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Silkwood estate
may also appeal

By Paul Koring
NEW YORK (CP) — Ona
sunny spring morning in

# May, 1979, Karen Silkwood’s

BALD EAGLE with a wing span of seven feet, caused a trocuted eagle are, left, Dean Forester, West Kootenay

power outage in the Cast!
midnight Wednesday. The 11-Ib. bird flew into a 13,000
volt West Kootenay Power line. Pictured with the elec-

legar Golf Course area around line foreman, and Jeff Ridge, apprentice lineman.

Photo by Gerry Archibald

Blow to charitable groups

Association, said in an inter-
view Tuesday that if the

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Charitable organizations are

bracing for the impact of

government goes ahead with
the ii the inti

higher postal rates prop
for the new year.

Spokesmen for major B.C.
charities say postage inc-
reases would particularly af-
fect their household mail
campaigns and they are
hoping the public will con-
tinue to mail in money once
the price of a stamp rises toa
possible 30 cents.

In September, the federal
government proposed a 30-
cents charge for first class
mail — up from the current
rate of 17 cents — to take
effect Jan. 1. A separate rate
of 24 cents per letter would
apply -to ‘mailings of at least
20,000 identical “standard”
letters.

In making the announce-

will have to limit the number
of people on its mailing list
who receive full packages of
Christmas Seals.

Also, all businesses would
be eliminated from the mail-
ing list for the standard let-
ters asking for donations, he
added

non-profit groups.
. David Pardoe, program
coordinator for the Red Cross
youth section, said the prop-
osed second-class rate would
not be a major cost increase
for the Red Cross. But the
higher first-class rate could
cost the organization $30,000
more a year in its B.C.-
Yukon division for the mail-
ing of letters and circulars.
“It will definitely affect our
costs dr ” said

Although, the
sends it campaign material
by second-class mail, the
public would have to pay the
first-class rate to return do-
nations.

CAN'T MEASURE

“This is where it is going to
hurt and we can't measure
that yet,” Parker said.

He said the association's
national office has asked for a

ment, P G al
Andre Ouellet said the rate
increase was delayed until
the new year so the public
would have an opportunity to
make its views known on the
increases.

Doug Parker, executive
secretary of the B.C. Lung

of any in-

Donna Sadler, accountant of-
fice supervisor for the B.C.
Heart Foundation.

She said the foundation has
a major public information
program that requires the
mailing of health education

material.

“We will probably have to
encourage people in the
Lower Mainland to pick up
the stuff rather than us mail-
ing it out,” she said.

Sadler also said she is con-
cerned about campaign do-
nations declining because
some people will be reluctant
to mail money if they have to
pay 30 cents for postage.

Also, the cost of mailing
receipts for donations will in-
crease, she said.

Dick Farnsworth, a United
Way spokesman, said the
United Way is concerned
about the higher rates, al-

though it has not estimated -

the Possible cost,

UN Wedding Bells

ay

creases until the
has had an opportunity to
meet Michael Warren, presi-
dent of the new post office
Crown corporation.

Parker said one solution
would be a special mail rate,
such as exists in the U.S., for

Sun Myung Moon

Plans newspaper

NEW YORK (AP) — Kor-
ean evangelist Sun Myung
Moon's communications com-
pany is planning to start a
general interest

around the country, many of
whom have been shut out of
the largely liberal media for
many years and who are en-

in Washington, D.C.

Nicholas Buscovich, vice-
president of News World
Communications Inc., said
the paper will serve as
“forum for those people
whose ideas are not ex-
“pressed in the Washington
Post.”

He said the paper, The
Times, will begin publishing
in 1982 and will be staffed by
“well-known journalists from

ing the~
thoughtful arena that the
new paper will provide.”
Moon's company already
owns two New York City
general interest dailies. They
are The News World, which
began publishing five years
ago this month and which has
a generally conservative edi-
torial viewpoint, and Noticias
del Mundo, which is written
in Spanish and was started
about 18 months ago.

Congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Keith Johnston, who were married Oct. 9 in
Kamloops. The bride, Julie, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Ogley of Trail and the groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. H.W. Johnston of Osoyoos, B.C.

+ * &

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Niminiken,
whose wedding took place Dec. 19 at DTUC Chapel in
Nelson. The bride, Wendy Louise, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Derek Price of Nelson and the groom is the son
of Mrs. Winnie Niminiken and the late Paul Niminiken, of

South Slocan.

friends erected a wooden
sign proclaiming her “vin-
dication.”

It was a premature but
perhaps understandable
marker near the highway
culvert where Silkwood die
in a mysterious car crash.
She was on her way to meet a
New York Times reporter
and a union official with evi-
dence of sloppy safety prac-
tices at Kerr-McGee Nuclear
Corp.'s plutonium processing
plant where she worked near
Oklahoma City, Okla.

Silkwood's — vindication
came in the form of a $10.5-
million award to her three
children after a long and
bitter court battle.

But last Friday a U.S. fed-
eral appeals court over-
turned the award. Kerr-Mc-
Gee claimed “final victory”
over the woman who became
a posthumous hero to the
anti-nuclear movement.

Kerr-McGee's vindication
may also be premature.

Lawyers for Silkwood's
estate may appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court.

Appeal or not, the Silk-
wood case has already had a
profound effect on the U.S.
nuclear industry while the

of being a scientist and was
delighted to get a techni-
cian's job at Kerr-McGee
quickly became disillusioned
when she saw the nuclear
industry from the inside.
Silkwood became a har-

binger of public opinion and ‘

an anti-nuke martyr at age
28. Five years after her
death, while her suit against
Kerr-McGee was.in progress,
the near-disaster at the
Three Mile Island reactor in
Pennsylvania produced an
explosion of public far and
outrage,

Since then the U.S. Nu-
clear Regulatory Commission
has played tough with the in-
dustry with meaningful -in-
spections and heavy fines and
reactor construction in the
U.S. is all but at a standstill.

Newsweek magazine called
Silkwood a hero. Time label-
led her lawyer, Gerry
Spence,
and the American Trial Law-
yers Association named
Frank Theis trial judge of the
year in 1980 for his handling
of the Silkwood suit.

The appeal’s court reversal
of $10.6 million in punitive
and personal damages was
based on a legal technicality.
The court rules such dam-
ages outside the jurisdication
of lower courts because the
nuclear industry is federally

her
death seem destined to re-
main hauntingly unknown.

MIXED-UP RADICAL?

Was Silkwood simply a
mixed-up union radical who
poisoned herself with lethal
plutonium to embarrass the
company she worked for, a
drug user who abandoned
her children and occasionally
had lesbian affairs? _

That was the picture
painted by Kerr-McGee at
the trial.

Howard Kohn’'s book Who
Killed Karen Silkwood? falls
barely short of saying Kerr-

Funding for
community
services

The federal Consumers
and Dorporate Affairs Minis-
try announced this week it
has approved funding for the
Nelson Community Services.

A joint project of Con-
sumer and Corporate Affairs
Canada and ‘Nelson Com-
munity Services, the office

McGee security op
forced her off the road that
November night in 1974 and
then gathered up the doc-
uments Silkwood had stolen
to prove plutonium fuel rod
welds were faulty and work-
ers were regularly exposed

provides

mediation and money man-
agement counselling to area
consumers.

The ministry funds groups
‘such as Nelson Community
“Servites ‘across the ‘country
by means of contribution ar-

The documents were never
found and Silkwood may
never have had them. As for
the fresh dents on the back
bumper of her car, they
remain unaccounted for.

The Texas woman who as a
high school student dreamed

Staff at the Nelson office
provide consumer complaint
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to Friday. The telephone
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852-3504.

