ESTAMLISNED AUG. 7, 1947 INCORPORATING THE MI- WEEK Twice MAY 4, 1900 |AARROR PUBLISHED Ser}, 12, 1978-AUG. 27, 1980 (LV. CAMPORLL — PURLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FEB. 15, 1973. ADVERTISING MANAGER — CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodley Gary Fleming | Stee vested in and belongs to Conte News Lid.: proved however het copyright tha pa Prepared trom repro prooks, engravings, wt. and that part yriser shell Labor pa NELSON, ENGLAND — Hardly anyone in this town of 36,000 knew that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her bullet-proof campaign bus were ar- riving. Small crowd or not, her visit to a cookie factory looked good on tele- vision — the main battleground in a British election that is b beginnii rty ‘slick’ Thatcher years, and the strained health and welfare services, to the 19th-century poverty in the novels of Charles Dickens. “It comes to people sleeping rough under the arches and people dying for lack of warmth in their own homes,” said Kinnock. “It comes to making the youn; d. These (the Con- a U.S. presid In Nelson, a northwest England town with 4,000 unemployed, about 40 people turned out for the prime minister's visit. Her itinerary is kept secret because of security. Thatcher narrowly escaped death in an Irish Republican Army assassination at- tempt in 1984. The strict security gives her cam- paign a mechanical air. Labor leader Neil Kinnock's cam- paign is making advances, thanks to his engaging manner and what is probably the slickest public relations campaign of any major party. Thatcher, long under the guidance of the advertising firm Saatchi and Saat- chi, says her socialist opponent has been packaged to put a gloss on leftist policies. “The slickness of style deceives the eye — now you see the extreme left policies, now you don't,” Thatcher said at a rally in Birmingham. Days earlier in Birmingh: Kin- servatives) are people living in a time warp. They would need a Dickens to do them justice.” Labor was acclaimed for its first television commercial, crafted by Hugh Hudson, director of the Academy Award-winning movie Chariots of Fire. Accompanied by stirring music, it shows clips of Kinnock denouncing Marxists he expelled from the party, Kinnock- with his wife, Glenys, and their two children, Kinnock's relatives talking of his boyhood. The Conservatives’ first commercial was stale. It featured Union Jacks, flashbacks to the Second World War and the slogan Isn't It Great To Be Great Again? A Gallup poll published Thursday showed Kinnock had in a week out- stripped Thatcher as the most impres- sive campaigner. Of 2,506 voters questioned, 37 per cent ranked Kinnock’s campaign the nock staked out the major theme of his campaign — a crusade against what he calls the cruel legacy of eight years of Thatcher's economic policy. Kinnock likened the doubling of un- employment to three million in the best, compared with 20 per cent for Thatcher. Twenty-one per cent chose either David Steel or David Owen, leaders of the third-running centrist Social Democratic-Liberal party alli- ance. The rest had no opinion. Asi Ron Norman Monday's general strike by organ ized labor in B.C. marks the return to the bad old days of 1983. Remem. ber 1983? Bill Bennett was premier and had just introduced his con troversial restraint program. Soli darity — a coalition of labor, church and community groups — mur roomed, seemingly overnight. B.C. was thrown into chaos as thousands marched in the streets opposing the legislation. B.C. tea- chers walked off the job in what was to be the first of an escalating series of strikes that would cripple the B.C. eeonomy. But Bennett refused to back down, charging that he — and not special interest groups — was elec- ted to run the province. The strikes were only averted when IWA boss Jack Munro flew to Bennett's Kel owna home to cut a deal. It is now four years later and we have come full circle. We are under a different Social Credit govern ment; it not only has a new leader in Bill Vander Zalm, but for the most part a new caucus and cabinet. Yet, here we are faced with a general strike tomorrow that will make the 1983 protests look like a Sunday school picnic. And Vander Zalm is charging that he was elected to run the province — not: organized labor. Not much has really changed, has it? The problem this time is that labor does not intend to back down. But then neither does Vander Zalm. He feels he has made some conces. sions —and he has. The changes to Bill 19 announced this week are pretty substantive. Ed Peck will not have the same powers as commissioner of the industrial relations council that he would have had under the original bill. For instance, it will now be up to the labor minister, and not Peck, to decide when a dispute poses a threat to the economy of the province or the “health, safety or welfare of its residents.” Also amended was the so-called double breasting clause, which would have allowed