CASTLEGAR NEWS Phursiy, March 2, 1978 . KISS Students Equally Relaxed in Either From Shop Class to the Foods Lab ‘Kim Stafford and Kerry Martin » dents a chi Roys and girls alike take part in the varior courses offered, In p we have shown the girl s classes; Loday's photos demon- strate that boys are equally relaxed in the foods lab. OF y * being able to eat your work is a definite advan: lage! Creative textiles, a course that gives students an oppor tunity to use textiles artis: tically, is also very popt Some of the interesting ative results will be on display during Education Week Open House, These and other option courses are offered in junior secondary schools Lo give stu: o “explore” a variely of subject areas before hard decisions have to be made in senior grades, Tf you attend Open House gay will have an epportunity to visit all the sp rooms, Clark: Wide Ranae of Tonics Melony Muprs and Miss Zak Federal Opposition Leader Joe Clark covered a wide range of topics on his 18-hour tour of © the West Kootenays this week. Below are highlights from both the press conference and the Selkirk College question- and-answer session Friday: National Unity: “One of the things that used to worry me about this whole national unity debate was that it was very difficult to get into it if you came from High River, Alta. But events are developing now where one of my credentials for being able to help the nation’s problems is precisely that I do come from some place other than Westmount. Rene Leves- que and I have not been feuding for 20 years, we're not old enemies with old scores to _ Settle.” Senior Citizens: “I think the most important thing we can do for the elderly in the * + immediate term is to try to get some hold on.inflation because they are the chief victims of inflation. After that, if we were to look at specific increases, it would be in the supplement and not the basic pension.” Bilingualism in the Air: “] think everyone will acknow- ledge that the principal concern has to be safety, but it's very important that the Canadians outside Quebee realize how central the question of the right to use their language is to the Quebec sense of cultural sur- vival. There is a feeling in this province that their special cullure is under assault, that it might disappear in an Anglo- Saxon continent and they are particularly apprehensive when they see any unnecessary incur- sion into the strength of that culture.” Public Servants: are in the neighborhood of 150 to 200 appointments that are the right to make of the prime I'm going to name a r of those from the public service, but I'm also going to bring in some outside people, people who have experience outside government and out- side Ottawa, so that their per- spective can be brought to bear on national polities. Secondly, 1 intend to introduce as a very early measure a Freedom of Information Act because one of the reasons public servants have power is that nobody else can get at them and we don't know what they're doing. I want the publ ic of Canada to know what is going on in my government.” Changes in Existing Abor- tion Laws: “My own view would be that we should keep the present law in place with a procedural change. I think the use of medical committees doesn't work in two ways, It imposes a hardship on the poor because well-to-do women who seek an abortion can go som where where, those abortiol are available and the poor ean’ Secondly, the medical com- mittee provision is in many cases ignored and it's just a rubber-stamp procedure in some hospitals. But I don't consider that to be a high priority of any government I would form.” Mutti-culturalism in Can- ada: “I would certainly want as part of our national cultural policy Lo provide financial help to cultural groups interested in developing their own language and culture, not in the same status as French and English, but certainly through provin- “There, cial departments of education to develop their own heritage. I've got some concerns about the depart ent of multi-cul- turalism as it stands, princi- pally because I believe that department is being used al- most exclusively for political patronage purposes.” High Freight Rates: “We've had a very substant 1 study by the Hall Commi: on the impact of freight on the prairie economy. There have been some recommenda: tions that have been brought through, many of which I think have nol been adequately acted upon by the government. We would want to move more quickly on the 1] report, which has some implications for C. The second fundamental concern is that we have got to build into our national