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— Peter Horvey

Gory Fleming

Miserable excuses

Consumer and Corporate Af
fairs Minister Elwood Veitch of-
tered some miserable excuses this
week as to why he will not hold an
inquiry into the failure of the for-
mer Teachers’ Investment and
Housing Cooperative.

But perhaps the weakest was
his statement that the petition
from former co-op members
seeking an inquiry does not have
enough signatures. Since when is
5,000 signatures not enough?

It would be interesting to know
how often Mr. Veitch receives
5,000-name petitions that he can
brush them aside so easily. It is
staggering that Mr. Veitch would
dismiss any request by 5,000
people, let alone one from a group
that represents investors with

nearly $270 million in assets in the
former co-op.

Mr. Veitch also argued that the
Cooperatives Association Act does
not extend to cooperatives that no
longer exist. That would inter that
the Act only allows the govern-
ment to investigage healthy
cooperatives still operating, but
not troubled cooperatives that
have folded. It’s a strange Catch 22
situation that begs the question,
why have the Act in the first place?
Surely, it is time to change the Act.

As for Mr. Veitch’s lame excuse
that the $100,000 cost of an inquiry
would be prohibitive, he should be
reminded of those who invested
their lite savings in the failed co-
op. Besides, it would be beneficial
to know what happened so a
similar situation doesn't occur
again

Bet onan election

Bet on a provincial election this
fall — likely in October. The signs

¢ Bill Vander Zalm's
Proposals to eliminate the seven
per cent tax on restaurant meals
ond to reduce the provincial sales
jax;

* in his advice to Social Credit
party constituency associations to
hold nomination meetings as early
as possible (Rossland-Trail Socreds
wasted little time, announcing
their nomination meeting will be
held Sept. 29);

* in the sudden rush of cabinet
ministers to resign their seats.

But no sign is so obvious as the
premier’s announcement this week’
that he would like to lower the
price of beer. Politicians can talk
about deficits and job creation
programs until they're blue in the
face, but what really makes Joe
Voter sit up and take notice is
when they start mentioning beer
prices

* 4o when the electioneering
begins this fall just remember the
caution of U.S. independent news-
paper editor |.F. Stone: Don't listen
to what leaders in government,
business or labor say: watch what
they do

Norman

Have you noticed that lately you
need a program to tell the provincial
political parties apart?

In the old days under former premier
Bill Bennett it was dead easy. The New
Democrats were on the left and the
Socreds on the right

The New Democrats emphasized
social programs, the working man and
big labor. Social Credit stressed free
enterprise, fiscal responsibility and big
business.

But those labels don’t seem to stick
quite as well as they used to. Just look
at NDP leader Bob Skelly’s pledge this
week to put a lid on the provincial
deficit if his party takes power. He said
he wouldn't add to the $1.5 billion debt
even to create jobs.

Say what? Is this the same Bob
Skelly pundits were telling us is a
died-in-the-wool socialist from the
NDP’s far left?

He's talking fiscal responsibility —
usually ground reserved for the Social
Credit. His comments even slightly
echo the former premier’s unpopu
lar restraint program — though not
quite

Skelly’s plan calls for redistribution
of the province's revenues. He says he
would eliminate government programs
that are no value in creating long-term
employment : or helping people on
welfare.

The first thing that would go would
be the $100 million plan last year to
subsidize and insure investments in
shares on the Vancouver Stock Ex
change — the plan some called “BCRI(
Two”

But while Skelly’s talking deficits
and creative accounting, Premier Bill
Vander Zalm is thinking aloud about
eliminating a whole range of taxes on
everything from beer to restaurant
meals. He even mentioned looking at
lowering the provincial sales tax. The
last premier to do that as soon as he
entered office was the NDP’s Dave
Barrett

But coincidence.

then that's no

Vander Zalm is going after the same
voter who helped put Barrett in office:
The working man.

“One of the pleasures of laborers is
that after they work they can stop and

this week. “We've made it so pricey
that few of them can afford it any
more.”

Nary a mention that lower beer
prices might help boost a struggling
brewery industry
Vander
lower

Of course.
promised to
restaurant meal
looking into it

Zalm hgpn't
taxes

But the fact he's even considering it
is a surprise. Doing away with the
taxes would mean an added burden for
the province's already hefty deficit —
and that’s out of character coming from
a usually cost-conscious Social Credit
government

On a local level, Chris D'Arey's
politics have taken a strange twist
lately. The 14-year Rossland-Trail
MLA came down squarely opposite
party leader Skelly on the sale of West
Kootenay Power to the U.S.-based
Utilicorp. Skelly called on the province
to block the sale, but D'Arcy only
expressed guarded criticism, adding
quite pointedly that in a democracy
Cominco is free to do what it wants.

