CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 24, 1983

TABLISHED AUG, 7, 1947
INCORPORATING THE MAIO. WEEK,

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CASTLEGAR NEWS

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Improve our image

As a letter to the editor else-
where on this page clearly points
out, promotion and marketing are
the keys to success in tourism.
Without them, an area can have
the best cultural, recreational and
natural attractions, but they won't
be much good if nobody knows
about them.

With more and more communi-
ties turning to tourism because of
the slump In the province's natural
and
marketing are all the more import-
ant. Competition for tourist dollars
isn't going to get any easier; it's
going to get tougher.

Perhaps an improvement in
marketing can begin right outside
our own back door. Castlegar is
one of the few Interior communi-
ties that doesn’t have a tourist in-
formation booth along its high

function of such a booth is to direct
visitors into Castlegar.
The local chamb.
mation booth in town serves a very
limited purpose. It really only
deals with tourists who have
jy made a to
visit Castlegar. Even then, its base-
ment location off Columbia Ave.
makes it difficult for some resi-
dents to locate.
What Castlegar really needs is
a highway booth — or booths — to
direct visitors into the city; to let
them know what we have to offer.
Those who started up the tempo-
rary booth at the weigh scales
have the right idea — now, let's
carry it further.
Another suggestion would be
to erect a directional sign near the
high and Castl J Plaza to let

entrance.

A logical move for either the
local chamber of commerce or the
visitors association would be to
make the temporary information
booth at the weigh scales a perma-
nent fixture. After all, the main

visitors know that there Is another
commercial section of Castlegar.
Too often tourists assume the
plaza is the only commercial area,
and if they can't find what they
want there, turn back onto the
highway.

He's consistent

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's
decision to go ahead with the
Cruise missile testing in northern
Alberta is, if nothing else, con-
sistent with the way his Liberal
government has acted throughout
its term in office.

Mr. Trudeau knéw that the
Cruise testing is a sensitive issue
with a huge number of Canadians
— including a group of fellow

&

Liberal MPs, among them former
cabinet minister Warren Allmand.
By not bringing the Cruise issue
to Parliament, Mr. Trudeau has
denied those for and against its
testing the proper forum in which
to present their views. By. waiting
until Parliament recessed and slip-
ping the approval through late ona
Friday afternoon when reaction to
it would be least likely, he showed

_ us once again his true colors.

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Reagan lacks
any foreign

policy

By JEFFREY ANTEVIL

WASHINGTON — In July, 1979, 2%
years after he took office, former
President Jimmy Carter could point to
an impressive string of foreign policy
successes, from a Middle East peace
treaty to an arms control pact with
Moscow.

President Ronald Reagan, at the
same point in his current four-year
term, is still looking for his first

it fore’ in the

coups |

It had also completed the process of
normalizing relations with China begun
by President Richer’ Nixon in 1972.

A senior White Hov..> official told
reporters at the end of last year that
the Reagan administration had laid the
groundwork for foreign policy achieve-
ments in every area,

Reagan, in a major foreign policy
speech last February, claimed progress
“in our quest for peace and freedom in

Middle East, U.8.-Soviet arms talks or
cleewhere:

ae already made clear they see
Republican Reagan's foreign policy
record as a major issue in the 1984 U.S.
presidential election, and White House
officials say privately they would like
to have some accomplishments in hand
before then.

But presidential aides say they
remain hopeful, noting that the inter-
national picture can change very
rapidly.

They also say domestic issues, par-
ticularly the state of the economy, are
more important with voters than
foreign ones.

Carter, who was basking in foreign
Policy successes marred only by the
ouster of the pro-western Shah of Iran
early in 1979, was buffeted by serious
setbacks a few months later that
played a major role in his election loss
to Reagan in 1980.

Carter could point after 80 months in
office to the Camp David accords and
the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
signed on the White House lawn in
March, 1979, and to the second
strategic arms limitation treaty, or
SALT II, concluded at a summit
meeting with Soviet President Leonid

an world.”

But there now are few signs that
breakthroughs are near in the Middle
East, where peace prospects have been
complicated by Israel's invasion of
Lebanon last year, or in a series of
U.S.-Soviet negotiations to reduce nu-
clear arms.

A Reagan summit with~ Soviet
President Yuri Andropov seems un-
likely soon, and U.S. relations with
both Moscow and Peking are, by most
estimates, at their lowest point in
years.

