a2 Castlegar News March 30, 1988

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WICKED WIND .. . High winds last weekend were
enough to move a large Pass Creek storage shed

By CasNews Staff

An electrical storm hit Castlegar Saturday night
causing some minor difficulties as it knocked out power.

“The whole north end of Castlegar was out for 15 to
20 minutes,” said Doug Fergusson, district supervisor for
West Kootenay Power and Light Co

Fergusson said the storm only caused a few
problems with lightning strikes at the Blueberry and
Castlegar substations.

“There was no extensive damage except for a few
fuses that had to be replaced,” said Fergusson. He added
that is normal in an electrical storm.

Tom Willson of the Castlegar Airport weather office

Hepatitis scare
no concern here

By CasNews Staff

A-minor outbreak of a mild form of hepatitis in
Spokane is no cause for concern for Castlegar area
residents, says the Central Kootenay medical health
officer.

Dr. Monty Arnott said the outbreak, to his know-
ledge, was limited to a Black Angus restaurant in
Spokane.

He said the virus, hepatitis A, was first traced March
7 to the Spokane steak house. A number of employees
had contracted the virus and there was concern among
Spokane health officials. The restaurant was closed for
two days before receiving a clean bill of health on March
20.

Arnott said if anybody had eaten at the restaurant
between March 7 and 20, there was a “small” chance they
could contract the virus.

“There was a chance that Black Angus customers

could catch hepatitis A by eating non-cooked food,”
Arnott said. “The possibility only exists in non-cooked
foods,”

Foods such as salads and sandwiches that come into
contact with the virus may infect the consumer,

Arnott said he received numerous calls from area
residents who had eaten at the restaurant during the
outbreak and said he gave “several” people shots just in
case they had contacted the virus.

He said with hepatitis A, it is important to inform
local health officials quickly. The shot for the virus is only
effective if administered within two weeks of contracting
the disease.

He said anyone who ate at the Spokane Black Angus
between March 7 and 18 should see a health official
immediately.

But Arnott also said it's “not a problem in the local
area, The chance (of getting the virus from eating at the
restaurant) is extremely small.”

Murderer beat victims

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Castlégar News

ANOTHER West Kootenay musical act has won the
provincial Catch a Rising Star contest. Last fall the Trail
a capella foursome The Knee Highz took top honors at the
High Arrow Arms Motor Hotel and then at Richards on
Richards in Vancouver.

Now Castlegar's Steve Picton won $1,000 and a trip
to Mexico last Saturday at the provincial finals in Vernon.

KOOTENAY WEST MP Bob Brisco should send a
memo to the Vancouver Province reminding the daily
paper of the old adage: “I don't care what they say about
me as long as they spell my name right.”

The Province misspelled Brisco's name throughout a
story in its Tuesday edition. The article quoted Brisco
saying the controversy over Ottawa's proposed elimina:
tion of the tax advantages of flow-through shares should
be settled soon.

But they spell Brisco “Briscoe.”

Brisco was one of several speaker: symposium in
Vancouver organized by the Canadian Save Flow-
Through Committee, a lobbying group that is trying to
‘convince Finance Minister Wilson not to imple-
ment his proposed tax change.

Brisco wouldn't hint at what the outcome of the
flow-through shares issue would be, but told the

symposium there is a “strong body” in the Conservative
caucus that supports mining’s concerns.

“I firmly believe the problem will be resolved and it's
not far from resolution” he said.

FRED AND Ruby Marsh had an uninvited house
guest in their Robson home last Wednesday night,

Ruby says they heard a noise in their basement
between 9 and 10 and her husband went down to investi-
gate, not remembering whether they had left their
basement door open or not.

Fred's flashlight revealed an elk standing in their
basement,

Ruby thinks a box of apples attracted the elk who
left after being interrupted through the basement door —
without an apple.

LANA REMPLE, granddaughter of Castlegar’s Bill
and Marie Remple and Harry and Irene Sheridan, is the
youngest person ever to receive a Tae Kwon Do black
belt in Canada, under the World Marshall Arts Congress
for Educational guidelines.

The 12-year-old Quesnel girl joined a Taw Kwon Do
club three years ago, the first child to do so, and had to
train with adults.

Remple trained with the adult cl: for several
months until she received her yellow belt and moved into
a children’s class.

She fought for the first time at a tournament in
Williams Lake in 1986 and finished first. Since.that time
she has participated in another four tournaments and
won all four.

