August 13, 1986

Briefly

Tall building planned

NEWARK, N.J. (Reuter) — A developer has
revealed plans for the tallest building in the world, a
121-storey, 583-metre office tower one block from city
hall in downtown Newark.

The new tower would exceed the world’s tallest
building, the 110-storey, 442-metre Sears Tower in

Harry Grant of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said the
structure, to be called Grant U.S.A., will be completed
in 1991 and contain 278,000 square metres of office
space as-well as a 46,500 square metres of retail space.
Its cost is estimated at $500 million US.

Plastic killing whales

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maritime experts told
the U.S. Congress on Tuesday that as many as a
million seabirds and 100,000 whales and seals die each

year, experts told the House subcommittee on coast
guard and navigation.

No international or U.S. law prohibits ships from
dumping garbage beyond the three-mile limit of
territorial waters, Rear Admiral John Kime of the
U.S. Coast Guard told a House of Representatives
panel.

Royal farmer
— They start them young in the

Prince Charles ds Queen h, or if he

should die, William will inherit his father's titles.
Cornwall is a rural duchy, and Charies is teaching
his son the ways of life down on the farm.
How William makes out will be seen Aug. 19 in a
BBC documentary. He will be seen counting sheep and
wearing the traditional farmer's Wellington bib.

IBEW head resigns

WASHINGTON (AP) —
his resi .

sixth-largest U.S. union, which he headed for 18 years.
Pillard’s resignation is effective Aug. 25, just
three weeks before the 869,000-member union is

Mall rides worn

EDMONTON (CP) — A provincial elevator
inspector found some rides at West Edmonton Mall's
amusement park were badly worn a full year before a
fatal roller-coaster crash June 14 which killed three
people and seriously injured another, a public inquiry
was told Tuesday.

In a memo to his superior, inspector A! Griffin
said worn parts on the children’s train could have
caused a derailment.

‘The memo, entered into evidence Tuesday at the
inquiry into the roller-coaster mishap, also mentioned
loose bolts on a carousel and problems with a chain on
the Wave Swinger ride.

Clean up own act

WINNIPEG (CP) — They damned second-hand
smoke and fancy packaging of tobacco products, but
some members of the Canadian Medical Association
almost choked Tuesday when it came to butting out
their own bad habits.

“I was absolutely appalied at the amount of smoke
we had to inhale at our annual dinner last night,” Dr.
J. O'Brien-Bell of Surrey, B.C., told the associations’s
annual conference.

“It’s time we clean up our own act and our own

But O’Brien-Bell received a cold reaction from
some doctors when he suggested the 40,000-member
group ban smoking at all its official meetings and
social functions.

Smoking ban proposed

WASHINGTON (AP) — A US. National
Acad: of & study the U.S.
government ban cigarette smoking on all domestic
airline flights, concluding smoke in large jetliners is
harmful to health and safety, informed sources said
Tuesday

The recommendation is the most controversial
part of a broader report on air quality in aircraft
cabins to be released today by the academy's National
Research Council.

lraqi attack

DUBAI (Reuter) — An Iraqi attack on the Iranian
Sirri island terminal in the southern region of the
Persian Gulf that left blazing tankers and dead crew
members posed a serious threat today to Iran's ability
to export crude oil.

On Tuesday. Iraqi warplanes were in a zone
previously thought to be outside their range. striking
three oil tankers at the Iranian losding terminal 60
aousiesl mies fromthe const of Usted Arab Emirates.

HISTORICAL LAI

COUNCIL TO FIGHT

continued trom tront pege
But Ald. Nick Ogiow said the value
of a heritage building diminishes with
its relocation. Ogiow also said the cost
of moving the building would be “pro
hibitive.”

Gilmore explained that the railway
wants a smaller building because it has
reduced operations in Castlegar over
the years. For example, he said there is
now only one roadmaster stationed

DOWNTOWN

continued from front pege

Howard Young, a spokesman for the
Downtown Business Association's re-
vitilization committee, said the ball is
squarely in the downtown property
owners’ court.

“The city made good their intent,”
Young said in an interview today, so
local property owners “have to put
their money where their mouth is.”

Young called the revitilization plan
— first unveiled in May — “pretty
exciting.”

He pointed out the $325,000 cost to
the property owners will be the
maximum figure.

