A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 21, 1983 \

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PUBLISHER — Burt Lempbell
EDITOR — Ron Norma:
PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Hoi
OFFICE MANAGER
ADVERTISING MANAGER —

— Linda Kosits!

FOREMAN
CIRCULATION — Elaine Sallis

SEPT, 12, 1978-AUG, 27, 1980

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No to billboards

Cc it's
bylaw ea billboards ae
placing restrictions on the size of
signs in the city deserves the full
support of the community. The
bylaw was brought into question
this week by Trail businessman
Gordon Fisher who wants to erect
a billboard near the industrial

Council turned Mr. Fisher
down, noting that they are
preparing a bylaw prohibiting
billboards. However, council
Tuesday delayed giving final ap-

. proval to the new bylaw until it
gets the opinion of area residents.

The case for billboards — as
made by Mr. Fisher — is plain
enough. He claims billboards
sometimes generate money from
national advertising that might not
otherwise come here. As well,
money paid to lease the land for
the billboards will help property
owners pay their taxes, says Mr.

Fisher. Finally, he says the
billboards will create some part-
time employment.

All three arguments are weok
at best. The money paid to proper-
ty owners for leasing the billboard
space will be minimal, while the
number of part-time jobs putting
up the billboards and changing the
advertising would be sporadic and
limited.

The question really comes
down to what Is more important to
city residents: a few extra dollars
generated by national advertisers,
or the appearance of their com-
munity? We would bet that
residents would rather their com-
munity remain uncluttered by,
billboards and oversized Signe:
This is a ‘tourism area, and
billboards and excessive signing
do nothing to enhance the natural
beauty of the area — which is, af-
ter all, our number one tourist at-
traction.

Economy still fragile

Just when consumers thought it
was safe to head back into the
stores again, they have since.
found out that maybe it isn’t. The
first ripple in what up to now have
been calm economic seas came
last week when the prime lending
rate in the U.S. was bumped up a
half a point to 11 per cent.

That wasn't enough to trigger a
similar increase in the trend-
setting Bank of Canada rat

And any prolonged interest
rate hike of just two or three per-
centage points will torpedo this
country’s much touted economic
recovery. Few analysts are predic-
ting such a devastating scenerio

pite last week's hike in the U.S.
prime rate, but the upward move’
in interest rates has clouded
earlier rosy forecasts for Canadian
growth over the next year.

Alasdair McKichen, president
of the Retail Council of Canada, put
it clearly enough when he sald the
most negative effect of high in-
terest rates will be the
psychological damage it would
wreak on consumers. Consumers
were just beginning to grow mere
confident in the economy and were
starting to give retail sales a much
needed boost.

But McKichen says a jump In in-
terest rates would serve to signal

consumers that the economy is jit-
tery again and that their jobs are in
Jeopardy.

Now is a very fragile time for
Canadian business — both in the
retail and resource sectors.
National department store sales
were up 16 per cent in June over
the same month last year, but the
turnaround needs time to settle in.

The same is true of resource in-
dustry. We're told that the
recovery in the forest industry is
now on shaky ground in the wake
of softening markets and lower
prices in the United States. Mean-
while a story elsewhere in this

Issue details the effects,of.a price

war-in.the.

dustry between Canada, the U. rae z

and Scandanavian producers.

As one subscriber told the
Castlegar News, the recovery is
something akin to a very sick man
who has been bedridden with a
high fever. The fever has now
broken and the man is able to get
up and about, but he’s hardly in
shape to get into a fist fight.

In order for the economy to get
fully on its feet and back to normal
it needs continued low interest
rates — otherwise it will be flat on
its back once more and it may be
a long time before it gets up again.

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LETTERS.

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Mulroney
comments
no surp rise

Editor, Castiogar News:

Wy to read thé recent,

ohservative leader:
en questioned on
his policy on medicare, he said, “The
Tories would tdk6”a thoughtful’ and
generous’ postéiai.”’
How muck more similar could be
get to his bl
comments during the last provincial
election? Will Mulroney's generosity
match Bennett's bold-faced lies about
his conservative policies?
But this should be no surprise to
anyone. After all, our defeated former

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FEET INA LITRE?!

