ry} January 26, 1986 — ESTABLISHED AUG. 7. 147 rey Ci snasnnen OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCR News TWACE WEEKLY MAY 4. 1980 a Ly CAMPmeLL ONCE OF COPYRIGHT, Fu! compiane ond sol ¢ asthe Wows Ud prow PUBLISHER AUD. 7, 1947-0. 15. 1979 om repre pools, engrenings. HC. pr Why the Not much media attention hos been salle to the wilderness ad- committee hearings now hoard held around the province. Yet, the committee's recom- mendations to the provincial government will have o huge im- pact on the Kootenays That's because two of the creas under review are in our own yard: Kokanee Provincial Park and Just this week Cominco Ltd. told the committee in Cranbrook that more flexibility is needed in wilderness conservancies so that mining companies have the option of exploring for minerals. 4t was clear that Cominco would love to get into the Purcells to set up some sort of mine for the time when it must finally close its Sullivan Mine at Kimberley. A forestry advocate also ex- pressed an interest in the conser- review? vancy, saying it contains good stands of timber. And it is well known that mining proponents have wanted for some time to have access to Kokanee Provincial Park. While the committee's stated mandate is to review the boun- daries of the Purcell conservancy and Kokanee park, along with the boundaries of 22 other wilderness areas and provincial parks, the hearings appear to be really just a plattorm for the resource industry to make yet another pitch for get- ting into our park system. But should we keep putting our parks under this kind of scrutiny? Parks were not established simply for this generation or the next, but I IMPLEMENTS USED FOR EXTORTION AND ROBBERY THROUGHOUT THE. AGES as a legacy for ge to come. If we continue to review park boundaries every five or 10 years, it will be only a matter of time before we chip away at them. Before we know it there will hardly be anything left worth preserving. Change gas taxes Recent concerns that Canadian gas prices may score off U.S. tourists planning to attend Expo 86 are well intentioned, but untoun- It's true that Canadian gas prices @re too high. And it's also true that provincial and federal taxes are largely to blame. But an article this week in the Vancouver Sun made it clear that there is little evidence to support fears that the high cost of gos will hurt tourism. The article points out that accor- ding to auto clubs in San Francisco and Chicago, os well os B.C. government tourism offices in San Francisco and Seattle, Americans aren't ender about Canadian ges pric ‘One official noted that the ex- PPicacsch rate for the American dollar is a much bigger attraction than the high gas price is a deterrent. Americans are more in- terested in the deals their dolior can get on food, ac and other things, than on gas prices. So for Castlegar council, Liberal leader John Turner and others to appeal to the federal and provin- cial governments to lower gas taxes on the basis of Expo 86 just doesn't make sense. That doesn't mean gas taxes shouldn't come down. They should, but for a different reason. They are plainly and simply an unfair tax. Energy Minister Pat Carney ad- mitted as much this week in the House of Commons when she said extra taxes on gasoline were put on to help pay for “ ‘some of the social services Canadians want." Letters to the Editor Public funds used for political gain Editer, Castlegar News: What a wonderful coincidence! of your tax dollars have been used by the left wing CBC and the socialist National Film Board to produce a TV program ee to the NDP position on northeast “Megadream” also shows Goebbers classic dictum about lies retold, regularly beginning to appear as truth, which applies very well to a modern medium like television. Asserting that southeast coal ton- nage has declined since northeast coal’s best ates the program's underlying descent. In fact, total southeast coal tonnage has increased from 10.7 million tonnes in 1980 to 11.5 million tonnes in 1983 to 15.5 million tonnes in 1984 and an estimated 15.7 million tonnes in 1985. Images suggesting causel relations between northeast coal and Vancouver food lines are as absurd as would be images linking northeast coal to similar lines in Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Halifax. Coincidence also, no doubt, that Len Lauk, whose CBC Region aired the propaganda, is the brother of Gary Lauk, the self-same then NDP cabinet minister who initially announced northeast coal in 1975, just prior to that year's election. Isn't it nice to use public funds for political purposes while breadlines remain in Vancouver. Ken Johnston Richmond Belczyk deserves — better Felix Samet @ scores much better headlines than “Belezyk suffers loss!” Here is our local Castlegar boy who comes in fourth in the downhill race in Austria and all you print is a copy a few days later from the Canadian Press, with the above stated headlines. Surely some local article could have been put in the newspaper with a heading: “Congratulations Felix”! Margaret Pryce Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the Jan, 25, 1951 Castlegar News The Castlegar board of commission ers met Monday evening under the chairmanship of Mr. J, Dunlop in a private committee of council to discuss bylaw revisions. ‘The new snowplow is proving to be a great success, Not only is it being used to clear Castlegar streets and lanes but it has been used in Kinnaird and in clearing the airport runways of our recent heavy fall of snow. . * The Public Health Branch is con- ducting an Accommodation Survey in the Kootenays on instruction#'from the provincial government. The survey is presumably being carried out for the evacuation of refugees from coastal areas in the event of hostilities. ‘The actual on-the-spot survey is being carried out by the Public Health Nurses within their own districts, under the direction of their supervisor Dr. Anderson. The Castle-Bar rail opened its winter playground last Friday night and entertained about 40 guests during the evening. They were entertained with sleigh rides, skiing and tobagganing followed by dancing and refreshments in the cabin The tobaggan run is being changed this week and the new location will give a longer ride and pass up that bump . 28 8 The Castlegar Princes of Syracuse Hockey team trimmed Salmo in their first game of the season in Salmo, on Friday last, the score being 7-6. 25 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 26, 1961 Castlegar News Extensive damage due to fire and smoke resulted at the Twin Rivers Mote! last Thursday when the local detachment of the RCMP helped put down a fire at the motel. Because it is located outside of the municipal boundaries of either Castle gar or Kinnaird in the Sherbiko sub- division, the fire departments of Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Cast News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, B.C In fact, the next “gi price increase is Jan. 1, 1987 when another cent a litre will be tacked on to finance the federal pension plan. That would bring the total taxes on a litre of gasoline to 33 cents, or more than 50 per cent of the cost of ges. In i state the taxes That's success? U.S. Air Force officials called this week's test flight of an unarmed U.S. cruise missile a “success” despite the fact the missile crashed 12 kilometres short of its target. The nose cone, containing the missile’s two parachutes and in- strumentation, was shattered and the gure itself was broken into three piec: The crash ‘also led Air Force of- ficials to scrap plans for a similar test Friday. if that’s “success”, we'd hate to see what would have happened if the test had been a failure. consume less | than half that — only 23 per cent of the gos pr But then gas prices in Washington state are the equivalent of 42 cents a litre, instead of 57.7 cents Castlegar driyers must pay. The answer to high gas prices is of course to stop using gos as G vehicle for paying for social ser- vices. Social services should be paid for out of income taxes, where those who make more money pay more and those who earn less, pay less. By continuing this policy of using gas toxes to pay for government services, the governments are taxing people who can least afford it — the poor and unemployed — at the same rate they're taxing the middle class and the wealthy. And changing that policy is the only way Canadians will ever see gas prices begin to fall. Quotable Quotes A 59-YEAR-OLD New York con struction worker who won a $30 million lottery this week, in reply toa question about what he planned to do first: “Go home and lay on my couch.” DR. EARL MYERS, president of the Ontario Medical Association, comment ing on the province's new law to ban extra-billing: “This law is the worst in Canada . . . the worst anywhere in the world — even behind the Iron Curtain.” SUBWAY VIGILANTE Bernhard Goetz, who was acquitted this week of attempted murder: “The whole sys tem, the world, is screwed up and doesn't know what direction to take.” THE MAN WHO sold the $10.2 million winning Lotto 649 ticket, Euelid St. Denis, discovered this week that while some provinces such as Quebec provide ticket sellers with one per cent of winning tickets (worth more than $100,000 in this case), Ontario will allow him only $1,500 $1,000 for selling and winning ticket plus $100 for each week the grand prize