EDMONTON (CP) — 1 gothebhere over the High Arctic, a slim metal cigar will drop from a slab-sided B-52 bomber. As it falls, fins will slash out of the tail, its ongine will roar into life and it will point its nose south. ‘That is how tho first test of the U.S. cruise missile will start in Canada, a program that has produced more wynard; Sisk, is also anorganizer in tho poate n movement. He says many Canadians feel betrayed on tho cruise‘issue., “They've always thought that Canada isa peace-making country, a country out of the ‘arms race,” he says, “Now, with the cruise, there's a deep sense of betrayal. “The cruise has become a focus to bring groups hes, anger and ion in Canada than any other disarmament issue in recent years. To its supporters, the cruise is a cheap, effective way of adding to the west’s nuclear deterrent against an expan- sionist, heavily armed Soviet Union. To its detractors, the device is a dangerous, destabilizing influence that will upset an already tense international situation and make arms contro! agreements impossible to verify. Exactly when the cruise teats will begin still is envel- oped in a mist of political and diplomatic Innguage, but speculation considers early 1984 likely. External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen says” Canada has a general weapons testing agreement with the U.S. But he says “no request has been received from the U.S. to test the cruise or any other weapon” and Canada has not committed itself to testing the cruise. However, MacEachen has added, the government will consider any such U.S. request because of the importance of unity among Western allies. EVOLVED FROM V-1 The missile, a descendant of the German V-1 buzz bombs of the Second World War, is’an innoceht-looking device, a sub-sonfe, air-breathing weapon designed to fly long distances and hit a target with pin-point accuracy. It is” 6.8 metres long, with a speed of about 800 kilometres an hour and a.range of 2,500 kilometres. Next to the towering ICBMs with their hardened silos and their multiple: warheads, the cruise. seems innocuous, yet it has.gal d Canadian anti-nuel n ina way that its bigger cousins’ never have.: Rod Johnson, an External Affairs Department offi cial has been involved in the discussions of the cruise tests for’: some time. He says the tests will likely see the missiles flying: through the western part of the Northwest Territories, across the northeastern part of British Columbia and across northern Alberta, finishing up in the huge Primrose Lake Air Weapons range, a vast swath of isolated bush country straddling the. AlbertaSaskatchewan border. The exact details of the route have not been ironed out, The weapons will not carry warheads. At the end of the runs, they will be landed by parachutes so engineers and technicians will have an intact missile to examine. “It's a matter of flying it over long Stretches of flat, legs terrain over a rel. ite distance,” Johnson says. TESTED BY U.S. The United States Air Force has tested the missile, Johnson says, but those tests were not really adequate. The weapons were dropped over the Pacific and flown across California, Nevada and Utah in circular patterns to get the required distance. “They have to be virtually run around in a circle, The routes look like a shoelace dropped on the floor.” Flying the missile across the Northwest Territories wil involve straight-line operational testing. 5 The Tomahawk cruise missile is already in service with a B-52 bombardment wing “based at an air force base near, Plattsburg, N.Y., but Johnson says a single unit’ equi with the ‘weapon does not mean it.is ready, for'use.°” “I guess, in a sense, the Tomahawk is not operational.” The first tests of any new missile simply check to see “if the things will even fly,” says Johnson. It takes more testing, checking engines after hundreds of kilometres | in the air, and rigorous of the’ system to work out all the bugs. For the American inilitary, which aalarly a uses the Primrose range for joint exercises, the location seems ideal. There are long hes of virtually territory to fly over en route from‘the Arctic — the Northwest Territories has a population « ‘density of about one person for. 2 every 85 square kilometres — with a fully instrumented test range at the target site. ‘To the U.S. military, the Reagan administration and : those who ‘see a need for an addition to the nuclear deterrent, the cruise missile and the tests are vital parts of the defence of the western world. But to many Canadians, the cruise is an insult. In recent months, thousands have gathered at rallies