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What's going on?

Just what's going on in the
Ministry of Highways? Surely,
that’s the question in light of the
ministry's actions this past week
concerning West Kootenay terries.

it would seem simple enough
tor ministry officials in’ Victoria to
sound out new terry measures on
local statt betore implementing
them. Surely, the local highways

First the ministry it
was shutting the Castlegar-Robson
terry as a restraint measure. Only
atter residents marshalled con-
siderable intormation to support
the terry’s continued operation did
the government back off and
reverse the closure.

Even at that, it could be
argued that Highways Minister
Alex Fraser was heavily intluenced
in his decision to reverse the
closure because one of the three
terries slated to be shut down hap-
pened to be in his own riding.

That aside, Mr. Fraser
acknowledged last Friday that the
Castlegar-Robson terry closure
would have created “hardships
tor local residents.

But in announcing the Robson
terry's reduced hours of operation,
Mr. Fraser made a mistake. The
local highways manager indicated
later that the Robson terry would
be able to operate 1% hours
longer than announced because of
the way Highways works its shifts.

In the same announcement
last Friday, Mr. Fraser said the
Glade terry’s hours of operation
would be reduced.

t appeared that the ministry
was trying to spread the weight of
restraint around, thus saving the
Castlegar-Robson terry, but asking
Glade residents to accept shorter
operating hours for their terry.
That was a fair move.

_ Untortunately, it wasn't that
easy. Glade residents have only a
single access — the terry. And
reducing the terry's rs would
have made it impossible tor shift
workers to get to their jobs.

When that was made clear,
Mr. Fraser reversed the reduction.

What is really amazing about
all this is that no one in the High-
ways Ministry ‘informed the
minister of the implications of all
these moves.

Pp I could have pi dthe
chaos the closure and reducti

Ome ecsovEn

“The tad’s confused. He got marked A-plus

they've marked the questions D-minus.”

would cause.

And surely betore the minister
announced the new terry hours tor
the Robson terry he would have
asked his staff to check with the
local highways manager to contirm
that these would in tact be the
hours?

It almost seems it's too much
to ask that the Highways Ministry
to check out its changes before it
implements them. It that's the case
the ministry can expect adverse
public reaction every time.

B.C.'s
clockwork

orange

A story in Wednesday's
Castlegar News reported that con-
victs in one B.C. prison will be
allowed to watch kiddie porn and
other sexual materiol.

The “arousal” therapy is part of
a new treatment scheme Ottawa is
planning tor as many as 100 sex of-
fenders at A iz M i

to the international border. Bag limit is
12 fish.
._ 2* @

Miss Ann Tait arrived Monday from
Scotland to make her home in Kin-
naird.

. 28 6

Mr. 8. Ross, equipment and building
engineer of the B.C. Telephone Co., an‘
nounced Tuesday that the construction

Letters to the Editor

IN SOVIET SCHOOLS

Radical changes eyed

Editor's note: Changes in the B.C.
education system are the subject of
debate these days. Following is an
article reprinted from The London
Observer on propesed changes in the
Soviet education system.

By MARK FRANKLAND

A campaign is under way to turn
Soviet schools into real

new, socialist type of personality only if
it is not reduced toa game... but isa
permanent daily duty.’

e Schools becoming not just finan-
cially self-supporting but also profit-

therefore taces a ‘worker's’ career. But
many factory workers are just as keen
for their children to go to university
and avoid a life on the assembly line.

The maximalist reformers are also

making from their stud ’ labor. One
enthusiast calculates that this could
add ‘tens of billions of pounds’ to the
Soviet’ economy each year.

The have found an

units where children will work from
the age of six.

It is part of a national debate on
school reform whose outlines were
drafted by the Communist Party Cen-
tral Committee at the beginning of the
y

ear.

These outlines already point to a
much grater emphasis on practical
work as a way of implanting enthusi-
asm for a life in the factory or farm —

Prison in the Fraser Valley, we're
told.

