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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, NOVEMBER 7, 1979

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6 Sections (A,AA,B,C,D&E)

Answer to Dou!

[Election meet
on Thursday

Plans for a Thursday all-candidates meeting and
; continuing efforts to boost Castlegar. Non-] Partisan

t In the group's third
meeting since its formation
- Oct. 24, CNPA members
decided ‘Monday to in-
crease their numbers from’
about’'32 to 50 and post.’

candidates until after the
forum scheduled f for 7 p.m.
at the

ments in the local aldermanie and school, board: race,

pone endorsement of any © bank, a businessman, and

this week's develop

well as the nomination of
14 hopefuls vying for six
aldermanic: and . school
board seats.

In the aldermanic race
incumbents Albert, Calder-

Bud , Godderis, a social
worker, face challengers

Complex hall...’ i

Elected along with
“NPA ‘co-founders ‘Jack
Chernoff and Frank Stasila
‘to: the’. organization's ex-

with “any. , particular can:

to,
; for. re-election to his city,
council seat, fold the Cas-

support some:

But even if. members
donot ‘endorse ;any can-
didates they “will try to
. continue after the election:

‘old Leslie, a’ machinist.
ecutive . committee 'Mon- *

“enginéer, and'Anne Jones,

p01
ectly associating ourselves ~~
? sears engineer.

‘‘Lovette Nichvolodoff, “a
‘trustee

be. after the - Sch

- chaired by the local Rotary
* Club.

George a busi-
nessman and engineer,
Charles Cohoe, a. general
insurance agent and.-Har-

* In the-School District

Peace | by:

}) “was sworn in: by
Josephson | as th:

the
culminated. Wednesday: as Pau! & low.

new Justice ‘of the

Loeblich ’: (right)

Judge Bruce

rs, Cart was also Mayo!
rom 1957-1969. Paul-will be continuing in
the position of et. which he assumed
In December of fas!
"News/MirrorFote by’ George Gammon

r of Kinnaird

The. attorney- general's

nce new
ta.

hobors’ woes expected

‘initiative

d to ar next

try is

week its di

on the p

wand funding of a lay

committee: to deal with opens “faced by the West, Kootenay

‘Doukhobor community.

_In interviews this week with Rosslend: Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and :

repr of the
of ‘the committee, the Ca:

be concerned not.only with r

other ethnic segments in

stlegar News was tol

y and the group proposing the formation
fa the planned body would

buta so with’

the region.

D'Arcy said ministry spokesmen sa dooms local individuals ass wish to take a more

has been in existence in the past” have been

agreed “for: several weeks aoe that there would be a committee discussion of some sort.”

“D'Arcy said the group proposing the
! committee has not made any public state-
ments on the progress of negotiations with

the ministry because they were
final form the planned body

EIGHT: YEARS OF: SERVICE c as Justice of munity as Justice of the Peace for elght Noting that Union of Spiritual Communities

Carl of Christ members have been asking “in very
strident terms” for a consultative committee
on Doukhobor affairs for several years, he
added that “nobody wanted to raise ex-

defend. their

Doreen ‘ansehen a houge- ‘
wife,.and- John Marsh, a

choose between incumbent |

ousewife,. former
Sam! Konkin,\a ‘clerk, and:

ge
The city all-candidates
meeting, sponsored by the,
CNPA, is scheduled to.be’

Cc d Tuesday,

S to:meet our and
‘to: work with, these people

and Area J: school ‘trustee
George :

“minutes speaking time, fol-

Rotary Club president Ron
Ross told the Castlegar
News the Thursday city
forum will; allow each al-
dermanic candidate five

lowed, by ‘a. public ques-
‘tion-and-answer period and
finally 10 to 15 minutes for.
questions from news media

Work on. Broadwater
Road now ‘complete

Reb:

from the, Castl

The ash:
district's 1979 upgrading pro-
gram for Road in

ferry dock to the Evin
area over the

Robson is now complete,
i! district manager Roger Mc-
> Keown said this week.
: McKeown said work on
the widening of the road west

past two months was. in
preparation for future pav- -
ing. He said it. was part of a

ding and wide-.

Péace. In ‘addition to serving: the com-

| Repo on Gate Night trae

It was a miner
bance, nota: riot.

That-sums up the res-
‘ponse of RCMP S. Sgt. Bob
 -Kraus. and: Mayor : Audrey
Moore ‘to a Nelson, News

ht the -night before

"Gontacted Mon ye
Kraus described the account
: of the incident which resulted
‘in: the dispersal of a crowd
with fire hoses, the arrest of
five’adults and the sending
home of six juveniles with
. their: parents as °“a -story.
without’ very. much re-
search.” . is
The story, which refer-
red to the group of youths
downtown as a. “rampaging
crowd,” was based partly on
statements bya Castlegar
detachment - member who
“wasn't even’ on-duty that
night,” he said.

