cs CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 2, 198) aes By Brian Porter TORONTO (CP) — The campus protest may make a comeback at Canadian universities this fall as students face record-high tuitions and the effects of continued government spending restrictions, The country’s 42 major degr institu- quire $4,000 to $4,500 for tuition, books, rent, living expenses, and transporta- tion, The no-frills figure has almost doubled in five years. But Tate says students are likely to be vocal about much more than increased fees as they encounter the tions expect about 600,000 students to fill their lec- ture halls and for the first time many full-time under- graduates will pay more than $1,000 for a seat from September to April. “This coming year is shaping up to be one of a massive increase in the amount of student acti- vity,” says Bruce Tate, a researcher for the Ottawa- based National Union of Students, which is plan- ning major demonstrations in provincial capitals and on Parliament Hill in Oc- tober. The organization, which represents 400,000 univer- sity students in nine prov- inces, estimates that a stu- dent attending university away from home will re- ing of student assis- tance programs, increased student-faculty ratios, cuts in library acquisitions, de- clining research possibil- ities and decreased acces- sibility to universities for lower income groups. GOVERNMENTS BACK OFF At the root of the con- cerns is a change in em- phasis by both the federal and provincial govern- ments, which are shifting more of the financial bur- den for post-secondary ed- ucation to students and their families. Ontario, which has the 15 universities. In 1971 it was third, “There has been consid- erable variation by the provinces in the level of support given to univer- sities over time,” notes Will Sayers, communica- tions director for the Coun- cil of Ontario U berta, Edmonton and $650 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. MORE COSTLY IN U.S. She notes that arts un- dergrads there will pay $910 for the 1981-82 schoo} year while Michigan stu- dents attending Wayne State across Since education is a pro- vincial concern, it has been joned vi the border will pay $1,244. Tuitions at private U.S. ities can range as ing by governments in power. ‘ically, ea high as $10,000 a year. lock says Ontario PI has had “different ways of dealing with university funding,” Sayers said. This is evident in the wide divergence in tuition fees at universities across the country this fall. A full-time undergradu- ate arts student attending Dalhousie University in Halifax will pay $1,025 be- fore extra-curricular fees, compared with $570 at Montreal's McGill Univer- sity. Other universities fall rh in students still pay only between 15 and 20 per cent of the costs of their edu- cation and receive “excel- lent opportunities” in re- turn. But the universities, too, will be doing hteir share of protesting this year as they continue to lobby against a threat by Ottawa to pull the financial rug out from under them. A parliamentary com- mittee has been studying a major revision of the es- hed p financ- largest ity student population, has fallen to last place among provinces in the amount of money it provides per student to its $950 at the Universit year, provides funds for medicare, hospital insur- ance and post-secondary education. Alarm spread across the univiersity community. when rumors that the government was proposing a $1.5-billion cut. The figure represents 45 per cent of the total operating costs of Cana- dian universities. Ifsuch a cut came about, the situation would be “disastrous for students, the universities, and so- ciety in- general,” says Robert Patry, dents, says the $1.5-billion cut may result in $5,000 tuition fees in two or three years, government grant reductions of 80 per cent to every Ontario y Students likely to be vocal over increased costs “one of the most active in a while.” ‘ “I would anticipate ac- tion right across the coun- try tee There have been and even more for institu- tions in other provinces. “It (the cut) would have a drastic effect.” Taylor says Ontario stu- dents will also focus at- tention this year on prop- osals for “rationalizing” the province's university sys- tem to save money through elimination or amalgama- tion of some programs, director of information for the Association of Univer- sities and Collges of Can- ada. MAY CLOSE SCHOOLS Patry says the associ- ation and student and fac- ulty groups have told the committee the cuts could double or even triple tui- tions, close some insitu- tions, restrict enrolments, reduce faculty, and elim- inate h faculties or The Ontario tul- tions have continued to rise and there has been little improvement in stu- dent aid over the last five or six years. Students aren't going to take much more.” CAN ADD 10 PER CENT Ontario, where univer- sities can add up to an ex- tra 10 per cent on a basic fee of $850 has tuition ranging from $900 at the U f to While ali universities decry changing govern- mont funding formulas and the crippling effects of in- flation, spokesmen do not expect higher costs to have much effect on enrolments. “| think students will accept in tuition fees the same way they ac- cept