The ideo is to meqsure the
sexual response of criminals who,
once aroused, will be encouraged
to develop an aversion to their
perverted desires.

it’s shades of A Clockwork
Orange and its perverted hero
Alex. Only we all know what hap-
pened to Alex in the end, right?
The therapy didn't work.

Will this be another case of art
imitating lite or lite imitating art?

Fred

Please do not read this week's
column if you are easily offended.

“A man is at the door.”

“What does he want?”

“I don't know . . . he is just,
standing there on the porch. You
had better go see what he wants,”

The man of the house opens the
door wide and blurts, “What are you
up to mister?”

“I was just wondering if you had
any work for a pretty fair car-
penter.”

“Hell, I haven't worked for
months and I'm a better than
average plumber.”

“OK .. . sorry. Just scrounging
around to see if I can make a buck.”

“Hey, wait a minute, Mac,” the
burly plumber calls over his shoul-
der. “Hey, Myrt, get the coffee on.”

The carpenter accepts the invita-
tion and these two are soon sharing
their tale of misfortune. It turns out
that they are in fact better than
average. They share their work
record experiences, construction
projects both had worked on.

“... it took a lot of guts for a crack
carpenter to knock on doors like an
Avon peddler.”

“... well, I was thinking that it
took a special kind of a plumber to
invite a complete stranger into his
house for a cup of coffee.”

The carpenter and the plumber
were friends in need.

They knew of other unemployed
tradesmen and they called a meet-
ing of those they felt could help the
team. The idea they would share
with others was simply this: “We
will hire ourselves. We are good.
We will build a better mousetrap.”

Merriman

It was not easy. Neither man had
capital. They did have their tools,
their skill, and a willingness to
‘hustle. It was essential that the
team be rounded out with an unem-
ployed accountant, a retired gales-
man and two women presently on
social assistance willing to “make
telephone solicitations. Once the
ball started rolling they had a good
list of proven tradesman covering
all of the aspects of construction,
finance and sales.

Yes, they had a few good breaks.
The manager at the credit union had
contacts.

that many Soviet school
leavers are thought to lack.

The campaigners want to push the
reform even further and put practical
work and academic study-almost an an.
equal footing. .~ a :

Judging by a variety of statements

by academics, industrialists and party’

intellectuals they would like to see:
e Children doing some manual work
from six years old, the new age for
starting school under the proposed re-
forms. They suggest that Soviet labor
laws be altered to make this possible.
e ‘Real work’ taking up as much as
three hours a day in the curriculum
compared to today’s maximum of four
hours a week. This would be balanced
by giving the children to Kommunist,
the party’s journal of theory, ‘produc-
tive labor becomes the creator of a

NUCLEAR STRATEGY

experimental school in Moscow that
they believe proves their point. The
Seagull factory-school, opened in 1963,
trains 5,000 children aged 15 and over
from 30 Moscow schools. Working in
shifts, they produce electrical goods
including transistor radios and trans-
formers, all of which are sold and some
exported.

The school has a real plan. The
children are organised in real produc-
tion brigades. Even though they are
supported by a permanent staff of
adult workers who are paid wages,
Seagulls gales have amounted in 20
years.to same 40 million pourids. Half of
‘this has gone to the government in
taxes.

These radical ideas haven't appeared
out of the blue. They have been nour-
ished by disquiet, common also among
much more moderate reformers, that
today's Soviet schools produce too
many students with the wrong work

ificati no work ificati
or just very little inclination to work.

