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Province caught in
clear contradiction

It is amazing how the provin-

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cial government to fum-
ble minor political issues. First it
was the Castlegar/Robson ferry
closure, then the Glade ferry’s
reduced hours of operation.

The latest issue is the gover-
nment's order for municipalities to
assume the responsibility for ser-
ving court documents.

The province's sheriff services
used to serve the documents. But

spend years training our police
forces only to have them serve
court documents.

It would seem far better instead
to have a separate organization —
such as the provincial sheriff ser-
vices — to serve the documents at
much less cost than fully-trained
RCMP constables.

The biggest question in all this is
why the province would try to go

| support or consultation

as Of April 1. the provincial Geyer ahead with the new plan without
nment gned mun- ;

icipal police forces to serve court When the plan's faults are so ob-
documents and ordered

municipalities to pick up any costs.

The municipalities have been
anything but receptive to the new
arrangement. They have argued
that communities like Castlegar
will either have to pay more for a
larger police force to serve the
documents, or put up with less
policing because its police force
will be running around serving
documents.

Led by its president, Castlegar
Mayor Audrey Moore, the Union of
B.C. Municipalities has lobbied
hard for changes to the new
arrangement.

Mrs. Moore has suggested that
municipal police forces could ac-
cept the new duty, but only on the
condition that the province pay for
the service.

She has quite rightly noted that
the justice system is a provincial
concern and therefore the province
must pay gny costs. _ *

Attorney. General..Brign. Smith’s
response has been that the new
arrangement will likely cost

Hi little or
Yet, in the very next breath, Mr.
Smith defends the move as
necessary under the province's

restraint program.

If the service will cost little or
nothing, how will it save the
government anything? There

couldn't be a clearer contradiction.

Meanwhile, it is obvious thot
Mrs. Moore's offer to have
municipal police forces take on the
new duties if the pi pays the

vious. It's a question only Mr.
Smith can answer.

Lights
may be
a shock

Castlegar drivers could be in for
a bit of a shock tomorrow when the
city begins using the new traffic
lights at 17th St. and Columbia
Ave.

There have been rumblings of
concern from some corners of the
community about the installation
of a light so close to the railway
crossing.

The concern is that cars lined up
for the light at the 17th St. intersec-
tien.may sit on.the.sailway tracks
— a dangeroys. situation at any
time.

However, the city thinks it has
solved that problem with a second
light at the railway crossing. The
two new lights will be syn-
chronized so that cars won't be
able to sit on the railway tracks.

But that doesn’t prevent the
problem of four sets of traffic lights
within a three-block stretch. The
city has promised to monitor the
traffic in that area to see if the traf-
fic moves properly.

It remains to be seen just how

cost is a compromise on the part of
municipalifies.

hly traffic flows through four
sets of lights in such a short distan-
ce.

essary material for
has been bought for $180 and will start

shortly.

* .

truck, will make Saturday a clean-up
day in Castlegar.

. 8 6
On Sunday evening last the Kiwanis
Club presented the Trail Male
under the direction of Mr. Hans Fogh-
dohmsmidt, accompanied by Mrs.
Gwen Kay in the Castle Theatre, with
an appreciative audience attending.

. 6 6

A. W.I. Talent Money Bridge was
held on Saturday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. F. Mitchell. Three tables
were in play. Mr. T. Fourt and Mrs. F.
Mitchell were holders of high scores.

Letters to the Editor

At the B.C. Badminston Champion-
ships which were held in Abbotsford
during the Easter week, Don Gray of
Kinnaird teamed up with Riondel's
Gordon Hallstrom to capture the B.C.

An alternative scenario

Editor, Castlegar News:

How appropriate that the idyllic
scenario of buccaneering cay
last Sunday's weekly ight ceeding
column should appear on April Fool's
Day. Only in. the of

laboratory technologist for summer
relief.

The carpenter wasn't quite clear how
his willingness to hire himself would
lead to his becoming an employer as
was in the column, but he

deluded free-enterprisers like your
columnist, do little men with no
investment capital & Presidents”
of successful business ventures.

