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‘Editor's~ note: While Britain's economy booms;
millions of people aren't sharing in the prosperity — the
old, the young and the unemployed. The division
between rich and poor resembles a new Victorian Age.
This is part of a series on the British economy

By JIM SHEPPARD
The Canadian Press
This winter many_elderly in Britain are faced with
‘a cruel choice between eating and: heating
Malcolm Wicks, head of a group trying to help them
keep warm.
venteen-year-old lan Darlington and his mates in
Liverpool figure they will have to steal to survive

Desperate men in Wales, their faces hidden behind
cloth masks, are into a third year of hit-and-run
guerrilla-like raids on open-topped coal trains in search
of fuel to keep their families warm

Health experts in Britain
perhaps thousands, of people die
enduring waits of up to six months for vital surgery

Unemployment in Scotland and the
England surpasses 75 per cent in many
climbs as high as 90 per cent in isolated patches

Billions of pounds are lost to the national treas
every year in a thriving “black e
construction and domestic jobs are done on a cash or
basis that
companies to avoid taxes.

BOOMING, BUT

There's no doubt that, overall, the British economy
is booming after almost a decade of market-oriented
government by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Growth is strong, investment and profits up, infla
down

But there's a dark underside to that story
world mostly hidden from-view-where millions of
are far worse off than before the advent of Thatcheri
a world where despair, cynicism and even death
accepted in a way that seems inconceivable to a Nor
American mind

The cradle-to-grave welfare state once renowned
around the world is being dismantled in favor of varyi
degrees of user-pay health care, education and so
services.

says

estimate hundreds,

every year while
north

places a

onomy,” where ma

no-questions-asked allows workers

Crities say Thatcher is creating new
between: the rich and the poor, and
prosperous South around London and the povert
stricken North and West

However, bolstered by a third consecutive
majority, in 1987 and disarray
opposition, the woman who revels in her Iror
nickname has made
crusade of the late

between th

among the pol

revamping of social
1980s.
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campaign to outline the religious and mc

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“Clearly,

withheld its dues during President
Ronald Reagan's ad

he State

a schedule for repay

payroll and
undermine efforts

peacekeeping
won the 1988 Nobel Peace
to successfully take on

social-revolution-she-seeks, she quoted. with approval
St. Paul's Epistle to’ the ‘Thessalonians:

If a man will not work, he shall not ea
before a gathering of ottish clerics.

That's fine, the critics say, if everyone is given the
chance to work.

But not everyone is. Some are too old, some too
some inhabit the wrong areas.

Wicks, 41, wrote a book called Old and Cold,
published in 1978 when he was involved in university
research on how elderly people cope in winter, He's
chairman ofa group called Winter’ of Action on Cold
Homes, which estimates} that about 1,000 elderly
Britons Wie every winter of hypothermia.

The group says the meagre state pensions given to
the elderly don't have enough money, after buying basic

* she said

groceries, to heat their apartments or homes.

Other experts put the death total slightly lower,
but everyone admits that it's at least several hundred.
BUY LONG JOHNS

Wicks’s group. asked Thatcher's government to
institute a spe heating
for the elderly
was rejected by Edwina Currie, a
unior health minister known for sparking controversy
who was recently forced to resign over another issue.

t your grandchildren to give you a woolly
Currie advised them.

rease pensions or
silowance

The request

want you to prepare ‘now buy the
check your
es, knit some gloves and scarves.”

long
s, find your woolly socks, hot-water
Wicks immediately compared Currie with Marie
vinette
Barbara Castlé; the former Labor social services
tr, said Currie’s should be known as
Maggie the Mugger” because her government's move
© eancel automatic pension increases to match inflation
has reduced the average payment for a single pensioner
3 Cdn) a week
If you were walking down the street and sompone
robbed you of 11 pounds, it would be in the criminal-
said Castle

boss

by 11 pounds (

attstics
Yet-she is-doing Ti y week of our lives.”
_ OPTION? BURGLE
In Liverpool, at the other end of the age
Darlington and his mates at the run-down, graffiti
Childwall Valley Youth Club say they've got
only one option now that the government is cutting off
welfare to teenagers who have left school without a job
ined up in advance.
“Rob, burgle,” he says bluntly when asked what he
will'do in an area where youth unemployment ranges up
90 per cent. “That's the only thing you ¢
Ifall this sounds like a pretty depressing picture of
a touch of Victorian times move
100 years ahead at least in one sense it is.

