CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 15, 1981 News briefs. ... FIRE VICTIM TORONTO (CP) — One resident of a senior cit- izen's apartment was killed in a fire early today and nine people were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation, Police said the victim was burned beyond recog: nition, The fire was con- fined to a fourth-floor apartment jin the 20-storey building in the Metropoli- tan Toronto borough of Scarborough, Four other residents, two d .Fischer, asked about the “presence of three Soviet combat ‘ships and an ac- companyign tanker in the Caribbean and their an- nounced plan to visit Cuba, said any effort by the Soviot Union to expand its influence in this hemis- phere only serves to heigh- ten tension. SHORT CONTROLLERS OTTAWA (CP) — The government was urged Tuesday to fill vacant air traffic contro! jobs, termed serious enough to threaten airline les this sum- and three firefighters were admitted to hospital suf- fering smoke inhalation, Police said the ambulance attendants were trapped in an elevator when. they were overcome by smoke. FINDS BODY * osoyoos (CP) — A six-year-old boy fishing in the Okanagan River chan- nel just south of the Canada-U.S. border on ‘Tuesday reeled in a man's iy- G Okanagan County authorities said that judg- -ing by the state, of decom- position and the accumu: ” lation, of algae on the corpse, the man had been dead for several months, The body carried a wal- let containing an Alberta driver's licence with an Edmonto address, Author- ities did not release the man’s name, but said he wa 26 years old. *~ Police in the Washington State community or Oro- ville say there is no im- mediate indication of foul play. LOOK AT MANFOR VANCOUVER (CP) — MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. and Nranda Mines Ltd. have been talking with the Manitoba government about the assets of debt- ‘ridden Manitoba Forestry Resources Ltd. But Adam Zimmerman of Noranda said the talks were tentative and prelim- inary. A spokesman for Mac- Millan Bloedel in Vancou- ier company had i¥esponded 40 an invitation from the -Manitoba gov- ernment to discuss the company: Zimmerman said Woods Gordon - and’ Co. Manage-” ment Consultants of Tor- onto.was commissioned by the government to “ped- dle” the assets. He said it’s still possible some of Noranda’s forest companies might discuss the possibility of a deal with the government. RAIS) NEY . MONTREAL (CP) — subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal is raising $100 million (U.S.) on the Euro- bond market through an offering of five-year notes paying 14.5 per cent in- terest. The money will be used to support the mort- gage-lending operations of mer when holiday travel is underway. Les Benjamin, New De- 4 mocratic Party transport critic, said in the Commons the government is short about 300 and did NEW SIGN, donated wy Castlegar Rotary Club, we bers of ‘the Castlegar Rota Vilia Society: followin Its regular monthly. this could affect air oper- ations this summer in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Ina motion that did not get unanimous consent for a vote, Benajamin urged the government to fill jobs in Toronto and to ensure a supply of controllers else- where by expanding train- ing and improving working conditions, CONGRATULATES U.S. OTTAWA (CP) — The Commons sent P Present were, left: to: rig os viewed by mem- ; t, treasurer Terry ant manager Al Richards, Rotarian Paul Sglow, Pythian Sister apie and vice-presidei Knights of Pythias Slim Thomas. ney Te “Myrtle. Thorias, ident Brita Holey, , + Evie mies ley net AAigsing from photo Is -_ “Rota Villa representative iowa vit 74 Workers back on job in Fraser mill COQUITLAM (CF) -~ The Crown Zellerbach Fraser here d Seek rezoning for gravel pit and plant . A bylaw to rezone a prop- erty in the Fairview area.to to normal with the morning shift Tuesday after a two-day disruption by the Interna- Reagan and the rar of the United States congrat- ulations Tuesday for the successful flight of the space shuttle Columbia.” The MPs passed a mo- tion proposed by Conser- vative ERik Nielsen who praised the “outstanding achievement in man’s au- Preme advanture in space.” The motion also praised the “daring and skill” dis- played by John Young and Robert Crippen in carrying out the historic mission. STOP SPECULATORS OTTAWA (CP) — Steps have been taken to keep real estate speculators and foreigners from buying farms which have low- interest. mortgages from Farm Credit. Corp., Rol- land Poirier, the chairman ofthe feder: ats F ‘He..told. the “Commons agriculture committee