The next step will be to approach the
approximately 30 property owners
affected by the plan to provide details
of debt repayment and the plan itself.

Young said the DBA hopes to have

. Castlegar CP Rail station as it looked in 1915, eight years
after it was built. Building is the oldest in the city.

here instead of two.

Only part of the first floor of the
station is presently used and the
second floor is vacant, he said.

Gilmore also said the station is ex-
pensive to maintain and heat, and “far
exceeds the space requirements for our
current operation.”

He added that with decreased use,

CP Rail also plans to demolish the
small buildings around the station and
locate the new building near the
present station to take advantage of
the sewer and water hookups already
in place.

But Gilmore said that it needs
approval from the Canadian Transport
Commission to tear down the building.
And before the CTC will grant per-
mission, the railway must receive
approval from the City of Castlegar.

the plan's architect, Urban Systems
Ltd. of Kelowna, prepare a

plan this year so work will be able to
start on the upgrading in the spring.

“Next year the program would be
completed,” he said.

Young also said it is important the
DBA act quickly on the plan.

The plan includes relocating B.C. Tel
lines at a cost of $53,200 and West
Kootenay Power and Light Co. poles at
a cost of about $22,000 from Columbia
Avenue and 3rd Street to the back
alleys.

The plan will also look at new street-
lighting because the present lighting is
attached to the power poles.

The plan also proposes new side-
walks where needed, landscaping, site
furnishings and planters.

HOWARD YOUNG
‘act quickly

FRICK

cross-Canada leg of the tour.

until he's back in Canada,”
When the tour started, the,

arrive back in Vancouver on B.Cy

the end of Expo 86.

However, Frick added that the tour organizers didn't
expect many donations until Hansen arrived for the final

“We knew we weren't going | to get great donations
Frick. said.

was for Hansen to

y this year. That was

then readjusted to September or October to coincide with

But Frick said demands on Hansen's time and the

LIGHTNIN
STARTS 45
NEW FIRES

By CasNews Staff

A series of iightning strikes in the Arrow Forest
District has sparked 45 new fires in the district since
Sunday night.

Duty officer Doug Fellman said many of the fires are
still burning but crews are either already fighting them
or in the process of getting to the scene.

He said all the fires are small — less than half an

‘Additional crews have been hired to fight the fires. A
total of 52 people are on fires.

‘As well three helitack crews have been brought in
from northern B.C. The crews — two from Bear Lake and
one from Smithers — are specially trained to fight fires

that are accessible only by helicopter.

The majority of fires are centred in the northern part
of the district, in the Fauquier-Burton-Nakusp area.

Fellman said the fire danger rating ranges from low
to moderate in the north end of the district, though it
borders on extreme south of Trail in the Pend Oreille
area. The Castlegar area is rated high.

But Fellman said there is no campfire ban.
Cranbrook and Boundary are the only districts which
have campfire bans in place.

The weather forecast is for another clearing trend
and Fellman said more fires are expected. In addition, he
said there are still many undetected fires.

“We have aircraft patrols out every day,” he said.

reduction to 50 miles (80 kilometres) of wheeling a day
from 70 miles (110 kilometres) to prevent injuries now
means an end to the tour about the end of April or
beginning of May 1987.

The new time means Hansen will be
rolling across Canada in the dead of winter. But Frick
said that suits Hansen just fine and as long as highways
crews keep the roads clear, he should do alright.

“He could have easily said, ‘Tll go to Hawaii for the
winter.’ But if he took the easy way out, then other
people could take the easy way out.”

Such determination is characteristic of Hansen,
Frick said.

“He certainly attacks things he does with a passion.
He has a fantastic ability to focus on a goal.

“He's not very organized, but he overcomes that by
knowing what his goal is.”

Travelling across much of the world on the tour
might sound glamorous, but in fact it was a lot of hard
work, Frick said.

“You don't get to enjoy the countries,” said Frick,
who, along with three other volunteers, was up at 3:30
a.m. to get the day's activities started. With repairs to
Hansen's wheelchairs taking several hours at the end of
each day, there was not much time left for sleep.

“Some nights we didn't go to bed,” Frick said. “It
was a cme tough grind.”

TUA FRICK
. helped organize trip

Frick said current ; plans call for Hanseo to travel
through C: he those plans
may change by next year.

Frick begins a new job at Dougias College in New
Westainanar in September.

