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Take it or take it

The B.C government can't have it
both ways. Either it gives the
province's teachers the right to
strike, or it establishes a fair or-
bitration process.

Presently, there isn't p

arguments on which outlawing
strikes by teachers hinges is the
fact that school children could lose
valuable learning time.

But if the B.C. government really

for either. Teachers are not
allowed, by law, to withhold their
services. At the same time, the

bel thet, idn't it ban
college and university instructors
from also striking? Or aren't post-
secondary students as important
as those in the public school
system?

in additi the government

creation of the C
Stablization Program.

The way the system works now,
teachers and school boards sit
down to negotiate wages (working

allows workers essential to the
functioning of the province to
strike.

Police, for instance, are allowed
to withhold their services. So are

are not neg

if teachers and school boords
can't agree on a contract, the issue
is sent to arbitration. Teachers
don't have the option of striking.

But then the arbitrator's decision
isn't final. His settlement must go
to C
Commissioner Ed Peck for ap-
proval. And last year Mr. Peck
overruled the arbitrator in a host

. teachers are being
told: “Take it, or take it.”

Would the general public
support giving teachers the right to
strike? If the answers in this
week's On The Street are any in-
dication, a majority of B.C.
residents would approve of
teachers having the right to walk ao
picket line.

But would those people feel the
same way in the middle of a full-
scale walkout? Would parents who
surport the idea now, still support

it if their children had to remain at -

home for four or five weeks
becouse of a dispute?

Apparently, the other nine
provinces have asked themselves
the some questions and come up
with different answers than B.C.,
because teachers have been given
the right to strike in every province
but B.C.

B.C.’s Education Minister Jim
Hewitt calls the other provinces
‘out of step.” But who really is out
of step when B.C. is the only
province to outlaw strikes by
teachers?

What makes teachers so essen-
tial that they shouldn't be allowed
to strike? Certainly, one of the

firemeh. Health care workers are
currently voting on whether to
strike or not.

And if the government was to
ask the residents of Glade and
Harrop who is more essential,
teachers or ferry operators, there
would be little doubt as to the an-
swer.

Put simply, the provincial gover-
nment is inconsistent in its
argument against allowing
teachers the right to strike. But
then, who ever said governments
were consistent?

Remember

the board's invitation and will officiate
at the ceremonies.
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The regular monthly meeting of the
held Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. R. Whittaker with Mr. J.A. Char-
ters in the chair and members Mrs. E.
Hopland, Mrs. C.H. King, Miss Bloom-

many new books, arranging all the

books on the shelves, poster and sign
painting and other details.
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The Lillian Killough Chapter IODE

executive met at the home of Mrs. J.

Scott on Monday evening with the

Regent Mrs. J. Deans presiding and 11

Letters to the Editor

The Bible defended

exception, it is fitting that I should
come to the defence of Pastor Soltys.
Pastor Soltys believes in the iner-
rancy — as it is written in the original
— of the Bible and therefore that it
needs no apology. I frame my reply
with the sincere wish to present no

to the resignation of Stephen
Rogers as health minister this
week is understandable, though a
little misleading.

Mr. Bennett said Mr. Rogers
has done the “right” thing by
resigning his cabinet post in the
face of charges that he violated o
provincial law requiring elected of-
ficials to fully declare personal in-
vestments.

It's understandable that Mr.
Bennett would try to make the best
of a poor situation, but how on ear-
th can he say Mr. Rogers has done
the “right” thing if he was forced to
resign?

A place for Katimavik?

Katimavik is back on track.

Senator Jacques Hebert is eating
again after his 21-day hunger
strike.

A special committee formed to
revive the federal youth program
is already hard at work trying to
raise the $19 million needed to
keep the program going when
federal funding runs out June 30.

Katimavik are no longer affordable
in a world where the national
deticit hovers around $30 billion.
its focus away

toward job creation

But does one
preclude the other?

h

necessarily

But a critical q remains
unanswered. Is there a place for o
community service program for
youth within the federal gover-
ament?

The Conservative government
apparently feels programs like

@ among all the ser-
vices offered by the federal gover-
nment there should be room for a
community service program for
youth; one whose primary function
isn’t job creation, but service to the
community.

