(AP) — pa ga who Schaefer ‘a. the child came out of anesthesia. “She’s on a ; stirred, respirator @Bdshe will be probably for a while... She was 4 3 doing “r a turday stirring and opening her eyes.” ectapiektcons Gree: a baboon in a The baby suffered from hypoplastic left heart transplant operation, becuse! Officials said. syndrome, which always results in death within a few days. ‘Sandra Nebisen ist who was a Doctors said she had nearly died on her sixth day. hor pte Die team. peri the caso one of the The child's mother told the Barstow Desert Dispatch i hen edvéiiece th cafe” she had taken the ailing newborn home on Oct. 16, expecting Only four ape-to-hi (ansplants have been the praca cd ied surprised both mother and doctors. wuman beart reathing, and she slept a lot but she performed previously, all in adults, Only one recipient |. slert when she was awake,” the mother said. But she survived more than a few hours, living for 3‘ days. said her daughter “wouldn't be alive today if she weren't in No human heart was available for Baby Fae, born the hospital.” slightly premature two weeks ago with a heart so under- Schaefer said there was “hopeful optimism” that the developed that she would certainly have died, so doctors at child could have “a long life” with the ape’s heart, based on Loma Linda University Medica! Centre decided to use the studies by Dr. Leonard Bailey, who headed the surgical baboon's heart. team of more than a dozen people at the hospital about 100 The child, whose full name was withheld at the parents’ kilometres east of Los Angeles. request, was in critical condition Saturday, whieh is normal “In his animal research, he’s had animals go from after transplant surgery, said hospital spokesman Anita infancy to adulthood and experience pregnancy and delivery Rockwell. (with transplanted hearts), so hope springs eternal that “She is improving,” said another hospital spokesman, she'll have an active and normal life,” Sehaefer said. Maureen Taber. “The physicians are pleased with how The research team said in a news release that it hopes Schaefer said there had been 200 telephone calls clin tee eT acne as secten ee seeking similar operation for;his gon, said spokesman Jayne McGill. “It’s an infant boy,” said hospital vice-president Ed’ Wines. “He's just holding his own, just a little over a week old, We have promised to get back in touch with him,” he said, but no immediate decision has been made on that case. Wines said two calls expressed opposition to such surgery. Bailey, who has performed more than 150 heart transplants on animals such as goats and sheep, said that if Baby Fae’s transplant is successful, his experiments indicate the baboon heart will grow as she does. Doctors were emotional when the newly transplanted heart began beating without artificial stimulation after the five-hour operation Friday Moffat gets costs VANCOUVER (CP) — Former Prince George mayor Harold Moffat says that BCTV has agreed to pay his legal costs following a libel suit he launched against the television station over programs on land deals in Prince George, which aired in April 1977. Moffat said the settlement was reached out of court between his lawyer and BCTV representatives and included a statement aired by BCTV during its ‘Thursday news program. Moffat said it was never his intention to seek money through the libel action he brought against BCTV and he is not yet sure what his legal costs will be. “Members of the transplant team got tears in their eyes and some of them embraced each other,” Schaefer said. “It was somber, not euphoric, but there wasn't a dry eye in the house,” said Nehlsen-Cannarella. “It was an over. $500,000 of cheese required. CENTRAL FOODS response time swer a second Ridhome noted that with the shift But with two employees already in the station, there would be a faster The part-time employees would an call. Previously, one full-time employee was on for four days while the other full-time employee in the station and a call was received there would be a lag in response time. The employee would have to locate another person to help answer the call because two people are been in place for awhile he'll get together with Turner, who is unit officer, and make other necessaty changes. Castlegar ambulance service re- ceives between 500 and 600 calls a relatively low by provincial standards. trail h.c. No strike Nov. 11 Striking members of 40, Hotel, Restaurant” and Culinary Workers Ugion an- nounced Friday that they will be removing their pieket line at the Rossland Legion on Remembrance Day. “In respect of those who been on strike since June 12 gave their lives for our free- ina bit to arrive at their first doms, we declare Nov. 11 as ootenay West MP Bob Brisco (right), Caxtlegar alan Albert Calderb ) and Ken Morris, So cecuin Park Co-op chairperson, cut ribbon co-op on Saturday. CoatewsPhote Housing project opens By CasNews Staff A ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday oeneahy co-op shared the duty of cutting the ribbon. The co-op is the first of its kind in the Kootenays. anh yorermeeare oay soetiber (0. provete atiersems the capital cost of the project — $2.3 met with a 30-year loan from VanCity Savings Credit Union. The loan has been guaranteed under the National Housing Act by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. As well, the co-op will receive assistance