Castlegar News November 4, 1967

Risk was not evident inquest told

KAMLOOPS (CP) —

A heli-ski guide who was swépt to

A California woman and two West German men are

The ten-member heli-skiing group was on an expedition

his death in an avalanche along with six American skiers had
no reason to believe the slope had high-risk conditions,
several experts told a ner’s inquest Tuesday.

The man, two-women jury heard that guide Fred
Pfisterer, 24, was stopped on an open slope in the Cariboo
Mountains range, possibly preparing to test the snowpack
when the avalanche struck.

‘The question witnesses kept voicing, however, was why
Pfisterer’s skiers were on the slope if the guide was still
testing the snow.

Another guide and skier in a second group saw Pfisterer
out on the exposed slope when their helicopter flew over the
site. Both men also saw the six victims part way on the
slope, though they disagreed about the distance the skiers
were from the guide and from the protection of a wind ridge

alive today because they were lagging behind the group.
Because they were on the perimeter of the ridge, they
experienced only the edge of the avalanche's force.

“I heard a terrible noise,” said survivor Anna Lutz. “I
looked up. I thought the helicopter had exploded, then I felt
myself moving.”

The 20-year-old San Diego, Calif, resident lost her
father and his fiance in the March 23 accident.

Killed in the avalanche on a run called Mike's Warmup
were Michael Lutz, 46, his fiance Julianne Lawlor, 30, both
of San Diego, Calif., John Hill, 27, of Chicago, Philip Mar-
childon, 31, and Lawrence Luddon Jr., 88, both of Scottsdale,
Ariz., Martin Zajic, 28, of Phoenix and Pfisterer, of Blue
River, B.C.

The other survivors were Kay Mansmann, 47, and his

with Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing of Blue River, a small
community located about 180 kilometres northeast of Kam-
loops in B.C.’s mountainous Southern Interior.

FROST REVEALED

Investigation after the tragedy revealed a thin layer of
hoar frost about 70 centimetres under the surface w
acted like ball bearings, allowing the top layers of snow to
shift and cascade down the hill,

Juri Krisjansons, a lead guide for the ski company, said
the snow conditions were discussed at the guides’ regular
morning meeting. All agreed with Pfisterer’s assessment
that aed overall avalanche hazard was low.

said were
the ay and relayed to other guides by radio. Referring to
runs that faced north, as did Mike's Warmup, Krisjansons

on the side.

Trade poll
favors
U.S.

TORONTO (CP) — Sixty-
two per cent of Canadians
believe the free-trade agree-
ment is a better deal for the
United States than for Can-
ada, a government poll sug-

gests.

‘The poll, conducted by De-
cima Research Ltd. and ob-
tained Tuesday by the Tor-
onto Star, says just seven per
cent of respondents who
were aware of the Oct. 3 deal
believe Canada came out on

top.

Another 28 per cent said
the deal was “fair and bal-
anced” or a good deal for both
sides.

Forty-eight per cent said
they still support the general
concept of free trade while 42
per cent oppose it, each fig-
ure down two points from
polls taken in June and Aug-

ust.

About 2,000 Canadians
were questioned for the
latest poll, which was con-
ducted Oct. 7-17.

Sixty-three per cent of re-
spondents agreed the free-
trade deal will cause the
economy to “become so
closely tied to the United
States economy that we will
lose our ability to make our
own decisions.”

However, 71 per cent said
it will result in lower con-
sumer prices and 72 per cent
said domestic social pro-
grams would not be affected.

Just 44 per cent were
aware an agreement had
been reached.

Statistically, the margin of
error on a survey this size is
within two per cent, 19 times
out of 20.

GUTTED HOUSE .

son Philipp, 23, of Gaauting, West Germany.

said there were no other avalanches that day.

. . Fire Chief Bob Mann photographs house

destroyed by fire Halloween night. Flames were shooting out win-

dow and threatening neighboring home when firefighters arrived.

Phote by Ron Normon

New school location eyed

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

A new location is being
sought for the Open Roads
School.

Brian Wood, head teacher
at Open Roads, presented a
number of proposed locations
in a brief to the Castlegar
school board’s education
meeting Monday.

The Open Roads School
usually has 10 students with
alternate needs in Grades 7
to 10.

Wood, who has taught at

Open Roads for three years,
would like to see the program
include Grades 11 and 12, but
there is no room for expan-
sion at its current location in
the Scout Hall.

The Scout Hall also has no
place for storage.

“There is no place in the
hall for privacy, especially for
counselling,” Wood said.

His brief outlined facilities
in the district that could be
used as a new location. It
detailed costs and the suit-
ability of the facilities.

The Ootischenia school is
the first choice for a new
location. It has a gym,
cooking, and craft facilities.
It’s close to schools and
stores, and would cost less
for transportation than other
schools.

