a2 Castlegar News ~ July 14, 1985 WEATHER eo WI: PRINCE GEORGE y SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure along the coos! today should keap skies sunny. With a moist northwest flow aloft there is a potential for clouds an *| (Alle mS Storm Youth not guilty CRESTON, B.C. (CP) — A 16-year-old Crestén youth , has been found not guilty by reason of insanity in the first-degree murder in: April of Marena Seaton, 14, also of Creston. Seaton was strangled in bed while she.and the youth __._ were alone in the hous family court “Judge Stewa Enderton was told. The youth strangled the girl for no apparent reason. Births & Funerals The youth was c to Maples ‘Treatment Centre in Burnaby. A spokesman for the centre said the youth would «, ‘at first be held in strict custody pending further re- views “to determine ee rt level of custody is necessary.” Brisco roperts Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco will report: on his recent visit to the Soviet Union at 7:30 p.m.-Monday in the Union Hotel in Trail.- Brisco was one of seven Conservative MPs who ac- companied External Affairs Minister Joe Clark on an eight-day tour of the USSR in April. One of the reasons given for Brisco’s selection was the high concentration of people of Soviet descent in Koot- enay West. The gathering, which is sponsored by the Trail Dis- trict Peace Action Commit- tee, will give West Kootenay residents an opportunity to hear a first-hand account of life in the Soviet Union through the eyes of the area MP. Mr. Brisco has agreed to a question period following his address. SPIKED WINES CAUSE SCARE By CasNews Staff .and News Services Health and‘ Welfare Canada has cleared two Austrian wines d of being contaminated with a p chemcial used in anti-freeze. Magic Flute and Ruster Tr isl BIRTHS BRAUN — To Mr: and Mrs. Robert Braun of Kelowna, a boy. born June 26. .N-— To Mr. and Mrs. John Egon of Castlegar, a boy, born July 1 ELLIOT — To Mr. and Mrs. Brion s Elliot of Nelson. o girt. born July FALCIGNO — To Mr. and Mrs Peter Falcigno of Winlaw. a girl. born July 6. FELDE — To Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Felde of Castlegar, o girl, born 2 FUHR — To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Fuhr of South Slocan, a boy, born July 6 POZNEKOFF — To Mr. and Mrs. Phil Poznekolf of Thrums, a girl, born July 4. STEIMECKE — To Mr. abe Mrs. fred Steimecke. 0 boy, born TARASOFF — To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Tarasoff of Castlegar, o girl, born July 8. FUNERALS GAETZ — Kevin John Goetz. formerly of Fruitvale, died sud- denly July 3 at age 22. PATERSON — Syd Paterson. of Nelson died July 7atage 65. . WARRINGTON Warrington (Dulcie) of Wertieid died July 4 ot age 79. Joy Ramsden Bridge FIRE AGREEMENT . ... Mutual aid agreement, was formally signed by representatives of Tarrys, Robson and Pass Creek fire depar- tments Thursday. Signing the agreements are (from left), front row, Alec Lawrenow, Tarrys fire.chief, Dennis La Hue,. Robson fire chief and Brian Bebelman, Pass Creek fire chief. Standing by are (back -row), Fred Bojey, Area | fire commission chairman, John Voykin, Area | director, Martin Vanderpol, Area J director and Bob Taylor, Robson assistant chief. CosNews Photo by Ryan Wilion Fire departments sign pact By CasNews Staff A mutual aid agreement was signed Thursday by Robson, Pass: Creek and Tarrys fire departments. The agreement has been over three years in the making and allows the fire departments to help each. other in the event of alarge fire or more than one fire. Robson fire chief Dennis LaHue said that prior to the signing, the fire departments weren't legally covered to go out of their area. The agreément was to have included the City of Castlegar and the Castlegar Airport fire departments. Tourist Alert VANCOUVER: (CP) — RCMP ‘tourist alert for Sat- urday. were pulled out of all B.C. government liquor. stores Friday, including the Castlegar store. Though tests showed that the two Morandel brand wines were not laced with the chemical diethylene glycol, the two wines were still not on the shelves at the Castlegar store Saturday. However, traces of the chemical were found in another Austrian wine distributed in Manitoba, says a for the Mi ba Liquor Control C Don Lussier said the wine, Kloster Wein, distributed by Kelleran shift of Austria, was found by Health and Welfare Canada to have two grams per litre of the chemical diethlyne gfycol. “It's dangerous,” said Lussier, who warned con- sumers not to drink the white wine, which sells for about $6 a bottle. Lussier said the wine has not been sold in Alberta or British Columbia but he was uncertain