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Hallmark of a Survivor

We know you've heard this before, but
there is the distinct odor of a provincial elec-
tion in the air.

The evid d last Th
with the announcement in the throne speach

tread by Ut.-Gov. Henry Bell-Irving that B.C.'s,

sight-of-centre government plans to steal the

thunder of its socialist critics.
Promised along with legislation benefit-
ting the ald, the young, environmentalists,
welfare

against the opposition, the announcement of
the Social Credit dental care program in-
dicates that the government owes much of its
direction to the man who ran the province for
two decades,
{t was a mark of the complexity of W. A.

C, Bennett that despite his popular image as
a laissez-faire conservative he had battled
for reasonobly-priced health care services
since he sat in the legislature as a Conser-
vative backbencher and later ited some

scholarship students and property owners
‘was a program “to give individuals in B.C. o
maasure of protaction from the high cost
associated with dental care."

Apparently similar to the existing phar-
mmoceutical sere. plan, it will be a logical step

healt care fiat but it's fad not to bea
little cynical about the motives behind a
move Opposition Leader Dove Barrett
described os Premier Bill Bennett's conver-
sion to socialism. Welcoming the premier to
the fold, the opposition leader pointed out
thot socialists have been proposing dental

care since 1933,
Still, it is “impossible to disregard the
failure of the NDP. to implement such a
lan—one which presumably would be
higher on their list of priorities than on that
of the Socreds—during their 28 months in
power. And it is clear from statements made
in the throne speech that the planned
program will serve a wider segment of the
population than would the New Democrats’
earlier proposed scheme offering care only

to children.

As well as representing points scored

of the most enlightened social service
programs oftheday. -

Opportunistic? Probably. But Bill Ben-
nett displayed in last week's throne speech
the same unorthodoxy, complexity . and
flexibility that are hallmarks of a skilled
jeader,

And if the introduction of dental care,
along with other legislation promised in the
throne speech, is any indication of the man-
ner in which he plans to seek a new man-
date, he shares his father's instincts for sur-
vival as premier of this province.

° °
Mightier

+.» which brings us to yet another
theory on the timing of the next provincial
election.

The latest school of thought has it that
the premier will not go to the people until the
Pacific Press dispute is resolved and Van-
couver's two daily newspapers are back on
the streets,

A clear-cut case, we presume, of the
picket being mightier than the pol,

On With The Session

(From an editorial last week in the Victoria Daily Colonist.)

This emphasis on rights raises in-
teresting questions, The government now
provides numerous social services arid
benefits: everything from home-owner's
grants, rental and other aid to the elderly,
pharmacare, medicare, hospital care.
weltare, legal aid, to name but a few. It
now promises yet ahother—a dental plan
of some sort. Are these rights? A lot of
people probably see them that way—-but
they can be taken away intjust the same

way they were delivered—by on act of
government. :

The point is this. Enshrining’o an. att
tive assortment of rights in’ law ‘is one
thing. Providing a society which delivers
them from day to day is quite another.

The bugles have sounded. For the next
few days we must suffer through the
Throne Speech debate. Then on with the
session—and we'll see what precise words
lie behind all these grand thoughts.

Castlegar News Headlines from one year ago:

Ald. Len Embree charges CanCel has “manoeuvred” city council with attempts to evade a Lower

Arrow Lakes water supply for Castlegar.

*

Castlegar Airport's three-month runway Sasuke is to begin this Sunday, April 2, says airport

manager John Michelson.
.

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Castlegar Airport was among 14 airports being picketed this week as Pacific Western maintained
normal operations while Canadian Air Line Employees Association members stayed off the job.
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Mayor Audrey Moore says the city will meet with Area I and J representatives in the near future
to discuss the proposed takeover of the regional parks and recreation function in the area.

Science of Bureaucratic Gobbledegook|

By RICHARD JACKSON

{A column in the Victoria
Daily Colonist.)

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
the unreal world of the Crazies?

The Big Bureaucracy is
codifying its “buzzwords,”

Systematized, government.
gobbledegook Is being trans-
formed into a science.

Word of it came in one of
those plain brown envelopes in
which certain civil servants
leak government secrets.

IN THE PLAIN BROWN
envelope, reaching this desk
from someone in High Places
wishing to alert the unsuspect-
ing taxpayers, was a warning:

“I bring this to your.
attention out of a- sense of
outrage over what we must all
begin to perceive is a growing
menace.

“Officials, elected and ap-
pointed, in the federal and pro-
vincial governments, more and
more are using big words and
phrases to conceal! the fact that
they're not at all sure of what
they're really talking about.”

Nothing very.surprising in
that, what?

BUT WHAT ALARMS
our friend who dropped word of
it in the plain brown envelope is
that the Big Brains of the
Bureaucracy should have it
computerized.

