[ Canners concerned | Accusations d KITCHENER, ONT. (CP) — A major manufacturer of home canning lids in Sem is using a new when they don’t seal, they don't store. Riddle said the old latex sealing tinue'to use whatever meth- ods their recipes call for — whether just packing the hot * make the rubber-like Saline ring on the lids — and it’s causing concern among home canners. Richard Riddle, assistant general manager of Bernar- din of Canada Ltd., said un- like previous lids used in preserving, these don’t need to be screwed on as tightly because the, compound grips better. But the new lids are wor- rying some home canners be- cause they have found some of this year's pickles and relishes haven't sealed. And’ Besital to screw it on firmly to seal it. But he said because the new compund grips better, screwing the band on too tightly won't allow the air to escape — a process called venting that is necessary to create a vacuum and air-tight seal, “They may be screwing it down exactly like last year but with the new sealing gasket this year it doesn't have to be screwed down as tightly.” Home canners should con- Unusual life seen in B.C. VANCOUVER. (CP) — Zoologist Wayne Campbell thinks it’s quite likely that the brown body, along with the brown booby, along with many unusual birds and fish, has found its way to B.C. this year. The reason is the Pacific Ocean phenomenon known as the El Nino current, which has brought the warmest waters in 40. years to the, B.C. coast. The warming trend, which has been blamed for freak weather around the world in the past year, has raised temperatures by much as three degrees off the west coast of Vancouver Island and disturbed normal ocean flows. “The warm current is taking many food resources (plankton) farther north than usual so the birds and fish are following the food,” says Campbell, associate curator of vertebrate zoology at the Provineial museum in Victoria. “This year we've had in B.C. some birds that normally live in southern California and have never been seen in Canada before, because the food supply goes along with the current.” Commenting on fish that are not normally in B.C. waters, Campbell said sunfish have been spotted among sea otters in Checleset Bay on the west coast of Vancouver Island. “That's quite ridiculous because sunfish are ~ such as pickles; or using steam pressure meth- ods, Riddle said. But with the new com- pound it is important to boil the lids for the recommended five. minutes, not only to’ sterilize them but also to ac- tivate and soften the com- pound, he said. wt When the lid’ is then applied to the jar and pressed down it creates a seal. As the product cools and contracts, a vacuum is created causing the flat metal lid to indent or audibly “snap.” Riddle said canners should never try to tighten the band again because that will tend to break the seal. In fact, he said, after the seal is achieved, the screw bands can be removed and used on other jars since the seal depends on the com- pound bounding to the jar rim, with the band only helping to’ get‘ it started. While you can re-use the screw band, always use new lids to ensure a perfect seal. Although the compound is new this year on Bi BU RINGZON: ONT, (CP) — mother as separated from her husband for'three years is embroiled in a bitter pein ‘with her church after publicly-accused from vag F ulplt of committing adultery. « Tina Selles heard the alle: gation from the pulpit of the Canadian Reformed Church of Burlington West in Feb- ruary, 1977, and ‘said it has left her ostracized, dispirited and protesting her innocence, over years of legal negoti- ations with the church. The church claims Selles violated the Seventh’ ‘Com- mandent when’she separated from her husband in 1974, It - interprets the commandment 66-year-old grand-. cusatjon. For, years she has hoiies.. In i974, she ‘left her, her “ fnnocence to, the ‘church el- ders, who pressed ber for'a confession. i LEAVES CHURCH A few’ months .after the initial allegation, the congre- gation was told ‘that she hud given nip be her membership in the church: Selles ‘said ‘she® shad to leave because of the pressure. ‘She_had belonged: : to the faith since her birth: » “Whereis the, proof?” Where is'their evidence, Wit: | nesses?’””’ /Selles asked ‘.an- grily. “I'never.even went, ‘but with another man.” Faber refused further 6 com: ment onthe case until the church council meets, , Noel Bates,. Sel- 1, a8 well as physical adultery, Herman Faber, the lawyer. representing the church, said’ in a letter. to Selles’s lawyer that the announcement frora the pulpit that morning™“con- ‘eluded: with an appeal ; to aménd her ways.” “If a person acts.in a way that destroys a wholesome. marital relationship, that constitutes a breach of the lids, it has been used by An- chor’ Cap and Closure in Canada and other lid manu- facturers United States for several years. Seventh C Fa: ber said. Selles has not worshippéd at the church, about 10 kil- ometres north of Hamilton, Ont., since the day of the ac- + les's lawyer, said the only aspect. of . adultery that, chureh doctrine is concerned with “is a sexual aspect.” Bates is asking the church for an unconditional _ with- Grawal of the allegation of . adultery, a public’ statement of apology and n of. Selles to the church, retro- active ‘to 1977. : The Selles couple, who have five children, married in Holland in’ 1951. before. emi- grating to Canada. Tina Selles stayed home to raise her family but some- ‘times “found work cleaning because of “domes- tle troubles.” She had, suf fered. a nervous: breakdown: vend was under a bys an's . CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 18, 1983 isputed ) “He said: would admit the sin against ‘We wish you GROCETERIA & LAUNDROMAT the ‘and the ‘care. “It took a lot out of me'to leave. didn’t pack up all of a Sudden and say Iwas fed up with marriage,” he eal ~ FINDS JOB She ‘first lived with hes sister, © then got her own apartment and” supported herself as an aide ina nursing ‘home. ct ae the three years she’ was ‘separated, Selles saw her husband-and, ‘chil: dren Two months } before ahe ‘and her’ husband reconeiled in 1977, the’ minister ‘made’ the allegation against her in his sermon. \ A look at Verigin's tomb ' : PART ONE “When I was a kid,” said V.K.' “we lived in a little house just below and to the left of the tomb and I can't tell you how many. times that house was shaken to its foundations and our windows were blown out by the explosions.” And she laughed alittle shakily at ole half-forgotten memories, The “tomb” to which V.K, refers, is known locally as “Verigin's Tomb” and is a favorite Kootenay tourist attraction. It was built for Peter (Lordly) Verigin, the man who first. brought the Doukhobors to Canada, and who in 1924 was killed.in a destructive train explosion. For. many years the tomb was a decidedly unquiet resting place, for as V.K.'s words indicate, it was the target of a number of destructive dynamite-bomb attacks whieh reflected an earlier Bid ore violent period in the munity of Brilliant. Here green, well-tended lawns, rose gardens, a tea house and a guest house spread out before one while in the background a great flat rock procl: in PETER V. VERIGIN 1859 - 1924 “That is Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader,” John A. Mackie of the legislative assembly of British Columbia, ‘ked to a fellow English and Russian Peter's motto “Toil and Peaceful Life” — all of which gives it.an air of tranquility and permanence. If one stands on the massive, raised concrete tomb itself, one has an unparalleled view of the lower Kootenay “a lumbia River valleys against the background of the ‘k mountains while the attractive guides.in their eh Peasant costumes make the visit a warm and agreeable experience. It was not always so. What today is a charming attraction to many. visitors and a shrine to many Doukhobors, was a few yeara ago a scene of violence, desecretion and ‘the visible evidence of serious discord among the various groups in the valleys of the Columbia, Kootenay and elsewhere. Putting together s coherent story. ofthe history of ~the-tomb is-also: fraught with; difficulties, if. Wright, then goes on to tell us that Verigin who had tickets to Castlegar, did not get off there but instead, purchased two more tickets to Grand Forks, 100 kil- ~ ometres away. Some more passengers get on at Tunnell, 40 kilometres further west and the train started to climb steadily until it reached the Farron summit, an altitude of 1,212 metres, where the pusher engine was uncoupled and a cafe car added. There were now 20 people dozing in various positions in the day coach. “Leaving the day coach, the conductor and trainman walked over the -shifting, clanging iron plates of the vestibule and into the baggage car. The door slanmed shut behind them and they reached the far end of the car, where the: conductor said to ‘the baggageman ‘We're a one does not read Russian, and because information can only be found in widely scattered sources — usually in relation to some other topic. However, we will give ita try over the next two or three weeks. The actual tomb as seen today bears little it has undergone many drastic changes during the past 60 years and there are few visitors and even few local - citizens who are fully aware of its violent beginnings or its stormy history. IF.C. Wright, writing in the 29th chapter of “Slava Bohu,” (“Praised by God"), an early history of the Doukhobors, sets the stage for the story: “On the night of Oct. 28, 1924, at Brilliant station, 2 Little group of the faithful saw Peter Vasilievitch (Lordly) Verigin board the Canadian Pacific’s Kootenay Express, bound through the With him was Mary Streliova, one of his maids. They found a seat about the middle of the day coach. A Doukhobor man who had carried Petushka's suitcase into the train and put it carefully under his seat, bowed, and left., Another Doukhobor travelling to'one of the a farther resemblance to the original built for Peter: “Lordly” since © that: pele tore ‘ off the.. badgagecar na and knocked’ down’ the two men.’ When the conductor and trainman had forced their way through the wreckage of the. day coach they found the roof and north side gone, a growing fire in the centre of the ee and six badly wounded: people lying in the “wre “Int the boulder-strewn ditch on the north side of the tracks, and amidst stunted spruce’ trees now lighted up by the crackling flames of the wooden coach, train crew * and passengers from the sleeping car found the rest of the ill-fated passengers.” Peter Verigin, blown 30 metres from the track, a gaping wound in his side and one leg almost severed, was dead, his bearded face staring up at the cold starry sky he would never see again. Mackie, the member of the legislature, who had been sitting in an adjacent seat was also dead. Mary Streliova, whose clothes were half torn from her body, was dying. Hakkim Singh, a Hindu, was battered beyond recognition. And at least 10 others were west, sat a respectful distance from the leader. 