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Missing Man flypast was performed in memory of pilot Mike Brundage, who was killed in a practice flight accident prior to the Vanderhoof International Airshow.	Citizen photo by Brock Gable
VANDERHOOF INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW
 Rain didn't dampen spirits
Minesweeper price tag: $750 million
  QUEBEC (CP) - The federal government will spend about $750 million to buy 12 minesweepers to be manned by reservists, Defence Minister Perrin Beatty said today.
  The $750 million includes design, development and project management costs, Beatty said in a statement released before a news conference.
  Construction of the vessels will begin in 1992 and delivery will start in 1993, he said.
  “These vessels will play a crucial role in our coastal security and sovereignty,” the statement said. “Without minesweepers, Canada’s ports could be shut down by hostile mining activity.”
  The vessels, which will be between 50 and 60 metres long, will be dsigned and built in Canada.
  They will be equipped with a re-mote-control minehunting system and a mechanical minesweeping system to be used in deep waters.
  Each will be fitted with 40-millimetre Bofors guns.
U.S. moves on trade legislation
  WASHINGTON (CP) - President Ronald Reagan, fresh from a week-long vacation at his moun-taintop ranch in California, prepared to submit to the U.S. Congress today his administration’s final legislative package aimed at enacting the free-trade agreement with Canada.
  The move comes as the free-trade agreement has hit new hurdles in Canada.
  Opposition Leader John Turner announced last week the Liberal party will use its majority in the Canadian Senate to block passage of the Progressive Conservative government’s legislation and force a general election on the issue.
  U.S. officials and key members of Congress have said they expect to go ahead and approve the U.S. legislation, regardless of what happens in Canada.
  They noted the proposed U.S. legislation includes a measure which would allow the president to prevent the agreement from going into effect, even if Congress has approved it, if he determines that Canada has not complied.
  The Democratic congressional leadership has promised to hold a vote in the full esenate and House of Representatives before year’s end. Under U.S. trade law, the two chambers must vote to either accept or reject the package without amendment.
 Canyon
  VANCOUVER (CP) - The towns have names such as Cache Creek, Boston Bar and Spuzzum — stops on British Columbia’s old Gold Rush Trail that once thrived on tourist traffic taking the Trans-Canada Highway through the Fraser Canyon.
   Although a day-long drizzle and the accidental death of a visiting pilot dampened spirits at The Vanderhoof International Airshow, organizers and participants followed the first rule of show business:
   The show must go on.
   Events got off to a soggy start Saturday, and spectators donned raincoats, huddled under tarpaulins, plastic sheets and other makeshift rain shelters, or crowded under the wings or tail assemblies of parked aircraft to watch.
   Sunday was brighter, however, with no rain until an hour before the show was scheduled to end.
   More than 6,000 people crowded close to the landing strip at the Vanderhoof Airport both days for the events which brought pilots and planes from across Canada and the United States.
   Some of the performances, such
   But this year civic leaders and businesses say they’re suffering the worst tourism drought in memory.
   They blame it on the Coquihalla, a billion-dollar superhighway which began siphoning traffic off
as the Missing Man flypast formation, were dedicated to the memory of Mike Brundage, 42, of Grand Prairie, Texas, who was killed Friday night when his small jet airplane had a flameout when taking off.
  The 10th annual airshow started both Saturday and Sunday with a joint Canada-U.S. parachute drop that had people standing at attention.
 As the Canadian’s team of Sky Hawks and the U.S Navy’s Leap Frog precision parachute teams fell to earth making red smoke patterns in the sky, the public address system played both countries’ national anthems.
  Cpl. Dave Lazarowich, one of the Sky Hawks, said jumping in the rain Saturday presented no problems other than the effect rain has on a jumper’s vision.
  “It’s like driving without wind-
the Fraser Canyon route two years ago.
  Opened in the spring of 1986, the Coquihalla veers south from Kamloops, 460 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. It rejoins the Trans-Canada at Hope, cutting about one hour of travel time off the old route.
  But critics say it also cuts off the small communities which dot the scenic Fraser Canyon route from vital tourist dollars. The highway’s spectacular views, including the Fraser River’s famous Hell’s Gate rapids, apparently can’t compete with the multi-lane Coquihalla’s ability to move people through the Interior quickly.
  Residents now want the provincial Ministry of Tourism to step in and help lure travellers back.
  “We want an action plan for next season,” says Cache Creek Mayor Ben Roy. “This year is a total write-off. The feeling is that the ministry has abandoned us.”
  Tourism Minister Bill Reid can’t understand what the fuss is about. He says business is actually picking up and the government has poured money into the region.
shield wipers.”
 However, free fall is another matter. “In free fall, at about 120 miles (192 kilometres) an hour, it hurts your face — you can feel that.”
  As spectators turned their faces skyward to watch the aerial stunts, the performers didn’t disappoint anyone.
  Bud Granby, an expatriate Canadian now living in the U.S., made his Harvard trainer perform as if it were designed for aerobatics.
  A United Airlines pilot with 32 years flying experience — much of it with the Royal Canadian Air Force — Granby put his skills to work behind the stick of the former U.S. Navy plane that was built in 1943, performing manoeuvres usually done by smaller, lighter craft.
