y sy 42_Casthégjir News lon 12,106 WEATHER CONFLICT OF INTEREST | Council Peaket® SYNOPSIS: Ridge of nyetnne moving in! ‘over the province on Fr Rervieehend Temperatures should high pressure remains down Continental Divide ond is weakening Pocitic from the coast. The ridge will remain with us through tomorrow then two or three degrees cooler by l=] fe) Le) =] (2) [2 objects to Opposition demands Rogers’ resignation increase objection with the B.C. Util- ities Commission. WKPL has applied for a six per cent rate hike effec- tive Jan. 1. The Utilities VICTORIA (CP) — Stephen Rogers, the second B.C. cabinet minister accused of Conflict of interest in less than a week, just wanted to be left alone Tuesday. Rogers, 43, minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, was besieged by reporters over opposition demands for his resignation. A tired-looking Rogers came briefly to his office door and said, “If you don’t mind, I'd like to be left alone so I can do my other business.” Rogers has a $100,000 investment in the Western Pulp is call a public hearing to sider the request. In other news, council has commis- city and areas I and J of the Regional of Central Kootenay. The commission will re- place the old Central Koot- enay Regional District econ- am development commit- Public servants protest government layoffs OTTAWA (CP) — Thou national tions seross Canada to pro- “This is a clear message,” Size restriction on buses By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Castlegar school board Monday test layoffs as their union president warned anew of a Daryl Bean, walkout unless the mt backs down. voted to put size restrictions on objects such as band school buses in the district. The ban on objects larger than the storage space under the seats on the buses came at the recommendation of the board's transportation and safety committee after it met with bus drivers. © Coniifhittée chairman Ed Conroy told the other trustees HBiat the drivers in the district are concerned about the ii allowed on *“Couned had expressed con- cerns about the make-up of the new commission and the level of funding. However, those concerns have been addressed and on Mon- day council agreed to put up $16,939. Area J will spend $6,561 on the commission and Areas I head of the $3,087 for a total of $26,537 Public Service Alliance of for the three-member com- Canada, told protesters out- side the downtown offices of Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret. “We will fight and take whatever action is necessary to achieve job security.” Seven of 270 cleaning staff employees to be laid off in April occupied a government office in Toronto, remaining until Publie Works Minister Roch LaSalle agreed through afternoon in Nelson has left to discuss their twin seven-year-olds without Murder- suicide in Nelson By CasNews Staff A murder-suicide Saturday plight personally. A meeting parents. is scheduled Feb. 5 in Ottawa, the alliance said. The alliance said rallies in y Gellieh wale: seakely tun shot 31-year-old Janet Carl. crowds ranging from". few dozen to several thousand turned out in towns and cities Nelson city police said Donald Snowball, 34, fatally son in her Uphill home about 1:30 p.m. then shot and killed himself. Limited Par ip, a tax shelter which needs timber from proposed logging of the southern portion of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Environmentalists want the islands, 700 kilometres north of Vancouver, preserved as a wilderness Rogers is also a director of B.C. Hydro, which granted an electricity discount to one of the mills partially owned by the partnership. Publicity over a $20,000 investment in the same partnership forced Tom Waterland to resign last Friday as forests minister after 10 years in the portfolio. Rogers has said he has never voted at cabinet meetings when he stands to gain personally. He also said he tried to sell the i last year. Premier Bill Bennett said he would say nothing until after a cabinet meeting today, when ministers are to report on their investments and discuss establishing clear conflict of interest guidelines. This political storm comes when Bennett seems to be gearing up for an election, banking on optimism generated by Expo 86, which opens in May. Bennett said last week that Waterland was in direct conflict of interest but Rogers had no conflict because his pulp investment was not directly under his cabinet respon- sibilities. The B.C. Hydro connection had not then been noticed. ‘The corporation said the discounts are available