The remark drew strong criticism
from hardline New Democrats — much
the same bunch who came within two
votes of toppling D'Arcy as the NDP
candidate in Rossland-Trail a few years
ago

Then there was D'Arcy's appearance
at the Castlegar breakfast for Premier
Bill Vander Zalm — supposedly open
only to Socred members.

According to reports, D'Arcy's pre-
sence prompted a BCTV News Hour
crew to converge on him in the middle
of his breakfast and ask if he planned to
cross the floor to the Socreds. D'Arey
was apparently miffed by the query.

Socred? New Democrat? It’s getting
harder to tell which is which.

TRADE MARK OF BiLl VANDER ZALM GARDENING PRODUCTS.

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 6, 1951
The Stanley Humphries high schod)
opened on Tuesday, September 4th as
‘a full junior-senior high school, regis-
tering approximately 350 students.
. * 6

Castlegar’s Fall Fair, sponsored by
, the

met at the Board Office on August 27th
at 7:30 p.m. with Mr. G. Craft in the
chair and trustees R. Waldie, R.
Hunter, J. Marshall and Mrs. W.
Jacobson present.

Tuition fees for students attending
Stanley Humphries high school but
who are not living in the district were
discussed and it was decided to set an
annual fee of $75.00.

. 28 6

Advertisement: Hear about Social

Credit. John H. Blackmore will speak

Letters to the Editor

Support paper bags

The following is a copy of a letter
sent to the managers of the Castlegar
Super Valu and Canada Safeway stores.
The letter indicates the concern that I,
a Celgar Pulp operations employee,
have Segarding the use of plastic
shopping sacks. Hopefully, you will
publish this letter in order that other
local business people, as well as the
community as a whole, will recognize
the problem that may occur as we pack
our groceries or other merchandise out
of our stores using non-paper bag
products.

“I am writing this letter to indicate
my personal concern and | am sure the
concern of other employees at Celgar
Pulp Operations, about the use of
plastic shopping sacks in your store
Although we do not make a product
used in the manufacture of brown
shopping bags, it is nevertheless
disturbing to see the practical paper
bags replaced by plastic sacks

“Many of our competitors in this
tough world of pulp marketing not

only make a product similar to
Celgar's, but also produce brown bag
stock. Consequently, as they find prob-
lems in marketing bag stock, they will
in turn produce more of the pulp pro-
duct comparable to Celgar's. This will
result in less demand for our product
and therefore the potential for more
downturn at the mill. Who will buy
your groceries?

“My wife is also quite dismayed
when the groceries are packed in
plastic sacks. She finds the lack of
Structural integrity of the sack a
nuisance. Now her groceries end up on
the car trunk floor.

“Environinentally, paper breaks
down biologically when disposed in
sanitary landfills, plastic does not
Paper ‘burms clean, plastic sacks if
ignited will emit chemical compounds.

“Your concern may be costs, but it
could well be false economy if the
financial position of your customers is
adversely affected.

How about a reply?

Having actively searched for a job
for approximately one year. followed
up every advertisement in the paper —
whether box number or direct contact
—I am amazed at the lack of courtesy
when these employers
resume.

receive a

Possibly they don't realize the effort
that goes into even a brief work
history, or maybe they just don't care.
It is, of course, very easy to hide
behind a box number and no one has

Brisco

I was shocked to read in the Aug. 22
Kootenay Lake Review that Kootenay
West MP Bob Brisco is opposed to
economic sanctions against the op
pressive and Facist regime in South
Africa.