deci- sions-making agencies such as the Canadian Transport Com- mission a much closer apprecia- tion of regional realities in the country.” Canada Post Labor: Dis- putes: “What we have to do is find some’ new methods that will work in place of the strike. We're looking at two models Wh is a court arbitration sys! along the lines of that used in Australia, Another is to ga back to the proposals we had advanced when Robert Stanfield was party leader in the 1972 elve- tion campaign, with the lishment of an industrial d putes tribunal that would he able to work in areas of dis- agreement here. We would naturally he applying that quite early to industrial relations within the post ollter, which I down.” Trustees Meet To Discuss Capital Project The School Di board of tru: nuitlee met i net fin tal expense pre ald Cuned the addition ual recreation for three district 1 No. 9 building com: ry-treasurer John Jasche id the project would inelude the addition of showers, a change room and a fire and burglar alarm at Twin Rivers. Elementary, owers, change room and a pew Kinnaird Junior Secondary School and a fire and burglar tem al Kinnaird Ele- AM alarm systems would he connecte district's shop, to the Motor Hotel recept y 24-hour surveillance, her said the cost of pital project, shared equally by the district and the incial government, will not be known until the committee s estimates from archi- Nixon and Browning fal Application forms. for the new capital expense pro- posal were to he in Victoria by the end of February, he said. Court News Something Castlegar Drug's Downstairs Toyland has just received some of the latest in ''Spring’’ toys, such as: jacks, marbles, kites, balsa planes, wheelbarrows, goal sets, ride’em toys, frisbees, hoola hoops, and much more, including New: The Twiddler. You can spin It, whirl It, toss It, and twirl It. Come and check it out. Slime Worms. By Matte!. They're gooey, creepy, drippy, oozy, cold and clammy. Star Flite. Soars up to 300 feet. Sky Heros. Your favourite action hero who really flies! Space Swords. Glows in the dark. New items arriving every day. Drop in to the for one count of break, er and thefl, nine counts of h of probation for which ived a susfiended sen- nd phiced on probation until Jan. 13, 1979 and one count of ying a et led weapon) which he again re- ecived a suspended sentence and placed on probation until Jan. 13, 1979, * * Sherry Anne Molnar ple: ed guilly t harge of heing a minor, in po: n of liquor. She was fined $35, 2g hg ‘There were three separate charges of driving with a blood alcohol count over .08, with all pleading guilty. Fined $300 or in default 30 days in jail are Arthur H. MeWhinnie, Edwin McGauley and Alex Markin. “8 « Robert A, Halbauer plead- ed not guilty but was found guilty loa Be of common ull, He atu intermittent jail term. —Cobra Photos by Paul Medvedett 40 Baha'is At Ayyam-i-Ha Party Saturday Approximately 40. Bahw'is and invited yuests fram Trail, Nelson, and Castlegar attended an Ayyam-i-Ha Party Saturday evening here at the Kinnaird Mall, Ayyam-}Ha is the. Baha'i time of Che year for hospitality, socializing, and gift-giving, Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely with, games, con- versution, dancing, and home- made ice cream, On Sunday morning 25 people met for a pancake break- fast at the home of Gary and Rebecea Strouse and then travelled to Nancy Greene Lake for cross-country skiing, tohoggauning, and a hot dog and marshmallow roast, One daring Bahu’ from Nelson participated in the Fourth Annual Nordic > Ski Race ‘The Baha'i calendar con- sists of 19 months with 19 days each, ‘The four days that are leftover, or five during leap years, are called Inter-calary ae or Ayyam-i-Ha and are 26 + March 1 inclusive, Ti ¢ duys immediately pre- cede the final month of the Baha'i calendar year whieh is a month of fasting from all During these 19 days, pal gr drink from Hockey Hel met Saved Youth From Injury A hockey helmet is credit. ed ins saving a nine-year-old Castlegar youth from: injury after the vehicle he was in was ~Invelved in an accident: Wed: nosday evening of lust week. Mr. und Mrs, Josephus Van Dungen, uecompaunied by theirs srald in. complete hockey gear and their 14-year: old daughter Kathy, were tak- ing the boy to play hockey when their vehicle was rear: ended, Mrs, Van Dungen told the Castlegar News glass fram the buck window had struck the boys helmet. The incident occurred us the Yan Dungen vehicle was. making a left turn onto Laurel St. from Columbia Avenue. Driver of the other vehicle, who is identified “as James Lewis Genera, also of Castle: yur, his heen charged with following too close, Mr. and Mrs, Van Dungen were taken to Castlegar Hos: pital as was their daughter Kathy. approximately $1,000 damage, Both vehicles sustained Kootenay Furnace The ireplace!