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PUBLISHER AUG 7. 1947-460 19.1975

PUBLISHER — Buri Compbel!
EDITOR — Ron Norman

FOREMAN
OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin
ADVERTISING MANAGER — Coro! Magow
CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heother Hadley

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— Peter Harvey

Money can

grow on trees

Money doesn't grow on trees in
British Columbia, but trees are
money as this pulp and lumber
based community well knows.

While the federal government's

establish a model forest resource
management area on

pony’s TFL is regretable
decision hopetully isn’t irr
sible. 7

Instead of regarding federal
Forestry Gerald
Merrithew's decision as an im-
possible concrete wall, let's regard
it only as a stumbling block and as
a challenge.

Merrithew said tree farm licen-
ses don't quality for funding for
such a project.

Fine, but let's tell him why that
policy is wrong and why it should
be reversed.

Westar's Southern Wood Produc-
ts general manager, Wade Zam-
mit, has rightfully refused to take
the answer as final. He's going to
continue discussing the proposal
with Kootenay West Mp Bob Brisco
and local MLA Chris D'Arcy.

When Westar’s Jim Cross made
the proposal public early last fall,
he estimated the project might
create “as many as 200 jobs over
five years,” mainly in the Nakusp
area. He also estimated the spinoft
effects could be “significant” and
might create an additional 300
jobs, “which would have an impact
on Castlegar.”

“The proposal is to establish o
model forestry resource

t area near Nakusp,
one that has the potential to turn
the West Kootenay into the “Silicon
Valley” of the forest industry. It
would create a “pool of expertise”

and make this region “the leading
silviculture area” in Canada.

While explaining the concept
and speaking enthusiastically
about its potential, Cross did try
and prepare the public for a
refusal. He cautioned that the five-
year $300 million federal-
provincial forestry agreement
allocated very little funding to tree
farms, and admitted that the
Westar proposal was “outside the
current agreement.”

Basically what the company has
proposed is a model resource
management area that would
demonstrate the best way to
manage forestry resources.

Cross said a project on the scale
of the Westar proposal has never
been undertaken.

Cross said the project would
essentially be geared to future im-
provement of the forestry resource
because of the long growth time of
trees.

The project would mainly be
Nakusp-based, although people
would inevitably come through
Castlegar “spending money” on
their way to the project and any
meetings would probably take
place in Castlegar because of the
convenience of the airport

The project, which Cross
estimates would cost $3 to $4
million per year, could develop a
pool of skilled silviculturists in the
West Kootenay.

Westar didn't, and doesn't, plan
to make money from the project.

Maybe. -.this proposal is
something the Castlegar and
District Development Board could
get its teeth into. Certainly Bob
Brisco, Chris D'Arcy and Wade
Zammit shouldn't be expected to
do it alone.

Something's wrong

A truck from Grand Forks selling
strawberries has been a familiar
sight in Castlegar for the post
several years. Parked across from
Anderson Insurance Agencies, G
and L Farms hos advertised its
product with both the Castlegar
News and the local radio station.

But a potentially fruittul season
for the firm turned sour due to a
lack of pickers

The Grand Forks Gazette says G
and L lost half of its 20-acre crop
because of not being able to get
enough hired help. And on top of it
all, the owners may lose their farm
if they can't make this year's mor-
tgage payment.

One of the company’s principals
contacted the! Ministry of Human
Resources requesting people to
pick berries. The ministry respon-
ded promptly, phoning about 30
single employable people that

The newspaper suggests “this is
really the question raised by
strawberry farmer, Laura Mclver.
It says Mclver believes there are
too many welfare recipients who
are too lazy to work. Out of all
those called, she says, only one
showed up. She directs her angle
at the unemployed who, she feels,
are not pulling their weight when
work is available

People, she says, just don't want
to work.

‘ls that true?” asks The Gazette
‘Have we lost the work ethic. Have
we lost a sense of pride in being
independent and self-sufficient?

