Jonvary 20, 1985 ~~ TWVCe WEEKLY MAY 4.1900 PUBLISHER — Burt Compbell EDITOR — Ron Norman PLANT FOREMAN OFFICE MANAGER — ADVERTISING MANAGER — Carol Magow 12, 1978-AUG 27, 1980 — Peter Harvey nda Kositsin by Contie News Lid. not port only of We in ond ) Questionable choice Selkirk College principal Leo Perra dropped the other shoe this week and it came crashing down on two dozen college employees. Mr. Perra recommended — ond the college board approved _ i 16 staft i he cuts will affect 12 full-time and six to 10 part-time workers. No one — least of all college employees — should have been surprised by the cutbacks. They were to be expected, particularly after Mr. Perra announced last month that the college's provincial funding has been reduced by $1.1 million or more than 10 per cent for 1985. And since salariés consume the largest part of the college bud- get, the only way to balance the 1985 budget is to lay off staff. No one likes to see layoffs, but given the Rah sdalaoi government’ s Selkirk College had choice. However, it did have a choice where to make the layoffs and the college has clearly chosen to have instructors bear the brunt of the cutbacks. Of the 16 positions to be eliminated, 60 per cent or 10 positions will be instructors. Only no other 40 per cent or six positions will be administrative and support staff. It's questionable choice at best and an outrageous choice at worst. Surely, instructors should be retained at all costs. After all, that's where the students are most affected Students can get by without a thoroughly clean building or an understaffed administration, but they can't get by without instruc- tors. The choice to lay off more in- structors than administrative or support staff is even more questionable given the incredibly high ratio of administrative and support staff to instructors. There are 150 instructors at Selkirk College, and\125 support and administrative staff. That's almost one instructor for every support and administrative em- ployee. The college board should be striving to ensure that the impact of funding cuts has as little affect on the classroom as possible. The board would be wi to take another look at Mr. Perra’s recommendations and see if it can't save a few of the instructor positions and do away with sup- port and administrative staff. Well treated ? It's all a matter of perspective. To some a glass half-filled with water is half full. To others it’s half empty. The same applies to Selkirk College funding. Principal Leo Perra believes that the college has been “well treated” when it comes to provincial funding. Others would disagree. Mr. Perra told a college board meeting last month that while it's true Selkirk College has been the hardest hit of B.C.’s community colleges this year, it is also true that the college escaped budget cutbacks last year. The college received a three per cent budget increase last year, while many other colleges were forced to reduce their budgets by five to 10 per cent, said Mr. Perra. On the surface, the argument appears sound. But is it? After all, last year the provin- cial government closed David Thompson University Centre — in effect a Selkirk College campus. The loss of the centre was staggering — both in terms of jobs and its effect on the college budget. Thus, while Selkirk College may have received a three per cent increase last year for its Castlegar, Trail, R and cen- “Catch a cruise missile, they said. It'll be easy, they said.” Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 19, 1950 News The monthly meeting of the Robson WI was held on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Wm. Waldie. Mrs. C.E. Tutt read a letter of thanks from the Huntingdon WI, Engiand in appreciation of the numer- ous parcels sent by the Robson Insti- tute. ¢ ee On Monday night MP H.W. Herridge gave an address concerning matters connected with this district. His three principal topics were the Castlegar Airport, boat service on the Arrow Lakes, and the natural gas and oil pipeline from Alberta. Mr. Herridge commented on the air- port, saying that it was situated in a very convenient location to service Castlegar and surrounding towns. He gave assurance that the boat ser- viee on the Arrow Lakes would be more dependable and that people would not be let down. Mr. Herridge spoke of the natural gas and oil pipeline that was to be con- structed from Alberta to the U.S. He d that the line be brought Letters to the Editor Arms race ‘madness’ Editor, Castlegar News: In 1982 $600 billion was spent on world armaments, $100 billion of this on nuclear weapons alone. That works out to almost $20,000 every second of every day of the year. That's about a third of a million dollars by the time you've read this far. Why? When there are a billion illiterate adults around the world, 500 million or tation before we can hope to seek solutions to it. The reason most commonly given to us for the buildup of weapons in the West is the “Russian threat.” This bogeyman is used whenever our ment. During this foreign intervention and civil war following the