} People 365-3644 [#1, 401 Front St., C: oN Quality Shoes for the entire family “N : Dress — ok _— Soe Eremenko’s s ~ IT-RITE Shoes SNM Oe ae eS West's, for a super look in enna this year! Drop In very soon and have a fook at our newest arrivals of Coats & Jackets ® Styled by Niccolini, Westfield, and Canadian Mist * Polyester Gabardine Fabric in New Spring Shades ® Size range: 9-15, 10-20 and ‘oversize . Brighten Your Day with a Gay Umbrella! We have received a new shipment of Ladies’ Pu and Tote Bags rses Fabulous Fabrics . Dan River Crayon Prints Poly/Cottan, 45°" wide. Pink, apricot & beige. Colourful Co-ordinates Plains & Plaid -Poly/Cotton linen !ook, 45°° green or blue. wide. Yellow, 49 Now is the Time for Pruning & Dormant Spraying — * We have hand-pruners, tree-pruners, lopping shears and pruning saws Buckerflald Garden Seeds Dormant Oit and Lime Suifur Sprayers Wealso stock potting soil, peat pots, and fertilizers ey x* Reservations AIR TRAVEL AGENTS FOR ALL AIRLINES | CASTLEGAR NEWS SECTION Thursday, March 2, 1978 Page B1 DING QUESTIONS on topics ranging rom Aborilon to Quebec language legisla: oflon). Oppoaltion Leader Joe Clark addres: rowd of 250 at the Selkirk College tounge. ‘Transfer Funds to Local Governments Reduce Bureaucrat Role “A Progressive Conserva- ‘tive government would reduce : the: federal “bureaucratic role” ‘in the administration of winter works and works incentive pro- grams, Opposition Leader Joe Clark said Friday. In a seven-minute chat with area municipal officials, the PC leader said he would : seek a way of transferring --.:efundgfob- the programs to provincial,and loca} govern- ments if he were to lead the next.federal government, He said he would phase out the, planning function of the government agencies adminis- tering, the programs and turn them into a “funding funnelling kind of thing.” Clark also said he support- ed the need for the Neighbor- hood Initiatives Program and other programs, but felt they should be tied to economic trends. “I would like to see those programs in some kind of sense of economic cycles,” he said. "I - think that what happens very often is that we have steady construction at a time when the economy, is relatively strong and then construction money dries -up-at a time like now’ when there's a need for local construction.” Trail's Mayor Chuck Lakes told Clark that under the con- ditions of all the works pro- grams offered by the govern- ment his city must hire through Manpower persons who are on The college appearance Friday w: his 18-hour tour of the West Kootenay riding with his wife Maureen McTeer and MP Bob Brisco.—CasNewsFoto by Lois Hughes “There's no way we can justify laying off men who have seniority and hiring these peo- ple,” Lakes said. “The unions won't stand for it and the city council) will support it.” The opposition leader said the programs did provide nec- By RYON GUEDES Editor A “permanent” §2 billion tax cut financed by a public service hiring freeze highlight- ed the economic reforms Oppo- sition Leader Joe Clark said Friday he would introduce if his parly formed the next federal government, Clark told reporters and an audience of about 250 people at Selkirk College the tax cut— aimed at low-income and middle-income earners during a moratorium on both govern- ment advertising and the ap-" pointment of public servants on the “buddy system"—would have top priority among a Progressive Conservative gov- ernment’s’ solutions to the sagging Canadian economy. “Our problem in Canada now is that we've got more than a million people out of work and we've got a lot of our plants lying idle,” conference. “So what needs to be done ~ is to create a demand for Canadian ‘products which will create jobs for Canadian work- ers. The best way to do that is to put money in the hands today of people who are likely ito spend that money quickly in - Canada.” Speaking to the Selkirk College audience, the PC leader said he did not intend:“to go in with an axe to the public service" but planned it as a means: of allowing the tax without essary short-term for people out of the work force, but added that the drawback to the programs’“has been that they have been established in Ottawa with criteria that do not necessarily make sense in the communities where they've Asked by Castlegar’s Ald. Albert C: whether the to the federal deficit. ““[ wouldn't be letting