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EDITORIAL

Public service
deserves thanks

As we commented in this space on Wednesday, the winds of
change certainly blew through Castlegar a week ago when voters
trooped to the polls to give incumbents quite a rapping.

But that aside, sincere thanks and appreciation are due those
aldermanic candidates who failed to win re-election.

Ald. Patti Richards has done a conscientious job. She always had
her homework done and appeared to be a good listener who gave
petitioners respect and attention.

Perhaps her fault, if she had one, is that she was a quiet person
who worked quietly and didn’t seek the headlines.

Ald. Albert Calderbank deserves heartfelt thanks from the elec-
torate for the job he has done over the years. It’s quite obvious that
he tried just éne time too many and voters said ‘enough, enough.’’
However, he went out respectably — with his boots on and his name
on the ballot paper one final time.

Ald. Terry Rogers, the man many thought would challenge
Mayor Audrey Moore, didn’t seek re-election as an alderman. His
new position as district principal of special services with the Castlegar
school district is a demanding one and while he would have been an
excellent mayor — given his record as an alderman — there undoub-
tedly would have been conflicts with the school board over the time
spent away from the district on city business. There are certainly
strains enough in holding down two responsible positions without the
personal stresses as well.

As for Mayor Audrey Moore, who was returned by acclamation, ~

one has to admire her fortitude, energy and vigor. As successful
aldermanic candidate Jim Chapman commented, facetiously, “‘If I
had known the winds of change were blowing so hard I’d have run
for mayor!’’

But it’s probable those winds wouldn’t have blown Mrs. Moore
out of the city’s top spot.

She’s experienced, dedicated and loves Castlegar, its people and
the job of mayor.

Besides, her strong endorsation of Celgar’s modernization/ex-
pansion program won her many friends and admirers and they un-
doubtedly would have campaigned extremely hard on her behalf.

And besides, no politician likes to leave office when there are
things yet to be done. With the Celgar modernization yet to be ap-
proved and undertaken, a bridge across the Columbia River at Rob-
son to be fought for, and numerous other important issues, it was

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VIEWPOINT

Heseltine faces
tough battle

By PETER BALE

LONDON — Michael Heseltine
won Prime Minister Margaret That-
cher’s resignation Thursday but faces
a tough battle against two respected
cabinet members in his bid to win the
leadership of Britain’s governing
Conservative party

The dramatic step- by Foreign
Secretary Douglas Hurd and_ his
friend, Chancellor of the Exchequer
John Major, to join the race is
calculated to undermine Heseltine in
next Tuesday’s second-round ballot,
political sources said.

“They won't really be working
against each other; this is to split the
Heseltine support and force it to a
third round,’’ said one Conservative
party source.

Major and Hurd issued a joint
statement after Thatcher announced
her resignation. The two men — the
former a believer in right-wing
economics, the latter is a centrist ex-
diplomat — said it would be ‘‘a
friendly contest."’

A simple majority of the 372 Con-
servative members of Parliament is
needed to win Tuesday’s second
round of the leadership ballot. If
needed, a third round will be held
next Thursday.

But many Conservatives want a
final result ma. ending the
agonizing disuffty which is under.
mining the party’s ability to prepare
for a general election due by mid.
1992. |

Heseltine, the 57-year-old former
defence minister, won 152 votes in
Tuesday’s first round against That
cher’s 204. She needed a 56-vote

“I voted for Margaret Thatcher in
the first round and I was going to
vote for her in the second; now I will
have to consider my position very
carefully,’’ said former cabinet
minister Sir Norman Fowler.

Over the next week Hurd’s and
Major's campaign managers, all
trusted cabinet colleagues, will lobby
Conservative MPs. Together they
will try to halt the momentum of the
Heseltine wrecking crew that
demolished the Thatcher power base.

Heseltine, a wealthy publisher,
holds more left of centre economic
views than Thatcher and her finance
minister, Major, 47.