“My goal was to help him (Hansen) see his dream
become a reality. Now I've got to get on with my own
life.”

However, Frick said he would like to rejoin Hansen
for the last day of his tour.

“We had an agreement to begin and end together,”
he said.

Now 31

1 forest

fires in province

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Lightning strikes in the Nel-
son, Kamloops and Cariboo
areas raised the number of
forest fires burning in British
Columbia to 311, a forests
ministry spokesman said
Tuesday.

Fire control centre officer
Pete Bell blamed lightning
.or 138 of the 141 fires that
started overnight. Eight
were caused by human care-
lessness.

About 7,000 lightning
strikes were recorded last
weekend, igniting 99 of 137
new fires, most in B.C.'s
southeastern sector.

The ministry has banned
open campfires in the Nelson
forest region east to Cran-

brook and southwest to
Grand Forks and in areas
north of Tweedsmuir Park
between Terrace and
Smithers.

Since the official beginning
of the forest fire season April
15, B.C. has had 1,352 fires —
1,700 fewer than this time
last year.

Bell said that by August,
about $23 million had been
spent fighting fires, com-
pared to more than $97
million up to the same point
last year.

In the United States,
lightning strikes were re-
sponsible for hundreds of
new fires burning over more
than 152,000 hectares from
eastern Oregon to Montana.

IWA votes to
accept pact

By CasNews Staff

International Wood
workers of America mem
bers at Westar Timber's
Southern Wood Products
sawmill have voted 90.3 per
cent in favor of a one-year
agreement with the com.

pany.
Eighty per cent of the 240
to 280 members turned up at
a meeting Sunday morning to
vote on the new contract.
The new agreement pro
vides no wage increase, but
includes an improvement in
pension benefits and a clause
that guarantees that no union
jobs will ‘be contracted out.
Tony Ferriera, sub-local

“They were up in the air on
whether to go out on strike

offered the
union a two-year agreement
with an average $500 signing
bonus and a three per cent
wage increase in the second

two-year agreement “would

Police file

Castlegar RCMP have
issued a warning to swim
mers to avoid the Zuckerberg
Island Heritage Park area
during high water.

RCMP spokesman said one
youngster apparently tried
to walk across the sub-
merged causeway to the
island and got into “a bit of
difficulty.”

The youngster managed to
get to safety. However, po-
lice say the current running
over the causeway is strong.
and have advised swimmers
not to use the area until the
river level drops.

The island is

have put us away from the
strength of the IWA. Our
membership wasn't prepared
to do that.”

Southern Wood Products
is the first union mill in the
Kootenays to sign the con.
troversial contracting-out
agreement.

PWA
reports
loss

CALGARY (CP) — Pacific
Western Airlines Corp. said
Tuesday that net income for
the six months ended June 30
was $3,126,000 before an
extraordinary expense of
$1,990,900, compared with
$10,074,000 for the same
period in 1985.

After deducting $3,629,000
for dividends on preferred
shares and the extraordinary
item, the logs attributable to
common shares was
$2,493,000 compared with a
profit of $6,445,000 in 1985.

The loss per common share
in the first six months of 1986
was 20 cents compared with a
profit of 53 cents in 1985.

Operating income for the
second quarter was
$2,758,000.

Rossland
man dies
in crash

VEGREVILLE, Alta. (CP)
RCMP have identified
Jerry Robert Tomlienovic of
Rossland, B.C., as the man
killed Sunday when a light
plane made a forced landing
in a field southwest of
Vegreville.

Arthur Harris of Vegre
ville, the pilot of the two
seater plan, was reported in
stable condition Tuesday at a

during high water by a sus-
pension bridge.

hospital in Ed:
Vegreville is about 100
kilometres east of Edmonton.

S Castlégar News: -

GARY FLEMING assumed the position of adver-
tising manager of the Castlegar News this week.

Gary first came to Castlegar in 1979 when he joined
the CasNews advertising department. He and wife,
Cathy, moved here from Trenton, Ont.

In 1982 Gary joined CKQR’s advertising department.
He and Cathy have one child, three-year-old David. Gary
succeeds Carel Magaw, a Salmo resident, who has joined
the advertising department of the Kootenay Broad-

Monday night. The Australian beauty who now lives in
the U.S. is in the West Kootenay with her baby daughter
to watch husband Matt Lattanzi.

