hy... Castlégar News rebrvory 19, 1909 Heritage Week starts Monday Castlegar Rail Station centre of activities Six years ago at this time, the Castlegar Rotary Club started the development of Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park Our Heritage Week celebrations starting on Monday, mark an exciting new phase of greatly broadened com munity involvement, support and — week’s celebrations public awareness of our heritage roots. This sense of community 11 promises.to be the most exciting period yet,’’ said John Charters, president of the Castlegar and District society last Thursday. ceremony Monday Heritage Society while conducting the final pre-Heritage Week meeting of the Charters was commenting on public and media sup port in the restoration of the Castlegar Rail Station and the Zuckerberg Island Chapel House, central features of next operation will be reflected at when Mayor Audrey Moore and C.P. Rail assistant ALL DRESSED UP . . . Connie Schmidt (left), Karan Porsnuk (centre) and Bunny Charters try their ort Week costumes on for size as i at the Castl Rail the three prepare for the Station starting tomorrow. Seisions Paquet sein Seanens Charters addresses Castlegar Chamber By CasNews Staff Castlegar has to better coordinate its tourist facilities, including its heritage sites, if it is to become a successful the city District Heritage Society president John Charters. Charters, who was addressing 18 people gathered at the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce’s monthly — The meeting at Macy’s restaurant, said it is important for all Castlegar business and’ tourist operators to work with each other, as opposed to ‘‘just looking after one’s own particular corner.”” Charters “used a magnet_as an analogy to describe how Castlegar’s _ said. “‘magnet”’ Charters said the ‘‘field’’ the Brilliant and Keenleyside dams. Once the **field’* tourism operators can improve thei businesses and tourism in general in Using the old CPR. station down tourist destination, says Castlegar and town and Zuckerberg Island as running north and south, created by the magnet would stretch to other tourist attractions like Verigin’s tomb, National Exhibition Centre and had been created, there would be more demand for ser Vices in the downtown core and at hotels and restaurants and other ser vice-related businesses in Castlegar, Tracy Burgess beiore Tracy Burgess otter WEIGHT WATCHERS’ SAVE $7.50 Pay onty $14.50 to join wid ia Semon engined kates Wegtz tatchers (LE REE FIRST MEETING] Join by March 18 at these convenient times and locations: Nordic Halt “Tue. 6:30pm Call Toll Free: 1-800-663-3354 INTRODUCING NEW 1989 QUICK SUCCESS PROGRAM. ‘Weight Watchers wants you to be happy. That's why we made this Tea Hew uh Soa®Prgan om bt ha lt vr. ‘proven effective program, there's an even easier way to lose Ss THE NEW bt SUCCESS PROG RAM superintendent Jeff Robson unveil a plaque at 11:30 a.m. at the station recognizing the work of the city, the Heritage Advisory Committee and C.P. Rail in the preservation of Castlegar's most historic building. Af- terward, the mayor will officially declare the start of Heritage Week Fhe station will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day until Sunday; the Chapel House will be on its present five-day schedule. Both will Offer a greatly increased number of displays including a number of artifacts from the National Exhibition Centre, Nick Chernoff, Joe Killough, Byng Giraud, Bud Godderis, Bruce and Matt Rohn, Axel and Ivy Nielson, Bélla Barkley, Stan Sherstobitoff, Alan Craft, Mary, and Art Koch and many others. Carver Pete Oglow will display his work and give demonstrations, as will the Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Guild. The latter will do a full demon stration of the weavers’ craft on Friday, Saturday and Sunday — February 24, 25, and 26 — on the up per floor (living quarters). The Old Time Fiddlers will give a concert on Thursday afternoon and Ray Gattinger will perform Saturday atl p.m. Archivist Bunny Charters has prepared a number of new historical displays, and with the assistance of Marjorie West and Ald. Albert Calderbank, the public will have the opportunity to see movies of the recent ion and of early events and sights in Castlegar relocation of the train Refreshments will be available at both centres with the Weavers Guild, Arts Council and Gail Moodie providing the home baked items. To retain the integrity of the upper floor, Diana and Dick McLeod are restoring one Of the bedrooms as a trainman’s room. Dick» McLeod’s grandfather was a trainman inthe east Forms for the Castlegar Historical Trivia Contest Will be available at the station and a prize of a dinner for two is being offered courtesy of Gabriel's Steak House A second contest at Zuckerberg Islanid Heritage Park is being offered by John Charters to the children of the Castlegar Primary and Twin Rivers elementary schools. The prize is two birthday cakes. Case adjourned to March Lucille Doucette, the former director of Castlegar’s National Exhibition Centre charged with misappropriating NEC funds, fas had her case adjourried to March 16 when she will elect how she will be tried. She Was expected to enter a'plea