4 CASTLEGAR Letter to the Editor NEWS, Thursday, March 28, 1974 Defends the Stafis of Carefree Workers. Dear Sir: According to our. maps of Canada and of British Colum- bia, Genelle, China Creek and Trail are in the Province of British Columbia. The workers of Carefree Design Enterprise Ltd. to my knowledge all live in this area and therefore in British Columbia, not out of the province, One is a pensioner who comes to watch the develop- ment of his son's enterprise is not a resident of British Columbia, but anticipates being one, He does not receive any wages and thereforg is not taking jobs away from the protestors, who are in an American based union. The building project under ELECT. MOORE for Council and - protest is purchased from Western Steel Span in Winni- peg, Man. As for the protestors or pickets, as they now appear to be, some of these men hold down ‘two jobs not as their Regional! District Posters suggest, yet they are Regular $1.89 Special Tommy Biln- trying to deprive our local young men of jobs, thus removing them from unemploy- ment insurance. I think the public should be aware of the situation, Mrs, D. R. Smith Genelle Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: Last weck your paper ran an article “neighbors protest ae "Beauly Care” SPECIALS HAIR SPRAY “Lady Patricia’ Regular. $1.59. Special sorsavsnes $1029 SHAMPOO Clairo! Regular $2.29 Special s.sssvens $1.15 RINSE “Woodbury” Special Corner: of ‘Pine and Columbia Open Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. to.6 p.m. Sunday and Holidi *SHO: ee we wee Ra I IP I a SIO IN I IR cI Ci ING A Ny ag PHONE 365-7025 ANNUAL SHOE @ No Changes ES THAT MAKE AN IMPRESSION". ws za CASTLEGAR, B.C. Regular $1.89 Hours: 12 noon -'1 p.m, su $119 Friday 9.a.m. to 9 p.m. 6 lee British Columbia Forest Service Forester Engineer Studied Steep Slope Logging Much of B.C.'s best timber grows on steep mountain slopes and removal of it by traditional logging methods and equip- ment often creates serious and lasting damage to the forest environment. Several agencies are seeking a solution’ to the using Overlooked rezoning in. Kinnaird.” 'How- ever, you have! failed to mention my main points in my application to council. One—we desperately need housing in this area (and multiple dwellings are one form of housing). Two—we require © good quality multiple dwellings, not necessarily situa behind railway tracks, etc. as these people would wish to have it, but in good residential areas as presently supported and problem, particularly in the southern Interior. In September of last year, the B.C. Forest Service sent forester-engineer Hans Waelti -lo Norway, Austria and Swit- zerland to see how steep slope logging is conducted in those mountainous countries, His report concluded that Skyline logging appeared to offer a possible solution and recom- mended that experiments be conducted to determine its application in this province. Skyline logging is’ the method of removing timber fram” the forest by cable suspended between two spars or two points on the terrain. It differs from most other sys- tems in that the timber is lifted clear of the ground, and the forest floor over which the logs are carried is not disturbed or damaged, Mr. Waelti's recommenda- tion was approved in principle and Forest Service. engineers have been working out details g harvesting costs and strongly ry profes- sional city planners and housing authorities, In’ fact Mayor Landis himself stated (after the vote was taken) that he heard this same idea from various speakers at the recent housing conference held at Notre Dame University in Nelson. We have in our community people from various’ walks of life. However, my interest is to make available multiple hous- ing especially to the retired or semi-retired people of the area and young married people just starting out. Young people who cannot yet afford to buy a home and other people of whom some might find it difficult or even unnecessary to maintain’ “a home—people who may have been raised in this residential community and are still living here.” These people are being denied the