fire suppression officer, said the rain’ which accom. panied 1g t Wednes ay's severe lightning. activi the south. ern portion of the province will not do much to reduce the overall fire danger, little wind and a couple of sunny days will nullify any henefits from the scattered rain Work ‘Til 70 Policy Next Year Predicts Senator The mandatory retirement age in Canada will be raised to at least 70 next year, Senator David Croll predicts, Croll, 78, is head of a 20- man Senate committee which plans to start visiting Canadian cities in October to hold hear- ings on retirement age policy, Canada has no written re- tirement policy but mandatory retirement at 65 is universally accepted as an unwritten law, Croll predicted Canada would be greatly affected by developments in the U.S. which accompanied the storm," he said, “Lightning caused many of the new fires reported this week and many ‘sleeper’ lightning strikes are expected to show up over the next few i ‘Sleepers’ are lightning which may take time to show up because of the rain which accompanied the storm." ‘There were 217 new fires during last week, bringing the provincial total to date to 1,086, compared to 1,005 for the same period last year. Over 1,000 men are on the fire lines, A substantial drop in the amount of forest fires in the Nelson district has been noted this year, With a fire hazard classifi- ion of moderate-high, the district has reported 144 fires to date, as compared to 271 for the corresponding period last year, Campfire suspension or- ders remain in effect over the entire Vancouver forest region, and most of the Prince Rupert region with the exception of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the coastal area and the Babine Lake area, Continuing public co- operation is requested by the ministry of forests in using extreme caution in the woods, and in reporting forest fires to either the nearest forest ranger office or by telephoning the toll-free number Zenith 5555. ‘Grass’ Adds Stress At Dentist’s Office Marijuana and dental : treatment don't mix, say two ‘dental researchers who warn that marijuana users may suf- fer serious side-effects because of reactions to drugs used in : dental treatment. For that reason, they ad- vise dentists, more young den- tal patients will be seeking elective or emergency dental treatment while under the in- fluence of marijuana. Marijuana, they say, “is a potent, pharmacologically ac- tive agent that could affect and vise habitual smok- ers to abstain from use of the substance for a period before : and after treatment. q The researchers review * marijuana in relation to stress indental treatment in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. ‘They are Drs. Leonard Horo- witz of the Eastman Dental Centre in Rochester, N.Y., and Robert Nersasian of Tufts Uni: versity school of dental medi- cine in Boston. They point out that about half of college-age people in the United States used marijuana in 1972, with eight per cent smoking it daily. And they say it is projected that 66 per cent af young adults will use it by 1980. For this reason, they ad- Ni a dental p and it needs further study as it relates to dental treatment. They say it interferes with normal cardiovascular mecha- nisms and those responses involving the involuntary ner- vous system. Patients who have used marijuana may develop irre- gular heartbeats and may ex- | perience drops in blood pres- sure to the point where they faint, Drs. Horowitz and Ner- n say. They cite a study that concluded medicines commonly used in dental treatment con- taining atropine or epinephrine in patients who use marijuana might intensify and prolong abnormally rapid heartbeats “for a dangerously long period of time,” Hypnosis Suggested _For Dental Patients Dentists should consider ing hypnosis when treating patients, Arizona psychologist Dr. Ken Olson said recently. “We know that the sub- ci can control welling, so why id Olson, who was + Monday of last tend the Pacific Dental Federation conference, “Perhaps the power of sug: gestion will also help in stop- ping fear.” Olson Jed a seminar which discussed the importance—both for dentist. and patient—of avoiding stress in dental prac- tice, No Theft In Recent Break-In Breaking and entering and theft Sunday in the Burrard Apartments on Main Street is under investigation by local RCMP. Police reported a small amount of change was taken from an apartment unit of which the point of entry has not yet been determined, “Patients come to the dentist with a high degree of anxiety, fear and hostility,” he said. "What they have to realize is that modern dentistry is quite painless. We are no longer living in the past.” He said improved sedation methods, better training of support staff and faster treat- ment procedures have all con- tributed to patients experi- encing short, painless visits to their "amily dentist. Olson said dentists “need to develop specialized com: munication techniques to re- assure patients that they—and the entire staff—really care.” He said numerous Cana- dian-trained dentists had told were moving to the ¢ of high taxes and low incomes in Canada. “If denticare is ever in- stituted, I think you ‘dsee a real ada,” he said. “The costs of the program will go up and the qualily of care to patients will go down, “And if you take away the e for a professional to » you take rive for excellence." away his OMLIN Plumbing & Heating Ltd. ATTENTION: Builders of New Homes! We have added Centra-Flo — bullt- in vacuum cleaning, to our regular services, that of Plumbing {water sewer, septic and field tanks) & Heating. We will install this cleaning system, along with your plumbing, at competitive prices. 