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Castlegar News

snasn@ee OF THE B.C PRESS COUNCH

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 25, 1951
Castlegar News
Anew Wolf Cub Pack was organized
on Wednesday last week by Cubmaster
Gordon Pettitt at his home. About 20
would-be Cubs attended and received
instruction as to the meaning of
Cubbing with the reading of the Jungle
Book upon which it is based.
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1OUS CITRUS

“Whites-only” racists anger Idaho

By NORMA GREENAWAY
Canadian

ESTABUSHED AUG) 1947 Twice WEERLY MAY 4 1980
INCORPORATING 1rH€ MIO WEER MIRROR PUBLISHED St 978 AUK
LV CAMPBELL PUBLISHER AUG 7 194/188

PUBLISHER — Burt Compbel!
EDITOR — Ron Norman
N — Peter Horvey
Lindo Kos:tsir
Gory Fleming
— Heather Hadley

giving dramatic readings from « Life

‘week that the Aryan Nations is no longer just a North
icle about the town, the Aryan Nations and ——

Idaho

Sheriff Terry Thompson of Fremont County in
southeastern Idaho said 90 per cent of the 44 Idaho
counties could provide havens for the Aryans because of
the wide-open spaces in the sparsely populated state
which is bout one-half the size of British Columbia.

Idaho was chosen by the Aryan Nations as one of the
states for the white homeland because it's so white to
begin with.

Whereas the U.S. population is 83.1 per cent white,
the percentage in Idaho is 95.5 per cent. Blacks account
for .29 per cent of Idaho's population, compared with the
national figure of 11.69 per cent.

Press

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Residents here bristle
‘at the mere mention of Aryan Nations, a small band of
white supremacists planning to make Idaho part of a
“whites-only” homeland.

They're angry and embarrassed at being put in the
spotlight by the white supremacists at neighboring
Hayden Lake, 200 kilometres south of the British
Columbia border.

Reporters from major broadcast outlets, magazines
and newspapers have flocked to the resort and timber
town of 20,000 since a Sept. 15 bombing at the home of a
Roman Catholic priest who has been an outspoken critic

The provincial Lands Department is
studying a forest management licence
application from William Waldie and

Come on, CP Rail

colleagues
group will ever achieve their goal of establishing a five-
state, white country in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming.

CP Rail can't be serious

The railway is denying the film
crew of Housekeeping use of its
facilities because of objections
over certain scenes in the movie
One ot the scenes that has CP con-
cerned shows @ woman walking
down railway tracks. Another
shows people riding in boxcars

CP apparently believes that
walking on railway tracks is a
negative satety message. And of
course they dont want anyone
riding their boxcars, as the film
depicts

But just how realistic are the
company's objections? Because
some movie shows someone jump-
ing off a bridge, does that mean
we are all going to want to jump
oft a bridge?

If a film shows
smashing up a car

someone
are we all

going to want to drive our vehicles
into brick walls? Obviously not —
though CP Rail doesn't think so.

It's disappointing that the rail-
way company can't cooperate with
the film crew because it only hurts
this area — not CP Rail. By denying
the film crew access to its facilities
and rolling stock, CP Rail is sen-
ding out a message to film com
panies one that will likely doa
lot more harm than any message in
the film

Instead of hindering economic
activity in the form of film produc-
tions, CP Rail and for that mat
ter all the other businesses and
every single resident — should be
bending over backward to show
we appreciate them

Come on, CP. You can do better
than this

What lies ahead?

B.C. has a new government, and
it promises to be as different os
any this province has elected since
Dave Barrett led the New
Democratic Party to victory in 1972

Exactly whot the government
will look like and in which direc-
tion it will take the province is still
unclear — in large part because
Premier Bill Vander Zaim refused
to tie his government to any
preconceived notions during the

28-day election campaign

But one thing is for sure and
that's that the government will
take on the style of Mr. Vander
Zalm — populist, unorthodox and
highly individualistic.

Perhaps the only key to what lies
aheod for B.C. was contained in a
recent interview when the premier
said he forsees ‘considerable
change’. What that means only
time will tell

Ron
Norman

ANATOMY OF AN ELECTION:
Or how Chris D'Arcy managed to
survive the Vander Zalm jugger
naut

There are plenty of reasons why
Social Credit candidate Audrey
Moore failed in her bid to unseat
New Democrat incumbent Chris
D'Arcy in Wednesday's provincial
general election in Rossland-Trail
(and they became a lot clearer after
the dust from a 28-day campaign
finally settled)

While most of them have to do
with what Moore did or didn't do,
perhaps the single most important
reason was something D'Arcy did:
put together the best campaign
team he's ever had.

