CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 1961 TREE DECORATING is one of the many jobs willingly taken on by members of the Castlegar and District Hospital Auxiliary. Here Phil Lamb, Norma Mac- Donald and Cherie Lyons decorate one of the many Christmas trees placed throughout the hospital. Thur- sday evening a party will be held for the extended care patients when they will decorate their own tree. A group of the auxiliary ladies will be getting together before Christmas to make up fruit askets for the patients who will be in hospital over the Christmas season. Reports on Polish situ Ed. Note: The following Warsaw story, written Tuesday, is the first direct report Reu- ters news agency has re- ceived from its chief corres- pondent in Poland, Brian Mooney, since normal com- munications with that coun- try were severed Monday night. By Brian Mooney WARSAW (REUTER) — Massive use of troops and police had by Tuesday bro- ken the back of a wave of sit- in strikes in Polish factories and mines called to protest Sunday's proclamation of martial law. During the hours of curfew early Tuesday, riot police and troops backed by armored personnel carriers stormed factories held by members of the independent Solidarity union in Warsaw. Solidarity officials said some workers were beaten up when the factories were stormed. They said workers were warned that security forces would come back Tuesday night to break up further strikes and arrest more lead- ers, At least 60 people were detained at the Ursus tractor plant outside Warsaw. A Solidarity courier who reached Warsaw from the Baltic seaport of Gdansk said the shipyard where the union movement was born 16 months ago fell to security forces Monday. He did not say whether there had been any violence. Sources in Warsaw had said that workers in Gdansk and in another Baltic Port, Szczecin, had mined their shipyards and threatened to blow them up if they were attacked. According to reports from witnesses, the director of the Bomb-filled car demolishes embassy BEIRUT (AP) — Police said rescuers working by torch light recovered three bodies and six survivors from the. rubble of Iraq’s de- molished Beirut embassy, but Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Razzak Mohammed Lafta was still missing. The five-story embassy was demolished Tuesday, possibly by a suicide driver in a bomb-filled car. The Iraqi government's Baghdad Radio said “organs of the Syrian and Persian (Iranian) regimes” were res- ponsible for the explosion. Lebanon's Christian radio station and wire services re- ceived separate anonymous telephone calls from the Kurdistan Liberation Army and the Iraqi Liberation Army claiming responsibility for the attack. Neither group has been heard of before. The Kurds in the moun- tains of norther Iraq have been fighting off and on for years for independence from Baghdad and control of the northern Iraqi oil fields. Lebanese officials gave different accounts of the ex- plosion, which left: th steel- and-concrete building a pile of twisted rubble. A police spokesman said a terrorist in an explosives- packed car sped through a hail of machine-gun fire into the embassy compound, then either drove up the front steps or into the basement OW OPEN Sun Crest & BottleNeck Pop “You have tried the rest, Now buy the best". 24 — Reg. in Case 12 — 26 oz. (750 mls.) $6.00 to $6.25 Case PLUS DEPOSIT before detonating the bomb. But a Lebanese bomb ex- pert said the blast was caused' by five 20-kilogram bombs planted in the build- ing. Lenin shipyard in Gdansk told striking workers they had one hour to leave the premises. ‘ About half of the 10,000 workers who were there at the time left. As they walked through the shipyard gates with downcast faces to be greeted by wives-and other relatives waiting outside, fistfights broke out. (Mooney's incomplete re- port did not say how the other 5,000 workers were evicted from the yard.) No details of security oper- ations in the north were available. REGION BY REGION Western sources in War- saw said they believed the military were dealing with the country region by region and mass troop movements were continuing. After end- ing strikes in one region, the troops were moving on to an- other zone to deal with the situation there. In Warsaw on Tuesday, riot police wielding clubs broke up a sit-in strike in the Polish Academy of Sciences, witnesses said. Security forces also stormed a big steel mill in Krakow, a Solidarity strong- hold in southwestern Poland, where there were uncon- firmed reports of violence. Strikes also were reported in Lublin, Poznan, Lodz and tion the Silesian coal mines. Information about the la- bor situation was scanty, but Solidarity said it still was operating a skaleton com- mand. Solidarity’s regrouped Na- tional Commission, under Miroslaw Krupinski, a law- yer who is deputy to union leader