MIXING CHEMICALS for extinguishing forest fires is a small in-
dustry in itself, as practised at Castlegar and District airport.
About a dozen men are working at the airport to make up the

hich is loaded in

“mud” and wat

bombers and dropped on ne flames, The war against the Sent
fire

hours and into the night. |
— Castlegar News Photo

sive business of fighting fores!

and on the job as quickly as

BEHIND THE SCENES work continues dh the ‘complex, expen-
es,
‘water. bombers can ‘be seen shuttling back ‘and forth from the
airport to the scene of the raging fire. Abo'
expertly refuels one of the Avengers, to gt it back.into the air.
possible. Pilots leave their craft only
|briefly, if at all, during refueling and loading operations. Their
day is a long hard one, with death only a win;

ie Canso and Avenger

ve, an airport worker |

gspan away.
— Castlegar News Photo

Results of Swim Competition at Kinnaird’s Celebration

Kinnaird's celebration upon
becoming a town last Satur
was an event geared especially
to the youth.

Competition with special
appeal was the swim
which took place at the pool, a
portion of which is the new
town’s Centennial project.

Full results of the meet are
as follows:

Girls 9 and under

25 yd. freestyle: Heather
MacKenzie, 28.2 sec.; Elaine
Gordon; Darlene Jackson.

25 yard backstroke: Jack-
son, MacKenzie, Gordon.

Dog, paddle:
Jackson, Gordon.

Aggregate winner: Heather
MacKenzie.

Boys 9 and under

25 yard freestyle: Jeff Yule,

24.8; Brad Earp, Danny Stuart.

meet, | Yule.

MacKenzie, Paul,

25 yard back crawl: Yule,

turday | Paul Kivakin, Donald Paul,

Dog paddle: Yule; Richard
Paul; Earp.
Aggregate winner: Jeff
Girls 12 and under

50 yard freestyle: Shelda
Paul, 42 sec.; Louise Lamarche;
Deborah Brownlie. ,

50 yard breaststroke: Brown-
lie, 1:12.2; Paul, Lamarche,

50 yard back crawl: Paul,
1,00; Lamarche; Brownlie.

Individual medley: Paul,
2: 204; Lamarche, Toews.

Boys 12 and under:

60 yard freestyle: John Hal- | &
ey, 86.2 sec.; Lawrence Gordon; | p,
Pat Goetting.

50 yard " preaststroke: be

PUBLIC

NOTICE

Regional District of Central Kootenay

Pat
Aggregate winner: sean Paul.

Synopsis of: By-law No. 16

This is a By-law to authorize the submission of a
Referendum to the owner tors of Electoral Areas

Mykyie, 49.8 sec; Goetting; Gor-

50 yard back crawl: Haley,
2 sec,; Gordon; Goetting.
i Gord

Lamarche; Andrea Paul; Sorge,
Individual medley: Jacqui
Lamarche; Andrea Paul; Sorge.
Aggregate winner: Jacqui

Haley; Goetting.

Aggregate winner:
Haley.
Girls 14 and under

50 yard freestyle: Andrea
Paul, ae sec; Anita Sorge;
Shelda Paul,

50 yard breaststroke: Rita
Deverneys 53.4 sec.; Sorge; An-

‘aul.
"50 5 yard back crawl: Andrea
Paul, 53 sec.; Sorge; Shelda

John

Individual medley: Sorge,
ee Andrea Paul; Rita Dev-

 Kgeregate winner: Andrea
Paul.

Boys 14 and under
50 yard freestyle: Dave Mc-
Lellan, 34. sec.; Lyle Archam-
bault; Laurence Haley and Dan
Arishenkott tied for third.
50 y. breaststroke: Ar-
ishenkott; 3 McLellan; Haley.
50 yard crawi: McLellan,
ae sec.; Arishenkoff; ‘Archam-

enteereeste winner: Dave Mc-

Gar 16 and under
100 yard ‘

L
Boys 16 and under
100 yard freestyle: Ed Sorge;
Dave McLellan; Dave Munns,
100 yard McLel-

BACK TO: THE SKY is the word for this sraianel one of'a group
being' used in the fight against the Sent fire, w)

Sentinel: Mountain near Castlegar. | Believed ‘umrted by. human
carelessnéss, the fire now has ranged over more then 4,000 acres
and has cost untold thousands of dollars. The dan;

xpert pilots must make to drop their
bright pink ‘‘mud" on the flames. The huge craft continue their
flights through the daylight hours in an effort to minimize the
}damage from forest fires such as the Sent fire.

maneuvers these e:

AT LAST
ANEW
INTERIOR. .
LATEX PAINT
guaranteed
to cover -

in one coat !

