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CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 20, 1982

Bugaboos claim victims.

GOLDEN (CP) — The set-
ting looks idyllic for hell-
copter skiing — a snow-cov-
ered mountain in the Can-
adian Rockies — but the dan-
ger of avalanches often lurks
nearby and the results can be
deadly.

The name of Darien Habib
Afshar, 82, of Gstaad, Swit-
zerland has been added to the
long list of fatalities the sport
has claimed. A total of 18
persons were killed in earlier
helicopter-skiing accidents.

RCMP in Golden said Tues-
day that Afshar was one of
two men killed Monday when
an avalanche thundered
down on a party of 10 skiers,

Squamish

and

and a guide on a
known as 69 in the Bugaboos.
The name of the other. victim,
a 26-year-old Belgian, hes not
been released.

The skiers, on a Canadian
Mountain Holidays Ltd. hell-
copter-skiing junket, had des-
cended about 300 metres
down the mountain when the
avalanche broke loose above
them and buried five men,
police said. Three skiers
were able to free themselves
but two died in the aval-
anche, 75 kilometres south of
this southeastern British Col-
umbia community.

The guide and eight other
skiers, mostly from West

highway

a killer claims native

SQUAMISH (CP) — The
Squamish Highway's record
as a killer — 11 people since
October — is getting worse
and Harold Hopkins is*con-
vinced that major changes
are needed to improve condi-

* tions.

“It's nothing that a boxcar-
load of dynamite wouldn't
take care of,” says Hopkins,
who knows the ‘highway. bet-
ter than most. He helped
build it, he built power lines
beside it and once it almost
killed him.

“I was driving down. ear,
Windy Point Bluffs when a
rock — a big rock — came
down about, 2 metres in
front of me. It e: rode ode d Wke a
pumpkin when | pel it the’
pavement.” oj! i f

The highway's 1th

* a Toronto pears Meny
Saturday when a rock fell on
top of her car.

Hopkins, 54, lives in Squa-
mish. He started working in
mines when he was 14°
father was a ‘mining ‘tngin-
eer. For 20 years, he has
spent. He life working with

lasting roads, pros-
paste drilling mines, He
owns a mining company

_P-M. candidate
may emerge
this fall

OTTAWA (CP) — Can-
ada’s next prime minister
could be chosen here in early
November, depending on
when Prime Minister ‘Tru-
deau decides to retireg:

If he quits Krectablita
of the summer, there ig ‘a
chance the Liber =e
next major conven! <ten-
tatively set for Nov. 5 to 7,
could bé converted into a lea-
dership convention.

The Liberal national exe-
cutive will confirm the date
for a convention, held. every
two years, at a meeting in
Ottawa this weekend.

Textile chemists
testify in.

‘ATLANTA, GA. (AP.

Wayne Williams focuzed’on a
photo of an odd-shaped syn- ,.
thetic fibre anda piece’ 5 aad
green carpet, but p:
tors did not use either to link’
Williams to the two young
blacks he is accused of killing.
The origins of the fibre dnd
the carpet were not disclosed
in court Tuesday as the state
called a textile chemist and
officials from carpet and tex-
tile companies to the stand in
the murder trial of the
23-y "

prospecting in the Britannia
area, just north of. Van-
couver.

ROAD IS DISASTER.

He said the government, in
arush to push through a road
in 1957-68, was normally
negligent in choosing the
route it did.

“These rocks are what you
could call ‘incompetent’
rocks,” he said sweeping his
arm up at a 30-metre wall of
fractured stone. “For 14 kilo-
metres from here (near M
Creek where a bridge wash.
out last fall killed nine
‘people) north to Squamish,
the entire area is prone
slides. These rocks are ter-
sible.”

j The entire rock: formation
poised above the highway, he
.8aid, is riddled with fractures
running as far as 800 metres

“into the mountain. Making

the formation even more un-
stable are coast instrusions,
arms of granite that have
thrust up through the vol-

|. His” canic rock.