The editorial continues

“Historically we place a great
deal of pride in our forefathers
who picked up the plough and cor-
ved farms out of the wilderness
They worked long hours and lived
d

receive welfare e. As
well, the ministry immediately
stopped issuing social assistance
to single employables until the
berry crop season was completed.
Apparently the firm was able to
recover about 50 per cent of its
crop, but wasn't able to get help
when it was most needed.

A spokesman for Canada Man.
power told The Gazette that the
call for strawberry pickers coin-
cided with demand for asparagus
weeders, cherry pickers in the
Okanagon, and tree planters

The matter of how much money
could be earned picking
strawberries is also a point of
dispute. The Canada Manpower
spokesman says a lot of people
went out, worked six hours, and
made $9. The G and L spokesman
says, on average, a strawberry
picker can pick two flats an hour
worth $4.50 a flat. This $9 an hour
figure, is contirmed by a Castlegar
resident who hos picked
strawberries.

The issue caused the Grand
Forks Gazette to heth

p ly poor lives during the
early depression years

“There is a certain amount of
respect in society today for those
people, but is it really what we
ourselves want?

‘It is easy to forget that the far-
mer who struggled against all odds
probably lost three of his six
children through the effects of
poverty

1t doesn't paint the picture of
the child forced to quit school to
help ou! on the farm

Hard work never hurt anyone,
and it doesn't. It allows a feeling of
achievement, a feeling of
fulfilment, but it isn't all that life is
about

We hove developed into a sot
ter race. one that doesn't ap-
preciate all that it has going for it
In many cases people are just plain
lazy

It's a failing of democracy to ac-
cept those that just don't do. The
failure lies in the philosophy that
all ore equal, consequently all
must shore in the bounty

Ss

people who are on welfare and
who are both employable and
within easy access to the work
available, should be forced to take
work that others won't.

that bounty gets
pretty tight. In those times sharing
hurts a lot more thon in others
times, but shore we must, or we
may lose something greater, the
freedom of choice.

Me? Divisive? Confrontational?

As I said to Fergie, I wouldn’

attended the weddi

not care for the welfare of

my subjects...

t have
if I did

...NO matter what her

mother~in-~law says!

Letters to the Editor

Funds for library

Editor, News:

In the last fifteen months the people
of Nelson have privately donated
$3,800 to the David Thompson Library
for magazine subscriptions.

Does this somehow, given Nelson's
economic situation, seem a little out of
line?

The closure of the David Thompson
University Centre in 1984 left a residue
of unresolved frustration and a sense of
betrayal in the hearts of many
residents. People lost employment,
because of the closure, upon which
continued ability to maintain mort
gages depended directly. Others sud
denly found that relatively inexperisive
opportunitites for post-secondary ed-
ueation simply disappeared, not to be
replaced by reasonable equivalents.

population. Many others have made the
opposite initial decision: we're not just
going to give up and seek “jobs”
elsewhere, jobs not being the only
criterion for evaluating quality of life.
We're knuckling down, as do the tough
everywhere when times are hard, and
we've been doing some re-valuating.

What essentially happens when
dollars become an endangered species
is roughly analogous to the ancient
tribal disaster survival code: feed first
the hunter, then the mate, then the
children, then the old. The: priority
ranking given the arts and humanities,
it seems, usually fits them in some-
where between moderately child-like
and medium-old when money tightens
up. Those who recognize and admit the
need to protect or reclaim a cultural

Together with other
cutbacks, the closure accounted for
massive decline of revenue in the area
which affected still others in corollary
‘employment casualties, or in lost
business revenues and/or equity.

The selling price of the av
house in Nelson has fallen by 40 pfr
cent from the May 1981 peak. Ten,
cent of the total number of private
residences in the city are on the block
at any one time nowadays.

Not all of the area's current economic
dilemma is attributable to DTUC's
demise, of course, but unguestionably
the loss to Nelson of it-secondary
education, nurtured and increasingly
relied on in various ways over a third of
a century, has left a cavernous crater in
the concrete of our economic and
cultural courtyard

What is the common citizen doing
about it all? Many former residents
have simply moved away, by some
counts 20 per cent of our 1981

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Brisco

Editer, News:

I would like to take this opportunity
to extend my thanks and congrat
ulations to those who served on the
Central Kootenay Community Ad
justment committee (better known as
the Nelson MILAP Committee), which
recently disbanded after 20 months of
activity.

