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Weak argument

It's hard to argue against
common sense — _ particularly
when lives are at stake

But that's exactly what Tran-
sportation and Highways Minister
Alex Fraser seems to be doing
when he says the provincial gover-
nment will not introduce seat belt
legislation for children under six.

Mr. Fraser's position was
made clear again this week after
an automobile accident in which a
baby seat is credited with saving
an 18-month-old child's life.

His position is that the provin-
cial government should not “in-
trude” into people's lives to the ex-
tent that it should make seat belts
for children under six mandatory.
The province is interested in “less
laws, not more,” says Mr. Fraser

And he says the responsibility
for ensuring that children under six
use some sort of seat restraint
belongs to the parents — not the
government.

That attitude would be easier
to understand if it was at least con-
sistent with the position Mr. Fraser
and his government colleagues
have taken on seat belt use in
general. But it isn't.

Instead, the government has
in place legislation making it
illegal for children over six to be
unrestrained in a motor vehicle.
Surely, it would make more sense
to have children under the age of
six protected by law and the
children over the age of six un-
protected, if that is the way gover-
nment wishes to go.

After all, children over six can
at least make the decision to
buckle up on their own, while
many children under six cannot.

Itatsoseems ludicrous to have
a law making it mandatory for
parents to use seat belts, but for
those parents’ small children to
ride unrestrained in a motor
vehicle.

What, too, is significant about
the age limit of six? What is the

ditference between a child of five
and a child of six riding in a car?

Nowhere does Mr. Fraser
argue that seatbelts do not save
lives. His only argument is for less
government intervention, a weak
argument at best.

Hi fully, the list of lobby
trying to convince the province to
enact seat belt legislation for
children under six a list that in-
cludes the B.C. Medical
Association, the Ambulance Em-
ploye Union, the B.C
Automobile Association, the B.C.
Federation of Police officers, the
B.C. Safety Council, the Consumers
Association of Canada and most
recently the Regional District of
Central Kootenay board will
have some affect

And if it doesn't perhaps it's
time individuals began writing to
the minister conveying their
feelings on the issue

And for those parent of
newborns who do not have child
restraint seats, the Central
Kootenay Public Health Unit here
in Castlegar rents the seats for $30
for six months. The health unit has
six seats for rent, though only one
or two are available at this time.

Take in
the rodeo

The Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club
Rodeo swings into its second day
today and if you didn't get a chance
to see all the action on Saturday,
you should drop by and take it in.

It’s a treat to see live rodeo
events in Castlegar and to boot, it’s
all for a good cause. Any proceeds
from the rodeo will be used in the
community

Fred
Merriman

The Insurance Corp. of British
Columbia recently announced find-
ings that automobiles driven with
headlights on during the daylight
hours are involved in considerably
fewer accidents than those driven
without lights on.

We have also read that Ottawa is

a os
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posted speed limit by, say an extra
15 kilometres per hour.

Vehicles fore and aft would then
know for sure that the closing
vehicle means business and has an
appointment to keep or an ego that
seeks gratification.

Most of us now know that driving

seriously

which will require all automobiles
sold or manufactured in Canada

on local hig is a matter of life
and death. We cannot blame the law

after 1986 to be p with
i which will ie

“light up” the vehicle when the

ignition switch is turned on.

More than 10 years ago the U.S.
National Safety Council strongly
recommended that a highway
motorist should switch on his head-
lights for purposes of identifying the
direction of the car, particularly on
long straight stretches of highway.

At speeds exceeding 200 kil-
ometres per hour, that advice
seemed to make good sense. We
should be encouraged by an aware-
ness that there must be this and
many other good ideas to prevent
the large number of automobile ac
cidents continually plaguing our
highways.

As a daily commuter between
Castlegar and Trail, I am convinced
that speed limit signs are mean-
ingless except to a few old folks
driving into church on Sunday
morning.

Therefore, the major strategy for
preventing accidents will have to
centre around identification of the
other driver in sufficient time to
enable the law abider to get com
pletely off the road if necessary to
make room for “heavy foot” or
hell-bent-for-election-Harry.