higher prices in gen- eral,” says Dr. Charles Gaudet, president of Nova Scotia's University of Ste. Anne. University presidents meeting in Niagara Falls, Ont., in June reported in- creases across the country of Students will join with the National Union of Stu- dents and other provincial student associations to form the Canadian Feder- ation of Students at a founding conference in Oc- tober. Tate says the new body will give students a strong- er voice and eliminate of Toronto; $670 at the Uni- versity of Winnipeg; $606 at the University of Al- ing Ottawa and the provinces. The agreement, which comes up for renewal next. Barb Taylor, chairman of the 230,000-member On- tario Federation of Stu- in research on student concerns. Taylor agrees, saying the coming year will be of $996 at York University in ‘oronto, At most universities stu- dents pay additional extra curricular fees which boost total fees above $1,000 at many Ontario institutions. For -instance, Ottawa's Carleton University will tuition plus $187.60 stu- dent fees) — an increase of 15.2 per cent over last year. in applications for Septem- ber admission, Simon Fra- ser University in Burnaby, B.C. said its applications were up 15 to 20 per cent, while Atlantic universities noted five- to 10-per-cent increases and Ontario schools were up about 10 per cent. “Clearly, students still realize the value of a university education,” says Elizabeth Havelock, dir- ector of information at the University of Windsor. An for LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. (CP) — For the mentally retarded it has always been a fight to be treated like everybody else — to have a job and some pocket money. Now retarded people like Lorraine Garber and Bill Guskjolen are trying to make their own way in the world and succeeding. Garber, 29, washes dishes and sets up the salad bar at Jokell's Restaurant. “I like it,” she says. “It gives you more money. It makes a person feel impor- tant.” She is on the verge of promotion to short order cook. It's a long way from making prize ribbons and buttons at the rehabilitation workshop where she earned $40 a month, Today, her salary is $300 a month plus a government supplement. Asked about her éareer, she appeared puzzled as she described how she was taken out of school after Grade 8 and kept home. “My parents couldn't get me into no school.” She eventually enrolled in a four-month course at Leth- bridge Community College. She also found a job as a chambermaid at the local auxiliar; hospital “but it only lasted one day.” After she finished her col- lege course Garber went to uphill climb job security the rehabilitation workshop, where she spent nearly seven years preparing for the work world. SHARES ACCOMMODATION The workshop arranged an interview for her. She got the job. And today Garber lives in a basement suite shared with her friend Agnes, who also once worked at the rehabilitation workshop. She says she likes her new life: “When we first moved in here we were happy .. . because we could come and go when we wanted to.” For Bill Guskjolen, 20, a job means delivering grocer- ies for the Value Village food store, and washing and sweeping the floor before the store opens. Like most people, he finds climbing out of bed at 6 a.m. not the easiest thing to do. But he likes his job, especi- ally driving the delivery van and meeting people, h earned between $28 and $43 a month, “I knew what it was like without money . . . You couldn't do much.” “At Christmas, the boss bought him bus tickets so he could visit his family in Sas- katchewan. That was far more memorable than some experiences at other jobs. “I worked at sign painting for one year and six months. I didn’t like that. Everyone teased me because I was from the handicapped place and everyone there is re- tarded they think.” The painting shop also had him working in a small room with poor ventilation. “I was zonked out all week ... dizzy, couldn't walk and the whole building was shak- ing. It was scary.” One earlier job Guskjolen liked was with the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Saskatchewan. he admits some get surly Va when he takes longer than they expect to count out change. “Counting money is hard,” Guskjolen said. “That’s why I got a calculator. I was afraid to make a mistake.” He has $70 put away. With that and his salary he is sav- ing to buy a car. When he was working at the rehabilition workshop he PUBLISHER The Castlegar News is published by Costle News Ltd. Mail subscription rate to the CASTLEGAR NEWS is $20 per year ($28 in communities where the Post Office has Let- ter Carrier service). 