Al6 _ CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 21, 1978 Armed Forces Plan PEP Exercise Here Ten aircraft, including an armed forces Buffalo from 442 Search and Rescue Squadron, Comox, with a full crew and “pararescue” jumpers, took part in a training exercise on the weekend, Working from the Castle- gar Airport, simulated air crashes were set up in the bush areas around Salmo, Champion and Nancy Greene lakes. Co- ordinating the various Pro- vincial Emergency Program (PEP) groups, aircraft gave support to the ground parties assisting in finding the crash sites, Commanding officer Capt. Wayne Cross conducted a series of lectures on searching for lost ground targets, techniques for survival in the bush, techniques for flying in the mountains and specifically on how to spot an aircraft down in the bush. Every pilot and participat- ing spotter taking part in the exercise was given the oppor- tunity of going up in the Buffalo, Regional air chief Dr. John Hall, responsible for recruiting and training volunteer search and rescue pilots in this region, works under Nelson region co- ordinator Ian Gower who co- ordinates search and rescue for the entire region which takes in the area from the Alberta border to Rock Creek and from ithe U.S, Border to Golden, The air division is made up of a group of volunteer pilots and their aircraft, with some of the pilots having up to 6,000 hours flying time. They are the civil air division of PEP insane the armed forces rescu This year's training pro- gram was similar but more advanced that the one held last year, Hall told the Castlegar News. He expressed his appre- ciation for the co-operation of the air taffie control people at the Castlegar Airport and for the assistance of the PEP ground members who put out the targets. “It's a very rewarding training program,” said Hall. “Hopefully each year, under the direction of the armed forces, each major community in the region will have its local exer- cise.” Similar techniques would be used to locate lost fisher- men, hunters and snowmobile drivers, The exercises are funded by PEP. The different regions are Castlegar, Nelson, Trail, Nakusp, Golden, Invermere, Cranbrook and Creston. Alec A. Maloff, 68, Service Held Yesterday . Prayer services began Tuesday evening and concluded yesterday afternoon from the chapel of the Castlegar Funeral Home for Alex A. Maloff, 68, of Castlegar, who died Friday at Maple Ridge Hospital in Haney. Mr. Maloff was born July 25, 1910 in Ootischenia, later moving with his parents to Saskatchewan, where he re- ceived his education. He farmed in that province until 1944, when he returned to B.C., and settled in Blewett, where he operated a dairy farm. Upon his retirement in 1972, he moved to Castlegar, STE where he had resided until his passing. Mr. Maloff was a member of the Union of Spiritual Com- munities of Christ. He is, survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mike (Mary) Max- well of Pitt Meadows, B.C. and Mrs. Fred (Vera) Boolinoff of Robson; and two nephews, Mike Boolinoff of Robson’ and Fred Boolinoff of Vancouver. He was predeceased by his mother in 1948, a niece in 1969 and his father in 1972. Burial was in Brilliant Cemetery: with Castlegar Fu- teral Home in care of arrange- ments, Complete Complex Decided Upon For New Facility at Nakusp A complete complex in- cluding skating rink, curling rink, and auditorium is planned to replace the facility which was destroyed by fire last month, To be named the Nakusp and District Sports Centre, the full-size project was decided upon after a visit last week from an officer of the Recrea- tion Facilities Assistance Fund, which will pay a substantial part of the cost. The new estimated cost of the complex has been set at $1.3 million. The grant appli- cation for $400,000 has been ade. Other financing ‘for the complex will be as follows, according to committee chair- man Earnest A. Harding. Insurance recovery is esti- mated at $600,000-$650,000 and should be known within a few days. The recreation facility grant of $400,000 will bring the initial million dollars forward. The council of the Village of Nakusp has agreed to sub- divide the property now hous- ing the curling rink and the adjacent old arena site into building lots which, when sold, should generate approximately $100,000 towards the complex. This decision was made, said Mayor E. 0. Johnson, because the original property was turned over to the village at the time of incorporation by the old recreation commission and this way the money from the sale of the lots will be going back in a most fair way. He explained the old rec- reation commission included people from outside the village as well as village residents, so it: would not be fair for the village to reap all the profit from the sale of the lots for village pur- poses only. An additional amount of money is already available through the Nakusp Curling Club which has been building a reserve fund with expectations of construction of a new facility. Volunteer labor and ma- chinery donations will total almost $200,000 by the time the project is completed so, even without the $4,000 expected revenue from July 1 this year, the $1.3 million is well in hand, Bids were opened Friday for the construction of the two buildings. Harding stated that the two low bidders were within $500 of each other. They were Armco and Robertson steel building firms. Both have been asked to resubmit their bids with additional changes sug- gested by the representative from the recreation facilities fund, He had asked that