Perhaps, it might be possible for
an emergency flashing light to come
on when a vehicle exceeds the

enforcement officers. They are
outnumbered.

Nor can we point the finger at any
particular age group. Many other-
wise calm, sober and respectable
citizens have just as much tendency
to go bananas behind the wheel of
an automobile as any other typically
faulted driver.

We saw a pretty blonde nabbed
for speeding as she took out two
cars on Columbia Ave. just this last
Sunday morning after church. She
didn’t look like a criminal.

It was fortunate that some child
on a tricycle didn't happen to be in
the vicinity or this young blonde
would be wearing a haunted expres-
sion on her face, probably for life.

No! I am quite convinced that
entire armies of traffic officers can-
not change the attitude of certain
drivers. It would need a psychiatrist
or a priest to remedy that problem.

This writer does agree with the
present concept that identification
of the potentially dangerous driving
situation in sufficient time to take
corrective action is the far more
sensible and immediately practical
solution.

The concept is entitled Defensive
Driving. Turning your headlights on
during the daylight hours identifies
yourself to the other driver whom

KRIEC ERE
THe ty

prefer to drop it and forego the many
advantages that have been introduced
since it was put into effect.

. .

Every Doukhobor in B.C. who has
served in the armed forces of Canada in
any war is entitled to vote in the
pending Dominion election. Word of
the Doukhobor right of franchise was
received Tuesday by Jas. Skinner,
returning officer for Kootenay West, in
a telegram from the chief electoral
officer at Ottawa.

.

Mr. M. Dalton, chairman of the
publicity committee of the Kiwanis
Club, reported that 25 boys and girls
are busy beautifying their parents’
properties to be eligible for the
Kiwanis prize of a bicycle and a wrist
watch.

. 8 «6

Kinnaird is becoming very softball-
conscious these days. Wednesday
evening the junior boys held a game
here, ladies’ ball team practice and

even the firemen are holding a
practice.
25 YEARS AGO
From the June 11, 1959
News

Letters to the Editor

Sandman Inn an asset

, Castlegar News:

After reading the letter of Pauline
Romaine in your paper of June 3 I felt
that I should also state my views about
the Ald. Len Embree incident.

Firstly, I do not know any of the
workers Who worked at the Sandman
Inn project nor‘do I know any of the
members that protested at the Sand-
man Inn, and I don’t know Mr. Embree.
Therefore, my opinion is not based on
personal conflict but only on what I
believe is right.

The Sandman Inn is a building we
should be proud to have in Castlegar
and is an asset to our city. Certainly,
the extra taxes that will be paid to the
city are a benefit. The creation of 70
new jobs to local people must be
acknowledged. Tourism to the com-
munity should be increased through
conventions and meetings, as was

demonstrated when the Vintage Car
Club came to town and rented 105
rooms at the Sandman Inn for a week-
end.

As one of the city fathers, Mr.
Embree should have been at the Sand-
man Inn as a city delegate to help
celebrate their opening. He cauld have
welcomed the Vintage Car Club mem-
bers to the city, or assisted in whatever
formality that took place.

Instead, Mr. Embree lead about 50
PI 8 around the Inn
saying that the building was an “eye
sore” which offers nothing for the com-
munity.

This certainly looks like a conflict of
interest to me. And because it is a
conflict of interest, I suggest that Mr.
Embree resign as alderman for the
City of Castlegar.

Regarding the protest of non-union
workers — do they not have the right

Shooting caused
chaos in household

, Castlegar News:

I live in the 3400 block 4th Ave.
Castlegar. This letter is directed at the
person(s) in this area using a pellet gun
on animals.

Do you realize how much chaos you
have caused in this household this past
week? Do you realize how much money
has been spent at the vet? Do you
realize this was the children’s pet? Do
you care? I don't suppose you do or you
wouldn't have fired two pellets into our
cat last week.

If you think these pellets don’t cause
damage, then perhaps you will permit
me to fire into your abdomen to prove a
point. A handful of gravel thrown in
the cat's direction would have served

the purpose — if to frighten the cat was
your intent.

