A2 Canadian briefs

PROGRAM EXPANDED

VICTORIA (CP) — Health Minister Jim Nielsen sald the province's child immunization program will be expanded to include for the first time a combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, He says the three common childhood illnesses can now be prevented by a single injection of the new vaccine that will be available at no charge.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 24, 1981

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KILLED IN ACCIDENT TAHSIS, B.C. (CP) — A 27-year-old man was killed Friday in a chain-saw accident at the TahsisHemlock sawmill on Island. A 7 identified the man as Fraser Pierce, “formerly of Willowdale, Ont. The police and the Workers’ Compensa- tion Board are investigating.

HOWARD A, SIMONS

VANCOUVER (CP) — Howard A. Simons, founder of a Vancouver-based firm which became one of the world’s leaders in forest products engineering, died Thursday at the age 83 in Denver, Colo.

Simons founded H. A. Simons (International) Ltd. in 1944 which has engineered most of the 20 pulp mills built in B.C, since then. The company's overseas subsidiary

d Simons’ beyond North America to include South America, Australia, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

ANNOUNCE EXPANSION

SARNIA, Ont. (CP) — Esso Chemical Canada Ltd., a division of Imperial Oil Ltd., announced the start of construction on a $35-million expansion of polyvinyl chloride production at its Sarnia plant. John Arnold, vinyls business manager, said the polyvinyl production capacity will increase to about 100 kilotonnes a year from its current level of more than 50 kilotonnes,

PRODUCTION DOWN

MONTREAL (CP) — Newsprint shipments in March totalled 769,000 tonnes, down one per cent from 777,000 tonnes shipped during the same month last year, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association reports. Mill inventories were 11.9 per cent higher at 235,000 tonnes. Wood pulp shipments dipped 11.2 per cent to 632,000 tonnes from 712,000 tonnes and other papers down 7.7 per cent to 204,000 from 221,000.

HELP FOR CONSUMERS?

TORONTO (CP) — Ottawa's proposed new bank- ruptcy legislation coutd help reduce the soaring number of consumer bankruptciés in Canada, says the man who is responsible for the legislation. Yves Pigeon, superinten-

: dent in the bankruptcy department of the ministry of consumer and corporate affairs, told the Ontario Association of Credit Counselling Services the propose

ct is arrange gual repayment at debts to creditors cathe than go into bankruptcy.

MONEY SUPPLY DIPS . OTTAWA (CP) — The money supply, narrowly defined to include only currency in circulation and demand deposits, dropped $603 million to $25.2 billion in the week ended May 13, the Bank of Canada reported this week. ‘The bank said the figure was up $2.5 billion from a year earlier.

COMMONS SEATS .

OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberal government is letting the Commons turn into ‘ta bloated monstrosity" by refusing to review rules that increase the number of MPs every 10 years, Walter Baker, Progressive Conservative House leader, said Friday.

The number of Commons seats will probably increase by 30 to 312 for the next election, based on forecasts for the 1981 census, Baker told the annual convention of the Canadian Elevator Contractors Association.

If nothing is done to timit the automatic increase after each major census, the Commons will eventually grow larger than the British Parliament which has 635 MPs, he added,

TERRY FOX DAY

OTTAWA (CP) — Terry Fox Day will be held Sept. 13 as planned but consultations will be held later to see if the date should be changed for next year. Sports Minister Gerald Regan said Friday.

Regan told the Commons he hopes more than two million Canadians will take part in the Terry Fox run this year to honor the one-legged man whose attempt to run across the country last summer raised more than $23 million for cancer research,

TUNA FISHING

OTTAWA (CP) — While Canada and the U.S. are expected to sign a treaty next week governing tuna fishing off the West Coast, the fishing and boundary dispute between the two countries off the East Coast appears no closer to resolution.

Officials indicated Friday an announcement is likely early next week on acceptance of a tuna treaty that should prevent a repeat of the arrest of 19 U.S. tuna fishermen in British Columbia waters in the summer of 1979.

Tuna fishing is covered by interim arrangement between the two countries.

SAFETY AUDIT

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — A safety audit will be conducted at the Weyerhauser of Canada pulp mill in this city, as recommended by the Workers’ Compensation Board.