In a Kasio interview with the Review
on Aug. 11, Brisco says that “he thinks
that sanctions are a ‘mistake and
goes on to express the view that “with
sanctions ‘we're putting a hell of a lot of
blacks out of work’ and that the
resulting unemployment could lead to
civil war. If that happened, he said

ing bloodshed would be ‘on our

He went on to say that there
number of regimes in the world which
are a ‘damm sight’ more repressive of
human rights than South Africa

Mr. Brisco has turned logic and the
arguments of almost al! international
leaders (except U.S. President Ronald
Reagan and British Prime
Margaret Thatcher) on its head. The
fact is that the only real alternative toa
protracted and bloody conflict in South
Afriea is the kind of pressure that only
immediate, full-scale, and effective
economic sanctions against the South
African economy can bring. The only
legitimate argument regarding the
pressure of sanctions is how fast to
tighten the screws in order to achieve
maximum gain for minimum pain

Our Kootenay West
MP is so obviously out of touch with
both international and Canadian op
inion as to be incredible. He's out of
touch with the Commonwealth, out of

are a

Minister

Conservative

any idea who has placed the ad, there
fore there is no chance of an applicant
following up.

Would it really require too much
effort to contact persons who have
taken the time to their
advertisements?

Let's have a little respect for the
unemployed who really want to work
and enough courtesy to acknowledge
their efforts to obtain employment

W. Black
Rebson

answer

“We in Castlegar make our living
from the forest industry and not from
petro-chemicals. Please support this by
considering your priorities.”

v.

remember
Castlegar

Recently while returning from Expe,

our family suffered one of the night-
mares of travel: We locked the only set
of car keys in the trunk.

We were lucky to be in your fair
town because a number of your citizens
came to our assistance. I don't remem-
ber their names, but I hope some of
your readers recognize who they are
and pat them on the back.

The manager of the Safeway store
and the Texaco station attendant were
a great help. They put me in touch with
the owner of Trail Auto Body shop,
who got the keys out and delivered
them to the motel desk at 11 on a
Friday night. To top it off, this gentle
man absolutely refused to accept any
payment

We saw a lot of things on our trip,
but we will always remember a little
town called Castlegar

Mark Burkhartsmeyer
and family
Chineok, Montana

stand shocking

touch with the European Community,
out of touch with the world’s churches,
out of touch with all political parties in
the Canadian House of Commons
including (if Mulroney's words are to
be believed) the government of which
he is a part, out of touch with almost all
black African opinion and, apart from
the South African government and
South African neo-nazis, he's out of
touch with much white African opinjon
as well

Mr. Brisco's only public allies on this
issue would appear to be limited to
David Drake, Ernst Zundel, and Jim
Keegstra, with Reagan and Thatcher
as masthead figureheads, though even
these two are beginning to reluctantly
yield to the reality of the choice
between sanctions or war

To make matters worse, in his
intervjew, our MP went on to become a
second-rate apologist for South African
apartheid by drawing poor analogies to
the treatment of Canada’s native
people (who's the government, any
way?) and to the sometimes object
ionable human rights practices of other
states

For God's sake Mr. Brisco, shape up!
We in Kootenay West expect more of
our representatives than that

While many countries in the world
fall short of democratic ideals and their
own stated goals, not since Hitler's
Third Reich have we seen another
state which adopted unbridled racism
and race superiority as a deliberate and
publicly avowed act of policy. That is
what makes the case of apartheid and

South Africa different, and that is what
makes full economic sanctions against
the South African regime both urgent
and justifiable despite our gerferally
correct policy of non-intervention in
the internal affairs of independent
states.

As for your comparison of the status
of South African blacks with that of
native people in Canada, it is so
far-fetched as to not be worthy of
rebuttal. Speaking frankly, I feel a
deep sense of despair and disgust.

There are none so blind as those who
will not see.

Kootenay West New Democrats
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Editor to: The Castlegar News,
P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN
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ar 197, Columbia Avenue
Castlegar, B.C

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clude the writer's full name and
address. Only in very exceptional
coses will letters be published
without the writer's name. Never-
theless, the name and address of
the writer must be disclosed to the
editor

The Castlegar News reserves
the right to edit letters for brevity.
clarity, legality and grammor

in Cor Hall, Castlegar, Tuesday
Sept. 11th, 7:30 p.m. Let's find out
what Alberta's got that we are lacking.
. 8 6
Margaret Henry was chosen Fall
Fair Queen last night.

A public meeting will be held on
Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the high school
activity room to discuss the. proposed
$420,000 sewerage bylaw which Castle-
gar owners-electors will be asked to
approve at the polls on Fri., Sept. 15.

. 8 6

Building permits worth $51,300 in
new construction were issued in Castle-
gar during August, works supervisor
Norman McNabb told council's meeting
Tuesday night.

. .

A hay barn at Raspberry Village was
completely destroyed by fire early
Sunday morning. The work was
believed that of terrorists.