was not won. “Well as they say, every cloud has its silver li the cloud. INCREASING heribicide use in B.C. forests is not a cause for alarm, John Cuthbert, chief forester for the provin- cial government, said this week. “The problem isn't herbicides,” said Cuthbert, who used to be manager for the Nelson forest region. “It’s vege- tation management. That's the real-is- sue.” TED ODDER figured last month’ s Fort Lauderdale, Florida telephone bill would be the usual few hundred dollars. Instead his bill was 20 centimetres thick, weighed a couple of kilograms and was delivered in a shoe box by United Parcel Service. “We opened the sucker up and had heart failure,” Odder said. “It's not often somebody gets 2 phone bill for more than $30,000. The bill was a mistake. Brisco One term that often comes up in discussions on how to improve air service to Castlegar is that of the microwave landing system (MLS). And I expect that term will be used more and more now that the Ministry of Transport has announced that it intends to install an MLS at Castlegar between 1989 and 1992. The installation of an MLS at the Castlegar Airport is part of a $450 million program being embarked upon by the government of Canada to replace all instrument landing systems (ILS) with new microwave technology by the year 1998. The program will see the installation of about 150 microwave systems at across the country, with Castlegar included in the program's first phase. Briefly, the new microwave landing system consists of a series of ground-based antennae which project scanning beams to measure an aircraft's distance, elevation and approach angles. The MLS also requires on-board computers to provide the pilot with a read-out of the information gathered on the ground. ‘The advantages of an MLS appear to be many. It will allow greater flexibility in the approach a pilot chooses, including high-angle approaches which are often necessary in mountainous terrain. Also, MLS signals will not be effected by buildigs and other large objects which tend to distort ILS signals. In addition, an MLS will provide much larger approach “window’ to 70 nautical miles wide to a height of 20,000 feet. That compares with a window only 2.7 nautical miles wide provided by an ILS. A larger window permits more flexible use of the airspace surrounding an airport by establishing several approach paths, instead of the single ILS path. MLS at Pemberton was jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments. The province vigorously pursued the Pemberton installation because of its necessity in terms of the tourism industry at the nearby Whistler resort. Again, the federal Ministry of ‘Dransport will be able to extract useful information from Pemberton, which incidentally, shares terrain similarities with Castlegar. However, Pemberton is viewed as being far more severe. The systems are rep! conventional instrument systems at airports world-wide. The Interna- tional Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has made a firm decision that MLS will replace ILS by the year 2000. At the present time there are only a few microwave systems operating at airports throughout North America, but the number is growing rapidly. In the United States, where an MLS program similar to that of Canada’s has been adopted, 1,250 microwave systems are to be installed and operating by the end of the century. So far, there are only a small number of the new systems operating, including Fairbanks, Alaska, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and two private airstrips in Colorado. In Canada, most of the official testing is being carried out at Uplands Airport near Ottawa, but the Ministry of Transport will also be watching closely as microwave systems are introduced at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, and Nanaimo and Pemberton, British Columbia, as well as at two si i Alberta where the provincial government has installed MLSs on its own. The MLS ii Uh h is a sharp 7.7 degrees, compared with the three degree approach permitted by the conven: tional ILS. According to Eric Anonsen, the Chief Pilot at Air BC, without an MLS, “it would be impossible to set up any sort of schedule at Pemberton.” Air BC is the airline most committed to service at both Pemberton and Nanaimo, and will be shelling out $20,000 per plane for the equipment needed to take advantage of the MLS benefits. But Air BC says it is happy to make the investment as the advantages of the MLS will allow airlines to set up far more reliable schedules, d provide better year-round service, particularly to airports such as Pemberton and Castlegar. As Chief Pilot Anonsen puts it: t's as if microwave landing systems were