“The rocks here have the
structural strength of corn-
flakes. Stuff like that ‘has to
fall down.”

The engineering of the
highway encourages disas--.
ter, he said. He drove to a,
section of the highway beside’
a 40-1 -metre-high rock out-
cropping, the site of several

Hopkins stopped his car in
the middle of the highway
and opened the sunroof.
“Look up,” he said. The top of
the wall was directly above
the sunroof.

“This is what I can
straightforward negligence.
Look at the rock in that wall.
Look at the stress fractures,
There's one baby (a big, dark
crack in the wall) about 20
metres long.

“Look at that baby there (a ¢
rock about the size of a car),
See the cracks around that?
Now you don’t get cracks like
that for no reason at all. You
get cracks because - that
baby’s moving. It's going to
fall one of these days. °

‘Atlanta

ck Per
atreais in the-26 thes, igi.
Prosecution witnesses
tried to show Tuesday that

the fibre is a rare type used’ C

fn the manufacture of only
a small amount of carpet sold
in the southeastern United
States. 2

Gene Baggett, an employ-
ee at the West Point Pep-
erreil carpet plant in Dalton,
Ga., testified that the green
carpet introduced by Lge
ectutors “appeared to
very similar” to carpet ie

black
photographer.

At a pre-trial hearing in
June, state crime lab analyst
Larry Peterson testified he
found “no significant micro-
scopic difference” between
fibres taken from a green
carpet in Williams’ bedroom
and green fibres found in the
hair of Nathaniel Cater, 27,
one of Williams’ alleged vic-
tims.

Williams is charged with
murder in the slayings of
Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne,
21, two of 28 young blacks
whose deaths during a 22-
month period ‘have been in-
vestigated by a special police
force. There have NO .

pany
the early 1970s using fibres
like those in the photo.

Earlier Tuesday, Harry
Poston, director of technical
services for Wellman, said
the fibre has an odd shape
because his company had to
come up with a unique design
to compete with a similar
fibre being manufactured by
the Du Pont Co.

“We know of no one else
in the world that makes a
fibre like that,” Poston said.
He acknowledged during
questioning by Williams’ law-
yers, however, that his com-
pany did not have a patent on
the fibre and it might have
been produced elsewhere
without his knowledge.

survived.

Mark Kingsbury, general
manager of Canadian Moun-.
tain Holidays, said the bodies
were recovered with the aid
of electronic locators all the
skiers carried.

TOLD OF DANGER

His company makes every
effort to ensure skiers are
aware of the possible danger
the sport presents, Kings-
bury said.

“All our promotion, all our
brochures, explain it all very
carefully.”

It was partly cloudy at the
time of the accident and. new
snow had fallen in the last
week, The weather office
said the temperature was -15
Cand there were light winds.

Monday’s fatalities
brought to 10 the number of
skfers killed in helicopter-
skiing accidents with Cana-
dian Mountain Holidays since
the company began operating
17 years ago.

Eight skiers flying with

. other firms have also been

killed in avalanches. The
largest single accident oc-
curred Feb, 10, 1979, when
seven of 10 skiers dropped 23
kilometres southwest of Gol-
den were killed in. an‘aval-
anche.

Canadian Mountain Holi-
days provides ski vacations
for about 4,000 people a year,
while other firms handle
about 2,000 skiers annually.

Coroner Gary Simpson has
ordered an inquest into Mon-
day's deaths. Investigators
were on the scene Tuesday
trying to determine. what
caused the avalanche.

Nature
attacks
milfoil

KELOWNA (CP) — Na-
ture may -be producing its
own defence against the.
Eurasian water milfoil weed
which is clogging lakes in the
Okanagan Valley, says Bill

mchuk, secretary-
“treasurer..of the Okanagan
Basiin Water Board.

