CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 24,1977 OTTAWA and Small B.C. TELEPHONE - ’ Legislative Library. Cc COMPANY offers the following vehicles for sale: Parliament Bldgs., 501 Belleville St VOL. 80,Roy 18 x4 Published Every Thursday Morning at “The Croseroads of the parcel CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1977. Business TWO SECTIONS (A&B). Gov't. Picks Up Tab for tes Policing T= 1966 Chev 1/2-ton pickup 1 - 1966 GMC 1/2-ton pickup 3 - 1966 Fargo Transivans Warning Signs economically feasible policy. by JIM. SMITH Experience is the best teach- SMILE, YOURE A WINNER! Tea a always ‘casy’ to ‘accommodate tite carters wwhen you are in the Kappy, position af prizes. Lucky, winners in the Castlegar, prize of a trip for'two.to Hawaii, Bill’ Pee ctor eaten te aeiee $1 million at seven per cent for a total of $192; second big winner is Mike Semenoff who is ready to crack the throttle of his nowly acquired 250 Delux: Elan Skidoo. Mlssing from the photo fs winner o a Panoercaasew, Edith Wichert. All winners are of Castlegar with the Perhaps you saw the signs in lobbies of that major Ca- nadian’ bank during the an- nual mid-winter RRSP sales spree. “Retirement is just not working," the signs said. And truer words were never spoken, e e e The bank, of course, had hoped to cultivate dreams of a carefree retirement (abett- ed by a healthy RRSP port- folio) among its customers. But the message has a nefari- ous ring to it, too: our na- tional retirement system isa mess, ‘ eee All Canadian workers con- tribute to the Canada Pen- sion Plan (or, in Quebec, the QPP). Some also buy into group plans at work or invest in RRSPs. Then, generally at age 65, the worker is fired “and left to his pension in- come. Except. a euphemism «: is used for “fire” — ‘‘retire’’. ooo: ret Mr. Pickering of Robson. The draw was held on Thuraday ee at the Castlegar Savings Credit Union's annual meeting. To be eligible the contestant was to introduce a new member to the Credit Union. The Frys won when they padres separate accounts for their two daughters, Kim and euatieges N, News Photo by Lois Hughes _ Quadra Manufacturing of Trail will soon be back in operation. = The chain saw manu- facturing plant has been bought by a Vancouver-area man ‘backed by financiers from On- ‘tario. He is already contacting cex-employees, and the plant “could be producing again within several weeks, '. It was a hard blow to the Trail area last year when the operation, employing 100, went into receivership. Although the product was selling, and the future looked bright, the com- pany could not pay off debts it had incurred through poor markets in 1974 and 1975. The new firm, Trail Manu- facturing Limited, was formed by the eastern backers to take ~ ‘ over the Quadra operation. There is no word on who the backers are, or if they have local representatives. When the plant closed down, the company owned sub- Fiberg tea oT Saw Plant Back in Business stantial amounts to the Koot- enay Savings Credit Union. That body appointed a receiver tolook after the building and all equipment until a successful bid was made on it. While those involved would not discuss prices, the entire plant may have-sold for more than. $500,000. The sale has been closed, but transfer of ownership does not take place until the end of Margh. Ghasiea Bristol is said to be half of the eastern backers. He may appear in the Trail area soon to organize start-up oper- ations on the Quadra site. No public announcement has been made, but Gary Pow- roznik, an assistant to the re- operation if local backers could match the sum, but they could not. When financial troubles first appeared on the horizon, ‘the Kootenay Incentives (KI) group was formed by Trail ceiver i by the credit . union, gave some details from his Vancouver office last week. An. attempt last year.,by Trail people to raise financing for Quadra failed: The B.C. They tried to overcome the deficit that had been incurred when sales were low. “We managed to keep it afloat for about a year,” KI had promised Hy 000 toward the on be- Belted Radial Tires Cut Gas Consumption It you're in the market for new tires, you ‘might give a thought to purchasing’ radial tires, says the B.C. ; the BCAA says that tests have shown that both steel and rayon belted radials reduce gasoline by up to Jim Cameron said, “but there was no way of paying the debi. The company was operating at a profit, and with a very good product, but there had been problems in 1974. and 1976." : The Kootenay Incentives group, working in conjunction with the Kootenay Industrial Development Association, also made efforts to save Carefree Association. While their initial cost will be higher. than regular tires, : GOOD; SVYEAR E78-14 whitewall . 