HALLOWEEN, children and UNICEF all go, “ane together. Three and a half-month: -alds. dk “Benjiman Cram is a little too young’ to even know what Halloween is all about but Barry Grunerud, a Grade 3 Twins Rivers student, like many other “school” 9 students will include district no. UNICEF (United N Pyyion LAO surface. .. :mail embargo. |, Bilfectiv8 immediately, ‘Canada’ Post: will’no longer accept surface mail destined f° for Lao People's Democratic Republic (formerly Laos). The embargo is rieces,, sary, Canada Post officials revealed, owing to difficulties in service to the country. Normally, air and surface mail, including. parcels, for, asit g Historic building cy Perdue, who had ‘worked, ‘ ~ for, over.40 years with both SOE contalier shown here ‘bein: Local ca-ordindtor Sandi Hole by Bory this is the only annual fund- taising event held by UNICEF and catls shot 251 this year is the h y Children’s Emergency Fund) in their The: ‘S$ SUppor- ting UNICEF will have the official orange every $1 oy “donate,” anada and the re country so the dollar actually triples. y. “For says Cram, is ing the Cify of Nelson and Inland Natural; Gas. eee Speaking on behalf of Inland, the company's vice president of Finance, C.1. (Cliff) Kleven, said that the company was very pleased with the buildings’ restor- Lao are routed via ‘Hong Kong. 2 Authorities in Hong Kong have advised that ithas - now become necessary to suspend.all service to Lao People’s Democratic Repb- Me, USSR postal authorities have agreed to accept ‘air mail items, including alr par. - cels, for Lao. Most the the system was installed usitig cast and mall- eable iron mains and services tosupply’ some 600° cus-. tomere ‘Availability of nat- ural gas placed Nelson’in the forefront of modern cities in the province in the gas light era, Residential and’ com- mercial. establishments soon came’ to: depend on gas for cooking, heating and lighting. Ornate wall mounted. and chandelier-type gas lights were still in evidence in many Nelson buildings up to the 1950's, In 1913 he continued, the company’ had around 800 customers, most equipped with pre-pay nickel and quar- ter meters located in closets, " ation and idered it fitting i to be bed: and which it made col- purpose that it was built at the turn of the century. He explained that the Inland building, together with the emporium next door, were originally built in 1900 to ac- -commodate the Nelson Coke and Gas Works which were engineered by L.L. Merri- field and. David Morris, . The plant, he said, was designed to change Crows- nest Pass coal into coke, tar j Fuel ratings baffle » the average motorist: An automotive writer since 1960 and for six years Canadian and U.S. exhaust emissions law have created . an auto industry Max Wickens now is an edi- tor with The Spectator. BY MAX WICKENS HAMILTON SPECTATOR HAMILTON (CP) — The task of trying to give Can- adians an annual fuel-con- sumption forecast on. each new year's crop of cars is about as tough as trying to measure or predict how blue the sky will be each day. As a result, federal ratings réleased Monday — suggesting 1981's new cars will have an average thirst of just 9.4 ‘litres a 100 kilo- metres — can't be regarded as a promise on a stack of bibles, As things stand, for ex- ample, some drivers who check their cars’ performance in the year ahead will almost certainly continue-to express bewilderment, frustration and even downright anger at failing to come close to dup- licating the appropriate rat- ings for their cars. Moreover they'll discov- er the situation is likely’ to persist, even after careful tuneups and scrupulous ef- forts to eliminate lead-foot driving habits. In encountering _ this clash between official figures and real-life facts, motorists appear to be the victims of a baffling grab“ bag of .ill- explained and poorly under- stood factors. Among them: + — The government- authorized ratings can't and don't necessarily relate to real-life driving. The result of highly-artificial laboratory tests, the ratings usually do little more. than furnish a. yardstick for rough compar- ison of one car against another. — Differences between The PINE BASKET HOUSE Gift Shop Pine Needle Baskets Carvings _fuel-mileage pro The have grown apart over the last five years and are likely to diverge even’ further be- fore 1985. . 