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CASTLEGAR NEWS

Burt Campbell
Publisher and Editor

“Here let the press the people's
rights maintain, unawed by
influence and unbribed by gain”

Page Four — Thursday Morning,

jovember 15, 1973

Jet Service Here by PWA is Long Overdue

“PWA may never be No. 1 in size,
but they want to be No. 1 with you.
And that's what counts." — Pacific
Western Airlines commercial on CBC
television

* *. .

The decision of PWA to increase fares on its
Castlegar-Calgary and Castlegar-Kelowna-
Penticton routes (but not, significantly, on its
Castlegar-Vancouver route) provides the
opportunity for some thinking aloud about the
type of service that airline is providing West
Kootenay residents,

In this day of skyrocketing costs, PWA may
well be justified in the “modest” $2 to $3
increases in fares that will go into effect on Dec,
1. But is the airline entitled to the increases
based on the type of equipment it is continuing
to fly into here?

"The Corvair 640's were a great aircraft. But
so were the DU-3's. We don't know of another
air route as important economically to Pacific
Western as its Castlegar-Vancouver run where
the company is continuing to operate with
yesteryear’s model of aircraft.

In his letter to Castlegar council last week
explaining PWA's fare increases, company
president Donald Watson reported “current
indications are for a need for more aircraft to
provide better service and when possible,
increased frequency of flights.” He continued:
“This means simply that we now require several
additional jet aircraft with adequate ground
support equipment and in some cases, additional
staff...We anticipate that during 1974 we will
provide additional capacity between Castlegar

Propellor-thrust aircraft flying a class I
route structure such as Pacific Western's is
something that should be history. From a
comfort standpoint — particularly during the
hot, windy summer months — the performance
envelope of the Corvair 640 is such that on
shorter hauls (Vancouver-Penticton, Penticton-
Castlegar, Castl Cranbrook, Cranbrook
Calgary) the aircraft is continuously exposed to
moderate or worse turbulence caused by hot air
pockets or mechanical turbulence. Needless to
say, most people are not overjoyed by the
prospect of facing such unpleasantness in what
should be a pleasant journey. We still vividly
remember one family flying between Calgary
and Vancouver getting off the plane at
Cranbrook because of air sickness and delaying
the rest of the perspiring, upchucking customers
while their luggage was removed from the very
rear of the luggage compartment.

lere are some of the advantages that would

NEWS ITEM: Mayor Colin Maddocke of Kinnaird and Mayor F. E.
Devito of Trail. won't be seeking re-election in the Nov. 17 munictpal
elections, Mr. Maddocks owns a Castlegar shoe store while Mr. DeVito
owns a shoe repair business in Trail,

“Well, Colin, § guess we're a pair that won't be running for a while”

result should PWA use a newer turbo jet

aircraft in place of its existing Corvairs: Patricia Youngs Says

Women’s Lib Should Target Dress Designers

Less flying time between points; more
efficiency of airframe and thus, hopefully, less
likelihood of another fare increase for yet
awhile; more comfort in flight (larger aircraft;
more space; shorter distance legs mean a lighter
aircraft, thus better performance capability to
climb quickly to levels of smoother air and then
descend quickly into landing pattern, thereby
reducing exposure to turbulent flying). Psycho-
logically, a modern turbojet aircraft would be a
“Linus’ blanket” to the air-minded traveller and
would be an inducement to air travel

Castlegar has .a modern new terminal
building: it has a comparatively good

The trouble
with Women's Lib
is that while they
are busy shucking:
of “male domina-
tion” they con-
tinue Lo suffer the

i domination. of
fashion designers that keep
them enslaved | to rubber

and Calgary as well as between V and
Castlegar.” “

These promises of “additional capacity” and
jet service have been dangled before this area
for far too long without becoming a reality. We
get promises, and more promises — but no
action.

Citizen Lawmakers or Political Professionals

The British Columbia legi: 's_ fall

x i
passenger usage compared with other airports,

record; it has a fantastic girdles and high heels, curlers
and it is managed by a capable Airport
Committee on behalf of the four municipalities
operating it.
When, then, is the exact date it is going to
be served by jet aircraft?