The will be tives of the Pulp, Paper and Sane of Canada Union and Jim Snearle of the WCB on June 9.

NO JURISDICTION OTTAWA (CP) — Eniployees have no right to appeal to an tinemployment insurance board of referees when they believe their employer is not passing on to them a proper share of reduced insurance premiums, the Federal Court of Canada has ruled. - The trial division ruling released Friday said the board of referees can hear complaints only from benefit not from employees who are not receiving benefits. Thus, the board has no ji over

BREAKS PROMISE TORONTO (CP) — Bitter personal exchanges erupted | when

MICHAEL HARNADEK of Blucberry C Creek has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the B.C, Government Employees’ Union after walitying by writing a 2,000-

word essay on the role o

publ

ic service unions in the

community. Students applying for the annual scholar-

ship awards must be a

of a BCGEU ber and

“Strike hits Victoria’

VICTORIA (CP) — Less than a month after the Van- couver area started cleaning up the mess left from a three-month civic strike, Vic- toria’s garbage collectors, parks employees and other outside workers began walk- ing off the job.

The walkouts Friday fol-~ lowed a breakdown of con- tract talks between the Can- adian Union of PUblic Em-

Outside employees ‘of the.

school board took a strike vote Saturday.

About -1,000 civic, school board and ilbrary employees are involved in total.

‘They want a wage increase of $3.16 an hour over ‘two years, like the settlement reached in Greater Vancou- ver, plus catchup increases for lower paid clerical work- ers,

GVLRA chief negotiator: Carl Anshelm said CUPE is asking for “far more” than the Greater Vancouver set- tlement.

“They're way up there in never-never land.”

Ho said the union was seeking an additional 26 cents per hour every three months for clerical workers until their lowest rate is equal to the Iaborer’s rate, a

ployees’ union committee and the Greater Vietoria Labor Relations.

Association earlier in the

lay.

Workers in various de- partments began leaving their jobs Friday morning, even before provincial mediator Fred Geddes repor- ted to the ministry of labor.

The union cannot officially calla strike until it receives a copy of Geddes’ report, which was in the mail and expected Monday, said CUPE repre-

have an academic standing of C+ of better. Eleven scholarships were offered: this year by the union. Michael is the son of Mike Harnadek, ‘Chief Public

Health 1 . He

Selkirk

Peter Dreidger. Joining the 300 outside

workers Monday will be in-

side and outside workers in

is

College, and has spent a year working in different par- ts of Canada under the federal RATIMAVIK: program. Michael plans to obtain a degree in psychology, and en-

ter the field of montal

alth. Eric. MacFarlane,

Regional Vice-President, made the scholarship presen- tation recently in Nelson on behalf of the BCGEU.

Also in a legal strike posi-

. tion Monday will be Vic-

toria’s inside employees and Greater Victoria school dis- trict clerical workers, he added.

Oil pricing talks

OTTAWA (CP) — .Oil pricing talks between En- ergy Minister Marc Lalonde and his Alberta counterpart, Merv Leitch, are to resume in Banff on June 10, it was announced Friday.

The energy ministers met far several hours in Winnipeg on April 13 in their first attempt to reach an agree- ment since the controversial national energy program was announced in the October budget.

Both sides reported some progress was made following the Winnipeg session and a further meeting was likely.

Officials from both levels of government have been work- ing on new proposals tabled in the Winnipeg talks. There has been little detail avail- able on the substance of the proposals.

Lalonde and Leitch have avoided public comment on the negotiations, saying only that new alternatives and

Trudeau's

cards almost shredded

The mystery remains. How did some of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Christmas cards almost end up in the shredder?

Tory” Walter Dinsdale wanted to know whether it was true that about 100 let- ters — including cards from the prime minister — were discovered as they were about to be shredded at IKO Industries Ltd, in Brampton, Ont.

Was it stilla mystery how the mail -got into the re: cycling plant and was an in- vestigation ‘of the incident carried out? =<

Gary F. McCauley, par- liamentary secretary to Post- master-General Andre Ouel- let, said it was all true.

But “investigators were unable to ascertain exactly how the mail arrived at the plant,” he ‘said,

Dinsdale was mildly dis- mayed that it took three months to get an answer to his question in the House.