a unionized company to set up a non-union sub: sidiary in order to evade collective bargaining. And the clause giving strikebreakers the right to vote on a contract offer was also changed, though don't ask me why that clause was ever included in the legislation in the first place. Gone also is a unionized employer's right to hire non-union apprentices. But that doesn’t mean the empha- sis of the legislation has changed. It still includes things like a ban on “hot” edicts, such as the one where Pacific Press employees at the Van- couver Sun and Vancouver Province refused to handle advertisements from Famous Players Theatres Ltd. while the theatre chain's workers were on strike in 1985. And it still injects the govern. ment firmly into the collective bar- gaining process through Peek and his industrial relations council. In effect, Vander Zalm has han- dled the labor legislation much like an employer would handle contract negotiations. He put on the table a proposal so outlandish he knew it would be rejected (why else include the strikebreakers’ right to vote clause?). He then came back with a second offer which removed the more ridiculous sections and looked much more palatable. The changes make Vander. Zalm look like he is willing to comprom. ise. Labor, on the other hand, ap pears rigid and unbending-«im its refusal to accept the new bill. I sense, too, that the changes also mark a shift in public opinion toward Vander Zalm and away from labor. While the public may have sympathized with teachers and organized labor early on, support now is starting to wayer. And there is little doubt it will crumble with tomorrow's general strike. The public hates to be incon- venienced, and that is just what it will be tomorrow as_ businesses, government offices and services are shut down in protest. Vander Zalm has neatly painted the B.C. Fed into a corner. It was a corner the Fed's moderate leadership had been try. ing to avoid. But a general strike was almost inevitable because it is about the only major weapon or. ganized labor has in its arsenal. Still, Vander Zalm shouldn't be too quick to claim victory in this sad battle between labor and govern ment. There aren't any winners in this — only a loser: The province of B.C., because a general strike will likely only be the start of a series of confrontations between labor and government over Bill 19 that some in the labor movement predict will last three years. And that won't do anything to help B.C.’s image in foreign markets. along with replacements for several who are retiring. Plans for summer holidays in main- tenance work were also discussed. . . . Miss Shirley Collinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Collinson of Kinnaird, was a winning contestant on the hice era the Wealth” quiz Letters to the Editor Rural routes safe Many of our customers who reside in the rural communities of Canada have been exposed to a campaign of attention-seeking tactics and misin- formation that has been recently launched across this country. This misinformation has created concern and anxiety among our cus- tomers and many of our employees, and their families. Canada Post will not remove rural route service from any of its cust- omers, and let me assure you that the corporation does not have any plans to effect widespread closures of rural offices. That simply is not the policy. Canada Post has no intention of reducing service anywhere in Canada. In fact, the opposite is true. The number of postal products outlets will be expanded by 50 per cent over the next 10 years or more. In the majority of cases, Canada Post will simply be changing the method or location of postal services, using the resources of local private businesses. Wherever cl are contemp- lated, they will arise because of natural Multicultural society finds oldest citizens The Castlegar Multicultural Society has been searching for the two oldest immigrants with the longest citizen- ship record prior to and after 1947. Prior to 1947 the oldest citizen is Sam Relkoff who was born in the Soviet Union in 1893 and arrived in Canada at the age of six, in 1899. He is now 94 years old, looks after chickens for a hobby and is still able to drive a car. The oldest citizen that we are aware of since the passing of the Canadian Citizenship Act 1947 is Lucy Brodman, 85. Mrs. Brodman was born in 1902 in Switzerland, emigrated to Canada in 1987 and took out Canadian citizenship in 1951. The society feels that it is possible for someone in our district to be unaware of ‘our search and to have become a Canadian citizen during the period 1947 - 1950. If there is any such person, we would like them to contact the Society at 365-8058 or 365-3029. Colin Pryce Castlegar Partying teenagers ‘unfair’ to campers Our family decided to spend the long weekend camping at Syringa Park. On Friday night the park .was approx- imately half-full and very quiet. Saturday night, on the other hand, was party time for approximately 50 teenagers. They started around 7:30 p.m. By 10:30 p.m. after putting up with abusive language, cars speeding by our campsite and some very loud partying we complained to the park authorities. They asked us to sit tight for approximately half an hour and the cops would be by to escort these kids out of the park. Apparently, the RCMP did come, but not until about 11:30 p.m. and only escorted some of the party-goers out. The party was still going on at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. I am angry and think this is very unfair to the rest of the campers who go there to spend a camping weekend together as a family. I don't understand three things: 1. Why are these kids so incon- siderate of other people? 