There are indications the
larvae of an insect called the
caddis fly may be destroying
the growing tips of. milfoil
plants, Parchomchuk told the
water board Thursday,

The larvae appears to be a
natural predator of the mil-
foil and was not artifically
introduced into the lakes, he
said.

comics has annoinced
ie

Books remain open on Olson

: KAMLOOPS (cP) —
victed ‘mass murderer Clif-
ford Robert Olson has been
sentenced to life behind bars
but police are far. from clos-
ing their. casebook. on him.
Local RCMP say their in-
vestigation into the man who

brutal; d, stabbed

Con- |

ders of the il young people
will be referred to in an effort
to determine where Olson,
was at the times 'of the high-*
way murders.

“I want to satisfy myself

beyond any doubt that he is’

not. responsible for any of the

y
and strangled 11 young peo-
ple in the Vancouver area has

been intensified to see whe- :
ther he is involved in any”

of.'the so-called “highway
murders.” Ae
Kamloops detectives say

they have been trying to.

where Olson was

of F.LR.
“Ian” Hanks as Chief Civil
Engineer, Cominco Engin-
eering, He succeeds G.T.J.
“Gwilym” Hughes, who is on
special assignment to Com-
inco Engineering Services
Ltd. as Manager, Vancouver
Operations.

Hanks who was born ‘in
India was a structural en-
gineer with Ontario firms
until 1979 when he joined
Cominco at Trail as a civil
engineer.

In 1981 he was appointed
Assistant Chief Civil Engin-
eer.

at the time of the more than
30 unsolved murders. of
young women on Alberta and
British Columbia highways
during the last decade.

"said
Eastham.

“So far I have found noth-
ing to indicate that he could
be responsibble but we are
still looking. into him! m4

. CHECKING x

,. BACKGROUND
Olson was in jail at the
time of some of.the highway
murders but Eastham said

one else,” Cook said in an

interview. “think Qlson,,-

knows him... you give. Olson
tiie ahd it will’come olt.”'*
In his dramatic court ap-
pearance ,. Thursday, Olson
reversed his plea and pleaded
guilty to the 10 killings with
which ‘he was originally
charged and then admitted to
the slaying last May of San-
dra Lynn Wolfsteiner, 16.
On Friday, Proke told a
news conference Olson might

be linked to the ‘August, .
1980, asphyxiation death of |
Mary, Ellen, (Marnie); Jami-
esdn, 17, of Gibsons, B.C., 60
Biomenes northwest of Van-
couv

Proke said there is 8
strong possibility the case is
linked to Olson “but there is
no evidence.”
. The Inspector also said Ol-
son is being investigated in
another case but declined to
name another victim.

(Police Briefs

police are: still checking his

background in several cases,

In Vancouver, police are
the

Olson is being
because he is “possibly the
type of individual we might
be looking for in connection
with some of our. murders,”
said Sgt, Mike Eastham, who
headed a November’ police
conference here on the mur-

“A "detailed history of Ol, .

son's life compiled by detec-
tives investigating the mur-

British Rail crippled
by drivers’ strike

LONDON (AP) — The
start of a second 48-hour
strike halted trains on British
Rail’s 17,000-kilometre track
network today, leaving thou-
sands of commuters strug-
gling to get to work.

Auto clubs and police re-
ported approach roads to
London’ and other major
cities busy soon after 5 a.m.
and parking lots near subur-

+ ban subway .stations filling

before dawn. On a normal
working day, state-run Brit-
ish Rail carries two million
passengers.

Traffic jams stretching five
kilometres were . reported
outside Epping, on the out-
skirts of London, and ve-
hicles were said to be moving

at a crawl in the county oft |

Kent, south of the city.

viously staggering their ar-
rival and departure times,”

said a spokesman for the ~

Royal Automobile Club.

The 25,000 striking en-
gineers are protesting Brit-
ish Rail’s refusal to give them
a three-per-cent pay increase
negotiated last summer un-
less the union agrecs to more
flexible.work schedules.

