July 14, 1985

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Beiter signs needed

It's encouraging to see that —
Castlegar council plans to look into
erecting better signs on the out-
skirts of the city (July 10 CosNews).

It's _also’ timely that council in-
tends to meet with the Ministry of
Highways and the Castlegar
Chamber of Commerce to discuss
improving the signs along Highway
3. The signs along the highway on
both sides of Castlegar aren't up to
snuff, and with Expo 86 less than a
year away, proper signs are
needed immediately.

But what's hard Jo understand is
why something as simple as better
signs takes so long to get done.
Council and the chamber have
been after the Ministry of High-
ways for years to have the signs
upgraded, with only marginal suc-
cess.

What's the big deal? Adding the
name Castlegar and the mileage to
signs shouldn't take much.

However, it would be a good
idea for council to have a long look
around its-own property before it

s-example._The-signs i

“starts asking the province to clean
up its backyard.

Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park
has been open for more than a
year and there still aren't any per-
manent signs along Columbia
Avenue directing tourists: (and
many residents who don't know
where it is). he

‘One chamber: representative
best described trying ‘to find the
heritage park when he said you
need to be an orienteer to get to it.

Yet, Zuckerberg Island Heritage
Park’ is only the most Sevious

way to the Community Canela
need to be improved, and there
should be signs directing tourists
to places like Kinnaird Park, Bob
Brandson Pool and the downtown.

While too many signs can be an
eyesore, there's something to be
said for well-made attractive signs
that show visitors where major
points of interest are.

Come on council, set a good
example and maybe the Ministry
of Highways will follow:

Consumer concern?

In the last month B.C. and the
U.S. has been hit with two inciden-
ts of pesticide poisoning. Hundreds
of people became sick—eating

.. cucumbers and watermelons tain-
ted with the pesticide aldicarb.

This week an Austrian wine was
pulled off the B.C. liquor. store
“shelves because it contains an ad-
ditive that doesn’t sit too well on
your stomach: anti-freeze.

All three incidents 'sparked nary
a letter of complaint.

“Compare that to the uprising

* out

over Coca-Cola's change to its for-
mula. That brought on 40,000 to
50,000 letters of protest in the U.S.

And-Canadians jumped on_the-

bandwagon, even though we find
now the old. Coke sold in
Canada wasn't the same as the old
Coke sold in the U.S. In fact, the
old Coke sold in Canada is much
the same as the new Coke sold
here,

Welcome: to consumer concern,
1980s-style. Poison us, but don't
tinker with our soft drinks.

Fred
Merriman

How. about this heat wave? It
reminds me of Phoenix, Arizona. A
couple more weeks of this and we
can start growing cactus and watch
the sand dunes form outside the
‘window as the desert winds move -
the landscape about at will.

_The soaring temperatures also
bring to memory the story of an
ex-Marine who amazed everyone as

he remained ‘seated throughout a
four-hour movie in a sweltering
Portland, Oregon theatre. The
veteran of the Pacific demonstrated
no ill effects from the heat though
fully clothed complete with heavy
jacket and ¢ie.

The rest of that audience sat,
perspiration evident upon glistening
foreheads and fanning like ladies at
a Louisiana ball. I asked for ie
story.

“I became separated from a
unit during action in the South
Pacific. For several weeks I man-
aged to survive in the jungle heat
with a simple application of self-
hypnosis. In time, I was able to
shiver from the thought that I was
marooned instead on ice in the
Arctic Ocean.”

selves once again complaining that
-summer is late this year. All this
business of chasing around for air
conditioners and choosing to walk
on the shady ‘side pf the street
brings me to yet ther of my
favorite subjects. It Might be an
appropriate time to mention under-
ground housing.

The Apache Indiahs could survice
the--desert heat by living in

i which r
stone root houses set into the sand
dunes. The windows of such dwel-
lings were nothing more than a
narrow slit just below the sand
covered roof line.

Thousands of southern people —
even in these modern times live
quite comfortably deep in apart-
ment-like cliffside caves. At least

one innovative Castlegar resident
has built his home almost entirely
covered with soil and sod. His house
does have a south facing wall built
mostly of glass.

Nevertheless, it would be in-
teresting to know how his heat and
air conditioning costs compare with
those of us who live in convent-
ional above- ground houses.