Herbicide kills
more then pot

By AL COLLETTI
.NEW YORK — Using the herbicide

“Paraquat to kill marijuana patches in

national forests will probably cause the
U.S. government more problems than
it’s worth in the war against illegal
drugs:

+ Paraquat, a. weed-killer, can be
nasty stuff on its

ne, selling for $900 to $1,100 a

cocaine
and heroin still goes on. If you look at
some ballpark figures, selling illicit
drugs is a $40-billion to $60-billion
annual busi: in the U.S. alone.

tion. Highly toxic, strong doses will kill

people. There is no known antidote.
In Georgia, agents of the Drug

Enforcement’ Administration sprayed

‘3 Paraquat by air on a section of the
‘Chattahoochee ‘National Forest while-

the tourist season was still in bloom.

The area is in the mountainous
northern area of the state, where
plenty of marijuana grows. It was a

MP Bob Brisco had a Socred lawn sign
at his home during the last B.C. elec-
tion. I wonder why they use different

names for their two conservative par-

Kalesnikoff
appreciated

», Castlegar News:

I would appreciate it if you would
publish this open letter of thanks to a
good corporate citizen of the Castlegar
area. I am referring to the Kalesnikoff
Lumber Co. of Thrums.

This

the first aimed at
marijuana on U.8. federal lands.
Local and state authorities were
furious. med said they hadn't been
ad

and A, citsan' ee
$15 million, claiming the spraying ®

severely damaged more than 100 hec-
tares of forested land. The spraying
also hurt the tourist business.

The federal government claimed
that only the marijuana plants were
destroyed, not the surrounding vege-
tation.

After. a federal judge issued a
temporary injunction against further
spraying, the U.S. government said it
had completed its program in Georgia
for the present but may eventually
expand it to 40 states.

Ten states, including New York and
New Jersey, wanted no part of the
and opted out.

FRED

MERRIMAN

This particular kid lived behind the
“Tweed Curtain” in Victoria, and that
made for a lot of problems. Most of his
friends were sons or of the

which brought the kid to the status of
ex-convict, high school dropout and a
fortunate good sense to shake chemi-

upper middle class. The others came to
school in the morning with a sense of
confidence that he could not under-
stand.

The paper route was a necessity to
raise cash for the many needs facing a
young teenager in Oak Bay.

The paper boys used to wonder how
their substation captain could afford an
expensive motorcycle because, even
though the captain also lived amongst
the rich, he was not one of them. This
captain (assumed the kid, our “hero”)
was a VIP because he name-dropped
his list of chums which sounded like a
roll call for the Hall of Fame.

The head paper boy doped the kid's
coke. Man, what confidence was at once
bestowed upon him. The dependency.
The chemical answer. Last — and cer-
tainly not least — the catch. “The
bread, man!”

“You want to feel good, it’s going to
cost you.” The first $200 was the
hardest, but he managed it from a rich
kid's locker. It was a little later that he
got fingered by the law because he

sbecame careless. Stealing was easy
when you had a real need.

They gave the kid the full treat-
ment. The bucket, the expulsion from
school, the treatment centres and all
the head shrinkers and family coun-
sellors.

After jail and other experiences

cals, he a job as floor sweeper
and garbage picker for a janitor service
contractor.

The kid worked. He was.depend-
able, responsible and in a short time
became foreman of a sizeable crew of
maintenance men and women. Victoria
is like a small town; the super-clean
floors became noticeable to another
landlord. .

Generally, the success story goes
like this: major landlord notices super-

the road to Deer Park in a deal with in
Forest Service and during this preced-
‘Ing spring and summer gradeg, grav-
elled and widened this road dramat-

cally.

To be brief, they have improved it
considerably, so that it is no longer a
trail of broken mufflers and shockless
shock absorbers.

si “We're losing our forest lands to a
criminal element,” said Dr. Carlton
Taylor, a White House advisor on dr=g
policy.

The problem is that

Smoking pot is so engrained in the
lifestyle of tens of millions that vir-
tually every city, town and hamlet
across the U.S. must face the problem.

