CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 14, 1977 April 15th & 16th at the West Kootenay Presenting the Widest & Most Varied Display of Products Ever , Assembled i in the West Kootenays! © Sporting Goods e Home Furnishings Specialty Shops ° Recreational Vehicles ¢ Arts & Crafts ¢ Farm Equipment © Gardening °* Heavy Equipment © Great Outdoors © Sports Cars 7 © Home Improvement © Boats & Cars A Special Events. Throughout the Fair! © $1,000 Cash Raffle Each Day. ¢ Bavarian Garden . © Vintage Car Display © Kootenay Kiltie Band © Kootenay School of Art Display © Trail Militia (Engineering) All this and much, much more at the . Castlegar Arena Complex © Over 60 Exhibitors | © Over 35,000 sq. ft. of Display Area Admission: : ae $1.50 Pensioners: $1 -00 Students: 50c’ Children under 6: FREE COME SEE THESE PARTICIPATING RETAILERS & MANUFACTURERS! Nutri-Health Foods, Trail Bicycle Shop, Kootenay. Credit Union, K. C. Distributing, B.C. Human Resources, Quality Building Products, - f Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Sam's Nursery, Yorn Barn, Handicapped Association, C. LePage, Silvester's Food Mart, Twin Rivers Glass, Markin Equipment, Electrolux, Kootenay Furnace, P.W.A., C.K.Q.2., Klothes Kloset, Up-Date Fashions, Southern Glass, Nelson Stationers, Merriman Music, Trowelex, Valley Automotive, Scout Association, Marvel Products, Bartle & Gibson, Tomorrow Furniture, Castlegar Bicycle Shop, C.J.A.T., R.C.M.P., Cowan Office ‘Supplies, Nelson-Trail District Labour Council, Interior Armour Plating, Kay Motors, G.LS. Electronics, Anvil Iron Works, Vernon Machine, Helen's Flower Shop, Castlegar Plumbing, Inland Natural Gas, Red Mountain Truck P&G Builders Supply, Henne’s Marina, Mitchell Auto Parts, Castlegar News, Kelly’s, Tu-Dor Sports, Ed's 's Recreational Sales,” ‘Fisher Motors, . |. Mike's Mobile Homes K&L Mechanical, Barrett Trailer Sales, Mitchell Supply, -Playmor: Homes, Jones Boys Marine, Speedway Motors | £- Seeing is Believing! . Daily eg i : cate SOlgpelle ” LEGAR see : Published Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” EWS | Years Young © TWO, SECTIONS (A&B) "CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1977 TERE. 25 CENTS (HOME DELIVERY 22 CENTS) aus _Keolatay West MP Bob Bri, with Lions Zone Chairman , Clay Cale with Booth Attendants Supervisor Norm Woll,and Werker, Louise Bate * Sponsored by the Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club. x LTT mee Tae — Out for NEC Core-Funding Miss laterior of Diese rastassie ad Miss Cacticbar JoAnn Waa sare Fubboa-Custing Duties Destog ie Oficial Opens ol Trade Fai 77: : 19-E-5, Walter Holuboff, Examine * contest wi weekend for two in Vancouver, National Exhibition Centre ° thin empenime: ; Six Months Left Tt Grace Sells Tourer By RYON |GUEDES Editor, Castlegar News “It's the government's job to’ tell the. world about’ our ‘‘province but it's our citizens’ responsibility to’ make sure tourists’ get’ their. money's worth and leave with happy memories,” ‘That was how Travel In- dustry Minister Grace Mc- Carthy described Sunday the vi + provincial government's role in plans to boost B.C.'s $1 billion-" a-year industry to $2 billion by dotted + with “municipal. officials gh ‘Although’ a8 Be. ‘largest industry touris: ge ‘ated ‘more income in 1976 than. both the fishing and agriculture +, industries combined, the actual “number. of tourists ‘coming to the province has declined in the “‘past two years, McCarthy said. “We've gotito tell our story in: this province better,” she said. “Wi “know we have ‘the best plac in the world to visit, ~KBCC Slogan Prize Taking her 75-minute-long audio-visual presentation to ; ‘Nelson ‘under the sponsorship of the Kootenay.” Boundary . “Chambers -of Commerce, Mc-.,- » Carthy told a packed audience id but it’s the little irritations that put tourists off.” Problems with U.8.