Rebels roaring Page B1 The winning numbers i was 41. Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were four, 12, 16, -31, 44 and 48. The bonus number Sunday WEATHERCAST in the day. Highs of 5° and lows of near 0°. Cloudy Monday with oc- casional rain 40 Cents —_ VOL. 37, No. 15 Castlegar ew CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1984 7Sections (A & B) CHAMBER MEETING Improved year forecast for B.C. An’ improved year for the B.C BEA TION . . . Landscaping consultant Clive Justice (left) examines Zuckerberg Island, making note of ideas for improvements. Justice is currently in town to prepare a report for city council on how the city's look could be improved. ‘CosNewsPhoto by John Charters By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer After a disappointing eighth-place finish at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, downhill skier Steve Podborski will seek to defend the Canadian men’s downhill title on Granite Mountain this week. Podborski will be joined by national team favorite Todd Brooker and other national ski team members in the race for the Export A Cup on Thursday morning. In addition, the Red Mountain Cup Downhill and the Export A Cup Super G are being beld in conjunction with the Canadian downhill. The Red Mountain Cup will be held at 10 a.m. Friday and the Super G kicks off at noon Saturday. The Canadian downhill takes place at 10 a.m. on Thursday. The race is being hosted by the Red Mountain Ski Society. Three traiking runs will be conducted prior to the races, at 10 a.m each day Monday through Wednesday. Other events include a wine and cheese party with. the skiers at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at the Uplander Hotel. Friday, an awards banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Riverbelle Restaurant, and Saturday night an RJR Macdonald Reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Uplander Hotel in Rossland. Brooker and Podborski are due to arrive in Rossland Monday night following a flight into Spokane Airport. The two arrived in Toronto Saturday from the Olympics in Sarajevo. Some national team members are already training here, while C team member Chris Kent and Podborski returning squad members Scott Woolley of Grouse Mountain and Stan Hanson of Red Mountain, who are injured, says Ed Champagne, public relations director of the Alpine Ski Division. Castlegar's Felix Belezyk, who hasn't seen action for some time because of torn ligaments, is planning to enter the races, subject to getting approval from team doctars, who were to arrive home from Sarajevo this weekend. Other locals will include national members Donald Stevens and Chris McIvor of the development squad. Local Red Mountain Racers hoping to be in the race are Bob Walton and Ken Ross of Castlegar, as well as David Buckley. Qualifying fog the race is based on the skier's Federation International du Ski standings. Ross noted that most of the racers in the downhill will have under 100 FIS points. In skiing, the lower the points the better the skier. Lack of snow won't be a problem in running the races. This week, Red Mountain was reporting 183 centi. metres at the top and 115 cm at the base. The ski society brought in a special snow cat for the race and Red Mountain officials spent this week packing the run. The crews may be able to control the condition of the run, but they can’t control the weather. “We're hoping with all the snow and fog we've been having, that we'll have clear weather for race day,” Ross said. At ae ar downhill the story was grim as Red squad members took in a Nor-Am downhill race this weekend in Crested Butte, Colo. They will arrive here today or tomorrow. The downhill races will be conducted from top to bottom on the Granite run. The Super G, which is a downhill with a lot of turns, will begin at the top, finishing at the Southside trail, The Super G will be 600 metres vertical, the downhills will be 800 metres vertical. Finance committee chairman Ron Ross said organizers are expecting about 106 racers, although they won't know until the last minute. Organizers won't be expecting too many U.S. entries because-of the U.S. national championships also being held this week. However, 15 entries have already been received from the U.S. Most members of the Canadian national team will be competing in the race with the exception of development plagued with poor weather, facing cancellation of many agp runs. The Super G scheduled is relativel , but a recovery not as good as “the national average, was forecast this week by the Bank of Montreal in a Juncheon address to the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce. Des Kavanagh of Vancouver, senior vice-president of Canadian commercial banking, told about 80 Chamber of Commerce members Thursday that B.C.'s economic growth during 1984 is expected to come close to but not match the forecas™gcowth of the Can adian economy as a whole The Canadian economy, as measured, by reai gross national product, (the total of goods and services produced after increases due to inflation are re moved) will grow at a rate of 5.4 per cent in 1984. The U.S. economy is expected to grow at a rate of 5.3 per cent, Kav anagh said. This will raise real GNP in the United States by 4.3 per cent from’ the fourth quarter of 1983 to the fourth quarter of 1984 and in Canada by 4.8 per-cent, he said. He also said inflation is expected to TT. about five per cent this year in Canada and four per cent in the U.S. Kavanagh outlined economic factors influencing the B.C. economic outlook this year. They include: e continued gains in the forestry sector, but with emphasis shifting from sawmills to pulp and paper mills; e moderately good prospects in man ufaeturing; ean improving coal industry outlook; e some oil industry gains, but little natural gas improvement because the federal government's pricing policy makes Canadian gas non-competitive in the United States; flat housing starts; e a moderate retail sales gain; @ a bit of a comeback for tourism in line with improving world economies; © marginal growth in the other service sectors. “North American investment revival should help B.C. metal processing in dustries,” Kavanagh added, “But