This cat has been spayed and has had
shots. She also spends more time inside
than out and comes when called. It is
this point that disgusts me. My point is
the person(s) mishandling the pellet
gun is one of my neighbors.

The next time I hear a pellet gun
fired I hope I see whose hand fires it, as
I have an expensive vet bill and a
children’s pet that may not live after all
this — caused by you, an irresponsible
citizen misusing a pellet gun for
sadistic fun.

Phyllis Stefoniuk
Castlegar

Trek more than

Editor, News:

Thank you for the publicity you gave
the Off to Ottawa Trek. The purpose of
the trek is much more than to protest
the selection of another Liberal prime
minister.

In Castlegar we have 880 people
forced to collect Unemployment Insur-
ance benefits. There are in excess of
550 families collecting their pittance
from welfare who would be working if
adequate and proper work was avail-
able.

About 200 people are eligible for
neither and every year we graduate
more people from high school who
won't find work. Together, both levels
of government are spending approx-
imately $12.5 million each year in
Cast because there is no work for

we hope is practising
driving.

the residents. (Based on the national
UIC average of $8,000 per claim and

$10,000 per year for a family on wel-
fare).

The first and foremost objective of
the Off to Ottawa Committee is to
convince the NDP, Liberals and Con-
servatives that job creation not budget
deficit reduction, is the most important
issue in Canada.

No party will be able to reduce the
deficit while almost half of the house-
holds in places like Castlegar are with-
out jobs. While in Ottawa the unem-
ployed will work on a national recon-
struction program that will allow
places like Castlegar to thrive again.

We believe job creation in Castlegar
is a matter of political will and no
amount of talk about the “new econ.
omic reality” will create jobs without
the will to provide tax money for
capital investment in small industry.

to work too? Many of the union
workers have not worked for a long
time because there is no work avail-
able. This is not the fault of the
non-union workers. There happens to
be a recession and there are also
non-union workers out of work.

9 should have the right to be
union'or non-union as he has a right to
choose his political party or religion,
and that right should be respected.

Using the phrase of Pauline Romaine
— “the non-union workers were not
bought in a slave market” they choose
to work at their particular job for the
wages they are paid and have the right
to quit at any time.

Fred Nagel
Castlegar

Trek not
endorsed
by Centre

Editor, Castlegar News:

Concerning your article of Wed-
nesday, May 30: Liberal protest plan-
ned.

I am writing in the hope of fore-
stalling any confusion which may have
arisen from the quoted comments of
Richard Bell concerning the role of the
Castlegar Unemployed Action Centre
in connection with his proposed trek to
Ottawa of unemployed persons.

The Castlegar Unemployed Action
Centre has not officially endorsed this
project and does not sponsor it. We are
not, of course, opposed to those who
may decide to participate.

protest

Besides a national reconstruction
program, the unemployed in Ottawa
will be discussing how to take the
program back to their communities and
how to make sure it is addressed in
every riding in the country before and
during the upcoming federal election.

So the real reason we are going to
Ottawa is to create jobs, for an op-
portunity to be productive members of
Castlegar and Canada. We are going to
Ottawa for an opportunity to create
wealth and not just consume it. This is
much more important than protesting
the election of a Liberal prime min-
ister.

Richard Bell
Off to Ottawa Ctte.

More letters
Page AS

For the second consecutive year
Castk won the district track meet
held at the elementary school. Castle-
gar scored 120 points while Kinnaird
got 108.

Leading point-getters for the Castle-
gar seniors were Louise Davis with
eight and Roly Harmston with five. For
Kinnaird, Linda Warner got nine and
Marvin Schultz, Harvie Leckie and
Danny Deverson got six each.

. « «@

J. A. “Jack” Charters, a former
Castlegar school teacher and a colum-
nist for the Castlegar News, has been
made vice-principal of the Trail junior
high school.

Mr. Charters taught science and
other subjects in Castlegar for nine
years before leaving Castlegar two
years ago for a position at a junior-
senior high school in Victoria. Last
year he taught at the Trail school.

* 8 «

Castlegar and the Kootenays will be
featured in a Time Magazine story in
two weeks’ time.