-Cana- dian currency, exchanges ‘are among the most irritating, the minister said. i “l have. watched people shop ‘when ' the U.S. ‘dollar is making things easier for tour- ” In | addition, service businesses should be creating more attractions and bargains for visitors, such. as tourist dividend books, arts and crafts and architectural tours, Me- Carthy said. She: said communities in the Kootenay region, which has the “highest percentage of heritage and pioneer homes in B.C.", should take advantage of By RYON GUEDES Editor, Castlegar News Castlegar's National Exhi- bition Centre could lose its federal .government , core- funding: assistance grant as soon as six months from now, a ‘ Canadian| Museums Corpora- tion representative warned Tuesday night. Marie-Andre Morisset, NEC program co-ordinator, told the audience at a special opening of an art exhibition by Trail painter Vatenka Fanderlik that the corporation has given the centre a six-month exten- sion in which to ‘secure com- munity support, in order to qualify for further core funding. “You must make the com: munity aware that this centre is going through a crisis,” she said. “It may lose its status as a National Exhibition Centre.” “\ (For editorial comment on the National Exhibition Centre, please see page 7B.) Morisset: said one-third of the $60,000°' budget ‘for. the centre—one of four in B.C.—is provided ‘by the core’ grants. Thé remaining $40,000 will have to be raised by the com- munity. “We contribute, but we _ don't take over the operation of the centres,” Morisset told the Castlegar’ News after her speech. “We've allowed ther six months to show that the. the parks and minis- try's to-be d pro- “gram for restoration and pres- ervation of historical buildings. _ The conelision of U.S. bi- will pi ipate ani tangible interest in it.” *- She said the deadline may help to provoke a response in . “because people and the sdrought conditions in several ites have combined to make B.C...“thé | logical; destination” summer, the we'did mer, we shouldn't worry, about aoe “B,C: offers'a respite’ from the give them te right exchange is‘to:call the bank’ every morning and find out: what ‘the rate-is.” 5 “The; enemy ~ to ‘tourist. B dollars is ‘apathy, is’ indiffer- ence, is discourtesy,” she said. “We're in the service business, we serve people. We should be ‘Now Includes Trip The ‘winner of ‘the Koot-" “enay Boundary Chambers of Commares hospitality. slogan be receiving a free : in addition to the $50 cash prize previously offered, Travel In- dustry ‘Minister Grace Mc- ‘ m Carthy announced Sunday. ‘McCarthy, who learned of the slogan contest during her presentation in Nelson, said the ‘trip. to Vancouver’ will include air “fare, accommodations, meals, and a trip on the Royal -. Hudson. «; » The purpose of the contest to obtain an appropriate slogan * test, open to all resid to be used in’ the Kootenay. Boundary Chambers of Com- merce campaign ‘to encourage visitors to extend their stayin. the area. According to ‘contest rules, slogans should be'no more than 6 words in length so they can be used on’: badges’. or, bumper stickers. 4 Entries should be, sent to “Hospitality Contest” c/o Koot- enay Boundary Chambers. of Commerce, Box 10, Kimberley, B.C. VIA 2¥6, 0° * Closing date for. the con- heat those people from the U.S. have to bear.” Meanwhile, the .govern- ment :will. be busy : promoting B.C. tourism , with: such. pres- entations, as. the: steam loco- motive Royal Hudson's tour {continued on page (16A) » Daylight:Saving ~ Switch-Over 2 A.M. Sunday Daylight’ Saving © Time starts at ‘2 a.m. on Sunday morning. , Ifyou don’t want to he late for ehureh or work on Sunday, residents of this area should iput their clocks ahead one bour when retiring Saturday even- ing. ‘The lost hour's sleep will be made up when the provinee i reverts to Standard Time ‘at 2'' a.m. on Oct. 30.°°; Remembers your clock Springs Ahead in. the spring, and Fall Back one ‘hour in the: fall. At of the Kootenay Boundary, area, is May. 10. - 5 ‘School Burns: . ‘While Firemen’. ‘Look On.. Members of the North :, Castlegar Fire Department” looked on while the 67-year-old Castlegar’ Elementary“ School building burned to the Bround Monday’ night. © The. blaze. was - “s well: ‘attended confined fire" and the department was just “there to ride herd on it,” fire chief Ed * Lewis told the Castlegar News - Tuesday. “Tt eliminated the building asa hazard, and it saved the - school < board’ some © money,” Lewis said..