A4& May 12, 1985 r ESTABLISHED AUG 7. 1947 LV. CAMPBELL PUBLISHER MOMCE OF COPYMGNT: Fil. complete ond sole copyri ect pepaoy os long to the advert WNCORPORATING THE MID: WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SBP! 12 19. — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley jongs 10 Costie News Lid. provided however ony Gavertisement prepared !vom repro proolg engravings eK. provided By the advertiser TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4 1900 AUG. 7. 1947.48.19. 1975 ony printed matter produced by Castle News Lid. that copyright w that port ond tha! part only of i A positive move Castlegar school board deserves full marks for opening its di committee to the public. Though the meetings are only open on a trial basis to be reviewed later this summer, they are still a positive move. The open meetings should bring porents, trustees, employees and the general public closer together because there will be a better un- derstanding of how local education decisions are made. Having said that, it is also ap- parent that the board is still making important decisions without informing the public and parents. For instance, the Castlegar News wos surprised to learn this week that the board has partly reinstated lunch hour supervisors — but did it nearly two weeks ago. The issue of lunch hour super- visors is a longstanding one. It should have been dealt with in public. It wasn't. And if that isn't enough, the board's decision wasn't even announced. The board recently agreed to a new policy whereby important decisions were to be announced through a press release. It the lunch hour supervisors decision isn't worth a press release, what is? Letters to the Editor Dismissals highlight job insecurity UNITED NATIONS — The sacking of more than 17,000 migrant workers by two large mining companies in South Africa last month has sent shock waves through international labor ranks, raising doubts whether emerg- ing black trade unions car still flourish in that wi country. The dismissals once again highlight the job insecurity of the country’s 500,000 black miners who can easily be replaced from a huge pool of unem- ployed migrant workers. In a May 7 analysis of the turbulent labor scepe, the International Labor Organization says that by firing so many at one time the mining compani clearly intended to teach activist miners a lesson not to go too far their demands. = ~Most black workers in the emerging unions -are -relatively unskilled. Re- placements require little training. The ILO sees the dismissals as a new test of strength between the companies and the rapidly emerging National Union of Mineworkers. Company spokesmen say the dismis- sals were ordered after a wildcat strike and cite repeated slowdowns, work stoppages and intimidation by miners in recent weeks. The union contends the work stop- pages were provoked by selective pay raises to a small group of miners and unfair dismissals of union stewards. The so-called legal strike process in South Africa is long and complicated. As a result, there have been very few legal strikes in the country. The first legal strike by black mine workers in September, 1984 was marred by the deaths and injuries of scores of workers in clashes with police. The initial suecess of the union in that dispute “niay well have prompted the mining companies to provoke a new test of strength with the National Union of Mneworkers,” the ILO says. (Canadian Press) Fred Merriman Dave MacDonald of Bonnington near South Slocan was reminiscing about the old Robson-Nelson Trail. The facts are interesting. So is Dave. But his story will have to wait for another day. For those who are interested in local history, a book entitled: “Nelson-Queen City of the Koote- nays” refers to the Robson-Nelson Trail as the route taken by early settlers to reach Nelson. John Houston, the first mayor of Nelson, was said to have entered the area by boat which put ashore at Sproat's Landing near the site of the Old Waldie Sawmill in Robson. The trail began at that site and followed the north shore of the Kootenay River up to the Slocan River at South Slocan. We call the area Shoreacres. The party would be required to ford men, women, children and horses through the chilly waters of the Slocan and trek across the Shoreacres Flats to take a ferry at the western part of the South Slocan pool, now famous for fishing. We can assume that it took the travellers a day's travel to reach this stage in the journey because an enterpriser called Mr. Ward built a hotel on the south shore of the Kootenay River at the ferry landing to accommodate the weary pio neers. The trail had been cut through the bush and trees on the south shore in the area now taken by the Kootenay Canal Project. It made