Smith laser show wins hoopla war WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) — Attorney General Brian Smith appeared to win the hoopla war Tuesday night with a laser show and blaring theme song in his bid to grab delegate loyalty in today’s British Columbia Social Credit party leadership vote The lasers may have introduced the party to a new high-tech era but the speeches of all 12 candidates seeking to sueceed Premier Bill Bennett focused on party staples — populism, socialist baiting and fed bashing. Today, 1,300 delegates in this mountain resort cast their ballots and the party will be led by someone other than Bill or W.A.C. Bennett for the first time in 34 years. Smith showed off his new speaking style with tough-guy clenched fists and energy in his voice. The substance was that with his experience in government he can tackle the immediate problems facing the new premier ineluding negotiations with the B.C. Government Employees Union ‘and the Western premiers conference 10 days from now in Edmonton. Millionaire nurseryman Bill Vander Zalm couldn't match Smith's lasers. And the usually witty speaker turned in a solid, if uninspired, speech focusing on issues like the economy and free trade. He suggested he could win the leadership on the first ballot and added: “There will be no prearranged deals with anyone to obtain delegates. SPOTS NOT FOR SALE Vander Zalm also said positions in his cabinet would be earned and not purchased by candidates delivering dele- gates to him. Kim Campbell, who is running at the back of the pack, herself from the crowd by joking about her tiny demonstration. “It's hard to find an elephant to rent up here on short notice,” she said. Other candidates like former energy minister Stephen Rogers and backbencher John Reynolds said they could be the “unity” candidates coming through the middle of the pack. Frontrunner Grace McCarthy gave a classic MeCarthy speech filled with enthusiasm and touching on the old-line Social Credit values of grassroots decision-making, free enterprise and individuality. Her speech was preceded by a slick film presentation and a massive demonstration by some of the 400 volunteers her campaign claims. But for some candidtates, the speeches were a chance to address their own weaknesses. For Health Minister Jim Nielsen, it was a personal problem that tarnished his fine government record. Earlier this year, he was beaten by the estranged husband of s female friend. ERRORS ARE MADE “We all make mistakes,” he told delegates in the hot, muggy convention centre. “Admitting we make mistakes is the sign of a leader.” His wife, Jean, had accompanied Nielsen to the platform. for Bennett's former principal Bud Smith, who has never been elected, it was the issue of inexperience. “For the premier’s office, the only experience that really matters is from serving the office itself,” he told the crowd dotted with his supporters wearing his green scarves. “Anyone who tells you differently is simply wrong.” Bob Wenman, a B.C. Progressive Conservative member of Parliament, hammered on his love of the province and his party service when W.A.C. Bennett was premier and Wenman was the youngest member of the legislature. Candidates not expected to finish in the top four also gave hints about who they might support when they drop off the ballot. BRIAN SMITH . high-tech era Bre sere TIEN ce ——? CHICKEN 2: BREASTS 5505), 9229 FRESH FRYING CHICKEN kg. J [kg &m____| DRUMSTICKS | sqis, $1 88 BLADE CANADA GRADE A STEA .52141,99° CROSS | RIB Be) FEWER FOREST FIRES Lousy weather good news for firefighters Walsh said 190 of the 208 fires last year were caused by dry li ing strikes, pared to 20 used fires this year. ROASTS :"".. COIL GARLIC RING 37° $19? | etme nes SUMMER SA SAGE sxx. 66 ICED TEAMIX $369 MARGARINE 2 $19 PEANUT STE 5369) CRAC FINISHING TOUCHES . . . Marcel Audet lines up some lumber as he works on putting up a fence along Columbia Avenue at the site of the new Arrow Forest District offices. Construction of the offices and the site is nearing completion Costtews Photo features avolleyball tournament, canoe races and a fire- men’s waterball contest. MICKEY TARASOFF of Mother Nature's Pantry in Castlegar has been busy with renovations that increased the size of the store and provided more services in the natural food line. THE B.C. HEART FOUNDATION has raised. $4.7 million, surpassing its 1986 fund-raising goal of $3.9 million. More than 53,000 B.C. volunteers joined the Canada-wide fund-raising effort this year. THE B.C. LIONS Society for crippled children is making charity easy. On Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. all Safeway stores in B.C. will sell ice cream floats for charity. For just $1, shoppers can purchase an A & W root beer/Lucerne ice cream float. Every dollar will be donated to the Lions’ Easter Seal Campaign. sS Castlégar News TREET TALK CASTLEGAR AND DISTRICT Development Board is open for business in the Ogiow Building across the hall from CKQR radic. Directors Harry Stan and Richard Maddecks welcome suggestions and ideas from 8:30 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. ANN