Legislative Library. | Parliament Sliva., Vicsoria, V8Y 144 SOL He BoC eens Lley _Publsbed Bright and Early Every Thursday. Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenay” Nol, &, No, 18 30 Cents CASTLEGAR BRITISH COLUMBIA: SHURSD AY: iMAY-'8, 1970. "ees « Cast of last week's feos a gan Monday c on conerete no-poat ‘ undraiva at the sits fatal accident ‘on Syringa’: Creek Road, : -: highways ministry official cial said this week. - Rees hie yesterday at the toad curve for hile with a ‘occupants failed to - ‘egotiate April 22 before ry blunaing down a 80-metre embankment into the Lower Arrow’ an above ‘the site of “ : of two occupants and the injury of the remaining two. * We: put up three’ large signs around that ‘corner on” Friday; but: two of ‘them’ had been vandalized by the time my ‘crew went out again on Mon- day,”. he said. +.) Vandalism of. traffic signs is a common problem on that section of the road, he said, “but we are in’ the hope that someone will leave them alone.” . voy ss"We've always’ had wind. ing road signs. for “eight kilo- metres so the people have had -that- Opportunity. to see these _-Signs’from both directions for _ quite some time,” he’ said. 6. McKeown. ‘said. the speed ‘the speed ‘limit’ indicates - the’ fastest you should: travel.” “That doesn't’ necessarily ._. Say-you can make every corner at 80 km,” he explained. “And if it's. wet’ the responsibility: is with the driver. to drive with caution.” The reflectors ‘will be placed on. the, guardrail, ‘al-. . though they: are a favorite _ target of-vandals, he said. “Wherever a car can stop, Cae some reason they like to pry those things .off,” the district manager said. “But maybe they'll leave them alone in this case, now they know. some- _thing's happened here.” McKeown's statements confirmed a report in.a.létter last week from Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy to a Castle- gar resident. that guardrails More on Page A7 oat as, be , ment poll nin Ben ‘Ac ‘Arey il MLA Chris beforeshis brief. address to sosidents at ths; Gono Com- GENELLE APPEARANCE wos an appropriate’ setting for an Hall; he New Denioerati ates posttion:Leader Dave Barrett's criticism of provincial gove! ha oy auf sed uranium mining on oxy ‘(eecond from Vea and and er He Tavis (act In In photo) ror /News! © A $530,000: 25-metre covered ‘swimming’ pool incorporated into the Regional Recreatio Complex; ® An $840,000 cultural centre: "with {a minimum of. 1,200 seats, full Stage. and “equip ment, and multi-purposé rooms for arts and crafts; ; * A $620,000 ‘ice skating arena . with’ “maximum of 500 seats at the presen site m oldarena, H ‘Those are d recr | needs: of C ireas, i ‘the next five years. . |: ea: Presented last. week by Ken Smith ‘of tthe mana consulting firm Stevenson and Kellogg to municipal, Area I and and Regional Recreation Commission No. 1 officials, suggests, th pooling of’city, Regional District of Central Kootenay,? District No.9 \and’ Selkirk College recreational resources develop'a comprehensive parks, recreation and caltural j Program; for what ‘it terms as Greater. Castlegar. ‘Under the * reconimenda- ‘tions in ‘the study a ‘governing leader wes introduced: regor (far. hs Bia Brent Lee Foto by Ryan Guedes ; ity administrator i Krug confirmed: the’ inside ataff ineluding himself and practice of ttecing th the. in- side staff the same agree- ment as the one between the city and Canadian Union of “ Public Employees: Local arch’ ‘and pay: a60-per- cent share of the cost-of a “new dental plan this year.In 1980, as‘in ‘the agreement -with the CUPE members, the ‘city will assume an 80- * per-cent share‘of the dental - plan costs, he said. No Answer for Water Dist “The . Rossland highways : district manager is still “non- committal” over... Blueberry Creek water district trustees’ requests to stop the flow of clay particles into their watershed, according to Bill Cook. * Cook, ‘chairman of the Blueberry Creek Irrigation Dis- trict board, this week told the Castlegar News that in a recent meeting with ‘a member of the Electoral Area J advisory plan- ning commission, district maha- ger Roger McKeown “couldn't give any’ satisfactory answers” .to the turbidity ‘caused inter- mittently by runoff from clay banks. along the Castlegar- Christina‘Lake highway