Lech Walesa, issued a second notice from Gdansk about the strike before the shipyard there was taken over. This said that despite difficulties strikes were ——] spreading throughout the country. According to re- ports reaching Warsaw, strikes had begun in: 47 fac- tories in the Gdansk area within a few hours of the military takeover. The second strike notice promised that workers would resist to the end and “to full Reliable reports said no members of the governing Communist party Politburo knew in advance about the military takeover apart from the party leader, Gen. Woj- - ciech Jaruzelski. These _re- ports also said Marshal Vik- tor Kulikov, Soviet comman- der of the Warsaw Pact forces, was in Warsaw last Friday when the decision was made to send in the army. COMINCO TURKEY DISTRIBUTION Cominco employees in the Trail, Castlegar, Kin- naird, Rossland and Fruitvale areas may pick up their Christmas Turkeys at the Tadanac Hall on the following dates and times: Wednesday, December 16 — 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Thursday, December 17 — 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Cominco employees living in the Rossland area may pick up their Christamas Turkey at the Boy Scout Hall, Spokane Street on: Wednesday, December 16 — 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.. DISTRIBUTION AT ROSSLAND ON THE ONE DAY ONLY.. PLEASE BRING YOUR TURKEY CARD. Turkeys can only be given to those presenting their cards at the distribution centre. For further information phone Trail 364-4304. Service held for Helen Podmoreff Longtime resident of Ootischenia, Helen S. Pod- moreff, died Saturday at the ago of 75, Mrs. Podmoreff was born Sept. 24, 1906 in Saskat- chewan and came to B.C. in 1912, settling in Ootischenia with her family. She was married in 1988 at Ootis- chenia and continued to live in that community until her death. Mrs. Podmoreff was a member of the Union of Spir- itual Communities of Christ and, until recently, was an active member of the Senior Choir, travelling with the choir to many parts of Can- ada and Europe. As a hobby, Polish fear for VANCOUVER (CP) — For the hundreds of Polish sailors whose fishboats are docked in Vancouver, the primary channel of communication they have with their home- land is the 6 p.m. news on Canadian television. Since the crisis started to unfold in Poland during the weekend, virtually all tele- phone and Telex communi- cations links have been cut off. The sailors have been she enjoyed making rugs. She is survived by her husband, Fred; two sons, Walter and Fred and daugh- ter-i NOTICE Ootischenia Land Owners (Residents and Non-Residents) IF YOU SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING: 1 i from Agricultural Land Reserve. Jaw, Vera F ff, all of Ootischenia; two grand- children; and two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Negrieff and Mrs, Fedosa Kazakoff, both of Ootischenia. Prayer service was held Monday evening from the Castlegar Funeral Chapel and funeral the 2. Subdivision down to one acre or less. 3. Improved water system. 4. Limited commercial development. WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE OF SUPPORT. PLEASE CONTACT: ALEX CHEVELDAVE FRED HADIKIN following day from the Ootis- chenia Russian Hall. Inter- ment was at Ootischenia Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. sailors families “We are deeply depressed by the developments, and we would like to receive some instructions from our Soli- darity union in Poland,” said first officer Henryk Gorski, 59. “We don't know the true situation. We are not up-to- the-minute.” Gorski and an estimated 80 per cent of the crew of the Parma and the other four ships docked at Pier B-C for supplies and repairs are b o lidari glued to the ision sets and radios in their common rooms. Most of the crew members aboard the Polish vessel Parma interviewed Monday indicated they feared for their families and the future of their country. NOON DOLLAR MONTREAL (CP) — U.S. dolalr in terms of .Canadian funds at noon today was up 18-100 at $1.1920. Pound sterling was down 61-100 at $2.2525. y In New York, the Canadian. dollar was down 9-100 at $0.8389 and pound sterling was down 63-100 at $1.8897. trade union federation, the target of a crackdown by Polish authorities. But the crew members in- sisted current troubles do not spell the end of Solidarity. “Solidarity is stong enough that we will not allow every- thing to come back to the starting point,” said one crew member. “We will not back off — to # lose what we have gained.” “This all happened because of pressure from the east (Soviet Union),” said ano- ther, while a fellow crew member added: “We are afraid of our artificial friends in the Soviet Union.” Most of the crew members “said they had wives and children in Poland, and were intending to return to them rather than