cars and trucks scattered
rict have been singled out

CLEAN-UP

By CasNews Staff

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has
decided to clean up its act — but it has nothing to do with
how the board carries out regional district business.

“We're running into an automobile problem,”
explained Creston director Bill Herchmer at the board's
weekend meeting in Nelson.

Herchmer said old automobile bodies are scattered
across the regional district and need to be picked up.

“I think we should try to get a good clean-up of the
area,” he suggested, adding the derelict vehicles are “just
laying there.”

Herchmer said major dump sites, such as the dump
at Ootischenia, could be collection points.

for clean up by RDCK directors.

Area B director (rural Creston) Elvin Masuch added
that a Calgary company has offered to collect the
automobiles a couple of times a year.

CENSUS

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question will be. oan. as a reference
point to measure improvements in the
quality of life for Canada’s disabled, the

also be a question about

academic specialization including high-

est degrees, diplomas or certificates
held.

Questions dropped from the 1986

census include: age at first marraige,

condition of dwelling, number of bath-
rooms, and fuel used for water heating.

Statistics Canada says these que-
stions were eliminated to help reduce
costs as well as lessen the burden on
the respondent.

The 1986 census was cancelled in
November 1984 as part of the federal
government's effort to reduce expen-
ditures but was reinstated a month
later after pressure from groups in the
public and private sector who indicated
their need for census data, the release

cost of the 1986 census is
expected to total about $139 million
over the six-month period it takes to
gather and assess the data.
That works out to about $14.76 per
household enumerated.

The cost of this year’s census is down
about $10 million from the 1981 census
whieh cost $149 million or $18 per
household.

British Columbia proved to be a
difficult province for StatsCan in the
1981 census, having the highest rate of
undereounting in Canada. Statistics
Canada estimates census takers in B.C.
miss three out of every 100 people.

But more importantly than damag.
ing the accuracy of the census, the un
dercounting costs B.C. about $30 mil:
lion a year in payments from the
federal government made on a popula.
tion basis, David Rushton, Statistics
Canada regional director in charge of
the B.C. census said in a Canadian
Press story.

Rushton said people in B.C. are
harder to find and less willing to give
information.

He added that Expo “86 will create
additional problems for the 1986 census
because people in Vancouver “are
living in all sorts of accommodation.
Something that seems like a warehouse
may turn out to be a bed-and-breakfast
operation.”

StatsCan knows of 90,000 people who
did not complete the 1981 census form
— 190 were prosecuted and 50 of those

were British Columbians.

Statistics Canada says the ©1966
census is responsible for approximately
41,000 regional jobs related to the
delivery, collection and follow-up of
questionnaires.

An estimated 25,000 students will be
hired across Canada through a federal
government Youth Employment Pro-
gram to help conduct this year's
census.

Sal Johal supervisor of the student
employment centre at Canada Man-
power in Trail said 17 people — 10 of
whom are students — have been hired
in the Castlegar area.

Johal said an additional 31 people
have been hired in the Trail and
Fruitvale area. Twenty-four of those
are students.

The workers will be paid about $7 an
hour

The first results of the 1986 census
are expected to be available in January
1987, StatsCan says

Final population and dwelling counts
are expected in March 1987, while
progressive publication of data collec
ted from sample households should
begin by March 1988, StatsCan says.

NEC ‘at crossroads’

By CasNews Staff
The West Kootenay National Exhi
bition Centre has decided to form a
group of “friends” of the centre to help
organize special activities such as
receptions and concerts, NEC director
Lucille Doucette said Tuesday.

Doucette said forming the group,
which would act as a volunteer work
force for the NEC board, is one of the
centre's “biggest priorities” and was
discussed at the NEC's annual general
meeting Monday.

“The NEC is at a crossroads,”
Doucette said. “It needs an organiza:
tion of people behind it, rather than a
room full of objects.”

She said the NEC will “approach
certain people who we think have the
enthusiasm and the expertise to help.”

Doucette said the group would allow
the centre's staff and board to spend
more time fundraising, which she
added is an ongoing problem of the
NEC.

Doucette said the NEC's operating
grants from the senior levels of
government are “fairly guaranteed.”

“It's not like you have to go out and
talk to them. (The grants are) pretty
well paperwork.”

But she added that the private sector
and local governments are two areas on
which the fundraising for the NEC
have to be focussed.

Doucette said the NEC had a “rough
year” in 1985, running up a $20,000
deficit as of March 31 this year.

However, that deficit has now been
cleared she said.

Doucette said not much time was
spent discussing the planned $1 million
expansion of the NEC at the short
meeting, which she said lasted about 45
minutes and did not feature an annual
report.

She said the expansion, previously
set to begin this spring, has now been
delayed until late fall because of a delay
in a federal government job develop-
ment grant application.