Contrary to the columnist's fears of
offending the reader, this kind of,
reading may be just what is needed to
balance the grim accounts of business
failures and massive unemployment.
But just for the sake of a time-honored
journalistic tradition of presenting
both sides of the story, here is an
alternative version of the scenario.

“Hell,” said one pretty good carpen-
ter to himself on reading the column,
“Tm a better than average tradesman.
Why can't I become the president of a
company?”

So he began knocking on doors as
suggested in the column. He walked
among rows of houses displaying “For
Sale” signs.

“I want to hire myself out,” he said

Robson within city?

Editer, Castlegar News:
I would like to inform the

impolite and informed me that Robson

of Castlegar and surrounding area of an
oceurrance which definitely added
sunshine to an otherwise dreary day.

A short time ago my wife and I
became the owners of a Centennial
“gift cheque book” which has been
circulating in this area. This book con-
tains a number of cheques which can be
used at a number of area restaurants,
the movie theatre, service stations and

was to be part of C.

He asked what I was complaining about
anyway, since I had the use of the
machine for free.

I was also told I was the only person
to object to this and other people from
Robson who came there were not as
ignorant as myself and did not raise a
fuss.

It seems that Trowelex Rentals has
amalgamated Robson and Castlegar

other all for pi
ed amounts for services rendered.

Since spring is definitely in the air, I
decided today was the day to use the
cheque from Trowelex Rentals for one
hour's free rental of a rototiller and get
our small but productive family garden
in shape for the growing season.

The information on the certificate
from Trowelex stated that the hour's
free rental did not include travel time.
It stated that “travel time — within
‘city limits, allowed one-half hour; out of
town allowed one hour.” Since I live in
Robson, the one hour travel time would
suit nicely.

We picked up the rototiller, rushed
home and commenced to make the
topsoil fly. With one eye solidly glued
to the clock we managed to finish our
small garden plot in 50 minutes, loaded
the tiller back in the truck and sped
baek to Trowelex with 15 minutes to
spare.

Upon unloading the machine at the
rental place, I was informed that I was
over the one-half hour travel time
allowed and owed Trowelex a one-half
hour rental fee of $11.

I politely told the gentleman behind
the counterthat, as I lived in Robson, I
was entitled to one hour free travel as
stated on the cheque. The gentleman
behind the counter then became rather

without the even being given
the privilege of a vote in the matter. I
would simply like to warn anyone else
who may want to use a coupon
their gift cheque book to not believe
everything that is written on the
cheque.

The $11 may not seem like a lot of
money but it certainly can ruin an
otherwise pleasant day. Surely, the
merchants of Castlegar are not hurting
that bad that they have to stoop to
these methods to try to make a dollar?

Phyllip Keegan
Robson

Editor's note: Trowelex owner Nick
Chernoff was contacted for a comment
and confirmed that as far as the gift
certificate books are concerned, his
business considers Robson part of

Castlegar.
However, Chernoff said he has been
with most 8 using

a door opened. Many were
hastily shut in his face.

One compassionate pensioner of-
fered him a job raking the lawn for $3
an hour. He couldn't afford more. After
collecting the handsome pay of $11.50,
the carpenter filled up his tank with
gas and went around town in search of
big time. A widow gave him a couple of
dollars for delivering her groceries
from the supermarket and shared a
modest noon-time meal with him.

At this point, our better-than-
average carpenter.experienced a vague
sense of havingy!been through this
before. Hishadt been making weekly
visits to the Maafiower Centre only to
discover that during a month's time the
only job postings were a data computer
analyst, one certified dental assistant
(part-time ) and one certified medical

was tough and determined. His job at
the company plant was replaced

‘permanently by a machine. He had no

savings. His line of credit was
exhaysted and a collecting agency was
on /his back for unpaid bills.

He got in touch with as many of his
old friends as he could. This was rather
difficult because many had left town
when the company’s modernization
project came to an end.

But he was a persistent man and
before long he had founded a small
group of equally desperate tradesmen
in partnership with one of his neigh-
bors, a better than average plumber.

He knew from reading the column
that the team should be rounded out
with an accountant. Being of a fairly
sharp mind and possessing a dash of
imagination, the carpenter — who al-
ready saw himself as a future captain of
industry—had a pretty good idea who
would make the best accountant for

struction firm, his partner the plum-

‘The two worked cheap and hard. But
except for a small advance, which was
immediately spent on expenses related
to the job, they never got paid.