Concern that school child-
ren regard Remembrance Day
as nothing more than a holiday,

people, or

session prorogued last week amid fresh
speculation about whether or not the session
had been necessary or productive.

On the one hand you had those who
believed it was useful and necessary and on the
other hand there were those who felt the session
was useless and was just an excuse to give
MLA’s an extra $12,000 a year.

Those who condemn the fall session

One of the casualties of the two-session-a--
year practice introduced by Premier Barrett
was David Brousson, the now-former MLA for
North Vancouver-Capilano. It is a bit ironic,
however, that the first MLA to find the fulltime
MLA job too difficult was a Liberal. That party's
former leader, Pat McGeer (who still sits in the
House), has long been a proponent of two
sessions a year and Mr. Brousson was never
heard to argue with Mr. McGeer's opinion on the
subject, at least publicly. :

At $24,000 a year this province's MLAs are
among the highest paid politicians in Canada.
Many of them, both on the government side of
the House and on the opposition side, are
earning far more than they could ever expect to
earnat any other job. Yet for others, such as Mr.
Brousson, even that sum of money isn’t enough
to keep them in public service. Being

“politician: is changin;

while older people were looking
forward Lo this past weekend as
just. another long, holiday
weekend, were expressed at
the Remembrance Day service
held Sunday at the cenotaph in
Kinsmen Park.

Mayor John Landis of

or Pp
employed at jobs where seniority rights and
advancement opportunities won't be kept open
forever, those individuals must wrestle with the
tough question of whether or not they can take a
few years out of their lives and serve as
members of the legislature.

Premier Barrett, in expressing his “deep
sense of personal loss" at Mr. Brousson’s la
departure from public life, nonetheless Castlejar, who gave the key-

intained he is “convinced that being a ote address, described himself

litician is a fulltime career if we want to make | *'tis“distirbied” at the attilude of

‘He"’said the role of the *“young people and; many qlder

Z not just in British {people towards the annual Nov.
Columbia but throughout North America. 11th observance.

We beg to differ. In the states of “It's not a holiday," he
Washington and Oregon, for example, the commented, adding that itis an
legislatures meet every two years. (Not once a — opportunily “to pay tribule to
year, not twice a year, but every second year.) men and women who gave of
This will change, of course, but it does indicate themselves unselfishly... Those
that legislative business, even in this modern we remember today did not fail
world, doesn’t have to consume two full sessions —_us in our need.”

Noling that while district
schools held their own Remem-
brance Day services on Friday,
Mr. Landis, who is himself an
elementary school principal,
said students were nonetheless
happy because of the “holiday”
declared for them on Monday.

The hour-long observance,
which starld with a parade ‘at
10:30 to the cenotaph from the
marshalling point in front of
West's Store, was carried out

a year.

British Columbia's former tradition of
convening the legislature once each year has
been valuable in maintaining a legislature
composed of what we would call Citizen
Lawmakers--working men and businessmen who
make the laws, rather than fulltime politicians.

The new practice of convening two
legislative sessions a year will do away with the
Citizen Lawmaker in favor of the Professional
Politician, to the detriment of this province's

public life. :

under a rain-frce sky. The
autumn colors at Kinsmen Park
were complimented by the red
serge of RCMP officers, the

“CASTLEGAR AND DISTRIT SOCIAL NOTES
————

Mrs. N. Zuk and Mrs. H.
Johnson left Oct. 31 for Denver,
Colorado where they attended
the General Grand Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star
Sessions. They returned home

Sewing
Machines,
Typewriters,

TV's last Sunday.

gold jackets of the SHSS band,
the Legion color party, the blue
uniforms of the air cadels and
the colorful badges and scarves
of local guides, brownies, scouts
and cubs. Legion president
Earl Rourke thanked all those
taking part in the parade as
well as those attending the

Mr. and Mrs. B. Nelsen of
Edmonton and Mr. and Mrs. B.
Dickson and family of Jem Peg,
Man., were guests of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Rourke. While here they
attended their brother Darrel's
wedding. They left last Monday

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VOTE Mr.

