oe . Castlegar News March 5, 1986

WEATHER

Retirees want inquiry

By CasNews
A committee led by retired teacher Alma
McGauley has decided to circulate a petition to try to force
Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Elwood Veitch to
hold an inquiry into the failure last November of the
Teachers’ Investment and Housing C

to free more than $268 million in funds frozen when the
TIHC was placed in receivership Nov. 4, said the committee
is “planning a big rally” at Sir Charles Tupper secondary
school Monday in Vancouver.

She and the committee pres proposed that the

McGauley said Tuesday a section of the Cooperatives
Association Act states that if 10 per cent of a co-op's
members ask for an inquiry and the minister agrees there is
a “bona fide” complaint, then an inquiry must be held.

To force the inquiry, the committee needs 4,500
signatures from the TIHC’s 45,000 members in B.C.,
Alberta, Manitoba and Yukon.

McGauley, who is staying in Vancouver while she fights

I government gual he d $65 million
shortfall of the co-op in order to faelitate a merger of the
co-op and another financial institution.

Because the B.C. Teachers’ Federation has refused to
back McGauley’s committee in its fight, she said her group
has been “left to paddle its own canoe” and now must seek
donations to keep the campaign going.

“We have come to the conclusion that we have to ask for
donations from members of the co-op and teachers,” she
said. “We have no financial support from anybody.”

McGauley has written a letter to Premier Bill Bennett
— for a meeting to discuss the co-op’s failure but he has

not yet replied, she said.

“We have only evasive answers from Victoria as to
when the premier will meet with us.”

BEST COSTUMES .

. City of Castlegar’s Carl Henne

(from left), Betty Price, Terry Rogers and Dave Gairns

easily won prizes for best costumes ot Heart Fund
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Council clears stand
on microwave system

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar council supports
a microwave landing system
for Castlegar Airport, but
says that doesn't mean the
current landing system

MLS would be an additional
navigational aid at this air-
port,” said Mayor Audrey
Moore.

Moore told a recent council
meeting that the current
landing system should be
maintained because it is used
by the Ministry of- Forests
tanker base, the Selkirk.

Nielsen said he supports
council in its bid to obtain a
microwave landing system
for the airport.

“It will increase the reli-
ability of commercial flight

College flying school and pri<yrrivals of Dash 7 aircraft by

age

neil clarified its stand
on ye MLS following a letter
from Adastra Aviation man-
ager Dale Nielsen.

Can company
workers settle

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A
strike by the United Steel-
workers union against four of
the largest U.S. can man-
ufacturers that began Feb. 17
was settled and work re-
sumed today. But contract
talks it with Can-

ratified three-year pacts late
Tuesday with Continental

The offers from the four
companies don't differ in any

ada’s largest can maker, a
union official said.
The inelude a

ways,” Lynch
said. “That's why the one
vote that was taken by the

wage freeze and a two
tiered wage scale slanted
against new employees. The
union preserved cost-of-liv-
ing bonuses and vacation
schedules and won improved
pension benefits, said Leon
Lynch, a United Steelwork-
ers vice-president and negoti-
ating leader.

“Picket lines are down all
over the USA, and all those
who were scheduled to work
last night and today were
urged to return,” Lynch said
today.

Analysts had said short-
ages would evelop in the beer
and soft drink industries if
the strike lasted much long-
er.

With a single 90-to-12 vote,
Lynch said, the union's con-
tainer industry conference

MATH STUDENTS

was the ratifying
vote for all four U.S. com-

The conference includes
chairmen of the negotiating
teams assigned to individual
companies and the presidents
of about 85 union locals in the
United States and Canada.
Their decision is binding on
union members.

The agreement covers
about 6,000 workers at Con-
tinental of Connecticut, 4,500
at American, 2,500 at Nation-
al and 600 workers at Crown
Cork and Seal.

