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YOUR LINK HARDWARE STORE AIR TRAVEL AGENTS FOR ALL AIRLINES * Reservations % Accommodations Department Store 21 PINE STREET, CASTLEGAR PHONE 365-7782 Lagiatative Libsarye FParliangnat Blige Victoria, Vay Lk4 Sol Bellavitle 3% : CASTLEGAR, NEWS Distributed Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “Phe Crossroads of the Kootenays” CasNews Telenews An Red Tag Value Days Special Section this Week VOL. 81, No. 4 TWO SECTIONS (A&B) CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1978 25 CENTS Talked 7 | ‘Right The Regional District of Central Kootenay has finally taken its arguments on local taxation of B.C. Hydro “to the right people," Mayor Audrey Moore told council Tuesday. Referring to a four-mem- ber RDCK delegation’s meeting with Energy Minister Jack Davis last Monday, Moore told council the. minister has re- quested an abbreviated form of Petitioner Gets Six Helpers, 1,000 Names About 1,000 city resi- dents have signed a petition supporting the city's pro- posed Arrow Lakes waler system, Ald. Jim Gouk told eity council Tuesday. Council endorsed the door-to-door petition cam- paign which Gouk said had gained six more volunteer ccanvassers—ineluding Ald. ‘Bud Godderis—since he started visiting city resi- dences by himself last Mon- lay. Gouk told the council that in five nights of visiting residences only two resi- dents declined to sign the petition “and these were from emotionality rather than rejection of the Arrow Lakes system.” The petition urges the “provincial government to + implement immediately the recommendations of the city's water supply | feasi- bility. The goal set by Gouk last week is “to ‘cover the 4,500 to 5,000 on the city _voting list. People’ the RDCK brief calling for payment of all local and school taxes by B.C, Hydro for sub- mission to himself, Education Minister Pat McGeer, Finance Minister Evan Wolfe, Health Minister Bob MecLeliand and Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis, Moore, who joined Area J director Martin Vanderpol, Area K Director Lee Donison and RDCK board chairman ‘Art Sutcliffe in the delegation, said Davis and the B.C. Hydro offi- cials present at the Vancouver meeting offered “little rebut- tal” to the recommendations in the brief. She: said it would have been “very hard” for the minis- ter to rebut the recommenda- tions because he had already agreed in the legislature in March 1977 that B.C. Hydro's Columbia River Treaty proper- ties should be taxed. “T think the salient part of the meeting was that we finally had a discussion going on to the right people," the mayor told council. “And at least now members of the cabinet will have to meet in a few weeks with the delegation.” | Council Rejects Pool Hall Bylaw ‘Youth Committee’ to be Created SILVEA JUBILEE . medal who served from 1946 chalrman of the Village of Cantenses first council, and Rust, who has served on both Kinnaird and Castlegar counclis almost winners Ald. Gerald Rust, left, and Otto Walker, right, are honored by Mayor Audrey Moore in an official award. ceremony yugeday Walker: to since 1957, were : by city council in October for the award, which commemorates Queen Elizabeth's silver anniversary. Both were named recipients of as the medal for their contributions to focal munictpal government. Coincidentally, the ceremony was held on birthday.—CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes Walker's 75th She said ‘the i brief will also include the findiigs of the MeMath Report on the Commission of Inquiry on Propérty Assessment and Taxation, delivered to the government in July 1976 and tabled in the: legislature in January 1977. The McMath report recom. mended the provincial govern ment amend the Political infighting Delays Residence Renovations Ministry Picks Up Tab The provincial government is picking up the hotel accom- modations tab for about 30 Selkirk College students while Aid Act to require all provincial corporations to pay grants in lieu of taxes which would: be equivalent to tax rates levied ,-on business taxpayers Propane Gas Brief Wins Council Support A propane gas ‘supplier's complaints of unjust taxation of commercial and industrial pro- pane users by the provincial government gained support from city council Tuesday. Council supported Ald. Al- bert Calderbank’s motion to endorse the brief from G. W. Rutley, local branch .manager for Canadian Propane Gas and Oil Ltd., which said commercial and industrial heating oil users are being charged only one-half, cent per gallon tax on their fuel oil, while users of propane for the same purpose pay the equivalent of 3.6 cents per gallon. . “I feel any discrepancy where a section of the popula- tion, because they operate on propane instead of oil, are being (axed over and above the status quo, is not a very good thing,” €alderbank said. Speaking against the motion, Ald. Len Embree said he supported the provincial government's position that commercial and industrial users can afford to pay more in taxes. -. “I think that's the basis of our tax system,” he said. - Ald. Jim Gouk said: the issue was not whether resi- dential users should pay more taxes than industrial users. “The inequity is not be- tween council and domestic use but between oil. and propane,” Gouk said. Ald. Gerald Rust said high: taxes for propane were also applied against domestic users in the early phases of the pro- pane gas industry. “[ think the taxes should be equal to all and the only way in which it would be possible is ifthey pay the same proportion of taxes,” he said. “political i between the housing and edu: cation ministries over proposed renovations to local campus ~ tesidences, the college council was told last Thursday. Principal Mitch -Anderson told council members the hous- ing ministry has agreed to accommodate the students— evicted from: the residences earlier this month because of leaking roofs and other prob- lems in the buildings—until the end of the semester, but appears lo he involved in a dispute with the education ministry