CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1964

3 Sections (A, 8 & C)

$2.4 4 million in aid for area

“ae Writer

Some of the $2.4-million from a federal aid program
announced Saturday at a Central Kootenay Regional
District meeting will go towards developing the Castlegar
Industrial Park, if Mayor Audrey Moore has her way.

But details on the wrovere Modified Industry and
Labor Ad, PP? for the Central
Kootenay June 21 by the federal government — haven't yet
been released, making it difficult for local politicians to
gauge the benefits the mega#program will have for
unemployed workers and ailing in Castlegar.

“I can't get a handle on it,” Moore said Tuesday. “(The
Regional District of the Central Kootenay) don't know when
the money is going to be available. They don't know the
parameters surrounding the money.”

Moore said she has already spoken with an ptfciat at
Employment and Immigration Canada in Trail (the federal
department helping administer the funds) advising him to
contact the Castlegar Industrial Commission about diverting
some of the money to help develop the city-owned industrial
park. The park has only one tenant and the commission has
been attempting to market the lots.

“It's new money that's been allocated to aid the high
unemployment in the Kootenays,” added Moore.

“I hope we would use it creatively and imaginatively as
possible, to create some jobs of a lasting nature.”

Meanwhile, Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen said
he was “very pleased” about MILAP being designated for
the Central Kootenay, especially since both he and the
RDCK thought the program had gone by the boards”

Kristiansen said a primary stumbling block for re-
ceiving funds through MILAP was that “the government se
up guidelines and legislation in such a way as to freeze out
Western Canada.”

He said the vrogram applied more to areas where the
mainstay is secondary industry.

The RDCK reworded its application “so it (the program)
could more easily apply to our primary industries,” said
Kristiansen in a telephone interview from Ottawa.

He said some of the funding may be spent on forestry-
related jobs, since that was “one of the concerns” expressed
in the RDCK application

MILAP is the successor to ILAP (Industry and Labor
Adjustment Program) which was discontinued last March.

The basic difference between the old and the new
“niodified” program is that MILAP “is much more flexible”

and has a more general application, said John Heatherington
the co-ordinator for MILAP, who works for Employment
and Immigration Canada in Vancouver.

‘The old program applied only to specifically “designated
industries” in an area, he said.

Port Alberni, which successfully applied for $15-million
in funding under ILAP, was only able to use about
$2.8-million because of restrictive guidelines on their

uN d funds, said Kr

But “we will be able to use the vast majority” of the
$2.4-million set aside for the Central Kootenay, he said.

Kristiansen said that while he was pleased with the
funding, it would have been more timely “a year-and-a-half
ago, when a number of closures took place” such as the
Kootenay plywood mill in Nelson.

continued on page A2

six months ago for this area.

BUILDING EXPANSION . .

. Walter Markin of Frank F. McLeod building

contractors constructs forms at Central Foods where the 525 square

metre (5,000 square feet) expangion is taking place. The project, which
began a week ago, is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

IN PARK REQUEST

Church group stalled

By CasNews Staff
A request by a church group to use
the park at the Community Complex
for a 10-day meeting hit a stumbling
block Tuestlay,.at Castlegar council.

The Full.Gospel Businessmen's Fel-
lowship wants, to use the park from
Aug. 31 to Sept. 9, said parks and
recreation committee chairman Ald.
Bob MacRain.

MacBain said the group will set up a
tent in which it will hold its- meetings.
“It's a learning situation,” he ex-

_ plained.

His committee recommended the
request be approved provided organ.
izers meet the city’s requirements for
fencing and clean-up.

some council _
led by Mayor Audrey Moore and Ald.

MacEACHEN QUITS

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. (CP) —
Deputy Prime Minister Allan Mac
Eachen said today he will quit the
Liberal cabinet as of Saturday and will
not run in the next federal election.

Canso.

He said that if Parliament sits after
this week he will sit as a backbencher,
but his days as a cabinet minister are
over.

He said there was a place for him in

WALLY MacEACHEN
++. Won't run again

Len Embree — questioned the recom-
mendation.

Moore asked how many will be at-
tending the 10-day session. MacBain
replied that he understood there will
be about 200..

But city clerk Ron Skillings reported
that between 150 and 200 people will be
involved in staging the session, but or-
ganizers hope to attract about 1,000
people.

Embree then noted, “I have some
concerns.” Embree said if the group
plans to erect a tent, it sounds as if it
plans to camp at the park.

“It's not a camp,” replied MacBain.

Skillings later added that people
attending the meetings plan to stay in
campgrounds and motels.

But Embree said: “The concern I
have is with the numbers for the length
of time.”