The committee members are to be
thanked for the many hours they
contributed to Kootenay West en
suring that federal MILAP funding
allocated to this region be utilized in
the manner most effective and bene
ficial to the workers and their com
munities. They are to be congratulated
for their success in that endeavor.

The committee members were: Dan
Smithson, Klaus Offerman and Gary
McCandlish of Nelson; Charlie Cohoe
and Len Embree of Castlegar; Ken
Marshall and Ted French of Nakusp;
Tom Hetherington of Salmo; Jack
Morris of Kaslo; Susan Wigen and
Gary Koebel of Creston.

I would also like to express special
thanks to Mike Berg who served as
committee chairman, and directed the
Committee's activities in a most
professional and business-like manner.
Even though his MILAP duties are
now drawing to a close, I expect that
Mr. Berg will continue to make a
valuable contribution to the com-
munity.

City
okay

. jar News:

I fee! almost guilty and ashamed to
say nice things about the City of
Castlegar, but I feel that I must con.
gratulate it for the excellent improve
ment to the railroad crossing in the
Dumont area.

If only similiar improvements were
carried out throughout B.C., motorists
would save enough money on shock
absorbers to pay their annual taxes.

Again, I say, congratulations and
thank you. You must be doing
something right.

Pat Romaine
Castlegar

from money “managers” whose guiding
principles are ingly biased

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the July 26, 1951

News
Mr. and Mrs. B. Rourke and family
are motoring to Moosejaw and other
prairie points, where they will spend

their surgmer holidays.
._ * ©

The initiative in locating a per-
manent one-summit, all-year road be-
tween this area and Grand Forks was
taken last week when members of the
Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, the
Grand Forks Board of Trade and the
Greenwood Board of Trade, launched a
joint expedition which started from
Cascade at the foot of Christina Lake
and ended at Kinnaird, by way of
Paulson, Sheep Lake and Blueberry
Creek.

Members of the party were un-
animously agreed that there were no
major problems involved in the con-
struction of a road over the route they
had followed. In fact they agreed that
the possibilities of a road exceeded the
expectations of the most optimistic.

. .

Hugo Smecher left for Abbotsford,
B.C. where he will spend two weeks at
the RCAF camp.

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 27, 1961
Castlegar News

John J. Verigin was officially de-
clared spiritual leader of the Orthodox
Doukhobors at Grand Forks on the
weekend.

Representatives of 27 Kootenay
Doukhobor communities met in an
extraordinary convention at which one
of the top items in the agenda was the
election of a spiritual leader.

Mr. Verigin said that upon the death
of Peter (Yastrebov) Verigin III, who
died in Russia in 1942, John Verigin as
the grandson of Peter II was de
signated leader-elect.

._ 2 6

Tourists with the 17-trailer Avion

TN

towards “saving” money, as though
money were the only measure of value.

In spite of recent government
depredation of education in B.C.,
especially in the arts and humanities,
and of reduced public support for

“non-cost-effective” programs such as
the social safety net, perhaps in favour
of arguably less down-to-earth ini-
tiatives such as Expo or the Coquihalla
highway, many of us here and
elsewhere persist in hoping that there
still exist, in the collective mind,

undercurrents of rationality
and care for the common good. We can
still almost trust that these forces are
working in our chronically troubled
society, to bring about essential
re-valuation of our societal priorities,
and that finally they still ean succeed.

The donations to the David Thomp-
son Library for magazine subscriptions
are understandable in this context.
Since March 1985, the library has
staged two fund-raising campaigns for
this purpose.

Both these actions were successful in
achieving their objective. There are
people out there, even in these parlous
economic times when so many requests
for i for every i
cause are made to local merchants and
the general public, who are willing to
lend financial support from perhaps
meagre resources to a purpose of this
kind, one which might not figure very
highly in a government or industrial
priority scheme.