The carpenter, an innovative man, as
a last resort arranged to meet With the
columnist who seemed to have some
intimate knowledge of small business
success.

A meeting took place in a neutral
setting. To his utter astonishment the
carpenter learned that this pleasant,

i logist for agg
free-enterprise competition has ad-
mitted to: (a) a dismal record in
business ventures, (b) a reluctance to
give up his job at a company backed up
by the purposeful strength of a giant
conglomerate in order to accept the
position of an accountant with the

pany of

Some days people just don't know
how to count their blessings.

But now a ray of light appeared in a
cluster of dark clouds. The burden of
guilt of not having done enough was
suddenly not so heavy with a new
He lived in a province

this Pp of rag-tag

The men met daily and worked out
every detail of their operations. They
were joined by a local college inst-
ructor, whose job was on the cutting
board, willing to do research and
analysis of the local construction
market. They had their tools, their
skills, and a willingness to hustle but
there was a small snag. Neither of
them had any capital to get the ball
rolling.

‘Fhe friendly bank manager was very
sympathetic, but the bank was not in
the business of taking risks on a bunch
of tradesmen-adventurers. Even in the
best of times some 70 per cent of small
businesses end in failure.

With the only remaining member of
what was once a promising con-

where the willingness to hire oneself
out led to colonial dependence and
hinterland economy, where the will to
exploit and the drive to succeed had to
be backed up by economic and political
power.

Horizons long clouded now became
clear.

“You can’t always believe what you
read in the paper,” the carpenter said
to his wife when she asked what

d to his ambiti
president of his own company.

He was not even angry with the
columnist. The news is so bad
nowadays that every newspaper ought
to have a fiction feature.

Barbara Tandory
Castlegar

Use cost of living as wage guide

Editor, Castlegar News:

During one of many conversations
about how to solve the problem of
strikes, etc., a friend suggested that
wages should go up or down according
to the cost of living index. I think this
could work if it were taken a few steps
further.

First, I think wages would have to be
brought more, in line. ‘Naturally, a
tradesman should get more than a
laborer, but sometimes the span is a
little much. In other cases the

the tillers for longer than stated on the
certificates, allowing some to use the
tillers for one and two hours longer
than they should.

Chernoff said he wasn't personally
aware of any problem with Keegan,
and offered to contact Keegan and
return the $11.

“We totally look after our customers
because we want them back,” said
Chernoff.

isn't getting mach more
than a laborer. This kills the incentive
to train for a trade.

Why couldn't some sort of general
wage scale be figured out, to use as a
guideline? If it were used as a
guideline, eventually wages would fall
into the proper eategory. People would
have time to train for the higher paying
jobs when they see that the job they
have isn't going to be a high paying one
in the future. The general wage scale

should be drawn up to somehow bring
higher wages down, not raise low
wages. If it were not done this way,
we would only compound the problem.

As it is now, most working people
can't afford to hire a union tradesman.
Even other union tradesmen tend to
hire non- -union tradesmen at lower

sideration risk of health, danger,
investment in training, tools and
equipment. Then pay increases or
decreases could be adjusted annually,
using the cost of living index as a

labor situation. In some cases in-
dustries are being blackmailed into
paying wages and benefits they cannot
afford. This helps no one.

Look at all the money that is lost by
both parties during a strike. Even
worse is the lost friendships, the bitter,
angry feelings created and the loss of
health in‘ some cases (due to stress).
These may never be made up.

We have to find a fair way to solve
this problem of self destrueting. Let's
work together and come up with a
solution that will solve the problem
once and for all so we can get our
province and country back on ifs feet.

If we can solve this problem of labor
strife, 'm sure we could encourage
more manufacturing |here, which will
mean jobs for people who desperately
need them.

for the boy’s doubles
under-14 event.
*

The apace of Conservation
and Recreation is looking into the pos-
sibility of establishing a campsite on
Indian Flats, it was reported at last

land at Pass Creek be set aside for a

roadside park. The department felt

that the flooding at Pass Creek made it

almost. impossible to establish a park-

site there, but members of the chamber

felt it should be looked into further.
. 8 6

New directors were elected to the
Castlegar Project Society at the annual
general meeting Monday night. W.
Thorp was elected president. Vice-
president is J. Clar, A. Sylvest is
secretary-treasurer. Directors are, A.
Perehudoff, Thrums; D. Deverson,
Kinnaird; E. Fredericksen, Castlegar;
J. Kaufman, Kinnaird; A. Honchar,
Robson; L. Lakeman, Castlegar; M.
Tomlin, Brilliant.