The second choice is the
Brilliant school. It was
chosen for its home-like at-
mosphere and location.

But the school doesn't have
a gym, cooking or craft
facilities.

The brief states that it has

HOSPITAL EXPANSION

Oglow calls for tender

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar and District Hospital's
$4.3 million long term care expansion
should go to tender within a year, says
Nick Oglow, chairman of the hospital's
finance committee.

“It's rolling, this is the thing,”
Oglow said in an interview.

He said a three-member com.
mittee has been established to oversee
the 60-bed expansion. The commission
will be made up of Bill Horvath, repre
senting the hospital board, a provincial
government representative and a
representative from the Central Koot
enay Regional Hospital District.

Oglow said the logical regional
district appointment would be Area I

PRIVATIZATION

continued from front pege
lost revenue would have to be
picked up by residential taxpayers.

“They, (the Socred government)
want you to believe that the famous
mythical thing called the marketplace
is going to pay,” he said.

Embree added that through pri

the high
would cost more and social services
would be cut.

“I see a fire sale to cronies, less
service, at more cost. It can't help but
raise costs. It doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to figure out that it takes “X”
amount of dollars to provide “X”
amount of industry. There’s only one
place the money can come from and
that's taxes.”

Embree said it is possible for
industry to absorb the brunt of the
costs and taxpayers only a small
portion.

director John Voykin, who has back
ground in the construction.

The committee will select an arch
itect, approve the final drawings and
call for contract bids. Oglow said this
should take about a year.

The committee will then supervise
construction through to completion.

He called the committee a “brand
new process.”

“Im very delighted that the
project will now proceed,” Oglow said,
noting that it will create 60 permanent

He also told a recent Castlegar
council meeting the construction will
provide much needed employment for
local tradespeople.

Ald. Len Embree said he is
pleased to see a local committee in
charge of the project and that local
people will be hired.

However, he also said he hopes
Oglow's promise of local employment
won't come back to haunt him.

Embree pointed to the Castlegar
Airport expansion which went to an
out of town cgptractor. He also noted
that work je West Trail approach
is being pete, non-union firm from
Edmonton.

“Tm really ‘Pleased to hear those
comments Ald. Oglow, and I hope they
come true.”

Embree said residents will be
monitoring the project.

“If we have the political will to do
that, then the formula is there.”

Swankey, a labor historian, said he
foresees “political patronage (where)
big corporations are going to get big
Crown corporations at fire sale prices.”
He cited the sale of the Bank of B.C. to
the Hong Kong bank and Manning
Park to “Socred supporters” as ex-
amples.

“The first thing they do is try to
get rid of the unions and union wages,”
he said.

“We lose our labor union rates
and we lose the right to have them
fighting for us,” Swankey said.

In what Swankey called “cost-plus
profit,” he explained that government
services such as highways maintenance
are now done at “cost by the govern-
ment.” Once private companies take
the contract, they will have to incur the

cost plus a profit.

Swankey called privatization a
“seam,” saying the CNR, the post
office, Petro Canada, CBC, and Air
Canada are “if not already up for sale,
will be.”

“We will no longer have free
enterprise. There will be a small
economic elite running the economy.”

The two-hour meeting closed with
almost an hour of audience views and
questions to the panel. The panel
stressed the need for community coal-
itions to develop awareness and
opposition to privatization.

“We have a pretty good structure
in Castlegar — strong trade unionship,

i

show support at the next municipal
election, something good will have
happened

limited spaced for expansion
and might require upgrading.
The Christian Academy, now
leasing the school, also re-
quires a year and half notice
to cancel the lease.

Wood recommended find-
ing a new location by the
1988/89 school year. Blue-
berry and Pass Creek schools
were ruled out because of

their poor locations.

The brief also recommend-
ed the $1,100 Open Roads
now gets for the janitorial
contract at the Scout Hall be
made available from the dis-
trict to support the recrea-
tional program.

It also recommended a
duplicating machine be pro-
vided in its new location.

Strike threat set
at Air Canada

MONTREAL (CP) — Air
Canada’s 8,500 groundwork-
ers threatened Tuesday to
start rotating strikes, pos-
sibly by the weekend.

After the collapse of con-
tract talks with the airline
Tuesday, negotiators for the
International Association of
Machinists promised to give
24 hours’ notice of a walkout
but only two hours’ notice of
which airport or maintenance

“base will be hit.

“I am certainly not ruling
out that one station or the
other may be closed by the
weekend,” said chief union
negotiator Ron Fontaine.

The AIM favors rotating
strikes because they'll put
considerable pressure on Air
Canada while causing the
least inconvenience to the
public, said Fontaine.

Air Canada warned vat

Wardair could add flights
on major transcontinental
routes or in the Montreal-
Toronto-Ottawa triangle,
said Kim Ward, vice-presi-
dent of marketing and sales
at Wardair.

