ESTABLIBED AUG. 7, 1947 HG THE sageamen OF Toe 8.C. PaRss COUNCH TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4. 1980 12, 1978 AUG. 27. 1980 A.V, CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG, 7, 1947-F68. 19,1973 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodiey Full vested in and to Castle News Lid., prodded. Rowever that Dévernnemant prepered irom repro pronls angravings, @. prow — Gary Fleming in ony printed matter produced by Coste News Lid. = oprah oh that port and thot par ony of the advertiser shell remain in and y, Does crime pay? There are many in the commun- ity who share the reaction of those spectators in Castlegar provinci: court Monday who erupted in anger over the sentences handed the four brokers in the Di Dee Powers pyramid case. (One spec- tator even shouted that the six- month jail term is a “joke”. But six months in jail is no joke. The conviction carries with it a criminal record that will dog the four convicted men for the rest of their lives. And certainly, as their legal advisor Brian Bailey pointed out, the four men have already paid a price for their part in the scheme. The community — especially the Doukhobor community of which the men are members — has reviled the men. They are outcasts, even among some of their relatives. But while six months in jail may be no joke, it also isn't a harsh sen- tence — not in view of the amount of money the men collected during the 16 months the illegal scheme operated. The scheme netted some $3.2 million. If a first-time bank robber was convicted of stealing that much money, it's a good bet he would receive a stiffer sentence than six months in jail. But in this instance, the offence was worse than robbing a bank. At least in a bank the victims’ money would be insured (up to $60,000); not so in this case. The sentence makes no provision for restitution, yet as special Crown prosecutor Sean Madigan-noted during the trial, the four men made enormous amounts scheme. paid nearly of money from the Together, they wer $500,000 Danie! Voykin made $263,000 in just one year, Steven Evdokimoftf made $102,000 in six months, and Samuel Stoopnikoff and Fred Chur- sinoff made $72,000 and $56,000, respectively, in three months; all “Not room service! Get your listening glass from the bathroom or we'll be over budget.” huge sums by any . Broken down in terms of his sentence, Mr. Voyki will get $60 for every hour of the six months he is in jail — assuming he completes the full term. If he is paroled after two-thirds of the sentence, he will have earned $92 for each hour of the sentence. The intent of a jail term is to punish the criminal and deter others from embarking on a similar illegal scheme. Yet, in this instance, a man will make more than a quarter of a million dollars and possibly serve only 17 weeks (two-thirds of a six-month senten- ce) in jail. Spelled out so clearly, some may even feel the jail term, criminal record and public repro- bation are worth the risk — and the reward. Finally, Mr. Madigan made it clear that Dixie Dee Powers gained access to the community through the four men. Without them, the scheme may never gotton off the ground. For her role in the scheme, Ms. Powers received a one-year jail term, on top of the six months she had already spent behind bars. Yet the four brokers, convicted on the same crime, received only six months. No wonder there is a feeling of anger and outrage in the community. Ron Norman If you asked the person next to you what their single greatest con cern is today — ona global scale, not on a local level — I bet 10 bucks they'd say nuclear war. And why not? The nuclear arms race is scary. It casts a shadow over everything we do. But while I am concerned about nuclear war, I don’t really view it as the biggest threat to my existence, or mankind's existence. I am more concerned about the threat to our environment. Nuclear arms are easily identi- fied, and though not easily solved, the solution is obvious. The Soviets and Americans must sit down and negotiate a reducation in their The ozone is a natural filter high above the Earth that screens out the sun’s dangerous radiation. Scientists say too much radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer, harm the body's immune system and reduce crops. Ozone depletion isn’t happening overnight, so unlike a nuclear war, it won't mean the sudden end of mankind. But if left unchecked it could lead to the gradual deter- ioration of the Earth and our life as we know it today. (Imagine having to live indoors or underground 95 per cent of the time.) While there is reason to celebrate the global ozone agreement as a step toward dealing with « major arsenals. It h: this week in Washington with the end to the medium-range nuclear missiles. Solving the erosion of our en vironment isn’t that cut and dried. That's because the environment is being attacked on hundreds of fronts: from overpopulation, de velopment, chemicals, poor manage. ment. You name it and we've done it to the environment With the arms race we can direct our energies to reducing arsenals and can see the results pretty clearly. But battling all the things that threaten our environment is a little like trying to fight a multi headed monster. You cut off one head and two more grow up in its place And then there's the problem of dealing with so many different agencies and governments. The nuclear arms issue is pretty much confined to the U.S. and the USSR. Environmental issues concern every nation in the world. A case in point is the depletion of the ozone layer, which came to the forefront of the news this week when diplomats from about 40 countries reached an agreement to protect the fragile ozone shield. environmental problem, we must also recognize that the solution only calls for industrialized nations to reduce