Union members walked
out against the four U.S.
companies Feb. 17, and 1,850
workers began picketing
Continental Can of Canada
Ltd. three days later after a
three-day wait required by
Canadian law.

lowering the
limits,” he said.
However, Nielsen pointed
out that the system will only
benefit Dash 7 aircraft with
its short field take-off and
landing capabilities.
“Other aircraft will be able
to use the system if they
hase the receiving equip-
ask, but it will not allow
them lower limits,” Nielsen
said.

approach

He added that it would cost
Adastra Aviation $10,000 to
install a single a
receiver in an aircraft. Since
the Ministry of Transport re-
quires back-up equipment in
all commercial aircraft “the
result would be $20,000 per
aircraft, an outrageous sum
considering that no benefit
would be derived,” said Niel-
sen.

He called for assurances
that the present landing
system would remain in place
for at least five years after an
MLS was installed.

Nielsen also pointed out
that Castlegar Airport has a
high ratio of instrument traf-
fie to visual traffic.

“It would not be reason-
able to require general avai-
ation aircraft to acquire
microwave receivers just to
come to Castlegar,” he said.

“In fact, Castlegar could
experience a loss of traffic if
the (present landing system)
were to be withdrawn.”

Couneil agreed to make it
clear to the Ministry of
Transport that it wants a
MLS, in addit to the pres-
ent landing system.

MARCHING ON...
walk ina

the scqut movement.

youth and adult members of the Castlegar Scout and Guide
light parade in honor of Lord Baden-Powel

. founder of

Truck injures nine
students at bus stop

WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) —
A 11-year-old Williams Lake
girl suffered critical head in-
juries early Tuesday when a
vehicle slid out of control and
struck a group of students
waiting for a school bus on a
rural road outside this Cari-
boo town.

Yvette Rebel, 17, was
flown to Kamloops hospital
Tuesday afternoon in very
serious condition, said La-
Nora Metzger, nursing dir-
ector at Cariboo Memorial
Hospital here.

Eight other teenagers
were taken to hospital. Read
Harrington, 13, was treated
for a dislocated knee and re-
leased.

Elaine Nolan, 15, has a

Li.

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In Grade 10, Castlegar district students scored above
the provincial average in numbers and number operations,
algebra and computers and calculators.

But in geometry, local Grade 10s scored almost three
percentage points lower than the provincial average.

ei

However, the report_notes that geometry is taught in
June in the district and the assessment was administered in

May.
As a result of the

the report r

that more emphasis be given to geometry at all levels and
that the subject be taught earlier in the school year.
The report also recommends that math teachers in the

GAS PRICE

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gasoline taxes while station owners like himself “make
barely 12 cents a gallon” when they can sell at a profit.

“You print all that down and send it to (Kootenay
West MP) Bob Brisco,” Konkin said. “Tell him this fellow
needs help.”

At the other end of town it is a different story at the
Roadside Place on Columbia Avenue.

Owner Ron Franks, whose station is supplied by
Chevron and was the first in town to lower prices, said
the main reason he wants to keep prices low is “to keep
customers at home.”

“Trail has had prices down for a couple of months so
on my own I was trying to force the hand of the oil
companies,” he said.

Franks said he had discussions with Chevron officials
and pointed out to them the lower prices in Genelle and
Trail

“In the end they decided to back us up.”

He said if local gas stations stick together, “probably
we can force the oil companies” to lower the prices.

Franks is currently selling regular unleaded for 51.5
cents per litre.

district provide greater time and attention to problem
solving skills and “that teachers in all subject areas make a
more conscious and determined effort to use consistently
metric units exclusively in their teaching.”

All three recommendations reflect province-wide
recommendations arising from the assessment.

In addition, the local report recommends:

e that principals — in consultation with their teachers —
ensure that recommended time allotments for the teaching
of math are reached and if possible exceeded;

e that a greater emphasis be placed on providing
learning assistance in math, particularly in the elementary
grades;

e that a district in-service program be established for
teachers of math focusing specifically on the teaching of
problem-solving skills;

e that a district in-service program be established for
implementation of the new math curriculum;

@ that the teaching of math be given a higher priority
district-wide in the next two years;

e that a district math coordinator be hired or assigned;

¢ that district schools use the panel's report to address
areas of weakness;

© that principals attempt to assign teachers with strong
math backgrounds to teach math (in elementary schools).

