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Vol, 32, No. 1

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Greece Via Turkey -

Former Locals Flee Iran

At least four former
local CanCel pulp mill em.
ployees and their families
have been evacuated to
Turkey fromstrife-torn Tran,
the Castlegar News was told
yesterday,

Ed Sorge — among five
- former Castlegar area resi-
dents who have been work-
ing for the past. six months
at the steam plant of a pulp
mill operated by the Mon-
treal-based company Statler-
Hurter near the city of
Bandar Pahlavi 370, kilo-
metres north of the Iranian
capital city of Tehran —
reported the company's 150

Canadian employees will be
flown via Turkey to accom-
modations in ‘Athens,
Greece.

Sorge, .a steam plant
shift supervisor visiting Cas-
tlegar during the Christmas
holidays, said the employees
will be stationed in Athens
for about one month until
the company, is able to
determine whether or not
they can return safely to
Tran,

They'll be just sitting
in the hotel awaiting further
instructions,” said. Sorge,
telephoning from Vancouv-
er.

He said he will return to
Castlegar to await further
instructions from oe com:
pany.

Other former employ-
ees of the local-CanCel pulp
operation who left here in
early spring for jobs at the
Staler-Hurter mill were Don
Danroth, Wayne Lyons,
Dave Morane and Doug
Brown.

An estimated 550 Cana-,
dians were evacuated from
Tehran yesterday amid re-
ports of continuing blood-
shed in clashes between
government troops and anti-
shah demonstrators.

Airport Operation Contract
Tenders Invited By Ministry

The contract for operation
of Castlegar Airport on a
management fee basis has gone

Neighbors
Snuff Out

House Fire

Neighbors are being credit-
ed with putting out a fire which
broke out New Year's Day ina
doublewide trailer owned by

ay Desjardins of Blueberry
‘Creek.
Mrs. Desjardins told the

“Castlegate” News: Thit' She und ~

cher husband were not at home
‘at the time of the blaze which
appeared to start in the area of
the bathroom though the actual
cause is unkriown..

She credits her neighbors,
who appeared from all direc-
tions with fire extinguishers,
with putting out the fire.

She said her son and two
daughters were at home at the
time of the incident, which
occurred mid-afternoon, but no
one was hurt,

No estimate of damage has
yet been set. Mrs. Desjardins
said insurance was not carried
on the trailer or its contents,

Board Asks
To Borrow
$350,000

Local schoo! trustees have
requested education ministry
approval for the temporary
borrowing of up to $350,000 to
meet current operating and
idebt service costs for School
‘District No. 9. :

At its last regular meeting
the school board vated tc seek
authorization for the loan,
which would be repaid within
six months and cover increased
expenditures not provided for
in advance payments from the

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to tender, the Castlegar News
learned this week.
Newspaper advertising by
the federal transport ministry
this week announced sealed
tenders for operation of the
airport — from which the City
of Castlegar is ‘scheduled to
withdraw’ March 31 — will be
received at the ministry's Van-
couver office until 3 p.m. Fe!
The advertisement, which

notes that the airport procetses
about 80,000 passengers an-
nually with jel service to Van-
couver, Calgary and Penticton,
said the successful bidder will
be awarded a three-year con-
tract. management, “with the

potential | of two one- year ex =

tensions.
“The lowest or any tender

not necessarily accepted,” the

advertisement said.

Pilot’s Death Blamed.

“Multiple injuries’ ‘as the
result of his helicopfer crashing
in heavily wooded mountainous
terrain Nov. 22 has been given
as the cause of death of William
Henderson, 43, of Calgary.

Henderson, employed by
Bow Helicopters of Calgary,
had just taken workers to a
power line construction site

midway between Salmo and-

Castlegar, when his Bell 212
helicopter went down on its
return to the Castlegar Air-
port.

The downed aircraft was
located four kilometres south-
east of the Castlegar Airport.

A report of inquiry, re-
leased by coroner Car] Loeblich,
stated -mechanical inspection

-On. Multiple Injuries

and ‘further’ investigation is -

being carried out by the Mi

try of Transport. No report is
available at this time. Tests for
possible alcoho! in the pilot's
system were nil.

Orthodox Doukhobor lead-
er John J. Verigin will appear
in’ provincial court in Nelson
Monday to choose between trial
by judge and jury or by judge
alone for four counts of arson
conspiracy.

SUBSTITUTE BABY 14-month-old Travis
Guedes finds himself ringing. In 1979 after

the Castlegar area failed to provide a single -

New Year’s Day Infant. As of press time #

To Face Arson Conspiracy Charges

Court Monday for J.J. Verig

Arrested Dec. 19 Veri
honorary chairman of the Union
of Spiritual Communities “of
Christ, was charged with con-
spiring to set fire wilfully to
Grand Forks’ Sunshine Valley
Co-Operative Society building,

Pollution Branch’s Emissions

Monitoring

The provincial Pollution
Control Branch will cease moni-
toring air pollution from the
CanCel pulp mill here until the
end of 1979, city council tas
been téld.