and demon- strations in such cities as Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton to condemn both the weapon and Ottawa's apparent willingness to allow its trials in Canadian airspace. Bob Curray, an activist in community development for the Canadian Society of Friends in the little community of Annual physical not necessary her, whether they are concerned about disarmament, or the nuclear arms race ‘or just nuclear power." ‘; He says it has become a symbol for . people who have watched the arms race from‘afar for ‘veare and ‘now a find it coming home to roost. “Weare all really critical element.” isa e. That sense of Centre; The comi ity’ lies just outside CFB Cold Lake, base which’ will likely be dgeply involved inthe ‘eruiso He and his,c Scott and Catheri ‘ Molr, have been working on the townspeople, trying to drum: up support for their fight against the cruise. Predictably, in atown besidaa military bage where jobs and cash come from ° the armed forces; the ‘peace camp has run into ‘opposition. “You telid to. get a lot of vocal abuse from people who : stand. strictly on’. the’ ‘other side (of the’ ieevel aya Tremblay, who sds that he iia viveived 6 some ‘abort from locals, 2 Mite ‘chavacteristfes are absolutely new in the nuclear realm," he says; Becauso the cruise is so small and mobile it «would be. impossible to determine how many weapons exist ind where they jare located. ‘Tremblay also says that proponents of the testing say a Canada owes it to the NATO’ alliatice to go through with the Program. 5 “The. cruise missiles ‘we're testing are going to be deployed on B-62s out of places like Texas,” he says. Ls 's for ATO.” FOUR DAYSONLY ©” The Bay brings you ae London Fog menswear at incredible Jrices When the Bay rolls in our London Fog . suits-and sportcoats, you can count ° on spectacular savings. The values are terrific. 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That’ nd a ‘pot : when the clapping ends and. ‘the curtain’ is’ drawn: th musician goes home to his daily “regimen of 6, sometimes & hours of practicing a day: Most of the tim writing is the same; a lot of hard wank: Of course it's not without it’s rewards as well.: One, new. writer. asked, * ’ “When you write, where do you get your ideas?. ‘And how , do you begin? Does it come easily?” The echo of the group , of writers was “nol” One short story writer said, “I just dread beginning. I have to force myself to sit down in front of that piece of paper!”’ ‘This week I want to introduce you to a very active group in your community, the Castlegar Writer's Guild. The Guild is a homogenous group of people ‘some of whom. are well-published authors with books to their credit, ‘and some are beginners still waiting for that first acceptance letter. We come from a variety: of backgrounds occupations with one thing in common, we. all call our- selves writers. We have teachers, retired teache: retired missionary, ‘a: CKQR- copy-writer, & (new! » two a’ BC.. Tel employee, and even a couple of SHSS tudes. ut two years ago; when‘ ‘h following a reading sponsored by: the: ‘brary during. National Book Week, a few writer's met each other: for’ _the firat time: “We should get together,” we said to each other; “just meet, maybe once a week and help each other :- with our writing,” A few other writers: were contacted, eFora mortgage ; Debt.consolidation |. @Carinsurance’' ," © Home improvernentts We Have Funds Available Kootenay Savings TLEGAR: 365-3375. Across from Post Office SOUTH SLOCAN: 359-7221, Highway 3A WRITER'S GUILD . . . Some of the members of the Castlegar. Writer’s Guild are: “A (Seated, from lett) Linda Hall, Kathy Armstrong, Mark Mealing, Vi, Plotnikoft, LINDA HALL } Obedkolf, Gordon Turner. Getting to Know Your Nermer _and: an organizational: meeting -was.set-for’ S: ‘The group decided to stay low-key for a while. “After all, so many of these. kinds of months, lets just see:what happens.” We organized as a sub-group of the Castlegar and District Arts Council and gave ourselves a name, the Castlegar Writer's Guild. ‘We decided to meet every other. week at founding member, Vi Plotnikoff's home in south Castlegar. She has ‘such a wonderfully huge wooden table, perfect to spread * out dozens of manuscripts and books and it seats so many chairs,: At first the organization was somewhat selfish. - " We met only to evaluate each other's stories and boar but we all agreed that before we made a big “splash” in the community, we'd better find out if we really “have what it takes" to stick together as a volunteer . organization. Every other week we sat around the table, ae