2. Don't the parents of these kids care where they are, or what they are doing until 6:30 in the morning? 8. Why aren't the RCMP out to the park on a regular basis, especially on a long weekend? Most of these kids were under the age of 19 and drinking and driving. ‘The reckless driving in the park on Saturday night could have injured or killed someone. Marianne Huilbert Castlegar PP ities such as the retirement or promotion of a post- master. In the majority of cases, when service changes, a community will be given 90 days consultation so that the views of residents about service alter- natives can be considered. Canada Post's objective will be to provide “on-site” delivery service and community identity will be maintained. In the vast majority of cases, the service will be improved or, at the very least, will be comparable to the existing service. It is clearly the intention of Canada Post to provide rural Canada with a modern and efficient delivery and retail network, providing more outlets with more convenient extended hours of operation. It is our belief that if the Canadian public is well informed of the corp- oration's goals and plans, there will be a greater level of understanding and co-operation and much less room for the misinformation and unnecessary Hospital staff gave kind care I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who were so kind to us in your community following our car accident on May 9. One daughter and I received very kind care in your hospital for several days, and the other daughter was flown to Vancouver to Children’s Hospital after prompt emergency service in Castle- gar. I am happy to report that she has since been released from hospital with only a cast and temporary sling as results. Your community is to be commended for keeping such a fine RCMP staff — specials thanks to Const. Straker, such a competent ambulance service, and such a kind medical staff with special thanks to charge nurse Jean Lamb, and doctors Yule, Mitchell, and Tomas- zewski. Lynn Johnson Creston. Big news story missed If you were not listening to CBC Radio last Sunday morning, you missed the news story of the century: The privatization of U.S. National Security that has taken place since the 1960s, with the encouragement of highly. placed CIA: officials and political leaders high in the U.S. administration. With the Senate hearings into the sale of arms to Iran, as well as other court cases going on right now, there have been some terrifying revelations of happenings all over the world. Apparently, after former president John Kennedy thwarted an invasion of Cuba in the early 1960s, several CIA officials quit that organization and set up the first of a series of separate private covert operations companies financed mainly through sale of arm- aments and drug running. One of their first acts was to use U.S: air power in Laos to help one of the big three drug runners get a monopoly on that country’s illicit drug trade by bombing his opposition. During the war in southeast Asia, this same team was responsible for some 60,000 ions of dozens of political assassinations, prop- ping up Samoza in Nicaragua, Marcos in the Philippines, and generally helping other such dubious stalwarts of “democracy and decency”. Airplanes loaded with armaments left the U.S. for various countries and came back loaded with drugs, from heroin, to cocaine, and marijuana; little wonder President Reagan felt compelled to declare a war on drugs (followed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Health Minister Jake Epp). In dec- laring this “war on drugs” he has also threatened countries like Colombia and Mexico because they are not curtailing drug exports to the U.S. Patriotism and profit is very heady, to quote the CBC teporter. A $20 million plane is sold to Iran for $30 million, and part — only part — of the profits diverted to harass Nicaragua, by financing the Contras, bombing villages and planting mines in har- bours. How pathetic! But even more revealing and shock- ing was the information that at one stage of the Watergate affair former di Richard Nixon passed on a ians and officials in Indo-China. From there they got involved in trying to prop up the Shah of Iran with threat