its way through what is now Blewett and into the bustling mining town of Nelson. The discussion about the Robson Nelson Trail began with Mr. Mac Donald saying that he expected to attend the 60th anniversary of the opening of power plant belonging to West Kootenay Power. Then I recalled seeing the notation “Rob- - , iy son-Nelson Trail” on a document describing property in the area near plant No. 4 at Corra Linn. With the lengthy preamble now concluded, I will broach the point of this piece. Historians and heritage types please consider the pos- sibilities of restoring the Robson. Nelson Trail. Our professional advisors tell us that tourism is the No. 2 industry in British Columbia. As the world rushes forward into the computer age beyond, it would appear most timely to step up the heritage theme already awakened and practically demonstrated by Rossland and Nelson. Castlegar — which continues as the erossroads of transport and commerce — has a great op portunity to re-establish its water- ways ‘for river traffic. The Robson- Nelson Trail begins in Robson where the unemployed abide in large numbers. Heritage is now big business, popular with legislators and tax- payers alike. Begin by rebuilding Sproat’s Landing. Open, once again, the Columbia River to transport of persons and freight. What better place to begin than at the beginning. Our neighbors in Colville and Kettle Falls could be included in the project by building ferry facilities. In fact, their inclusion would be essential to the overall success of the plan. The plan is not new. The idea is already a teenager. An overview of this beautiful part of British Col- umbia must address our heritage and properly balance history in partnership with high technology. Many of us include Creston and Kaslo in this partnership. Nakusp and Revelstoke also form natural extensions of the area approach to solving our mutual problems with positive action in the heritage theme. Looking for a job? , Castlegar News: I have thought of a method which may assist some of the unemployed in Castlegar to obtain jobs. They should look up their respective genealogical trees to determine if,they are related to members of the federal cabinet. Since the cabinet is composed of 40 persons — the largest in Canadian history — this should give them a fighting chance. If they are related, even remotely, they should at least receive the same consideration as that given Michael Wilson's brother-in-law whose firm was handed a non-tendered advertising contract in excess of $2.6 million. Or how about Joe Clark's brother who has been given all outside legal work awarded by the federal government's Calgary Olympic office. Incidentally, » Castlegar New Lately the news media has been flooded with U.S. President Ronald Reagan's hysterical tirade against the Nicaraguan people. All the man wants is $14 million more to help free the once great Somoza bastion of democracy from the grip of tMe evil, athiest Sandinistas now in power. At least he wasn't exaggerating when he compared his buddies, the Contras, as being the moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers. The Contras are the remnants of an American installed and trained govern. ment which tortured and murdered some of the civilian i not that it matters of course, but Peter Clark is the Alberta director of the PC Canada fund. Since Brian Mulroney was elected last fall, he has made in excess of 1,200 patronage appointments, and the list grows daily. Recently an Alberta woman was appointed to the federal Transport Board. She was asked to list her credentials for this important post, and her reply was, “Well, I can drive a car.” This is the same Brian Mulroney who lambasted John Turner on the patron. age appointments made by the out- going prime minister and confirmed by Mr. Turner. H.W. Shaw once said, “If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.” I am reminded also of Abraham Lincoln who said, “Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.” Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the May 11, 1950 Castlegar News At a public meeting held in the Coronation Hall this week, the chang- ing of street names was introduced by Commissioner J. Dunlop, who de- fended the numbering, system inst- ituted in 1948 as “more practical logical and economical”. A represent- ative from the Board of Trade defended Plan No. 3, (numbered avenues, named streets). It was felt that there will be as many disagreements over names as there are names. . * * Six Castlegar and District young men were on the graduation list of U.B.C. The Castlegar men were: John Klimovich, B.A.C. (civil engineer); Donald R. West, B.A.Se. (electrical engineer); Andrew Klimovich, B.A.; James R. MacDonald, B.A. The Robson men were Rex W. Thorp, B.Sc. (forestry) and John Raine, B.Sc. (agriculture). . . Percy Hyles led an eight-man Trail delegation of Kiwanians for an inter- club meeting with the local club — the second such meeting in a week. The object was to promote goodwill and mutual assistance. Bob Sommers’ elem- entary school 50-yoice choir enter- tained the dinner gathering with several selections. 