Probably we should be pleased with
that.

Ren Beauchamp
David Thompson Library

thanks committee

The MILAP employment program
has been phased out in favor of the
many new programs of Canadian Jobs

; programs which emphasize
ing and re-training, and put an
even greater emphasis on community
involvement. The Canadian Jobs Strat
egy has seen great success in Kootenay
West thus far, and I hope the former

MILAP committee members will now
direct their energies towards assisting
our businesses and communities in
utilizing the new programs so that
together we can create jobs and new
opportunity for the people of Kootenay
West.
Bob Brisco
Kootenay West MP

Baby is a human

being with potential

; Castlegar News:

Did you know that only 18 days after
conception, the baby’s heart is beating,
within 43 days, brain waves are
traceable during the sixth and seventh
weeks, nerves and muscles begin
working together and the baby’s lips
become sensitive to gentle touch. At
eight weeks, he squints and his fingers
close into a fist if his palm is touched,
by the eleventh week, all internal
organs are present and functioning. He
breathes, swallows, digests and ur-
inaties. He is very sensitive to pain —

will develop or function, only further
growth and maturation.

It would seem obvious from these
observations that the baby is not
merely a blueprint, but a separate,
distinct person, both genetically and
structurally. It is not a part of the
mother’s body. It is undeniably alive.
But is it human? Most definitely yes,
because the unique human genetic
structure is present in every living cell.

This, then is not just a potential
human being, but rather a human being
with full potential.

Castlegar

parked until today at
Nelson, toured the Celgar pulp mill and
the Castlegar District yesterday.

. 6

The Castlegar Women's Softball
Team won two games against the Trail
St. A’s this week when they licked
them here Monday night 18-4 and beat
them Tuesday night 5-2 at Sunningdale
Park.

Winning pitcher the first night was
Gail Leitner while Ann Kastrakoff won
the second night.

15 YEARS AGO
From the July 29, 1971
Castlegar News

On Dee. 18 at 11:01 p.m., the Thrums
telephone exchange will be cut into
service with free calling to Castlegar
and will continue to have free calling
with South Slocan and Vallican

. *

From the time Miss Dee Chase was
elected KC Days queen and her two
princesses Sue Killough and Linda
Evin were selected at the Hi Arrow
Arms on Friday night the festivities
jusy kept rolling until after the Kiwanis
Barbeque on Sunday night.

The parade was bigger and better
than ever with 40 entries including the
Vernon Girls Pipe Band, SHSS Band
and the girls of the Civil Air Patrol
from Spokane

. 8 8

The Kinnaird Aquanaut invitational
Swim Meet took place on Saturday and
Sunday at the Bob Brandson Memoria!
Pool. Clubs participating were Trail,
Nelson, Golden and Kinnaird.

Castlegar

Castlegar city council has decided to
take the next step in the planning
process for starting a bus service in
this area

Council members met Tuesday and
voted to authorize the Urban Transit
Authority to draw up a transit service
plan, which will give more details about
possible systems.

. .

A seven-point brief outlining prob
lems the provincial government can
resolve to improve tourism in this area
was presented Friday to Tourism
Minister Pat Jordan by the Castlegar
and District Chamber of Commerce.

Three recommendations in the cham.
ber's brief dealt with the Lower Arrow
Lake, calling for installation of a
floating dock and power, water and
sewer hookups for trailers at Syringa
Creek Park; construction of a fishway
at the Inonoaklin River Falls to en
hance the local fish resource, and con
struction of a road linking Syringa
Creek and Fauquier.

.

The topic of weddings was featured
prominently at the July meeting of the
executive of the Doukhobor Historical
Society held recently.

On behalf of the society and of other
Canadian people, a pair of borscht
ladies, carved by Pete Ogiow was sent
last week by special courier to Prince
Charles and Lady Diana on the
occasion of their forthcoming marriage.