to any company switching from oil to electricity. “The longer he (Bennett) leaves it, the worse it gets,” said NDP leader Bob Skelly. Graham Lea, the only sitting member of the United , said Rogers is “in exactly the same position as energy eee with his duties to B.C. Hydro, as Mr. Waterland was in as forest minister. So if Mr. Rogers is not asked to resign by the premier, then it would be a complete inconsistency in behavior.” Western Pulp Partnership, set up by three forest, companies in 1983, owns 40 per cent of two coastal pulp mills, at Squamish and Port Alice. The mills get much of their timber from Western Forests Products, the company that wants government permission for more logging in the South Moresby area of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Logging is allowed only on Lyell Island and Haida Indians oppose it, claiming they have aboriginal title. Rogers has been energy minister since 1983. As member for Vancouver South since 1975, he has served as environment minister and deputy Speaker of the legislature. Rogers sits on the cabinet’s environmental land use committee which has been involved in examining how to use resources in South Moresby. Although Bennett has said the committee makes no decisions, Skelly said Rogers’ presence could influence recommendations to cabinet. Oil prices as one analyst put it, and crude oil prices are dropping fast. But Canadian consumers likely won't see cheaper gasoline or fuel oil until spring, Energy Minister Pat Carney predicted Tuesday. Some prices are the lowest they've been since 1979 as world oil producers hustle to sell off more than the market wants to buy. If Canadian oil follows the drop as expected, it means the price of a barrel of domestic crude will dip $3 to $4, to about $32, most Canadian analysts said. But consumers won't get any immediate relief because refiners will try to improve their battered profit margins, they added. In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude dropped to $19.70 U.S. a barrel in the cash market Tuesday, down from $20.75 Monday. In New York, the major domestic grade of oil, West Texas Intermediate, dropping Exactly the opposite has happened, Turner said, noting that motorists in Carney’s Vancouver riding are paying 20 per cent more to fill their tanks than they were in March. But Carney said oil prices only began to fall in the last few weeks and the decrease “will not show up at the pumps until a months from now when oil has moved up the pumps.” Turner suggested the real reason gasoline prices went up is because the government has jacked up taxes at the pumps by 58 per cent in the last year. And he asked why Canadians have to pay so much when Americans are paying about 20 per cent less. “The answer is thatthe Americans were lucky enough not to have a Liberal administration such as the one which left this government with such a massive deficit that we need those taxes as revenues jo pay it down,” Carney said as Tory MPs howled and banged their desks. Castlegar News TREET TALK EDDIE SHACK . surprise speaker LAST WEEK'S Dinner with The Dobber at the Fireside Place was fun, thanks in large part to a surprise appearance by former Toronto Maple Leaf great Eddie Shack. The dinner, which attracted about 100 guests, was supposed to feature Ken Dobson, a radio sportscaster from Victoria. But Dobson — or The Dobber as he's better known — was stranded in Victoria when his flight couldn't land in Castlegar. Hosts for the dinner, CKQR, quickly lined up Shack who more than filled The Dobber’s shoes. In fact, after Shack spoke, QR managed to get The Dobber to speak to the crowd via telephone and a loudspeaker system. Danny Freeway of Goose Creek. the past. And Shack says he’s often asked why the Maple Leafs aren't winning. He has just one answer: “Hareld Ballard.” According to Shack, as long as Ballard owns the Maple Leafs, the team will always do poorly. Of course Shack and Ballard never got along at the best of times. AN ENTERTAINING group opens #t the Marlane weekend gig. guitarist has been entertaining as a single at Rose's Friday, y and Sunday evenings since November and hopes to continue there as well as keeping his Marlane commitment. Danny, in his own wards, “loves goofing around,” and the more his audience appreciates his humor and quick one-liners the happier he is . . . and the goofier he Danny got his stage name with a very literal translation of the Russian “Shiakoff.” He says Shiakoff means “road,” but adds with a wide grin that if they had in early-day Russia