‘ a2__ Castlegar News vows, 1906 __ Briefly — Brakes faulty corporation said in a news release. It has asked the owners of 600 commercial fleets plus 14,000 small companies and individuals who operate heavy equipment to check for misalignment in self- centring double-diaphragm spring brakes. Patient battling EDMONTON (CP) — Heart transplant Michael Mosher was battling pneumonia, dysfunction and confusion on Tuesday. His mother, Mianna Tompkins, was disturbed by the complications but overjoyed that her son had received a new heart and grateful to relatives of the donor. “There are no words that can describe what they did,” she said. “It's meant everything for Michael.” The 20-year-old native of Burnaby, B.C. underwent heart transplant surgery Friday at the University of Alberta Hospital. patient kidney RCMP given raise OTTAWA (CP) — Military and RCMP personnel have quietly been given ‘unprecedented three-year pay increases significantly better than the public service unions have negotiated. The 84,500 enlisted armed forces members will get pay increases of 11.9 per cent over three years and 15,000 annually after wage increases of 3.9 per cent retroactive to Jan. 1 and 2.25 per cent on July 1. They will get pay increases of 3.25 per cent and three per cent at the start of 1987 and 1988 respectively. Reward increased VANCOUVER (CP) — The search for Nanaimo tot Lynn Hillier has been given a $10,000 boost by the father of a slain youngster. “I can't bring Jenny May back but if I can help these people by adding to the reward fund then that's great,” said Tom May, whose three year-old daughter was abducted from a Sunshine Coast hotel room and strangled on Dee. 13, 1985. May’s offer put the reward for information on the mn at $35,000. Ernie Minors posted $25,000 Gorbachev to get bill PORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Health Division has sent a bill to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachey for expenses incurred while monitoring radiation levels in the state after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the Soviedt Ukraine. It cost the division $73,060 US to monitor air, rain, drinking water, vegetation and milk in Oregon when radiation from the Soviet disaster drifted over the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Marcos auction NEW YORK (AP) — Museum-quality antiques, three grand pianos and even a few pairs of shoes will be auctioned from a 30-room townhouse once owned by former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda. The townhouse was opened to reporters Tuesday to kick off a public preview and liquidation auction. Drug abuse crackdown WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military services discharged 51,000 servicemen for misusing drugs and disciplined another 92,000 between 1983 and 1985, the Pentagon said Tuesday, holding out its campaign as a model for a crackdown President Ronald Reagan for some government workers. Dr. William Mayer, assistant defence secretary for health affairs, told re the military's war on drug abuse cost about $175 million US a year. Star Wars survives WASHINGTON (Reuter) — President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars missile defence program has narrowly survived a serious challenge in the U.S. Senate, withstanding more funding cuts by only one-vote margins. The Senate armed services committee had already chopped Reagan's $5.3 billion US request for the program next year to $3.9 billian but the Senate on Tuesday rejected two efforts td eut' it even further by identical 50-49 votes. U.S.-Soviet exchange WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to far-ranging cultural, scientific, educational and sports exchanges, diplomatic officials said Tuesday. At a joint news conference, Ambassador Stephen Rhinesmith, co-ordinator of President Ronald Reagan's US8,-Soviet initi . and A dor Yuri Kashlev, head of a delegation representing five Soviet ministries, said week-long negotiations resulted in the signing of 13 agreements. Bennett turns job over to Vander Zalm VICTORIA (CP) — Bill Bennett presided over his last cabinet meeting today before submitting his resignation as premier and handing the job over to Bil} Vander Zalm. But Vander Zalm, elected to replace Bennett at a Social Credit leadership convention a week ago, did not officially become premier until being sworn about three hours later Seated at the head of the long cabinet table, Bennett said he was leaving with “plenty of thoughts, a lot of happy memories in this room.” ‘There were “a lo: of major decisions and a lot of good discussion from a lot of people here that I will miss very much.” Bennett, 54, has been premier of British Columbia for more than 10 years. Regular cabinet meetings are held in the cabinet room on the second floor of the western annex of the legislature, just above the premier’s office. “Every new premier has a lot of work to do, but I'm leaving the province in very good shape,” he said. “I'm looking forward to going home to Kelowna.” WORK IN RIDING Bennett said he will spend the next few months working out of his Kelowna constituency office — he is staying on as the member for Okanagan South until the next provincial election. He said he will sort through his papers and personal files so that if he decides to write a book, “everything will be ready.” As for his future plans, the millionaire joked: “Audrey (Bennett's wife) is concerned that at some point I get a job.” There was one empty chair around the cabinet table — Bill Ritchie resigned Tuesday as municipal affairs minister and said