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Clip it and keep it by your phone for reference Circulation Classified Advertising Retail Advertising General Office & Pri VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Hydro has reported a net loss of $13 million for the first six months ending Sept. 30, 1984 compared with net income of {3 million for the same period last year. Although revenues were up considerably during the period expenses were up even more, the Crown cor. poration said in a news re. lease Tuesday Domestic revenues in creased $66 million this year The cost of providing ser- vices increased $60 million as a result of higher rental taxes and grants, increased wheel- ing charges and higher sales volume of gas purchase for resale. Worker co-op takes on mill VICTORIA (CP) — Work. ers at the Pacific Forest Products plywood mill here have been told that a deal is all but completed for a worker co-op to take over the mill. The mill was closed in June, and a worker co-op has been trying since then to raise the $5 million needed to take over the mill and up grade it to current produc. tion standards. Workers were told Mon day that a deal is all but completed. A spokesman wouldn't say where the money is coming from, but said the only things standing in the way is formal] approval There’s only one way to Reach 700,000 Homes do it! by the B.C. Corp. The spokesman said the 150 workers have agreed to a slight wage cut in order to reopen the mill. A final announcement is expected in about two weeks. Development CUTBACKS . =. Federal oreroment firings of staff at the Creston Valley Wildlife Interpretation Centre mean people like these — photographed at the 7 Wildernes By CasNews Staff ‘ The West Kootenay will lose more than $1 million in tourism revenue with the federal government's firing of the staff at the Creston Valley Wildlife Interpretation Centre, according to the Creston Chamber of Commerce. The firing of the three year-round workers, and the elimination of seasonal and summer work for 11 others, is part of 84 staff cuts in the Canadian Wildlife Service across the country announced earlier this month. The loss of all the workers at the Creston centre scheduled for March 31 means it will shut down, although the federal government insists “they're only dropping the funding,” said Chuck Truscott, businessman and Creston Chamber of Commerce member. “It's just like your boss saying you're not fired, but you're not drawing pay anymore,” said Truscott, who's spearheading a chamber task force to keep the centre open. He said the staff at the centre have received verbal termination notices, and will get written notification this week. A press release from the chamber of commerce reads: “The effect on the Creston Valley will not only be direct payroll loss and unemployment but also indirect loss of revenue from the thousands of tourists who are attracted to the valley by the interpretation centre. Truscott said letters will be sent to Kootenay East MP Stan Graham, B.C. Environment Minister Tony — centre's wildlife marsh — won't be able to repeat the experience next summer. s staff cut Brummet and the B.C. and Canadian chambers of commerce. But “the problem is we don't see it opening without federal funding,” he said. Ministry of Tourism statistics show that benefits to the area last year were $1,104,964. The cost to run the Creston Valley Wildlife Inter- pretation Centre is $150,000 annually (including wages), and $128,000 of this is spent locally. According to the chamber release “for every dollar spent by the government for operation of the Wildlife Centre, an average of $8.22 was spent in the region by tourists visiting the centre.” “We think it affects everyone in the Kootenays, both East and West — not just Creston,” Truscott added. In 1983, more than 30,000 people visited the centre, and 8,700 more participated in off-site programs, the release says. Attendance has tripled since 1977, when about 11,000 people visited the centre. Last year, 26.5 per cent of the visitors came from outside Canada. The federal government will save about $570,000 per year in B.C. where 11 full-time Canadian Wildlife staff have been fired. Programs on wolf control, forestry impacts on wildlife, caribou in the Yukon and Alaska, and the Fraser River Estuary will be among those eliminated. . : . ergy 9 icific blizzard: ~~ f. heads east. Hawaiian Islands, squalls dumped as much as 88 centi- metres of rain in 12 hours Tuesday, causing $1.2 million in damage on Oha, the most populous island. As many as 100 hunters were believed stranded in northeast Oregon, but none was thought to be lost or in danger, said Maryanne May, a Umatilla County sheriffs deputy. Wind gusts up to 128 kilometres an hour were re- corded at Gold Beach, Ore., and winds forced authorities to close the Mount Ashland ski area. In San Francisco, at Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado, said Paul Fike, a first daily newspaper to act on ethical grounds, and it’s a Canadian has been on tobaceo advertising, also hailed the announcement as a through. “The only North American newspapers that ban