for the past, three years. McKeown “apparently hadn't received anything back” from the’ ministry's geotechni- cal study. of the runoff problem, he said, which gradually result- ed from erosion following the removal of the bank's natural covering of vegetation during construction’ of the highway taore than 20 years ago. '“[ don't think they've: got any, plans of doing anything right now,” Cook said. ““THey did try seeding ori- ginally,” the water district chairman said when asked ‘about the ministry's past at- tempts to stop the erosion. “But natural erosion oc- curred and the banks gradually became worse and worse and they never repaired the dam- age the erosion created. In- stead of keeping them seeded cand stabilizing them, they didn’t continue the program. They cae did it once and forgot’ about it. Cook said the condition of the water has improved since last month's showers “but if you get another heavy rain it's wath back with us.”. ee Blucberry Creek: culverts underneath the Castl Lake Highway from eroded clay photo token after one oft MILKY. SUSPENSION runs (from right) into through one, of several : After meeting Eric Taylor, Herb McGrégor and Brent Lee _— the thrée residents who in a landmark ‘court decision were given absolute discharges for their. part in blocking a bull- . dozer involved in eranium ex: “Runoff ot BI be Kk jor-Christina inks In this last month's Speaking to ‘a ‘crowd of: about. 7200 at the Genelle Com- munity: Hall, the NDP ‘leader said the Genelle -incident. “has become a symbol for all British Columbians who want to have a ict showers. To irrigation district chairman ‘Bill Cook, ‘looking on, the resulting turbidity in the Blueberry water «supply standard fare after every heavy ral : a Nowa Misrertets by Ryon Guedes = become “If we get a lot of runoff or a lot of water running off those - banks it just carries ‘the clay down through the culvert and into our creek," he said. ‘Also contacted this week, McKeown said he was awaiting the results of the ministry's study. of the problem, but - declined to comment further.on _ the issue. Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy said he hoped the clay banks would stop “bleeding” by the end of May to enable the ministry to reseed them with. vegetation which will grow suf- ficiently to reduce‘erosion. “At one time it was con- sidered (the irrigation district} have a catch basin or a settling pond so that the water that ‘averflowed would be relatively clean,” D'Arcy said. “But it’s such a fine clay that it doesn't settle out.” The Rossland-Trail MLA said highways district officials have probably declined to make a commitment on when they will deal with the problem “in “case something happens that's beyond their control.” recedent, for citizens’ ‘saying ve had enough and we want ‘our .children's lives and our ‘chitdren’s children's lives pro- * tected,’ ” he said. body, named ‘the Greater Cas- operate then: under. a supple.’ tlegar ion and Cultural ‘Services Commission, . would replaée the existing mentary letters” patent ‘from thi affairs ministry. ‘in: the ofan area’ analyzed by study would be divided into five :ajorcommunities — South Castlegar, ° North -’ Castlegar, Blueberry, the Columbia River ‘Malley: and Pass: Creek and je reonnel from the RDCK, the city and ‘school district “to ‘develop and assist in advising’ on’ policy matters coming before the, - Pickets Halt Bypass Work — z Nelson Creston MLA Lorne Nicolson has echoed the call for Barrett ‘ the’ need for the provincial govern- ment commission presently _ Studying safeguards and stan- ‘dards ‘for uranium mining. in B.C. He said govertments‘only use commissions in such situa- -tiotis “to find an, excuse for them delaying the decision they really want.’ “<“-Barrett’ pointed “out his ‘party -since the 1960s has ‘opposed exploration and mining radioactive’ materials and ration a nuclear power nts in B. “You are the people who hould make the decisions, not * the technocrats or the bureau- erats or those who.have been ~ peddling what is aptly: labelled as ‘poison power’ for the last 20 years’ throughout the world,” he. said. ». “There is no know method of waste disposal from radio- active. materials mining, no, known method of waste dis- from nuclear power plants. We do not have the moral. right to engage in activity that leaves by-products that could spell serious: prob- lems to the health of genera- tions yet unborn.” “isn't it ironic that it takes. a tragic accident to alert people -to’ what others have been warning us about for years,” he continued. “It's like having a traffic light in a small community. “When people say ‘we need a traffic light’ nothing happens. A ‘Schild gets killed and then a “traffic Sight f is put in.”