he would miss today’s meeting because he would be back at his Central Fraser Valley constituency. Tom Waterland, who also i Tuesday as agriculture minister, attended the farewell cabinet meeting for Bennett. CAN WORK Except for International Trade Minister Pat McGeer, who brushed past reporters without saying a word, most cabinet ministers said before entering the meeting they would setve with Vander Zalm if asked to join his cabinet. Vander Zalm said Tuesday the current cabinet could continue functioning until he decides whether there should be any changes in the coming week. He needs to fill the vaeant portfolios of agriculture and municipal affairs. Also, Jim Nielsen has been doubling as minister of health and human resources, and Highways Minister Alex Fraser was only recently released from hospital after throat surgery. Fraser, 69, looking slightly frail but smiling, shook hands with reporters before the meeting and flashed a piece of paper with words: “No comment. Why? Becuz I can't.” He is still learning to speak again after the removal of his voice box in the operation. NELSON WOMAN CP railway somewh: station is COUNTRY STATION? . . . While it appears this typical located in Oe ae andl station at the foot of 3rd Street the country foreground help disguise station. in fact, it is Castlegar’s own historic Costews Proto by Ron Mormer ANYTHING GOES ON MOTORCYCLES Helmet law lacks power VICTORIA (CP) A baseball cap with a chin strap is a motorcycle helmet, a Victoria traffic court judge has ruled. And until a Vancouver provincial court judge's ruling is clarified, “as long as you've got something on your head, I can't say that it’s not a helmet,” Kathleen Can telon, a justice of the peace, said Tuesday in acquitting Raymond Johnson of Calgary Doman VANCOUVER (CP) — Do- man Industries Ltd. has bro ken ranks with the Coast forest industry bargaining association and has signed a one-year agreement with its on a charge of riding a motorcycle without a proper helmet. Judge Wallace Craig ruled May 29 that the helmet section of the provincial Motor Vehicle Act is ultra vires, or beyond the power of the legislature. The section gives the superintendent of motor vehicles the power to make regulations concerning motorcycle helmets. Johnson, 28, testified he believes motorcycle helmets reduce his visibility and hearing, and it is not fair “to be forced to wear a helmet which increases my vulner. ability in traffic.” Cantelon, herself a motor cycle rider, said that al though she appreciates John. son's views, “where we differ — and it may be harsh and cruel — is if you become a statistic when you hit the signs IWA pact calation. There'll be some discussion about the degree of it.” If the major mills are struck, less than one-fifth of the 27,000 workers without ployees. The agreement includes the same contracting-out pro- vision as that in agreements negotiated between the In ternational Woodworkers of America and operators in the Northern Interior. Meantime, the union's ex ecutive was considering whether to approve strikes at most major mills through out British Columbia by tonight. Union president Jack Mun ro said that if the 17-member council adopts the recommen- dation, 10,000 woodworkers in a legal position to strike will walk off the job, joining 12,000 already on rotation strikes. “Obviously we're going to have to increase the pressure because we're not resolving the problems,” Munro said Tuesday night. “There's no doubt that there's going to be an es mtr will remain on the Munro said he doubts a conciliator will enter the negotiations because the two sides are too far apart on the issue of contracting out work to non-union workers. “The issue is really black and white,” he said. “Either we have job security or we don't.” Munro said he wants to strike at the major mills because he believes many smaller ones are eager to settle but fear retaliation from the big companies. Police file pavement, I don't have to pay for you. “But, if you become a handicap statistic, that is going to cost me a lot of money because you will be rendered someone who per. haps has to be (kept in hospital) . . . someone who becomes a paraplegic or has severe brain damage (or) is going to become a burden on the tax system. “If you're rendered a para. plegic or you have brain damage, you are going to become a burden on the system and I have to pay for you,” she said. “That's a very cruel, hard way of looking at it, however, it's reality.” Johnson suggested that is why riders carry insurance, but Cantelon replied that if everyone rode motorcycles without helmets or cars without seatbelts, insurance rates would soon become prohibitive. ‘ RECALLS ORPHANAGE BOWMANVILLE, Ont. (CP) — Nelson, B.C. resident Bertha Whyte remembers the night 27 years ago when a convoy of Ontario government officials swooped down on her orphanage, carrying more than 100 screaming chil- dren from their beds. “[ was in shock for six months,” says the 71-year-old, whose nickname Mom reflects the years of care she provided for about 1,400 children at the Whytehaven home for the needy. ‘The raid meant the end of the home and of a six-year battle between Whyte and the Health and Welfare Department. An outbreak of hepatitis led to Whytehaven closing July 31, 1959. During a visit with two of her children in this community just east of Toronto, Whyte — she and husband Bert, 78, now own an antique shop in Nelson — recalled the events leading to that night raid. The Whytes, Saskatchewan natives, came to nearby Ajax in 1941. Bert Whyte worked in a munitions plant until 1945. The