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ary Holds Patio Tea

Lawn Furniture Bought for Patient Use Displayed

Approximately 175 people
attended the Castlegar Hos-
pital Auxiliary’s first patio tea,
June 26.

The lawn and patio area
were beautifully decorated
with fresh flowers and rows of
Jarge paper flowers to provide a
relaxing spring-like atmo-
sphere for the guests.

Telephone Calls
Have Their Worth
When They Serve

For a'mere $1,000 you can
now purchase a_ telephone
encrusted with pearls, rubies
and diamonds, we are told!

But such extravegance
aside, even the most utilitarian
telephone takes on new worth
when it brings you a call you
are eager to receive. *

To enjoy a generous
number of welcome calls, place
a reader-reaching Classified Ad
in the Castlegar News. They
get results! Simply phone
365-7266.

On display, and used by
some of the guests, was the
lawn furniture that the auxi-
liary recently purchased for the

.patient use at the hospital, :
Pourers for the occasion

were wives of past and present
hospital board members. Six
candy stripers assisted the
ladies by serving refreshments.

Throughout the afternoon
guests enjoyed a band concert
asa group of 26 grade six boys

from Twin Rivers Elementary
School of Castlegar, under the
capable direction of R. Bertuzzi,
provided a wide variety of
musical selections.

Also in attendance was
Mrs, Diane Strader and some of
the KC Days queen candidates:
Linda Popoff, Miss Kootenay
Canal; Debbie Dmytruk, Miss
CUPE, Selkirk College; Patti
Obedkoff, Miss Knights of
Columbus; Kathy Martin, Miss

CKQR and Valerie Townsend,
Miss Plaza Merchants,

The tea, convened by Mrs.
B. Moran, assisted by Mrs. E.
Johnson and Mrs, D. Sweeney,
was held to thank area
residents for their fine coopera-
tion in supporting auxiliary
projects such as rummage sales
and the Nut Drive and to
inform them of various auxi-
liary activities related to the
hospital

Emotional Damage if Not Death Attributed
To the Problem of Today's Baffered Child

Every once in a while up
comes the term the “battered
child”. :

What are the facts?

Is it a local problem?

Ray Gattinger of the
department of human resources
here says “We have not too
serious a problem but we have
had some—so it is a problem."

Statistics say in 1971 there
were 180 reported cases of child
abuse in British. Columbia.

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About 12 of these cases
resulted in the death of the
infant.

Many more children suf-
fered lasting physical or mental
impairment but.the emotional
damage to any child who is
subjected to violence at the
hands of those he looks to for
love and care cannot be
described by any statistics.

The known cases of child
abuse are estimated to be less
than one-third of the actual
cases.

Recent studies indicate
that the reported cases are only

_ the tip of the iceberg. A valid

count would show that one child
every day is abused in British
Columbia.

The greatest tragedy is
that the majority of battered
children are infants under three
years. Of these, most are under
one year of age, and totally
dependent for. nurture and
protection on the very people at
whose hands they are suffering.

What kind of people abuse
their children?

They come from all walks
of life. They‘are seldom terrible
sadistic people.

Most love their children
and have a strong desire to be
good parents. Many abusing
parents cope very well outside
the home, it is in the interaction
between themselves and their
children that the problem
arises,

In most instances abusing
parents were found to have
been themselves ‘ubuses as
children. If they have not
actually suffered physical abuse,
they. will have often grown up
in a home with parents who
were over-demanding, critical
and very controlling, As child-
ren they felt unloved and
undeserving of love.

Anyone knowing of a child
being abused is asked to report
such facts to the local depart-
ment of human resources or
social welfare office.

The. report will be fully
investigated whether it is

or not. if

Letter to the Editor
Local Minister Responds

Dear Sir:

T cannot keep myself from
responding’ to Jast week's
"Conscience. and Comment”
article by Rev. Foster.

I had to read it twice
before 1 believed my eyes. It
was really true, however. Mr.
Fosler was saying that God
wants to make us all prospor-
ous, and to be prosperous all we
have to do is “love God’

He proved his thesis (to his
own mind) by telling how, after
he prayed with one man, the
man’s income doubled (by his
having to work four extra hours
a day!).

In another case, he “pray-
ed for prosperity” and the man
gol a better job. (His son was
also released from jail—
presumably, God pulls all sorts
of strings for His favorites.)

If Mr. Foster believes what
he writes, then it means that all
those who are striving to better
the basic living standards of the
poverty areas of the world are
using the wrong methods. The
answr is simple: pray for
prosperity!

