CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 19, 1978

“Couple Celebrates Golden Anniversary

Calgary, Alta. The Popoffs also
have 15 dchildren and four

Slocan Community Hospital
Administrator Retains Post

Slocan Community Hospl-~ for the health facility. :

Relatives and friends
henii Victoria also specifically

gathered at the

CASTLEGAR aT

NEws. |) $72 KOOTENAY SAVINGS "=

nat Wedding GI
and t

Eor

Hall Dec, 18 to honor the
Golden Wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Larion Popoff,
who were married Dec, 18, 1927
in Ootischenia,

Mrs, Popoff was born in
the province of Saskatchewan
and moved as a young girl to
the Grand Forks district. Her
husband was also born in Sas-
katchewan, later moving to
B.C. to take up residence in
Ootischenia. :

While Mr. Popoff worked
as a farmer and carpenter, his
wife was busy raising their
family of two sons; John, now
residing in Ootischenia and
Larry of North Delta; and a
daughter, Anne, now living in

By Joint Doukhobor Research Committee :
Chistiakoff Era Examined

Kootenay and Grand Forks
residents took part in the year's
first session of a continuing
Joint Doukhobor Research

- Committee symposium in th
pate rasta

its Given to Couple by Grandparents

“Examine Sharing Arrangements

Police Costs Studied

“It, City couneil referred to its

Chris dward, assistant dep-

Around 1865 In Russia

the letter said.

Pp services
last Tuesday the B.C, Police
C js

uty icipal affairs ‘minister,
listed R. W. Long, deputy

that a newly-created task force
will examine cost sharing
among municipal, provincial
and federal governments for

icing.

A letter signed by com-
mission member Rev. R. A.
Burrows, who will co-chair the
task force policy board with

1 affairs minister, dep-
tt 1 R

“It is projected that ,a
number of alternative propo-
sals related to the terms of

uty Y°E' B
Vogel, commission chairman
Art Phillips and commission
member Geoff Mortimer as
other policy board members.

The letter said a small core
of research staff has already
begun to collect data related to
the task force's terms of refer-
ence.

After initial background
papers have been prepared by
mid-February, senior task force
representatives are scheduled
to be available to meet with
representatives of municipali-
ties in each region “to discuss
issues, problems, and concerns

related to policing costs in their

will be outlined by
the summer of 1978,” the letter
said. “These will be circulated
to municipalities and other
interested groups for feedback

* and reaction.”

great-grandchildren.

Mr, and Mrs, Popoff are
members of the Union of Spiri-
tual Communities of Christ.

Congratulatory telegrams
were received from Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau, the
Governor-General of Canada;
Lt-Gov. of B.C,, Premier Bill
Bennett, Leader of the Opposi-
tion Joe Clark, Kootenay West
MP Bob Brisco, Rossland-Trail
MLA Chris D'Arcy and Acting
Mayor of Castlegar Gerald
Rust.

Prior to the Dec. 18
supper, the honored couple
were entertained at a private
party by their children and
grandchildren at the Hi Arrow
Arms Motor Hotel on Dec. 17.

pearing among Doukhobors,
‘The elimination of this, he said,
would be a step in the direction
of stopping terrorism.
Lebedoff asked for a public

taeeinglen—s
Jan. 8,

A panel of speakers and
questions-and-answers dealt
with events of a social and
historical nature in the era of
Peter P. Chistiskoff.

Kenneth Konkin of Van-
couver, organizer, promoter
and past president of the Douk-
hobor Benevolent Society, ex-
plained the society's plans to
establish a senior citizens’
housing complex in Grand

Forks, the prospects for which ~

were good.

Konkin expressed concern
about the younger generation
alienating themselves from the
Doukhobor movement. The
main reason for-this, Konkin
said, was the lack of a clear
consensus on the Doukhobor
faith. This, he hoped, would be
corrected through the efforts of
the research symposiums.

Nick Novokshonoff, an el-
der from Krestova, spoke about.
the mass arrest in 1932 of
almost -1,000 Freedomites on
charges of nudity and their
imprisonment on Piers Island
near Victoria, B.C.

Novokshonoff, as a parti-
cipant, gave a step-by-step
account including the factors
that led up to this upheaval in
the Doukhobor community. Ac-
cording to his statistics, one-
third of those involved were

b of the F it

Final i
the commission letter said, will
be made by the policy board in
late 1978 or early 1979.

