Castlegar News

March 19, 1989

New vehicle
sales decline

TORONTO (CP) -g-Sales of new
cars and trucks in Canaa declined for
the fifth straight month in February,
but an auto analyst says it’s too soon to
predict disaster in 1989.

The Big Three North American
akers ahd 1S importers released
figures Friday showing February sales
down three per cent froma year earlier.

General Motors sales were off 5.3
Ford’s by 9.5 per cent,
Chrysler's by 1.3 per cent. Imported
car and truck sales, however, rose 6.2
percent from February 1988

Analyst Dennis DesRosiers at
tributed the decline for the Big Three
to a natural downturn in auto sales,
caused by such factors as consumer
bank accounts depleted after seven
years of heavy spending

carn

per cent,

Interest rates rose in mid-February,
but DesRosiers said this had little ef-
fect on February car sales. If rates go
much higher, thugh, the toll on car
sales could become worse.

Nothing kills an auto market faster
than high interest rates,"" DesRosiers
setd

Low car sales are a danger signal,
DesRosiers noted, because “so much

of the economy is keyed to the auto in
dustry,”
‘FRUCKS PULL SALES

February sales figures were buoyed
by @ strong truck market, particulary
al Chryslér, where the 1987 purchase
vot American” Motors Jeep
division has paid dividends

Chrysler truck sales rose 6.1 per cent
to 7,966 while car sales slumped 6.7 per
cent to 9,647,

Ford sold 10,429 trucks in February,
3.9 per cent more than last year, but
also recorded a 19-per-cent dive in car
sales to 11,532. bord
sales had'been artificially high because
of a backlog of Tempo and Topaz or
ders following a three-month plant
shutdown

At GM, truck sales dipped 1.3 per
cent to 11,118 while car sales were off
7.1 per cent to 22,937

Import-car sales rose 3.3 per cent,
mainly on big gains by Honda and
Toyota, while imported truck sales
were up 23.9 per cent to 3,968

With interest rates on the increase
and- sales~ declining, incentives” were
heavily used in February, DesRosiers
said

and’ its

said earlier

Transplants offer
dramatic savings

VANCOUVER (CP)
splants offer

Organ tran.
often dramatic cost
savings when compared-to intensive
long-term medical treatment, the
director of the B.C. Transplant Society
said

Dr. Paul Keown was responding to
provincial Liberal Leader Gordon
Wilson’s comments that the province
should feconsider funding expensive
procedures such as organ transplants

Keown said many transplants ac
tually save money in the long run.

For example, dialysis treatments for
a patient with kidney failure cost about
$40,000 a year, he said. The cost of a
kidney transplant is about $35,000,
plus $6,000 to $8,000 a year in drug
and follow-up costs, said|Keown,

It is also more economical to per
form other types of transplants on
patients who require regular hopital
treatment, he said.

“I think you have to look at (the cost
of transplantation) in the context of
health care asa whole,"” Keown said

Less than a quarter of one per cent

- bers of society agai

of B.C
spent on iransplants, he said
Keown also said that for
patients, transplants “tare the
treatment available

S annual health care budget is

most
only
People waiting
for heart and heart-lung transplants
will die if théy.can’t get the operation,
he said

Transplants also allow seriously ill
to become functioning mem:
the said

people **

“There are many procedures that
are expénsive that benefit
few people,”’ said Keown
think it’s reasonable to single out tran
splantation.”

To date

relatively
“1 don't

two heart transplants have
been performed in B.C., both at Van.
General Hospital Both
receipients now are out of hospital
Keown said the society hopes to be
ready to pérform its first lung
heart-lung transplants within the next
month if available. At
$125,000, heart-lung transplants are the

couver

donors are

most expensive transplant procedure,
he said

AIDS case through
oral sex reported

BOSTON (AP) — The first case of
transmission of the AIDS virus from
a woman to a man through oral sex

n reported in an article in the

ngland Journal of Medicine.
case of the 60-year-old New
England man was reported by two
from the Lahey Clinic
Medical Centre in Burlington, Mass.
I hope the message gets through,
especially to younger people in high
school and college, who eling to the
belief that they're all right if they
don't have intercourse,” said Dr.
Peter Spitzer, one of the students.