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several feet off its foundations. Winds were part ot
electrical storm that blacked out area.

Storm causes blackout

said the storm was a little bit unusual, with winds
recorded up to 93 km/h.

Willson said the “active disturbance” from the west
coast which brought in lightning and thunder showers,
was the second one this month. The other storm occurred
last week.

Weather for the month of March was “typical
unsettled spring weather,” said Willson.

Castlegar had 8.4 centimetres of snow, 60.4 milli
metres of rain except on some of the mountain passes and
a total of 93.3 hours of sunshine as of yesterday.

“But, we are going to lose out on the sunshine by the
end of the month,” Willson says.

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) —
Alan Foster beat a woman
and two 12-year-old girls to
death with a hammer, then
he sexually abused the girls,
took a nap, awoke, threw a
blanket over the bodies, and
caught a bus out of town, a
coroner's inquest was told
Tuesday.

A psychiatrist and a police-
man testified that Foster, 37,

of Chilliwack, B.C.,
to the murders.

Psychiatrist Paul Dubois
said Foster told him: “Part of
me takes over and I try to
fight it.”

The five-member jury is
probing the Dee. 13 deaths of
Foster's common-law wife
Joan Pilling, her daughter
Linda Brewer and her friend
Megan McCleary, in Chilli
wack, about 100 kilometres
east of V.

confessed

Oakalla staff ‘drunk’

NEW WESTMINSTER,
B.C. (CP) — Two staff mem.
bers at the Lower Mainland
Regional Correctiona] Centre
were drunk when 13 pris.
oners escaped New Year's
Day, a prisoner at the
provincial jail told a judicial
inquiry Tuesday

The prisoner, who cannot
be identified, testified he was
in the prison hospital at the

time of the breakout after
being beaten by guards dur.
ing an earlier riot.

“There were two staff in
the hospital unit on the night
that the escape happened,”
said the prisoner. “Both of
them were just . drunk.”

The prisoner said he was
beaten in the groin with a
riot stick

“I vomited every meal for

Court news

In Castlegar provincial
court last week Barry Bon-
ham was given a $500 fine or
six months in jail for invoking
fear of injury or damage.

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Bill Verigin received a $300

At the time, Foster was on
parole from a life sentence
for the 1971 murder and sex
ual assualt of his 18-year-old
sister-in-law.

“There is only one thing
crazier than me, and that is
the society that lets me do
what I do,” Dubois said
Foster told him Dee. 14.

two weeks,” he told commis-
sioner Ian Drost, a county
court judge. “I lost about
15-16 pounds.” less.”

The prisoner said the riot
resulted from an accumula.
tion of grievances, such as
cold food and stale under.
wear.

“They're provoking the
wrong people,” he — said
“Don't think you can treat us

like animals.

segregation unit,

series of disturbances .

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Conroy
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forward

By CasNews Staff
The trial of Roy Edward
Conroy, 41, was adjourned to
June 14 and 15 in Castlegar
Provincial Court yesterday.
Conroy is charged with
three counts of assault in
connection with alleged pos
tal strike violence last year.

Cominco
boosting
pensions

Cominco is boosting the
benefits of pensioners who
retired before Jan. 1, 1984 by
$25 to $75 a month.

Pension increases will also
be given to surviving spouses
and will range from $20 to
$45 a month. The increase
applies to 3,400 to 4,100 pen
sioners.

The larger increases will
go to older pensioners. De-
tails are being mailed to all
pensioners.

Pensioners will receive the
raise retroactive from Jan. 1,
1988.

The increase is the seventh
made by Cominco to its pen

Foster told the doctor that
after covering the bodies
with a blanket he took a bus
to Penticton in the Okanagan
Valley where he “thought he
might get off... and kill a
few more people.”

But he surrendered to
RCMP in Penticton on Dec.
13.

“He said he was an evil

agent,” Cpl. Murray Dreilich
recalled. “The killings were
brought on by something in-
side of him that he couldn't
control

“Four years of psycho-
therapy didn’t help.”

Foster later killed himself
in jail by driving a ballpoint
pen into his chest.

Man convicted

of sex

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
52-year-old Squamish school
maintenance worker was
convicted Tuesday of nine
counts of indecent assault,
gross indecency and sexual
assault on six young boys
over a 27-year period.

James Coubrough will be
sentenced in county court
April 26.