the actual translation would have been “freeway!” Danny's backed up by a bass player and a drummer, and has played a lot of large cities including Toronto and Vancouver. THE COMINCO in house newsletter Focus reports that Castlegar's Ken Campbell has retired after 37 years with the company. YOU'LL HAVE TO travel to Vancouver or Prince George to see Prince Charles or Lady Diana. The royal couple won't be coming to Castlegar. Castlegar had requested the Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Crossroads of the Kootenays after they opened Expo 86 in Vancouver on May 2. However, it seems the royal itinerary couldn't fit the West Kootenay into its plans this time around. However, the royal couple will visit Prince . Perhaps if we renamed Castlegar “Prince William” or “Prince Harry” we'd have a better chance? RG's RESTAURANT on Columbia Avenue is changing hands. Current owners Dick and Resemarie Lynch, who built RG's from scratch in 1979, have sold the restaurant to Glen and Irene Bryson of Robson. Dick Lynch said the Brysons will keep the RG’s name to go with a second RG's that opened in Grand Forks in December. Lynch said he is also looking for a location for a third RG's franchise. kg *5.05/m. PORK BUTT STEA FLAKES OF HAM _ $429) COD GOVERNMENT INSPECTED. . ORANGE TWICE |. FROZ. CONCENTRA' Reisman’s salary justified OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has justified the $1,000-a-day sal- ary for Trade Ambassador Simon Reisman by saying that’s how much the previous Liberal government _ paid Reisman to settle native land claims in the 1970s. week to the Toronto Globe and Mail. The Privy Council Office has refused twice to make the information available to The Canadian Press, follow- ing requests earlier this month and again today, say a three-year stint as head of a part-time basis until actual royal issi on Can jati ada’s economic prospects. Macdonald's salary drew criticism from the Progres sive Conservatives, who were then in opposition. Liberal Leader John Tur- n. Axworthy said the Tories have “conveniently forgotten their own stand” on Mac donald’s salary.” Contacted at his Ottawa home Tuesday night, Reis- man said: “I have not seen SHORTENING spe STEMS & ‘PYECES. 10 Ft. OZ. TIN FORTUNE MUSHROOMS possibility of loose equipment “flying around” in an accident. He said the drivers are also worried about items such as large band instruments blocking the drivers’ field of vision. Responding to a question from trustee Gordon Turner, Conroy acknowledged that the ban will prevent some students from bringing band equipment home for practice and will therefore have an effect on the band program. Turner opposed the ban. The storage space under the seats of the buses measures approximately 25 cm high, 30 cm wide and 70 em ing it is confidential. Reisman started collecting his pay Nov. 8, the day he was appointed trade ambas- sador responsible for both freer trade talks with the United States and the next round of global trade talks. MORE THAN MULRONEY? If he worked five days a Liberal trade critic Lloyd week, Reisman would make Axworthy said Reisman about $260,000 a year. By must be the best paid part The couple had separated in December, when Carlson moved from their Passmore home to Nelson, said Dedie closed at $20.60, down 67 cents for the day. CHIDES CARNEY World oil prices have fallen $8 (U.S.) a barrel since Carney signed an energy deal with Alberta last year when she predicted lower gasoline prices, Liberal Leader John Turner reminded her in the Commons. ner suggested Canadians may not be pleased with Reisman's salary. “I suppose that’s up to the government and Mr. Reis- man, but the Canadian people will want to review that,” Turner told reporters. from St. John's, Nfid., to Vie- toria. Bean avoided any refer- ence to an illegal walkout, an idea he toyed with at a news. conference Monday and one that will be studied next week by the alliance’s na- tional executive board. ARE NEGOTIATING About 140,000 public ser. any news release about my pay, and the matter of my pay is my personal business and I don’t see why I should diseuss it with you.” Reisman, who retired as a top civil servant in 1975, worked in Ottawa as a highly-paid private consul tant before taking his pres ent position. “My information is that Mr. Reisman was paid $1,000 a day by the previous Liberal government to settle Indian land claims,” Mulroney told reporters today on the way into the weekly Conservative caucus meeting. “I could check into it for you, but that was my infor. mation.” PAYS FOR SERVICES Carney said Ottawa can't set prices and added the “extra taxes imposed on gasoline were put on by this administration to help pay for some of the social services that Canadians want.” PAPER TOWELS | APPLE JUICE 23. 