CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 8, 1978
Year's First Beaver Camp Held at Syringa Creek

Rain Fails to Dampen Spirits

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The first District Beaver
Day Camp was held at Syringa
Creek campground on May 27,
with colonies participating from
Robson, Castlegar, Woodland
Park, Kinnaird and Blueberry
Creek.

As the boys arrived at
camp, so did the rain, which
failed to dampen the enthusi-
asm of the Beavers,

The afternoon began with
a large opening ceremony at
which flag ceremonies were
conducted by Venturer advisor
B, Brommeland and M. Zurek,
A.D.C, Cubs. The boys were
then intermixed to form four
new colonies and proceeded to
their various activities, At one
site they played games, at
another site they built sailing
vessels. The third activity was
a nature walk led by G. White-
head, J. Henry and Mrs. A.
Carmichael of the Naturalist
Club, who kindly gave their
time to help the boys.

The final activity was an
obstacle course ending witha
treasure hunt, the latter high-
lighted by a tug-of-war with a
gorilla (M. Zurek) who dis-
tributed camp buttons and
goodies to the boys.

The, Beavers then cooked
their supper over the camp-

‘fires, followed by the closing

ceremonies. At this time, the’
following leaders were pre-
sented with their Gilwell wog-
gle for completing their basic
training: Lu Schell, Roberta
Hamilton, Sally Ann Williams,
Jack Seville, Kathy Seville and
Janice Johnson.

The day concluded with a
campfire with the parents par-
ticipating.

A special thanks goes out
to Art Liberty of Burnaby and
Mal Pope of Delta—two scout-
ers who were camping at
Syringa Creek and volunteered
to plan and conduct the success-
{ul campfire; first aid attendant
P. Verishine, who had a quiet
day without any casualties; the
parks branch for its co-opera-
tion; and all others who helped
make the day camp as success.

Mean Less Beer

British Columbia pubs will
soon convert to metric glasses,
a ministry of consumer and
corporate affairs spokesman
said last Thursday.

As a result there will be
less beer per glass.

The spokesman said that
within the next few weeks,
beer parlors will start to
change from the: nine-ounce
beer glass to the quarter-litre
glass—one-fifth of an ounce less
than now is being served.

The price is expected to
remain the same, however, the
spokesman said.

Local Sisters, Knights
Host 49 at Roundup

The Knights of Pythias No.
70 and Pythian Sisters Koote-
nay Temple No. 37 of Castlegar
hosted a Very International
Roundup on Saturday in the
Legion Hall with 94 guests from
both sides of the border in
attendance.

Guests introduced by
Chancellor Commander Peter
Majesky of Castlegar were as
follows:

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Wilson, Penticton; Grand Ju-
nior Roberta Piper, Salmo;
Grand Treasurer Nellie Badge,
Trail; Grand Protector Rose
Soberlak, Castlegar; Grand
Chancellor Marcel Chappeus,
Sidney; Grand Vice Chancellor
Jack Balfour, Trail; Grand Sec-
retary Marv Wilson, Penticton;
Grand Vice Chancellor John
Kalmes, Newport, Wash;

Past Supreme Representa-
tive Scotty Balfour, Trail; Dis-
trict Deputy Seamen Dewis,
Castlegar; Past Grand Chief
Laura Dewis, Castlegar; Past
Supreme Representative Phyl-
lis Woodward, Rossland; Most
Excellent Chief Joy Saunders,
Castlegar; Pianist Sister Edith
Wilson, Castlegar;

Past Grand Chief Ida Brat-
ten, Spokane, Wash; Past
Grand Chancellor Stan Bratten,
Spokane; Chancellor Comman-
der Doug Strecker, Spokane;
and Robert Sickafoose, Spo-
kane.

Other guests were from
Cranbrook, Creston, Salmo,
Trail, Fruitvale, Rossland, Ver-
non, Penticton, Sidney, Spo-
kane, Wash. and Newport,
Wash.
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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1978

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25 GENTE

Sawmill Workers
Back on the Job

Weekend talks between
CanCel, International Wood-
workers of America Local 1-405
‘and a Labor Relations Board
followed union members’ re-
turn to their jobs at the com-
pany’s sawmill here Friday
morning. :

Dave Lloyd, industrial re-
lations manager at the sawmill,
confirmed Tuesday that the
sawmill resumed operation on a
normal two-shift basis one
week after the start of the
workers’ dispute with the com-
pany over safety and working
conditions,

Lloyd said the weekend
talks with the “third party” in
Vancouver resulted in “a satis-
factory solution to all pro-
blems.”

“The problems seem to
have been resolved to the
satisfaction of everyone con-
he said.