Kraus: stressed the dif-

ference between the Gate
Night . disturbance, which
was easily ended, and a riot,
which he said is uncontrol-
lable.
-.!There was a distur.
bance by all means but it was
far. from ‘being a: riot,” -the’-
staff sergeant said. - a
“We just didn’t treat it
as.a riotous condition, that’s
.all. To me “it was a minor

general
ning. program “completed
over a period of two years.”

that had to’ be-
quelled’ and that’s : what‘ we

treated it as.'

Radio operators return

only for essential duties

Essential air radio ser-
vices were resumed at Cas-

tlegar Airport Tuesday when’

: _ striking radio operators re-
turned from a seven-day
‘walkout.

A spokesman for. the six
Public Service Alliance of

Canada members employed °

by the federal * transport
ministry as radio operators

* reported for minimum duties.

required under the Public
Service Staff Relations Act
at 8:30 a.m. following a
‘Monday court order sending
the union back to work.

The anonymous PSAC
spokesman said although the
radio operators are required
to provide such services as

weather reports, the atrike
affecting .70 per cent’ of
Canada’s airport: radio sta-
tions was still in effect, © *

The essential ’ services
shift schedule required only
four radio operators to work
at ‘the Castlegar Airport
radio station during ‘the
dispute, he said, He said the
union and i
“starting to talk again,” but

* had no further details on the
talks. ~

-Half of the 1,167 opera-
tors affected across Canada ‘'
are designated during the
strike to perform essential
services ranging from turn- .
ing runway lights at small
airports, to recording, the

Movement: of ships from
coast guard. stations,,

us ‘said palics: sti-
ihe, number ‘of ' youths
in th downtown area at60'to

youths first’ ‘gathered near
the Marlane. Hotel, most’ of

ate ‘them: eventually -joined’- a

age
‘operty. downtown,” Tnelad

‘pr
, ing municipal signs-and to a

neon sign’ at’ the ‘Dixie’ Lee

on Gate fee and added that

“blown out of all p:

‘The Rossland-Trafl MLA said.the body
xpected to be set up by the attorney-gener-
will “not precisely” conform to

‘the brie request but will be “a
coneennin on the part of Victoria to look at .
he ‘thing other, than in straight Polige

prea

ineaitignae terms.””
“It’s almost a different

multicultural‘or multi-ethnic living situation
"he explained. “And one of the
the Nelson News account was things they're mostly golng to be looking atis «

committee,

“There are
unsure what
would take. thing like this
“hawkish on the
going to come
enough alone ai

our: view and

ws

The reaction of ministry officials to the
‘proposal has been mixed,’ D'Arcy said.

people in there who are very

interested and indeed have advocated some-

for some time,” he said.

“There are other people who are very

question and feel nothing is _
out of it, best to leave well
nd the situation will resolve _

itself in due course.’‘These are the people
we've had to convince that what they've been
‘doing so far has been a waste of time and
money. and in fact aggravated the situation in

we feel they should try

‘something different.”
: The Rossland-Trail MLA said there is
will be

lifestyle or established,

crucial to the

“Twas in the ‘midst of it
and. among all ‘the young’
people and there were prob-
ably about 20 of th

trou! nd I

ple I:talked

opie he

Pr Aehabah
OFS hatS we
th Y

to other ethnic’ groups.

section

The: committee any reflect a. cross.
residents of:Anglo-Saxon, Italian,
causing : and: Portuguese. « escent and. other ethnic

$34,000, which:

proposal. Sufficient support:

from .the province would provide. for the
hiring and basic expenses of a committee’
co-ordinator, ‘he said. 7 x
“T think the figure we've asked for is
somewhere in the neighborhood of $88,000:to

isn't’ very much when you

consider, it.‘costs nearly $40,000 a ‘year?
“D'Arcy ‘said.

‘Last. PB
ht incident was. five “body - -would: be. resolving “some

years ago,.she said. ‘
‘I say ‘incident’ because

‘1 don't think it. was a riot,”

‘acrogs from: the gas “station,

“We were attending the
disturbance on! the-. street
corner down. -there‘and they
didn’t wish to disperse,”, he
said.

Fire department mem-
bers “turned: the water on
and dampened a few of them
down,” and RCMP members
‘moved in behind the- fire

“trucks -and. dispersed “the

crowd.
home,”
said.

“and we all went
the staff sergeant

men hurt’and there was no-
body’ hurt on ‘the other side
other than getting a little
damp,” he added.
Contacted Friday, Ray-
mond Bosse,. a Castlegar
Downtown ' Businessmen’s
Association spokesman, said

he felt the RCMP and fire: -

‘department handled: the’ in-
eident properly but “slightly

slower than it should have”

been.”