While government
and active involvement in the
economy is anathema to Major,
heseltine has spoken of a partnership
between business and government.

On that basis the contest
Heseltine on the left wing or “‘wet’’
side of the Conservatives, and
Major, though a moderate, must
carry the banner of the Thatcherite
“dry” right.

In the middle is Hurd, at 60 a con-
ciliatory moderate figure, with
stature among both older and

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younger party members.
“IT would say that if anyone is get-
ting to get squeezed in the three-way

contest will tend to divide around the
two camps of Heseltine and Major.””

Heseltine backers were putting a
determined face on the decision of
Hurd and Major to enter the race.
He had the momentum and ‘had the
edge of having toppled Thatcher.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Issues explained

As the coordinator of the Nelson and District
Women’s Centre, | was asked by the Selkirk
College Student Society to take part in a debate
on the La Hunt for La Goddess contest which
took place in a Castlegar pub. As your paper went
to press before the debate happened, the issues
raised by myself and Eleanor Harper from the
Women in Need Society we ¢ not included in your
coverage.

One of the two major objections that we
raised was the issue of violence towards women.
Research shows that the use of words and images
that promote or accept violence to women in
entertainment and advertising contribute to actual
violence. This beauty contest was called a ‘“‘hunt’’
and the men who were to solicit women to
participate were referred to as ‘‘hunters."”

It was a year ago when young college women
were being separated out and hunted in Montreal.
Although there is a tendency to dismiss a killer of
this sort as “‘crazy,”* this-particular killer-was-
“sane” enough to make it very clear it was women
he was after.

Television and movies strongly promote the
image of women as victims of male violence as an
acceptable form of entertainment. In our society
where one in 10 Canadian women are battered
each year and about 100 women die from

important to open lines of communication to such
groups as WINS of Trail and the West Kootenay
Women’s Association.

At the same time, I would like to commend
the Hi Arrow for its efforts to give the place a
“facelift” by no longer having strippers, changing
the hours, using DJs for music entertainment,
showing an active concern towards preventing
drinking and driving, and providing a variety of
entertainment — Yuk Yuks, Bart Simpson Night,
Friday Night Live and College Pub Nights. I am
in full support of a local night club that is
genuinely concerned about local students and
clientele as | would rather see students from
Selkirk College staying in town when they ‘‘go
out’’ so they don’t have to worry about driving
home from Trail or Nelson.

Overall, ‘‘la debate’’ was organized to raise
awareness about the treament and attitude toward
women, inform students of the facts behind the
contest and the reason the Hi Arrow is holding the
event, and to determine students views and
opinions (which_-were mixed). Therefore, I feet this
letter needed to be written to properly present the
entire-picture. ~

Anyway, in closing, I would like to add keep
up the great work CasNews and congratulations
for the new ownership. I look forward to reading
more about student issues in your paper and I
invite you-to come to any of our forthcoming

domestic violence, it is everyone’s
ensure they do not contribute to or accept
entertainment that promotes violence to women.

The second main objection to this event is
what is referred to as the sexual objectification of
women. One of the difficulties in talking about
this is that it is so accepted that many people
don’t know what you're talking about. This event
judged women on the way they looked and the
way they walked. It made women’s bodies a form
of entertainment. As long as women are viewed in
this way we cannot achieve full equality.

The pub representatives made it clear that
they did not have any but the best of intentions in _
sponsoring this event and I accept that was the
case. However, not only are we influenced by the
events which surround us, we help shape events
and attitudes.

For further information readers may be
interested in watching After the Montreal
Massacre: Violence Against Women which will be
shown Nov. 27 on CBC television at 9:30 p.m.

I would also like to extend an invitation to
everyone interested to attend a memorial Dec. 6 at
7 p.m. for the women killed last year. The
memorial will take place in front of the provincial
government building in Nelson. The vigil will be
followed by a coffee house at 7:30 p.m. at the
Vienna Cafe where Kootenay women writers will
read from their work.