whether it has been distributed in other parts of Canada. Health officials say diethylene glycol — which was used as a sweetener — causes kidney infections in concentrations as low as 0.1 grams per litre. |Craig Harrison, spokesman for Vancouver-based Mark Anthony Wines Merchants Ltd., importer of the Morandel brands, said it was unfair his brands were singled out. He said his company and his supplier “absolutely and Seven: tables of duplicate bridge players competed July 8 in the Grand.National pairs. The average was 84 and the winners were: NORTH-SOUTH Jean Fischer and Agnes Charlton with 98, Don Ellison and Jude Goodwin with 93'/z and Jim and Bev Swain with 86%. EAST-WEST Bill Gorkoff and Stan Jen- kinson: with 101%, Wayne Weaver and Ian Glover with 91 and Grace Donaldson and Helen Ferguson with 89. LIVE AID — The ing people are asked to contact the nearest detachment of the RCMP for urgent personal messages: Richard Campbell, Waswaga, Ont., Bud Chapman, Williams Lake, B.C., Wally Billan, Campbell River. ~ Chiefs Association will meet But LaHue ‘said he is still hopeful the city will enter into an agreement. The.Cas- tlegar and District Fire The outlying districts: feel very uncomfortable without a backup,” Vanderpol said at the June 22. Central Koot- enay Regional District-meet- ing. ‘ “What we need is tankers more than anything else,” La Hue said in an interview. He noted that the Robson fire department has a 4,500 litre pumper truck and a 6,364 litre tanker” truck. Tarrys and Pass Creek each has a pumper and a tanker. Through this agreement, if a fire breaks out any one de- partment will have access to 75 men from the three departments. with the city on Wednesday to discuss the agreement. However, Ald. Albert Cal- derbank said last month after meeting with the Fire Chiefs Association that he was under the impression the fire chiefs wanted to delay the signing until they understood completely | what was invol- ved. But Area J director Martin Vanderpol said his fire chief, La Hue, wanted to go ahead with the agreement. La Hue noted there has been one occasion where an additional fire —department has been involved in a fire. “We tried it out to see if it worked,” he said. But in the end, the extra fire depart- ment| was not needed. La’ Hue also says the agreement will benefit resi- dents of the areas covered by the three departments. “It's an astronomical “amount “of benefit for all people with no extra charge to anybody,” he said. The agreement stipulates that a mutual aid committee will be appointed from the Castlegar and District. Fire Chiefs’ Association. The committee will consist of two members from each fire de- partment. The “committee will prepare a mutual aid res- ponse manual. which will in- clude a separate page or pages for each fire depart- ment participating in the system, showing the name of the department, fire hall location, name of the fire chief, department telephone number and manpower. The fire departments also will not have to reimburse the other departments which are called to help fight a blaze. FORESTS—— conditions of the regional district." The following are some of the findings and-yecommendations-of_the continued from front page On July 2, the Ministry of Forests rejected bids from six companies for the use of the timber because the proposals did not meet “the ministry objective of creating employment through the construction of a new mill in the Nelson area,’’ the forestry sub-committee of the CKMAC reports. In a letter to Cohoe, Dave Oswald, acting regional manager in the Nelson forest service office, says the recom- mendation to provide more wood for existing mills ‘can only be done by weakening the supply base for a new report: * Police file Castlegar RCMP . were called to the Woodland Park area Thursday afternoon to answer a call about a man with a rifle. However, police say they found nothing. timber p facility located near Nelson.** i “By disposing of wood in the West Arm to existing licensees, the new economic’ opportunity for the Nelson area is almost totally removed." Cohoe commented that it appears “the forestry ministry is directly con- © Delivered log costs in the Central Kootenay’ area are $5-10 per cubic metre higher than in the Okanagan, Cariboo and Prince George regions; © A lack of constructive co-operation between some — government ments, the concerned: public and the forest industry has placed an un- necessary burden on the industry; © Much of the sawmilling equipment in place is relatively old and far from state-of-the-art technology; t : *® The outlook for new facil produce standard wood products such as dimension lumber and sheathing