Terms of reference for the
municipal affairs ministry and
B.C. Police Commission joint
task force include:

e Examination of the en-
tire area of federal-provincial-
municipal cost sharing arrange-
ments for law enforcement in
B.C.

@ Clarification" of policy

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Our team of experienced pharma-

concerning special grants to
assist with policing costs in

recently-amalgamated munici- '

palities and in municipalities
becoming responsible for the
first time to provide for po-
lieing:
e Collection analysis and
comparison of cost-sharing ar-
fo

group while the rest were
mainly farmer Doukhobors
from outside of B.C.

Walter J. Lebedoff, former
editor of Iskra magazine, speak-
ing on how to curb terrorism,
pointed out that a new pheno-
mena—hate literature—was ap-

Loto Draws
Held Every
Two Months

Starting in April, Loto
Canada will hold drawings
every two months instead of
four times a year, Guy Cousi-
neau, president of the organiza-
tion, said earlier. this month.

Cousi also said the

rr po-
licing in’ other Canadian juris-
dictions;

e Examination of the re-
gional delivery of police ser-
vices and its costing implica-
tions;

e Examination of special
problems associated with main-
taining high-level police service
in both high crime rate en-
vironments and in remote areas
of the province; :

e Recommendation of a

cost-sharing formula that would

distribute the policing cost
burden on a more equitable
basis throughout the province;

e Definition of areas in
which cost savings may be
achieved by relieving police

receipts for Loto Canada's fifth
drawing last. week totalled
almost $26.5 million. Total sales
on the previous four drawings
were only $38.7 million, said
Cousineau.

To boost sales for Loto
Canada’s fifth drawing, “lucky
tickets” were sold offering
chances to win instant cash of
up to $5,000, he said.

Drawings will be held June
9 and Aug. 4, at the opening of
the Commonwealth Games in
Edmonton. Profits from the
lottery will help subsidize the
games and pay a portion of the
Olympie deficit.

Tickets sold after Jan. 8

7 pnd_retraction

il statements about him
and John J. Verigin which
made it appear that they were

* by Peter J. Popoff and John N.

tal administrator Jim . Hilde- The cut came as

brand has decided to retain his .
position after submitting a
letter of resignation to the
hospital board in New Denver

a result of a downturn in the
use of the hospital in recent

years, ports, -

ded that the position
held. by Hildebrand be elimi-
nated according to earlier re-

last month,

Both Hildebrand and nur-
sing director Ferne Coles had
submitted resignations to the
board. A replacement for Coles
is currently being sought, said
board member Walter Thring.
She had held her post for some
five years.

In recent months staff has
been laid off at the hospital in
both the professional and non-
professional categories in an
attempt to comply with recom+
mendations from Victoria that
accompanied a large budget cut

E, Podovinikoff, J, C. Lebedoff
and P, P. Slastukhin.
The meeting was chaired

Postnikoff. :
Zaitsoff, from the
sais “sak “hana

permanent
panel replacing Cyril Ozeroff
whois ding the U

accessory to the of
the community hall at Brilliant,
B.C. in 1947.

her speakers.xere Anns
Markova, J. M. Dergousoff, J.

of Victoria. é
The next session of the
symposiim is- scheduled for__]

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is a programme introduced last July which
gives senior citizens direct monthly cash
payments to assist in the payment of rent.
The amount of the SAFER payment is based
on how much income the senior citizen
receives and how much is paid for rent.

Eligibility
All senior citizens who meet EACH of the

following conditions are eligible:
@ 65 years or older

paying more than 30% of their income for

‘in receipt of Canadian Old Age Security
the senior citizen OR spouse must have:
resided in British Columbia for two years
immediately prior to application

resided in British Columbia for a
continuous five year period at any time.

Extension of Retro-Active
Payment Period

When the SAFER programme was first
introduced, information cards were sent to
ALL senior citizens of British Columbia.

Important Message

Senior Citizens
The Government of British Columbia

urges all senior citizens who may be eligible for
SAFER and have not yet applied, to do so.

Based on the completed application forms
received to date, it is apparent that many
senior citizens who may be eligible for
SAFER have not as yet applied. To ensure
that all senior citizen renters in B.C. receive
the full benefits due to them, we have
extended the closing date for retroactive
payments to March 31, 1978, Payments can
extend back to July 1, 1977.