any- body go but I would certainly be practising a policy of attri- bution that would begin to ease government down the proportion of people . employed in the public sector,” he told the Selkirk . College udience. “The reason for doing PCs had a uniform. scheme i that would be to try to the rolls, rather than employees who already have collective agreements with the city. Nakusp Ambulance . Operators J. A. Sager, zone co- ‘ordinator of Victoria.for the Emergency Health.” Services ‘Gommission attached no blame Mr. Sager, “supposedly ade- quate volunteer coverage was supplied but due to a com- munications breakdown, the te a “ ‘recently, ‘which result- ‘ed in the loss of a patient. “Mr. Sager ,was in Nakusp ido primary investigation of a complaint aftér a patient died andthe ambulance took one half hour to’ answer the call, “It was a matter of un- did not respond immediately.” Mr. Sager stated that EHS employee Ralph Andrews was in Burton giving first aid instruction and had left backup attendant Lorna Bohle, Harold Doyle and Colin Bunt as crew in case of an emergency. The knew who was on Bonanza Days ‘March 16, 17, 18 call, He said apparently Mis. Bohle's pager failed to operate and when the dispatcher at- tempted to contact her by phone at the Legion Hall where she was instructing first aid, the telephone was busy. Ald. Colin Bunt was at a council meeting and. answered the call and waited for the other attendant to show. up. Finally when the ‘dispatch- er couldn't raise the primary attendant, the back-up atten- dant was summoned. The lapse. of time, said Mr. Sager, was from when the call was put out at 7:45 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. * when the car was back in the garage. — industry, Clark said the party was “looking at that, but I can't say we have a scheme.” private economic activity which would ease up the proportion of people em- ployed outside government.” ‘he told the press . _ Kootenay Savings Credit Union Over $1,000,000 returned to members as dividends and patronage refunds for 1977 operations! Special Report! Why Not Join Us? CASTLEGAR 365-3375 — “SOUTH SLOCAN 359-7221 He said his own bias ‘in favor of creating private sector jobs represented one of his major differences with Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who would have the govern- ment’s role “more active than I would have it.” Clark criticized the Liberal government for the increase in the number of “people who have got into the public service because of either Libera! Party positions or sharing the point- of-view of the prime minister" and added current public ser- vice hiring practices “signal the replecemart cf the mii (Temegs. tem by the buddy system." The government will not regain confidence in the Cana- dian dollar until it can demon- strate that it is prepared to practice restraint on its own spending, he said. Pay Packets To Lighten This Week Most of the country's wage and salary earners will find their pay packets light- er beginning this week as the impact of the govern- ment’s temporary $100 tax cut announced last October wears off. Personal income taxes will revert in March to the originally-planned formula for the year, meaning work- ers earning the average industrial wage of about $254 a week will find their take-home weekly pay about $12.50 less than it has been for the past two months, The $100 tax reduction, announced by Finance Min- ister Jean Chretien in his Oct. 20 “mini-budget", was xeared by the government lo eut taxes—and increase consumer spending—during the high ‘unemployment months of January and February. “Ifan average hasit Clark said, would be here in the Kootenays had been able to take advantage of the maximum allowable increases during: the anti-inflation board placed on increased research and development in Canada. He said, _ Canadian research and period that worker's wages would have risen by a maxi- mum of 22 per cent," Clark told the audience. “In the AIB pericd government expendi- tures rose 44 per cent.” “So there was a precise double standard here,” he said. “One standard for the govern- ment, another one for the rest of us. And you just can’t gain confidence when you play thot kind of con game.” Clark said opposition mem- bers had seen early “danger warnings” about the economy but Finance Minister Jean Chretien was still claiming capacity has been sovelee by the U.S. to the extent that Canadian scientists and researchers are not using their skills to deal with specific ‘in Canada, such as trying to attract back to Canada money that has left in large amounts in the last little while,” he