They've taken 80 of the
most used and abused bureau-
cratic “buzzwords” and set

them out in three columns each *

(An editorial in the Vic-
loria Daily Colonist.)

THERE PROBABLY WILL
have to be a crime on the scale
of the Great Train Robbery
before the federal government
iS persuaded to do something.
But no one can ever say there
haven't been warnings galore
about how easy it is to steal
from computer systems.

IUs ‘appealing white-collar
crime. No muss, no fuss and, for
the moment at any rate, no
trace.

The latest warning comes
froma professor of computer
science at the University of
Waterloo, To dramatize his
point, he showed a reporter
how to break into the uni-
versily's computer system with
just a portable terminal and a
telephone coupler. By dialing a
special telephone number, the
reporter was free to ask the
compuler any questions. The
computer even told him how to
operate the system.

AT THE MOMENT THERE
is no law making that sort of
intrusion illegal. As computer
systems proliferate, the plun-
der becomes more tempting.
Bank accounts, industrial sec-
rets and personal information,
all there for anyone who knows
the code. There already has
been a spectacular theft in the
United States where last year a
California bank was robbed of
$10.2 million by a single tele-
phone call to a computer.

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“in brief...

the government will show concern, consider methods, explore means,
enter discussions, review aspects, study aternatives and form committees..."

of 10 words numbered from
zero to nine,
The words are...
COLUMN A: INTE-

sitional, incremental, _ third-
generation,
Column C: options, flexi-
bility, capability, mobilily, pro-
fh

grated, total ii pa-

concept, ti Pp
contin:

rallel, Y
optional, synchronized, compa-
tible, balanced.

Column F: management,
organizational, monitored, re-
eiprocal, digital, logistical,
transitional, incremental, tran-

gency.
Use of the system is de-
signed not only to conceal that
often our masters aren't sure of
what they're saying but to hide
their uncertainty from us.

THE NEW SYSTEM IS
known officially a ast the Synchro-
tity

number from Colum: ‘A, thelll
third from B; al
from Column \C,

Recip.|

rocal Capability beconies 792,

ND ALL N ApMbeas,

in any way to supel
Bond but - becomes} the’ much
more: meaningful:. Integrated
Management Projection (or
IMP — the bureaucratic. art of
selling ‘the departmental
image).

“those familia numbers
999 and 123 no longer mean
what you always thought,

Now 999 has nothing to do
with dialing emergency, but
rather denotes Balanced Policy
Contingency (very. ‘useful for
planners of projects-und pro.
grams).

YOU USED TO THINK
that 123 was the way toddlers
started counting?

Uh uh, The real meaning is
Total Monitored Mobility (very
essential for dealing — or, more
likely in reality, not:dealing —
with regional unemployment),

From these -20 overused

nized
But who pene pai
what that means?
Probably not even those
who use it. 3
But they don’t want you to
trouble yourself by pondering
over it,
So. they go to the code.
To read it, take theseventh

Theft from Computers an Appealing White-Collar Crime

The Thinking Machine that Tells All

In Canada the government
admits that a great deal of
personal information about citi-
zens is filed in computer
memories under social insur-
ance numbers, That constitutes
a different kind of threat.

The Waterloo professor
says computer manufacturers
could at least make it expensive

{An editorial in the Kam-t:

loops Daily Sentinel.)

DESPITE ALL THE KA-
fuffle about barn-burning and
mail-opening, the average Brit-
ish Columbian is still highly
pleased, apparently, with the
performance of the police.

A provincial survey re-
cently completed by twa Vie-
toria sociologists shows that

to break into a computer
system. The trouble is most
‘systems are designed to be
used daily by many people.
Making theft harder also would
make the system more expen-
sive.

AS HAS BEEN THE
cise so many .times before,
there isn’t likely to be enough

pressure for change until we
have an eye-catching example
of why the laws and the com-
puter systems should be tight-
ened up. The trouble is that
pilfering personal information
from government computer
memory banks could lend itself
to some subtle and undetected
abuses. A victim, for example,

A Morale-Lifter for B.C. Police

92.6% Vote of Confidence

92.6 per cent of respondents

ed police in their areas as
good or very good, compared
with one per cent neutral and
just 6.4 per cent bad or very
bad.

Provincially, 94.1 per cent
said the police were good or
very good, 1.2 per cent were
neutral, and 4.7 per cent found
the police bad or very bad.

B.C.'S VARIOUS POLICE
forces also received a vote of
confidence for their field prac-
tises,

More than half of those
surveyed, 51.3 per cent, felt the
law's treatment of syspects was
about right. Another 24.4 per
cent found it inconsistent, 21.5
per cent felt it was too lenient,
and 2.8 per cent felt it was too

/. Voice of the People

Heaps of Orchids and Onions

Editor, Castlegar News:
Heaps and heaps of orchids

upon: the pest and present
hi of

them grow into productive
adults rather than ones who
will have to live off society.