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CENTS Police Aid China Creek Uranium Ore Move ik URANIUM DRILLING CREW'removes samples and equip- ACMP from ment from the China Creek drilling site while RCMP look on. Nearly 50 the West K sent to the site to ensure angry residents would not interfere with the move. —CasNewsFotos by Ryon Guedes ISSUING WARNING of criminal charges which could resuit from any attempts to deter the Manny crew is Nelson RCMP Demonstrators Supt.. Henry Johnstone. peacefully stepped aside to let the drilling crew leave after more than two hours of arguing with police, Up 10° 100 temporary: jobs at. Cominco's Trail operations are expecied to be available this fall to International Wood- workers of America members left out of work hy the June 17 fire at CanCel’s local sawmill, That was the word this ‘k from Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, cchaleman of the joint fi ittee of By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor About 70 angry Genelle residents allowed the removal of uranium ore from a drilling site near their China Creek watershed after a two-hour confrontation with RCMP last Friday. Nearly 50 RCMP mem. bers—many of whom were bused in from surrounding West Kootenay detachments— were at the scene to prevent any interference, in response to reports that ore samples had been vandalized and a_ local woman had blocked the re- moval of the samples by heli- copter the day before. Patrol cars parked across two access roads barred the demonstrators’ way to the drilling site despite repeated requests from residents that they be allowed to inspect the ore samples to. determine whether they had been proper- ly packed for shipping. crew drove down with a four- wheel drive vehicle, a truck towing drilling equipment and a motorcycle. The vehicles paused in front of the patrol car blockade while RCMP urged residents not to interfere with the evacuation, Police warned residents any attempt to stop the re- moval of samples and equip- ment by Manny Consultants, the firm conducting the tests on behalf of the China Creek Uranium consortium, would constitule blocking a public highway, an offence under the Criminal Code. Residents denied they were blocking a highway and asked RCMP members why the trailer carrying Manny's drill- ing equipment was allowed on the access road without the tail- lights it was legally required to have. A drilling crew member quickly connected taillights on the trailer, Nelson RCMP Supt. Henry Johnstone, repeating the re- quest that the demonstrators disperse, told the crowd the drilling crew had assured him the ore samples were packed according to acceptable stan- dards. Responding to demon- strators' slatements that the uranium ore samples were only packed in wooden boxes, he said the Manny crew indicated that the radiation level of the samples was not sufficient to require heavier containers. He noted the RCMP had received a report earlier in the day that other uranium samples taken by the Manny crew had been thrown away or van- dalized, and he told the demon- strators the police were pre- sent at the site to prevent further interference. “We're not going to accom- plish much here,” he told the + Genclle residents, "We've been very, very patient and I would ask you not to block this public highway.” After discussion between Johnstone, residents’ spokes- man Tom McKenzie and other demonstrators, the crowd agreed to step aside and allow the crew to leave. Contacted this week, John- stone told the Castlegar News extra RCMP were sent to the sile “as soon as we knew there were going to be difficulties and we would have to keep the peace.” He said area RCMP had several conversations with Manny in which removal of the ore by helicopter was recom- mended, but that method proved unsuccessful when a Genelle woman prevented the take-off of a load of samples. Johnstone said the RCMP {Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 1) accusa- tions that they were taking sides in the issue and failing to protect the public, RCMP mem- bers blocked an attempt by Dan Kowalchuk, Genelle Improve- ment District chairman, to drive up the access road. Kowalchuk, who along with GID trustee Wayne Zino was denied permission to use the road, angrily demanded police allow him to inspect the community water intake below the drilling site but was not allowed into the area until the samples had been removed. Shortly after 4 p.m., fol- lowing the arrival of a rented bus carrying about 30 RCMP members, the four-man drilling 100 Temporary Jobs CanCel Workers said other positive results in the committee’s'search for. em- ~ ployment’ for the IWA mem: bers includes the highways ministry's recent decision to hire extra help for work related to letion of the C: Airport Operation Alternative | ‘3rd Party’ Considered “Third-party” airport man- agement is under investigation as a possible answer to the city's planned withdrawal from responsibility for Castlegar Airport Oct. 31, a federal transport ministry official said this week, Al Bach, regional air trans- portation manager, told the Castlegar News the practice— in which a separate airline, company or organization is paid Get Aid on the ai to operate the airport under a contract with the ministry— is currently used in several Quebee airports and could be one of several alternatives to hiring additional government personnel to manage the local facility, Bach said he would be hesitant, in light of the federal government's newly-announced hiring freeze policy, to “in- crease a federal bureaucracy.” But he added that his in- formation on the third party approach was still incomplete and would require further ‘study. The ministry official said he would try to meet the workers for an extra 20-man sawmill shift, but did not make any commitinent, he said. D'Arcy said the committee had already placed from 25 to 30 WA hdrawal deadline set by city council July 25, although extra time may be required for the completion of the changeover. “The most important issue is that there is no law saying a Salmo highway. In addition, D'Arcy said, the B.C. forest service has put the ittee office “on stand- union, company, Canada Man- power and provincial labor ministry representatives ap- pointed to find new jobs for the more than 200 unemployed sawmill workers. D'Arcy said Cominco will start interviewing candidates Monda: r production work- ers’ positions which will be available after Sept. 1 when they are vacated by current student and temporary: help. He said the company's move to interview the un- employed sawmill workers for the positions—at the commit- tee’s office at 9 Pine St.