The man who contracted the virus
has been married for 30 years but
was impotent. He told his doctors he
had not had sex with his wife for

physicians

years

The doctors said the man's only
sexual contact in recent years was
with a prostitute with whom he
engaged only in oral sex

DOCTOR COMMENTS

He—said_the-woman—used_intra-
venous drugs in his presence. This
suggests the possibility she con

tracted the virus from sharing hypo-
dermic needles rather than from
sexual activity, the report said.

The two doctors from the Lahey
Clinic did not seek out the prostitute
because of state laws on the
fidentiality of AIDS patients, Spitzer
said

Spitzer said it is most likely the
virus was transmitted to the man
through her vaginal secretions. Re-
searchers at Massachusetts General
Hospital have found the AIDS virus
in vaginal fluids

But stuflies have shown saliva can
contain small amounts of the virus,
and it could have been transmitted
through the prostitute’s saliva.

Spitzer ‘and co-author, Dr. Neil
Weiner, wrote “public-health educa
tion about safer sexual practices
must not only advocate the use of
barrier contraceptives such as con
doms during vaginal and rectal
intercourse, but also caution against
the exchange of bodily fluids during
other sexual practices, such as oral
sex.

con.

Boards cruel

HALIFAX (CP) — A device that
and rats on boards of sticky
glue has raised the dandes of the Nova
Scotia Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty

traps mice

It’s bloddy disgusting; it’s sick,’”

Don Marsden, provincial in-
vestigator for the society

The mice suffer a slow and often
painful death, he said

The society is investigating several
extermination companies for alleged
cruelty for using the boards.

said

Society investigator Jessica Hunt
said the stuck mice die of starvation,
dehydration or exhaustion.

‘Some-of them might struggle for
hoursand hemorrhage,” she said.

One elderly, woman brought
ingle board with three dead mice on it
One mouse had struggled for 24 hours
before succumbing, and she was so up-

na

set with their slow deaths that she
brought the board in to Marsden

He said one mouse struggled so hard
that it broke the blood vessels in its
nose.

“A mousetrap is fine and dandy,”
he said. ‘‘But with glue boards, the
users are just too damn lazy to set the
trap."*

He said he is considering taking
several pest-control companies to
court

“They need one pile of heat and
we're going to give it tothem”’

At least one exterminaion company
said ‘there is nothing wrong with the
boards

“Humanity doesn’t even enter the
picture when you're talking rats and
said Ken Calbury of Atlantic
Pest Control

¥' They're pests,
oF Fats.”

not pets, like dogs

always

By DENNIS BUECKERT

OTTAWA (CP) — From his office in a picturesque
building near the Ottawa River, David Kendall keeps an
eye on the northern lights — even in broad daylight.

A computer terminal beside his desk provides con
stant color photographs of the aurora borealis, tran
smitted by satellite from instruments in northern
Manitoba.

“The aurora is always there,”’ says Kendall, who
co-ordinates space research for the National Research
Council

There is never a day when there’s no aurora. You
just can’t see them during the day Because it’s too
bright.””

Kendall, who has several degrees. in atmospheric
research, talks about the aurora with the passion some
people reserve for hockey or politics

Kendall
kilometres above

says the northern lights occur 100
Earth in an oval centred on the
magnetic North Pole over Bathurst Island, N.W.T. — a
considerable distance from the geographic North Pole.

The main color is green with some red — both for
med when atomic oxygen, a major component of the
atmosphere, is hit by particles from the sun

Only-part of the aurora canbe seen-by-the human
eye, he says.

There are some spectacular things going on in the
ultraviolet spectrum.”

Some think the aurora occurs only in the North
Not-so; The northerit and southern lights — called
aurora australis — are mirror images of each other

The most spectacular displays of northern lights
occur after there is a storm on the sun.

Kendall compares the sun to a bubbling cauldron
From time to tinte there is a great burst of energy with
flames many times the size of the Earth. When that hap.
pens, huge quantities of particles are spewed into space

Aurora borealis

present

“The aurora is a sort of breathing mechanism,”
Kendall says

“When there's a solar stérm, the aurora expands
and goes farther south.’

