Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 2

2 Nanaimo Dafly Free Press, Monday, November 16, 1981 BORDER CROSSINGS CLOSED WEATHER Drill (IhllO cast areas Miriniu rare nits mib 7 f- Collection Problems? mm Bondurant said those hurt most by the storms would be those such as Fraser Valley dairy farmers who don't have any backup electrical systems. Air B.C. reported delays and cancellations -of flights to and from Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo harbors, the Gulf Islands and Comox on Vancouver Island. Weather officials said the storm originated in the Pacific Ocean about 240 kilometres west of the mouth of the Columbia River and is blamed for at least nine deaths in Oregon and Washington states, where winds reached 160 kilometres an hour and damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. which crashed through the roof of a car, killing Gloria Rasmussen, 28, of North Vancouver.

A milder storm hit the B.C. coast again Sunday but damage wasn't as extensive, said Bondurant. In North Vancouver, the winds toppled a 200-tonne ship loader filled with coal at Neptune Terminals, causing extensive damage to the dock. Officials said repairs likely would cost more than $1 million. Border crossings between Washington state and southwestern B.C.

were closed at noon Saturday when the winds forced closure of several roads In the state. The border was reopened Sunday. VANCOUVER (CP) Lila Cooke stood in fear as an 18-metre tree, whipped by 65-kilometre-an-hour winds, came crashing down, narrowly missing her as it hit her car, a truck and a camper before coming to rest on her mobile home which her daughter had entered seconds before. "I couldn't move, I was just stuck," she said. Her nine-year-old daughter's Screams from inside the house jolted her into action.

"I could see Candace hollering from inside," she said. "I went flying through the branches I couldn't open the door so I smashed the window to get her out." As the tree landed on it, the house lit up in a flash of blue smoke and light. "My worst fear was that it might catch fire," Cooke said. "I knew the house could go down in seven minutes." While Cooke tried to get the front door open her daughter got out the back door. The tree came down in Saturday's storm that brought gusting winds through southwestern B.C., and left more than 100,000 people without power during the weekend.

STILL NO POWER About 200 homes in Surrey, Langley and Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley and at Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast were still Without power today, but B.C. Hydro crews, which worked around the clock during the weekend, were expected to restore normal power by the afternoon. "We can see an end to the problems In sight," Flint Bondurant, B.C. Hydro spokesman said Sunday night. "But we won't have any damage estimates until at least Monday or Tuesday." Saturday's winds dragged down power lines and uprooted hundreds of trees, including one VtJS Specialists 753-4366 Storm winds sway Seattle's 'Needle' CREDIT BUREAU (Valley Credits Ltd.) Box 583, Nanaimo Ufa 2129 Bowen Nanaimo, 2 Beban Park.

Phone 758 After the wicked weekend weather, the mixture for Tuesday is much the same for the Nanaimo area, with heavy cloud and prolonged showers forecast. A total of 46 mm of rain fell r.on the weekend, with .25.3 mm on Saturday and 20.7 on 'Sunday, when the high dropped from Saturday's 13.1 to a chilly 8.4. Sunrise Tuesday will be at 7:28 a.m. and sunset at 4:36 p.m. The marine outlook for the Georgia Strait area is for light to moderate winds, with cloud and heavy showers cut-Synopsis: A low pressure centre was developing to the west of California early this morning.

Higher level cloud associated the system pushed across the northwestern states and into southern portions of British Col- 11 fill I 1 tilled 0v A GREAT WATER BED BUY.s low as s249. "Leavethe flfSnous" blocks south of 6602. HARBOUR PARK MALL 754-5541 COUNTRY CLUR MALL 758-3924 CORONATION SOU AM LADYSMITH 245-7174 Travel Service For A Scandinavian Christmas LUTE FISK IIISTGFFHUSIXJS EUROPEAN DtUCATESSIN TERMINAL PARK 754-9984 ax "This line could probably continue to function with rail-liners that have dining faculties, but it won't take the place of what constitutes a train as we have it today." Adams is train fan. "There's nowhere where you can relax like on a train," he said. "Where else can you eat, sleep, play bingo In the dining car and you see all of Canada going past your window? George Thrift, a 75-year-old retired engineer, who handled the throttle of the Super Continental before he was pensioned off in 1968, reminisced about train.

"It's sad," he said. "There are a of reasons to keep the train. Losing it is going to hurt the economy, for one thing." COUPLE WILL SUFFER Thrift said he and his wife will suffer because of the elimination of the train, which ran across the northern Prairies through Saskatoon, Edmonton and Jasper. "When I retired, they gave us what we expected to be a lifetime pass," he said. "They Just told me our pass Is no good ontheCPR." The surviving Via Rail transcontlnenal train, the Cana- dlan, runs on the southern routes, along tracks owned by CP Rail Thrift said the pass has been handy.