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After 28% hours, Chris Cleveland's stomach has quit, The watch, minus its band, “wouldn't have been there so ‘long if Chris had convinced his parents, John and Tina Cleve- land, he had swallowed it. “That boy is just like I am. He's an inveterate joker,” said his father. Chris said he had been. tossing the watch into the air and catching it in his mouth. During one good catch, it slid down his throat. Cheque out a crippled child today. See what your dollars can do. upport Easter-Seals. Compliments of . . . CASTLEGAR NEWS eS rt is touted as meaningful social reform. Actually, it is govern-. | ment-sanctioned tion against the aging (one hesitates to refer toa 65-year. old as “elderly” at a time when one can reasonably ex- er; dumping our senior work- ers also involves. discarding our most knowledgeable and skillful workers. Often, a65- year-old worker has more . than a decade of useful years still to offer society. Within the next ten years, Canada will face a serious shortage of labour. Retaining * our present retirement poli- cies will mean sacrificing a precious resource. And the falling birthrate ensures that, by early inthe 21st Century, we could have as many as 2 pensioners for every 3 work- ers, creating.an almost im- possible tax burden for the workers. eee Increasingly, smaller firms “are recognizing the tremen- dous value represented by older workers. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business . reports that ‘many; " independent retailers are hir- ing older workers laid off. by ; department : stores. ‘these...:° older workers bring both ex- perience and their regular cus- tomers to the new employer. RRSPs aside, the bank is dead on with its signs. 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The dump—which the Re- gional District of Central Koot- enay board’ of directors had decided two‘ weeks ‘ago to maintain for 80 days’ while negotiating its future with local directors—had accumulated the garbage pile after going nearly 10 days without soil ‘covering. i: An ‘RCMP spokesman Tuesday said Ootischenia resi- dents had reported the licence plate numbers of a-. vehicle driven by a man spotted in the Canvass area, at the time the fire started. Police took no. im- mediate action on the fire after deciding {t posed no immediate danger, the spokesman said, _. “We still have to find out from the regional district whether it is illegal to burn anything at. the dump,” the vate representative on the RDCK board, Tuesday night said he had received steady complaints’ from’ residents ‘in the. area: about: the. dump's condition even before the fire started. “I have found it very dif-.” ficult keeping thém under con- trol," he -said. “Iam asking. . them not to take any action because I am hoping to straighten it'out by the week- _ Gonvess Applicants Sect Linked With Moon Still Being Investigated City: investigations ‘con- tinue into the background ofa paign of Korean evangelist Rev. Sun Myung Moon—which: applied last week to city eomnell Spirit Association after telling + council some representatives of - th tion See baal youth. group sponsoring many activities directed -at uplifting» morality +” and’ developing sound’ leader- ship for our. future. Enclosing both a tax num- ber and a list of volunteers on file for fund raising activities, the letter said the association is ‘a registered Canadian charit- ; able organization requiring funding in order to carry on its activities. The letter did ‘not specify. the association's activ. ities. “Let me assure