— Castlegar Newa Photo

A colorful ‘sidelight from,
the past was given Saturday by)

ridge, one of a group of special
guests who were | here for ‘ the

lan, 1:85.2; Sorge: Wayne Rut-
land.

50 yard back crawl: Sorge;
McLellan; Munns,

Individual _ medley: Sorge; | vin
Munns; Fred Tomlin,

Aggregate. . winner: Ed
Sorge.

Sentonaial Helicopter |.
Lands at SHSS Sept. 8s

The C

.,J'was’' to vest the word

Kinnaird’s

Mr. Herridge recalled the

Kaslo-
Nakusp MLA Charlie Nelson ‘in

se of the Jegislation
village
jeu: some sort of official mean-,

Before this time, explained
Mr. Herridge, there was no of-
ficial. recognition for the con-
gent of village — a town was
the smallest legal form of civic

will ps in Castlegar Sept. 8.
Coming here as a part of a
coast- to-coast tour, tha famous
eee will ‘land at SHSS at 2
m.
The copter began its four
May 24-in St, Johns, Nfld. Thi

T and ‘J’ of the Regional District of Central Kooten-
ay to obtain their opinion on the question of Ambul-

and the Municipalities of Castlegar and. Kinnaird.

Whereas Section 766 (4) of the Municipal-Act re-
quires the obtaining of the approval of the owner-
electors of Electoral Area or Areas before request-

cil to. amend the Letters Patent of the Regional
District of Central Kootenay to provide Ambulance
Service in Electoral Areas; -

Thereiore, tlie Board of the Regional Distriet of
Central Kootenay i in open meeting assembled, enacted
as follows: t

1) That a Referendum be submitted to the owner-
electors of Electoral Area ‘I to ascertain whe-
ther or not they are in favor of the Regional
District of Central Kootenay providing Ambul-
ance Service or Electoral Area ‘? in conjunc-
tion with Electoral Area ‘J’ and the Municipal-
ities of Castlegar and Kinnaird.

2) That a Referendum be submitted to the owner-
electors of Electoral Area ‘J’ to: ascertain whe-

District of Central Kootenay providing Ambul-
ance Service for Electoral Area ‘J’ in conjunction
with Electoral Area ‘YP and the Municipalities
of Castlegar and Kinnaird.

3) The polls shall be held on Saturday, the 26th
day of August, 1967, from eight o’clock (8:00

P.M.) in the afternoon at the places designated
by the Board at which the polls will be open.
4) For the purpose and with the objects aforesaid,

year a sum not in excess of what would be de,
rived by a levy of one-half mill on all lands and

Hydro aid Power Authority, subject to taxation
as fixed for school purposes within the bound-

ance Service for the Electoral Areas of ‘I’ and ‘P"

ing the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun- .

ther or not they are in favour of the Regional.

A.M.) in the forenoon to eight o’clock (8:00 :

there shall be levied and raised in each annual ‘

_ improvements, excluding all the property of'B.C. :

|

Jacqui

1:38; ‘Andrea Pau
Anita: Sorge.

75 yard breast stroke:

Sorge; Lamarche; Andrea Paul.

50 yard back crawl: Jacqui

point of its tour,
Wickaninish Bay (Long Island),

He recalled that one village
in B.C, had procured as head of
its strictly umofficial village |?
commission a man from Ontario
—a former doctor who had been |?
barred from medicine for mal-
practice.

The ne illage benefitted much
from the man’s effective, al-
though strictly arbitrary, artes

to receive the ae Sept. 1,
before it takes off for an exten-

Kootenay{West MP Bert Her-|

upgrading from ‘a village’ to a} i
town. i

legislation proposed in the pro-|}
legislature by

Kinnaird Will Progress
Says MP Bert Herridge

‘SPECIAL THIS WEEK
-Discontinued
Shingles
~ Wght: 210 Ibs. per sq.
"While ‘They ‘Last:

ieplstation, said the MP, much| 10.00

progress has nag been made in the] =
eens 1d much if

gen and much progress o!
purely

in Kinnaird.
Kinnaird can do nothing but

make progress from this point
on, Mr.

village administration

OGLOW

local Jevel can be seen

Having now become a town,

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sive tour of the Province,

to full
doctor, re Herridge ‘added.
Since introduction of this

CKRD Commission. Receives

Castlegar: and district has
its recreational commission.