7 Confusion also results from advertisers emphasiz- ing one instead of all three ratings com- puted for each car. The full range measured covers high- way, city and then harmon- ically averaged performance. The temptation is .for an advertiser to spotlight only a * car's t dit figure, conversion and’ :“ednfasion over its terminology have also clouded the situation. This shows up in muddled car industry advertising which attempts varying ‘combina- tions of imperial and metric measures, — It also bears noting that any car's actual fuel consumption varies not only according to driving habits and type of driving, but also according to a car's state of tune, and even according to weather and road conditions. 4 key point, not usually d, is that ‘vehicle- usually that for highway con- sumption, qualifying it with asterisks and fine-point. ~ — Resistance to metric aa tite do each year’s actual testing and turn their results over to Transport Canada, subject to audit. and ed .gas, through the use of what was then considered very modern machinery. Although the principal by-product of the gas works was manufactured -gas, by 1907 the management was also able to advertise lection difficult. It was’ in 1918 he said, the City of Nelson: assumed the res- : ponsibility for the plant and _ distribution system under the supervision of Frank Stringer Sr. The city continued to upgrade the system, and with new technology con: verted to propane air in 1948. By 1954, the -familiar land mark to many, the old gaso- meter had disappeared. In 1956, he said, Inland purchased the distribution ‘system, and following inspec- tion decided to install an en- tirely new welded steel sys- tem. Natural gas. was sup- plied through the system for the first time in 1957. « a Voice of the People — Faltor, Castlegar News: .' Re the problem existing on Highway 3 and Cr Crescent. i T’ presented a length: * letter to the committee look’ ing into “speeding in Cast! gar” last summer and: was pleased, when some of..my suggestions wero acted ‘up: by the highways departmer However, I still cannot 1 derstand why the: ,ba which is causing the visibili ighway, At, art we would’, then; have speeders ing, ae us! sagt ie only: 083 au highway at iene the““children problem, has not been ree: g moved — but since it has no! T believe two steps could taken immediately to the hazard. 150m" sign should be ing ta from: the curve on the high- aT ‘will agree ‘with Mrs, = that we might have busier school crossings — but . certainly not one more dans: "Friendly ‘service -at both libraries Editor, Castlegar News: Recently, I visited the Castlegar Public Library and. was greeted, not. only with | with. friendliness, but prompt, -practical help © in finding what I required, A week later, my hus- band and I visited Selkirk Colleze Library one evening and received the same friend- ly und helpful service there. our local libraries! ~ ‘Mra, Margaret Pryce 410; 8th Avenue CLOSING OUT SALE CONCLUDES THIS WEEK PRICE ON SEWING NOTIONS oe OFF ALL FABRICS IN STOCK V3 OFF LADIES" LINGERIE and OTHER READY WEAR pitch, ¢reasote, preserving oils, paint andi tar :paper for ~| é the doi merical “piitket. ““ j He pointed out that the builditig was éxtremely well constructed and used local granite to house the ‘mach- inery in a.secure ‘fire re- tardent structure. Stone was blasted from.a quarry: near the Hall Mine Smelter, shap- ed into blocks which made up the exterior walls, with an average thickness of two feet. Brick was used for flooring in portions of the in- terior, and also as architec- tural’ detail over the win- dows. When the plant and gas making equipment were in place, he said, a man- ufactured gas distribution system was installed throughout the city which was the second only to Vic- toria in the Province. Series 1 33 45 MINI BINGO Win Ca$h and Prizes 9:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Weekdays: 11:15 a.m. “1215 pam. Enter for Bonus Prize Driws at Participating Merchants Your, Carpet. --. Headquarters... 