Jack Walker, chairman of
the local’s sawmill committee,

_ Monday said the LRB officer's

report on the “two-and-a-half
days” of discussion was ex-
pected to submit recommenda-
tions on the sawmill conditions
to the labor ministry this week.

“He's going to let us know
(the dati fairly

Curtis Supports Talks on Tie

MAJOR nwanos to Stanley Humphries Secondary School

students, madi
Exerciss

rapidly to make sure the situa-
tion calms down,” Walker said.
He said local members
‘returned to work voluntarily
upon the recommendation of
the LRB official, The LRB could
get a cease-and-desist injunc-
tion against the workers should

(Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 4)
Log Towers,
CanCel Start
Talks Today

Hump!

at Friday night's 1978 Commencement
» are, feft to right, Aggregate Award, Steven
Bozek; Leaders Award, Maureen Kalmakoff

Award, Trevor Govender, who was also class

d the Stanley

valedictortan. Missing from the
and . McGauley Memorial Sc!
Complety list of award winners appe:

photo is recipient of theK. T.
rship, Shelly Nixon.
on page A:

3.
—CasNewsFoto by Lols Hughes

Council Threatens Withdrawal From Operation

Airport Lease Deadline June 30

Ifthe city does not receive
the head lease it requested
from the federal transport min-
istry by 5 p.m., June 30, it will
serve 90 days notice of its
withdrawal from operation of
Castlegar Airport.

City council Tuesday sup-

of GanCel

and 45 Arrow Lakes towboat

operators are scheduled to
meet in Vancouver today in an
effort to end the dispute which
threatened last week to shut
down the company's operations
here completely.

Ernie Harding, industrial
relations manager for CanCel's

Exclusive Interview with B.C, Opposition Leader:

ported airport committee chair-
man Ald. Gerald Rust’s motion
that staff send that message to
ministry's Pacific air command
in order to speed up action on a
lease “holding the city harmless
whatsoever,” from legal re-
sponsibility for the airport.

Rust told council that in
meetings and correspondence
ministry officials have had with
the city, the head lease “is the
one thing they have not satis-
factorily dealt with." Ministry
officials had indicated the lease

was pene cree, oP he aa

“but to date we've seen
nothing.”

He told the Castlegar
News the city has sought a new
head lease ever since it took
over operation of the airport.
two years ago.

Ska

Voters Thoughtful, NDP

By RYON GUEDES
CasNews Editor

voters have

interior woods said
Tuesday in Nakusp that the

company and the Canadian“

Merchant Service Guild mem-
bers who tow logs down the
Columbia River from Revel-
stoke to Castlegar were ex-
pected to discuss the points of
dispute with a conciliation of-
‘ficer appointed by the labor
ministry this week.

Guild members threatened
to go on strike after last
Monday’s breakdown in talks
between them and CanCel over
such fringe benefits as living
accommodations for towboat
operators in the Revelstoke
area.

A guild spokesman said
last week that if the towboat
operators go on strike the
Castlegar operations will be af-
fected by the cutoff in the
supply of logs.

The guild spokesman.was
unavailable for comment this
week,

calmed down and started com-
paring the achievements of the
present provincial government
with those of its New Demo-
eratic Party predecessor;

Lane-Blocking
Drivers Risk

_Car Removal

Vehicles parked in or
blocking service lanes in Cas-
tlegar will be towed away, the
city’s works and services com-
mittee chairman said Tuesday.

Ald. Albert Calderbank, in
a warning to motorists, told
council the city had received
several complaints about block-
ed lanes in Castlegar North.
Blocking service lanes with
vehicles, as well as parking
opposite yellow “no parking”
markings, io illegal, he said.

A 14-year-old member
of the Castlegar Aquanauts
Swimming Club won five
gold medals and broke three
national records during the
weekend at the B.C, Games

am
CHERYL KRISTIANSEN
+o. wine five golde medals

KAKI RAIA IARI IAEA IAIIAK IK

Breaks 3 Records,
Takes Gold Home

for the Physically Handi-
capped in Vancouver. :

Cheryl Kristiansen, a
single-leg amputee, placed
first in all events she en-
tered and broke three na-
tional records with her times
of 1:51 in the 100-metre
backstroke, 1:52 in the 100- |
meter freestyle, and &7 se-
conds in the 50-metre but-
terfly. She also set a new
national record in the 100-
meter breast stroke with a
time of 2:31 and in the 100-
metre medley with a time of
two minutes flat.

Cheryl will be com-
peting in the Canada Games
for the Physically Handi-
capped in St. John's, Nfld.
Aug. 20 to 22, where the top
three participants in each
category will be picked to
represent Canada in Brazil
at the end of October. She
has been sponsored by the
West Kootenay Aquatic
Society.

