@ My. ; co_CastlégarNews — Morch 22,1909 Hong Kong's future cloudy By DAVID SCHLESINGER HONG KONG (Reuter)— On June’30, 1997, Britain's Union Jack will come down from Hong Kong's government house for the last time. What will go up in its place is as much a mystery as the British colony's future The committee writing the constitution under which Hong Kong will be fun after China takes back control, finished its latest meeting by rejecting all the Proposed flag and emblem designs “That's the best thing we did. It was the most successful part of the meeting because Hong Kong menibers got their ideas across,"’ said Martin Lee, an out spoken proponentof democracy for Hong Kong and a member of the committ China appointed all $5 membérs of the committee, including the 22 represen tatives from Hong Kong FLAG REJECTED The top two-thirds was China’s flag of yellow stars on ared-backgro: The rest was & white stripe for the Shenzhen River. that separates Hong Kong from South China and a green stripe representing the territory The committee decided to send a blank page instead of a flag design to Beijing, where the second draft of the law will go before the standing committee of he National People’s Congress Many people in Hong Kong wish there were a few more blank pages in the document The committee writing the Basic Law, the formal name for the constitution has been meeting for three years debating issues both weighty and trivial At its last meeting, which ended recently, it put in a clause saying Chinese medicine should be promoted in Hong Kong after 1997 PROSPECTS FADE More important to most residents, however, it decided that the earliest Hong € full democratic elections would be after 2012, and then only if y s National People and 30 per cent of eligible voters in Hong Kong all agreed I think democracy is dead in Hong Kong legislature, chief executive, Chin, Congress Lee said in an interview However, democracy has never really been alive in the colony. Hong Kong ‘een ruled by a governor appointed by Britain who has absolute power under Patent issued by Queen Victoria im the 19th century Until recently the governor named all members of the legislature. Now ome members elected by various professional groups, like doctors and isePhopes for democra aying that Hong Kong would be ruled 2 Kong people after the takeover Everybody now. realizes China is going-to write anything it wants into the Law. There is an emerging consensus that China will have its way."'\said Law firms earn big money TORONTO (CP) law firms are pulling down big money lawyer Arthur managing partner, said in an inter Canada’: big Scace the firm’s suggests an article in Canadian Lawyer view magazine McCarthy and McCarthy of Toror to is No. 1 with an estimated $76 million a year in billings, says the Mar ch edition of the magazine McCarthy and McCarthy, with of fices in Calgary and Montreal, has 310 lawyers, plus 43 paralegals which Close behind in hypothetical ear ranks the hypothetical earning power of the country’s top firms. “It's probably not ning power is the Toronto firm of Blake Cassels and Graydon, with inaccurate estimated billings of $67.7 million Answer to Sunday Crossword_Puzzsle No. 357 Answer to Sunday, March 19 WHEN FLIRTATIOUS FEMME DENLY NEEDS A REST SHE WINKS. SUD. TAKES FORTY CHINOOK SALMON RUN ON THE ROGUE RIVER! 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Ifyou don't give mentator, said. *'lt's the y residents the constant television pichoren Sinee the past three years of the drafters trooping in and out of conference rooms without much result has drafting committee used a slick television advertising cam nments On the first draft, only 7,000 of Hong Kong's 5.5 people a choice, you can’t get them involved.”* VOTE WITH FEET Hong Kong residents will have one last formal chance to comment on the constituuon before China passes the final version in March 1990, But many are already making their comment, quietly, by leaving the colony The government estimates 45,000 left Hong Kong to live in other countries in 1988. 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Probability of precipita tion is 20 per cent today, rising to 70 per cent Monday 2 Sections (A & B) READY FOR EASTER v. Ted Bristow practices piano in preparation for Easter Sunday Re services this morning at Castlegar United Church. Other churches in Castlegar are also J holding services of Jesus Christ. CosNews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk Experts optimistic -about water supply By CHERYL CALDERBANK Technicians with the provincial Ministry—of Environment's Water N Branch are there won't be a water shortage this year in the Kootenays. “*It’s not a serious situation at all,”’ said Bob Richards, who heads the snow survey operations in the provin. ce. He said that if a drought