Ed Ogle, western manager for Time
Magazine, was in Castlegar collecting
material for the article. Dealing with
the whole Kootenays, the articles will
emphasize the boom towns of Castlegar
and Kimberley.

es 8 6

A proposal by the Village of
Castlegar that Celgar connect its
proposed water wells to the village
water system has been accepted in
principle by the company.

It was 25 years ago this month that
Canadian troops took part in the Allied
invasion of Europe on the Normandy
coast.

Special observances have been held
in France in connection with the anni-
versary and a local man, Ab Culley of
Kinnaird, was among those in atten-
dance.

* 8 «6

A ship's wheel has a prominent place
in the steam boat era section of the
Castlegar Museum located in the base-
ment of the Centennial Library. The
museum is not yet open to the public
although officials are hopeful that it can
be opened in time for the summer
months.

* * «©

A joint meeting of the Castlegar and
Kinnaird municipal councils, attended
by Mayor F.E. DeVito of Trail, will be
held next Thursday evening to discuss
a request for financial support from the
Kootenay Industrial Development
Association.

The meeting will also discuss pos-
sible financial assistance by the three
municipalities in a new terminal build-
ing at Castlegar Airport.

* ¢ «

Popular vehicles at the Castlegar
Golf Course are the five electric golf
carts placed there by the High Arrow
Shrine Club. With their colorful can-
opies, the carts are popular with golf-
ers and the rental funds from them are
used for furthering work with crippled
children.

The proposed takeover of regional
recreation services here by Castlegar
and its outlying areas, as well as other
moves recommended in a recent $8,500
management study — won city coun-
cil's support Tuesday.

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Editer, Castlegar News:
Several articles and letters recently

Articles ‘misleading’

was work initiated by Public Works
Canada as necessary repairs and

carried in area papers have
a or

to the old structure. The

statements concerning Progressive
Conservative Party policy and actions.

A recent article regarding Conser-
vative leader Brian Mulroney's ren
ovation of official residence Stornaway
spoke of $150,000 renovations by
leader Brian Mulroney, but neglected
to explain that $75,000 of that figure

Embree
has ‘guts’

. News:

In reply to the lady who was so
upset with Ald. Len Embree (Castlegar
News May 27). I thought this kind of
thinking went out with Queen Victoria.
Take off your sunglasses, dear.

Ald. Embree has the guts to speak
up for the tradesmen in this com
munity, some of whom haven't worked
for over two years, and who now have
their backs against the wall. How
would you like it if someone came in
and took your job for less money?
Think about it!

Keep up the good work, Len. You
have the tradesmen’s support 100 per
cent.

Margaret Graham
Rebson carpenter's wife

ining $75,000 went to adding the
necessary bedrooms for the three
Mulroney children.

Other stories have suggested that a
majority Progressive Conservative
government would dismantle Medi-
care, and other social services pres-
ently enjoyed by Canadians.

Brian Mulroney has been very clear
on this issue. There will be an en-
hancement, with better, more efficient
administration on the federal side of
Medicare. This will benefit all Can
adians.

What Bob Brisco and Brian Mul-
roney do offer Kootenay West and

Canada is a rekindling of the free spirit
that individuals in the past have built
into @ great nation; where Canada's
youth and other groups are not rele.
gated to unemployment and hopeless.
ness, but where these groups will, with
fresh new ideas, create a new force and
lead their way back into the decision
making process of our society.

There is no longer any illusion that
government can create real, lasting
jobs; those must come from the private
sector, our present predicament of
stumbling from grant to grant, from
make-work project to make-work proj

By CasNews Staff
Tom Johnston, newly-ep-
pointed chairman of the Ar-
row Lakes

public advisory committee,
hopes to make the public
more aware of forestry is-

sues.

Johnston, silviculture re-
source officer for the Arrow
Forest District and a mem
ber of the Association of B.C.
Professional Foresters, is
hoping to bring some of the
forest issues to public at-
tention in order to increase

ect, is both di and
ing.
J.M. Demers
Nelson

Cheers for Embree

Editor, Castlegar News:

Mr. Len Embree was picketing at
the Sandman Inn as the business agent
for the Carpenter's Union, but he
should have been there as Ald. Embree
also — as should have the mayor and
the rest of council. The picketers were
all unemployed members and support.
ers of local unions and were protesting
the use of non-union and non-local
labor.