next year, they bought a 40-hectare farm in Bowmanville, but not with the intention of establishing an orphanage. “It never entered our heads,” Mrs.. Whyte said. FACED BANKRUPTCY But that same year, 1946, her husband nearly died of a perforated ulcer and the family, with four young children, was on the brink of bankruptcy when “the Lord helped us” by directing the Transportation Ministry to buy half their property for the Highway 401 section of the Trans-Canada. Because that land sale cleared their debts, Mrs. Whyte said, she felt “Now it's God's home. We made that vow then never to turn away anyone from our home.” Government officials — who had refused to grant the Whytes a licence to operate an orphanage — discovered Whytehaven in 1953, five years after it opened. During Whytehaven's 11 years, Mrs. Whyte esti- mated, she and her volunteers cared for 1,400 children from families that couldn't get help anywhere else. One family of 13, forced to live in their cars, were turned down because authorities had been badgering the Whytes. “Then the woman told me she and her husband had picked out the spot on the Scarborough Bluffs (in Toronto) to drive over,” Mom recalled. ‘The family slept at Whytehaven that night. The husband left to find a job, the wife found a place to live and in three days they returned for their children. RECEIVED DONATIONS From 1953 to 1959, the home was a regularly visited by reporters and individual and corporate donations came in from across the United States and Canada. It was “all miracles” that allowed the Whytes to feed, house and care for children, Mrs. Whyte said. “Either you have faith or you beg,” she said, noting she didn't believe in begging. “Whenever we needed help, it came.” Despite widespread public support, health officials continued to crack down on Whytehaven. Whyte believes the hepatitis outbreak was the fault of the Health Department. She said a woman brought to the home from Whitby Psychiatric Hospital refused to come out of her room for three days. When she. did, Whyte realized she was ill. Health officials removed the woman, Whyte said, but didn't tell the Whytes for eight weeks that she had hepatitis. Several children and two volunteers were infected before officials administered shots. Before moving to a farmhouse in Nelson in 1974, the Whytes spent 13 years in Nigeria, where they founded a training centre for young people with the help of a local chieftain. MINING continued from front pege Murray said he knows of “at least 50 to 60” companies that worked last year or are working this year in south eastern B.C., from Hedley east to Cranbrook and north to Revelstoke. With lead and zinc fetching relatively poor prices on the market, the precious metals are attracting the most interest, he said. Bruce Bried, mines manager of the Silvana Mines Div. of Dickenson Mines Ltd. at Sandon near New Denver, a producer of lead, zinc and silver, said the silver is what makes mining worthwhile right now for his company, even through the $5 U.S. per ounce price could be better. . “We would like to see $10 U.S. (per ounce) rather than Dickenson Mines Ltd. reported a $4.4 million increase in revenues for 1985. The company’s second quarter report for 1986 noted a net income of $1.3 million, compared to $700,000 for the same period last year. An article in the Arrow Lakes News quoted the report as saying “higher than anticipated silver millhead grades enabled the Silvana Division in Sandon to generate a significant earnings contribution in the period.” WKPL be “self-liquidating,” A Castlegar man remains in hospital in satisfactory condition today after a boat- ing accident early Friday evening at Syr ya Creek Provincial Park. Castlegar RCMP say Seott Standidge, 22, was water skiing at Syringa when he fell and was struck by the tow boat Police say the occupants of the boat, Richard Paulson, 20, and a juvenile girl, were attempting to pick up a ski three ribs and cutting his arm with the propeller, the RCMP report says. He was taken to Castlegar ‘The investigation is con- tinuing. d revenue from per cent. continued trom tront pege public sector takeover of WKPL would meaning the would cover debt repayment costs. Meanwhile, Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. has proposed a joint purchase of porate development, told the Castlegar News Tuesday the bid calls for Inland to purchase 80 per cent of West Kootenay Power with employees of WKPL to purchase the remaining 20 The bid also includes the future sale of a portion of Inland’s. share to customers of WKPL, Licyd said. “We at Inland have undertaken that, if successful (in the purchase), we would sell within two years some of our 80 per cent to local residents of the service area.” Lloyd said Inland would reduce its holdings in WKPL by 20 to 25 per cent. He said he isn't sure if Inland’s Proposal to keep part of WKPL in the hands of its employees will give Inland an edge in attempting to buy the utility. “It's something that's in the best imterest of the West Kootenay and South Okanagan. But on the other hand, Cominco needs money. They will probably look to balancing their need for money and the interests of West Kootenay (Power) employees.” the utility Advisory Commi A pupil of Alexander Zuckerberg, Keraiff is committed to the preservation of the Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and chapel house, says committee chairman Charters. “As is the case of all committee members she will have a specific responsibility — landscaping and gardens within the vicinity of the chapel house,” Charters says. ‘THINGS ARE