red fe ee
CASTLEGAR CONTRIBUTES in a big way to the lead roles in

“Show Bo

eing presented by the Rossland Light Opera

Players today, tomorrow and Saturday at the Trail Junior High

School. Dick McLeod, left, as Gaylord Ravenal and Craig Jones as
Captain Andy, are both residents of Castlegar. Babs Bourchier, as
Magnolia, grew up hero and now lives in Rossland.

Kinnaird: Women’s Instifute
To Host District Conference

Althe monthly meeting of
the Kinnaird Women's Institute
last’ Wednesday, tentative
plans were made for their
district conference.

The conference, to be held
on April 39, will be hosted this
year by the Kinnaird Women's
Institute, and will include Wo-
men's Institutes from all areas
of the West Kootenay District
president, Mrs. June Bell, will
chair the conference.

Donations were given to
the Castlegar Homemakers"
Association and to the Society
for Handicapped Children.

President Mrs. P. Phipps
reported on a visit. to Ras;
berry Lodge on Valentine's Day

when candies and a cake were
taken to the residents and a
happy tea hour was shared.
A special trip for Institute
members is being planned for
this summer, and several local -
members are planning to take
advantage of this excursion.
All members were urged
to enter the sewing contest for
children’s dresses to be sent to
Queeri Alexandra Solarium.
Two new members, Helen
York and Etta Brunton, have
joined the local Women's Insti-
tute.
‘The next meeting is to be
held at the home of Mrs. Harry
Bate and will feature Mrs. June

Bell and Mrs. Evelyn Leckett

as guest speakers,

Letter to the Editor

Forests and

Dear Sir:

Tt was obvious at last
Saturday's conference on
“Wildland Recreation” at Sel-
kirk College that most people
are not aware of the Forest
Service role in recreation acti-
vilies on forest land.

The Forest Act, as
amended in 1974, under section
5 {i} states that the Forest
Service has jurisdiction’ over,
and shall control and admini
ter all matters relating to
public recreation in forests on
Crown lands.

This follows earlier legists-
tion empowering the lfeuten-
ant governor to make regula-
tions under the Forest Act
concerning recreation and
other uses pertaining to forest ~
reserves.

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in 1971, the
Forest Service recreation pro-
gram in the province has
resulted in the establishment of

* District, 148 sites have been

ped.

Direction to date has been
that sites currently in use by -
the public shail be cleaned up
and necessary facilities in-
Stalled so as to least interfere
with the original setting. Toi-
lets, picnic tables, fire-places,
ditter barrels and boat launt
‘ing areas have been provided.

Funding of this program
has been in keeping with this
low-key approach. In 1973 the
Provincial Forest Service rec-
reation budget was $300,000, in
1974 $600,000, and a somewhat
increased allotment is expected
this year.

Nelson Forest District's
share of this last year was
$45,000, Additional financial
help was obtained from the
summer student assistance
fund.

It seems obvious that the
reason the Forest Service was
given recreational responsibil-
ity.is that it. already had the
organization and staff to im-
prove forest recreation sites
with a limited increase in funds.

Existing ‘demand is being
catered for, but an expansion of
forest recreation facilities to
satisfy the huge potential de-
mand is not planned at present.

Forest
wards trail-building was also
discussed at Selkirk. The For-
est Service is in favor of trail

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rivers can be left “up in the air"

if the water level drops. Red

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Service policy to,

Recreation

systems generally, but trail-
building must be compatible.
with the overall management
Proposals for the area con-
cerned,

This is to avoid prob-
lems with land status, other
proposed development, and to
ensure that once a trail is built,
it will be maintained by a
Fesponsible agency, group or
club.

Authorization of . trail-
bullding ensures that advice is
sought from as many qualified
sources as possible, and that it
fulfills a need which does not
conflict’ with other uses. The
Forest Service encourages sug-
gestions and participation in
trail-building.