Effective at midnight
Tuesday night, when they
moved into a legal strike
position, the Air Canada
groundworkers were told by
the union to refuse to per-
form management functions.
About 200 of them have been
temporarily assigned to
management jobs.

There are only two issues
in dispute: wage and pension
indexatin. That's because the
union is trying to sweeten a
deal rejected by the mem-
bership last month.

any worker p: ina
rotating strike will be locked
out until the dispute is
settled — so the situation

quiet month for air travel,
but not this year. The airlines
say many flights are full or
close to it, which may make it
tough for passengers holding
Air Canada reservations to
make alternative arrange-
ments or travel at the time
of day they want.

tendants, aircraft cleaners,
cargo agents and baggage
handlers at domestic air-
ports, subsequently asked for
improvements on the two
issues.

E a

“There was no evidence on any north side slopes of
he said.

Mike's Warmup had not been skiied for at least two
weeks because of a Feeviows | Nigh hazard oon But
K said bilizi: id terrain
steeper than Mike's Warnns was being okied.

“It was a collective decision,” Krisjansons said, “to ski
that run next after lunch.”

Chris Stethem, a private snow safety consultant, in-
vestigated the avalanche and the company’s snow analysis
record the day after the avalanche.

His general conclusion was that snow conditions were
strengthening at that time of year, in that area.

“Signs of stability over several days and analysis led
(the guides) to believe they could ski steeper runs in the
alpine and to take a more aggressive approach to skiing,”
said Stethem.

LEVESQUE
FAREWELL
CONTINUES

MONTREAL (CP) -

flags, d to flock today to the art

deco hall to say-a final farewell to the man who they feel did
so much for them.

Over 30,000 people filed past former premier Rene
Levesque's coffin Tuesday, spending a few quite moments
beside the bronze casket before shuffling along, police said.

“They were still coming after midnight and they've
been lining up since 7:30 this morning,” said Const. Andre
Gamelin. “It’s really something.”

Hours before the public was allowed into the stately
Cormier building to pay their respects to Levesque, lines of
mourners waiting to get in snaked around the Old Montreal
edifice for more than two blocks.

The rumpled, folksy Levesque, 65, Parti Quebecois
premier from 1976 to 1985, died Sunday night of a massive
heart attack at his home in suburban Montreal.

His body was to lie in state here until 4 p.m. before
being flown to Quebec City in the evening. The public will be
invited to pay their respects to Levesque at the Quebec
legislature until shortly before his state funeral Thursday.

People began lining up at 6 a.m. Tuesday outside the
conservatory building in old Montreal, although the first
mourners weren't allowed in until noon. At 10 p.m., the
scheduled closing time, protocol officials extended the
viewing hours because the line of waiting people still snaked
for several blocks through the unseasonably warm, misty
night.

Officials estimated that from 2,000 to 2,500 people an
hour filed past the open coffin draped with a Quebec flag.

Levesque's widow, Corinne Cote-Levesque, looking
drawn and dressing in black, entered the building through a
side door after the coffin arrived, then left again before the
fet members of the public were ushered into the ornate

instability,”

Thousands of Quebecers, some

oe nes of Levesque's children, Suzanne and Pierre, were
also on hand before the doors opened. His other son, Claude,
was said to be out of town on business.

Levesque’s younger brother, Fernand, 62 — staunch
federalist who once ran for the Creditistes against Levesque
in the 1973 provincial election — was also there.

But it was mainly a day for ordinary Quebecers.

INSTILLED PRIDE

Levesque never achieved his dream of independence,
but he instilled in Quebecers a pride and self-assurance
they'd never felt before, and they turned out Tuesday to say
a quiet, heartful thank you.

“He was one of the best premiers we ever had,” said
Roger Quevillion, 59. “He made us understand not only that
we were different, but that we should be proud of being
different.”

Others were bidding adieu to an old friend they had
never met. Levesque liked to think of himself as a man of the
people, and he projected his down-to-earth persona so well
that he was, for countless Quebecers, a kindred soul. Several
people in the lineup said they felt as if they'd lost their
father.

“I am a lot like him,” said Rosario Coursol, 55, a retired
maintenance worker who was sporting a Montreal Expo
baseball cap and a Los Angeles Dodgers jacket. “We share a
dislike for hospitals, doctors, everything that has to do with
ill health.

“(His death) is really painful.”

An autopsy has revealed that Levesque, who
chain-smoked throughout his adult life, previously suffered
several mild heart attacks that may have gone unnoticed or
unreported by Levesque, who disliked consulting doctors.

Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who now works
for a Montreal law firm, arrived at 9:30 p.m. to stand for a
moment next to the coffin of his longtime political foe.