“The process is almost as slow as the post office,” he said.

Winning Provincial

number Th May 22 Provincial win- ning ticket number is 5265707. This ticket, with its number wins.

Friday in the Ontario members said Premier William Davis broke an election promise not to raise taxes when His gdvernment tabled its budget this week.

Liberal Leader Stuart’ Shnith said Davis promised when he called the March 19 election that his government would try to avoid tax increases if re-elected.

Davis said he had no idea at the time exactly what the

next Ontario budget would contain.

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Additional prizes are _ $50,000 for the last six digits;

$1,000 for the last five digits; $100 for the last four digits; $25 for the last three digits and ted for the last two digit

oe next draw takes place this Friday.

‘ approaches are being dis- cussed. The federal minister has refused to say whether higher oil prices for Alberta have been put forward.

The current domestic price for conventional oil is-$17.76 a barrel, less than half the average world price.

Alberta, supported by the petroleum industry and sev- eral key business groups, has been demanding more rapid increases towards the world price than those set out in the budget.

DECLINES COMMENT

In Edmonton, Leitch. de- clined comment on the likeli-

Pope plans blessing

in square

ROME {AP) — Pope Jonn Paul, out of danger and in “very satisfactory” condition recovering from gunshot wounds, should be out of hospital and back at the Vatican within 60 days, his doctors said Saturday.

One surgeon said the @1-year-old‘Roman Catho- lic pontiff might even be discharged within two weeks.

“The Pope could sit ‘at home in the Vatican and heal just as well as he could heal here," Dr. Emilio Tresalti, chief medical offi- cer of Rome's Gemelli Poli- clinico hospital, said in an interview.

Barring complications, doctors said, he will be out of the hospital within 60 days, although they said it might take longer for him fo recover completely.

-Doctors‘Shave said the ‘Pope eds another oper- ation’ to ‘reverse his colos- tomy — an intestinal by- pass procedure performed in emergéncy surgery af- er he was shot March 13. The surgery could take place either at the Vatican infirmary or at Gemilli, doctors said.

PLANS SUNDAY BLESSING

Pope John Paul was well enough Saturday to be planning to deliver his weekly Sunday blessing to pilgrims and tourists in St, Peter's Square by special radio hookup.

Italian investigators questioning Mehemet Ali Agea, the Turkish suspect charged with shooting the Pope andtwo American women, said they are still unsure whether somecne paid Ages to kill John Paul.

“We assume there was complicity,” said Nicola Si-

hood of an agreement saying: “We'll have to see what his- tory writes.”

The meeting is scheduled to take place nine days after Alberta starts its second stage of oil production cuts.

Alberta began March 1 limiting maximum . produc- tion of light and medium crude oil to 908,000 barrels a day, an amount . which worked out to be 60,000 bar-

rels a day less than the avail- .

able supply over the March- May period.

Production will be cut by another 60,000 Hacrels a day June. =...

Test case in child

pornography

COPENHAGAN (AP) — Denmark took a baby step back from its liberal sexual attitudes with the conviction of three men in a test case involving child pornography.

The trial was the first court test of a 10-month-old law forbidding the manufac- ture, possession or dissemin- ation of sexually explicit

. Material using children under

the age of 15 as models.

Ten days ago an American court struck down a similar law as unconstitutional. The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the state law violated the U.S. constitu- tion’s first amendment pro- tection of free-speech.

In Denmark, the issue is not considered a matter of censorship but of protecting the young. “You might say the children are victims in this sort of thing,” said Ib Veder, a policeman assigned to the case.

Copenhagen City Court rejected the defendants’ claims that the sales were accidental and fined them $285 each. All three operate shops in Istedgade, Copen- hagen's pornography area.

Funeral

VANCOUVER (CP) — Acid” rain, the environ-

in Eastern Canada, is start- ing to fall in British Col- umbia,

Tests in the Vancouver area show rain falling here has a pH level of 4.9 — four or five times as acidic as clean rain that has a pH of 5.6.

The pH value is a sci- entific measure of acidity, with pure, non-acidic water having a value of seven. A value of six means the water is ten times as acidic anda value of five means it is 100 times as acidic.