Quotable Quotes

WELFARE RECIPIENT William Mur-
phy on discovering that the Loto 6-49
ticket he found in a lost wallet was
worth more than $7.6 million: “I almost
had a heart attack . . . For about two
hours I thought of keeping all the
money to myself. If you had a piece of
paper worth almost $8 million, would
you be thinking rationally?”
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bussed overhead at his outdoor wed-
ding to singer-actress Madonna, he
said: “I consider myself very human
and very moral, and I would have been
very excited to see one of those
helicopters burn and the bodies inside

Highgrove
ire. With his arm in a

the prince said: “At last, and it

has taken me a long time, I've bee.

able to find out what it’s like to run a
small business single-handed.”
.

VANCOUVER oilman J. Bob Carter
after he and his wife were held in their
home for an hour one night by a man
who claimed he had dynamite and
threatened to blow everyone up: “He
was there a long time. It seemed like
forever.”

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JOSEPH JOFFRE, now 111, on why
he has lived so long: “The most
important thing is to believe in
mankind.”

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FEDERAL TRADE Minister James
Kelleher at a seminar where he asked
fer names for advisory committees
studying aspects of the freer trade
initiative with the U.S.: “For goodness
sakes get the names into me. Better
not put it in the mail. Try to deliver
them directly to my office.

“I shouldn't say this, but one has to
be realistic. Try and get it to me within
the next 10 days.”

personal to either party and
trust that my argument may be in
courtesy and discretion. This letter will
leave much unsaid but it is only
possible to deal with a few outstanding
principles in a reply such as this.

Those who reject the traditional
truths of the Bible have a right to do so
and also to propagate their own beliefs.
None rejects the right to differ in
Canada. It is a fact, however, that in
countries where the Bible is outlawed
and God rejected that Pastor Solyts
may be put in jail or a mental in-
stitution for expressing his beliefs in a
letter such as he did. Christianity
(though it is often perverted by hypo-
erisy) must be given the credit for the
encouragement to express our views in
a public newspaper.

I rejoice in my salvation through
Christ and appreciate the fact that our
religious freedom was won by people of
outstanding faith in God through the

ages.

Barbara Tandory wrote, “The thing
called God by the ins is an
invisible, indivisible divinity in the

human soul and we are all part of it.”
That may be what some
say, but it's not what the Bible says.

God is neither a “thing” nor an “it.”
Things and its are not written with a
capital “G.” The living God is.

Pastor Soltys’s statements are true
in principle. Of course, he is not so
naive as to suggest that all poverty is
the result of the individual's sin, but of
the depraved nature (not deprived as
printed in your letter) of man —
mankind, the human race. So long as
mankind defies God and is too proud to
conform to the Bible's better judgment,
then mankind will remain enslaved and
bring others down to his own level.

God has no quarrel with honest rich
people. It is not money that is the root
of all evil. It is the love of money. The
unholy powef that money has over
some, causes the poverty of many
worthy people. So until man — all of us
perhaps — becomes more contented
with our sufficiency and less eager for
ostentation, then the poor will always
be with us.

I know that Pat Romaine's know-
ledge of mankind has shown him that if
society is left alone without moral and
common sense ethics to restrain it,
then society will hold nothing sacred,
but will defile every good thing God
has given us.

Witness the indiscriminate destruc-
tion of our natural resources. Witness
our slow death as we choke on the
posion of our own offscouring. Witness
our present depressed economy, where
millions are spent on war machines and
nickles on training the Third World
people to feed themselves.

ray profanity rather than respected as

the holy, God blessed, privilege and

pleasure that it is, and supported, in its
proper place, in the Bible.
In Pat 's list of

present.

Various arrangements were dis-
cussed for Empire Day and some com-
mittees formed.

25 YEARS AGO
From the April 6, 1961

will investigage the pos-
sibility of appointing a full-time athletic
director.

The director would organize minor
hockey during the winter months, soft-
ball and baseball in the summer months
and football in the fall. Comm. Walter
Thorp said the suggestion that the
matter be investigated was made by a

ians he mentions some who no doubt
were a credit to society. But there
were others also of an opposite phil-
osophy who were leaders-in'the great
cause of justice to humanity.