plywood is not favorable; © Provided that the existing industry has a secure. long-term timber position, there should be no further dramatic secure supplies.lead to higher levels of sapacity utilization; The_implementation of an accel- erated intensive forestry program in the RDCK would have a significant impact on job creation and the local economy. The manpower adjustment commit- tee is funded by Canada Employment and Immigration, the Ministry of La- bour and the RDCK. Cohoe said phase two of the pro- gram, which will involve development of the opportunities outlined in phase one, will be undertaken by the Mod- ified Industry Labor Adjustment Pro- gram of the federal government. He said the Ministry of Industry dnd Small Business is interested in phase two. Phase three will involve marketing of the conclusions of phase two, Cohoe said. : ‘We believe that someone will take depart- ies to levels. There cerned with the of Nelson, more so than the economic could, in fects be some i phase two and deliver it to the when = ii jity."" ‘Global jukebox’ new Woodstock categorically deny and refute any claim that Morandel wines i shape or form contain the alleged CAUSES SCANDAL ! Harrison said there has been an ongoing scandal in Austria over the spiking of high-quality “pradikat” wines with diethylene glycol, which gives the wine a sweeter taste and fuller body. - Officials in-Cologne, West Germany, said they had seized 490,000 litres of poisoned wine, some containing up to 5.2 grams per litre of the chemical. Health officials have said the chemical causes kidney infections in concentrations as low as 0.1 grams per litre. Harrison said two wine co-operatives — which sell ‘to other companies — from the Burger area of Austria were recently convicted of lacing wine. He complained because Morandel bought some of its Ruster Trockenbeer- enauslese from the same district — though not from those companies — the liquor boards have targeted that company. ~ “It's ridiculous that they would single out Magic Flute, which is not from that region and is a dry, table wine —- a type that has never bedn implicated if the scandal, he said. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A“global jukebox" booming. a plea for Africa's starving people touched hearts and wallets around the world Saturday as organizers used some electronic wizardry to send TV viewers hopping elec- tronically around the world. “Good morning children of the 1980s; this is your Woodstock and it is long overdue,” Joan Baez told 90,000 rock fans and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia where the playbill included Madonna, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan and Canadians Bryan Adams and Neil Young. While the concert evoked the size and good feeling of the 1969 Woodstock bash, it was closer in spirit to the Concert for Bangladesh organized by former Beatle George Harrison in 1971 to raise money for starving children. “If you do nothing, millions of people will die,” concert organizer Bob Geldof said Saturday morning as the music kicked off at Wembley Stadium in London. “Any money that you send in — whichis the point of the whole thing — 100 per cent will go out to Africa,” Geldof said, adding that his organization is buying 60 trucks in the Sudan to move relief supplies to starving people. | The message was heard. In the first hours, ¢alls—- loaded the 1,126 circuits which had been set up in 10 cities across the United States to accept donor pledges. DOUBLES ESTIMATE _said the Irish-born musician, who has been making popular “music work for Africa since last October when he saw TV — films of famine victims in Ethiopia. Allen Spivak, . the of the Philadelphi Pp ~ segment, had earlier predicted $25 million might be raised in the United States, then he doubled that estimate Saturday morning. “We are talking about serious worldwide fundraising and every station that’s picking it up is doing its own telethon,” he said. Outside JFK stadium, police arrested several people foe selling esantertelt souvenirs. Inside, the official T-shirt was selling for $13. + Rockin’. All Over The World was the song which kicked off the 16-hour rockathon, which began in London with the Prince and,Princess of Wales joining a crowd of 72,000 at Wembley Stadium. Two hours later, Baez led the Philadelphia crowd in singing Amazing Grace. . Geldof and-his Boomtown Rats band played their set at _Wembley 45 mats after the concert started and won tumultuous ap} “J just pualized t that today is the best day of my life,” w= The stage was with the slogan “Feed the World,” a message beamed to ‘a jhoped-for audience of 1.5 billion. Almost 