“And it was good practice for the men.” “oy Lewis "said | the fire’-re- ; |, quired. attendance and contro! because the wooden building was dry and -fire department. : smembers knew. the fire would < give off an excessive amount of : heat. % The building, built in 1910, had been sold for salvage early s this year and had been stripped before the fire was ignited, Lewis said. work harder when ‘there's a date to work toward.” ‘But although financial’ sup- port from the community may increase core grants. will only increase in ainount as. available * ‘the rain. I've had people tell me. « 3 three years while the demand has increased.” + “People constantly refer to this centre as belonging to the people und ‘serving their needs," NEC administrator Duane Harder ' told” the audience, “That means the centre needs the support of the people.” He urged the audience to contact their representatives on city council and make their vigws on the centre known, “To raise this ‘kind ' of ‘matching. support. we: are asking you to take this message back through your aldermen so as'to recelve the support of the ‘community,” he said. ‘He suggested representa- tives of service clubs could help in donating such items as cleaning and printing equip- ment to the centre. * Maxine | Dewdney, presi- dent of the Trail Arts Council, suggested the centre's lack of interest ‘from the’ community was a result of the “low profile” it has taken’ since its concep- tion. “I don't think this com- munity has been made aware of the need for finding funds for this project,” she said. Dewdney © said although she supported the existence of the NEC, the other regions the centre serves, including Trail, should have been consulted in its planning. “It’s really not situated so “it is accessible to us, or even Castlegar,” she said. Exhibitor Velenka said she found it hard to accept that the centre was “actually. not ours, + and: so easy. to lose.” “Tt is elegant, spacious and : useful,” she said. “I think such a place deserves to be kept even if it came’ to us witho asking. for it.” ‘The “NEC wad ‘officially’ By ‘Unseen Assailant . 0 A’ senior “nurse | was -at- tacked Saturday morning by an unknown’ assailant ‘in. the Castelgar and District Hospital, police said yesterday. An RCMP spokesman said‘: the victim was walking in the hallway near’ the.” emergency treatment'room when she was struck from behind on the head with an intravenous bottle. She sustaitied ‘minor injuries from the attack, the spokesman said. Police « are * “investigating . the attack and for the + request of. the hospital board and. ‘the |v Neither. board’ spbkesman would con- - firm whether the nurse was the ‘vietim'of a similar attack which 22;° 1969-nurse Moira McFarlane was the victim of an attack by ~ three youths. Nurse. McFarlan » at that time, sustained minor cuts from © one youth wielding what ‘was. described asa pocket knife. Th assailant or assailants. : . The | hospital’ board has introduced stricter security measures at. the. hospital, particularly: pleased with the - color scheme and lighting. * +. /\After completing the tour of the facilities, “the Lord's Prayer was read and everyone was treated to homemade Doukhobor biscuits and rasp- berry juice. ‘Having viewed several community facilities in this area on previous occasions and again » during her weekend visit, Mrs. McCarthy ‘was: high, in her its ‘community. spirited. pe _and organizations. E ‘A Year Age Headlines from the front: . page.of the Castlegar News aly April. 22, Ftd Polaeaee Usage Grows But Not Alrport Profits f Gly reget ee Dano Raspberry Village Residents To Have Cable TV by Fall? . e tee Local Pilots Get Briefing ‘On Tower Control Routine ea Ne praise of the Castlegar area and