on Thur- sday in Nelson provincial court However, no plea was entered Doucette is also charged with criminal breach of trust stemming from the time she was director of the NEC sy Febrvory 19,1989 Castlegar News a3 Briefly ALL ABOARD . . . the C — photo courtesy of Gerry Doskson Sentimental journey begins Editor's note: John Charters is busy preparing for Heritage Week in Castlegar which gets underway tomorrow. After the week-long event is over, he will take a well-deserved rest for several weeks. In the mean- time, and to kick off Heritage Week celebrations, the CasNews is pleased to present a six-part series by guest columnist Helen Dunlop’ who will take readers‘on a “Sentimental Journey’ centred around the Castlegar Railway Station. By HELEN DUNLOP Castlegar in the early days was like many other small settlements along the railway — there was very lit- tle to do in your spare time. But you could always go down to the station to see the trains come in, and that is what many people did. On a morning in November 1987 it was different. Those who gathered behind a barricade near the CPR tracks did not come to see a train arrive — they were there to watch the station leave. The day marked the closing of an era, a time when the railway station was the centre of activity in Castlegar. Fortunately, it would not go far — just across the tracks to assume its new role as a Heritage Building The move took most of the day and as the onlookers moved about, coming and going, they were speaking to each other and remembering. Snatches of told of half-forg and people of the past. They were voices of history and they made me want to travel back in time — to learn more about this old building that had outlived its usefulness, but was given a second chance My “‘sentimental journey”’ began at the station, the best place to buy a ticket and board the train, although there is no ticket agent there now. The building we see today is a replica of the original station built in 1902 and destroyed by fire in 1907. The Castlegar Heritage Society recently received photocopies of drawings for the 1902-buitding-from-CPR rent M—-t Aberdeen in Revelstoke, and these are now among its most-prized possessions. In 1902, with completion of the railway bridge across the Columbia from Sproat’s Landing, and the Columbia and Western Railway already running from Rossland to Robson West, the railway station was a necessity in handling the increased traffic through “Castlegar Junction. In the first half of the 20th Century, travel and transportation by rail were all-important. Everything had to be shipped by rail and travellers filled the passenger cars on trains that also carried the mail. There was no alternative but the horse and buggy, or in some areas travel by boat. In those days the coming of the railway could make a town or, in by-passing a set- tlement, could ruin its future.” All this changed when highways began to reach across the land and airports sprang up in every major city Freight trucks, buses, automobiles, then airplanes For the railways the lager Rail Setlon as it appeared in days gone by. Hudson and the B.C. Museum Train. To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the CPR ran a passenger. “‘excur. sion’’ train from Nelson to Tadanac in 1981 Customer services were moved to Nelson in June 1969, thus eliminating the position of station agent, but operators remained at the station until October 1982 After that there was no need for any staff at Castlegar, and there was no need for the station itself. Scheduiled for demolition, it was pufchased by the City of Castlegar for $1, providing it was removed from CPR property. The city undertook to have it moved and provided the foundation, and the Heritage’Society will paya yearly fee of $1 according to the present plans, city hall said. - Standing on the-station- platform and looking west along the tracks, one could see the big red water-tank and beyond that, the grimy coal-chute. These two pieces of equipment were there to service the steam locomotives, water for the boilers and coal to Keep them “‘fired-up. John Charters Reflections and recollections As I remember, Bill Watson was in charge of the coal-chute. When the diesel engines began to be used in the early "SOs, there was no longer a need for these two old landmarks and they were torn down. There were other CPR buildings near the station, some baggage sheds and houses for the section foreman or other employees. One of these houses was near the present site of the station, and another was just about where Mitchell’s Lumberyard if today. These were the Romano and Defoe homes, and I remember them clearly although they have been gone for many years. At one time there was a third CPR house across the tracks to the north. All the CPR buildings were painted the customary dark red. From the platform in front of the station the rest of Castlegar “in the early days” could be seen. The time was 1913, when my family arrived from the prairies. (I was not included, having been born in British Columbia anative of Castlegar.) There were few buildings other than the CPR Station, W. J. Farmer's Store; a small school built about 1909, which later became the first Village