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FOR MAYOR

to return to their homes.

and Mrs. Darrel
Rourke returned home Monday
evening of this week after
spending their honeymoon visi-
Ling relatives in Saskatchewan
and Alberta.

service while Ab Culley read
the honor roll, The Last Post
was sounded by a bugler in the
SHSS hand, while piper Jimmy
Watt played the Lament.
Legionnaire James Leckie

tead John McCrae’s famous

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poem, “In Flanders Fields,” and
wreaths were then laid by
representatives of various local
service clubs, women's groups,
businesses and industry.

Rev. Terry Allen gave the
prayer while Legion padre Ted
Bristow gave the Benediction,
The SHSS band played several
selections, including “Onward,
Christian Soldiers" and “Faith

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dress designers wha couldn't
make up their collective minds:
as toawhether my waist began

hair, net to
nd geuck

crimped

shape,

Remembrance Day is More
Than Just a Holiday: Landis

Now [ don't kat

other dames, but 1 “lik
myself from (he manu
of Krunehy Wan

rom bell bottom slacks ta belly
i iN buys my

loony t waist and zip up the side!

The sald thing is that while
old Chartie ean wear bis bagny
pants and turtle neck sweater
and be considered a “swinger”,

ly Dimpleknees allows

y Designer to continue
pushing her around, (not to

rt") while they continue
to change a woman's hemline
from her ankles to her thigh.

Did you ever hear of them
shortening a man's pants from
calf to knee every other year?
Did they have the male frizzle
his hair with iron curling tongs.
and an assortment of barbed
wire, metal, rubber and plastic?
Remember the way we females
once suffered the Winklepicker
toes? Remember the batwing
sleeves? Try raising both arms
at once and‘Dracula had a rival.

The trouble is,

Women's Lib complain about
made into a “sex symbol”
hot appear adverse to
Symbol of dress
gners who continue to con
women for finaneial gain. As for
he svap syndrome and cos-
advertising on TV,
's another kettle of fish—
and the female swallows it
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} Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley

|, Soon it Will be Eighty Miles in Eighty Days

_ For years Canadians ih
small towns have watched
the drying up of passenger
train ‘services. Community
after community has had

i its rail services cut.

Passenger service in this
country is now about on a
par with that in Outer
Mongolia.

Many communities fought
hard to retain’ the train
service, but the locals were
no match for the railways,
with ‘their public relations
men, lawyers, experts and
the inevitable figures.

There’ is none of the
Tomance and exci of

at.

Saher:

provide faster, more com:
fortuble, reliable service.
‘The railways are perfectly
happy to provide good
service for cattle and hogs,
but they just don't want
people riding on their trains,
ls our postal service
going the way of our
passenger train service’? Is
there a secret conspiracy,
high in the ranks of our
postal department, to dis-
courage Canadians from
communicating by mail?
Are postal authorities
being bribed by the Bell
Telephone, the  railways'

Canada’s early railways in
these figures. There is no
sentiment. They show that
the line is losing moncy, and
that's all the railways care
about.

They don’t mention that
there seemed to be a deliber-
ate plan to let the tracks
and the coaches fall into
such disrepair and shabbi-
ness that even an Outer
Mongolian would prefer to
travel by yak.

There was almost no

attempt, except on the big
transcontinental trains, to

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system,
and other competitors to
put the brakes on postal
delivery to the point where
it will diminish to a trickle,
then halt completely? One
would think so, on the
evidence.

People in business who
depend on the so-called
postal service in this
country, must be losing their
hair, their minds, and even
their businesses these days.

Last - summer, when we:

were .in- England, | mailed
two’ columns back to
Canada? No problem. They
were there right on time.
My wife wrote some post-
cards. “Not much point”,
1 observed. “We'll be home
before ‘the cards get there.”
‘We weren't.

But have you tried the
Canadian mails __ lately?
Don't, unless there is no
other way.

Last. night, my wife
came across an old love
letter, from me, and read it
to the accompaniment. of
my blushes and snorts. That
letter travelled more than
200 miles, and took two

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other for a duel during the mating season in this
exciting new nature film. Also sharing the
spotlight willbe the busy beaver, the polar bear
and the Grizzly bear to name just a few of the
natural stars,

days to get there, and cost
four cents postage.

This week, we had a letter
from our daughter. She
lives the vast distance of
80 miles away. You could

it in four days, hiteh-
hike it in two, Yet the post
office, with ils computors,
its fancy codes and its fast,
modern trucks, took the
grand total of four days to

get the letter from. there.

to here.