British Rail, which says it
is losing 600,000 Ibs. ($13.5
million) each day trains are
halted, says the raise was
conditional on drivers agree-
ing to work: seven-hour to
nine-hour shifts in a 89-hour
work week, instead of the
current rigid eight-! ‘hour

- shifts,

that Olson might have had an
accomplice in at least one of
the 11 murders he pleaded
guilty to last Thursday at his
B.C. Supreme Court trial,
Irene Cook, a fish and chip
shop operator in suburban
Surrey and the last person to
see nine-year-old Simon Par-
tington alive, said she saw
the boy leave her shop with a
blond man July 2, the day he
disappeared. Olson has dark

RCMP Insp. Larry Proke
confirmed Monday that po-
lice never dropped the sec-
ond man theory.

“Our investigation is con-

‘tinuing in relation to the pos-

sibility of an accomplice,”
said Proke. “We have never
closed our eyes to that.”
Meanwhile, a: 16-year-old
Vancouver girl who’said she
was abducted and “almost
raped” by a blond man early
in July later made a sketch of

her attacker. Cook said Mon-_

day the man in the girl's
sketch. looks exactly like the
man who accompanied Part-
ington, except the man in the
sketch had a mustache.
TRACED ATTACKER
The girl's mother said she
believes her daughter's at-
tacker is linked to Olson.
“That's exactly what I said
all along, that there is some-

Local RCMP are still in-
two-vehicl

yessenee Robert Ostoforoff
injuries.

a

crash that occurred — this
morning on Highway $B near
the. Castlegar Airport
which several persons were
taken to the Castlegar and
District Hospital. i

Mr. and Mrs, Peter Makeiv
of Genelle and an. uniden-
tified passenger,, and Burt
Demoskoff of Thrums and his

os car driven by Peter
Makeiv, 65, received $7,000
damage, while a pickup driv-
en by Demoskoff, 18,  sus-
tained an estimated $2,000
‘damage, |

. 8

Police esi an exception-
ally quiet weekend in which
only 10 complaints were re-
ported.

Jet's. recorders found’
in. Potomac crash

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Divers recovered from. the
Potomac River today the two
critical on-board recorders
that may provide clues to last,
week's erash of an Air Flor-’
ida jetliner which killed 78
people.

Both the flight data re-
corder and one recording
cockpit conversations were
taken to a National Trans-
portation Safety Board labor-
atory for examination.

Board spokesman Robert.
Buckhorn said it was not
immediately known whether
either recorder was dam-
aged. :

Some pre! infor-
mation might be available .
later in the day from the
voice recorder, he said. But

the flight data recorder, he
added, probably would not
yield information for several
days, because analysing that

‘ata is a more complex task. *

The recorders were pulled
from the river seven days
after the twin-engined Bo-
eing 737 crashed on takeoff
from National Airport during
a blizzard.

Investigators had hoped to
retrieve them’ when the
plane's tail section was pulled
from the river Monday, but
they were not found.

The flight data recorder
makes a record of air speed,
bearing, the plane’s angle of
flight or descent, and forces
that push a plane up or down.

The voice recorder records
pilots’ words and other cock-
pit sounds.

Everybody is talking abe u q Clifford Robert

Olson and his types
myth.

of the tears that fe!

futures soviolently.”

makes: no

young poets were lured to ee deaths with promises ‘of jobs or money... or

maybe just plain adventure. ::
A © Don't laugh. | can reniember being approached by an American couple

while standing in the Victoria bus depot nearly 40 years ago. Th

tourists asking questions about names and places in Victoria. | trust

the extent that | actually walked some three blocks in the direction of eacon

Olson.
jem, are these: eleven or more

one as

Hill Park until the nature of thelr and for
returning common sense warned me to disecive the adventure...