seale,

n do.”

modern England

UN ends year
$750 million in red

UNITED.NATIONS (AP: The

the many tasks now being given us
more by the world community, member
n the red, states are going to have to start
i States paying in full and on time, and these
arrears must be reduced,” said UN
comptroller Luis Gomez.
SOVIETS OWE TOO
he largest UN Washington was responsible for
$401.7 million, $307.6 million, or about 77 per cent of
of 1988 annual the arrears in the regular budget,
while the Soviet Union owed $9
million, or two per cent
Moscow was responsible for $172.1
million, nearly one-half the arrears ir,
peacekeeping. The United States
owed $94.1 million, or 26 per cen
Eighty-six of the 159 member
countries, including Canada, paid all
ars their dues, a better showing than
withheld 1987, when only
bias and paid up.
gan The total regular UN budget is

about $880 million, of which the
United States is agsessed one-fourth
and the Soviet Union 11.8 per cent
Ten other countries owe more than
$1_million to the regular budget:
South Africa, $33.9 million; Iran, $7.9
million; Argentina, $5.2 million;
Poland, $4.3 million; Romania, $4
million; Yugoslavia, $3.5 million;
Israel, $3.1 million; Libya, $2.8
million; Peru, $1.4 million; and
Hungary, $1.2 million

1988

istration, fig

s 53.5 per cent
regular and

he report

ided the year

s ended

75 countries were

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Plans for a $2 million, $5-bed
home for the elderly

subdivision in Castlegar drew

project's developer
For those

for “‘Not In My. Back Yard"

along Highland Drive and 14th Avenue made it clear to
\ council-they don’t want their neighbor.

ar city
be the

replace the

Raspberry

location of the

existing 36-bed

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By SIMON BIRCH

adjacent to the
pleas of
Tuesday at a public hearing on a rezoning application by

unfamiliar with the term, NIMBY stands

and residents who live

acility which would
Raspberry

501

After twice extending the public hearing past its 7
p.m. limit, council agreed to continue the hearing today

intermediate care
High Meadow
“\NIMBY"*

at 6:30 p.m, in an attempt to hear from everyone who
wanted to speak on the proposal
attended Tuesday's hearing.

High Meadow: residents who spoke

About 50 people

against the

project stressed they don't oppose |\the construction of an

Lodge in

intermediate care
said they fear their property values will decline if the
facility is built in their neighborhood.

“We're very

facility somewhere in Castlegar but

very concerned,”’ said Vic Morandini,

a professional engineer who lives on Highland Drive
Deb Chmara, who owns a home on 14th Avenue

near. but not right next to the proposed development,

60 Cents

astlegar New

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said she called the

was told she will have to"*w
will be after the facility is built
Bob Watson, ‘also ‘a
presented council with a petition b
of people
location

opposed to the

The signers of,the petition “*

of the property remain single-family residential and cite

the potential *
intermediate care home may have

Assessment Authority of B.C. to
inquire about the potential effect of the facility on the
value of her property. After a 10-minute discussion with
an Assessment Authority employee
ait and see"’

Highland
facility

insist

Chmara said she
what the effect rezoned
However
Drive resident;. Lodge
aring 97 signatures
at the proposed
However

that the zoning

adverse affect on property values’ the

tional and public
over future development on the

Eugene
told the residents and council he

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CASTLEGAR BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1989

sidents fight rezoning

The petitioners \lso cite the 21 potential uses of the
property allowed under the proposed

schools, institu
zoning and council's lack of control
property should it be
Skoretz, owner, of Raspberry
s willing to put

a restrictive covenant-on the property guaranteeing its
use only for an intermediate care home

residents indicted. they want firmer

guarantees that the facility would not be expanded once
it is built and that proposed buffer zones of pine and

continued on A2

WEATHERCAST

Elear tonight with cloudy periods
Low from -5 to -9. Thursday: Sunny
with cloudy periods, highs near 0
Chance of precipitation 20 per cent
tonight and Thursday

