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Cc. » By CasNews Staff Last year. was the second “most.active year of drilling for oil in British Columbia in the last 10. years, Castlegar Chamber of Commerce mem.-. bers were told this week. Bob Buchanan, executive director for the Petroleum Resources Communication Foundation, told the chamber _ at a luncheon Thursday that 72 wells were drilled in B.C. last year compared to 27 in 1983 and activity levels are promising for 1985. ~ The Petroleum’ Resources Communication Foundation began in 1975 as a communi- cation arm for the oil and gas industries. The objective of the Calgary-based foundation is to increase public aware- EEE EEE ness and di of the petroleum industry and other related industries. Buchanan told the chamber there are more than 100 — EVERYTHING MUST GO! — Hart predicts break Sale Starts Monda While Stock Lasts! CASH PURCHASES ONLY People’s Insulation Service $500 eiix: CONTINUES At 33‘ °c Off Customer Price up to $500 Available on homes built before Sept. 1, 1977. . Nov. 26 thru December 21 TORONTO (CP) — The challenger to the post of national. director for the United Steelworkers of America says it's inevitable S the Canadian section of his union will break away from, its U.S. parent. Doug Hart, who is trying to unseat incumbent Gerard Docquier in a contest for the top job in the country’s We also insulate coms and new FOR FREE ESTIMATES CALL WALLY AT 365-7150 OR BILL AT 226-7705. paritish i cotumBiA | ALBERTA “Prince George Komloops homes ¢cial buildings largest industrial union, told reporters he would support a tone autonomy. referendum on the issue of- Castlegar: Ready for Business! “Business and Industrial Action Centre of Southern B.C.” © Cheap Power ® Excellent Transportation ¢ Stable Tax Base © Abundant Water Supply © Superior Community Amenities e Midway between Calgary & Vancouver ® Regional Airport Already established in arpa: © Westar Timber Operations Power Dams © Selkirk College Cominco Smelter & Fertilizer Plants National Exhibition Centre | Post Office Head Fully-serviced industrial park offers: © Dramatically reduced prices ® Cash bonus for early construction © Option proposals considered The growth centre of B.C.’s Kootenay region invites phone and mail inquiries Venture Inland ... He also said he supports the idea of a large Canadian metal workérs federation that would include steel workers, auto employees and machinists. About 160,000 members of the Steelworkers will vote Tuesday for the national dir- ector’s job and directors for two of three districts. Clement Godbout, incumbent director for Eastern Canada, has been acclaimed. The district elections in- clude a fierce race in Ontario between incumbent Dave Patterson and challenger Leo Gerard, who is part of an in- ternational slate of candi- dates including Docquier. Hart's views on Canadian autonomy drew scorn from Docquier, .who has been a staunch defender of interna- tional ties. Docquier indi- cated he has “no fear of a de- bate” on the issue but added that the membership has consistently expressed satis- faction with the structure of the union. “If we need a referendum, we will have it but I know where I'll stand,” he said. Hart, a long-time union staff representative’ who works in the Peel-Halton re- gion just outside of Toronto, said the autonomy issue was INFO PACKAGE & - VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE Send me your information package, video tape “Cast NAME including Industrial Park information ] As well, send me “Tier U Also, ona 10-day the Venture Inland/Castlegar 10-minute LL] VHS format “information loan basis, send me llegar: Place of Opportunity” U Beta format Ph. ( ) ADDRESS kindled with the break- away of the Canadian section of the United Auto Workers. “It's a question that won't go away,” Hart said, adding that he sees a break as in- evitable by the. 1990s. Hart said, at the least, the Police file CITY CODE CASTLEGAR IN Castleg: Columbia Avenue IDUSTRIAL COMMISSION jar, B.C. VIN 1G7 Community” THE WELCOME MAT IS OUT! © Upto 100% municipal tax oe Partners in. 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It helps prepare business proposals, including profit and cash nce of the provincial govern- nesses and en- low pi s ies, and helps i A va venture fundi ty of other services are also available, training for ownr3oy mark ling sources. Cy Z ling temporary ators, and Pg for Business Incubator Centre. serious “jody is a: Small A three-car accident Wed- nesday afternoon at Colum- bia Avenue and 8th Street sent a Grand Forks woman to Castlegar Hospital with mi- nor injuries, Castlegar RCMP report. ‘- A Southbound 1978 Toyota driven by Donna Naito, 22, of Grand Forks was attempting to make a left turn from Columbia Avenue into 8th Street when it was rear- ended by a 1976 Datsun pick-up driven by 17-year-old Jamie Robinson of Castlegar, an RCMP press release says. The Naito vehicle was then pushed into the