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‘Elephant man’s disease’ victim

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — severing nerves and muscles.
Plastic surgeons who re- But the “improvement will be
moved hundreds of grotes- quite striking, and actually
que facial tumors from a vic- will have a great effect psy-
tim of “elephant man's dis- chologically” on the patient,
ease” say their patient will said Dr. Linton Whitaker,
not look normal but will geta the principal surgeon.
psychological lift from the The operation took place
results of the radical oper- here last week at the hospital
ation. of the University of Pen-

For nine hours, whole se- nsylvania, Whitaker talked
etions: of the 2l-yearold about the Procedures Tues-
woman's face and head were day at a news conference.

@ took
vei oll the presents
fe with hi him!

sliced off with scalpels, caus-
ing profuse bleeding and

The woman, who was re

: ferred to only as “Lisa H.”

Whales studied
to aid fishing
A study of the communi- It has been shown that.
cations system of killer seals and sea lions can be

whales, being carried out by frightened away by playing
‘zoologist John Ford of the killer-whale sounds under-

University of British Colum-
bia and Michael Bigg’ of the

. Pacific Biological Station,

Nanaimo, B.C., may have
useful applications for com-
fishing in. coastal

waters.
Salmon and other com-
mercial fish, says Bigg, are
regularly the target of killer

water. :
“But they are not’ stupid
and soon become accustomed
to the sounds,” says Bigg.
“Possibly the sounds being.
played are not specific en-'
ough, so you want to pick out
those sounds which are really
important to them. We need
to determine as closely as

whales and use sounds made possible the actual hunting
by killer whales as a signal of calls that will frighten them
lurking danger. Such sounds off.

might be usedforherdingthe “It’s an extremely com-

plicated problem because you

Killer-whales sounds also
might be used to scare off
seals and sea lions, which can
bys a-serious nuisance to fish-

‘tch whlie—

don't know at this stage

which individual whale. is:

making the sounds nor what
part of the sound is the key to

the

en; eating
itis still in the act and at
tacking the nets

“Ford has been studying
killer-whale

Reward is
offered for

Rhino foot

BOZEMAN, MONT. (AP)
— It was a busy hunting
season like always in Mon-
tana this year, but no one ex-
pected a rhinoceros to lose a
foot in the shuffle.

Bob Bradford of Powder-

for several years and has
shown that each pod, contain-
ing up to 40 members, has
some unique sounds in its
repertoire. The “dialect” al-
lows family members to dis-
tinguish each other at a dis-
tance or when pods associate,
as they frequently do.
Ford's research has shown
that at least 20 pods inhabit
the waters between Vancou-
ver Island and the mainland.’
Ford hopes analysis of re-

ig Goods cordings of killer-whale com-
bord Fa dae to pile oes! munications will eventually’
merchandise into the store llow him to pinpoint the
for the hunters, many fix. ‘Tucial sounds.
tures were.moved tem;
ily. That: included the rhino
trophy Sid Nesbit of Living-
ston shot in Kenya 20 years
ago.

Real estate
‘When it came to put the

e ’
companies
rhino’s head back on the wall, ‘5
however, workers discovered, records seized
one of the feet that goes
with the trophy missing. PRINCE RUPERT (CP) —

“I guess it's about a foot Police seized the records of
across and stands about 10 three real estate companies |
inches (25 centimetres) in this north coast com- .
high,” Bradford said. munity this week. ie

‘The round foot was lined Named in the search war-
with a copper canister and rants were Armstrong Real-’
fitted with a copper lid, andis ty (1977) Ltd. Contry 21
valued at more than $1,000, Northwest Realty Ltd., and
he said. he tare fe etter ee 21 Kismull Realty

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Varied sized bills for blind

BUT HOW ELSE
COULD I FIND OUT
HIS BEARD WAS
REAL.

OTTAWA (CP) — Blind
people want paper money
printed in different sizes to
help them distinguish be-
tween bills, but they haven't
been able to ovecome the
Bank of Canada’s reserva-
tions about the idea.