drank many cups of coffee and tea and. just read our stories to each other. “I think you need tu’ cut away at _ some of the description in that paragraph”... “yes, I agree. I think it needs a bit of compacting” . . “I had trouble understanding that one sentence”... “I have an idea for a market for. that one” . . . “ete, etc, etc.” ed. by us. After all, all we want todo is learn. So we read, critiqued each other's, work. and sat back. - MMH by. i ready.to.sat- ‘the public,” and “called in Cable: 10 to.come.an eading -some “of our best (at that time) works, The program was long and somewhat lacking i in stage variety, ‘but -it-was our first, and:we learned from it. Bunny Charters, ‘high school librarian, and wife of member, Jack Charters, asked-us in to present hour-long ooasions on writing {2 erouna of students. George James and dotal type of Sailing. the kind he does bests I gave one on interviewing and writing short biographical A sketches. Jack gave one, Vi gave one. - : At the end of the year: we ‘put together a. quick, - amateurish-looking little yellow book titled unceremon- lously “The Castlegar Writer's Guild Anthology” which we read from ‘at the annyal general meeting. of the peers and District’ Arts Council. he =- “ere. were becoming known. Selkirk College's Con- tinuing Education. program signed us up to teach 10 evening. sessions of two hours each, in which we were to introduce various types of writing. Mark Mealing led the Writing’for Children workshop. He toted in with him a stack. of classic. books such. as “The Princess and the Goblin” by George MacDoneld and antique-looking fairy tale volumes, ‘plus | more recent ones such as those illus- © to occur . did: a session on ‘journalism, and set up # display table full ‘of copies of papers and magazines. She. also explained . how the language of “journalese” differs from other types of writing. Kathy Armstrong gave a~ session on the very Jucrative field of romance writing and Vi Plotnikoff gave a session on fiction writing. She.passed out some “notes’ on fiction writing” in which she suggests the following; ... “Keep a handy little book with you at all times ... . take it” out. and write down everything you see and hear: . < perhaps a you're on in a restaurant. The famous Canadian _ writer, Margaret ° News.) ‘from left). ge James, Jim Ct and “How did we get ourselves into this, and whose idea was it anyway?” We had stories piled everywhere, on chairs, on the floor and all over the table, but we finally managed to sort, read, re-read, and evaluate every single one. And we were indeed surprised at the amount of talented young writers we have in this community. (The winners in: each category. plus their winning entries will be b ‘ hed in a future issue of this paper). eard, the short stories of two of our group, Jim Chapinan and. Vi-Plotnikoff. This spring is turning out to be a very busy time. The little yellow anthology will become “Osprey's Nest,” a * more professional looking volume, named for the osprey’s nest which: sits on a pole near where'the Columbia and Kootenay River's merge. This year Osprey's Nest will . include our year’s best works, plus the winning stories. If you visit the Trade Fair in. April, the Writer's - Guild will be there too, with plenty of copies of Osprey's Nest for sale. . Another TV program is also in the works in which you will be able to see and hear the short story winners, plus m ‘of the Writer's Guild. Atwood said that she is always in bus stations. It's great for ideas. (Just don't get caught)” : ‘One of the initial purposes we gave oursélves was to “promote the creative art of writing i in this area.” And to < live up to these purposes, in January we decided to sponsor a short story contest for. students..“We'd better” : given them a month,” we said, “and then if-we-don't get We figured that if we were lucky maybe we'd get a dozen ~ entries in each category. Last week as we stared at the immense piles of compositions we said to éach other,’ (ing and dyeing.” Open house. at DTUC David Thompson ° Uni- versity Ceritre’s Applied Design students in the Visual Arts Department will be holding an open house on April 6, 7 and 8, on the third floor of Pat- enaude Hall on campus. Display hours on Wednes- day and Thursday will be noon ‘to 4 p.m. and on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. “Some of the techniques students are involved in this year are metal work and fibre,” said instructor Anne Farrell-Webb. “Metalwork includes cop- per enamelling, bead ma- king, silver soldering, and etching on metal. “In fibre, techniques in- clude