northbound land where it was hit head-on by a northbound 1979 Chry- sler driven by Curtis Sher- stobitoff, 20, of Castlegar, the release says. Damage to the three ve- hicles is estimated at approx- imately $8,000, the RCMP say. Naito was kept in hospital overnight for observation and then released, a spokes- man at Castlegar and District Hospital said Friday. LETS SEE YOU DOIT... OUTDOORS! union's Canadian director should have the power to hire staff without getting appro- val from headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa. Docquier said giving the Canadian director that power would be tantamount ‘to a. split. Hart ‘said he was part of the union's for in the © BOB BUCHANAN .. best year in decade Physical activity is is up in the ~ organization. Buchanan said the petro- leum industry is a major in- duStry in B.C., with 85 per cent of the activity centred in the northeast corner of the province. He added that other prospects are being looked at, such as a natural gas pipeline to Vancouver Island and offshore drilling off the coast. Buchanan noted that in 1984 the provincial govern- ment d “a lot of a long time but now feels money” from the petroleum “they're not looking at where industry, which went directly we're going in the future.” back into the province. He was passed over earlier In 1985 the number of oil this year in favor of Gerard wells were expected to dou- as the establishment. candi- ble, he said. date against Patterson. Buchanan said that geo- =an- of —working to-invest-$13-billion ——_#- increased drilling activities. He noted that there is. new geophysical activity. near Fernie.- The director said drilling activities have direct impacts on the local community, but benefit the province as a whole as well. If additional resources are found and the province - is able to export those re- sources, the province can get money from royalties and taxes, Buchanan said. “B.C. is a gas-prone prov- ince,” Buchanan stated. adding’ that the industry is in the exploration industry in’ 1985. Buchanan pointed out that each billion dollars of expenditures translates into 30,000, person years of em- ployment. + He said that one in 20. working Canadians is associ- ated with the gas industry. Buchanan also gave the chamber a 10-question quiz on the oil and gas industry with questions ranging from the world’s largest oil pro- ducer (USSR), to the number * of companies searching for oil and gas in Canada (700), to how long Canada's known re- serves of conventional oil will Si. SS November 24, 1985 “Caste News 13 A3 Briefly The petroleum industry reinvests a lot of its money back in the economy, he said, duction (12 years). last at current rates of pro- B.C. SHIVERS IN RECORD COLD WEATHER VANCOUVER (CP) — Residents in the Greater Vancouver region are not accustomed te shivering — especially at this time of year. But for the second night in a row, Vancouver endured rd-breaking, sub- 7 The cold, however, was nothing ¢ompared to Sparwood, in southeastern B.C., where the minus 12.5 low recorded at Vancouver International Airport early Saturday would seem almost spring-like. The previous coldest temperature recorded at the , airport in November was minus 12.2 degrees, set in 1955. However, the temperature in Sparwood dropped to minus 31 overnight — making it she coldest place in B.C. And it didn’t even set any record: Sparwood resident Glen Leyden offered this advice coast: “Get a good bottle of rum and stay in bed.” Vancouver was one of six B.C. centres where all-time record low temperatures for November were set overnight Friday. COMMUNITIES SHIVER The other five place were Cranbrook at minus 28, Lytton at minus 19.3, Abbotsford at minOus 14, Comox at minus 12.6 and Port Hardy at minus 10. Other shivering places included Williams Lake and Penticton, both at minus 29, Dawson Creek at minus 26 and Kamloops at minus 21. x An RCMP spokesman in Cranbrook said the residents there are used to cold winters. “We're geared for winter. It’s no big deal. We don't like it (freezing temperatures), but we learn to deal with it.” The cold snap resulted in B.C. Hydro setting a new record for the second consecutive day for natural gas deliveries. today to coddled Vancouverites who think it’s cold on the ~ KEEPING WARM. . . This Castlegar resident knows how to fend off the cold blasts of winter. Castlegar and rest of B.C. is caught in deep freeze. —coiewsrhoto Hydro spokesman Peter McMullen said that in the 24-hour period ending at 8'a.m. Saturday, Hydro supplied its Greater Vancouver area customers with 566 million cubic feet of natural gas, beating the previous record set Friday by one million cubic feet. “Normally, our load for this time of year is about 300 million cubic feet,” McMullen said. It's also going to snow, the weather office says. Five centimetres — just under two inches — is expected on the Lower Mainland in the next 24 hours. Timber salvage begun By CasNews Staff The salvage of approximately 