Se aa es >, r> Castlégar News February 21, 1988 February 21,1988 Castlegar ist i di OLYMPIC TV evangelist in sex scandal - OLYMPIC Swaggart, 52, is an Assembly of God minister and the In 1986, Gorman admitted committing “an immoral act” P U ZZL t N G president of a ministry with an estimated 1986 income of with a woman, He said, however, that Swaggart had $142 million US. It is based in Baton Rouge, and broadcasts unjustly accused him of numerous adulterous affairs, and he to 148 countries, including Canada, filed a $90 million US lawsuit against Swaggart. A judge 9; ou WARD Assembly of God officials in Springfield, Mo., confirmed dismissed the suit, saying it was a religious dispute that ‘ “An Friday that Swaggart was being investigated. A spokesman, didn't belong in court. Gorman, whose ministry later filed for CALGARY — February in however, refused to confirm the subject of the Semrcveiee. bankruptcy, is appealing. Alberta means cold, blustery Swaggart met with the Christian di the ph Bakker also was accused by Swaggart of sexual mis- winds, sub-zero tempera. tures and driving snow. Right? Wrong. not be reached for comment by telephone at his New area home Saturday, ABC News, citing sources it did not identify, reported early Saturday that church officials at the meeting reviewed photographs purporting to show Swaggart and a known prostitute going into and out of a motel room. Swaggart did not deny to church officials that he had been with a prostitute, ABC reported. A church official said hs were open to interpretation, according to NEW ORLEANS AP — TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who accused ousted PTL leader Jim Bakker of sexual misconduct, had no comment Saturday on reports that the Assemblies of God church is investigating similar allegations against him. His spokesman, Barbara Klein, said Swaggart probably would attend services today at his Family Worship Centre in Baton Rouge, La., but she didn't know whether he would deliver a sermon or make any statement regarding allegations that he was seen entering a motel room with a prostitute. Plane skids VERNON, B.C, (CP) — Six Calgary residents escaped injury Saturday when the light plane they were in skidded off the end of the runway at the Vernon Airport, stopping 30 metres short of a house. Neil MacKenzie, the pilot and owner of the twin-engine plane, said he was forced to abort his takeoff. The plane lifted off but then dropped back on to the runway and “just didn’t seem to want to fly.” Names of the others on board weren't available. postponements of the men's and women's downhills last week. Swirling winds around Canada Olympic Park made organizers postpone the 90- metre jumping events to next week. 13-member Executive Presbytery for 10 hours Thursday “to the network, conduct. He at one point accused Swaggart of trying to take discuss matters that could affect his credentials with the CBS and the Washington Post also have reported that over his PTL television ministry, but later backed off the charge after Swaggart denied it. “I feel he will be there but as far as what the service church,” church spokesman Juleen Turnage said Friday. the allegations involve sexual misconduct. holds, I can't tell you.” Klein said in a telephone interview. She said she couldn't confirm whether Swaggart wa: Baton Rouge on Saturday or had any meetings scheduled airport Friday night but wouldn't allegations against him. His lawyer, William Treeby, could Swaggart was interviewed briefly at the Baton Rouge ABC said News Orleans preacher Marvin Gorman, also on the iT was believed to have provided the photos to church officials. Attempts to reach Gorman by Bakker left PTL and was defrocked by the Assemblies with church of God after adi to a sexual secretary Jessica Hahn. TV MOVIE PLANNED FOR NELSON By CasNews Staff Nelson will be the location of another film production, this time a made-for-TV movie special based on a Stephen Leacock short story, Film producer John Stark, a native of Rossland who lives in Los Angeles, said First Choice, the pay-TV channel, has optioned the rights to a TV movie based on script for the $500,000 production. “T've been commissioned to do the TV treatment,” Stark said. Stark said Orillia, Ont. — the town Leacock is said to have based his Mariposa on — was initially considered for the filming. “In fact, Nelson is much, much more of a period FIRST MEETING . . . The United Nations Association met for the first time officially in Castlegar. Mem- bers include: (back row trom left) Colin Pryce, Harry Killough, Nick M. Verigin, Patrick Bur- skiewich (Vancouver member), Paul Strelive and 20 ATTEND FIRST UNA MEETING By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Castlegar now is an official member of the