the corporation established in- ternal guides last year to prevent people and com- panies not: actively in- volved in agriculture from: taking over Farm Credit mortgages in buying farms. CITES SCRAP . VICTORIA (CP) — About 65,000 il tional “W of America, . Pickets went up Sunday at allow of a grav- el pit and cement plant was given two readings Saturday during the Regional District of Central Kootenay board meeting. A public hearing on the this area oper- ‘ation as the [WA protested the sale of the company's wood waste to a non-union contractor who hauled the hog fuel across civic strikers’ picket lines at the Terra Nova municipal landfill site. Drawing up zoning bylaw: The Regional District of Central Kootenay will be drawing up a zoning bylaw sfor Area I (Shoreacres-Blue- berry Creek) this year. The regional directors voted during the board meet- ing Saturday to apply for a | $23,000: provincial plann amt, with, some 0: money to.fund preparatia: the zoning bylaw. For the record Proceeds from a recent garage sale held in Slocan Park Hall are to go towards helping with construction ofa proposed Senior Citizens’ Hone that is being investi- gated by the Doukhobor Cul- and 200,000 major house- held appliances are scrapped each year in B.C., says an environment min- istry report. The report, released Tuesday, is ex- pected to aid development of more effective recycling programs. WIN AWARD VANCOUVER {CP} — at tural A Secretary of the project: committee, Lawrence Popoff, said the proposed facility will be for the elderly ofall faiths not only Doukhobors. Another fund raising func- tion to be held each Father's Day at South Slocan is the Doukhobor Sports Day. Each year this money is donated to a chosen worthy cause. ig WAS authorized at the'sime time, Scheduling of the public hearing will be announced by the regional district. Expenditures for March over $550,000 Spending by the city of Castlegar amounted to more than $550,000 during March. The major expenditure during the month was trans- fer payments to School Dis- trict No. 9, followed by pay- ments for work on the new water system. The maler expenditures Prone: (604) 765-3115 Restates its opposition The RDCK ts restating its” Dave Pearce (Nelson North opposition to diversion of the Shore) argued it should be Kootenay River, ‘either: by. broadened to include opposi- B.C. Hydro or by American . tion to any plans the Amer- water tsers. icans may have to divert the ‘The subject came up dur- . Kootenay River below Libby ing the jqeeional directors’ Dam. meeting Saturday, when the U.S. President Ronald directors discussed a B.C. Reagan has talked about Hydro news release stating diverting water to the south- there will be a delay in re western states, and he must leasing reports on engineer- moan the Kootenay River, ing and environmental stud- poarce said. fes concerning the project. a The reports, which were to _ Terms of the Columbia be. ready this spring, will be River Treaty give the Amer- unavailable until later in the {cans that right, after 1984, year, : he added. ‘The release added Hydro Pearce said diverting the has not decided if it will seek river would be a concern to approval to build the project. Washington state, but the One director said the re- state is discussing building gional district should restate nuclear power plants, and the it opposes the project, and profit of selling water to the Hazard created by no lights A lack of street lights is he asked if the city will push 1 T@erdatitigva: hazartalohg thet the ministry" ‘of-fighways"to trict NO. 9; - $157, 000 for work on the water system; — $50,000. payroll. reim- bursements to CIBC; $42,000 for payments con- nected to the industria! park; — $82,500 for payments to the receiver-general of Can; ada. fa! ‘asthe: city, a local resident warned city council Tuesday. The council will follow up There are no street lights on the suggestion, said Ald. along the highway, and there .. Len Embree, chairman of the is an increasing number of works and services commit- people walking between the tee. He added the city is subdivision and the city at planning to install a light at night, Richie Geronazzo said the intersection across from during question period, and the yard. American southwest would pay the cost of the nuclear { GRAND OLE OPRY. & LILAC FESTIVAL IN SPOKANE Depart May 16/17 for 2 nights/3 days ying at the Sh Hotel: 5-hr. show, the entertainers are: 4 SONS OF THE PIONEERS * KITTY. WELLS + SKEETER DAVIS * CHARLIE WALKER * ERNEST TUBB in * HANK THOMPSON *BOX-CAR WILLI $7 + SHEB WOOLEY & BENCOLDER = 3 on Twin *LONZO & OSCAR