25 YEARS AGO There is a possibility that the Castle-Bar Ranch will be brought into the Village of Castlegar as a Veterans’ Land Act housing subdivision. Nick ifontiuk, ig the VLA, So I urge the in Castlegar to look up their genealogical tree immediately. Mr. Mulroney only has about 1,500 more appointments to make. And if you are really lucky, Mr. Mulroney (Canada's answer to Dennis Day), will sing to you — “When Irish eyes are smiling” — in the same be- guiling manner he addressed you on the hustings last yea As for me, I am considering an ap- pointment to Canada’s Trade Office in New York City. I feel I am eminently qualified for this position, having watched the New York Yankees play the Chicago White Sox there in 1957. Frank N. Morphet Castlegar only wants to help slave trade between Africa and Amer. ica. eorge Washington, who governed with the principle of equality as his mainstay, himself owned hundreds of black slaves. His opinion of Indians was that they were “beasts of prey, animals dressed up in human form.” Most North Americans are of course not aware of the help “quick draw” Ronnie is getting for his fundraising for the “freedom fighters” of Nicaragua. The so-called religious freedom that exists in the U.S. today and allows for the likes of the CIA-supported Jim Jones to carry out his deeds and for the These are not ravings by a mis. guided naive bleeding heart, but are well documented historical facts that can be quickly verified. The outrageously hypocritical Amer. ican founding fathers had similar outlooks on some people. The so-called Puritans, or Pilgrim fathers, butchered and enslaved many Indians, and were one of the orig: inators and beneficiaries of the brutal Unit ion Church, known as the “Moonies”, to flourish is great for cults that actively support the darkest pursuits of the administration. Taking place right now in the U.S. is the largest fund-raising drive ever by the Moonies to support the Contras. This “humanitarian” aid is being funnelled through the head of the armed forces in Honduras who just happens to be a Moonie himself, as well as a great friend of the U.S. _ Quotable Quotes EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister Joe Clark's relatives have been in the spotlight lately over patronage ap- pointments. First, it was his brother Peter, who has been named lawyer for the Calgary Winter Olympics. Then it was learned that Peter Clark’s wife also received an appoint- ment. Marcia Clark was named a temporary member of the National Parole Board on Dec. 23, 1984. Mrs. Clark says the publicity about the appointments is upsetting. “We're not the Clarks that are in the limelight and these aren't jobs we lobbied for. “When Joe was prime minister we could not have-received any appoint: ments. Why should we be excluded because we are related? “I just hope this all blows over.” STEVE FONYO'S girlfriend recently described how she and the one-legged runner met. Sonja Gostelli says she and her boss at the Strathmore, Alta. general store where she works part- Gostelli was taking pictures of Fonyo, who asked if she was a reporter. When she said no, Fonyo asked if he could take her out for a drink sometime. FRANCE'S EXPO 86 commissioner general says the fair will change Vancouver in the eyes of the world from a remote village into a city of new “Vancouver was a little village before Expo started. When it's over it still won't be the centre of the world, but everyone will know where it is,” says Marcel Galopin. “It's impossible to measure the results of Expo, but for the next 15 years or so thousands of important people involved with transportation will refer to Vancouver as the place which gave them new ideas.” NDP MLA Gary Lauk was outraged this week at Human Resources Min ister Grace McCarthy's answers to the time went to see Fonyo at a y in Gleichen, Alta., where Fonyo was named Blackfoot Runner by the Blackfoot Tribe. “It was the moment when he stepped off the platform, and waved to the crowd, and then he turned and waved at me,” said 19-year-old Gostelli P 's He said McCarthy can't “get away with these ragtag, unresearched ans- wers to serious questions of the opposition by coming and saying, ‘Everything is wonderful in Lotusland All the lefties ar feeding other lefties So really, the $14 million that Reagan wants now is a drop in the proverbial bucket. This money will be used, as he