Former soap star Lattanzi plays one of the firemen in
the new Steve Martin-Dary! Hannah film Roxanne, now
being shot in Nelson. (Martin is the captain of the fictional
Nelson, Wash. volunteer fire department).

Newton-John, daughter and husband were all at
Justines along with another couple, who are friends, and
their baby. The six of them were in for a bite to eat
following the first day’s shooting on Baker Street, though
baby didn't let Mom and Dad eat much.

Newton-John and baby are reported to be staying
somewhere on the sandy confines on the North Shore.

THE THING about Hollywood people is they look
bigger than life on the silver screen, than on the street.

yhy Daryl (Just one ‘r’) Hannah just about walks
by without anyone noticing. Well, almost.

As one wag noted: “She looks like she fits right in
with the rest of the people in Nelson.”

Which is why it's hard to tell the Los Angeles types
from the Nelson types without a program.

BUT IT’S not hard to tell Steve Martin — at least
when he’s in costume. Martin plays a Cyrano de Bergerac
type complete with huge nose. And it's the beak that
gives him away.

IF YOU'RE an alumni of Selkirk College, you'll not
want to miss the big Homecoming weekend planned for
October.

The main theme of the three-day event on Oct. 10, 11
and 12 is reunion.

“This weekend is not just for Selkirk College
graduates,” says registrar John Aslin (a Selkirk alumnus
of the class of °70.)

Aslin, who heads the it ittee,

GARY FLEMING
. advertising manager

have been associated with the college over the years —

more than 20,000 by some estimates — the 20th Anniver-

sary steering committee needs to know how many
i will be the d's

“Facilities in Castlegar and at the college are of
limited capacity,” says Aslin, who warns the limitations
of space put a ceiling of “about 350” as the number of
returning alumni that can be accommodated.

So if a reunion weekend over the Thankgsgiving
holiday appeals to you let the 20th Anniversary Com-
mittee know of your intentions.

HE WEARS flashy, eccentric clothes and travels
effortlessly through time and space in an antique British
police box. Occasionally, he is called upon to save the
Earth or an alien world from the clutches of the evil
Daleks, the sinister Cybermen, or his old arch-enemy,
The Master.

Who is he? Doctor Who, of course. It’s a questi

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that few of the 3,000 to 4,000 fans that will gather in
Spokane this Friday, Saturday and Sunday would
hesitate to answer.

The convention is called TIMEFEST 86 because of
its theme of time travel and will be held in the Spokane

that the d to include

everybody who has ever nssociated with the college.
But the Homecoming committee has one small
concern. Due to the numbers of students and staff that

Managers

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Three Bauere nuclear-
reservation were
warning signs from a contaminated area tine the governor
of Washington state visited the plant, an official said
Tuesday.

l-Hanford ded they
removed the signs because they were under pressure from
the company to clear the area before Gov. Booth Gardner's
tour March 7, 1985, said Paul Lorenzini, vice-president and
general manager of Rockwell-Hanford operations.

No one in the governor's party or Department of
Energy officials were endangered by the radioactive con.
tamination at a defence waste-tank farm, Lorenzini said.

He refused to identify the three managers, who
apparently made the decision in violation of company
procedures.

The incident prompted the appointment of an ombuds-
man to deal with employees’ safety concerns, he said.

Lorenzini said he called the governor Monday to inform

Hotel and the Spokane Convention Center.

Convention chairman, Jamie Decker says that the
emphasis of this convention is on having fun and sharing
information about Doctor Who, the title character in a
long-running BBC television program.

suspended

him of the suspensions. He said Gardner seemed satisfied
with the decision.

was a dispute over the route taken by the
governor's mini-bus and a larger bus on the tour, Lorenzini
said. Neither he nor Hanford operations director Mike
Lawrence recalled going past the area where radioactive
strontium and cesium were deposited in a Jan. 11, 1985 spill.

The spill occurred on a road in the nuclear reservation’s
200 East area, just north of the Plutonium-Ukranium Ex-
traction Plant which is located about 300 kilometres south of
the British Columbia border.

Rockwell-Hanford operates the tank farm for the U.S.
Department of Energy.

Lorenzini said radiation signs erected after the spill
were removed before Gardner's visit, even though con-
tamination remained at unsafe levels.

Those suspended with pay pending completion of the
investigation include the manager and two subordinates in
the company’s radiological protection department, Lorenzini
said.

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