A6 CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 3, 1980 Potsoners as a group are the most insidious of all murderers. I am not refe to those poisoners who add a dash of arsenic here and there to rid themselves of a frigid spouse. Heavens, no. I am all to those ladies aud gentlemen who for one reason or another, see fit to a r deadly potions to several of thelr fellow human beings over a period of y poisoners are in a position to solicitously nurse their victims into the srave. Sarah Jane Robinson did, but we will get to all that soon ent ‘When Sar. 9, ‘arrived in the U. receded them from Ireland. Like m the Emerald Isle, they settled in New oth girls were rather pretty, and as up had no trouble attrac! male suito tually married Moses Robinson Annie married an the regal sounding ears. Sometimes the. nd the ‘sun wo ye ie was t in that their landlord, one Oliver Sleeper, who lived in the same house as the Robinson, would become gravely ill. The nally was perversely delight when almost immediately Sleeper commenced to suffer from nausea. & That Sarah could really call the shots. When she leclared that the landlord wo aw. rmanent leave collected $1,000 insurance money. F Killed her sister Sarah and her three children, Lizzie, William and. Charlie continued to live in the same house without any untoward incidents occurring for the next three ears. We can only assume that she was contented ith weather redictions during this dry e loose. ‘Annie ‘went do' | loving care. r lengthy bouts ‘of nausea: and vomiting, she expired. J. Renold ‘Earthtones’ at Langham Centre The public is invited to an exhibit of paintings nad an afternoon of refreshments at the Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo on Sept. 6, from 2 to 5 pm. : "© This collection of oils and watercolors includes land- dren” and, most recently, work arising from my aware- ness of current ecological pressures. = The exhibit will be at the ~ Langham from Sept: 1 to 14, and is open from 1.to 5 p.m., Prince Arthur and his son Tomm: the Rol oo ‘This move wi 8 not rh ange tions of three y: ae incle Mose: land soll , to be: ee arnt in * , @ fortune ‘the next of kin. is family were n0 | they began wa! A tong lat the Fi rah and called in the police. { Hung fury cts five illnesse: Rood: An in custody. The fi exhumed, all In ii Wililam. Hi never reveal had actually s trial ‘no refere victims. Sarah swore that venge! were at work to destroy her given talents as a seer, The $ “reach a verdict. was murdered *s $2,000. At this second trial Sarah’s motives Arar eee proven to be murder for insurance m™garah was found guilty and sentenced to hang. At the time of her sentenr z She gave on elaborate, i speech professing her innocence. ernotions was fatter commuted to life imprison- ment, "Once in prison Sarah continually decorated pho- tographs of her victims with fresh cut flowers, She eee almost 20 years in prison before dying there in 1906. | Tuesday through Shirts & Blouses ARRIVING DAILY — SSssz eigiipe heer ae SEES The famous Rossland mines pro- capping the shafts and stopes that had erence ects a The copper-gold-silver ore from result of work done close to the surface Cominco completes ‘grooming’ at old mine workings _ « duced six million tons of ore ‘and were instrumental in the economic develop- ment of southeastern B.C, from the 1890's through the first part of the 20th century. This summer, 90 years after pros- pectors Joe Morris and Joe Bourgeois saw a reddish showing on the moun- tainside and staked the first claims, Cominco completed an extensive ‘safety grooming’ at the old Rossi: broken through to surface, In three years of work, a total of 80 hazardous holes were made safe either by bull- dosing or a of 0 Rossland mines provided the basis for the first smelter at Trail which began operation in 1896. When Cominco was d in 1906, two of the drilling and blasting. Relatively small charges were used for the blasting because the goal was to dislodge large chunks of rock to block off the open- ings. - : : Ken Davies, general superinten- dent, mine engineering said Cominco mine workings. This involved blocking off. and spent app: $250,000 in the three-year program in the interest of public safety. 