a2 ’ Casthéjir News May 25, 1986 EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION College applies for 20 projects Selkirk College board is resubmitting 20 proposals to says the program serves 128 students, but it only has 30 word processing stations. The college wants to p phase out traditional typewriters and replace them with a the provincial government's multi-million dollar Excell in Education fund. The college submitted the proposals earlier in the year after the fund was d, but those issions were sent back because the ministry had developed new criteria. The new submissions are similar to the former ones except they have been rewritten to meet the new criteria. College Leo Perra told board members this week that he and board chairman Jack Colbert attended a meeting with Education Minister Jim Hewitt to discuss the Excellence in Education fund. ‘The from college board chairman and principals across the province was to have some base budget funding. The second priority was for public -works and ject proposals Economic Renewal and Devel- opment fund. ‘The first thing Hewitt did was replace a 1.1 per cent annual inflation adjustment which had been removed from the colleges’ budgets. The adjustment totals $7.3 million for colleges and institutes. The allocation for Selkirk College is $254,500. ‘Also discussed, according to Perra, was a process for dealing with some 400 in proposal: which had been submitted by various colleges and renovations. The college has a separate list if the ministry doesn't word p network system with terminals for at least 50 per cent of the students and increase the number of electronic ty, @ $53,870 for the college's one-year drafting program. The college would use the money to buy 10 Computer Assisted Drafting stations to enable to provide at least one unit for every two students in the full-time program and permit the college to run short-term and/or parttime night school ding training to loyed im the field. © $280,000 for two years for the West Kootenay Enterprise Development Centre. The college says that a recent allocation of an annual grant of $80,000 does not cover expenses for the centre. The centre is located in a leased facility and the cost of the lease, utilities, personnel and related expenditures exceeds $80,000. ‘The college says it can maintain a viable centre for the 1986/87 year with the initial grant for the centre and the most recent allocation. But the college is still requesting an annual allocation of $140,000 for the 1987/88 and 1988/89 years. This money will enable the centre to fulfill the obje initially WINNERS BY_A HAIR . . Selkirk College Hairdressi tudents won five of the six trophies awa student PP at the Ri I hair- P in Castleg Sand 4. (Back row, left) Tammy Harvey, model for Ronee aad who won second in styling, Nadine Hatherly, in- structor, Elaine Cutler, third in styling wit mode! Shelley McPeek. (Front row, from lett) Bev Posinikott, third in cutting, Debbie MacDonald, first in styling, and Melanie Rahal, second in cutting. WORKERS LAID OFF FOLLOWING many at 4.0 joe may be lent tense of the ai which affects shipments of Canadian shingles and shakes to the U.S. valued at $250 million a year. ‘CAN'T OPERATE’ “We can't operate,” Clarke said. “I mean, we can't go to our and say, ‘You've got to pay 35 per cent SHINGLE TARIFF for the centre; e $138,500 over a three-year period to prepare and deliver a total jon progr i or recent graduates who wish to start a business of their own. The program is based on an ii sive and highly d series of activities Monday through Friday over a two-week © $62,000 per year for three years to establish a job nt and industry liaison office; $19,711 for equipment renewal in the Allied Health Department. The money will upgrade the program to remain relevant and current in terms of the emerging needs of the pl grant funds for capital and public works The i i Y in prop are: © $30,000 to install a cable television signal at the Castlegar campus; © a joint ventrue between Capilano College and Selkirk College for a student exchange program. The two institutions are asking for $19,500 to establish a student exchange for two weeks between the Electronic Publishing and Applied Writing programs at Selkirk College andthe Media Reso and C I Art at Capilano ¢ $180,000 over three years to upgrade equipment and purchase new equipment for the Graphic Communications program. college originally requested $100,000 in Services Department. ‘¢ $90,000 over a three-year period to replace equipment in the college's Office Administration program. The college 'SWASHBUCKLERS’ continued trom tront poge Hydro facilities . . . then Bonneville Power Administration said (it) did not wish to interfere with the negotiations between B.C. Hydro and West Koot- enay Power?” “And was it a matter of coincidence that after West Kootenay Power at- tempted an end run around B.C. Hydro for less costly rates from Bonneville Power Administration that two months later .. . B.C. Hydro moved the goal posts and changed the rules and the rates, or was it really a matter of the