revolution, eight million Russians lost their lives. Years later, while American corpor ations were busy building up Hitler's armed fo.ces, the Russians tried to cor military and usually uninformed politicians wish to do the most politically expedient thing, and that is to shuffle aside the real 500 million suff from of the world and push ever and hunger, 12 million babies a year die before their first birthday, two billion drink unsafe water, and 250 million live in slums or shanty towns? It is estimated that only two weeks’ worth of worldwide armaments expenditure would be enough to feed, house, and clothe every single human being on the planet. General Alexander Haig of the U.S. has recently said, “The West's Lerryrurd Policies have been immoral, tres, it was also hit with a huge budget cut in the form of DTUC. This year the college has been forced to trim another 10 per cent from its budget — the most of any community college in B.C. Some would contend that rather than being “well treated”, Selkirk College has suffered more than any other college for two suc- cessive years. If that's being “well treated”, no thanks. Is it any wonder? Expo 86's decision to pay $1 million for 400 trees is a little like shipping coal to Newcastle or oranges to Florida. After all, if there’s one thing there is plenty of in B.C., it's trees. But apparently they just aren't good enough for Expo's 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 office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Nevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar. horiculturist — or big enough. He said the fair was looking for trees about 25 years old and standing nine or 10 metres tall. Where was he looking? It cer- tainly wasn't the Kootenays. Some might say the world fair people just can't see the trees for the forest. It isn't the first time the fair has gone outside the province to pur- chase what should be provided right here in B.C. The ALRT cars are being made in Kingston, Ontario, though Lower Mainland workers are building the rail line. And B.C. Transit has just ap- proved a deal to buy 100 automatic ticket machines for its regional rapid transit system in Vancouver. The machines cost $3.3 million and guess where they're being built? Switzerland. A visit to the world fair will be cosmopolitan if nothing else. Visitors will be able to buy a ticket from a Swiss machine to ride in cars built in Ontario to view trees imported from Illinois. Any wonder why unemployment in this province is 15 per cent? Quotable quotes The driver of a charter bus that went out of control and crashed on a moun tain road near Courtenay Jan. 30, 1984, killing two and injuring 59 testified he was not concerned that the vehicle's speedometer did not work. Asked if it made common sense to plied: “In my opinion, no sir. . . Joanna Carson has asked a Superior Court judge to add another $6,000 to her monthly temporary support pay- ments from Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. “My current monthly expenses ate have a working , driver Kerry Griffith, who was also chief mechanic for Conmac Stages Ltd., re appr $54,000,” Mrs. Carson, who is estranged from her husband, said in a sworn court statement. and d ”" What aa he mean by this? Did he mean we have overarmed ourselves and are in danger of eliminating all life on earth? After all, the U.S. possesses enough nuclear weapons to extinguish life in the USSR 45 times. The Russians possess enough weapons to kill every- one in the U.S. 35 times. But that wasn’t what he meant. He meant that the nuclear superiority of the U.S. is now in question and we must build more, bigger, faster, and still deadlier weapons. Only through this balance of terror, could peace as we know it be maintained. Is this policy insanity itself? What should be examined is where this madness originated and under. stand the reasons for its implemen. ds with the weapons spiral. When and how did this Russian threat materialize? We are told it came about in 1917 when Lenin and his Bol- eviks seized power from a provi- sional government headed by Ker- ensky, who took power when the Czar abdicated. The people of Russia were hopeful that with the provisional gov- ernment change would come, They wanted, bread, land, and above all, peace; to get out of World War I. This new government changed nothing, and the way became clear for the Bolshevik takeover. Lenin's first executive action was to sign a peace treaty with Germany. This led to a warning by the Allies, consist- ing of the U.S., England, France, Italy and Japan. This letter said that if Lenin withdrew Russia from the war, serious consequences to Russia would be the result. Lenin ignored the warning and withdrew from the war. This resulted in massive retaliation by his “friends.” Tens of thousands of troops were landed all over Russia; Americans and Japanese in the East, British and Americans in the North- west, and British, French and Italians in the South. In total, the U.S. spent $4 billion trying to overthrow the Soviet govern- lude an alliance with England and