B.C. projects depending on local investment can expect some difficulty as invest ment intentions in B.C. by larger firms indicate a decline from 1983 levels, compared to a forecasted increase of DES KAVANAGH economy will grow five to 10 per cent at the national level. “That adds up to an improved year generally for B.C.,” he said. “but there are sufficient negatives around to make continued on poge AZ Consultant gives ideas for local improvement By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer Landscaping consultant Clive Jus- tice stressed the importance of “com: munity involvement” in developing a Castlegar city beautification program when he gave a presentation on the subject Wednesday night. Ironically, only about 15 people showed up to hear him. The public meeting, held at city council chambers, was called to let Castlegar residents have input into any face-lifting program the city might choose to develop. Justice, who's worked on beautifi- cation programs in many B.C. com. munities — including Nelson — is in Castlegar to prepare a report for city council on how the city’s look could be improved. He gave Castlegar’s present appear ance a mixed review — calling the city Workers still off the job By RON NORMAN Some 270 Celgar sawmill workers are still off the job this weekend despite a provincial Labor Relations Board ruling upholding BC Timber’s argument that the workers illegally withdrew their services. The LRB ruling, which came down Monday, said the sawmill employees, is new to Canada. . Ross said although the races haye been operating in Europe for about two years, only &@ couple of Super G's have been held in Canada. The national Super G is the first ever. Ross said there is no FIS list with Super G points, complicating the method of seeding the racers. The national races will be receiving media coverage across the country. Ross said a CBC television crew will film the race at Red Mountain. It will be broadeast.a week later on a one-hour special along with men's and women's Super G, Slalom and Giant Slalom races. Ross also said a news crew from Spokane may cover the event. of the I workers of America, could not refuse to work with steam from the pulp mill produced by company supervisors. However, Celgar sawmill manager Al Thornton said locked out pulp workers, members of the Pulp and Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1, immediately threw up a picket line at both entrances to the sawmill. Celgar IWA workers then refused to cross the picket line, Thornton said. Thornton added that the PPWC pic- ket line also forced union contractors working in the mill to leave. “They were in the midst of some id on poge A2 “a strung-out conglomerate of man in his various moods.” But Justice did suggest a few ideas for improvement. Local blue spruce and birch could be replanted along the street from downtown to the Castle- gar-Robson ferry to produce “a unique linkage,” he said. And it would be “nice to have a median of trees” from the Recreation Complex, along 6th Ave. and 24th St. to Columbia Ave., said Justice. The site around the complex also needs to be landscaped, he said. Justice suggested moving the ceno- taph, developing Zuckerberg Island Park, (plans to do this are now being made by the Castlegar Heritage Ad- visory Committee) redesigning the overhead highway pass on Columbia Ave., planting trees in the city works yard, and-making-a new-set of signs with logos for the city. The sign with the city’s name on Highway 3 (coming into Castlegar from Grand Forks) is “an awful corny look- said Justice. “I can remem- ber designing a sign like that in the 50s.” When an audience member said the new Safeway store on Columbia Ave. needed landscaping, Justice stressed the need for Castlegar to have a set landscaping standards for new bus- inesses. “But (Castlegar residents) should know what they want, and put it in the form of a report,” he added. Another audience member said “so- called experts” are “slaughtering trees” to protect power lines. Justice said this might be solved by having city maintenance workers take a course or seminar, possibly through Selkirk College, on city beautification. Castlegar residents have to be motivated to show an interest in improving the city's facade, said Jus- tice. “You have to bring home the idea that it’s our town,” he said, adding the #moneyandresources “are not the problem.” “We have the money . . . to do this, but (the idea) has to go through the whole community. “You've got to be concerned about the things in your community — be- cause you're bloody well paying for them.” Local students rate high on math exams By CasNews Staff Students from Kinnaird Junior Sec- ondary and Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary schools scored higher than the B.C. average on their provincial math exams last May, even though the exams included areas not covered by Castlegar students. Grade 7 students at Kinnaird had an 11.8 per cent failure rate on their math exam, compared to the average pe cial failure rate of 18 per cent. ‘The other grades achieved by the Kinnaird Grade 7 students, followed by the provincial average, are: A-grade 14.1 per cent (18 per cent), B-grade 19.2 per cent (21 per cent), C-grade 36.4 per cent (30 per cent) and D-grade 19.5 per cent (18 per cent). According to Grant DeWolf, math department head at Kinnaird, the re- sults were especially good considering the government exam included areas not covered by the Grade 7 class. The Grade 10 class at Stanley Hum- phries also had a lower failure rate than the provincial average — 24 per cent compared to 33 per cent. The other marks for the Grade 10 class at Stanley Humphries, followed by the provincial average, are: A-grade nine per cent (nine per cent), B-grade 26 per cent (20 per cent), C-grade 27 per cent (24 per cent), and P-grade 13 per cent (15 per cent). Head of Stanley Humphries’ math department, Stosh Uchida, felt the exam was unfair to the school's non-academic math students who were included in the percentages “since many of the items examined were not covered in their course.” “Teachers and students did very well on this — hopefully it will continue,” said schools: superintendent Terry Wayling.