2m BEATS PAYING FOR GAS . . . Glen Honseth and Jenni- fer Maitland obviously find horse and buggy slightly _ Slower, but much more dependable than Gisdarn On the other side of the right-of-way, 60 metres from 277MM OMOOEMOMNANMNNNMNMMATMMNNMNONNMN transportation for trips around town. —CorNews Photo JOHN CHARTERS’. a Reflections &. Recollections QUIET PLACE... . Tomb of Peter (tordly) Verigin isa tranquil spot and popular area tourist attraction "oof, which’ had been hurled in the’ opposite ‘direction by the force of the blast. The train was then divided by the train crew. The ~ sleeper of wounded being taken hurriedly over the 100 kilometres of rail to the hospital at Nelson, and the dead and uninjured going on to Grand Forks. The train of injured arrived at 5:45 a.m. but Mary and two others had already died en route and Bishop, the popular hockey player who had been sitting in the seat opposite, died in hospital. s Speculation as to’ the cause or reason for the explosion was both widespread and varied, but the discovery of an alarm clock and batteries point to a deliberate, premeditated act. The British Columbia Provincial Police posted a reward notice of $2,000 in English, Ukranian, Polish and Russian but no one came forward to claim it. a The news of Peter’s death spread like wildfire as people reacted first with disbelief, then with shock. Some dropped whatever they were doing and hurried to Brilliant to hear for themselves. Some, including Anastasia Holuboff, who later tried to’ take over from the dead leader, boarded the first Mn evaannsarreaaeusacanin ‘freight train for Grand Forks, Gees cgi a See examining the bodies of Verigin ‘and Mackay, both men in the hands and knees, bowing in humility. Later that evening a special train carrying the body of Peter Verigin and several hundred of his followers left Grand Forks for Brilliant, and for five days with prayers, » hymns ‘dnd tears, the Doukhobors mourned their dead leader. ° On Sunday, Nov. 2, the coffin containing the body was taken from the Brilliant community hall and after an address in Russian and English by Larrion Verigin, the funeral cortege of between 7,000 and 10,000 people (including 600 non-Doukhobors who came by special train from Nelson) started on the two-and-a-half kilometre walk to the tomb cut in the rock above Brilliant. "NEXT WEEK: More history ONLY OPTION FOR UNEMPLOYED Going to college By CHISHOLM MacDONALD TORONTO (CP) — Unable to find a job, young people are applying in record numbers to enrol at post-secondary schools across Canada this year — and are being turned away in increasing numbers. Wait a minute! If jobs are so scarce, where are the students getting the money to go to college? The answer is a fairly generous grant and loan program set up some years ago by the federal and provincial govern- ments to ensure that even needy students could get a basic college education if their marks were good enough. But acceptance is the major problem this year as over- crowded universities, especially in the bigger urban areas, say they are forced to reject hundreds of prospective stu- dents because of a lack of facilities or funds. For example, York University in Toronto has turned away 1,400 qualified applicants, freezing first-year student enrolment at last year’s level even though applications Dalh a fee increase of up to 15 per cent for the anise academic year. But there, as at other universities, grants, loans and, in some cases, scholarships are available to defray much of the costs. . NOT UNIFORM There's no blanket formula across Canada for students to apply for financial assistance, and even individual provinces look at each case separately. In Ontario, there's a general rule of thumb — education costs minus student-parent resources equals need, says Frances Lamb, acting manager of customer services in the - student awards branch of the Ministry of Education. And need means a free grant from the province. Lamb said there are too many variables to give a concrete example of how much a student might get in a grant. The maximum, though not unlimited, would vary from student to student, his financial situation, the town, the increased by 16 per cent. York, with an 1 of 15,000, is also setting stiffer entrance requirements. - Statistics Canada estimated this year's university enrolment at 487,860 and next year's at 444,610, compared with 424,480 during the 1982-83 academic year. However, the rush is not so frenzied towards non-university institu- tions, such as community colleges. CAN'T FIND JOBS With the job market so shaky — the July unemploy- ment rate for people between 16 and 24 was 19.7 per cent — more young people are deciding to further their education, the federal agency said. Mark Giberson, information officer with the Ottawa- based Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, said a student wouldn't have to live too high to spend $5,000 a year at a big-town university, considering the cost of tuition, room and board, books, laboratory and other fees, travel and incidentals. y or college and other factors. “If a student hoped to qualify for a maximum grant — maximum in his case — of say, $2,500, his costs would have to be proven, as would his resources and assets and his parents’ ability to pay.” If he had a scholarship, some but not all of it would be considered his resources. And then there's the federal student loan, administered by the provinces. INCREASING FUNDS The federal government is proposing to increase the maximum loan to $100 from $56.25 a week for full-time students. This would be $8,200 per academic year. Maximum for part-time students would be $2,500 a year. Unemployed graduates wouldn't have to start repaying their loans, with interest, until 18 months after leaving school. Start of for empl grad would remain at six months.