az Castlégar News October 4, 1987 VANCOUVER (CP) — commissioner of the Indust- rial Relations Council should resign over the way the council handled two certifi- cation issues, labor leader Renting Quality Cars at Great Prices © SUB COMPACTS © VANS © MID SIZE © FULL SIZE HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” Ken Georgetti said. of the British Columbia Federation of Labor, said the council headed by Ed Peck rewrote a decision involving an Inter- Georgetti calls for Peck’'s resignation ‘The counell was formed to replace the former Labor Relations Board as.part of new labor legislation brought in by the provinelil gov- ernment. The labor federation, which represents 250,000 trade union members, called Robert Bateman End of Season - Grizzly by Robert Bateman 10 ROS Deere nee (MUST PROTECT ITS HABITAT eererenetions Edition Print will raise funds or tie consenvonon of tre grily onc is habitat CALL OR COME IN TODAY! Overcit Print Sing: 28°" x Sova, Order Deadline: October 12, 1987 Signed/Numbered: Print: sais00 A TASTE OF ART FINE PRINTS & CUSTOM FRAMING 1129-3rd St., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 2A1 Ph. 365-2727 © 1987 Rabert SCHOOL VIEW By Gordon A. Shead This year's grade 12 class is off to a good start having chosen @ Steering Committee consisting of Toca O'Connor, Donna Wolff, L makoH, Trent Alison Arnett, Christine nat une Peknoe Porente ct grade 12 students are invited to o Graduation 88 planning meeting to be held on Thursday, October 8 in the Stanley Humphries Secondary Schoo! Library at 7:30 p.m. Student activities are on the increase. Student Parliament is now active and currently of student lea Michelle Shelly Pakula (Sports), Maya Kalmakov (Sociol Alfairs), Tommy Audet (Deputy Minister), and Tammy Tchir (Finance). Teams a1 ches now operating include soccer (Mr. Lenarduzzi) girls: field hockey (Mr. Pilotzke), senior boys’ volleyball (Mr. Roth), junior Birks volleyball (Mr Hickey), senior girls” volleyball. (Mr. Uchida), and cross (mi community member interested in coaching is asked to con oct Mr. Hickey. A “Clubs Day’ to promote a non-athletic op proach to student activities for October noon in the Stanley Humphries Activity Roar Porents ore eriied to attend. Teams thot will begin play at a later date include bosketball, cross-country skiing, track ond field. golf, rugby, ‘and curling. Students in grades 9, 10 and 11 are required to carry eight courses with no study blocks or spores. Grode 12 students may carry seven courses. Students are allowed to drop o course only with the permission of the Principal. As well, porents will be notified by a counsellor of any special changes in programs. Please call a counsellor for more in formation During the year, students and parents will receive four tor mal report cords in November, February, April, and June. As well, on intormal report called an “interim report” will be Sent heme by mony teachers, Grode 11 ond 12 students will have their first interim on October 8. As well, students or parents may request interim reports at any time by contac fing @ counsellor. Take advantage of this opportunity to get edditional information on your child's progress in school You ore invited to attend the first meeting of the Parent Group on Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stonley Humphries Library to discuss a Careers Day to be held loter this yeor During the school year, you may have questions or concerns regording your child's educational program. The staff of Stonley rental interest and involvement and Nusgecs the following steps 0) Contact and discussion with the teacher involved jon with the Principal. istrict statt (Superintendent Assistont Superintendent) In almost all cases, questions and concerns are most effec @ school at any time. Your octive involvement and support is encouraged. aational Woodworkers of a boycott of the council but America certification bid three times because of fact- ual errors, He said the other certifi- cation involved 85 University of B.C. language teachers. Two council vice-chairman should resign as well, Geor- getti said. QUAKE==== blocks around us. People began to pour our onto the street from the office building nearby. “I don't believe this,” said Mark. Ironically, we were just talking about earthquakes the day before. Mark has lived and worked in L.A. for six years. He experienced a tremor once in Valencia while I felt one once in Athens, Greece. Looking back, these could hardly be described as earthquakes. But now we were in a dilemma about returning to the house. The adrenaline surge was incredible and we NEW CITIZENS . . . Area residents were presented with certificates of citizenship education Saturday afternoon following an orientation course for new Canadians sponsored