A2 REPRESENTING Castlegar in the Miss In- terior pageant held Saturday night in were Costlegar Princess left, Cranbroo! Colleen Dasc CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 30, 1981 and Miss Castlegar leona Sorenson, right. The two were photographed Friday before their departure to Cranbrook. Pulp agreements signed Continued from front page Prince George and from Bay Forest Products in Vancou- ver, but PPWC picket squads had continued to fan out, hitting the B.C. Forest Products’ Delta Plywood mill on Annacis Island and sev- eral MacMillan Bloedel mills in the Vancouver area. The industry backed away from its position that none of the PPWC locals could return to work unti! all nine had singed a contract. This is the first time the PPWC has signed agree- ments at some of its mills while there are still local France and U.S. divided by Angola Continued from front page Angop, monitored in Lis- bon, Portugal, said the South African forces bombed schools, hospitals and busi- nesses. during. the operation that started Monday. It sai “several human lives oe been lost,” but gave no fig- ures. Angola maintains strict press restrictions and the re- ports could eA be independ- ently confirm The South *Ktriean Press Association quoted Gen. Con- stand Viljoen as saying the “limited task” had killed “many hundreds” of black guerrillas during the oper- ation that started Monday. : Angola requested the em- ergency session of the 15- member Security Council, which began Friday. During the opening session, Angolan Ambassador Elisio de Fig- ueiredo said, “This is war. We demand the immediate withdrawal unconditionally of racist troops.” The French ib di Organization, or SWAPO, “are of no validity whatso- ever.” “The problem lies else- where,” Laprette said. “The direct cause of the dangerous situation prevailing in South- ern Africa is the issues outstanding at others, said industry negotiator Dick Lester. Last week, the 7,000-mem- ber CPU and the 48,000- member International Wood- workers of America ratified two-year contracts with the industry by votes of close to 70 per cent. The 5,500-member PPWC voted 54 per cent to reject - the contract, which contains wage increases of 15 per cent in the first year and 13 per cent in the second, lifting the base rate to $12.96 an hour. However, the PPWC neg- otiating committee decided to call off the province-wide strike and let the locals decide if they wanted to carry on the battle with their individual mills. But the Pulp and Paper in Namibia without justi- fication of the South African presence.” The strong French stand against South Africa was in marked contrast to the American position that South Africa’s military actions must be seen in the context of Soviet arms supplies to SWAPO and to the presence of 20,000 Cuban troops in Marxist-ruled Angola, which provided bases to SWAPO as well. Namibia is a former Ger- man colony that has been controlled by South Africa since the First World War. A League of Nations mandate awarded to South Africa in 1920 was revoked by the UN General A in 1966. said South Africa’s argument that it acted in self-defence against guerrillas of the South West Africa’s People's But the Pretoria government has balked at implementing a UN-supported Western plan for an independent Namibia. ICBC strike defers accident premiums VANCOUVER (CP) — torists held to blame for accidents have been spared a $390 extra premium this year because of the fi th by corporation president Tom Holmes Friday as em- ployees began returning to work after agreeing to bind- itration of strike that caused a backlog of 200,000 Insurance Cor- poration of B.C. claims. Deferral of the driver acci- dent premium “for at least another year” was announced CLOSED G Castlegar Savings Credit Union in the Castleaird Plaza & Slocan Park will be Due to the Labour Day Weekend Holiday ————— ing of wage and vacation demands. It will be many weeks or months before all the paper work that accumulated dur- ing the strike is completed, he said. SEPT. 5 Bureau, which bargains for the com- panies, refused to allow any locals back to work unless all nine signed contracts. Farmers want migrant workers By Alex Binkley The Canadian Press Unless you grow your own food or frequent the in- creasingly popular pick-your- own farms, it's likely a little- heard-of part of the food sys- tem — the migrant or foreign seasonal farmworker — har- vests the fresh fruits and vegetables you consume ev- ery year. ‘Any time you do hear about the more than 150,000 Canadians and 6,000 from Mexico and Commonwelath- Caribbean countries em- ployed in the summer and early fall working fields or picking fruit, bles and provisions of the five-year- old program under which f hire turned to foreign workers because of the high turnover r it has been rel to allow a among Ci British Columbia major increase in the number of offshore workers because of the high jobloss ratos. But Ottawa might have to admit more workers to help farmers expand their oper- ations, thereby reducing Can- adian dependence on foreign produce for which. we pay about $800 million annually. Govertiment officials say the matter is