STASILA, Castlegar Chamber of Commerce adminfstrator, has written a letter in defence of Castlegar on behalf of the chamber to a Saskatoon newspaper that The weather may have been lousy so far this summer, but the cool, damp conditions are saving the provincial But Walsh noted the strikes this year have been government a bundle fighting forest fires in the Arrow accompanied by rain. Forest District. it - a As of today, the government has spent $267,000 fighting BR chicory et pir al le une reer ' 35 forest fires in the district. As a gauge of this year’s remarkable turnaround in ‘That compares to the $3 million cost of fighting 203 fires conditions, Walsh pointed out that so far this July, the forest in the district as of Aug. 1, 1985. In the Arrow district alone service has rated 17 days as danger class one, the lowest last year, the cost of fighting forest fires was more than danger class on the scale of fire hazards. $126,000 a day. This year, that total is a mere $79 a day. Eleven other days were rated danger class two. ime still got 30 days potential (for hot, dry Last July, the fire hazard was rated extreme on 10 days, jitions) . . CRACKERS LEMON JUICE KRAFT SMOOTH OR CRUNCHY ..1 MARSHMALLOWS SALAD DRESSINGS KRAFT REGULAR AND wee 14 FLAVORS. POURABLE. ON THE BUS . . . Kootenay area delegates to the Social Credit leadership convention depart for Whistler by bus Sunday from the Sandman Inn. Included were protection officer Skip Walsh said today. “We'll never get to the critical situation we had last year.” ‘That moons he Sree eS will stay green this year instead of turning black. By Aug. 1 last year, fire had consumed 5,077 hectares of forest in the Arrow district. This year, the total is only 166 hectares. Much of that was burned in a single fire, nicknamed the ‘B' fire, near the summit of the Castlegar-Salmo highway in early June. Last year, the Ata fire northwest of Renata, one of many large and difficult-to-handle fires in the West Kootenay, consumed 1,400 hectares alone. Sixty-six fires were still burning on Aug. 1 last year. No fires are burning as of today, Walsh said, although five areas are under. observation. He said there aren't any people actively fighting fires as from 7 Creston and Rossland-Trail ridings. Costews Proto SHSS GRAD OFF ON 10-MONTH EXCHANGE TRIP By CasNews Staff Castlegar resident Sandra Sharp is about to embark on a 10-month adventure in West Germany as part of an international student exchange program. Sharp, 18, graduated in June from Stanley Humphries secondary school. She leaves Aug. 28 for the European country where she will spend 10 months learning the language and about the people of West Germany as a member of the ASSE International Student Exchange Program. West Germany was actually her second choice of the countries in which she wanted to spend her 10 months. Sharp's No. 1 choice was France. She studied French in high school and is able to hold a “half-decent con versation” in that language, but beeause of the “luck of the draw”, she’s going to Germany instead. But West Germany is still alright with Sharp, because she has relatives there. During her stay Sharp will live with a family in the part of the country, about 30 kilometres southeast of Hanover, a city about the size of Toronto. She will live on a farm with her host family in Schellerten, a tiny town of 1,100 people, located seven kilometres out of Hildesheim, where she will attend school. Her relatives live only four hours away. But since West German and Canadian school systems are difficult to compare, Sharp doesn't know what grade she'll be in. The first two years of high school in West Germany are apparently similar to the last two year's of Grade 11 and 12 in Canada while the last two years of school in the European country are similar to the first two years of college here. “It’s more of a cultural exchange,” Sharp says, adding that she fully expects to fail a few subjects.” She says it will take between one and two months to pick up the language. “It depends on the amount of English they (the people) know. The more English they know, the less German you will pick up.” Sharp, a member of the Kootenay Orienteering Club, is hoping to become involved in the sport while in West Germany. Orienteering is “big news” in countries like Germany, she says, noting that she has been given the name of a person to contact in the sport there. Sharp began looking into exchange programs last fall. At that time, the Castlegar Rotary Club wasn't sending students to other countries who had already completed high school, so Sharp was referred to the ASSE program. The ASSE program differs from “the Rotary student exchange program in that the student stays with one family instead of a number of families. The ASSE program is also more expensive. The 10 months will cost Sharp about $2,400. The Rotary club i a monthly for tudents, but there is no allowance in the ASSE program. Sharp is one of two West Kootenay residents par- ticipating in the ASSE program. Tami Nishi, a Nelson resident, is going to France. ASSE has been operating for 40 years, but is only 18 months old in