Worse, the article implies
that if you truly love God, you
will not be poor. If prosperity is
promised to those who love
God, then those who are poor
obviously don't love God.

I'm sure Mr, Foster's
prosperous friends tike that
idea. It must be very comfort-
ing to the rich.

Of course, there is some
general connection between
Christian faith and one's living,
standards. Presumably, the
christian won't waste so much
money on non-essentials, and
his quality of work could
conceivably get him a promo-
tion.

But “the Book” talks a lot
more about the responsibility of
the rich man toward improving
the lot of the poor than about
the poor becoming prosperous.
In fact, the Bible recognizes
that there is often no way the
poor can rescue themselves
from .the oppression of an
unjust economic system.

Just read the prophets on
the subject: Amos, Isaiah or
Micah. Just notice Jesus’
sympathy for the poor, and his
warnings to the rich. (Remem-
ber the parable about Lazarus?
In spite of ‘his distressing

you. give your name’..and

address it will greatly assist the -

child...

It is the responsibility of
the social worker to protect the
child and help the parents. If
reported early, it is often
possible to leave the child in the
home and provide help to the
family.

In extreme cases, it may be
necessary for the child's protec-
tion, to remove the child from
the home, but service to his
parents will be offered and
every effort made to help them
effect such changes as_ will
make the home a safe place to
which the child can be
returned.

Abuse of a child is seldom
limited to a single instance. If
the first and perhaps relatively

mild incident is not discovered, |

Ph. 365-7813
Friday 9 a.m, to 9 p.m.
6-7 pm.

the incid that follow will
get worse. One of these may be
fatal,

It is the responsibility of
every person to report any
situation where a child appears
to be neglected or abused.

Your hesitation to become
involved, your reluctance to
‘interfere, your failure to act,
may cost a child’s life.

Children’s
Workshop
Featured

Castlegar Public Library
summer reading program will
be featuring a series of four
Saturday morning workshops
beginning July 21.

The program designed for
children aged 11 to 13, will
include macrame, drama, toy
and puppet making and a
bicyele clinic:

__ Resource persons and mat-
erials will be.on hand at the
library from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

Registration deadline for
the program is July 19 at the
Castlegar Library.

poverty—which the rich man

. virtually ignored—Lararus evi-

dently loved Godt)

Forgive me for writing a
sermon! But I'm distressed at
some of the sermons Mr. Foster

Construction
Of Old Needs
Dated Tools

Dear Sir:

In early April, a letter by
me was published in the
Castlegar News asking for
assistance from Kootenay old-
timers to build a log cabin at
Selkirk Collage as part of ar
Arts I project.

The response to that letter
was very encouraging and I
want to thank the paper for
making my plea widely known,,
and the oldtimers who res-
ponded to the request. Those
who responded will be con-
tacted in the fall.

The purpose of this letter
is to make another request for

assistance from the community. .

Our intention in Arts 1 is
not only to build the cabin in
the old style; stone foundations
and moss chinking, for example,
but also to build our cabin
solely with hand tools. |

In order for us to stick
closely to the old methods we
must find tools like the ones the
oldtimers used. Specifically, we
are looking for broad axes,
peeling spuds, log dogs, whip
saws, crosscut saws, two-inch
hand augers, log scribers and
peevees or cant hooks.

If any of your readers have

- such items in their possession

or know of anybody who does,
and are prepared to loan them
to us, please write Craig
Andrews, Arts I Program,
Selkirk College, Box 1200,
Castlegar.

Thank you very much for
your assistance.
+ Craig Andrews

ArtsI Program

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writes, I'm afraid ho is an
oxample of the fashionable
God-and-country theology of
America which oo often
equates the system with the
will of God, (I wonder what Mr.
Foster thinks about Water-
gate,)

Anyway, this “reverend”
just doesn't buy that nonsense.

Of course, Mr. Foster
would probably look at my
salary and then decide I'm
obviously not a true Christian.