. ee e

A Penticton firm was low bidder
when tenders were opened in Victoria
for construction of the Slocan River

Kenyon and Co. offered to build ‘the
“bridge for $78,708.47, the minister said.

Growing concern about the in-
creasing use of “hard” drugs in the
Castiegar-Kinnaird area has been ex-
pressed by the Royal Canadian Mount-
ed Police and Kinnaird town council.

. 8 e

The elementary class rolls total 1,654
this year as compared to 1,704 last
September. Stanley Humphries has
784 students this year, compared to 824
last year, and Kinnaird junior secon-
dary has 287 while last year 290
students attended.

*_ 28 «6

With four wins and no losses, Slocan
won the B.C. Senior C_ softball
championship with a 15-7 win in extra
innings over Fraser Valley at North.
gate Park in North Vancouver on the
last weekend in August.

. 8

PWA will increase its flights from

Castlegar to Calgary to four a week on -

‘Oct. 31 and plans a further increase to
seven flights a week at the time of the
schedule change next spring.

. 8 6

There will be no cutbacks in the
$12,000 federal grant set aside for the
Castlegar-Kinnaird centennial project,
the reconstruction of a typical Douk
hobor communal home.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 9, 1981

Castlegar News
A rift is developing between the City
of Castlegar and the B.C. Buildings
Corp. over the new courthouse to be
built here, with the city demanding
that the project go ahead and the
BCBC saying it should be postponed.

. 8 e

The Castlegar Chamber of Com.
merce proposal for a highway linking
this city and Fauquier is considered a
low-priority project by the ministry of
highways.

The project is feasible but would be
expensive, and the ministry would not
approve the expenditure when there
are other more pressing needs in the
province, a ministry spokesman told
the Castlegar News.

. 8 6

The ministry of education has
informed School District No. 9 (Castle.
gar) that two local students, Patricia
Jeanette Forrest and Anna Karen
Stroes, are the 1981 recipients of the
Province of British Columbia Grade 12
Scholarships.

. 8 6

Negotiations for a new contract at
Celgar are still in recess while the
union bargaining committee reviews
its position on the latest contract offer.

Sept. 7. ves Cast News _s

Sell WKPL to ‘people’

At the presént time there is a heated
debate going on over whether West
Kootenay Power and Light Co. should
be acquired by the people of British
Columbia through the regional districts
and the employees of the utility
company, or be sold to a foreign
company in the U.S. Although techni-
cally the company is owned by Cominco
Ltd., the people of B.C. feel it is a
public utility belonging to the popu-
lation it serves.

Since Cominco has decided to sell
WKPL, the most logical and appro-
priate purchaser should be the people
of British Columbia. If the provincial
and federal governments are to be
considered as servants of the people
under the principles of

then these governments should do all

they can to help the people financially
and otherwise to acquire the utility
company. This would be wise and just
and in the best interests of the people
of British Columbia.

Just because Utilicorp is offering
more money, ($80 million) than the
regional districts, we must not forget
how many millions of dollars of the
taxpayers’ money went to subsidize
Cominco and Canadian Pacific Invest-
ments which owns Cominco. Even now
Cominco is looking forward to re-
ceiving a handsome government sub-
sidy to modernize its plants. In light of
these facts Cominco shouldn't find it
hard to accept the offer of the regional
districts. Furthermore, the profit gen-

erated by WKPL would remain in B.C.
and not fly south.

Refusal by Cominco and the pro
vineial and federal governments to sell
WKPL to the people of British
Columbia would be a slap in the face
and a bi tion to the people. The
question would then arise: Do we have
a democracy or predominance of
corporate power? Who are the govern-
ments

Selling our natural resources and

pitals and schools because there is not
enough revenue — so the governments
say. But there are no restraints in
bailing out banks and subsidizing large
corporations with high-salaried execu-
tives.

Accorftipng in The Financial Post
500's Summer 1985 issue, of the 500
major corporations operating in Can.
ada, a majority are foreign-owned.
They are here not for philanthropic

but to g

profit and that profit goes out of the
country, making Canada and its people
poorer and the national debt bigger.

With all the wealth produced by
these corporations and if profits re-
mained in Canada, we would not need
to have restraints on our social pro-
grams and our current level of unem
ployme:

W.J. Lebedofi
Glade

ee

August warm and dry

By CasNews Staff

With the exception of the
deluge on the last weekend of
the month, August in Castle-
gar was warm and dry with
well-above-normal mean
temperatures and above
average sunshine, the
monthly summary from En.
vironment Canada's Castle-

gar weather office says.