100 countries were taking live feeds, and 40 others were getting videotape. In Canada, CTV was broadcasting three hours of the concert beginning at 8 p.m. EDT. The London performers included Spandau Ballet, Elvis Costello, Queen, David Bowie; E}ton John,The Who and Paul McCartney. American bluesman B.B. King performed from the Netherlands, and there were also life feeds from Japan, West Germany, the Soviet Union and Australia. The stages in Philadelphia and London were linked by satellites, a bit of technological wizardry which Geldof called his “global jukebox.” “This is really the big one,” said Eric Bazilian of the Hooters, the first rock group on the 33-metre high stage in Philadelphia. Fans who packed the giant stadium enjoyed the acts as they moved along in rapid succession, those from aboard being shown on three giant.TV screens. 4 = 2 J ; : sv! July 14, 1985 Castlegar News DOLLAR CLIMBS “MONTREAL (CP) — The Canadian dollar climbed 24-100 of a cent Friday to end the day at 74.03 cents U.S., the first. time ‘in almost three months that" it closed above the. 74-cents barrier. Tlie dollar reached as high as 74.05, rising on the back of figures released early in the day indicating that U.S. retail sales in June fell ‘0.8 per cent, the largest one-month fall since July 1984. NO DONATION OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mul- roney apparently did not contribute any money to the Progressive Conservative party last year, according to documents released by the Chief Electoral Office. A “Mr. Brian Mulrooney” and his $275 contri- bution did make it onto the list. But Nick Locke, executive director_of the PC. Canada Fund, doubts there was a spelling mistake on the records and, although he is -unsure, doubts Mulroney contributed funds last year — a year in which the party fought a federal election. Last year's records show Mulroney donation $495 * in 1983. BIG PROBLEM KUALA LUMPUR (CP) — External Affairs Minister Joe Clark urged six Southeast. Asian countries Saturday to join the rest of the world in fighting terrorism. “The world is now aware of_the tragic and frightening proportions of terrorism .and it is important that we take advantage of that awareness and put forward proposals as soon as we can,” Clark said at an open session with the foreign miniisters of the Association of Southeast Asian Natigns. “There was clear consensus among fhe ASEAN countries and others that this is a world problem, not, confined to.any one region or any. one source,” Clark Said. ARMS TALKS. MOSCOW (Reuter) — Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, ona month-long private visit to the Soviet Union, met_ Monsolian leader Zhambyn -~Batmunkh on Saturday for talks on arms contro! and bilateral ties, the official Tass news agency reported. Trudeau, who arrived in Moscow last month, met Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week «and has been touring the country since then. THIRD CHILD? LONDON (AP) — Is she, isn't she, or was she just teasing? Diana, Princess of Wales was reported in British tabloids as telling judges at lunch during a visit to London's Old Bailey Central Criminal Court: “I might be eating for two.”. Tabloids immediately took it as a hint that the 24-year-old Diana, who has.a mischievous ‘sense of humor, could be expecting a third child. But the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, said later the story was “rubbish,” that Diana was not pregnant and that she never said she was. Diana and-Princé.Charles. have two children, Prince William born on June 21, 1982, and Prince Harry born last Sept. 15. MONUMENT OTTAWA (CP) — The governments of Canada, Ireland and India are considering erecting a monument in Ireland honoring. the memory of the victims of the Air-India jumbo jet disaster, an External Affairs Department spokesman said Sat- urday. “the Canadians, Irish and Indians have ageed that something should be done,” Natalie Kirschbreg, a department. duty officer, said in an telephone interview. . TAPE ANALYSIS NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top aviation official has defended his country’s ability to analyse flight records from the Air-India jetliner which crashed in the North Atlantic last month, saying Saturday that Canadian and U.S. investigators are participating as uninvited observers to “protect their interests.” The flight recorders arrived in India early Saturday after being retrieved last week 'from the wreckage on the floor of the North Atlantic, 120 nautical miles off the west coast of Ireland. if Analysis of the tapes, which were plucked from the 2,040-metre depths by the French ship Leon Thevenin using a ine going to be experienced.” inexperienced groups."" called Scarab I, is expected to begin in Bombay on | Tuesday. The experts will try to determine if the crash, which killed 329 people — most of them Canadians of East Indian descent — was caused by a bomb or mechanical failure. 