Jean Marchand, onetime cabinet minister under
‘Trudeau and another old rival, also put in an appearance.
Pierre Marc Johnson, Levesque’s successor as PQ leader,
went straight to the conservatory building after flying in
from Paris, where he'd been when he learned of Levesque's
death.

Former co-op
members appeal

November 4, 1987

NEW CITIZEN . . . Mayor Audrey Moore Tuesda:
welcomed Castlegar's “newest citizen”, the
Mesome Wares doll. Pictured from left Lee Page of

es

News

TREET TALK

CASTLEGAR RCMP have issued new guidelines for
applying for liquor licenses. Effective immediately,
“BYOB" functions will not be authorized.

“BYOB functions tend to result in excessive drinking
and no control or responsibility for supervision,” Staff
Sgt. Jack Keddy said in a prepared release.

Those applying for private special occasion liquor
licenses will be held personally responsible for:

. $ minors drinking on premises;

conduct;

. Scolling or supplying liquer to an intoxicated person
or a person apparently under the influence of liquor;

Advertising or promotion of the event must not
indieate the liquor will be sold or supplied. No tickets will
be sold at the doors.

Starting Jan. 1, private special occasion liquor
licenses must be approved by police two weeks before the
function. Police functions will require police approval four
weeks in advance.

Applications are available at the local liquor store,
not the RCMP office. The application must be filled out at
the liquor store and then taken to the RCMP for certifi-
cation. The application must then be returned to the
liquor store for a permit.

FORMER KOOTENAY Broadcasting System re-
porter Adrienne Skinner was in the news herself re
cently. Skinner, who worked briefly out of Nelson for
KBS, was called to testify in a court case in connection
with the July riot in Kelowna.

Skinner currently works as a reporter for the

Mesome Wares; Mayor Audrey Moore, Castlegar
Chamber of Commerce preside:
Al Wozney of Mesome Wares.

Kelowna television station CHBC. Raw television tape of

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some of the sights and sounds of the riot were pi
during the preliminary hearing of two Okanagan
residents charged with theft and participating in a riot.

The television videotape showed a man and a woman
in front of the Fur Town store while other people milled
about. A woman is seen reaching into the store, then
running around the corner with a white object in her
hand.

Skinner testified she couldn't recognize anyone in
the footage.

“I believe we heard glass breaking and we just
started shooting in that direction,” she said, adding the
riot was mainly focused on a main street about a block
away from the fur store.

ELPHINSTONE DISTRICT of the Girl Guides of
Canada is planning a celebration of 60 years of Guiding in
the area of Port Mellon, Gibsons and Roberts Creek, B.C.
A dinner and fun evening will be held on.April 9, 1988 and
a day for children on April 10 at Camp Olave from 10 a.m.
-4 p.m.

If you have been in Guiding as a girl or an adult in
this year, you are invited to participate. Registration
forms and further information are available by writing to
M. Dickson, Box 1016, Gibsons, B.C. VON 1VO.
Registration deadline is Feb. 15.

THERE'S A little confusion about who's who in this
year's municipal elections. No, Bob Lutz is not Alex Lutz,
the fellow named citizen of the year. Bob Lutz is a totally
different Lutz,though many have asked if he’s Alex's
brother.

Lutz is running for the one-year aldermanic seat on
Castlegar council. He is challenged by former alderman
Bob MacBain.

Pe Dores fine footwear in Nelson's Chahko Mika Mall
is under new ownership. Ed and Sandi Barton have taken
over the store.

By The Canadian Press
A group of former in-
vestors in the defunct Tea-

In a letter Oct. 27, Cou-
velier refused to grant the
group the right to bring the

commissioner wrote that its
revised demands, including a
wage increase of 7.2 per cent
for one year, “in their totality
are unreasonable.

The average hourly wage
for the entire groundwork-
ers’ group is $15.03. A top-
rated mechanic gets an aver-
age of $17.20 an hour, a bag-
gage handler $13.55 and an
aircraft cleaner $11.90.

The groundworkers last
went on strike against Air
Canada in 1978 in a dispute
that started with rotating
strikes. The airline was
eventually shut down for two
weeks.

on 's and Hous-
tive is seeking
fatical review of a decision
by Finance Minister Mel
Couvelier not to let them sue
a former government official.
An action representing
8,370 investors in the co-op,
now in receivership, was filed
Monday in B.C. Supreme
Court. The petition asks the
court to either order the
minister to grant leave to
commence an action against
James Henry Thomas, form-
er superintendent of credit
unions and co-operatives, or
declare Set the leave re-

action, which
claims losses to investors of
about $69 million.

The Credit Union Act
states that no action can be
brought against the super-
intendent without the finance
minister's permission.

Weather

Unsettled conditions
with cloudy and sunny
periods. Highs of 12°-14°,
over night lows 3°-6°. The
weekend outlook is for a
conti: of the un-

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