CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 7, 1981

Wedding cake
an open Bible

A wedding of local interest took place Aug. 15 in Edmonton,
Alta. when Debra Lynn Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Martin of Castlegar, became the bride of Gary
Greenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Greenwood of Grand
Cache, Alta.

Rev. Randy Naylor heard the exchange of vows, and the
bride's great aunt, sang “O Perfect Love,” the same piece she
had sung at the bride's grandparents’ wedding 52 years,
previously.

Given in marriage by her parents, the bride wore a
full-length gown of white satin, featuring a lace yoke and

darin collar. her was a wide picture
hat and a bouquet of pink roses.

Debra Greenwood of Grand Cache, Alta. was maid of honor.
Completing the wedding party was best man, Steve Fingus, of
Grand Cache, and ushers were the bride's brothers, Bruce

Married life expensive

By Michael West

LONDON (AP) — Reject-
ing the adage that two can
live as cheaply as one, Prince
Charles has increased his in-
come by $300,540 a year,
claiming he needs the extra
money because of the costs of
married life.

The tax-free, 50-per-cent
pay increase raises the an-
nual income of the 32-year-
old prince to the equivalent
of $900,000.

Unlike his mother, the
" Queen, and other members of
the Royal Family, Charles is
not paid from taxpayers’
money. His income comes
entirely from the Duchy of
Cornwall, which consists of
large estates in southwest
England, and from property
holdings in London. Charles
inherited the duchy on his
21st birthday when he be-
came duke of Cornwall.

Many Britons, feeling the
squeeze of Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher's tight
money policy, were reported
less than sy hetic toward

Martin of Marquette, Mich. and Randy Martin of V

A reception was held at the Banquet House in Edmonton,
where the featured decor was a Bird of Peace, made by the
bride. The wedding cake was in the shape of an open Bible,
one side inscribed with “What is a husband?” and the other

“What is a wife?"

‘The bride's uncle, Mr. Norman Mercier of Vermilion, Alta.
was master of ceremonies. Proposing the bridal toast was Mr.

Steve Fingus of Grand Cache.

Following a honeymoon trip to Castlegar and Kelowna, Mr.
if in Grand Cache,

and Mrs.

Alta.

d have taken up

the royal couple's financial
needs,

Thatcher's Conservative
government has set a four-
per-cent limit on pay increase
for four million civil service
workers as part of its aus-
terity program designed to
bring down inflation, cur-
rently running at 11.5 per
cent annually.

Nuclear rearament

Marching out of step

By Al Collett

UNITED NATIONS (CP)
— The United States and
Western Europe are march-
ing out of step over nuclear
rearmament, causing strains
in NATO.

U.S.-European relations
slipped during the former
president Jimmy Carter's era
and have eroded even more
in the nine months President
Reagan has been in office.

Much of the strain comes
from Europe's refusal to re-
turn to the Cold War days of
the 1050s, when the U.S. and
the Soviet Union were at
each other's throats.

European leaders want
U.S.-Soviet arms control neg-
otiations to make some pro-
gress before they allow more
nuclear weapons on their soil,
including tactical weapons
such as the cruise and Per-
shing II missiles that can be
fitted with nuclear warheads.

The U.S. is seeking what it
claims as a necessary parity
with the Soviet Union —
mainly in the European the-
atre of NATO — Before it can
get serious about arms con-
trol.

One small step was taken
at the United Nations last
week when the U.S. and the
Soviet Union, under Eur-
opean pressure, agreed to
meet in Geneva next month
to talk about controlling
medium-range nuclear mis-
siles.

Thereisa lot of neutralism

ernizing its European tactical
weaponry. But it is unclear
how extensive it has become
as electorates in Europe
change.
NOTIN CARDS

One veteran Canadian dip-
lomat says that despite the
stresses and strains - in

not in the card.

“From my experience in
Europe, I wouldn't say that
the Europeans are ready to
sell out,” says Gerard Pel-
letier, Canadian ‘ambassador
to the UN. He served as en-
voy to France for almost six
years.