Solar storms also affect radio reception, create
eleciricalcurrents in oil pipelines, produce power surges
in electricity transmission lines and alter Earth’s
magnetic field

Some scientists say solar storms affect the weather
but that has not been proved

The best place in Canada to see the northern lights
is Hot the North Pole

At the Pole itself you see very little activity,”
Kendall. “As you come south you pass a region of
maximum activity, at about 60 degrees latitude. It
passes right through Churchill, Man.”*

says

But the aurora can be seen even in southern cities

like Ottawa and Toronto, though it takes patience.
ONCE MONTHLY

“If you went to some reasonably dark site in Ot-
tawa where there weren't too many street lights around
and the says Kendall,
“*you'd see the lights on the average of once a month.””

On most nights there wouldn't be enough solar ac-
tivity to make the aurora visibte

skies were reasonably clear,”

that the
Idest w
Nor is it true that the lights are accompanied by
crackling-or as reported by some
people
But there

It’s a myth most spectacular northern
lights occur on the e« inter nights

whooshing sounds,

no doubt that a spectacular display of

northern lights m trong pyschological im-
pression

“If you're there and it’s happening to you, it’s
says Kendall, ‘Everything
so immediate. You can almost touch

Jerful phenomenon

something you remember

seems so clear

them. It's a wor

Pigs will stay clean

TORONTO (CP) — Pigs have an

undeserved reputation for being

dnd deteca
Even se
well — pigs
In fact, compared to their barnyard

colleagues, swine are’ fastidious — tion
housekeepers

The average pen of pigs, given the
chance

will keep themselves clean,’
Doug Morrison of the University going to the far
of Guelph said’ ir Morrison,
Guelph, Ont

“Lhey steep in one-area of the pen

an_interyiew trom

einanother d
they occasionally

Place up for no apparent ree

‘problem that caught Mo’ aged theporkers to keep clean
, “ “ti dirty reputation
The reason seem el Le b in? sweat. If it's hot,
busy talking to their ne ghbo "

serve the usual bathroom etique

of the-university’s pouliss
and animal science

they just urinate where they are

of 1,100 pigs, researchers
with solid walls that cut off

th pigs in different pens en

in mud, manure or

ist to keep cool, Morrison

end of the per

se_benctits-of solid pen-walls are

department, “*s« sinly esifteti¢: cleaner, calmer and

wing, Morrison says.

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3 Sections (A, B&C)

AT THE HOP

Complex to meet the

Bunny come to town today heralding spring.

Easter story. About 25 children anc
an event put on by the C

Dep:

She hopped into the

, play games, make
Easter baskets and listen to Castlegar me ti 's heed | oronten Judy W.
their par

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RDCK ieacke valley
watershed alliance

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor

The Regional—Disirict—of Central
Kootenay board of digectors has
thrown its support behind the Slocan
Valley Watershed Alliance’s fight tc
protect the valley’s watersheds from
what the alliance says is ongoing
damage from logging.

The RDCK will also try to arrange a
four Kootenay
representatives of

meeting between the
MLAs and
munity

com
watersheds to discuss the

development of a method to solve
disputes between wa

Ministry of Forests which mana;

ater users and the
es the
watersheds, board chairman George
Cady said Tuesday

In addition, the board will forward
to the annual general meeting of the
Association of Kootenay and Boun
dary Municipalities in April a
resolution calling for amendments to
the provincial Water Act which would
turn over to the provincial Environ
ment Ministry’s Water Management
Branch ‘‘final approval and control’*
of all activities in watersheds used for
drinking water

Lhe resolution also calls for amen
dments to the act ‘‘to require the
Ministry of Environment to- ensure
proper maintenance of quantity as well

as protection of the-quality of this
water so that it will continue to meet
Ministry of Health requirements for
drinkwater quality."’

Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance
co-chairman Herb Hammond said the
RDCK board’s decision sends a ‘‘very
strong message”’ to all teveldiof gover
nment and all levels of bureaucracy
that it supports the position of local
people on the management of water
sheds

“We're very pleased,” Hammond
said today. ‘*We the regional
district as the level of government that
understands what's going on in the
communities. 1 think the regional
district should be complimented

The SVWA has identified five issues
whictrirsays need to be resolved

© adequate analysis of the risk to
water posed by logging;

* liability coverage for damage
which might result from logging;

* alternatives to clearcutting, slash
burning and pesticide use;

* adequate planning
operational standards to
water; and

view

and
protect

* clarification of the roles of par
ticipants in the Ministry of Forests’ in
tegrated watershed management plan

process.