from a maximum annual subsidy of about $385,967 to reduce the mortgage interest rate to as low as two per cent. The total contribution to the project under the oodiand Park Co-operative, located at 1674 Silver- wood Cena. the project consists of 18 two-bedroom, and. 40 three-bedroom units. Canada Savings Bonds Driven TERM DEPOSIT RATE For a limited time only, offers a Term Deposit rate ba Canada Savings Bonds rate Kooteney savir edit Union d on the curr juaranteed for 11%" GUARAN Police file Castlegar RCMP sides the “City of Castlegar are ‘RCMP, local Malek ee od hea tase {fae about 3% hours. during “same mature attitude” on “Gate” and Halloween nights. RCMP say extra officers and equipment will be on duty both nights. “Full use of the laws will be made for those who violate them,” said an RCMP press release. “Parents are again re. quested to know where (their) children are. Motor. ists are asked to be careful and watch out for the little ‘goblins,’ as in the past. “Let's make it a safe and sane Halloween,” the release says. “Remember, it's your community,” it adds. No one was injured but “extensive damage” was caused when two semi-trailer trucks collided 25 kilometres west of Castlegar Thursday the afternoon on the Blue hee Paulson highway after by a Safeway semi-trailer truck. Both vehicles were trav elling to Grand Forks, said Sgt. Gary Day. Court news Gregory Sylvester was fined $100 after pleading fined an additional $50 after pleading guilty to failing to appear in court, this week in Castlegar provincial court. CYCLO MASSAGE ADJUSTABLE BEDS SAVE '350 to *650 — Twins — Queses 5.A. Approved * Delivery Extre World Famous: NIAGARA Kootenay Savings Credit Union VANCOUVER (CP) — Canada Customs has put into cold storage cheese worth more than $500,000 that was brought into the country on stolen import permits. In the past two weeks, investigations supervisor Fred Sankey said, 181,440 kilograms of New Zealand chedder and Finland Edam cheese has been seized from five wholesalers and two importers in Vancouver He said the cheese entered Canada in nine container shipments since Oct. 10 on the basis of import permits stolen earlier this year from the External Affairs Department in Ottawa. Sankey said investigators knew the numbers on the stolen permits and were waiting for them to appear Nine candidates VANCOUVER (CP) — Nine candidates are in the running for two provincial byelections Nov. 8. Nominations closed Friday for Okanagan North, left vacant by the death this summer of Social Credit member Don Campbell, and Vancouver East, where former NDP leader Dave Barrett resigned to take up a broadcasting career. Rancher Harold Thorlakson is seeking to retain Okanagan North for Premier Bill Bennett's Socreds. He faces Lyle MacWilliam of the NDP, Liberal Frank Cole and Clyde Nunn of the Western Canada Concept. Liberal Leader Art Lee is seeking his first legislature seat in Vancouver East against Bob Williams, a former NDP cabinet minister, and Mario Caravetta of Social Credit. Also in the running are Hans-Joachim Grages for the Green Party and John Ford, an independent running under the banner of the We Believe in Canada Campaign. Trucks fail inspection VICTORIA (CP) — Only 17 per cent of the 189 trucks and buses stopped in a Highways Ministry spot check last week passed inspection, the ministry said A total of 1,727 vehicles were checked during the 20-hour roadblock, set up in the Campbell River area by the RCMP and motor vehicle inspectors, and 216 drivers were ticketed and an additional 205 were given warnings. Of the commercial vehicles, 79 per cent needed repairs and eight were ordered off the road because of critical defects, the ministry said in a news release. NDP must attract OTTAWA (CP) — New Democrats must develop an aggressive strategy to attract people who like their style but didn’t vote for the party in the last federal election, NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said Saturday “A lot of people were saying to me after the election that we didn't vote for you but we really like what you are saying,” Broadbent told a weekend meeting of the federal council “So we must respond to that because in my view there are a considerable number of social democratic people out there who have things to say to us and we must listen.” Delinquency down OTTAWA (CP) Juvenile delinquency charges dropped by 5.2 per cent in 1983 compared to 1982, Statistics Canada reports. Convictions on charges of juvenile delinquency decreased by 6.9 per cent last year from 1982 and by 1.4 per cent in 1982 compared with 1981 Juvenile offences under federal statutes ac counted for 78.3 per cent of the total number of adjudicated charges, while offences under provincial statues amounted to 20.7 per cent. Municipal bylaw violations totalled one per cent Thatcher trial SASKATOON (CP) — Colin Thatcher's two sons testified Friday he was at home with them eating Hamburger Helper at the time their mother was murdered. Regan Thatcher, 15, and his older brother, Greg, 19, both said they sat down to dinner in the family, home in Moose Jaw, Sask., with their father and their housekeeper, Sandra Silversides, about 6 p.m. on the night of Jan. 21, 1983. Their father, a wealthy rancher and politician, is charged with killing their mother, his former wife JoAnn Wilson, that night. She was beaten and shot to death about 6 p.m. in the