under version discussion and will be ad- dressed when Ottawa re- leases a revised version of its tobacco, it usually involves complaints about poor hous- ing conditions, low wages, trouble between different ethnic groups and, more re- cently, attempts to organize a union for farm workers. The future may bring a different picture as consu- mers increasingly look for Canadian products. as the price for foreign produce continues to rise through higher production and trans- portation costs. But farmers are reluctant to expand to meet that de- mand until they get better government assurances of adequate foreign labor. Harvesting fruits and ve- getables usually involves long, agaonizing days bent over picking or digging at minimum wages. Farmers say that although the coun- and food strategy this fall. The first version of the strategy released in July painted a rosy future for Canadian farmers but over- looked the seasonal farm labor issue. In the last seven years, the demand for domestic fruit and vegetables has risen by 26 per cent and the higher costs for foreign produce should mean even greater growth in domestic sales. While farmers producing crops for processing com- panies have mechanized their picking operations as much as possible, many are de- pendnet on pickers for as- paragus, cauliflower, celery, beets green onions and let- tuce. WORTH EXTRA WORK The’ offshore labor pro- gram, started in response to try’s unemployment rate is high, it is hard to get many Canadians who will stay on the job. Foreign workers are more dependable and indus- trious. The main demand for sea- sonal workers is in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and Brit- ish Columbia, a cross-country survey by The Canadian Press shows. The offshore, or foreign, workers go mainly to Ontario with small groups of Mexicans hired in Manitoba and Alberta for vegetable picking. CORE OF WORKFORCE Bill Daman, head of the Canadian Horticultural Coun- cil which represents the growers, says many farmers regard the foreign workers as the nucleus of their work- force. Although the government last year relaxed some of the NOTICE TO THE FORMER EMPLOYEES OF HADIKEN BROS. LUMBER The office at Rivergreen Motel has been closed. Anyone requiring financial assistance under the Mobility Incentive Agreement must make prior arrangemen- ts with the Committee before any com- taken. f@ mitmeni on ineir pari to relocate is under- FOR INFORMATION CONTACT Joe A. Blagioni, 1120 Columbia Ave., Trail, B.C., VIR 132, Telephone 368-3061 . PLEASE CLIP OUT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. . FREE COLLEGE SKILLS’ ASSESSMENT SERV ICE \VE YOU EVER WONDERED IF YOU C Couecer ‘SELKIRK CAN HELP YOU MAKE POUR areston. How? FREE evaluation sessions this summer to assess your basic reading, writing and mathematics pa These aro SELF- SCORED tests giving you IMMEDIATE WHAT THEN? 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Typo of Assessment Available Reading & Writing Math wy NZ for better harvest help, involves a lot of paper work for farmers wish- ing to participate but many agree it is farmers are satisfied with migrant Canadian workers, Roy Holland, an immigra- tion department official, says fruit and vegetable growers in the Okanagan, Fraser Val- ley and Creston regions rely “on local people, such as stu- dents, housewives and native Indians” along with mi- grants, especially from Que- bec. “French-Canadian workers are excellent... We're glad to see them every year.” CHARGES RACISM But Raj Chouhan, presi- dent of the fledgling Cana- dian Farmworkers Union, says there is “a lot of racism, mostly involving French- Canadian workers in the. Okanagan. The B.C. human rights commission has called for the construction of serviced campgrounds near major fruit-growing areas and the provision of bilingual federal government services. Worker accommodation al- so has been an issue in Ontario, especially in the Delhi-Tilsonburg areas where migrant workers come eveyr fall to pick tobacco. Migrants often find work through Canada’ Manpower programs but the agency’s figures don't distinguish be- tween seasonal workers and those hired full-time for specialized work on dairy and livestock farms.” One farmer who is happy with Canadians is Ian Run- Under the changes made last year, farmers are al- lowed to hire at least 20 per cent of their work force from out of the country. They must pay the worker's air fare, part of his medical insurance costs and provid housing. Ed Willms, a beekeeper near Brooks in southern Al- berta, says he hires Mexicans because of problems getting Canadians to stay. Although there is extra work involved in hiring the Mexicans “I couldn’t‘operate ‘without’ them: . .T'd have'to cut back.” ‘Grape growers in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula also have °37,000 dle, who operates 41 hectares of apple orchards near the eastern Ontario community of Brighton, about 655 kil- ometres west of Belleville. COMING SOON TO —s PETROCANADA SAMS AUTOMOTIVE “Minute Mufflers” (ctiliate) 15.Gol ANO y Te eager, am Konkin 45-3666 He says the offshore work- ers “work like hell.” « “Thoy're professionals and very, very fast, But with so many unemployed Canadi- ans, I don't think you have to go to Jamaica to find work- ers.” USE LOCALS His 36 pickers are local residents, usually pened people. Rundle says they geod, steady workers — at the minimum wage of $3. an hour. “Picking apples is a! art, the pickers are good at it; and they enjoy it. 