Hall, and the Castlegar Hotel built in 1909 by William Gage. The hotel is no longer there. It had undergone many alterations before burning down a few years ago, The foundation still stands, across the street from the station. North of the tracks in 1913 stood. a frame house which remains today and is possibly Castlegar’s oldest building. It is now owned by Harold and Mildred Hesketh. Until the early "30s, groves of trees and bushes could still be seen behind Farmer's Store and Post Of- fice, perhaps even later than that. You tied your horses there while you picked up your mail, or attended chur- ch, or perhapsa dance in the hall above Farmer's Store. dit.was said that areally big crowd in the upstairs hall Elk attacks woman GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A deranged elk chased a 74-year-old woman and a police officer into a house Friday and kept them there for three hours before it was shot by a wildlife officer, authorities said. ‘ Nadine Hurst, who has lived in this mountain town since 1919, said she heard her dogs barking at about 7 a.m. and looked out the window to find a huge elk. Hurst_said_she_went_outside with some_apples_ 40 feed the elk, estimated to weigh up to 400 pounds. “I scratched it underits chin,” she said. “All of a sudden, it got upen its hind legs and lunged at me with its front feet.”” Hurst was bruised on her arm, thigh and back before she managed to make it back into her house. After Hurst called police, officer Jim Gonzales came to shoo the animal away. The elk attacked him, too, and chased him into the house Police then called wildlife officers Nurses.ask for increase VANCOUVER (CP) The B.C, Nurses’ Union has asked for a 33. per-cent increase in wages in its next contract with provincial hospitals. “We are angry and with good reason,”’ union president Pat Savage said. Negotiations resume on Monday The nurses also want a 43-per-cent increase in benefits. The proposal would bring the starting rate for a general duty hospital nurse to $20 an hour from $15.07 The contract covering B.C.’s 17,000 nurses expires March 31 Bargaining began Feb. 9 but stalled in a dispute over whether a news blackout should be imposed Commission needed PENTICTON (CP) — Professional foresters in British Columbia say a royal commission is neéded into the province's forest industry. A resolution passed at the Association of B.C. Professional Foresters annual conference calls on the association’s council to press for an inquiry into all aspects of forestry managément President Brian Zak of McKenzie said the council will deal with the recommendation at its next meeting in March. He said it’s likely the coun: cil will comply with the resolution: . Chemicals restricted VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Environment Minister Bruce Strachan said he will follow Ontario's lead in taking steps to restrict chemicals that destroy the ozone lawyer Ontario is banning the manufacture, sale or use of foam packages and chemicals in aerosal cans. “We will certainly follow what they've done,”’ Strachan said. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere acts as a natural filter, ab- sorbing most of the ultraviolet rays that cduse skin cancer Ferry use increases VICTORIA (CP) — The B.C. Ferry Corp. fleet carried nearly 18 million passengers in 1988 — more than one million more than in the previous year : “Each month, from January through December, we saw the passenger and vehicle figures go up,”’ said B.C. Ferries seperal manager Rod Morrison. The 38-ship fleet carried 6. 8million vehicies during the year The peak travel month was in August when the ferry corporation carried more than 2.4 million passengers and nearly 900,000 vehicles. Pilot error cited NEW YORK (AP) — The investigation into the crash of a jet in the Azores last week is focusing on errors by pilots and flight controllers and on bad radio communications, a newspaper reports The New York Times says that tape recordings between the pilots and flight contgollers indicate the pilots believed they had been cleared to descend to610 metres when the controllers had really said 915 metres. The Boeing 707 was carrying 137 Italian tourists and a crew of seven to the Caribbean. It was preparing to land for a refuelling stop at the Santa Maria airport on Feb. 8 when it crashed into the mountain. There were no Khomeini offers bounty NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuter-CP) — Iran's official news agency, in an abrupt reversal of its position, said that novelist Salman Rushdie had ear- ned a pardon with his statement expressing regret for distress caused to Muslims by his novel The Satanic Verses “The statement, though far too short of a repentance, is generally seen as sufficient enough to warrant his pardon by the masses in Iran and elsewhere in the world,’’ said the news agency IRNA, monitored in Cyprus. Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini asked Muslims earlier in the week to kill the Indian-born British author because his novel blasphemes Islam. The call was followed up with offers fram Iranian clerics of a $6- million reward for the person who kills Rushdie First Kinnaird Brownies gathered at the home of Rudy Martini on Saturday to take part in the worldwide ‘Guides on the Air.” With the help of ham radio operators like Martini, Guides and Brownies around the world shared information about each other. The event is sp d by the C dian Ladies A Radio Association and the Girl Guides of Canada. Left to right are fora Worley, Martini, Brandie Jollimore, Pennie Lane and Stacey Gaudry. NDP wants positive campaign NANAIMO (CP) The New Democratic Party said it wants to win over British Columbians with a plat form of positive policies and not a vote that’s against Premier Bill , Vander Zalm The 22-member NDP caucus spent two Gays here plotting strategy and forming a platform for the next session of the legislature which opens March 1oand for the next provincial election The first step was to ‘release a document on sustainable develop mt, which leader Mike Harcourt said_would create jobs without destroying the environment. He said British Columbians will be consulted about the policy “I want us to have a platform that the people of British Columbia have Participated in putting tog agenda for our children ming part of our platform which will become our program to govern.”* her as our This is for Harcourt also ‘said New Democrats are working on a “positive strategy to offer British Columbians a viable alternative to the Socreds. People are very disillusioned with Vander Zalm, but they don’t just vote against gover nments “They've got to want to vote for you,’ he said. ‘They (governments) don’t just get defeated “There's got to be a viable alter native that people can be excited And that’s what I’m concen trating on. Not just being the Op Position, not just keeping the gover nment honest and being critical where they deserve, but offering alternatives, BOOST PENALTIES He said other NDP priorities include about positive fair taxation, health care, education and cleaning up pollution proposed maximum penalties for polluters to $1 million from the current $50,000. The NDP troduce 20 private members’ increasing said it planned to in. bills on the environment when the legislature reconvenes. Private members’ bills catel eL 9 Nelson prepared for B.C. Winter Games By CasNews Staff There are just four days to go until the 11th annual B.C. Winter Game Kick Off in Nelson with the Opening people 1 come ceremonies Thursday night, but Wednesday Games officials dnd volunteers. have been working hard in the last few mon. "°°M#'8* ths leading up.o the event Caran Panny Caron. director of promotion for the Games in Bur -thsleading up tc site teer bectic. thusiasm comin has been Nelson told the Castlegar New it’s now coming together nicely."” Caron’ said 3 More than 2,200 athletes from across the province will descend ot Nelson next week to compete in Winter igned up to Games events ranging from badmin: ton to weightlifing. But the sporting $140,000 events don't begin until Friday and Caron said the opening ceremonies at from Nelson Civic Arena will be a show in it o be self “We have ar School District No dancers that will put on quite a honor choir from 7 and a troup of 9¢ 0-year history display," Caron told the Castlegar !0-¥¢ar hist News. will march all the **We'll have bands playi in 1979. athletes into arena." The Nelson Game Caron said Premier Bill Vander — sports never Zalm and a number of cabinet ministers will be on hand to officially sports in open the Games. But Caron cautioned the introdictior tickets are already sold out for the —ballet,—moguls opening extravaganza Thursday night Special Olympic fl in Nelson. However, she said there are still spaces available for people to wat- ins Wednesday night The organizers driving courtesy souvenier sales haye Between 30 to It is the first time competitions. Th the Game ch the opening ceremonie ulready brought in total aerials Il medal sports he Gar 400 volunteers ha erything from 40 per cent of the It ouvenier sales stay it Games have been held in yf the event Winter Games were held in Kamloops of freest or hockey These two new ever John Schnare rehearsalon director of equipment and facilities for the NelSon Games said eneeucuati Schnare said_the Special-Olympics arsal at 7:30 for hockey event is the first time any Special Olympic event has been held in the Winter There i Games. The Summer Games alneady have certain Special Olympic sport competitions He added that the alpine ski races for 13-and 14-year-olds will be a qualifying event for the western Canadian championships which will be held in March c Schnaré also went on to say the B.C Winter Games have the largest collec tion of competing athletes of any win ter sports events on the continent She the largest winter sports event North rt athletes, America in terms of he said of the 2,249 athletes coming from the province's eight spor zones. There were 1,600 athletes B.C. Winter ee ¢ W competing in the Calgary Winter Nelson in the ‘ 7 ; ie: Olympics last year the first a Castlegar is sending 25 people to the athletes, substitute athletes and officials — but the city has officially planned here to games coache: ec two new — nothing in previous coincide with the celebrations in Mayor Audry Moore will be present at the opening number of Nelson. However te ‘etemonies The opening ceremonies