‘The Selkirk conference es-
tablished a need for re-opening
existing trails, and for locating,
constructing, and’ mapping
others. It also established that
unco-ordinated trail-building
can often lead to destruction of
those values which the trail was
designed to, make accessible,

A further concern of the
Selkirk conference was the lack
of opportunity for the public to
find out what the resource
departments were planning for
any specific area. A “viewing
room” is being set up in the
Forest Service building, 518
Lake S., Nelson, where logging
development plang and re-
source folios ean be looked at,

This is also intended to
provide an opportunity for the
public to provide information
usefut in planning resource
development within forested
areas. Hopefully this room will
be in operation
months,

Information on recreation
sites and logging development
can also be obtained from the
local ranger.

K. Milner
B.C. Forest Service
jelson

Funeral Services Held For
Wasil J. Plotnikoff, 94

» — Funeral services were held
last Tuesday through ta Wed-
nesday from the Castlegar
Russian Hall for Wasil J.
Plotnikoff, age 94, who died
Feb, 22in the Castlegar Hospital.

Born in Russia on May 15,
1880, Mr. Plotnikoff came to
Cannda in 1899, settling In
Canora, Sask. He married in
Saskatchewan and came to B.C.
in 1910, making his home in
Pass Creck, From 1910 to 1927,
he operated a logging camp at
Shields,

In 1927 he moved to
Castlegar and operated a gen-
eral store now known as Bob's
Pay'N Takit until his retire:
ment in 1945,

Mr, Plotnikotf was predo- ,

ceased by his wife, Annie In
1963; a daughter, Margaret in
1941; and a son, Mike in 1972.

He Is survived by one son,
W.W. Plotnikoff of Castlegar;
four daughters, Mrs. Dora
Plotnikoff of Robson, Mrs. Paul
(Annie) Planidin of Mission
City, Mrs. Fred (Mary) Nazar-
off of Castlegar, and Mrs, Pete
(Helen) Berukaff of Fruitvale;
24 grandchildren: 99 grei
grandchildren; and 14 great-
great-grandehildren.

Burial took place at Brit-
liant Cemetery with the Castle-
gar Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements,

“Heart Fitness Topic af
Senior Citizens’ Meeting

‘The Castlegar and District
Senior Citizens’ Association
held its regular meeting on
Thursday afternoon in its
Centre, with 47 members pre-
sent,

Committee reports heard
during the meeting were as
follows: Kitchen—in need of
finances to purchase refresh-
ments; Ways and Means—more
members needed on this com-
mittee; Visiting—Mrs. G. Shep-
herd has been transferred from
the Castlegar Hospital to the
extended care unit in Trail;
Sick—Mrs. A. Kazakoff is not
well and having much difficulty
getting’ around while Mrs. H.
Johnson is confined to her home
with the fu; Entertainment—
Mrs, N. McNabb’ spoke on the
topic of heart fitness.

Mr, J, Stler and president
J. Raine urged all members to
sign in during Heart Week at
SHSS. Members with cars were
encouraged to offer rides to
the school .for those who
required such. assistance.

Mr. W. Easton gave a full
report of the Handicapped
annual meeting which he had
attended. Mrs. A. Brady re-
ported alt games are going well.

Bible College
Choir to Preset
Tour Concert

A 20-voice choir from
Western Pentecostal Bible Col-
lege is presently touring the
Kootenays..

‘The college, situated at its
new campus at Abbotsford,
B.C., has a student body of 150
students, Two Castlegar girls,
Joanne Pepper and Shelley
Leveridge, are also students at
the college.

The 20-voice choir will bé
presenting their concert at the
Pentecostal Tabernacle tomor-
row evening.

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Hawail and-mentioned that
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interested members,

Mr. Stier gave a blographi-
cal reading of Mrs. Polly
McPhee, a member now living
in Fernie.

