Se C6 Castlegar News August 21, 1985 TS your advertising dollars do better in. must take action _. VANCOUVER (CP) — vO" Frustrated and. angry tea- chtrs:are being pushed into job action by the provinci: Beauty Salons|| Contractors THE BUSINESS DIRECTORY government's education bud- get cuts and teacher firings, says Pat Clarke, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Feder- ation. | Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL . ACCOUNTANT “Teachers are no longer going to put up with their subjugation and denial of rights any -longer,” Clarke said in an interview after addressing 400 delegates toa __ federation conference. 270 Columbia Ave. ~ Castlegar ' Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ‘ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) a Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. He said the federation has to convince its members to take “concerted and united action against the arbitrary and unfair treatment of tea- chers that has become vir- tually institutionalized in this province.” Clarke said the crisis facing B.C.'s education sys- tem is worse than ever. Chil- dren réturning to school this fall will be in’ overcrowded classrooms, have fewer cour- ses to choose, from and face significant cuts in support services, he. said. —__———Education—financing—has— Resident Partner} veen cut 13.2 per cent since 1982 and is currently at 1975 levels in constant dollars, Clarke said, adding no other public service has been as battered by budget, cuts. He criticized _ increased provincial funding of public schools, saying their smaller class sizes are a key to at- tracting children whose needs can't be met by a pub- lic school system burdened with unmanageable class sizes. STUDENTS SUFFERING Jill Wright, an English as a second language teacher, said in an interview that stu- dents at her school are suf- ferning badly from ‘cuts to education. a She said regular classes that used to have 25 to 30 students now have as many as 40 students. ¢ “The classes are so large the teachers don't have time to help kids with special needs,” said Wright, who teaches in Aldergrove. “They're floundering.” MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN ~ CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 ‘FAST COURTEOUS SERVICE GENUINE MAYTAG PARTS WE SERVICE ALL MAKES — SPECIALIZE IN MAYTAG CASTLEGAR PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. 1008 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. 365-3388 Vitamin a day beneficial By GREG JOYCE *“_L-VANCOUVER (CP) — Healthy people with proper eating habits don't need to become vitamin pill junkies, but a pilla day might provide some benefits, says a spec- ialist in nutrition and its role in preventing cancer. “If you are eating a good diet from the four food groups (dairy products, meat, vegetables and fruits) I don't see a need for these extra things,” Paul New- berne said in an interview while attending the Terry Fox Cancer Research Con- ference. “But I see no problem in taking one-a-day vitamins,” said Newberne, who teaches at the Massachusetts In- Russell Auctions 399-4793 Thrums Buy or Sell by Auction Auto Rental THE HAIR ANNEX 365-3744 1241 -3rd St., Castlegar WALLCOVERINGS OGLOW’S PAINTS & KINNAIRD TRANSFER Concrete Gravel Road Gravel Drain Rock Bedding Sand Fill, Gr. or Sand Topsoil Call 365-7124 Carpeting MILLAR'S _ FLOORS CARPETS : HARDWOOD Guaranteed Workmanship — COMMERCIAL — — RESIDENTIAL — FREE ESTIMATES Call 365-6897 AGT rumroro PLACE alae Super Sweep Chimney Services Ltd. * Complete Masonry Work © Chimney Linin: * Certified Fire Satety Inspections 735 Columb F. 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There were also subsidiary prizes. y Jyears ago when John Looking _ back CasNews columnist John Charters goes back to 29 Munday. - began his missionary work’ in South America... BS SNE : Castlégar News Th ion: ight, cleat 1a near 8°, Monday will ; sunny and continuing warm. > 50 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1985, VOL. 38, No. 68 WEATHERCAST the West will be 2 Sections (A & B) PEACE CONFERENCE Youth gathering — in Castlegar By CasNews Staff pita OLYMIC HERO . . . Olympic swimming medallist Victor Davis was a celebrity everywhere he went this £0 ae es Davis ‘questi at Friday night while Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, one of the local heb weekend. during the B.C. g ‘Association championships being held in Trail. Here, 1s at the banquet, looks on. See story BI. Costews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk NO RADIO. WARSIN | LOCAL AREA By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Here's the scenario: One local radio station increases its power from 1,000 atts to 20,000 watts: another station 30_kil Kootenay, there are only-so many advertising dollars to share around. 7 “The marketplace has declined in the four years since we've been here. (Four Seasons Radio of Kelowna took over CJAT in 1981.) Advertisers have been left or gone out of business.” “As far as advertising dollars goes, there's going to be competition (with CKQR).” é But the bottom line for any media is the number of listeners, watchers or readers and ratings are the gauge by which advertising rates are set, at least in the larger metropolitan markets. However, Gerein and Pritchard discount the significance of ratings in the.small West Kootenay market. Rubber RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. o x R FUNERAL CHAPEL Dedicated to kindly, thoughtful service. 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Call now. ‘e NEW SUMMER HOU! ‘Mon. = Frl.7:30 a.m. - 200 a.m. - 9:00 0. 