The Castle Theatre has been pur-
chased by a Kenora, Ont. man. Bob
Bennett took over operation of the the-
atre on April 1.

. 8 «

Dune buggies — the new “fun car”
sport sweeping America — have now
been introduced to the West Kootenay
area by two Castlegar men.

Dave Cooper and Wayne Doucette
are franchise dealers for what they des-
cribe as “the hottest idea in the auto-
motive field today.” They are handling
the dune buggies out of His Men's
Wear under the name of D.W. Dune
Buggies.

. 8 @

Mayor Carl Loeblich and Ald. G.S.
Rust of Kinnaird will be included in the
delegation of members of the Kootenay
Industrial Development Association
travelling to Ottawa on April 22 where
they are to meet with Forestry and
Rural Development Minister Jean
Marchand.

. 28 @

Hugo Wood, local forest ranger, was
honored recently for 26 years of con-
tinuous service in the forest service.

Mr. Wood was presented a certi-
ficate and a silver pin by deputy forest
minister Finn McKinnon at the recent
Nelson forest district ranger meeting.

Castlegar

An official ‘sawmill opening cere-
mony attended by Economie Develop-
ment Minister Don Phillips and a
speech at a joint service club dinner are
on the agenda for CanCel president
Don Watson's visit to Castlegar next
week.

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco,
Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Atey and
other elected representatives of the
area are expected to take part in the
activation of control panel whieh will
sound thé plant's steam whistle, taken

from the former CPR. Minto,
and; send, the first log
through the mill's chip-and-saw section.

Se aeeeeeneemetieemnes ee

Our high crime rate jis another
of our

We fought five years against Hitler

for persecuting the Jews, and now we

Hitler
article
‘tasteless’

» Castlegar News:

1am offended by the tasteless article
which appeared on the front page of
your Sunday, April 1 issue. I realize
that it was April Fool's Day, but I find
no sense of humor in jokes about such
people as Adolph Hitler or their
actions.

1 am not surprised that the creator of
this prank did not sign his or her name.
The Castlegar area has individuals and
events which merit coverage on the
front page as opposed to sensationalist
articles found in cheap tabloids.

Sandra Donohue
Rebson

I would strongly suggest that all our
parks be left as recreational areas, as
we don’t have enough recreation areas
now for the general public to enjoy. If
Mr. Bennett wishes to go into the
gambling business, I would suggest he
ie or two small towns in
rate, if he must, instead of
ruining our parks.

As to operating slot machines on the

* “The Conservative MPs
' were voting in defence of
their small-c conservative
v c. “allies in B.C. They.put party
‘#dv-! before the interests of people
and higher education in B.C.
* Tm astonished.”
Kristiansen explained that
six-and-five per-cent inflation
MP Lyle controls are to be Esaaapy
aston- on it
federal transfers to the pote
inces for higher education
one and medical costs, and that
voted against his the NDP could thus propose
an amendment.

The NDP amendment read
in part that, “.. . any such
cash contribution for hospital
insurance and medical care
programs and post-secondary
education programs shall be
expended by the provinces
for the purposes -of those
which pp! only.

iat

B.C. ferries, we should not be
the general public — and in particular
the children, elderly pérsons, and ab-
stainers — to this type of atmosphere
when travelling.

It has been brought to my attention
that the B.C. government has decided
it cannot afford to re-forest in this
province, and that due to all the
haggling the Socreds have done with
the federal government, the $52 million
allocated to B.C. may now go to better
organized groups, such as high-tech
industries or other federal ministries.
The people in the forest industry will
lose many jobs for decades to come.

I also feel that taking away $50 per
month from the handicapped persons of

“This would have been a
start to getting back to
funding to the
provinces, imposing some
conditions,” Kristiansen said.

inces to spend ‘the money
where it was intended.