Environment Canada has nine stations in B.C. to test the acidity of rainfall and federal meteorologist Bob Morrin said Vancou- ver rainfall has the highest acidity levels among the stations. Prince George is the least acidic with a pH of six.

the University of B.C. for- estry department, said the typical acidity of rainfall at the Haney research centre near Vancouver is pH 4.5. Tests of the Seymour wat- ershed rainfall show pH values around five, he said.

“At the moment there is no cause for alarm,” he said, “but there is definite- ly cause. for concern.”

Feller stressed that the acidity of rainfall is. re- duced: considerably: through a filtering process by the time the water makes its way through the soil into streams and lakes.

Most Vancouver streams and lakes have a pH read- ing of about 6.5 to 7, he said, well above the 4.5 considered lethal to fish.

No definite conclusions have been reached- of where acid rain originates in B.C., but there are sev- eral theories, Feller said.

Acid rain falls in B.C.

mental killer pouring down.’

Dr. Michael Feller, of:

The most common the- , ory attributes acidity in rainfall to- pollution from local industries and vehi- cles. Feller said another theory attributes B.C.'s acid rain to pollution that drifts across the Pacific Ocean from Japan in large air masses,

Pollutants contributing toacid rain are sulphur and nitrogen oxides and heavy metals particles, Feller said.

Critics say B.C. Hydro's proposed Hat Creek coal burning power plant near Kamloops will contribute to acid rain, although a re- cently-released Hydro en- vironmental impact study concluded that the 250 tonnes of sulphur and ni- trous oxides the plant will release into the air every day will have no significant effect on the environment.

Although not on the scale of acid rain in eastern: Canada and the United States — rain in north- eastern U.S, can go below pH four; rain around Tor- onto is in the low fours — parts of B.C. are parti- cularly sensitive to acid

“As the snow melts and enters lakes and rivers, parts of these bodies of water can become as much as 100 times acidic in a very short time,” accord- ing. to Environment Can-

ada.-

‘“One of the first things to start disappearing will be B.C. salmon,” said Mi- chael Perley, executive dir- ector of the Canadian En-

Law h

iY domand hesatd’ would cost as : much as 66 per cent over the two years,

Driedger reacted angrily -

to that statement, saying the union had changed its . de- mand to 25 cents every six months, which would give the clerical workers parity in four years.

“That proves he ‘didn't . even look at our Inst prop- osal,” said Driedger.

And, he said, the quarter would be applied only to school board clerical‘employ- ees, who work less than others because of school holl- ; days,

“He hasn’t offered any- . where near the Vancouver ; settlement,” said Driedger.

Anshelm complained - CUPE had dug in on a de- mand that there be no tech- nological change or any other change unless it is agreed to by the union, a demand he said could be a strike issue in itself.

The GVLRA has offered a two-year wage increase of $3 an hour plus adjustments for * tradesmen and others, -he { said.

The offer, which: would cost the municipalities $15 - milllion over the two years — + a 83-per-cent increase on the * current payroll — include , a hike of 49 per cent on the : lowest pay grade, he added. -

Said Driedger: “Yeah, but - 49 per cent of nothing is still . nothing. If you're only get- ting $4 or $5 on an hourly , basis ... that sure as hell makes a difference.”

Outside employees earned $8.17 an hour under the old . contract, while the common , entry rate for clerical work- . ers was $1,040 a month, said t Anshelm, ny

Driedger said a tentative ; memorandum of agreement ; was drawn up Friday night - between civic officials and. :

another 700 CUPE members *-°

in Saanich, Oak Bay, Sidney and North Saanich, the re-. sult of separate negotiations...; He said no details would be ; released until next week.

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F ion and of Acid Rain: The North American Forecast.

B.C. Environemtn Min- ister Stephen Rogers said he plans to talk to ministry officials to determine the cause of acid rain in the Vancouverarea.

"get driving with a blood alcohol - count. over .08 were heard. Both entered guilty. pleas.

Gerald Conkin was fined $260 or in default $0 days in

+ jail. Dale Jenner was fined -

$350 or in default 80 days in , jail. ; :

Health service cuts.