suggests, for humanitarian purposes and not as previously sugges- ted, for raping, torturing and mur. dering. After 130 years of American inter. vention and slavery, Nicaraguans have finally won the right to develop what is left of their country as they see fit. The present Sandinista government, which is supported by the vast majority of iguans, has opened its doors to any foreign news team to see for themselves what is happening in the country. Last year one of thousands of Americans who took them up on the offer was an extremely strong Reagan supporter, a colonel in the U.S. National Guard and an editor of a large newspaper. His observations were precisely the opposite of what he expected. He came back to the U.S. denouncing in the strongest possible language American foreign policy toward Nicaragua, and was so moved by the steady diet of lies being fed to us by the media that, in protest, he resigned his position in the National Guard. The point being made is that if the Americans follow the course they have been on they will bring about precisely what they fear most: a radical nation hostile to the U.S. What we need is more truthful reporting of events in Nicaragua, thereby enabling all of us to form opinions which are not based on hate- filled diatribe. Bill W. Stoochnoff Shoreacres P told Village Council that the sub- division would be built on the lower 20 acres of the Castle-Bar Ranch. Village chairman N.T. Oglow said the village would make all enquiries as to cost, ete. “and then let the people decide whether it is to their interest to take it in.” *_ * * Celgar has recently completed plans to provide housing assistance for employees who are already beginning to move into this area to take up residence. The company's recently- purchased 37-acre site at Kinnaird will be known as Woodland Park. Eight acres of this have been sold to MacLab Construction (B.C.) Ltd., who will build and operate apartments for rent. The remaining land will be fully developed and sold to Celgar employees or to anyone else interested in building a home in the subdi . The village will be writing the Department of Highways asking for its policy on paving the full width of Columbia Ave. through Castlegar to determine if the department asks businesses to share the cost of any paving done between the travelled portion of the highway and village sidewalks. *_ 8 6 . And the Canadian dollar is currently at about a three-cent pre- mium over the American dollar 15 YEARS AGO From the May 14, 1970 jar New: New tennis court in Castlegar opened last weekend. The formation of a tennis club to lease and operate the court is being encouraged by the Town of Castlegar. The town would expect fees to be kept low so that all who want to join and play the game can do so. . 8 « The federal department of transport has confirmed its willingness to parti cipate in the building of a new terminal building at the Castlegar Airport. Airport committee chairman R.A.D. West said the DOT will include its $200,000 share of the $250,000 project in its budget for the new fiscal year starting April 1, 1971 * 8 6 The amalgamation of the Castlegar. Robson and the Kinnaird Baseball Associations in the Pony (13 and 14 age) and the Colts (15 and 15 age) groups is working out very well. This league is now known as the Sentinal Baseball Association. 5 YEARS AGO From the May 14, 1980 Castlegar News The prospect of accommodating 600 Please address all L rs 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, Castlegar, 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 writer's name. Nevertheless, 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 grammar. uction workers was among the topics for initial discussion between CanCel and area officials on the potential impact of the company's planned $350 million pulp mill ex pansion. Company spokesmen were in Castlegar for the first of what they have promised will be many meetings with city and School District No. 9 representatives. * 2 6 A $5,832,840 budget expected to cost the average Castlegar taxpayer about $81 extra in 1980 won adoption by city council this week. Ald. George Bond- aroff, council's finance committee chair man, listed the city’s provincial govern- ment-imposed budgetary restraints in 1979, Police costs and long-delayed capital works among the reasons for the $1.335,283 increase. May 12, 1985 HELPING OUT STEVE . . . Jimmy Saulnier of Fruit- vale (right) talks with reporters after presenting Steve Fonyo with a donation. Sauinier was part of a By CasNews Staff Castlegar has joined the rest of Canada in supporting one-legged runner Steve Fonyo with his Journey for Lives trek. A group of high school students presented Fonyo with a $950 donation Tuesday at Winfield, near Kelowna. And 20 