4 premier Rossland mines — the War Eagle and ‘the Centre Star —’ were ‘‘among the properties’ amalgamated with the. Trail smelter to form the company. The Rossland mines were the company’s main source of ore.in the difficult early years. Cominco’s last mining operation at Red Mountain closed in 1926. The problem with the holes was mainly a THE Vbag CASTLE NEWS September 3, 1980 by lease minors in the 1980's and early 1940's when Cominco claims were thrown open for leasing as a De- pression relief ald. Work was done close to the surface in this period, and in the succeeding years water and frost action caused a number of underground stopes to cave in, opening holes to the surface. Over the years there has been a‘ in amount of i the area, despite warning signs and barbed wire fencing. Even with the safety program comipleted trespassing continues to be ited because it is possible some new holes may develop. One. of the biggest single oper- ations involved reducing the pit walls . around the welkknown War Eagle ‘glory hole’ to a gentle slope. The contractor, Edco Construction, used a large rotary drill to get the rowder deep enough: to dislodge enough vock and earth to fill in much of the pit. A bulldozer then groomed the area out as a mile depréssion. . It's ‘safe now, but there are still many relies of the pioneer days when the Rossland mines were international- ly renowned. A waste dump, old timber. supports, piping and rails and hoist foundations continue to serve as his- toric reminders. Deteriorated forest market little affects Crestbrook Despite deteriorated lumber mar- kets and signs of a wakening United States paper market, Crastbrook For- est Ltd. ded ing equal to the company’s 1979 earnings in the first six.months of 1980. ‘Sales for the second quarter of 1980 were $29,709,000 which resulted ‘in net earning of $8,826,000,’ says the interim report to shareholders. ‘For the first six months of 1980, the sales were $58,857,000, with earnings of $5,602,000. Earnings per share for the six months of 1980 are $3.66 which is - equal to the 1979 earnings.’ For the identical six-month period of 1979, CFI showed total sales of $58,559,000 with net’ earnings of 608,000 or $3.66 per common share. - ‘For the quarter and the six months of 1980, sales have been higher than for the comparable periods of 1979,’ points out the report. ‘However, asa result of the higher cost of sales, net earnings for both periods are slightly below 1979 levels." — . - The depreciated Canadian dollar continued to play a significant role in include an deteriorated lumber markets. Safety performance in the first : half of the year showed significant i in all The pulp mill: was awarded the B.C. in- dustry pennant for achieving the lowest injury rate for the industry with a zero frequency during the second. quarter. ‘Pulp production, markets and sales CFTs sales and earnings as the figures i of $6,649,000 for the six-month period as compared to $5,918,000 for the iden- tical period of 1979. 5S All divisions operated at capacity during the entire six months with no - production curtailments in the lumber and plywood divisions in spite of the Vista ‘ of a weakening in the United paper markets’ occurred. Lumber and plywood markets in the U.S. are expected to continue weak into 1981, the report concluded. 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Add Softness to Your Fall Fashions VELOUR Air Travel Agents for ALL AIRLINES * ACCOMMODATIONS © RESERVATIONS © TOURS Over $24,000 was raised to aid muscular dys- trophy in Canada by the Warfield telethon held in’ conjunction with the an- | nual Labor Day Jerry - Lewis telethon. | Volunteer firemen manning the phones work- ‘ed for 22 hours answering calls from as far away as a Fort St. John, Edmonton and all over the Okanagan and the East Kootenays. “producing the Pledges totalled $28,818 and an additional in cash was col- About 1,000 pledges amount of mail” were re- ceived. Overall’ response “was temendous” Jim Nel-. son said Tuesday.. Nelson estimated about equal numbers of calls came from Trail “J total same G.F. supermarket complex Overwaitea plans fo build a new complex t d-a-q) ter times the size of the present Grand Forks store, which could include a self-serve liquor store. Lyle Patrick, a planner at the head office in Vancouver, said if the liquor store agrees, a new structure the same size would be built for it at. the present Overwaitea site. “We haven't firmed this up yet but this is what we're Kootenay diversion hoping they would do,” he said. The estimated $800,000 complex would be contained in about 20,000 square feet, not including parking to be in front of the store. The company also plans to sell space to one or two smaller stores. “Field's has shown an interest,” he said. Patrick explained that the facility, similar to one opened in Creston re- Alternative energy conference in Oct. The fall conference of the British Columbia Energy Coalition will take place this October near the site of the proposed Kootenay diversion, organi- sers for the event have announced. The conference, hosted by East and West Kootenay groups opposing the 1, is d to definitive answers, but we will be a step closer.” Locally based environmental groups who have stated that they expect to attend the conference include Save the Kootenay Committee, Koot- enay Nuclear Study Group, West Koot draw representatives from every area of the province. They will discuss the Williams named DTUC director Dr. Richard