try to defect here. PUBLIC NOTICE City of Castlegar Holiday Office Hours The City, Office will be closed business as follows: Closed at 3 p.m. Decomber 24 Closed December 25 and 28 Closed at 3 p.m. December 31 Closed January 1, 1982 Wishing All a Safe and Festive Season. B.C. HYDRO Community Relations Office at 1418 Columbia Ave. will be CLOSED for the Holiday Season from Thurs., Dec. 24 to Tues., Jan 5 On behalf of B.C. Hydro we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy & Prosperous New Year. ALEX LUTZ RIDE THE RED MOUNTAIN SKI BUS WEEKENDS & HOLIDAYS Departure Schedule Castlegar Plaza...........5 Creek W Arr. Red Mountai Round Trip ransportation ADULT (17 JUNIOR (16 & under) - » 8:30 am. Return Schedule AAA SPSS RATES Only & over)............ $6.00 ~. $4.00 ADULT .... JUNIOR ... RETURN BUS TRANSPORTATION ONLY (AVAILABLE AT SKI AREA TICKET OFFICE) TICKETS ARE SOLD ON A “SEATS AVAILABLE” BASIS ON THE BUS y © Ready to compromise? By Edison Stewart TORONTO (CP) — The federal government may be ready to compromise on its plan to save billions of dollars over the next five years by sharply slowing the growth of aid to the provinces, the | ne country's provincial finance reporters he detects “a cou- ple of cracks of daylight” in the federal position and Nova Scotia Finance Minister Joel Matheson quoted MacEachen as saying some parts of the federal proposal need to be reworked. ministers said ‘Tuesday. But it remains unclear just how far Finance Minister Allan MacEachen is prepared to go. British Columbia Finance i) Minister Hugh Curtis told CHRISTMAS RECITAL was held Sunday by by Mrs. Brown's students. Shown here is Mrs. Re Brown's 34 students Ray Yule who followed by a second of students taught composition o! Played "Trigger Finger”, a his own, Apartment building up VANCOUVER (CP) — Apartment construction is booming in British Columbia as developers leap into doz- ens of projects to take ad- vantage of tax writeoffs that will vanish at the end of 1981. Cement for footings must be poured by year-end and so people who invest by Dec. 31 can qualify for writeoffs under the “Multiple Unit Residential Building pro- am “There is an unbelievable amount of new construction - being started in the Lower Mainland right now,” said Ken Stevenson, chief execu- tive of Stevenson Construc- tion. His company is con- structing a 360-unit' ‘dpart- Tapping, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.'s general manager. Tapping expects the pro- gram will prompt 4,000 to 5,000 new it unsure about buying MURBs because they can't teil to what extent their income has been affected by the Novem. ber federal budget, said Joe of Intra- if the provinces want to get down to serious negotiations, they would have to abandon the idea that the cuts will be dropped completely. Moreover, the cost of com- promise would have to be Service held for Jessie Helfer, 78 Jesse Clifford Helfer, 78, formerly of the Castlegar area, passed away Dec. 11 in hospital at New Denver. Funeral services were held Monday morning from the chapel of Bowers Funeral Home, Salmon Arm. Born in Hebron, Neb. Oct. 26, 1908, Helfer lived in the Castlegar area for the past 20 years, formerly living in Salmon Arm from 1945 to 1958. He is survived by his wife, Blanche, of Salmon Arm; three daughters, Lin of Castlegar, Barbara Earl of Salmon Arm and Catherine of Vancouver; three sons, Jesse of Quesnel, ' Jim of Kimberley and Larry of Vernon; eight grandchildren; one sister, Ruth Nichols of starts in B.C. — most in the Lower Mainland — during the last quarter of 1981. That would bring multiple starts in B.C. this year to about 22,600, half in Greater Vancouver, about 8,000 above previous highs in 1974 and 1975. RATE STAYS SAME The vacancy rate in Great- er Vancouver now is 0.5 per cent. Despite the construc- tion rush, Helmut Pastrick, a CMHC regional economist, says the vacancy rate won't “thove into the normal two- to * ment building and six others~“folr:per- tent ‘rangé:""""” * totalling more than 700 units. Stevenson said the - con- struction rush will provide enough rental apartments until early 1983, when he The key to how many apartments will get past the footings stage is the number west Properties Ltd. John Kay, a tax partner in Coopers nad Lybrand char- tered accountants, said he hasn't seen any dramatic up- surge in demand for MURBs since the budget, “but I think the better projects will be sold out.” A new BMHC study says the MURB program probably drove up land prices for apartment buildings in Van- couver and neutralized the tax writeoffs reaped by in- vestors.: The: dikely, winners werd [those who.owned land zoned for apartments when the MURB program was intro- duced in 1974, said George af of say. Only the larger companies lannit apartments in says Pt will quit building. : prime locations can afford to ete the with- “We see an