100,000 cubic metres of fit Creek at the northern end of Upper Arrow Lake hasn’ t started because of timber in the Arrow Forest District has begun and is expected to be com- pleted by next summer, the Arrow district resource officer for timber said Friday. Reiner Augustin said timber dam- aged by this summer's three major fires in the district — the Ata fire near Renata, the Moss Fire near Nakusp, and the Ing fire near Burton — is now being harvested on TFL 23. “The combined volume is approx- imately 100,000 cubic metres,” Augus- tin said. Of that amount, the Ata fire accounts for about 45,000 cubic metres of fire-damaged timber, he said. In addition to the three major areas, Augustin said some smaller volumes of timber haye been harvested ir-other areas. LsHowever, Augustin said harvesting d timber near the i ivity of the area. K He said concern for water quality and the Hill Creek spawning channel at Galena Bay are the reasons the harvest, hasn't started in that area. Augustin said the Ministry of For- ests along with the Ministry of En- vironment and Westar Timber will study the area over the winter and next year to determine what procedure to follow. The Ministry of Forests announced a temporary increase in the allowable timber harvest for the Invermere timber supply area — which includes the Arrow forest district — at the end of October. “The increase in the cut has been approved to allow the removal and use of the mature values in the burned areas,” B.C.’s chief forester John Cuthbert said in a prepared news re- lease. A total of 1.8 million cubic metres of fire-damaged wood will be available to industry between Jan. 1, 1986 and Dec. 31, 1987, the release says. Aprpoximately 40 per cent of the total mature volume within the burned areas is salvageable at present, ac- cording to the release. “We have about two years to com- plete the salvage,” Cuthbert says in the release. “The wood begins to check (crack) very quickly making it unfit for lumber.” “It is, however, important to use as much of the sound wood as quickly as possible and to begin the rehabilitation processes,” Cuthbert says. A review of the salvage program will be made-in-1987, the release says. Further changes will be made at-that time as required to allow the: com- pletion of the salvage during 1988, the release adds. = The fire-damaged wood volume is in addition to the present allowable annual cut of 670,000 cubic metres. HANSEN TO MEET POPE VANCOUVER (CP) '— Wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen’ will. meet Pope John Paul Rome Wednesday, say the organizers‘ of Hansen's Man in Motien world tour. * Hansen, who left Vancouver March 21, passed the 10,000-mile mark’ in his 25,000-mile (40,000-ki Selkirk College planning major projects " By CasNews Staff * Major. facilities projects are being planned at Selkirk’ College. An engineering firm has-been, engaged, specifications \ developed’ and ‘tenders will be=received and opened. on Friday for modifications to the sewage treatment plant at wheelchair. journey Tuesday at Pisa, Italy. The meeting with the Pope will take place during John Paul's regular Wednesday general audience, the Man in Motion office. said. : Man im. Motion also said in a news release -that . donations to Hansen's fund for spinal-cord research have topped $500,000. HILLIS CONVICTED TERRACE (CP) — Errol Lyndon Hillis, 18, will be sentenced Dec. 17 for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and attempting to murder a female taxi driver. The case was adjourned Friday after-the Crown said it had more witnesses to call in the matter of sentencing. Hillis, of Kispiox, B.C. was convicted Thursday in the case of Joyce Greenwood, 22, a Terrace cab driver who was seized while working the night shift in May 1984. She was attacked, slashed with a hunting knife and left for dead at a campground. “EPP WANTS NEW RULES OTTAWA (CP) — Health Minister Jake Epp wants tough new rules on wine and beer advertising, saying only the manufacturer's name, the quality of the ingredients and the container size should be promoted on radio and television in Canada. Ina brief presented to the Canadian Radio-televi- sion and Telecommunications. Commission, Epp sug- gested eight changes in way the commission regulates beer and wine ads broadcast in Canada. Beer companies should no !onger be able to use “a human model or models or any other audio or visual element which might have a lifestyle connotation,” in their advertising. COMMUNE TO CLOSE . RAJNEESHPURAM, Ore. (Reuters) — The central Oregon commune of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, hit by. the guru's return:to India after he pleaded guilty to charges of violating U.S. immigration laws, will be shut and sold, a spokesman said Saturday. Ma Ananda Sarita, one of eight followers of Rajneesh who founded the coroversial Rancho Rajneesh commune four years ago, said all but 100 of the disciples will leave within three weeks. Estimates