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(oe) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7, 1947 to Feb. 15, 1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher LOIS HUGHES, Moncoing Editor; GARY FLEMING, - vertising ? KOSITS! (i inager; Manoger. % Once the nucl PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — A tour of Bob Farness’ yard is a trip to an age when horsepower meant muscle and bone. It was an era free of gasoline and exhaust fumes, when buggies and carriages were whisked down the road by trotting horses. Farness is a blacksmith. He remembers a time when his trade was the nucleus of the community. “The blacksmith was an any village who was always dreaming of something to make life easier — like the scientist.” Born and raised in the tiny town of Sidmouth, near Rev- elstoke, he has been a black- smith since he was 14. After moving to Prince George 16 years ago, Farness opened his own shop, Little Village Blacksmith, in his house on the west side of town. Farness, 86, says the name of the shop reflects his feel- ings about the trade. “A community feeling is a big part of the job,” he “testatetine Victoria, B.C. V8u 1X4 Lebrary.. Parlinnent Sldgs., 304 Vel <-—NEWS_ F Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” - WEATHERCAST Sunday morning will bring | nd toa vpatches. In some we the bi In the low 20's and overnight lows from7 to 10%, VOL. 34, NO. 71 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1981 er 2 Sections (A &B) eus of the community explains. “What I'm trying to do is make people feel at -home when they come to me with something to fix.” He fixed everything from door hinges to shovels and makes custom-designed Farness’s trade — and the older the better as far as he's concerned. “They don't make things like they used to,” he says. “It’s all cheap molded or casted metal which breaks on impact.” Some of the tools he uses are nearly a century old — tongs, clippers and wedges, figure eights, punches and forging hammers. Farness is certain that the anvil he uses was owned by his father 60 years ago before it was sold. He bought the tool when he was in the southern in- terior several years ago, and believes it to be his father’s original because of distinc- tive markings it bears. “It's kind of nice having a family heirloom.” Although Farness tries to preserve the historical aspect of the trade, he has equipped his shop with certain modern technological innovations. He uses an electric fan to help blaze his coking coal and cuts some of his metal with an acetylene-gas torch. Farness says the thrill of the trade is heightened every Christmas when he rides around town as Santa Claus on one of his hand-crafted carriages. “I usually do that every year,” he says, “except once when Santa got too spirited to get his boots on.” approval to in 1989. you bank. This would raise water at about 35 km upstream to the Hugh Keenleysid received, the earliest date that construction coul informed Wewusttoke osed Mu ild the project . ile we don’t have all the answers yet, a 400 megawatt installation is being studied which would feature a low head earthfill dam with a concrete spillway on the right the dam 15 to 20 metres and create a reservoir extending through the public libraries and municipal and re; Impact Committee, set up under the auspices of the will also have copies. By next summer there tourism and recreation, land use, water quality, forestry, heritage resources, geology, landforms, downstream water use as well as transmission line and e It is important that people in this are underway. Should you have any questions, B.C. Hydro in Vancouver collect at 0-663-2117. area know that' ee tee rphy Creek hydroelectric project. B.C. Hydro is currently studying the feasibility of building a dam and powerhouse on the Columbia River, 3 km upstream from Trail. : : ‘ Next year, when Hydro and many independent consultants complete detailed studies, we will be able to decide whether or not to proceed in applying for government le and Brilliant dams. If government approval is id begin is 1984 for completion of the project When these studies are completed, they will be made available for public review gional offices. The Murphy Creek Project Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, will be studies showing the effects on socio-economics, fishing, wildlife, agriculture, vegetation, hydrology and river morphology, climate, ngineering studies. these studies about the project or wish to make your concerns heard, call City pulls wells Five of the seven. wells that have supplied Castlegar residents with drinking wa- ter for more than 20 years are being decommissioned by the city. One well in each end of the city will be left for emer- gency supplies, but the pumping machinery is being puljed out of the rest, the shafts filled in, and the build- ing slated for demolition in the near future, Igor Zah- ynacz, the city engineer, said last week. He said that while the city's new water system is still considered under start up, it has been operating for a year in the north end of Castlegar, and four to five months in the south end. Decommissioning the wells started Wednesday morning, and the work should be fin- ished later this week. P machinery is to be sold by tender. In other news of city works projects, Zahynacz said de- velopment of the city’s in- dustrial park in south Castle- gar is proceeding ahead of schedule. Serviced lots in the park could be offered for sale as He also said there have been delays in getting cost _§ estimates for a proposed . pedestrian ov : erpass the Woodland Park arta and the-recreatio Companies giving esti- mates want to inspect the site before releasing their figures, he ‘said. He’ added one more company is sending a representative for a look, and the figures should be sent in several week time. No