WKPL. While Hydro’s customers should not subsidize West Kootenay Power cus- tomers, |, “neither should people in the West Kootenay Power service area be held ransom by Hydro.” D'Arcy also criticized the fact that Hydro doesn't pay corporate income tax because it is a Crown corporation. © $92,000 for 1987/88 and $75,000 for 1968/89 for a program which would provide training in computerized building leading primarily to self-employment as a mason; ‘@ $200,000 over three years to establish a Pacific Rim D in i ogram. The p and roles of the program would be to seek out new opportunities for mark Selkirk College educational ‘services in Pacific Rim ‘ @ $141,000 for a specialty centre for applied forestry; @ $60,000 over a two-year period for industry-approved short courses in the Graphic Communications department; © $52,000 for courses in micro-computer applications in ‘© $29,840 for a pilot project for a Capital Asset Management System; @ $60,000 annually for three years for equii VANCOUVER (CP) — Seventy-five workers at a British Columbia 35-per-cent tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles — a levy wiiiefi Canadian producers say will devestate their industry. In the central Fraser Valley town of Mission — the centre of the North American shake-and-shingle industry, with 3,000 jobs at dozens of mills threatened by the tariff — workers and managers were angry and y- “Tm sickened by it, absolutely sickened by it,” said Scott Clarke of Green River Log Sales. “I can't believe it. It’s,a disgusting thing. It should have never happened, ever. “I mean, you're talking about an industry that is not even subsidized in any way, shape or form by the government.” Clarke family businesses employ 600 people at five mills along the Fraser River. Clarke said that the day the tariff comes into effect two weeks from now may be the day that all five will close. The Council of Forest Industries estimates that as factory were laid off more for shakes.’ They're going to say to us, ‘Sorry, it looks like we're going to have to go to tile now, or asphalt.” In Victoria, B.C. Forests minister Jack Heinrich told reporters that Pr Reagan has doned his commitment to free trade. “It seems to me that we have gone out of the area of logic, facts, the purpose of free trade, access to everybody's market, and what we are looking at now is a political decision,” Heinrich said. NDP opposition spokesman Bob Williams added that the shingle tariff is “extremely scary” and indicates that further American barriers may be erected against other Canadian forest products. “There is a protectionist sentiment in the United States that simply wants to ignore the facts and close the border,” Williams said. + “John Agnew, mayor of Mission, a town of 22,000 whose unemployment rate is already near 20 per cent, said the industry will recover and readjust, given time. “But I'm certain that the federal and provincial and probably municipal governments, to the degree that the latter can, are going to have to collectively assist this industry in some way.” Agnew said. “['ve got a family, a wife and kids, I was looking forward to buying a house this year, but I sure don't think I'll be doing that,” said Robert Andel, a bundle piler at Scott Cedar Products. Scott Cedar, a new and highly mechanized mill, ships almost 10 per cent of North America’s shakes — rough, unshaved shingles, formerly commonly used on the roofs and walls of barns and sheds, and now usually applied to lend a rustic appearance to homes. “I got other bills to pay — I don't even think I'll manage the ones I got now.” renewal and rep for the 1 Sciences and Technologies program; © $43,000 for word processing equipment renewal; © $710,000 over a two-year period to develop a program for the replacement of the flight simulators in the Aviation program. Sweeney said. “If we go out of business because of a failure to keep those controllable costs in line that is bad, but when we suffer the increases we are seeing in regu- lated costs such as natural gas and electrical power, then I feel there is something terribly wrong somewhere,” he said. Henne told the commissioners the City of Castlegar supports the sub- mission of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, which sides with privilege WKPL in the displite. city slicker punishing the country cousin?” Brisco’s comments caused the com- for Hydro simply because it is a Crow The RDKB submission calls Hydro’s ition.” d increase and corpora: D'Arcy said the situation means that West Kootenay Power, which does pay corporate taxes, amounts to “a long- IN SOVIET UNION Briefly Radiation levels high MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Moscow ded that pregnant American women and infants in the Soviet capital not drink locally-produced milk after a sample showed increased radiation levels. Meanwhile, a Soviet newspaper assured worried feaders their food was not contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. The government newspaper Izvestia said it received many letters expressing concern about whether food and popular