Consider William Wilberforce, who
worked tirelessly in the British parlia-
ment to the eventual abolishment of
the slave trade. Consider John New-
ton, the profane slaver who when
touched by God's transforming power
changed his ways and wrote hymns to
express his feelings. Consider George
Mueller, who day by day fed the or-
phans in his care by his simple faith in
answered prayer.

Consider Fanny Crosby, blind writer
of hundreds of timeless and most loved
hymns. Consider also General Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army, friend
of Britain's barroom derelicts. Today
the Salvation Army’s active benevol-
ence is known the world over.

What of the thousands of today's
missionaries, and homespun pastors all
over the world who have given up the
comforts of a home to attend to the
spiritual and temporal needs of their
less fortunate brothers and sisters?

Were these people mentioned be-
lievers in the total depravity of man?
Yes indeed they were and are.

Believe me, I honor a desire to rec-
tify this cockeyed society in which we
live. I would however suggest that be-
fore are made in

Witness the perverted i
of sex being paraded around in impu-

CKQR missed

Editor, Castlegar News:

Congratulations on the production of
yet another edition of your Recreation,
Education, Business, Arts, Industrial
and Tourism Review.

We here at QR 760 Radio believe in
the Kootenays,’so much so that we
invested a gredt deal of money in
impreving our station in 1985. CKQR
Radio shelled out over $400,000 in 1985
to increase our power from 1,000 to
20,000 watts.

This power increase makes QR 760
the most powerful radio station in
southeastern B.C. We take great pride
in pointing out that we have purchased
an all-Canadian built high tech solid
state transmitter rather than an

American model available for less
money. Canadian engineers, cable
producers, parts distributors, high
riggers and many more workers
benefitted from our determination and
belief in the West Kootenay market-
place.

While I realize a newspaper is hard
pressed to promote the radio business,
I find it hard to see our major project

missed in your Review edition.

If you look at the size and scope of
our expansion, I'm sure your would
agree we should have been mentioned
as a contributor to progress in the
West Kootenay.

Brian Pritchard
Manager CKQR

Hunger strikes noble

Editor, Castlegar. News:
Thank God it's over. Senator Jac-
ques Hebert's hunger strike upset a lot
people. But then that is the great
of hunger strikes — they make
us all feel very uncomfortable. Few
people ever agree that a hunger strike
is the best route to take, yet it is the

hunger was held by law and by public
opinion to be guilty of murder.

Why do I write this letter? Because
your callous and poorly researched
editorial comment on hunger strikes
showed that you do not understand the
level of concern and anguish of the
hunger striker, the physical torture
endured, and the possible finality of the
act. You dismissed, at a stroke, the

Iti sacrifice of Bobby Sands's and
his nine cohorts (of whom you appear
to be comfortably numb), who, one by
one voluntarily paid the highest price
possible for their convictions.

I hold strongly the of my
forebears in this legitimate noble
act.

P.J. O'Connell
Castlegar

to the teaching of the Bible or the
expressed thought of a statement, that
a thoughtful and analytical study of the
issue in question be made.

L, too, have lived for years among
aboriginal African tribes. We dealt
with every stage of depravity and
devil inabl

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Castlegar will make enquiries of

night and cited several instances where
he had provided ambulance service and
had not been paid. He said that several
ambulance services in other B.C. com-
munities had ceased to provide the
service because of outstanding ac-
counts.
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Several committees have been estab-
lished for the Castlegar and District
Golf Club by its executive.

Official opening day of the course for
the 1961 season will be April 16. There
will be men’s and women's tourna-
ments in the morning and mixed-
two-ball foursomes in the afternoon.

Many local residents were among
those persons taking part in the
Kootenay Music Festival with the
inter-city competition trophy being
won by Creston with a mark of 80.36.

Stanley Humphries Senior Secon-
dary school band is one of the two area
festival bands which will be entering
the B.C. Centennial in Vancouver.

7 8 6

Ald. Harold Leslie of Kinnaird,
chairman of the Arena Ways and
Means Committee, outlined 16 points
against establishing an arena site on
Selkirk College lang when council met
last Thursday.