A vote of thanks was
extended to Mrs. Raine for her
work in inseribing the Memor-
ial Book; also to R. Cormier and
K, Keating’ for clearing snow
from the roof of the Centre.

Mrs. Fuller extended her
thanks and appreciation for the
many kindnesses she recelved
when her father, the Iate Harry
Evans, passed away.

At the close of the meeting
Mrs. Hawthorne and her son
Lorne were introduced, Lorne
has been named King Of Hearts
for Heart Month.

Service Hours
Change for
Customs Offices

New service hours have
been announced for West
Kootenay Canadian Customs
border offices, after the United
States reverted to daylight
saving time last Sunday,

+ The offices at Paterson,
Nelway and Cascade will open
at 7 a.m. and close at 11 p.m.

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VOL, 28 No, 10

” Castlegar Chamber of Commerce
Takes on City Entrance Signs

The 1975 executive of the
Castlegar and District Cham-
ber of Commerce was installed
Thuraday evening with the
gavel presented. president
Dave Silvester by Mayor Ed
Mosby, This is Mr. Sllvester’s

Mr. Silvester then asked
the chairman of each newly
formed committee to give his
report,

Mr. Bondaroff commented
on the excellent results of the
‘questionnaire, sent to local

second term as
president. -

Other executive members
installed at the ceremony held

iin the Gold Room of City

© Centre. are. vice-president

George Bondaroff, second vice-

\ president Joe Van Dungen,
+ treasurer Bill Waldie, and

secretary Orla Granstrom and

=, directors Basil Macalister,

George MacAndrew and Albert
Calderbank,”

Following the installation
ceremonies Mr. Silvester open-

‘ed the general meeting by
© weleoming guests and members
2 and outlined the meaning and

Mayor Ed Mosby Presents Gavel to Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce President Dave Silvester

“PEP Budget |

To Purchase Bradford Stretcher

‘A budget of $612 for the
Provincial Emergency

(PEP) has been approved by.

council following the receipt of

‘the local branch's budget by .

council, at ita last .regular

It was noted that the
budget; remained the same as
laat year, with the exception of
the purchase of

“lack o of ‘Suitable | ‘Premises
Stumbling Block for Hostel

© Lack of suitable premises’
is the main stumbling block in

locating a hostel in Castlegar to ,

ls which have

<. ‘This is a special type that
ieee and'can be attached to a

! Reg McQuald told an au-

dience of 20 people at Selkirk
{College Inst Sunday that after

In submitting bis budget, / 12 years as a missionary in ,

PEP co-ordinator H. J. Warner / India, he decided that a mis-
stated the stretcher would also! sfonary was needed in the
be available for use by the firg corporation board rooms and.
departments which, if needed, the aaa offices of Cana:
would prove of value in gay da.

“larger fires, such as apartin nts

fe
or heteta He is now: working for

GATTfly, ani ster eet oh
ai to. keep

eenmedts Hees
tie in international tradi

“The letters G.A.T.7, stand
for the General Agreement on
‘Tarriffs and Trade, the interna-
tional organization based in
Geneva which sets the rules for
trade for some 80. member
nations.

meeting was very informal and
more of an informative type
of meeting, with hostel rules,

been operating in Trail and
Nelson.

‘This was the biggeat factor
coming out of Thursday's meet-
ing between city officials. and
federation hostels program co-
ordinator, Doug Findlater.

‘Mayor Ed Mosby said the

Council OK's
For Jam Can

Use of the Castlegar Arena
April ‘5 and 6 “has-been
approved by counell for.a Jam
Can Curling Bonspiel, following
a request by the Castlegar
Kiwanis Club, sponsors of the
event,

In making its request, the
Kiwanis Club submitted
several suggested dates, with
approval given for April 5 and

and ‘funding ex- Mr. McQuaid said that the
hunger problem in the world is
not that of an insufficient
amount of food, but of the
inability of many poor to pay
the asking price for food.
“But wage levels depend
largely upon the general econo-
my of a country,” he said, “and
that, in turn, depends upon a
country's balance of trade. And
that means a country must. be
able to sell its exports at a fair
price on the competitive world

plained.
During the meeting the
hostel representative did speak
“ of the possibility of approaching
the board of trustees for School
District No, 9, t¢ inquire into
use of a achool during the
‘summer season. - 4

Arena Use
Curling Spiel.