This, in turn, may have contributed
to the start of talks between the two
Communist rivals aimed at ending
their split.

In addition, the White House is em-
broiled in controversy with Congress
over the growing conflict in Central
America and its efforts to aid the em-
battled government of El Salvador and
the guerrillas opposing the leftist lead-
ers of Nicaragua.

Administration officials say there
have been some successes — notably
the big U.8. military build-up, despite
some setbacks in Congress, designed to
redress what they say was an increas-
ing military imbalance in Moscow's
favor.

They also cite last May’s summit of
non-Communist industrial countries in
Williamsb: Va., as evid of new

Arabia which were strongly opposed
by Israel.

western harmony over planned missile

‘:deployments and other issues after

bitter disputes earlier in the admin-
istration.
(Reuter)

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THE U.S, PUBLIC STATION
Radio on the brink

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YORK — Listen

The ‘acclaimed? 280-station network
offers an eclectic mix of public affairs
programs, including its‘own All Things
Considered and Morning Edition, anda
variety of musical offerings that pro-
vide a major contrast to the high-
pressure commercialism found on most
of the 10,000 U.S. radio stations.

Yet in the country-of 250 million only
eight million listeners tune in at least
once 8 week, fo. NP#
stations: id

Losses. Ui to mounted alarmingly and
unless an emergency financial bailout
can be arranged the award-winning
network will disappear, perhaps by the
end of July.

NPR has been rocked by mounting
deficits, charges of gross mismanage-

‘ment, firings, layoffs and program can-
‘eellations.

Internal bickering among NPR sta-
tins, which operate largely independ-

debate over’ the role of public broad-

casting in the U.S. where government

money currently accounts for about 50

per cent of NPR's budget. Gifts from
and ind! A

make up the rest. Critics claim NPR is
‘elitist and that. taxpayers’ dollars
would better be spent, for example, on
job creation.
Its supporters argue that both the
iged high quality of
ming and widespread, if limited, sup-
port of listeners makes NPR a specialty
worth saving.
NPR's curre!

int squeeze can be at-

> teibiited’ ch several eters: I¢'fan afoul ~

of the Reagan administration's budget-
bd at the same time the

$9-million debt, the dismissal of Man-
Kiewicz and perhaps more people ”
talking about the pros and cons of
public radio than there are listeners.

Unlike the CBC, which is firmly en-
trenched in the Canadian cultural
fabric, NPR is only 18 years old and not
totally accepted by Americans. As
well, the likewise critically acclaimed
but efforts to

Assessors. The Village has sent a claim
for roads to Victoria as requested by
the Board oti) Public, Works’

e

Mr. hous Cole, ata: formerly
of Trail, is now managing the meat
department of Horswill's Store. Mr,
Cole has been in the meat business for
the past eight years in Trail, and
invites his friends to virit him in his
new department. Vales

. Word has been received that Miss
Helen Oleski will receive the religious
habit of a Sister of St. Ann on June 26,

Miss Oleski has completed her
postulants course and will’now. begin
her novitiate training as a. novice
sister. oo

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Word has been received that the
incorporation of Kinnaird is going
through.

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 24, 1958
News

Officer of the guard with the
100-man Royal guard of honor now in
training at RCAF Station St. John,
Quebec, is eee. officer George B.
Landis of Castlegar.

This guard is to be inspected by
HRH Princess Margaret in appear-
ances at Toronto and Ottawa during
her tour. It was on hand for the
departure of President Eisenhower
following his visit to Ottawa recently.

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The body of Bob Brandson, 21, who
drowned at Zuckerberg’s Island July
16, was found Friday at about 1:45 p.m.
by Trail skin diver George Cady.

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in the name of Bob

build pay TV networks with a similar

Brandson towards the eventual build-

mix of ity p can-
not be lost on NPR fans.

So far the thrust has been on saving
NPR with an emergency loan and then
pushing the network to be more self-
sustaining. That can happen only two
ways. Either by increasing voluntary
donations from companies and individ-
uals or by cutting programming costs.

Neither seems to bea long-term sol-

the CBC's

and private donations. Meanwhile,
former NPR president Frank Mankie-
wicz launched a massive expansion of

programming.
The net result was a staggering

But without a tradition of public
broadcasting, and some would argue no
need, the future of NPR is uncertain at
best.