At the meeting of Central
Kootenay Regional District last
week, final reading was. given
a_bykw establishing the com-
mission as an official agency un-
der CKRD management,

Designed to coordinate vir-
tually all activities under a single
management for Castlegar and
Kinnaird, with Blu k
and other areas coming in or re-
fraining as they wish, the com-
mission will eliminate any in-
stance of either overlapping of
facilities and services or gaps
in service.

Boosters of the commission
have for several months pointed
out that the importance of the
on a much

a mouthpiece for: popular opin-
ion, but as a recognized, work-
ing body authorized to make de-
cisions .related to recreation
activities in the distric ‘i

©:

CKRD chairman GS. Rust
Kinnaird had pointed out that
a committee of citizens could be
formed with no relation to CKRD
and. that the regional: district
could have no objection of this.

However he also said that,
for such a group to have any

authority or official status, it
must come under RD manage-

Last Reading

- “To coordinate facilities and
activities you needa full-time
man,” he said.

“We should make Castlegar
the centre of recreation for the
West Kootenay. Both Trail and
Nelson can meet here, at’a cen-
tral spot.

“It will help both Trail and
Nelson to no end, if Castlegar
‘becomes developed, as it should,

as the Fecrestonal centre of the
distriet,”

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Freo Estimates — Stair Rails, Gates,
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_
ed goal
bringing the commission are
RD auspices.
Commenting on the RD ap-
proval of gegonal recreation

of
wider scope than just the area
contained within its jurisdic-
ion.

Officials of both provincial
and federal governments are
keeping an eye on the commis-
sion, the first such recreation
commission created under the
relatively, new regional distirct.
concept.

i In a letter to local organizers
some months ago, Kootenay
West MP Bert Herridge
the attention of Ottawa to de-
velopments, in the project.

The final reading and ac-
ceptance of the recreation com-
mission bylaw by
cll last week Zpllowed several
months of publicity and behind.
the-scenes activity to establish

assured | actly

the RD coun-|-

Colin Pryce, one
of the organizers, said that, “it
had to come.

“Unless we have a concert-
ed effort on the ‘part of mem-
bers of the district, we will never
get anywhere, ” he ‘said.

Mr. Pryce added that the
next step is to determine just
what areas will want to become
part of the regional: recreation
concept,

“We will want: to know. ex-

shing to be “done by the |

fF the first: active pro-
jecte th that 1 should be undertaken
by the commission ‘is to. Bequire

the commission, not as merely

a full-time athletic director, he
declared.

aries of Electoral Area ‘I’ and El

naird, or the sum of $17,000.00.

NOTICE
TAKE -NOTICE thatthe above is a synopsis of a By-
Jaw. that may be inspected at the following places?
namely, on the Notice-Board of the Town Hall at
Kinnaird; the Notice-Board of the Town Hall at Cas-
tlegar; the Robson Post Office; the Blueberry Creek
Post Office; the Thrums Post Office; the Shoreacres
Post Office; and the offices of the Regional District
of Central Kootenay, 479 Baker ‘Street, Nelson, B.C.
between the hours of 8:30 o’clock A.M. and 5:00
- o'clock ‘P.M. daily, except Saturdays and Holidays,

the synopsis is not intended to be and is not to be
deemed to be an interpretation of the By-law.
DATED at Nelson, B.C. this 7th day of August, 1967.

E. T. Bodard,
Secretary-Treasurer.

“Area:
‘J’ and ‘the Municipalities of Castlegar and Kin

from August 10th to’ August “26th, 1967; and that <

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i? 22 Re . si
WISE WORDS from prominent citizens were the
order of the ay last Sarcey. when Kinnaird

expected’ at the pool’ was prononuced by town|
clerk Allen Selbie,; centre, while G.S. Rust, right, | ~

council’ member, announced the name of the
pool as Bob Brandson Memorial Pool. Mr. Rust
told of the tragedy which Jed to the construction

naird youth,

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sp to of the pool as a safe swimming place for’ Kin-
frente on ae Invocation on the