The decision on whether or not to
support the arena as presented by the

The vil-
lagers lived to hate, to cheat, to kill, to
profane the lovely and pervert the sa-
cred. But we've seen God touch their
hearts, seen their lives cleaned up, and
heard their singing in praise to a God
who has set them free. They knew
something about their own depravity
before their eyes were opened. We
count them- among our best friends.

Yes, let us take our unpopular stand.
Let the agnostic, the athiest, the
hedonist, the scoffer, the false prophets
and hypocrites taken up his hammer
and pound out his vengence on the
anvil of God's Word. When the
Caesars, the Voitaires, the Ingersolls,
the war mongers and cult leaders (who
often supposedly base their belief on
the Bible to make it acceptable), do
their worst, the anvil endures shining
and stronger for the pounding. And the
hammers? They will lay broken in the
dust.

George James
Castlegar

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, Castle-
gar, B.C.

Letters must be signed and include the
writer's full name and address. Only in very
exceptional cases will letters be publched
without the writer's name. Ne
the name ond address of the writer must be
disclosed to the editor

The Costlegor News reserves the right to
edit letters tor brevity, clarity, legality and
grommor

was deferred recently by

the Town of Castlegar following con

tact with education minister Don

Brothers who suggested the possibility

of building an arena on the college site.
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The dispute between major railways
and their operating engineers com-
bined with a soft pulp market has re-
sulted in a curtailment in operations of
Columbia Cellulose Co. operations in
BC.

This action, taken on Monday, affects
two thirds of Colce!’s 3,000-man work-
force.

5 YEARS AGO
From the April 5, 1961

The National Exhibition Centre
wants a grant from the Regional
District of Central Kootenay as a
gesture of support that can be shown to
senior levels of government.

If the federal and provincial gov-
ernments believe the centre is not
supported locally, there is a danger
they will withdraw their annual grants
and the centre will have to close,
Bernard Bloom, an NEC director
warned RDCK area respresentatives
March 28 when he asked for $1,000.

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Castlegar students recently attend-
ed the 10th annual Hammarskjold
provincial Debating Cup finals.

The Kootenays were represented by
Castlegar delegates Sandra Churches,
Brian Quadelaig, Chery! North, Lisa
Singh, Logan Miller-Tait, Lawrence
Dewar and Ruth Ehman.

sented by Jack Rebagliati,
went to John Irving (Social
Service Worker) of Castle-

(ABE) of Castlegar, and the
Finning Tractor Bursary to
Matthew Simons (Forestry)
of Lethbridge.

Fpervewe a. (Business

was awarded Fel Lee W.
Arnold Memorial Bursary by
Doug Glover, head of the
Business Administration pro-
gram.

The Nora Evert Memorial
Bursary was presented to
Cheryl Hicks (Office Admin-
istration) of Trail by San-
draw Seggewiss, head of the
—" English depart-
ment

Dale Hunt (Wildland Rec-
reation) of Richmond, re-
ceived the Westar Timber
Bursary from Wilf Sweeney,

Castlegar was given the
West Kootenay Medical So-
ciety Bursary and David
Eimarson (Wildland Recre-
ation) received the Ted Ruth-

general manager of Celgar
Pulp.

Grace Ackney,
Castlegar director, presented
Eilenna Denisoff (Nursing) of
Castlegar, and Kymberly
Compton (Nursing) of Trail,

the B.C. Lung Association Gwen an (Nursing) of

March a lamb al

By CasNews Staff southwest flow of air accom-

March came and went like i
a lamb with a mixture of sun
and cloud in Castlegar and in
between a new record mean
maximum temperature was
set, according to the monthly
weather summary from the
Castlegar weather office.

The mean maximum of 11.4
broke the old record of 10.9 0.2 cm for the month set in
set in 1981. The overall mean 1981.
temperature of 5.9 was alsoa = “Due to the warmer air of
record, edging out the mark late February and early
of 5.8 set in 1983. March, virtually all the snow

The reason for the balmy at the airport (the location of
temperatures was a low the weather office) has dis-
pressure area off the coast. appeared by March 3,” the
The low created a warm summary says.

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