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KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The maximym speed on the Coquihalla Highway could be raised soon, the Ministry of Highways says.

RCMP have handed out scores of speeding tickets since the second phase of the highway, between this southern Interior city and Merritt, opened two weeks ago.

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Al Limacher, assistant deputy minister of highways, said the ministry is con- sidering changing the 100- kilometre-an-hour speed limit on the 188-kilometre freeway between Hope and here.

Studies have been done and a decision is expected in about a week, he said.

Regional district directors voted Thursday to ask High- ways Minister Cliff Michael to increase the speed limit to 110 kilometres an hour.

Man killed

hunting

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP) — Police released the name Saturday of a 22-y man killed in a hunting acci- dent in the East Kootenay.

A police spokesman ident- ified the victim as George Allan Commandeur, of Nel-

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Hurt by other events

By CHERYL CALDERBANK

This year's Robson Fall Fair was down in both entries and attendance, and organizers of Saturday's fair attributed the drop to other community events being held at the same time.

Dinah Lutze, president of the Robson Fall Fair Associa- tion, said the fair was forced to compete with the Castlegar Library opening and the United Way kickoff, both held Saturday.

But Lutze added that the fair is planned almost a year in advance and it’s impossible to know what else will be taking

She said she was pleased with the entries in the children's division — a first for the fair. She added that there was also more art, handmade quilts and original crafts this year. As well, there were more entries in the pumpkin category. However, fewer people entered their fresh fruits, vegetables or cut flowers.

There was alsd a good turnout for the farmers market, she added.

This year's fair also seemed smaller because of ‘the absence of Robson Elementary School's penny carnival, held

place on the same weekend.

In addition, the Castlegar-Robson ferry, which had been shut down since Thursday due to mechanical problems, also had an impact on fair attendance.

However, Lutze said she couldn't immediately estimate how much attendance and participation was down.

Although there was a drop, Lutze was happy with entries in a number of categories.

last year in conjunction with the fair.

Lutze said the school didn't participate because the date of the fair was too close to the start of the new school year.

Fair organizers will be evaluating this year's fair when planning for next year's event.

“We will have to really dig deep and see if it's worth it to hold it in Robson or have it (elsewhere) where it's

accessible,” Lutze said.

Schools shoulder burdens

VANCOUVER (CP) — Schools are being asked to act as parents and spiritual guides, but aren't being i the money or the

to take on such re-

bilities, the president

of the B.C. School Trustees

Association told a cabinet committee.

Schools used to be re sponsible only for academic education, but now must

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shoulder social burdens that families and churches used to assume. Charles Hingston said in a presentation to the provincial government's committee on social policy.

In recent years, schools have become the agency used to deal with child abuses, AIDS, family life, hungry children, drug and alcohol abuse, and youth unemploy ment, he said.

“No one denies that sup- port in these areas is needed, but people should pe aware that existing legislation, cur-

ricula and funding recognize the academic role of schools only,” Hingston said.

He recommended the gov. ernment take a more inte- grated approach to the issue.

“Simply placing children in the care of schools for the major part of a day and as- suming that educated and socially responsible young adults will pop out after Grade 12 is not enough.”

He asked the committee to have the Education Ministry develop a clear mandate for the school system in re-

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sponding to social or health problems, and that the man- date be supported with money, legislation, and school programs.

The association also recom. mended the current royal commission on education look at how students are being socialized in school, and that school boards he integrated into the network of con- cerned ministries, institu- tions, professionals, and com- munity organizations that al- ready deal with social prob- lems of the young.

Hingston said after the closed meeting that com- mittee members asked a few questions and said they would respond to his brief in writing.

“I'm optimistic that at least the process is in place where they're listenihg,” he said in an interview.

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More rich immigrants

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — Canada should try to attract wealthy immigrants and consider alldwing fewer immigrants who will compete for jobs with Canadians, Premier Bill Vander Zalm says.

“It may be that we're getting a lot of people lo6king for jobs, and competing with Canadians or British Columbians already here,” Vander Zalm said.

“Instead, we need some balince — people that will come here, build things, buy things, start new businesses and create jobs.”

NPA leader slain

MANILA (AP) — Gunmen killed a prominent leftist leader outside his office Saturday, just hours after he called a mass rally to protest “the resurgence of fascist rule” in the Philippines.

Supporters blamed President Corazon Aquino's government for the death of Lean Alejandro, 27, secretary general of the New Patriotic Alliance. Alejandro had decried what he said was growing military influence in the Aquino administration.

Raids continue

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iraq and Iran attacked each other with air raids and claimed artillery attacks Saturday, one day before a deadline set by Arab states for Iran to accept a UN ceasefire resolution.

id Iranian shelling of seven cities killed at ins and wounded more than 30. Iran dismissed the account as “sheer invention.”

