CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 28, 1983

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What's excessive ?

There's a word to explain why
the annual federal debt this year
will soar near $27 billion—a figure
so enormous it's incomprehensible
to anyone but an Ottawa bureau-
crat. The word is excessive.

It applies to almost everything
the federal government does, from
its decisions to bail out ailing cor-
porations with millions of tax-
payers’ dollars, to the way federal
cabinet members use Air Canada
as if it was their private airline.

But more than anything, the
word applies to the way the gov-
ernment handles its routine busi-
ness. And there's no better exam-
ple of that than the way the coun-
try's leader handles his day-to-day
business.

We've learned recently just
how much it costs taxpayers to
house and feed the Prime Minister
and his family, but an article in the
Vancouver Sun reveals in detail
something that comes as even
more of a surprise—how the Prime
Minister deals with h as

in a word, he doesn't. Instead,
he (or rather we, as taxpayers)
hires 30 civil servants to handle an
average of 100,000 letters a year.
Thirty federal employees—just to
answer the Prime Minister's mail.
Is it any wonder the deficit contin-
ues to climb?

These employees weigh, record
in a computer and describe in

monthly reports all the letters. The .

letters are then kept in filing cabi-
nets for two years before being
turned over to the public archives.

Most of the letters don’t even
require replies. And those that do
are assigned to six staff writers—
that's in addition to the 30 employ-
ees working in the mail room.

Just one thing: the staff writers
don't receive guidance from the
Prime Minister on how to reply.
They work from form letters.

In these days of six and five,
and government restraint, there's
a word to describe how the Prime
Mini: handles his mail. Ex-

simple as his mail.

cessive.

Mackasey case
a costly mistake

In this i the ch

The ruling Tt Jay by

rf h

Court Judge

against Mackasey didn’t even get

that there is not enough
to send veteran MP Bryce
Mackasey to trial on charges of in-
fluence peddling raises a number
of issues.

One arises out of the fact that
the RCMP's commercial crime
squad spent eight long months
researching the case involving
Mackasey before finally laying
charges.

It seems not too much to ask
that after such a lengthy in-
vestigation the RCMP should be
able to better determine if they
had a case against Mackosey and if
the case had a chance of winning
in a courtroom.

past a prel: y hearing.
Someone in the RCMP should be
taken to task for that.

A second issue is the way
media across the country treated
the story. Press, TV and radio
reporters, editors and commen-
tators had found Mackasey ‘guilty
by implication betore hei even got
to court.

In these days of instant _ com-
munication and media saturation
simply reporting the story can
sometimes make it seem that the
‘party is guilty.

in the Mackasey case, it proved
to be a grave mistake. In how
many other cases is the same
mistake made?

FRED

MERRIMAN

Senator Ed Lawson has my respect.
The Senator suggests that govern-
ment, business and labor should meet.
as a council to sort out the problems

and g were less
less ‘noisy and much less public. We
think that the election is over and the
losers must be patient or at least
should be

that beset, not only our great p
but also most of the countries in the
world.

His suggestion is far more positive
than the approach that fills the
newspaper these days. The approach
most obvious at the moment may be
best summed up by saying, “It’s either
them or us. You are either for us or you
are against us.”

" Wouldn't it be loverly if all the
affairs of men and state were so simple.
Japan does it. West Germany does it.
And some reports indicate that even
France does it. I am referring of course
to teamwork councils which include the
big three as mentioned above.

Many people in the unorganized
majority would also like to have a seat
at that council. We can hope that at
least one or more of the afc

ing strong

alternatives — if there in fect be any.

It would be a good move in fact for
the government of the day — which
unabashedly has my. support — to
dispatch a quiet and unpublicized
invitation to the leaders of labor to
attend a closed-door session to explain
the meat, and rationale behind the
controversial restraint and pending
labor legislation. A friend made is an
enemy lost. Even small children on the
block here in humble Blueberry Creek
know that philosophy.

Simon Fraser U

THE SOVIET WAY

Beating the bomb |

By MARK WOOD

reed shelters ofa-thick layer of snow
might ‘protect citizens from nuclear
fallout, and makes no mention of cata-
strophe or death.

The booklet, entitled Something
Everybody Should Know and Under-
stand, says underground shelters might
protect urban dwellers from a nuclear
attack, and shows rural people how to
build their own

details on ‘how far radioactive fallout
would spread after an atomic explosion
or how prolonged its effects would be.

Instead, it suggests that only those
in close proximity to the blast would be
harmed and that others would have a
chance of’ survival if they

ences, have echoed western findings
that radiation would render vast tracts
of land uninhabitable for decades.
Such information has never been
published in the Soviet media and the
public has generally been left ignorant

calm and followed orders.