The summary says August
“would have been an ex-
tremely dry period except for
a system which moved in
from the southwest on the
29th and gave record five-
and 10-minute rainfalls to the
airport.”

Between 5 p.m. and 5:15

Lottery numbers

The following are the Lotto

The jackpot of $447,457.40
was shared by two tickets
each worth $223,728.70.

The eight numbers drawn
were 02, 14, 19, 22, 29, 46, 49
and 52.

bonus number was
seven.

Two winners of the five
correct plus bonus number
category win $3,433.40 each

The winning numbers in

Bridge

Eight pairs of duplicate
bridge players competed
Sept. 1 in Joy Ramsden
Bridge Club play

The average bridge score
was 42 with the following

and Agnes Chariton
Third — Jim and Bev Swain
44.

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Wednesday's Lotto 6-49 draw
were 20, 27, 41, 44, 47 and 49.
The bonus number was 34.

The jackpot pool of
$1,710,233.80 goes to the
holder of a single ticket
bought in Quebec.

The second-prize pool,
awarded to those matching
five regular numbers and the
bonus number, had four
winners of $161,522.10.

p.m. Aug. 29, al fon

LONG JOURNEY AHEAD . . . Jim Gouk of Costhaigar gets ready for his 3,500-
kilometre bicycle ride to Phoenix, Ariz. Gouk left Saturday.

Rotarian leaves on
3,500 km bike ride

By JOHN CHARTERS

Tuesday night at the Sand-
man Inn Jim Gouk made his
last report to Castlegar
Rotarians before he left
Saturday on his 3,500-kilo-
metre bicycle trip to Phoe-
flix, Arizona.

Fit, de that he had

fell during a fi
and 12.0 mm fell over or)
minutes.

Those totals beat the old
records of 8.4 mm for five
minutes on Aug. 9, 1982 and
11.0 mm for 10 minutes on
Aug. 20, 1981.

Even with the sudden
soaking though, rainfall in
August was just 30.7 mm,
well below the norm of 44.9
mm.

A mean temperature of
21.3 was more than one de-
gree above the normal mean
of 19.8, thanks to 22 days
when the temperature rose
above 30.

The total of 326.2 hours of
sunshine recorded was well
above the normal 271.9 hours
but short of the record 353
hours for the month.

And there wasn't much of a
breeze to stir things up — an
average wind speed of 5.8
kilometres per hour tied the
record low set in 1981

down all that he can in prep-
aration, and 25 pounds
lighter than when he started
training several months ago,
Gouk started his funding and
consciousness raising trip at
9 a.m. Saturday from Chris-
tina Lake.

He had travelling with him
on the first leg of his
six-week journey other bike
riders and support vehicles,
Rotarians and friends — both
from the Castlegar area and
from the Colville club.

On arrival in Colville, the
group was guests of Rotary
District 508 Governor-elect
Ken Phillips, at a welcoming
barbecue.

Today when he leaves
for Spokane, Gouk will be
accompanied by several Col-
ville Rotary Club riders.

At each of the 26 Rotary
clubs en route, the Castlegar
cyclist will continue gath
ering pledges for the Rotary

International Polio Plus pro-
ject and the international
student exchange program,
of which Castlegar is a dis-
trict leader.

The Polio Plus project aims
at eliminating polio in chil-
dren throughout the world
by the turn of the eentury,
while the student exchange
program is aimed at
strengthening world peace
and understanding by having
senior high school students
live and study for a year as
members of families in other
countries.

At the same time Gouk will
show slides and speak on the
tourist and business attrac-
tions of the Castlegar area.

Locally, by private and
business donations, he hopes
to raise at least $1,400 for the
purchase of a Paul Harris
Fellowship which will be
used by Rotary International
to establish student scholar
ships

Presently, almost $1,000
has been raised “and if
everyone gives a little bit
we'll have it made,” Gouk
said.

Donations may be mailed
to Castlegar Rotary Club,
P.O. Box 3085 Castlegar.

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Sports.

Two of the Castlegar Rot-
ary Club's most recent ex-
change students were at the
dinner meeting to hear Gouk
speak: Vanessa Cue from the
Philippines and  Dorita
Acivez of Mexico. &

Both girls will be attending
classes at Stanley Humphries
secondary school and will be

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