L. Williams from the - University of Victoria has been named + director of the David Thompson Uni- versity Centre (DTUC), pending rati- fication by the university board of governors. H _ The arrangement was ratified by the Selkirk College Board in which Williams would direct both the Selkirk College and university programs at the centre. The appointment, effective Sept. Airlines apply for fare _ GP Air, Air Canada and Pacific : Western Airlines have applied to the Canadian transport commission for permission to increase ic air fares. by about seven per cent on Oct. 14, ‘The two national carriers and the increase major western regional airline said they need higher prices to cover rising fuel and general operating costs. The PWA i 6.4 1, 1980, ‘was recommended by the Iniversity of Victoria, president Dr. Howard Petch following acceptance of the Mission Statement and Five-Year Program Development Plan for DTUC ‘ by the Selkirk board and the Uni- versity senate and board of governors. Williams will.be replacing John Pere- gtym as director of the centre as Peregrym takes. leave to complete doctoral studies at UBC. Williams has been at the Univer- sity of Victoria for 11 years with joint hi ibility in educati proposal and an energy policy for the province. The meeting will be held at the Blue Lake forest camp, near Canal Flats, on the weekend of Oct. 17 to 19. The Energy Coalition is a loose alliance of grass roots organizations which meets twice yearly to share their information and their concerns. The ‘. groups have criticized the government energy policy for being short-sighted and out of date. Previous meetings have criticized such provincial projects as the Cheekeye-Dunsmuir transmis- sion line to Vancouver Island, the Site © dam on the Peace River and the branch Sierra Club and Nelson SPEC. McDonald's arches ' may have to go McDonald’s famous golden arches may have to go. i At least they may have to leave the roadside at Waneta Plaza in Trail due to an agreement, made when the plaza was constructed, ‘not to have more than one roadside sign. One sign already announces the Presence of the plaza the second one projects scheduled for the Stikine, Iskut and Morice Rivers. _. “We don't just want to criticize power projects, though,” said Richard Banner, a member of the Nelson-based Save the Cc andone the future opening of Mc- Donalds. The agreement for only one sign was made “because locals didn't want a neon-sign stip through that part of the ity,” Ald. Norm Gabana said and physics. In the last year, Williams implemented a number of innovative plans in the faculty of education de- and per’ cent, according to a company spokesman, and would affect’ routes serving about 26 centres in B.C. g ‘tion. pro- grams at DTUC, designed to empha- size skill-development for teachers in rural and non-urban communities. of the o of the conf “We feel that it is important to - Idok at the alternatives and to devise a way to have a secure, safe, reliable source of energy. That is why, after a , year of preparatory work, this con- ference is going to focus‘on the energy poliey. We may not come up with any The final decision on the arches will be made by city council Gabana ‘The plaza developers, Oakhamp- ton Properties, agreed only one sign should exist along highway 8B at the plaza. cently, is the company’s attempt to bring big city service to Grand Forks. “Instead of maybe two types of corn- flakes to choose from there will be four,” he said. A date to begin building had-not been decided because Overwaitea was awaiting a zoning decision from council. Council Monday night gave the third reading to the bylaw which will change zoning to ‘commercial extensive’ use. Elderly runner crosses country for charity Eighty-year old Harry Crawshaw, ‘breaking Crawshaw was nursing a sore leg from what he suspected to be an insect bite incurred while camping the night before at Christina Lake. How does he do it? “I keep in shape,” he said. He said he participates in a wide range of sports which, two years ago, included a mountain ski trip from Banff to Squamish. Crawshaw began the trip on foot from Halifax, _ NAS. running early in the morning and late at night and walking during the day. : Donations from the first half of the pledged to the local office or radio station for either charity. Crawshaw refuses to take donations, saying that people might think he was pocketing a profit. Does he ever get tired or sick? “Nope. I haven't even had the sniffles,” he said. Ten lakes stocked * Ten high lakes in the Creston area were stocked with cutthroat finger- lings last Friday. Conservation Officer Dave Gray has announced. Each of the lakes were stocked with 6,000 fish from the Bull River hatchery. Gray says that the cutthroat will be catching size by next fall. Among the lakes stocked were Nunn Lake, Monk Lake and Wooden Shoe Lake. 5