United Nations Association and is the third community in the province to be awarded a branch, behind Vancouver and Victoria. Colin Pryce made the announcement at a meeting of the new UNA group at Selkirk College Thursday night. Dr. Mike Wallace from the University of British Columbia was scheduled to speak at the meeting but was Peter Samoloff. (Front row from left) Ron Schmidt, Katherine Kallmakoff, Vera Kanigan, Sandy Konkin, Marjorie Malloft, Joe E. Podovinikoff, Walter Lebedoff and Nick Konkin Cosews photo was a red herring.” Bruskiewich covered all the topics and issues the UNA is dealing with worldwide and provided the Castlegar group with information on how to start the branch office and get it working. The UNA acts as a liaison or go-between for the people who want to know more about the United Nations. It is not directly funded by or related to the United Nations. It is a separate volunteer organization which serves as an observer and lobby group at the United Nations. The UNA forms opinions on United Nations policy — the group doesn't always agree with the United Nations General Assembly in New York — and acts on those opinions. Issues range from world hunger relief to nuclear disarmament and human rights. Bruskiewich said he was impressed with the number of diverse interests held by the members of the new Castlegar branch and added the group could inform the community on pressing global issues and make Castlegar Leacock’s The Great Election. Stark said the special, set in fictional Mariposa, Ont., will be filmed in Nelson before the end of this year. He said Nelson resident Ken Lamb has written the looking city than Orill ” Stark said. He said filming will begin once shooting script has been finished and final funding is in place. Stark is best known for his one-man tour-de-force portrayal of Leacock. ‘Friends’ seek inquiry COURTENAY, B.C.(CP) — The environmental group Friends of Strathcona has rejected the provincial gov ernment’s suggestion of a public review of mining in wilderness areas and de manded a more comprehen. sive inquiry. After seeking legal advice, the group also challenged Environment Minister Bruce Strachan's decision to allow exploration drilling in Strath- cona Park to continue while the issue is reviewed. “We reject Strachan's statement that he is power- less to stop the drilling,” said spokesman Des Kennedy. He said about 35 people met Thursday in nearby Comox to discuss strategy. “Our legal advice is that under the Park Act he does in fact have the power to rescind any permits he has granted and we will be con- tinuing civil disobedience in the park.” Members of the group, whose roster has swelled to 1,400 from 1,000 since the protest started one month ago, have been camped out at a park access road, at times blockading the road. Thirty- three people have been ar- rested for interfering with drilling equipment on the Cream Silver Mines Ltd. ex- ploration lease. The group said it fears a public review is just a government ploy to defuse public protest. STRONGER FORUM Kennedy said an inquiry is more appropriate because it is a stronger forum. Wit- nesses can be called and be required to testify under oath. In addition, results from a public inquiry go to the full cabinet and are reported to the legislature, whereas re- view results go only to the ministry involved, he said. A government order in council last March allowed mining in some designated areas of provincial parks. Strathcona Park has been the site of mineral exploration and mining since the 1920s. A mine in the park operated by Westmin Resources Inc. em- ploys about 600 people. Kennedy said there is “something fundamentally wrong” with that process, which does not involve legis- lative or public debate. He said Stephen Rogers, environment minister at the time, should have to testify at a “full and public examina- tion of how and why that kind of decision is being made.” MORE LETTERS relations stunt unable to attend. Instead, Vancouver UNA branch spoke. Bruskiewich said December's visit by Roche, Canada’s Disarmament Ambassador, was nothing more than a Progressive Conservative Patrick Bruskiewich of the Douglas party public “He's (Roche) powerless to change Canada's defence white paper policy,” Bruskiewich told about 20 people at the meeting. “The Mulroney government has already decided it will forge ahead with its policy. Roche’s visit people an integral part of solving these problems. branch office hopes numerous ethnic and social groups and provide an umbrella organization-information service for all inter- The Castlegar ested parties. However, the group is still in its infancy and needs time to properly organize the local branch. Pryce believes the Selkirk College faculty lounge will be the meeting