Whether the regional district's sup
port of the watershed alliance will have
any-effect on the issue remains to be
seen.

But Hammond said he hopes the
RDCK’s support will have a similar ef
fect as its stand opposing the use of
pesticides in the regional district, a
stand which Hammond said has suc
cessfully curtailed pesticide use in the
area

He said the RDCK’s support ma
help both sides **
passe and start actually adopting con
structive ways of
sheds.”

However,

to move off the ir

managing water
Cady
provincial government has not heeded
AKBM resolutions in the past

“We've presented resolutions to the
AKBM over the years asking for some
that

noted that the

sort of government
somebody would be
water quality and quantity is damaged
and government would not make that
commitment,”’ Cady said

Forests Ministry officials have rejec
ted the watershed alliance’s attempts
to €stablish a contract between the two

guarantee

responsible if

parties to solve conflicts arising over

logging in the watersheds, saying the

continued on page A2

Selkirk College left out

By C

announcem:

the initiative

Advanced Education and Job Training Minister Stan
Hagen announced the government will create 15,000 ad.

ditional university
establishment of full

spaces in
university

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Because of the Good Friday
holiday, all deadlines for the
Castlegar News Easter Sunday
edition will be advanced by 24
hours. the classified
ad deadline will be pushed forward
to 1 a.m. Thursday from 11 a.m
Friday. This will.allow our staff to
enjoy Good Friday with their
The Castlegar News will

For example,

families.
publish Easter Sunday

As well, readers should check
with various store advertisements
in this issue to see what hours stores
are keeping this week in light of the
holidays.

RYLCALDERBANK

There was little news for Selkirk College in Monday’s
nt by the provincial government that it will
expand British Columbia's university system,
officials are hopeful programs at Selkirk may benefit from

programs,
degree

but college

for the announcement,

Kelowna, Kamtoops-and- Nanaimo, andthe groundwork

for a new degree-granting institution in northern B.C
Selkirk College board chairman Elizabeth Fleet, who

along with college president Leo Perra was in Vancouver

said ‘‘steps are being made in the

right direction that education is at least now being treated

including the
programs in

as. an investment instead of an unnecessary expense.”
Fleet made the comment at the college board’s mon
thly meeting Tuesday night in Castlegar
continued on page A2

class crowding

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer \

The Castlegar school board ‘should write
guidelines on which children can attend the overcrowded
Twin Rivers/Castlegar Primary school complex instead of
spending money to create more classrooms in the complex,
spokesmen for two parents groups told the board at a
meeting packed with parents Monday night)

The overcrowding is due in part to the number of
students attending the complex from rural schools such as
Robson, said Cherryl Greep, spokesman for the Robson
school parent group. The board should restrict access to the
complex to all students from rural schools excepi those who
muist attend the special programs housed at the two

stricter

schools, Greep said

“Going across (to the complex) so mother-in-law can
babysit" is Trot a Bood enough reason to take children out
of the rural schools, Greep told the Castlegar News

Laurie Anderson, spokesman for the recently formed
Taxpayers’ Education Committee, told the, board her
group sees putting-money into expanding the complex as
the wrong way to deal with the overcrowding and a waste of

the rural schools, Greep said.
suffer, she said

“If you divide
good-quality education,"’

That means the rural students
a teacher’s time in half you can’t get
"Even if (the number
of children travelling to the Twin Rivers/ Castlegar Primary
complex) is only three or four, that’s too many in my
mind

she said

Wayling said the principal of the complex, Paul Phip:
ps, checked the number of rural students at the two schools
last year who weren't in special programs and found there
were only two or three. Those children were sent back to
their original schools or approved to stay at the complex,
Wayling said. He added that Phipps may be asked to chee
on rural students again for this year
There may bea few,"” Wayling said

But having those children-sevuseto-their-ruratsehoots
Will not eliminate (he split classes, Wayling sald; nor -witt
returning students who complete a special program such as
the Russian bilingual program make a difference to the size
of those classes.