© The difference between
this and the’ previous Social
Credit government is that
W.A.C. Bennett was not afraid
to make decisions:

e Big-city news media
softened their coverage of pro-
vincial government affairs
when Social Credit was re-
turned to power;

e The NDP has matured
significantly since it was de-
feated in December 1975;

e Personality image-
making and packaging are un-
avoidable even for the NDP.

Those were the highlights
of Opposition Leader Dave
Barrett's remarks in an ex-

clusive interview with the Cas-
tlegar News.

Barrett, passing through
here on a .brief weekend
Speaking tour of the Rossland-
Trail riding, discussed a wide
variety of topics, ranging from
electoral trends to changes he
as

Mature

tion has almost totally disap-
peared,” Barrett said. “I'm not
talking about the partisans—
hard-nosed NDPers or So-
ereds—but I think the number
of people who view themselves
as independent voters are
taking avery close look at the

has

NDP leader.
The 46-year-old MLA for

Vancouver East said that in

“almost a year and a half on the

road” he has noticed “ “a lot of

° Fie said the only recent
test of the voters’ reaction to
the present government was
the spring Oak Bay byelection
in which Tory Vie Stephens was

very
going on” by B.C. voters.

“It think the hysteria
around Social Credit and the
emotionalism around their elec-

lected but the NDP candi-*
date, received 20 per cent of the

"there's no doubt: thay we
(Con’t. Pg. A2, Col

Judge Slates Trial for July 11

Cub’s Hosts Remanded

CAF te:
DEFENDANTS Stephen Mark and Stan
Nelson awalt thelr first court appearance on

all, orphaned black
kK and Nelson, who

charge of keeping
bear In captivity.

Two Winlaw _ residents
have been remanded for trial in

+ provincial court here July, 1

after pleading not guilty of
keeping a small, orphaned black
bear cub in captivity.

Despite their request that
trials proceed immediately,
Stephen Mark, 26, and Stan
Nelson, 17, were told by pro-
vineial court judge L. J. Keffer
in their first appearance Tues-
day that witnesses would have

tobe d for the trials.

KARMA AHEEKE

KURREKEKEKREERRKK A

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* Both Nelson, who found
the seven-pound cub May 28,
and Mark, who cared for it in
his bathroom, face $100 fines if
they are found guilty of the of-
fence.

The charges were first re-
vealed in a letter from Mark
which appeared in the Castle-
gar News last week. Mark’s
letter said he welcomed the
“small, homeless animal” into
his home and, “not knowing
what-to do with him or who to

pleaded not gullly to the charge, “each face a
fine of $100 If found gullty.
—CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes :

call,” cared for it overnight and
the next day before returning it
to the people who had found it
and left it in his care.

“As we were discussing
our little friend's future, up to
the door came the conservation
officers,” the letter said. “Some
person had reported to them
that I hada wild creature in my
care. So they came to lay claim
to him."

The letter said that after

“Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 3)

_ Mayor Asks for Early Meeting

Municipa! Affairs Minister
Hugh Curtis is “prepared to
support” the city's attempts to
negotiate a tie-in with CanCel’s
Arrow Lakes water supply.

Ina May 24 letter to Mayor
Audrey Moore, Curtis said he
had been assured by CanCel
president Don Watson and vice-
president Roy Murphy that the
company was willing to discuss
“an agreement of indetermin,
ate length which will ensure the
city a supply at the plant
pumphouse” and to allow’three
to five years’ notice should the
supply prove insufficient to
meet both users’ needs.

Although the cost of con-
structing the tie-in would have
to be weighed against the re-

sults of recent environment
ministry tests on an aquifer at
Selkirk College, “I am never-
theless prepared to support the
city in opening discussions with
CanCel.”

The letter said Curtis
shared “a very real concern”
with Economic Development
Minister Don Phillips and En-,
vironment Minister Jim Niel-
son about the cost of securing a
water supply “from other than
a ground source.”

“It was for this reason that
I, in cooperation with (Nielsen)
felt compelled to proceed with
the Selkirk drilling,” he said in
the letter. “Coupled, of course,
with the fact that there was no
assurance at that time that

there could be a term contract
of any significant associated
with a supply from CanCel.”

The Curtis letter said the
municipal affairs ministry will
appoint a solicitor to act on its
behalf and to assist both CanCe}
and city council.

“I would‘hasten to add that
this letter is not to be taken asa
commitment by CanCel, or by
the inspector of municipalities,
to any general statements con-
tained herein,” Curtis said in
the letter. “In the event that
the matter is taken further, all
commitments will be negoti-
ated and form part of a water
supply agreement or loan auth-

(Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 3)

Columbia River Treaty Deficit Too Great

No Taxes ‘Overnight’

A New Democratic Party
government would not make
B.C. Hydro start paying taxes
on its Columbia River Treaty
property “overnight.”

