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Gorrell noted that Castlegar has no problems with child abductors, but does have its share of runaway children

But he said even children who do get lost are only lost for a “very short dur-

He told of an incident last week in the downtown area where a three-year- old was lost while he and his mother

Gorrell said the youngster simply got tired of shopping and started to

particularly OE cae card tea eee Spokane and lose a child there. “Instantly you've got everything you

Johnson said the Lady Lions com- mitte has approached other local spon- sors and “there's been a. tremen- Sooner Tem pcos tank 7 Hear

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The parents of five victims of

on behalf of five families by Victoria lawyer Maleolm Macauley claim 4: } for

January's Mount W bus crash have filed suit against Conmac Stages Ltd., its owners, the bus driver and the Saanich school board.

Also this week, Conmac was ordered by the B.C. Motor Carriers Commission to show why it should be allowed to keep its licence.

Writs filed in British Col umbia Supreme Court Friday

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Adam Kerr, 17, and Scott Branson, 16, were killed, and 59 other people were injured.

The parents of Kerr and Branson claim damages un-

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The parents of three in- jured students, Tod Bull, 18, Jon Waters, 18, and Derek Paton, 17, claim general special and exemplary dam-

ages. Defendants named in the writs are Conmac Stages Ltd., owners Gerald Conrod and Wayne McArthur, driver Kerry Griffith and the Board of School Trustees of School District 68, Saanich.

Wickett receives medicine degree

Norman W. Wickett, son of Don and Jean Wickett of Castlegar received his Doc- tor of Medicine degree at the recent congregation for the conferring of degrees at UBC.

Wickett was the recipient of the Dr. H.A. Henderson Memorial Medal for demon- strated proficiency and prom-

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Seatbelts urged

By CasNews Staff

Central Kootenay Regional District board will request the provincial government to enact legislation to make the use of approved seatbelts mandatory for children under six.

The board will also submit a resolution to the 1984 con-

vention of the Union of B.C.s Municipalities which will also ask the province to bring in the seatbelt legislation.

Just this week Highways. Minister Alex Fraser said the province will not introduce seat belt legislation for chil- dren under six.

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Taxi. Four of his drivers will donate a day's fares to

Terrace cab driver brovolly assaulted two weeks ago.

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Cabbies donate fares

By CasNews Staff and News Services Castlegar Taxi has set aside this Wednesday to raise money to help a 22-year-old Terrace cab driver brutally assaulted two weeks ago.

Four drivers running the two cabs owned by the company will donate their fares over a 24-hour period, be- ginning 6 a.m. Wednesday and ending 6 a.m. Thursday, according to Keith Beck, a partner in Castlegar Taxi.

“The only thing we'd want out of it is the gas (money),” he said.

Joyce Greenwood was attacked and of the dumped in a Terrace municipal camp- ground on the morning of’May 29 after picking up a fare. She crawled through the underbrush to a nearby highway where she was found by a fellow cab driver.

She has been on a life-support sys-

during the

and-a-half ago.

tem in Vancouver General Hospital past week, condition was listed as poor.

Greenwood had been sexually, as- saulted, stabbed three times in_the stomach, and twice in the back, and her throat had been slit.

Beck said it's hard to estimaté how much his cab company will raise for Greenwood. He said customers might decide to take a taxi ride just because the money’s going to a good cause.

Beck concedes that Castlegar Taxi isn’t helping the injured girl solely out

of their hearts.

He said he hopes the goodwill and publicity generated by the fund-raising event will help Castlegar Taxi, which was taken over by Beck and his part- ner, Gary St. Thomas, only a month-

“Besides getting a chance to help

and her

fare.

plained.

someone else, it might help us out too.”

Beck aaid he's not about the possibility that one of his drivers could be injured or killed on a

worried

“I don't even think about it,” he ex- “It’s something that could happen, but I don't think about it.”

According to Beck, Castlegar Taxi probably won't install any special safe- ty features on their cabs as a result of the attack in Terrace. ~

Beck said he “hasn't heard of anyone in Trail or Nelson” raising money for the injured girl.

But a trust fund for Greenwood has been set up by two Vancouver cab companies.

In Terrace, over $900 was contri-

buted to a medical fund set up by the

taxi company employing Greenwood.

RODGERS

continued from front »-to"ensure our ‘members wouldn't ‘be: laid: offi"?

Rodgers said the board encouraged staff leave-of- absences, and offered early retirement incentives.

Another local goal of the CDTA is to “inform our community a little better as to what's happening in the schools.”

Despite pi k: is di “we feel we do have aly eduasiion : “said Rodgers. “We want to work on getting more parents in to see that.”

The provincial government's controversial “white paper” on Grade 12 graduation requirments will also continue to come under attack from the CDTA said Rodgers, despite his feeling that the Ministry of Education has already decided to go ahead with it.

The white paper suggests mainstreaming high school students into three programs: arts and sciences, applied arts and sciences, and career preparation; increasing compulsory Grade 12 courses; and having compulsory language requirement.

Rodgers said the CDTA sent a “critical” brief to a May 17 public hearing in Trail on the proposed grad- uation requirements.