Staff at DTUC
scramble for jobs

By CasNews Staff port staff workers are on her
With less than a month re- list “but I expect more.
maining before... David A total of 50 to 65 support

Thompson University Centre staff, members of the Pulp,
closes its doors for good, staff Paper and Woodworkers of

this pi is most

I have lived in British Columbia for
80, years, and have discussed the
aforementioned matters with many
people of all ages, who feel the same as
I do.

R.C. Rhodes
Thrums

are ing for jobs, Canada, will be laid off ef-
To help locate positions, fective April 25.

DTUC and Canada Man- “I'm looking for every-

power have established a body,” éxplained Miller.

manpower adjustment com- Miller has catalogued the

mittee. laid off workers and is con-
Committee spokesman ducting job searches.

Carol Miller says the job She's optimistic about the

search is “slow going.” She outcome, but quickly adds: “I

said in an interview 41 sup- have to be.”

aservative MPs

“When we went to block
funding in 1977 the NDP op-
posed that, saying we
couldn't trust the x

tive support went that route.

While most upset with
Conservative B.C. MPs for
not backing the move to pro-
tect federal funding of edu-
cation and medical services,
Kristiansen had no bouquets
for the Liberals, either.

“Sectretary of State Serge
Joyal may well be a friend in
our local fight as far as
special-programs funding un-
der his department's budget
is concerned, and help us out
a little,” Kristiansen said,
“but that does not resolve the
problem of ensuring that
provinces spend the massive
federal educational aid where
it was intended.

“The government knows
exactly where the problem is.
We' all know it should be
addressed, so let's get on and

SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 (CASTLEGAR)
‘

SECONDARY SCHOOL
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
—A DISCUSSION PAPER—

Recently the Minister of Education, J.
Heinrich, circulated a Discussion Paper
suggesting changes to Secondary School
Graduation requirements. He invited reactions
from interested individuals and groups.

Individual copies of the Paper can be ob-
tained at the School Board Office in Castlegar.

Those wishing to comment can do so direc-
tly to the Minister by MAY 31 or to the Superin-
tendent of Schools in Castlegar by APRIL 27.
Comments received will be r ed closely by
the Board and a School District reaction will be
developed and forwarded to the Minister.

Board of School Trustees

do it.”
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Lions begin
drive for funds

By CasNews Staff

ed Easter Seal camps for the

Castlegar Selkirk Lions disabled — Camp Squamish

Club has joined other Lions
clubs across the province in
the annual Easter Seals cam-

paign.

The campaign — by mail
and advertising through
newspaper, television and
radio — began this week and
winds down at Easter. How-
ever, local campaign chair-
man Mac Gregory says dona-
tions are received any time.

Last year Easter seals
raised about $550,000

abled.

raised in the Castlegar area.
Funds raised help the B.C.
Lions Society for Crippled

disabled children in the prov- tive.
inee. The services include
Easter Seal houses, camps,
transportation and the pati-
ent care grant program.
Easter Seal houses are lo-

Prince George. The houses
are a “home away from
home” for disabled children

hospitals for treatment or di-
agnosis. A child and one par-

for the Lower
Camp Winfield for the Inter-
ior and Camp Shawnigan for
Vancouver Island.

Disabled children under 19
years of age attend camp se-
ssions free of charge, but the
actual costs of sending one
child to camp for a week is
approximately $400.

Easter Seals also provide
transportation for the dis-

The costs of operating this
province-wide, an increase of service has escalated dram-
$40,000 over the previous atically in recent years and
year. Of that, $2,300 was the Society is presently seek-
ing ways to work in co-
operation with agencies and
other organizations to make
Children provide services for this service more cost-effec-

The Society also admin-
isters grants under the Pati-
ent Care Grant program.

Last year the society spent
thousands of dollars on this
cated both in Vancouver and program. Grants are pro-
vided for needy families in
B.C. with disabled children
who require funds for special
and their parents visiting equipment, protheses and
transportation and/or accom-
modation expenses incurred

Mainland,

ent can stay overnight for when their children must

only $7.50.

travel to hospitals outside

The society also runs three their communities for treat-

ment.

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