(Ms.) Sam Simpson
Coordinator
Nelson and District Women’s Centre

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Debate worthwhile

I am writing in response to the front page
article, ‘‘La Hunt for La Goddess sparks la
debate” that appeared in last Saturday’s issue. I
would like to start off by saying that I am pleased
to see that “‘la debate” made front page. I think
that the debate was both interesting and
informative.

More than 130 students, faculty and staff
were able to learn and participate by sharing
concerns and opinions during the 1% hour debate
and many facts and views were shared.

For instance, sexual discrimination toward
women in our society has been present for
centuries and it will take a great deal of
awareness, effort, and cooperation between
today’s women and men to bring about gender
equality.

Second, the Goddess contest is run by
PromoCo promotions, of Vancouver, not Labatt’s
and all beer companies, al ia with about 90 per
cent of other advertisers, u: th the female and
the male body to ‘‘sell’’ produfts.

Lamvery pleased to be

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votes, plus) 16 abstentions from the
first round and any waverers’ on
Heseltine’s camp would flow to
Hurd or Major.

having the vision and enthusiasm of
Thatcher when she took over from
an uninspiring Edward Heath in
1975.

Peter Bale writes for Reuters news
agency.

art of raisi ing that Colleeen McCrory and
awareness about women’s{ssues and equality ‘Grant Copeland tried to silence the only woman

rights on campus by incorporating a new office —
Women's Liaison — (@ concentrate on such
attitudes, and I would like to thank Eleanor
Harper and Sam Simpson for all their support and
insight at the debate. I think that it is extremely

events re the year — the
controversial ones! Thanks again.

Jeff Leggat

President

Selkirk College Student Society

Lesson available

David Lewis’s account of and speculation on
an internecine struggle between factions within a
local political group leads one to consider what is
happening to our electoral system, both
provincially and federally.

‘Our practice of awarding victory To the
candidate with the largest number of votes is quite
satisfactory in a two-party system where one
candidate or the other, except in the rare event of
a tie, will always receive a majority of the votes
cast.

The picture changes when a third party enters
a candidate, or when an independent runs. As Mr.
Lewis reports, there then becomes a fear that the
newcomer, even a weak one, may take enough
votes from one of the older established parties to
allow the other’s candidate to win with a small
plurality. It is because of this effect that Canada is
now ruled by a prime minister whose party was
rejected by more than half of the electorate.

With the growing interest in the green
movement and in the Reform Party of Canada,
we shall soon find ourselves in a situation where a
candidate in a five-party contest may win the seat
with 20 per cent plus one of the votes cast. Clearly
this is unfair.

The best remedy I can see is to bring back the
single transferable ballot that we threw out about
35 years ago.

It is worth noting that Ireland today has a
woman president only because Ireland used the
transferable ballot. If our system had been in use
in the election of Nov. 7 Brian Lenihan would
have been elected on the first (and only) count
even though he was the choice of fewer than 50
per cent of those who voted. However, when the
candidate in third place, Austin Currie, was
eliminated, a sufficient number of the voters who
had made him their first choice had selected
Mrs. Robinson as their second to give her a clear
majority and she was elected

There is a lesson here for British Columbia
and for Canada.

Fred G. Marsh
Castlegar

Accusation wrong

David Lewis wrote a venomous letter to your

close to Colleen, who is away in Ottawa, I greatly
admire her for her integral and extensive labors on
environmental issues.

She is a model woman in politics where she
has exposed more government abuses than any
other women I know of in this whole country,
especially when it comes to the environment. She
has worked on elections since she was a teenager.
The thought that she would try to silence anyone,
let alone a woman, is laughable.