Judge Douglas Wetmore
acquitted Coubrough of three
counts of indecent and sexual

crimes

assault ‘involving two male
teenagers between 1958 and
1985.

Wetmore said most of the
victims now are married and
respected members of the
small community of Squa-
mish, north of Vancouver.

Coubrough’s assaults’ on
neighborhood children came
to light when a 1963 victim
became aware of a relative's
recent involvement with the
accused.

Teen pleads guilty
to traffic death

GRAND FORKS (CP) —
15-year-old youth for Ke-
lowna, B.C., pleaded guilty
Tuesday in provincial court
to charges stemming from
the traffic death of an elderly
Grand Forks woman last
January.

The juvenile was charged

southeastern B.C. commun
ity that killed Margaret Bar
isoff, 80.

The Crown stayed charges
of dangerous driving against
the youth. Sentencing is set
for May 17.

RCMP Sgt. Dan McKay
said earlier that Barisoff was

privatized health care

VICTORIA (CP) — A
major U.S. health-care comp-
any says it discussed with the
provincial Health Ministry
privatizing some _ services
now performed by acute-care
hospitals.

“We were invited up to see
if we had any interest in the
privatization-of health care,”
Dr. Ernest Bates, president
of American Shared Hospital
Services in San Francisco,
said Tuesday.

“We discussed the possi-
bility of some investments

and to see if the government
would rent our services.”

But Health Ministry
spokesman Paul Hermuses
said the government “abso-
lutely did not” make the
overture. He confirmed that
the discussions did take
place.

Health Minister Peter
Dueck also denied knowledge
of the discussions and said
there is no move to privatize
health care.

Bates said he met with
Stan Dubas, deputy minister

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Cancom now offers a mix of
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The province's 120 long-
term care homes need up to
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per-cent increase in funding,
not the 10.6-per-cent increase
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because such publicity would
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average age is 84.9 years,
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Non-profit societies oper-
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accumulated a deficit of al-
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a resident in B.C. long-term
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that last week's budget in-
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charges stem from alleged
incidents which occurred on
Oct. 6, 1987.

sion plan. The last increase
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_ Merrithew to seek funds

MONTREAL (CP) — Forestry
Minister Gerald Merrithew says he will
ask the federal cabinet for more funds
for-reforestation and he wants the pulp
and paper industry to back him up.

While the industry is enjoying its
best times ever, delegates to the con.
vention of the Canadian Pulp and
Paper Association were warned Tues-
day that in the short-to-medium term,
there will be a scarcity of trees for
pulp.

The ominous date when annual
demand is expected to exceed supply is
1995.

Merrithew and other speakers
acknowledged that the image of forest
companies needs to improve.

In 1986, the council of forest
ministers embarked on a $4-billion
advertising campaign to make Can-
adians aware of the value of their
forests. Merrithew said the campaign
was aimed at urbanites “who see us as
rough-hewn rapers of the forest.”

In a poll conducted last December,
62 per cent of respondents felt that not
enough trees are being replanted.

BILLION TREES

The federal and provincial govern
ments signed agreements four years
ago promising to spend $1.138 billion
on husbandry and reforestation, creat
ing more than 100,000 jobs.

By the time those agreements run
out, said Merrithew, 1.5 billion trees
will be planted, and 500,000 hectares
thinned, weeded or fertilized.

In most provinces, said Lorne
Parnell, director of corporate planning

at Consolidated-Bathurst Inc., forests
are not increasing fast enough to
replace trees taken by harvesting,
insects and fires.

Alberta and British Columbia have
a slight excess capacity, but in both
provinces new pulp machines may soon
cause demand to exceed the supply.

The industry and federal and pro-
vincial governments have recently
undertaken massive tree-planting pro-
grams, but those trees won't be ready
to harvest for 50 years.

“We have enough wood to sustain
us at current use,” Parnell said in an
interview. “My concern is how to
maintain market share in the inter-

grow faster; another option is to invest
abroad, in countries where trees grow
faster.

Meanwhile, business could not be
better. Parnell noted that seven Can
adian pulp and paper companies each
made profits in excess of $100 million
last year. New capital spending is
expected to be $6.8 billiion this year, up
25 per cent over last year.

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There is already a trend towards
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traditional producers — North America
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The main new producers include
Brazil, which for the past decade has
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The Canadian market share fell to
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That means protecting woodstands
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pared with $75,000 in 1986,” Stanley
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The 23,000-member credit union
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