(Canadian Press)

Oilmen like Chretien

By STEVE MERTZ

CALGARY — Chilly relations be-

tween the oil industry and the federal
have thawed percep

since Jean Chretien replaced Mare
Lalonde as energy minister last fall.

In less than a year, Chretien has won
over large segments of the industry
with an appealing personal style and by
moving firmly on several key issues,
including oil pricing, shut-in oil produc-
tion and natural gas pricing and

exports.

Some of the groundwork was laid by
Lalonde but it is Chretien who is seen
as committed to mending fences.

Lalonde, despite his apparent con-
version to a business-oriented econom-
ic approach as finance minister, is still
considered a pariah by oilmen for
implementing the National Energy

in 1980.

The recession. and falling world
prices have battered oil and gas com-
panies for the last. two years and Ot-
tawa's energy policies are seen as the
spearhead that nudged the industry
over the edge.

The NEP produced new taxes, res-
trictions on foreign investment and a
larger federal role in frontier area oil
and gas development.

‘The industry had been expecting in-
creased intervention but was surprised
by the scope of the NEP.

Oilmen found Lalonde’s personality.
grating. Cool and distant, given to sar-
castic ripoates, he made little attempt
to win converts.

Lalonde amended some parts of the
NEP in the spring of 1982 but made it

strong influence on energy policy in the
federal cabinet and is responsible for
scuttling a Chretien initiative to move
Canadian oil prices to world levels. The
improved climate has spilled over into
Ottawa's reiations with the indusiry.
An adversarial approach has been
replaced by an open Energy Depart-
ment door.

Key staff changes have produced a
change in attitude. Senior public
servants are more interested in listen-

" ing to alternative proposals and less

d with di

volume exports announced last week
was a slightly amended version of an’
industry-Alberta proposal submi

ing ofa pool for the district,
have been coming into the Castlegar
News office.

‘The fund was set up at the request of
Bob's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Brand-
son, who ask that donations toa future
pool be made in lieu of flowers being
sent to them on their bereavement.

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The Castlegar Cubs senior baseball
team came through the last week with

” one win and one loss.

The Cubs defeated Trail CYO Giants
by a score of 21-6 in a game played at
Castlegar July 15. Sam Sheloff once
again took the win for Castlegar.

15 YEARS AGO
From the July 25, 1968
Castlegar News

Castlegar will be hosting a junior
golf tournament on Aug. 2. This 18-hole
tourney will have a separate girls’
hee
girls will sign up. 4

The registrar of the Certified

last spring.

Tax concessions for heavy oil, oil
sands and enhanced recovery projects’
were seen by investing companies as
necessary to reviving stalled non-con-
ventional oil development.

Ottawa heeded industry arguments
that some oil exports should be allowed
because shut-in production not being
sold on the slumping domestic market

positions industry lobbyists say.

The industry’s hand can be seen in
recent federal moves.

An 18-month oil price freeze, coupled
with reclassification of some produc-
tion to world prices, was a compromise
proposal backed by industry, which
understood world pricing would be
politically unpalatable.

Natural gas price discounts for

of badly needed
revenue.

It is still unclear to the industry if
Ottawa's recent decisions are part of a
trend away from intervention or
simply pragmatic shifts during a time
of economic instability. Ottawa's tax
take has been hurt by the slump but it
is foregoing more taxes to try to repair

the damage.
(Canadian Press)

LETTERS

Marketing is the
key to tourism

Editor, Castlegar News:
Prosperity at the expense of others
is certainly not the trade mark of the
But ask

clear the changes weren't an ad

in town what they

of failure but
which recognized the i induatry was suf-
fering.

In contrast, Chretien's practised
political style disarmed skeptics long
enough to set some important changes
in motion.

He began with a reconciliation with
Alberta. Chretien and Alberta Energy
Minister John Zaozirny appear to be
old friends in public, compared with the

sparring between Lalonde and Merv
Leitch, Zaozirny’s predecessor.
Oilmen believe Lalonde still has a

any b
thought about the closure of Highway
No. 1 (Trans-Canada) and they'll tell
you it’s been good for business. The
only reason you won't find them jump-
ing up and down with glee is out of res-
pect for those poor souls who own
businesses along the Trans-Canada.