NATO, a p sellout is

Jehan Sadat
to receive

special award

WINNIPEG (CP) — The
wife of the late Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat will
receive the St. Boniface Gen-
eral Hospital Research Foun-
dation’s international award
for 1981.

Jehan el Sadat will be in
Winnipeg on Jan. 17 to ac-
cept the award at the foun-
dation’s annual awards din-
ner.

She is the seventh person
honored by the foundation
since 1976, and the second
wife of a head of state to
receive the award. The first
was Rosalynn Carter, wife of
then-U.S. president Jimmy
Carter, in 1979.

A spokesman for the foun-
dation said the wife of the
late Egyptian leader is being
honored because of her con-
tributions to health and social
needs in Egypt and abroad.
Ate, she i is being honored as
ian for her work

and anti.
in Europe that is detrimental
to NATAO's plans for mod-

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COLUMBIA S " P .
ANNOUNCES
ITS Ist PROVINCE WIDE APPEAL IN 85 YEARS

with handicapped and soci-
ally deprived people.

moderating force on some
American elements who
would be much more hawkish
than they are.

“And they will always ar-
gue that Europe is their con-
tinent and nobodyelse’s and
they know better what con-
cerns them.”

When the Reagan adminis-
tration suggested that West-
ern Europe shouldn't depend
on natural gas from the
Soviet Union, Europeans re-
belled and said: “This is our
business.”

There positions are firm,
Pelletier says. “All Eur-
opeans, including the French,
would refuse to return to the
Cold War.

“But it's not all black and
white and I don’t think we
should read into this a too
simplistic viewpoint.”

One of the surprises has
been France under the new
Socialist government of Pres-
ident Francois Mitterrand.

Everybody was predicting
that France under the Social-
ists would become all on the
leftist side and more neu-
tralist, but it hasn't.

Pelletier says France fully
realizes that you can nego-
tiate only in a position of bal-
anced forces on both sides.

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In addition, millions of
Britons face a sharp increase
in the cost of home mort-
gages and bank loans because
of an increase in interest
rates this week.

The Communist party
newspaper Morning Star put
its report of the increase on
its front page, directly be-
neath a report about a
threatened strike by 58,000
British Leyland auto work-
ers. The auto workers have
been offered a pay increase of
$7.28 on average wages of
$182 a week. They are de-
manding an increase of
$36.40.

Willie Hamilton, a member
of the opposition Labor party
and a longtime foe of the

Duchy of Cornwall be nation-
alized.
INCREASES SHARE

When he inherited the title
in 1969, Charles became en-
titled to all the income from
the duchy's estates, But un-
der a precedent set by his
great uncle, King Edward
VIII, Charles opted to keep
only half the duchy's income
for himself and gave the
other half to the national
treasury.

The prince, who pays no
income tax, has now in-
creased his share to three-
quarters and cut the trea-
sury's share to one quarter.

“Following his royal high-
ness's marriage, the expens-
es of his household and the

hy the pay
increase and demanded the

required to meet
the cost.of undertaking pub-

‘Pen’ is coming

NEW WESTMINSTER
(CP) — The infamous B.C.
Penitentiary, which sits on
some of the city’s prime real
estate, is being torn down to
make room for low-cost hous-
ing.

The scene of several riots,
hostage-takings and desola-
tion and despair for thou-
sands of criminals, the grim
102-year-old fortress ‘over-
looking. the Fraser River is
going to amke way for about
2,000 housing units.

The city is getting the
29-hectare property at a bar-
gain price. It will pay $10.1
million over five years — but
the first three years will be
interest free. After that, the
rate is prime plus one per
cent.

And, as a bonus, the
crushed walls and buildings
will go into the harbor across
the street to make a marina.
* The deal isn’t quite as good
as the city had hoped, how-.
ever. Mayor Muni Evers had

want to be a |

once hoped it would be
turned over for free, plus a
token fee of $1, the usual
charge when one government
gives property to another.