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His complexion has re- gained some. healthy pink and. his former grumpin- ess, even truculence, in interviews has given way to a more relaxed manner. He concedes these days there may have been prob- lems last year with too into politics should they ask. “I'll have to ask Joe (his youngest) when I get home how I should have answered that,” he said. RUMORS FLOAT There's been talk for the last four or five months that Lougheed may finally be interested in the job of federal Progressive Con- servative leader. He travelled to the Mar- itimes early this year and took on a national per- spective at times in a sub- sequent speech in Calgary. Rumors ooze out of Ottawa about a private poll under- taken to gauge Lougheed's as national heavy a schedul More than ever he is sure he is right in his battle with the Liberal govern- nient in Ottawa “because I see even more clearly the strength of. the attack that’s upon us.” Only one question left him stumped in an inter; view last week. He didn't know if he would advise any of his children to go leader. ‘I don't foresee it, I don't think it’s probably,” he said in the interviw, adding he has neither interest in Joe Clark's job nor ambi- tion for it, and would think first about retiring from politics. He is not “unalterably opposed” to the idea of na- tional- leadership. But there is “probably not any- thing” different now from the situation in 1975, when - he spurned appeals to run and stood by as Clark took over ht eparty. Does he support Clark as national elader? Yes. Would he support Clark at a leadership convention? The question is hypothe- By the measure of the ballot, Lougheed has fash- ioned a remarkably suc- cessful political career. He took over the Alberta Conservatives at age 38. The party was a shell when Lougheed won the leadership on the first bal- lot at a convention in Ed- monton in March, 1965. Since 1921 only six Pro- gressive Conservatives had been elected to the legislature. The party had Qan- The party -had lan- guished in turn behind the Liberals, United Farmers and Social Credit. Lougheed criss-crossed the province for two years putting together a slate of candidates to take on Er- hest Manning's long- entrenched Social Credi- ters. He was one of the party's main assets: scion -of an old Alberta family, grandson of former Con- servative Senate leader Sir James Lougheed, briefly a running back with the Ed- monton Eskimos, success- ful corprate lawyer for Calgary industrialist Fred Mannix. In 1967, Lougheed and five of his handpicked col- leagues were elected to the legisltature. They tore into the aging Social Credit front bench during eah question period for the next four years. On Aug. 80, 1971, the young upstarts scored a smashing upset, a surprise even to themselves, elect- ing 49 members to 24 for Social Credit. In two elections since, the Opposition has been crippled. Social Credit has been held to four seats and the NDP to, one. Lougheed and his party have presided over a dec- ade of prosperity. The government is the wealthiest in Canada, with a net surplus of more than $10 billion, and Albertans’ per-capita income is the highest in the country. ‘ “When Lougheed takes on the federal government over energy and the con- stitution he can fairly claim the support of a clear ma: jority of voters in the province, He has three major goals left, he said in the inter- view. He wants significant improvements in western Canadian transportation, school curriculum changes to give young Albertans a better grounding in Cana- dian history and geog- raphy, and completion of the current round of hospi- tal construction. As for his critics, Liberal Leader Nick Taylor said recently: “He has done very little shaping of Al- berta. He has sat back and let a gold-rush atmosphere P. ATTACKS PREMIER, Social Credit Leader Rod Sykes cut closer to psychological’bone during a ee conference last, sprin; Pe don't think he has. any settled philosophy what- ever,” Sykes said of Lou- hi ‘ gl . “He is after power, and that’s all he’s after. So some years ago when’ he said he didn't have any philosophy, he was a prag- matist, he believed in what worked, I think he was telling the truth. “I think that’s correct. He wants power. Well, power for the sake of _ power is not, I think, a good thing.” Louaheed does like to ‘use por ‘Atked what he particu- larly enjoys about his job, CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 30, 1981 10 years as premier have left marks. he replied, “There is a feeling that you're getting some things done.” He dislokes the word power, preferring to talke about he role of govern- ment leaders as “trustees” for the poeple. But he said he is not bothered by things like the article in a magazine sup- plement delivered with several major newspapers