CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, December 22, 1977

CHRISTMAS: ‘SCENE can be found on display 7] the Thrams Coed Stare isthe handiwork of pr poche
told the Castlegar News it was completed in one week working four to five hours nightly. —Kurt Liesner Photo

WKHU Appoints
Long-Term Care

Administrator

Beverley Dockrill has been
appointed long-term care ad-
: ministrator for the West Koote-
: pay Health area. The announce-
_ Ment was made’ recently by
Medical Health Officer Dr. N.
Schmitt.

The Long-Term Care Por-
gram is a comprehensive pro-
gression of services designed to

_ provide a continuum of care for
those who cannot live without
help because of health-related
problems that do not warrant
acute hospital care.

Long-term care ranges
from the home to the various
community ‘care. facilities. Re-
ferrals will be taken after
Jan. 1, 1978,

—Mrs. it . Browne,
who has been a public health
nurse in Trail for several years,
also joins the Long-Term Care
Program, as its nurse assessor.

Paid MVB $1.37 for $2,000 MGA

Driving a Stolen al |

Some people pick up starv-
ing, abandoned animals and
make homes for them.

Petur Sigmundson found
an abandoned, neglected 1961-
MGA roadster a few weeks ago
on a city. street, fed it some
clean oil, and had it purring ina
warm garage.
Tt was all done with the
blessing of the provincial Motor
Vehicles Branch (MVB), and
the process cost him $1.87. The
car he figures will be worth
$2,000 when it’s all fixed up, is
all his, ‘Sigmundson thought,
until a monkey’ wrench was
thrown in the works recently.

Si

wondering about the sleek two-
seater,

He called an office of the
Motor Vehicles Branch, which
said he might get the car under
a section of the Highways
(Scenic Improvement) Act
which allows either city or pro-
vineial officials to dispose of
abandoned cars.

The branch gave him in-
structions which he followed to
the letter. He paid 25 cents for
@ vehicle search, then sent a
double-registered letter ($1.12)
to the registered owner who
apparently was in Toronto ‘and

the letter was returned marked

a
advertising distributor, said
that in early September, he saw
the car parked for several
weeks with it its convertible top
open. The rains came, and he
closed its top, and began

Sigmundson brought the
unopened letter to the MVB,
and to his astonishment, the
branch said the car was his,

* “That day they signed the
car over to me, and I got a
licence and ” he said.

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‘and Small.
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Learning by Doing

- by IMSMITH :

: About ten years ago, some-
one cafculated that the ave-
rage plumber was making

, more than the average univer-
sity instructor but less than
the average doctor. Several
professors switched into

plumbing but there were no .

truth is that there are Soren
serlous flaws which make th

.. European © apprenticeship

system inappropriate for
la
In‘a.rapidly changing

- world, forinstance, many of -

the traditional apprentice-
ship skills could become te:

reports of p moving
into medicine,

“The plumbers obviously
had foresight. Today, after
discounting the number of
unpaid years doctors spend

in medical school, the ave- .

rage plumber may be making
about as much as the average
doctor,

There's more to thisstory
than the obvious lesson that
only other plumbers and up-
Per-income doctors can’ af-
ford to hire plumbers. The
real lesson is that our work
force has been trained in the
wrong areas, We need more
plumbers and fewer profes-
sors:

West Germany and the
Netherlands have resolved
this problem by employing

weeks ago by the police that
city lawyers believe the car is
not his,

Regarding abandoned cars,

the Highways (Scenic Improve-

ment) Act says the province, or
a municipality, “may cause the
vehicle to be disposed of” and

that neither the person or-

agency that disposes of the car,
“nor the person who receives
‘the vehicle on a disposition
under this section” (Sigmund-
son) is liable to the: previous
owner. * i

Sigmundson’s : problem:
what happens when the provin-
cial MVB disposes-of a car that
should be disposed of by the
city?

While the legal experts
argue, Sigmundson says he'd
“like to phone up the original
owner and find out how he feels
about it, but I don’t like the idea
of buying a car Tal ly own.”
bout

Fred 365-2211
Marcel 365-2616

into it’

Then came the bad news. -

_ A-senior employee of the
branch sent Sigmundson a note
saying he was driving a stolen
car,

Sigmundson met with the
MVB office manager and a city

police detective who “told me ~
he wasn't exactly sure if the’

MVB had the right to assign the
car.” :

Come Celebrate Christmas

with the Bay Trail.

For your shopping convenience

we have increased
our store opening hours.
DECEMBER

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sa. werth of additional parts
on order for his stray MGA,
and plans to tour Oregon when
it’s ‘ready to go.

