itp mR OA aR a rh BRITISH COLUM@IA, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 4, 1984 a By RON NORMAN Editor What's a 25-year-old Ontario native who has neyer lived west of Brantford doing in a place like Castlegar? In Lucille Doucette's case she is settling into her position as‘the National Exhibition Centre's new admin- istrator. Doucette arrived in Castlegar in early December to take over the top post at the NEC from longtime director Bernie Bloom. Bloom left to attend the Banff School of Fine Arts. “This is my first venture to the west,” admitted Doucette in an interview. “It’s a little bit of a culture shock.” ‘Most of the questions ghe's faced in her first month i Csatlegar have centred on the province: does she like the mountains and isn't B.C. better than Ontario? “It's beautiful,” is Doucette'’s reserved reply. Originally from Brantford, Ont., Doucette comes to Castlegar from Oshawa where she was employed bya museum. Her education includes a B.A. degree in History . from Carleton University in Ottawa and extensive training in museology. ‘The Castlegar NEC is the first exhibition centre in r settles in EL which Doucette has worked and she hopes to use her museum experience to provide some lively and interesting programs. An exhibition centre “is such a departure from working in a museum,” Doucette explains. In a museum the emphasis is on the collection, while exhibition centres focus on bringing in varied exhibits. Doucette. says Castlegars NEC has a small © permanent collection which hasn't received much emphasis. “Td like to change that,” she says. She says the local collection has a lot of early 20th Century artifacts, but they are all different kinds. She intends to take a few related artifacts and deyelop.a display around them. She says the collection will “go farther,” providing the basis for a number of displays instead of only one display brought out once a year. “It just makes it a little more interesting,” she says. She notes that the NEC has focussed on art im the past. “We get some really good quality exhibits and éer- tainly I'm going to try to maintain that.” continued from front page Union says —_ WELCOME TO 1984. . . Casey Haines is Castlegar’s New Year baby. She was born at 4:23 p.m. New Year's Day, weighing 3,400 grams . seven ounces). Casey is the dau Douglas Haines and sister of two-year-old Tyler of South Slocan. In (seven pout ghter of Carol and was ounce. Trail, Craig William Murray Fry of Blueberry Creek had the honor of being he irst baby of 1984. The son of Corrie and Murray Fray, Craig rn at 6:55 p.m. Jan. 1 and weighed in ot nine pounds, one new cuts will hurt services VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia government's decision to re- duce staff by 30 per cent in some min- istries, instead of the previously an- nounced 25 per cent, will eause deteri- oration in government services, a union spokesman said Tuesday. f Provincial Secretary Jim Chabot said earlier Tuesday in Victoria that the Social Credit government has to fire 1,600, employees in its campaign to reduce the size of the civil have cent, he said, but will still have to cut by 26 per cent. bot said the new reductions, which will result in an additional 300 to 400 firings, will not mean more programs have to be cut. CUTS HURT ticle But Jack Adams, a spokesman for the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, said government services will be hurt by the cuts. they cutting back on programs?” Kube said. “If they're just cutting back on people who were serving political appointments to the ministers, maybe that’s one way to save it. But I hope they’re not foolish enough to cut back on programs.” Chabot said that the government will “Any further of govern- ees is going to result in a —LesttewsPhote by Ron Norman ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’ Freed airman back home WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Navy Lieut. Robert Goodman, exclaiming “God Bless America,” returned to U.S. soil today after a month in Syrian captivity to a rousing welcome from his family, his friends and his president. Accompanied by Jesse Jackson, the negotiated hig release, Goodman, his wife, children dnd- parents met with President Reagan in the Oval Office after the all-night flight to freedom. “I would like once again to thank all the people inyolved.. . . for their dil- work and ability to get me home a little bit earlier than I had envisioned,” from more than 200 well-wishers and. the rousing sounds of a local high school band. . Goodman, in his navy uniform, hugged his wife and family, and then said he had “received 60,000 pieces of mail and to me that’s awesome, and to me that shows what kind of country - this is. “I. thought daily about the PoW experience that I had been trained to withstand, and the type of PoW experience the guys had to experience in Vietnam,” said Goodman, a bombar- dier-navigator whose attack jet was shot down by the Syrians on Dec. 4. “I- would like to take from that experience and say one quote which one man said when-he came back from Vietzam — and that was ‘God Bless America.” * Man awarded $1.2 m in malpractice suit juction of services to the public,” he said in a telephone inter- view. “It will affect programs. You can't reduce and reduce and not expect it to affect services.” Operation Solildarity chairman Art Kube echoed Adams's concerns that programs may be hurt because of the cuts. Operation Solidarity is the labor plane that’ flew him and the Jackson entourage to West Germany. —inside ORWELL, THE MAN: A protile of the man who wrote 1984) What was he really. like? A look at his life and times, on page B7. As well we ask Castlegar residents if they worry that fhe totalitarian st- ate in Orwell's 1964" is possible. See what tHey have tosay...A8 KILLS PILOT The bombadier-navigator was freed Tuesday by the Syrians, a month after his attack jet was shot down over Syrian-controlled central Lebanon. The plane's pilot, Mark Lange, was killed in the Dee. # raid, which was in retaliation for Syria anti-aircraft attacks on U.S. reconnaissance flights. way3...A4 certain. injuries. in certain circum- stances, use of the» theit truck on one customs investigations. 4 on alot here, but it goos on.” Jos: their plan foiled Oct. 31 whem Ri inue to review its prog to see if they continue to be “meaningful,” and decide if they should continue. He said he expects the new em- ployee-reduction goal will be reached by March 81 when the government's figeal year ends. He refused to indicate. which. minis- tries would be affected, saying only that some of the firing notices already are on their way, and that‘all would be clear within 30 to 40 days. a 2 MONSOON $BASON: Heavy rains forced the closure of several high- ways in the’southwest portion of the province today, including High- MOE, LARRY, CURLY: Remember the Three Stooges? The daughter of ‘of then reminisces about the early days and is suggesting an Seca! Three Stooges Festival... Aé ey SLIPPERY CROOKS: GRAND FALLS, N.B. — Three Grand smugglers whom police said were “dealing heavily in margarine” have been fined in provineial court. eph Guay, Neville McCormick and Gerard McCluskey had ‘CMP and customs officials seized of the manpisolated roads crossing the New Brun- swick-Maine border near Grand Falls. The truck contained 5,686 kilograms of U.S. margarine pur- chased for about $9,000 Canadian and worth about $13,700 in Canada, said Consf..Chuck Castonguay, in charge of local RCMP “They were dealing heavily in morgorine,” he said. “Itdoesn't go He said they opparently had buyers lined up in Quebec. prohibits import shipments of U.S. margarine, but allows tebring in a 2.2-kilogram packege.