tobacco advertising are the Christian Science Monitor and a couple of others in Utah,” Mahood said. “But with them the reasons are religious. This is the Rewspaper. We couldn't be happier. Once you get one member of the club, it makes it easier for No. 2 to come along.” Kingston publisher Michael Davies said in a front-page statement Tuesday his newspaper won't accept any tobacco advertising over which it has direct control after Jan. 1. The only tobacco products mentioned after that date will be in national advertising inserts printed elsewhere or isolated references to tobacco prices such as those contained in drug store ads, said Davies, a former smoker. SMALL GESTURE “What I'm trying to stop is these ads which equate smoking with a positive lifestyle,” he said. Davies called the move “a small gesture” that would cost abouot $50,000 a year in lost revenue, but the Canadian TORIES TOO SECRETIVE? meteorologist with the Na tional Severe Storms Fore- cast Centre in Kansas City, Mo. Warm air moving in front of that storm brought rain to skyscrapers swayed in sim- ilar winds and windows blew out of a highrise apartment building. Winds knocked out power to at least 26,000 customers LETTER TO EDITOR Pass Creek article clarified Editor, Castlegar News: Regarding the article in Nov. 21 Castlegar News headed “Push is on to expand school:” I would like at this time to extend my apologies to any party or parties offended by the article. The article also quotes me as saying that parents had originally had their children transferred from the school because of concerns about discipline and “quality of education.” Again to the best of my limited It was not my i the area Where it says in the opening para has been gradually reduced because students were sent to Woodland Park Elemen. tary School at the request of parents” — it becomes a blanket statement covering all parents in Pass Creek and this is not an accurate statement. To the best of my limited knowledge (limited by my being a resident of Pass two months and the Parent-Teachers’ Association for only one-half of that parents requested a graphs that “the school Creek’ for only involved with time) “some” transfer to criticize any of the personnel previously -in volved in staffing Pass Creek school. I was responding to questions from the Castlegar News reporter as to why children had been transferred from Pass Creek school to other schools in ledge, this for the removal of “some” of the students from Pass Creek school, but does not accur. ately reflect to views of “all” the parents in the Pass Creek community On the contrary, many parents were obviously happy with “educational quality” in Pass Creek I apologize to any parents who may feel that I have taken liberties with that statement and again point out that of how it appeared in print, I did not at any time ever imply that this was the view of “all” or even of many or most Pass Creek parents. I am aware of many contributing factors leading to the loss of students from Pass Creek school and I tried in this interview to convey them to the reporter. I am quoted as saying: “There were some underlying currents up here. I don’t really want to go into that.” currents” any other backs) As it is, cerns are with the optimistic who were My reasons for not wanting to go into them are obvious — my newness in the area and my limited understanding as to what has actually taken place here through the years. As I did not feel qualified to explain to the reporter what these “underlying why he chose to print that particular remark and not make any mention of of students (for example, budget cut with a sense of intrigue about the past happenings in Pass Creek. Alone of this was my intent when consenting to an interview. My con. Pass Creek school, but more in line today and the development of an CHETWYND (CP) — The operating room at Chetwynd General Hospital has been closed pending an investi gation following the deaths of two children, who were given general anesthetics for rou- tine dental surgery. Julie Ann Heagy, 14, died Nov. 22, and Murran Bedell, 3, died Nov. 6 after being transferred to Vancouver's Children’s Hospital. Donald Welch, hospital ad. ministrator in Chetwynd, said the hospital board has decided to close the operat ing room. The closure will remain in effect at least until a coroner completes his in quest into the two deaths. The coroner is expected to visit the 60-bed hospital this week. were, I can not understand obvious reasons for removal the article leaves the reader not with the history of the positive things happening view about the future at Pass Creek school. Again, my apologies to those parties offended by the article. College staff Royal City Antiques is featuring a your own BE HAPPY TO ARE YOU RENTING? Do you realize with CREATIVE FINANCING You moy be able to afford GIVE ME A CALL AND I'LL lay-offs KELOWNA (CP) — Okan agan College will lay off 48 instructors and support staff because of a lack of operating funds. Madeleine Bailey, the fac. ulty association communica tions director, said Tuesday 20 instructors will be out of jobs and 28 support jobs will be eliminated. The