“It’s at a time when there's a greater variety of needs amongst children, and the government's returning to a 1940s-type rigid curriculum.”

Rodgers sees political involvement as being essen- tially alien to the role’of the teacher, but said that the actions of the provincial government make it hard for teachers to be silent.

“Basically, teachers don't want this political thing,” he said. “They want to go into the classroom and do their

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carrying five passengers col- lided with a car driven by Philip Stanwood, 33, of Rob- son at about 7:15 p.m. 1'/ kilometres west of Castlegar on Highway 3, say police.

Stanwood was taken to Castlegar and District Hos pital, and then admitted to Trail Regional Hospital where he is reported in satisfactory condition.

No injuries were sustained by the passengers in the bus, or the bus driver.

Damage to the car was $12,000. The bus received $2,000 worth of damage. according to police.

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SAYS TOURISM B.C.

Expo a tourist ‘magnet’

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer

Expo 86 will be the “magnet” that attracts tourists from agll over the world, and the rest of B.C. will share in the profits generated by the added tourist traffic, according to a Tourism British Columbia spokesman.

“They're going to be presenting their fair, and we're going to be presenting B.C. as a destination,” Virginia Greene, Assistant Deputy Minister of Tourism, told about 50 hotel, restaurant and business people at the Sandman Inn Thursday night.

Greene said each of nine regions in B.C. — including the Kootenay Boundary Region — is being encouraged to put together a theme in conjunction with Expo 86 using the idea of “travel and communications” as a starting point

She said the Cariboo has already planned to stage a “gold rush” tourist event for 1986, featuring 86 ounces of gold in the shape of a giant “86.”

According to Greene, as Expo 86 grows nearer, com munities in the Interior are becoming more competitive in attempting to lure business travellers and conventions into their areas.

Although this is a “highly competitive market” centred on the Lower Mainland, many communities are going after these groups in a “quite aggressive” way, said Greene.

“There's a lot of bread and butter in that.”

Greene didn’t give specific advice on how to promote the Castlegar area, although she did point out that Nelson is promoting the world’s longest free ferry trip from Crawford Bay to Balfour, Ainsworth Hotsprings, Kokanee Park, and Kootenay Lake.

Solidarity to be resurrected

By CasNews Staff agent for the local carpen

Local organized labor is ter’s union, said a date will looking at resurrecting the also be announced for a Solidarity group. meeting of local Solidarity

A public meeting has been embers

called for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Complex.

Special speakers will in clude Mike Kramer, vice president of the B.C. Fed eration of Labor, Father Jim Roberts of Solidarity Coali- 109 after pleading guilty to tion and Roy Gautier pres- being a minor in possession of ident of the B.C. and Yukon ajeohol this week in Castle- Building Trades Council.

Court news

Dennis Hadikin was fined

gar provincial court. The meeting will discuss = % = the recent changes to the Labor Code and Human Rights Act, and unemploy ment.

Ald. Len Embree, business

‘A 12-month suspended sen tence was handed to Michael Robinson after pleading guil ty to making a false legal statement

The highlight of the evening was a slick 20-minute pres entation on promoting B.C. as a tourist mecca entitled Look What We've Got — which is also the Ministry of Tourism's latest publicity slogan.

Beautifully photographed slides of B.C. flashed across the screen as the soundtrack informed the audience that the Ministry of Tourism’s objectives for 1984 include:

increasing the number of visitors to the province by 400,000:

encouraging tourists to spend at least five nights in B.C.;

@ getting tourists to spend $38 a day;

e and encouraging residents of the province to spend their vacations in B.C.

According to Greene, 50 per cent of B.C. tourism revenue is from B.C residents, and 50 per cent of the tourists in B.C. are natives of the proviace

The slide show echoed Greene's own emphasis on the importance of revenues from meetings and conventions, saying $250 million was generated in B.C. from this source in 1983.

Also mentioned in the slide show was the ministry's plan to promote the film industry in the province — with an emphasis on luring more American movie producers to B.C.

“It's starting to be a steady business, and it's putting B.C. on the big screen all over the world,” added Greene.

She also outlined the major advertising blitz being car ried out by Tourism B.C.

According to Greene, promotion of B.C. as the “Super Natural” province (a logo that is “coveted by many coun tries,” including Australia) is taking place in Japan, the United States, Germany and Britain.

Television advertising is now running in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and “trade missions” to promote B.C. as a tourist haven are being sent overseas.

Other advertising includes four million brochures to be placed in newspapers and magazines this summer including newspapers along the U.S. coast, and “double-page spreads” in newspapers throughout B.C.

Advertising within the province includes 27 two-minute radio “mini-series travelogues” on the nine areas in B.C.

The Ministry of Tourism has worked out an arrange. ment with broadcasters so that half the cost of these two-minute spots is paid by the stations using them

Greene stressed that the tourism business in B.C. is “an ongoing and healthy industry” with “solild growth” in the first quarter of 1984, and projected revenues of $3 billion for 1986.