the audi- torium have a minimum ceiling height of 18 feet which pushes the building higher than ori- ginally planned Total costs of the two building shells are expected to come back under $650,000. Tenders are expected to be opencd later this week for the ice plants to take care of both the curling rink and the arena. The committee estimates this to be around $100,000. Virgil Wethal of Nakusp has been hired to oversee construction of the complex and a work schedule has been estab- lished. Harding said the optimistic Christmas date for a “roof over our heads” was still expected, but he said that there likely won't be any skating in the building this winter season, He said they could prob- ably fire-up the ice plant early in the new year but the colder building and other related prob- lems would probably slow the rest of the construction to such a degree that it would end up costing much more money. Little Impact on Unemployment Canada Works Program A government evaluation shows that Canada Works, the largest federal make-work pro- gram, results on average in a Project providing a $140-a-week wage to less than nine persons for about six months, The project jobs are most likely to be on a building or other ‘construction site, in a team cleaning up parks or otherwise improving the en- vironment or with a group providing health or other social services. The average project costs Western Express Lottery Winners Five tickets worth $100,000 each in the Western Express lottery were drawn Wednesday night of last week. The.top tickets are 48034 in series 31; 61516 in series 19; 38378 in series 34; 17364 in series 34; and 81877 in series 01. Tickets with the same numbers in any other series are worth $1,000.. There are 115° such $1,000 tickets, Cash prizes of $100 go to holders of tickets with the last four digits of the winning numbers, Holders of tickets with the last three digits of the winning numbers win $25. $38,939. For every $140 spent on wages, $49.40 is spent on material, administration and other costs of keeping the jobs ing. * Nearly ‘half of the projects, get financing from sources other than the federal employ- ment department which man- ages the program. Senior Canada Works offi- cials aiscussing the documents last Thursday, said the govern- ment will have spent more than half-a-billion dollars on the program by the end of this fiscal year, since it began in the spring of 1977, The average picture of a Canada Works project was determined by evaluating 693 of 3,042 projects created in the: firat stage of the program, from April, 1977 to March, 1978, The officials say they have concluded it is the most effi- clent, cheapest, fastest: and easiest to manage of all the government's job creation en- deavors, - However, they cannot say precisely how many individuals have had jobs for how long under the program. 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Used skates for sale Skates sharpened the professional Fleming way Air Travel Agents for ALL AIRLINES ¢ ACCOMMODATIONS © RESERVATIONS ___© TOURS Telephone 365-7782 Department Store 21 PINE STREET, Castlegar date immediately but the pro- vincial government has a choice of four polling dates, That was Premier Bill Bennett's observation last week on the timing of upcoming national and B.C. elections, Speaking both at a Rotary Club luncheon and a later press conference here last week, the premier said the federal gov- ernment will require a sign of strong popular | support “in a crucial time of decisi iz in Canada,” but underplayed his own government's need for such a mandate. “Tt doesn’t matter who's in Ottawa now or necessarily who will be there after the next’ federal election,” he told an audience of about 100 at the Rotary luncheon, “The govern- ment is in the twilight of its term and’ does not have the mandate to carry out the type of discussions we wil! be undertaking.” Rather than concentrating on the “medit get ment would be eyeing short- term election-motivated moves, Bennett said. The Quebec situation will not resolve itself, the economic situation will not resolve itself by ‘short-term, helter-skelter methods, he told the luncheon. “The economic and political problems of Canada are very real and demand a strong m good for Canada,” the govern- AL the press conference the premier told reporters the federal government if it does not have a renewed mandate, will be incapable of meeting agreements to be made in its meeting with provincial pre- miers in February over econo-. mic problems. "I'm not saying this in a partisan way—Liberal or Con- servative,” he said. “I'm just saying that the best way to clear the air for Canada and to deal with the small “P” political problems—Queber, distribution of powers, taxation divisions— is to have a federal election.” “Let's deal with a govern- ment that has a mandate to deal with these things and has a \ term in front of it so it's not afraid to make unpopular deci- sions that might be correct," Bennett said. Asked by the Castlegar News when his government would require 4 new mandate, the premier said the need for a mandate could trigger an elec: tion on any one of four dates— “this fall, next spring, the following fall and the following spring.” “I can tell you when it won't be,” he told reporters, “It won't be in January or Feb- ruary of any year.” Questioned on Social Cre- dit expectations in the Ross- SFP Mill Purchase ‘Not The Answer’ A provincial government purchase of the Salmo Forest Products sawmill is “not the answer,” Premier Bill Bennett said here last week. Commenting on his earlier statement that he did not want to see his government buy the U.S.