over who is respon- sible for the cost of the renova: tions, “The (housing). ministry told us they were quite pre- pared to spend $45,000 to get : their residences in “operation,” “Anderson said. The education ministry said renovations to the... residences would’ not~pose a problem, the principal said, “yet nothing appears to be happening.” Anderson said the college sent the ministry a letter sup- porting residence students’ re- quests for 2 rent reduction, and later arranged for the moving of the students off campus into hotel and motel accommodation for which the housing ministry would pick up the cost. He said the ministry had sent no written confirmation that it would pay the hotel bills, but had made a verbal commit- ment to continue picking up the cost until the end of the semes- ter. “If there’is a problem in Victoria, I don’t anticipate one al this end," the principal said. - Board chairman Bob Buck- Ivy noted the. education minis: * try is not in the habit of paying for such capital costs as the renovation of the residences, “I suggest there's a rocky road ahead if we expect educa- tion to pay out housing dollars,” Buckley said. e Rejection of the pro- posed bylaw which would pro- hibit persons under the age of 15 from entering poo! halls; Creation of a committee to research the needs of young people, particularly those with a “socio-economic disadvan- tage”. in the comprised of persons “who care for the young people of our community" and fora city grant to cover the salary of a youth worker who will ‘meet local youth“on their own ground.” Acting as an ombudsman between sly coun and the i will @ Hiring of a $900-a-month youth worker. Those were the health and welfare be Mesnonetole to the health and welfare committee, through which it will submit its recom. ions for solutions to the dations approved by cily coun- cil Tuesday in an attempt to deal with complaints of van- dalism and drug and alcohol abuse among local youths, Based on the committee's discussions last week with representatives of the Wizard's Palace “pool hall” management, the citizens’ group People In- teraction and local RCMP, the recommendations called for the ofa youth problems faced by young peo- ple in the area. Council amended the ori- ginal recommendation to make the youth worker responsible to the committee rather than the city. Several council mem- bers questioned the wisdom of adding another person to the city payroll. Ald. Gerald Rust, admini- strative services and finance Council Gives Endorsement To Winter Works Proposal City council Tuesday en- dorsed a winter works incen- live program proposed by the _Shewchuck Second Access Petition Backed ‘By 95 P.C.’ A petition in which “vir- tually 95 per cent” of Shew- chuck subdivision homeowners call for a second access to the subdivision is expected to be discussed at city council's next meeting, according to Lake- view Street resident Tom | Good. Good, who recommended last month the construction of a route to supplement Woodland Drive North, said Tuesday he planned to ask permission to discuss the petition, which had gained about 100 signatures, before council. The petition requests the city ‘reach an agreement with CP Rail to develop and main- tain a narrow road along the company’s right of way be- tween Woodland Drive North and Woodland Drive South, and widen or improve the “hazar- dous junction” of Woodland Drive North and Celgar Road, “The city did maintain the road up to 10 years ago, until the nearby underpass was developed,” Good said. “I found a great deal of support in the subdivision because council has been indifferent in the past to . the requests of some residents who have brought this to the attention of council or city administration.” Tuesday night council ap- proved a recommendation from planning committee chairman Ald. Len Embree that the city inform Lakeview Street resi- dents Walter Pzylenivk and Neal Dawson, who had sup: ported Good's proposals, thata second access “is not planned for the subdivision in the fore- secable future. federal New Democratic Party Leader. Council approved a motion from Ald. Albert’ Calderbank, works and services committee chairman, that the city support the federal-provincial-municipal government capital works pro- gram proposed in a Dec. 30 letter from Ed Broadbent. “I feel that any funds that can be gotten to increase the employment in our area should be accepted,” Calderbank said. BERNIE BLOOM: has been appointed: administrator. to the National Exhibition Cen- tre effective Feb. 1, replac- ing Duane Harder who has served in this capacity for the past year. Bloom, a photog- rapher, currently has a one- man exhibition touring Cana- da. He did graduate work In social sclence both in Mont- real and Edmonton, where he lived for the past 12 years. While in Edmonton Bloom worked for an art gallery. He and his wife Linda, and their three-year-old son, David, came to the Kootenays last spring. Linda is a tutor in adult “Candidly, I don’t think this, is going to come off, but if the government in power is going to start a winter works pro- gram we certainly could find a use for the fanding available.” Asked about projects on which funds from such a program could be used, cily administrator Bill Krug sug: the city could use the funding for work on city storm sewers. chairman, objected College Councillor Joins Audit Team Local school trustee Stew- members, support staff, ad- ini tudents—i art Webster will rep Selkirk College council on a steering committee set up to supervise an internal review of STEWART WEBSTER +. named to committee the college's services and goals, Webster, who represents School District No. 9 on the council, wil! join the 13-member committee—made up of faculty conducting the first phase of an intensive audit program which will include an external evalua- tion next November. College principal Mitch Anderson, last Thursday told council he had appointed psy- chology instructor Gerry Eh- man to chair the committee. Anderson said he hoped the internal audit would be completed