designed with B.C. in mind.” Details of the Canadian MLS program are still tentative, and the firmest date I have been able to pin down for the Castlegar installa tion is 1991;the same year that Kelowna will get its MLS. The reason given me by Transport Minister Don Mazankowski for that date is that with first installations scheduled to take place in 1988, “two to three years of MLS at is the result of a deal struck between the municipality, the federal and provincial governments, and an aviation company in Calgary who heard of an MLS unit available in Texas at a reasonable price. Although that system may not be compatible with equipment still to be chosen for the Canadian MLS program, the federal government decided to participate anyway, because information gathered at Nanaimo will be helpful in the implementation of the rest of the systems nationwide. Similarly, the installation of an p experience must be acquired at less difficult sites before work can begin at sites where moutainous terrain prevails. Being one of the most difficult sites in this respect, Castlegar has been scheduled into the program as early safety considerations will permit.” I plan to closely monitor the progress of the MLS Project Office to determine whether or not the program is ahead of schedule. If it should be, you can be assured I will pursue an earlier installation of a microwave landing system at Castlegar. neither y could deal with the blaze. . . 8 A school building program that would see 14 elementary school rooms and a 300-pupil senior high school built in School District No. 9 has been for warded to department of education of ficials at Victoria for their study. The senior high schoo! will require about 10 acres of ground and three possible sites are presently being studied . 8 8 A drive for funds for the Kinnaird swimming pool to try and provide swimming for children by the end of June will be held Mon. Feb. 6, swim. ming pool society president E.M. Me Gauley announced this week The value of the land and work now done at the site of the pool is about $12,000. Completion of the swimming pool floor, piping gallery and apron around the pool, and installation of a filter and chlorinator have yet to be done before swimming can start A successful band concert was held by the Stanley Humphries High School junior-senior band last Thursday even ing in the activity room of the high school 15 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 28, 1971 Castlegar News Last Friday evening, Trail witnessed one of the best basketball games of the season. With only a few minutes remaining SHSS was behind nine points, but the boys came from behind to win by two points. Fourteen points of the total 46 points were made by Phil Koochin. Brian Polovnikoff was right behind with 13. ._ 8 6 5 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 25, 1981 Castlegar News Work should resume this week on renovating the Castlegar liquor store. Fame Construction Ltd. of Trail pulled its men off the job Dec. 12 at the request of the distribution branch so clerks would have an easier time coping with the Christmas trade. The company had hopes to start up again after New Year's Day, but the liquor branch decided to make signi ficant changes in the design . liquor Last weekend saw the Stanley Humphries Rockers put together three fine basketball games and place second in the 1981 J.L. Crowe Cagebowl. This is the first time in six years that the Rockers have earned one of the top two places in the four-team tournament First City Investments has returned to its original proposal to build a 73,500-square-foot shopping centre in the 1500 block on Columbia Avenue. First City representatives Tim Clark and Jack McConnachie asked city council to extend their one-year dead. line for submitting working drawings. TEACHERS’ « » » Castlegar teacher jeacher Davine MEETING Bird talks to primary teachers about organizing and meeting held recently. facilitating reading programs during primary teachers Auxiliary kept busy The outgoing year culmin ated in a flurry of activities for the Castlegar Hospital Auxiliary. On Dee. 16, a suc cessful “in-hospital” bake sale was held. Later in the afternoon the Christmas trees were set up and decorated in the hospital and in the evening, a com- bination meeting — gift ex- . Castlegar Writers Guild has announced it is holding a short story contest for stu dents. Stories must be typed or neatly written and of the fol lowing maximum length: Kindergarten to Grade 3 — 250 words; Grades 4 to 6 — 500 words; Grades 7 to 9 — 500 words; Grades 10 to 12 — approximately 750 words. Students should include their full name, address and phone number as well as the name