motorcyclists — some from Castlegar — gave Fonyo $1,034 at his father’s perogy restaurant in Vernon last Sunday. Thirteen students from Stanley Humphries Second- ary School and Kinnaird Junior Secondary School left Castlegar at 5:30 in the morning to meet Fonyo at 10:30 p.m. for about 15 minutes, group co-ordinator Deb Chmara said Thursday. “We were supposed to see him in Kelowna, but he had some medical difficulties with his leg. So we went up to Winfield to see him,” said Chmara, a teacher at Kinnaird Junior. The Stanley Humphries students presented Fonyo with a cheque for $250 raised from a school dance, and Kinnaird students gave him $700 raised from donations and doing household chores. group of motorcyclists who drove to Vernon for the Castlegar area to meet with the one-legged run- ner. Castlegar supports Fonyo Chmara said Fonyo thanked the students for the donations, but “he really didn’t say anything really to be quite honest. He's very, very quiet.” Bikers from Castlegar, Nelson, Fruitvale, Salmo, Trail and Grand Forks gave Fonyo's campaign to raise funds for cancer research and treatment a boost with proceeds raised from donations and a dance, said Gloria Taylor of Castlegar, who joined the group. Taylor, a Castlegar postal sorter, said the yclists made a 480 kik run from Castlegar to the Fonyo perogy house, but Steve Fonyo wasn't there. “When we got there, his dad phoned him up, and he was only too glad to come down and meet with us,” said Taylor. “He said that it was really fantastic that we should bike all the way down there.” Presenting Fonyo with the cheque was Jimmy Saulnier of Fruitvale, who previously lost a leg himself in a motorcycle accident, said Taylor. “His dad was quite impressed with the fact that Jimmy only has one leg too . . . Jimmy rides a trike (three-wheeled motorcycle),” she said. International support for Nazi hunt FRANKFURT West Germany, the United the search for Josef Mengele, donors, the former death camp doe- Angeles in February, and tor who is the world’s most- $415,000 Canadian by the wanted Nazi war criminal. Representatives of the three countries issued a West Germany, the United declaration on Friday prom- States and Israel said in a ising to share their infor- statement: “The parties to discussion mation on Mengele, who car- the ried out pseudo-medical ex- open direct lines of com- periments at the Aischwitz munication at both prosecu- concentration camp and con- torial and investigative lev- demned hundreds of thou- els. sands to death in gas cham- (AP) — propaganda.” Other rewards put up for States and Israel have pled- Mengele are $1.4 million from ged greater cooperation in a group of anonymous announced in Los “With increased co-opera- bers. tion, the three countries will The search for Mengele, continue to work together who is 74 if he is still alive, with the aim of locating Men- has intensified in recent gele, years. He was reported to bringing him to trial for have been seen last in Par- crimes against humanity.” arresting him and resolved to CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY EDUCATION FOR THE WHOLE CHILD Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Offering full curriculum with Basic ‘Computer and required French. Now taking applications for limited enroliment for 1985/86 school year. R.R. 1, S. 15, C.16, Castlegar, B. (Old Brilliant School) Phone 365-7818 (9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) aguay but that country's president, Gen. not lived there since the 1950s. Alfredo was Stroessner, says Mengele has deaths of 400,000 Jews. When Israeli justice min- ister Moshe Nissim announc- Israel has offered a $1.4 ed the reward Tuesday in million reward for informa- Jerusalem, he said Mengele tion leading to capture of the sometimes personally filled man called the Angel of gas-chamber tanks. Death. At Israel's sense of urgency is also conducted brutal experi- particularly strong because ments on twins and dwarfs in of recent campaigns to label his quest for the genetic code the Holocaust, in which six to create million Jews died, “Zionist dream of a “master race.” Auschwitz, Mengele at the food banks. Isn't that I?” Lost city discovered LONDON (AP) — A team about the city for years but of young explorers may have the jungle is just so rough discovered the remains of a that no one has been able to legendary lost city in the pinpoint it exactly,” Blash- jungles of Honduras, the ford-Snell said. British domestic news agen “We sent patrols out to the cy Press Association re- most likely areas and this one ported. made the discovery. It was a The news agency Friday very tough, difficult job and quoted Col. John Blashford- they deserve a lot of credit. 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