Mr. McQuaid has made a
special’ atudy of the sug
industry.

As an example of how

Ahernetional economies work,
e cited a 1978 conference,on
beet where the producing
countries were asking a fixed,{;
selling price of 11 cents per>

Pound for the next five year. § orgal

duties of a chamber.

‘What is? Who is? ‘And why
have a chamber?

All three questions-are
answered by “a body of people
working closely together solely

their priorities
in city planning, and on the
great increase of visitors to the
tourist booth. psa

Service and plans are
going ahead for a bigger and
better year in 1975 and plans
are tomove the tourist booth to
a more local convenient loca-
tion, stated Mr. Bondaroff.

Mr. Van Dungen showed
three plans he drew up for city
entrance signs, all of which
were unanimously accepted. It
is hoped to have one completed
and erected this year, -

Mr. Calderbank reported
membership applications were
sent out and returns to date
were very encouraging.

Mr. Waldie reported on
two outstanding accounts’ stat-
ing a good financial year is
expected,

for the good of the y

it serves” » he said,

"Politics of Food Distribution” Proves
‘Informative Lecture Given by Reg McQuald

tries, even when such inter-
ference impeded the general
economic development of the
poorer nation,

“Poor countries can look

‘after their own problems, if

Swell quit taking unfair advan-
‘tage of them,” he concluded.

Mr. McQuaid's visit was
nized by Father Bud God-

would be able to pred deris of Castlegar as part of an
predictor

economic erabonent

The chairman, of the cor
‘ference anggeated & compro-
miae price of 8.9 cents, but
“Canada ’ absolutely refused to
budge above 8.25 cents, and the
conference broke up without

agreement.

“So sugar remains on the
free market, with all. the
fluctuations. and’ uncertainties
that free trade always brings,”
he said.

‘Asked whether, Canadians
should feel guilty for not
feeding poorer countries, he
replied, “No, our sins are not 30
much omission, as commission.”

He than gave several in-
stances of “developed” (rich)
countries interfering directly in
the affairs of a poor country to
assure that big business would
gain advantage in poor coun-

dians of the root causes of the
present food crisis.

by: some!
local churches to inform Cana-

Heart Sundoy
Tremendous .

Success Here.
1 id's Heart Sun-

At the close of committee
reports Mr. Silvester. called
upon Mayor Mosby to give
report from city council. He
touched upon sewerage, water

supply, highway construction
on Columbia Ave., traffic sig-
nals and the arena.

Inclosing he congratulated
the chamber on the job they are
doing and its projects planned

for 1975, singling out Mr. Van
Dungen for the tremendous job
done on his proposed signs for
city. entrances, :

Parked Vehicles

Need New Decals

Vehicles not bearing the
1975 ‘motor vehicle decals,
including those parked on
streets, will be.penalized, says
Castlegar RCMP commanding
officer Sgt Stan Partridge.

Dr. Bob Young.

Anew column, :"Info/
Health", written by Dr. Bob
Young, a practising B.C. physt-
clan, is being introduced this
week to readers of the Castle-
gar News, It is hoped this new
addition for our readers will
prove of interest.:Dr. Young’s
first column, which appears on
page 16, also serves as an

day canvass has proven to be a
tremendous success, says cam:
Palga chalrman Al Clausen,

is, 476 has siready been

“The response has been
tremendous,” he sald, “

ly io the Octirchenta and
+ Bla Creek areas which
\were convassed for the firet
time.”

ol.the ovet-
will be taken in

“New Symbol Now: Used
By Canadian Cellulose

onthe old
Canadian Cellulose Co,
Ltd, has apparently changed its
corporate symbol—without fan-

fare or the sound of trumpets!
The new symbol, which

resembles fairly closely the old

symbol of three C's in the form

onthe new
of trees, is shown here along:
with the old symbol.