Often, I refer to the U.S. in this
column. Reports indicate that lit-
erally thousands of homes in that
country are now built routinely
half-submerged into hillsides fee

Letters to the Editor

Who ‘assured’ board? :

“Editor, Castlegar News:

I would like to address the state-
ments by our school board regarding
noon-time busing. In the article in the
July 7 CasNews trustee Doreen
Smecher says, “the board was assured
that. the parents of Valley Vista
studehts were prepared ‘to arrange
their own transportation.”

Which parents did you talk to about
this? Not one parent I have talked to
has even heard from the board. We
didn’t -even—know—the— board was
considering reinstating noon-time bus-
ing. How could we even present a case
before the board if no one mentioned
this to us?

Did you take into account how many

parents will be working or going back
to school and thereby unable to pick up
our kids at noon-time? How about
single moms who have to work to
support their families?

‘What about the fact that quite a
few of us have one, if not two younger
children at home in addition to our
five-year-old? Car pooling won't work if
you have three kids of your own, plus

yourself and you -have only four seat ‘

belts. Better yet, did you consider the
fact-that-some parents have only_one
car and the breadwinner needs thai car
to get back and forth to work?

I know that legally my son doesn't
have to’ attend kindergarten, and
keeping him out should be an

Remember.
When?

. 35 YEARS AGO
From the July 13, 1950
Zi Castlegar News
-The department of Health and

"Welfare has approved the application
“for the appointment of an advisory

board: for local Public Health Nurse,

Miss M. Cressman. The function of the

board is to assist and advise the public

health nurse in her work in her district.

* Miss:Cressman, who comes here from

the Prince ‘Rupert District and has

seen nursing service in Africa, is

already hard at work getting acquaint-
ed with her new district.
- 2 *

‘The ever-present problem of library
space was discussed at a recent
meeting of the Castlegar Public
Library Board, and further steps will
be taken to attempt an early alleviation
of the difficulty. The librarians’ report
indicated that circulation is still well
over 300 books per month.

Twenty-seven cars of freight ar-
rived for Castlegar dealers last month.
They were comprised of the following:
coal — 12 cars; lumber — one car; feed
— 3 cars; paper — 1 car; sugar, — 2

_cars; roofing — 1 car; pipe — 2 cars; tile
—3 cars; electrical equipment — 1 car;

______and_plaster_—_1_car_____

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 14, 1960

Castlegar News
Great joy at being reunited with her
son whom she had not seen in 32 years,
and of meeting her daughter-in-law and
+ grandsons whom she was seeing for the
ist time, was shown by Mrs. Anna
arkova. when she arrived recently
oe Russia. Mrs. Markova, 58, is the

My son is ready for school and needs -daughter of Peter Verigin I and
the peers and the structured learning mother of John ‘Verigin, executive-
that kindergarten can offer. secretary of the Union of Spiritual
In closing, I'd like to ask the board ‘Communities of Christ.
who “assured” the board that parents | Peay eee
would arrange our own transportation?. | Construction is well underway on the
: f : innaird swimming pool, according to

Ed McGauley, president. of the Kin-
naird Swimming Pool Society. The hole
is dug and carpentry has started. The
society is dependent on volunteer labor
and Sonations: of money. and materials.

Did you ask even one parent how *
he/she felt? Considering that there are
87 students going‘into kindergarten in
Valley Vista you should have contacted
at least 19 to make a-statement like
this. Try calling us. You'll be surprised
at our answers. C.

. hospital *
r cial Jack Bainbridge has vestgusd | to accept
Iris F. Johnson a’ position with the B.C. Hospital

Valley Vista Service in Victoria. He came
here from L . England in May

U.S. DEFENCE

— 4 under attack

By LARRY BLACK

NEW YORK — Nothing demon-
strates the contradictions of Reagan-
ism as thoroughly as U.S. military

spend ling. It amounts to a $300-billion
‘public works project the White House
is-trying to slip into its $1-trillion
budget for 1986. :

Ronald Reagan was elected presi-
dent five years ago on a radically
conservative economic program which’

welfare state is still thriving, with
hundreds of billions of tax. dollars
propping up inefficient domestic in-
dustries and praviding millions of jobs
to Americans who would otherwise be
unemployed or underemployed.

“The Pentagon is the second-largest
socialist economy in the world-behind
the Sovjet Union,” as Republican con-_

<gressman Charles Grassley put _it
earlier this year, complaining that lack

pr
unbridled competition and cuts in
government expenditure. And in most
of the economy, he has done just that,
stripping away laws which established
order in the marketplace redistributing

- a diminishing fraction of the country’s

wealth in social spending.
diminishing fraction of the country’s
|_- wealth in social spending.