vacation resorts were safe from radiation released in the accident, which occurred 130 kilometres north of Kiev. Izvestia quoted medical experts as saying “there is no risk to the health of holidaymakers” on the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, as well as other popular resorts. The newspaper quoted a sanitation official as saying checks on food were conducted in the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Modavia and European parts of the Russian Republic. It also assured readers that produce and dairy products were tested before going on sale in much of the western Soviet Union, and quoted one official as saying that processing of milk into butter and cheese “makes these possible industry in the West Kootenay region i do in the MP’s Hydro was attempting to trade. Brisco replied that his comments were not so much innuendo as a re- restrain Also appearing at Thursday's session were Trail MLA Chris Corky Evans and Penticton Mayor Ivan Messmer. D'Arcy, who presented a short five-minute submission, said the issue of the rate increase has a tendency to be seen as a dispute between the corporate interests of B.C. Hydro and West Kootenay Power. But in fact, D’Arey said, the dispute over power rates is between Hydro and the people and industries of the West Kootenay and other areas served by ding subsidy to Hydro's service is dependent upon the relatively less Pp jutely free from radi But U.S. hk Phil Duch: said tests pensive power pr by West Kootenay Power. “A major increase in these power costs, such as proposed by B.C. Hydro, of inexpensive power was “a major i i would unquestionably result in fewer factor in the location and design of our represented by Kruysse, tricity rates of these magnitudes will in its on a milk sample taken earlier this month showed double the i level of ded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for infants and pregnant women. ‘NOT DANGEROUS’ Dr. John Baker, the embassy doctor, said the levels found were “by no means dangerous.” Still, the embassy called pregnant U.S. women and families with infants after receiving the samples. ‘The maximum level of radiati ded by the Food and Drug Adminstration in the United States is 1,500 prejudice Westar's ability to compete with other Interior op and in the world market.” In evidence for the com- mission, Sweeney said Westar “rep- resents approximately 7.2 per cent of WKPL's load and 6.1 per cent of its total revenue (based on 1965 consump- tion).” Last year, Westar paid $3.2 million to WKPL for electricity, Sweeney said. Electricity costs, as a percentage of agreed “We have concluded that power rate it of the it will contribute to a further erosion of two utilities are well above the rate of inflation and would have an onerous effect on our struggling employers.” The three-month-old CEAC is a group of citizens in the greater Trail area “actively studying and developing projects that will provide some positive economic activity in the community,” doubled from 1.7 per cent to 3.6 per the jittee’s per litre of milk. Samples of lettuce, milk and yogurt are to be shipped to the United States for testing, according to a western i who spoke on condition of anonymity. In the Izvestia report, an official who distributes the 24-day passes Soviets obtain from their work places to go on vacation at hostels said some people had the passes taken away, causing concern. Yuri Stupin, head of the central council for trade union visits to resorts, explained that the holiday areas are safe. He said some passes were taken away so they could be used who are among 29-kilometre zone around the plant after the April 26 cent over a five-year period, he said. ‘ and fire. He said 3,500 places were available at Black Sea resorts d children, will hear final arguments from both sides. for while two vacation spots, one near Odessa afd another in the northern Caucasus, were open for One Moscow woman who wrote Izvestia said she was told cattle from evacuated areas of the Ukraine and Byelor- ussia were slaughtered. SAVES LIVESTOCK But Alexander Tretyakov, chief veterinarian with the State Agri-Industrial Committee, assured readers that “the livestock population from the accident zone was completely preserved.” Farmers now caring for evacuated livestock received money for feed and animals owned privately were purchased by the state, he said. Pub approved By CasNews Staff Pellerine told a May 12 BANK FORECLOSURES PENTICTON (CP) — The Bank of Montreal is foreclosing on the Clearview Housing Development at Apex Alpine ski resort, claiming Caposzi Enterprises and Keg Restaurants Ltd., failed to make payments on their $3 million loan. A spokesman for Capozzi Enterprises said in Kelowna the bank was involved with the two firms in the Apex housing development. Keg Restaurants is also a major shareholder in the ski resort, which went into receivership last week. Capozzi Enterprises is no longer involved in the resort. MP WANTS COIN CHANGE OTTAWA (CP) — A veteran Quebec Liberal MP will seek Commons support to have the Queen's head lopped off the proposed new