Ted Bristow

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A committee to study the
posibilities of ‘a quarter-mile
track. and field course was
reactivated at the last meeting
of the board of trustees for
School District No. 9. Chairman
is Pat Haley assisted by Ernie
Mills,

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A request from principal
Robert Patrick of Stanley
Humphries Secondary School
for a sheltered area to build
industrial arts projects re-
ceived the approval of the
board. The general plans will be
laid out by the department
head and be a project for the
construction 12A and 12B
students. | ;

The stadia of KJSS
teacher G. G. Schiavon was
accepted, Mr. Schiavon will be
taking up duties as principal at
Crawford Bay Secondary

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Delayed PWA Flight Coasts Pat Wreckage of Crashed Pea Plane Dragged from Tarmac Macata F Earlier

haan s Labor Negofiator Warns
Against Strike Over Offer Made fo Unions

The chief labor negotiator
for B.C.’s pulp and paper
producers has said the Pulp and
Paper Workers of Canada will
strike “for nothing” if the union
decides on another walkout this
year,

Don Lanskail, president of
the Pulp and Paper Industrial

Relations Bureau, recalled in
Vancouver that the indepen-
dent PPWC went on strike
three years ago after the rival
United Paperworkers Interna-
tional Union had settled.

He. described the nine-
week strike as a “futile attempt
to upstage” the PPWC’'s rival

UPIU Approves Contract;
Shewaga Blasts Pat O'Neal

Seventeen of 18 locals of
the United Paperworkers In-
ternational. Union are repotted

by the Canadian Press to have -

voted to accept a new two yen
contract.

As of yesterday morning, |

only the UPIU's Kamloops local
was waiting to be heard from,
‘although “a” union * spokesman
said’ ‘results of voting? there

“won't alter the result”. *
At. Port Alberni, ‘mean-
while, 1,100 UPIU members at
MacMillan Bloedel’s pulp and
newsprint mill were meeting
Tuesday afternoon to decide
their next step. About a dozen
workers began unofficial pick-
eting of the mill on Thursday of
last week and the plant closed
Friday when other workers
refused to cross the picket line.
Pulp and Paper Workers of

} Canada negotiating committee

chairman Stan Shewaga has
criticized the role played in the
settlement by the UPIU's

i {ternational vice-president,

'Pat O'Neal.

Shewaga said O'Neal “
either playing politics, te
to destroy us at the expense of
giving his own’ members an
inferior

or he is an -

courses” open to his union.
“We can go ahead, see if
we get a strike vote and shut
down our mills,” he said. “I am
not saying we are going to do
this, it is one course open to us.

“Another thing. we could -

‘do possibly “is” to’ ‘Teject: the,
agreement but not “call” fo
strike’.vote.:This wo

the companies our ‘dissatisfac- *

tion and then there are all:kinds
of things we could do of the
job.”

New Policemon
Appointed Here

Cst.’ Cam° Jorundson of
Kimberley has joined the local
RCMP staff here and began his
duties July 1.

Cst. Gary Kretzul, who is
being transferred, is scheduled
to begin his duties July 15 with
the Creston detachment.

Castlegar Will
Send Celgar Biil
For Fighting Fire

"The Town of Castlegar will
senda bill to Celgar for the

out-and-out company agent.” *

In 1970, the PPWC went

out on strike for seven’ weeks

when the IPIU reached a
with the

involved in sending
the community's fire depart-
ment to the company’s dry kilns
fire the evening of June 5.
Fire chief Ed Lewis will be
asked to ine the costs

. The Canadian union accepted
the same settlement two weeks
later.

Shewaga said this year’s

involved so that the account can
be forwarded to the company.
The decision to charge

and added: “Apparently little
has been learned from that
costly experience.”

“If they strike again it’s
absolutely. for nothing,” “said
Mr. Lanskail, commenting on a
PPWC announcement. that its
negotiators voted to recom-
mend rejection of a final
settlement offer. t

The PPWC, representing
4,500 workers in eight mills,
made the decision’ after the
UPIC. negotiators signed a
memorandum of agreement on
the July 1 weekend.

‘The UPIC is recommend-_

ing acceptance by 7,200 mem-
bers in 14 operations.

UPIC voting results are
scheduled to be completed July
10. The PPWC vote is to take
Plaée July 17-19.

Although. eels shave not.
rele ased the

which the manufacturers can?

Forestry and Fire Departments Kept Busy. :

Plane Crashes & Burns;
Passenger, Pilot Unhurt

A Cessna 210 Centurian on
contract to the B.C. Forest
Service from Conair of Abbots-
ford crashed at the Castlegar
Airport while landing Tuesday
afternoon, just minutes before
ascheduled PWA flight arrived.

Shaken up but not hurt in
the crash was pilot Fred
Foster, who was accompanied
by another pilot, James Fewell.
The two men were arriving
here from Kamloops.

RCMP say the pilot told
them it was gusty when the
plane was landing. The craft
touched down, raised slightly
and upon touching the strip
again blew a, tire on the nose
wheel causing the propellor to
hit the runway.