support jobs are held by members of the B.C. Government Em home! SHOW YOu Tennessee, Alabama, Geor. gia and Florida, he said Seven Arkansas rivers were above flood levels in places. Officials set crews to barri in Washington for several hours, and about 9,000 people were without power in Nor- thern California for about an hour Tuesday. Turner condemns guides OTTAWA (CP) — Oppo sition Leader John Turner accused the Conservatives Tuesday of breaking an elec tion promise for open gov ernment by limiting the kinds of information public servants can give MPs, the media and the public. Turner called on the gov ernment to disband guides Accident results in mistaken identity PRIMGHAR, IOWA (AP) — Family and friends paid their final respects Tuesday to a teenager who was killed in a traffic accident and then became part of a bizarre mixup in which she was mistaken for a girl injured in the crash. About 400 mourners attended a memorial! service at Grace Lutheran Church for Shawn Lake, 14, of Primghar Shawn was reburied alongside her father — who also was killed in the Nov. 10 accident — in a private ceremony before the service. Until last weekend, authorities and family members thought Shawn was the 16-year-old girl who lay comatose in a Sioux City hospital for two weeks following the accident. However, the girl in the hospital is Patricia Noonan, whom authorities said had died in the crash. Patricia awoke last Saturday and startled doctors and both families by saying, “I'm Patty, Patty, Patty.” Shawn's mother, Colleen Lake. had kept a vigil beside Patricia's bed, thinking the girl with the bruised face and breathing tube in her nose was her daughter. But Lake's daughter actually had been buried as Patricia Noonan in Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley Shawn's body was exhumed and reburied at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in this northwestern Iowa community of 1,000 residents. FATHERS KILLED Shawn's father, Lenis Lake, 42, and Patricia's father, John Noonan, 45, also were killed in the accident. The four were riding ina car that collided with a school bus in which 15 people were injured Mrs. Lake said she suspected the gir! in the hospital bed was not her daughter, but she pushed the thoughts aside She said the girl's injuries, blackened eyes, dried blood and abrasions on her face and the hospital equipment to which she was attached made it impossible to identify the girl in the bed postively She said the two girls had many similiarities that added to the confusion Both had blond hair and similar builds. But there also were things that made her doubt whether the girl in the bed was her daughter, she said. Hospital officials told her the patient weighed about 120 pounds, whereas her daughter weighed around 140. And the pateint “ate foods that Shawn wouldn't have egten,” she said £ But she said hospital officials told her the girl had West weight after the accident and her taste buds hadn't revived enough to distinguish foods. When the girl said she was Patty, Mrs. Lake measured her and found she was shorter than her daughter Law enforcement officers finally established that the girl was Patty by using fingerprints Mrs. Noonah had made of her daughter about a year ago. Mrs. Noonan, notified Sunday of the mistaken identity, said hers was “a feeling you just cannot describe. The joy is beyond words.” that public ser. vants can give out factual information but they are not to offer opinions on govern ment “The effect of these guid~ lines will be an even tighter control on information,” Tur ner told the Commons during a wide-ranging debate on government secrecy. Public servants must be ready to explain the reasons behind government decisions and policy options, he said. “Openness in government is absolutely vital and fun par y democracy,” he said. However, Turner’s motion condemning the guides was soundly defeated as the Tory majority outvoted the com- bined opposition parties 163- 53. And Revenue Minister Perrin Beatty said he felt like he was falling through Alice in Wonderland’s ooking glass as he heard Liberals becoming “born-again advo- cates of open government” after their many years of tight-lipped government. Year after year in oppo- sition the Tories encountered stonewalling by the Liberal government, cover-ups, 5; tematic abuse of the role of the public service and mas- sive expenditures on gov- ernment advertising, Beatty said. Turner also accused the government of trying to the media by channelling the release of in. formation through “30-see- ond clips” on TV and photo opportunities where cameras are permitted to film events but reporters are barred from asking questions. DEFENDS GUIDES Government House Leader Ray Hnatyshyn defended his government and said it has improved accessibility and consultation with the public. And he said the guides are not “some new monster, some Draconian set of rules which are unprecedented in terms of public policy.” Rather, they are an elabor. ion of guides first devel. oped by Tory government in 1979 and then adopted by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, with one exception. The