Is council elected to represent only
the employed? When elected to council
is one expected to resign personal
convictions, to become a “yes-man” to

big business?

Rather than attacking Mr. Embree,
Castlegar people should be asking
where are the municipal improvements
(tennis court, swimming pool) prom
ised by the Sandman?”

Three cheers for Mr. Embree and for
Ald. Embree, for we need more people
like him on council. Mr. Embree did
both of his jobs at once, representing
both the City of Castlegar and the Car.
penter’s Union in an attempt to keep
local jobs for local tradespeople.

(Mrs.) Teresa Anderson
ar

May records
for cold, rain

By CasNews Staff

The last three days of May were sunny and warm, but
the month set two records — one for being the coldest since
1974, and one for having the most days of rain since 1977.

The mean temperature for the month was 10.4 degrees
centigrade, while 21 days had measurable precipitation.

While the total amount of precipitation for May was 96.5

ili i lower than the record of
102.8 set in 1981. It was 76 per cent above the norm of 54.7

, — this was

millimetres:

A long-wave trough of low pressure which hung over
the Interior for nearly the entire month of May was to blame

for the poor weather.

The total hours of sunshine was 172.2 — slightly above
the record low of 143.4, but far below the normal of 232.2.
Wind speed was low, with the average for the month
being 6.5 kilometre-per-hour — just .2 more than the record

set in 1979.

United Way
directors

Castlegar and District
United Way has welcomed
three new directors to its
board. President Dana Peter-
son said the new members
are Don McDowell, Sheila
Plamondon, Dale Nielsen and
Les Davis.

The board has two more
vacant positions available to

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to fill the position of chair-
man for the 1984 United Way
Campaign Drive.

Anyone
either becoming a director or
campaign chairman should
contact the United Way Of-
fice at 365-7331.

CASTLEGAR COMMUNITY SERVICES

Free advertising in Castlegar Resource Directory (a listing

of groups ond organizations in Castlegar
Area). Community Services is updating information in the
ries include: Youth, Education, Com-
munity, Cultural, Recreation, Service Clubs, Health Care,
Religion, Legal and Government, Labour and Em.
ployment, Libraries, Halls for rent and others. To make
sure your group or organization is included or to get
copies of the valuable directory phone Castlegar Com-
munity Services between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. week-

How will changes to the Human Rights Act and the Labour
ode ou? siden to the effect of
unemployment? Bill Zonder, Roy Gauthier, a represen-
tative of the B.C. Fed. and Father Roberts of the Solidarity
Coalition will address these issues at a public meeting
2, 7:00 p.m. at the Castlegar Community Com-

MEETING
Of the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society will be held
Monday 30 p.m. at Hobbit Hill Children's Cen-
tre, 749-11th Avenue, Castlegar. If you ore interested,

Bethel No. 60 cordially invites the public to the open in-
‘Queen elect Jennifer Peterson and
June 17, 2:00 p.m. in the Masonic

of forest manage-
ment in the province.

“It's important to B.C.,” he
says. “We find that people
don't have a good grasp of
the issues, some of the
methods that we use to man-
age forests.”

Public advisory commit-
tees have only been in ex-
istence for a few years.

While the level of funding
for the Ministry of Forests
has been reduced, as in other
government areas, Johnston
feels forestry issues deserve
more attention because of the
significance of forestry re-
sources to the province.

“Td like to make people
aware of how (forestry is)
important and why it should
be better funded,” he said.

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The second annual Semin-
ar for Rural Women — a
weekend of mini-courses and
sharing of ideas — will take
place on Oct. 26 and 27 at the
Kimberley Ski Resort.

The seminar is open to all
farm, ranch and rural women
of any age involved in agri-
culture. It's purpose is to ex-
amine the needs of rural
women and to compare notes
and lifestyles.

Topics to be covered will
tentatively include: farm in-
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lationships, beef cattle nu-
trition and range, fashion and
skin care, lifestyles and time
management and how to set
up a business in your home.

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