Treasures unloaded

LORIENT, France (AP) — Jewelry and wine bottles recovered from the sunken luxury ship Titanic were among hundreds of items that arrived in the military port of Lorient on Saturday en route to Paris to be shown on television next month.

A huge crate was unloaded at the Brittany port in northeastern France from the Abeille Supporter, a ship that took part in a seven-week diving expedition that ended Sept. 9.

Sanctions symbolic

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's sanctions against South Africa are mainly symbolic and will not hurt trade between the two countries that worth the equivalent of $322 million Cdn a year, Foreign Ministry director-general Yossi Beilin admitted Saturday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, mean- while, said in adopting the sanctions, Israel “joined an overall European-American approach,” but cannot be expected to take the lead in punitive action against South Africa’s government.

A fair shake

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Bork, winding up

UNITED WAY . . . Sandy Donohue shows intrested air cadets one of the new its prepared by the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre Suring the Castl ir United Way kickolf Saturday in the downtown SuperValy parking lot. Cadets and NEC are both United Way recipients.

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Snake scares Sarah silly

GREENWICH, Conn, such a reaction.

(AP) — The Duchess of “You tend to be repulsed York was visibly shaken

during a charity fund-

raiser Saturday when a

writhing 3.6-metre Bur- ledge. I would never have mese python was brought brought it nea? her had I near her during an outdoor

wildlife exhibition.

ind behind her husband, demonstrations from & Prince Andrew, and baby elephant named Kar- mother, Susan Barrantes, when television naturalist Jim Fowler brought out

the snake. The former Sarah Fer- guson refused to look up and stayed back in the crowd until the snake demonstration was over; Fowler told reporters later that he had no idea the duchess would have

rived Friday on their first visit to the United States since they were married. Also at Saturday's event were the duchess’ father, Maj, Ronald Ferguson, and her stepfather, Hector Barrantes, who lives with his wife in Greenwich.

FUTURE

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needs only one major department store to set up shop in the mall, but so far, interest has been frustratingly noncommital.

“The number of businesses you can actually ‘go out and attract to an area, a community is very limited,” said Maddocks, who adds that the development board alone has managed to attract approximately | $600,000 of

jobs, but he said the mill must streamline its operation and improve its production in order to compete effectively in one of Canada’s most competitive businesses. Zammit said many of those lost jobs will be lost quite i through imp’ leveling the number of employees at about 200 to 210, a startling contrast to a high of some 600 employees working shifts around the clock only seven years ago. Wilf Sweeney, general manager of Celgar Pulp Co., which only last year changed hands from Westar owner- ship to a Chinese-Canadian partnership, says Celgar is

funding to the since its i

Though Maddocks and Stan may seem exceedingly positive, they can point quickly to ongoing projects that only profess a well-placed faith in the community's future.

The airport is presently undergoing a $4.4 million facelift that will see the construction of a new restaurant and indoor baggage check claim. Though commonplace in other airports, the improved facility will prove a welcome relief to those passengers who have huddled outside in winter, waiting for a John Deere tractor to pull two flat- beds of luggage over:

John Michelson, airport manager for the past 20 years, said Castlegar is seeing more airlines and more flights than ever before.

The airport has come a long way from the days when planes landed between fruit trees on a gravel strip.

Today, a traveller-can catch one of seven flights a day, compared to only three just six years ago.

According to Michelson, deregulation had a lot to do with the increased number 6f commercial airlines serving the airport, up from two to four today.

Even the numbers of passengers has increased, with 79,000 in total in 1986, compared to 72,000 in 1962. *

expected. Certainly, the economic benefits of having a ity college cannot be overlooked. While Nelson

a record five days of U.S. Senate in his struggle to become a Supreme Court justice, said Saturday he will “give everybody a fair shake” if confirmed.

The extraordinary weekend session of the Senate judiciary committee was called largely to allow extensive questioning by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who said he is still undecided about the

ination but icism about Bork’s

views.

Fiji rampaged

SUVA (AP) — Soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital of Fiji on Saturday as stores and other businesses reopened one day after gangs of youths went on @ looting and smashing spree.

The Gov. Gen. Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, said Friday's rampage “brought disrepute to the Fijian race.”

In a Fijian-language broadcast, Ganilau called an all citizens to help security forces catch and punish the culprits.

Churches lobby

ATLANTA (AP) — Black churches in the United ‘States can make South Africa a major issue in the 1988 U.S. presidential campaign, a South African anti- apartheid leader said Saturday after meetings with U.S. and world church leaders.

Rev. Allan Boesak said the government-imposed state of emergency in South Africa, which includes censorship of news reports, “has succeeded in putting South Africa on the back burner” in the United States.

