‘Kidco Inc. The biggest ‘state ‘in ‘the United States conceded last week that it can't find out how Dickie Cessna is killing gophers |. or get the felaty 13-year-old to.” buy a $60 pest applicator’s Ieence. : s Inits frustration after four months of trying, the California department of agriculture said no criminal complaint will be sought. A private, inter-otites memo dated June 8 ‘asked: a . pesticide use enforcement’ of- Harding, Bobby Dicksoa, lan Farrell, Gordon Gjennestad, Kelly Gyurkovite, Grant Latta and Michael Porter. are Clark , Marv Hart, Rod Loftus and Leaders Eleanor Nichols with Scout Helpers Tom Campbell ‘and Pete Coeppento. Nichols, Paul Orton, Aaron Pongracs, David Vecchio, Gregory Woods, Taylor - - D . —1st Kinnaird Beavers Photo Winlaw Children's Letters to Santa. ‘ Winlaw B.C, Dear Santa, Please bring me a dole. a BabeY doLe With a bodLe Love Zoey 8 «© Dear Santa, I would realy like a two picse sow seite. And a ligth Brigth. fro1 | pet Halster and a straw doll’. Z : *Winlaw BC. Dear Santa, Please bring.me a Kitten aud a Dear Samta’ i pLease bring mea caKe MIX like you Samta said too :.:Rudolph like you red nose : 3 sLove hy Bandra: _Winlew BG ‘Dear Santa, Please bring me a Octapos Santa Screening Necessary In Hiring Teachers Help Wanted: If you are gifted, dynamic, self-confident, warm, nurturing, sensitive, flexible, versatile and commit-, ted, you just might be ‘suited for the job. It involves teaching chil- dren in the schools, Those qualities, the pro- vine government's commit- ability to work well with chil- dren and other adults.” She told the committee i phat. education Eradunten should be people. with top skills, “and that the’ public has'a ‘res: es ponsibility to ensure that there are no mediocre teachers. “Being a teacher means more than having completed a d nimber of courses teacher edu- nate was told last Thursday, should be made mandatory for anyone planning to become a teacher. “The screening of prespee- tive teachers is not only an initial step in the teacher- training program, but isan ongoing ‘ one,” said Heather, Siska, of the Vancouver Island Cooperative Pre-school Asso- ciation. “Now that the supply of - teachers in the province ex- ceeds the demand, we can and should be extremely selective. “We can afford to take only those people who have the personal and intellectual quali- ties judged necessary to be an effective teacher, and those who have demonstrated their and having spent a specified teak you for The CratLe. 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I's our way. ot wing Societe i ficer if he was:“prepared to file criminal complaint on Dickie.” “The state; has falwaye. given us problems, making it difficult to stayin business,” young Cessna wrote recently to : Nuell Lunde, the agency's area field supervisor. He said Kideo Ine. which he heads with the help of his half-sister and two sisters, has asecret weapon to kill gophers. But in an interview Dickie said it's safe except to pesty goph- He denied a atatement by Roy Rutz, area supervisor of, pesticide use: enforcement. at ‘Sacramento, that he's mixing household ammonia and kitchen bleach—a ‘dangerous mix. And he can't pass the pesti- cide applicator’s examination for a licence because it's “too tough, too many big words,” the seventh grader said. © * ‘Then, Luts earned Kldeo -was’ using ‘an, ‘unregistered homemade |, pesticide : to. ‘kill gophers at $1/a head. Their father, Richard Cessna, said the youngsters, aged ‘nine :to\14, now have more than 60 regular. customers at $15 4 year or.$5 for a twotime job on gophers. The. concoction’ ts put deep ) - tastde holes and dirt packed on — - top to keep {t away from other animals, sajd.Cessna, who ar-. ranged for the corporation tobe, ‘ “registered ‘in ‘the Cayman Is- lands so his children could veld z U.S.) corporate’ taxes w! learning private enterprise. 