Meanwhile, it’s not all that
certain the original ower may
want to claim the car. Maxi-
mym penalty for abandoning a
car’under. the act is $500.

Poll Shows

-Good Workers

In Short Supply

Despite high unemploy-
ment, many small businessmen
say a-shortage .of competent
help ranks with inflation as a
major problem in Canada,

. Asurvey by the Canadian

Federation of Independent
Business showed 20.4 per cent
of 7,880 small-; businessmen
listed inflation as their biggest
worry. *
Lack of qualified help was
the chief problem for 16.8 per
cent and the second biggest
worry, after inflation, for 12.6
per cent.

Others listed a variety of
problems—financing and inter-

+ est rates, government regula-

tions, taxes, competition and
cost of labor—as their major
concern.

training. The. system has
worked’ so well that many
experts are recommending a
better, apprenticeship _pro-
gram for Canada,
Apprenticeship is highly
attractive today. We have
high unemployment of youth

* goinghandin-hand with shor. .

tages of skilled labour. And,
of course, an

greater threat to the pid
ticed worker than to one who
has been academically train-
ed because the academic has
generally leamed to be more
flexible, 4

Employers would be un-
likely to jump at the chance
‘to hire apprentices, ‘Appren-
ticeship programs are costly;

the costs faroutweigh theap-.
prentice’s productivity, Later,
when the apprentice hasbe- .

come a journeyman, there is
Ro guarantee that the firm

+ will be able to retain that

newly-skilled worker. ~ :
Even the unions aren't hap-
py with the idea. Organized
labour realizes that a flood
of new tradesmen would

«push down the average wage

level. Right now, the unions
have restrictions on the num-
ber of apprentices that may
be trained; they are unlikely
to expand that number.
‘The Canadian Federation
of Independent Business re-
gards apprenticeship as one
of the more serious labour is-
sues of our, time. Balancing
the advantages against the
disadvantages, the Federa-

program would give young
people a ctiance to gain the
experience that all employers
seem to demand of would-b:

tion ablend of
on-thejob training tied in

, With vocational school curri- — -
culums, It calls for more co- -

workers.

Onthe. otherband appren-
ticeship isn't thepanaceathat
many observers believe. The

Do Your Own
Boasting, Save

on. Birds:

Christiiay is coming, time ~

to start” thinking ‘about - the
Christmas turkey.

The rule-of-thumb in tur-
key purchasing is ‘2 to % of 8
pound per person. Use the
smaller figure for birds over 10

pounds, and the larger figure -

for birds 10 pounds or less,
where the ratio of meat to bone
is lower.

Order your turkey early to
be sure you get the exact size
you require,

There will be plenty of
frozen birds on the market, but
as always, the nimber of fresh
birds will be limited. The fresh
birds are also usually. slightly
more expensive.

‘The whole frozen evisera-
ted Grade A turkey is probably
your best value. The grade

assures you of a well-fieshed |
" fattened bird for maximum

satisfaction:
Although self-basted. or

“deop-basted turkeys may seem

attractive, remember they are
generally more expensive. Con-
sider doing the basting yourself
and saving those Pennies which
could add up to
larger birds.

Consumer Facts isa public ;

service feature of the Castlegar
News ‘in cooperation with
Super-Valu Stores.

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HOLIDAY HOURS

Today (Thurs., Dec. 22)
8:30 a.m. to5 p.m.

* Friday, December 23
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Dec. 24, 25, 28
Closed aie
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Dec. 27, 28, 29
- 8:30 a.m. to § p.m.

Friday, December 30
8:30 a.m. to4 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Dec. 31, Jan. 1&2.
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Tuesday, January 3. 3
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“patronage, .
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jan.1,2&3

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Grand F Forks ‘Hillbilly. Nouveau’

By DAVE JENNESO!

(The . following artitte,
which appeared two months’
ago in North Vancouver's tab-
lofd. newspaper, the © North
Shore News,’ has been the
object of considerable ‘discus-
sion and

‘more promise than the present
was able to deliver... 5
After that'it’s an inered-
ible,. three-store;

y commercial .
desolation of: a) place which
offers little or no future to its
young people and only a slow,

Grand Forks residents, "Beak
ers should note the author's
inaccurate opening description
of Grand Forks, part of the
Boundary region, as part of the
Kootensys and- thi “border .
country”.

Geographically, ‘it’s sald
the Kootenays, According”

local : tourist ‘types it’s eine
beautiful border country”, but
whatever name you choose, it
seems to contain some of the
most fascinating withered pock-
ets of human endeavor any-
where in B.C,

‘ It seems strange—we ‘ple:
ture our province as bursting
with energy, power, fat salmon ‘’
and big trees, yet when you roll
down the long dry hill into
Grand Forks you ‘seea place
where'urban sprawl somehow
fizzled and died about 25 years
ago.