chlorofluorocarbons (the chemicals that are destroying the vital ozone layer,) by 50 per cent over the next 10 years, and gives developing countries a 10-year period of grace. So, by 1997 we will be eating away the ozone layer at half the rate we are now. It's an improvement, but still not all that comforting. And the ozone problem is just one of hundreds — possibly thou- Letters to the Editor Face of Quebec changing By PENNY MacRAE Canadian Press QUEBEC — The bespectacled Jesuit priest dropped a bombshell during three days of recent legislature hear- jongs on. Quebec's immigration policy, and the impact knocked what was expected to be routine news right into the headlines. A key factor in choosing immigrants should be their ability to adapt to Que- be values, such as respect for demo- eracy, order, the French language and hygiene, suggested mild-mannered Rev. Julien Harvey, director of the Jesuit order's Centre of Justice and Faith, a social action group in Mon- treal, “We cannot create a ghetto of dirt in a country that makes an effort to be reasonably clean,” Harvey said, singling out Vietnamese, Cambodians, Haitians and Chileans as particularly ill-suited to settling in Quebec. And Harvey, a member of a govern- ment advisory body on immigration, said he opposed teaching ethnic languages in schools, arguing that immi should be educated in a Post office not at fault Was the post office at fault again? No, not this time! The picture and article in the Sunday Sept. 13 Castlegar News per. taining to the “long lost wedding gift” was not funny. The parcel was placed in the parcel receptacle, which is in the lobby of the post office. The key for the compart ment is then placed in the customer's mail box (also in the lobby). The customer just has to take the key from the mailbox and open the compartment and take out his/her parcel. (Much the same as in a bus depot). This customer took the key out of his mailbox and took it home instead. Now, 10 years later, when it was discovered that the parcel is still in the How can we live with chemicals? In a book, The DDT Myth, by Rita Beatty, the following appears: “In many areas of our country, PCBs are found in asphalt because asphalt companies buy up refuse such as crankcase oil and transformer fluid to use in their product. There ig a vast amount of asphalt in our streets, drive- ways and highways that contains PCBs and every time it rains, the water washes these PCBs into our sewers and waterways.” The author was making an argu- ment that since at the time of writing (1973) detection equipment had to be very carefully used and calibrated to detect the difference between DDT and PCBs, and since PCBs were so widespread in the environment, we should regard claims that DDT is so widespread with some suspicion. How comforting. Readers will perhaps remember the recent PCB seare in northern Ontario, where a truck carrying old leaking trans- formers leaked a certain amount of PCBs onto the road. This made national heedlines, as people watched govern- ment authorities who have now deemed PCBs to be one of the vilest chemicals ever concocted, order the surface of the road scraped up along with the spilt PCBs, to protect the public. No one thought to ask if the road had originally been made out of PCBs. How can anyone have any faith at all in a system that produces results like this? We are looking at a culture addicted to chemicals, and like a lot of addicts, is constantly looking for~s stronger and stronger dose. Disastrous decisions, like the one to approve PCBs for use in the first place, are being repeated today. Chemicals are innocent until proven guilty, and we are con- stantly told that we can’t live without them. My question is, how can we live with them? David Lewis Crescent Valley compartment, our assistant postmaster phoned the people. : After receiving the parcel, the customer made a B-line to the news- paper to have a front page write-up done. Of course, this makes the post office look bad again. This parcel could have been sent back to the sender as unclaimed or unknown (as it was sent to the woman in her maiden name). It’s bad enough that the post office gets blamed for everything else, but to be made to look inefficient just makes me mad. The clerks and letter carriers at the Castlegar Post Office work hard to help customers dispatch and receive mail and to get it delivered as quickly as possible with our limited staffing, and I don't like to see us being made “a joke.” If anything, the people should have thanked the assistant postmaster and after 10 years, should have returned.the key..and paid for storage. Am angry postal clerk Marg Simonen Castlegar More letters, page AS Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our oftice at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gor, B.C fers must be signed ond include the wri full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's nar Ne the name and address of disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right ta edit letters tor brevity, clarity, legality and grammor Book creates furore By TIM NAUMETZ OTTAWA — It hasn't been pub- lished yet, in fact it's a month from being printed, but a new book about Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has started a minor furore in the political world. Parliament Hill is abuzz after excerpts from! the book, written by Toronto Sun columnist Claire Hoy, were made public by the Vancouver Sun. The brief extracts from Hoy's book, entitled Friends in High Places: Politics and Patronage in the Mulroney Government, did not deal with Mul- roney’s record since taking power in 1984. Instead, they recorded personal incidents which Hoy’'s sources told him took place years earlier — when Mulroney was devastated by his fruit- less 1976 bid for the Conservative party leadership. Although