On the other hand, Colleen wouldn't be one
to support a woman candidate just because she’s a
woman. David Lewis seems to think she should.
But Colleen would decide who was the best
candidate on the issues — just like she would for a
man. To suggest that women should be given
special considerations just because they’re women
automatically implies that women can’t make it on
the same terms as a man. I don’t know of any
women who would like to be treated like that.
Colleen certainly hasn't asked any favors because
she is a woman, and I don’t think Andrea Wright
would either.

Lewis is right that Andrea is the only woman
running in the local elections, but it’s certainly not
true provincially. I called the NDP headquarters
and found out that they have seven women in
office, 19 will be running in the election, and five
ridings have to yet to choose a candidate. The
NDP has been a strong defender of women’s
rights. So nobody is looking down on women by
voting NDP.

I can appreciate how the Green party is
working for a better world, perhaps trying to give
us something even better then what the NDP can
give us at this time. But we haven't even been able
to get the NDP in power for 15 years. It’s not the
time to say we can’t vote for the NDP because it
doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn't pass up the
opportunity to get a good part of what we want
just because we can’t have it all. If we do we will
end up with Vander Zalm which is worse than
nothing. He has a bigoted attitude towards women
and has tried to control their lives. on matters. like
abortion. If he gets in office again he will have
full rein to continue gutting what social services
we still have left from his last term in office.
‘Women must band together to stop him and the
only way to do it is to get every possible vote for
the NDP.

Deane Jodoin
New Denver

Snow acidic

In view of all the recent reports on sulphur
dioxide emissions from the Celgar Expansion
Review Panel, | wonder how many of your
readers know what the acid rain and snow levels
are now.

I have tested the pH (acidity) of the snow
which fell at Vallican overnight on Nov. 19 and
again on Nov. 20. Both readings were pH 4.5
which is highly acid, in the danger zone where
plant life becomes stunted and low yields of fruit
and vegetables can be expected.

If sulphur dioxide emissions increase by 34
per cent when the new mill is sanctioned, how will
this affect us? What will happen to reforestation?
What will be the effect on fish enhancement
projects?

John Fearing
Winlaw

certainly was not.

and p but it feel t in realities
between the Socreds the NDP is between
First, 1 would like to make it clear that work 4 and
which Colleen and I do in local elections is our some considerable degree o orm. So I believe it

personal work. The Valhalla Society has never
publicly d a political i

in our personal involvements we do advocate the
NDP, and Colleen and I are not known for selling
out the environment.

I believe many environmentalists expect too
much of the NDP on one hand and are
uninformed on the party’s actual commitments to
the environment on the other hand. It is not

is crucial that the NDP gets ev
that it can get.

These are the issues which Coll
discussed with Andrea Wright. And:
to the Valhalla Society, but she and /| work
together giving guidance to the Youth
Environmental Alliance. I believed she had not
thought out the implications of her candidacy —
that she would be gaining votes as the expense of

possible vote

primarily an I party, but

all kinds of concerns for jobs, social welfare and
justice. It is impossible for a party that tries to
mix everyone's ina le balance

others the NDP is not doing enough,
when in fact it has made the only commitments
that have a real chance of being enacted. Our

to cover 100 per cent of what is needed in any one
area.
People who refuse to vote for the NDP
because their favorite environmental issue isn’t in
the platform may lose a lot in what the NDP can
do for the environment.

For instance, Lewis told me the NDP should
be doing something about global warming. This is
ironic because Jim Fulton, the NDP MP from
Skeena, is a leading exponent of action on global
warming. If his party was in power in B.C. he
could be more successful.

Many political workers know that a few
votes can make the difference for a candidate. In

was serious but friendly.

One of our members who knew Andrea was
very upset by her candidacy, as he feels the
Socred government is so corrupt that what we do
or don’t do to stop it is a serious moral issue —
‘on a much smaller scale than Hitler’s Germany,
but similar in its nature. He wrote
Andrea a personal letter stating his objections to
her candidacy. It seems that Lewis may be
confusing that letter with the talk that Colleen and
I had with Andrea. Although the letter expressed
considerable personal upset, it had nothing of the
poisonous intent or tone that Lewis conveys.