to CIA and FBI officials that if they didn’t slow down or divert or stop the Watergate investigation the “Mex- ican affair would come out. Apparently, those at the meeting did not know what it meant. During questioning of Bob Haldemann (one of the key participants in Watergate) one of the officials asked him what the “Mexican affair” meant. He replied it was former president Kennedy's assassination. One would expect some front page stories in our newspapers on some of these revelations. Does no one care? More letters on page A5 evening. - - Her prone regular listeners to the Trans Canada radio show, were thrilled to hear their daughter's name called as first contestant of the evening. A member of the RCAF stationed at Aylmer, Ontario, Miss Collinson was visiting Toronto for the weekend and had stopped in at the CBC studios to watch the quiz program. Hers was the first name to be called for participation in the show. She answered the question correctly and won $10. Miss Collinson used part of her money to call her parents in Kinnaird and share the excitement with them. 25 YEARS AGO From the May 31, 1962 News A former Castlegar girl has placed second in a French speaking contest held at the University of Southern California, Tanya Charters, daughter of Castle- gar resident Jack Charters, and a Grade 10 honor student last year at Stanley Humphries secondary school, represented Marshall high school in Los Angeles where she is in Grade 11. * 2 « Sixty-five Grade 12 students gradu- ate from Stanley Humphries secondary school when commencement exercises are held at 8 p.m. tomorrow night at the school. Mrs. Walter Jacobson, chairman of the school board, will present the stu- dents with their diplomas while Dr. J.F.K. English, deputy minister of education, will address the students and the public. . * e« « An early decision on a proposed extension to the Castlegar and District Hospital is expected by the hospital board of management following the visit to the area last week of the head of the research division of BCHIS. W.D. Burrows visited the hospital and area this week from Victoria. 15 YEARS AGO From the June 8, 1972 Castlegar News The twin towns of Castlegar and Kinnaird, was well as Blueberry Creek, will get letter carrier service on Aug. 21, but as far as the post office is con- cerned, Kinnaird will cease to exist. A letter to Kinnaird council from R.F. Reid of the B.C. and Yukon Postal District Delivery and Requirements division in Kelowna stated on Aug. 21 “letter carrier service will emanate from the Castlegar post office and the Kinnaird post office will close. * * Official opening of the Kalesnikoff Lumber company's new plant at Thrums will be held Tuesday, June 13, Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston will be the special guest of honor. * 8 6 Tomatoes were selling for 39 cents a pound at the SuperValue store. Bread sold for six loafs for one dollar, fish and chips sold for 59 cents and turkeys were selling for 69 cents a pound. 5 YEARS AGO From the June 2, 1982 Castlegar News Rossland-Trail NDP Chris D'Arcy has called for government action on the economic situation in the West Koot- enay. “The worst thing against us right now, I would say, is a lack of confidence and faith in the future,” D'Arcy told the B.C. Legislature recently. “I believe the government should be leading and not discouraging invest- ment by business and small individuals with agricultural land who would like to be in the business of growing seedlings, expanding the tourist indus- try or surviving in these difficult times.” *“ 2 « Canada Safeway Ltd. Tuesday ruled Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gar, B.C. Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the nome. Nevertheless, the nome and address of the writer must be disclosed fo the editor The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grommor out any y of opening a new Castlegar store this year. In fact, Safeway real estate manager Ken Horwood said in a telephone interview from Vancouver that Safe- way still hasn't reached full agreement with local developer Paul Boel. * « 6 Castlegar volunteer fire department will initiate a new training program complete with written examination for all firefighters — including officers — it was disclosed this week. either per- manently, or at least until; 1) a full and study of this aging reactor has been carried out; 2) an independent ‘im 8 has been completed; and 8) the systems and equipment employed at this mili- tary reactor can be brought up to the best of présent day safety standards, that: However, it appears that if the USDOE and USDOD insist upon restarting the problematic N-reactor at Hanford — in its present ‘condition — these departments will be tending to neglect their mandates in regard to the citizens of the American northwest (and neighboring citizens of the Cana- dian southwest) since this action will once again generate an ongoing risk to the safety and well-being