"We've used it quite a few times since I retired." The Thrifts live In Valemount, a town on the rail line west of Jasper. With the demise of the Super Continental, they will be cut off from passenger train ser- who got the line off the boy. Tony Bitz lived. In North Carolina, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, depicted in hundreds of paintings and listed as a national landmark, was shored up with sandbags and hunks of debris from roadways for fear it would collapse into the surf. A barge bound for Norfolk, carrying 400 tons of liquid fertilizer broke away off -the North Carolina coast Saturday and was still adrift today BARGE UNDER TOW Off Chesapeake Bay, a 91-metre tanker barge with 25,000 barrels of liquefied asphalt remained aground near Smith Island, its crew taken ashore on a U.S.

Coast Guard cutter. A 122-metre sister barge with 70,000 barrels of asphalt was towed to port. Two people were killed in Oregon over the weekend when trees fell on their homes and a third died of an apparent heart attack while trying to get out of a crushed mobile home. A man was killed outside Portland in a weather-related traffic accident. A coast guard pilot was killed Saturday when his helicopter crashed off the Oregon coast during a search for a missing fishing boat.

One person in Oregon was killed when she stepped on a live power line, and another person in Oregon and one in Washington were electrocuted after picking up power lines snapped by the storm. COFFEE PARTY Th Canadian Cancer Society's mastectomy volunteers in Nanaimo are holding a coffee party tor women who have Had a mastectomy. The col-tee party will be held at St. Andrew's United Church hall on Wesley Street, Nanaimo, Thursday afternoon, November 19, at 1:30 p.m. Volunteers Mrs.

Clarice Murray, Mrs. Vilma Dube, Mrs. Helen Mrs. Ann Pattie, Mrs. Verna Hurra, and from Oualicum, Mrs.

Doris Anderson are looking forward to meeting the women from Nanaimo and area who have had a mastectomy, and will be attending this informal get-together. For further information, phone Mrs. Helen Hunter at 753-8075. Coming Events St. JOHN AMBULANCE Is offering Industrial First Aid Courses starting Dec.

7. For more information call MARGSPROAT 245-2406 273 3 i3 Gale-force winds and rain battered the Pacific and Atlantic coasts again today, hampering efforts to clean up debris left by a weekend of storms that killed 11 people and left eight others missing. Seattle'i Space Needle swayed in the winds, briefly trapping eight people In an elevator inside, while a landmark of another age the Cape Hatteras lighthouse In North Carolina was threatened by rampaging coastal waters'. The Pacific storm raked northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia on Friday with small respites over the weekend, and forecasters today renewed warnings for residents to stay indoors. On the Atlantic side, the weekend winds that came ashore from Florida to New Jersey headed north and out to sea but at angle that put New England in their path.

The storm lashed New York's Long Island today with winds estimated at 113 kilometres an hour, and caused flooding from New Jersey to Maine. Oregon bore the storm's fury all weekend. Winds were at 145 metres an hour on the coast and five people were killed. Three others were lost at sea off the coast of the state. A 12-year-old boy in Portland who was knocked from his bicycle from the gales.

He grabbed a power line as he fell and "there was smoke coming out of his body," said Jude Niederhofer, Labor's protest still on OTTAWA (CP) Labor oreanizeresav the clans for a anizers i say rplansfpra wffKS ure pv, than weakened it as some, in- mcfarlane "teravel Your Complete DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE ALL CANDIDATES MEETING Monday, Nov. 16 1 8 p.m. John Barsby School School District 68(Nanaimo) NOTICE TO CORPORATE HATE DC Pepin's VANCOUVER (CP) A bit of the national dream faded into history today as the last westbound Super Continental passenger train nosed into Vancouver station, 2,508 kilometres after leaving Winnipeg Saturday. The Via Rail train has been eliminated, a victim of federal Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin and his drive to economize on passenger rail service. Its east-bound counterpart finishes its run at 6:20 p.m.

CST today. The Super Contintental crossed the Prairies and finished its run without fanfare, unlike Quebec where angry train riders blocked tracks to protest the rail cuts. Along the line through the Prairies, occasional photographers could be seen by the tracks taking a last shot of the train. Once in a while people could be seen waving, but there were no protests. One of the few nostalgic moments occured as the train pulled out of Edmonton in the early morning fog Sunday.

Three people held up a hand-lettered sign saying: "Goodbye Via." At about 3:15 p.m. CST Sun- day, the last two trains, eastbound and westbound, pass- ed each other in the middle of the Rockies, Just west of Jasper. For a moment, there was gaiety on both trains. Crew members leaned from the platforms to slap hands with their colleagues heading the other way. Trainmen, waitresses, conductors and passengers waved and shouted greetings.