He said the park will be unavailable
for use by community residents for 10
days. As well, he said he is concerned if
the sanitary facilities will be able to
handle 1,000 people for such a long
time:

George Reshaur, public works super-
intendent, said ‘1,000 people will create
a “considerable strain” on the park's
washroom facilities.

Pointed out that the 1,000
attending the session will only be there
for five or six days. The rest of the
10-day period will be used to set up
beforehand and clean up afterwards.

Still, Ald. Albert Calderbank noted
that the request will include the Labor
Day weekend. Labor Day is Sept. 3.

the next meeting with a “full report.”

— Cashiews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk

Turnbull
tosses hat
into ring

By CasNews Staff

,Jean Turnbull of Trail said she will
put her name forward for the Liberal
Party nomination in the Kootenay
West riding at a convention tentatively
scheduled for Castlegar Aug. 8.

“I was approached by a number of
people — initially I said no,” said
Turnbull in a telephone interview
today.

Persuasion from friends, and in-
creasing membership in the Liberal
party in Kootenay West, coinciding
with the recent leadership race helped
her make the decision, Turnbull said.

“I feel I can-represent the Libera)
Party in this riding,” she said. “It took a
long time to decide, it’s a big decision to
make.”

Turnbull said she’s lived in Trail
since 1967, and has been a member of
the Liberal Party since 1968, She was
elected to the Trail schoob board for
two terms, and was a member of the
Selkirk College board.

Turnbull was also a member of the

Chamber

By RON NORMAN

Editor

The Castlegar Chamber of Com-
merce Tuesday received the green
light to use city property near the
Community Complex for its new office.

Castlegar council agreed to allow the
chamber to move a trailer onto the
100-foot by 100-foot parcel at the inter-
section of 20th St. and 6th Ave., just
north of the new works yard road.

The trailer will be a temporary office
for the chamber as it works on plans for

g ho’

a building for the site. Council ap- |

proved the trailer on a six-month basis.

Council also stipulated that the
G@iambér landscape the grounds aid
tered parking jot to cut dwn on

a chamber will have to submit an
overall site development plan for the
property to the city before it can
proceed with construction of its new
building.

Chamber manager Wally Peacock
was delighted with the news.

“It's gung ho,” he said in an inter-
view today. “We're on the way.”

Peacock said the chamber has “an
idea” of what it plans to build on the
property, but dees not have any de-
signs yet.

He added that the six-month ap.
proval for the trailer “is not long
enough.” He said it will be “impossible”
for the chamber to construct a new
office building in that time.

Peacock indicated that chamber will
likely seek a six-month for

WALLY PEACOCK
. It's gung ho”

about landscaping its new store.

Mayor Audrey Moore said that when
the store opened she was given verbal
assurances by Safeway executives
from Vancouver that the store would
be landscaped.

George Reshaur, public works super-
intendent, said he contacted Safeway,
but the company “didn't make any
positive commitments.”

City work crews will clean up and
maintain the Kinnaird Park Fish Pond.

“The pool is in a rather bad state,”
explained Ald. Bob MacBain, parks and

the trailer.

City bylaws allow a temporary
trailer to be located for a maximum of
six months.

In other news, council will send a
formal request to Canada Safeway
asking what the company intends to do

i chairman. He
added that the fountains, which are not
will also be i d and

should soon be working again.

The city has hired two students for
the summer and plans to hire a third
casual worker. All three will work with
the city crew.

—inside

CLARK'S COMING: For-
mer Progressive Con-
servative prime
minister Joe Clark will
visit the West Kootenay
Friday and Saturday. A
stopover in Castlegar is
on his agenda, where
Clark will comment on
John Turner's new
cabinet to be announ-
ced on Saturday. The
Sunday edition of the
CasNews will carry both
the Turner announ-
cement and Clark's
reaction... A2

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at the Schoolboy's Dinners Club.

And:

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Customers wear bibs and sit at

skirts.

RANDY ANDY: The proprietor of a quirky London restaurant where
es wear sexy clothes and subject customers to mock canings
has denied that Prince Andrew had received

Peter Byfield, 35, was quoted in London's racy tabloids as saying
that the 24-year-old prince allowed himself to be caned by one of the
scantily clad waitresses during a reunion of his Royal Navy buddies

of the best.”

But Bytield later changed his story, and “categorically denied”
the tanning reports about Queen Elizabeth's fun-loving son, who ser-
ved as a helicopter pilot during the 1962 Falklands Wor.

visited on the weekend, serves

typical public school meals and apparently caters to the schoolboy
jurking in the soul of the upper-class Englishman.

long Eton-style tables, being ser-

ved by nubile young women in schoolgir! blouses and very short

y held its Awards Day