of the number still here range from 1,200 to 2,000. She said the 100 will remain behind as caretakers of the ranch until all of its assets, including the guru's more than 90 Rolls-Royces, are sold. CASTRO WANTS WAR LONDON (REUTER) — Cuban President Fidel Castro_is. seeking Soviet_ approval for a formal declaration of war on South Africa, a British newspaper reports. ~ Early edition’s of The Observer quoted a senior Cuban official i in Havana's repr to Moscow as saying Castro is anxious to bring the crisis in South Africa to a head. Castro's main aim is to undermine South Africa's apartheid system of racial separation by removing Pretoria’s forces from neighboring Angola, Mozambique and Namibia, the newspaper said. Cuba believes an open war, fought mainly in Angola, would be less destructive in the long run than a violent and lengthy transition from apartheid, The Observer said. POEM DISCOVERED LONDON (REUTER) — An American scholar has claimed the discovery of a previously unknown poem by poet and playwright William Shakespeare, a British newspaper said. The Sunday Times said that Shakespearian scholar Gary Taylor found the 90-line, nine-stanza love poem while conducting research in Oxford's Bodleian library 10 days ago. The find has been challenged by other Shakes- pearian authorities. Taylor said the poem was contained in a the C: campus. College buxgar Dale Schatz told the college board is week that the waste branch modification. Cost of the project is $40,000. An electrical-protection project’ for the Castlegar campus is also planned. Schatz said the college is looking at installing some sort of a surge protection in its electrical system to protect against power surges and electrical strikes. The main reason for the. protection is to protect the college's new computer system. Cost of this project is also estimated at $40,000. _. The final start-up of the Castlegar campus’ security system is being delayed again because of a hold-up on parts. The-latest completion date is the end of this month. Schatz said the computer-operated security system will be programmed to lock and unlock doors at the college. The system will also be able to open certain sections of the college without having a security person on hand. The computer system, through telephone lines, will also be tied into Rosemont campus to monitor its heating system. In his financial report to the board, Schatz said there is a possibility of the college ending the fiscal year with a $100,000 deficit if current patterns continue. He said that at the moment revenues appear to be “a htly ahead of budget projections which, for the most aft, is counter-balancing the overexpended areas. Schatz said he and Perra will be meeting with various department heads and supervisors in order to ensure that expenditures are kept to budget levels.over the remainder of the year. ARNETT MR. SHSS By CasNews Staff ‘Tim Arnett was crowned Mr. Stanley Humphries at ,@ pageant at the high school on Friday. ;Mike Kennedy 1 ‘was named first .runner- up, while Kevin Biln was named second runner-up. Rob Hadasz was named Mr. Congeniality. Other contestants were Rob Trickey, Greg .Gritchin, and Steve Picton. All are Grade 12 The event was planned by the SHSS Grad Council. Judges were teachers Brenda Konkin, Cheryl Bonowicz, Barry DePaoli, Jack Closkey and Kevin . Morris, Contestants performed a number of activities includihg modelling, doing their favorite sport, portray- g teachers and answering a skill-testing question. Master of Ceremonies was Marnie Wlewellyn- Thomas. Proceeds of $105 from the pageant go to the Legion Christmas Hamper Fund. Man sentenced to 104 years. REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A man who abducted a hitchhiker and kept her for 7'/2 years as a sex slave — sometimes in a box beneath his bed — was sentenced to up to 104 years in prison by a judge who called him “the most dangerous psychopath I have ever encountered.” Superior Court Judge Clarence Knight imposed the sentence on Cameron Hooker, 31, and directed him to pay $50,000 in restitution. A jury convicted Hooker on Oct. 31 of 10 of 11 felony charges, including kidnapping and rape. BEAUTIES . . . Tim Arnett (left) was crowned Mr. Stanley Humphries at the school on Friday in a pageant where the contestants performed a number of activities. Steve Picton (above), one of the contestants, portrays one of his teachers in part of the pageant. —CosNewsPhotos by Chery! Calderbonk COLLEGE continued from front page enrolment with foreign students, the college would cover some of its basic operating costs. ~Buckley said there is also another reason for attracting foreign students and that’s to'assist in the transfer of information and knowledge from one country to another. As well, Buckley said there is an economic reason for attracting more forcien; students: Canada’s -economic B.C. Fed — IWA rift to be dealt with VANCOUVER (CP) — The rift between the B.C. Federation