France. England, in particular, had other concerns on its agenda. First, it tried to get signed a “pact of four,” consisting of England, France, Italy and Germany, and deliver a united blow against the USSR. Failing that, the English hoped to sign an alli ance with the Germans, ending all talks with the Soviets, abandon the defence of Poland, and even sacrifice France. None of these plans materialized and Stalin signed a non-aggression treaty with the Germans, hoping to buy enough time to build up his armed forces for what he knew would even- tually come — a German invasion. What we in North America ere not aware of by historians and the press, is the fact that almost 75 per cent of Nazi armed forces were concen. trated against the USSR, and only 25 per cent directed at the Europeans and North Americans. In 1945, the U.S. became the only nation in history to use nuclear weapons against another nation. Sev. eral powerful people in England, in eluding Winston Churchill and many in the American military, now wanted to unleash the atomic bomb against their allies of only a few days before. Is it any wonder the Russians don't trust us? Who started the nuclear arms race and led the way for development of ever deadlier weapons is now im on Poge AS Fred An elite skier shared with me the Merriman 3 flatly: “You cannot defeat the his rs sport. This man has a sense of humour and a wide range of other interests. However, he gives the impression that he is a quiet, serious sort of fellow. Yes, he is serious about skiing snow covered slopes well above and beyond the average groomed hills set aside for the less adventurous. Until today, he has also been quite low-key about the degree of incline he and his like-minded friends navigate on in the "I doubt this fellow or his friends has ever studied Eastern philosophy or ideas, yet he indicated that it was important for the challenge to feel right — the correct vibrations, a degree of awareness. Twice he used the word har- mony when describing why their sport is not as dangerous as it would first appear. A sophisticated sur- vival packsack was ensconced in the man’s office which demonstrates his realistic nature. mountains. The “quiet one” volunteered some color photographs of winter moun- tain faces that appeared unclim bable in summer. These mild mannered chaps live and ski on those faces complete with over. hanging cornice formations and obstacle ground cover. We chatted for a minute about the obvious dangers and apparent thrill of the sport. Almost as an aside the philosophy emerged. The mountain is challenged in a spirit of harmony. Literally, they risk their lives so that mountain and they shall agree. This taciturn adventurer stated He aii that the equipment was to enable a quick response to others in trouble on the mountain peaks. As a former chamber of commerce type, I quickly broached the subject of filming possibilities. The province of British Columbia — which is ser- jously promoting “Supernatural B.C.” may be well advised to capture some of the action chal- lenges on film. Perhaps CBC can overdraw its now non-existent bank account to hire. a helicopter to record the beauty and harmony for those who have tried everything and require more. If we faint-hearted can view violence in the streets of a large city via the consuming eye it might be interesting to watch a group of the few remaining adventuring pioneers match their lives against unfor- giving mountainous nature. Despite my plea for publicity, our purist walked away from the limelight. I was left to contemplate the point of this essay. These elitists in a most dangerous and uncommon sport have learned something that appears to elude those of us who work hard to “change the mountain.” An intelligent gentleman in Nel. son, last week, named the quality — “entrainment”. These skiers called it harmony. Others would identify the concept as a recognition and acceptance of the fact. The environment, a person, or a problem may not be willing or able by nature to change. We should not expect any of them to change on our behalf. Therefore, we must either attempt to create another mountain with a more gentle disposition or make a conscious decision to ski upon the slopes. Our adventurers teach us well. They show us that enjoyment and success acerue to those who chal lenge the mountain in a spirit of cooperation, harmony and sincere respect: In the meantime, I hope some alert reader will cotton to the possibilities of recording a truly elite skier on film. The rest of us, hopefully, will apply the lesson learned to our problems of unemployment, dec- lining business opportunities, world poverty, marital relations or even the care and feeding of rebellious teenagers. through B.C. via the Kootenays and Okanagan Valley to Vancouver. es © In company with many other schools throughout B.C., a number of District No. 9 schools have been forced to close lately by the unusual cold and heavy snow drifts. These include the Castle- gar School, Kinnaird School, Robson, Ootischenia, Kaminoe and Gibson Creek Schools. The outlying schools are