by June. Education ministry officials: and faculty members from other institu- tions will conduct the exte nal study,” he ‘said. : The -audit program, ap- proved by council at its Decem- ber meeting, will be based on a model used at Camosun College in Victoria, the principal said. Council chairman Bob Buckley, who will act as an alternate council representa- tive for the steering committee, said he had been a member of a team studying Douglas College in Surrey. “I went into it with some lo the city paying the youth worker herause he was “not convinced all avenues have been explored” regarding pos- sible human resources ministry funds which could be used to cover the worker's salary. “I would like to see a little research done on whether they would participate,” he said. Committee member Ald. Len Embree said that the committee had already done “a considerable amount" of re- search on the subject. “The committee feels that regardless of whether funds are available, it is time for the city to show some leadership in solving the problem in the com- munity,” Embree said. “The city should be pre- pared to take that responsi- bility.” Ald. Bud Godderis, chair- man of the health and welfare committee, said reliance on provincial grants for the re- quiréd funding would give the service an impermanence. “When you depend on grants from the provincial government you find yourself responding to the Standards set by the people issuing the grants,” he said. According to’ explanations accompanying its recommenda- tions, the committee said there was “a reasonable hope” for a matching grant from the pro- vincial government with which a second worker could even- tually be hired. The health and welfare commiltee statement said such matters as establishment of a youth activity centre in the old arena and the introduction of a curfew bylaw “would fall under {Con't.,Pg. A16,.Col. 6) INSIDE e@ GLOOMY: The pulp’ in- dustry has Inco Disease. Page AQ because self- tions had always seemed to me (Con't. Pg. A16, Col. 6) Job Standard Stays At the Same Level Renewed advertising of the vacant: position of mental health nurse for the Castlegar area shows the provincial health ministry “has no inten- tion" of lowering the qualifi- cations required for the job, Ald. Bud Godderis told council Tuesday. Godderis, health and wel- Areas |, J Included In $5,000 Master Plan The city will ici in ‘The i will deter- ‘a $9,000 master plan for de- velopment of recreation ser- vices and facilities in Castlegar, Areal and Area J over the next five or 10 years, council decided ‘Fuesday. Council approved the plan, proposed by Ald. Jim Gouk, parks and recreation chairman, whose commitlee discussed the in a joint mecting with Jim Penman, Regional Recreation Commission No. 1 member, and Pat Metge, Regional Recrea- tion Complex director. Gouk said the city's share of the master plan cost would amount to about $5,000. Ap- proximately $3,000 would be available from the provincial government for the plan and the remaining $1,000 would be covered by Recreation Com- mission No. 1, he said. Although the master ‘plan , would receive no contribution * from either Area I or Area J, ,Gouk said the outlying areas {should be considered in the plan because they would be affected by any improvements in avail. able facilities, mine the cost of hiring a consultant to compile the plan and submit the quotation to council for approval, Gouk said. fare committee chairman, said the ministry's argument that the successful candidate for the position—for which a master of science degree in nursing is required—would have respon- sibilities requiring a high level of training was “a very valid reason.” They might transfer it from a master of sciences degree in nursing toa master of arts degree in social work,” Godderis said. “But they want that masters’ degree.” Council voted two weeks ayo to express its concern to Health Minister Bob McLelland about the delay in filling the vacaney after learning the degree required was not offer- ed at any Canadian university. e JAN: Why pick ‘on pool? Page All MONASTICISM: Modern Christians have evolved their own brand. Page Al? CHALLENGE: — West Kootenay residents do not want another hydroelec- trie project unless they receive a few benefits as well, according to Region- al District of Central Kootenay directors. Page A2 (Weekend Weathercast CLOUDY this morning as a weak ridge of high pressure maintains its position over the Province of B.C, Because of its weak nature, surges of moisture will cause the odd snowy period over the week- \ end. For convenient home delivery of the Castlegar News, call + 365-7266. The prospect of “moral- ity legislation"—aimed at a downtown hotel featuring exotic dancers in its bever- age room—received no sup- port from city council Tues- day night. In response to querics from concerned residents, aldermen showed no desire to pass bylaws or regula- tions which would prohibit the dancers’ performances in the Marlane Hotel. Ald. Bud Godderis, a former Roman Catholic priest, said his general re- action was that it would be difficult for council to legis- late moral issues. City Council Uninterested In ‘Legislation of Morality’ Council would have to require residents “to turn off their TV sets, shut down the theatres and prevent stores from selling certain lypes of literature” in order to be consistent with any legislation prohibiting nude dancers from appearing in beer parlors, he said. Moral- ily is the responsibility of jb of the i Ald. Albert Calderbank supported Godderis’ state- ment, “I feel it’s not up to us to pass bylaws and set the tules and regulations in this field.” he said. Mayor Audrey Moore told council she would not like to see council involved themselves, he said. “Personally, I feel much stronger indignation in mat- ters related to the field of ti . in such fon because it would involve the city in the whole field of censorship. “Morality on the part of the people who want to go into a beer parlor and see a stripper is their business, not mine,” Ald. C. S. Fowler