VICTORIA (CP) — Cuts in health services are being considered to offset a 41-per- cent increase in medicare fees. currently being con- sidered by the. B.C. govern- ment and the 8,700 fee-for- service doctors in the prov- ince, Health Minister Jim Neilsen said Friday.

Neilsen said cabinet still has not agreed to the prop- osed settlement which calls

‘for an average increase of

$89,000 compounded . over two years for each doctor. He said he is. concerned about its impact on ‘the plik all health ministry bud-

a have to look and deter-

mine now whether certain.

other areas within the health ‘ministry are going to have to

be trimmed a bit to try and--

accommodate that cost,” he said in an interview. _ Earlier, the minister said

service

for Donald Paul

Funeral service was held Saturday morning for An- drew Donald Paul, 94, of Castlegar -who passed away ‘Wednesday in the Trail Re- gional Hospital.

Born Jan. 31, 1687, “at

mone, official for the Rome police de- partment. He said someone tight have given Agea the money he used to travel around Europe in ‘the months before the shoot- ing, might have given him a gun.or might have dir- ectly paid him to kill the Pope. He did not elaborate.

Paul came to Canada in 1899

settling in Glasgow, .Man., .

moving to British Columbia in 1926 to New Westminister.

"He began working for the Canadian National Railway in 1923 and. retired in 1951 when he moved to Prince’ Rupert where he worked for the Department of Fisheries until he came to the Castle-

gar-Trail area. in 1960.

He married Olive Brown in 1928 in Winnipeg.

Mr. Paul was ‘a’ member of the Castlegar-Robson and Trait legions. *

Mr. Paul is survived by one son, Richard of: Castlegar; two daughters, Donna Paul of Toronto and Marion Watt- Smith of Montreal; 10 grand- children and nine great- grandchildren and one brother, John of Victoria,

Rev. Desmond Carroll and the Castlegar Legion branch No. 170 officiated at the ser- vice. Cremation followed.

medicare fees will have to in- crease 80 per cent this year if approval is given to the ten- tative agreement reached May 7. .

This, he said, means the taxpayers will have to com up with an additional $80 million while individuals will

~ have to pay about $4 a month

more,

Promier Bill Bennett and Nielsen have hinted the gov- ernment may reject the proposed pact because it is too expensive.

Bennett said the govern- ment also is looking at it from the point of view of other

provinces and the federal © government: because - it ‘ doesn’t want a settlement « that would estroy the medi- + care system in the rest of i Canada.

Under the previous con- ‘ tract that expired March 31, doctors earned an average of * $64,000 a-year after expenses

but before taxes. te

The B.C. Medical Asso- * ciation will .vote on the ° agreement knowing that the government plans to outlaw the surcharing of patients by - their doctors. Ballots for the’ fee schedule vote were mailed Friday and will be - counted June 15, :

(Vital Statistics ?:

DewoLr — me "ere and Mrs, Grant DeWolt of Sgstlegar, a daughter, born May 22.

* * HALL —To Mr. sand eh nine Hall of Trail, ad

Cremation fallowed,

id we CAMPBELL — Melvin Campbell, ; 74, of Fruitvole, died suddenly May 20 at the Trail Regional ° Hospital. Funeral service was

& HENNE — To re and Bars, Allen Henne of Castlegar, o son, born

STANTON — To Mr. “and Ars, John Stanton of Rosstand, o son, May 20.

SOVRAN _ to Mr. ond Mrs, Sovran of Oasis, a \

Seashten born Moy 16.

VOYKIN — To Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Voykin of Castlegar, o son, Born Mer i

if

IRLEY — To Mr. ond Mrs. Ar. thor Worley of Ganello, "a doughter, born May 21.

aiiis: BROWN — ealth Mery Brown, 75, of Nelson, died Alay “15. in Kootenay Loke District "tos ital, Memorial services were hald May 2) from the chapel of tho Thom: Pion Funeral Home-with Re

Jomes 0, Wilaon officiating,

May 23 from St.-Pauls : wv. Don Wright of- ficlating. Intel nent was af Fruit-

vale Cematery.