In New York and other. major
cities, there are areas where pot is sold
and smoked openly in the street. Police
crackdowns are limited because it has

Larios
will only drive up the price of

‘The Fisher's Colored Ghosts fast-
ball team from Sioux City will play the

: Castlegar Cubs on Sunday, Aug, 22nd

on the Castlegar diamond.: Besides

being a great ball team, they are real

entertainers with their trick players.
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The Kinnaird Commissioners held
their first meeting after incorporation
on Monday evening last. -:

Mr. A.R, McDiarmid was elected
chairman of the board and the first and
second reading of the procedure bylaw
‘was given.

s s s

A survey of Kinnaird is being
taken by the postal department to find
the number of residents interested in
having an individual post office box.

s s

A special meeting of the Co-op-
erative Women's Guild was held at the
home of Mrs. D. Teasdale on Tuesday,
Aug. 17th.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 21, 1958.

Castlegar News
The Castlegar Senior or Baseball club

meet the CYO Giants on donkeys.
s s

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bale and family
have returned from a two-week vaca-
tion at Christina Lake. During their
atay there, they took part in the Wiig
family reunion held last week.

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‘Two local lads have won $100 each
for their scholastic abilities.

Ronald Wisted, son of Mr. and
Mrs, J. Wisted of Kinnaird, has won a
$100. -I0OF bursary. Ron graduated
from SHHS in 1957 and has spent one

year at Pacific Lutheran College in
* Tacoma,

Washington.
‘Another $100 I00F bursary winner
is Gerald Card, son of Mr. and Mrs, H.

there'd ji bnty of if ° “< /

steady and lucrative clientele.
Paraquat was used by the U.S. as
a defoliant on Mexican marijuana fields
in 1979. But the spraying was dis-
continued when doctors of the U.S.

Public Health Service warned the -

herbicide could severely injure smok-
ers by causing irreversible fibrosis in
their lungs.

Ina very diluted form, paraquat is
widely used in U.S. agriculture as a
defoliant.

But exposure to large amounts of
concentrated paraquat, have led to
some deaths.

In 1982, Florida gardener Scott
Wilson inhaled the toxic chemical while
spraying weeds. it virtuaily destroyed
his lungs. Surgeons in a New York

grows almost everywhere and children
as young as eight smoke it. A wide-
spread ditchweed, it has become a
major illegal cash crop in several states
California and Georgia.

During the Process,
the road crew kept the road continu-
ously open to traffic, or at the most
delayed motorists by only a minute or
two.

oni:

The marijuana with the longest
“highs” is grown in Colombia, Mexico
and Hawaii. More potent pot is being
found in the cornfields of Iowa.

Since demand is so great, marijuana
is smuggled into North America by the

hospital a lung
but Wilson, 25, died two months later,

There have been reports of other
paraquat deaths in areas of the Cari-
bbean and Southeast Asia, where the
herbicide is routinely used.

Last year, doctors in Malaysia
reported that 27 people died in an acci-
dental poisoning involving paraquat.

Paraquat also harms the kidneys
and the liver, but at a slower rate.

Shultz role in doubt

By WILLIAM SCALLY
WASHINGTON — Little more
than a year after entering office amid
tothe
Alexander Haig, U.S. State Secretary
George Shultz now faces the same
i d by many

clean business block. Makes h
The glory fell on the kid who cleaned
well and supervised even better. The
landlord approaches the once-fallen kid
privately and asks him to make a bid to
provide maintenance service for his
many real estate holdings in and
around Victoria.

The kid does so and shares the fact
with his present employer. The boy,
now aged 20, is retained by
employer and successfully wins the
contract with landlord number two.

The kid has shaken his past, a lack
of education, and now owns an import-
ant janitor service on the Island as well
as a position of responsibility with his
first- employer.

The kid is that good and that
honest, and in these times when people
can't seem to find jobs, we could look to
the values he has demonstrated as he
grew from a kid to a man, by luck and
pluck.

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of his predecessors.

Shultz’s reputation for problem
solving was quickly enhanced when he
settled a dispute with U.S. allies over a
planned Soviet Siberian natural gas
pipeline to Western Europe and he
later won plaudits for helping work out
an Israel Lebanon troop withdrawal
plan.

But recent widespread speculation
pictures him as frustrated by policy
differences with the White House and
unable to meet administration hopes of
a foreign policy success as election
season approaches.

Admiration for Shultz’s rock-
steady calmness has been tempered in
some circles by criticism of his bland-
ness, and those who welcomed his def-
ernce to President Reagan and repu-
tation as a team player are said to have
been irritated recently by his lack of
assertiveness.