In a ceremony held at the
prison Tuesday, federal
Housing Minister Paul Cos-
grove turned over the key to
the prison to Evers.

New Westminster wants
to'have a mixture of housing
on the site, including co-
operatives, condominiums
and some single-family hous-
ing, Evers said, adding that
the city has a critical short-
age of affordable housing.

SOME RETAINED

The development will in-
clude parks and open spaces.
Officials also hope to retain
some of the Pen's buildi:

lic duties, which have already
increased substantially since
1969, will rise sharply," said a
palace spokesman in explain-
ing the prince's decision,

“In particular there will be

hang it all
wallpapering

the additional cost of main. ©

taining a separate establish. ©

ment at Kensington Palace
(in London) and a consider-
able increase in the size of
the prince and princess's
household.”

Staffing the couple’s new
country home, Highgrove, is
reported to have added con-
siderably to the prince's ex-
penses. Charles is reported
to have paid $1.45 million for
the nine-bedroom mansion
set in 140 hectares 145 kilo-
metres west of London, and
spent huge sums to have it
redecorated.

down

more important than rehab-
ilitation, the prison’s walls
are 1.6 metres thick and sink
3.6 metres into the ground.
Inside, they contain masses
of stone and brick.

“We're going .to get about
600,000 yards of rubble out of
this place,” said one city
official. “It will be a for-
midable demolition job.”

Since the last of the pen-
itentiary's 750 prisoners was
moved out more than a year
ago, several suggestions —
ranging from the practical to
the loony — have been made
about its future.

At one point Evers sug-
gested it could be turned into
a restaurant, cultural and
commercial centre. One new

as museums and recreational
buildings.

The most difficult job
ahead, however, will be dem-
olition of the huge prison.
Built when security was

even
suggested the B.C. legis-
lature be moved to the site.

Last year, an estimated
6,000 people toured the peni-
tentiary when it was opened
to the public.

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1981 October 1

Be cr ae,

You don't need reminding that almost
everything costs a lot more now than It did ,
almoat 3 years ago —thetimeofthelast +

increase.

postal

ing costs have risen for the postal system
second largest

that serves the
the world?

It's heen stretched
for almost 3 years.

We can't stretch it
any Te

t ment a new service-monitoring
process which will improve rellability.
carrier delivery within many

let
communities to provide more complete
But, can you Imagine how much operat- service.

country In

Increase the avaltabili
mall services si

Delivery and Electronic Mail.

The cost of operating and fuelin, ourvast

transportation network, the cost of essen-

tial
force

uipment and

on onimportant nt steps being taken to improve
‘some of the steps we want to take are:

Introduce more extensive
aiming at aconsistent mal mar meet within

all risen substantially.
In spite of our best efforts, the combined
effects of these increased operating costs
ight Canada Post to the pol int
whore it it goest not hays the financial

the cost of our work

to follow through

Taking positive action. ;

In becoming a puolic omperal ion,
candda Post will have the freed :
operate as a mi

rates early next year.

Canada

uch ae ery hee Tost tet eclal

more esponeive al and ndoficient
business, and eventually stop being
sidized arm of government with its 9 oOo
burden on the taxpayer.

But no business can pe health oreffi-
cient if it falls to recogni lapt to
the economic realities inw nich it must
function.

And the present reality Is that the
existing postal rates do not! reflect the costs

involved in running

itis for this reason that Canada
plans the implementation of new postal

Post

Some of these planned rates can be
seen in the following table:

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Parcs} Post
city Tkilo $1.10

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e.g. Montreal to Vancouver 1kilo $3.35

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Canada Post-setting things straight for the future.

Teacher
burnout

EDMONTON (CP) — Dr.
Stephen Truch says teachers
are under siege.

Truch, a consulting psy-
chologist in Calgary, has
written Teacher Burnout
And What To Do About It, a
book .that delineates causes
of stress and how to manage
them.

“Society is changing at an
accelerated pace. The tradi-
tional family is breaking
down, there's greater drug
use, teen pregnancy.”