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HEINEMAN — ga tovra

Helnemon, 64, of tna jelson, died i

May i. Funoral service was held jay 23, es

LAUENER™ a Awittionn Louis” Louener of Mencouver formerly of Trall, died M lo service +

“was held ot fis: oun requast. i *

. 50, af Nolson,

SIMON — nina eliteda Simon, } 15.

je: Sacrament Catholic Church with Benedet celebrant. was atNalaon Memorial

_ WILSON — Joseph Wilbon, 68, of |

Salmo died May 18 at Kootenay + Loke District Hospiial. Legion sere vice, conducted Ey Ken Denis of he Saimo Legion, was held May! mer Gt Royal Conadion Legion in :j cs

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KIM SMITH: protégé of the fashio

involved in

all aspects. of

the .business from books to

waiting on customers,

admits buying exhausting.

Twa'weeks ago, Kim Smith went to Vancouver and bought all her winter clothes.

She and her mother spent three long and tiring days in a gigantic, windowless ware- house-type building sifting through small airless rooms where they selected blouses, slacks, coats, sweaters and dresses — all in next aut- umn’s latest colors and styles. “Santana” jeans? “Imagine 1°. jeans? How about a few pairs of “Jenny B." pants?

Kim and her mother, Kar- en Smith, were in Vancouver buying clothes for Update Fashions, clothes they feel that Castlegar women would “wear, enjoy, feel comfortable in and look in,

Her mother has been work- ing at or managing Update Fashions ‘since the store's

tege. She looks after the books, waits on customers, helps to pick out the clothes for the store, and recently has been given cheque-sign- ing privileges.

“I thought it would be boring,” said. Kim, but is happily surprised ‘that she was wrong. She loves clothes, enjoys her work and finds that there is “always something” to keep her in- terested.

Kim and her mother make that weekend buying trip to Vancouver four times a year. They. buy fall clothes at the end.of March, “holiday” ap- parel in July and August, spring garments in Novem- ber and summer, wear in January. “Kim admits that it's “kind of hard to get tuned ue the > Fight season” when

Bea se aaa roam

Decoy artist

Unable up with.

WEST NANCOOVER (CP) — In ancient a waterfowl ‘hunter decopsd wild gaine with a few captive birds, When technical or legal difficulties ruled that out, he switched to crudely shaped straw or wood imi- tations.

In the last few years ima- ginative carvers and crafts- men have lifted decoys into the realm of art, sculpting and printing wooden bird fi- gures of exquisite beauty — sometimes valued at thou- sands of dollars.

Some fianncial circles say

antique decoys and their highly developed modern. equivalents are becoming. North America’s hottest art investments.

To some the carving is a hobby, but to a few it is a career, the way to an inde- pendent and rewarding life.

One of the few is Dave Jackson, 40, of West Van- couver, who got fed [Up | with the retail

Kim trips can be

LINDA

HALL

_ Getting to Know Your Neighbor

experimented with different styles and shapes of clothing. They are ig a: new clothing size now — petite. Kim's “amazed at the number of women in Castlegar who are petite.” These are in

regular misses sizes but with shorter waists, lengths and’ sleeves.

Kim is excited about a new line of jewelry’ they will be carrying . shortly. “Gorge- ous” is her description. These

: " pleces of jewelry are indi-

ALIVE with enthusiasm, Kim ‘admits she thought working in fashions would be boring. She now finds

there is always jh

you're choosing clothes that are one season or more ahead of what everyone around is wearing.

Show Mart is the name ‘of the warehouse which houses all the major clothing lines. Nine a.m, is usually their

’ first appointment to view and

they don’t get away until 6:30 p.m. “By the time you get out you're just so sick of seeing everything,” she- said. To choose a wide variety of stylish apparel within a bud- get can be “mentally ex- hausting,” she said.

Kim. told me’ that at Up-

went se tea ie caer,

to keep

demand

, 19th century ones made of

“straw to local models carved out of Douglas fir. So I treid my hand at it, just hacking

away to see what I could do.”:

Jackson showed some of his work to a friend who took the decoys to a gift fair in Cal

“To my shock and surprise -~ I had no real supply of equipment or material —he came back with orders worth $5,000,” said Jackson. “I was in business and to this day I haven't been able to keep up with the demand.”