it is generally known sands — of envi probl threatening us. On a local level, there is the ongoing battle by area residents to halt CP Rail's use of the herbicide Spike 80 W to control week growth along its tracks. It may not be on the grand scale of the ozone problem, but it reflects the kind of pressures we are placing on our environment We need to take the threat to our environment seriously — at least as seriously as take the threat of nuclear war because the fight against the deterioration of the environment may prove a tougher battle than the fight to reduce nuclear arms. that M ney went into a dive during that period, specifics about what he did haven't been circulated widely in print. Mulroney subsequently quit drink- ing, stopped smoking and pulled him self together to win the Tory leader- ship in 1983. The advance peek at how Hoy dealt with Mulroney's past has prompted a debate about political journalism, and politicians have re- ferred to Gary Hart's troubles in the United States. Hart quit the race for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion after a story he had spent the night with a Miami model. One of the excerpts, quoted by Vancouver Sun columnist Jamie Lamb, described how Mulroney angrily tele- phoned the CBC's Peter Mansbridge BRIAN MULRONEY «fell in vomit after the network aired a report by CBC reporter Mike Duffy concerning Mulroney. The report said Mulroney friends were busy stabbing party leader Joe Clark in the back when Clark’s leadership was under attack in 1982 and 1983. Hoy says a furious Mulroney cursed and swore during the telephone call, accusing Duffy of making up the story. Mulroney then handed the tele- phone to his wife, Mila, for a turn at Mansbridge. The other excerpt is taken from a section of the book dealing with Mul- roney's drinking habits before he quit altogether. Hoy, who confirmed the excerpt in an interview, writes that Mulroney, attending a wedding of a member of the powerful Desmarais family of Montreal, was so drunk that he vomited at the dinner table and then fell face-first into it. Hoy says he put the incident into the book to jllustrate how low Mul- roney fell before Mila put her foot down and told him to clean up his act if he ever wanted to become prime minister. The prime minister's office is interested in the book as its Oct. 16 publication day approaches. It has also drawn unfriendly fire from some Tory MPs. “It’s a new low in politics,” said one Conservative who didn’t want his way to make them “impeccably Que- becois.” His words were the ugly face of a controversy that won't go away. They also illustrated that the con- cept of a multicultural Canada has by no means won universal acceptance in Quebec. FACES ABUSE Harvey, who has a long history of helping immigrants in Montreal's working class neighborhoods, immedi- ately found himself the target of abuse from church groups and immigration support organizations. The govern- ment moved quickly to dissociate itself from his remarks. But Harvey found a more sympa- thetic echo in the Montreal newspaper La Presse, which said in an editorial that Quebec society should “frankly address the question of visible minor- ities, despite the protests of certain Li is sectors,” a to racial tensions in Montreal schools. And a letter to the editor declared flatly: “Father Harvey is entirely right. Have you ever tried to speak French to a family of Hindus? I can tell you it’s almost impossible.” Still, a recent survey commissioned by the provincial government indicated most Quebecers believe immigration is important to boosting their numbers in the face of a stagnant birthrate that is the lowest in Canada and among the lowest in the western world. But the new arrivals represent a double-edged sword. Studies show that two out of every three immigrants to the province integrate into anglophone society, creating concerns about sur- vival of the French language. GO TO MONTREAL And 92 per cent of all immigrants settle in Montreal, leading to fears of “two Quebecs.” “Can we continue to allow a situation where the rést of Quebec will remain French and Montreal will become in- creasingly multi-ethnic, but let's tell the truth, increasingly anglophone?” Louise Harel, a Parti Quebecois back- bencher, asked the legislature com- mittee. Harel, who likes to back up her points with anecdotes, recounted how she couldn't get served in French in an ethnic restaurant in Montreal where the waiter knew only English and Greek, and warned it was a harbinger for the future. A hard line independence supporter, Harel said she knew the province must become more multicultural as it tries to woo immigrants but she was adamant on one point: “This multiculturalism, it must be in French.” In an even stronger vein, an editorial in the Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil said: “We must clearly make known our linguistic and cultural choices. If not, immigration could become a fatal n.” Jacques Henripin, a demographer at Uni of is one of the name used, even in at- tacking the book. Mulroney may have found a sur- prise ally in New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent. The NDP chief said he hadn't read excerpts but had heard of them and was willing to comment on how deeply journalists should dig into the personal lives of politicians. most frequently heard doom-sayers in Quebec, predicting that within a century only 12 to 15 per cent of Que- becers will be descended from the province's present population. The rest would come from “foreign countries,” Henripin told a Liberal party meeting, and “probably not “There are certain for me that are not appropriate for dis- cussion as a politician, neither in the past nor in the present,” Broadbent said, using Hart's sexual activities as an example of the kind of things he believes should