SAFER and Rent-Aid
(Renters’ Tax Credit)

This is to rernind ALL senior citizens that
they should apply for Rent-Aid when
completing their 1977 Income Tax Return
whether they have been receiving SAFER
payments or not. Every senior citizen renting
in the Province as of December 31, 1977 is
entitled ta a MINIMUM of $80.00 in Rent-Aid.

Full information, assistance and application
forms are available at the B.C. Housing
it Commission in V: and
at the Regional Offices of the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing in Victoria,
Prince George, Kelowna and Cranbrook.

An application form and information can.
also be obtained by completing and mailing
the coupon below to:

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Thursday, January 19, 1978

Page Bl

December Unemployment Statistics:

8.5% Jobless

The - national

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:ment rate continued to worsen
during December, reaching 8.5
per cent of the work force on a
seasonally-adjusted basis, Sta-
tistics Canada said recently.

The actual number. of job-
less jumped to 882,000, an
increase of 42,000 from a month
earlier, The actual unemploy-
ment-rate was 8.3 per cent of
the labor force,

In the year to December,
more than 100,000 additional
persons were looking for work.
In December, 1976, the jobless
total was 754,000.

To Focus
Attention
On Jobless ©

ittsh Columbis Ped-
eration of Labor has launched a

major publicity campaign to .

focus attention on unemploy-
ment in an effort to make jobs
the number one political issue
in what is anticipated as’ a
federal election year.
Federation president Geo-
rge Johnston told a news
conference the B.C. program is
part of a national publicity
campaign announced earlier by
Joe Morris, president of the
Canadian Labor Congress.

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TRAFFIC JAM resulted Friday when picketing members of
the striking Telecommunticaticns Workers Union blocked
B.C. Tel supervisors’ attempts to run about a half-mile of
aerlal cable above the highway between Pass Creek and
Krestova. Road congestion resulted when a TWU member

Blocks B.C. Tel Cable Installation

TWU Local Halts Supervisors

About 16 striking Tele-
gommunications Workers
Union members halted efforts
of B.C. Tel supervisors Friday
to install an aerial cable on the
highway between Pass Creek
and Krestova, a TWU spokes-
man said this week.

dim Chapman told the
Castlegar News the TWU mem-
bers continued to block the
company truck the supervisors
had been using to run the new

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50-pair cable even after the
arrival of local RCMP at the

site. :
“They (the supervisors)

called the police but the RCMP
said we weren't breaking any
laws and that. it was a labor
dispute, and left,” Chapman
said.
Chapman said work on the
cable stopped soon after the
police left the site,

“They had to cut the cable
in mid-span and leave the site
because we blocked it,” he said.

3 ct oy ees
refused to move her car (In right foreground) out of the path
of a B.C. Tel truck (In right background) which was

proceeding along highway
below.)

“It was a brand new cable and
they'd already run halfa mile of
it”

“The supervisors were
very belligerent and threaten-
ed us with our jobs when we
get back to work," Chapman
said.

He said local TWU mem-
bers, who last month picketed
local banks accepting payment.
for B.C. Tel bills, are picketing
new construction in the area as
well as the B.C. Tel control
office on 79 Maple St. and the

Committee to Study
2nd Access Requests

The possibility of a second
access to the Shewchuk sub-
division was raised again last
Tuesday when city council re-
ferred to its planning com-
mittee two letters favoring
the additional route.

In support of reeommenda-
tions made by fellow Lakeview
Street resident Tom Good last
month, Walter Paylenuik and
Neal Dawson asked the city to
reconsider its decision that
construction of an access route
to supplement Woodland Drive
North is unnecessary.

Payleniuk’s letter support-
ed Good's suggestion that a CP
Rail back road between the
Oglow subdivision and the
Shewchuk subdivision be used
as a second route.

Dawson's letter said Wood-
land Drive “is becoming a
veritable - bottleneck” at the

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Kootenay Avenue intersection
since two houses were built in
the area.

“With cars parking on both
sides of the street, and snow
removal being what it is, it
becomes a real obstacle

+ course,” the letter said.

The Dawson letter de-
scribed the existing subdivision
entrance off Celgar Road as “a
time bomb waiting to go off.”

“Cars attempting to turn
invariably cross over into the
other lane and it is only due to
extreme caution on our part
that our vehicles ave not been
hit, yet,” the letter said,

In response toa letter from

in the same lane. (See story

company warehouse on Colum-
bia Avenue.