She said over the past 11 months there has been “positive growth” in hotel use — a “key area” in the travel industry.

The number of visitors from the United States increased about nine per cent last year, and $1.4 billion was spent in B.C. restaurants in 1983, which is “up from each of the three previous years,” said Greene.

“Everything points to growth in the industry,” “It's up to us what we do with it.”

Unlike other industries, tourism is “perhaps the only industry (in) which the demand can be affected by our ef. forts,” added Greene.

she said.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Paced by record zine prices and a slumping Canadian dollar, analysts expect Van couver-based Cominco Ltd. to turn a healthy profit this year after two years in the red.

“We're projecting Cominco will have earnings of 73 cents a share, or $46 million, in the year ending December 31, 1984,” said Mike Steeves, mining analyst at Van couver securities house Pemberton Houston Willoughby

For 1982 and 1983, the mining company lost a total of $70 million.

“If the European economy recovers strongly and zinc and fertilizer prices remain buoyant, then the company will do very well,” Steeves said

Zine prices hit an all-time high June 1 of $50.68 (U.S.) a pound.

Keith Spurr, Cominco's vice-president of metals sales, said in an interview from Toronto that Cominco’s producer price is currently 49.44 cents (U.S.) a pound.

“It’s been 49.44 (U.S.) cents since March 30. We moved up from 47.68 (U.S.) cents quoted since Jan. 2.”

Cominco eyes profit

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Spurr said Cominco is producing almost 23,000 tonnes of refined zinc a month. Its Trail smelter has a monthly capacity of almost 273,000 tonnes of zinc.

Spurr declined to estimate what the strong zine price means to Cominco’s bottom line, but Steeves said there is “no question it will help such a highly leveraged producer as Cominco.”

Steeves estimated that a one-cent (U.S.) increase in the price of zine increases Cominco's net income by $6 million.

Bob Stone, Cominco's vice-president of finance, has previously said that a one-cent decline in the value of the Canadian dollar compared with the U.S. dollar adds about $4 million to Cominco’s bottom line.

In the three months ended March 31, Cominco had a net profit of $4.5 million, or six cents a share, compared with a loss of $19 million, or $1.20 a share in the year earlier quarter. In the quarter, revenue surged to $370.3 million from $264.7 million in the same period of 1983.

Canadian Pacific Enterprises Ltd. of Calgary is the major shareholder in Cominco with a 54-per-cent interest.

PWA to change pact?

VANCOUVER (CP) — unions representing the

willingly agreed to only “I've heard of it before in

Pacific Western Airlines will be appearing before the Can- ada Labor i Board in

flight attendants, mechanics and ticket agents will be as

a bid to change its collective agreement with the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants’ Association, an association spokesman said.

Larry Leblane said in a telephone interview that PWA wants to change its agreement to allow for “cross utilization.”

Leblanc said the airline has not told his union what it means by that term. But he said he understands it to mean that the company would require workers to as sume different posts from time to time in a bid to in. crease productivity.

“It would mean, for in stance, that flight attendants (could work) as ticket agents,” he said.

Spokesmen for the airline could not be reached for comment.

Leblanc said no date for a meeting at the labor board has been set. However, he said representatives of the

in Rich 4, B.C; on Monday to discuss the proposed move.

“What is about to unfold is a war, an economic dogfight wherein safety considera tions may well be secondary to the bottom line,” Leblanc said in a prepared release

“If PWA's attitude to wards its employees becomes widespread in the industry, it must be remembered that many collective agreements with the airlines are expiring this year and job action on a large scale could result.”

The flight attendants’ as. sociation and PWA negoti ated a two-year agreement six months ago providing for annual wage increases of three and three per cent, he said.

“The company has set out to destroy a model rela tionship with its employees by deliberately engaging in illegal practices designed to circumvent an employment contract it voluntarily and

months ago.”

Meanwhile, a Pacific West ern Airlines Boeing 737 had its nose broken, landing lights damaged and one of two engines knocked out in a collision with a flock of sea gulls over Edmonton Interna. tional Airport on Thursday

The plane suffered $500,000 damage, but none of the 28 passengers was in jured

the airline industry,” said PWA public relations chief Peter Lema

“It happens — but very, very infrequently.”

Thursday's mishap occur. red just after 6:35 p.m. as Flight 563 was taking off for Yellowknife.

The pilot was able to land the jet without much diffi culty, said Lema

Middleton dies

WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) - Eric Middleton, the year-old infant whose battle against liver disease captured the hearts of thousands of North Americans, died late Friday in a Windsor hospital.

The child, who suffered from biliary atresia and un. derwent a liver transplant after his parents launched a continent-wide appeal for a donor, died peacefully about 10:30 p.m. with his parents at his side, a spokesman at Hotel Dieu Hospital said.

The infant was admitted to hospital last week for breath- ing problems related to brain damage he suffered during a 10-hour transplant operation at a Minnesota hospital Feb. 5.

His mother, Mary, said her son had lost a lot of blood during the marathon surgery and his brain, depleted of blood and exygen, was ir reversibly damaged. I heart also stopped beating at one. point during the opera tion.

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