Several news reports have hinted

that Shultz might not stay with the
administration - until the end of
Reagan's term next year, but have
been flatly denied by his aides.
Shultz himself refuses to discuss
with other
figures but there has been wide -
lation about the effect on the State De-
partment of the growing power of
Reagan's national security adviser and
friend, William Clark.
The post has been high-profile in
recent years, with its occupant fre-
quently at odds with the state sec-

ree

nry Kissinger, as President
Rihana Nixon's adver helped shut
out William Rogers from important
foreign policy decisions. President
Jimmy Carter's aide, Zbigniew Brezez-
inski, was involved in battles with
State Secretary Cyrus Vance.

There have been no suggestions
that this same state of tension exists
between Shultz and Clark. Neverthe-
less, Clark has a privileged position as
Reagan's most trusted aide and is said
to be determined to ensure that
Reagan's long-held Bie are reflected
in U.S. foreign pol

Clark and ee Began aides would

like to be able to boast of a clear-cut
U.S. foreign policy success.

But the Middle East peace process
is now moribund, with the three-
month-old Israel-Lebanon agreement
stalled by Syris’s refusal to withdraw
its troops.

US. policy in Central America is
beset by controversy and no break-
through is in sight in arms control
negotiations with the Soviet Union.

According to the latest edition of
Newsweek, it was a ‘dispute over
Central America policy that led re-
crently to a veiled Shultz threat to
resign.

Two weeks ago, it said, “an angry
and exasperated Shultz marched into
Reagan's office and told the president
that he could not be effective if major
foreign policy decisions were made
without him.”

Shultz, questioned about the re-
port, said he had no plans to resign but
did not deny the exchange with
Reagan.

Reagan cannot afford to have
Schultz become his second state secre-
tary to resign.

Reuters

The appointment of a former Cas-
tlegar man as registrar of the depart-
ment of education with offices in

Edward A. Killough, a member of
the 1955 SHSS graduating class,
succeeds Harry M. Evans who resigned
to become registrar of Simon Fraser
University.

s s e

Ambitious plans have been drawn
up for the construction of a $160,000
cultural centre for Russian

‘Sohn J. Yesigin said at a recent

meeting in Brillant.
s

A rare rites coin was found on
the banks of the Slocan River, just
south of the bridge in Slocan City.
Charles Miskok, foster child of Mr. and
Mrs. C.M. Adams, found the coin while
playing. It is dated 1797 with the in-
seireen, Georgeius III. The coin is
copper and measures 1 5/8 inches in
diameter by 8/16 inch thtek:

A house ree ime away from
its hitch and plunged down a 20-foot
embankment on the Kinnaird-Christina
Lake highway on Monday.

ing champion Cheryl Kristiansen’s
in national
in 8t. John’s, Nfld. early this week.
Cheryl, a 14-year-old singleleg
amputee who is a member of the
Castlegar Aquanauts swimming club,
won her first gold medal at the Canada
Games for the Physically Handi-
capped Monday when she broke the
national record for the backstroke.
Tuesday she won two more gold
medals, one while breaking the world
record in
other by breaking the world record in
the freestyle swimming.

Ken Sherstobitott of
played excellent golf for 27 holes to win
the Johnny Bucyk Junior Open at
Creston last Saturday.

Rocky Rizzotti, also of Castlegar,
finished thi wh a fine effort.

s

Two Cisliagatl men were treated
at the Castlegar and District Hospital
Saturday for burns after patrolling
RCMP noted a boat on fire at Syringa
Creek Marina. .

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Taking the first step i in politics

Becving uo a meatine of ee oad eee baera oe
catapult you to fame and glory, but it may serve as the
springboard to a political career, reports a recent paper.
by two Simon Fraser University researchers,

The pepecee brie
student caacaa Stacey, was toa ‘on in-depth inter-
views by a Stacey, whois alsoa vies principal at Annieville

School
were jepewoeniaive

The 10 politicians interviewed
of political life in B.C.,” says Robinson, including active

‘Report based on findings
of SFU education professor’

“and retired, federal and provincial men and women from
all political parties, with two to 26 years of experience.
* All of the group
that their experiences as school board members were key :
stepping stones in their political carers. For all but one of
the politicians, the’ school board experience constituted
the beginning of a political career, and for all of them, the”
school board experience proved to be “an invaluable
political lude Stacey and
Robinson points out that their “contradict
Abe prevailing myth that educa nn! iS apa
school board trustees don't have political ambitions,’