4-0. They: pay U.S. income . taxes: and bank their profits, which’ are, secret: be said last Thursday, ate An official’ met June 22 with the children, asking them to reveal ingredients of their poison, but they voted 4-0 ata | directors’ meeting with him: present against that, . Baid Dickie, who got a con- " gratulatory telephone call from former..Gov. Ronald Reagan last ‘Sunday: z F “The governor and the law- makers ought to quit spending all the money on juvenile delin- quents and'straighten ‘out the * dumb law’so other kids will go leaning ‘out’ gophers, too, and keep: ‘working and stay out of - ‘The four children drew national attention early this - year when the California board of equalization demanded back sales taxes for manure which they shovel from horse stalls managed by their father. and sell as fertilizer to homeowners. ” After a public hearing, they agreed to pay future taxes without any back bills. Courteous — Reliable Phone 365-5700 Glass Bi-Fold Doors © Heat Saving Easy to cise ce. Easy to Ins! ue o:2 ‘BBtmper for a a tire jallable «. File also haves... 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Recession is inevitable, in fact, ‘ if the history of six economic since the Second “World War, the latest in 1974-75, means anything at all. - But the summer “pause” }- has not extended into an actual recession’ because . Canadians cut their savings rate to’ increase consumer buying, be- cause imports fell faster than exports, and because business “built-up stocks of goods on shelves and in warehouses. , "EGG- Entertaining Soon? Be Sure to include . © 8Goklen Grove Orange Juice NOG” + +407. your, menu! Available at your favorite store REMEMBER... “ALM DAIRY. | ARE FRESH! “Sit true. Id now have to work longer to collect Unemployment ; Insurance?” Yes. Parliamerit has decided that the qualification time should be longer everywhere, and that people who live in areas of high unemployment should be given certain advantages over: who live in areas where jobs sie more plentiful. Which means that you now need more > insurable work weeks to qualify for. | © Unemployment Insurance benefits. “I can see why. But just how long would Ihave to work to be eligible?” jie 10to I4 weeks, depending on where _ In regions of low unemployment, claimants need ah weeks of i insurable employment to UI benefits. This will only happenin places Phere eases oranda he In regions of high unemployment, claimants now need as litte as 10 weeks to qualify. : “Does this mean I'd get less or that the peyments, wouldn’t cme as long?” No ch The UI beam sett tno our age weekly insurable earings. j ‘The maximum is $147, less tax. The maximum time for which anyone may. receive benefits has Teed mm wer eke New 2050 es But since September 1l, the total number of weeks for which a claimant qualifies” has more closely reflected An hie oF es resin, i dividing C Canada into 16 économic regions. memployment rate io oes Common ts ‘ 365-5155 4 Macniy bei Seis andthe special. One-time benefit benefits) at age 65 remain Te Raat ‘The same people still pe the same proportions, and th for the program in are ie types of employ- ment insurable for UI remain the same, too. : “Would I still go to the é ‘same UI office to claim?” ‘ As explained i in the box below, . the familiar locations for bon Ulé Canada Man, your area. U pa Tt, : piece ae "your ints ata Later in 1978, we will fine-tune the program Bi tegions tat Ul wil rover eels elated to local labour market conditions. i “What elsei is changing about UR” Not much. “The basic two week wating peiod remains the same everywhere. And so do clgura ake iser er ob good it this or her job for no ‘Teason or been fired for misconduct. In - law. But-you must : cone ; benefits.’ iod when a such cases, a claimarit may have to wait up _ to eight weeks from when employment . ends until benefits start. Then there’s maternity, sickness and age 65 benefits, Previously, sickness benefits were. only. z poe during the first 39 weeks of the claim, low y ie payable at any time during theentire A benefit period. mong Daisies and Mums Photo by Doug Harvey Around the World In 68 Hrs., 48 Min. Matheson andDavid . Shore broke the round-the- world record on commercial airlines by two hours and 60° minutes at’the weekend and hope it stands-until October so it will be entered ‘into’ the . Guinness Book of World Ree-’: - “But we needed newspaper coverage before the Guinness people would consider our flight and we figured this would be the toughest ‘part. of the project, This. was provided by and now news- ape radio \and - television - stations are calling” us from everywhere.” Shore said there was a nine-hour stopover in Sydney, Australia, and, once this is eliminated, the way.