3 Sections (A, B & C)

By BRENDAN NAGLE
Staff Writer

‘ovinéial attorney general
is responsible for any

prising aimed at Premier
Zalr

th said a published report

s Vancouver Province link

revolt on

unworthy

inner-cabinet
ill in Victoria is
Tuesday
ar Chamber of
incheon gathering on the

Sm as in Castlegar

idressing a Castleg

forms to the justice sys-

when a question regard:
s ame from the floor.

¢ said, | think that probably

ve wvince decided to

edition on Jan

luncheon crowd

30 people at the Fireside

BUD SMITH
story ‘silly

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Brewery
layoffs

page A7

Highway
remains
closed

By CasNews Staff

The Castlegar-Salmo Highway re
mains closed while blasting continues
to bring down rocks from a bluff
where a slide occurred Friday night
Bel Maintenance supervisor Walter
Miller said today

The road ‘will probably remain
closed until Monday, Miller said

Miller said contractors from Van
couver are at the site blasting down
about 2,500 cubic_metres of rock-off
the bluff to prevent more slides from
happening

He said the work will probably take
until Sunday or Monday, at whic!
time Bel Maintenance crews can
begin moving debris off thé road

fter this, we hope it's fin

ished," Miller said. ‘As soon as we
can,we-will-be-in-there.”

Inn. ‘‘In any event, ‘I think the Prov
ince newspaper report is really quite
silly and generally unworthy of com
ment."

But Smith did comment on Mon-
day's B.C. Supreme Court ruling that
found compulsory school prayers to
be unconstitutional. Smith said Van
der Zalm was unaware of the devi
sion but the attorney general said he
did not expect an appeal of Mr
Justice “H:A.-“Hollinrake’s ruling

“I will be discussing the matter
(today) in fact with my cabinet
colleagues,’ Smith said. “‘I reviewed
the decision and my view is that it is
higtily unlikely that we would appeal
the decision of the courts. However.
the final work of that would be known
(today) after T discuss it with my
cabinet colleagues.”’

Smith said the sypreme Court
decision took the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms and struck out the
provision that would allow people to
repeat the Lord’s prayer at the be
ginning of each school day

“I'm hopeful that the court would
allow a voluntary association of clubs
and so on in school and certainly
enable people who wanted to put on
Christmas concerts with the children
and so on that the courts would still
allow that to go on,” he said. “But to
the extent of school prayer they have
struck down the legislation

Smith said an appeal is unlikely
because an appeal of the same ruling
in Ontario was recently turned down

Smith, who was in. Castlegar last
month to address the Kootenay Bar
Association on justice réform, said he
returned to Castlegar to Tet the gen
eral members of the public get a
chance to hear of the proposed re

eforms

‘What I did a month ago when I
received the report, I went around
the province to the major centres in
the province to talk to judges and

continued on A2 a

Westar lays
off 35 workers

By CasNews Staff
Thirty-five union workers on a
planer shift at the Westar sawmill in
Castlegar were laid-off earlier this
month
Westar mill manager Wade Zam
mit said the layoffs were part of a

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process the mill has
been working on

“We took a whole shift off the
planer on Jan..2,"" Zammit told the
Castlegar News. ‘It’s part of the
steamlining process."’

Wayne Nowlin, president of the
International Woodworkers of Amer-
ica-Canada Local 1-405 which repre:
sents the sawmill workers, said the
layoffs are just temporary.

‘Apparently they've got some
cash-flow problems right now,’*
Nowlin said. ‘We're going to wait
for a recall. It would appear that it's

going to be sometime in April.”*

Zammit said the layoffs will not
affect production at the sawmill, even
though a full planer shift has been let
go

‘We're not stopping any machin
ety." Zammit said. ‘We're just
paring down the numbers we are
going to be operating at.’