It includes diagrams showing how
to beat coats with brushes or handfuls
of hay, saying that in this way radio-
active dust could be removed after the
bomb fell.

Westerners who have examined the

text says it reflects a return under the
, Sountry’s new leadership ta.a actrine
_ that the Soviet Union might be ble to

fight and survive a nuclear war.

Soviet officials abandoned that doc-
trine during the latter years of Presi-
dent Leonid Brezhnev, who rightly
declared an atomic war unwinhable for
both sides.

Soviet scientists have written in
publications intended for foreign read-
ers that hundreds of millions of people

would be killed outright or by the ling- ©

ering effects of radiation in the event of
an atomic war.

The handbook, which recently went
on sale in Moscow bookstores, gives no

Angels

By NECOLE BAER

“The diation (from a
nuclear attack) can cause radiation

of how a nuclear strike
oo be. :
The new booklet, issued by the

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The unio ee has been
handing out headaches in brown
window envelopes these past few days.
The upper left hand corner of the
envelope reads return after 10 days to

ner, Social Security and
Municipal Aid Tax, Victoria, B.C.,
however, inside it states that you have
until Sept. 20th to work it out and
forward your three per cent to Vic-
toria.

s s .

For sale: Six-week-old pigs and any
number of turkeys, apply Mr. M. O.
Hougen, Robson. _

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The Kinnaird Basket Picnic will be
held on Sunday at Eremenko's field in
Castlegar. Cars are picking up. pass-
engers along the highway or at Scotts,
Dumont Rd., Hardware Store, Comm-
unity Hall, Kinnaird Service and Con.,
and railway crossing at 10) o'clock.
Hibses' stat at 11 alia: Frestieb reams
and coffee.

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The Castlegar Clippers ball team

won the championship finals against

Castlegar News
. Peter Kinakin of Castlegar can keep
his cow inside village limits until
spring.
Mr. Kinakin wrote council request-

is kept a distance of 200 feet from the
nearest residence.

Council expressed pleasure at the
tone of Mr. Kinakin's letter and
decided to send him a reply thanking
him for. his cooperation and allowing
him to keep his cow until spring.

s s s

Winner of a second prize at the
Exhibition

Soviet Civil Defence
presents a third world war in sketches
and d strongly of

Pacific
being held in Vancouver, is Mrs. Steve
Harshenin of Brilliant.

the Second World War.
Similar advice is found in civil de-
fence diagrams and instructions Leceneh

sickness of varying degrees,” the pencdispley

booklet says. “But a shelter offers Pro-
tection from this radiation.”

For those who would not have’
access to underground bunkers or have
only limited time to protect them-
selves, it advises that patching to-
gether a shelter from reeds or bran-
ches might make a sufficient fallout
shield.

“In winter, it is possible to use fro-
zen soil, ice and snow. For example, a
layer of compacted snow 60 centi-
metres thick will halve the strength of
the radiation.”

Experts such as Yevgeny Chazov, a
member of the Soviet Academy of Sci-

digging
blocked by rubble. It gives pages of in-
structions on how to fix gas masks, and
on pills available in first-aid packs that
would, it says, act as antidotes to
radiation sickness.

Some Soviets who have seen the
book say it is unlikely to change a gen-
erally sceptical approach to prospects
of post-nuclear war survival. S

They quoted a popular joke which
says: “In the event of nuclear attack,
wrap yourself in a sheet and walk qui-
etly to the cemetery.” [Reuter]

just vigilantes?

subway stations in groups watching for

But while the Angels seem to be

OTTAWA — C ry over the
Guardian Angels, a civilian vigilante
group, may grab the headlines but
some experts say the straightforward,
do-it-yourself approach to crime pre-
vention is the most effective.

Police have been advising citizens for
five years to install security locks and
burglar alarms,-engrave their val-
uables for identification after a theft
and set up in which neigh-
bors watch each other's homes during
absences.

P of such based
crime-prevention measures has
stemmed from a realization by police
they can only react to crimes after they
occur because there are not enough

or the

of a crime. ;

They then either alert police or make
a citizen's arrest and offer themselves
as witnesses in trials.

“In the United States, we're like
radical surgery on a terminally ill
patient who's already gpt one foot in
the grave,” says Sliwa. “In Canada,

we're more like vitamins — we're a‘

preventative measure.”

The group has established Canadian
chapters in Toronto and Windsor, on:
is trainin;

by citizens, they run into
opposition from police and municipal
governments in every city they Plan to
set up chapters, Sliwa says.

Police and

Mrs. Harshenin took a second prize
with her colored crochet doily under 12

helda membership meeting fecently in
the community hall.

Mrs. Joan Doran was elected to be in

of make-up and Doug Doran
was selected as chairman of the Cond
committee.
s . os

The last meeting of the Castlegar
council was over early.