right to continue to live here by such groups of petitioners who have displayed total lack of interest © in community growth, citing var- ious reasons as their excuse. We hope the new council when elected,” will take a broader view then the present council on the housing needs of our community. Mike Semenoff x ron CH MAYOR” picienit 3 VOTE : BONDAROFF TO SAVE At Reduced Prices timber production which might be expected with the proposed system. Two areas ;-in the Nelson | Forest District are being considered for opera- tional trials ‘and a firm decision to proceed is probable in April. Complementing the B.C. Forest Service in this field of study is the’ Forest Manage- ment Institute of the Federal Forestry Service. A branch of this ‘agency, the. Harvesting - Research’ Committee, met in D ,boratories, :sleep slope stands. ‘for effect on erosion, regenera- ‘selected Interior areas or studies. Eremenko’s FIT-RITE SHOES ': Penticton in January to develop a program. Several steps were taken, First, a small ‘working _ QUALITY. SHOES for the : family For Dress — Gasval and We committee was — established with western representative of the Forest Management Insti- tute, J.A. McIntosh, as chair- man. Also included were members of . L.L.M.A., the Federal Forest Research. La- and the Forest Our Footwear Will Meet the Need of Any Type Work or Any Occasion Blueberry Creek Irrigation District ANNUAL MEETING Teday, March 28, 1974 7:30 P.M. Blueberry Creek School Service. Two contracts are planned with.the Faculty of Forestry of U.B.C. One is to obtain weight and other characteristics’ of Interior commercial species. This is intended to help determine the equipment speci- fications. The other contract is to assess the suitability of presently used coastal cable logging syslems for Interior Plans also envisage assess- v7 i ment of past logging practices SMITH’S PLUMBING & HEATING 61 Crescent Street, Castlegar — Phone 365-7531 . tion and site quality in some : Kinnaird Women’s _Insti- tute are’ holding a Bridge Luncheon, ‘Apr.’ 3, 1230 d Hall. M: casttoger Figure Skating. drainages. From this investiga- Club’ is sb olding’ it's An-, tion the committee hopes to learn under what soil, stand and terrain | ‘conditions: “cat logging" can be performed without causing unacceptable environmental damage. This program has the full ‘support of the I.L.M.A. which is participating actively in the Hotel, 7:30! p.m. Parents Please At-' 7459. or 365-7859. tend! if : K.P.C.W. Hawaiian Buf- Kinnaird Wor ee raies t, Th t Luncheon, Apr. 5, rate A Mountain: Logging Sys- pm i tems Seminar is being held at Selkirk College lay. and $85-7459 ce 365-7859.. tomorrow for the purpose of Hospital Auxiliary Rum. Attending the meeting and seeking support for the devel- opment of steep slope logging techniques in B.C, were repre- sentatives of the Forest Service and. the «Interior © Lumber Manufacturers © Association Mr. “present and poten- e Sale will be held April Meeting of Lillian tial systems for logging in mountainous terrain ‘in’ the Southern Interior ‘of B.C.” Working committee chairman McIntosh’ will make a Mrs. M. Rush, Mon., Apr. 1, 730° pm. report on progress to that date. (LL.M.A.). Federal rep tives agreed to. help and a further meeting was held in * Court News Rodney Bro, 22, of -Van- couver pled guilty to.a charge of mischief as the result of theft of tools. He was conditionally « discharged and placed on ~ nee ‘Be. ri “ sare‘ and ‘attention.: He was fined $25 br in default two ati ‘in jail. He was charged as the, registered owner of the vehicle. eee eet Weer a Reginald Allan Roberts of Castlegar, pled ‘guilty to a charge of being in possession of. anarcotic. He was fined $150 or. in default 15 days in jail. * s . _ Paul .Posznikoff,. 