. x wee OY eee . ee ee rs we SA GY et ea Poa ‘ ha and host of other. commercial .; detertorate, they simply get dirty. ‘ - 2 mo \- . VANCOUVER (CP) — The operators o of an oil reoyoling: * plant! atruggted | with equipment: and “such: ae pair of used ovecaile An a: ‘crank ., COR "But after some fHoe-tuning the plant can handle ‘mat ; | gurprises — Including the overalls — says Mike Falooner; ! ‘operations rhanager for Motiawk OU Co. 55) fo - .* Back-yard mechanics are being encouraged to, take thats” "used oil to gan stations for disposal. Gas ‘ation Operators © -o gan sell {t to Mohawk for between 10 and 60 cents for. four oe . litres, depending on the market for.oll, =... a o> Uped oll is just like’ water," sald Roy Street, ‘vice: "president of Mohawk Lubricanta Ltd., the. subsidiary. that 7 - runs the plant, "You can recycle it ‘eight ta to times before It's all used up.” 7°” Otis used in car engines, on: BC. ferries, truck engiries, applications don't . Mohawk has seven tanker tricks, five in the Vancouver _ayea, one on Vancouver Island and.one in the Interlor, to ” collect used crankcase all trom tervice stations." At the plant, ihe oll s tasted for its aultabltity. for the _ process, Then.after a combination of technical processes "called distillation and byiiro-treatment,, it comes out aga base oll, -The baseoll then hae all the special additives required for . _ ita uses. as a motor lubricating oll mixed in, and is ready for “marketing. “We are prepared to get ail the ‘specification approvals we need,” Street sald. “It will be every. bit as good as the . new oll and it will sell'at a discount.” a The plant can procégs 6.4 million litres of dirty all a year | to produea about four million litres of the base oil. .“Wehope to get the second phase, which will prodiice (10 million litres) of base oll (from 28 million litres of dirty oll) operational ih another two years,” he said. At-its peak, the recycling plant will be capable of producing 25 per cent of the B.C. demand for lubricating oll, and Street is optimistic. that the-plant can be expanded to take ndvantage of part, rf, ppportualies, jut fea evelopment ba tina een ' The company decided in 1979 from Phillipa. Petroleum, a Us. company, hoping it would.. ibe buylng state-of-the-art. , but ‘after. inveating | " $17 million, Mohawk hada plant that could-run only: for: ay one of weeli! at 4 ‘time. before it ‘fot. stoued Up “GALOARY (cP) - ~i ‘huge profita ‘aga in’ by clgarette ~ smugglers based in Eastern Canada are expected to go up in smoke because of the Alberta government's move to. -more than. quadruple the province's tobaceo, tax, RCMP : aay. - : Until last week organited rings were reaping windfalls by purchaling large‘ quantities of low-cost cigarettes: in _ Alberta . and transporting them for. fale to sastern conmumers. Police predict last week's change in the Alberta tax rate will snuff out any incentive to smuggle cigarettes. “T'm sure it would no longer:be economically feasible,” sald Insp..Gus Buziak, in charge of the ‘Bémacaton: RCMP commercial crime tmit; ~:/* Pe ‘Alberta: Tressuruer - ‘Lou Hyndman ‘announced ta’ ‘last ‘week's budget the tax is: being raised to 1.48 cents per clgarette from 0.82 cents. As.a reault Alberta smokers: ‘will. pay $2.06 In ‘tax for-a carton of 200 cigarettes, fomparet _ with 64 cents: before the ‘announcement. : - The Ontarlo tobacco tax |s:2.04 cents a cigarette or as 08 a carton — $1.12 more than the new. Alberta ‘levy. _- In the past the difference in tax has allowed ‘Albertans to "purchase a carton for about: 4. less, than ‘smokers paid in Ontario... - The highest: tabacco tix is in’ Newfoundland, chick levies 4 4 cents on each clgarette for a total of #6. 56 a carton ‘of -Burlak sald the increase in the Alberta tax is a politictal decision and he can't speculate on whether it may: have. oohwo imexpected «-- bchodule called for a plant opening in early 1960, ecu ns cease oll: ‘fully operational in‘ December, p82. panes buy a ‘reoyeling on process. 7 ‘the smiugglers’ illegal profits... ‘been vrompt in part rt by tis woveran ‘The former price-differential prompted the tirmation of as many as’ 25, -clgareite smuggling rings, Ontarlo government officials said., “They seid that, until now, a ‘transport frailer could have | been liaded in Alberta with 80,000 cartons of cigarettes and - resold in Ontario for-a profit of $180,000 before’ expenses. - -Extenslve investigations by Alberta RCMP and Ontario Provincial Pollce led to fraud and theft charges being Lald last year against an’ Edmonton - man and five Ontario ‘Indians survive in’ school ‘CALGARY (CP) — The-Plains Indian Cultural Survival School, which holds classes in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, offers native studenta an education not: only in.the three Ra; ° but also in thelr basic culture and traditions, . 