‘The new symbol has been
appearing in job position ad-

vertisements placed by the

company in Vancouver news-

While special steps almed

at the delinquent licenced vehi-

cle are not being taken, motor-
ists are reminded it is an

_ offence and charges will be laid.

New plates and insurance
became mandatory in'B.C.’at
12.01 Saturday, March 1.

FLASH

City of Castlegar
normal starting Monday, March
10.

Local Realtors and Developers
Divided on Subdivision Bylaw

Local realtora and’ devel-
pers appear divided in thelr
opinions on the new subdivision
bylaw.
the report. git

held mid-February and every’
one concerned was allowed to

express their opintons on the
bylaw.

: “The group was approxi-
mately 60 per cent for and 60
per cont against,” sald Mr.
Livingstone,

jpinions on the fn fn’time
for the next regular meating to
be held this:Tuesday, when
tentative plans call to advance
the bylaw by ita next reading,

Meefing on Community Centre
Contract Still Taking Place

| Contrary to the report,
carried last week by the
Castlegar News, that the suc-
cessful contractor for the Com-
munity Centre and Arena was
tobe announced Monday, it has
been learned this step was not
taken nor was it meant to be:
made at that date.

‘The Monday meeting was

to continue exploring -the situa-

Council members noted
that this event was a resound-
ing success last year, the first
for this area, but concluded it
would be necessary to levy'a 30
per cent increase over the
charge of last year as the
facility would remain open an
additional week to accommo-
date this spiel.

Catalogue Support. Systems
For B.C. Libraries Under . Study

Provincial secretary,:Ern-
est Hall, has announced that a
contract for a study of cata-
logue support systems for B.C.
libraries has been awarded to.

Infotec, a Vancouver-based

mulre designed to pemultt he
delegates to comment upon a
‘number, of draft resolutions
which arose from discussion at
the conference.

in their final form, the

firm o! technology
consultants, :
‘The purpose of the study is
to carry forward the work that
was begun in October of 1974
by the first provincial confer-
ence on catalogue systems,
which was held in Vancouver.
That conference, spon-
‘sored jointly by the library
a

are in:

ea in a report of the
conference, recently sent to the
conference participants.

Two. of the resolutions
which have been accepted by
the library development com-
mission recommend “that a
high priority be assigned to
implementing a catalogue sup-
Port system as an initial stage

the tei-university libraries or-
ganization, under the authority
of the provincial secretary,
gave 100 B.C. librarians the
opportunity to learn first-hand
about some of the computerized

urrently

towards a

So eee caer aeahe
tem”, and that “any planning
and development for catalogue
‘systems must be based upon a
concept of province-wide sys:
tems, ising a centraliza-

operating in the United States

- and Canada,

‘The first direct result of
the conference was a question-

tion of information in a
standardized format with de-
centralized access and/or infor-

{continued on page 5)

OPEN HOUSE held atthe various echoots in Sehool District No. 9
Monday through to Wednesday, to mark Education Week,
Provided parents the opportunity. to visit individual classrooms

while in session. Here primary students at Kinnaird Elementary

School sit crosslegged In the gym for
Elizabeth Tuck at the plano, while parents look on.

ging session, with Mrs.
e last of the

tion and was attended’ by):

consulting engineers, Under- :

wood, McLellan and Associates,
as well as members of the users
. committee.

Ald. Audrey Moore told

the Castlegar News a further
meeting is to be held this
coming Monday evening in the
city hall.

schools to hold open house is the Kinnaird Junior Secondary
School which is opened to visitors thls afternoon from 1 to 4.

—Castlegar News Photo