-will be open for a new record, and 58 minutes was set by Gordon Banks of Sydney in June,’ 1978, who flew:in an easterly direction. The two CP Air passenger agents flew out of Los Angeles ‘on Thirsday’ of last week. with pain epi at Frankfurt, f Singe. yon" Bata 2 day, 63 hours and ene minutes ter. yf amamazed at the lack of fatigue,” Shore said. “Roger got about six hours’ sleep in Sydney and ‘I’ cat- napped about six hours on the ; flight back to Los ‘Angeles. We could have kept on going.” Shore said the only effect from the trip was a loss ‘of balance when they walked. - “We couldn't walk proper- ly. When we took a step’ the feet would go out from under us like there was no gravity. But that is all gone today.” The old record of 66 hours "All weask is 25° ‘Complete seria fe rT) Mejor Appliances © s Trail | Appliance 11701 - ard Ave. ; East Trall: ~ REMEMBER To Book X-mas and New Year's Appointments Early... At “The Hair Annex” 7 Pine St. Atlan "altar “setting of yellow daisies, mums and snap- , dragons, Helen Mae Nickerson and’ Richard Allen Bush ex- changed marriage vows in the Robson Community Church on October 29, yor a honeymoon trip. to Calgary, Rochester, N.Y. and Niagara Falls, the bride donned a brown gabardine ‘pantault. Wedding guests attended ‘from Summerland, Vancouver, Calgary, Westbank, Rossland, Victoria, Grand p The by Rev. Ted Bristow, joined in matrimony the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Ronald Nickerson of Robson and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bush of Trail. . > Mrs, Marks of Robson was organist at, the late-afternoon ‘ceremony, played “The Wed- ding March", “O Perfect Love” and “Forever My Love". ‘Given in marriage by -her ; parents, the bride was radiant in a gown of white jersey knit, \fashioned en train, with V- neckline ans long, narrow sleeves, its classic’ features trimmed with dainty white em- , broidered daisies.’ nots headdress of daisies and seed pearls secured her shoul- ‘ der-length veil and she carried a cascading bouquet of roses and carnations, which had been made by her cousin, Matron of honor was the bride's sister, Mrs, Pam Per- ‘cival of Revelstoke, and brides- maids were Nina Rindler, a cousin of the bride from Van: .-couver and Catherine Bush, the groom’s sister ‘from Grand © Forks. The attendants were simi- larly dressed in soft blue jersey « knit’ gowns in Greelan in- fluence, each carrying a long- } (stemmed red rose and wearing a red rose nestled in their hair, Flower girl was the bride’s Forks, Sparwood, ‘Golden, - Quesnel, Nelson and Spokane, «The newlyweds are mak- ing their .home at 86th Ave, 8.E., Calgary, Alta. Symposium Discusses. Life of Peter Verigin ~ Some 450 persons repre- senting all Doukhobor groups listened with ‘attention to re- ports of various speakers at the 28th session of the Joint Douk- hobor Research Symposium, held at the Castlegar Sports Complex last Sunday. Highlight’ of the meeting was the long-awaited blography of the late Peter Verigin Il, brother of Anna Markova and Last Chance To Write Santa Claus Here is your last oppor- tunity to get your letters off to Santa Claus at the North Pole via the Castlegar News. * Just write your letter to: . “Santa Claus, care of Castlegar News, Box 8007, - Castlegar, .B.C.". and we'll do the rest. Your letters will be pub- lished in next Thursday's Castlegar News and a copy of the paper will go airmail special delivery, direct to Santa Claus. ° Don't: forget. to remind Mom and Dad, though, your letters must be received. no later than 10-a.m. this Monday as this will be the last issue of the Castlegar News to be published