They actually paid my toxi-fare home because | had missed the last bus.
are common in-these times and in the past. Never-
theless, we should continue to trust. To do otherwise Would be an
to those who would believe that all strangers area threat to our lives. That Is a

In my opinion, and in the face of ail those who would seek vengeance in

this matter, it is right that he be committed to prison where he may shed more
1 in the public courtroom. Perhaps we should also feel some...

remorse that our socjety has so set the minds of some of our young pepple on

the quest for jobs and money that anyone-with those kinds of Promises ean
Jure them away to misadventure.
e (9 is a sad reflection on our materialistic society that men of money and
power somehow know full well that most people have a price ; . . in money or
material kind. We also should cry because we are guil!
degree of the terrible wounds that this lost, lonely, confused and evil human.
being perpetrated.upon the young and trusting.
t | call each of the incidents symbolic. He was killing his future and our.
future. It should be now up to the rest of Us ‘to work hard and practice well so
that future Clifford Robert Olsons should not find Wf necessary to attack ‘our

hen came the reward.money. The words commonly used on reward
posters read like this: fhe information \Iéading tothe arrest and conviction”. It
will

some of.

: for a federal g

Judge vetoes suing govt.

. LONDON, ONT. (CP) — A
London family’s ‘bid. to sue
the Liberal Party of Canada
de-

ing about one-third of those

homes -was subsidized by
grants under the Canadian

cision to approve the use of.
urea formaldehyde foam in-
sulation has’ been dismissed
because the judge sald such a
suit “would destroy our par-

linmentary system.” ”
The ‘Skye McDonald-
Michael Gussack | family,
permis-

‘\which needed court

sion to sue'‘a political party,
claimed federal cabinet min-
isters in‘ the Liberal party
approved the use of the foam

‘after scientists. in’ the Na-

perhaps to a lesser. *

like “ex-

ding

be the bottom line.

Morning fog made driving |

even more difficult in some
parts of Britain, but traffic
was reported moving much
better than during the strike
of last Wednesday and
‘Thursday, when heavy. snow
and ice were. on the roads.
“Commuters are beginning
to get accustomed to the
early start-and more and
more are car-sharing and ob-

Peter Kalmakoff, 53
service concludes

Funeral. service began
‘Tuesday and concludes today
from the Brilliant Cultural
Centre for Peter P. Kalma-

-raine) Podovelnikoff of South i
Slocan and Virginia Kalma-

koff ‘of Shoreacres;
prandeullcren, Scott and Jes-
two sis-

koff, 53, of
died accidently Friday.
Born’ Jan. 4, 1929 at

- Shoreacres, Mr. Kalmakoff

grew up in this area, mar-

who sica

ters, “Mrs, Nick (Verna) Og-
loff of Robson and Mrs, Mike
(Lilljan} Semenoff of Castle-
gar pereuis: Pete and Vera

ib and

rying Polly on
Dec. 8, 1949 at Shoreacres.
Mr.. Kalmakpff was work-
ing for Slocan Forest Prod-.
ucts asa saxpentee at the.

Spiritual Communities of
hrist. 3 1
Mr. Kalmakoff is survived
by his wife, Polly; two
daughters, Mrs. Bob (Lor-

percents Bill and Polly

Butial was at 1 p.m. today
at the Shoreacres Cemetery
with funeral arrangements
under the direction of Castle-
gar Funeral Chapel.

William Kalmakoff, 50

interred at

Funeral service began
Tuesday and concluded today
from the Brilliant. Cultural
Centre for William P. Kal-
makoff, 50, of Shoreacres
who died accidently Friday.

Born Jan. 3, 1982 at Shore-

19
Kathrine Koftinoff on Dec..8,
1956, at Shoreacres.

Mr. Kalmakoff was work-
ing as a nter and
mil}wright for Slocan Forest
Products at the time of his
death.

He was an active member
of the Union of Spiritual
Communities of Christ and
the Kootenay Choir.