new guides also say public servants must be pre- pared to be identified by Getty helps British m LONDON (AP) — Oil mag. nate John Paul Getty said today he has given $120,000 to a Christmas fund for the families of Britain's striking coal miners. “I don’t think I have been able to digest my Christmas dinner if I had not done something about their Christ: mas dinners,” Getty said in an interview with the BBC's Today radio program. “I think that the miners are decent Britons and I just don’t think they are entirely responsible for the impasse we seem to be at.” Getty, 52, whose father built the Getty oil fortune, lives in London's exclusive Chelsea district and is re ported to earn $20 million U.S. a year from his family's trust. Roughly two-thirds of Brit ain’s 189,000 miners have held fast to the strike for eight months, trying to pre- vent the state-owned Nation. al Coal Board from closing mines it says are losing money Ten sets of negotiations have collapsed, with the union refusing to accept any mine closures on purely economic grounds. Getty acknowledged he had no firm guarantee that his donation will go to miners’ families and not the coffers of the National Union of Mineworkers. fl felt, in that case, I'd just have to trust them.” CHEQUE TO FUND The fund to which he sent his cheque was started by British celebrities including actress Susannah York and Labor party Leader Neil Kinnock. The miners’ union was dealt a setback Tuesday when a court bailiff served Papers ordering the union not to withdraw funds from accounts in Swiss and Lux embourg banks. Display inconvenient WINNIPEG (CP) A display promoting employ ment opportunities for the disabled turned into an em barrassment for federal of. ficials Tuesday when it was found to be inconvenient and possibly dangerous for han dicapped people “It's an ironic touch,” said Dave Jenkins, a consultant who helps make buildings ac. cessible to the disabled and who complained about the way the display was pre sented. The display, sponsored by the Public Service Commis. sion in Ottawa, was placed on a metre-high platform with a ramp at one end. Jenkins, who uses a wheel chair himself, said the ramp was too steep for a wheel: chair and that people with poor vision could have fallen off the back of the platform Cc ae Fe people didn’t fall off the platform. Convention centre mana ger Sigi Wassermann said the display was set up ac cording to commission speci fications. Jim Derksen, chairman of a national coalition for the P n Linda Percy said the ramp was provided by the Win nipeg Convention Centre and assistance was provided for people in wheelchairs once the problem was discovered. Perey also said someone was watching to make sure said the display should not have been on a platform because many who wanted to view it had sight problems. . “Most of the people who would want to use the equip ment are visually impaired,” said Derksen. Jefferson Jtouse MOTOR INAS CELEBRATING OUR loth WEAR OF SERVICE INLAND EMPIRE Ld name when dealing with the media, meaning an end to off-the-record background briefings. “In effect, a discreet si lence will be imposed upon the public service of Canada because an individual public servant will not take the chance that what he has to say, even in a factual sense, meets the approval of his minister,” Turner said. But Hnatyshyn said the Tories believe public ser. vants to be “intelligent peo- ple of great judgment” who should be allowed to speak on the record. NDP Leader Ed Broadbent also accused the Tories of ex cessive secrecy “Perhaps for the first time in the history of our country we have a government which does not say that people have the right to know,” Broad- bent said. iners A High Court judge ruled last month that the strike is illegal in two key counties because the National Union of Mineworkers didn't hold a countrywide authorization vote. When the union refused to pay a $240,000 fine, the judge ordered its assets seized. Ac countants, however, found most of the money long since transferred out of Britajg, As union leaders met at the congress headquarters today, there were scuffles as police removed a gallows and large cardboard effigy of general secretary Norman Willis with a noose around his neck. Communist demonstrators crected the gallows, accusing the powerful labor federation of not doing enough to help the miners. Five protesters were arrested, police said. “It’s a responsible approach and shows considerable courage. Hopefully, it will serve as an example not only to other newspapers but to all mass media.” The medical jation has been i 1969 for a ban on all tobacco advertising in Canada. Terry, whose 1964 report as U.S. surgeon-general set off ripples in the medical world that are still being felt, said advertising is a potent foree and the tobacco industry had manipulated it skilfully over the years. “The public is now getting flooded with propaganda — advertising propoganda — about tobacco and cigarettes and their pleasantness. There is no basic ition (in advertising) of the major health hazard that's involved. sinee Tues. 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