The air in Trail is clearer

«now, thanks to a million-dollar

antl-polllution ‘device Comirco
put ini into operation at its motals
manufacturing operations there
‘Thursday.

‘The device, called a plume
eliminator, cleans up smoke
caused by the ammonia scrub-
ber system, another’ anti-
pollution system installed many
years ago, according to: man-
ager of the company's Trail

|’ operations, Guy Downle.

COMINCO EMPLOYEES installing one of 78
filter units in the company’s new plume

A
the 400foot smokestacks. The device, made by

Monsanto Enviro-Chem, Ine ot St, Louis, is the

zine first application of its type in

manufacturing plant at Trail, The lame

Canada.
Cominco Photo

Human Resources Deputy Minister. Says.
Striking Pulp Workers Also, in Welfare Lines

Deputy minister of human month for a single man to $325

benine ames. hears for a seven-member family.

rece! e striking

pulp and paper. workers are. jAbore, anit ee Rte
o

ing wellsre payments
Mr. Sadler’ said that the (ftional person, in a family.

government hag authorized “;

that welfare be given to some

strikers, but this can be done

‘only in exceptional emergency
situations.”

; “Phe social assistance vote
in the’ provincial budget does
not permit this money to be
used in any way as a strike
ind,” he sald
Assistance has been given
embers of the striking pulp
Dunions in Powell River, Camp-
bell River; Duncan, Castlegar
nd some other areas.

Pulp leaders said they do
, Rot consider welfare assistance
as “subsidy for a strike.”

‘Art Gruntman of the CPU
said he understands the re-
quirements for. welfare are
“pretty stringent’. He said he
wouldn't consider it a subsidy.

“If our people comply with
the regulations, what's wrong
with that?” sald Mr. Gruntman.

She Can Sure
Shake Up
A Roestldi 3

Helen C. Irelarid spectacu-
larly flunked’ her first driving
test by driving her car through
the wall of the Auburn, Cali-
fornia, Department of Motor
Vehicles Office. Three persons
in the building were treated for
minor cuts and bruises:

gala Bob Grifiths, the
DM

Payments range from $854

Think

KOOTENAY
- BUILDERS

“Are people. on strike any
different?

: Gia
saline’ wagunawa
provisions, but said he thinks

houid, get it,

* He sald he didn't think welfare

payments could be considered a
subsidy for a strike. °

Jack Munro of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America
had'no comment. The IWA is
not on strike, but most of the
38,000 members are aut of work
because of pulp union picket
lines.

‘The payment to strikers is

: authorized by a section of the

cabinet-approved | regulations
under the Social Assistance

ct. 5
ates section, ee thet

* thorized by the dinector “or

welfare for & person’ who
union member involved in an
industrial dispute when there
are no sources of income or
assets available.”. The regula-
tion was passed March 25, 1975
Mr. Sadler said instr
tions to department field offi-
cers-were issued July. 16,
to be

fe with
Mon Ireland, She a “really
nervous.”

GRANITE
HEAD STONES
and .
|] GRAVE MARKERS

Contact — Paul Markoff, Slocan Park
Agent for” — Great West Memorials

PHONE 226-7564

used in dealing with strikers
who apply for welfare. Money
wauld be given out only “if a
person‘on strike is absolutely

destitute, if he has used up all

his credit andall his other
resources,” he said.

He said the. department
will not pay shelter costs, ‘or
costs of transportation, utilittes
or clothing.

“We don't pay those
things," said Me: Sadler. “They
become a debt for a person that
‘he will:have’ to pay:when he
‘goes back to work.”

HER

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What makes the: plume
eliminator even more unusual is
that it wasn't required to meet
pollution control

water vapor, nitrogen and
minute amounts of sulphur.
dioxide.”

‘The equipment was bullt
by Monsanto’ Enviro-Chem,
Inc., of Bt. Louls, aid is the first
installation of Its type: in

Mr. Downie said.

“It's a relatively new appll-
cation,” he said, “the first we've
found that will effectively end
the visible’ plume.”

‘The eliminator Is stationed
near the offending smokestack
and acts like a giant vacuum
cleaner! for ‘smoke. It’s about
the size of a two-storey house
and contains 78 filters, each

d

and doesn’t increase Brodué;
tion, he added, =

“The eliminator’s priniary
purpose is to provide a major.
new step in reducing the smoke.
nuisance, something, that) wilt

packed
treated fibre material.

‘A 1,000-horsepower fan
blows ‘the’ smoke ‘into’ the
device, foreing it through, the
fillers. ‘The mist’ particles that

mal ake | up. ‘the white plume
collide with the filter fibres and
the resulting liquid drains to

the base of the eliminator and is,

recycled, The mist particles aro
tiny, about a fiftieth the size of
‘one of the periods on this page.
Mr.’ Downle | sald sulphur
dioxide loss to the atmosphere
now will be less than .02 per
cent, well below pollution con-
tro! regulations,
> Commenting on smoke
from the other large stack at
Trail, Mr. Downie said the
plume eliminator system
wouldn't handle the content of

e stack gas,
“We've tried to apply the

“same techsvivay to that atack,

but it didn’t work out," he sald,
“However, we're studying
other méthods of making tho
same kind of improvement.”

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beof:
community," he said
interview here. -

School District No. 9 Briefs

‘A crowd of
was on hand for the opening

+ ceremonies. Trail’ Mayor

les Lakes gave the order

“to activiate the eliminator, and

‘within seconds the white plume
coming from the stack. slowed
to'a trickle and finally ‘dicap-
peared altogether. ‘

‘The, event. was: staged In
the late afternoon so those not
attending could listen to'a live
report on’ the local, rade
station.

