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editorial comment

A positive stand
on a community

problem

Coverage in the media these days seems to involve a

number of stories regarding cross border shopping.

Well, we at The Sun believe that as your community
paper, it's just not good enough to report on the detri-

truly rewarding career

Ron.
Jeffels

all-pervading tax on birth, books
and burial plots, on lectures, lutes
and legal fees’ is hot easily
Pp d, It wants i
inventive, mind-expanding

,Columnist

_ dreamed of. . .

T’'ve never forgiven that clergy-
man. Just as I stumbled off the plat-

form with a mortarboard in one’

hand and a newly minted diploma
in the other, he gave me the narrow,
ecclesiastical eye and said: “And
now what do you intend to do with
your life?” Four decades later I'm

still trying to answer his

ing never. before
not even’ in your
philosophy, Horatio, '

It's true: you will need the dra-
matic imagination and poetic
,Senius of Shakespeare, It would
‘also be useful if you've written sci-
ence fiction and horror stories or if
you've crafted some decent one-
liners for zanies, clowns and other
stand-up comedians. But do no
despair. It can be done,

It wasn’t casy for the young in
those remote days to choose a
career, something that would last.
It's even worse as we tumble into
the 21st century. These days jobs
disappear like ghosts in a grave-

yard: not much call of late for” ’

buggy whip designers, railroad
telegraphers or — Iet's be modern —

For what about a new,
all-pervading, b-to-tomb tax

above sea level. Big users — trom-
bonists, concert baritones and
politicians - would pay a supertax
on the Oxytax, But I’m worried:
my. brilliant idea may be outmoded
already. Ottawa probably has a task
force at work on it right now.
Together with that other one to be
imposed just after the next electi

times out of 20, with a four per
cent margin for error. I'm not sure
what that means but then neither is
anyone else, And a post as federal
statistician isn't a bad way to spend
your life. Who could resist the
allure of measuring summer unem-
rates in dland’s
y?, That’s a Hy

dfich

the Sextax, Add seven per cent in
both cases.

If taxation isn’t your bag,
become a secretary to any Royal
c Aa fs

adjusted summer, of course.

I was once trained to the theatre
so I think I understand essential
timing, dramatic crescendo and the

Royal C
are eternal, immortal, indestruc-
tible. So I guarantee you life-long
tenure, high salary, French cuisine,
leisurely sojourns in luxury hotels,

on the volume of air breathed: the
Oxytax? The: Oxytax would be
graduated. Primitive justice and
social equity for those with respira-

tory ailments, y'know,

My Oxytax would vary accord-
ing to the user’s lung capacity, fre-
quency of inhalation, nasal

ip card-punch op
Twenty years ago everybody in
Canada was a puncher, spindler,
folder or mutilator of computer
cards, But not now.

T lower the eyes and give the
maiden’s blush. I don’t want to
appear immodest, but I still claim
that I've solved the problem — now
and for all times, Ihave a list of
ive careers which

mental effects this problem is having on our

ty—we're joining the fight with local retailers against it.

It almost seems hypocritical for us to report on the
latest effects cross border shopping is having on our
economy, while at the same time promoting retail shops

south of the 49th parallel.

Which is why, effective immediately, our readers
will no longer find any retail advertising from the U.
Some have said it's a bold move—but one that is

welcomed.

Granted, it wasn't an easy decision to make. But
we've listened to your requests—both readers and
advertisers and feel this decision is in the best interest

of our community.
Local are ina battle for

S.

which seems to be finally reaching a peak.
While markets might indi the p is

off, we feel it is still very important to ensure Castlegar
is every bit as successful as Colville, or any other small.

city.

We can do this, and we know fret your comments

that we have your support in our decision.

A Little Knowledge

1) Who said, “I came, I saw, I conquered’?
2) How big is a kangaroo at birth?
married?
4) How many wives did Henry VII have?
. >) ‘What is the sacred text of the Moslems?

Answers.