™ 's of the

the Castlewar Aquanaut Swim
Club for the endless volunteer
hours.and energy they have
given of themselves so that our
children may enjoy a healthy
activity at an affordable price
to the parents. Many thanks
from a parent, and may God
bless you all.

And tons and tons of
onions upon the parents who
won't volunteer some of their
time and energy to help lighten
the load of a few workhorses.
From more than 130 swimmers
{last year) surely more than 10
parents could take an hour out
of one evening to attend a
general meeting? What a pathe-
tic turnout,

This area holds an abun-
dance of talent amongst our
young people, Let's help them
develop some .of it, and help

Poor Manners

Parents’ Fault

Editor, Castlegar News: :

I noticed with interest Jim
Chapman's letter in the March
22 edition.

Sandy footprints on tables
and pianos in our schools are a
direct reflection on us as
parents. If taught at home
behavior and habits of cleanli-
ness will be evident wherever
our children go. ‘

School boards and teachers
have more important jobs to do
than to waste our tax money
policing children. Let's put the
blame where it belongs, and
teach our children good habits.

Betty Sahlatrom
Castlegar, B.C.

Y havea lot of energy
which can be channelled into
healthy activities or left to look
for whatever. may come along
(which may not always be
beneficial to anyone).

(An ‘editorial in‘ the B.C.
Medical Journal.)

A FEW DECADES AGO,
not a long time in man’s battle
against disease and ill health,
hospitals were owned, op:ratéed
and supervised by the trustees,
with continuing and primary
advice by doctors, and their
able and devoted lieutenants,
the nursing staffs, Administra-
tors were people who took
charge of the nuts and bolts of
the operation—seeking to
achieve the requests of the
medical staff, which were in-
evitably aimed at improved
patient care.

In recent years, by an
infiltration technique which is a
credit to their perspicacity, and
supported by the advent of the
influence of government in the
financing of hospital costs
through tax revenues, the pro-
fession (or trade?) of hospital
administration has grown to
such a degree that it now, in
effect, runs the hospitals,

MEDICAL STAFFS NOW
have little if any influence on
the running, governing, ad-
ministration or costing of a
hospital. A curtain has fallen

. Surely we as parents can-
not expect to sit back all the
time and let others fulfill our
responsibilities. Let's get out
there and help lighten the
burden.

E. Kristiansen
Castlegar, B.C.

* between medical staffs and the

trustees of their hospitals.
Morale is low, cynicism pre-
vails, standards suffer, and,
many would say, costs rise un-
necessarily,

The time has come for

» as
many as 1,000 impressive
phrases of indefinite ‘meaning
can be fabricated,:.seemingly
ringing with. significance and
importance.

THE IMPORTANCE IS
the added impact —,and‘vague-
ness — they appear to lend to
official reports.

might never know why he
didn’t get a job, a promotion, a
loan approval, There might be
no good reason, iif false or
inaccurate information was fed
into his records in the first
place. That’s the scarey part of
computers’ which -tell ‘all to
anybody who knows: their lan-
guage.

harsh, The other 17.1 per cent
gave no opinion.
SUCH A SURVEY MUST

“be a morale-booster for all of

B.C.'s police forces, particularly
the Mounties, for it certainly
ought to allay fears that the

“DRIVING RANGE of the Castlegar Golf Course opened ‘wlth

‘golfer Bill Van Yzerloo getting into the swing ot the sector:

kend but it all

the’ weather, ( Golf enthusiasts are advised to nrieel golf
pro Denny McArthur to get the latest update on the course.

to by Lois Hugh

Nine’ holos may bo open this

To Coach

The destinies of the Crea-
ton Clippers Junior RB hockey
team will be in the hands of
Level IV coach, Gordie Baulk-
ham.

The announcement was
made last Thursday morning,

Baulkham — replaces. Ken
Callaway, who took over the

. coaching position late last sea-

son from interim coach Rick
Clark, who in turn replaced Tim
O'Reilly, the man who started
out as the Clippers’ coach last
season but was fired midway
through the year.

But both Baulkham and the
Clippers have a few loose ends
to tie up yet.

The newly-appointed coach
has a list of rules that he
expects.to be enforced and at

. the same time, the policy of the

Clippers will be handed to the

newly-appointed coach,
Baulkham's selection as

coach has to be a most welcome

announcement, ever since the _

1978-79 season was completed,

He coached the Midget
Reps last winter after coming
to Creston from Castlegar and
he was chosen over five other
men from whom club officials
had received applications.