15 INJURED \ PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Fourteen Spaniards and-an American tourist were injured Saturday during the seventh day of running of the bulls in the annual San Fermin Festival, Hospital officials said. The almost one-kilometre run of six fighting bulls and six steers from pens toa bullring’lasted almost 10 minutes instead of the usGal three. One bull turned back: and chased men’on the narrow, cobblestone call went out. “It would be unfair to take the firefighters off in favor of experienced firefighters.""_ Beside, Thiessen added, by that time the in- experienced workers had become experienced. continued from front page “What do they expect? They need 1,500 men all of a sudden to. fight five or six major fires. They're not all He said that although this is his first year fighting a forest fire, he does have a “firefighting ticket.” he said meant he had taken a course. in which, LOST LEDGE FIRE He’said.all the volunteers go through what is called “tailgate training.” “It's about a 20-minute session that explains safety aspects around machinery, especially aircraft, ideas of the structure of command at a fire and the mechanics of a fire." Thiessen added it is a Workers’ Compensation Board A BUSY TIME... One of two helicopters fighting the fire at Lost Ledge Creek hauls buckets, of water and fire retardant (left) to help douse the blaze on the mountainside (below). — Costiews Photos by Simon Burch Thiessen’ said all firefighters are volunteers. “What happened when the situation (at Canal Flats) blew, we let it be known that we were recruiting. “We divided the volunteers into experienced and Thiessen explained that the experienced groups were sent in first and when more men were needed, the inexperienced firefighters were sent in. He said that more experienced firefighters were but they had not come forward when the fist inexperienced that the At Lost Ledge, another firefighter, who also asked not to. be identified, concurred with Thiessen’s des- cription of the training procedure. He’ said he had. received about 15 minutes of instruction, but expected to be briefed further at the scene of the fire. The safety consciousness at Lost Ledge appears to have paid off. The first aid attendant at the camp, Maria Gaarde of a Calgary company that does contract Park A be train Jumps pee on it and says it’s evacuation.’” BUSINESSES continued from front pege The Ran. fire, discovered Friday afternoon, is burning through some of the better timber in the area, said Way, unlike most of the other fires in the region. = There is no immediate threat to communities from fires in any of the regions.. In Invermere, Smith criticized the media for focusing on possible evacuations. every time the Ministry of Forestry talks about the ; plans for rybody - ¢ association president said he doesn’t deny that route are seven major forest fires in the area of the valley, . but ‘‘what we don’t want to happen here is to scare off the tourists because you can have a better than norma! holiday here because the facilities are a bit quieter than they should be."” Bernard Gordon, manager of the 138-room Fairmont “Hot Springs Resort, said the resort is full this weekend, but are down ‘B.C. Forests Ministry officials said that as of noon Saturday there were 695 fires in British Columbia and about 189,000 hecatres have burned so far this season. Thirty-five fires started overnight and 4,670 firefighters were working around the province Saturday. So far this year British Columbia has spent -more than $33 million fighting forest fires. ; QUIET SEASON ___ By ‘contrast the rest-of-the country-is-haying-a-quiet forest fire season. There are eight fires burning in Alberta and 26 in the Northwest Territories — about normal for this time of year, say federal government officials who. monitor the national scene. Consequently other provinces are coming to British Columbia's assistance with equipment. Quebec has offered to send two Canadair CL215 water. bombers if needed, while Alberta and On o are providing other equipment. The Armed Forces has supplied heli. copters and trucks. In nine states in*the western United States slightly ‘cooler weather helped firefighters battling blazes there. In recent weeks fire has covered about 445,000 hectares in the U.S. In the Ventura County community of Ojai, Calif., residents once threatened