3).1981.

_ wife was Catherine Parr.
& 5) The Koran. 2

3) In what year were Prince Charles and Lady Diana

Julins ‘Caesar, who would have said it, “Veni, vidi,

4) -Six.:The first-was his brother's widow, whom he
‘later. divorced, then Anne Boleyn, who was executed
‘for adultery, then Jane Seymour, who died in ‘child-
birth, then Anne of Cleves, whom he divorced, fol-
lowed by Catherine Howard, also executed. His last

will never disappear no matter
what happens: nuclear war, col-
lapse of the international monetary
system, the balkanization of Cana-
da, even. the end of Elvis and his
spectral visitations. Here’s the list,
no fee demanded.

Go blest, young man, go blest!
Become a consultant in Canada's
primary growth industry: taxation .
But let me warn you in advance. To
enter the field, you'll need the
inventive mind of Marconi, the
mathematical genius of Einstein, the
cruclty of the Marquis de Sade and
the craft and guile of Satan himself.

Your work will be handsomely
rewarded but it will not be casy.

Any government that has already. i’
created a universal, inescapable, ~~

n (aquiline, Roman,

and exciting fact-finding missions
abroad. Especially to Sweden. All
Royal Commissions visit Sweden,
even those inquiring into the breed-
ing habits of Tibetan newts or the
demographics of angels dancing on
— and with — pinheads,

And political pollstering is
tecession-proof: you might want to
think about it as a career. That
assertion of mine is correct 19

ry climax in Act V, Scene
VL I've kept the best post to the
last. Become a professional direc-
tor of totally Spontancous Protests
and Silent Marches : SPASM for
short. Any SPASM has to be care-
fully planned and orchestrated at
least three months in advance. You
come in at $2000 a day, plus
expenses, crudely-lettered signs
extra. You will be'in demand today,
tomorrow, forever, I guarantee it.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal
of The Open Learning Institute.

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Opportunities for privatization limitless

By MICHAEL WALKER
The Fraser Institute

In a recent visit to the Fraser Institute, former
New Zealand Finance Minister Roger Douglas,
the so-called Kiwi Wonderkind, described the
root and branch reform of the public service
which was undertaken during the New Zealand

Labour gi 's two

ly. preferred to public or vice versa, but rather

because p

subject the activity to competition. Notwithstand-
ing Douglas’: 's opinion, there is often a lack of
imagination as to how far privatization might

be ded in

public service reform in that country revolved
around a complete change in the structure of
reporting and the establishment of each govern-
ment department as a separate financial entity
with its own budget, its own chief executive offi-
Tt is an

cer, and its own labor

of government services,

A recent article by Eugene Carlson in the Wall
Street Journal provides a few examples of how
privatization can save public funds in a wide vari-

costs

‘pay

* American Golf Corp. from Santa Monica,
implies the opp to California operates some 80 public golf courses
in 20 states,

* Recycle America Inc. operates the Seattle
City area solid waste recycling program.

* Pricor Inc, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee

operates the jail in Starr County, Texas.

ety of odd

those

the imagination of public sector managers in
Canada, I think that it is useful to list some of

By way of

has won a contract

to which the Canadian federal g:

could

* Laidlaw, a consortium of Mayflower Con-
tract Services Inc. of Overland Park, Kansas,
Laidlaw Transit Inc. from Toronto and ATC Man-
Corp. from St. Louis operate 21 per cent
of the Denver transit system.

* DDD Co, from Landover, Maryland operates
the Veterans Administration mail services.

Toll Road Corp. from Leesburg, Virginia is

well tum as it undertakes a major i
of the structure of the public service under the
guidance of top public servant Paul Tellier.