7 Each month; a group of instructors and students drive. into the mountains west of Calgary with three daya’ supply of food: for the five-day trip. ‘During that time, students learn to survive off the land, - start flres from scratch and bulld their'own shelter,- ‘Each camp ia preceded. by 4 fiveweek instructional program at the Calgary school. 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Robert Hart sald in‘ : interview, ‘how much the siidents have learned by: wh el d the make final preparations and- having them demibaltfate their skills. © : - "The acho} anguires each student {8 properly eldttied and “equipped for the trip. First-ald courses are, given‘ and Inteenational signal codes are taught. =: # “Alvin... Manitopyes, a Saulteaux Indisit trom "Saskatchewan who ‘heads the school’s cultutal program, said the. wilderness survival course fits in’ Wall: with: the general philosophy of the school. “It’s an opportimity te try and live Like. itiets: tarstathers did; and really experience the outdoors,”-hé iald, .- ‘Many of the students are urban Indians, so tie wen a “revelation to them. ‘i “They learn how to ‘cooperate, as wall ‘aa Tearing ~ survival skills and techniques,” Manitopyea said. inne rea challenge is to deal with problems. What: do you. do if ‘there ; is no water? You' boll: snow." The school's history goes back to 1977 wheii: oward . Green, the school’s first vice-principal and a non-native teacher who taught English to- Blackfoot youiigeters: in - Strathmore, Alta., worked with native groups In the city to formulate a proposal for a native school undes the hoards alternative schools: program. It took 18 imonths to get approval for the school; wih is financed by the school board as’ well aa. provigclal - government ‘funds and private and corporate doniitions which help pay for cultural programs. — Academic subjects are taught with a native perspective whenever posalble, books by native authors are used: in English classes and history courses’ foous on: the: rol natives played in Canada’s history,, 9 = On the cultural side, atudents learn the Cree, “Bacres, Blackfoot and Stoney languages as well as. Tat -Indlaa erafts such as beading’ and dancing. tains dks yids vibe wie sack dete taeiue a: “a ae i Os FRIBOURG, ‘Switrerland (AP) =~ in tiny). viral Switzerland, which has not fought a foreign war in 48 years, few inatitutlons are more highly resperted thant its _ well-trained army ‘of cltizen soldiers. ~~ woes When Swiss men. turn 2, they do 17 weeks of betie military training: Then; after a mandatory. year of active |. duty, they ate obliged to be ready the reat of thelr Ives to "defend : Switrerland's: place’ in central Europe. ‘Arms, ” ammunition, and. green-grey uniforms are taken out: ‘af " home closets for periodic refresher exercises, vi) ‘However, Swiss-men increasingly are refuslig to: bear arms, for religious, political or ethical reasons.:Last year, ’ there were 729 conscientious objectors; the year before; 593, - then a record. Twenty years ago, there wére 70. such cases, - - In Switzerland, military tribunals try and sentence: the . objectors to jail. ‘The policy, without parallel in Westert Europe, draws criticism ‘from, human rights organizations, - notably ~. Amnesty International. _— -) “The. government's failure to establish an alternative civilian service: has meant that every. year: ‘hundreds. of ‘citizens’ are “convicted: for the exercise. of: thelr - conscientlotily held beliefs, contrary - to ‘nteraationsily ” recognized: ‘horms," Amnesty has sald. ‘Switzerland: appears every: year on. Araneaty’ 7 ust at _ countries keeping “prisoners of consclence.!. ra" _ Five years.ago, Swiss voters rejected; by an. elghtto-five margin, ‘@ proposal to exempt conscientious objectors from thé army. A propdsed constitutional amendment thit- would end the polley of jailing objectors might come before ‘voters met year. ‘ Inil terma: for: objectors: ‘seldom: “are longer: ‘than: 10 months. But after they've served the sentence, objectors continue Mo pay z) penalty. They. suffer" ‘fob and housing : a on. an eee --On occasion, though, conselentlous objaction can assume almoat folkloric dimensions, asin the case of Francis (Frits . the Objectér) Perrin, a writer whosd refiual-to bear arms _ owt him:a flye-month prison sénience.:: : - Before he was caught, Perrin lived and worked: or: tw - Years in: the: ‘Alplne pastures of southivestern: Switeerland.