Nowlin said he was ‘‘not surprised
by the layoffs" at the mill ‘because
there were extra union members
working at the mill while it was ex
panding.

“It happens all the time," he said
“That's usually the way it goes.

The mill is now operating two full
sawmill shifts and three planer shifts
following the layoffs. Zammit_said
The number of IWA-C workers at the
mill has been reduced to about 245
from 280

EQUIPMENT DONATED . .

. A forklift driver moves
a milling machine into Stanley Humphries secon
dary school’s industrial education department

The machine

was donated to the school on

Tuesday by Celgar Pulp Co. Tri-City Transport Ltd
also donated a truck to transport the equipment

CasNewsPhoto by Chery! Colderbonk

Equipment donated

By CasNews Staff
Celgar Pulp Co. has donated a
Stanley
school. The

used milling machine to
Humphries
machine, used for making pieces of
machinery such as gears and shafts

was delivered to the school Tuesday

secondary

€ctgar—has—a—new—-machine—and
decided to donate the old one to the
said Terry Moon,
assistant maintenance supervisor

school,

Celgar's.

We felt the kids would benefit by
the opportunity to use it,"” he said
The school's industrial education

teacher is also happy

The machine will be fantastic for
anything we want to do here

August Cupello said

Fhe—machine—will_be_used_in_the
machine shop by Tech 9 and Metal
Work 11 and 12 students

Cupello said the, school has a

SCHOOL DISTRICT REVIEW

smaller
where

milling machine, but no:
near the quality of the one
donated by Celgar
Celgar's machine is between 30
and 35 years old and Cupello siad a
new one would cost $60,000 or more
This one is in plenty great shape
for what we are going to use it for.”
he said. ‘‘They (Celgar) have gone
through it-and assured us-it isn
great shape and will do any industrial

type wor

Board earns respect

By CasNews Staff

The Castlegar school board “‘has
earned the respect of its publics for
its strong commitment to education
says a recently released report by an
external study team hired by the
school board to evaluate Castlegar’s
school system

The district review
culmination of a five-day study of the
school system in Castlegar conducted
by three people at a cost of about
$5,000. The three-man evaluation
team — Martin Hamm, Bob Logan
and Don Smyth studied Castle
gar’s school district from Nov. 20-25
last year. The report was made
available to the public at a meeting at
the school board office in Castlegar
on Tuesday

School board chairman Gordon
Turner said he was happy with the
findings in the report

“We're pleased
Turner said of the report
we got good marks

While” the
being done

report is the

fairly with it

“We think

report
in the Castlegar school

praised work

district overall, there were some

recommendations for improvement
contained in the report

Recommendations include

* focusing on how curriculum can
be adjusted to meet community
needs

* expanding programs for special
needs students

© instituting a program for handi
capped students at the
ondary level

* providing elementary
or a special counsellor for the dis

senior sec
counselling

trict

* using a school other than Twin
Rivers for any special
needs classes because Twin Rivers is

additional

already stressed in that area

© introducing a testing scheme for
entering Kindergarten to
find_out what their education needs

children

are
* increasing the frequency of tea
cher and ‘school district
evaluations
© expanding professional develop

ment teaching and

employee

programs for

non-teaching staff in' the school dis.
trict

* improving school district éom-
munications to keep the community
abreast of educational issues in the
district

* developing a new set of goals
for the school board and to relay that
information to the public as soon as
possible

Of the
said the

recommendations, Turner
school district has already
been working to alleviate the stress
on special education needs at Twin
Rivers elementaty school

I think in particular we
ably not going to jam any more
special programs into Twin Rivers
We have been working
on that ourselves.

He said that while the board has
been looking for alternatives to put
ting more special needs classes at
Twin Rivers, ‘the board isn't clear
on that yet but it's moving in that

re, prob

Turner said

direction
He said the school district has also
continued on AZ