happening in Nelson as the Queen City prepares to play host to a movie crew filming the new Steven Martin flick Roxanne. Sets are being con- structed along Baker Street and shops are LOCAL PROMO .. . Lillian Vander Zalm shows off the back of her Salmo T-shirt while Kootenay Stone renovations. At the same time, signs like those above the Bank of Montreal are being taken down as Nelson turns back the clock on its heritage buildings to make it look turn-of-the- century to accommodate the Hollywood crowd. AND NEAR Nelson, at the Blaylock Estates, work is going ahead on a massive construction project employing about 40 residents. An ornamental pond is under construction which will embellish the roadside view of the North Shore mansion. ‘A swimming pool, along with greens for various activities such as bowling and putting, and a tennis court are also under construction. Owner Cliff Chase hasn't said what all the construction is for, but word is he’s planning a resort to attract NHL players to vacation in the Nelson area. ROSSLAND’S Nancy Greene had the pleasure of being Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s hotel during the leadership race last week at Whistler. Nancy Greene-Raine and her husband Al Raine Centre vice-p Dennis front. opened the hotel late last fall and Rossland-Trail delegates fortunate enough to get rooms there were much impressed. Commented Castlegar’s Mary Ander- son: “The restaurant is superb, and Nancy's Piano Bar is delightful.” d-Trail were ially proud of the Trophy Room in the hotel where Nancy's skiing record is there for all to see with her championship trophies, ribbons, awards, etc. DUST IN THE area of the Community Complex has been a problem again this year. Council has decided to investigate the possibility of starting a dust control program this year, provided funding is available. As well, the city plans to pave the Community Complex parking area next year. CASTLEGAR will hosst the 25th annual Municipal- Industrial Safety Seminar in 1987. SLOW-GROWING, SELF-WEEDING New grass a mower's delight EDMONTON (CP) — Slow-growing grasses developed at the University of Alberta are being touted as the possible cure for back-breaking days of drudgery spent cutting, watering and weeding lawns. But their main importance may lie in their potential for agriculture, said the scientist who developed them, Jan Weijer. Weijer said some of the grasses’ most striking genetic characteristics can be transferred to major field crops. “For instance, the characteristic of self-weeding may be transferred to wheat and barley and canola,” Weijer said in a telephone interview from his home in Sherwood Park. The grasses are also described as apomictic, meaning they can set fruit without fertilization. “Again this has an enormous agricultural advantage in that the farmer becomes independent of weather for seed sett Transferring the genetic information in the grasses to Body found in George's home LONDON (CP) Police George said he thought found the body of a young American musician and song writer today in a London house owned by pop star Boy George. fined last month for possessing heroin. Police identified the dead man as Michael Rudetski, 27, of New York. No drugs were found inside the residence in the north London suburb of Hampstead, nor was there any evidence to suggest the cause of death, police said. “It is not being treated as a suspicious death, said Scot. land Yard spokesman Nick Jordan.» The house is owned by Boy George, but Press Associ ation, the British domestic news agency, said it was being used by his brother, Kevin O'Dowd, 26, who is charged with having supplied heroin to the singer and is free on bail. Boy George. 25, whose real name is George O'Dowd. pleaded guilty July 29 to possessing heroin and was fined the equivalent of $510 Cdn. The singer, noted for his flamboyant flowing gowns, lipstick and pancake makeup, underwent treatment for heroin addiction last month and has since been paigni ai In « radio interview ‘Tues day with the BBC, Boy heroin would be easy to con trol but quickly found “it’s the boss.” “I flirted with it,” he said of the drug. “Unfortunately, I always thought I could con- trol it, which is what any intelligent person thinks. You think, ‘Tl be able to handle it,’ but with heroin it isn’t like that.” Boy George rose to fame as lead singer of the Culture Club band, pioneering trans- vestism in pop music. His popularity has been on the wane in recent years. other plants may take 15 years of intensive research, but it is possible, Weijer said. They may need to be mowed only once a year. Plots at the university's farm have not been cut this year despite unusually heavy rainfall, Weijer said. SELF WEEDING He said thev are also drought resistant, resistant, need no fertilizer and are self-weeding. “In the future, I see a gradual replacement of lawns and the use of these grasses,” Weijer said. Weijer developed the grasses at the University of Alberta farm from field samples collected by another university scientist in 1974 and 1975. The samples came from alpine areas of the Rocky Mountains and were developed originally for use in reclaiming open-pit coal mines in west-central Alberta. Some of the new grasses are related to the red fescue and poas now used in lawns. They may also keep out dandelions and other pests, Weijer said, because they secrete a herbicide that kills annual weeds. Their drought-resistant nature could mean a cut in water bills. But it will be a while before anyone plants any of the new grass. 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