The teacher, Truch said in
an interview, bears the brunt
of many of the changes.

“Somehow they are ex-
pected to be all things to all
kids, But they aren't trained
to be social workers, leisure-
time co-ordinators, mothers.”

It is a good tcacher who
hurts the most, Truch said in
making a distinction between
“burnouts” and “rustouts.”

“The burnout happens to
good teachers.” Rustout
“happens to those without
enough stress in their lives —
the incompetents who just
get by.”

“We are losing good tea-
chers. They are opting out.
Alberta’s flourishing econ-
omy creates a unique sit-
uation: The viable economic
climate makes it easy for a
teacher to step into another

Travel

Truch suggests a reduction
in teacher-pupil rations, an
increase in preparation time
and a weeding out of incom-
petent teachers.

He has this advice for
individual teachers: “Get into
shape. Learn what is bother-
ing you. If it is discipline take
a course in how to handle it.”

The .teacher-stress syn-
drome is not limited to Al.
berta. Truch said he has been
“surprised at the consistency
of the problems, be they in
the Bahamas, Florida, Cali-
fornia or a rural area", he has
found in frequent . lecture
tours.

Dr. Suzanne Kurtz of the
University of Calgary said

_ Stress is a common element

in society but the teacher
faces unique situations.

“The teacher is always
with people. It’s an intimate
situation with large numbers.
You can't just deal one-to-
one,

“Teachers and education
are in the public eye. Every-
one knows just enough to
pass comment .. . kids,
parents, schoo! administra-
tors, special-interest groups,
every level of government.”

Teachers as a group, Kurtz
said, tend to ignore their own
needs. “We deal with others’
problems and needs and feel
guilty about giving ourselves

agent

loves holidays

WEST VANCOUVER
(CP) — Pilar Donaldson,
whose travel agency will
gross $1.5 million this year,
loves taking holidays.

First, she says, they're
nearly free. And second, she
likes to travel.

Because countries and air-
lines like to show off their
attractions, an agent can
swing across the Atlantic and
over the world for next_to
nothing.

Take South Africa.

For about $800, Donaldson
spent nearly two weeks fly-
ing and dropping down all
over the country, simply be-
cause if South Africa sold
her, she would sell South
Africa.

Born in Cochabamba, Bol-
ivia, 43 years ago, Donaldson
was one of five children
whose parents were rich
enough to spend a year with
the family wandering
through Spain,her father's
country.

She went to a convent
school run by nuns in La Pas
until she was 16. She mar-
ried, had three children, and
was divorced in seven years.

Nine years ago, she be-
came. the stepmother of two
other children, and decided
to go to work.

Because she loved to trav-
el, and had been around the
world more than once, she
went to work for a travel
agent at $500 a month.

PROGRESS FAST

In six months, she was
managing one of the firm's
offices at $800 a month. In
four years, she was managing
all four of the firm's B.C
offices, “a $4.5-million oper-

ation,” and earning about
$24,000 a year.

Two years ago, after The
Bay bought the firm, Donald-
son bought out a West Van-
couver agency.

Last year, she grossed
more than $1 million.

Donaldson says she has
travelled through more than
80 countries, but what she
likes most are the ruins of
Ankor Wat in Cambodia

* -which she visited in 1969, the

first time she travelled
around the world.

“I like it best because the
ruins are in the jungle and
you can see the civilization.
¥ou feel you're discovering
this civilization all by your-
self.”

She says she prefers to
travel alone or with her hus-
band, Thornton, 52, a geo-
logical engineer who was
born in Saskatchewan.

In October, they are taking
29 travellers to Portugal for
two weeks. The other 1981
trips are two weeks in South
America, 12 days in South
Africa,.and two weeks cruis-
ing the Caribbean.

“Those are the bonuses,
buta travel agent’s life is not
glamorous,” she says solem-
nly.

“Salaries are low, You
have to have another income.
A trainee makes about $850 a
month.

- “You must like a lot of de-

etail work.

“You have to be on the ball
every minute.