amount of new apartments being started,” said Keith - out a lot of MURB sales. Many investors are still Reinforced Israel army digging in BUKATA, GOLAN HEIGHTS (AP) — Rein- forced Israeli: army units backed by tanks dug in today against a possible Syrian at- tack on the newly annexed Golan Heights, where Arab residents began a three-day protest strike. Shops and schools in the main towns, Masadeh and Majdal Shams, were closed and local Arab leaders said workers employed in Israel stayed-at home. “We are making this strike to let the Israeli government and the world know we are against this annexation,” said Suleiman Kanj Abu Salah, a Majdal Shams elder. “We are Syrian Arabs and we will continue to be Syrian Arabs.” Israeli police turned out in strength around one school, Health unit ‘looking for TB contacts PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — The Northern Interior Health Unit is trying to lo- cate 20 people who came into contact with a tuberculosis case last summer at the Leo Creek sawmill northeast of Fort St. James, B.C. Dr. Shaun Peck, health unit director, said Tuesday 100 persons have been tested to date. Of those, 34 had positive tuberculosis test re- sults and 20 are taking treat- ment for the disease. Peck said the worker who but no apparent effort was made to break the strike. Some Golan Arabs, who support Israel, were said to have been against the strike. In Masadah, a laborer who asked not to be identified said only 30 per cent of the area’s 15,000 Arabs favor the shutdown. Risaas FAVORED BY RICH “It's just, the rich people who wanted it,” “he said. “Israel is not so bad.” ~ Israel, saying it was taking all necessary steps to counter any attack, apparently moved large amounts of mili- tary hardward northward Tuesday afternoon and night. Gau, an P f urban land economics at the Alta. and one brother Lawrence of Donal- da, Alta. University of B.C. and one of - the report’s authors. PREDICTS A FALL Gau predicted multi-family ‘starts would drop off in early 1982, but in about a year the market would adjust to the new rules. The study by Gau and Anne Wicks, now a consul- tant for Urbanics Consul- tants Ltd., looked at MURB investments in nine apart- ment bulidings in Vancouver that were bought after the program started in 1974 and then resold in 1979 or 1980 and compared them with nine similar buildings that weren't . under the MURB program. In both cases, investors earned about 12 per cent an- : nually after taxes. MURB bulidings were pur- chased for “substantially higher prices,” said Gau, but the resale price was more because buyers could get additional tax benefits from capital cost allowances. The program had no effect on rents, he said. NOTICE HOLIDAY GARBAGE DISPOSAL WOODLAND PARK RESIDENTS. Normal Friday pickup will change to Thurs., Dec. 24 and will not be picked up again until Jan. 1, 1982. A ROBSON RESIDENTS Last pickup before Christmas will be Dec. 18 and not again until Jan. 1, CASTLEGAR AREA RESIDENTS Father John Sheffield offi- ciated at the service. Pall- bearers were Jim Helfer, Jesse Jr. Helfer, Glenn Earl, Dan Duggan and Alan Dear- ing. Burial followed in Mt. Ida Cemetery. “within the ball park” and not. excessive, He said the issue will be examined in more detail by a committee of federal and provincia officials before the ministers’ meeting noxt month, The ministers made the comments at the close of their second two-day session to renegotiate expiring agreements under which Ot- tawa transfers $15 billion a year to the provinces. PAY HEALTH, EDUCATION The money finances equal- ization payments to the six have-not provinces — all ex- cept British Columbia, Al- berta, Saskatchewan and On- tario — and helps pay for health care and post-secon- dary education in all 10 prov- inces. Macachen won't put a total figure on the cuts, but the provinces say they will lose. about $11 billion. Canada’s oldest citizen David Trumble, said to be Canada’s oldest citizen, cel- ebrated his 114th birthday Tuesday in a nursing home near Velleville, Ont. “When you're 114, you're stepping on the gas to hea- ven,” quipped Trumble at his birthday party. He says his sight has de- clined and ‘his memory isn't as sharp as it once was, but is 114 that hasn't stopped him from commenting on anything. “Td just like to have a full swing at running the world for 24 hours. I'd turn them (world leaders) upside down and given them a spanking.” Trumble, born in Hali- burton, Ont., was married four times and has 18 chil- dren. He spent much of his life as a lumberman in the area north of Belleville. 4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, DECEMBER 16, 1981 AZ SELKIRK COLLEGE GYM CLOSURE The gymnasium on the Castlegar cam- pus will be closed from Monday Dec. 21 to Sunday Jan. 3 inclusive. The gym will ; reopen on Jan. 4. 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