by fire now fear a different sort of wrath from nature — rains that could flood the town because the watershed was burned away by a 38,446-hectare fire that was virtually contained Friday night. In the Santa Cruz mountains a fire that forced 4,500 people to flee their homes was almost under control: And in Oregon, fires that burned 121,410 hectares were contained, but three new blazes broke.out in South Dakota. Firefighters enjoy jobs SKOOKUMCHUCK, B.C. (CP) — David Elmes had-a close encounter with a forest fire Friday — his first day on the job as a firefighter. But rather than intimidating him, the brush left him hankering for more. The 18-year-old from Nelson was singed red on his arms, face and neck while he was working in a so-called “safe spot” at the back of the Ram Creek fire — the fastest growing blaze in the Invermere area of south- eastern British Columbia. Elmes and four of his Nelson buddies were shovelling dirt onto smoldering areas and small fires at the rear of the fire. : z Suddenly flames from a little fire at the foot of a charred tree were jumping higher as the wind gusted up to 38 kilometres an hour. Division boss Wayne Thorp, who was suryeying his area, quickly and calmly called for a helicopter to dimp water on the fire. Within minutes the whirring helicopter appeared ve the crew to drop its load of water on them. The lames continued — a second dump was ordered. It was enough to cool the flames and put out the fire — at least for a while. a ees ate Back up the embankment and on the dirt logging road; crew boss Doug Gomans, a certified first-aid attendant, examined Elmes reddened skin. He told Elmes to return to camp for treatment. WANTED TO STAY Elmes said he didn't want to go. He said he'd go later. Gowans persisted a bit, but Elmes was adamant. He was enjoying himself too much. “I enjoyed that. I like it a lot. “I like hiking and being in the bush,” said the young man, who thinks he might go into forestry. ___His_friends-were-equally-excited-about .their-first confrontation with a real fire. “It's great, it’s just excellent,” said 18-year-old Spencer Stevens, his face blackened by soot and streaked with sweat. oe “That's a bit of sarcasm,” he added but, “It’s really exciting with some fire chasing you. Yov find out how fast you can run.” Andrew. Gomez, also 18, admitted, “ but it’s what I'm here: to do.” Gomez gave up his part-time job at a Nelson service station to come to the Invermere area, presently a second home for 700 firefighters. He and the other four on the crew said they came for the money — $6.80 an hour and up to 16 hours a day. ‘They had a half-hour crash course on firefighting-and were given a pamphlet to read explaining some safety precautiors. “it’s pretty scary, “work for the forest service, said there hadn't been any serious injuries at the fire so far. - But there had been minor annoyances, she said. “Blisters. They all get foot-sore-up there. They do a lot of climbing."” PORT PERRY, Ont. (CP) — A team of cooks in this |} community,north of Oshawa has. set what may-be a world record for the largest pan- cake flip. Using 105 pounds of batt- er, the cooks whipped up a foot pancake in an aluminum frying pan, then ff the achieve- ment’by fi ping it i 230-pound pan with 40-pound lid. ‘The six cooks say they will apply for the official record to the Guinness Book of World _ Records, which lists a six-foot pancake in Wisconsin in 1980 as the largest flapjack ever flipped. - Cooks attempt world record could do better”. Cottrell said he thought the record attempt would add interest to a pancake he “It was a more than anything else,” said team member Jack Cottrell. “We know the world record was six feet and knew we as part of festival days celebra- tions by the Port’: Perry Chamber of Commerce during the —— Gomez said it has helped, but-when-you-get out-on- the fire lines, “It's instinct basically.” PROUD OF CREW . their inexperience, Gowans is proud of his “My guys are all top-notch. Im not afraid to send them on any job that's required even though none of them was fought a fire before.” The job is a brutal one for the money. It means staying in a makeshift camp for 21 days at a time. Some camps have been without showers for four or five days. Most now have showers available. For the firefighters — mostly young men, many of whom were unemployed or on welfare — it’s up at 5 a.m., breakfast at'6 and in a school bus for a bone-rattling, nerv king ride up the i From then on it’s heavy slogging. Digging what dirt is available and shovelling it onto hot spots and fires or else cutting down trees and clearing a 50 foot width between the trees for-a fire guard.