Mr. Kalmakoff is survived
by his wife, Kathrine; two
sons, Joseph of Kelowna and

“Shoreacres

Shoreacres -

Bob of Shoreacres; two
daughters, Mrs. Loren (Mau-
reen) Hadikin of Pass Creek
and Liza Kalmakoff of Shor-
acres; two sisters, Mra. Nick
(Verna) Ogloff of Robson and

BRANCH 170.EXECUTIVE .

treasurer. Ab Culley, president Sam

. (Front row, left to.cight)
Brown, ‘West

Keotenay Zone chairman end ‘installing officer, Norm

Blais,

by

Don Bouvet-

‘fe.and ue muacre “branch co-ordinator Ed Zorn and
service office Gordon Laycock. In asidaeu Sgt.-at-

post Ste an
Doreen eo Mopre. (Middle pelt left to oh) vices

Mrs. Mike (Lillfan) Semenoff |

of Castlegar; his: parents,
Pete and Vera Kalmakoff of
and: grandpar-
ents, Bill and Polly Holuboff
of Castlegar.

Burial was at 1 p.m. today

at the Shoreacres Cemetery ©

with funeral arrangements
under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.
Should friends desire con-
tributions may be made to
the USCC Memorial Fund,

Funeral Chapel.

tet) AUXILIARY Y EXECUTIVE «++ (Front row, left to
Joan

West Zone

Helen pede:

ficer Mrs. Boyczuk and secratary Pearl Zorn. (Back.
left to right) executive member Ray Rafter, first vice-

—Phote submitted.

“ president Florence Laycock, executive member Joyce

Turner, Sgt.-at-arms Carol Him, second vice.;
Dorothy McPherson and past-president Kay eee

—Phote submitted,

cluding the criminal himesel and his relatives" F

ig in tact, we may have a great new method to eliminate crime altogether.
by buying the criminals off with reward money

*' guarantee that the person is caught and incarcerated for the duration.

{t could be a trade off, The criminal gives up his freedom, we give some

ding he to his family and the police might turn Into an accounting office recor-

ut disbursement of reward money. 5

RCMP and the Attorney General did the correct and legal thing by

cruing the money no strings attached. It worked didn’t it? Results have to

Closing the case was paramount. Saving the lives of possibly more vic-
tims was far more important than a few thousand dollars. | feel sorry for the
ictlms, Olson and us — who share the crime. :

for their families while we

y,

Inflation climbing |

OTTAWA (CP) — Higher

-energy prices led the way as

the rate of inflation reached a
83-year high of 12.5 per cent
in 1981, earl ees Canada re-
ported Tuesda:

The ‘ama “average in-
crease in the consumer price
index was 2.4 percentage
points above the 10.1. per
cent average inflation” re-
corded in 1980, but below the
142 per cent in 1948,. the
highest since the Second
World War. The all-time

“MacLeods

ay

anual
‘CIEARA

nce

record is 182 per cent in
1917.

New Democratic Party in-
dustry critic Ian Deans said it
was obvious that Finance
Minister. Allan MacEachen,
despite his high interest rate
policy, has not met his goal of.
reducing inflation.”

Deans said the country can
expect. social” unrest’ unléss
inflation and unemployment
— the latter running at a
post-Second World War Fee

ord of 86 per. cent —

Prices Effective

Jan. 21 to Jan. 23

“OR WHILE STOCK LASTS”

Ise. ft. Deluxe.
Almond. Reg. $879.74,

Hot Point 30” Range

360, ft., White,
$664.54, $100 OF -

bot Poiat Dishwasher

3 SPush Button, 7 Cycle,
: White, Reg. $574. 56, $100 Off

Heavy Duty, Programs.
CF Rag. $599.56, $90 Off

e ts Duty, 3 Program,

124.50, $75 Ott .

ALL CLEARANCE PRICED MAJOR APPLIANCES
CASH ONLY, NO DELIVERIES

wont #15

Assorted Kirsch
Bathroom Fixtures

af 10.

® vere pair, R

S508
$349°°

Elec. Fry Pan
Buttes Stile.

$1997
at

Asst'd. Foil

‘Authorized Dealer Castan Holdings Utd.