Educators and politicians believe
parents are partly to blame. ‘Ninety
per cent of parents with higher
education,’ a writer remarked, ‘aren't
delighted when their son or daughter
has only a secondary one’ — and

France retains its

independent position

By GRET MacARTHUR
PARIS — While the broad political
consensus on defence has been break-
ing apart in many western countries, it
has been strengthening in France,
whose independent nuclear course may

come as a blessing for NATO.
France is the only country other than
the two superpowers with a nuclear
defence triad — air, sea and ground-
based missiles — and the 1984 French
budget calls for two new nuclear
submarines and development of a new
generation of tactical nuclear missiles
for the 1990s.
Eigh' ti ed, nuclear-

Some investors were
for a piece of the action. Our heroes
started with renovation and minor
repair jobs. The work was superior,

tipped rockets on the Albion plateau in
southeastern France, each with a range
of 3,490 kilometres, are aiméd at Soviet
i ial and ion centres.

the prices realistic and
for even those on fixed incomes to
spruce up the place. In due course
they constructed residential and
commercial buildings.

Their success sprung from the
opening idea: we will hire our-
selves.

Each of the members of the team
which in time became the best in the
business participated in profits at
year-end; an incentive for each man
and woman to pull their weight.
They contributed their own willing
labor and the catalyst was, “We are
in it together.”

The carpenter became president
of the company and the plumber
found that he was a good man at
getting some major contracts, be-
cause he promised labor peace with
a happy team which produced and
made money for each other.

Five French nuclear submarines
carry an additional 80 missiles, 33
Mirage IV jet bers have nuclear
strike capability ahd France has devel-
oped — but not juced — a neutron
weapon.

The defence strategy is based on the
“French sanctuary” theory. An attack,
conventional or otherwise, directly
against French territory has to carry a
price so high that an enemy will not
even try it.

But France is also the only country in
the western alliance which is not a part
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-
zation’s integrated military command.
The late president Charles de Gaulle
pulled out in 1966, declaring that
Franee alone would decide when,
where and how to use its military
forces.

NATO forces operate under a
command structure that requires

ag of all the par

countries before nuclear forces are en-
gaged.

Since France insists that its nuclear
arsenal is independent, “purely defen-
sive” and small compared with that of
the United States and the Soviet
Union, the French have refused to
allow it to be included for discussion in
any East-West arms reduction deal.

The Soviets have insisted that the
combined force of 162 British and
French missiles must be taken into ac-
count. The West's refusal was one of
the reasons Moscow cited for the lack
of progress in the now-suspended
Geneva arms reduction talks.

Washington has backed the French
position and the French in turn have
been among the h

pr ig that
manual labor is itself a priceless and ir-
replaceable educator. They praise the

work there. They argue that no one
should become even a surgeon or
musician without ‘a definite period of
'y labor’ at a job.
They also believe that children
without this experience, risk becoming
‘consumers and parasites’ in society
fe to

psychology.’

The radicals have enemies within the
Soviet educational establishment. The
Ministry of Education is accused by
them of ignoring, and at one time even
trying to destroy, the Seagull experi-
ment. Many of the ministry's textbooks
are attacked as ‘a braké on the labor
education and development of child-
dren.’

The radicals have on their side the
present state of the labor market
where young workers, particularly
with skills, are for demographic rea-
sons i ly scarce. The gov-
ernment will be interested in any
scheme that might relieve this shor-
tage.
But it is also obvious that this de-
bate, like many. educational debates, is
cyclical. Some of the radicals’ ideas
were tried out 20 years ago by Nikita
Khruschev and later gradually aban-
doned. Khruschev, a proletarian ro-
mantic himself, would have approved a
remark by one of the new radicals to
the effect that, when he was a lad just
after the war, girls wouldn't go out
with boys with soft hands.

He said: ‘No callouses meant you
weren't a man.’ It remains to be seen if
late 20th century Soviet girls can be
taught to believe that horny-handed is
beautiful.

of the Casth
would commence within three weeks.
The building will be 18° x 82, sit-
uated on a lot they purchased some 12
months ago from Mr. N. Oswald. Word
is not definite yet on the phone in-
stallation, but it is hoped that they will
be installed by this fall.