In any event, during his description of the
New Zealand reforms, one person asked Douglas
what he thought the limits of privatization were.

pax

By Don Addis

© 1991 Creators Syratcate Ine

He d that there was really very little that
could not be privatized in one form or another,
provided the government had the poli will.

pe the U.S. ears academy at West Point to
advise the army on how to make more money
from amny assets, such as its football stadium, or
save money in the conduct of activities carried on
at the base,

* Aspen Systems Inc. from Rockville, Mary-
land manages libraries at the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development, the Labor
the Interior Dep and the

building the Dulles International Airport toll road
to the Dulles i airport in
= Besource Control Inc. of Barre, Mas-
ig the sludge
plant in Springheld, Massachusetts while ABB
Resource Recovery Systems in Windsor, Con-
necticut is operating a solid waste to energy plant
in Dakota County, Minnesota.
These examples seem to suggest that the

As he noted, the interest in p

Oceanic and A heric A

for pri are virtually

is not because private arrangements are necessari-

tion.

ited.

Substance over charm may win election

Ken Binks is back in his Ottawa
office; Simon Compton in Charlot-
tetown; Dr. Bud Bradley in Dinville
and Larry Ruptash is back in Veg-
Teville,

convention that elected Robert
Stanfield léader—public unhappi-
ness with the PC party would be

in amazement and quietly encour-
age the view that their discipline
was a reflection of their higher

d in party ig and
dissension.

back on their Toronto

meeting, one is struck by the degree
to which power had, changed the

PC party. |
» My colleagues in the Parliamen-
tary press Gallery were -not

They and a couple of thousand
men and women just like them,
have left euphoric—some would
argue unreal—atmosphere of the

Progressive Conservative Party's ,

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and now face the: day-
to-day challenge of being a Canadi-
an conservative.

Some days it isn't casy.

Not when your party is at 16 per
cent.in the public opinion polls and
just about everyone you meet has
something negative to say about the
goveminent you support.

In the “old days"—and this 45-
year-old goes back to the '67 Tory

d. But these reporters
weren't around the day Bob Muir,
now, an honourable Senator,
punched out an anti-Defienbaker
delegate in the lobby of the
Chateau Laurier Hotel; they didn't
see the 17 “cowboys” defy Stan-
field ‘and vote. ‘against the official
languages act; they ‘weren't there
for the cheers-turned-to-tears when
Joe Clark decided in‘ Winnipeg to
calla leadership convention to
“clear the air."

‘Those really were the signs of a
party in disarray, and by the impli-
cation unfit (o govern.

As they watched the Tory pany
tear itself apart, Pierre Trudeau's
Liberals used to shake their heads

Now it is the Torys who are disci-
plined, and the Liberal who appear
uncertain despite their commanding
lead in the public opinion polls.

(Believe it or not the once-invin-
cible Liberal still owe more than $1
million from the 1984 election
campaign. Liberal leader Jean
Chretien has been quietly recruiting
former Liberal ministers who are
now senior business executives to
try to retire the debt.)

Liberal opposition to free trade
has alienated many in the business
community, and the result has been
adrop in financial Support. _

But Mulroney, confident and
mature after nearly seven years in
power, wasn't having any of that.
With him in charge, the PC party
seeks the moderate, middle-ground.

There is no place for what he

_ called "dark voices" that seek to

tum English against French, East
against West. People who believe in
those policies are welcome to’ join
the Reform Party or the Bloc Que-
becois.

Toronto truly was a watershed
for the Tory party, and love him or
hate him, the credit has to go to the
man at the top, Brian Mulroney,

‘That's not to say the Toronto del-
egates were unaware of Mulroney's
drag on the party's popularity.

During the convention's closing

Tory opp on
bilingualism and. capital punish-
ment has turned off many of their
traditional supporters, some of
whom. have now joined Preston
Manning's Reformers.

The casy answer for both parties
would be to throw out, your princi-
ples, and tell the dissidents what
they want to hear.

there was ‘plenty of
applause for the leader, but when
someone started a chorus of "Brian,
Brian" it quickly faded.
‘Ie Mulroney makes ‘history by
winning the next election, he
knows it will be on the basis of pol
icy rather than his personality.
Policy over personality!
How's that fora novel idea?