this weekend. It portrays him cs “King Peter.” “The real test is I've always beet a team play- er,” he sai het I feel a high sense of satisfaction at being a team leader.” When you think of your- self as something other than a member of a team, he said, you begin to re- ceive only the advice peo- ple think you want to hear and you begin to lose cap- able colleagues. The ability to attract and keep capable people is a key to political success, he said. ‘ He refused to be drawn into observations on the PETER LOUGHEED, >. fIrst,took office Noyeas ago today quality of: the federal cab- inet, and the style of the man who leads it, Raid % The following is a pooled dispatch by Reuters corres- pondent Noel Hughes, one of four foreign journalists sel- beted by the South African lefence force to visit a mili- tary operational area inside DID YOU KNOW THAT Selkirk College’ s offer to Local 57 BCGEU Pause eee Sal ol proviasa Gi schedule in excess of ret | GnnvuGa. «i A saicry Salaries that are higher. ‘than any other BCGEU contract representing vocational instructors. Students registering for classes at Castlegar and the David Thom- pson University Centre are ad- vised that instructional activities will be maintained. Selkirk College Wr Angola. * OSHAKATI, SOUTH- WEST AFRICA (AP) — South African forces struck deep into Angola, knocking Qut radar ‘and anti-aircraft fnstallations and killing at feast 400 Angolan troops and la li terrill into Angola killed at least 400 of the South-West Africa Peoples Organization. The action began Monday. Four foreign journalists were flown from Oshakati across the Angolan border Friday to the small town of Xangongo where they saw’ several hundred South Afri- can troops, supported by dozens of armored cars, per- sonnel carriers and artillery. The town itself appeared to have suffered slight dam- age, but the Angolan multtary ick ig. Rudolph Badenhorst Saturday. gece: ara outh African.ground. troops «.. jad launched a four-pronged assault which reached as far ters has heavy air bombardment. ‘An n burned out Soviet-made tank stood outside and numerous, buildings” and vehicle/ mounted. anti-aircraft guns: received direct hits. Helicopters, and a Maes a tour of the twon in a ‘motorized columa. Senior officers said planes had destroyed Angolan radar and anti-aircraft establish- ments. “It was necessary to neu- tralize the radar that was providing early warning to SWAPO,” said air force Col. Oliver Holmes. “As a precursor to attack- ing the radar it was also ecessary to neutralize the air defences protecting these sites.” Earlier this month, South African military sources said Angola was deploying ‘sophi- eticated, Soviet-built SAM-® and SAM4 anti-eircraft (miey sile) systems in the south of the country. East. German and Cuban advisers allegedly 100 kil Be ‘Angola, to destroy bases 3 % i) iolent protests continue WELLINGTON, NEW ALAND (AP! g At least 28 persons were wgrrested and 20 treated at spitals after riot police, About a dozen protesters ey side the ground attempted climb the 12+ foot fence © Several smoke bombs went plan the reporters were taken Be were the sys- tems. n rugby tour off inside the gounds during the match, but there were no incidents inside the arena it- self. The ugliest scenes occur- red before the match in streets around Athletic Park, the presence in New Zea. land of the South Africans, clashed with police. In other parts of Welling- ton, protesters who want the South Africans sent home because of their country’s race discrimination laws," blocked roads into the city. Earlier in the day a gel- ignite bomb destroyed a sig- nal gantry in the Wellingta railway yards, disrupting, train services into the capital’ for several hours. .. Police would not say if the bombing was done by anti-tour pro- testors. Shortly after the explo- sion, police defused a remote- controlled explosive device near an entrance to Athletic Park. In other parts of Now Zea- land, police and Holmes declined to elabor- ate on the air attacks, or to specify the’ nature of the Angolan defences which had been knocked out. Gen. Constand Viljoen an- nounced Friday in the legis- lative capital of Cape Town that South African forces had begun pulling out of the former Portuguese territory. Badenhorst said he esti- mated Angolan and SWAPO deaths in the current cam- paign at between 400 and 450, with about 60 per cent of the casualties sustained by the Angolans. The South Africans have announced the massed on the border, had invaded its territory. But, Viljoen described the operation as limited and the made when a group of dem- onstrators seized the New Zealand television control centre, briefly interrupting the live coverage of the land, police ay thied Gemonstrators “fought in the streets in one of the worst days of civil distur- bance since the South Afri- can team, the Springboks, arrived July 19. ePolice arrested: 100 per- sons in Chfistchurch after they blocked off a bridge with barbed wire and oc- cupied it for 20 minutes. In auckland, the country's have occurred every time the Soluth Africans have ap- peared to play a match, have deeply divided New Zealand. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon has threatened an early election on a law and order issue. His labor party opponents accuse him of manipulating the rugby tour for political purposes. The South African tour has also jeopardized New Zea- land's participation in the 1982 C Games largest city, bat: police arrested several per- sons in a downtown demon- stration. MOre arrests wer and provoked strong inter. national criticism from black African nations. Grain handlers talks broken off THUNDER BAY (CP) — Bfforts to a set- Lakehead Grain Elevator lement in the grain handlers pute were blocked early jaturday morning when elks between.the two sides Hroke down. ba rederal mediator Bill Kelly 3 between on the job during negotiations. The workers, whose con- tract expired in January, and who could have launched a legal strike at midnight EDT Thursday, have been seeking he union and the Lakehead Terminal Elevators Associ- tion broke off at 3.a.m. The 1,600 grain handlers, inembers of the Canadian on a 24-hour, seven-day work schedule. The grain handlers have been refusing overtime since early in June but have con- tinued to work at the Lake : Society gets grant The B.C. conjmittes of they International Year of Dis- ‘&bled Persons has awarded a aminjmally handicapped young adults for a 12-month period, says residence com- mittee Norma ant of $23,000 to the ] Kootenay So- ciety for the Handicapped {Castlegar Branch). i The funds will be used to tet, up a residence for three Collier. They will be taught in- dependent living skills, and will become independent at the end of a year when the service is withdrawn. Superior port, which handles about 60 per cent of Canada’s grain exports. . The association issued a mendations for improve- ments in vacations, shift dif- ferentials, increased health and welfare benefits, meal news release say- ing it will accept a report by federal conciliator Jack Chap- man as a basis for settlement in the dispute. In his report, released Aug. 21, Chapman recom- mended the elevators estab- al ability plan and et pie lishment of a committee to examine existing pension plans and benefits. . The association said it will accept Chapman's recommen- © dations for protection seeinet lish .a 24-hour, work week, one of the main issues in the dispute. The association also ac- cepted Chapman's recom-: mendation for two across- foth ths first and price years of hte contract. Chapman agreed with the elevator companies’ the-board wage it ina new two-year contract. The report suggests a $1. 50 an hour to. proposal that a cost-of-living- be lated on a yearly basis. However, the union wants the Angolan claims as “laugh- able.” South Africa makes fre- quent hot pursuit sorties across the border against SWAPO guerrillas, who have been fighting 15 years to gain control of South-West Africa, commonly known as Nami- ia. Badenhorst said. South African troops had been at- tacked by Angolan forces in the last raid. “If they stand in our way, they must be prepared to ac- cept the consequences,” he sai id. LOticers said the several : Voyager hundred troops deployed 3 at Xangongo comprised the’ largest of the four task forces. Fighting was_ still going on around Ondjiva, about 60 kilometres to the southeast, although South Africans said they controlled South Africa used tanks in the attack, but there was,no sign of them at Xangongo. One officer . said:- “We wouldn't use tanks. They are useless in these conditions. cam eras” have been fixed ‘PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — Scientists at the Jew Propulsion Laboratory here have put Voyager 2's mal- functioning television plat- form on a steady diet of ex- ercise and they say the ther- apy seems to be working. The spaceship’s cameras are turning again toward the huge golden globe of Saturn and its rings after three days of looking off into space for unexplained reasons. A virtually identical sis- tership, Voyager 1, had a similar problem three years ago when it passed by Saturn and the engineers who solved it concluded a piece of plastic left in the ship during as- sembly had become caught in the gears. It was crushed or pushed aside by repeatedly moving the platform through the sticky spot, and the same technique was used on Voya- ger 2. Ausirian synagogue ‘ attacked by terrorists VIENNA (AP) “—-~ Ter- rorists lobbed hand grenades and fired sutomatic weapons Jewish ritual that marks a boy’s 18th birthday. There were no immediate, for into Vienna, Austria Saturday, id injur-.. ies ear go Cross, woman died of: rounds asshe was taken to hospital)’Police said a 69-year-old man also died. Among the wounded were passersby and two policemen assigned to guard the syna- gogue, a police spokesman said. One officer was ser- iously wounded he said. The spokesman said two people were taken into cus- tody shortly after the attack. He said police were hunting a third suspect. One witness said the ex- plosion and gunfire took place outside the synagogue, where 200 people were cel- ebrating a bar mitzvah, the claims of the bombing of the Jewish house of, worship, known as lite Tefple. Peek Interior Minister Irwin, Lane, visiting the, seene, said