The expansion is planned in two
phases and when completed will double
the size of the NEC to 9,750 square feet
from its current 3,900 square feet.

Castlegar council plans to contribute
$21,525 to the “Castlegar Room” —
part of the first expansion phase. How
ever, the city has decided to wait until
the federal grant applications are
approved before committing the funds.

MACDONALD, MURTA HERE BRIEFLY

The regional district has dealt with metal i

in Richmond and Kelowna over the last few years, but

Barry i said those firms
haven't shown any recent interest in the automobile
wrecks.

However, Kaslo director Jack Morris said the board
should ensure the wrecks are picked up regularly from
collection points. He pointed out that in the past vehicles
have been towed to a collection point only to sit there for
more than a year.

Meanwhile, the regional district has written to the
Ministry of Highways asking that it clean up litter along
the access road to the Ootischenia dump.

The board has also asked the ministry to schedule a
patrol of the road to ensure litter does not accumulate.

The action came in response to complaints from
Ootischenia residents near the dump who said garbage
was strewn along the road.

As well, the City of Castlegar will get 50 loads of
topsoil from the dump — 20 of which will be used at Pass
Creek Regional Park.

Ministers to visit

By CasNews Staff

MaeDonald for a half-day ment for the Toronto riding dian and northern develop-

Recta

Doctor says disaster
may affect 100,000

MOSCOW (AP) — More than 100,000 people risk
developing cancer because of exposure to radiation
unleashed by the Chernobyl disaster, says a U.S. doctor
treating victims of the nuclear power plant accident.

Meanwhile, Soviet physician Dr. Angelina Guskova
was quoted Tuesday by the government newspaper Izvestia
as saying 120 people from the Chernobyl area were being
cared for at Moscow's No. 6 Hospital.

Of those patients, 70 to 80 “are occupying our hearts
and minds permanently,” Guskova, the hospital's chief
radiologist, was quoted as saying, indicating their condition
was serio

Official Soviet accounts say two workers were killed in
the April 26 explosion and fire at Chernoby!'s No. 4 reactor
and 17 people have died in hospitals since.

The accident at the power station, 130 kilometres north
of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, threw up an invisible cloud
of radiation over the area, which then spread over much of
Europe and was ultimately traced around the world.

\

CasNews to
help students

By CasNews Staff

Are you a student looking for a‘summer job, but
haven't had any luck? The Castlegar News is here to help.

Students 13-21 years old seeking full-time and
part-time summer employment may place a free ad in-the
Studemt Placement section of the CasNews’ Action Ads.

Students may offer their services for full-time or
part-time jobs, such as babysitting, lawn mowing, hedge-
cutting or house painting. Simply phone the Action Ad
number 365-2212. 4

Students should be planning to resume their studies
in the fall to be eligible.

Dr. Robert Gale, a U.S. bone marrow specialist in
Moscow to help treat victims of the worst nuclear accident in
history, indicated in an interview Buesday night the full
human cost of the disaster may no{ be known for years.

Speaking live from Moscow to the BBC, Gale said 300
people had sustained immediate injuries from the reactor
blast and 35 of them were in danger of dying.

THOUSANDS AT RISK

But he said it was not unlikely a thousand or thousands
of people in the Chernobyl area who were exposed to
substantial levels of radiation would develop cancers in
years to come. He estimated the total number of people at
risk at more than 100,000.

Gale, who arrived in Moscow within days of the
explosion, returned to the Soviet capital Sunday after an
eight-day break at his home in Los Angeles.

He said he had performed 19 bone marrow transplants,
but added: “It is too early to say if they (the patients) will
live or not.”

Bone marrow transplants, Gale's speciality, have
potentially dangerous side effects but are considered the
only effective treatment for severe radiation exposure

Intense radiation destroys bone mafrow and can lead to
death.

Guskova was quoted in Izvestia as saying about 200
people were admitted to No. 6 Hospital after the accident
and about 70 had been discharged.

She told Izvestia the third to sixth weeks are crucial in
treating radiation sickness and during that period, the
slightest infection or bruise can be “a source of
complications.”

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said May 14 that 299
people were in hospital as a result of the Chernoby! disaster

Guskova was quoted by Izvestia as saying her patients
ineluded few women and only two women were among those
seriously ill.

Most of the patients were firemen or others, including
two physicians, who helped rescue people from the reactor
fire, she said.

A pair of federal cabinet
ministers will visit Kootenay
West this week.

Minister of Tourism Jack
Murta will fly into Castlegar
Thursday morning for a
one-day stopover.

Murta and Kootenay West
MP Bob Brisco will head by
car to Nelson where Murta
will be treated to a tour of
the city, paying particular
attention to tourism-related
projects.