Cy 365-3412

337 Columbia Avé., Castlegar

“were‘tup 0.4 ‘per cent com-
with th

dealt with.

In his Nov. 12 budget Mac-
Eachen predicted inflation
would average 12.7 per cent
in 1981, then drop in sub-
sequent years.

The effect of higher energy
prices was obvious in. the
Statisties Canada figures,
which showed year-to-year
‘Increases ‘of-40°per cent“for

home heating oil and other _

liquid fuels, and of 39.7 per
cent for gasoline prices.

Food prices rose at an an-
nual average rate of 11.4 per
cent’ during 1981, while
prices of consumer goods ex-
eluding food rose 12.8 per
cent.

It was the second year in a
row that inflation, as mea-
sured bythe. consumer: price
index, increased ; by . more
than 10 per cejit..In 1979 the
annual increase was 9.1 per

cent.

. MONTHLY VARIATIONS
Monthly year-over-year

‘changes in 1981 ranged from
| a low of. 12 per cent in

January to. a 80-year high of
18 per cent in July compared
with the same month the
previous year.,

‘In December, lower food
prices kept the year-over-
year monthly increase to 12.1
per cent, down from the 12.2

per cent. recorded in Novem-

th ba-

stional, h Council rec-
ommended against its use.
The ‘federal .government
«banned the foam insulation in
December, 1980, after many
homeowners’ complained of

sore throsts;headaches and ”

other. health problems be-
lleved to be brought on by
excessive formaldehyde lev-
els.

“If I were to accept your
proposition... that would
effectively stifle any cabinet.
from’ voting on anything
other than motherhood and
‘lowering taxes,” said Judge
J.F. McCart, acting as a local
“judge. of. Ontario Supreme
Court, in a judgment Tues-

day.
MANYNAMED

The Liberal party was only
one of several groups being
sued by the family over
health and financial problems
blamed on the foam. Manu-
facturers, distributors, in-
stallers and the deputy at-
‘torney general of Canada also
have been named: in ‘the’ ‘ace
tion. fe *
About. 80,000 homes vin

banned. 'The cost of insulat-

Transit.
strikers face

Mast chance’

MONTREAL (CP)
Striking Montreal transit

. Workers are being given “one -
Inst chance” to obey a back- «
to-work law or face harsher

measures, Premier Rene
Levesque said Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters
Tuesday night, Levesque
gave the 6,730 workers until
this evening — he did not say
exactly when — to return to
work or the national assem-
bly would be-recalled at 5
p.m. PST to deal with the
situation.

“If we have to go any
further (in the dispute) then
we will go quite a bit fur-

ther,” he said. There -has-

been speculation the govern-

ment might  decertify the |
unions and imprison union -

leaders.
The "transit strike, the

eighth in as many years, is in

its sixth day.
Meanwhile, Montreal's
800,000 commuters struggled

through their worst day yet |

on Tuesday,; with monume!
tal- traffic jams and temper:
atures in the -18 range.°: = >
Absenteeism at schools is
piriane 20 per cent and
those

mber, 1981,

enn Montreal Chamber of

eo
smallest monthly increase in
more than two yeard.

mer-
chants were losing $2 inition

a day because of the strike.

IS COLLEGE OR
UNIVERSITY IN
YOUR FUTURE?

if the answer is yes, of if you're not sure, plan to
meet with representatives from Selkirk College,

Davi
“of B.C., U

Thurs., Jan, 21

7 p.m. -9 p.m.

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SELKIRK COLLEGE
845 Victoria Street
x Trail

entre,
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University and the B.C. institute of Technology at
one of the following Information sessions:

Friday, Jan. 22
9a.m. - noon
Main Lounge

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from Castlegar, 352-3010 from Nelson and 368-

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Home I I Program.

McDonald and’ Gussack,
who have two children and
are expecting a third this
year, were seeking punitive
damages of $150,000, living
expenses of $20,000, addi-
tional legal fees and the cost
of removing the foam from
their home.