. The ‘opposition leader de- scribed the recent accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Harrisburg, Pa. as “the traffic light to say ‘stop the nuclear: development in North America, or for that matter anywhere else .in the. worl 3 Interviewed after his speech by the Castlegar News, Barrett described as “fatuous” and “sophistry” the recent charge by Social Credit candi- dates that because the NDP " trled to block the Columbia on the prop Highway 3 Salmo bypass con- struction halted this week by residents of the Salmo West subdivision. Nicolson told the Castlegar News in an interview Tuesday he supported the.request made by the Salmo village council last week in a telegram to High- ways Minister Alex Fraser and he criticized the minister for - failing to respond to'the sub- division residents’ objections to being separated from the rest of the village’ by the proposed bypass route, “Thave tried to contact the minister’ 's office and have asked " said. “They (ministry about the‘disposal of the tele- ; gram sent ‘by the village and I have not been phoned back,” he is staff) said they would look it up for me but there's been no response.” He s that con- struction work “proceed away from the area that is in dispute” “and that the highways ministry consider the village council's request to provide “another opportunity for some public input.” The New Democrat MLA agreed such a moratorium “would dump. the problem squarely in the hands of an NDP government if one were formed” after next cee Provincial election. ‘All Candidates Forum ‘At Complex Tonight New Democrat, Social Credit and Progressive Conservative candidates for Rossland-Trail in th e May 10 provincial election are scheduled to take part in a public forum 7:30 p.m. today. Sponsored by the Castlegar the forum will be District Teachers Association, ion Complex at the Regional! Ri and will be broadcast on local radio, according to CDTA presigent Jim Norris, who will moderate the meeting. Norris said each of the candidates — Chris D'Arcy, Socred Phil Brooks incumbent NDP MLA and PC Dale Drown — will be allowed eight minutes for presentation and three minutes for rebuttal before the meeting is opened to questions from the © audience. ed Also contacted Tansdag, 3 subdivision resident Joan Field ‘= one of about. 20. demon- strators ‘who succeeded Mon- _ day in preventing the operation of a bulldozer at. the planned site of the bypass:— said the demonstrators had been unable to. get any response from the, » Nelson highways district. + The residents were unable. to get highways district co: firmation of a workman's state- ° ment that the bypass contrac- tor had “been told by Victoria - to stop all work in the sub- division until after the elections tee con-, are over,” said Field, who was : also part of a group picketing .the provincial government buil- ding in Nelson Tuesday. “ She’ said the demonstra-: gain esday:: morning, ‘but found that the: construction workers and equip- ment had been moved south of the village to continue work in the Salmo Valley’ near ‘the Salmo-Creston cutoff. Field’ said the . residents’; only option is to continue’ picketing if work on the > brpasa: route starts a; “Actually, the result of all’ this is that we are. beco! much more concerned with. everybody else in this valley- and the way this highway has More on Page A7 “a THE CANDIDATES C1,€2,C9 Profiles of three hopefuls in. the May: 10 provincial election. CURVE The price two young people paid for extra’ safety meosures on the Syringa Creek road. Bridge Beat . .: . Classified Ads, Real Estate and Automotive. . . 9-B10- BiL-B12 Community Datebook... . . Page B4 Story ci2 : WEEKEND WEATHERCAST INCREASED CLOUDS and a few showers by this evening. A mixture of sunshine ai clouds expected for the week- end. Temperature highs near 18°, Le lows near 2°, Vital Statistics...