the choice of the terrorists’ target indicated they were agents from the Middle East. He did not ela- borate. Police said what was first reorted as a bomb explosion had been an exploding gren- ade, followed by several gun- shots. The attack came about one month after two Arabs were arrested trying to smuggle a machine pistol, two Soviet- made rifles and six grenades into Austria at Vienna air- port. Earlier this month, a bomb rattled the Israeli Embassy in Vienna, but caused little damage. Paris hotel bombed; 14 wounded in blast thet Feb. 1, 1981 during the first year and a $1.20 an hour increase in the second year. The associaiton has also agreed to Chapman's recom- on a month baiss. Union officials say while they are in a legal strike position, no walkouts have been planned. bom! main lobby of the Paris Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday night, wounding 14 people, one of them seriously, police sources said. There was no immediate indication of who was res- ponsible for the blast, which caused widespread damage. Most of the itjured were hit by flying glass. The police sources said be bomb had been placed in small suitcase in the hotel. spaceships — -bot explorers that bolted free Space probes — ‘about to’ pause PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — It began when Mar- iner 2 sailed past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. -Then came the Rangers, Surveyors, Pioneers, Vikings and Voyagers until the solar system was abuzz bea American of earth and looked on the wonders of strange new worlds.’ Scarcely a year went by without an machine probing the frontier ofthe ‘heavens.’ rey -?Phey:watehed the~barren héll‘of Mercury: They tasted the sulphur clouds aad chem- ical fires of Venus. They sat in the raw, red dust of Mars ‘and searched in vain for life. They saw the psychedelic swirls of the Jupiter's wind- “blown clouds’ and. watched volcanoes spew from a moon called Io.’ And they. looked into the rings of Saturn and found rings inside rings inside rings. And now it is Pending! ‘For , half a decade no new world will bare its secrets’ for American spaceships. Now begins “The Hiatus,” as it is being called by’ sci- entists who gathered this last week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Voyager: 2's rendezvous with Saturn — last of the unbroken string of explorations. “It’s something we've all been thinking about: This really is the end,” said Brad- ford Smith, a University of Arizona astronomer. who heads the Voyager. photog- raphy team. “It’s an emo- tional experience. It’s sad.” Voyager 2 is the. only AmericaA spaceship still en route to another world. The ship is sailing away from’ a dramatic tour of Saturn’ that included a triumphantly flaw- less pass just above the plan- et's churning clouds Tuesday, a crippling and unexplained mishap that left its cameras useless for three days and finally, on Friday, its ap- parently successful repair by American - earthbound engineers a bil- arrive in January, ree at greenish, gas-filled Uranus. Three years later the veteran explorer is due at: Neptune, . which:appears a little more than’ blue-green disc in ‘even _ the largest telescopes on earth. “We're not going to get we planted 10 years ago... and there's nothing else growing.” The five-year break cannot be filled. It takes too long to plan, build and sail'a space- ship across the incredible distances of space. Missions of all kinds have money could be better used at home. Two Voyagers that have explored two worlds ‘apiece, with two more coming up for ~ Voyager 2, cost a total of about $500 million. Bilis Miner,‘ Voyager's No. 2 sci- entist, said it’s aoa costing ray,.who fights budget bat- tles for the world’s premiers centre of deep space explor- ation, says, ‘Now we're down to just Galileo and they keep trying’ to kill that.” ‘The mission; on¢e planned for next year, is still funded,_ but now scheduled to lainch” in 1985. It will take two years for the spaceship to arrive at Jupiter, where will orbit the giant planet and drop an in- strumented probe down into the churning, colorful atmos- phere. Columbia starts to be prepared CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) — The Columbia, slated to become America's first craft to make a second manned voyage into space, will start its slow return to the launch pad on Monday morning. The entire space shuttle and its mobile launcher will -be folled out at 5 a.m. local time for a six-kilometre trip to the same launch pad where, the first historic mission’ be- gan last April. The shuttle will be fitted with new twin solid-rocket boosters’ and a new external tank. “Officials wanted to start the rollout at an early hour in order to get the space shuttle to the launch pad and beat the‘ lat-afternoon thunder- storms which we have been having lately,” said Mark Hess, spokesman at the Ken- nedy Space Centre. Moving at speeds of less than two kilometres an hour with frequent stops, the. space shuttle is expected to be locked down to the launch pad by.1 p.m. The launch date has been moved back to Oct..9 from Sept. 80 because of technical problems, officials revealed Friday.