98° 3, 38 KIDNEY BEANS — TEA BAGS the couple's twin son and daughter spent the night at a 15° Conroy said the drivers are also concerned about overcrowding on the buses. While the number of students now riding school buses “that’s what we're concerned does not exceed leant limits, about,” Conroy said. He added that a new bus ordered for the district should help ease the overcrowding problem. NEW BUILDING continued from front poge Rew two-storey education wing at the Castlegar campus. The $2.2 million project calls for an addition to the Lardeau wing, and associated renovations. Owing to significant increases in most class sizes, the college requires several instructional spaces to accom. modate groups of 40 to 60 students. The revised plan states that at present many classes are being held in rooms with capacities 20 to 40 per cent less than currently used. “The ventilation systems are unable to adequately handle these loads, thus adding to the discomfort created by overcrowding,” it says. As a result of the space problems, several classes have been assigned to temporary locations. The Learning Assistance Centre is housed in a temporary wooden struc ture in the main lounge. “This location is inadequate owing to the large numbers of students who use this space for its intended purpose,” the college says. Early Childhood Education students currently use the dance studio and the physical education classroom. “Neither space is adequate nor appropriate to the needs of the Early Childhood Education program. Fur ther, the space will be required once again by the Physical Education pro gram, with its re-establishment in 1986/87." As well, the planned addition of second year Graphic Communications, the introduction of logical Tech nology and. the expansion of the Computer Eiiteracy and Computer Ap plications activities require more space to adequately serve the needs of cur rent and new students. Another project is the conversion of vants — two-thirds of whom work outside Ottawa — are negotiating new contracts with the government. Most expect to be in a legal strike position by March. are now on the way to their grandparents’ Interior B.C. home. Dodds said a trust fund will be established for the children. the courtyard at the Castlegar campus into a 200-seat amphitheatre. “This will provide much needed space to accommodate major work conferences and college ac- tivities. Owing to significant increases in class sizes, the college requires an additional large lecture facility to ac- commodate instructional groups in ex- cess of 100 students,” the college says. Cost of the project is estimated at $410,000. The college also wants $3 million for its trades training facility at the Rose mont campus. Selkirk College wants to enclose tlie present space between its covering of the space will take away the effect of heavy rain or snow. In other news, the college has re- ceived more money under the provin- cial government's Local Economic Re- newal Development fund. Perra told the board that the govern- ment has taken money left over from the fund and allocated it to the province's 15, post-secondary insti- tutions to deal with the Canadian Jobs Strategy. Selkirk College will receive $2,000 for secretarial support and $3,300 for travel allocations from this fund. The grants are intended to provide and welding shops to correct several “operational deficiencies.” In addition, several support functions would be relocated to improve operating effici- encies and safety. The college says the BUDGET UP continued from front pege worth of capital projects for 1986. Council also passed a motion Monday night authorizing the city to proceed with six projects before May's final budget Projects given the go-ahead include the operations management project, a new transformer line at city hall, replacement of a transformer at the city's north shop, radio equipment for the fire department and public works, a 15-ton hydraulic shop jack and a new pumper truck for the fire department. The truck, estimated to cost $160,000, is being purchased to replace a 1958 model. Gairns explained that the city had looked at getting the truck rebuilt by to the i during the initial stages of their Canadian Jobs Strategy-related activities. Additional allocations are not plan. ned for the next fiscal ye: ecording