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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”
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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.”

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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.
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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

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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

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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. Some bus numbers
don't exist any more while
others do not run along the
routes laid out in Provincial
Report.

Cambie Street, which is a
one-way street southbound,
shows up as a one-way north-
bound on an Expo map.
Hornby Street has been left
out completely.

The Expo supplement
gives information on the
world’s fair to assist tourists.
While most of it is correct,
the government has under-
estimated the number of cor-
porate sponsors at Expo.

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