ROTARY

WELCOMES _
NEW GOVERNOR

fy Swift and hie wife Florence an the firat of thelr reund of
official club visits.

The Swifts had motored from their home club in
Revelstoke that morning and were met for lunch by
Castlegar Rotary Club president Ron Ross, his wife
Elaine, Australian Rotary Exchange Student Louise
Devon and PRO John Charters.

After lunch the group toured Zuckerberg Island

governor described as “a beautiful place, a great asset to
the city and one which is bound to get better with the
years.”
He then held first with the then
with members at a club assembly at which he discussed
reports and activities, and finally at a Ladies’ Night
dinner.

In his address he praised the club's activities within
the community and the support of non-Rotarians,
particularly in such projects as the Student Exchange

m.

Rotary International President Caparas, whose
mottg this year is “Rotary brings hope” depends for its
international success, Swift said, on such strong active
individual clubs as the Castlegar club.

It is important in this regard, therefore for the clubs
to work closely with the government sponsored agency
CIDA (Canadian International Developmental Agency)
since it supports and works through such international
organizations as Rotary and matches funds raised on a
three to one basis.

One such international project is the Polio Plus
Program, by which the Rotary has raised $120,000,000
and hopes to eliminate polio throughout the world by
1990. It is in support of the Polio Plus that Castlegar
Rotarian Jim Gouk is making his 3,660 kilometre bike
ride from Christina Lake to Phoenix, Ariz. on Sept. 6.

ROTARY GOVERNOR . . . John Swift, newly elected
governor of Rotary District 508, addresses a
meeting of the Castlegar Rotary Club.

CostewsProte by John Charters

Meanwhile, time for filing of applications for the
valuable RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards)
program is getting short. Each club is allowed two candi-
dates and each club pays $200 tuition fees per candidate
for the week-long leadership training camp. Prospective
candidates 19-25 should apply at once to Ron Ross or any
Castlegar Rotarian.

In closing his address, the governor announced that
the District 508 Conference would be held in Revelstoke
on May 7-10 and invited a good attendance.

Among their other gifts, Inga Lamont presented the
visitors with a souvenir Doukhobor ladle carved by Pete
Ogiow.

The couple have another 43 clubs to visit by fall.

Chernobyl picture emerges

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

MOSCOW (AP) — The Chernoby! nuclear accident has
created ghost towns, cost top government officials their jobs
and led to a review of the ambitious nuclear program that is
the cornerstone of the Kremlin's future energy policy.

Three months after the explosion at the reactor in the
Ukraine, workers are still cleaning up and the country
highest authorities are undertaking an unusual publi
accounting of an unprecedented disaster.

On July 19, the governing Politburo blamed
accident on gross negligence of plant workers and offi
said ignored safety procedures and undertook experiments
without proper precautions.

Most of what is known about the accident comes from
official Soviet accounts — few foreigners have been allowed
near the plant.

But a picture has emerged of what happened at 1:23
a.m., Saturday, April 26, 1986, in Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor
near the town of Pripyat, 130 kilometres north of Kiev.

THE ACCIDENT

The No. 4 reactor had been shut down. Without
notification and in violation of safety rules, workers began
experimenting on one of the electricity-producing turbines,
said the Politburo account.

The reactor, cooled by water and moderated by
graphite, surged from six per cent of capacity to 50 per cent
in 10 seconds. The water cooling system couldn't handle the
overload. Water combined with the graphite and produced
hydrogen that exploded

The blast ripped open the reactor core and set fire to
the building around it. Two plant workers were killed.

Firefighters battled flames for four hours to prevent it
from spreading to an adjacent reactor.

Radioactive particles formed a cloud that spread across
northern and central Europe and eventually around the
world in varying degrees.
THE EVACUATION

The more than 50,000 residents of nearby Pripyat
weren't evacuated until Sunday afternoon, April 27. It took
eight more days to evacuate the rest of the 29-kilometre
danger zone. No one has explained why

In all, more than 100,000 people were evacuated. Some
went to new jobs and new homes and children were sent to
summer camps. Some reports say Pripyat is a ghost town
with abandoned wash flapping from clotheslines

THE KREMLIN'S REACTION

For almost 72 hours, the Kremlin told its own people
nothing. Diplomatic queries in Moscow and Europe met curt
denials.