PER PERSON Gatlin Brothers Show Oepart. May 6th, Trail, Castlegar, Netson, ‘for this overnight stay In Spokane, Washington. Package Includes: Deluxe for 1 night w Coach rereponaton «Tour Ei * Show. Stickat for the Gatline Brothers Show, May 6th Dinner at Sizzior Restaurant May 6t Baggage Handling In the Sp kane-Sh Hotel 70 ts $85 OB or Tw “mints orQd - Single FOR MORE INFORMATION - HENNE TRAVEL Trall, B.C, — 368-5595 15 NEW FACILITIES for Shaadway'a automo: tive centre is presently ‘undergoing a facelift as workers femodel the former “car showroom, at to the ‘present lot, The company “areaonly. : Rudolf Hess “gets visit from his.son BERLIN (AP) — — The: son of Rudolf. Hess met for one-half hour with’ Hitler's .- former deputy in a British military hospital after Soviet officials relented and allowed the visit, a friend of tho 2 family reported Wednesday. Wolf-Ruediger Hess, 48, of” Muntch had sought a meeting Monday after his 86-year-old father was taken from Span- dau prison to the hospital last © . week. with pneumonia. . hopes to move Into the ‘building by the end of the month. It will contain a four- plus a parts department. located: .- The’ present building will be a service = CanteweFete by Chery! Wiehlow F FISH over 50 varleties GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 17° 10 a.m. to7 p.m. at the Castlegar Hotel West Coast Seafoods Bank of Mort- gage Cop! BLUNTS DEFENCES ATLANTA, GA. (AP) — Cancer patients — and even some healthy people have sombthing in their blood that blunts the body’s natural defence ‘against tumor cells, U.S. researeners said ‘Tuesda: Scientists at the Univer- sity of Michigan ahve: covered a “suppresso) tor” that hinders two types of cells in the body's im- mune system from attack- ing and destroying tumor cells, REACTS SHARPLY WASHINGTON (REU- TER) — The United States reacted sharply Tuesday to the first Caribbean visit by Soviet warships since Aug- ust, 1979. U.S. stats do- partment spokesman Dean be Hydro have been ” awarded wage increases of between 10.2 per cent and 12,2 per cent for 1981 by an arbitrator. The members of the Management and Professional Employees’ Society receive wages) between $1,114 a rion for secretarial staff $4,022" ° fc P. CRAS! RICHMOND (CP) — Air B.C. floatplane crashed into the banks of the Fra- ser River on Sea Island shortly after takeoff Tues- day morning. Pilot Walter Welbers, 30, of Coqui “Per Word SELF-PRICING » WANT-AD FORM “Per Word Firat 10 Words $2 Buy Your Easter Treats Where The Easter Bunny Gets His Own First 10 Words $2 B.C. the only person aboard” the single-engine Beaver, was reported in good condition after being taken to hospital with a concussion and face cuts. $3.70 OOTISCHENIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | Monday, April 27 7:30 p.m. at Ootischenia Community Hall Ploase run my ad for. Nome, 6 Insertions for Price of 4 insertions. Fe Addrass DON'T FORGET: tactude your phone number ond of oddeess Ia your Action Ad. Insertions for Price of 2 $1.00 Billing Charge If Payment Not Enclosed {Except Visa & Moster Charge) Vinsestions for Price of S Clossitication Desired (Mise. forSals, FurRentzeia}: City Postal Phone Clip & Mall to: Action Ads, 007, ‘* CASTLEGAR, B.C, VINSHE st for One Insertion $. umber of itoaiadie to run Uap by For 4for 6X, ond S for 9X) TOTAL COST §___ -'Pleave entlase cheque oF money order. poyable to Castlegar News. or use credit cord, Master Charge # Signature Plaase uso as payment, my convenient Visa (Chorgex} 8, Expiry Dale. xpiry ite Chocolate $329 Shneslite’ Bunny - Smiles & Chuckles Fruit & Nut Egg 40:. $1 19 Cancer campaign April 25 - May 3 The Canadian Cancer So- ciety’s 1981 campaign for funds will begin April 26 to May 3,‘according to Gerry Ehman, campaign chairman for the Castlegar unit. The goal of the B.C. and Yukon Division for this year is $2.4-million, It was re- ported at the National Cam- paign Conference in October last year that the division raised $2,235,201 (apart from Terry Fox Marathon of Hope funds raised) for the 1980 campaign. »... GERRY EHMAN: Sovict:officials objected to | his request but later. with- drew ‘their ‘protest .and :al-" lowed the meeting Tuesday afternoon. ‘Hess. is allowed only one family visit a month, ' and his wife iad applied to - visit him next Tuesday,'a few days before his. 87th birth day, J Hess was \geputy reichs- - * fuehrer. of Nazi Germany. until he flew to Britain in May, 1940, and said he was making a private attempt to end the war, He- was. sen- tenced to life imprisonment at the ‘Nuremberg’ war crimes trial, and the Russians "| ‘have rebuffed all