The ‘meeting started at about 7:10
p.m. and was over 9:40. “Where can we
get a medal stuck?” joked commi-
ssioner Maddocks.

Couneil meetings for the last few
months have usually lasted until 12
p.m. or later.

John Munro, former chairman of the
social sciences department at Selkirk
College, has been awarded a $8,000
fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at
Queen's University: in Kingston.

The astiogns Kiwanis Club hosted

have chosen either to ignore the
Angels or denounce them as vigilantes
bent on taking the law into their own
hands.

Improved research and data collec-
tion on crime trends and crime-fighting
methods from the last.two decades has
convinced police forces and municipal

4
last week began a recruitment drive j :
Vancouver.

and

‘ash.,

departing member of the local club.
A presentation was made by local

-club vice-president Sam Muirhead to

Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Henry.

Mr. Henry, a trades foreman in the
Celgar pulp division, leaves soon to
take up a new position with Western

support crime p
ties, Waller says.

LETTER

recently
released the results of a study about
the making of a politician. One of the
key words in that report —

U ty of Ottawa

Irvin Waller says studies show that
elminating a Potential criminal's opp-

it a crime can lead to

— explains how single-minded people

with a single-vested interest soon learn

to submerge their fanaticism in the
mind of the

ioned musclemen would sit at that
table with the concerns of those who
feel or Pp
sented.

May we idealistically assume that
the government — our elected renre
sentatives — will carry the

It may not always result in any
radical change in direction but a
coalition does knock the rough edges
off a single-minded point of view.

Interesting how the story of the
elephant eh to mind: a large

the majority, silent, d
underprivileged or whatever they may
be, to that all important meeting.

* If I may be forgiven once again for
exercising my opinion: it does seem an
utter waste of money for both the more
obvious sides to spend large sums
trying to convince the unwashed that
each respective side is the champion of
right, truth and justice.

Most of us feel that much more
could be accomplished if affairs of labor

ding in a
jungle clearing. The tribe formed a
cirele around about the beast. The chief
who stood at the front of the mammoth,
called his description. He then asked
each in turn to describe what they saw.

Each gave an accurate description.
‘None were the same. It is now almost
time for our leaders to exercise the
common sense and judgment of the
primitive yet more civilized tribesmen
of that legendary jungle in some
foreign land.

a reduction of up to 50 per cent in such
crimes as breaking and entering where
more than half are attributed to
trouble-seeking youths.

But Lisa Sliwa and her husband,
Curtis, who founded the controversial
Guardian Angels in New York four
years ago, say such measures are not
enough and people need the protection
offered by their volunteer patrols.

Canada today is like the United
States 10 to 15 years ago, when “people
were reluctant to admit there even was
a (crime) problem,” says Sliwa, who
earned a black belt in karate to help
her cope in the crime-ridden New York
streets.

“The first step toward dealing with it
is to admit that there is a problem.
That's something that’s very, very
difficult for the authorities to even

The Angels, wearing their distine-
tive red berets, patrol streets and

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We don't need CPR
tracks in the city

Editor, News:
About two months as0, avery hard-

The president of this railroad (the
CPR): should be told to have these level

working crew
project on various railroad crossings in
our town. They removed the old cross-
ing materials, serviced the road bed,
etc., in preparation for the installation
of longer rails that would greatly

was made ready for the installation of
the longer sections of track. But where
are the new long sections of track?
Are they being sent from Tibet via
Llama? Could they possibly have been
mailed? Who knows why our railway
crossings have been so rough, so long?

within five days, or
he should move his railroad out of our
city.

Of course, he would ask, “But
where could it be moved?” I would
suggest that a new “main line” be built
on the far bank of the river.

The railroads contributed a great
deal towards the of our town
and country but, like the Model T, we
surely don't need the railroad equip-
ment and machines screeching, whist-
ling and ad through our city today.

D. Bruce Lee

Bridge in
s s s

Nels Allen, president of the Castle-
gar and District Teachers’ Association,
was one of more than 100 leaders in the
teaching profession from across B.C.
who attended the recent - annual
summer conference of the B.C. Teach-
ers’ Federation in Nelson.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 31, 1978

Castlegar News

A happy even took ate in Robson
during the recent long weekend when
members of the Waldie family staged a
reunion to honor the forthcoming
golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. W.T. Waldie and to recognize Mr.
Waldie's recent 75th birthday.

s s s

The Western Canadian Bantam Girls
and Boys Softball Championships held
in Castlegar Aug. 5-7 saw B.C.'s

cial winners taking all honors,
and the local host teams beating out
three other provincial winners for third
place in both divisions.

The three-day event had partici-
pating teams from Northwest Terri-
tories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and B.C., as well as the local
teams.

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