- Wednesday, August 21,1991

The Castlegar Sun

gLetters to the Editor

“Attitude could keep us at home _

Dear Editor?’ molly ya
In light of the latest Catt es
to shop locally, I feel it necessary
© to.point ut that product prices
°" are not the only reason shoppers
might be going across the border
© to shop. Customer service in
”* Castlegar needs to be imp:

that! she should watch me very

close, that’ since: I hada large

purse with me, she should be

right on top of. me when I
emerged from the change room.

Now I realize that all retail

outlets need to be wary of
But when i i

ment ‘store feeling like 1 would
never step inside its premises
again, There is nothing there that
T can't get from somewhere else.
And with a lot better service, too.

T have been across the border
before to shop, particularly while

>" businesses want to keep shoppers

“" in ‘our own back yard,’

*" Last weekend, while shopping
“ for a bathing suit in a Castlegar
“fut veto store, I couldn't help

“* but overhear two store

another staff member of who's
doing what in the store, the least
they can do is attempt to be dis-
creet about it, Already feeling
insulted—I had been pegged

+" while I was in the changing room.
Since'I was the topic of dis-
na * cusdion, I paid more attention
than I normally might have, One
“> sales clerk was telling another
* (who, I assumed, was coming
™ back on shift from a break), that I
“had three items in the change
* room with me. That was okay.
- ~, But then she proceeded to tell her

ut

of my p

enough, the moment I left the
room, the sales clerk was most
definitely on top of me, I had still
considered to buy one of the
bathing suits, over priced at $40
as it was, but when the woman
snatched all three suits from my
hand and brushed me off so rude-
ly, that was the last straw.

I left this downtown depart-

Ihave always been
made to feel welcome while inside
a retail outlet. When a salesperson
asks if I need assistance, I have
always felt that it was'a genuine
gesture for assistance,

Maybe as far as this store is
concerned, I am only one cus-
tomer, But if I was treated this
way, Ican’t help but wonder how
many other people have been
treated with the same callousness.
How many dollars are being lost
everyday (perhaps even across
the border,) due to their rude
treatment of a customer?

If it’s true that charity begins ._

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at home, and if Castlegar wants
to keep people in Castlegar to
shop, then may I suggest a more
people-friendly attitude towards
shoppers to do the trick?
M. Anderson
Robson, B.C,

“No excuse to keep torturing and killing animals

~The following is taken from a

wnewsletter printed by the Trail
S.P.C.A, They have kindly given
me permission to print it:

~ Thousands of cruelty-free
products prove there's no excuse
to continue the outdated Draize
Eye Irritation Test and other
product safety testing such as the
Lethal Dose 50 per cent test, both
of which result in painful and

ry death of

animals, It is important to under-
stand that as a and as a

The Lethal Dose 50 Test is
used to determine the dosage
required to kill 50 per cent of a
population of test animals, usual-
ly over 200 or more. Every year,
4 to 5 million animals are force-
fed, injected with, forced to
inhale, or otherwise exposed to
such substances as body lotion,
bubble bath, toothpaste, fabric
bleach, and more. As the concen-
tration of a test substance increas-
es, these animals suffer

recently have gone cruelty-free.
However, too many major manu-
facturers still test with animals.
The following are some of the
manufacturers who do or do not
use animals. This list is taken
from the National Anti-vivisec-
tion Society Book, available at .
the Trail SPCA.

Cruelty-free manufacturers:
Revlon and its subsidiary compa-
nies, Almay, Bill Blass, Jean
Nate, Max Factor, Halston,

citizen there is much that you can
do to end the needless suffering
of animals,

The Draize Test is an irritancy
| test in which a certain amount of
; the test compound—anything
| from mascara to drain cleaner—is
| either inserted into the eye of a

: rabbit or a shaved patch of skin
‘on an animal. Rabbits are often
used because they are cheap,

‘have large eyes and are easy to
‘ handle because of their gentle-
! ness. The animals are restrained

{and damage is observed during
| the course of three to 21 days.

massive bleeding and painful
deaths.