does develop this summer in the Columbia region — which includes the Kootenays — it would be because of deficient rainfall, which, he noted, is unpredictable. Terry Anderson, a technician with the Water Management Branch ‘in Nelson, said snow accumlations in the area are slightly below normal but bet- ter than last year despite precipitation in February which was just 38 per cent of the normal amount for the month. As a-result, the water equivalent of the mountain snowpack was 84 per cent of normal as of March 1 — slightly less than that reported one month earlier, according toinformation in the Water Management Branch’s latest snow survey bulletin Natural runoff in the basin, as in dicated by the Kootenay River at Fort Steele, declined in February to 78 per cent of normal based on figures for a period from 1961 to 1985. The runoff was 91 per cent of normal in January But Richards said precipitation which has accumulated so far this month ‘‘will at least hold its-own,"? which, he said, means the runoff will be within five per cent of normal The closest snow survey station to Castlegar is Farron, located near the continued on page A2 Moyie oldest, historian says KASLO (CP) — The S.S. Moyie is the oldest surviving sternwheelet_in project research historian this winter North America, says the chief of to authenticity of the historical collections at the British restoration program Columbia Museum in Victoria “So many of them have been rebuilt that getting one like the Moyie that has been so little changed over the years, is Robert Turner, who was contracted as ensure the The Moyie has been used as a museum since it was beached in 1958 at this community on Kootenay Lake. It is undergoing a $350,000 preservation program that started late last year “The Moyie is certainly the oldest intact passenger sternwheeler in North America, and’perhaps the world,” said really very special 1-know of only one other older passenger sternwheeler in the world,” Turner said in a recent interview “That's in Brazil (the Wenceslau Brza, continued on page A2 Climb helps Wood w By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer team toward a common goal and recognize the “power of the vision’ of that goal [TFL pr By CasNews Staff Rossland-Trail New Democrat MLA Chris D'Arcy said this week there is a feeling in Victoria that the Social Credit government's proposal to more than double the harvest of timber_under_tree farm licences will not proceed as originally proposed “The rumor mill in Victoria right now is strongly suggesting that the (Forests Minister) Dave Parker proposal for the issuing of large tree farm licences is, in the form which he had originally proposed it, pretty well dead," said D'Arcy, speaking on Shaw Cable’s MLA Forum Wednesday night. However, D'Arcy added that the rumors don’t mean there won’t be “some significant privatization of forest land.”” “We're hoping it doesn’t referring to the New Democrats The government has proposed-converting-a-num- ber of forest licences to tree farm licences thereby in- dreasing the percentage of ihe annual allowable cut of timber held under TFLs to 67 per cent from its current 29 percent. happen,” he said, Parker who chaired eight public meetings — in- cluding one in Nelson — to receive input into the proposal announced last week a decision on the policy will likely not be made until at leastlate June. D'Arcy said he thinks forestry is the major issue in B.C. now and repeated his party’s call for a royal com- mission into forestry practices in the province. “*A dispassionate look should be taken through a royal commission,"’ the MLA said. ‘We just can’t af- ford to mess around with this incredibly important resource in British Columbia.” During his discussion, D’Arcy said there is an abundance of pulp wood available locally and warned that if it isn’t used here it will be shipped out of the area “‘If that pulp fibre is not used here in the next few years, it will slowly but surely be committed elsewhere and once it’s committed elsewhere it will be very dif- ficult to recapture,”” he said With that in mind, D'Arcy said it’s ‘‘tremendously important’* that the new co-owners of Celgar Pulp Co in Castlegar — Stone Container Corp. — be persuaded “to spend a lot more money in this area’’ on a new or thoroughly modernized pulp mill. “I think it’s a great time to clean up any environ mental problems that may exist as well,’” D'Arcy added. Speaking on other topics, D’Arcy said the provin- cial_government-must-spend-more-money on public education from kindergarten to Grade 12. “The provincial government has been paying a lower and lower share ... as each year passes by. Proper- ty taxes have been paying an increasingly larger share,"” D'Arcy said. ‘‘The government has to reverse that trend.”