There has been little official contact between pre- dominantly black U.S.churches and their counterparts in South Africa, Boesak said, but he believes his meetings in Atlanta with many U.S. black church leaders will be the start of “the kind of lobby . . . that the Jews have in the United States.”

Dissident arrives

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Ukrainian dissident Josyp Terelya, who said he wants to go to Canada, spent his first day in the Netherlands on Saturday.

Terelya, 43, a member of the Ukrainian Roman Catholic Church, arrived in Amsterdam on a flight from Moscow late Friday, said Aid to the Chureh in Need, an organization based in West Germany.

An from the or said Terelya arrived with his wife, Olena, and three children, Marianna, Kalyna and Pavio.

Farm Aid sings

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Singer Willie Nelson brought his star-studded Farm Aid III concert to the U.S. heartland Saturday to raise money for the country’s small farmers and push for Congress to help them out.

Nelson said he doesn't expect there will be a Farm Aid IV, believing the public and politicians ultimately will have to solve continuing problems in U,S. agri- culture.

was stunned by the closure of its university, Castlegar’s college slipped by the provincial government's restraint program almost intact.

Selkirk College not only supports the community as the city’s fourth largest employer, but the massive influx of students every September is a potential financial bonanza.

Apartment hunting in the fall can be a virtual night mare. Compared to both Nelson and Trail whose news- papers advertise reams of available rental space, Castlegar’s landlords bask in the demand for their apartments.

Across the river, the Castlegar and District Hospital will be looking at construction of a 60-bed, long-term- care facility at a cost of some $4.8 million.

And the list goes on. Up the river, both Westar ‘Timber and Celgar Pulp Co. which employ approximately 260 and 400 workers, respectively, are subjecting them- selves to expensive modernization projects.

Wade Zammit, general manager of Westar's Southern Wood Products sawmill, admits that the $20 million modernization will result in the loss of some 50

Other construction projects in the area are also *

some $40 million to bring its mill into the 1980s.

Sweeney explained that the modernization shouldn't result in any layoffs but should, instead, offer some relief from the smell.

Further up the river, rumors still prevail that B.C. Hydro will soon be installing turbines at the Hugh Keenleyside Dam.

If that were to go through, it could potentially produce hundreds of temporary jobs over the next five years.

cording to the development board, there are also three other businesses perusing Castlegar with intentions of starting outlets here which could mean well over 100 full-time jobs.

Still, everything isn’t picture perfect. Though most businesses now stay open on Mondays, competition from Castleaird Plaza has some downtown businessmen wringing their hands.

But despite the concern, a downtown revitalization program, intended to beautify the city core that has remained virtually-unchanged since the 1950s, has been scuttled as too ive. If theindoor mali-were actually to go through, thé situation downtown could only worsen.

Young people in Castlegar are also having a tough time, finding the only real chore is the search for employment. The chances of earning big wages for a young person right out jof high school is almost nil.

The turnover at Westar and Celgar is only around one per cent and Cominco in Trail is intending to cut back even further over the next three years.

Once a strong union construction town, Castlegar seems to be softening ité edges. Though some residents who are members of tne still refuse to drink at a local hotel because it was buil€ with non-union labor, the same residents might find it more difficult to boycott the airport, which is also contracted to non-union labor.

“No one is going to give us the big fix anyone,” admits Moore. “Those days are over.”

Moore said all cities are faced with the problem of youth unemployment and downturns in construction projects and simple solutions are few.

“I hope some of them will find their place, their niche in society,” she said, adding that smal! businesses may now be the only: source of help.

Acknowledging that not everyone has emerged from the economie downturn unscathed, Moore hopes that all of Castlegar’s efforts to combat the economic threat and give Castlegar some direction will prove worthy.

“I think the result of all this has been worthwhile.”

B.C. short rail sought

In The Vancouver Province B.C. may soon get its first shortline railway, operating along tracks cast off by CP Rail and doing it with non-union labor.

CP Rail is discussing the sale or lease of its 154-kilo metre Boundary subdivision between Midway and Westley. Grand Forks, which has a rail connection with the U.S., is an intermediate point on the line.

As part of the deal, CP Rail plans to apply formally to abandon the line, with two options. The first is actual abandonment; the second would see it transfer the fed- erally-regulated railway to an operator wishing to be under more relaxed provincial jurisdiction.

The federal government's new national transportation act, expected to be proclaimed in the new year, will make it easier to establish short-line railways by eliminating need for abandonment fillings.

CP Rail's Boundary subdivision once formed part of a CP Rail route between Aiberta and the coast. Line between Midway and Penticton was taken up in 1978.

The compeny seeking to take over (he prendery sob division is by railwayman J:

Geten, plan is to dito Medici Reveied with 2 employees.

“Lumber traffic is very good. CP Rail has two trains a week running out of Grand Forks and there is so much lumber they are leaving loads behind.