‘The next day, the person realized that too little
consideration had gone into his letter. He wrote a

they represent. Then, if they see they aren't going
to get elected, they throw their votes to someone
who can, who belongs to the party, most friendly
to their interests. It is acknowledged by the Green
party that it has no chance of winning in the
coming election. This is the best way the party can
make a real differnce now, until the day it has
grown enough to get candidates elected and form
 government., I personally look forward to that

y.

Even though Andrea did not say she would do
this, the person apologized to her for the tone of
his first letter and they each agreed that the other
was acting out of deep convictions. Lewis was told
before he wrote the newspapers that this was a
persot issue that had been resolved, but it was
of no interest to him. He represented it as a

i knife-in-the-guts drama
which bears no resemblence to what really
happened. He characterizes us as saying we were
“only kidding’? when Andrea turned us down, but
no one here has said that.

The substantive issues should be considered
by all environmentally concerned people and
debated in public, if necessary? but our energies
will be wasted if our attention is diverted to
fanning personal conflicts rather than resolvilng
them.

Grant Copeland
New Denver

40 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 23, 1950
Castle News

(From. an_ editorial, Mother
Goose’s Last Stand): Tough-talking
comic book characters such as Dick
Tracy and Secret Agent X-9 are
reported ousting kindly Mother
Hubbard and self-satisfied Little
Jack Horner from the affections of

Castlegar News

“Burt Campbell is right now,”
said the leaflets on the chairs.

Rossland-Trail Social
apparently agree, as they handed him
the Social Credit nomination for the
riding on the first ballot
night. The 286 voting
for Burt’s record as a three-year

Canadian Cellulose here.
5 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 24, 1985

Crediters Castlegar News

next few years.

Selkirk College is going to try to
attract more foreign students in the

Stanley Humphries secondary
school had its best showing ever at
B.C. Secondary School Swim Cham-
pionships Saturday.

SHSS captured fourth place and
14 medals at the two-day com-
J petition on the Lower Mainland.

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children in some parts of Canada.
Experts say the bad effects of the
change may be felt far beyond the
nursery walls.

* 6* 8

Gerry Wanless, well-known local
athlete, and Mrs. Wanless, were
feted Friday, Nov. 17 by a banquet
and dance in the Coronation Hall in
Castlegar. Members of the various:
Castlegar ball teams and numerous
fans turned out to show their ap-
preciation for the work which Gerry
has done in building sport in the
community.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 25, 1965
Castlegar News

The municipal election in
Castlegar and Kinnaird this year is
expected to be the liveliest in many
years.

A chairmanship race is assured at
Kinnaird while a third hat is now in
the ring for the mayoralty race in
Castlegar.

Jack Hipwell, a Kinnaird resident
who is employed as a salesman with
Anderson Agencies at Castlegar, an-
nounced Monday he will face in-
cl nt Carl Loeblich for the
“chairmanship of Kinnaird council

while the same day veteran municipal

figure R.C. Maddocks announced he

will run for mayor of Castlegar.
Comm. Murray Little and former

village chairman N.T. Oglow have

already announced they will be

mayoralty candidates.

. *

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The department of highways ‘‘will
do our best to start work on the
Kinnaird-Salmo highway as soon as
possible’ but its first objective is to
complete the road linking the new

Kinnaird and Brilliant bridges.
. .

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running in the upcoming election — Andrea

Wright of the Green party. |
‘Any of your readers who happen-to know

Colleen McCrory as well as I do will know just

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disclosed to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the right
to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality,
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how ridicylous this accusation is. Not only am I

member of W.A.C. Bennett’s 20-
year Socred dynasty in preference to
Bob Barter’s campaign appeal of
new life in the party and Trail
alderman Walt Siemens’ pitch as an
honest community-oriented
politician.
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