by the Castlegar Multicultural Society. Front, from left: Carlos Pon- 17 NEW CANADIANS were in a daze. We could hear the workers down the block whooping and cheering. It was somewhere around that time that the first tremor hit. I bolted over the porch wall onto the lawn and Mark darted for the driveway. Eventually, of course, we worked our way back inside. We turned on the radio for the networkwiews so we could hear the broadcast from the porch. The reporters were terribly confused. They reported rumors of freeway overpasses down and buildings on fire. By. CasNews Staff For 17 prospective new Canadians from the West Kootenay, the classes are over. Now all that remains are They said no one was to go d that streets ‘would be buried in glass if the) “jolt of the century” were to hit. In Los Angeles, the “jolt of the century” is the earthquake to end all earthquakes in Southern California. Theories say it is 30 years overdué and the San Andreas Fault, the famous fold where two of the earth's plates meet, is expected to let go. The radio also warned that the recent jolt may only be a foreshock. The real jolt, if it was to come, would hit within two hours. They warned us to strap things down and shut off the gas mains. We went inside to get jackets and even drinking water, something they warned would be con- taminated after a big earthquake. ‘The house did not look damaged. Lamps and vases were knocked over. The water in Mark's paint hold had all leaped out and in the kitchen, the cereal boxes were scattered around. Also, there was a large, one-metre plastic piece lying on the kitchen floor. But the aftershocks which rolled through over the next several hours seemed worse than the actual earthquake. We remained outside — waiting and listening. An elderly man walking his dog stopped to talk. “T've never been through one of these before,” he said. “Neither have I,” I said. That's when another tremor hit. We were getting to be old hands. Helicopters were flying overhead. Workplaces and schools were closing. The office workers began to gather in groups around their cars to listen to their radios. Some just got in and drove away. Obviously, the “jolt of the century” never hit, but we spent much of the day expecting it. That evening we wallowed through the most miserable post-adrenal de- pression imaginable. To make matters worse, one couple later reported that their porch fell away from the house and was demolished. They said it was too heavy and solid to give with the force of the earthquake. Our’s is concrete. We sat under it all day. the The candidates for citizenship — 14 from Castlegar, two from Christina Lake-and one from Grand Forks — wound up their series of citizenship classes Saturday by Jearning first-hand how the country’s various levels of government work. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco told them about the federal system, a representative of Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy spoke to them about the provincial level, Ald. Albert Calderbank informed them of civic politics, Citizenship classes end te, Connie Miller, Dos Soares; (rear from left) Pryce, Kootenay West MP Pacheco, Carlos Jacinto, acting school chairman Gordon Turner, Ald. Albert Calderbank. — Costews Photo and acting school board chairman Gordon Turner instructed them on the various points of the local school system. This is the third successive year the classes, sponsored by the Castlegar Multicultural Society, have been held for area residents who want to become new Canadians. The formal hearings and swearing-in ceremony will be held in the Castlegar courthouse Friday at 1:30 p.m. Organizers expect about 75 friends and relatives to attend. As in the last two years, the City of Castlegar will honor the new citizens after the swearing-in ceremony with a reception. Emergency declared. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state governor has de- clared an emergency in Los Angeles County, enabling officials to apply for aid to repair more than $59 million in damage from Southern California’s biggest earth- quake in 16 years. The declaration Friday night by Gov. George Deuk- mejian was sought by county supervisors after Thursday's quake smashed windows, toppled chimneys and dam- aged buildings. At least six people were killed and 100 injured. The quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale and dozens of small aftershocks reg- istering below three on the Richter scale shook the re- gion Friday, said Robert Finn, a for the El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, slept in parks for fear of aftershocks. “We've had the experience of people dying in houses,” said Ramon Escotit. The initial quake struck suburban Pispoaiard hardest, build- California Institute of