Hard work wins elections — not
promises, not issues and not even
style (though Premier Bill Vander
Zalm might disagree with that)
D'Arcy's New Democrats’ simply
outslogged Moore's Socreds in the
trenches, especially in Castlegar.

Moore concentrated on Trail,
where she reasoned that she was
less well known, rather than Castle
gar where she expected her high
profile as mayor to carry her

D'Arcy also has a high profile in
Castlegar because he lives here
(well, at least higher than anywhere
else in the riding). But D'Arcy also
assembled a strong team here which
began polling voters a good 10 days
to two weeks before the election.

By contrast, Moore's polling in
the Castlegar area was in large part
left to the final days before the vote
The result was the Moore team
didn’t identify and then get out the
vote as well as D’Arcy's troops.

But then Moore had just come off
a tough nomination battle which left
many long-time Socred supporters
bitter

Those open wounds were slow to
heal; so slow that several days after
the nomination Moore still didn't
have a publicity coordinator

D'Arcy's campaign got off to a
much smoother start. His publicity
coordinator was in place and con
tacting the local media less than 24
hours after his nomination

When Moore finally assembled
her team — many of whom had been
on her mayoral elections her
campaign started to pick up steam
In fact, she was just hitting her
stride when she ran up against the

Oct. 22 voting day. Had the election
campaign run another two weeks,
the results in Rossland-Trail may
very well have been different

Moore's poor showing in her
hometown of Castlegar had many
Socreds puzzled. On election night
many of them were eagerly await
ing the Castlegar results. which
they expected would give Moore the
boost she needed to put her over the
top. It never came

In face, Castlegar went to D'Arcy
by more than 300 votes, cementing
his victory

But while the Socreds were dis
mayed at the turn of events, D'Arcy
wasn't. He said even before the
election was called in fact even
before Moore was chosen as his
opponent — that he could win a race
between him and the Castlegar
mayor.

At the time it sounded like so
much pre-election bravado, but in
retrospect D'Arcy has always done
well in Castlegar. And he proved it
again this time

D'Arcy apparently recoghized
that while Castlegar may vote over
whelmingly for Moore as meyor,
it wouldn't vote for her as a Social
Credit candidate. Her personal
popularity couldn't overcome the
disaffection many voters in the area
apparently feel for the Socred party
itself. They liked Moore, but not
enough to vote Social Credit

But Moore could have overcome
that problem if she had been aware
of it earlier. There were a lot of
soft” NDP votes waiting for her to
show them she wasn't going to be
just another Social Credit MLA
following the party line just
another member of the Vander Zalm
team

They were waiting for her to
show them she was her own person
and would voice her disapproval
with policies she didn't agree with.

Instead. Moore aligned herself
even closer with the premier — and
it cost her

And while. D'Arcy didn't emerge
from this election unscathed (his
3,000 vote majority was sliced to
less than 700) it must be a relief to

him to know he is among only 20
New Democrats to withstand the
Vander Zalm charm — and he did it
by beating a very strong opponent.

Letters to the Editor

Traffic light a problem

I would like to draw attention to the

problem being created by the traffic
light at Columbia Avenue and 6th
Street. As it is presently set up, this
light is not synchronized with the one
at Columbia Avenue and 3rd Street. If
a driver is stopped by the latter, and
then proceeds on the green, he will —
driving the speed limit — reach 6th
Street just in time to see the light turn
to red. This situation creates needless
traffic congestion in the area between
the two lights.

As Columbia Avenue is the main

~street rumming through Castlegar, pri
ority showld be given to traffic on this
thoroughfare. The frustration arising
from this situation is felt by all users of
the roadway, and it is setting the stage
for a major accident. I have seen
drivers racing between the two lights
to avoid stopping twice; on the other
hand, heavy transport trucks have
gone right through the red light rather
than stop again just when they have
attained the proper speed after the
previous stop.

Traffic flows on 6th Street do not
seem to justify the operation of this
light on the present basis. Most of the
times I have waited at this intersection
not a single vehicle entered the
intersection from 6th Street. This is
especially true on Sundays. Many
people I have spoken to agree with my
assessment of the situation.