of Labor and one of its largest affiliates, the International Woodworkers of America, will be at the top of the list of issues to be dealt with at the federation’s annual convention next week. The woodworkers walked out of last year's convention after their president, Jack Munro, was voted out of his longtime position as first vice-president of the federation. They reduced their affiliation with the federation to a token membership of 50, which cost the federation $15,000 a month in per-capita fees. At this year's convention the federation will consider a resolution to amend the delegate entitlement system in its constitution so that the woodworkers and the B.C. Government Eniployees Union have approximately the same number of delegates, federation president Art Kube said in an interview. Under the current system the woodworkers and the government employees unions, which have about the same total have i different number of voting delegates eccause the IWA has fewer locals. The woodworkers would have less than half the 322 delegates of the government employees’ union. “The indications are that if these constitutional handwritten gy of English renai: try, probably compiled in the 1630s, two decades after Shakespeare's death. It had been in the library since 1756 withopt anybody taking much notice of it. If Taylor is correct, the poem would be the first new work by Shakespeare to be discovered this century. carry, the IWA will return,” said Kube. Kube said he hopes Munro will attend the convention. Munro is out of town until next week and was for ig depends on good trade rela- ‘tionships with other. countries. Buckley said the college, the resi- dents of the region, and the country as .a whole will benefit if the college can “get on with it.” Board member Elizabeth Fleet agreed with Buckley. However, she noted that the college's foreign student policy states that foreign students will only be accepted as lopg as there is room in a program. “We will have to weigh up how we are going to deal with that,” she said. Colbert said that not only would the college be offering seats in its current programs, but some programs could be designed specifically for foreign stu= dents. “The plan is to set up a pool of information of what is available,” he said. Meanwhile, travel costs for Perra’s ip will be paid for by the provincial Ministry of International Trade and Investment. The college will have to pick up Perra’s accommodation costs. But board member Fred Merriman said he doesn’t think the college should pay anything. Colbert responded that in order to get involved in activities such as English language courses, money must be spent. He said the money will come back to the institution in the form of programs the college is able to develop. Colbert added that the amount spent for accommodationg and needs.will be reasonably small. Perra estimated expenses for the two-week trip will cost between $1,500 and $2,000, which will end up being charged against his travel budget. Talks ‘tough and lively’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan, saying he sent Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev home headway “i if there is a real dence that they want a solu- interest on the Soviet side.” tion” in Afghanistan, noted ceed the Soviets must pro- vide a timetable for getting Reagan described his two that discussions on the issue from the Geneva summit “with a lot to think about,” challenged the Soviets on Saturday to set a timetable for withdrawal from Afghan- istan. Delivering his weekly’ ra- dio address from the Oval Office at the White House, Reagan also said he ‘believes arms control talks set to re- convene in Geneva in Jan- uary can begin to make days of talks with Gorbachev as “tough and lively through- out,” adding: “I got a better perspective from listening to General Secretary Gorba- chev, and I think he went home with a lot to think about too.” The president, who told a group of reporters Friday that the talks with Gorba- chev and other Soviet leaders produced unspecified “eyi- are to be: held next month under United Nations aus- pices. Soviet forces‘ entered Af- ghanistan in December 1979 to prop up the Marxist gov- ernment in Kabul against Moslem rebels. Western in- telligence says more than 100,000 Soviet troops and airmen now are in the country trying to put down the insurgency. “If these talks are to suc- out and recognize that the freedom fighters will not be - conquered,” Reagan told his radio audience. Regarding the arms race, Reagan said: “I think it is fair to point out that the Soviets’ main aim at Geneva was to force us to drop our strategic defence initiative. I. think I can also say that after Gen- eva, Mr. Gorbachev under- stands we have no intention of doing so; far from it.” Growth forecast TORONTO (CP) — Spur- red largely by Expo 8§, the British Columbia economy will grow by 3.2 per cent next comment. i SEEKS COMPROMISE But last month at the WA's