365-7771 Carpets by Ivan Oglow | 365-5569 Save now at... HARRY'S DRY GOODS & CLOTHING Across from the Theatre - about » My © thanks “‘'to : those | helpful, courteous workers in i] follows: gorous. I geieae that "di \- hill traffic is the biggest d: ger. One can see. what is coming down for some dis; tance and for 17 years living here I have never heard of an out-of-control accident, whereas’ at least two a dents have been caused by speeding uphill cars. By the . way, if Mra. Jonds is wortled out-of-control cars, what is the school bus doing stopping. for pick-up where it does? Let us get that, patrol right. now — and the under- ‘pass even sooner! Like yes- terday! “Not:an educational use* of taxpayers’ money” Mrs. Jones? Of course not and if the situation remains, you might even be able to * save the cost of educating a couple of our children. Ingeborg Thor-Larsen 2192 Crestview Crescent Circulction Dept., Castlegar News, Box 3007, Castleger, B.C. VIN 3H4 Yes, t'm interested in get- ‘ting the Castlegar News os O corrier [1 Mall Please. contact me with details, Name (Please Print) 4 Address Or better still, phone 365-7266 Gifts. So hang onto it. 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Scientists at the Mar- shall Space Flight Centre. in “Huntsville, Ala., are experi- menting with «the. use. of. * sound, waves to make small . objects violate gravity, “ty It's called acoustic levi- tation, .and National Aero- nautics ‘and Space Admiinis- tration researchers “believe the concept will improve the . ft tia bulk ‘of. 2 : occuples a d “We ‘expect Columbia Glacier to" have’ retreated about: five'miles (eight kilo-' - metres) by’ 1986,” says De way materials are processed = Mark aboard spacecraft. + “The concept of proces- sing materials in the weight- letsness of space is nota new + oie,”. says. Richard Black; a space engineer. ‘But suspending ‘material ,- - itt.an: open“'space “within a furnace,: and processing it without touching or being. touched -by potentially con- taminating. walls, is new. It's In the ne new. process, to go aboard the Space Shuttle, an acoustic levitator would .em- ploy a vibrator directing high energy sound waves tocreate an “energy’ well.” “After the furnace is activated,” NASA says, “the material sample ‘is ‘injected into the energy well, where it remains suspended while’ go- ing through the melting, mixing and cooling cycle. An Alaskan glacier: ap- pears to.be unstable and on the verge of a drastic retreat, the U.S. ‘Geological Survey reports. It could release large icebergs into the oil shipping Janes of Prince William Sound near Port Valdez. . “Columbia Glacier is both, unique and potentially un- stable’ because it is the’ last glacier in North America that , still extends out over and fills ‘a détp fjqrd,” the USGS says. Although’ the tip-of the iasenrseseat rio how rests on: shoals in, discharged into’ the narrow ° Valdez arm of ] fies from the Univer- ‘Maryland, Howard varsity, ‘the. Géddard Flight Centre “and a Na gh European: insti- - goo A--sexual difference in ‘the ways the: brain repairs" itself, after injury has: been : apace fn ania resort early: expose to hormones. : “Another possibld! expla: nation is that ‘in‘!adulte, circulating hormones; may -enhance: sprouting ‘females, or: depress sprouting in males, in response to: an injury.” : While the exact role of this sprouting of new con- nections’ is not understood, ‘at the’ Uni- versity .of’ California (San Diego) school of. medicine. The Bi SA hers ‘say, the finding of the sexual component could lead to further studies. | * 1 RS ed an area of rat brain withia seetion dart at the- Salk’ Institute are using a new: thea to be lnvolved ‘learning and te fo formation of in’ * researchers .can.injett small J .. quantities of a brain, in'a . |, to repair ‘the shes D 'PFOy: cell-tec Using the: international th _ultraviolet explorer satellite, -Paul Feldman, a Johns: Hop- kins - Uni “ aeted :with nearby neutrons él communication, re- 3 te robe — to monitor the. function char, The institute’ says re- "searchers can mimic a‘brain. cell's ti I process of ; “However i in| the: female: to other fs “nerve cells by releasing small amounts of chemicals, called.| and can: dis: brains, the sprouting process. cist, and other scientists have confirmed © the | Whipple’ theory by observations of the comet Bradford last January and February. ~ “It is clear that “the nucleus of a comet contains - water in some form at a temperature of about minus 173 |: degrees . Feldman reports in the Brit- ish journal Nature.,“The évi- dence‘suggests that comets do indeed have acommon origin in the solar system, al-. though’ we do not yet know where.that origin is.” The makeup of comets includes. hydrogen, oxygen and hydroxyl; carbon mon-; sulphide and other carbon containing molecules like car- bon monoxide. Their form depends on the comet’s close- ness to the sun. Other, ie ‘in the * was more centigrade,”. than i the’ male brains,” the univer- the same,