spinning, carding and dyeing raw fleece, bas- ketry, four-harness weav- ing, and the Japanese Shi- bori method of tying, clamping, stitching, folding or wrapping cloth to achieve designs ‘when in- digo vat dyeing. Also bat- ik, marbling and silk paint- house April 6, 7 and 8. OPEN HOUSE... Janet Dalemara: a first-year Applicd Beilgn a student at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson threads 1 in preparation for spinning a rolag of fleece. Students will be holding open @ Indian head spinning wheel BEEKEEPING IN B.C... In the Writer's Guild, we share our joys and our *. failures; When one in our group finally got a story ac- ., cepted in’ Outdoor Life, we all joined in his moment of victory, yand we } share, of course our failures. (Most of us are hi slip” coll ) Being a part of a.group like this also gives us someone to whom we can - read our masterpieces besides our mothers, (who love any entries, we'll have to have a big advertising blitz.”..: - * we have to read something to the group every other ‘ week, we've got to get something new ready every other sweek, Somehow it’s taking the loneliness out of it all. NNN ie everything we write anyway). It also keeps us going. If Taking the sting out VANCOUVER (CP) — The northward: ‘apiead ar killet bees and bee inites has prompted Canadian beekeepers to. ‘seek ways of taking the sting out of an import embargo expected when the dual menace reaches the southern’U.S. Entomologist Mark Winston of Simon Fraser Univer- sity says Canadian apiartists, dependont on U.S: - supplies, } * began_p for the 10 years ago. ‘Winston said that until recently most of Canai's 20,250 apiarists bought their bees fromthe southern states‘each spring and killed them in the fall, leaving only a small amount of honey in the hive for next year’s colony. In most areas, keeping bees through the winter meant losing almost half the 76. of honey p: AUUUTEUEUUUITENE STUUUQUAHRNENAANTONEELUCETEETOT CU . There are also fecal reasons for Canadian Industry, says provincial apiarist John Corner of Vernon. The $26 cost of a package, which contains about 8,000 bees and one queen is almost double the 1971 price “because of in labor, Pp jon and honey costs. DEVELOPS PACKAGES Winston is in the first year of a three-year program to develop such packages using bees es adapted to the Canadian ‘climate. He is also where southern apiarists could dive northern hives for the winter. are also with hive by each hive and spending money to protect.bees from harsh winter conditions. However, in southwestern B.C., the milder climate permits some of the province's 5,600 apiarists to keep their bees year-round. The climate -has also made the area an ideal breeding ground and Winston and others are developing bee production techniques that may one day make B.C. the main supplier for Canada. Winston said Canadians bought 300,000 colony packages worth about $12 million from the U.S. last year. But this bees and indoor storage. Winston is impressed by the remarkable degree of co-operation between private industry and government in working to develop Canadian bee production. “Research is going on all across Canada,” he said. “Canadians are far ahead of the U.S. in this area.” American producers were hiding their heads in the sand, he said, hoping killer bees will go away. Winston said the real threat of killer bees is not well understood. “A lot of people have the idea that swarms of killer bees will invade North America and destroy our That is not the case.” supply line could be cut when d d and invade the U.S. Winston, who researched killer bees in South America before joining the university staff in 1980, said an embargo is not likely before 1990. Killer bees spread through South America after 26 colonies, brought to Brazil from Africa for research, escaped in 1956. An estimated 10 million colonies exist and are spreading north at a rate of 300 kilometres a year. Of the two types of bee mites also spreading, one is still in South America while the other is in Mexico, 190 kilometres south of the border. Although bees do pose a threat to the public, it is crop pollination that would suffer most from their arrival, he said. Killer bees are too intent on reproduction to spend time pollinating crops and making honey. Winston said there are $2 billion worth of crops grown in Canada each year that depend on bee pollination. The bees’ aggressive nature makes them unsuitable for a program run by B.C. beekeepers where hives are rented to fruit growers for $20-$40 during the pollination season. Winston said the bees would rather swarm than stay in one place.