  One of the stunts is a ‘ratchet wrench roll’ in which the plane is
  But businesses are withering in the summer sun. Roadside fruit stands, once popular refreshment stops for tourists, stand boarded up and abandoned. Hotel vacancy rates in some areas have reached 90 per cent in what should be the busiest time of year. Local officials estimate that tourism is down by half.
 “Businesses around here are saying once you’re beyond Hope, you’re beyond hope,” says Roy.
 Roy’s demands for a meeting with the Tourism Ministry are echoed by Ken Capstick, a restaurant owner and former president of the Rainbow Country Visitors’ Association.
  “We get a lot of promises from the ministry but no action,” says Capstick.
  Jim Rabbitt, the area’s Social Credit legislature member, compares the decline of the canyon route to the problems experienced by Chilliwack in the 1960s, when it was bypassed by the Trans-Canada Highway.
 “Their business core dried up and died for a few years. But now it’s vibrant. . .healthy,” he says.
jerked 90 degrees over, then 45 degrees back, then a repeat of that until a full roll is completed. Flying at high speed, low over the airfield, he did that in 32 seconds.
  “It’s an awful lot of work,” he said. “You’re wrestling with it all the way.”
  Joann Osterud, a flight engineer for Boeing, now working in Los Angeles, roared into the sky in her tiny ‘hyperbipe’ (high- performance biplane), to put the oddshaped plane though aerobatics that had the crowd gasping.
  She said she tries to “Make it look nice and flow with the music” — a reference to the taped music she plays in the cockpit while she flies.
 Organizer Wayne Deorksen said he had nothing but admiration for the spectators who stood out in the rain.
  “It drizzled all day Saturday and people were uncomplaining, waiting in the rain for their hamburgers and coffee at the stands.”
 Deorksen said the performers were amazed by their audience’s stamina. “I told them we’re tough up here.
  We had the worst possible scenario, what with a fatal (accident) on Friday night and the weather being what it was. However, we have a good show and I think it was the nicest running show I’ve seen.”
 Other Second World War aircraft, kit planes built for aerobatics, a glider and several teams of parachutists held the crowd on the field to show’s close at 5 p.m. Sunday.
  Both the Canadian Armed Forces and the U.S. military put on displays, as did the B.C. Forest Service, with a demonstration of the teamwork between a bird dog aircraft and a DC-0 air tanker dropping three loads of fire retardent on the field.
  In the gaps between the aerial displays, spectators looked at the lines of airplanes on the other side of the barricades, waiting to take their turns performing.
  Several private planes owned by people who flew into Vanderhoof especially for the show were moored nearby Saturday, but most took advantage of a clearing in the weather early Sunday, and had left for home before the show started.
      by Canadian Press OTTAWA — The government introduced a bill today that would create a $4-billion fund to help the provinces set up 200,000 new day-care spaces by 1995.
  Health Minister Jake Epp promised the legislation last December as part of a $5.4-billion childcare package, which includes the fund and big tax breaks for parents who use day care.
  Epp originally estimated the day-care funding provisions would cost the federal Treasury about $3 billion. But his announcement triggered a flurry of provincial planning that pushed up costs.
  Two weeks ago, Epp added $1 billion to the fund, promising to pay 50 per cent of the cost of daycare spaces — commercial and non-profit — and 75 per cent of capital costs for new non-profit spaces.
  The additional money won’t create any more than the 200,000 new spaces announced in December, Epp said. But, among other things, he said, it will improve the salaries of child-care workers.
  Today’s bill was shoe-horned into an already crowded Commons agenda, but Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has promised the government will proceed with the plan before the summer’s end.
  The legislation empowers Ottawa to sign deals with the provinces. Negotiations with most provinces are already well under way.
  Provinces that decide not to take up the federal offer can remain in the Canada Assistance Plan, which subsidizes day-care costs for low-and middle-income families.
  The new plan does away with income maximums, providing subsidies to any family, rich or poor.
  The tax provisions of the childcare package are being dealt with in separate legislation reforming personal income tax laws, which is being debated in the Commons.
  For families with child-care tax receipts, federal income tax deductions will double to $4,000 for each child under age six and for all spe-cial-needs children. The previous $8,000 limit per family will be removed.
  Families with no tax receipts and those with young children at home will get a $100 child-tax credit beginning this year and $200 next year.
  But Liberal MP Sheila Copps complained no provisions for national standards are laid out in the bill, leaving them entirely in provincial hands.
  “And instead of putting a minimum for expenditure for child care (for the provinces), Epp has put a maximum because he’s capped it,” she added.
Carpenters' walkout defies IRC
 RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) - Despite company threats they would be fired, striking carpenters remained on a picket line today that has been called illegal by the provincial Industrial Relations Council.
 “The company said that we would be fired today if we did not put down this picket line, and obviously there is nobody going into work,” said union shop steward Pat Dafoe.
  The labor dispute at Citation Cabinets in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond attracted notice last week when the British Columbia Supreme Court refused to endorse a back-to-work order delivered by the Industrial Relations Council and charging the pickets with contempt of court.
  Mr. Justice William Trainor said that it was improper to elevate tribunals to the status of the B.C. Supreme Court by stating in legislation that the courts must uphold labor council rulings.
  Company lawyer Michael Blax-land said the court decision does not change the illegal nature of the strike, now in its 13th day.
  The Industrial Relations Council is a key component of new labor laws introduced last year by the Social Credit government and hotly opposed by labor groups.
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ISOLATED BY COQUIHALLA
towns feeling the pinch