one-dollar coin and replaced with the head of former Tory prime minister John Diefenbaker. But Marcel Prud’homme's idea, which would likely make the staunchly royalist Diefenbaker spin in his grave, did little more than raise the polite curiosity of Supply and Services Minister Stewart MeInnes and Royal Canadian Mint president James Corkery when presented to them at a Commons committee. The gold-colored coin, which will replace the one-dollar bill, will be introduced gradually starting in January 1987. FIRES BURNING More than 25 fires, fuelled by hot, dry weather that’s expected to last at least two more days, were burning across thousands of hectares of Northern Ontario forest Saturday. Almost all of Northern Ontario is considered in prime condition for forest fires, but the most severely affected areas were the northwest and north-central areas, said a spokesman for the Natural Resources Ministry. No injuries or deaths had been reported Saturday and only three of four fires burning out of control were causing concern to fire officials, Ron Running of ‘the provincial fire centre in Sault Ste. Marie said. NDP UPS BUDGET OTTAWA (CP) — The New Democratic Party plans to double its campaign budget to $5 million and make the next federal election a real three-way battle, party secretary Dennis Young said Saturday. The party is already doing the groundwork leading’ up to the election, expected sometime in 1988, Young told reporters during a weekend seminar of party organizers from across the country. BYSTANDERS INVOLVED VIENNA (REUTER) — Bystanders helped police stop a peaceful protest on Saturday led by Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld at a rally for Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim. The police and Waldheim supporters tore banners from protesters’ hands as they tried to move into a crowd of about 700 people addressed by the former UN secretary general in a central Vienna square. 5,000 PROTEST PARIS (REUTER) — More than 5,000 people marched through the heart of Paris on Saturday to protest against French nuclear policy in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, organizers said. Demonstrators waved signs saying No More Chernobyl and Atoms Kill and chanted “No to civilian and military nukes” along the three-kilometre route through the city's busy Latin quarter. Regional District of Cen tral Kootenay directors agreed unanimously Satur day to give third reading toa “rezoning bylaw that will allow for a neighborhood pub in Robson. The pub will be located directly across from the Castlegar-Robson ferry on Broadwater Road. Castlegar teacher Elmer Pellerine requested the re gional district rezone the property from Commercial Neighborhood to Commercial Special. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Robert Bat ting pleaded guilty to re maining in a licensed estab- lishment after being asked to leave and was fined $100. * 6 « Brian Kubos pleaded guilty to driving with a blood- aleohol count over 08 and was fined $400. public hearing in Robson that his next step will be to contact the Ministry of Con- sumer and Corporate Affairs for a liquor license. No plans have been drawn up for the pub and take-out restaurant, which was also supported by the Area J ad- visory planning commission. MacDonald to visit By CasNews Staff Employment and Immigra- tion Minister Flora MacDon- ald will visit Trail Friday. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said MacDonald will arrive in Traikat 11:15 a.m. After a briéf session with local officials, MacDonald will hold a news conference; in Trail city council chambers. A short reception for Trail region municipal councils and invited guests will follow. MacDonald will depart Trail at 12:45 p.m. to return to Castlegar for a flight back to Ottawa. ATTACHE EXPELLED JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa ordered the expulsion of the senior U.S. military attache in Pretoria in retaliation for the expulsion of the top South African defence attache in Washington, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The United States, upset by South Africa's military raids on alleged guerrilla targets in three neighboring, black-ruled countries, had already announced it would recall the attache, Col. Robert Hastie, for consultations. POLICE KILL SEVEN Police said Saturday they shot dead seven men in two clashes in South Africa's black townships in one of the bloodiest nights of police action reported in recent months in South Africa. Four men died when police fired shotguns, rifles and pistols at a crowd they said was firebombing the home of a black councillor at Senterton, in the eastern Cape province. Police said three others were killed in pistol fire when a crowd firebombed a home in Alexandra in the same area ISLANDS DEVASTATED HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS (AP) — It will take years for the Solomon Islands to recover from the devastation caused by Typhoon Namu, a government official said Saturday The storm left a third of the population homeless ang wiped out most of the archipelago's