be kept private. “Things that are not directly related to one's political activity, whether they are in the past or the Present, ought to be left out of it.” Hoy argues that Mulroney’s past private life is an important part of what shaped him politically. “It's part of his character,” he says. “When you're doing anybody's background, that's part of his back- ground.” (Canadian Press) “What's going to happen when they (Quebecers) feel drowned in a mass of people who have no particular interest in their language, their habits and their culture?” he asked. “They won't accept it and Quebec won't be livable.” Just how Quebec can lure immi- grants, and at the same time calm such xenophobic sentiments, is a problem facing the government. Despite extra points awarded to would-be immigrants for knowledge of French, the number speaking the language has dropped in the past four years to 21 per cent from 83 per cent. There are no figures, but the govern- ment is aware many immigrants move on to other provinces. «++ Barry Bonham (left) a NEW HOME Prepare foundation at new site of the CP Rail station 4 COMMUNITY NEWS. corner of 3rd Street and 13th Avenue Nov. 2. LETTER Check out evidence In response to the letter by Diane Cowlin recently in your paper: I felt very sorry for the feelings she ex- pressed about my comments about the Jehovah's Wit- nesses and the involvement of her son and her family. They, like many others, have had problems in their lives and families. It seems this is common in our society today. What I was trying to get across in my. last letter was. fy concern with where they were turning for spiritual help. I have spent over 12 years studying, not only the teachings of Jehovah's Wit- nesses, but many other relig- ious groups, so believe I can speak with some authority on this subject. Many “religious” groups claim that they alone are the only source of “truth,” like the Jehovah's Witnesses do. Obviously not all can be true, not all can be “right” and all others wrong, so we have to go a little deeper to find out which group, if any, is cor- rect. The difference between the only source of truth; but they point the way directly, not through an organization to The One who said he was “The Way, the Truth and the Life,” Jesus Christ. What I was hoping for, and still ask, is that people would examine the evidence and check out what this organiz- the past. I know from exper- Joy Ramsden Bridge rant Nine pairs of duplicate Sept. 14 at the Airport Coffee Shop. Winners were: first “Let the little children come unto me,” Jesus said. ence, that myself and over one million other people who have left in the last few years have found this i will ever sign their name. Ask them where the $2.4 million profit per week goes from their i not to be of God, but instead nothing more than a very clever book sales tion, using religion as a bait to bring their people into a spiritual bondage, not to Christ but to the organiza- tion. I would like her to ask the elders. and, those. she is studying with why they would quote from a spirit medium as an authority if they are from God? Why will no Greek scholar endorse their Bible translation? Ask for the proof when they bring up names of people who sup- posedly do and check these out yourself. When they slander people who have left, ask them to write down their charges and sign their names to it then check out the facts for yourself to see if they are true. You. will find out no one (This is over and above the cost of printing.) Have you ever seen a hospital or home for seniors or community service built by these people? While they condemn all forms of involve- ment with governments like voting, they are not beyond taking welfare assis- tance and pensions. While I could go on at length, and I have the docu- mented evidence for what I say, I will leave the invitation open for anyone to examine this proof and decide for themselves if what I say is incorrect. All I ask is they will take a few minutes of their time and check it out. It may save them years of turmoil and an eternity of regret. Hunting season a ‘war zone’ - T've heard there are a lot of hunters with a lot of respect ‘The opening days of hunt- ing season sounded like a war zone on Mount Sentinel. Waking up to shotgun blasts right above the house in the dark of night was a real thriller. The hunters had a great time on my private property. The known cas- ualty count is 14 found shot- gunned, (five of these left injured) and 34 missing. These include domestic birds and rabbits and five wild releases. The hero of the day was the jerk who shot the pygmy owl. That was good shooting. I knew by the total lack of response from the local wild- life association to my wildlife reports that my efforts to ward a wildlife rehabilitation project were little more than a bad joke. But the hunters on Mount Sentinel showed no respect for life at all. Tm sure they will be de- lighted to know that I have returned my federal and pro- vincial permits to our local, conservation office with the nd ivan Peacock house. Heritage station will be moved to new home at ealization that “the property suitable for rehabilitation = Coahiews Photeby Ron Norman and release of injured and white hunter — and every- thing becomes target prac tice, Jackie Yocom Castlegar Champion gets new beach By CasNews Staff Work has begun on a new beach at the west end of Champion Lakes Park's third lake. The beach, situated closer to the camping area, should make sunbathing more con- venient for park campers. Also, with the gentle slopes, the new beach should prove safe for young chil dren, the Parks Branch says in a prepared release. Most of the swimming area of the old beach has a severe drop off only one or two metres from the shoreline, the” release said. 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