Alternatives: Non-animal
alternative methods are available
and can provide needed data
faster and cheaper than testing on
animals, Cell and organ cultures,

ical assays,
and mathematical models, i inver-
tebrate organisms, human skin
patches, etc., are all viable, valid
alternatives to current animal-
based tests.

The National Anti-vivisection
Society has a list of manufactur-
ers who do not test their products

| The test compounds often cause. 08 nonhuman, 2

' irreparable damage to the rabbit's"
seyes, and leaves them ulcerated
‘and bleedi All are

cruelty-free’

“sacrificed” at the end of the test
period.

is wide, and
you “Il be surprised to find that
several major manufacturers -

obituary

: Vera Sherstobitoff

., Vera Sherstobitoff of Raspber-
ty Village passed away on Satur-

, day, August 17, 1991 at the age of
83 years.

. _ Mrs. Sherstobitoff was born
, December 12, 1907 at Verigin,
" Saskatchewan. She came to

" * Ootischenia with her parents in
1910. The family moved to Pass
_ Creek and then to Perry Siding
” for a short while, returning to

Pass Creek, In 1925, she married ;

, Mike Sherstobitoff at Perry Sid-
ing. After their marriage, she
moved to Brilliant:and then to
aspberry Village where she has
ice resided.
Mrs. Sherstobitoff loved to gar-

den and knit and enjoyed her fam- -

“ily, especially her grandchildren.
. . She is survived by four sons;
‘Fred of Raspberry, Louie and
Mike of Castlegar and Alex of
_ Kelowna. 11 grandchildren, seven
great-grandchildren, two brothers,

Nick. Verigin of Perry Siding and -

;Bill Verigin of Slocan Park. She
was predeceased by her husband,
‘one brother and two sisters.
* Funeral service was held at the

my

i
Barro

’ Available now -
inthe following area; -

8th Avenue (A 00 block)

Columbia Avene
(1000 block).
starting Sept. 3

Please contact Denise

91365-7048

Castlegar Funeral Chapel on
Tuesday with burial at the Bril-
liant Cemetery.

Moond Amway, Eve Cos-
metics, Joico Labs Inc., Merle
Norman Cosmetics.
Manufacturers who have
ended the use of animal testing:
Avon Products, Estee Lauder,
Aramis Beautiful, Knowing,
Lauder for men, Prescriptives,
White Linen and Bonne Bell.
Manufacturers who use animal
testing: Gillette and its subsidiary
companies, Atra, Braun, Daisy,
Deep Magic, Dry Idea, Cutex,
Procter & Gamble and its sub-
sidiaries, Bold, Biz Bleach, Cas-
cade, Camay, Cheer and Coast.
Manufacturers that don't
fespond: to inguiries about, their

.testing: Active Organics Inc.,

Acu-trol, Advance Design labs,
Afm Encterprises Inc,
ae

This list is not complete. For

Sell it quick -
in the Sun classifieds
Call 365-7848

Announcement
Mike Harcourt’s

Agenda
Tuesday, Aug. 27

9:00 a.m. - Open Line, CKQR
11:00 a.m. - Open Line, KBS.
2:00 p.m. — Official opening of the
Castlegar NDP Campaign Office.
7:00 p.m. — Wine and Cheese %
Reception at USWA Local 486 Hall, B
910 Portland St., Trail with Mike
speaking. Everyone Welcome.
Please come out and meat Mike,

Paid for by the Ed Conroy Campaign and the

Rossland-Tralt New Democrats

more information about the

above, please contact the Trail

SPCA. To help end the use of
in testing,

avoid companies that continue to

abuse animals,

Editor's note: This article was
submitted by Christine Cross for
her regular column in the Leisure
Guide, Because of its content we
thought the article needed to run
in the main section of the paper.

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