Business is booming, corporate pro
fits are reaching all-time highs, but the
U.S. government deficit — which con-
“gervative economists say is acting as a
brake on economic development — is

reasons of
ance and security management. In

not r ig. That’s because in one
sector of the economy — defence

an area as famous as the K:
with its hundreds of underground
mines, one would think that it is a
logical extension that the workplace
could well be our dwelling place.

None of-these ideas is new. A
tour of the H.B. Mine some years
ago revealed 10-metre high tunnels
and air more pure than outside. A
Salmo resident reported that one
nearby mine contained a chamber
high enough and wide enough to
accommodate the entire Village of
Salmo.

The main chamber at the’ Mica
Generating Plant is capable of
providing seating for 3,000 people.
Again, there are some very ex-
pensive homes in the Okanagan
which appear to be built deep into
the hillside. It is for certain that
they are buried by roof and three
sides.

In this rugged country where flat
land is at a }remium it would seem
logical to develop fashionable ac-
commodation in the slopes and
mountains around us. The level
ground ‘could. be reserved for
agriculture, sports and aspects of
commerce that require level ac-
cess. The average temperature
below the frost-line is 60 degrees
winter and summer. Just a thought
on a baking day in July, 1985.

Pi ji and Pp! — the

of in defence pi
was costing the U.S. economy billions
in waste.

Other Americans, including many
‘traditional Keynesian economists,
argue that public spending on defence
— which has doubled in the last five
years, and will add up to $2 trillion
more over the next five — is in fact
leading the U.S. economic recovery.

Without this thinly disguised public
works program — which’ constructs
weapons .rather the highways and
bridges of the 1930s New -Deal
programs — the United States-would
never have recovered from the 1982
recession, they argue. -

Either way, weapons-spending

of 1957. Construction of the Castlegar
hospital started in June, 1957, and Mr.
Bainbridge worked with the architect
on it and supervised the purchase of
equipment. The hospital was opened in
April, 1958, and the first patient was
admitted May 5.

15 YEARS AGO

From the July 16, 1970
Castlegar News
A public beach with 900 feet cf sandy

shoreline is slated for construction at
Syringa Creek Park for the enjoyment
of local residents and tourists alike.
Besides blacktopping of the new high-
way to the park and the provision of
public parking for 140 cars, other work
to be done at the park this year
includes erection of 30 picnic tables.

waste — whether one is talking about
$640 toilet covers, $7,400 coffee pots
and $400 hammers, or the $244-million ~
General Dynamics overcharged the
Pentagon — is becoming a major
feature of the U.S. economy.

Defence hawks argue that abuses
and waste are in fact rare, or have
occurrred only in the procurement of
minor items and spare parts. Abuses
are inevitable in a system which lets
some 13 million contracts a year, says
John Fisher.

Others argue that there are abuses
precisely because so much money is
spent_on defence, and because of the
subsidy nature of most defence pro-
curement contracts. 2

“When the Pentagon decides to build
a complex new weapons system these
days, it oftén. seems to run into
disaster,” notes’ Business Week. “The
promise” of advanced. technology
seduces designers and eager con-
tractors into taking big risks with the
public’s-money.”

St. Peter Lutheran Church will be
installing and ordaining its first called
pastor this weekend. Robert D. Naber

after the service. “This is another great
step forward for the newly-formed St.
Peter Lutheran Congregation,” related
Vicar R. Klein. “This, I believe, is the
first ordination-of any Lutheran pastor
in the Castlegar-Kinnaird area.”

B.C. Tel has proposed to bring
Thrums, Tarrys and the Glade portion
‘The magazine notes that the Reagan _f the South Slocan exchange into the
administration's unprecedented peace- Castlegar telephone exchange area.
time arms buildup — representing a92 The idea met with approval at the
per cent increase in weapons research recent meeting of Kinnaird council. At
and ee Castlegar, council noted ‘that the

Quotable Quotes

MAD DOG VACHON is, well, mad!
The legendary hero of the Saturday
afternoon wrestling mat is upset that
the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission is en-

"forcing a rule that prohibits TV alcohol

ads that feature well-known people.
The CRTC has butlawed a TV ad
featuring Vachon plugging: Labbat
Light beer.

“There are a lot of things about
television that I don’t like, either,” says
Vachon.