Opposition Leader Dave
Barrett told the Castlegar
News he could foresee the
Crown corporation gradually

* taking on the municipal, school

board, hospital and regional
taxes from which it was ex-
empted by a 1968 order-in-
council, but the cost of the
treaty to the province has made
a speedy rescission of the order
unrealistic.

“We didn't-do it when we
were in government,” the
former premier said. “You must.
understand there's close to a $1
billion deficit on that treaty,

and that includes the machining
and the transmission as well.”

“We're paying $100 million
a year in interest payments
alone on that disaster by Social
Credit,” Barrett said. “And the
simplistic answer of saying
we'll remove their taxation
from taxation overnight is not
one I'm prepared to give.”

Barrett said he would not
make comments or commit-
ments about Hydro's taxation
roll “until we get that house ina
little better order than we did

_in the past.”

The opposition leader said
B.C. is “pretty well locked in”
by the terms of the 1960 U.S.-
Canada treaty, aside from the
separate Canada-B.C. section

allowing the province to negoti-

National Museums
Sending Consultants

National Museums. of
Canada is expected to send
consultants here to help resolve
the National Exhibition Cen-
tre’s funding problems, Koot-
enay West MP Bob Brisco
reported this week.

In a press release Brisco
said Jennifer McQueen, secre-

Society Holds
Annual Meet
7 p.m. Tonight

The Castlegar and District
Hospital Society will hold its
annual meeting at the Rotary
Health Centre at 7 p.m. today.
"Current society members
can renew their membership
for $1 up to the actual time of
the meine.

New members must have
taken out memberships 30 days.
prior to the meeting in order to
vole.

tary-general’ of the federal
agency, assured him the con-
sultants will be “made available
in the near future” to meet with
NEC director Bernard Bloom.

Brisco said he had sug-
gested the ‘meeting to the
House of Commons’ standing
committee on public accounts
after learning that the centre
would not receive uncondi-
tionally the grant of “up to
$18,000" announced by National
Museums.

Announcing that thé NEC
would receive $18,000 while
only guaranteeing $9,000 and
grants matching local donations
would make loca! organizations
and municipal governments
“feel less need to contribute to
the centre,” he said.

When contacted yester-
day, Bloom said he had been
told by Brisco that the con-
sultants would meet with him,
but had not had confirmation
from Museums Canada.

Twice-Monthly Meets
Cut Back by Council

City council will meet only once monthly in July and August.

Council members supported Tuesday a motion by Ald. Gerald
Rust, administrative services and finance committee chairman,
that the meeting of July 11 and Aug. 8 be cancelled. But council
will meet July 25 and Aug. 27, they decided.

Rust told council the meeting cutback was customary a

would accommodate the vacations of city staff after

tax collection.

ate the sums available for
the second 80 years of the
treaty.

“When Hydro talks about
selling the next 30 years—even
if they make $50 million a
year—they wouldn't make up
for the interest money that
we've lost and the principal
amount we're stuck with in
terms of that disaster,” he said.

“I don't blame the Ameri-
cans,” Barrett said. “Anybody

THE
INSIDE
STORY

BARRETT: On the econo-
my, the "right-to-work"
movement, uranium mining
and the taxpayers’ revolt.

Page B1
BUTTONHOLED: CanCel
president Don Watson, on
safety at the sawmill.

Page B14
BLAME: You drove past.

Page B13

One Man's Opinion.

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Pulpit and Pew .. Page B10
AnnLanders ... Page AS
Bill Smiley +. Page B2
Classified Ads, Real
Estate, and Automotive...

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Editorial ..... Page Bis
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| New Sprinkling Inspector
! To Enforce Tougher Rules

The city will hire a

H special sprinkling regula-*

tions inspector as part of a
stepped-up, no-warning wa-
L ter conservation program
* this summer,
A
: City council approved
the hiring of an inspector
I specifically for enforcement

regulations, inspector as it
did last summer.

Ald. Albert Calderbank,
who made the motion,
stressed the need for more
thorough patrolling and
stronger enforcement mea-
sures in attempts to avoid a
building permits morator-
ium similar to the one im-

on
i a 20-hours-per-week basis
rather to incorporate the job

| into the duties of the traffic
t

d by city council
last spring.

“It's very critical that
we control sprinkling regula.
=o

tions,” he told council. “We
must definitely do it more
solidly this year.”
Calderbank said the in-
spector will issue no warn-
ings to offenders but merely
instruct city works crews to
shut off their water. He said
city staff had investigated
the possibility of ticketing
offenders but found there
was no way it could be
permitted ander city bylaws
or the Municipal Act. :

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