The trustees have turned the report over to
superintendent of schools Terry Wayling for evaluation and

badly fractured leg and Met

zger said she would be sent

to Kamloops hospital.
Other injured were: Tanya

Worttig, 14; Michael Brule,

13; Jason Ryll, 13; Tara
Moore, 13; Laura Mears, 15;
and Richard Lulua.

Most suffered knee and leg
injuries.

“They were pretty fright-
ened, seared to death really,”
said Metzger. “They were
wondering what happened to
their friends. They had just
been standing at the bus
stop, talking and didn't even
have time to react.”

RCMP Const. Stu Wolfen:
den said the accident occur-
red when one vehicle slowed
to let a pedestrian cross the
road.

A woman following in a
four-wheel drive truck also
attempted to slow down,
Wolfenden said, but it ap-
peared her truck hit a patch
of ice and slid into the nine

students waiting at the road-
side.

He said the RCMP were
continuing an investigation.

“I saw the children lying
along the road and in the
ditch and they were seriously
injured,” said local resident
May Getz, who went to the
scene of the accident. “I knew
one girl — I've known her
since she was a baby — I
talked to her. She was very
quiet and very hurt.”

Getz said the road was
slippery Tuesday morning
because it rained overnight
and then froze.

She said a Highways Min-
istry truck went past spread-
ing salt on the road about 15
minutes after the accident.

“I felt it should have come
earlier,” Getz said. “I felt it
was a bit late under the cir-
cumstances . . . if the salt
truck had been there earlier,
it could have been pre-
vented.”

ENCOUNTER
WITH WEBSTER

BURNABY (CP) — Mila Mulroney's smile tightened but
prevailed Tuesday in an encounter with Jack Webster, the
West Coast's crusty television talk-show host

“How do you keep your — how heavy are you?”
demanded Webster, a 67-year-old Vancouver broadcasting
institution.

“How much do I weigh? One hundred and 39 pounds,”
the prime minister's wife replied

“How tall are you?”

“Five feet nine and a half.”

“You're maybe five pounds overweight,” Webster
opined, as Mulroney asked whether he also wanted to know
how old she is (32).

“Are you five pounds overweight?” Webster pressed.

“Uh, I think so.”

“Yeah, I was thinking that myself when you came in this
morning,” Webster confided.

“Jack, you never change.”

SPACE QUESTIONED

Webster also questioned her use of government office
space and publicly paid staff to answer correspondence,
manage appointments and handle other demands of her
position.

“There has been no taxpayers’ dollars put into my
office,” said Mulroney. “All my staff, as all previous wives,
are under the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) umbrella,
they've all been accounted for. I'm not leasing any space, I've
got one large room that we subdivided, and the letters have
gone up to 300 a week.”

“It's not a pretend career as the prime minister's wife?”
Webster asked.

“I don’t think it’s a pretend career,” Mulroney said.
“And Id like to make it very clear that it’s a full-time job and
a lot of hard work, and I think in many ways it’s a career
that’s been unfolding quite quickly.”

MILA’S VISIT

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greet Mulroney at the entrance to Castlegar Primary
cone played for representatives of 14 Castlegar ethnic

And during a program in the gymnasium, Castlegar
Primary Students sang the songs they had intended to
sing for Mulroney. Members of the Union of Spiritual
Communities of Christ youth choir also entertained with
their songs.

On hand at the program were local dignitaries,
including Brisco, Acting Mayor Carl Henne, school board
chairman Kay Johnson, and Dr. J.C. Valadas, Portuguese
consul in Vancouver, who was in Castlegar Sunday to
attend the opening of an exhibit at the National
Exhibition Centre.

About 175 people — including the performers —
were on hand for the activities at Castlegar Primary
School.

The program was organized by Alexis Turner on
behalf of the Castlegar Multicultural Association and the
Castlegar school district.

Turner said a similar program will likely be staged
when Mulroney does come to Castlegar.