to the Ministry of Education. Selfire — a fire truck retrofitting operation at the Rosemont campus of Selkirk College — but because the city’s truck is so old there would be problems getting parts. But Gairns did say it will be feasible to get the city’s 1967 and 1968 trucks rebuilt by Selfire. Other capital projects for 1986 include a $50,000 street paving pro- gram which. includes: overlaying of existing paving on 6th Ave. from First street to Third Street; 6th Street, {10th Avenue to the lane between 8th and 9th Avenues); 9th Avenue, (from Sth Street to 9th Street). The city also plans to pave 23rd Street west of 11th Avenue and 6th Avenue north of 20th continued from front pege Wayling, who said that in the three years the district was without a direc- tor of instruction he found he was either putting aside or giving only superficial ition to some im- portant district matters, such as letters of concern from parents. “The job was just too big for one person,” Wayling said. He said Farrell in the last seven months undertook almost all curricul um work, chaired the district's com- puter review committee, assessed tea- chers, attended numerous workshops and did research for the board. Farrell came to the director's job after spending 11 years as principal of Stanley Humphries secondary school. He was also vice-principal of SHSS from 1970 to 1974. From 1966 to 1970 he was a vice-principal in Invermere and prior to that taught in Fernie after coming to Canada from Australia where he spent five years teaching high school. Wayling would not reveal Farrell's salary as director of instruction, saying each administrator negotiates his own contract with the board. Farrell has not negotiated his salary, Wayling said. The board first decided to reinstate the director of instruction position in May 1985, three years after former director Mike Lauriente resigned to become superintendent of schools in the Creston school district. The board appointed Farrell in June 1985. At that time, Castlegar school district secretary-treasurer John Das cher estimated Farrell's salary as being in the $40,000 to $60,000 range. The Castlegar District Teachers’ Association opposed the reinstate. ment, saying the money could be better spent avoiding teacher layoffs and cut backs. The director's position itself was funded by cutting back four part-time Positions: © reducing a teacher in the district Tesouree centre to 4 from 7 time; © eliminating a French helping tea. cher and a French itinerant teacher (.5 time); . reducing the district's computer Street, as well as Lane. 's time to .1 from .2; and crew TERMA EXTENDED LACH FARRELL . three-year term © eliminating a special education teacher. Lisa Pedrini, president of the CDTA, said today the association expected the director of instruction position would be made permanent. Asked if the CDTA still opposes the position and would like to see the money spent elsewhere, Pedrini said only, “We'll be watching very carefully to see what (the board's) priorities are in spending money.” Kay Johnson, now board chairman, also was opposed to hiring a director of instruction last year and voted against the move. However, Johnson explained Tues day that she was not opposed to the position itself. “I always supported the position of director of instruction,” she said. “I was opposed to the timing. In restraint, we just didn't have the money for the position.” Nevertheless, Johnson said she is ‘with what Farrell -has accom plished as the director. “T'm fully in support of what Mr. Farrell's done,” she said. Because Farrell will not be returning to SHSS, the board must now find a new principal for the high school. Don King has been acting principal this school year. The board has decided to advertise the job province-wide. Wayling said the decision is a “slight departure” from the recent board practice of hiring for positions from within the district. Pedrini said the CDTA is disappointed about that.” “We feel local people should be given first choice,” she said, because of the number of teachers in the district hired as temporaries or long-term substi. tutes. “Hiring internally would open up an extra position,” Pedrini said. But Wayling said the “principal of a secondary school is a complex and sophisticated assignment” and broad ening the advertisement of the position will mean getting the best person for the job. He added that current staff in the district are eligible to apply for the job and stressed that advertising provin cially in no way reflects on King’s per