signs of relief ) Attendance holding. inspite of dispute — The Labor Rel is co! Tege's applica’ remove pickel astles Fe pson Universi oi ea aa tt bers of the BG. Government EMURD hearing was held ‘afternoon % Belkirk's ed thai - ee Mato. “not work at either the cam- uses named in its” applica- tunatlected a mecti eduled instruc- for, st gro e to 6 r ve been no. jew ce the colle; met laat Monday, in victors ya talks have been. scheduled. “AL Lowndes, a BCGEU Student registration ed t PEN tae Reads lion officer, son Fri- formati day. The colle; Filigetnng Fraet ih det Bed the jus as Pp m active” both "ER SSS) te eritonie tration figures, which’ are sar ‘Suident onollatents s dear indication that students Bargaining principals, which meet at 2 p.m: Saturday, ia moeting at press time. to ‘cross the ‘than 680 halted by pickets Production workers at the one re their. picket © igebing’” ne : ‘Yepairs, at, .the sawmill ‘ Rela walked off the job Thureday' "! ‘and: put up picket lines, in a. Timber. sanctioned’, for lumber producers. B.C. lumber producers are facing a market where their product is not moving and in which no signs of relief are expected before early in the new year. However, the province's pulp producers have a brighter economic future at this time, Graham Dallas, a spokesman for B.C Timer in Vancouver. During an interview last week, Dallas said his com- pany’s marketing executives described the lumber market as “terrible,” and added the market is about the_worst it has been in recent history. There is no demand for * lumber, and prices are equal to the mills production costs, he continued. But Dallas said there is more demand for pulp than for lumber, and that world market is stronger. The six-week strike and lockout in the pulp industry appears to have had little impact on demand and prices, he continued. In addition, high interest rates have less of an impact on the pulp mill market than on the lumber market, Dallas said. He added that while in the past sawmills could usually find a buyer for their lumber, at. some price, ‘that has changed and now they are often unable to sell any lumber... High interest rates mean many lumber wholesalers are forced to carry small inven- tories and buy only what they know they can sell quickly. When the mills do sell anything, the price often just covers their wood and production costs, he added. Dallas continued that the earliest recovering date is according to - seen as the first quarter of 1982, and there is no relief expected for the next four or five months. The poor market is taking its toll in the West :Koot- enays, with employees at one sawmill laid off, for -an indefinite period. Employees at the’ Lou- isiana Pacific plant in Salmo received notices Aug. 20 that they were laid off indefin- itely. B.C. Timber's sawmills in Castlegar and Nelson were shut down for maintenance, following settlement of the forest industry strike, and Al Blessin, industrial relations manager at the Celgar. mill, said last week the company will decide later this’ week about its start up plans. He anticipates normal opera- tions -will be resumed at Celgar, but added it is not definite. ‘ Slocan Forest Products in Slocan laid off its ‘crew after the settlement because of plant majntenance and be- catise there was no market for the plant's wood chips, a company spokesman said. He added the fill will probably Holiday weekend. on picket duty THUNDER BAY (CP) — Some ~ grainhandlers at Canada’s busiest grain- éxporting facility __ are. spending a different sort of Labor Day weekend..’. While their neighbors relax in balmy autumn. weather,» the Canadian Lakehead Grain Elevators Workers union. is. on picket duty. on-the water- « front. ‘The 1,600-member ‘union; * without a contract since January, began the strike at. one of the Lakehead’s terminals last Tuesday, the picket signs went up the next - day at the other 12 terminals. The strikers, who want picket lines. ‘T! weren't required : fo! which. the Canadian. wheat | board estimatédj4 costing farmers. $10 million;a day, has led the board to direct rerouting of grain trains. With grain ships < sitting resume later this week. Strong tremors in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (AP) — The strongest earthquake in Los Angeles in a decade, as well as two other quakes the day before, eased pent-up geological strain and may be “a good thing,” a scientist says. Friday's tremor, already being dubbed “the birthday quake” because it fell on the ‘city’s bicentennial, set almost all of. southern California shaking but caused no major injuries or damage. The earthquake was cen- tered about 40 kilometres offshore from the. city’s south-facing coast in the San Pedro Channel near Santa Catalina Island. Richter scale readings ranged from 5.2 at the California Institute ofTech- nology in Pasadena to 5.5 at the University of California at Berkeley and 5.8 at the National Earthquake Centre in Golden, Colo. A. 5.6 jolt releases about the same energy as a thous- and tons of dynamite, the California division of mines and geology reported. ' On Thursday, two earth- quakes measuring 4.0 and 3.8 occurted between San Diego and the Borrego Destert, and at least one scientist sugges- ted the three tremors