“We're also keeping our
eyes on West Kootenay Power,
who were climbing B.C. Tel
poles and poles they own jointly
with B.C. Tei,” Chapman said.

Attempts to reach B.C, Tel
supervisors were

facilities, a pic:
nic shelter and a new entrance
gate are included in a $35,000
Pass Creek Park upgrading
program for which Regional
Recreation Commission No. 1 is
1 sara

place eight years ago there isa
definite need to replace, re-
furbish and remodel many of
these fixtures as well as add
new (ones),” the report said.
According to the plans,

seeking thi
funding.

The Regional District of
Central Kootenay, which has
owned the park since it opened
in 1969, referred the upgrading
plans early this month to the
provincial recreation and con-
servation ministry to consider
its eligibility for a $13,500
regional park grant—about one-
third of the cost of the project.

According to the report
submitted by recreation direc-
tor Pat Metge to the RDCK

“peara Gi ~hirect

Recreation Commissi

allotted $8,000 in its 1978
budget for development of the
park, In addition, the Castlegar
and District Project Society

applied foro 612.

new h facilities will
consist of a $10,000 400-square-
foot vault latrine constructed of
concrete block and concrete
slab, The washroom would
provide women's and men's
facilities including three toilets
per section.

At a cost of $14,000 the

picnic shelter would be a 600-
square-foot three-sided double
shelter of log construction,
concrete slab, with two con-
erete cooking stoves and four
__permanent benches and tables.
The “33a0" taentinieation
gate at the entrance of the
park, which would replace the
one damaged by vandals last
summer, would be a 15-foot-
long single swing constructed
éahand 2.

000 grant under the federal
Canada Works program, for
labor, the report said.

The projected budget lists
expenditures of $12,000 for
labor, $19,000 for material,
$1,500 for equipment and $2,-
000 for contracted services.

Initial stages of develop-
ment at the park before it
opened included the layout of a
picnic area, construction of
park benches, construction of a
picnic shelter, construction of
floodgates to control the flood
of water from Pass Creek into
the natural swimming holes
within the park, construction of
a main entrance, construction
of fence perimeter and the
layout of a family softball field,
the report said.

“As this

took

City Checking Cost .
Of Flashing Lights

City staff were instructed
last week to investigate the
cost of installing flashing amber
lights and flashing arrow lights
at the intersections of Seventh
Avenue South at Fourth Street
and Sixth Street.

City council last Tuesday
approved a motion by Ald.
Albert Calderbank, works and
services committee chairman,

Council also ‘instructed
staff to request official per-
mission of the highways minis-
try for installation of the hghts
at the intersections, and to
investigate the possibility of
installing the lights on West
Kootenay Power or B.C. Tel
poles.

1. At-o-tetal
cost of $2,400, 12 wooden picnic
tables with concrete footings
would be spread throughout
_ the park.

Upgrading would also in-

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clude the addition of about 300
feet of wooden guard rails
reinforced with wooden bars at
a cost of $1,000, as well as
levelling the softball field out-
field and planting grass for
about $1,500.

A total of $2,500 would be
spent on upgrading, levelling,
planting grass and construction
of a horseshoe pit in general
purpose areas of the park.
Another $1,000 would be spent
on waste removal, beach and
pool cleanup and identification
and direction signs.

The report said decay of
existing facilities in recent
years had resulted from the
lack of funds for an ongoing

maintenance program.
peckdiondac

“[nrougn review ang pros

jection of future budgets, it
appears the monies for a proper
maintenance schedule will be
available,” the report said.

The park, a major recre-
ational area for the citizens of
Castlegar and the communi
within the boundaries of Area I
and Area J of ‘the RDCK,
serves approximately 15,000
people.

Dr. S. Rizzuto

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that staff it igate the costs
after a letter from district
highways manager R. E. Me-
Keown said traffic and pedes-
trian counts indicated the high-
ways ministry's installation of
left-turn slots at the inter-
sections, near the Regional
Recreation Complex, “do not
appear warranted at this time.”

The letter said part of the
problem motorists.face at the
intersections is “spotting the
correct street to turn onto,
causing them to turn without

G. T. Hughes of
Drive. last month which criti-
cized Good's proposal, council
had instructed staff to tell him
the city had no plans to open a
second access.

or with a
time to signal.” It suggested
the city install “neon arrows
mounted over the sidewalk” to
give the necessary advance
warning for drivers.

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