365-6256 For complete information on rates and details of odvertising in the Business Directory PHONE 365-5210 Ph. 365-2565 : south buys two other stations to the north and east and _ forms a three-station network surrounding the station that increased its power. Result: Radio wars. Not really, according to the manager of Castlegar’s CKQR, which is increasing its power, and the general manager of Trail’s CJAT, whose parent company is buying stations in Nelson. and Creston. “We don't consider it as competition,” QR manager Brian Pritchard says. “We're just guys in the same business as them. Our competition (for advertising SNEWS FEATUR dollars) is the and » alth in this area newspapers are much higher competition than TV.” CJAT's soft-spoken Dennis Gerein is a little bit more bative than the ial Pritchard, Gerein also downplays the potential for an all-out battle of the '. broadcasters. “I have no problems getting along with any of my itors,” Gerein says. jiums just make room for each other.” However, he adds: “I don’t think there's any doubt the competition wi!l be stiffer. But what the competition wil do is give the public a way to measure and hear what each station has to offer. I think we can do a better job.” Also, Gerein says in the bad economy of the West .X billion listeners but they don't come to the store, what Pritchard explained that ratings supplied by the Bureau of Broadcast Measurements (BBMs), Canada’s equivalent of the United States’ Nielsen ratings, are not accurate in a small market. BBMs rely on diaries sent to randomly selected people who are asked to record their listening or, in the case of TV, their watching habits. And in a small market, not enough diaries are sent out to provide an accurate sampling. “For example,” Pritchard says, “say 500 people live in Pass Creek. One diary is sent out and the guy says he listens to CKQR, so 500 people in Pass Creek listen to CKQR.” “BBMs are at best a guesstimate. We never sell advertising by them.” . Gerein says much the same thing. “BBMs have never been a factor. BBMs only matter for national advertising dollars and they're not that great in this market because of the size of the market. We just don’t have the population base to be an important factor in national- sales.” Pritchard says his station “sells results,” not ratings. “If we go on location at Pharmasave and the store is crowded, we've done our job. If a survey says you've got -. good is it?” ; Gerein agrees, saying “the local merchant has a pretty good idea who's watching what and rea hat.” ‘continued on pege A2 Youth from as many as 20 countries will gather in Castlegar this _ week for the World Youth — Peace Through Communication Conference, Aug! 27-31. Several prominent experts are scheduled to speak at the conference, whieh—is—beii ged_as_the—local- contribution to the United Nations’ In- ternational Youth Year. . . Included among the sp are Three. youth from the Soviet Union will attend the confer- ence, marking the first time that coun- try has sent toa iS , 9:10 a.m. Capt. James Bush, associate director, Centre for Defence Information, Washington, outside an eastern-bloc country. i ion for the .C., on the history and mechanics of the arms race; 10:10 a.m. Pr takes place Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Brilliant Cultural Centre _with opening ceremonies at 7 p.m. y Pearson, king on east/ west perspectives; 11:30°a.m. Sergey Plekhanov, also speaking on east/west i 12:30 p.m. Dr. T. Perry, _ A $25 pass will admit youth dele- a member of B.C. Physicians for Social bili king on the con- gates (ages 15-26) to all Pa gigas ae of nuclear war. Geoffrey Pearson, former Canadian ambassador to the USSR, Sergey Plekhanov, head of social and political studies at the Canada/USA Institute in Moscow, William Epstein, former head of the United Nations disarmament - division and Dr. Tana Dineen, a found- ing member of.Psy¢hologists for Social Responsibility. Shuttle By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The launch of space shuttle Discovery _was scrubbed Saturday by a thunder- “storm that lingered just long enough to cause a one-day postponement. A new attempt to launch the ship and its crew of five. on a satellite delivery-and-rescue mission was set for 7:57 a.m. EDT today. Storm ciouds began building as Saturday's countdown reached the final scheduled “hold” at the nine-min- utes-to-liftoff mark. “We are taking a close look at thunderstorms in the vicinity of the landing facility,” said Launch Control's Hugh Harris. Moments later, clouds closed in, thunder rolled over Cape Canaveral, and the clock ticked toward the end ‘of the 34-minute window in, which the shuttle could leave. Launch direetor Bob Sieck allowed the count to continue to the five-minute mark, hoping for a last-minute change, then ordered the scrub. Within minutes, the sky again was a brilliant blue. “The weather was simply unpred- ictable this morning and nobody wanted to take a chance,” Harris said. SOUTH AFRICA Stanley Humphries Secondary School. Although billed as a youth con- ference, organizers stress that the general public is.invited to attend all the events except the workshops which are limited to youth delegates. A $10 fee is charged for one day or $6 for a morning or evening session. Wednesday's schedule features the The evening session will feature a panel discussion on the arms race vs. the human race. The discussion begins at 8 p.m. Entertainment by Images Adhoc Singers, Stephen. Fearing, Liz Thor- Larson and the Kootenay Union of Youth Choir will follow