He will. also speak at a
Nelson Chamber of Com
merce luncheon, after which
he will be given an aerial tour
of Kootenay Lake, the Slocan
Valley and the Nakusp re
gion.

He is expected to leave the
riding for Vancouver at 3:30

p.m

The next day Brisco will
welcome Employment and
Immigration Minister Flora

Brisco
urges
policy

Kootenay West MP Bob
Brisco wants Canada to boot
terrorists out of the country.

Speaking in the House of
Commons Monday in the
wake of Sunday's shooting on
Vancouver Island of an In.
dian government minister,
Brisco said: “In the light of
yet another act of violence,
committed by religious fan-
aties, I call upon the govern-
ment of Canada to introduce
a policy whereby any non
Canadian citizen who is con-
vieted of an act of violence
based on political or religious
grounds be immediately de-
ported to his homeland.

“Canadians do not want
nor do they need the political
or religious wars of other
nations fought in Canada.”

The Indian minister, res-
ponsible for the volatile Pun-
jab region, was shot near
Campbell River.

Four suspects, allegedly
members of a Sikh nationalist
group, have been arrested
and are. trial.

visit. MacDonald will spend
the morning in Trail before
flying out of Castlegar air.
port that afternoon for Ot
tawa.

Meanwhile, John McDer
mid, parliamentary secretary
to Energy Minister Pat Car
ney, will be the guest speak
er at the Kootenay West
Progressive Conservative an
nual general meeting Sunday
at the Fireside Place.

McDermid was first elec
ted as the Member of Parlia.

of Brampton-Georgetown in
1979. He was appointed
youth spokesman for the
government, as well as chair
man of the Conservative cau
cus committee on tourism.
McDermid was re-elected
in 1980 at which time he was
appointed Tory youth
spokesman. Later, he was
appointed to serve on the
Parliamentary Task Force on
Employment Opportunities
for the ‘80s, and as the
party's immigration, and In

ment spokesman

Upon his re-election in
1984 McDermid was appoint
ed parliamentary secretary
to Carney and chairman the
Tory caucus committee on
energy

McDermid’s _ professional
background is in the media
and public relations.

The agenda of the associ
ation’s annual general meet
ing will include the election of
a new executive

Report cites risks

WASHINGTON
ER) — Scientific evidence
shows non-smokers run
about twice the risk of lung
cancer if they are regularly
exposed to tobacco smoke, a
report released Tuesday by a
congressional agency said.

The non-partisan Congres-
sional Office of Technology
Assessment said those who
work or live with smokers
also have more irritation of
the eyes and nasal mem-
branes, more headaches and
more coughs than non-smok-
ers who are not exposed to
smoke.

The agency said none of

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the scientific studies sur
veyed are conclusive. How
ever, given the large number
of people involved even a
small increase in the risk is
important.

The report was prepared
for Senator Ted Stevens, an
Alaska Republican, who ask
ed the agency to compile a
survey of recent health stud
ies of so-called “passive smo-
king” secondary smoke in
haled by non-smokers.

Stevens has introduced
legislation that would res
trict smoking to designated
areas in all U.S. federal
buildings.

The report said tobacco
smoke in the air is basically
the same, though less con.
centrated, as smoke inhaled
by smokers.

“The evidence is generally
consistent with an increased
risk of lung cancer, on the
order of a doubling of risk,
among non-smokers regular.
ly exposed to environmental
cigarette smoke compared
with non-smokers without
exposure,” the report said

The agency estimated
314,000 deaths in the United
States in 1982, or 16 per cent
of all deaths that year, were
related to smoking

TARIFF

R
ee

LAST DAY ... . Bill Salekin (far right) and Pete
Makortott were given a friendly send-off Friday at-
ternoon on their retirement from the Castlegor
School District. Salekin, here cutting retirement
party cake with wif@ Ivy, began work with the

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Castlegar News
TREET TALK

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MORE INFORMATION ry
ats

about Norwegian explorer
= anthropologist Thor
leyerdahl brief year-and

a eet stay in the West
Kootenay has come for-
ward from 80-year-old Bill
Brown of Trail

Brown, who saw the
story about Heyerdahl in
the May 17 Castlegar
News, dropped by the
office to mention Heyer-
dahl spend four months
living on the old Yarrow
Estates in Robson, what is
now the site of the Keen
leyside Dam.

Heyerdahl lived in a small cabin with just the “bare
necessities” and commuted back and forth to his work at
Cominco, Brown says, occasionally hitching rides with
local residents.

At one point during his stay in Robson, Heyerdahl
borrowed Brown's boat to sail to Deer Park to examine
rock paintings there.