warm but the snowdrifts are too deep for the children to get through. YEARS AGO From the Jan. 21, 1960 Castlegar News Chairman N.T. Oglow told Castlegar council Tuesday night he is “a little disappointed” in Celgar's choice of location, in commenting on its plans to build a subdivision near Castleaird Plaza. Mr. Oglow said he had hoped that Celgar would have built in Castlegar’s village limits, but the company had apparently looked around Castlegar and found no suitable land or else what it did find was too expensive. * 6 6 A suggestion that a two-storey courthouse and civil defense head- quarters be built onto the _ village's icipal office is to be i by the Village of Castlegar. Works chairman V.R. Cook told Castlegar council Tuesday night that he thinks a courthouse is needed in this area. He said that it is his under- standing that if the building is put up as an addition to the present village office, Civil Defense will pay 90 per cent of the cost. . . « Blueberry Creek, with 41 homes being lived in and six new ones under construction, is no longer just a name on the highway between Kinnaird and Trail. Twenty years ago living conditions at Blueberry Creek were a little rugged. There was no electricity and water was flumed for over a mile to service a-handful of homes. 15 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 22, 1970 Castlegar News A 24-minute film of the department of travel industry has been awarded top honors in its class at the second annual film festival sponsored by Sun- set Magazine in California. The winning production illustrates the four seasons in the East Kootenay region. The film was 18 months in the making and will be distributed in the U.S. as part of the Canadian gov- ernment’s program to bolster tourism in Canada. * 6 « Selkirk College has recently pur- chased a film collection containing ap- proximately 530 titles from the Na- tional Film Board of Canada. In an economizing move, the film board has closed several regional offices across Canada, including the Nelson office serving the West Kootenay. Rather than give up the film-lending service, which the Selkirk library has been carrying on as a repository of the film board, the college has purchased the films in order to maintain a free film-lending service. 5 YEARS AGO Castlegar Selkirk Collegé administration and faculty are aw: i Phillips’ decision on whether their contract dispute will go to binding arbitration. The faculty association, working without a contract since April 31, 1979, decided at a meeting to ask the provincial government-appointed Phil- lips to write to the labor ministry and make way for arbitration proceedings. . *¢ « Local RCMP are scheduled to meet with a provincial fire marshall's office investigator sometime this week to diseuss the cause of the Dec. 15 fire which destroyed Kinnaird Elementary School. MORE LETTERS Arms race madness continued trom Ad material. By far the most pressing question now is how to stop this madness and reverse the present trend. There is absolutely no credib- ility to the that to Europe, or these same missiles sta- tioned in the U.S., the Soviet Union has enough time to react with their own missile firings should the U.S. launch a nuclear attack. peace we need more sophisticated weapons. The surface of our planet has become nearly a with nuclear, — logical (?) prenien is now y to ib U.S. President Reagan has said that space-based weapons will be the cornerstone of future American wea- pons technology. The reasoning he gives for this is very simple. We must utilize space for stationing weapons at the USSR before the Russians wpe 3 agains us. This then becomes warning.” Why will our leaders at least not make the same commitment on first use? Could there be some connection between this policy and the beginnings of the American “Star Wars” weapons now being developed for deployment in space. These proposed systems will be so deadly that the response to their development will result in the most as the Russians would then of course develop their,own weaponry to counter the “American threat.” So, what then is the gain? The balance of terror is then extended to space and nothing changes but the level of technology used and added overkill. The USSR had declared a policy of never being the ones that would ever start a nuclear war. However, should one be initiated by the U.S. against them, total annihilation would be the result for the aggressors, and probably the entire population on the planet. The USSR has threatened that it will place its nuclear weapons systems on “launch on warning” if Pershing II and cruise missiles are deployed in Europe. With previous missile systems in It's West Kootenay Editor, News: I am sick to death of this frequent and glaring error that looms re- peatedly in the media as, for example, in an article on the front page of your Jan. 6 paper concerning repairs to firetrucks at Selkirk College. T have lived here all my life and I am at a loss as to where the “West Koot- enays” are. For your enlightenment, there is an East Kootenay and a West Kootenay. There