B.C. IWA STRIKE continued trom tront poge agree to the contract signed by the northern council. Earlier, union vice-president Bob Blanchard said the IWA will not back because of a difficult market and growing competition. Last Friday, the northern council accepted a union proposal stopping That settlement, which will mean wage and benefit cuts of about $4 a hour for woodworkers’ union members, ended a drawn-out strike against the Weyerhaeuser Co. down for its demand that forest companies agree to ‘the same con tracting-out restrictions agreed to by northern mills. pi from further o ing out of union jobs to non-union labor. That agreement, which allows em- ployers to negotiate with union repre sentatives on a local basis some Forest Industrial Relations believes the Weyerhaeuser settlement makes restrictions on contracting out an im- possibility because British Columbia's “Our counter-proposal is what was to the signed by the Northern Interior,” said Blanchard. “We'll be asking for the same wording.” Keith Bennett, president of Forest Industrial Relations, said the industry cannot restrict itself by granting the union's demands on contracting out can be applied to the forest industry as a whole, Blanchard said. Bennett's group is also at odds with the union over the relevance of Fri- day's settlement of the largest timber strike in Oregon and stafes in 20 years. forest industry would be unable to compete. The union, however, maintains the U.S. settlement should not be held out as another reason for allowing con- tracting Fond since British Columbia's are more pro- ductive than their U.S. counterparts. ing-out ban, of today, comp: to 592 time last year. in the district this Council wants eye on traffic By CasNews Staff Castlegar council has asked the RCMP to monitor traffic at the intersection of 8th Street and 10th Avenue dary school and area schools about traffic. “There are frequent checks/monitoring of speeds and other potential traffic 4 by area residents. However, council will hold which may and do ” said the RCMP. “But _ memo adds that di in- off on i stop signs at the intersection. A 24-name petition sub- mitted by Janice Templeton asked the city to install the stop signs. But Castlegar RCMP say the signs aren't necessary. “It is felt by this office that the location in question is adequately and properly signed, and the speed limit of 60 kmh is appropriate for the ; area,” the RCMP said in a memorandum to council. The RCMP memo also says police receive occasional com- plaints from residents near Stanley Humphries secon- fractions aan tire squealing is not isolated to the senior secondary school. The RCMP also said it con- ducted tests on June 16 to ensure that vehicles have enough time to stop for youths crossing 8th Street at 10th Avenue. “It is found to be more than adequate provided the youths are crossing at the Street some five to 10 metres on either side would there be a potential problem due to the ‘crowning’ of the hill.” Langley firm wins contract By CasNews Staff Castlegar council has awarded the contract for a new pumper fire truck to a Langley, B.C. firm. Anderson's Engineering Ltd.'s tender of $173,156.66 was more than $1,700 less than the next lowest bid. Superior Emergency Equip- ment Ltd. of Red Deer, Alta. submitted a tender of $174,998.50. The price is $8,000 more than the estimate in the city’s fund has $167,869 in it. A third bid was also re ceived from Pierre Thibault Truck Ine. of Pierreville, Que. for $185,073.62. The truck is to be de- livered to the Castlegar Volunteer Fire Department in February or March 1987. Both fire chief Bob Mann and city administrator Dave council accept the Anderson's bid. Anderson's will travel to . but that would be it,” Arrow district and high on the month's remaining 21 days. CNR employees refuse to work EDMONTON (CP) — About 100 Canadian National refused couver as the end of the crop year to work in Jasper, Alta., Tuesday to show their sup- port for conductor Wayne trains Smith. Smith was fired by CNR last Friday for what the rail- way called rule infractions during the Feb. 8 rail dis- aster near Hinton, Alta. CNR spokesman Bill De- began to returm to their jobs Tuesday night, and Dewan said he expects will be running nor- mally today. Smith is the lone surviving crew member of the CNR freight train that slammed into a Via Rail passenger train near Hinton, about 285 kilometres west of Edmon- wan said workers either ton. booked off for rest or refused to answer their telephones to receive work assignments. Dewan said Tuesday was “a rotten day” for the rail- way, which is trying to move heavy grain traffic to Van- The crash killed six crew members and 16 passengers. His union, the United Transportation Union, said Tuesday it will launch a grievance against the dis- missal. City purchases three new trucks By CasNews Staff Castlegar council bought itself three new trucks Mon- day at a cost of more than $33,000. At a special meeting, coun- cil agreed to accept a tender of $33,562.67 from Heritage Chevrolet Oldsmobile Ltd. of Nelson for two 1987 Chev- rolet half-ton pick-ups and one 1987 Chevrolet one-ton truck. The bid from Heritage on the two half-ton trucks was about $150 higher than a bid But Ald. Len Embree, chairman of council's works and services committee, said Heritage was the only dealer which would guarantee 1987 cent increase for models, he said. Heritage's bid on the one- ton truck was about $700 lower than Riverview’s bid. Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd., and Whitewater Motors Ltd., both of Castle- gar, and A.M. Ford Ltd. in Trail also submitted tenders. offered a few rather unkind words about some Kootenay cities. ‘According to the newspaper, “Unless you're a skiing enthusiast, there isn’t much for the average tourist on the B.C. side (of the Crowsnest. Pass). Fernie, Cranbrook, Creston and Castlegar are ldcated in scenic surroundings but all seem to have seen better days. Amidst the government's Expo hype, these Interior towns seem to be all but forgotten now that the coal mining days are in decline.” Saskatoon, eh? Isn't there an old saying about people im glass houses ? GRAND FORKS is preparing to party this weekend in the city’s first Sunshine and Borscht Festival at City Park. Bfing an appetite because the highlight of the festival will be a giant borscht feed Saturday at 4 p.m. The borscht will be prepared and served by the ladies of the USCC. Tee meal consists of a large bow! of borscht, home baked bread with butter. pyrahi (fruit tart) and coffee, tea or juice — all for $5. Eptertainment at the festival includes performances by the USCC Union of Youth Choir, Gisela Ko Folklore Dancers, Pinto Puppet Theatre, st Pinto, Spencer Hill Jazz Band ana Fly-By-Night, a bluegrass combo. There will also be a natural crafts fair and a sidewalk painting contest. For the sports-minded, the festival AND HAVE YOU noticed how good the newly reno- vated Vogue Portraits and Cameras looks? Michael Mayrhefer now is operating out of a bright, roomy store- front. SOME CASTLEGAR residents are being charged for uncompleted long distance calls on their latest tele- phone bill. At least that’s the word from Pharmasave drugstore where many residents pay their bills. However, Roger Varley, B.C. Tel public information administrator, denies there's a problem with people being billed for uncompleted calls. Word is there's also an ongoing problem of calls being billed to the wrong number. Varley says that in both cases the customer can call the service repre- sentative at the number listed on the bill and deny knowledge of the calls. If the calls didn’t originate from that customer's number or if the call hadn't been completed, the customer wouldn't be expected to pay for the call, Varley said. CHEDDAR CHEESE 5, $339 SODA CRACKERS $7 59| cm CHRISTIES. SALTED OR UNSALTED ‘“G 7-UP OR PEPS! BISCUITS ASST'D. VARITY. CHRISTIES COOKIES me? tad MARGARINE pS FABRIC SOFTENER olde ter TIDE OR OXYDOL 12 $g88 Lt B.C. Tel recently switched over to an billing system. Operators no longer ask long distance callers for their numbers. Instead a computer records the information automatically. CALDSET GROCETERIA has closed its doors after 15 years. The store closed Friday due to the retirement of the store's owners, Albert and Ida ‘bank. The laundromat, which is temporarily closed, will continue to operate Boy George pleads guilty LONDON (AP) — Boy warned off this killer drug by George, the British rock stiff sentences - singer noted for his makeup The 25-year-old _ singer and flowing gowns, pleaded wore a black outfit of jeans, guilty Tuesday to possessing Tshirt, sweater and jacket heroin and was fined the and looked pale during the equivalent of $500 Cdn. 20-minute hearing in Mary Charged under his real lebone Magistrates Court name, George O'Dowd, he had been undergoing treat ment for heroin addiction when police raided his north London home July 12. He was convicted of possessing an unspecified amount ot heroin. Some MPs said the fine was too lenient. Ted Garrett The singer, his died blond hair worn in a spiked style, spoke only three times and in monosyllables. “He has manfully faced up to this drug problem and has helped the police in their in quiries.” defence lawyer Geoffrey Sturgess said. POWERS continued trom front poge When asked for an approximate figure, he said the number of i is “at least a The spokesman stressed that the $3.4 million is the amount the alleged scheme collected. He said the amount of money Powers may have taken with her when she fled (Canada to avoid court appearances on the charges has not been determined. ‘It isn’t a crucial issue” to the case agginst her in Canada, he said. Powers is currently in custody in Casper, Wyo., where she is awaiting trail on charges of conspiracy to violate Wyoming’s Uniform Securities Act. imvestment scheme in Wyoming that also guaranteed to double investors’ money. Her bail has been set at $250,000. of the Labor party said it “makes a mockery of police efforts to eliminate drugs. Jerry Hayes of the gov erning Conservatives said “young people can only be Magistrate Geoffrey Noel gave Boy George, the lead singer with Culture Club, seven days to pay the fine. 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