may forstall a more severe shock. ‘The quake was felt from Arroyo Grande in San Luis Obispo County 820 kilo- metres north of the centre and the Maxican border 250 kilometres to the south. It was the strongest shock to hit Lost Angeles since Feb. 9, 1971, Sylmar quake that registered 6.4 on the Richter scale and killed 65 people. An estimated 14 million hi Ci * idle, are being made fopr some olf the two-thirds olf the prairie crop that . lusually-:goes through the port. move that was not. by their union. Maintenance | work was halted at the pulp mill later the same ‘day when pickets went up at the plant. and Pulp, Paper and Wood. workers of Canada members honored the lines. Contract negotiations, be- ing held in Kelowna, -had been suspended a day earlier at the union negotiating committee's request, so it could. consider. a new. offer from the company. IWA. members at Celgar decided during Friday's meeting thatthe picket lines will ‘stay down, unless they\ are authorized by the local untion or their bargaining committee, said John Pol- lock, an IWA spokesman, in an interview just after ‘the meeting adjourned. He continued that ine He said he believes the picket, lines: were kod the LRB had not ruled n the sey leat rd ecutiv. eet wer ‘weekend with day, z 5 -* However, the newspaper ‘the: experts: have not spar! by ‘union’ 1 frustrations ‘with the way ern Europe. things have been going. IWA and IFLRA to brief. the union members on. The offer is the same basic package as has been accepted by other IWA-certified oper- ations in. the southern: inter- for, ‘said Al i ts aE ifr isa at the sawmill, on Thursday. IWA picketing at the pulp: mill ‘was sporadic. The pick- local union officals would be trying to meet this weekend to decide their next move in the tions for a con- tract for the Celgar lumber and woods division. F Pollock, who is head of the union bargaining committee, described the three days of talks last week as‘“a delicate gain. mid-day, said a pulp mill spokesman, j i Although the other IWA- certified operations in the southern interior -have a‘ contract, IWA members in the Celgar lumber and woods division bargain and -vote separately. Fe Prosecutor assassinated BEIRUT (AP) — Iran's !. general revoluntionary pros- ecutor was assassinated in his Tehran office Saturday by | a firebomb explosion s0 FAMILIAR SIGNS takes on new emphasis now as school gets under way in district classrooms this coming Wednesday. The powerful it knocked the balcony off the building, Officials said. He was the fourth senior official in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime slain in a week. Tehran Radio also said a Inman was wounded in'a shootout in ‘front of Irans blue sign above p the familiar black-on- white sign below and both mean children are crossing highways on their way to and from school. But » anda for the Iranian revolutionary police commend said an investigation into a suspec- ted coup plot was under way. Pars said the revolutionary Jeslam Ali rents as well as Rave aresponsibility in this regard. For their part parents should insist their. were rattled at their homes .and workplaces. y 9! s use the designated pedestrian and school crosswalks. Qodussi, died in hospital. A spokesman for the hospital, reached by telephone from The Associated Press office in Beirut, said Qodussi’s legs were burned, “but he died from brain damage he suf- in the blast. The Tehran Radio said the shootout outside the parlia-’ ment building started when guards opéned fire on a g taxi whose driver failed to heed orders to stop. “One passenger returned fire and he was wounded. The cab driver and the rest of injured,” the state-run radio said. A police spokesman, who requested anonymity, told the AP in Beirut a suspected plot was hatched by the Nujahedeen Khalo, the main underground leftist organiz- ation involved in a 10-week- old anti-government cam- paign of bombings and assas- sinations. He was answering a ques- tion about a report that.the Islamic fundamentalist regime had. broken’ja coup attempt and arrested 380 ‘people, most of them arm officers purged. for’ alleged loyalties to the monarchy which was overthrown in 1979 by Khomeini’s revol- ution. leftist plot, but he refused to The spokesman said arrests were made in con- nection with the sus leftist plot, but he refused to disclose how many. Qodussi’s assassination again demonstrated the abil- ity of anti-government urban guerrillas to strike at Khomeini's top governmental and judicial aides despite an intensified security dragnet. Exercises “take Soviets | into Poland ‘GDANSK (AP) — ity leader Lech z ex involving ‘almost 100,000 army and navy 3 continued across the border, meanwhile, and the Red Army's chief political offices was quoted as telling Soviet troops in Poland to be ready to deal with “anti-socialigt forces.’ i Walesa, leader of the only independent union in the Soviet bloc, told the 892 delegates at the hockey rink where the congress is taking pslce: “Solidarity is and will remain, no matter if some- body likes it or not.” “Together we will fashion the Poland we haye dreamed of.” . “There is-no turning back from the road we opened in August (1980) . . . Solidarity can neither be divided nor destroyed.” i E