in.1977. leader desi; of the Douk- hobor sect, who died in a Soviet prison camp, in 1942, 3 Mrs. Markova, who will be 16 on New Year's Day, fulfilled a long-standing request of the Research Committee in’ pre- senting the facts about’ her brother of whom the Douk- hobors in’ Canada know very: little, In: describing him, _Mar- kova claimed her brother never Seed the title “Yastrebow"— symbolic name for the third leader following Lordly and Chistiankoff—and in fact never aspired to leadership of the’ sect. She said she had no doubt _ he would have rejected’ that home testified falsely against him and caused his imprison- ment, which he did not survive, she sald, -: Mrs, Markova. showed by . correspondence: she had re- ceived from her imprisoned brother in early 1942 that his health had ‘deteriorated to the extent that he did not expect to ever see her again, After all contact with him ended that year, she said she became fully convinced that he was dead. Subsequent _ investigation through the agency of the In- ternational Red Cross and with the ion of the Soviet meric Rossland Shoes me 362-5521 . 2070 Columbia Ave., Rossland .: Be authorities d the fact that her brother had died in 1942, she said. i » Mrs, Markova read a letter supposedly from her brother to a friend in B.C. and cireulated amongst the people by the Re- formed, into the record and pro- nounced it.a forgery designed to perpetuate the hoax that her brother was still alive. The letter, allegedly post- ed from Tehran, Iran dated May 4, 1944 from Peter Veri- in. it di in role had it been to him. Mrs. Markova described him as'a hard-working, peace- loving man, helping every one in need and who, because of his strong belief in the power of love, knew no enemies. During the years of col- ‘lectivization in the USSR in the year 1932 the persons he had helped and befriended; by shar- detail the escape of the writer from a Soviet prison hospital and stated that he had inten- * tions of coming to the U.S.A. or Canada. The main topic to be dis- cussed at the Jan. 8 session at the same location,” is ‘the ‘declaration proclaimed in 1934 at the convention of the dele- gates from the Named Douk- hobors. A full panel of speakers Experienced Carpentry Aluminum Siding - Seamless Vinyl Siding ‘ Facer Boards Sera a wood) r Siding Renovations & Additions Soffits (metal & wood) Framing & Finishing, ete. ="GO ANYWHERE": Phone after 6 p.m. P.O, Box 3372, Coo "399-4122 niece, Miss Darcy Nick of | Sparwood and ring bearer was ‘her nephew, Master Reggie Percival of Revelstoke. Mr. Robert George Nicker- son, a brother of the bride from Sparwood; was best man, and ushering ‘was shared by Mr. John Balfor of Trail and the groom's brother, Mr. Dan Bush of Castlegar. Blue and white. streamers and bells decorated the Robson Community Hall for the recep- tion, where the bride's mother helped to receive guests wear- ing a long apricot’ gown with matching «jacket, ‘gold’ acces- sories and a corsage of golden baby mums. The groom's moth- er chose ‘a’fulllength Grecian- . styled gown in green with gold accessories and a. corsage’ ‘of golden baby mums, Silver candelabrum’ with white candles and a_ floral . arrangement graced the head :table.-The wedding cake, made - by the bride's mother and decorated by: Mrs. I. Salekin, featured three tiers separated by crystal glasses holding blue- bells. Two blue satin wedding bells centred the.top layer. Master of ceremonies was the bride's’ uncle, Mr. C. Rindler of Rossland, who read congratulatory. telegrams from Vancouver, Smithers, Califor- nia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. “Da You Have ‘a:Nose For Bargains? 