Tech- nology. But scientists said the chance of a major after- shock is diminishing. Some Latin American immigrants, well acquainted with earthquakes in Mexico, ings a damaging 800 homes. Mayor Gene Chandler estimated damage at $10 million. Killed were a college stu- dent crushed by a collapsing wall; a man pitched from a second-floor window; a con- struction worker buried in a mountain tunnel under con- struction, and at least three people whose heart attacks were attributed to the quake. ‘The quake was the worst in California since the Sylmar quake in 1971, which killed 64 people and registered 6.4 on the Richter scale, a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every in- crease of one number means a tenfold increase in mag- nitude. Vancouver due for quake = 4} Bank of Montreal VANCOUVER (CP) — The Vancouver area is overdue for an earthquake a thousand times stronger than the one that rocked southern California Thursday morning, a Van- couver seismologist says. “It is widely believed that we are due for an earthquake of about nine on the Richter scale,” said David Vogt, curator of the geophysics and astronomy department at the University of British Columbia. “Such an earthquake would be a thousand times stronger than they experienced in California (Thursday) and science Centre on Vancouver Island, agreed that an earth- quake measuring nine on the Richter scale is possible here. But he said that didn't mean it would shake a building a thousand times more strongly, although it would last longer and affect a larger area. The Richter scale, developed in 1935 by U:S. seismolo- gist Charles Richter, measures an earthquake's intensity on an open-ended scale. Each number represents an earthquake 10 times as strong as the next-lower magnitude} so an earth- quake of magnitude seven is 10 times stronger than one of a would result in many deaths and damage to property,” he said. Dieter Weichert, a seismologist at the Pacific Geo- Aluminum Sheets FALL SPECIAL 50° EACH Minimum 4 Sheets Cas ET So Se. 197 Columbia Avenue six. At least six people died, numerous buildings cracked and power was cut off to parts of Los Angeles as a result of Thursday's earthquake and series of aftershocks. Seismologists reported the quake at 5.5 and 6.1 on the Richter scale. NEAR PLATES Vogt said the reason Greater Vancouver is liable to suffer a large earthquake is the region's proximity to an area about 100 kilometres west of Vancouver Island, where two of the Earth's plates meet. He said that through a process known as subduction, the Pacific plate is sliding underneath the North American continental plate. While it is possible the process could be achieved without major friction, similar citcumstances in other parts of the world have resulted in severe earthquakes, Vogt said: The plate tectonics theory developed by scientists in the 1960s says the surface of the Earth consists of about 20 rigid plates that slowly grind past one another. The motion of the plates squeezes and stretches rocks at the edges of the plates. If the force is too great, the rocks rupture and shift — causing an earthquake. Vogt said it was difficult to know how many earth- quakes the Vancouver area had experienced in the past because there was no history up to 150 years ago. This area's last major earthquake occurred in the 18708 and was believed to have been of an intensity equal to 7.3 on the Richter scale. “No deaths were reported, but of course there were not many people living here then,” Vogt said. “But if such an earthquake occurred today, there would be many deaths and much damage to property.” Weichert said an earthquake of the same magnitude as that that struck Los Angeles would have a lesser impact here because it. would happen 60 kilometres below the surface, not five to 10 kilometres below as with the Calé fornia quake, Premier's mom dies WINNIPEG (CP) — Manitoba Premier ‘Winnipeg's Seven Oaks Hospital, She was 60. The premier was at his mother’s bedside when she died of. cancer, a provincial spokesman said }} Saturday. Velma Pawley moved to Manitoba from Ontario with her family in the 1960s and maintained a lifelong interest and involvement in politics. She was a supporter of first the CCF and later the NDP. Chris' voyage recharted BOSTON (AP) — For decades, historians believed Christopher Columbus first landed in 1492 on Watling Island, later formally renamed San Salvador, in the Bahamas. Last year the National Geographic Society analysed ocean conditions that would have pushed his ships slightly sideways and concluded that Columbus -set foot first on Samana Cay, an island 65 nautical miles to the southeast. Now, an oceanographer and a computer pro- grammer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti- tution have recharted