place for the group, but didn't say when the next meeting would be held. to attract Lower profi VICTORIA (CP) Pre mier Bill Vander Zalm’s prin cipal secretary says he will lower his profile in the wake of controversy over his growing public image. But David Poole defended his decision to make public statements recently on two important government mat ters, and said there is a mis conception over his author With Vander Zalm in Eur ope on a combined business on Thursday that victims of sex. crimes would receive funding for abortions, despite the government's firm policy against paying for them, except in life-threatening sit uations. A day earlier, Poole com mented on the firing of Dep uty Agriculture Minister Gordon MacEachern over al leged misuse of airline bonus points Poole was also criticized when he said on Thursday le for Poole in Europe Vander Zalm would be and would have to rely on the premier to call in from time to time. Critics immediately jumped on Poole, saying the government now was being run by an unelected bureau crat “Til try to lower my profile.” Poole said in an interview. “This whole bus. iness about a higher profile has made some people leap to the wrong conclusions.” may have upset some cabinet ministers. He said because he has taken a more public role than his predecessors, some people assume that he has more decision-making auth ority “That's not true at all,” he said. “The premier makes the decisions, not me. I have ab- solutely no authority to do anything.” Poole said he made the abortion policy “clarification” because it came from the holiday trip, Poole announced continued from front page It also shows levels of lead and zinc associated with Comince~are_tower in Castlegar than in Trail The report shows that for the most part, emission levels in Castlegar are within acceptable levels, but its valley bottom location is ideal for incoming weather systems to trap emissions. Emissions don't disperse when air temperature and pressure inhibit a volume of gas from risking and blowing out of the valley that he wouldn't know where EMISSIONS Poole said his prominence premier's office. “This situation occurs in the Columbia River Valley during winter when a warm Pacific storm moves over Southern B.C. trapping the cool air in the valley,” the report says. Add to that, cloud cover which cuts out the sun’s normal ability to break up trapped air masses, “such events (low air quality) tend to be multi-day events causing general build up of contaminants within the entire valley.” The report says trapped air masses are, “enhanced by the valley GOOF continued from front page Mackay to see what can be done to arrive alt a more reasonable and more practical definition of the boundaries.” Oberle, who was in the West Ki otenay for a seminar on free trade, had originally hoped to base his tax system in three levels with a northern, central and southern tax area. The northern area of the country and the smaller communities in the wea were tn he heneficiaries of hicher tax allowances because of higher costs associated with living expenses. But some areas missed out. “The bureaucrats had themselves a little bit of a field day and they were perhaps not as sensitive to the geo- graphic realities of some of these regions,” Oberle said. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said the plan was dropped on his con stiluency without prior knowledge and he is upset with the inconsistencies in tha tow brooke terrain. At night cool air will tend to flow down the valley sides and pool in the valley bottom. “Local winds are also strongly influenced by the terrain,” the report says “The Castlegar area winds pre- dominantly blow up or down the valley with a great deal of daily and cross-valley variation.” One of the report's eight recom. mendations is to establish a high volume air sampling station at the Castlegar Airport. “The purpose of this analysis is to identify the source of the airborn material. High sodium levels would indicate pulp mill emissions while high lead and zine levels would indicate smelter emissions.” They would also like to see a TRS gas analyzer installed in the Robson area across the river from the Celgar, because they think that area has higher emissions than anywhere else. “The existing analyzer, located at the Castlegar Regional Hospital may register low ambient concentrations of total reduced sulphur gases when un- acceptable high ambient concentra- tinwe evict im the Rahenn area” Glade hung out to dry I am a member of the community of Glade. Recently, while watching BCTV, I heard a message that the study being made on ways to cut costs on inland ferries was almost complete. This report, which was originally due for completion by May 1988, has now been hurried