* D'Arcy said money must be spent to keep British Columbia competitive with the rest of Canada and the world in the field of education. He noted that recent contract settlements with teachers in school districts throughout B.C. have provided salary increases well ahead of the inflation rate. But he said teachers’ salaries must remain com- ‘pretty well d CHRIS D'ARCY + can't ‘mess around’ with forests petitive if the province is to avoid an anticipated teacher shortage in the next few years. “The government and school boards recognize the fact that teachers are a difficult commodity to find right now in British Columbia,’’ D’Arcy said. Asked to comment on the recent perception that the New Democrats are going through 4 fundamental shift in policy, a- perception sparked by a speech NDP leader Mike Harcourt gave to business leaders in which he advocated the creation of wealth, D'Arcy said Harcourt was simply reaffirming an NDP philosophy dating back tothe party’s predecessor, the Co-operative Commonweaith Federation. “New Democrats ... have always advocated the creation of wealth in order that the production of that could be spread around more among people who really need assistance,"’ D'Arcy said. ‘‘It's quite clear that you can’t do things in health care, you can’t do things in education, you can't do things for the environment unless the economy can support those initiatives. You can't get blood out of a stone What Mr. Harcourt was simply doing was reaf firming that he realizes you can’t print money, that you have to be financially responsible and you have to have a healthy economy or you simply cannot do the things continued on page A2 ifeis daring adventure or nothing at all.”” Helen Keller said it first, but Sharon Wood, the first North American woman to climb Mt. Everest, made the words come alive when she spoke to about 85 women at the Business Ownership for Women conference last week in Castlegar : Wood, who climbed Everest in 1986, uses the challenge of climbing the world’shighest mountain as a metaphor for achieving major goals in life. Her climbing career has given her a set of skills she can apply to anything she does in life, she said during her keynote speech Tuesday night at the Sandman Inn Wood said she learned to make commitments to a job. ““When you're 200 feet off the ground and you can't go down, you commit to going up."’ Mountain climbing also taught her to focus on the task at hand, she said “My whole world becomes this piece of rock infront of me,"’ Wodd Said of hef climbing experience. She added that tackling a project like climbing Mt. Everest has taught her to have confidence in her own abilities, work with a “People don't conquer mountains," Wood said “The conquest happens in the minds of the climbers. It's in the struggle that we tap our strengths."” The 1986 attempt on the mountain was the second for Canada. The first was in 1982 and some of the same mem. bers from that large team made up the relatively small 11 member team in 1986. The team chose a more difficult route up the north face of Everest that is reached from the Chinese side of the Himalayas e Wood said one of the biggest problems the team had to overcome was high-altitude sickness brought on by the thin atmosphere at 5,100 to 7,500 metres above sea level The best way to describe altitude sickness is “‘to imagine the wors{ hangover you ever had,"* Wood said. Over several‘months, the climbers battled a series of difficulties such as fatigue from ferrying 32-kilogram packs Of supplies up To the camps at different stages of the climb, monotony, drinking six to eight litres of water per day to Prevent life-threatening dehydration, intense cold and winds that can sweep climbers off the mountain if they are ith career not tethered to a guide rope, nights on narrow ice ledges, illness and injury, and sunburn on their tongues and the roofs of their mouths from looking up all-day” while breathing heavily in the thin air “We are very adaptable and luxuries become relative to the environment,”” Wood said in explaining why the climbers looked forward with great relish to a twice monthly bath out of a stainless steel bow! at basecamp. “You learn to turifadversities around and make them a test of whether you really want to do something or not,"” she said. The final stage of the ascent was made by Wood and one other climber who had enough strength to attempt the summit. Battling the ‘‘Death Zone’ — the area above 7,200 metres where brain cells die quickly and the body burns muscle instead of fat — a limited amount of daylight and oxygen in their tanks, adverse weather and their own fatigue, the climbers headed for the top on May 19, 1986. They had only their own determination and the support of \ the rest of the team to carry them up the Wood said continued on a2 ae page SHARON WOOD + Conquers Everest