To remedy this situation, I woulc
suggest the following alterations:

e Adjust the timing of the light so
that its changes are fully synchronized
with the one at 3rd Street, except as
indicated in the next point.

e Set the light so that it has a longer
cycle. (I suggest one cycle for every
two cycles of the 3rd Street light). This
would allow better “drainage” of traffic
from the downtown core, and it would
allow for a few vehicles to collect on 6th
Street

Set the light to blinking mode after
6 p.m. Monday to Friday and all day
Saturday and Sunday.

I really do not understand why this
intersection warrants a traffic light at
all. Other intersections with Columbia
Avenue are equally difficult because of

limited visibility (2nd Street); some are
actually busier (4th Street).

The most expedient and economical
solution would have been the place-
ment of stop signs for both 6th Street
traffic and Columbia Avenue traffic
northbound, and a yield sign for
Columbia Avenue traffic southbound.
This would have given priority to the
sparse traffic flow from 6th Street, but
would have allowed a better traffic
flow out of the congested downtown
area.

Walter O. Volovsek
Cc

Information about
‘poacher’ sought

I have a name for one person:
poacher. That is my name for him
although he may call himself a hunter.
But any person who hunts after dark
from the road and shoots a pregnant
registered quarter horse mare on
private land does not deserve the name
or privileges of a lawful hunter

We have always allowed hunters on
our property with permission to hunt;
the reason for the “with permission
only” was so that we could make them
aware of any livestock that was in the
vicinity

Unfortunately one poacher felt he
was special and didn’t have to act like a
considerate sportsman. If he had done
his hunting legally a very sad (for us)

and useless killing would not have
taken place.

Thanks to him we will now be giving
very serious thought to closing our
fields to all hunters. We do not want to
lose any more of our livestock to other
people like him. Unfortunately, he
does not have a brand on his forehead
to tell him apart from the honest
hunters. I sincerely hope that if anyone
has any information about this tragedy
they will come forward with it so that
he will lose his license and permit to
carry a gun because he certainly does
not deserve the privilege.

Sharon

Dry Creek Ranch

SOGIAL Credit campaigner
had to leap to safety the day before
the’ proviireial general election when
a truck dive up onto the sidewalk
in downtowy Trail.

J je Pulham told Trail
RCMP she was near the Cominco
Arena Tuesday afternoon when a
green and white Ford pick-up truck
crossed the road and drove over the
curb onto the sidewalk, forcing
pedestrians to move out of the way.

Police are investigating.

LIBERAL LEADER Art Lee,
feeling the effects of a British
Columbia election worker's faulty
fingers, had a roller-coaster ride
through ballot counting Wednesday
night in his Vancouver. Little Moun
tain riding.

Lee, running in the dual-member
riding held by Social Credit deputy
premier Grace McCarthy and So-
cred backbencher Doug Mowat, was
well behind in early counting.

Suddenly, about two hours after
the polls closed, Lee had a tremen
dous surge as his total increased by
more than 4,000 votes through 10
polls, midway through the counting.

However, the surge was an error
and several thousand of Lee's votes
were lopped off, and he ended up in
fifth place.

BUT CASTLEGAR News pub
lisher Burt Campbell saw things
differently. Campbell, a failed can-
didate for the Social Credit's
Rossland-Trail nomination, was
working in the Vancouver-Little
Mountain Socred campaign head
quarters on election night.

And unlike the television reports,
the Soereds had Lee in fifth place
throughout the night, Campbell
reports.

“It was just ridiculous,” he said.

Campbell adds that McCarthy
“was ahead all night” and Mowat
was second except for a brief half.
hour period when the NDP chal
lenger slipped past him.

The trip to the Vancouver riding
was Campbell's second in two
weeks. He had earlier worked 3'/
hours one evening canvassing a poll
in Little Mountain for McCarthy,
who Campbell had supported in the
Socred leadership race at Whistler
in July, and for Mowat.

VANCOUVER-LITTLE Moun
tain wasn't the only riding where
faulty fingers were at work. Nel
son-Creston Socred candidate How-
ard Dirks and New Democrat Corky
Evans were taken on similar
rough rides Wednesday night

A radio station declared Evans
the winner early in the evening and
Evans even went as far as to change
into a suit and tie and make an
acceptance speech

But then shortly after that, the
results were changed, making Dirks
the winner by 131 votes. Dirks then

GRACE McCARTHY
always ahead

made his acceptance speech.