4 It lays before you like some
brittle half-open bloom. Tar-
paper bungalows scattered:
across the dry valley floor, (in
accordance with an odd city
bylaw which levies lower taxes
on unfinished houses), there's

to’ its
citizens,

Tuesday afternoon, down-
town Grand | Forks, ‘nothing
moves. The streets are like a
bright, empty color slide. The
time is 2 p.m. The: fire chief

“ Tettered ‘on “the door. One
shakes one’s: head in _—
ment... are these. peo}

aware of this immobility

If you step out of the
pounding ‘summer sin for a
beer, you'll glimpse othor facets
of the Grand Forks. lifestyle. oes
a: few -grey-headed ‘men’ in
groups of two or three playing
cards, reading the’ paper, ‘sip-
ping, ina room. that hasn't
changed noticeably in 50 years.

This would be fine, except
that there are five such’ hotels

“ie
beverage room hadn't even
recalvel a paint job.

you'll see a few

truck: sho
shimmering in the heat.”

The only shade in town is
to be found’ along two city
blocks, where the leaves hide
great stone Edwardian manses,
Provineial Court! House, and a anda
museum. It's like a green oasis ‘
sheltering the past, and indeed,
the past seems to have held’

ele bee Me NNO NEDOONE

Pick Up Yuletide
Song Sheets -
At Our Office

Multicolored song sheets of
Christmas carols and songa are
available now at the Castlegar
News,

Groups and individuals in:
terested in obtaining the song
sheets may do so by calling in

serves Ce right to limit pute
ties,

All ‘the ‘well-known carols
are included as welll és the more
modern, pieces such as “Ru-
dolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

and “Winter Wonderland.” ~

* industri

merece epi
ern eet oat ye

1Og8,
ing. hats. They look proud and’
lous. By: their ‘expres-
sions, they seem to be’ deeply’
involved in the serious business
of putting a town on ths map.

Packed Up ”
Its curious, Whatever hap-
posed apparently did so in the‘
«++I was told the mining ,
ees fell through. But it
must have been more than that, .

sfote whele eneration seers to

‘have packed,up and moved on.
“No more" civie build.

same slow crumpling of human

industry has taken place. Drive _

up the old: Cascades’ Highway,

Christmas. .

From the bottom of our hearts we would Iike to
agatn express our thanks to everyone, Sepecally our .
the:

children, for the lovely anniversary and
wonderful trip to Hawall., ae

~ May God bless } 8 you all and may you havea Merry z

“This can't be so very

At mile. seven, at the.
bottom of a shallow. valley °
which is actually the U.S.
border, is a small ruin. It was
alledgedly ‘built by a) man

gentle yellow. hil, It was
‘once called The Miller Farm,
but the Millers pulled out 20
years ago and now it's ruled by
a gang of gophers and at least
20,000. grasshoppers, An an-
lent Austin rusts in the shade

of a tiny creek.
But it seems impossible
seed”

especially fa this day and age
Events of the Toterzational

Women Agiow Fellowship con-

vention in Chicago were out-

lined at last week's

cheon ‘at the

Recrea-
tion Complex. Guest Speaket
Delores.

when people will invest in
etmnks of Arizona desert, sight

Ad indeed hase

Hillbilly Nouveau

That's the one thing these
folk have in common. They
want to be free of a system they.
feel may shatter into economic .
insanity or be erased by some
future ‘conflict, and they more
or less have achieved this.

The lifestyle is a’sort of
“hillbilly nouveau” ...'a a
bination ‘of’ milking the goat
while listening to Waylon gt :
nings on the tapedeck, of telling
the kids to hurry up and feed
the ducks because a message.
has just come over the CB that
there’ a swimming party at 6

clock: They've managed to
put together the best of both
worlds.

The logging. . company

ted ‘two yedrs :ago: is ‘out
producing the bigger’ Gi :
Forks companies two to one. a z

the Trail chapter of the fellow:
ship, said of the‘conference shé
had recently. attended: “We
were from many different eoun-
- tries, colors and denominations,
but there was a unity of spirit
in the Holy Spirit.”

She stated that Tepresen-
tatives ‘from ‘numerous ‘coun-
tries gave sepeeis of, is it God

Fellowahi ha

¢
tians from ‘worshipping togeth-
‘ér val finally be’ broken down,
Christians can ean truly

her talk by

sharing ‘a Christmas thought:
{Te fs tnore blessed to give than
jm

“God gave.us:the ‘

most’ precious’ gift, : Jestis

t , spoke
the luncheon, relating how God
has led her throughout her life.