“If everything falls into place the short-line could become an international carrier, acquiring a Burlington Northern line between Grand Forks and Kettle Falls, Wash.

We think that we could increase traffic 45 per cent with only five extra employees if we get the BN line,” Meade said.

The CP Rail subdivision has grades of up to 2.4 per cent and engineering works include 10 bridges and seven tunnels. The physical condition of the railway is described as fair to

In July, a wood chip haul between Midway and Grand Forks shifted from rail to road movement. Meade said a short-line operator will have a chance to compete against truckers on the basis of price.

CP Rail is also seeking abandonment of its Kaslo sub- division, a discontinuous section of 45 km of line between Rosebery and Nakusp.

There is rail barge service on Slocan Lake linking Rose- bery with Slocan City, which is connected with CP Rail's line between Castlegar and Nelson. So far there's no interest in the Kaslo subdivision.

UtiliCorp hunts companies

TORONTO (CP) — growing U.S. utility giant — is hunting for new acquisitions in Canada, despite the political storm that rained down on their $80-million purchase of West Kootenay Power and

it.

UtiliCorp United Inc. — a rapidly

“We have desires to expand; we're expanding in the U.S. and have been interested in Canada for a good period of time,” UtiliCorp president Richard Green said.

“West Kootenay Power and Light is our first

Since Green, 33, took over in 1982 the company his grandfather founded 70 years ago, UtiliCorp has nearly tripled its annual revenue — which stood at $595 million last year.

In the last year alone, UtiliCorp has bought Northern Minnesota Utilities, for $1 million US — or the equivalent of $25 million Cdn at today’s exchange rates — and West Virginia Power for $22 million US, or $29 million Cdn.

The purchase of West Koot Power of Trail from

investment in Canada and we look to additional investments over time,” said Green who addressed a financial luncheon this wee> “But there is nothing in the works right now.”

UtiliCorp of Kansas Citv, Mo.,:was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange this week — trading at $235-8 on Wed- nesday — and Green said his company plans to raise money through debt and equity financing in Canada.

“We're interested in investing in Canada but we're also interested in raising money here,” he said.

FOREST POLICY

continued trom front pege would be “getting a better economic rent for the owners of the timber, the people of the province, from the forest companies. If this program means that the public gets a larger share of the true market value then that is good.” But that part of the program concerns Slocan Forest Products’ Bar- ber. Barber had a few reservations concerning that “bigger chunk for the

Independent

“What the public doesn't see when they.point atthe higher earnings of the

forest industry is that these earnings come from the production of pulp and. newsprint, as well as lumber. In this policy the total revenue is taken only out of the lumber sector.” lumber will only profit from higher pulp and

newsprint revenues if there are major

improvements in the wood chip situ-

ation, he said. Barber said that a

serious flaw in the new program is that ’ public.” “Chip revenues are value as if all sawmills sell all their ehips at the same price.”

Comineo Ine. — which was completed earlier this month — fits the company’s plan to grow through the acquisition of utilities that maintain operating independence.

The sale was opposed by residents of southeastern

Unions fight Western Canada short-line rail

In The Vancouver Province

Union succession rights loom as a problem for the Proposed Boundary short-line railway, if Alberta is any example.

The Central Western Railway Corp. has 12 employees, three second-hand locomotives and single-line trackage between Camrose and Drumheller. The line was bought for $2.5 million.

But os Central Western claims it is a pro-

British Columbia and the p: New D who feared the U.S. company would raise rates to help finance its other activities and dam rivers to export electricity.

The NDP has promised to buy back the company if it wins power in the next general election.

B.C. sawmills are not selling all their chips and are in fact burning them or exporting them at half the domestic price, Barber said. To assess thtse chips at an average and assume that 100 per cent are being sold “is a serious inequality for both independent saw- mills and ” he

companies

railway and has not inherited either the or f of CN Rail, the Canada Labor Relations Board says it has. Central Western general manager Don Howell said an alliance of railway unions went to the CLRB and won the ruling that Central is subject to federal jurisdiction. At issue is the question of whether labor contracts which applied when CN Rail ran the line are still valid. Central has appealed the decision and the appeal will be heard this fall. In the meantime Howell says the legal fight is a burden but does not threaten to sink the company. “We handle 75 carloads of grain a week, on average, and are meeting legal costs out of earnings,” Howell said. “It does make things tight, but there is no danger of us going under. We think the union thing could well fizzle out,” he said. Three federal ministers of transport have en-

adds.

Korda agrees. “We're hopeful that chip export restrictions will improve the chip market. Pulp pays more for

managing the forest than anything else.”

assessed at full

ate

ged the formation of Central Western as a test of the short-line concept in Western Canada. A government grant of $1.75 million allowed Central Western to buy locomotives and meet payments to CN Rail during start-

up before revenue income was established —