start Fhe sday night at $:30 p.m. in the Nelson are coming — Civic Arena. The sporting events begin Friday and run through Sunday Fletcher Challenge curtails operations g VICTORIA (CP) — One sawmill will be closed production limited at two others and logging operatior will be sharply curtailed on southern Vancouver Island Fletcher Challenge has announced The New Zealand multinational forest company said in a news release that about 425 jobs would be affected by 190 workers are ¢ new provincial ¢ everance and early retirement options. About gible for early retirement benefits Tom Neighbor said the cutbacks reflec ting controls which remove the 10-per pokesmar pokesn margin that licence holders were permitted to exceed bores M: Dai Parker said ix ___Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Arthur Humphrey was senten- ced to seven days in jail after he pleaded guilty to public mischief. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING BLUEBERRY CREEK RECREATION COMMISSION Wed., Feb. 22 7p.m. Blueberry School was on the wall — services were either curtailed or con- solidated in the large centres, while in many instances rail lines have been abandoned or torn up. Passenger service from Trail to Nelson ended in lines ended in 1964. Passenger trains would no longer be seen in these parts, except for specials such as the Royal 1949, and all passenger service on the CPR's southern; caused the floor to sag, and the doors downstairs would not open. However, it served the community well until there were other accommodations. The people who tived and worked at the station have cachileft something there — something of them- selves. The place is steeped in memories! Next week: Some of the travellers. Students HERITAGE WEEK Feb. 20-26 CPR Station Open House all week — Monday to Sunday, 9:30-4:30. Enjoy Weaving Demonstrations and on Saturday Old Time Fiddlers will be on location also an Accordian Band. Chapel House re se HAVE YOU VISITED THE All Week ISLAND IN WINTER? Enjoy all the fun during Heritage Week in Castlegar! continued from front page At that time, a monkey puppet, which students named The Blasphemer, disappearett_from the class. After Voykin received“ransom notes — one that said if she didn’t ease up on assignments and give the studen: ts A's, she would start receiving the puppet’s arms and legs in the mail she decided to teach her students a lesson and use it as a class exercise as well. Earlier this month, Voykin arranged to have three students, Ganton, Sharp and Judi Closkey, arrested by Castlegar RCMP and taken to the RCMP station where they were inter viewed, fingerprinted and puit in a cell fot a short time The three appeared in court Wed nesday with the rest of the class, who acted out various roles, such as judge, prosecutor and defence lawyer lan Mason was the presiding judge. Peter Jackson was the crown counsel. Assisting him was Phil Wiebe. Darla Leiding and Angela Smee represented Closkey while Ganton and Sharp, ¢ho fired their lawyers, represented each other. The session was videotaped Voykin said the students presented a number of good arguments for and against the accused at the trial At one point, student Sarah Finney admitted to stealing the monkey and stated that none of the accused was guilty, Voykin said Student Mindy Jolly was called to the stand to answer questions regar ding the disappearance of a paper mache cow name Ike. The prosecution tried to prove that she had not only stolen the cow, but the monkey as well Voykin was called to the stand to identify the handwriting on the ransom notes. Halfway through — Voykin’s testimony, French exchange student Francois Chevallier, acting as the court exhibits custodian, put on-a-hat and scarf and pulled out a gun and another monkey to try to prove he was the per- son in a photo accompanying one of the ransom notes sent to Voykin. But the ploy didn’t work..and he was quickly led out of the courtroom The charges: against Closkey were dropped because Jackson felt there wastr't enough evidence toconvict her: Finney didn't receive a sentence because she plea bargained with the prosecuting attorney Voykin called the court exercise in. teresting because it was not scripted and the students had to reach spon: taneously Voykin said a deal may be worked out for the return of The Blasphemer once a decision is made on how Ganton and Sharp will serve their sentences. So far, the monkey hasn’t turned up. There are rumors The Blasphemer travelled to Hawaii with one of the students irrearly February and may be still. suntanning on the beach. Some students allegedly tried to get him to go abroad with one of the exchange students at the school. The Tranian death orders threatened to torpedo improving relations between Iran and the West - Hudson's lover awarded LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has awarded $7.25 million US in ad ditional damages to Rock Hudson's lover, who had already received an award of $14.5 million because the movie star failed to disclose he had AIDS. The jury’s decision on punitive and exemplary damages found that Hudson's secretary and confidant, Mark Miller, acted ‘with malice’ and intended to cause injury to Mare Christian when he