-owned mill—which laid off 85 employees early this month —Bennett said in a press con- ference last Tuesday that such a takeover would “create a host of problems.” Asked by one reporter whether he would consider taking over the mill in the same manner in which the previous New -Democratic Party gov- LAYING ASPHALT for the Castlegar Rotary Club’s tennis courts took place Friday on the oils Property adjacent the Regional capital development costs uP to $400,000 fo: facliities by Premier Bilt which pi * ernment bought the Kooten: Forest Products mill in Nelson, the premier pointed out that the B.C. Resources Investment. Corporation had taken over ownership of that and other government investments and that KFP had lost “substantial sums of money" under the province's ownership. “The BCRIC would have the opportunity to buy SFP if it wanted to,” Bennett said. “I don't direct the BCRIC,” he continued. “That's under private sector management and it will be going public and selling shares so that the government will be a minority shareholder.” Minority shares will help the government avoid any con- flict of interest, the premier said. He said his government is interested in “encouraging pri- vate sector management and development” and not govern- ment ownership. “Once the immediate head- lines stop, you get into 2 host of problems,” Bennett said. He said “talks, and hope- fully some action,” were con- tinuing as the province search- ed for prospective investors for the SFP mill, but he added that he could not yet report any results, Asked which ministries would be most involved with SFP, the premier said the economic development minis- try, concerned with industry, and the forestry ministry, con- cerned with timber cuts and rights, would work together on the problem. Idaho. Forest Industries, which owns the modest Salmo mill, laid off 85 men last week to reduce its employee Toles to 600. That figure is the maxi- mum the American firm can have while retaining its favor- able “small firm” status in the United States forest industry. Idaho Forest. Industries had planned to sell the Salmo mill, thus reducing its staff. The federal Foreign Investment Re- view Agency however, blocked the move, saying a Canadian buyer must be found. When it could not find a Canadian buyer, Idaho decided it had to lay off mien to reduce its international staff. TRIUMPH SPITFIRE eater Licence No. 003304, nett that.the club will racelve & $17,430 provincial government grant. The grant was made under the. one-third grants for Complex factlittes land-Trail riding, Bennett noted that in the 1975 provincial election the party received 43 per cent of the vote, “good enough to win almost any- where,” although not sufficient to unseat incumbent New De- mocrat Chris D'Arcy. He said the party will try for majority support “with a strong candi- date, the record of the govern- ment and the policies we've placed before the electorate.” “We're looking to run very strongly in all parts of the province whenever such an election takes place,” the pre- mier told reporters. “But I didn’t come here to talk about that.” “I think people will look at government policies and what must be done, and recognize when the government isn’t being politically expedient, when we're. doing the right thing,” he said. “I think govern- ments get marks for leadership and I think in the long term people can get that kind cof perspective,” tf PREMIER BILL BENNETT four possible dates’’ 3, TRUCKLOAD SALE F FISH 7 over 50 varieties » TOMORROW, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 10. a.m. to7 p.m. at the Castlegar Hotel West Coast Seafoods of the the site Friday were. Rotarian Paul Oglow and Don Fyfe of MecMan Engineers. Oglow told the Castlegar News the next step, weather permitting, Is to fence the area of the four tennis courts followed by the painting of the game lines.—CasNewsFoto by Lots Hughes Anti-Highway Lobby Denied Nelson Chamber Questions Bypass Threat The 25-kilometre highway nearing completion and linking Castlegar with Salmo should not diminish the volume of tourist traffic through Nelson, says the president of the city’s Chamber of Commerce. Ross Orriss, president of the Nelson Chamber of Com- merce, admitted last Wednes- day that the new highway could mean a loss of tourist traffic for Nelson, but added “there are two ways of looking at it.” Orriss said that the city, the chamber of commerce and the regional district govern- ment should all co-operate in promoting the Nelson area as a tourist attraction. The new highway could be just the stimulus needed to beef up pro- motion, he said. He envisioned a decorative tourist map at the fork in the road at Salmo, letting people know that Nelson offers many attractions, The chamber president also noted that in Nelson this year the volume of tourists— as measured by the number of people signing the guest book at the chamber office on Front St.—is up 30 per cent over 1977. Orriss surmised that about are planning on passing through the area, leaving 20 per cent in the unknown category. And while his counterpart in Castlegar sees a battle looming over the naming of the new highway, Orriss said he doubted it. The Castlegar News re- ported Searle Sheldon of the Castlegar and District Cham- ber of Commerce as saying, “we must work to keep the new highway as Highway 3 and avoid the lobbies of groups in Trail and Nelson to have it labelled Highway 3A or down- . graded. 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