convention, Munro said, “If | the (federation) is serious about changing the delegate LETTER SOLD PARIS (REUTER) — A letter from English poet Lord Byron to French novelist Stendhal fetched a record $50,000 at an auction of 19th-century letters and manuscripts. The letter, which auctioneers said brought the highest sum ever paid for a letter from the Romantic poet, went to a mystery buyer who bought documents worth $260,000 for an American foundation he refused to name. Letters and papers of Honore Balzac, Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust were put on sale by a retired industrialist said to own the largest existing collection of 19th-century French literature. WORKS FOUND LONDON (REUTER) — Four major choral works by the composer George Frideric Handel have been found in a toy cupboard in Manchester. Sotheby's auction house said the manuscripts, written in 1707, were discovered by Vivienne Plummer about 30 years after her husband put them in the cupboard as a child. ‘structure to be more in line with the amount of per capita that’s paid, then we can resolve our differences.” However, Munro said, a similar change presented to the federation membership four or fivé years ago was rejected. The split the and the ‘ker began at last year's federation convention when Munro was voted out as first vice-president and replaced with Art Gruntman of the rival Canadian Paperworkers Union. Munro was in disfavor with the government employees union because of the controversy arising from his role in reaching an agreement between the B.C. government and its employees’ union to end a threatened province-wide. public service strike in 1983. The five-day convention which begins Monday will also consider a major analysis that has been prepared to assess the country’s economic problems. Kube said the federation will ponder a proposal to enter into a consultative process with the New. Democratic Party to develop a legislative program the NDP could follow if it became the government. Kube said 1986 will be an important year for labor in British Columbia.. The negotiations “that “will-tell' the tale” are those between the government and the B.C. Government Employ- ees’ Union. Their contract expired at the end of October. “If the government seeks confrontation, it will most likely come,” he said. “If that set of negotiations were settled, that would bode well for the rest.” year, bly higher than the 2.3-per-cent growth forecast for 1985, says the Investment Dealers. Associa- tion of Canada. . “The British Columbia economy is emerging from a modest prosperity,” the asso- ciation said in a forecast released Thursday. By comparison, the Cana- dian economy is expected to grow by 4.1 per cent this year and 3.0 per cent in 1986. Almost all major economic sectors in British Columbia ja are expected to improve next year, said the association. create most of the new jobs in the province. Changing labor-manage- ment relations is one of the biggest reasons for the im- proved forecast, said the association. “The hostile labor-manage- rather than confrontation.” Wage rates in collective agreements signed in the last year have increased an aver- age of two per cent for the public sector and 1.3 per cent in the private sector, the lowest increases in the coun- ment env “of the 70s and ‘80s is improving. A prolonged period of adversity Expo 86 will be the main positive development is the ry. C g is-ex- pected to increase, housing starts should rise to 20,000 and entering a period of catalyst for growth and will move to greater co-operation from 17,000 in 1985. By CasNews Staff There are rumors circulating that Westar Timber's Celgar pulp mill in Castlegar is up for sale, but com- pany officials are being non-commi- ttal about whether the 25-year-old mill is_on the block. At the end of October, Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Celgar sale rumored said. He said Celgar has talked to Midtech, but only because the company is “one of our customers.” Sweeney said he didn't know if Midtech is interested in buying the mill. “I know I've heard lots of ru- mors,” he said. of industrial relations for Westar, said in a telephone interview from his office in Vancouver that he had also heard rumors that the Castle- gar mill is on the market. But, he said, “a rumor is a rumor. There's been lots of rumors going around.” Mitchell said he doesn't mind i Mel said an American company, Midtech, had been looking at buying the mill. But Wilf Sweeney, general man- ager of the Celgar mill, said Thurs- day the mill is not for sale. “Not to my knowledge,” Sweeney But y didn't ly rule out the sale of Celgar. “If someone comes along and offers you a lot of money for your house would you sell?” Sweeney asked. David Mitchell, general manager on the rumors but added that “decision-making (at Westar) is decentralized.” “I think it would be far more appropriate to give Wilf Sweeney a call and give him a chance to com- ment,” he said.