* On the contrary, he says, although all but one of the
sampling of the B.C. politicians had no political ambitions
beyond the local board room at the time they were
elected, their experience transformed their “office-bound

bi 85 bound ni

tterns regarding the political pre-dis-

Several pa tterns
position andthe subsequent careers of the, board
in the course of the

“study, says Robinson, an expert on the polls of

school board

‘The. ‘Hoe heuntag Eaaorty of the group studied

came from “politically conscious families,” he says, in
which politics was part of dally family life, pa rpeary aa

‘single issue objective’ when they began their terms,”
explains Stacey.

“They had one thing in mind that they wanted to
change.” But they soon discovered the difficulties of
achieving that objective without support from other
trustees, and developed the skill of “coalition building.”

A certain degree of “political desirability” was also
acquired by the former, school trustee during their term
in office, report Robinson and Stacey. “Once you've
proven you're electable,;'and that you have political
skills, people trust you.as a political servant,” explains

Stacey. “Then they are willing to back you at yet another

(political) venture.”
A political attitude, too, was acquired by former
school board members, says Robinson. “Their exper-

‘Many fail.in attempt to
move up the political ladder’

fences on the school board whetted their appetites for
political life.”

Stacey and Robinson point out in their study that
they

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‘Experience gave Smany:
to continue political ca

board members do not, .
“Quite a few try, but most fail.” Nonetheless, for all
those who had the experience, it was “powerful and mind
panding,” and contrary to popular perception, “very

the families either a parent or close relative a held
public office.
‘Despite early exposure to political

politically skilled, report Robinson and Stacey.
For example, “most of the school board members had a

political.”

Robinson points out, “most of the decisions which
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valley landscape nursery

Hydro’s net i

B.C. Hydro recorded an
operating income of $11.9
million for the three months
ended June 30,

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an increase of $19.5 million or $219.1 milion, a decrease of 1,844 or, 18,4 per ‘cent fewer electric energy rat ae z 30 to 50 % OFF
$6 million or 2.7 per cent employees asofJune 30, than as measured by the prayious

six per cent over the corres-
ponding period last year.
Electric i

with an operating loss of $9
million for the
period in 1962,

After
rate stabilization account,
Hydro's net income for the

were during the correspoh-

ding period in 1982:
Revenues for the period

amounted to $348.6 million,

$23.8 million over the prior

from the prior year. at une. une. 1982. 12 months a;
mee ENTIRE STOCK
PLUS :

i and the terest charged to opera. in June, 1988 for
non-controllable costs such as tes amounted to $1126 the first time since August,
grants, water rentals and million, an increase of $4.6. 1982 and is evidence of some
school taxes increased, em- Pepper pra rt aes recovery in ‘the provincial Thousands of Junipers &
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“Excellence in quality & service”

economy.
sed 164 million kilowatt- He adds this trend should
hours or 2.8 per cent over the continue to. be reflected in
increased electric sales
throughout the remainder of
the year.

additional fixed assets in

$2.9 million or four per cent 1988.
below last year. Hydro chairman Robert
‘As a result of Hydro's res- Bonner says in the company’s
traint programs, there were interim report that the total

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rates. Gas sales decreased by
6.1 per cent.

Cost of providing service,
excluding interest, totalled

1.8 million
cars recalled

DETROIT (AP) — U.S.
federal safety officials asked

cause a rubber carburetor
part could deteriorate and
result in stalling, possible
fuel leaks and fires, the Na-
tional Highway Traffic Safe-
ty Administraion said.
However, the automaker
says the problem does not
constitute a safety hazard
and has provided more data
that officials in the safety
agency are examining, an ad-

ministration spokesman said.

The vehicles affected are
1978-1982 Omni, Horizon,
Aries, Reliant, LeBaron and
400 models as well as Ram-
page pickup trucks with 1.7
and 2.2 litre engines, he said.

The agency had asked for
the recall in and has
received 82 complaints about
stalling.

A spokesman for Chrysler
Canada Ltd. said the auto-
maker hasn't received any
complaints from Transport
Canada or consumers.

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