22, of Castlegar, was found guilty of failing to notify the owner of an Sale Ends This Saturday TO FIT YOU AND YOUR BUDGET _ * Clearance of Broken & Discontinued Lines — ALL SALES FINAL — @ No Refund It Pair Regular Price 2. Pair FREE @ No Returns vehicle in the event ofan accident. He was fined $10 or‘in default 5 days in jail. * 2 * “:Thomas Anderson, 17, of 3 Castlegar, pled guilty to driv- ing while prohibited to do so, His. driver's licence had been “suspended ‘as: the result of a charge Feb. 26 and was charged > Mar. 20 for this offense. He ‘was fined $100 or in default 15 days in jail. He was also suspended from driving for 30 tres as of Mar. 26, i Car Accident Claims the Life Of Local Youth One man’ was killed and ; another taken to Trail Regional Hospital following an accident report to local RCMP at 1:05 a.m, Saturday. “Dead is 16-year-old Ronald Howard Eli Heglin whose 1965 vehicle went out of control on Suicide Hill on the Pass Creek Road and travelled down a 30 foot embankment. Passenger Richard James Berekoff, 16, was reported in good condition Monday and is said to be suffering a broken leg cand neck injuries. The accident is still under investigation. FRANK’S SAW SHOP Saws Sharpened on Machine Old Saws Re-Toothed 365-7395 * Behind Castle Theatre. DEPARTMENT. STORE UMITED : i Saturday April 5th and 6th Win Something you've. been wanting coe A Free.2 Week Trip for Two to Hawaii or Mazatlan plus Samsonite Luggage and $200.00 Spending. Money * Hundreds of Dollars of Prizes to be Drawn 4 x Free Give Aways Both Days 4 ; * Fantastic Buys Throughout the Store * © LINK HARDWARE SPRING SALE © Starts Friday, April'5th - ° SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINT SALE © Special Discounts on © KELVINATOR & SIMPLICITY APPLIANCES © Factory Representatives in’ Attendance From Kelvinator, Simplicity and Sherwin Williams DON'T MISS Til! ‘AIR TRAVEL AGENTS FOR “ALL AIRLINES @. Reservations @ Tours @ Hotel Accom. @ Travel Insurance : Your Link Hardware Dealer. — Phone 365-7782 “Use Your Chargex Credit Card’ SECOND SECTION Published Every Thursday Morning at ‘The Crossroads of the Kootenays” VOL. 27, No, 18 CASTLEGAR NEWS SECOND SECTION a CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1974 | CREDIT UNION Can-Cel Take Over Investigated | Steps Leading to Purchase Retraced By Bob MeMurray :Vancouver Province A’ government. investiga: tion into trading of shares of Columbia Cellulose prior. to Victoria’s takeover of the forest - company has turned the spot- light on the long sequence of ~ events leading to the buy-out. The al nee actually tl a month: before Mr. Williams’ announcement. An investigation of trading by a team of experts from the RCMP. and B.C. Securities Commission’ was ordered ‘sud- denly March 16 by Attorney- General Alex Macdonald after he had’ previously resisted demands by opposition MLAs for the examination, government” allowed people to “make a fortune”. The opposition said that in 1972 the average number. of Coleél shares. traded each month was between 30,000 and 35,000 but that this rose to 295,000 shares in January, 1978, one million in February. and 675,000 in March. Share prices rose dramatically, The jon team is now at work, The intention in this story is only to review the chronology. Much’ of it comes The opp that there — were: “unusual trading: patterns” in common and preferred shares of Colum- bia Cellulose (Colcel) in. the three months prior to the takeover. Claims were made that "slo handling by the last April % by ! Resources Minister Bob Williams who has been one of the key figures in the takeover, Strong hints of govern- ment interest were reported in . Vancouver newspapers’ almost and a little has been learned ice, Colcel_was owned 91 per ‘Interior Sheel Metal (1965). i was pleased to do the - ROOFING & SHEET: METAL FLASHINGS and ; CONGRATULATE - Castlegar Savings Credit Union from newspaper. clipping files - CONGRATULATIONS me to the : Castlegar Savings Credit Union on their : GRAND OPENING We carry a wide range of fon in in your new k f ber by F.L. cent by Celanese Corp. of New” York and despite its three pulp, mills and extensive forest holdings in B.C., had been a financial . disaster for ‘years. Losses in’. operations’ and write-offs by the. end of 1972 had reached about $95 million.’ When James Wall was appointed Colcel president in early 1972' “he said? in. an interview that Celanese had decided in 1968 it wanted to sell: its B.C. operations, | had’ re- appraised the decision in 1969 and hesitated but. before the difficulties of 1970 had recon- firmed it, wanted out. - ‘The problems: were well known ‘to the former. Social Credit administration before its _ defeat by the NDP in August, 1972, Ray Williston, then lands and forests minister, had been seeking a way to cut wood costs for Colcel ‘and the ‘troubled Eurocan Pulp and. Paper operations at Kitimat. Celanese officials had ad-. vised Mr. Williston of -their desire to close the sulphite pulp operations at Prince Rupert! -because it needed heavy. ex- penditure to meet, maintenance ‘$125,000 Modern Structure of Architectural Beauly Grows froma Meefingin a Co-op Bus and a Kindergarten From its first meeting held in a kindergarten to a modern structure of architectural beau- ty containing approximately 3,600 square feet of floor space, is the story of the growth of the Castlegar Savings Credit Union which was incorporated Nov. 24, 1948, This Saturday marks the official opening of the $125,000 structure located next to the Hi Arrow Arms Motel facing’ the Castleaird Plaza shopping cen- tre, Present at the Landis, Peter Podovinikoff of B.C. Central Credit Union, former board chairman Norris Churches and chairman of the Castlegar Savings Credit Union board Russell Leamy. The new building, design- ed by George Furnadjieff, came into being following studies made by building committee chairman Frank Dawson. Mr. Dawson, who. studied credit union bank buildings through- out the Okanagan and Van- couver area, gathered many of the ‘ideas it y Mr. “will be: Castlegar Mayor John Seminar on Selkirk College is sponsor- ing a professional seminar on © Mountain Logging Systems today and tomorrow ‘at the Hi Arrow, Arms. Representatives of forest- ry companies operating inthe Southern Interior. of | British Columbia have been invited to hear. a wide range, of logging it Furnadjieff into his ete In keeping up with the growth, the new building will help serve all the people in the Castlegar, Kinnaird, Blueberry Creek and Slocan Valley area, the back wall has been built independently so’ it may be removed when further expan- sion is necedsary. Expansion has been the story of the Castlegar Savings Credit Union's growth. While the first meeting was held at Mrs. Barry Hill's in the kindergarten area, other early meetings were held in the homes of Russ’ Fletcher, Ivan Mounfain Logging Systems Here Today. and Tomorrow gren of the St. Regis Paper Co, Libby, Montana on Logging Operations in the N.W. United States, and Hans Waelti of the B.C. Forest Service on Skyline Logging Systems in Europe. Inrecent years there have been many innovations in the methods of logging in mountain areas, especially at higher and on steep slopes. and new pollution In: mid-August, | 1972, h it the B.C. Forest Service a from UBC and : i had signed a deal with Colcel to : buy the money-making Castle- gar operations for what was later learned to be $48 million. ‘The Socred administration ne (Made tentative ’ plat prove the sale -th ‘to place Colcel's:nt ees “sweep, Mr. : Williams “phoned | + Mr,-Williston’ and ‘asked’ that the Socreds' in” the interim period . between governments not take any action to approve the sale to Weyerhaeuser. In November and Decem- ber of 1972, Celanese corporate £ officials: from. New — York, approached Mr. Williams, who * had then ‘been appointed ‘: resources _ minister, without going through its board 7 Vancouver © men © Charles C. Locke and James Sinclair. The minister. delayed ap- ~ proval of the transfer of timber involved in. the Castlegar < operation and thus blocked the Weyerhaeuser deal. In October he ordered an assessment: of. directly ©) 4 Selkirk College, discussing the many problems: of logging | in ™mountainous areas. Included among the speak- -£T8 are Professor Laszlo Ada- movich of the Forestry Faculty, UBC, ® Who}. will) talk “on.:th Impact of..the. Logger. ong 4 ‘ “Groups. Hold: Joint Gathering Gay was the scene at. & Nordic Hall Saturday when the 4 Sons of Norway Lodge held its March social evening. with the Scottish dancers from‘ Nelson being the