Recreation Commission No. 1 Briefs

‘The commission gave sup-

} port to the spring program as
} presented by programmer Fay
+. Fodor. Programs to include

Theory Level I Coaching Clinic,
yoga, soccer clinic, textile paint-

ing, Kung Fu, tennis, rhythmics *

and ‘exercise, hunter training,
defensive driving, T-League
and Sandlot softball and a
microwave cooking elinie.

ee iets reported
cerannenents had been made

‘with ‘School District No. 9

concerning the school swim
“program. Starting date for the
program is to be May 8, which
will also be the pool opening
date. ;

Volunteers
"Needed

For Soccer’

‘Released by
“Minor Soccer Association
In spite of the fact that 225

; children played soccer in Cas-

tlegar' last. year, a disappointing
f only seven people

political furor over cl:
RCMP activities ' was’ under-
mining public confidénce in the
force.

The survey shows ‘that,
fortunately, people have been
able to make a clear distinction
between the sometimes unfor-
tunate policy decisions of senior
RCMP officials, and the day-to-
day work performed by Moun-
ties on the street.:

Canada has a tradition of
fine policing, and Canadians
have traditionally been ‘strong
supporters of the Mounties.

ACCORDING TO THE
survey, the vast: majority of
Canadians — or at least, British
Columbians — have’ seen’ no-
thing recently to make them
change their minds:

And that’s good ‘to See.

trustees and medical staffs to
seek for renewed communica-
tion and joint effort to give

optimal care to “hospital pa-

tients, with reduction.in the
massive costs of hospital ad-
ministration,

turned, out for the annual

general meeting and election of
officers of the Castlegar and
District Minor Soccer Associa-

.tion held earlier this month,

. Registration for 1979 will
‘be taking place during the next
two weeks, but it is doubtful
that things will really get off

the ground this year unless

more parents agree to help run
the association. At present, the

- association is without a presi-
.dent, secretary, or’equipment.

manager.
», .The association pleads with
parents to please give some

vactive part in providing

‘soccer, for the children of

Castlegar this year. Anyone
willing to participate is asked to
please phone Conrad Brattebo
or Bill Pettigrew immediately.

‘Recreation Association.

The commission agreed to
assist in sending Alice Papp
and Winnie Woykin to an
instructors’ workshop in Vic-
toria, provided they would act
as instructors in future rec-
reation* programs.

La aco

The commission noted Di-
rector Metge would be attend-
ing . the provincial recreation
conference in Vancouver in
May through his capacity as a
director. to the British Columbia
The
commission recommended that
Fay Fedor be reimbursed for.
her expenses to the provincial
conference,

er a ae

Director Metge updated
the commission on the proposed
Fitness Festival. It was agreed
that the banquet slated for May
25 should be confirmed and that

‘the director should continue to

Castlegar had madé a presen-
tation to the complex commis-
sion. The matter had- heen
turned over to the director for
further investigation.

ar ne |

The commission expressed
a need to meet with the City of
Castlegar to discuss the present
problems concerning youth in

the community. It was felt that

investigation was needed into

the feasibility of a youth centre.
ae

S Programmer Fodor report-
ed that evening workshops and
clinics were proving successful
and that greater emphasis
should be placed on this type of
activity,

Kinnaird Elementary
Indoor Track Results

Kinnaird Elementary Release

Indy 500, Balloon, Sweep and

Kee: was the
name: of « "the game during the
Kinnaird Elementary Indoor
Trackmeet held Friday.

Approximately 230 Grades
4 - 7 Students participated. in

such events as, the.Crabwalk;

When the dust had settled,
House A, emerged as school
champions. Runners:up were
House B, followed by House C.

It is hoped that this will
become an annual event at

Kinnaird Elementary School.” *

is a strict, but

‘Clippers’

very fair disciplinarian, and
Creston Clippers can look for-
ward to a tougher and more
respectable season for 1978-80,
He {is not a man to stand idle for
any nonsense from a player, no
matter how good an athlete he
may be. He has proved that and
he expects players to act
accordingly,

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the staff would continue to
meet with community groups to
finalize the schedule of acti-
vities.

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-Commissioner MacKinnon, *

representing the complex com-

mission, reported that a group"

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BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES
School District No. 9 (Castlegar)

SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT

In view of the high incidence of school vandalism,
particularly ‘broken windows, the Board of School

mation leading to the apprehension and conviction of
the person or persons responsible. This information
will be held in strict confidence:

$500.00 reward for infor-

thes “Public Schools Act,

parents or legal gt

Please notify:

for any vandalism caused by their child or t children.

J. Dascher,
Secretary-Treasurer
School District'No. 9
Box 3220
CASTLEGAR, B.C.

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