garage of her home in Regina, 72 kilometres away The trial adjourned early Friday because defence lawyer Gerald Allbright said he plans to call “a very, very major witness, my main witness” next and did not want the testimony broken up by the weekend Albright did not name the witness. things are going right now.” “She's doing remarkably well,” spokesman Dick to perform four more such baboon-to-infant tr i on an experimental basis. BARE FACTS ON SAFETY . . . The RCMP safety bear, better known as Ken Plotnikoft and RCMP Const. Bill Brydon, chat with Woodland Park Elementary School pupils af ter a film and lecture on basic safety rules CosNews Photo by Adrion Chomberiorn Counci By CasNews Staff Castlegar council doesn't want CP Rail operating any trains without cabooses through the city until there have been full public hear ings on the proposal. CP Rail has applied to the Canadian Transport Commis sion to change railway oper- ating rules to run cabooseless trains. CN Rail had also applied to the CTC for permission to test the cabooseless trains. It says it would save $30 million a year by dropping the 1,000 helming feeling of l and satisfaction, to see her literally transformed from a helpless cripple.” | wants hearing cabooses in favor of compu terized monitoring devices. But the idea didn’t sit well with Castlegar council. “['m not sure it’s a good idea,” said Ald. Bob Pakula, protective services commit tee chairman. Pakula says he would like to see studies on the proposal before committing himself to it He suggested council send a letter to CP Rail asking that they continue to run the trains with cabooses through the city until public hearings have been held. The CTC plans to hold public hearings to consider a testing program to run cab- ooseless trains. CP Rail said in a letter to council that it wants to run freight trains without cab- ooses “wherever such opera- tion will not reduce the safe- ty of employees or the pub- lie.” The company said caboose- less trains have been oper. ating successfully in the United States “for some years.” Editor, ar News: After reading the front page head. line in the Oct. 24 Castlegar News, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Truly, we are living in an Alice in Wonderland funny farm. I am referring to the Ministry of Education's recommendation that the “two-cheek” rule be implemented on LETTER TO THE EDITOR Rule a cheeky problem Will this enforcement person be sup- plied with a tape measure, or will it be necessary to feel the cheek under a skirt or a winter coat? Students are not uniformly built to the same proportions, some may not fill the seat, while others will “overflow.” Perhaps one coukbbire John Turner for school buses. I certainly support our local school board for not taking this backward step. Furthermore, there are some questions that I am curious about. Who is going to monitor and measure these regulations? How can they determine if both cheeks are on the seat? his expertise im-this- area Possibly, these comments are not property thought out. Should I turn the other “cheek?” I believe this edict originates from a bunch of bums who do not have to ride school buses. Pat Romaine Castlegar JUDGE LIFTS BAN Lawyer charged with buggery NELSON (CP) — After or dering the news media on Monday not to reveal the name of a man accused of buggery and gross indecency a Nelson judge recalled court Friday to reverse his deci sion Provincial court Judge Stewart Enderton had ban- ned publication of the name of the accused, lawyer Wal. ter Khadikin. The name of the complainant, who was a juvenile when some of the of. fences took place, remains under a publication ban. Nelson Daily News lawyer Eric Watson said he was sur. prised by the timing of the change in the judge's order. Watson said he applied Friday on behalf of the news. paper to have the order set aside, and Judge Enderton was scheduled to hear his submission Wednesday “I guess what it boiled down to was that the judge had second thoughts about it (the order),” Watson said Defence lawyer Donald Kogstad, who granted a tele phone interview after getting permission to tape record the call, said he argued for the order on the grounds that it would assist his client to in vestigate the allegations. Kogstad said the disclosure of the names would make the investigation difficult or im possible. Letters needed to see Jackson By CasNews Staff Michael Jackson fans between the ages of 14 and 17 must write a letter under 50 words to the Castlegar News if they want a chance to win a ticket to see the prancing moon walker in concert. The letter Astaire of the ‘80s in person entry form in this paper. deseribing why you want to see the Fred must be sent along with the The winner will be chosen in a Nov. 7 draw, and Crossword Travel, Anyone? . . . answer in Wednesday paper ‘Average time of sokstion: 72 mimastes. P QTSPLYDX NPOETOSDXQP QTSNUDVEKPL ADG Tedtay’s C cRyYProqur ZYDZ YVG EVOGE OVLLUPL AVZY POOTOG cae Q: This Crossword Puzzle sp aeay ees d by the foll be announced in the Nov. 10 Castlegar News The lucky teenager will fly down return to Vancouver receive free meals and aceommodation at the Four Seasons Hotel, and see one of Jackson's concerts on Nov. 16. 17 or 18. The winner will join 107 other teenagers from around the provinee in special box seats in B.C. 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