“You have to be a good
psychologist and love peo-
ple.” And the next place
Donaldson wants to go is

Lhassa in’ Chinese Tibet.’

Then, there’s New Guinea.

aint ae
Thatssever. Let's
Bela . Ei

rhythmic toit. You just know vane!
with a Set that ime "t be all bad.

oa Wro!
ela ‘and
im

ed

1s wife bo it the most
le net TO a a

just before the out-
. Bela soon became

ctive, while

the Missus was a rare

beauty of arise nan you could Et Euclid,

@ young a!

t named Paul Bi

ari was

the joys of marriage which

were le;

Rity the private d
friend , e

of our

ela. The village. rebsolutely
tially

uzzed with gossip about the potent

losive trian;
it be kn

a
ut na not for rae: Heartbrok
wn that his wife ha run ‘away

, Bela let -

with the: artist, Thereafter a change came,

over him. He became a ladies'

time to time dashing down to yudape st
and re’ returning wi ith a different womens
Bela’s servants loved the arrangement,

Every time the master of the house

rought home a lady ith they were ven

the week off. they return

ited guest was sive:
nthe Taster nother tal

idios;

crasy.

e steel drums.

fted into the army without notice. He

drat
didn’t even have the opportunity to

saddens me to relate’

of valuable petrol.
e first drum, out

in the rouse held the preserved bodi
friends. Around the house 19 more

vered, @: ich containing the

mi
Bela Kiss was a tall, blond,

had switched identification
Deen killed after all.

drums were
pickled remains of a female.
ation revealed that Bele bad Siceced ise lates

\t-com|

tha man and had not

Cold blooded killer

Over 30 years later, in 1952,
cnember ¢ of the
Le named- Hofman was re;
intimate details, some of wate
he had

réceived word that a

iblic, of how
oman in a li

is

con t,
had no idea he

than a loving husband and father.

“Henri’s achieme was simple eno!

Actitlons identity,
fall in lo

‘and Teave f Shor
Some, were so si
‘anno;

Henri rented a v

. Thos re thelucky ons
aa he ld onl only via fd himself of thelr
villa in Vernoullet, where he dissected

‘his victims and burned the bodies

return to his home. It
't in May, 1916, word was
been killed in action. His

cingieat deer eat
meet a lady, an ave her
He would thet obtain her money

CLOCKWISE FROM
top: Mass murderer
Juan Corona unde

Dusseldorf — three of
our gallery of the five
most evil

had ee]

for that

Henri claimed 11 victims.
tual

task. In all,

a relative: of one of his victims: wrote to thi

throughout the world. It is Catimated that magnetic H

had sexual relations with no less thi

an 300 women ithe the

his apprehension. This little, unat-

tractive ars Pree had such ap|
ite sex that he continu
le a day from women di

al for members of the
to receive over a hi
the course of his trial.

Unfortunately Bluebeard was unable to take advant
ott these proposals. With the assistance ot} Dr. Galllotine '8

lernal

‘machine, the government cut

Ay sheer quantity of victims we are toxced to include
jean Coreua on our list of all time all-tinters

vy 1971 a fruit farm

bl
Budapes it detectives
rapamtons” wif

contracior ‘whe received

er, Goro Ka;
de ion in one of his fields
. that someone ma:

have buried

ce. Instead fee
eth Whit ha

in
. the time
of ec:

Four days after ‘Whitacre’s body was services
ana er. body lar wounds was found buried on
. In both cases, Juan Corona was the labor

contractor. Within a matter of days 28 additional bodies

Sithtng 1 1 relative at
no lo jatives
cing fa

n di
to inquire into their disap]
mn arrested over a hundred

vered.
"Police cl checked out Juan Corona. In his home they found
bl or impression of a-tire |

ae

It is believed that Corona, an industrious family name,

w to hate the human derelicts he dealt wi

in his

usiness. He doesn’t have to worry about that any longer.
Juan received 25 separate. consecutive life sentences.