Brisco was the speaker at the Conservative party
luncheon in Rossland.

Council says
hives must go

By CasNews Staff

To bee or not to bee — that
was the question that stung
Castlegar council at its last
meeting. In the end, council
decided it was not to bee.

Council invoked a little
known bylaw _ prohibiting
keeping bees within city
limits following a complaint
by a 4th Avenue resident.

Ald. Carl Henne, chairman
of the protective services
committee, explained that
the resident said she's aller-

Double
for B.C.

VANCOUVER (CP)
Colleen and Glen Broughton,
of Alexandria, B.C., prayed
for a miracle and they got
two — British Columbia's
first set of test-tube twins.

“We were hoping so much
for a boy, and we ended up
with two,” the happy mother
said Tuesday night after Ty
ler and Tyson were born five
weeks premature to the Cen
tral Interior couple.

Broughton, who travelled

gic to bee stings and has been
to her physician a number of
times over the years after
being stung.

The woman's doctor told
her it could be “serious” if
she is stung too often, Henne
said

He added that since her
neighbors have bee hives
“it's common sense” that the
bees which sting the woman
likely come from those hives.

Council has asked that the
hives be removed.

miracle
couple

to Vancouver last summer
for in-vitro fertilization,
learned she would have twins
when she was six weeks
pregnant.

She said her nine-year-old
daughter, Jodi, can’t wait to
see her brothers.

Dr. Christo Zouves, co-or-
dinator of the in-vitro fer-
tilization program at the
University of B.C., said there
is a 40-per-cent chance of
delivering twins.

Castlégat News
Steer TALK

THE CHALLENGE has been accepted. Castlegar
will compete against Newcastle, New Brunswick in the
annual Great Canadian Participaction Challenge.

The challenge’s goal is to get as many residents of
each community involved in some sort of activity on a
specific day. The community with the greatest percen-
tage of residents involved will be declared the winner.

Reports out of New Brunswick indicate that New-
castle had close to 80 per cent involvement last year.
Castlegar was far short of that figure, but organizer Pat
Metge is hoping for a turnaround this time.

DONT BE surprised if that old house by the
Highway 3 interchange is surrounded by firemen one of
these days. The house is owned by the Ministry of
Highways and has been given to the Castlegar Volunteer
Fire Department for use in training drills.

THE CASTLEGAR Chamber of Commerce's build-
ing is proceeding well. Work has begun on the roof.
President Paul Moroso told the membership last week
that the chamber hopes to have its grand opening at the
end of May.

IF YOU thought the sand used by the Ministry of
Highways on winter roads has been getting coarser,
you're not alone.

The Regional District of Central Kootenay board
feels the same.

The board has asked the Nelson Highways Region to
consider reducing the size of the sand used for winter
sanding.

Area B director Elvin Masuch (rural Creston) even
brought some samples of the “sand” (which looked like’
good-sized rocks) to the last regional board meeting.

Masuch said the sand is getting larger and is causing
considerable damage to vehicles

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By CasNews Staff

The City of Castlegar ended 1985 in

the black.

Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of
the administration and finance commit
tee, told a recent Castlegar council
meeting that the city closed out 1985

with a $43,804 surplus.

“It's very satisfactory,” said Calder- ded
bank. “We've been able to hold our ex e

penses within our budget.”

budget was spent)

@ public health and welfare: $5,115
surplus (78 per cent of its $22,750
budget was spent)

@ recreation and cultural services:
$15,900 surplus (92 per cent of its
$211,000 budget was spent)

Areas that were over budget inclu

$2,600 overbudget (101 per cent of its
$518,000 budget)

@ fiscal services: $304,000: overbud-
get (107 per cent of its $4.67 million
budget)

The environmental development ser.
vices section was pretty well right on
target — it was only $384 over budget.
And the environmental! health section
general was within $975 of its $114,500 budget.

government services:

Couneil agreed to transfer $35,000 of

the surplus to its reserve fund, with
the balance to be included in the

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The city’s final figures — subject to
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