up and must be submitted by Feb. 29, 1988 so as to be in time for the hew budget. Since the ferries servicing Glade and Harrop are the only links for the communities to get out to the main highway system, I was no doubt interested to hear what the report contained. The next day, Feb. 14, I phoned our local MLA Howard Dirks and asked some questions of him. I was appalled at what Mr. Dirks was telling me. He informed me that the report being carried out by the task force was near completion and was due to be submitted to a cabinet meeting for a decision by the end of the month. Mr. Dirks also informed me that once this report is in, there will be very little we as a community could do to stop any decisions made by cabinet. This information seemed hard to believe since we had heard nothing to date except small bits of information by local word of mouth, usually known as hearsay or gossip. I felt certain that a mistake had been made somewhere and that we would indeed hear what thisreport contained and be able to use our democratic system to voice our concerns. I would like to point out that the issue is not just some potholes in the road or an overgrowth of brush along the highway. This is the only way these communities have of getting to work in the morning and back again at night, the only way of getting our children to school and after school sports events and all the other everyday things that Canadian citizens have become ac. eustomed to do since our taxes have built our B.C. road: I asked Mr. Dirks to attend a meeting at the Glade hall to inform this community of just what was going on sand how we could have some input in this matter. Mr. Dirks was in agree- ment and the meeting was scheduled. A large number of people were present for the meeting which was attended by Mr. Dirks, Area I director John Voykin of the RDCK, as well as many prominent community members. Mr. Dirks gave a short explanation of what has taken place to date with this task force but failed to provide any information that was not already public knowledge. It appears that Mr. Dirks is as much in the dark about the matter as the general public. He said the only real course of action for us was to hand write a letter to Premier Bill Vander Zalm, Highways Minister Stephen Rogers, and Dr. Kasianchuk, the man heading the study on inland ferries. When asked why the community had not been asked for some input on this very important issue, Mr. Dirks answered that it was up to us as a community to get involved in these issues. Mr. Dirks went on to say that there were articles in the newspaper last October stating that a study was underway. Nothing of any significance or fact was ever printed or announced. The media reports on this issue were.never anything more than maybes, possi- bilities, ahd perhaps we may do this or that; certainly nothing to indicate this community may have its only trans- portation link downgraded in hours or tolls be placed upon its users. Dr. Kasianchuk stated that there would be no public hearings on the report until after it has been submitted to cabinet. Mr. Dirks has told us there would be no public hearings on the matter. Once the report is submitted cabinet will make a decision based on the report. Who should be believe? If the City of Castlegar heard on TV that a report was due in 10 days regarding possible tolls and restricted hours of operation of the Kinnaird Bridge, and if anyone was concerned they should write to Mr. Vander Zalm and Mr. Rogers, would this not seem utterly ridiculous? This is about as much warning and chance for input as this community has been given. Premier Vander Zalm's open gov- ernment policy certainly seems to have been misplaced on this issue. Mr. Dirks tells us it is not too late for us all ta write a letter. Personally, it seems ridiculous and unfair that this entire community must write letters and beg the minister to let us keep the road to our community. Although Mr. Dirks has taken a stand on our side he has in my view hung us out to dry. He must have known the implications of this report when it began, yet made no effort at all to contact community members, gather community support and input, and make a significant effort to protect and represent the people in the West Kootenay on this extremely important issue. As Mr. Dirks has said, it is up to us to get involved in our affairs. I urge everyone to get involved and send a message to the local MLAs that it is completely unacceptable for cabinet to go ahead and make any decisions or changes regarding inland ferries until public hearings are made available. Bruce Campbell Glade Daughter at ‘wall’ It may interest the senior readers of the Castlegar News to learn that our daughter Lorraine while travelling in