To top it all off, on Thursday re
turning officer Don Porteous re
ported that Dirks’s margin was in
fact only 41 votes. It seems Dirks
was credited with 90 extra votes
when the results of one of the Kaslo
polls were incorrectly transmitted
to the central returning office in
Nelson.

But even that result could change
as more than 1,500 votes must still
be counted from those who regis
tered on voting day. The final
results won't be known until Nov. 4.

OH YES, Campbell lost that $100
bill of his that said Audrey Moore
would win Rossiand-Trail.

Sons Ltd. of Castlegar, in the upper

Dr. ME. Lazerte, professor of
education at the University of Alberta,
and nationwide authority on education,
addressed the teachers of the West
Kootenay and Boundary Teachers’
convention and the Nelson public, at
the Capitol Theatre.

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A letter received this week by the
Castlegar and District Projects Society
announced the offer of the sale of the
ball park (block 19) to the Society by
the Union of Spiritual Communities of
Christ, Number 8.

The offered price is $6,000 and the
Society will not contact Cominco on
their offer of assistance in a venture of
this nature. The Projects Society has
worked for months on this

Consideration of an amendment to
the trades licence bylaw to allow the
operation of Go Karts in the village will
be studied by Kinnaird council.

Harvey Jack told commissioners
Monday night that the motorized Go
Karts would be operated on Sundays
and perhaps one or two evenings a
week at Castleaird Plaza.

. 2 6

Winners of the 2nd Castlegar Legion
Scout Troop summer weekend patrol
camps and hikes were the ow! patrol.
Members of this patrol are patrol
leader Don Chambers; second, Allan
Morey and Scouts, Gordon Gemmill,
Lorne Pellegrin, Dwayne Hartson,
Frank Lanzarotto and Mickey Read.

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Kinnaird plans to build one mile of
sidewalks along the highway under the
winter works program.this year.

The sidewalks will be built for half-a-
mile each way from Milestone Road
along 7th Ave.

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Another black gutted ruin was added
over the weekend to the long list of
terrorist acts which have scorched the
pages of West Kootenay history.

RCMP have attributed the $200,000
fiery destruction of the Hadikin Bros.
Sawmill, located about seven miles
northwest of Trail, one the Trail
Castlegar section of the provincial
highway, to the work of arsonists.

Wally Horning of West's Depart
ment Store was elected president of
the Castlegar Businessmen's Associa:
tion at the group's annual meeting held
last Thursday evening in the Marlane
Hotel.

First vice-president is Leo Bosse of
Bosse’s Jewellery while Mrs. Orla
Grandstrom of Prestige Cleaners is the
new secretary-treasurer.

.

The start of a new industry at
Blueberry Creek has been hailed by
William Benham, president of the
Castlegar District Chamber of Com-
merce as a boon to the community.

Last week the Kootenay Industrial

Associati 4

De
approval had been given by the federal
Department of Regional Economie Ex
pansion for a $140,000 incentive grant
to construct a pollution control plant
component factory.
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The Castlegar Apollo Junior Hockey
Club has decided to cease operations.
The decision came at a meeting held
last week which was presided over by
Mike Popoff.
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With the Kinnaird-Robson-Castlegar
Community Chest United Appeal being
well past the halfway mark in its drive
for the $21,500 only 37 per cent of the
projected amount has been received.

Castlegar

The 70 former employees of Hadikin
Bros. Lumbering Ltd. of Brilliant have
decided to take their case to the
provincial ombudsman's office.

Nelson lawyer Stan Lanyon, who is
representing the former Hadikin em
ployees, said he sent a letter Friday to
B.C. ombudsman Karl Friedmann
asking for an investigation into the
transfer of timber leases from Hadikin
mill to Atco. Ltd. of Fruitvale.

. 28 6

The Winter Games office was
officially opened last Thursday after.
noon in a ribbon-cutting ceremony and
reception.
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of white racism.

The bombing was followed by three more blasts in
the downtown core two weeks later.

Four people linked to the Aryan Nations, formally
known as the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, have been
charged in the latter three bombings.

Authorities say the bombs were meant to divert
attention from planned bank robberies that never
happened. No one was injured in the explosions.