crops. Namu killed at least 97 people, with 39 others missing and presumed dead. Officials expect casualty figures to rise once reports come in from outlying areas cut off by the storm. Bennett leaving at bad ti Bennett, leader who shaped the province in the last decade. . .. criticized for timing While political opponents sighed with relief over Bennett's decision to retire as premier this summer, they also decried his departure at a time when U.S. protectionist sentiments are rising against the province's chief export — lumber. President Ronald Reagan imposed a 35-per-cent tariff on Canadian imports of cedar shakes and shingles — mainly from British Columbia — Thursday, the same day Bennett announced his retirement. “On a day like this, the premier of the province is busy meeting with the executive of the Social Credit party rather than dealing with these incredible economic problems that are right at our doorstep,” said New Democrat Bob Williams, one of Bennett's keenest political adversaries. Conservative Graham Lea said Bennett's departure was like a captain jumping into a lifeboat and telling those still on board there will be a new captain. Bennett said Friday he was disturbed by the U.S. tariff, has been urging the federal government to oppose it and will discuss the matter with other first ministers when they meet in Ottawa soon. | He denied there is,a leadership vacuum, and noted earlier the irony of critics attacking him for being the cause of the province's troubles, and then for making way for a new leader. The NDP wanted him to call an election. ‘The Socreds are organizing a leadership convention for this summer, but it may not be in Vancouver because Expo 86 is making it difficult to find hotel rooms for some of the 2,000 delegates expected to attend. STRONG LEADER “When a strong leader steps down there is always a period of uncertainty,” the Vancouver Sun said™in an editorial. “But the premier is leaving at a very critical time in the history of the province and of Canada. [n the trade debate, and especially in the lumber dispute with the U.S., Mr. Bennett has become a national asset.” It is a pity that Bennett, 54, has “decided to leave battles as yet unfinished, perhaps to people who won't fight them as well.” Even Opposition Leader Bob Skelly acknowledged Bennett's accomplishments. “His policies and political actions gave him a reputation as a tough politician who led our province through difficult reorganizing before winning Bennett was 20 when his father became management of..the family hardware furniture business to him and his brother, Russell. When he his ability to go for the jugular. While his single-minded | see this as an opportunity to usher in a new era of years,” Skelly said, referring to the lingering of the 1980s. “Whether or not people supported his policies and programs, they acknowledged his determination to govern the province according to the principles and beliefs of his political philosophy.” The general recognition of the pivotal role Bennett has played in the province during his decade in office — he was sworn in as premier on Dec. 22, 1975 — probably exceeded the expectations of some veteran politicians who first saw him as a nervous, stammering neophyte from Kelowna, never baving gone beyond a high school education. Bennett grew up under the shadow of his legendary father, W.A.C. Bennett, who brought the Socreds to power and remained as premier for 20 years before he was defeated in 1972 by the NDP. REVITALIZES PARTY Bill Bennett said his father stayed too long, and that he knew how weak it left the party — which he spent two years And a poll released last Saturday showed the Socreds nine percentage points behind the NDP in B.C. pr John Shields. Talks between the two sides were scheduled to resume further during the recession. His best years were probably the few weeks before his i T Expo 86, his pride and joy which took six years in the making, was opened May 2 and is drawing tens of thousands of fair-goers daily. ‘And the $250-million Coquihalla Highway, which so aptly symbolizes the Socreds’ blacktop philosophy and links up the B.C. Interior where Bennett's roots are firmly planted, was officially opened last week. But his last year in office also featured problems with his cabinet. Two ministers resigned, although one was reappointed a short time later, and Bennett dropped three others. COLLEGE GAINS NOVEL ARTWORK By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Selkirk College students and staff were somewhat surprised earlier this week when they returned from the long weekend to find a unique piece of art in front of the administration building at the Castlegar campus. The piece of art is a collection of 13 chrome car bumpers in various shapes and sizes sunk into the ground. The creation is the work of D. Dan Morslander, a graphic design student at Selkirk College, and six other students known as the Guerrilla Graphics Group. The work, known as Bumper Crop No. 4, is Morslander’s fourth creation of “bumper art.” Morslander, who has been living in Robson while attending