CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 13, 1977 WWI RSS NW | Vid a asm ort BPR reraeg ty Rang | —poneoe 1100 Oe ROT CBS 1; goa rae cow roe ene cua c00 Cad ' exnnea ent roa cee sea courted anreteseage egareé sousaeveusnett ; qnasinansaue rth #6 41.18 19 ODEO CREREIGIEDED ts e209 69 62 62 (80 oar eeacee? v0 eLarenoecngoccgsaeCqaeed vy | pe a0) escesaonensa a ae eee 6. : ~ CASTELEGAR NEWS| _ Legislative: Parliament: For CUPE rloped Canadian Union of Public 19 per cent, All have ‘been’ Employees members employed: rolled back to 8 per cent. by five area school boards have CUPE National repre- received: notice of wage in- sentative Fred Pyke told the , crease Tollbacks from the Anti- Castlegar News it is now up to Inflation Board. : + the individual locals, they have ‘Those, beton ging to CUPE three choices. They may. choose are the'maintenance men, Basteally how. 48 pay: the fan) custodians and. bus drivers, back; they may want to make a further appeal; or they can Workers at Selkirk Col- proceed into strike, i lege, where it ‘also includes the. President for Local 1298, secretaries, Castlegar, Trail, School District No. 9, Leo Pla- Grand“Forks and Nelson:had’. mondon said-the membership signed contracts covering the :. had’ been contacted Monday: 5 period July 1, 1976 to June 80, night.’ Indications are that this 1977. Average wage gains were . local will be returning to the mena B.C. School Trustees Assoc fon, ‘which handles ‘the bar- . Public Forum: frisiog-fr al tive sehoo ds ‘For. Byelection tricts,, with a proposal. Candidates A public forum to give the residents of: Castlegar an op- portunity to meet the candk the end of January, will have to pay back approximately $356, dates in the Jan, 29 byelection while in other’ categories it’ will (be held Wednesday would be approximately $328. orening at 73 is the Castlegar {" “pha membership feels th i Cone mitts jommunity situation {s \ unfair,” he said. 54 ‘“The ‘basic’ rate’ is alread Fh Mederston \wit bo Bud behind: other local. industries, “Some are going, to be hurt.’ Sponsored by the Castle- gar NDP; each candidate will President of Local 1341, Selkirk College, Kris John, told. begiven five minutes tomakea in, Castlegar News Mr. Pyke a 5 TIME TO GRIN .” Bad news travels fast.’ ' ‘But not if you mall it. é «Gilbert Soares, Sawmill Worker “Taxes will go up. We have enough bums and hippies already. I believe in work.” >” would be ‘out to: address the ” membership that exenlng de Ae erin follow (Tuesday) to clairify all aspects “ave Mons may be is specie, of ‘the situation: biorreimaee aE no TRE Snow. Drought : - Questions will be allowed from the ‘floor. : » A tentatt adjourament 3 naj eletative. sdleurament Summer's Water Cand tea eeene the” British Columbia is havidg ° Ors, one of the worst snow drought » on record and a result could: a water shortage this summ Rights Branch said last Friday Snow: readings” taker nolf,; Mrs. Moore, bee MacPhail ‘and.Len Embree. New. Horizon Prov. Director -Nisits Here +The provincial director of the New. Horizon . Program, ~Mrs. Pat Fulton, was iri Castle- gar: last. week, during which time she attended a meeting of the® Castlegar. New Horizon ' Program committee last *Thurs- day earning: Man: suggestions . for. a’: discussed, including : ' the-Branch' Jan ings on Feb. 1, but: because of the light snow. conditions, we took. a “limited © number ‘of readings on Jan, 1," said. Mr. Huntérin:a telephone inter: view. “The Okanagan readings were the lowest for the past 12 years when we first started to “keep records.” “* Boney Summerland reservoir: on ~ : the west slope of the Okanggan + Lake~ watershed had ‘a. snow reading of 48 mm, In 1976 the : reading ;was 162: mm..and ‘in +1976 it was 165 mm. ~~ Jeune snow w ending JanZ1 was Last year it was 63 : Twenty. nine Sons of Free-_ ‘ * dom Doukhobors sat naked and silent in Nelson provincial court on ‘Wednesday of last. week as court set .a-: preliminary © i ata date, for, the’ group, which™-faces charges of arson ‘and ‘conspiracy to commit. 2 (arson, : .Mr. "Hunter said the Lac Le { The- group "removed their ~ clothes -as'the all-morning ses- Before’ the’ judge in the public gallery.’ to: six students for a six- -week .work ‘An inquiry is to-be:made tintoa second application for six additional students, to work in je. Outdoor. Education area. Moria McFarlane, Nurse “Something inside me says I'm against. If © Ali. Hopland, Pensioner “I'm still in my right mind. How about the, Hl ho one wants it we'd have {2 consider.” ” Artic Ocean. You’ wouldn’ tneed guards’ By Bort Campbel Ealige The straw vote being conducted by the Castlegar News on the subject of a possible maximum . security prison for this area shows district residents overwhelmingly ‘opposed tothe institution being located here. As-of 5 p.m. Tuesday ee the response coupons received by this pewspaper showed 117): persons opposed to the penitentiary with only 19 in favor. Expressed as reentage, the results are 14 per cent in favor and 8&6 per cent opposed. Of the 117 persons opposed, 69 took the time to offer reasons for their opposition while nine of the 19 people favoring a maximum security institution commented on the subject. at One of those favoring the prison {a woman who signed-her name), said her family “lived within a’ - mile of a maximum ‘security prison and aoe it was there. “There will be more jobs, more security—and no pollution.” Typical of the comments of those opposed to a penal institution was ‘the view. that “federal prisons, should be built in isolated areas. Castlegar is too nice anarea to add this Hod ‘of facility with its:attactied ‘disadvantages.” lost comménts favoring the prison referred tothe ‘acondinis ‘advantages, “Bute noted one ballot, ‘make ita maximum security-prison; not a res! home. Stanip out weekend passes rathe \ A street iiiterview conducted by a reporter- otograpiier team of news editor Lois Hughes and freelance photographer Donna Embree last Friday had almost identical results as the straw vote. Of: =, six reeple interviewed, only one person spoke in favor (thus, 16 per. cent in Savor: with 84 per cent : opp! ) Some comments from the response coupons received by. this newspaper follow. The first quotes: -are from people opposed to a prison: : ‘Absolutely not! Moved here to get away from the idea of} progress at any price’. Beet here 15, years now. :Let's:keep Castlegar at normal growth.” “No, unless it’s in Mr. Brady's. back yard.” (A reference to CKQR manager Gordon Brady, ‘who y first raised:the possibility of obtaining a penitentiary for this area.) wel cerned about the social problems and also: the safety. Everyone knows that Canadian prisons) are'as‘porous as sieves.” “A very definite ‘No!’ This is, as it has been, a very peaceful . , beautiful community tolive in. Thus, let's leave it that way. Business is important to a city. However, let us strive to get better types of. revenue. Not through convicts who would make, this city an undesirable place :to ive." ““Put-it(in/an area where it's wanted. Not here, where it isn’t wanted.”:: % “No-way, There is ho guarantee that the 200 new jobs created will be for - people in is area: ‘These riew jobs’ will'more than’ likely go to out-of-towners.”. Opposed t to a Prison “Will move to other city it the’ prison is built-herel”” “Some of the people that ‘want the’ prison are only. | thinking. of the m ney y it will put pockets and not the welfare of the entire people.of the area.” ‘|. “The city and taxpayers do not need more welfare families and juvenile delinquents, which most: ‘of the families of. repeated convicts‘are.°A lot of the families would‘ move here.” “It's ‘a ‘good community‘to live in so why spoil it to live in‘fear.” . A few. comments from persons favoring: a prison | here: seule “ “Secondary income base would be an advantage.” “I would think at this time it would help to take some of the burden oft the iasraven: In the lor tun this city would benefit: from it. I. think that.it should be, Festricted - to a.certain ieapaclty” “Will create employment 5 also stimulate our industry.” rt ee good deal’ for the ty economically.” | Casttegir has by no meats heen given definite assurances s‘that it is ‘bei ‘co a maximum security prison. However, federal Officials in Ottaiya, are said to be inxious to know if this area wants to be. considered. “Tecal elected oificals need input an residents as to whet! r the jority of people living herd =: “want or do not want a prison. If the majority of opinion appears disfavor: as appears to be the “case, then itis unlikely that action would be taken. If opinion were favorable, then presumably council woul “take whatever. action was necessary to'see that Castlegar received ‘serious ‘consideration. : Several communities, most notably Surrey, have already rejected the idea of a maximum security prison in their backyards. Several others, including Pemberton, Powell River, Golden and Williams Lake, are actively seeking such a facility. A response coupon for people to express an opinion on whether or not they lover a federal prison here is printed on the front page of the “B” section of this issue of the Castlegar News. and i 2 Ry 5 . a : : 2) Scares : ee Response. coupons will be.received: until 5. p.m. ‘on Fri., Jan. 28 at which time they will be: | — , . BAG : oe : tatiolated and the results forwarded to Castlegar city council for its information. : , tse u 1 ae : : E = NEW. EXECUTIVE to the’ Women’s Ausiliary to’ the Castlegar. and ‘District Hospital; sworn in at Monday night's candlelight installation tea, were, left to right, corresponding secretary, Winnie Naylor, treasurer, Marg Mette president Polly +