Pat Becord and a group of secretaries spent a recent

Washington and Oregon.

CLEARLY UNEASY

A weekend cross-burning by about 20 white supre-
macists in the southern Idaho town of Jerome added
fresh fuel to warnings by a meeting of county sheriffs last

HSA denies raising stakes

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Health Sciences Association
says it did not raise the

stakes in its dispute when its
executive unanimously re
commended rejection of the

Fauquier resi
fight cattle po

FAUQUIER (CP) — Resi
dents of this Kootenay com
munity say they have suf.
fered from cattle pollution for
two years because their
drinking water is in a res
ervoir 500 metres down
stream from a local cowfield.

While trying to get the
provincial government to act,
one man has suffered from
hepatitis and two others have
had stomach infections.

“People are talking about

shooting those cattle or sick
ing their dogs on them,” said
Fred Wulff who has been
seeking help for two years
from the ministries of health,
environment and agriculture.

“The absurdity of this
thing is unbelievable,” said
Wulff, 68. “I thought one
letter to the health depart
ment would clear this up.”

The controversial cows
used to be kept in a spot
where wastes didn't spew

Nelson-Creston
race even closer

NELSON (CP) — The close
race in Nelson-Creston be-
tween Soered Howard Dirks
and Corky Evans of the NDP
in Wednesday provincial
election has become even
closer.

Election night figures had
Dirks ahead by 131 votes, but
that total was chopped by 90
after it was discovered one
poll had been incorrectly re
ported to the returning offi
cer

That means 41 votes sep
arate the two with at least
600 votes from people who

registered on election day
and hospital ballots still to be
counted. Those votes will be
tabulated with early polls
and mail-in ballots with the
result expected by Nov. 4
Nelson-Creston is one of
eight ridings considered to be
too close to eall until all
ballots are counted. Seven of
the races are being led by
Socred candidates. Another
five ridings, three now led by
the Socreds, could change if
there is an unexpected swing
to the second-place candi

industrial inquiry commis-
sioner's proposals for settle-
ment, union spokesmen said.

dents.
llution

into the
water

But, Wulff said, two years
ago the farmer moved his
feedlot above the water
supply. “I can't believe that
people can deliberately put
their cattle 300 yards above
our community watershed
and get away with it.”

Fauquier engineer Law
rence Davis, 46, suffered
from hepatitis in early 1985
and says he is very suspicious
of the water

“The clean water was one
of the things we wanted to
advertise for our hotel and
restaurant. Now we're afraid
to even mention it.”

town's drinking

Police file

A Castlegar man received
minor injuries Oct. 24 when
the car he was driving struck
a cement guardrail.

RCMP say Edward Hag:
gan was southbound on High
way 3A near the Castlegar
Airport at 5:30 a.m. when the
1978 Ford pickup he was
driving hit the guardrail at
the edge of the road

Damage was estimated at
over $4,000.

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“It's not a wish list; there's
jistory to this,” Peter

vancement, they will go else-
where.

“I don’t think we upped the
ante at all,” said association
spokesman Howie Smith.
“This report does very little
to address the gap in wages
between us and other pro
fessions.”

B.C. hospitals returned to
normal Friday after picket
lines were taken down
shortly after midnight Thurs-
day, Smith said.

State officials have put the number of white supre-
macists and their sympathizers at about 300, prompting
several Coeur d'Alene residents to accuse the media of
making too much of the movement.

Idaho, perhaps most famous for its big potatoes, has
been struggling under the weight of major recessions in
its three prime industries — agriculture, mining and

lumber.

While Coeur d'Alene locals love to see tourists
pulling into town, they're suspicious of all reporters.

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Charges dismissed

CRANBROOK (CP) —
Four charges of arson laid
following forest fires in the
East Kootenay during the
summer of 1985 were dis
missed this week after a
county court judge ruled that
police induced Mike Russell
Hunter to confess.

Judge: Michaelangelo Pro-
venzano said police promised
to help Hunter, 25, with his
problems, and this meant the
confession was not freely
made.

Hunter was described by
police witnesses as quiet and
slow.

Defence lawyer Ron Bud.
denhagen argued that Hunt
er suffers from a disability
which prevented him from
understanding the con

sequences of replying to
police questions.

The four forest fires foreed
the evacuation of the small
logging community of Canal
Flats in the southeast corner
of British Columbia for 10
days in July 1985.

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