CASTLEGAR NEWS Burt Campbell Publisher and Editor “Here let the press the people's rights maintain, unawed by ‘Influence and unbribed by gain” os 73 illegal Immigrants Said ‘No’ fo Canada Ever since Immigration Minister Robert Andras assumed his very difficult. and demanding portfolio just about everyone has been telling him how to do his job. One of the first problem areas the minister decided to tackle in this country's permissive immigration policies was that of sorting out the mess associated with “visitors” who promptly took up permanent residence without bothering to register as immigrants, Composed in large part of draft dodgers and deserters from the United Slates, estimates of the number of illegal immigrants in this Canada of ours have ranged upwards to 200,000. What Mr. Andras did was to offer an amnesty (“status adjustment period”). How- ever, after spending $1.2 million promoting the 60-day amnesty period, only 49,416 individuals surfaced from the illegal immigrant milieu that might still have some 150,000 persons in it, (In this area, known to have a large number of illegal immigrants, there were approximately 150 individuals who registered.) Now that the amnesty period has officially ended, such sob-sister groups as the Canadian Mayor Maddocks Retires With Satisfaction in Job A decision such as has been made by Mayor Colin Maddocks of Kinnaird—that of retiring voluntarily from public office—is never an easy one. Any elected official worth his salt always has a program or projects he would like to see d, inued or leted. The Coalition of War Resistors (joined by such surprise supporters as the Vancouver Province) have been calling on Mr. Andras to extend it. The Province, for example, feels the details of the amnesty program reached only a fraction of the potential audience and the newspaper suggests the “adjustment period" should be extended indefinitely. We don't agree the program was known only to a small pereentage of the illegal immigrants in this country. The underground press, “establishment” chureh groups, hot-line radio programs and vocal and well-travelled illegal-immigrant leaders helped yet the story across, We think the answer to the lack of more registrants is quile simple: the people the program was aimed at don't want lo register; they don't want lo be Canadian citizens. We believe that most of this country’s iNegal immigrants who are from the United States want to continue to be American citizens. They don't approve of much -that country is doing, and aren't prepared to take up arms for it, but they aren't prepared to give up their American citizenship cither, The main theme of the government campaign was “Make Our Country Your Country.” legal immigrants responded alright, with a deafening silence that said ‘No Thanks’. Mr. Andras has done the right thing in not extending the amnesty. As he commented in announcing his decision, the government did everything in ils power to let all illegal immigrants know aboul the program and that they would be treated with kid gloves if they came forward on time. Now that the 60-day period is over, any illegal immigrants who are decision, then, to retire after four years in the community's highest elected position must have been extremely difficult to make. Having ‘made his decision, Mr. Maddocks ean now look back with some satisfaction at his two terms of office. There is a renewed sense of civic in the Garden icipality (as witness the lively races for the mayoralty, aldermanic positions and school trustee post) and such major issues as a new recreational facility and amalgamation will be important items in the municipal election race in good part because of Mr. Maddocks’ strong positions on them, Mr. Maddocks deserves the thanks of the citizens of Kinnaird for having -served them conscientiously in such a high position of trust. d will be deported, (This latter action isn't too much of a threat—the deportation process is long and involved and can take many years.) The Vancouver Sun hit the nail on the head when it commented that the government “was wise to ignore the appeals for a reopening of an amnesty that was ilself generous to a fault, At their most innocent, these appeals came from people whose hearts were far too soft for this country's good. To have heeded the appeals would only have devalued Canadian citizenship further and, as the wide contempt shown for the amnesty opportunity makes all too clear, our job now must be to restore respect for Canadian status, not destroy it irrevocably.” Es It is to this latter course of action that Mr. Andras and his department should now address themselves. zai -€BC-Television-Service-—---- , CBC TV announced Wed-- maximum of 18 hours of cc ' Centenarian 7 = Bes 101 Birthday A former Robson resident, Mrs. Florence Mary _ Slater, 2. smithy, ." of {course,.’.was; brought ‘about by the grad-” nesday of last week increased service to south-eastern B.C. CBC-TV viewers in south- eastern B.C. will receive programs directly from CBUT, Vancouver, effective Sunday, at 8:00 a.m. CBC will start network television programming frota Toronto to Vancouver via the satellite station, ANIK. This will release the telephone company's terrestial micro- wave system which has been used to feed CBC programming from Toronto to Vancouver via Calgary. The microwave system between Vancouver and Cal- gary will be freed and the CBC will be able to program the B.C. portion of the network from Vancouver, For CBC viewers in south- eastern B.C., this means that they will receive up to a programming per day. Among the additional CBC programs to be seen in the interior are the weeknight news, weather and sports on night final, weekend news and sports, the late movies, the Bob Switzer Show weekdays, French language programs on Saturday and Sunday mornings Klahanie on Mondays, the Bob Newhart Show on Tuesdays, Bob Switzer on Wednesday, Sportscene on Thursdays, and the New Dick Van Dyke Show on Fridays and Saturday Night Great Movies, On Sunday, when the CBC reverses the network from Vancouver to feed its rebroad- cast lransmilters in south- eastern B.C., programs will no longer be delayed in Calgary. All programs to the interior will be telecast at exactly the. died Oct, 22, two days alter celebrating her 101st- birthday. Funeral services were held last. Thursday from Robson Community Memorial Chureh, Mrs. Slater, who was born in Newhaven, Sussex, England, came to Canada in 1919, residing in Trail until 1935. Since then she had lived in Rossland and Robson before moving to Willowhaven Private Hospital in Nelson. Mrs. Slater's birthday was celebrated Oct. 20 al Willow. haven, with he in-law and hter, Mr. and Mrs. Dave ster of Summerland, pre- Rev. Ted Bristow offi- ciated at the funeral service wi burial taking, plaice at Robson C€ ily Cemetery. same time as in Tent =e erie A484, We ee t Tire Sa rearuentD f"! * + EDGE fl TOE-IN OR TOE- Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Old Canadian Tradifions Fallen by the Wayside tn a nostalgic mood today, P've been thinking that, with the onslaught of the Speed Age, many of our fine old Canadian traditions have fallen by the wayside, died on the vine, or simply lain down and curled up their toes. One of the first to go, of course, was the blacksmith, It hurts me to face the truth: that most people to- day under thirty: have never known the sensory joys of a blacksmith's shop. At this time of year, small boys used to squeeze through the — ramshackle door, and edge as close as they could to the fire, freez- ing their bums and roasting their cheeks. There was a fine acrid stench of horse manure and scorched hooves. There was the leap- ing flame. as the bellows blew. There was the ringing clang as the smith beat out the white-hot metal be- tween hammer and_ anvil, and the satisfying hiss when the tiot metal was plunged into the cold water. Ata certain age, most male kids would have set- tled happily for the life of a, blacksmith, « free soul who” spent days doing ‘the, ing work in the erie jdecline