“It. could have. been
nipped a little aie in, the
bud,” Bosse sai
* » But Kraus rated outa
traffie accident near the foot
of Sh Hill on Col

“people and a few of them got

“There were no police’.

the mayor explained.’ “We
had a massing of . young:

a hurry and was over in a
hurry.”
“I met with the staff

auxiliary. for that’ evening,”
Moore said.
“But no-one figured into’

bottom o: Hill,” she

misundetstandings and the lack

ymimuni-
cation-and ‘the conflicts that have’ existed

“The
effort the:
gfe thar

money.’ *

of
structor and

-within the. Russi

_and the larger community,” D’Arey said.
“Hopefully, with those lay people there
would be a permanently working group to
out of hand. But it blew up in make sure that communications are es- —
tablished and do not break down,” he said.

D'Arcy said the province's

ities,
which

Boing to give SAF ie ning of
the attorney general's office and say ‘go
“ahead and.do your thing, wish you all the luck
in: ‘the world, bat don’t “ask 8: for any

is how much csi
ing to put into it or

Mark Mealing, a Selkirk. College: in-
historian

of. the Doukhobor

y who! is a member of the group
the

committee has

v | Mealing added that the mibiatry is
to make an

Ministry, Tuesday confirmed that such s

been proposed locally.
i the

expenditure

matter conte next week” but. he ‘declined
committee

of. about °$750,000 on

police i
sergeant at 4:80 on Tuesday related to USCC Wouarary: chairman John J.
afternoon and he certainly ‘Verigin’s trial in September on three counts
had some plans and a pro-. of conspiracy to commit arson was an
gram for his staff and the effective. argument for a new solution to

further

on the.

and: how ‘it’ would : differ. from. the body
suggested in'the past by ‘the USCC.. ~
sti ting eg or sins

a waste of time

added. “If you pull off three that perhaps the attorney-general's ministry
officers you haven't got many could think of some other methods to
approach the Pecblom that would be a hell of

left.” .
More on Page A2

P Promoting and develop-
ing public knowledge of the
David Thompson University
Centre and the overall oper-

ation of the campus will be

the. primary function of the

Avenue at around the same
time on Gate Night ham-
pered the RCMP member's
ability to. respond more

quickly to the incident down- ©

town.
“It took three police cars

advisory board, peas to
acting Selkirk College prin-
cipal Walter. Uegama.

Inan interview following
a Selkirk College board meet-
ing Tuesday, Uegama said

tight outof commission there .

for a while,” he said, “And it
did hamper ‘our overall en-

have been
without a contract since July,
1978.

The union says treasury
board slightly increased its
offer to the three highest-
paid groups of operators but
reduced its offer - for, the
bottom two groups, in which.
the majority of the Operators
are,

‘Treasury | board denied it
lowered the offer but refused
to say what happened.

- The operators have been
in a legal strike position since
late August when they. began
: sporadic, regional walkouts
that gradually lated to-a

that evening for
the better part of an hour.”

He said the extra patrols
and extra RCMP members on
duty on Gate Night rep-
resented a routine precaution
taken every year at that
time.

“Twas here for Gate
Night and Halloween ‘last

year and there were as many ‘

dowatown last year and all
they did was toss eggs,” he
said. “This year a handful‘in
the group decided to toss
rocks and some of the other
ones decided to rip up signs.”

Moore said there was

Vidy

‘@ lot less costly,” he said.

the advisory: board, unveiled
Oct, 29 by Education Min-.
ister Pat McGeer, wes con-
cerned with funding pro-
cedures, for the institution
but that facet was not its
major area-of operation.
“There are already a
number of funding councils
within the institution, and
the (advisory) board will act
primarily to advise the ed-
ucation minister and the Sel-

ve
that the money wae wasted, he said.
“We feel, considering the fact that pros-
that plan the accident at the ecution was unsuccessful and was in my view

‘and money,

toria boards,” said Uegama.”

DTUC {s not an auton‘
omous institution as it is
integrated with Selkirk and
UVic through degree and
diploma programs offered at
the two centres.

Uegama explained that,
the advisory board will be
associated with Selkirk and
UVic in promoting the centre
to the public.

“It will provide advice in

“We're concerned that it’s necessary for
us to rémain an indépendent committee as
such,” he continued. “It rises chiefly out of

More on Page A2

Promotion and development role
of new advisory board for DTUC

kirk and University of Vic-

the community concerning ¢
many aspects of ‘the ‘centre,
and establishes a process of
having a body that has the
respect of the public who
may be interested in at-
tending the centre.”

“The intent of the board
is to provide effective .co-
ordination and strenghtening
of the overall. operation: of
DTUC,” Uegama concluded.
(See earlier story on page
B2)-

DECISION: AAI
Seven municipalities
and six rdral areas in

national strike 11 days ago.

" good P ;
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staff and the fire department *

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