the trip. Turner should quit MONTREAL (CP) — Seventy per cent of Que- becers and slightly more than half of federal Liberal supporters in the province think John Turner should step down as Liberal leader, a new public opinion survey suggests. The results of the poll, carried out by the firm Leger and Leger, were obtained by the Montreal daily Le Devoir and published Saturday as the general council of the Liberals’ Quebec wing met here to develop election strategy. Aquino under fire MANILA (AP) — The army deployed troops and tanks Saturday at the presidential palace after an’ ambush raised fears of a new coup attempt in the Philippines, but President Corazon Aquino said she can survive any attempt to topple her rule. Officials said at least 16 people — including a mayor,a police chief, an army intelligence officer and a leftist farm leader — were killed countrywide in the previous 24 hours. They said the violence was politi- cally motivated. Seoul prays SEOUL (AP) — An estimated 650,000 Christians prayed ser re Sree el i Mee eae Saturday, é“mministets denounced e: aioe “ina called” nee an efid to“South” Korea's political crisis. Elsewhere in the capital, about 30,000 opposition supporters attended a rally at Yonsei University to urge rival opposition leaders Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam to join forces and field a single presidential candidate. A hugh crowd packed Yoido Plaza for the prayer rally. They kneeled in long rows, stretching their hands to the sky and praying aloud. Natal floods JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Floods in Natal province may have killed more than 250 people last week, with the official death toll at 174 and 86 people missing, officials in South Africa said Saturday.-More rain was forecast for the area. The South African Press Association said 400,000 residents in Durban were without running water Saturday and that smaller surrounding towns had no water. Italians in Gulf MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iranian speedboats dashed westward from bases in the northern Persian Gulf and unidentified aircraft Saturday chased away boats that approached a joint Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian oil port, said gulf-based shipping executives. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait denied the reports, which came as shipping and naval sources said Italian warships arrived in the approach to the Persian Gulf to join foreign naval vessels. Peeling grenades MOSCOW (Reuter) — A woman peeling potatoes in the Byelorussian town of Gomel found the biggest of them was too hot to handle — it was a hand grenade, Pravda reported on Saturday. The woman had selected the biggest potatoes from a bag she had bought the night before, but got suspicious when one of them: seemed a little heavy, said the Communist party deaily. “On closer inspection, in better light, she was horrified: it was a real hand grenade. She recognized it from pictures and photographs.” Greenpeace awarded LONDON (AP) — Greenpeace said an arbitration tribunal ordered France to pay the environmental group the equivalent of $11 million Cdn in damages for sinking the organization's vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, two years ago. “The moral outrage the world felt at the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior has been endorsed by the arbitration tribunal,” said Greenpeace chairman David McTaggart in London. He said Greenpeace will use the award, made by a edad international tribunal in Geneva, to |] worldwide fleet to ships and campaigns for su a wacleat free Pacific. Premier Howard |] Pawley’s mother, Velma, died late Friday night in j} By WARREN CARAGATA Conadian Press , Limited negotiations between Canada Post and the Claude Parrot told a labor rally in Saint J “You still have to accept the consequences | oe if it is wrong,” he said, adding that the Fee tale tae Oreree oead nikek 8 with the issue of how to handle grievances, one of the less contentious matters. The meeting of a sub-committee of the full negotiating teams was requested by Canada Post. Parrot said it may be 's way of full-scale negotiations. SITUATION NORMAL John Caines, a spokesman for Canada Post, said postal workers in Montreal were the only ones on strike Saturday but that weekend mail operations were normal. Workers in Montreal have rejected plans by the national union leadership to avoid an all-out strike and to hit the company with rotating walkouts instead, a tactic used successfully by the letter carriers’ union in their three-wevk strike in June and July. Canada Post has hired strikebreakers to replace striking workers. Parrot said the union has plans for further walkouts ‘onl’ Monday. Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux said Friday the government would not tolerate protracted disruption of postal service. But Parrot said the union is convinced of the justice Hanbton Ont, Dippa NEBSAMEBE John’s, Nfld. by a combination of Canada Post lockouts union strikes. r POPULAR ATTRACTION. . . Doukhobor Village is still a hit with tourists, even though summer is officially over. LAST MINUTE EFFORT Carney hopes for deal WASHINGTON (CP) — Trade Minister Pat Carney and Finance Minister Michael Wilson entered a make-or-break session of free-trade talks Saturday saying a U.S.-Canada trade deal is within reach. Carney said she could “see the shape of a deal.” Facing a deadline of midnight Saturday night for sending the framework of a trade pact to Congress, Carney and Wilson said there were still many hurdles to overcome but that a deal was within reach. The U.S. and Canada have been negotiating for more than a year and a half on the trade deal. “After a night's sleep, and we've been through the issues again, I think we can see the shape of a deal there, if we can just work our way through to it,” Carney said Saturday before another round of talks with senior U.S. administration officials. Wilson sounded more optimistic than he did late Friday, when after 131 hours of talks he said it was “hard to have much hope.” There are still difficult decisions to be made, Wilson said Saturday. BEAT THE DEADLINE “But we believe that if we put our mind to it, it is possible to have a deal before the deadline this evening.” In Ottawa, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was at home Saturday but being kept up to date with the progress of the talks. U.S. Trade Representative Clayton-Yeutter said the two negotiating teams still had much ground to cover — “maybe too much; I don't know.” The original deadline under U.S. trade law for sending a draft deal to Congress was midnight tonight. However, the White House traditionally avoids sending messages to Congress on Sundays, and U.S. officials insisted they wanted the yerervers wrapped up by midnight Saturday night. A spokesman for Yeutter said U.S. government lawyers have decided the initiative would be considered dead if no message is sent to the Congress by the deadline. None of the negotiators would reveal specifics of the talks, which resumed Friday after concessions by U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker on Canada's key demand for a binding mechanism to settle trade disputes. That concession — viewed as essential by the Canadian government to shield Canadian products from arbitrary and unfair punitive U.S. duties — ended a nine-day stalemate that begun when the chief Canadian negotiator, Simon Reisman, walked out of the talks over lack of progress on the issue. MAKES CONCESSIONS Although that concession was enough to draw Canada Rural post closures hurt, says group VANCOUVER (CP) — Mary views the rural post office in her tiny Fraser Valley community of Agassiz as more than just a place to buy stamps. “The post office is the heart of the community,” Otto-Grieshaber, a member of the British Columbia chapter et Rural Dignity, « sationsl Gropp shat begs #9 Ganeet ond natures against rural office closures, which she fears could hasten the end of some communities. “This whole issue of means the of the small town. If the Agassiz office closed and they sent our parcels to (nearby) Chilliwack, we would do all of our shopping over there and the economy here would go down.” and risk if Canada Post follows through with its 10-year franchising plan, which prompted rotating strikes across the country this week by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. On Friday, the union called off the rotating strikes for the weekend — although militants in Montreal cofitinued to stay out — but held rallies in several cities. Lloyd Johnson, president of the postmasters’ associa- tion, said Canada Post wants to close hundreds of the 1,700 Hie group identified 20 smmall post offices in the Fraser Vales Se ane er ee ee ects are either on are nearing age. Tnctaded In that Mat lo the poat office la Whodaack. 