failed to tell Christian that Hudson had the deadly disease Christian hasn't been diagnosed with the deadly disease. Kitten puncher jailed NIPEG (CP)— A man who punche&a six-month-old kitten has been sentenced to three months in jail Crown counsel Ray Wyant said it may be the first Manitoba case in whictrsomeone convicted of cfuetty toanimats has been jailed: While Dale Marlowe Gogal, 21, sat with his head down, provincial court Judge Charles Newcombe called the man's crime one of ‘quite shocking” cruelty The kitten was turned over to the humane society and has been adop- ted Boaters held hostage VANCOUVER (CP) — Albert Eger, whose ex-wife and two children are among five Canadians who disappeared Dec. 30 in the south Carib. bean, said he has been told the missing boaters had been held hostage in a fish packing plant on the French island of Martinique. Eger, father of Acron, 18, and Vija, 19, said people involved in an in dependent:search uncovered information from fishermen they were held hostage Jan. 2— 27 and then put aboard a Venezuela-bound trawler \An another development, the RCMP confirmed from Ottawa that of ficers have been sent to the Caribbean to investigate the disappearance of the boaters and their American charter operator, Standing in the legislature is Socreds 44, NDP 22, one independent and two vacancies. The vacancies in Van couver-Point Grey and Nanaimo will be filled in byelections on March 15 Jan Pullinger, the NDP candidate in Nanaimo, got an unexpected push for her campaign when Called the byelections Wednesday as the opposition caucus gathered for its retreat On Thursday, the NDP_ members went into a snowstorm to door-knock Vander Zalm for Pullinger who faces Socred can didate Larry McNabb and Gerald Kir by, leader of the New Populist Party of British Columbia. A Liberal condidate will be chosen in 10 days Lottery numbers The following ar¢ the winning num bers drawn in Thursday's lottéry THE PICK — 12, 17, 33, 35, 37, 42 Sland 54 The following are the winning num bers in Wednesday’s lotteries LOTTO 649 — 1, 30, 36, 37, 38 and 40. The bonus number was 2. There was no winner of the jackpot prize of 2,485,211.00. Therefore, the Lotto 649 jackpot prize pool estimate for the next draw will be $4.8 million. The four Extra numbers for B.C. were 3, 19, 26 and 63 THE PICK 47 and 48 25,43, 45, ImE-caps line with itstong erm sustainable timber su pply The move prompted IWA-Canada president Jack Munro to charge the company with over-cutting and called on the government to establish a roysl commission to.stop “‘carnage’’ in the forest industry “Ta say the least, furious,’? our union absolutely goddi Munrosaid in Vancouver The company wilt close its Victoria sawmitton- tun while shifts will be trimmed at its sawmill in Youbou in Cowichan Valley and its Tilbury sawmill in the Vancou suburb of Delta ut best misleading vernment has not and will not allow licencees Parker said- when a tree farm ticence holder cuts more isallowed in a five-year control period it must reduce r to-come into line ng the neat five years allowable cu Hetcher-Chattenge also said there was an additior n the company’s timber supply causec government plan to get more smaller operations into additional five per cent was lost whert Flet Two Cowichan Valley logging operatior hit by layoffs as the company reduces timber ct area The company which employs about 12,000, held t ts that, in combinatior meetings with affected employees on Friday and-briefed Emergenc KABUL (AP) — The government has declared a state of emergency ir Afghanistan and blames U.S. aid to Afghan guerrillas in part for the move which sharply curtails civil liberties In neighboring Pakistan, Afghan -rebels have bases where guerrilla leaders nominated a moderate president and a fundamentalist prime minister in what is viewed compromise on who will lead Afghanistan if its Soviet-backed government falls Rebel leaders told a special Con about 400 delegates they had picked Mohammad abi Mohammadi as acting president sultative Council of prime minister of an interim government The state of emergency was annour state-run Kabul radio by Najibullah, who said it's to ensure peace and security President needed istan It came three days after the la Soviet soldiers, who had been backing Najibullah’s army war With Muslim rebel During the day, the military in left the country creased the numb: nks and ar mored personnel carriers in Kabul and stationed troops on the rooftops Afghan government radio réported five people were killed and four in k over B.C a news release Ur Forest Products ¢ any single factor for this situation, fortunately it i necessitate this ac y declared and Ahmad Shah—as_acting jured Saturday in rocket attacks Muslin various parts of Afghanistan mounted by guerrillas in The state of emergency allows the governthent to suspend or limit con stitutional rights that: protect against confiscation of property and searches of property; provide for confiden. tiality of correspondence and telephone conversations; allow peaceful assembly and demon strations; protect freedom of ex pression; and provide for freedom from compulsory labor Najibullah said the emergency was temporary but he did not set atime limit