He has diversified as much as he can, maintaining his original high levels of hand crafting, yet varying his out- put from relatively simple decoy-like duck ‘carvings to sculpture of canada geese so realistic. that people would try to feed them if he put them in Stanley Park. His prices range from $150 to

His ‘models include photo- i and car-

about five years ago and began looking for a different vocation,

It took a visit to a Van- couver junk shop to turn Jackson on to bird carving. One day he spotted an old~ wooden duck, offered $10 for it and took it home: '

“I was fascinated by the thing and did some reading about decoys, from the mid-

" graphs,

casses of real birds, carefully. stored in friends’ freezers. He ‘has some sophisticated equpment but his eyes and hands account for 99 per cent. of the beauty he produces.

Success has had its price. Jackson has damaged his hands ‘more than once with slips of his razor-sharp knives and one time:he almost lost his left index finger.

to keep her

date they continually strive’ to keep their clothes up- to-date and fashionable, a place for women who “want a little. change and different atyles.” They only sell two of any style of dress “so you don’t sea yourself walking

down the street.”

The Smith women have

jometimes: are :aevers. actually ‘aware, of the inti- macy, the essentialness of some creature or thing until, we no longer have it in our possession, or as a part of our environment,

The sailor is unaware of the ship's motion until he is aghore, and then the pitching and tossing of the dry land plagues him sometimes for days. A person who lost an arm or a leg is bothered for years by the very real aches ‘and pains in his non-existant fingers and toes. :

For years now, a familiar part of my memory environ- ‘ment has been a small black and white mongrel dog — a kind of comer by-chanee’ bor- der collie.

He loved to go for a walk, whether it was 50 feet or five miles, so that over the years my almost automatic words on opening the door to go out had been “come on Toby.”

‘This invitation, if he were not already outside, was a signal for a jet-propelled hysterical ‘dash through the door, regardless of the size of the opening, or who might be in the way;a four-wheeled brake stop on the other side, followed by eager yelps and expectant grin.

He never learned to ‘heel,’ therefore one usually had a view of a curled ostrich- plume of a tail waving from side to side, and a pair of baggy ‘trousers’ jogging up and down as he raced ahead, —%

vidually handmade'/out of hammered brass by a woman. .’ in Vancouver, copies of. a 1928 collection. Because they. are handcrafted she told. me, . “each ‘piece is different.” ..

I learned that Montreal decides what the ‘fashion: of. Castlegar will be. "Most: of the clothes come from Mon- treal,” Kim admits that many of the eastern styles just. - don’t go over well here at all.,

“We saw ‘duck pants’,” she.

too narrow.” Baggy, straight- legged pants, painter pants and jeans-.“with zippers all over them” are very popular now. | 2 Longer khaki walking shorts pro! to be a pop-

ular summer item, and jump- |

suits will be coming back into vogue, Skirt lengths will fall

. to just below the knee. Skirts:

to the ankle have still not come back into style,’ and

according to Kim, girls look- .

told me. “What in the world | */%

are ‘duck pants’?’' I asked her. “Flannel pants with little, ducks all over them.” (What. else?) “People in’ Montreal would wear them, but people here wouldn't wear: them at. all.” So Kim and her mother declined to order ‘duck pants’ forthe store, —

T asked her to give me a ‘preview of this summer's styles. “Pastel colors are very in. Designer jeans are the rage right now,” she said, “but most athletes can't fit into Sesigner. jeans — they're

JOHN CHARTERS

Reflections & Recollections

ing for long grad dresses will have a hopeless time of it this year, “We can't even get long dresses,” she stated. “Only one or two suppliers even sell long dresses. The only place tolvole might be a bridal Htion that cari is bridesmaids

dresses.” _ Kim never. thought she

would enjoy selling fashion so-

much. In high school at Stan- ley Humphries she had her i hts. set, on becoming an

deep wade, while he lapped at the water flowing by. The water at the edge never seemed suitable for drinki

wounds, all the while moan- ing piteously in an obvious ‘bid fot sympathy. These,

somehow. Perhaps bathing in it improved the flavor — for him. The salt water of the sea was a great disappointment.