proposals from the other wartime AL lies to ase him. BCTF members — pledge $2 each: VANCOUVER (CP) — More than 200 teachers have been killed and another 4,000 ‘ exiled during the last 10 years of El ’a bloody country. Children eaimot study be: cause they lack food and die civil war, ‘delegates to a teacher's annual general meeting were told Tuesday. Ricardo Bracomente Go- mez of the National Asso- ciation of El “Salvaddrean Teachers pleaded with about 650 British Columbia Tea- chers’ Federation . delegates to express solidarity ‘with in Central Ameri The target for the Castle... °° ° gar. unit dhisayearis again: $8, «fund-raising costs and 5 cents 5 For “every dollar donated, > >to administration costs. : 56 cents goes to research, 19 cents to public and workplace : \ education programs, 14 cents to service to patients: pro- grams — meeting both emo fional and financial needs of cancer patients, 6 cents to Renores ayogpies 6 VANCOUVER (CP) — Chief Justice Allan McEach- ern of the B.C. Supreme Court has sent a written report to tho Canadian Judi- cial Council on the case of Mr. 4 ustice E. Davie Fulton, who Z faces a charge of driving with playgrou nd a blood-alcohol level of more . * -than .08. equi pment The report outlines the : ; facts of the situation and ‘Heading the Selkirk Lady makes no recommendations, Lions executive for the com- _ -gaid Fred execu- of or. because’ they have to work to help sustain their proverty-stric- ken ‘families, she said, and the illiteracy .rate, between 40 and 60 per cont, ° is increasing. “ing social injustices in that~, ‘Im addition to the teachers - killed : and. exiled . between March, 1971 and March 1981, about 3,000 of a total 28,000. in the country have been a Sent report.on up to the judicial council to take what actions “it feels necessary, he said. The council is-headed by Chicf Justice Bora Leskin of the Supreme Court of Canada and includes chief justices of each province — Chief Just- ice Nathan Nemetz of. the B.C. Court of Appeal repre- sents B.C. - Part of the council's duties is to rule on the conduct of convicted of a similar charge two years ago! butno hearing’: was held th 2 Fulton; eS, met privately ith McRachern in the chief justice's office. Monday. Fulton was charged Sat urday. after being picked ‘up : fora minor. traffic violation. Friday night. He is to appear’ in court’ April The judge : as been. on: leave from the bench since DB ber pending the cor- ing .year will be Kathy tive assistant to the chief Popoff, who was installed as - justice. president at the January ~ Jt ig the duty of the chief meeting of the club, ae justice to,report and then it is fed inted' judges... such as Fulton and.it-can order hearings if it wishes. A report was sent to the council. when Fulton. was clusion of his -libel action against the publisher and author of a book by a fornier pleting the president Elaine Audet, sec- 5 tetary Sherry Blackwell and 7 treasurer Verna ‘Clifford. At the April 6 meeting of the ladies, it was reported by the parks committee, consist-. ing of Rae Penman, Arden Ackney, Blaine Audet and Renee Porter, that play- ground equipment has been ordered for Kinnaird Park with funds raised from ‘past activities, The new pieces "Furniture Village “(Downtown Castlegar), “We urge price comparison anywhere” “prostitute. will be-a gliding horse, 3° tubular jBlide and, a: baby swing. ' E McBRINE -FOUR-PIECE CHESTERFIELD Hinkle Egg Coioring We | Kit: Fast drying, nomess —_—s Smarties: (nopure milk: :) oe 100 a fe egg. See them & other’ Easter Treats & Prepared Baskets In pure milk chocolate egg. WD Ge erersceere _are Great Gifts: o | “Carl's Western Drug Mart: Closed Good Friday and, |Sundoy Castl Caitiegor Drug Open i2-1p.m.andé-7p.m. i Delivery. is expected be fore; the Sati? of April with installation ; anticipated be. fore the end of May. . -.° It was also voted on at this meeting - to donate. $100 ‘to. | sponsor” “a handicapped’ per- ° son'to go to Camp Winkel this:year. Allladies are , bitsy inaking. preparations for the West Kootenay Trade Fair which the’ Lions Club’ is hosting April 24 and 25. The ladies’ main function during. the trade fair is to assist the men's club in the operation of the event. April 11 and 12, several of the ladies assisted at Vegas Nights, along with the Lions | “Club. “Members extend thanks to the 1980 executive consisting of president Lola Lafreniere, vice-president Kathy Popoff, secretary Renee Porter and treasurer. Mary Cheveldave; . the men’s club and all who have worked to make 1980 a success. 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