Philip Mitches, the family’s
lawyer, had argued before
McCart that no Individual in
Canada can become a cabinet.
minister without first being a
member of the government
party.

But McCart said if cabinet
ministers were acting for the
party rather than the people
of Canada, they would likely
be in breach of their oaths of
office,

CN concerned with.
moose killed :on rails

PRINCE GEORGE (CP) —
A young moose calf hunched
beside a logging road, ex-
hausted and near death. It
was barely 100 metres from
.where the frozen carcasses of
its mother and twin lay along

_ the railway tracks.

Quivering and shaking, its
eyes bugging from fear as
logging trucks neared, the
calf was just too tired to
move — a casualty in the
conflict between man and na-
ture.

It was just one of sev-
eral moose and caribou run
down daily by Canadian Na-
tional Railway trains as snow.
levels force the animals onto
the tracks.

In the wake of recent con-
troversy over the number of
animals killed along CN’s line
east of Prince George “in
central B.C., railways offi-
‘cials and Prince George Min-
istry of Environment repre-
“sentatives met Monday. |

Wildlife biologist Ken
Child he said saw 23 moose
carcasses and four animals
on the tracks when he flew
over the ares Monday.

MAKE OTHER ROUTES

Child said the ministry and
CN are looking at construc-
tion run-away lanes and al-

ternate routes to act as
travel corridors for wildlife in
areas with animal popula-
tions that are large.

“We're now looking at
solution to minimize losses —
we realize we'll never elim-
inate losses because, as CN
pointed out, we haven't seen
anything yet as the northeast
coal (a: massive new coal
development not yet in oper-
ation) trains haven't begun,”
said Child.

Child said CN has a genu-
ine concern for wildlife on the
rail line but its main priority
is keeping the rail line open.

“Essentially what is hap-
pening is that the railway is
replacing what the river once
gave wildlife in the area — a
travel corridor — because the
tracks are cleared, they make

CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 20, 1982

A7

Cafeteria explosion

kills five

SPENCER, OKLA. (AP)
— An explosion that killed
five children and a teacher in
an elementary. school cafe-
teria was caused by a water
heater that malfunctioned
and built up a mighty head of
steam a few hours after being
repaired, officials said. .

A cook in the elementary
school kitchen turned on a
tap around lunchtime Tues-
day, but the faucet only
coughed steam, said Phil
Cooksey, a spokesman for the
Oklahoma City fire depart-
ment.

The cook went to report
the’ problem, he said, and

students

minutes later an explosion
ripped through the kitchen
wall, blowing off part of the
roof and raining glass, metal
and concrete blocks on chil-
dren in the cafeteria.
Thirty-five other students
and adults at the Star Elem-
entary School were hurt, but
Oklahoma City schools super-
intendent Tom Payzant said
many children playing in the
schoolyard were saved by the
unusual 18-degree weather.
In severe cold, he said, chil-
dren often‘ huddled against
the wall of the one-storey
brick building in the north-
eastern Oklahoma. City.

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Len Chambers, who has
lived in the area since 1969,
said the problem is nothing
new.

“Moose get killed every
year there is heavy snow.”

Asked why the issue had
not been addressed in pre-

vious years, Child said: “It’s
“indicative of a lack’ of com-

munication between resource
managers and industry — but

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PUBLIC

RICHARD McALARY
Guest Speaker

Fireside Place

Banquet Room

Monday,

Jan. 25

7:30 p.m.

Aim: Stimulate action toward generating employment and
: strengthen arid encourage
stability within the local ecomony.

creating

income. As well,

Panel: Audrey Moore, Mayor of Castlegar; Larry Brown, Head of
Social Science Dept., Selkirk College; Stefan Laver,
Regional District; Gary Maloney, Automobile Dealership;
Sean Rooney, Business Consultant/Writer.

Do You Have Any Suggestions
On Local Resourcefullness?