star attraction. The colorful Scottish plaid of ‘directors. which ‘included ; Mills and the Norwegian bou- nads made a. pleasing addition to the hall decor. These two ethnic groups meet and entertain one another annually and in turn teach and participate in. their national dances as well as enjoy the cooking of each of the countries. * Such sonanges have seen the such logging and the new techniques are attempts to minimize the consequences. The organizer’ of the seminar, Bill Moore of Selkirk College forestry department said “there considerable interest in the seminar and we have 150 representatives of Interior logging companies, Forest Service, and equipment manulacturers\ and Forestry Dergousoff and Bill Johnson.: ne of the most’ unique meeting places, used by the founding Credit Unionists, was a Co-op Transportation’ bus. First secretary-treasurer was Mrs. Carl (Esther) Loeblich of Kinnaird. The first official office was located in one half of Henry's Paint Shop (which was former- ly occupied by Ed Lewis Barber Shop) at 125 Columbia Ave. |: In 1959 the Couch Block at 241 Columbia Ave. was pur- chased by the Credit Union. Charter members of Cas- tlegar Savings Credit Union are Ralph Fletcher, Mra. R. Flet: cher, ‘Mrs. Carl Loeblich, Albert Richards, George Wor- obey, Alfred Read, Bill John- son, Edwin Johnson, Loyd Groutage, Alex Cumming, Ivan Dergousoff, Mrs. Barry Hill and Carl Loeblich. Membership at the end ot February is reported to be 3,484, These members, with the opening of the new facility, will enjoy all banking facilities and for the first time will have safety deposit boxes to rent, The building has one of the finest security alarm systems. of helicopter ‘and balloon logging in the province. Some concern ‘hasbeen expressed on the © vironmental consequence of the present tim the Castlegar and this was completed in Novem- .*: C. Reed and = dusty. sed were pleased to have done the cement. TROWELEX CONCRETE CONTRACTORS LIMITED Located between Castlegar and Blueberry. ‘on Main Highway —— Phone 365-3315 Best Wishes Castlegar Savings Credif Union on their - GRAND OPENING NORM BAILEY PAINTING & DECORATING 218 Douglas Ave., Penticton, B.C. Phone 492-3942 4 ~ ins Leo, t ee igh --Hodgins, Clarkson and Gérdon and H. A. Simons, (continued on page 2) Public is Invited To Use Telescope Facilities at College © Selkirk College will be opening its telescope facility to the public beginning April 4. Viewing will start at 8 p.m. on clear Thursday through to the end of May. * Objects to be seen in the % Spring sky include the galaxies Virgo and “Coma Berenices,, globular star clus- lers and open star clusters, The great nebula in Orion will be -visible in the early evenings of April, but is setting about half. + an hour’earlier each week. evenings | Penple who come oul tothe -., telescope sight are advised to. dress warmly, hands and feet are especially liable to the cold of the April evenings. People are inviled lo bring binoculars, as many open clusters are best seen with them. The telescope sight is located behind the main park- ing tot of the college, just south of. the West Kootenay power line , where il crosses the Columbia River. If anyone is in doubt as to whether the sky is clear, he should phone the college Infurmation Desk at 365-7292 Thursdays in the evening. at ae A Op “BEART EIA St RS ve OO T planning to attend. It is very important to ‘exchange information and ideas on-mout tain logging at The new structure will also house the Kinnaird Public Library anda barber shop in the basement area. to the on their Official Opening Of Their New Facilities Our firm is very pleased to have been awarded the con- tract to install plumbing, heating, ventilating and el- ectrical systems. BOUNDARY ELECTRIC (CASTLEGAR) LTD. 625 Columbia Ave., Castlegar — Phone 365-7241 Castlegar Savings Credit Union on your GRAND OPENING It was our pleasure to have supplied the Ready Mix Concrete MeGAULEY READY MIX CONCRETE Casino Road, Trail — Phone 368-8226 — Castlegar — Phone 365-7522 CONGRATULATIONS CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT SAVINGS CREDIT UNION