25 YEARS AGO
From the April 2, 19§9
News

Three Castlegar boys left by bus for
Victoria on Tuesday to receive their
Queen Scout Awards from the Lieu-
tenant Governor of B.C. They are Bob
King, Wayne Groutage and Roger
Toogood, who have successfully
all the required tests for this highest of
Scout Awards.

. *6* «

Mr. and Mrs. M.D. McPherson left
Tuesday morning with junior badmin-
ton players Gayle McPherson, Tanya
Kinakin, Jack Osachoff, Rita Cum-
mings and Don Gray for Abbotsford
where they will compete in the B.C.
junior badminton tournament.

* 6

‘The Mica Creek dam is the best pos-
sibility, the Murphy Creek dam would
second

He was asked to comment on the
recently-released engineering report
on the Columbia River hydro devel-
opment picture.

Mr. Herridge said the Mica Creek

The Castlegar and District golf club
met last week and plan and work party
as soon as weather permits.

All directors were returned to office
as follows: R.A. West, president, J.
Kelly, vice-president; Mrs. D. Brookes,
secretary-treasurer; and directors: O.
Walkere, L. Harmston, J. Miros, M.
Verzuh, H. Binnie and E. LeRoy.

Regional
First place in the senior section went to
the sister team of Patty and Krissy
Clarke, while second place went to
vocalist Barbara Batting.

Third place went to the stage band
composed of John McCutcheon, Phil
Rivers, George Johnson, Bob Burak,

Letters to
the editor

Why no
coverage?

Editer, Castlegar News:
I was surprised to see no news item
about the annual general meeting of
land-Trail NDP it

of NATO's deployment of new U.S.

missiles in Western Europe.
When the French withdrew

NATO's military wing,

the
which includes Castlegar.
New executive members were elec-

and the rest of alliance accused de
Gaulle of weakening NATO and
endangering world peace through a
short-sighted attempt to recapture
France's “grandeur” and gain a little
international manoeuvring room.

But interviews with French Defence
Ministry sources, independent French
defence analysts and other western
sources indicate that France's defence
commitment would never have ap-
proached current levels had it. remain-
ed part of NATO's military command.

Nuclear independence in a source of
pride in France, which, says analyst
Jean Klein of the French Institute for
International Relations, has had a
“rather remarkable continuity” of
policy despite the Socialist election
victory in May 1981. -

(Associated Press)

from ted and delegates selected to attend
the NDP L Ce jon on
May 20 this year.
Elisabet Thor-Larsen

Castlegar .

Editor's note: The Castlegar News
tries to cover as many local events as
possible, but has limited resources.
Therefore, ‘we cannot cover every-
thing. We are forced to rely on com-
munity groups, such as the Rossland-
Trail NDP, for information.

The fact we were not informed of the
NDP annual general meeting didn't
help. For the benefit of other com-
munity groups, it is wise to inform the
CasNews as early as possible if your
group desires coverage. In this way the
newspaper can allocate resources ac-
cording to priorities. We can't guar-
antee coverage, but groups have a
much better chance if we are. notified
well in advance.

Dean Polly and Nancy Fow-
ler, Carol Soberlak, Eileen Marcellus,
Rita Deverney, Vicki Obedkoff, Hea-
ther Markin, Greg Archibald, John
Phillips and Susay, Judy and Keith
Allingham.

* 2 6

A great deal of interest is_being
shown in B.C. and across Canada in the
actions presently being undertaken by
local members of the United and
Anglican Churches.

For some time, the feeling has been
increasing among church goers that
more money and time should be spent
helping people and less on buildings.

Under the auspieces of the Regional
Ecumenical Parish — a move in this
direction, was decided upon at recent
meetings held by three churches of St.
David's Anglican, Kinnaird United and
Castlegar-Robson United.

* 28 «

There is very little chance of a pet
budgie ever returning to its home once
it has escaped through a door ‘or

the afternoon, but there was no sign of
the bird.