Phipps said there are 58 students that ar€
from the outlying areas forspecial programs

€ brought in

“(Continuing-to. add-kids to the complex) is like
blowing air into a balloon — it’s got to bust sometime,””
Anderson said in an interview after the meeting.

“Instead of saying no to someone, (the board) says yes
toeveryone.””

Currently, the.district’s policy on students attending
schools out of-their area for reasons other than special
needs classes allows the child to transfer to another school if
two criteria are met, according to superintendent of schools
Terry Wayling

The school must have space for the extra student and
the parents or an existing bus route must be able to tran-
sport the student to the school, he said. The child's
situation is reviewed every year, Wayling said

The addition of rural students to the city schools is con-

tributing to the problem of small and split-grade classes in

AS-well- having students eave Twin Rivers’ Castlegar
Primary after completing a program such as the Russian
program which currently has students from kindergarten to
Grade 3 would not alleviate the overcrowding at the com:
plex, Wayling said

Fourteen students will finish the Grade-3 level of the
program and enter the Grade-4 level if it is implemented
next year, Wayling said. Ten of those children are bused in
for the program and having them return to the rural schools
instead of continuing at the complex in either an extended
Russian bilingual class.or a regular Grade 4 class will not
change the fact there will be at least 60 Grade 4 students at
the complex next year, he said

The suggestion by some parents that if the 10 students
were sent back to their rural schools there could be two in
stead of three classes of Grade4 is not a good idea, Wayling

continued on page A2

Program defended

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar school trustees defended
themselves. Monday against criticism ‘I
of their support for the $30,000-a-year
Russian bilingual program that may be
expanded in 1990.

What I see here is a blatant attack
on one program (Russian. bilingual)
that a majority of the board suppor
ts,” trustee Evelyn Voykin said

She said she hadn't heard the paren:
ts’ concerns before and felt she should
have been contacted for her opinion
before the meeting

Trustee Bill Hadikin,
child in the Russian program,

read these

said.

who has a
said the

letters the board has received seem to of - the
say board members are biased

letters as_ someone
trying to tell me I’m trying to treat one
of my children diff
others and I take objection to that,”’ he

All students in the district aré treated
the same, Hadikin said

Trustee Tony Guglielmi said he wan
ts to see the board develop a policy on
how the Russian bilingual program will
fit into the district because if changes
such as creating a new classroom at the
Special Education Centre are being
made to accommodate the expansion

Program then that’s
“segregation, not integration.”*
Trustee Mickey Kirakin said he’s
happy his child is in the Russian
program and takes the word of the
teachers that the program is beneficial.
He added that the $30,000 spent each
year to run the program is one third of
continued on page A2

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Writers must adapt
to changes, authors say

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

As the world changes, writers must
change what and sometimes how they
write to address new problems as they
develop, two authors, one from the
Soviet Union and one from Canada,
told an audience of several hundred on
Sunday at the Brilliant Cultural Centre
in Castlegar

Speaking with written and verbal
translation on the second day of the
Writers in Their Society conference,
Vasilii Belov and W. D. Valgardson
described what they see as the
problems of the world today and what
writers and others can do to deal with
those problems.

Both writers are known for their
stories of small-town life. Valgardson,
chairman of the creative writing depar
tment of the University of Victoria,
had his novel, Gentle Sinners, made in
to a movie. Belov,
playwright, has
1961. His most recent work is Morning
Rendezvous (1985)

Both men talked about the world’s
growing dependence on
and what they say is the
technology is wreaking
Pollution and the destruction of the
natural world

Belov urged rapid
mament and said people must get away
from a society based on technology

novelist, poet and

been writing since

technology
havoc that
through

more disar

rather than creativity
“The time is fast approaching when
we must go back to a peasant way of
life and reject material wealth,” he
said
Writers
sacrifice their

prepared to
fiction and
such as

must be
plans for
start writing non-fiction,
essays on the condition of the earth,
Belov added

Valgardson also called for pea
rethinking of
technology, and said people. must be
on guard against big business.

“Now, during this time of changes,
ethnic values,

eand

society's use of

when national values,

religious values are forced to submit to

tontinued on page A2

VASILI BELOV
. ‘reject material wealth’

the latter shall prevail.

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