The westbound train, cancelled because of poor ridership, finished its trip half-empty and a half-hour late. Its passengers did not seem to' worry too much about the lateness. Many were train buffs, making the final run for old time's sake. Norris Adams, for instance, a past-president of the Pacific region of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, rode the train to Edmonton for nostalgia. "I Just like trains," he said.

"I'm sorry this happened. PQ steps up MONTREAL (CP) The Parti Quebecois stepped up Its propaganda campaign in favor of sovereignty association Sunday, distributing door-to-door a four-page pamphlet attacking the constitutional accord reached by Ottawa and nine provinces earlier this month. The pamphlet is entilted "It's Time For Sovereignty" and Is illustrated with a picture of a Quebec fleur-de-lis flag shining brightly from a tower of the darkened national assembly building in Quebec City. It argues that "sovereignty association Is the only legal and legitimate solution for Quebec" to the constitutional impasse. Quebec was the only province not to agree to the constitutional accord.

Under headlines such as "Quebec has been betrayed" and "the treachery," the pamphlet lists moves 'by Ottawa dating back to 1927 that the PQ JCw llll propaganda Sponsored Those corporations wishing to vote in the School District 68 (Nanaimo) and Regional District of Nanaimo elections to be held on November 21, 1981 should ensure that they are properly registered on the appropriate voters' list prior to election day. Corporations within the City ol Nanaimo should register at City Hall and those in the Nanaimo Regional District at the Regional District Offices. (Mra.l Betty Saunders Returning Officer -a bait' iw4 AiJL Today's weather artist la Danielle Copp, five, a student at Davis Road Kindergarten. ting visibility to between two and three miles. umbia during the night.

This cloud is expected to thicken and move gradually over the southern half of the province today with rain forecast to begin over the lower mainland this evening. Precipitation will spread into the southern interior tonight. A weak Arctic airmass will linger over the north producing intermittent light snow today and Tuesday. Greater Vancouver," lower Fraser Valley, Howe Sound-Whistler, Sunshine Coast, east Vancouver Island, Greater Victoria: Today cloudy. Scattered showers this morning.

Highs 9 to 12. Rain this evening and overnight. Lows 5 to 8. Tuesday mostly cloudy with 8 to 11. North Vancouver Island: Today mostly cloudy with a few showers this morning.

Sunny periods this afternoon. Highs near 9. Rain tonight. Lows 4 to 6. by N.D.T.A.

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BC FERRIES SAILINGS Effective Tuesday, October 13 to Wednesday, April 7, 1982 inclusive Lv Departure Bay (Nanaimo) 6:30 am 11:30 5:30 pm 7:30 12:30 pm 6:30 :30 2:30 8:30 10:30 4:30 9:30 HEYKIDS! There has been so many of you good little boys and girls in Nanaimo this year that Santa is going to be a busy man. So that I have time to make my list and check it twice, could you send your letters in a bit earlier this year co Nor-thbrook Mall's Administration Office. I will be arriving at Nor-thbrook Mali on Nov. 21 at 11:00 a.m., your time, to start reading your letters and talk to you all. HO HO HO! eluding Finance Minister Allan MacEachen, had predicted.

Meanwhile, Labor Minister Charles Caccia says the protest is unlikely to have a direct impact on interest rates but "they've chosen to demonstrate and we'll listen to what they have to say." "I would like to hope that a demonstration like that will br v. Lv Horseshoe Bay 6:30 am 12:30 8:30 1:30 9:30 3:30 10:30 4:30 Pacific Coach Lines provides downtown to downtown service on an the above sailings. tlanaimo yEJ2Sj3 mount and going home through Vancouver was nnf hnnnv "I don't like the bus," said. "I don't know why would cancel the train." its output contend have reduced the rights and powers of Quebec's francophone majority. "In 1981 Ottawa decided to attack the most vital rights of Quebec language, culture, and the economic powers left it," the pamphlet says.

'GIVE FINAL BLOW "Ottawa wants to give Quebec a final blow by forbidding it from ensuring its cultural security and from taking the necesssary protective measures in the areas of schooling, language and work." The pamphlet says Prime Minister Trudeau's constitutional patriation plan, "isn't aimed at increasing the rights of citizens but reducing the rights of Quebec." "It's time to stop wasting our time and energy fighting the incursions and threats of Ottawa." it says, and adds the kicker: "It's time for sovereignty." fund. I still believe we're right. And I believe we have a chance at winning this issue or I wouldn't do It." Helmets are dangerous because they Impair vision and hearing, he said. "They're only a placebo. It's like putting a Band-Aid over a cancer." In court Friday, Ciarnlello's lawyer, James McNeney, argued that the provincial government does not have the right to Impose a helmet law because it is a federal matter.

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