Europe in 1962 for four months went through “Check Point Charlie” at the Berlin wall. Lorraine was only 21 years old at the time, a dangerous adventure for her and her three Notre Dame University friends in comparison to Burton Campbell's recent’ travels in Germany. Lorraine and her friends were stripped of everything but the clothes on their backs and were not allowed to take pictures or write notes on either side of the Iron Curtain. They were ordered’to be back at “Check Point across the Berlin wall, and making sure they were back at “Check Point Char. lie” in time for their safe return into West Berlin; collecting their knapsacks P.S. Bravo to Nancy Knight for her views on the abortion issue last week. Also, congratulations to Kathy Arm- strong, Nancy's daughter for her in- teresting story and photos in the recent issue of B.C.'s Woman to Woman magazine. Refugee jailed VANCOUVER (CP) — A Chilean refugee who held his baby son hostage for seven hours in a Vancouver townhouse'last year has been sentenced to three years and six months in jail. County Court Judge Nicholas Drossos sentenced Victor Daniel Baez-Barra, 28, to serve the time on top of the 13 months he has spent in custody already since the Jan. 4, 1987, incident. Amtrak on fire HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Two cars on a Amtrak train caught fire near Hastings Saturday — killing a crew member and injuring 15 people, officials said. The fire aboard the California Zephyr was re- ported around 3 a.m. and was under control by 4:30 a.m., said Fire Chief Jim Mitera. The victim was one of seven Amtrak crew members inside a crew compartment in the train, said John Jacobson, an Amtrak public relations director in Washington. There were 294 people aboard the train, Jacobson said. Epidemic kills dogs YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. (CP) — A distemper epidemic which has killed hundreds of sled dogs in the Canadian Arctic has spread to Greenland. ‘Jette Bohm, district health officer for the Thule OLYMPIC REPORTER . . . Dave Rowe, a former CKQR on-air personality who now works for CISN in Edmonton, works INFO 88 computer system at Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. STEVENS SAYS CosNews Photo region in north rn G land, said in a tel interview he wishes Canada had informed Greenland when the epidemic first struck the Central Arctic in late November. “If we'd known about it early we could have avoided the disease here,” Bohm said. Casual sex rising WASHINGTON (Reuter) — In spite of worries about AIDS, the U.S. government has evidence that casual sex is on the rise, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said. Koop also disputed reports playing down the danger of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome through ordinary heterosexual intercourse. The incurable fatal disease has been concentrated among homosexuals and intravenous drug users, but Koop blasted a recent article in Cosmopolitan magazine which stated that women have little to fear from AIDS. Earthquake strikes HOLLISTER, Calif. (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled across central and northern California early Saturday causing minor damage in this agricultural town and shaking people a ‘Wide area, officials said. No injuries were reported. The quake measured 5.1 on the Richter scale, said Anthony Lomax, for the seismol laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He said the strong quake struck at 12:40 a.m. about 12 kilometres southeast of Hollister, a quake-prone city 120 kilometres southeast of San Francisco. $60B lawsuit HONOLULU (AP) — Fomer Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, have been named in a $60 billion US lawsuit that accuses them of stealing a one-tonne gold statue of the Buddha and other treasures from Roger Roxas in April 1971, three months after the locksmith allegedly found the statue, gold bullion, precious stones, jewelry, coins and art works hidden by Japanese occupation forces in 1945. Soviets visit Pope VATICAN CITY (Reuter) — A Soviet army group entered the Vatican on Saturday. But the Pope did not run for cover. He welcomed them with open arms and spoke Russian. They sang songs for him, including Ave Maria, one of Christianity’s most beloved hymns. It wasn’t the realization of a conservative cardinal's worst nightmare but another event showing just how much the papacy has loosened up since Pope John Paul was elected 10 years ago as the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years. Air attack JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African fighter planes flew revenge raids against SWAPO guerrilla bases in Angola at dawn Saturday, a day after a bomb killed 18 people at a bank in South-West Africa (Namibia). More than a dozen Mirage and Impala aircraft attacked three bases on the black nationist SWAPO (South-West African People’s Organization) in south- ern Angola, Gen. Jannie Geldenhuys, the South African Defence Force chief, said in a statement. He said the attacks avenged the bombing Friday of the First National Bank in the town of Oshakati, where 18 people were killed and 31 injured. Most of the dead were black government employees cashing weekly pay cheques. Gunmen kill 10 AMRITSAR, India (AP) — Gunmen identified by police as Sikhs set off a new wave of violence Saturday in Punjab state, killing 10 people and prompting police in the Amritsar district and in New Dehli go on high alert. The attacks raised the death toll in violence blamed on Sikh separatist radicals to 32 since Friday. The dead were Sikhs as well as Hindus. At least 60 other people were wounded. “We are after the killers, the entire police force is on red alert,” said Amritsar district police Supt. Mohammed Izhar Alam. SLALOM GATES HURT HIS BUM By RON NORMAN Editor ROSSLAND'S Don Stevens finished 19th overall in the combined Alpine skiing and was the only Canadian to survive the second slalom run. “It's a lot of fun running slalom,” he said. “We ski so little of it that it’s really hard to be competitive. There’s no way we can. “You can get hurt by the gates, though. They whip back and hit you in the bum when you go as slow as I do.” THOSE 60,000 ponchos used to form human displays of flags and Olympic symbols at last Saturday's opening ‘with their-own rules on commercial signage, the Inter national Olympic Committee was forced to ask spectators to wear the ponchos inside out after a coca-cola logo was mistakenly printed on the outside of the ponchos. The package containing the ponchos also included a pair of much-sought after Coca-Cola pins. FOR THOSE WHO think Nal ’s downhill course isn't very steep, consider this: While it’s average grade is 29 per cent, it has sections which has 79 per cent. Now that's steep. DURING THE delay and eventual cancellation of the men's downhill last Sunday, the Canadian ski team never left its quarters at the base of the mountain. While the winds howled around 100 kmh at the top of the course, the Canadian team played with the Olympic computer Info 88, sending messages via computer to various other athletes. USA TODAY, the polished and tightly packaged daily newspaper published in the States, had this view of Calgary for its readers: “Calgarians speak English and spend dollars. Visiting is like going abroad without having to cope with foreign language and customs.” USA TODAY also included a snappy graphic and glossary for American readers unfamiliar with hockey The glossary included: hattrick, changing on the fly, icing and a breakaway. It also included graphics of a player's stick, the goalie’s stick and the puck. UNDER THE “It's a small world” category is this item. I was sitting in McMahon Stadium awaiting the start of the opening ceremonies Feb. 13 along with 60,000 other spectators when another media type made his way into my row and sat down beside me. Eventually we got to talking and he asked where I'm from. When I told him the Castlegar News, his jaw dropped about a foot. It seems he used to work at CKQR. His name? Dave Rowe. He'now works for CISN radio in Edmonton as a news and sports reporter. While at QR he was an on-air personality. Rowe was also a member of HOWDY, HOWDY . . . Giant version of Howdy, one of the two official mascots at the Calgary Olympic Winter Games (the other is Heidi), visits Nakiska for ski races CosNews Photo the Castlegar Volunteer Fire Department for the short while he was here in 1981. SPEAKING OF a small world, I met Stu Pullen's mother by chance in the Main Press Centre at the Stampede Grounds. (Pullen is Adastra Aviation's chief engineer). I was trying to find some way to obtain a media ticket to the opening ceremonies and was directed upstairs in the press centre. I climbed the stairs and asked a woman sitting at a desk if she knew where to get press tickets. She directed me to the Canadian Olympic Committee, but before I could go, she asked where I was from. When I said Castlegar, she told me her son, Stu, works at Adastra Aviation. And that's how I came by the photograph of Kay Pullen in last Sunday's paper. It truly is a small world. THE MAIN| PRESS Centre is enormous. It is about the size of two football fields and has room enough for 2,000 reporters. It is open 24 hours a day for media who have to file stories around the world At the heart of the media centre are the desktop computers linked to INFO 88, a program that churns out instant updates on results, press conferences, athletes’ birthdays, training schedules and a message centre. THE