of their school, teacher and their grade. All pages must be num bered, double-spaced and written on one side. Entries become the prop- erty of the Writers Guild and students are advised to make photocopies. Students may submit their stories to their teacher or drop them off at 3012 Ave. in Castlegar. Deadline is Feb. 11. Job openings Details of these and other job opportunities are available ot Troll Conade 835 Spokane Street Phone: 368-5566 A certified Tree Trimmer is 2 yeors related experience is necessary. ( A Manag required for a major merchan Applicants will 2. be mobile and coreer oriented. (18M) A local dentist requires o cer tified Assistent.. Woges up to $10.00 per hour. (9E) An opening exists for an ex perienced upholster. (161) year contract basis mation on qualifications visit the change took place in the conference room. A hilarious bake auction highlighted the evening tended car residents brought smiles of joy and the tray favors that Clara Gerrand provides on all special oc- casions added a festive touch. A New Year's greeting from president Tony Ackney opened the first meeting of 1986. She informed the mem bers that she presented a silver spoon to the area's first New Year's baby. It was also decided that the tentative dates for the semi- annual rummage sale would be April 18 and 19. More news on this main fund-raiser later. On Dec. 24 auxiliary vol- unteers purchased and as- sembled fruit baskets for distribution to patients on Christmas Day. Board mem- ber and auxiliant, Tina Leitch helped Santa distribute gifts and baskets to all the pati- ents. The corsages and boutin nieres she pinned on the ex Young favor By TIM NAUMETZ OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative party has lost ground substantially in sup- port from younger voters since last summer while the Liberals have decisively re gained lost territory in the younger age brackets, a na tional poll suggests. The poll, taken earlier this month by Angus Reid Asso ciates Ltd. of Winnipeg, sug: gests that the Liberals hold 40 per cent of decided voters between the ages of 18 and 34, compared with 32 per cent for the Tories and 26 for the New Democrats. That compares to a poll of decided voters taken by the PLAZA SUPER-VALU SUNDAY STORE HOURS 11 am -5 pm The Castlegar News apologizes to the Plaza SuperValu store and its customers for the error in Sunday store hours in the ad of January 22, 1986. voters Grits same firm last June that showed the Tories well ahead for the same age group with 46-per-cent support and the Liberals and New Democrats virtually tied with 26 per cent and 27 per cent res- pectively. The January opinion of voters aged 18-34 was in cluded in a wider poll which Reid released to six news papers last weekend. Of 1,152 decided voters who responded to the survey, 494 were in that age bracket, meaning the survey of the age group is accurate to within two percentage points 19 of 20 times, Reid says. STAN “Your Ford Country Headquarters’ Save $$$ with the Auto Sellers at A.M. FORD VOLUME DISCOUNTS ON ALL PURCHASES & LEASES A.M.FORD guemus 2795 Highway Drive in Glenmerry Trail DL. 7336 ics 2% DENNIS FRED The official delegate to the 's to be Primary teachers discuss reading Castlegar primary teachers met for their fourth general meeting of the year in the Grade 1 room of Woodland Park Lorraine Deans, the group investigated the many facets of Davine Bird led po group through a thorough Nelson man awarded money By CasNews Staff A 33-year-old Nelson man was one of 54 people awarded money in December under B.C.'s Criminal Injury Com- pensation Act. The man was attacked, punched and kicked repeate- diy by a male assailant for no P held in March at the coast will be Margaret Davidson. Patsy Popoff, past-pres- ident, presented a report from the hospital board meet- ing. Reports from committee convenors indicate that our hospital auxiliary is thriving and looks forward to another busy season. New members are wel come. Auxiliary meetings are held 7:30 p.m. every third Monday at the hospital. ppar reason and suffered multiple bruises to his head, face and neck, says a ne release from the Workers’ Compensation Board which administers the Act. For loss of wages and in- juries the man was awarded $1,910. The names of criminal in- jury compensation recipients are not released in order to protect their privacy. Under the act, anyone who is a vietim of crime in B.C. KINNAIRD WI MEETING HELD The first meeting of the year of the Kinnaird Wom en's Institute was held at the home of Kay Bate. Members answered the roll call with postage stamps collected for the Queen Alexandra Solar ium in Vancouver. 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