“A Nov. 30 letter from Jim
McLaren, the branch's assis-
tant regional: manager, said
tests on total reduced sulphur

Lack of Drunk Drivers
A New- Year’ s Record?

A record could well have
been.set New Year’s'Eve with
locat RCMP having completed
evening patrols without asingle
impaired driver.

Motor vehicle accidents too
have beer! kept to the minimum
during the ringing in of the new
year,

The only accident reported
to the news media New Year's
Eve was one resulting in $100
damage to a 1970 Chevy and
$200 toa 1969 Austin. Peter R.
Stouchnow of Castlegar has
been charged with driving too
fast for road conditions after his
vehicle went out of control on a
curve, striking an Austindriven
by Gwilym Hughes, also of
Castlegar.

‘The incident cecurred at’

4:20 p.m, at Woodland and
Lynnwood Drive,

No injuries have been re-
ported. cy

emi is from the mill's re-
covery boiler stack will be dis-
continued until the company’s
Dec. 31, 1979 deadline for
meeting the “B” level limit of 20
parts per million required un-
der the air emissions permit it
was granted after an appeal
hearing in May.

McLaren said in the letter
the branch has sufficient data
on present emissions levels “to
provide an accurate historical
basis which can be used to’

measure the improvement in.

ambient (surrounding) air qual-
ity resulting from CanCel’s

iscontinued

future installation of TRS re-
moval facilities.”
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USCC Hall and old post office
as well as the home of Re-
formed Doukhobor leader Ste-
fan Sorokin, and was released

+ from custody later the same

day on his own recognizance.

Two other Grand Forks
residents also charged with
conspiracy to ‘commit arson,
Peter P. Astaforoff and William
Edvokimoff, were also released
on their own recognizance and
will appear in court with
Verigin Monday.

Vancouver criminal lawyer
Harry Rankin is expected to act
as counsel for Verigin in the
case.
The charges followed alle-

Eight ‘Charged After
Firebombing Attempt

Eight persons charged with
attempted arson and wrongful
intimidation following an at-
tempted firebombing Dec. 21 in
Brilliant were remanded until
Jan. 19 in Nelson provincial
court last week.

Tourism Minis ry Film Hit
| For ignoring West Kootenays

The B.C. tourism minis.

try drew criticism from city .

council last month for a
travel film on Highway 3
which completely omitted
the West Kootenay section
of the route.

In response to a letter
from the Crowsnest High-
way Association, council
members supported at their
Jast regular mecting Ald.
Jim Gouk's motion that city
staff contact the ministry to

: express the city's concern

over the omission from the
map showing highway: ac-
cesses to the southern Cana-
dian Rockies in the film
Valley of 1,000 Peaks.

Gouk, who represents
Castlegar on the associa-
tion's board of directors, told
council the map traces the
Highway 3 route from the
Fraser Canyon through Ro-
gers Pass and into the East
Kootenays.

“Then it retraces its
footsteps, which is fine ex-

the different highways lead-
ing to Prince George and
Yellowhead it deletes the
fact that the West Koote-
nays even exist," he said.

“It doesn’t show there is
a highway which goes right
through from Vancouver to
Calgary.”

Tourism ministry offi-
cials were informed of the
omission, Gouk said, and
described it as an oversight.
The film has not yet been
corrected, he said.

cept in Lhe map showing all :

Charged on both counts
are Tina Jmaeff, Fred M.
Hadikin, Fred F, Hadikin, Pau-
line Hadikin, George W. Kina-
kin, Helen Kinakin, Alex Datch-
koff, and Nellie Koodrin.

Two of the eight accused,
Fred F. Hadikin and Fred M.
Hadikin, waived the oppor-
tunity to be released on their

” own recognizance until the Jan.

19 hearing.

The charges were laid Dec.
21 after police seized’ eight
containers of flammable liquid
outside a Brilliant home owned
by Larry and Ann Swetlikoff,
members of the Union of Spiri-
tual Communities of Christ, an
Orthodox Doukhobor sect. No
damage was done.

Seven of the eight accused
— George W. Kinakin, Fred F.
Hadi

Fred M. Hadikin,.

Alex Datchkoff,

rin and Tina Jmaeff

— had recently appeared in
court on a charge of arson for
allegedly burning down the
home of Anna Markova, mother
of USCC leader John J. Verigin.

Delayed decisions on funding are jeopardizing the
city’s planned spring start on construction of the
pipeline to its new Arrow Lakes Water supply, Mayor
Audrey Moore said this week.

Moore told the Castlegar News unless the federal
government approves the proposed equal sharing of the
new supply’s cost with the provincial government

“very, very soon
pipeline in mi

the city’s plans to begin work on the
March will be disrupted.