‘The Christmas song, “Ring
the Bells" was sung by Joan
DeGraaf.

‘The .next, Women . Aglow
Fellowship meeting will be held.
the evening of Jan. 10. Hus.
bands and -friends are. also

‘invited to this meeting where - bo
| Sister Gwen Shaw, returned ©

» missionary to China, will be the
guest speaker. :

FRIDAY”
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shop on
the , mountain’ is® there for
anyone totune up a snowmobile
or replace a truck engine. And
the average cost per family per

month, to live in these oppulent
log homes year rdund is stout

” Suu, * one might get’ the’

idea idea that thle His ff 2 oparalelite

ey outa oie iee 4 the Appalachians,
biggest and subsist on food stamps and Aid

Sit down to. a'.dinner. of
grouse stew or bear steak; a
complete choice of vegetables
pulled from the, ground. less
than an hour: ago, arid home-

made bread so delicious thatit's .

like some addictive drug, and
you begin to wonder whatever
“ possessed you to stay in ithe
city. These young ‘people are
under 30, well educated and

5 “Sturdy Breed -
They view sleepy Grand -
Forks with a kind of amused,
glance. More than anything
else, it's‘a supply depot that
doesn’t really have to be there,
* viIt certainly. isn’t: wooing”
them’ off the ‘mountain ‘with
bright lights and. wild. music,
We tried it one night .... the
Russian food made you feel like
you'd: swallowed several small
ulders,’ and the nightelub
afterwards was deserted, ex-
cept for a few rednecks, sneer-
: ing at a group of marooned and
belated hippies. “~
“No, the real fun was on the
,-mountain.: Hunting for, jack- .
rabbits at dusk, playing cards
+! and ‘drinking wine by lantern
light, ‘feeling so ‘continuously
: sheltered: from any. sort of .

pressure.

It's.a reassuring thing to
“know... while we build our
lives into-frenzy here in the

"S elty,: chasing goals which’ be-,

come meaningless the meament
we attain them... that there

a sturdy breed . of sere
ule root again in the coun-

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Letters to. Santa

Dear Santa:
‘Thank you for the Skis and .
boots that you sent last year,
‘This year I would like'a
‘Thundershift 500 set. :
‘ Please bring my sister:a

} Mite bright

Michael and Lisa G,
Ld s a ‘

Dear Santa,
PleaSe bring. Me a racingcar

_ Set. I was a very good boy. My. -
« sister Shelley waNts a VacuUm

eLeaner. I Will leave you some
milk & cookies, Love,
Robbie snkuratoff
R

Deer, Santa
Thave Ben a Good boy mer
the time.
Twant a rase car set wid i want
a snow. man Icey maker.
I will leve’ some® cookies and
some milk on the taBle see you
next year, * z

luve.

l-am'four years old & my
name is Jeanette Rose-Mary

Torris. My aunt is translating .

the letter for me.

T would like a bike with a

horn or a bell for Christmas. My
dad told me that you ran out of —
red bikes so I'want a gold one.”

I have’ a one year ‘old
brother. named Christopher

who.can't write so I'm writing *
: for him. He wants a horse with

four wheels so he could ride

with me, and maybe some little .*

toys.
Till leave you some cookies
‘& a glass of milk, and some

“sugar cubes for your reindeer.

Love ,
._ Jeanette

“Te been ots a boy (or

tryed to be anyways) I would .
like a set of walky-talkys for’
Christmas Please’ bring my
sisters something for teenage
girls. I think Iris wants a Parsee
& Lori some earings. I

leave out some carrets for the
rainder and milk & cookies for
you

Love
Mike age (7)
ony Porter

; bring me a Sizzlers track'and a

: foceed plaper nnd slat of Slt,

sans eee

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, December 22, 1977

"1116-8 Ave. 8,

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ui December 14, 1977
Dear ‘

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enki and milk, by the fire-
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Love, :
‘Risk Henn”
eo eat

Dear Santa:
Thave been a good boy. Please

have done all:my chores ‘when
Tve\‘been: asked,’ and only
goofed off once or. twice to go

m Tove you, Santa

ExpLOratlo
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Dear Santa Claus.
I wan't a T.v. in my room. How
did Rudolph get his shiny ted
nose. I would like a shiny red:

5 BeParion
etki ‘
‘Deas’ Séuke;'the thiss things'l

want is'a Mattle Elextronex .[

Racing G:

Dumbell set

the cookies will be waiting!
Love :
Allan

alee

Dear Santa Claus.

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