of many of the very citizens these departments are assigned to protect. It is my understanding that there are serious safety programs not only at Hanford but also at many of the wea- pons grade plutonium producing facil- Kies in the U.S. No doubt this disturb- ing situation is to some extent the expected legacy of 45 years in the nuclear arms race. Now, however, in the interests of human safety, I believe it is time to “clean up the act,” time to phase out the dangerous, out of date, older style nuclear reactors such as the N-reactor and (only where absolutely necessary) to replace them with new fully up to date reactors that meet or exceed the standards of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which regulates all civilian nuclear reactors. year-old N-reactor is very similar to the ill-fated Chernobyl re- actor, and when operating presents a definite risk of a disastrous nuclear accident like that in the Soviet Union in May 1986. Some of the many weaknesses of older style weapons grade plutonium producing reactor are: © It has a graphite core which is warping and cracking; e It has no containment devises to the. 570 square mile nuclear reserve, and where there have over the years been frequent serious radioactive re- leases — both accidental and inten. tional — into the atmosphere. There has been ‘an ongoing history, at Hanford and other weapons pluton- ium producing plants, of apparent “cover: ups” and dishonest reporting of prevent the escape (: or in- tended) of radioactive releases both via liquid effluents and as emissions into the atmosphere; e It has an unreliable cooling system with pumps and electric wiring that are worn and defective; It 20 years older than Giacnabyl and has even fewer safety devices than the latter had in place at the time of the Soviet disaster. The operation of N-reactor and other plants at Hanford tends to be con- tracted out to private corporations which — as one would expect — tend to be more concenred with operating at a profit than with paying the necessary attention to the preventation of harm- ful environmental impacts upon the surroudning countryside and _ its people. di and of alteration of standards in cases where such standards were not achievable at the plants and within the waste dis- posal areas. Surely the great nation of the USA which has striven for more than a cen- tury to uphold democracy, justice, and human rights must now — in order to restore its good reputation — strive to rectify the app: risks to Bear warning issued for grea Open house in Trail on The Canada, Employment Centre for Students in Trail will hold an open house Monday at 10 a.m. “All area employers are urged to drop in and meet us at this time,” says Cath- arine Merlo, who, along with Denise West, is a student employment officer at the centre. The centre has one main goal this summer: To in- crease the number of stu- dents placed in summer jobs in the Castlegar area. “Each year, numerous the safety and well-being of its citizens (and Canadian neighbors as well) by either refraining inently from_re- starting the N-reactor or. bringing it up to acceptable safety standards. The latter option would appear to be very difficult — if not impossible — to achieve. Harry F. Killough | Castlegar Seniors visit school For.the Castlegar Senior Citizens bocial meeting May 21 seniors were invited to Twin Rivers elementary school, where they were entertained to a noon-hour concert of choral and band music. The auditorium was filled with seniors and par. ents of the students. The guests were welcomed by principal Terry Rogers, then the program was turned over to music teacher Bob Bertuzzi. The junior band, composed of students from Grades 3 and 4, opened with a variety of pieces showing their ver- satility for ones so young, and for which were enthusi- astically received by the audience. more. The senior band then their places, with studépts program. from Grades 4, 5 and 6 Their repertoire was—varied, } in- cluding Juke Box Rock, Lady in Spain, Maori Farewell. They played a polka med- ley, and a waltz, a sing-a- long to the Happy Wander- ere, a piece featuring the drums, and a drum solo, and The variety of songs by the school choir brought an en- joyable and appreciated con- cert to a close. On behalf of the seniors, president Flor- ence Laycock thanked Mr. Bertuzzi and the students for the invitation to the concert. Both students and teachers were commended for their k time and talent put into this The seniors then returned to the centre where the kit- chen committee had refresh-. Castl students register at our office, but few are placed in jobs in Castlegar,” says Merlo. “These students registered in our office — both post- secondary and high school students — are skilled in special areas through educ- ation or previous job experi- ence; they are talented; they are energetic and enthusi- astic about finding summer employment. 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