A4” April 13, 1986 — MOTICE OF COPYMOHT: Full complete ond sole vested 1s and belongs 10 Contie Mews Lid prov: ony edvertsement prepered Irom repro pr , wae sed by Conti Mews Lid. oh prow Observation obvious Ald. Albert Calderbank's obser- vation this week that the city will likely never be able to repay its in- dustrial park loan is a little like the story of the emperor's new clothes. Like the child who points out that the emperor really isn't wearing any clothes, Mr. Calderbank has simply stated what was obvious to anyone remotely familiar with the industrial park. The fact is the city has sold just a single lot for $45,000 in the five years since the park opened. That hasn't been through lock of trying. Mayor Audrey Moore's decision to establish an industrial commission to help market the lots was ingenious and necessary From all accounts, the com- mission hds tried hard to find tenants for the park, But with the whole B.C. economy still dragging, there simply aren't huge numbers of companies looking to locate in the province. And the competition is fierce for the few companies which are. It’s clear, then, that the chance of servicing the loan interest, let alone the principal, is slim at best. ‘est climbed to $220,000 os . 1, 1985 (and at o rate of some $7,000 to $8,000 a month, it is now closer to $270,000). That's on top of the original $1.2 million loan from the federal and provincial governments. Announcement great news Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's announcement this week that he expects Cominco Ltd. and the provincial government to come to an.ggreement on the water license. t@@s by the end of this month is great news. The agreement has been eagerly awaited by West Kootenay residents. It has also been long- awaited — five months to be exact it was last November that the federal government announced it will purchase $69 million in preferred Cominco shares to ‘help finance the new $270 million lead smelter in Trail. The announcement sent a wave of euphoria through the region — even though one cent hadn't been spent and not one new job had been created. Businesses and workers breathed a sigh of relief. But the reliet was short-lived The provincial government's agreement to reduce water license fees proved to be a larger stum- bling block than previously an- ticipated. Negotiations dragged on and on, leaving the West Kootenay in a state of suspended animation as residents waited for word to come down about the water license fees. Well, word still hasn't come, but The city’s agreement with the province calls for the whole debt — interest and principal — to be paid off by 1991, a mere five years from now. Unless the economy takes a sudden turnaround, it is unlikely the city will be able to come up with the funds to repay the loans through the sale of industrial park lots. The only other option open to the city, should the government take a hard line and require full payment, would be to raise local taxes. But a $1.2 million loan and another $600,000 or $700,000 in in- terest would boost taxes sky high. Anyway, to ask the city to bear the full responsibility for the debt would be unfair. Both the province and federal governments wholeheartedly approved of the loans and of the development of an industrial park. Certainly, as active participants in the venture, they should shore in any financial hardship. Just how much they are willing to share is the big question. But don't expect a decision on the issue soon. Victoria and Ot- tawa are in no hurry to settle the matter, considering there is still another five years left to run on the agreement. A lot can happen in five years. at least now residents know the time frame. We can also be encouraged by Mr. Brisco’s comment that he fully Letters to the Editor the Robson Hall on April 9 when the Rot Choi Jer the d hip of Hiring policy dangerous Editer, News: I feel I must write this letter in response to stories both in the news media and in the coffee shops. The Out to lunch? Editer, News: Would I be right in suggesting that everyone in Canada who backed Sena- tor Jacques Hebert’s hunger strike was really out to lunch? Or, in fact, is it all right in a Christian society to attempt to take one’s own life? This action expects. Q positive out fo the negotiations, ~ While there i$ no guarantee that Cominco will get everything it wants from the province, there is the indication that an agreement is forthcoming that the company — and presumably the citizens of the West Kootenay — can live with. Now we'll just have to sit and wait a little longer and trust Mr. Brisco is right. Ajug of... News this week that 22 people have died in Italy trom Italian wine spiked with lethal doses of methy! alcohol is enough to make a tee- totaller out of the most confirmed wine.drinker. That is on top of the news several months ago thet Austrion wines were laced with the same substance Another of life's pleasures is corrupted. The solution? Make your own, of course. simple harm than good to the youth of our country. Harold Ruby Castlegar topic? Outside ing jobs in Castlegar. I understand the frustration of good, enlighten you on some of the problems. How many proud parents have suc- cessful sons and daughters working at exciting and important jobs in Kel- owna, Kamloops, Vancouver, etc.? Would you be content if those jobs had regions? You see, it is a double-edged sword. P ism creates if protects its people, what is to stop Vancouver or Kelowna? Our ancestors built this country on the principles of freedom and toler- ation. We are proud of them and of our country. Let's work together to build this province better and not tear it down. those out-of-town work- ers have wives and children at home, too, and you are not prevented from working in their towns. The company I work for came into Castlegar with an open mind and a friendly attitude. We have hired locally and are buying our materials locally where we can. We have been received just as openly by you friendly people. Let's work to keep it that way. Darcy Alien Superintendent for Vandengen Coast. of (currently building the Senior Citizens Complex) Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The News, P.O. Box 3007; Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, Gr deliver them to our office : 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gor, B.C. Letters must be signed and include the of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Castlegor News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity. legality and grommor ovah's witnesses will be host to visiting witnesses of the West Kootenays when they assemble in the Stanley Hum- group was organized in the fall of 1969 with 19 members. Since then the membership has increased to 4. * 28 the Lillian The general meeting- of p Killough Chapter of the IODE was held _ Monday in the Twin Rivers Hall with the first vice-regent, Mrs. L. Zinio presiding. Committees were formed and plan- ning initiated for two projects to be undertaken — an art exhibit of paint- ings by A.J. Garner and a spring tea to be held in the Parish Hall May 13 afternoon and evening. . 