—was the most positive result the committee has received since its formation last month. The Rossland-Trail MLA Chabot to Consider Requests For Halt of New Uranium Hunts fines Minister Jim Chabot s lie.will consider individual requests for protection of watersheds from exploration near their China Creek water- shed, this week said the mines minister indicated he would be willing to consider applications from councils or im- for uranium, ding to Ross- land-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy. D'Arcy, who attended a meeting Tuesday with Chabot and a delegation of Genelle residents concerned about re- cently-completed test drilling provement districts for a re- serve preventing the filing of new claims for mineral ex- ploration in the watersheds. The Rossland-Trail MLA (Con’t. Pg. A2, Col. 1) Na Li, September 7 the ‘new’ CASTLEGAR NEWS “an old friend with 'a brand-new look” Al b hy” ‘with suggestions that it would require a great deal of manpower in the event of a forest fire in the local district. As well, Salmo Forest Products of Salmo queried the but some other laid-off sawmill workers had found their own employment. He said CanCel will retain 30 to 40 employees for cleanup duties after the shutdown of its planer mill this week and further layoffs will not be as high as the more than 50 originally expected. has to operate an airport if it doesn't want to,” Bach said. He said it was under- standable that a municipality would seek involvement in the early stages of an airport's operation but need to withdraw its Paztcipatton as its workload iti Bach said a “spirit of co Kootenay Diversion Referendum Delay Vote, Says Bonner A request by B.C. Hydro chairman Robert Bonner may result in the postponement of Central Kootenay's planned Kootenay Diversion referen- dum. In a closed meeting with the RDCK board last Thursday, “Bonner said the November ple- biscite would undermine B.C. government negotiations over use of water crossing the Canada-U.S. border, and he urged directors to delay it until they receive turther informa- tion on the environmental im- pact of the Crown corporation's proposed diversion of the Koot- enay River into the Columbia. Contacted this week, Area (Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 6) Four-Man Steering Committee Elected of concerned residents will meet for the first time Monday to discuss establishment of a volunteer fire department in the Robson area. The committee, elected by Robson after the destruction of a Hazelwood Avenue home in a July 29 fire, will compile information on the expected cost and manpower week that the committee's will work toward a referendum on the establishment of a volun- teer fire department which would have the authority to and req buy and recruit for providing fire Lack of Information Delays Crash Inquiry A delayed report from local RCMP has held up the inquiry into the July 25 water bomber crash which caused the death of a 35-year-old Abbotsford man at Castlegar Airport, according to the eity coroner. Carl Loeblich this week said he had not yet received the RCMP documentation which would allow completion of his own report, required before the scheduling of the inquiry. “Until I get information on this I can’t proceed,” Loeblich said. “After I get it, it should be only a matter of days.” Meanwhile, federal transport ministry officials have indicated their backlog of work will not allow the sorapletion of their own separate investigation for several months, he said The bi bomber crash occurred during demonstration of the t ined Grumman. aircraft ie of a owned by “Con Air of Abbotsford, Killed was pilot Robert Smith, who was the only person aboard the craft when it plunged to the side of the runway and caught fire, from Brilliant Ele- mentary Schodl to the Keen- leyside Dam. Spokesman Cliff Churches told the Castlegar News this Churches said the area's severe lack of fire protection facilities was illustrated by the July 29 fire, which a number of area residents equipped with 3 as * YOUTHFUL RESIDENTS survey the debris from a recent hi tire which d troyed a Robson According to Cllif mi Churches, spokesman for Robson's steering committee on Robson Area Fire Dept. Eyed garden hoses fought to control for six hours until 4:30 a.m. the following day. He cited as a major pro- blem during the fire the live power lines which had fallen from burning power poles near- by and were later disconnected by West Kootenay Power. “If we'd had an exper. ienced fire department we (Con’t. Pg. A2, Col. 4) fire protection, “children operation of the airport. He said he has had “a number of very satisfactory conversa- tions” with Mayor Audrey Moore and he has had no major disagreements with city coun- cil. “We're not engaged in any kind of a battle,” he said. “There's some frustration and I ean certainly understand that frustration.” In its motion to withdraw from operation of the airport, council complained of the minis- try's failure to provide the city with the equipment, funds and protection from liability: it.re: quired to run the airport. THE INSIDE STORY © DOWN: CanCel’s second- quarter earnings. Page Bl * DEDICATION: Dr. Nick Schmitt's 14 years of ser- vice to the West Koot- enays. Page All « DISCUSSION: Differing i .'s third. largest industry. Page A10 “Ann Landers.... Bill Smiley . a Classified Ads, Real Estate, and Automotive... . Pages Al2-A13-AL4-AIS Pages A6-A7 Telenews..... Pages B3-B4 Weekend Weathercast SUNNY SKIES in the morn- ings, with occasional after- noon clouds and isolated showers are expected for the weekend. Temperatures will be in the high 20s, with the lows dropping to be- tween 10 and 12 degrees, For convenient home delivery of the Castlegar News, call 365-7266. well as the “elderly are most vutnerable to the threat of fire. (See story abov: —CasNewsFoto