“I don't like those Herbal Life ads
that offer minerals and herbs that say
they'll turn you into a super athlete.

“And I don't believe in religion — yet
they let these preachers who promise
eternal life advertise: ‘Send me your
money and you'll go to heaven!”

Vachon's response to the CRTC?”
“Get off my case!”

CAPE cop Ranger Irving Tubbs
was more than a little surprised this
week when he glanced out his window
only to see two women standing there
without their shirts on.

““I was standing at’my desk when I
realized there were semi-nude ladies
standing outside my window,” Tubbs

said. “They-chose to do this outside my way which demonstrated what was

window.”

The two women removed their s!
to protest the Cape Cod National
Seashore’s ban on nude sunbathing.
The two, who say the ban is sexual
discrimination, a jailed.

PRIME E MINSTER Brian Mulroney
shared this joke with his Manicouagan
consitituents last week at the north
shore port of Blanc-Sablon, Que.:

“I was saying to an elderly gentle-
man the other day up inthe other end
the riding, after 10 months as pri
minister, searching for a complifaent. I
said: 1 suppose there have been worse

tha

“So I said, thinking he was hard of
hearing, ‘I SUPPOSE THERE HAVE
BEEN WORSE PRIME MINISTERS
THAN_ME.”

“He said: ‘I heard you the first time,
son. F'm just trying to reme’ mber.”

c }

$2.8 billion it plans to cut from mass

craft.

One and a ‘half billion in cuts in
elderly will pay for a marine amphi-
administration Proposes to open on

next year would cover the cut it z
A of the breweries, local pubs have ended .

fostering. costly fiascos in weapons ~matter was investigated by B.C. Tel at
development. the request of the Castlegar and
“And while much of the attention on _ District Chamber of Commerce and felt
the Pentagon waste is focussed on $400 . the chamber can be expected to make a
hammers, ‘the major systems are _ thorough study of the proposal.
ee ae SYEARS AGO
York Times tried to translate Pentagon par hanstncesh hd ead
waste and dubious expenditures in @ ——pians for a welcome home celebra-

being forfeited at their expense. Teen eke meatal ou Shears!

For the price of a US. navy comm: __in_the-world-Olympies—for-the-Physi-

airp! cally Handicapped in Arnhem, Holland,

last week. Plans include a band, ban-

ners, and a local dignitary to meet her
at the airport.

ne pi
engineer Seymour Melman noted, the
administration could forget about the

transit subsidies. A proposed cut which
would virtually end passenger train 2. od bd
service in the United States is equi- The Castlegar RCMP detachment
valent to buying 26 air-cushion landing _ has a new staff-sergeant. John Stevens
has recently ‘arrived from Kelowna to
take over the position.
housing and energy subsidies to the bags ti
The summer is turning dry for beer
ink. in Castlegar,
lockout -of-brewery workers by the
‘ies and a

bious assault ship. The $4 billion the

in the

system.

tween guns and.butter better shown
" than in the administration's proposed
fiscal 1986 budget,” writes Melman.

off-sale of beer. The liquor store ran
out of beer earlier this week and an
expected delivery of suds towards the
end of the week didn’t arrive.

“Nowhere is the contradiction be-

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will officially begin his pastoral duties _

___He_is—pr
at the Sunnybrook Medical

July 14, 1985 , Castlegae

SS

Woman.

celebrates -

birthday

CLARA SAUNDERS
. - 90th birthday

Mrs. Clara Saunders céle-
brated her 90th birthday on
July 7:

Attending her special day
were daughief Ora and hus-
band Jim Blackmet of Delta.
Daughter. Hazel and her
husband John Buick of Dun-
can_and_son_ Brick

and wife Joy.

The birthday cake was,

made and decorated by Joy
Saunders.

Floral arrangements were
received from family, friends
and the Pythian Sisters along
with cards of good wishes.

Lotto
West

A $309,713 went to one

_ winner in’ thé July 10 Lotto

West draw.

The eight numbers drawn
were 4, 10, 11, 19, 33, 36, 42
and 55. The bonues number
was 2.

Winning numbers drawn in
B.C.’s Pacific Express lottery
were:

For $100,000: 322074.

For $50,000: 328589.

For $10,000: 043190.

In the event of a dis-
crepancy between_ these
numbers and the__ offi
winning numbers list,
official list shall prevail.

Obedkoff
receives
degree

DAN OBEDKOFF
. .. UBC grad

Daniel Obedkoff, son of

Peter and Margaret Obed-
koff of Castlegar, received
his Doctor of Medicine deg-
ree at the University of
British Columbia's
convocation exercises.
, He graduated with a first-
class. standing and was also
the recipient of the Mead
Johnson of Canada Ltd. Prize
in Pediatrics. This prize is
awarded to the student with
the highest standing in ped-
iatrics.

Obedkoff received his
early education in Castlegar,
spending a year at Selkirk
College before transferring
to UBC where he obtained
both his B.Sc. and MD. deg-
rees:

ning

Centre in Toronto. z

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Pulpit & Pew

By TED BRISTOW.
Castlegar United Church

Dave worked as a prison
chaplain for many years, so I
naturally asked questions
about life behind walls. Un-
like what some of us tend to
believe, it's no holiday resort.

He told of an ordinary
young-man-who- wanted to
mae a quick. $1,000 by
smuggling a pound of nare-
otics into the country. He
was given seven years.

The first week inside, he
found out it. was going to be
hell. Oldtimers, for . enter-
tainment, got one of their
high on dope and
brew, and then tempted him
with the new young man.
After a brutal -homosexual
rape, the young man cowered
in a corner for hours, and it
took the best efforts of the
chaplain and others to help
him begin to get over what
had been done to him.

The rapist had asked-the
chapain for psychiatric help,
and the chaplain had tried,
but something about a con-
flict _ between federal and

ding, and give the wrongdoer
a freedom to begin again. .

He has ideas about alter-
natives to long sentences,
helping ex-cons with the
difficult adjustment to -the
outside, counselling ‘with the
victims, and crime preven-
tion.

He was here to talk about
capital punishment. He fears.
that in the near future, it
may be politically advant-
ageous for someone to re-
open the question.

He and some co-workers
have been gathering ‘the
many studies made on the
subject, and he's putting
together a manual to be
published soon (if the modest
$5,000 for its production can
be found somewhere.)

He understands the fears
and resentments of ordinary
people. He admits to feelings
of revenge within himself.
But he knows, because he's
close to the subject, that
capital punishment does not
prevent murder. —

He feels prevention comes

things like gun
police — educatiori,

more by
control,

urisdiction kept
the man where he was, with
terrible results.

I.admired Dave for having
been able to work in a jungle
like that, without despairing.

Dave is not in prison at the
moment, he’s working on an
inter-church task force that
studies prison reform and
alternate sentencing. He was
in Castlegar to meet a few“of |
us earlier this month.

He spoke with admiration
of-a group of -Mennonites-in
Ontario who are working at
reconciliation: bringing to-
gether the criminal and vic-
tim to talk about what
happened, create understan-

ity self-help _ pro-
grams, and the‘like. a

He's realistic, not. a blind
idealist. Asked if there are
some behind bars who should
never be released, he said,
sadly, “Yes.”

He's made a study. of the
subject from a religious pers-

pective. He recommended to applied to someone

us a Bible study by the Dave.
Presbyterians called “Hang-

Somehow, I feel the label
“Christian” can be properly

like

Firemen

douse
blaze

By CasNews Staff
Brush firés and the’ record
dry weather have béen caus-
ing headaches for the Cas-
tlegar Volunteer Fire De:
partment.

Fire Chief Bob Mann said
Friday that the department
has answered several brush
fire calls this month, in-
cluding one Thursday after-

noon on llth Avenue near,
_ 5th Street.

‘Smoke from the fire, which
began shortly before 1..p.m.,
could be seen throughout the
downtown area. The depart-
ment sent a pumper truck to
the scene and put out the’fire
in minutes.

Mann_ says the fire was
started either by the ‘rays
from the-sun shining on a
broken glass bottle, or by
youths smoking or. playing
with matches...

dded_that_a heavy
evergreen needles in |

" the brush allowed the fire to

rekindle itself.

“I've been back there three
times,” he. said.

Mann stressed that open
burning is banned and the
city is not giving out burning
permits until the heat- wave
passes.

He said ‘the city has also
asked owners of incinerators
not to operate them until the
weather changes.

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man™. He implied that no one
should claim to: know what
the Old and New Testament
teach about capital punish-
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this book.

He showed us publications
by the Lutherans, United
Church, and Mennonites, all
opposing capital punishment
on religious grounds. He told
as the Canadian Roman. Cat-

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