2¢« 6 Rev. David Rathyew of Kimberley was a special guest speaker for the past week at the Pentecostal Tabernacle. WITH NEWSPAPER OFFER Murdoch plays ace By PAUL in ment bias in the country’s big news- papers. On occasion, Fleet Street's mam moth presses would grind to a halt if the highly paid and underworked Quotable Quotes P didn't like a newspaper's coverage on some touchy issue. Much has changed in the last three months. First, Rupert Murdoch slipped the hackles of profit-wrecking overman- Philippines president Fer. dinand Marcos, when asked about the thousands of pairs of his wife's shoes found in Malacanang Palace: “She has probably to change shoes twice a day, and then after a while because she . . . probably feels more comfortable and there's a party where she can wear high heels and parties for low heels . . . Twenty years! That is our collection for 20 years.” . ESSAYE BUCHTER, an elderly New York millionaire noted for her stinginess, left an estate estimated at $2 million when she died. The will stated: “I leave my best wishes to members of my family, including Morris's (family), and want them to get whatever they gave me — NOTHING.” * 2 « ROCK ‘s' ROLL star Jerry Lee Lewis, when asked if he would marry again after his sixth wife filed for divorce: “I said I wouldn't every time. But I don’t believe in living in sin. I might get married again.” ere” «@ PRINCE CHARLES, after he and one-kilometre long terminal at Heath- row Airport: “I have come to the conelusion that the distances that or prosp have to march through terminals is designed to ensure that when you climb into the aircraft you are so exhausted that you fall asleep instantly and feel no more pain for the rest of the flight.” . 8 « THE WIFE of a Taiwan city mayor, after she publicly forgave him for an affair with another woman: “A man sometimes does stupid things when he socializes.” * 8 « AFTER 10 telephone calls in the last two months, viewers of Late Nite with David Letterman finally saw the World of Arnie Barnes. Barnes, “Omaha correspondent” for the NBC show, sent in 13 photos of what the talk show host described as Barnes’ neighborhood, home and life. Subjects included Fat Jak’s, a bar in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Barnes’ work place, Omaha Steaks International; his two best friends and his favorite beer. After showing the photo of Barnes’ home this week, Letterman asked Barnes by telephone to describe it. “It's a house,” Barnes said. Letterman replied, “There's a lot of poet in you, too, isn't there, Arnie?” ning and called the print unions’ bluff. He summarily. sacked 5,000 print workers and moved his entire oper- ation behind barbed wire in a fortress- like plant in London's east end. Now, after 10 weeks of sporadic street battles outside the Wapping plant between police and the trade unionists seeking to disrupt distribu- tion of Murdoch's four titles, the Australian-born press baron has played his ace. He was offered to give the press unions a modern and complete plant in which they can produce the opposition Labor party's long-dreamed-of news. paper. The value of the Grays Inn Road facility where Murdoch used to print The Times and The Sunday Times ex- ceeds $100 million. The 60 modern Goss Headliner presses — the same ones Murdoch has installed in his new plant — are worth $50 million. The shtewd ploy comes complete with an existing contract to print The in North America decades ago. Thus the ers who would not be needed to produce a new Labor-leaning daily. attempt to conceal. If, as the unions claim, overmanning is not the plague of Fleet Street, then Murdoch's offer of a ready-to-go news- paper plant should provide work for the 5,000 compositors and pressmen he fired. No one believes that. So rather than jump at a $100-million both the union and the And in an editorial Tuesday in The Times, the directness of challenge to the unionists and the Labor party was underscored. “They want old jobs that no longer exist,” said The Times. “They do not want the risk of new jobs ... As fora Labor paper, why spoil a nice dream by making it work.” on his electric motion were quick to point out their no votes didn't necessarily mean they opposed putting the matter to refer- endum. several work parties attended by club members. 7 28 « Castlegar council endorsed a report last week outlining the recreational potential of the 63.12-acre Eremenko Flats property located on the Columbia River at the foot of Maple Street. In a report to aldermen on the potential of the area as a park site, recreation director Buck Pacholzuk record of debate in the House of Com- mons. Mr. John R. Rodriguez (Nickel Belt): Mr. Speaker, as I look at this borrow- ing Bill, I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I do not know where to start. Seme Hen. Members: Oh, ob! Mr. Redrigues: Do you know that day the to across and I want to know where the Alberta Tories are in this House at a Ss af E “a features General Meeting GETTING IN SHAPE . . . Castlegar council gets ready Challenge with a little help from Verona Walker, Castleg program coordinator. Walker was at this week's council meeting to lead local EXPO 86 COMMITTEE BUDGET Council wants details Administrator Dave said. Gairns JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI DANIEL VOYKIN Local Broker for the Great Participaction Bus. 604-365-2700 Res. 604-365-2747 Site 14, Box 16, R.R. 1 Castlegar, B.C. Recreation politicians in a five-minute workout. VIN 3H7 Report slips up VICTORIA (CP) — The latest edition of the B.C. government's Provincial Re- port is likely to confuse world's fair tourists as much them. The March edition of the government newspaper in- eludes an eight-page Expo supplement with a scrambled bus schedule, a street run- ning the wrong way and another street entirely miss- ing. The bus routes in the re- port are obsolete, an oper- ator at Metro Transit's in- formation telephone number said. 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