the panel dis- cussion. i launch delayed “There were little rainshowers spring- ing up out of nothing.” Officials worried not only about the shuttle climbing through rain and lightning, but also the visibility from the air of the Kennedy Space Centre runway incase the shuttle had to make an emergency landing in the early minutes of flight. WEATHER UNCERTAIN Rain could damage the shuttle’s fragile tiles and lightning could zap its computers and guidance systems. [ Meteorologistg had predicted good weather for Satutday. For today, they forecast louds and rai: Lights were out in many areas of the Cape for up to'20 minutes, but NASA spokesman Dick Young said that there was only a momentary outage in the launch control room and on the pad. Both have emergency power, but it was not needed. : Young said the shuttle, which was being drained of fuel at the time, lost internal power but that it was picked up immediately by fuel cells that provide electricity while the ship is in orbit. f MANY DELAYS Only six of the 19 previous shuttle issi have been when ers in the vicinity and offshore. Less than three hours after the launch was scrubbed, a slender tornado funnel was sighted over the space centre. It was several Kilometres from launch pad 39a where workers were draining the shuttle’s fuel tanks and posed no threat to the vehicle. In the early afternoon, lightning struck a main transformer that feeds the northern half of the space centre, including the launch control room and its many computers and the launch pad more than five kilometres away. they were supposed to, with four of the 13 delays caused by weather. Officials waited out rain in April and launched with 55-seconds to spare. ‘The launch window is determined by several factors, including the time that Discovery's three comfhunications sat- ellites are to be deployed by the “astronauts and by the position of the disabled satellite they will rescue. The five astronauts had been in the shuttle cabin for more than two hours when the countdown was halted. try to Group plans march | JOHANNESBURG (CP) — South Africa's largest internal opposition group, hit by a clampdown on dissent, vowed Saturday to defy a government warning against a planned march on the prison where black nationalist andela_is_ Rev. Allan Boesak, an outspoken critic of apartheid and the founder of the United Democratic Front, told Reuters news agenty the march by up to 20,000 people on Pollsmore Prison near Cape Town would go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday. Meanwhile, police said Saturday night that riots had erupted in a num- ber of black townships during the day. At Khayelitsha near Cape Town, five blacks killed another: black they al- legedly saw throw a fire bomb at a house, a spokesman said. ~ Riot police fired shotguns at blacks trying to hijack minibuses in the large black township of Soweto near Johan- nesberg, he said, but no injuries were re L: A crowd of black later stole gasoline from a service station in Soweto, he said. Fire bombs are favorite weapons of rioters in the townships. Law-and Order Minister Louis le Grange warned that next Wednesday's march, illegal under South African law, would not be tolerated. “I want to appeal to the public not to heed this call and take part in any illegal procession,” le Grange said in a statement. “No illegal gathering will be allowed and the police will take stern action in this regard.” A ing UDF leaders. Mandela, 67, heads the banned African National Congress. Imprisoned for life in 1964, he has said violent action could be halted if the T His warning followed the arrest’ nder—ii ity i night of 28 leading dissidents, mostly senior members of the UDF. The ar- rests left virtually all senior leaders of the two- jion-member UDF except Boesak in jail. Police said among those detained were UDF acting president Farouk Meer and Rev. Syd Luckett, a white Cape Town Anglican priest. A UDF i to gover agreed to talks with the ANC. . the ANC and has accused the organ- ization of fomenting: violence in black townships, where more than 630 people have died in the last 19 months. In the Zulu tribal homeland, Chief Gatsha Buthelize criticized whites Saturday for unwillingness to make concessions which he said were needed to solve the country’s problems. Reuters from a secret venue, said: “The detentions . . . confirm our view that the state has decided to smash the the United Democratic Front. But the detentions can never save the state from its present crisis.” Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, told Reuters by telephone from Cape Town that the detentions would not stop the UDF. “The UDF can call on any army of. volunteers,” he said. Asked if he feared he would be ar- rested, he said: “I have no reason to feel safe.” Boesak said his call Friday for the march on Pollsmoor Prison to demand Mandela's release could have panicked the government into detain- i, chief minister of KwaZulu and leader of South Africa's six million Zulus, reiterated at a youth rally that he -has shelved for the time being insistence on one-may, one-vote in a unitary state. “It is the weak who are belligerent and it is the whites who are afraid to give us a little finger lest we shake their hands in friendship,” he said. “They don't know how to live in friendship with their fellow black ° South Africans. They feel much more comfortable behind barbed wire pat- rolled by dogs and sten guns. They don't know how to live with us in their suburbs and they feel more at ease when they crowd us into austere town ships and poverty-ridden ghettos.” continued on page A2