8 tiny community on the north shore of the Fraser River between Maple Ridge and Mission. Cradling her four-month-old daughter behind the wicket counter, Whonnock postmaster Lila Timmins considers what the closure of the post office would mean to its more than 200 customers. “Not only would they lose the quaintness of the place, people would have to travel to Maple Ridge (16 kilometres away) to pick up their parcels,” she said. “But the drive is too much for a lot of people and the line-ups there are just outrageous.” Canada Post spokesman Mike Bradshaw said there will not be a mass closure of rural postal stations because the corporation will only review the ones in which the post- master resigns, retires or is promoted to another location. He said no rural offices are currently under review in B,C. But Johnson said the postmasters association received notice from the Crown corporation that two offices are under review in the province — at Westholme, near Duncan on back to the bargaining table, on how the dispute settlement procedure would work and over the concessions Canada would be asked to make to ease U.S. trade concerns. A Canadian government source said the Americans have offered to create a special tribunal with binding powers to review unfair trade complaints. But its authority would kick jn only after existing trade complaint procedures in both countries have run their said. g side could appeal the finding to r also made concessions on . demands to curb jts subsidy regional Miaved to have assured the Canadian governme: press Congress to ensure the provisions of sw Sew trade legislation being developed on Capitol Hill doesn't undermine terms of the free-trade agreement. In return, the Americans want an easing’ of Canada's on foreign more access to the Canadian market for U.S. banks and brokers and greater protection for U.S. patents, trademarks and copyright. They also want an end to Canada’s program of rebating import duties to non-North American car manufacturers who build plants in Canada or buy Canadian parts. Gorbachev seeks Arctic peace OTTAWA (CP) — Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's proposal for a “zone of peace” Joe Clark saying he wants details on what Gorbachev has in mind. “It's an int ing pro- Clark told fe talking.” Clark and Defence Min- ister Perrin Beatty both said the Soviet Kola Peninsula, which thrusts into the Bar. ents Sea, contains one of the world's heaviest concentra tions of arms and armed forces. The Kila bristles with hun . dreds of thousands of crack Soviet troops, bases for nuclear-armed aircraft. and a intercontinental ball missile (ICBM) sites and is the main port region for the Soviet fleet of ballistic- missile submarines. But Clark said Canada is interested in arms control with the Soviets, and “if there is a serious initiative that they want to take, we bared be interested in ser- iously looking at it.” In any such arrangement to demilitarize the Aretic, Canada has a direct interest because ite Arctic archipel- ago stretches to the Arctic Ocean, which could be cross- ed by U.S. and Soviet ICBMs in a nuclear exchange. Gorbachev's proposal deals more with limiting air and naval activity in the Baltic, North, Norwegian and Greenland seas. Yet the Arctic Ocean, with its vast ice cap, has become a playground for nuclear sub- marines of East and West. Submariners hide under the jee cap, making them virt- ually invuln, rable. the central Interior. Island, and at Takysie Lake, near Burns Lake in Westholme post office, located in a general store, was advised by a Canada Post representative last month that it would be closed, said Jean Kempthorne. Banana group protests show WASHINGTON (Reuter) — A condom unrolled over a banana to illustrate safe sex in a television show has out- raged the U.S. banana in- dustry. The Washington-based In- ternational Banana Associa- tion Ine. has protested to the Public Broadcasting Service over use of what it calls the world’s favorite fruit as a prop in a program on how to avoid AIDS. During a half-hour show, AIDS: Changing The Rules, to be broadcast on PBS stations next month; a two minute sequence demon- strates with a banana the right way for a man to don a condom. “Our industry finds such usage of our product to be totally unacceptable,” Robert Moore, president of the as- sociation which represents U.S. banana importers, said in a letter to PBS. Medical authorities have said a condom can protect against the AIDS virus. PBS plans to screen its program — to be hosted by President Ronald Reagan's actor son Ron — every night for a week to put the message across. Ann Pincus, spokesman for PBS Channel 26 in Wash- ington, said the controversial sequence shows Panamanian singer Ruben Blades taking out a banana and fitting it with a condom. “He says: ‘I feel badly to have to use a banana, but I can't use the real thing,’ ” Pincus said, adding “It’s very explicit.” Moore said 200 million people in the United States each eat about 10 kilograms of bananas a year — the end result of a $2-billion-plus business on which some 150,000 people in North and South America and the Cari- bbean depend for jobs. “The banana is the No.-1 fruit consumed in the world,” he said. Moore said he can’t under- stand why a banana had to be used in the program. He said when he was in the U.S. army, health instructors used broom handles as a prop for condom demons‘ rations. “And that seemed ade- quate to me.”