—Castlegar News Photo

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 10, 1967

INTO THE DRINK was the good word Saturday as some of the
junior citizens: of Kinnaird showed anything but junior prowness
in.a swim meet held as one item on the agenda of the new town’s
celebrations. With completion for both boys and girls of ages nine
and. under the’ young mers are indeed capable and safety-
minded in the water. — Castlegar News Photo

By Bil! Smiley

“One Winner Protests Against Claims That Canadians are Inferior

Well, the inev-

We are ashamed only of the
would-be intellectuals who claim
they are inferior because they
are. Cana

They are ‘inferior, all right;

| but for other reasons, Unfortun-

oj ately they seem to have the ear
of “ye ealtors" and so get their
views aired in papers with
nauseating srequency.

- The bland staterient
that “The. Church, has failed.
Failed to do what, may I ask? 4

$25.
; | May. answer,»

be ‘followed by. the other
winner next w
By Elfen "Armstrong
‘Stouffville, Ontario

ct
will.’ Failed to ae whatever the
Speakér'-of ithe’ monient , thinks
it sh should have donc.

Jquggest we find out what is
|| the tre ‘mission of the ‘Church,
assess success or

hen try to
| failure, “Go. ye into all the

worldand preach the gospel,”
said Christ. This is the Church’s

-] mission; in this she has succceed-

dians

culate. The celebrations in Ot-
tawa‘ and in Cth little ‘and
big town’ and city
year of jubilee shout a

in‘ this, our

ed.and ‘is succeeding, And even
¢ritics-must- admit she has not
failed in another sense. She has
endured and survived!

Name one other nineteen

ing “NO” to this idea. Oh, sure,
we have to have a good reason

But when' it does, brother, we
ic. with the’ best, and

. The claim that Canadi-|

my ‘fellow Cana
around, ‘we are proud of Can-
ada and of déing Canadians.

year old

+... ‘Transistor; radios in
public. Here I feel like busting
inte poetry which I have enti-
Lines on Trying-to Have a Pic-

nic at a Roadside Table on the
Shores of a (once) Peaceful Lake

Where: “onve the song of birds
And “wind in. trees above, 4
Arapaiator radio

A crass
Emits a- er wailing low

His cheap Synthetic love.
The 3 gentle ‘Tmurmer of » the}

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AUGUST. 15
Perscnel on only

Is drowned in noisy chat
oBuyi: srweaeey, soap ae “cig-

Buy eit "and soup without
regrets—”

Sublimities don’t matter!
Some’.day ere long we'll con-
quer... spi
Ah, snourneal, thought and bit-

ter,
| ‘Mid stars that sang creation’s
birth

The crude cacophony of Earth,
Man's rear twitter.”

and ect of the
word “aed puis and 1ahe

be fads in yords"a5 in ell elso,
is ‘the! “faddy”! word of the

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and honor a personal, social and
Political life, our public image
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. The availability of filthy) ing it we restrain them, ‘forcib-
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youth: of our rocwary Some ex- ate
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ai,

The differences between the coast and
interior forest industries make all the
difference between the wages they pay.
On September 1st, the IWA fs threatentag to cf a strke to make the Southem Intertor lumber operators knuckle

under to its demand for a basic 22 per cant wage increase. This means 80 cants more an how on =¥.cates. lap -
momtiors want partly wfth the workers tee B.C. coast lumber industry. i

The Southern Interior lumber operators would be only too, happy tn ablige —W they ha enue condiions,

But they don't. They have smaller trees, less productive tand, lower rainfall, :
quality timber, a predomina’ feats penn ee en en renee olagrited
coast, and mounting probl im ori

‘The closer you look, the greater the vateraaeen: No matter what the Union Gakce. there Is not one rca cauatis

BC.

Over the three years of the f
double the se in the cost of tiving. The basic wage is now $2.26 an hour (the second! highest inthe lumber industry

anada) and the operators have offered an additional 26 cents an hour. The Union ts holding out for an extra
‘50 cents an hour, or a-basic wage rate that equals the coastal ‘rate of $2.76. it is‘an increase the operators are
not prepared to pay. An ingrease they cannot afford. ;

t is now a question: 1 not of parity but of survival.

ut two —and, by red yardstick, the conditions wanich apply on the coast do not apply In the Interior.

the +

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d wages by 20%, more than

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