is no East Kootenays and no West Kootenays. The Kootenays is used only when referring to both dis- triets. Allen O. Woodrow Robson rapid lation of the nuclear arms buildup to date. People must attempt to become better informed on this crucial issue and do whatever they can to reverse this insane situation. Around the world, 40,000 children die of malnutrition and diseases every day. That's one child dying every two seconds. At the same time, we are being told with such sincerity and concern, that more bombs are necessary. We already possess 2,700 kilograms of explosives for every human being on this planet and apparently — according to our bankers, industrialists, polit and PUPPETS Leena Wad their first puppet-making Library. The new program is for children aged Castlegar branch Tuesday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and the during the same hour. Parents can register by ‘phoning ‘the library. GALORE . . . Canada World Youth ticipants aap aged Hebert ( shes oad conduct ne the C seg! ALFONSO APA LADIES’ & MEN'S WEAR “Where Service Begins” JANBARY SALE 20% .50% On Ladies Garments Only : LO ie Dae. Teal Talk to me about RRSP else has a Savings Plan quite like our Accumulation Annuity. It offers competitive interest rates for choice of income options, and there is no front-end load periods, an or policy fee. Before you buy an RRSP, talk to me. Jack L. Parkin 365-6664 to hy Be and is held ay we Kinnaird branch Thursdays some of the media — this is still not enough. What the hell is going on? Bill W. Stoochnoff Shereacres Skiing a delight » Castlegar Ni I would like to tell ‘the residents how much we enjoyed cross-country skiing at Castlegar over the Christmas holiday. ‘The Nordic Ski Touring Club is doing a super job of track setting on the golf course. It was a delight to be around people who are so involved and enthusiastic. You can see from their picture on your front page (Dec. 30, 1984), my children had a lot of fun, too. So thanks to all who made it possible. Sharon Bishop (nee White} North Vancouver Passmore man passed away Walter John Argotoff of all his life and was a member Information day at Selkirk College campus Area residents, as well as students enrolled at Selkirk College, are invited to attend an information day at the college’s Castlegar campus Thursday. Info '85 is a two-day event sponsored by Selkirk College with the cooperation of the B.C. High School Liaison Committee and the West Kootenay Counsellors Asso- ciation. The first day's activities are directed toward thé gen- eral public and will feature representatives of eight post- secondary institutions sta- tioned in the main lounge of the college’s Castlegar cam- pus from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and from 7-9 p.m. H&R BLOCK TAX REFUND BUYING SERVICE The representatives will be available to answer ques- Open Learning Institute will all be represented on campus ind tions concerning procedures, program options, accreditation and the trans- fer of credit courses, housing, costs and financial ald avail- able for ii by a services personnel. The second day of Info "85 will see activities directed exclusively toward school The University of B.C., the B.C. Institute of Technology, begin- ning at 8:45 a.m. at the Fire- side Place in Castlegar. A full-day symposium fea- Pacific Selkirk College, Simon Fra- ser University, Kwantlen College in Surrey, the Uni- versity of Victoria and the turing pr by guest speakers, panel dis- cussions and individual con- sulations will oceupy counsel- lors attending the event. CHAIN SPECIAL TP pees Buy now and save! igned for fast cutti: easy main- tenance. Al Stihl saw "Sac feature the Oilmatic Drive link which channels oil to the critical friction and wear points. Stihl, the sow chain for pros that non-pros appreciate. Passmore passed away Wed nesday, Jan. 16 at the age of 68. Mr. Argotoff was born March 18, 1916 at Ootis- chenia. He grew up in Glade and married Helen Reibin in 1947 at Glade. He moved to Passmore in 1961. He worked as a carpenter Bridge results © Eleven pairs of duplicate bridge players competed in the Jan. 14 meeting of the Joy Keillor Bridge Club. The average was 52, with the following winners: Grace Donaldson and Agnes Charl. ton with 64‘, Myrna Baulne and Mary Stewart with 61, Don Richards and Ron Per- rier with 59'2, and Gwen Krueger and Hubert Hun. chak with 58. Tied for fifth were Joy Ramsden and Judy Shep- , and Hugh Auld and of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Mr. Argotoff is survived by his wife, Helen of Pass- more; two sons, Walter of Port Alberni and Bob of Crescent Valley; two daugh- ters, Mrs. John (Helen) Oz- eroff of Glade, and Mrs. Ernie (Shirley) Pozney of South Slocan; and 10 grand- children. He was predeceased by his first wife, Nastia, his_par- ents, a brother and a sister. Funeral services were held Friday and Saturday at Pass- more Hall with burial _in Slocan Park Cemetery. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Kootenay Lake District Hospital. 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