The pilot. then received a
call by thdio from the MoT

not and will not go,” said Mr.’ 4

Lanskail. -

“There is no way this union
can pressure us into giving
them a better settlement or
even a different one in any way:

“We are committed to the
principle that no‘group will get
better treatment because they
are members of a - different
union. The industry cannot
compromise that position,

“We have provided a fair
and reasonable settlement for
our employees and beyond that
we must pay attention to our
other responsibilities to the

_ community and to our share-

holders.”

He said the wage settle-
ment will cost $50 million over
two years and provide B.C.'s

‘pulp’and paper workers with

wage rates higher than those in
areas with which their, em-
ployers compete, such as
Eastern Canada‘and the United
States.
He described it as the best
settlement offer. ever made,
providing workers with wage

Celgar for the
ided by the town was made

union leaves "a couple _ of

at council meeting last week.

and benefit i in excess
of 20 per cent over the two
years.

was the word given by the building committee
airman Frank’ Dawson, Albert
Richards and Dave Mason. With five bids
ranging from $199,900 to $251,000 the contract

served by ch

‘was awarded to: Bousdary Electric as bo
bidder. Here Mr. Dawson, right, and Mr.
Reehards

building: The committee expressed its pleasure :
having a local firm the successful contender
receiving the contract.

—Castlegar News Phuiu

> $157.94 ~ bill

‘work is
_ development.

Town: of Kinnaird has not!

been satisfied with the surface
finish on. the arterial. highway
through Kinnaird.

This opinion was. expres-

sed at a meeting with the -

department of highways. in

“April.

At the last regular meeting
of council it was informed by
letter the department does not
have surfacing work in Kin-
naird in this year's program.

The letter also stated, “the
department has prepared a
design for extension of the curb
and gutter in Castlegar south-
ward to-the north municipal
boundary. It would seem

desirable when this work is .

carried out that it should be
extended into Kinnaird as far
as the interchange.

The municipal share of the
cost of the curb and gutter,
storm sewers and intersection
lighting for this section is
$12,100.”

The town has informed the
highways. department it does
not, at this time, contemplate
curb and gutter in any section

_ of the town particularly i in this

section.

The question of water and
sewerage development were
given as reasons.

Council still, however, ex-
pressed concern over the
resurfacing of the entire
stretch of 7th Ave.

Kinnaird Mobile

“Grant Cut

‘The copleracatiey social

3 welfare: grant paid: the: indivi- :
* dual twin towns of Castlegar

and: Kinnaird have ‘in’ both

instances been. slashed this —

year.

This was the word ‘re-
ceived Tuesday night. from
Human. Resources. Minister
‘Norman Levi .who advised
Castlegar it will receive $1,996,
a figure: $6,316 less than list
year's supplementary social
welfare grant of $8,313.

Kinnaird was advised it
would receive $1,849.90, a drop
of $5,182.10 from its 1972 figure
of $7,082.

y Sit

The supplenientary grant
was established some years ago
to compensate small towns for
inequalities which arose when
the percentage of welfare costs
assigned to li was

office at the airport stating the
aircraft was on fire. ©

The.two men were able to
remove their baggage before
the aircraft was engulged in
flames,

The Cessna 210 was
estimated to. represent a
$36,000 loss.

Meanwhile, the PWA
plane was delayed in its landing
by 20 minutes while airport
manager John Michelson ob-
tained permission from acci-
dent ‘investigation - at. Vanc-
ouver to have the wreckage
pulled to the side of the
runway.

B.C. Forest Service per-
sonnel responded immediately
to the accident upon a call from
Forest Ranger Hugo Wood who
witnessed the accident, The
Kinnaird Volunteer Fire De-
partment,. as’ well as the

* airport's own fire fighting van,

also responded to the accident.
Spokesman for the Kin-
naird Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, Bill Henne, said approxi-
mately 10 members responded
to the call ‘taking: a: small
emergency truck and one of the
big trucks.
Clean-u

damage’ to the ‘tarmac as
extensive, covering a patch 10x
20 feet in size. This area, left in
rought condition by the intense
heat of the fire, will now have
to be removed, then resurfaced.

No estimate of the cost of
repairing the tarmac was given,
but Mr, Michelson stated it was
covered by insurance.

While the plane fire was
being fought at the airport,
Forest Service crews were also
fighting a fire near Pass Creek
while the Castlegar Volunteer
Fire Department was battling a
bush. fire on Zuckerberg’s
Island.