Closer to home

ut every bit as pasty, was
Nelson. Strangler Nelson roamed the

. in the years

Prior to to 1927, raping and killing as he moved.

the summer of 1927 Nelson showed up in W!
attracted to a For Sale sign in the window

‘where he was a

‘Winnipeg,

CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 7, 1981

ee

the nearby
to pick the Jett lock and esc:

f the William Patterson home at 100 Riverton St.. Mrs.
aan jwered Ni

cl

oe
a bed. “Mrs. Pat (iareoa hed
rts of a series of such

U.S. Was it poseible the
hem? It didn't take them

| descr tion of the wanton

larney Jail, Nt book Helen ony

Teal of dont

He was again taken int
atrainto a apecial

And now we come to

number one all time nastiest man rho ev ever en, ‘Some

ite for

monsters are riptivated by. greed, fagcets by sex. All have

acertain of victim or
did it all. He didn’t care
means he saw fit to

be was 18, and found
such

eo indulge

es. Kurten
his victims were and he used

je of
Sort, ory, Sa re mee by

ten by prostitutes.
crten gradunied to viatent rape of wom

en and e'
si gratification ike no ag

‘to sexui
history. He stole to sustain himself
|, he ould. spend 20 years of his

-who was asleep when

30, he killed for the pret
tine Klein,
ar and cut.

throat. Next rr the harror up atthe scene sof his crim

order to savor

caused. For the

of Dusseldorf and

Many of his victims lived lived to
forced upon th

and excitement his act had
ed treets

they are for better or worse, mosily the latter. In
gu 9 2 victins fell fell prey to the five most evil men whoever

Has his own private railroad car

You no longer have to be a
millionaire to own a private
railroad car.

The 34-year-old Westport
teacher, who recently ac-.
quired a 1926 Pullman coach
and became one of an elite
group of private railroad-car
owners, did it on sheer grit.
‘tAnd’a soupcon of luck,” he
adds. He found a bank willing
to lend him $10,000.

Clements, chairman of the
drama department of West-
port’s Green Farms Aca-
demy, calls his coach Sasqua
after a Connecticut Indian
tribe and intends to restore
the dingy, battered and rusty
coach to its former glory.

“Four years from now
she'll be a beauty,” promises
Clements, who plans to deck

_her out in all the fittings ofa

traditional private car. “May-
be not the crystal chandeliers
and oriental rugs,” he con-
cedes. But if all goes well
Sasqua’s future calls for a
brass-railed observation
deck, picture windows and
Victorian furniture from his
collection of antiques.
“What's more, she'll have a
wood-burning stove in the
parlor and a shiny Pullman-

green exterior,
with gold stripes.”
He has made detailed
sketches of the interior and
expects to do most of the

complete

-seraping, peeling, painting

and rebuilding himself.

The American Association
of Private Railroad Car Own-
ers says most of the 70 to 80
private cars now on the rails
were renovated by their

owners."

“But finally I lucked into
this Penn Central coach in a
private Rhode Island. rail
yard.”

A period of delicate nego-
tiations followed but at last
the coach was his for $10,000.
When it was delivered to the
Westport rail yard it was the
beginning ofa long labor of
love. As owner of rive an-

tique Jaguar roadsters and
sedans he has restored,
Clements isn't fazed by the
job ahead of him. He esti-
mates it will take four years
and cost about $30,000.
“Iwas careful to buy a
coach that has recently been
in service,” he says. “That
way I know the air brakes,
roller bearings and coupling
equipment meet standards.

:

LITTLE CORNWALLIS
ISLAND, N.W.T. (CP) —
Just 1,500 kilometres from
the North Pole, what will
soon become Canada’s
northermost base-' metal

Canada

demanded that the Maple
Leaf flag be painted on the
roof,” said Hank Giegerich,
Cominco’s northern group
vice-president responsible
for the Polaris project.
“He's an from

mine perches
cally on a small island for-
merly inhabited only by
migrating polar bears.

The bright red. and
orange buildings of Com-
inco’s Ltd., Polaris lead-
zine mine inject the only
color on this grey and
white high Arctic desert a
short plane ride from Res-
olute Bay.

