Aé CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 23, 1981 Auxiliaries tour valley hospital . tee Seventy-eight delegatess and two visitors gathered in New Denver's Bosun Hall for the annual conference of West Kootenay Hospital Auxiliaries, hostessed by: the New Denver auxiliary. Special guests included Mrs. J.R. Pilkington, pres- ident, B.C. Association of Hospital A i Mrs. ora ae Goltdwing the lunch break delegates were given a tour of the new hospital, the Pav- ilion and some of the new equipment was demon- strated. The ladies were par- ticularly impressed with the Borning bed, the first for Kootenay hospitals. Matron Miss Elzinga and various hospital board bers —— As Cominco celebrated its 76th anniversary it is always of interest to look at the infancy of such a nt. A statement taken from a booklet on Sir William Van Horne, who at’ the time was general superin- tendent in this area for CpRail, was called to our Bea Driscoll, West Kootenay area representative and her secretary Mrs, E. Wood- house. Mayor Mrs. Mabel Mc- Crory, welcomed everyone on behalf of the Village of New Denver and J.L. Irwin, chairman of the board, brought greetings from Slo- can Community Hospital and Health Care Society. In her address to the dele- gates, Pilkington gave in- structions on the mechanics of communication and an- nounced that next year's ial Ci will be acted as tour guides and demonstrators. Thanks are extended to B.C. Forest Service, Arrow Lakes News, Nakusp Agen- cies,Overwaitea, Palm Dair- ies, B.C. /Telephone, Cana- dian Bank of Commerce, Chamber of Comnierce, Dick- enson Mines, Eldorado Mar- ket, Kootenay Savings Credit Union, Lucerne Motel, Val- halla Trading Post, A.J. Kes- ler, Cominco Ltd., Canada Safety Supply and Simpson Sears — all of whom con- tributed generously to the P held at the Bayshore Inn on May 25 and 26. Guest speaker, Dr. Colin McNeill, lectured in depth on “Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on the Unborn Child.” Mrs, Teena Leitch of Castlegar auxiliary was ap- pointed to be West Kootenay area representative. Her term of office will commence in May 1982. No change in postal rates in ‘81 CALGARY (CP) — Post- master-General Andre Quel- let has dismissed reports that postal rates will rise within a few weeks, saying he wants no change until next year. “There should not be a postal increase this year,” he told reporters after an add- ress Tuesday to the Canadian Chamb “The two Modest start And in that year, 1898, what was the purchase price? In the book, Topping’s Trail, The First Year of a Now Famous Smelter City, by Elsie G. Turnbull, the following paragraph con- tains the figures; “Vice-president Shaugh- nessy announced that the of which he (Van Horne) was most proud in his later years, was the establish- ment of a steamship ser- vice across the Paci’: and the purchase ofa —elting plant at Trail,v a later, under the sance of Walter Ald: ge, a grad- uate of Columbia Univer- sity, whom he brought to Canada, was expanded into the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company, the most valuable subsiiary of & Canadian Pacific.” CPR had the property of the British Columbia Smelting and Refining company. The price of ‘purchase was a cause of much speculation. Some newspapers claimed Fritz Augustus Heinze had asked and received $1 million, but the general opinion favored the sum of $800,000; of which $200,- 000 was for the smelter and $600,000 for the rail- way between Trail and Robson and the narrow- Global warming inescapable By Austin Rand found that the model was in global i due to increasing atmos- pheric carbon’ dioxide is in- bh Jud “general with waht had actually happened. The researchers beliove a group of atmospheric physicists writing in the journal Sci- ence. ay The article reviews the wide range of available data on the “greenhouse effect” and provides a detailed for- mula or “mathematical mod- el” which attempts to take into account the numerous variables which may enter into wide-scale climate change over the next 20 to 100 years. 4 The effects of volcanic eruptions, variations in solar activity, changes in the use of fossil fuels, alteration of plant cover in various parts of the world and variations in the maount of area covered by radiaion-reflecting ice and snow are incorporated in the model. The researchers applied the model to known tem- gauge to y, changes pe over the last century and Loses ground to inflation VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. workers lost more ground to inflation in the past year, according to a nation- wide survey of employees’ salaries released Tuesday — eventhough average salaries are higher than in the rest of the country. While the cost of living in British Columbia rose 14.2 per cent in the period be- tween July, 1980, and July, 1981, salaries i d only now earns a median salary of $3,675 per month, compared with $3,468 in B.C., $2,973 in Ontario and $2,972 in the At- lantic region. The average for the four regions was $3,272 per month. A top-level executive in the medium-sized organiza- tion in B.C. earns an average of $88,576, including added benefits like car or car allow- an average of 11.2 per cent, says a survey conducted by the management consultant firm of Thorne, Stevenson and Kellogg. During the same period, salary levels increased an average of 10.8 per cent nationally, compared with a 18-per-cent increase in the national cost of living. of C ce’s 52nd annual meeting. Ouellet said he will rec- ommend to the federal cab- inet, when it meets later this week to discuss a postal in- crease, any new rates “go into effect next year.” But he refused to confirm or deny rumors that the in- crease will almost double current rates, pushing the cost of mailing a letter first- class to 30 cents. Ouellet promised, howev- er, to provide more informa- tion about the increase with- in days so Canadians will have up to 60 days to com- ment before cabinet deals with it. He added there will be no move to take away workers’ right to strike, as many chamber delegates have de- manded, when the post office becomes a Crown corporation next month. “Such a solution is too simple and will not work,” he said. “To take away the right to strike unfortunately will not prevent an illegal strike.” Ce surveyed pre- dicted-salary-increases aver- aging 12.1 per cent for 1981-82. If inflation continues at current levels, that means salaries will fall even farther behind during the coming year, said Fred Hilling, a consultant in Thorne, Steven- son and Kellogg’s Vancouver office. According to the survey, corporation executives re- ceived the highest salary in- creases, averaging 18 per cent in B.C. and 14.5 per cent nationally, while sales staff received the lowest average increases, 10.6 per cent. Pro- duction personnel received average increases of 11.3 per cnet; administrative, finance and data processing person- nel, 10.8 per cent (11.2 per cent in B.C.); and engineer- ing and technical personnel, 11.7 per cent. Pay levels in Alberta for senior technicians and senior engineers surged ahead dur- ing the survey period, mak- ing them the best in Canada. A senior engineer in Alberta STUDY ELECTRONICS AT SELKIRK COLLEGE An information meeting is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. in Room L-13 on the Castlegar campus. If you're interested in enrolling in elec- srenics courses at Selkirk College plan to attend. The following courses may be available: © Industrial Electronics © Digital Electronics and © Electronic Circuits Microprocessors © Introduction to Radio © Digital and Computer © Communications Systems © Basic Electric Circuits Students unable to attend the meeting should call Ron Smithers, Chairman, Elec- tronics Department, Selkirk College with course preferences. Telephone: 365-7292, or toll free from Nelson 352-3010 and Trail 368-5333. Selkirk College © W, ing and com- compared with $79,886 in Alberta, Saskat- chewan and Manitoba, $88,206 in Ontario and $65,584 in Quebec and the Maritimes. The national av- erage is $83,774. decided. t remaining purchasing any of thes: Be assured that if you new home in Castlegar an in Castlegar's finest new su A high school graduate hired in a Clerk I position earns an average of $919 a month in B.C., $864 in Al- berta, $857 in Saskatchewan, $773 in Manitoba, $791: in Ontario, $767 in Quebec and $765 in the Maritimes. The national average is $828 per month. A lead hand ina production job earns $1,916 per month in B.C, $1,808 in Alberta, $1,506 in Saskatchewan and Mani- toba, $1,488 in Ontario and $1,458 in Quebec and the Maritimes. The national ay- erage is $1,582 per month. This year's survey, the 11th the consultant firm has done, also includes an outline a of what Western Canadian companies are doing to over- come recruitment problems, Hilling said. In B.C., four companies re- ported offering prospective employees low interest hous- ing loans. ing will be clearly evi- dent by the 1990s and will inyolve a global average in- crease of at least 2.5 degrees Celsius by the middle of the next century. “This would approach the warmth of the Mesozoic, the age of dinosaurs,” they note. In Canada, the temper- ature increase is expected to be much greater than the global average since surface warming at high latitudes “will be two to five times the global mean warming.” This would indicate an increase of about five degrees in south- ern Canada and as much as 10 degrees in the far north. Using the increase post- ulated by the researchers as Breaks stolen car ring KAMLOOPS (CP) — A stolen car ring, involving 100 vehicles worth more than $1 million has been broken, a police spokesman said Tues- day. The ring extended throughout B.C. and into Al- berta, an RCMP official said. 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The bake table has long been notable for the great variety of delicious foods — everything from bread to cookies to preserves to cakes — you name it, they've got it! Speaking of cakes, Mrs. Bonacci will again put on her now famous “cake walk,” a fun event whereby the lucky “walker” gets a cake for only 60 cents. Another repeat attraction will be handwrit- ing analysis by James Grou- tage; he can tell you things about yourself you never knew, just by examining a sample of your penmanship. There will be a miscel- laneous sale table full. of hand-worked items, useful and ornamental, as well as a few “white elephants.” A selection of plants will also be offered. Of course the tea itself is worth coming for; buttered biscuits and fancy breads of all kinds will be served at each table, and all for only 75 cents. So come for the tea and company, even if you don’t want to buy anything. A door prize will be drawn before the afternoon is over. Seek treatment in West Germany PORT COQUITLAM — A Port Coquitlam couple has declined a controversial Cal- gary doctor's offer to treat their son's rare skin disease with megavitamin therapy and decided to take their chances with a West German clinic. John and Susan Shirley met Tuesday with Dr. Carl Reich, a megavitamin prop- onent who has been struck from the B.C. Medical Reg- ister but still practices in Calgary. The Shirley's 13-year-old son Chris ‘suffers from. epi- dermolysis bullosa, an inher- ited and sometimes fatal dis- ease that causes the skin to blister painfully at the slight- est touch. Most doctors con- sider the disease, which strikes one person in 50,000, ; incurable. Reich says that megavi- tamin therapy could help Chris the sam way he claims it has helped others with the disease. A Vernon, family says their daughter was vir- tually freed of the disease by Reich's methods. _But the Shirleys aro pin- ning their hopes on Roman- ian biochemist Pavel Kozak, who runs a clinic in West Germany and whose treat- ment includes diets, drugs and vitamins. “We called West Germany last week and (Kozak) con- firmed that he will take Chris,” John Shirley said. “We don’t want to ruin our chances with him, especially after seeing what happened with Tony Degabriele.” Degabriele, a 32-year-old Toronto man suffering from the same disease, returned onthe weekend “pracitcally cured’ after six weeks at Kozak's clinic. Degabriele’s doctor said the. man is “1,000 per cent better, with,no symptoms of * his ‘previous apparently ter- minal skin condition.” Columbia .. Launch postponed CAPE CANAVERAL (REUTER) — The second launch of the trouble-plagued space shuttle Columbia has been postponed for at least two weeks by a launch-pad fueling accident in which the ship's delicate exterior was damaged. “We have a pretty serious problem,” launch director George Page told a news conference at the Kennedy Space Centre Tuesday. “We definitely will not be able to launch by the 9th of Oc- tober,” as scheduled. Page said between one and three gallons of highly toxic rocket fuel was spilled earlier Tuesday while the liquid was being pumped into a storage tank in the nose. of the airplane-like Columbis. The fuel, nitrogen tetro- hemicall Page said officials had only a sketchy estimate of the ex- tent of the damage because the poisonous gases given off by the hypergolic fuel were keeping all but a handful of specialfy-clothed workers from ‘the launch pad. , He said the workers, wear- ing thick) protective gar- ments similar to spacesuits, were in the process of clean- ing up the spilled fuel to eliminate the deadly fumes. After the initial cleanup, experts would then carry out a thorough inspection to de- termine the precise extent of the damage and estimate how long it will take to repair. Page, directed the first flawless launch of the space shuttle on April 12. DEAN PARFENIUK graduated from UBC this spring with the pegres. of Bachelor. of Applied Scien- ce in Engineering Physics (with honours). He is now enrolled as a graduate student at UBC working toward his Masters In Physics. Parfeniuk . was awarded the Association .) SCHOOL BRIEFS... Seeks fire protection The board of trustees for School District No. 9 has sont aletter to the City of Castle- gar inquiring if they would consider providing fire pro- tection, as done for Selkirk College, for the outlying schools in Areas I and J Also approved was a re- quest by Kinnaird Junior Secondary School (KJSS) principal Terry Rogers to levy a $3 student activity fee and a $20 instrument rental fee. Feb. 2, 1982 has been The district has received a support grant in the amount: of $6,160. The funds may be used to support French pro- grams at both elementary and secondary levels, * The amount is $1,800 less than last year, because of a which have no fire departments at present. bd s ° Also approved was a rec- ommendation to include the upgrading of the science room and storage room at KJSS in next year’s capital. expense proposal which will go to the ministry of edu- cation in December. The board was unable to upgrade the llities this as change-over day. g cutback on fund- ing. Extension given training OTTAWA (CP) — The federal and B.C. govern- ments have agreed to 8 \ year because of lack of funds. La * s Ministry of education ap- proval has been received to change the school hours at the Ootischenia School. of F ig) 3 Prize for showing promise in his chosen field. He is also the recipient of a National Research Council renewable scholarship of $9,350. awarded by the Government of Canada. He is the son of Walter and Ruth Parfeniuk of Castlegar and attended local schools and Selkirk College. i? — Issues head lice warning: Several schools are again reporting episodes of head lice (Pediculosis capitis) says Dr. N.M. Arnott, Medical Health Officer, West Koot- enay Health District who has issued the following state- ment: : “Head lice are more of a nuisance than a serious health hazard. The Public Health Nurse is trained in identifying head ‘lice‘and the ‘eggs (nits). at the base of the hair. There is no imputation of lack of personal hygiene or a lack of parental care in this. examination. If the head lice were a8 fastidious in their chofce of victim as are most of the parents in the care of .their children, infestations of head lice would be an un- pleasant memory only. “Unfortunately, head lice are quite as capable of in- fecting a clean head as they are of an unwashed! head. Public Health Nurses appre- ciate parental co-operation in controlling the spread of li¢e within the schools and also from the school to the home. “Remember, in our modern society, head lice have about as much social connotation as does the common cold — you can pick up either one from the school or at home.” Students, as of Sept. 8, now start classes at 8 a.m. and are dismissed at 1:40 p.m. The hours were changed from 8:30 to 2 p.m., because ofa supervision problem with students arriving: by bus early prior to the beginning of classes, The board decided to start classes shortly after their ar- rival. oe . The following days have been designated as non-in- structional days — Oct. 23 for all district schools, due to a multi-cultural conference, Nov. 23 for all elementary schools, due to a parent- teacher elementary day, and Nov. 18 for’ all elementary schools, in order that they may participate in’ profes- sional development activi- tios. . . The board app! I t t I 4 { I 1 i] | ' da re-| one-year ofa multi- million-dollar ‘adult occupa- tional training agreement. Under the extension, ef- fective to March 31, 1982, Ottawa will contribute about courses $44 million to buy training courses in provincial insti- tutions and $19.2 million to support training courses held by employers. Training allowances for students will also be made available by the federal gov- ernment. ‘Sides of >I \**“Triple Loan . © Castlegar, B.C. If you are interested, please complete the registration coupon below, and mail it.along with your cheque for $40.00... - ne i This amount covers registration fee and lun- For further Information contact Sharon Coven- try at 426-7241. — [WOES OF CANCELLATION AUST BE RECEIVED TWO DAYS PRIOR TO san, quest by Stanley Humphries Secondary School (SHSS) Principal Lach Farrell to levy a $4 students parliament fee and a $6 athletic couneil fee. ‘Donates 16.5 acres marsh land VICTORIA (CP) —Doman Industries Ltd. is donating 16.5 acres of industrially- zoned marshland to help im- plement a plan to preserve. the Cowichan Estuary, En- vironment Minister Steve Rogers said Tuesday. Rogers said the land, near the Doman sawmill, will be turned over to the Crown as soon,as the necessary zoning can take place. i He said the firm also has asked for cabinet approval to protect the tip of a small island’ near the sawmill by installing pilings: to prevent erosion by .log booms being towed into the mill pond. xide, d the bonding agent which glues the spaceships all-important thermal protection tiles to its aluminum surface. - “So far we have 67 tiles off the ship,” Page said. “We have the potential of 230 to 260 tiles” being affected. The launch director said all the affected silicon tiles would have to be removed from the ship, decontamin- ated, water-proofed and re- positioned before normal launch operations could re-