: Mayor Lakes called. the
event “another milesto: the
further reduction of atmos-
pherie pollution in‘ Trail, I
congratulate Cominco for at-
taining this’ outstanding
achfevement.”

‘The mayor commented on
changing attitudes toward pol-
lution, quoting an article in the
‘Trail Creek News of 1898: “This
{s what Trail people like to see.
The thicker the smoke ascend-
ing into the skies from Smelter
HIN, the greater is Trail's
prosperity.”

He added, however,* “that
Gard attitude: has changed sie

ically.”

cons pollution which was
accepted and welcomed:
sign of propserity many years

atmospheric. pollution, The ‘in-
crease in the vegetation in the
area and-on the surrounding
mountains’ is evidence of the
success of their program.”

In zine production here,
the ore is roasted, driving off
sulphur in the form of sulphur
‘dioxide. The sulphur dioxide is
then converted to sulphuric
‘acid for: chemical fertilizer
production,

However, Mr. Downie
said, the ammonia scrubber
aystem used to trap. the last
traces of sulphur dioxide also
sent a billowy white plume up
one of the 400-foot smokestacks

nd into the

‘An agreement with Tarrys,

Community representatives to,

use the ‘Tarrys Hall for the

period of time from September...

to December, and if

January to-June,is to bes
renewed at a’ monthly fee. of
$100 plus $50 towards the cost’

of heating oil. This::is.'to

accommodate a half day session

of Kindsegarten.
The Robson Chargh S8o-

ciety is to be paid $140 a month”
for the 1976-76 school year to .
‘ay morning »

accommodate -both
and afternoon session of kinder-
garten. ray r
Je vel e.

‘Approval has been granted
for a professional day on Oct. 24
for all intermediate teachers to
attend the Provincial Inter-

beginners'‘ sewing, ? bookkeep-
ing, pre-sk{ conditioning, cro-
‘cheting, weaving, liquid em-
broidery, photography, typing,
‘\B.C. carpentry. upgrading,

‘shorthand ‘and conversational

Russian.
Frank’ Hamilton, has been
ven permission to attend the
1975!Annual Supervisor of
‘Instructions Gonserence at.
Fairmont, Oct, 35 ito ,7.

blarkiop fete
tnd speed bumps

(Sunlor. Secondary, Sch
4
; Approxinately ‘0 lockers

‘are to be purchased for-use at’

the districts two secondary
achools, Stanley

repaired ~*
installed ‘on
‘school property at Kinnaird

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. Castlegar Senlor. Citizens:
~ Plan Thanksgiving: Banquet

agiviny iquet, to be

nt Oct, 16 iA the Castlegar
ind District Senior Citizens’
Cent th

Voluiteet’ Palaters Give\Frosh Coat of Paint to\Slocan City’s St.’ Mary's Catholic Church

and Kinnaird Junior.

mediate Teachers’
in Penticton.
.
A professional day for all
primary'teacheres for the pur-
of holding a’ professional
development day Oct. 17 has
been approved.

The following ‘courses have
been approved as Adult educa-
tion courses for School District

No.9: adult art, ethnic cooking, |;

By Government

The’ government: has
launched an investigation into
the safety’ of’ hang-gliding,

Attorney-General Alex Mac: +
aid last Tuesday in-,

donald
Victoria.

Mr. Macdonald said he has
_ aaked ‘his staff to review

reports on the'three
ian raliding fatalities ths year
in B.C.

”He said he doubts that the

government will -introduce

regulations. controling “the
‘sport: because it! would be
difficult to oversee and because

“This white smoke was
harmless, he added. Its main

component was ammonium bi. *

sulphite, a mild fertilizer, but
the smoke was a nuisance
during hot summer weather
when it often formed a haze in
the mountain valley surround-
ing Trail.

Now, under normal operat-
' ing conditions, the plume elim-
inator. will-end much of this
haze, Mr. Downle said. ‘The

stack gas ‘now ‘will contain

doit

voluntarily: *
Although it is a'dangerous
practice, Mr. Macdonald ‘said,

in society kind of

: a3 you have been involved in an automobile .
prcident please complete this form and: mail to the
.Claims ‘Office where it is most convenient to make

your claim.

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The investigation will bok
at various safety provisions

within the! sport: and. will’ be.
- emilee to’ one that was con:

ducted on scuba diving, M
Macdonald said.

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Mra G: Easeat of Ron
LA

“pointed'to'the Constituency

'MrsKen ‘Robey of Revel: “Advisory -Greap for} the 1976 -
f Program. :

J. Rain for: two days: Tet ‘program
whieh Prov: ies. employment »:

of Victoria opportunities for the unem-

‘Mra. D, Perrins
lensed Miele Chaplarest
ing and: visi “months and is
‘to further projects’ of, commu:
“nity improvement.

Represent
atituency ¢ ‘Advisory: sGrouP
‘various areas of the

tepair
Broken Window

ployed © during ‘the’ winter.”
geared

hand, had
tion’ of 2x 2's and polythene,

ny
‘members at thelr regular moet-.”
St ing held last Thursday evening...

attend this necting aro aur, i

Cormier,’ accompanied by Mrs,
Re Donnan, had attended ‘th

) provincial '8,C.A.:executiv
full

jclson, and a

+) repart will be given at'the Oct,
+) 2imeeting. It was noted that the

‘annual provincial 8.C,A.' meet.

ing ‘wlll’ bei held ini Pritice:
on May:17 2

“following (the. meeting
delicious tceenceeb te

*! CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 25,1978

. D-BAR-D LICENSED

DINING LOUNGE

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Players it etace thei

11 yeara, and present the very
ar.“ Brigadoon”: tla

- Before Winter -

‘village {
lands, They: learn’ that ‘the
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Shieh makes it: altficult
‘establish future dates with th

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