school, got the idea for bumper art when he was working in a junkyard in Haney cutting steel with a torch. “One day the boss went to Richmond to sell a load of steel and I got bored and I cut up a bunch of bumpers and planted a third of an acre (with bumpers),” he said. Morslander said when his boss returned he was on the point of firing Morslander, but when the boss calmed down he “fell in love” with the bumpers. The idea for a fourth Bumper Crop at the college grew out of a conversation Morslander had with some friends. “A number of them expressed a real interest,” he said. e Morslander said he also had a dream that he planted the bumpers in front of the administration building. Bumper Crop No. 4 was constructed last Saturday by Morslander and the Guerrilla Graphics Group. It took four to five hours of hard work, Morslander says. The group collected gravel from a hillside in Robson, dug a hole, made a grid work of reinforced rod, put that in place, and hauled 40 wheelbarrow loads of concrete to the site, before putting in the bumpers. “I believe in corporate artwork,” he says of his friends’ help. The car bumpers were put in place as they were, found. Most of them came from Kaslo. Morslander said his bumper art isn't intended to offend anyone but rather to lift the spirits of people and offer another way of looking at things He said it was placed in a spot where it would pick up Announcement surprises D'Arcy By CasNews Staff Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy says he was sur prised by Premier Bill Ben nett’s plan to resign this summer and leave politics. panies seeking tariffs on Canadian lumber exports. The province needs “firm leadership” to deal with the crisis, D'Arcy said While D'Arcy hesitated to “I had an indi of this a couple of months ago,” D'Arcy said in an interview only hours after Bennett's announcement, ~ but I didn’t take it seriously. Yes, I was surprised. = D'Arcy said his main con cern now is that Bennett's departure leaves a vacuum at the province's top post He noted that the B.C forest industry is “under at tack” from U.S. lumber com. sp on a rep for Bennett, he noted that the most efficient minister in the legislature “without a doubt” has been Human Re sources Minister Jim Niel sen. He added that only Bud Smith, Bennett's former exe cutive assistant who has an nounced his intention to seek a seat in the Kamloops riding, has indicated he would like the premier's job. oF ae BUMPER CROP .. . Selkirk College artist D. Dan Morslander leans on his unusual creation outside the morning sun and shine on the administration building. “The administration building is especially in need of a little sunshine,” he says. Morslander said the bumper job was a “deeply spiritual” experience for him. He explained that putting up the piece of art was a turning point in his life, adding that as an artist, he had been “on the shelf” for about 10 years, caught up in the work-a-day world And he is expecting this art will lead to bigger and better things. Nh ECReSERSASCRM 20 abeeeaacce Morslander now wants to plant more bumpers on an acre in Castlegar “to catch the morning sun.” From there he hopes to go on a national tour planting a series of Bumper Crops across the country on commission. Morslander said faculty members, staff and fellow students all seem to have reacted positively to his bumper art. College information officer Joe Lintz commented that the structure was well-executed — rt tl VICTORIA (CP) — New Democrat Bob Williams has produced more bills that he said showed how extravagant Speaker Walter Davidson was in hosting his colleagues from other provinces to a conference in Vancouver last year. The cost of hotel accommodation for the participants came to $7,300, including two lunches that cost nearly $1,500 each, Williams told reporters. One of the lunches was on the same day as a $2,082 dinner for 35 people that Williams first asked about last Wednesday. He said there was also a series of liquor store bills that came to $911 “It was clearly an extremely expensive party and one that the province could ill afford in a time that the government claimed restraint was going on,” Williams said. Williams said earlier that there was a $440 charge for an executive limousine service for Donald Stewart, Costly meals slammed speaker of the Northwest Territories legislature. He said there was also a $5.19 charge for aspirin afterwards. In a letter to Williams, Davidson said “misinforma- tion” has been circulated about the Canadian Presiding Officers’ Conference held March 29-31 last year in Vancouver. The conference is held on a rotating basis and would come around to each province and the federal government about once every 10 years. Davidson said Stewart, because of illness. requested an airport limousine and was the only speaker to do so. The $440 cost included all other transportation incurred during the conference by coach bus, he said: Davidson noted that the aspirins were bought 12 days before the dinner mentioned by Williams, for security staff at the legislature to replenish their first-aid supply.