A visit to the island, (Mr. Zuckerberg’s), ‘meant a fur-

‘were the and, in any case, the joy of

ious,rustling of leaves, ashe @

made a giddy pattern of legs and yelps amongst the silver birch in fruitless pursuit of the rabbit who called him in- sulting names from the hazels.

I was never certain whe- ther he liked to fight or whether he didn’t. Certainly, taking him to town was.an invitation to trouble, but it. was a sort of “Dulles” trouble —anattempt to approach the edge of the ‘precipice’ with-. out actually falling over.

Thus as we approached.a possible opponent this neces- sitated making certain initial -

warlike overtures with the /

understanding that if the: other dog refused to be

cowed by the show, I was to ~

order him back — a neat face-saving manoeuver, . which sometimes backfired en the other dog was not

paused to autograph every only bigger, but believed that

available rock, bush and hy- cent, chen ig: sagged dizzily er the

‘the best mode of defence is offence.’ xt in his enthusi-

order tons nothing that niche be

mA ‘visit to the river meant a mad gallop along ihe rocks and a slow dignified ‘helly-

asm he forgot to provide himself with a ‘face’ and then he would return home, look- ing the picture of sorrow and _ defeat, while he attended his '

PERCIVIL

Rving each minute for itself would doubtless have erased any concern. for’ the possi- bility of future‘ ‘accid ents.’ The only shadows’ in his

ambulance assistant or a ‘fst afd attendant for a large company.

After graduating in 1979 she went to Kelowna to study industrial first ald and book- keeping. Last December she earned her CPR ticket (Car- dio ‘Pulmonary Resuscl- tation). First aid is still. very much an interest of Kim's, and she would like to pursue itat some time in the future,

Kim was born in Trail, but has lived most of her life with her parents in Castlegar. She has a brother Jim and a sister ° Dana: While ini high school she was a member of Job's Daughters, “worthwhile organization” - which she

“really enjoyed.” In 1979 she

., was. the. honored |. queen, i os as

therwisé unclouded life were a cross word, an the fear of being left behind. To be’ told to stay was to. des-.: pair; to have us come back again was a joy accented by ear-piercing evies' and whirl- ing dervish gyrations. Was this a self-centered devotion? © — I'm sure-it wasn't.:

He would, for instance, ait, for hours in the driveway. if

“my. wife was away,: looking ears"

down: the road. with:'

which meant that she did a © lot of the organizational work for the group. As of ‘this coming, June 10,; she, will become a council member.

Kim loves sports and was, : athletic representative of the school when she graduated. She enjoys tennis, horseback riding, skiing on both water’ and snow, swimming, and is ..: now on a juvenile softball team. Since Valentine's Day. she has been engaged to . Bruno Tassone with wedding plans for next May.

But for ‘another year how,” at least, she'll be “helping women to choose the perfect, fitting dress for the occasion. °: T love clothes, 1 like’ to’ see people uth Bsed in ‘what they,

/pricked up and tail curl

back in‘utter unconcern for _sup, rain or snow. And: he- never forgot the’Pitts from | whom we got him. They had had: him only a few. days, after picking ‘him up stray pup in Castlegar, but he never forgot the kindness.

Frequently,” therefore, “a, visit to town had to include a visit to the Pitts' Drug store.

And_ now ‘he’ is dead nephritis, the’ vet~ said ‘—. though it. makes little real difference. It was* painless ‘and swift, a few days only, a “thin sign, a small cry and he~.3 was gone: Chasing a shadow" ; rabbit through’ a shadow. is- land perhaps — for when’I':>'

uried him

It has been years now, bit’. ‘Tatil cannot leave the house: ‘without 'a) mental“come’ on’ Toby,” and have the phantom ¢ form ' making a, hysterical “dash. through ‘the door. *

ough,

_ He races ‘along the'shore of . time and adventure;

: : Far, across the fields of stars

forever. ‘I ‘would: like to dedicate

‘this column ‘to my children;

Jack, who :is in Vancouver, and about to have a milestone birthday; .to ‘Tanya, on Hornby Island —-I know. that

Firemen hive been Kept hopping at © the‘. National : Horse. Show. in. Del’ Mar, Calif.

Puzzled: firemon °.were about .to leave ‘the’ stables without finding a fire or the

culprit who oat. off the false a

‘alarm. °