MOST sought after souvenir at the Games is the Jamaican bobsled sweatshirts. About 40 reporters managed to get one each when they met the Jamaican team upon its arrival in Calgary. But the shirts can only be obtained from the team itself, which is selling them to help pay for the trip to the Olympics. THE SCENE, AROUND the bottom of the ski races is a zoo, to put it mildly. Olympic organizers have sectioned off an area strictly for the athletes. The athletes are then funneled into an outside TV interview area and then finally to an interview area for print and radio reporters. But print reporters are upset at the arrangements. By the time top athletes like downhill gold medallist Pirmin Zurbriggen have completed an hour of TV inter. views they are whisked away for two-hour drug tests. Only then do they return for interviews with the’ print media, many of whom have missed their deadlines for that day. AND PHOTOGRAPHERS aren't much happier. Photographers at the Games have complained that they're too restricted in their movements at various venues. I took in pairs figure skating one evening and photographers were jammed into a small cramped space above one of the entrances to the Calgary Corral. They proceeded to jockey ‘each other for position trying to shoot over each other's shoulder throughout the evening's program. DENNIS LaRUE was that familiar face dressed in an official's uniform during the Canada-France hockey game yesterday afternoon. LaRue played for the Spokane Braves in the KIJHL five years ago and attended both U.S. and B.C. officiating schools in order to qualify for a position as an on-ice official at Olympic hockey games. Schools to get more money VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia schools will get an extra $175 million this year, Education Minister Tony Brummet announced on Saturday. Brummet told a meeting of school trustees that the money is exactly the amount recommended by an internal budget review committee of public school officials. He said it represents an eight-per-cent increase over last year’s education budget of $1.9 billion. More than half the added money — about $72 million will go to increases in teacher salaries, the largest part of any school budget. Brummet the ministry has set a ceiling on teacher pay increases at 2.8 per cent for the 1988-89 school year. He said future salary increases will be determined by an index reflecting salary increases elsewhere. The rest of the money’ will go to many areas that school districts have said were underfunded in the past. These include the real cost of operations and maintenance, the cost of retraining teachers for new curriculum, teaching equipment and the cost of substitute teachers. The money will also cover the increase in teacher aids, additional support for the severely handicapped and support for small secondary schools und correspondence centres. Brummet criticized school superintendents for “ir- responsible and misleading” announcements earlier this week that the provincial government had shifted the burden of education funding to the residential taxpayer. Brummet, who said his ministry has planned the inerease for some time, said the government is “committed to holding school taxes at a reasonable level.” The announcement received mixed reviews from trustees. Vancouver school board chairman Ken Denike said the increase is not enough, especially since the ministry has changed the student-teacher ratio and Vancouver will have to hire 70 new teachers. However Charles Hingson, head of the B.C. School Trustees Association, was more diplomatic. He said the increase was a start and, at the meeting, Brummet appeared to hold out the prospect of further increase for other programs later. But both officials agreed the funding increase won't head off a rise in residential school taxes this year. education grants cover about 75 per cent of school funding, with residential taxes accounting for the rest. Since the Winter Olympics began a week ago, a series of chinooks has left Calgary basking in warm sunshine. Temperatures have been running six to eight degrees above freezing. Spectators, officials, volunteers and re- porters are sweltering in ski jackets. In the evenings, some restaurants are actu ally serving guests outside on their patios. The streets are bone dry, the snow long since swept away by the warm winds from the Rockies. Weather forecasters are scratching their heads. Chin. ooks are routine in southern Alberta, but they are usually short-lived. This warm spell has been going for a week with no end in sight. * “The normal type of wea: ther for Calgary in February is highly variable,” says meteorologist Bruce Thomp- son of Environment Canada, the man running the Olympic weather office. “To