She said despite recent queries by herself, Kootenay West,
MP Bob Brisco and Economic Development Minister Don Phillips,
the federal regional ecoriomic expansion ministry has given no
indication of its position on the proposed funding formula, for
which the city has sought a subsidiary arrangement in the two
senior governments’ block funding agreement under the new

Community Services Program.

The mayor said the city
“must be ina position to award
the tender for the construction
about mid-March" in order to
deliver the new supply to

- Castlegar residents in the fall.

hospital Apokeaman sald that there was not
even a hopetul presently booked In.

—CasNewsFoto by Lois Hughes

gations in Nelson county court
earlier last month by five
women belonging to the Sons of
Freedom Sect that Verigin had
directed them to commit acts of
arson under threat of a seven-
generation curse.

District No.

The process of accepting,

evaluating and Saale the
tender for construction of the
pipeline will take up to three *
months, Moore said.
The city is presently mak-
ing preparations for commis-
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Mediation Meetings
Begin Next Week

The special government
mediator assigned to the
West Kootenay schools labor
dispute says he should know
“by Monday or Tuesday"
whether he will require an
extension to his 30-day ten-
ure.

Contacted in Vancouver
Tuesday, Dr. Noel Hall con-
firmed -he was planning
mediation talks in the region
with representatives of Sel-
kirk College and four school
districts and of the five
Canadian Union of Public
Employces locals represent-
ing non-teaching employees.

- Hall — appointed as.

part of the provincial legis-
lation which sent the CUPE

members back to work at
the college and Castlegar,
Nelson, Trail and Grand
Forks schools early last
month after a six-week
strike-lockout deadlock —
told the Castlegar News he
will not know whether an
extension past his Jan. 11
deadline will be worthwhile
until he assesses his pro-
gress early next week.

“Iam hoping we can

. have a couple of really good

days and have some indica-

tion by Monday or Tuesday,

he said. “This “is our first
chance to get to work on it ir
detail.

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Proposed Upgrading
Of Fire Protection

School District No. 9 has
submitted for education m
try approval the proposed up-
grading of seven district build-
ings at a cost of $765,005.
The board of trustees
voted last month to ask the

. ministry to approve Capital

Expense Proposal No. 6, which
provides mainly for improve-

9 Teachers

Get 7.6% Increase

School District No. 9 teachers will receive a 7.6-per-cent

across-the-board salary increase
ordered b;

year under the settlement

a three-member arbitration board last month.

Dist secretary-treasurer John Dascher told the Castlegar
News this week the newly-announced binding arbitration
settlement, effective Monday, provided for “adjustments” to
allowances for district head teachers, department heads,
secondary school subject chairmen and principals and a
10.9-per-cent increase in district contributions to professional
development funds as well as the hike for “each step of the salary

scale,”

The board — chaired by Daniel Geronazzo, serving with -

school board nominee Jack Polonicoff and teachers’ nominee Brian
Prentice — also ordered the introduction of a dental plan in which
teachers and the district pay an equal share of the cost, Dascher

said.

Both parties presented their cases before the board Dec. 13,

as required by the Public Schools

Act, after failing to negotiate a

contract settlement by Oct. 14 and also failing to meet the Nov. 15
deadline for reaching a settlement through a conciliator.

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CALAMITY B1
Dec. 23 was a good day for
local motorists to stay
home.

CONTEMPLATION

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on the best and the worst of
times.
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STORY

ments to fire prevention fea-
tures at Stanley Humphries
Secondary, Twin Rivers Ele-
mentary, Kinnaird Elementary,
and Kinnaird Junior Secondary
as well as at the district main-
tenance shop and bus garage.

The proposed expenditures
include a total of $205,000 for
heating conversion and elec-
trical system upgrading at
SHSS, $247,500. for installation
of a fire wall and automatic fire
sprinkler system and construc-
tion of showers and change
rooms for Twin Rivers, $173,600
for installation of a fire wall,
automatic sprinkler system and
catch basin and storm sewer ,
connection for Kinnaird Ele-°
mentary, $86,900 for installa-
tion of two fire walls at KISS;
and $18,000 for installation of a
fire and intrusion alarm system
at the maintenance shop and
bus garage.

Noting that most of the
prope ‘d projects were related

ire prevention, district
seereta treasurer John Das-
cher this week said they were
based on recommendations by
the Insurance Corporation of
K.C., on improvements required
for the buildings.

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WEEKEND WEATHERCAST

CLEAR SKIES today. with a
few clouds lee of the larger
lakes with little change over
the weekend. Temperature
highs of -8° to -12° with
overnight lows of -17° to -20°,

Erma Bombeck . Page BG
Home on the Range . Page B2
Interios Page A3
One Man's Opinion . Page A3
Outdoors... Page A7
Pulpit and Pew . . . Page A9
Sports . . Pages A6-A7-A8
TV Week . . Section C
Your Stars . Page AB

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