At sunset the budgie returned to the

dustry from Vancouver,
Prince George, and Calgary.

The programs are two-
fold; to introduce people to
the West Kootenay culture
and lifestyle, and to update
the business abilities of mem-

i

Although the convention
will be headquartered at
Castlegar, other events will

Credit

+ + « president of CFAX
radio to speak at the SICA
convention,

take in Trail, and else-
where in the West Koot-
enays.

Chairman of the West
Kootenay SICA, Rod Sale-
wich, is working with a con.
vention committee made up
of Nila Hoolaeff, Larry Sap-
riken, Mike Semenoff all
from Castlegar, and Elmo
Ferraro and Paul Ferro from
Trail.

head elected

Joe Biagioni, a retired
Trail businessman, was re-
elected president of Koot-
enay Savings Credit Union at
a special meeting of the
Board of Directors held fol-
lowing Tuesday's annual

ap
pointed to the Board of Dir-
ectors in 1976 as one of five
representatives in the Trail
region.

He was elected president
in 1981. This will be his
fourth term in that executive

Re-elected as first and sec-
ond vice-presidents were Tim
Jenkin of Trail and Nick Og-

who is serving his second
year as a representative for
the Trail region.

JOSEPH BIAGIONI
. re-elected president

of Kootenay
Credit Union,

Savings

The general manager of
Kooténay Savings, Douglas
D. Stanley, was confirmed as
treasurer.

New electronics
boss at Cominco

Dr. H.E. Hirsch of Trail
has been appointed president
of Cominco's Electronic Mat-
erials Division at Trail and
president and chief executive
officer of Cominco Electronic

ected electronic materials
activity at Trail as well as
over-all technical research
for Cominco.

In 1982, with the increased
attention to electronic mat-
erials and pro-

Is Inc. at

The announcement was
made by W.G. Wilson, pres-
ident of Cominco Ltd. Hir-
sch’s appointment is effective
today, following the retire-

duction at Trail, he was ap-
pointed general manager,
electronic materials division.

Hirsch received his edu-
cation leading to a doctorate

ment of Mare atthe in at the
end of March. University of Karlsruhe,
Hirsch Cominco at West Germany, in 1961.

Trail in 1962, on completing a
postdoctorate fellowship in
metallurgy at the University
of B.C.

His early service was in

His further study in Can-
ada, before joining Cominco,
was under ‘a National Re-
search Council Fellowship.

Hirsch has been closely
with Cominco’s

h. In 1971 he
became superintendent of
electronic materials.

leadership in gallium arsen-
ide wafer production and

t construct a suspension lumber
bridge to Zuckerberg Island
Park.

timbers while the
Club ‘has’ voted $1,400 to

aesembling material and

model in preparation for the
main event.

& GOfoot bridge

Parents of y
and owners of si

children
pets are gerous.

Speaker on the

After several busy week- purchase the conerete for the t f

fede the Syendron has sor‘ sasha “~ peace tax Tun
veyed the area, slashed the Major Perkin reports that

approaches, dug the footings the work is p on = Edith Ad. of Victoria, reg
for the approach supports schedule and that he anti- coordinator for the Peace of a peace tax fund in Canada.
and bridge towers and the cipates a very sful Tax Fund will be The meeting is slated for 7
Pits for the 80,000-pound an- opening ceremonies on May the featured guest speaker at p.m. Films will also be shown
chors at each end of the 20. a public meeting Tuesday on the topic.
450-foot bridge. Meanwhile, as some of the night at the Brilliant Cultural The event is sponsored by

The exercise, which is re- squadron members work on

ceiving ever-increasing in-
terest throughout the Koot-

- the approaches at the site in
- Castlegar, others are work-

enays and elsewhere, has the ing at the armories jn Trail

Centre.

Adamson, currently on a
Canada-wide tour, will speak
on the latest developments

the Union of Spiritual Com-
munities of Christ committee
for world disarmament and
peace.

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