On his return, Heyerdah! pronounced the paintings
“a catalogue of animals available for eating.” Brown says

A FORMER Castlegar resident returned home for a
brief visit last week, helping to shepherd about 75
Kindergarten to Grade 6 students from Garfield school in
Spokane through a three-day tour of the West Kootenay

Julie Qudes, an art teacher and substitute teacher
who lived in Castlegar from 1971 to 1985, now works in

BILL BROWN
knew Heyerdah!

the Alternative Parent Participation Learning Experi
ence (APPLE) program at Garfield school.

APPLE goes on an annual “event trip” and chose the
West Kootenay as its destination this year.

district on August 1968 and has been janitor at Rob-
son elementary for the last decade. Makortoff,
here with Ann Makortoff, started in June 1967 and
has been janitor at Tarrys for the last 10 years.

The whirlwind visit took the students, along with 30
parent supervisors, to numerous local landmarks such as
the Le Roi Mine and Museum in Rossland, Kokanee
Creek park, Ainsworth Hot Springs, Brilliant Cultural
Centre (with a performance by the Doukhobor children's
choir), and Nancy Greene Lake.

Home base for the 100-member group during its stay
was the Community Complex in Castlegar.

APPLE is an alternative program in the Spokane
public school system and emphasizes parent participation
in children’s learning, Oudes said.

TRAIL TIMES editor Keith McQuiggan was
awarded first prize in the editorial writing category of
the annual MacMillan Bloedel journalism awards for B.C.
daily newspapers.

McQuiggan received $1,000 and a certificate for his
series on the local chamber of commerce.

Salim Jiwa, a Vancouver Province reporter, was
awarded first prize in the hard new category for his
series of articles last year on the Air-India disaster in
which 329 people died when the plane crashed into the

Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.

Sarah Cox of the Vancouver Sun won first place in
the feature writing category for an article on a
seven-year-old burn victim.

EARL GREWCOCK and Tony Sandrin, owners of
the Castlegar Dairy Queen, have purchased the Creston
Dairy Queen from Leuie and Marie Wishloffi. The sale
was effective May 1.

CASTLEGAR CHEVRON won't be selling gasoline
anymore. Rese and Arthur DeFrias have decided to
operate the station as a full service and repair shop under
a new name.

JOHN AND GAIL Brighton have been named New
Denver's outstanding citizens of the year. Elsie Marshall
was selected the oldtimer citizen of the year.

G.T. BUS Lines of Winfield plans to take over the
Nelson-Nakusp bus route if it can get approval from the
Superintendent of Motor Vehicles.

Tom Tarasoff of G.T. Bus Lines, which operates the
Vernon-Nakusp service, has applied for a two-day-a-week
route between Nakusp and Nelson.

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B.C. ranchers to
sponsor Beef-Aid

VANCOUVER (CP)
British Columbia ranchers
are being asked to ignore
lean times and donate beef to
the hungry.

Beef-Aid is the brainchild
of the B.C. Cattlemen's As
sociation, which is urging
ranchers and dairymen to
donate cows and steers culled
from their herds.

The animals would be
turned into canned beef and
given to B.C. food banks and
‘Third-World countries.

“Although many of our
members have gone through
seven years of very de
pressed market returns, we

erosity,” association director
Bill Price said Tuesday

He said livestock truckers,
auction-yard operators and
processors will also be asked
to donate their services.

If all B.C. ranchers and
dairymen donated one animal
each, more than 4,000 cows
and steers would be turned
into canned beef, he said.

Price estimated the value
to ranchers of culled cows
usually too old to breed — at
$250 to $350 an animal

He said Beef-Aid would
also carry the double benefit
of improving the image of
ranchers and reducing their

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omic responses that are open to Canada
that, naturally, we will not be an
nouncing until we know whether they
are necessary.”

The request for compensation was
made Tuesday morning by Canadian
ambassador Alan Gotlieb in a tele
phone call to Alan Woods, deputy U.S
trade representative.

Clark conceded that under the
“rather exotic rules” of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
Canada is not “in the normal, strict
sense eligible for compensation.”

And even though there are no pre.
cedents, Clark said, “we are none
theless making a request.”

American trade officials say the
United States is not obligated to com
pensate Canada for the tariffs on

shakes and shingles because they are
not listed as products that the United
States has agreed to keep at a bound
rate under the GATT.

If the United States had raised the
tariff rate on a so-called bound product,
Canada would have the right to retali
ate or seek compensation

The United States announced last
Thursday it would impose a stiff,
five-year tariff regime on Canadian red
cedar shakes and shingles on grounds
the imports are hurting the American
industry.

The tariffs have been set at 35 per
cent for the first 30 months, 20 per cent
for the next two years and eight per
cent for the final six months.

The British Columbia cedar shakes
and shingles industry employs 4,000
people.

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