The strange thing about all this is
that it doesn’t take mudslides to make
money. The traffic wasn't created by
the slide, it's always existed, it is just
that we haven't done a very good job of

letting it know that we exist.
Promotion is an integral part of our
economic infrastructure. Roads and
airports, buildings and services are
more tangible components, which
part of our
make-up. But they have no useful value
if nobody is aware of their existance.

Let's hope that the next time we get
a rush it's marketing and not a
mudslide that is the cause of our
contentment... mudslides mean rain
and who needs rain?

John Donald
Association

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General A of
British Columbia has issued the results
of the association's annual exemin-
ations for “students-in-accounts.”
Among the successful students was
N.W. Fields of Castlegar in his first
year.
s
Thrums-Tarrys Chaases involved in
the summer program of Recreation
Commission No, 1 visited Pass Creek in
force Monday with a total attendance
there of 95,
s s s
Richmond won the Provincial Little
League championship in Trail Sunday
with an easy St victory, over. Kinnaird.

Mr, and Mell rece cee
berry Creek held open house Saturday
evening marking their 25th wedding
anniversary.

5 YEARS AGO
From the July 27, 1978
Castlegar News

A fire-fighting demonstration turned
into a fiery disaster Tuesday when a
water bomber crashed, burst. into
flames and killed its pilot at Castlegar
Airport.

s s e
Janice McKinnon of Castlegar cap-
tured the coveted B.C.Canadian La-
dies Golf Association Rosebowl
Trophy, to become the District No. 4
Ladies Champion. Second in the cham-
isin flight was Marie Makaroff of

* 6

A total of as contestants competed

for $740 in prizes in the first-ever

Sunflower Fest Loggers’ Sports Day
events at Ba creek Fark Sunday.

A water besten! attended the first
fire of the season for Castlegar area
when brush went into a blaze near the
Pass Creek School.

The fire was contained in a small
area with the help of local residents
and the forestry suppression crew.

HELPING HAND

Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club presi-
dent Lawrence fF

poff presents cheque to Norma
and Myrna Secret on behalf of Lions to

Collier (c
help fund the new Castlegar Citizens’ satin pro-

ram for area handicapped. Cheque, along withi'é
gosk, chair, filing cabinet and typewriter, am peice
to more than $3,000

COUNCIL BRIEFS

City signs airport a

By CasNews Staff
The City of Castlegar has signed a new fire fighting
agreement with the federal Ministry of Transport to cover
Airport. Under the new agreement, the city will

meet. Council also approved a $100 grant to help pay for the
pancake breakfast for the Vintage Car Club tour during, its

stay in Castlegar Aug..2 and 3.
° As well, the city has established a special Miss
will

Castlegar
charge $75 an hour for each unit toa

Ci Each year’s

blaze at the airport, plus $10.06 an hour for each fireman and
25 per cent for administration charges.
In other council news:
e The city has approved in Principle a mutual aid
fire Iand J, BC

with
Timber and the Castlegar Aee Central Kootenay

Regional District will prepare a draft agreement and
present it to council for final consideration.

receive $100, :

e The city received a $3,067 grant. from, Ministry of,
Municipal Affairs to update the official community plan.

e Council agreed to apply to the Expo 86, committee for
the modular pavilions being | used for the ward ‘exposition ; in
Vancouver.

Doreen Knutson, past-president. of the. Castlegar. and
District Arts Council, said in a letter to council that the Expo

The agreement would require the fire d to

petted to a request for help in the event of an emergency.

services Ald. Bob Pakula

called the agreemend “important” and noted, “If we need
help” we'll get it.

e Renovations to the South End fire hall are in the

planning stages. Fire Chief Bob Mann told a recent protec-

"86 intends to the pavilions through
the province free of charge once Expo is over.
lnlormation on these pavilions is limited at this time,
that the p will
come pate municipalities,” Knutson said.
She asked council to snp for two or more of the nae
The pavilions are tres (2,691 sq

es __ feet) and will be used by mae 88 t to house the exhibitions of of

e Pakula said the fire department does not have any
objections to Central Foods using some of the parking stalls
at the south end fire hall for its customers. Central had been
told by the provincial Ministry of Highways that it did no’.
have enough parking spaces to conform to Highways’
requirements for a store along a major highway.

e The city approved a $115 grant for the Castlegar Judo
Club, the money to be taken from the regional district
grants-in-aid fund. The $115 will be used to purchase a judo
mat. However, the city will retain ownership of the mat in
the event the club should fold.