formance as principal “a little Coroner recommends sanding By CasNews Staff A coroner's inquiry into the Dec. 6 fatal accident on Celgar Road has recommended more frequent sanding of the road during the winter. Alan Ford, 39, of Robson, was killed when he attempted to pass another vehicle, lost control on the icy road and crashed into an oncoming car. Castlegar coroner Paul Ogiow rec ommends that “due to slippery road conditions during most of the winter months on the Arrow Lakes Drive, aka. Road . . . sanding of this road should be carried out more fre- quently.” The terms of Reisman's contract as trade envoy are contained in an order-in. council passed by cabinet Dec. 23 and released this comparison, Mulroney will collect $131,955 this year. Reisman will also be mak ing 25 per cent more than Donald Macdonald did during time employee in the coun try. Reisman had said he was going to work on preparing for the trade talks on a In 1984, he served as the government's chief negoti- ator in settling the aboriginal land claims of the Inuit of the Western Arctic. Voyager explores planet PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — Excitement built among scientists as the American Voyager 2 space- craft began its historic near. encounter with Uranus, searching the-planet's rings for hidden new moons. Voyager's duties today in cluded snapping 151 pictures of Uranus, its nine known rings and five of its 12 known moons; studying the planet's atmosphere; checking for the existence of a magnetic field, and manoeuvring into better position. Its closest encoun ter with the planet is Friday. but the encounter technically began late Tuesday “The excitement and the tension is building,” said Dick Laeser, Voyager project manager at the Jet Propul sion Laboratory in Pasadena. “You get that funny feeling in the pit of your stomach and WIZARD'S PALACE “Fun for the Whole Family!" MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 9a.m.to4p.m 6 to 10:30 p.m SUNDAY 10.a.m: to 5 p.m 1005 - 2nd Street Phone 365-3237 wonder are we going to have any more problems like the one we just got over? A circuit failure in one of Voyager's six computers left numerous horizontal streaks over pictures of Uranus and its moons during the week end. The bad ciceuit was by. passed, and the probe's two television cameras resumed sending undistorted pictures Tuesday. The pictures, reduced to computerized data, take 2% hours to cross the nearly 3.2 billion kilometres to Earth. In addition to the 12 known Uranian moons, scientists have said Voyager might dis- cover 18 shepherd moons, whose gravitational forces herd the charcoal-black rings into their narrow shapes. They believe there is one shepherd moon on each side of the nine known rings. Uranus’s five major moons, discovered by telescopes on Earth, are Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda. Voyager 2 discovered seven much smaller moons between late December and Jan. 13. None of the 12 is a shepherd moon. Voyager 2, launched in 1977, explored Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981. It began the near-encounter phase of its Uranus explor. ation late Tuesday. It is the first spacecraft to visit the solar system's third-largest planet, which is the seventh from the sun. This morning, Voyager 2 was 2.9 million - kilometres from Earth and 2.7 million kilometres from Uranus, streaking closer to Uranus at 64,700 kilometres an hour, Laeser said. Among the 144 pictures Voyager took Tuesday were unprocessed photographs clearly showing for the first time the planet's outermost six rings. PRE-INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE This Week Only! Jan. 21 - 25 — (Big, Big Savings!) MINIMUM 10% ON ALL MERCHANDISE AND 20 %1.50% ON ITEMS SUCH AS Diamond Rings, Pendants, Wedding Bands, Watches, etc. : pre bane Give your love lasting beauty, lasting brilliance. A gift from BOSSE'S JEWELLERY 1979 LTD. 104 - 3rd. Street, Castlegar 365-7141 95° $709 NO NAME ENGLISH. 100s SULTANA RAISINS $709 CANOLA OIL $929 GOLDEN HARVEST. 375 G. ; 1°) HC DENTURE TABLETS. 32s HOT CHOCOLATE $979 POPPING CORN SUNSPUN. 1.81 kg EFFERDENT $949/ Fi FACIAL TISSUE TTIES. 200 2-PLY TACO SHELLS OLD El PASO. SUPER. 187 G Dog FOOD PEACH HALVES VALU PLUS. STANDARD. 398 mi CALA BLEACH LIQUID HONEY UMP ASTEORIZED. Ms Mo. 1. $00 mi. TINTIE COOKIES ORMICK ASST'D FLAVORS. 400 MARMALADE ROBERTSONS. ASSORTED. 250 mi - "$459 . $998 Control Fresh Produce TOMATOES sou, 99° CUCUMBERS MEX FIELD GROWN. No. Lathe 59° (A WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES.