“CastléSiit News December 23, 1987 Soviet airline an experience trrrHone 365.5210: arent PETROPAVLOVSK, U.8.S.R. (AP) — The pilot fumed as he pushed through the cabin of the Aeroflot jet. It was 2 a.m., and he had found no fuel at two un- planned stops on a trans-Si- berian flight already sche attendant. “We'll have to go else, comings. State-run Aeroflot has come under fire lately for chronic disregard of passen ger comfort and safety on domestic flights. Aeroflot, deemed the world’s largest carrier by the Washington-based magazine Air Transport World, in 1986 carried about 116 million passengers an average of each. close.” ‘The flight attendant’s an- nouncement a little later roused most of the 160 pass- engers who were sleeping as the triengine Tupolev 154 sat in F , a city in LIMITS MEALS The airline serves only one meal on domestic flights for breakfast, lunch or dinner — cold chicken, bread and a cookie. Drinking alcoholic northern Kazakhstan 1,900 kilometres east of Moscow. wes and smoking are forbidden on all flights. There are no safety dem- at the start of our plane is preparing for takeoff on a course from Petropaviovsk to Tyumen to take on fuel,” the flight attendant said. “Flight time is 55 minutes and the ground temperature in Tyumen is -7. Have a nice flight.” The plane took two hours to make it to Tyumen, a western Siberian oil centre. It used only one engine and carefully circled populated areas near Tyumen, appar- ently to avoid a great loss of life if it crashed. The incident in mid-Octo- ber, taken in stride by most of those aboard, underscored what the Soviet Union's only airline admits are its short- each flight, primarily because there's little to show. Reg. ulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization require safety equipment on international flights, but Aeroflot sets its own domes. tic standards. ‘There are no life jackets under the seat or oxygen masks in the overhead com. partments and the seat poc- ket in front, where other airlines place emergency in- structions, is usually empty. Emergency exists are marked, but often blocked by excess baggage. Sovietskaya Rossiya, a Communist party daily, dis- closed in June that scores of passengers were killed in a crash in the Volga River in- dustrial city of Kuibishev when an Aeroflot pilot bet his crew that he could make a blind landing. The pilot tried to land with the cockpit window covered. ADMITS PROBLEMS The weekly newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta said in October that Aerofint dis- patchers and air-traffic con- trollers are underpaid, over- worked and speak English too poorly to direct inter- national flights safely. Good Evening, Moscow, a popular nightly television interview program, said in early December that black marketeers at the capital's Domodedovo airport control ticket sales for long-distance flights. There's a shortage of seats at official prices, but they're available to someone who pays double. At Ulan Ude airport on Oct. 9, an American visitor saw the wreckage of two 30-seat Yakovlev-40 jets strewn over a grassy strip about 25 metres beyond the runway. Their wings were burned, seats and baggage were scattered, and the tail as- sembly was torn off one jet. An Aeroflot ground hostess at the inquiries desk said there had never been a crash at the airport. Mine construction OK’ d Cominco Resources Inter- national Ltd. and its joint venture partner, a subsidiary of the Anglo American corp- oration, have approved a production decision on the Marte gold mine in north- central Chile. Construction will begin early in 1988. Cominco Resources has a 25.6 per cent interest in the project. The Marte mine will be developed as a heap-leach operation, and it will operate at a rate of 8,000 tonnes a day for production of an average of 95,000 ounces of gold per year. Toxic seaweed in B.C. VANCOUVER (CP) — tide expert Max Taylor says a seaweed blamed for the poison that is thought to have killed two Canadians is some- times found in British Col- umbia waters. But he stressed that scientists still don't fully understand what caused the poisonings. “Yes, the seaweed does cecur here, but it’s not abun- dant,” the University of B.C. biological oceanographer said. “It's quite rare.” Federal government scientists announced Friday they had identified the poison in Prince Edward Island mussels. The toxin was identified as domoic acid. A_ possible source named was a species of red seaweed called chon- dria. Taylor said chondria is known to produce domoic acid, but whether it was the source of the domoic acid in the poisonous mussels is another question. “When they say they found ‘the’ toxin they mean they found ‘a’ toxin,” he said in an interview. Mineable reserves have recently been calculated at 27 million tonnes, with an aver- age grade of 1.55 grams per tonne (0.045 ounces per ton) using a cut-off of 0.77 grams per tonne. This represents a total of 1.8 million ounces of gold. The mine's stripping ratio will average 1.2 tonnes of waste for each tonne of ore. Full production is expected by mid-1989. ion of the nearby BUSINESS DIRECTORY Tuesday, Dee po Viney ell ery ng Rocky View Tox & Bookkeeping Services iness & Contractors No. 06-1545 Columbia Avenue Costlegar, B.C. VIN 1! IRENE MORTIMER 365-2223 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc.C.A lent Partner Brian L. 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Adv ia merely an offer to sell "the otter may be withdrawn at ‘any time. NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Full, complete and sole is vested in and belongs to Castle News Lid.: provided, ever that copyright in THAT PART "AND. THat PART belong to CASTLEGAR NEWS Established Aug. 7, 1947 Twice Weekly May 4, 1980 Incorporating the Mid-Week Mirror published from Sept. 12, 1978 to Aug. 27, 1980 iN, Manager: GARY FLEMING. Advertisin: HEATHER Manager; Composing Room Foreman ing For Legislative Library, Parliament Bldgs... 501 Belleville st Victoria, Bi v6V 1x4 cy Fad) 28 Vol. 40, No, 103 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 90, 19867 © eventually 1987’s TOP STORIE More than 2,000 people and a cheque for $23,000 greeted Rick Hansen when he wheeled his Man in Motion world tour in- to Castlegar on May 3. Hansen's visit preparations special events to raise funds and awareness of the disabled. months — of that” iAcluded capped time Hansen pushed specially-designed wheelchair up Sherbiko Hill and out of town, single Castlegar resident who hadn't been touched by him in some way. there wasn't a Followling are the top stories for 1987 chosen by CasNews staff. 1. Rick Hansen visits RICK HANSEN .. here in April 2.WKPL sale approved The sale of West Kootenay Power and Light Co. to UtiliCorp United Inc. for $80 million dominated the news pages for months as opponents launched a massive campain to halt the sale. Public hearings that were supposed to take only a few days dragged on for months. A consumers group formed to stop the sale ed up more than 8,000 members. But in the end the B.C. Utilities Commission gave the green light to U.S.-based UtiliCorp to compl Aug. 9: Protesters burn UtiliCorp in effigy The four brokers involved in 3. Brokers on trial the Dixie Dee Powers pyramid scheme were sentenced Sept. 14 to six months capping a news story that iched over two years. The sentences were half that given Powers herself, who served her time and was set free. The four brokers have since filed an appeal. The Pyramid scheme, netted some $3.2. million in the West Kootenay. POWERS'S BROKERS . Six-month sentences 4. Cominco on strike The United yh of America | hed a 17-week strike on May 9 that shut down Cominco Ltd.'s operations at. Trail and Kimberley for 17 weeks. The strike idled 3,200 workers and was easily the longest strike in the province in 1987. But when the strike finally ended Aug. 31 Cominco appeared better off than ever, hiring more than 200 new workers as construc- tion of the new $171 million lead smelter picked up. LOCAL 9605 ON STRIKE GRR len 2S ie Woodroom a concern By RON NORMAN Editor The Arrow Lakes Tugboat Society has asked the Ministry of Forests to intervene in the proposed closure of the Celgar Pulp Co. woodroom. In a letter to Ken Arnett, Arrow Forest District manager, tugboat society spokesman Ed Conroy sugges:s the ministry ask Moe rs) Pulp to continue until As well, he asked Arnett to Prepare a written response to a humber of the society's concerns about the woodroom shutdown. The society represents individuals who work on the tugs that transport logs from Westar Timber’s Tree Farm License No. 23 to the Southern Wood Products sawmill and Celgar Pulp Co.'s mill. an investigation beat the closure has been completed. “The woodroom is to be operated until Dec. 31, 1987 and ‘mothballed’ by Jan. 30, 1988,” Conroy writes. in an interview today with the Castlegar News, Arnett said the ministry can't dictate what a priv- te“ pealegae company does with its Woe could request they continue operating, but we certainly can't inter- “T've looked at the woodroom problem over the last couple of years and I could see that coming,” he said. He pointed to the fact that the woodroom supplies only 30 per cent of AIRPORT EXPANSION . . terminal building expa $2 million Castl ins to mr Airport e shape. Constructign crews work inside completingiinterior of the pulp mill's chips at a time when there is an oversupply of chips from area sawmills. Arnett called it “ludicrous” to ask. the ministry to force a company like Celgar into using chips from round- wood logs off the tree farm when there are so many chips being stockpiled by local sawmills. Asked about a criti¢ism that some area sawmills are chipping good quality sawlogs, Arnett replied: “No, they're not.” He added later: “I have never seen a mill here chip up good sawlogs.” continud on pege AZ Hospital receives pital will reeeive $87,000 from the pro- vineial government, following recom- mendations of a hospital fanding be- view committee. ‘The hospital was given notice just before Christmas that it would receive mittee was established after parents protested provincial assistance . was given to the B.C. Lions football team while hospital waiting lists were The funds were given only to We wore able to demonstrate the the hospital's operations,” _ efficiency of said hospital administrator Ken. Talar- building, which will include restaurant and baggage claim area when finished later this spring. —CoatewsPhoto by Ron Normon 4.7, PER CENT HIKE Council studies budget By RON NORMAN Editor Casi council is studying a 1988 provisional budget with a 4.7 per jeent property tax increase. Figures # released at a. recent council meeting show property taxes in the provisional budget total $2.5 million, up some $114,000 from the 1987 final budget. However, city administrator Dave Gairns pointed out in a memorandum to council: “In the past the provisional council and final decisions on budget priorities.” Gairns said the provisional budget reflects a continuation of the present level of municipal programs and services. But despite the tax increase, the overall provisional city budget for 1988 is down from 1987. In 1967, the final budget totalled $4.2 million. The 1988 provisional budget will come in at $3.9 million. That's a drop of some $344,000. Free rides New Year's By CasNews Staff Party-goers will have no excuse to drink and drive this New Year's Eve. Maloney Pontiac is sponsoring the free rides on regular routes from 8 p.m. > 2:30 a.m. " For information about the New !Year's Eve service, pick up 2 special New Year's Eve timetable from a bus ‘driver and watch for the ad in this tissue. ‘Gairns notes that much of that drdp is because of the new library. Last year's budget contained $508,533 for general capital expenditures, com- pared to just $260,750 this year. But $375,000 of last year's capital budget went to the library. Briefly, the provisional budget contains a $32,000 increase in general government services, a $60,000 in- cultural ser There are decreases of $10,000 i in protective services and $8,000 in planning and economic development. As weil, the city will pay $82,000 less on ita debt load in 1988. Under, the proposed $260,760 pn ee expense is tl pa progr? layed it expenses © $24,850 Yor traffic signals ‘on Columbia Sree onet oe Gert and ot 6th Street; «$30,650 to revs # fire depart- ment pumper truck; © $15,000 to landseape Pioneer Arena; « $6,160 to upgrade Bgb Brandson © $9,200 to construct sidewalks at 13th Street and Columbia Avenue, and on 20th Street from 6th Avenue to Columbia Avenue, Hansen named one of year's heroes By The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Canadian wheel- chair athlete Rick Hansen was on a list of 1987's top heroes released Tuesday by the The list is released ‘annually “to convey hope for the future,” said the group. The international non-profit or- ganization was founded in 1979 by young people “who wanted to reject the common epitaph that we were generation without Edward McNally, chairman of the society's board, said at a news conference. Hansen, a British Columbia native, who circled the globe in 1 wheelchair to raise funds for the disabled was named “for defying the odds.” Pope John Paul “for his common touch.” “Mother” Clara Hale of New York City’s black Harlem @istriet, who cares for infants with AIDS and drug addic- tions, “for the children’s tomorrow.” French “The money is going to cover our deficit as a result of increased activity and will also be used to increase staff.” Talarico. said, & fag Ex-Rebels triumph Jacques Cousteau “for ees our world.” Elizabeth Tae “for 8. which 200 years “is still state of the art.” Deadlines advanced