e Water rates will increase in both 1984 and 1985.
Council approved a recommendation that. the rates jump
three per cent next year and another three per cent in 1985.

e@ However, water rates for homeowners with
swimming pools won't be increasing this year. Council.
rejected a recommendation that a $12-a-year rate for
swimming pool owners be hiked.

e The Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club will get a $100.
The money will help buy ribbons for the club's annual swim

Park Hill work
nearly finished

A $565,000 upgrading of The top part of 24th St.
24th St. (Park Hill) between leading to the-park has been
12th Ave. and 14th Ave. near . closed on and off for about a
Kinnaird Park is nearly fin- month. Zahynacz said crews
ished, according to city public were widening the road by
works superintendent Igor «cutting into the large banks
Zahynacz. that border ey St. Ley

banks were then landscaped.
had pe acion aatynace cz As well, curbé and gutters
said in an interview.

The upgrading is part of a
$885,000 paving program ap-
proved by city voters in a
referendum in November,
1981.

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and the road was paved.

Zahynacz said the sidewalk
should be in place “within the
next couple of weeks.”

were installed on both sides:

Allferent ‘Visiting countries, .

* Knutgon said the arts counell hopes; to. use the: pavilions
“to enlarge cultural facilities in the area,

e Parks and recreation committee chairman Ald.
Marilyn Mathieson said a’ new water fountain has been
coustructed at the community complex field.

© Council agreed to exempt property owned by
Castlegar and District Hospital from city taxes as long as the
land is held for hospital use. The property has been

‘ked for a future care unit and Ald. Len
Embree noted that the hospital hasn't indicated it is going to
sell the land.

e The city fas. Hie final approval for First City
to rezone its land on
Columbia Ave. foes residential to commercial. First City
plans to construct a mall on the site. ~

e Margaret Ellis of 8216 Columbia Ave. submitted a
request to purchase a 86-foot city-owned strip of property
that adjoins the south side of her lot. Council agreed to have
its lot appraised and proceed with the necssary road closure
bylaw. The property will then be put up for sale to the
highest bidder. -

_© Council has agreed to pave the street in front of
Mitchell Supply Ltd, within the next three to five weeks.
Works and services committee chairman Ald. Carl Henne
said the city wants to pave the section of 18th Ave. when
Mitchells paves its area.

o West Kootenay Power and Light Co, has been granted
permission to install poles and equipment two metres inside
the Celgar road right-of-way on the west side provided the

does not i with the line and is at
least five feet from the line.

_HOMEGOODS

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“Drive a Little to Save.a Lot”

Announcement!

D. Stanley, newty appointed

Douglas General Manager ant
surer of Kootenay Savings Credle Union's plesed to announce that
Ole H.

Mr. Sorensen hias been a senior branch
ange afoend union at Surrey

NEW DENVER
WANETA PLAZA

Visitor Week
starts Monday

marks the begin-
ine of Visitor Week in

radio blitz and local adver-
tising, residents are being
asked to make visitors aware
that this is Visitor Week by
doing something special for
them, Donald said.

- Visitors dropping by the
chamber of commerce will
find free refreshments and a
warm welcome waiting for
them.

Itis as well, that
yanneteat and the’Koot- local merchants will be mak-
enays — “Firstly use ing sure that American visi-
Castlegar has traditionally tors are getting a fair ex-
been the centre of Kootenay change on their dollar, Don-
hospitality and secondly be- ald said.
cause the businesspedple of. For more information on
this city know that the visitor how residents can help, call
is not an outsider td their the chamber of commerce or
business — but a part‘vf it.” the Kootenay Boundary Visi-

Along with a Spokane tors Association.

INQUEST CALLED

: ‘VANCOUVER (cP) =
accident near Fernie in wiih

Chamber of

John Donald of KBVA says
there are two reasons for ad-
vertising re) event 'to'' the

Two youths on a motor-
cycle struck a pedestrian and
all three were hurled to the
road where one of them was
I later struck’ by' a police car.
and an inquest will be held.

Three persons-were killed
in the accident early July 17
about seven kilometres.north
of the Canada-U.S. border on
Highway .95.

It is not known yet if the
accident victim struck by the
Police car was already dead.
All three victims died at the

* scene.

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