That's really — whippy
service. Twenty miles a day.
And it cost eight cents.
Twice the cost for less than
half the efficiency.

This column is mailed
from here to the city on
Tuesday, for processing. It
should be delivered next
morning, the people here
tell me. It isn't. Sometimes
it gets there Friday. Some-
times it doesn’t, ~

After some complaints
from the city end, 1 took
what J thought was drastic
action. 1 sent the column
by certified mail. That
sounds impressive.

jae. It consists .of putting
your envelope inside. a
special envelope, and paying
forty cents for the privilege.
“That'll do it”, | thought
ct
Three days
Jater, the city was on the
blower, No column. [
explained what J’d done.
They said they'd go to the
post office.

They did. Nobody knew
anything about it. After
eight days, the whole
sordid little, unimportant
story came out.

Certified mail must be
signed for. The elevator in
the office building in the
city was not working. The
recipients of the column
were on the third floor.
No postie was going to walk
up three flights of stairs.

So the “certified” letter
was not delivered. Worse
still was the fact that it
was dumped somewhere in
the post office and ignored.

Eight days after it was
mailed, it turned up. Eight
days, eighty miles, But by
gosh, the price is right. Only
forty cents.

I've no grudge with the
local people. They are help-
ful and obliging. But
somewhere out there .. .

Sending a letter these
-days is about as effective as
writing a note, putting it in a
bottle, and dropping it in
the Pacific Ocean. Except
that the latter is a lot
cheaper, if you happen to
have an empty bottle.

Next year, I’m going to
hire a mule train for my

mail.

Pencil Chewers
No Longer Fear
Lead Poisoning
Here's good nows for

pencil-chewers,
The department of con-

sumer and corporate affairs has

issued a requirement under the
hazardous products act regulat-
ing the use of lead pigments in
paints and other coatings on
pencils and artists’ brushes,

So now, unregenerate con-
sumers of pencil ends can gnaw
in safety,

It is now an offence under
the act to import, sell or
advertise pencils or artists’
brushes with coatings contain-
ing more than 0.6 per cent of
lead compounds,

Although industry general-
ly uses other pigments for
finish, the regulation will
ensure you're protected from
harmful lead-base coatings on
pencils and brushes, should
they appear on the market
inadvertently,

Lead, remember, is a
deceptive metal. Even though
its Lotal amount in such finishes
may be relatively small, lead
accumulates in the body and
under some conditions, can
produce serious consequences,

Some lime ago, the depart-
ment also limited, under the
same act, the release of lead
compounds in ceramic glazes on
ilems like dishes. It has also set
limits for lead in paint used on
children's toys and furniture.

Paul Moroso
Addresses
Contractors

Members of Southern In-
terior Construction Association
were welcomed to the associa-
tion’s monthly meeting recently
by Ted Schmidt.

Guest speaker, Paul Mor-
oso, CGA, addressed the
association on corporation in-
come tax, capital gains and
estate planning and the implica-
tions of the new B.C. Com-
panies Act and the necessity to
maintain financial and corpora-
tion records on a current basis.

In further business the
members were informed of the
Plan Room facilities located in
Castlegar and for the need to
have all construction operators
represented in the activities of
the association.

+ teThe,; objectives;: of the
association_.are..t9.achieve a
closer relationship and-a-better
understanding: of*-the . various.
branches of the construction
industry and to. improve and
standardize methods of ‘sub-
mitting and getting tenders as
between architects and en-
gineers, general contractors
and. sub-contractors and to
provide bid depository services

_ and ‘any services associated

with the industry.

The next meeting is slated

for Trail on Dee. 6.

Alberta Plans
To Have Exhibit
“At Exposition

The province ‘of Alberta
has unveiled plans for a
4,500-square-foot exhibit on
Cannon Island at Expo ‘74,

“The province, which re-
cently said it would join British
Columbia and the Canadian
government in exhibiting at the
world’s fair in Spokane, said its
exhibit will be a natural
amphitheatre tiered with rocks
and logs to seat spectators,

The amphitheatre will seat
150 persons and be surrounded
by Canadian spruce and pine
trees, said David Wood, manag-
ing director for Alberta's public
affairs bureau.

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