have anything last for more than two or three days is unusual.” The weather was always a concern for Olympic organiz- ers, but no one really focused on what has become the problem — the wind. There were always worries about a lack of snow for the skiing events on Mount Allan, or that warm temperatures would leave ski trails slushy for the cross-country runs at Canmore. FAKE SNOW But Mount Allan and Can: more both have a chinook. proof base of man-made snow and the bobsled and luge tracks are refrigerated. The real threat has been the wind. Howling gales on the top of Mount Allan forced The winds may also mean the end of Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards’ Olympic ski jump- ing. Edwards, the lone British ski jumper, has become a folk hero at the Games. The gawky Briton with thick glasses and crooked smile finished dead last in the 70- metre event, 35 metres short of the winning jump, but pronounced himself happy to have survived. Officials are talking about banning him from the 90- metre jump if there is any wind at all. They're worried about his safety. Edwards says he's also worried, but wants to jump. OFFICIALS BLUSH There are other oddities about. Olympic officials were blushing a bit Saturday after a newspaper published a photo of Olympic volunteers roasting marshmallows over the Olympic flame at Mount Allan. The topic dominated the main daily news briefing Saturday, with some report- ers expressing outrage at such cavalier treatment of the flame. “I was personally quietly amused, perhaps because I wasn't aware of the serious- ness of the matter,” said Bill Payne, general manager of the media. “It's simply a question of advising our volunteers to watch their behaviour with respect to the flame.” The flame seems to have been imbued with sanctity, although during the 88-day torch relay, which brought the fire across the country, there were numerous reports of people relighting their furnaces with candles lit from the torch. Provincial lottery tickets on sale TORONTO (CP) — Pro- vineial lottery tickets will go back on sale across Canada after sales were stopped five weeks ago when a police investigation produced fraud charges against 10 people, including two Loto-Quebec employees. Sales of the $5 Provincial tickets were stopped Jan. 13 because the Interprovincial Lottery Corp. couldn't assure the security of the game. Police in Quebec said they believed a high-intensity lamp was used to read tickets inside pouches and charged eight people in Montreal and two in Quebec City. The maker of the pouches, Canadian Security Printers of Mississauga, Ont., has since designed a new pouch that has been tested and. proved to be secure, Jean Pierre Roy, a lottery corp. oration spokesman, $aid in a telephone interview from Montreal. Although he did not know what specific changes were made, Roy said, “You can be sure that the pouches that will be released next week for the draw and following draws will have the best security ... and you can't see through them.” The tickets will go back on sale in time for the March 4 draw, Roy said. Roy said he did not know how much money was lost nationally while the tickets were off the shelves, but in Quebec the loss of revenue — before, prizes and other ex- penses are subtracted — ranged from $500,000 to $600,000 a week. Lottery officials in Alberta said earlier that they would lose weekly sales of $200,000. British Columbia estimated lost revenue of up to $650,000 a week. After a two-month investi- gation, police in Quebec said winning tickets were set aside before distribution and cashed for about $30,000 over the Christmas holidays. B.C. Tel seeks lower rates VANCOUVER, (CP) — British Columbia Telephones has applied to lower long dis- tance rates within this: prov. pected pertormance by the B.C. economy and cost sav- ings from improved produe- tivity and technological ad- ince, the pany said in a news release. B.C. Tel has filed a pro- posal with the Canadian Radio-television and Tele- communications Commission to reduce rates for long dis- tance calls inside the prov. ince by an average 19 per cent. If the commission approves the change, the new rates would come into, effect on April 1. The company said it was applying for the rate reduc- tion because of higher reven- ue due to a stronger than ex- All per-minute rates would be reduced, although a 2.5- per-cent increase on the sur- charge for person-to-person is also being proposed. Cash calls from pay phones would also go up by an average .28 per cent. The overall rate reduction would, for example, cut the price of a daytime five-min- ute, direct-dial call to Kam- loops from Vancouver to $2.20 from $3.05. The same call to Victoria would drop by 70 cents and one to Prince George by $1.25.