said. “But I would, frankly, put my emphasis in the immediate term on making Canada an attractive place for investors of every nationality.” Canadian probl and Cana- dian industry is “consigned toa long life as a branch plant.” Asked by an audience member about his party's pol- icy on foreign investment, Clark said he would “definitely try to encourage Cansdian. ownership” although he did not intend to use restrictions on outside’ capital. There are a number of Measures we can take to en- courage Canadian investment PODIATRIST FOOT SPECIALIST - Ss. J: Fjetistrom O.P.M. atthe Hi Arrow Arms -- Monday - March 6th 12 noon - 8:30 p.m. Ph: 985-7282” For an appointment there was no crisis, He said Chretien told him last week in the House of Commons that there was no economic crisis because the value-of the dollar was at the same value as it was “on a certain day in October.” . “I checked that date in October,” the Tory leader said. “That date marked the lowest point of the Canadian dollar in 27 years.” . A PC government "would like it very clear we've got a serious problem” with the dollar to regain the confidence of the international money markets that it is willing to deal with the problem, he said. Also high among his priori- ties would be a series of “frank talks” between labor and man- agement spokesman on major sources of national productivity loss, the opposition leader said. “Both labor spokesmen and business spokesmen share the same kind of worries,” Clark said. “Their problem is they don't, for a variety of reasons, Teel they can trust the national government to. bring them together.” In addition to examining areas in which Canada should . be ducti and responsibilities. Olstricts. ° ” April 10, 1978, a brief. forms. B. Baldigara City Clerk _ PUBLIC NOTICE CITIZENS OF CASTLEGAR Please be advised that a Regional District Review Committee has been appointed by the Minister of Municipal Affairs to review and examine: 4. The jurisdictional role of Regional Districts, Includ- ing an examination of present and future functions 2. The structural and administrative organization of Regional Districts Including Internal and external . boundaries; the relationships between Reg tricts and Provinclal, Municipal and the citizens; and . Provincial financial support policy for the Regional tonal Dis- A Public Hearing has been scheduled for Monday, In the Clty of Castlegar to hear presentations or accept briefs on the above. The City of Castlegar is proposing to submit a brief and we encourage interested citizens or groups to- also submit briefs to the above-noted Public Hearing. Forms are available at City Hall for the purposes of advising the Secretary of the Hearing of your intention to submit Please phone 365-7227 or drop In to City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. for the necessary Amessage about those who think they can cheat UI: - “We're not Pe Unfortunately that’s not true. It seems that some people like you think there’s nothing wrong with ripping off Canada’s Unemployment Insurance pro- gram. ‘ SAll we did was fail to report a little extra income while getting UI?” With that sort of behaviour you could be charged with a criminal offence. Isn’t it just like shoplifting or theft? Cheating on Unemployment Insurance is stealing from your ~~ Employment with claim records. neighbours, friends, fellow employees, employers, and the The claims investigator may be alerted by an agent at the Government of Canada, all at the “Unemployment Insurance office, same time. And not being avail- or by our central fact-finding able for work when you're getting computer system. Ulis abuse, pure and simple. If there’s evidence of abuse or penalty. Or, you could be charged in a court of law under the Unemployment Insurance Act or fi the Criminal Code of Canada. Canelargen jmaranceo Conviction means a criminal called Canada The Unerplosmnent Insurance Comenision and the the Canada Employment and lnoni Commission. Fora tine saelataecor beatae agen lovment Insurance of fh ‘or Canada Manpower inone location, theyll be tres. record, And benefits wrongly ob- tained must be paid back in full, fessor of meaicine at ine Golum- seme pomp semen * Accommodations * Tours HARDWARE STORE fraud, the investigators will make a recommendation for action to either the UI agent or legal counsel, In any case, it’s not very ‘pleasant. We're not in business to prosecute people. Avoid this by deating with us as fairly as we try A to deal with you. The people of Canada should me be cheated by an irresponsible few. 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