But the spreading radiation, detected abroad, couldn't

be kept secret. On Monday, April 28, in late evening, the
government acknowledged the accident.
THE CLEANUP

Military pilots dumped sand, lead, boron and dolomite
on to the reactor, choking off the radiation almost
completely.

Miners and soldiers dug and blasted a tunnel to build a
concrete and lead platform beneath the reactor block and
workers now are making a concrete shell for the reactor — a
tomb that will remain radioactive for hundreds of years.

Embankments 20 kilometres long were built to protect
the Pripyat River, which flows by the plant and is part of the
system serving Kiev. A new water supply system was built
for Kiev.

THE HUMAN COST

The latest official toll is 28 dead and 30 in hospital. An
additional 173 are listed as having radiation disease.
American Dr. Robert Gale has said 50,000 to 100,000 people
risk contracting radiation-related diseases.

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT

The Politburo said the accident has caused the
equivalent of $3.8 billion Canadian in damage, shut down
factories and farms and contaminated 1,000 square
kilometres of land.

Western experts say the reactor itself was worth the
equivalent of $1.9 billion Canadian. The cleanup also cost
hundreds of millions. Losses in farm produce, work time and
factory production are difficult to assess.

Soviet officials say they're still committed to nuclear
energy, but the entire Soviet program is under review.

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Criminal Offence!

In Creston recently, a man was conficted
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“It's very common for
people to become more dan-
gerous while they're in
prison,” said Clarence Epp,
whose independent, non-pro-
fit agency negotiates alter-
natives to prison sentences
for offenders.

“Prison has an atmosphere
of violence and mistrust and
that certainly doesn't make
people more gentle.”

However, Paul Johnston,
deputy chief of Winnipeg
police, thinks society is bet-
ter served if offenders —
even non-violent ones — are
locked up away from the
public.

“I would certainly like to
see some pretty severe jus-
tice in these cases,” Johnston
said.

vision in the community.
He cited an innovative
program run by a sheriff in a

vieted rapists and murderers
serving their sentences
under close supervision out-
side of prison walls, he said.

“It's something that we
normally think won't work;
or at least, I doubt if our
" society is ready,” said Epp,

The tragedy sparked an adding that his agency does
outery because Steingard not work with violent of-
had been seen out on man- fenders or those who do not
datory supervision for 1-2 show they will make an effort
years at the time of the to stay out of jail.

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mother and her two young
children, and then killed
himself in a grisly chain of
events that traumatized the
otherwise quiet south-
western Manitoba city of
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SOUTHERN INTERIOR FOREST INDUSTRY

NEGOTIATIONS

In a year when the forest industry is starting to
recover from a deep recession and is faced with the threat
of a United States imposition of a tariff on lumber, it is
disheartening to us that the IWA would further jeopardize
the economic stability of the industry with a strike.

When negotiations resumed earlier this month the
IWA had four demands: a one-year agreement, removal of

all employer proposals,

pension

improvements and

elimination of contracting out of work.

We agreed to a one-year contract.

We agreed to take our proposals off the bargaining

table.

In pensions we have offered major pension im-
provements which include a full pension based on credited
service for employees between the ages of 60 and 65 who

elect to retire.

In addition employees between the ages of 55 and
60 who have lost their jobs as a result of permanent
closure will not suffer a break in service and will be able to
take early retirement at 60 and receive a full pension. The
provision is retroactive to January Ist, 1983.

We made a commitment in writing that our em-
ployees’ livelihood will not be jeopardized by contracting

out.

At the outset of negotiations it was the consensus
of both the Industry and the Union that we should work
together for the betterment of our employees, the Industry
and this province. We are still of this view.

MEMBER COMPANIES — INTERIOR FOREST
LABOUR RELATIONS ASSOCIATION