Fire chief Ed Lewis attri-
buted cause of the brush fire to
“a bunch of galdarn little
angels”. He said plenty of
firemen turned out to fight the
blaze while the town's pay-
loader pushed trees out of the
way and stopped the fire from
spreading by cutting a swatch

"from the old house on the island

to where the hoses were
located.

The fire chief said the last
fire on the island was fought by

~ the Forest Service as the island

was
Casth

using all the water in the i BY
truck once the fire was
extinguished.

Wayne Zone, who is in
charge of the water bombers
stationed at the airport, had no
direct comment on the accident

b when contacted by the Castle-

gar News. He was: involved
with the four water bombers

then located ~ outside
me fcipak limit

However, the island is nee”
inside the town andso the blaze

d here which
their runs ‘even while the
damaged aircraft was blazing.
“Mr. Michelson “described

000; Both Towns Profest

tion in the fast census actually .

decreased while Ald. Ed Mosby
suggested the town should
“demand an- explanation”. He *

id the Provincial government
“is greater burden

increased.

In his letters to councils,
Mr. Levi explained that some
municipalities, because of in-
creased populations, are no
longer eligible for the special
grant while others “who are
still eligible for this supplemen-
tary grant are now eligible for a
smaller, grant because of their
increased population”.

Ald. Mike ~ Livingstone
noted that Castlegar's popula-

Town Told Govt's Interest.
Only in Residental Land

The Town of Castlegar has
been lauded for the “thought
and effort” put into the land
acquisition brief it submitted to
the provincial government.

At the’ same time, council
has ‘been told itis only

‘residential land that the gov-

ernment is interested in and
that the lack: of clearness in
Municipal Affairs Minister Jim

Lorimer's original letter led the :

town astray in recommending
park and commercial land for
possible senior government
purchase.

of home-owner assistance and
public housing, told aldermen in
a etter - read at council's
meeting last week that the

Home Develop
‘Plans Shelved

Plans for a mobile home
in Kinnaird

Land Cr should , be
written concerning park or
green belt lands while the
department of industrial dev-
Raat should be contacted

par
have been shelved.

Concern ‘over. water was
one of the reasons given by
Dave Cooper. who spoke for the
developers when he appeared
at the last ‘regular .council
meeting at Kinnaird.

At present the town has
had ‘the::responsibility of a
, realized. from
studies made in connection with
the proposed development of
the mobile home park.

This ill will be held A

to the

< the town” ‘take

1 lands.
Mr. “Chatterton also sug-
gests the town “delay only with
the residential land within the
boundaries of your municipality
Then, ata later date when we

are not so swamped, you can’

take up the matter of the land

outside of the municipality.”
~The ‘public housing dir

ector further:.suggested that

options—with® nominal consi-
derations—on’ the parcels of
land it’ believes should be

developers ne lenene further
planned on the

ped in the near future.
The provincial government
will then ask CMHC to have the
properties appraised “and after

G. L. Chatterton, director :

e three-month —

purchase we will .be in touch
with you with regard to a
three-way agreement to de-
velop the lands .and subse-
quently: dispose of it.

on municipalities» with respect
to welfare.”

Ald. Andy Shutek said Mr.
Levi's reasoning is “quite
simple: as your population
increases you get less; and as
your you

under control yesterday morz-
ing but Ranger Wood saint
Tuesday's dry winds have made
the situation explosive.
He said he
provincial cabinet order willl be
passed in Victoria. oalasee at
and a

get less.”

Mayor Colin Maddocks *
called the figure “insulting”
asking how can we (the town)
relate that sum to its needs?

Ald. G. S. Rust said he was
flabbergasted, expressing com-
plete. dissatisfaction of the
minister's analysis of the grant
structure.

soon be out on this.

Turn Off Water
When Siren Sounds

Kinnaird, too, experienced
a population decrease in the
last census.

The town will express its
complete dissatisfaction by
sending a copy of its reply to
the minister to Rossland-Trail
MLA Chris D'Arcy. along with
tie jorlgtnal letter from Mr.

SAFETY INSPECTION was carried out by the
RCMP at the Arrow boat Club on Sunday in
observance of National Safe Boating Week. Any
boat owner in the area could take advantage of
the inspection and here Cst. Butch Van Acker
inspects the safety equipment of Arrow Lake

gel F

’

Marina operator Dave Neufeld. For a craft with
an inboard motor, some of the things checked for.
included the need for a fire extinguisher,
venting of the motor, approved life jackets, two:
paddies or an anchor with 50 feet of
line.—Castlegar News Photo