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Right now, a fleet of new police breathalyzer vans is prowling the streets and roads of British Columbia. » «"These'new vans will greatly assist police in the fight against drinking drivers: They'll be on duty all year’round. All over B.C. The way the breath alcohol units work is simple. And very” effective. Remember that police officers are extremely adept at spotting impaired drivers. ‘There are British Columbia has the wort: drinking-driving record in Canada... Fifty percent of all drivers killed are legally impaired. Every year, over 300 lives are lost. And many more ins. 10 is drunk: ~ crippled. Every year driakingrvng 3 2 us, ie » B.C.; millions ‘and millions of seer Something simply has to be done. And it has to be done by responsible, socially-conscious citizens. Your sense of social responsibility is one of the first things alcohol affects. Drinking drivers simply don't care. Alcoho! is a drug with subtle and varied effects on the mind and body, and is dangerous because so few people actually understand it. For instance, one drink; combined with some types of medicines,-can . cause impairment five times greater ., than just one drink atone. : Alcohol also distorts: eye focus by: *. relaxing certain eye muscles. It affects a driver's ability to judge distance," > distinguish colour, and to see potential « . dangers to either side of the car, ° + “through a phenomenon known as : tunnel vision. With a drinking driver's sense of responsible action reduced, his vision clouded, and a lethal weapon like'a +. car barely under his control—just how. much chance do you, the responsible * citizen, have to avoid an-accident? je odds are « not on your side.» - .. Statistics show . . that if you're driving : between the hours of "4 midnight and 3 a.m., one out of every three: “m drivers that approach you! - on the road has been drinking. even giddy... seriously affected -breathalyzer test immediately in a mobile unit. criminal record. Three months or more yihout a aad as many as one out of every What constitutes drunk? In Canada the legal definition of impairment is a blood/alcohol reading of over 08%. ° That means the proportion of alcohol is over 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. A person's size,” weight, emotional state, metabolism and number of drinks consumed over a period of time determine how. * quickly the tegal limit is reached. Bear: in mind that a'‘person with a BAC” (blood/aloohol cx content) of .08% will : not necessarily. feel drunk. Or ‘ “ But his vision, reaction time and: sense of social responsibility are ‘i And the facts are that drinking! drivers simply do not sober up that. easily. Black coffee will not help. Nor a. cold shower-95% of the alcohol in the system is eliminated through the liver. And that takes considerable time.: *:S. So what can we do? We've got to be more socially résponsible. Alll of us, When going to a party or out for Aan evening—plan’ ‘ahead. Flip.a coin, all sorts of clues. And once a suspected driver i is stoppéd, he or she can now be asked to take a _ Sf anyone refuses, a criminal charge: will result. ]; driver i is legally impaired. Conviction means a driver's licence. A fine of u $2,000, or even jail. Just for s first offence. Penalties for.second *:'; offences are even more severe. ‘ tough? For _ drinking drivers, it's going tough. or in some way arrange far the driver not to drink: Consider the cost of a cab or bus fare as a necessary expense for’ “the evening. Remember, itisn'tan - offence to’be an impaired passenger! if you are th the host or organizer of a’ home or office: party—plan ahead. Be fosporsine f getting your guests + If you see a car weaving down the, road, feaing ‘over the double line or. == otherwise indicating the driver might” f jet to a phone. Call ition to these individual actions; you can do something else. GET VOLVED Bt YOUR COMMNETY. ) are ‘facing an awesome aren alienge Nerf in B.C. To, change ow, attitudes toward drinking-driving is: no simple task. : But nothing less than an all-out commitment at the community level will work if we are to protect ourselves - and our loved ones from the menace of drinking and driving. {strongly urge you to join with “| your neighbours in organizing Drinking Driving CounterAttack activities in your area. For more information'on what you as an individual, or as a . group, can:do, simply write: DRINKING DRIVING - COUNTERATTACK, 0, Garde 8. Gardom. Attorney-General !