“I really feel that the

| changing of sizes of money. is
the best way to go,” says

- Jo-Anne Yale of BOOST, the
Blind Organization of Ontario
with Self-Help Tactics,

protect her identity, was

Yale made the comment
Tuesday in testimony to the
Commons finance committee.
Similar comments came from
spokesmen for the Canadian
eyelids and realigned her National Institute for the

born with
a genetic disease that causes
non-malignant tumors.
TUMORS GREW BACK
She had 11 previous.oper-
ations, all before age 10, to
remove some tumors, but
they grew back. The doctors

this time set out toremove as.

many as they could on the
theory that fewer, less-radi-
_ cal operations would be
needed in the future.

The woman bled so much
that she received 88 pints of

ears. Her d d left eye, Blind and the Quebec As-
which had grown to three sociation: of the Blind and

However, D.G.M. Bennett
of the Bank of Canada said
having different sizes for
esch of the seven bills in
common use would add to the
cost of production and make
it harder’ for financial in-

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December:20, 1981

AT

Sone $6,009 Canadians are
considered legally blind, al-
though many of them have
enough vision to distinguish
different colors or numbers
in large print.

The Bank of Canada says

help those with some, sight,
but is has reservations about
‘the use of braille-like dots'on
bills or another proposal to
clip the corners of bills in
different patterns to accom-
modate persons who are to

use
note-handling equipment.

Jt could also force busi-
nessmen to buy new cash
registers and other equip-
ment .to handle bills of
noticeably different sizes.

‘Bennett said countries
which have experimented
with different sized bills now
seem to be moving back to
bills of uniform size,

The central bank, politi-
cians and persons with vision
problems have been wrestl-
ing for months with ways of

times the normal size, was Vi
removed, and bone was
placed behind the good eye to
keep the brain from pushing
against it.

Dr. James Katowitz, an
ophthalmic plastic and re-
constructive surgeon, said
“around the eyes the tumors NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
looked like a bunch of worms, (AP) — They’re giving to the
sone as thick as electric pases in the name of the

oben The Home News

blood during the i

almost five times as much as

her 180-pound body holds.
Using cartilage taken from

her leg and flesh from other.

parts of her body, Whitaker
fashioned her a new nose and

stereo cartridge; sr Replaceable:

oluminum platter.

She was reported in sat-
factory Needy Cases Fund went
Whitaker said the oper- through its Christmas contri-
ation would cost between butions Tuesday, it found one
$16,000 and $18,000 if total reading: ~-
fees were charged but “no- ‘In memory of Jacob Mar-
body asked how much they ley, our late partner.” It was.
were going to be paid.” ~ signed, Scrooge and Marley.

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Donates under ;
name of Scrooge .

Inside was a cheque for
$100. But the signature there
was not of the tight-fisted
Scrooge or any. Dickens:char-
acter. It was signed with the
real name of a generous
person who was granted an-,
onymity by the newspaper.

So far, the fund has raised
more than $12,000 from read-
ers to help poor people in
central New ‘Jersey.

new designs may

Jan. 21
Premier to visit
Gov. J. Spellman

OLYMPIA (AP) — B.C.
Premier. Bill Bennett will
travel to Olympia Jan. 21 to
pay a return visit to Gov.
John Spellman and address a
joint session of the Washing-
ton state legislature.

The meeting is a follow-up
to Spellman's fence-mending
trip to Victoria in May.

Relations between _ the

tally blind.

retinue of cabinet. members
discuss

‘n, including energy pric’,
ing and supply Faget Soom
tanker traffic, arid

the ‘plight:
olthe Face Nosthwegt ab

when it comes to protesting

seident nuclear submarines,
and demanded, without suc-

cessions.

No. 2 trading partner (Japan

is-No.1) ‘and ‘holds great ~
cess, natural gas price con- imy

“This will be a
visit,” said Paul O'Connor,
Spellman’s press secretary.

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