The concrete storage
shed — probably the larg-
est building north of the
60th parallel — is topped
& a giant maple leaf flag.

“Our project engineer

Hungary, a super patriot,’
who threatened to quit the
job unless we agreed to the
flag.”
On a langscape which is
largely colorless except for _
the very brief summer ex-
plosion of flowers it some-

how manages to avoid -

looking arish.
CANADIAN VENTURE
Rather it signals that
this is indeed a Canadian
venture, a project con-
ceivedand put together by
Canadians in defiance of
the area’s permafrost, ice

and sub-zero tempera-
tures.

It's a state of the art
mine in a place where “the
wind doesn’t stop blowing,
it just changes direction”
and “the snow doesn’t

_ Melt, it just wears away,”
joked mill supervisor Jim
.Gowans.

During construction of

the mine men

satellite receiving station.
Despite the amenities,
Polaris is still a mining
camp and mining camps, no
matter how well designed
or what comforts they
offer, create difficulties for

their inhabitants.
Personnel director
Larry Coyle said loneliness
is the main problem. Some
gt in the

. could only work for two

minutes outside before re-
turning inside for a 10-
minute warm-up. .
When the mine is oper-
ating, the 200 Cominco
workers will have single
rooms, -a swimming, pool,
sauna, gymnasium, run-
ning track, and more than
20 television channels to
choose from picked up via a

North can handle it, but
many can’t and turnover is
high.

Cominco will operate
mandatory 45 days on and
14 days leave system.
Anyone who stays the full
45 days receives a ticket
back to where he was
hired. Anyone quitting be-
fore 45 days will have to
pay his own way back.

The two weeks’ leave,.
which must be taken, are
unpaid. But duririg the 45
days at Polaris, a skilled
tradesman earns the equi-
valent of $45,000 to $50,000
a year by working long
hours seven days a week.
Even unskilled laborers
are in the $30,000 a year
bracket.

Despite all the problems
of building a mine in such
high latitudes, Polaris has
one major advantage — it
is located right on the edge
of Little C with

and the processing plant
built on a barge in Trois-
Rivieres, Que., and towed
in July to Little Corn-
wallis.

The actual mining oper-
ations, which will be highly
automated and reach an
output of about 220,000
tonnes a year, will be the
simplest part of the more
than $150 million invest-
ment.

The mine is right on the
shore. Underground con-
veyors will carry ore to the
Another line

easy access to the ocean.
This was a boon for con-
struction and will make it
easy to ship the concen-
trate out.

Similarly, construction
materials were shipped in

will take tailings to a near-
by pond.

Ironically, one problem
will be keeping the under-
ground mine cold enough

‘s northernmost base-metal mine

done by sucking out hot

alr.

The ore body itself is
immense and extremely
rich. Cominco conserva-:
tively estimates that it will
mind proven reserves for
25 years. But there's a lot
more lead-zinc in the area
including underwater de-
posits which Cominco say
it doesn’t intend to touch
until mining engineers
have more experience with
permafrost.

By January, Polaris is
scheduled to be turning out
2,200 tonnes of ore con-
centrates each-day, which
will be hauled out to Eur-
opean and North American
markets during the Arc-

so that the
doesn’t melt. This will be

tie's short sh season.
Cominco, which is 53.6

.

per cent owned by Cana-
dian Pacific. Enterprises
Ltd. on Montreal, became
involved in the mine proj-
ect in 1964 when it op-
tioned all the Arctic min-
eral properties of Bankeno
Mines Ltd.

In 1971, surface and
underground studies con-
firmed Porlaris ore re-
serves of 25 million tonnes
at 4.3 per cent lead and
14.1 per cent zinc. x

Joe Clark's short-lived
Conservative government
waived some environmen-
tal rules and gave Comingo
the go-ahead to mine in
1979, provided it agreed to
ship out half its production
in the federal govern-
ment's ice-breaking bulk
carrier, the M.V. Arctic.

ES,