you that our. members, ‘are® well- ”.the He, has not discouraged that notion among devoted fol: lowers. “His holdings are centred in ‘the Hudson Valley, New York, and he. owns an. $8. million, “4T-acre Belvedere estate in Tarrytown. He purchased the Christian: Brothers monastery for $1.5 million which he now uses asa training centre to indoctrinate youthful: “moon- “tes” to his brand of homoge- nized: religion. letter continued.” “We promise to.do. our utmost not to’ offend’ anyone in, your community.” © City. staff will report their : findings to council at is: next f meeting. s Rev. Sun ‘Myung Moon landed ‘ia ‘the, U.S. in 1978 and “has * bought’ more than \$20 million * worth ‘of - land . and buildings “across : the country, ‘millions -masg on“: ‘lavish retreats and. personal hype in and around New. York : City. Moon heads the Unification s Church, a blend of Christianity, Eastern. philosophy, anti-com- munism and the ’ belief “that Moon himself may be the isecond Messiah. Pass: Creek:Man Wins. $300 Prize InBonanza Draw. ‘A Pass:Creek man, Larry Bartsoff, was the winner of the $300 Cash Prize draw’ in the Bonanza Days contest spon- sored this past weekend by the Castlegar Downtown Business- * men’s Assn. Informed of her husband's lucky. win «yesterday, » Mrs. Bartsoff told a-Bonanza Days Committee spokesman that the family will make good use o! $300 since Mr. Bar r health. =)» Mr, Bartsoff had deposited his winning entry in the draw box ‘at West's. Department Store. “Although: the church con- téolg a network of industries in Korea,’ Unification officials claim ‘that: the’ U.S. church is :. financed ‘primarily through Moonies who, through door-to- door sales of flowers, ‘candies, .- tea and ‘peanuts, as : well as end, at tho regional district » - tlevel.” Vanderpol said that aside from the forestry department's surveillance of the fire in case it . spread to property nearby, the i fire was unattended. ‘ “The regional district was ! véry fortunate,” he said. “The wind is blowing from the north - and sending the smoke south, “If the wind turned around |. the people in the area’ would have gotten the smell of this. right in their houses. If it had|{ blown northwest it-would have led right into people's houses, ‘and right to the property lines, and the ‘forestry’ ‘department would have had to step in.’ Under Pollution’ "Control is Branch regulations, the Ootis- chenia site isan “A" level dum)” + requiring ‘daily attendance, aj- though ‘a -March-16 report to RDCK administrator Gene Bo- ~ dard from land use officer 0. F.:~ Banyard said the’ dump had been receiving ‘only three * coverings weekly, Vanderpol sald, the -board: to © maintain’ the ‘-dump,” he sald. “That is’ what he calls maintaining the. dump.” Bodard told the Castlegar ’ News yesterday the (RDCK - ‘cannot legally run the dump tans wrote. to the city of Castlegar ‘ immediately ° after ‘the meeting that the expendi- ture would be unlawful.”: Operation of the dump had - been covered : in: the’ RDCK provisional budgét,but not the ew one, he said. ; street panhandling,: have gar. , @ néred more -than ‘another $10 ‘Amillion ‘for Moo 'S use. It was to gain ‘a foothold in B.C. that they wére appealing licences to ‘canvass. Several phone. calls and & visit to: their. headquarters at 2195 West 8th, failed to turn up: a‘single | Moonie. ‘They . are “keeping a low profile hoping to Fide; out the storm of: contro- Moon himself. has come under’ close, scrutiny. from, U.S. “federal agents. He has been investigated by a congressional’ subcommittee for dealings. in- volving ‘the, purchase! “ofa chartered “national” bark in Washington: D.C.,- has had “his | to..the | “municipalities : for oi tax exempt status removed ini‘ various _ states, ; and’'is’-now facing sustained attacks on:his : credibility: by. parents *- who claim. he brainwashes thelr children. The church's political, arm | is the.’ Freedim Leadership ~ Foundation, dedicated’ ‘to . ashing :communism .in the "In five years, Moon and his . Unification Church have drawn more than 10,000. followers in |” the:U.S.,. and 500,000 world: ' wide, “Bodard was instructed by H-drawa will be held every half-hour and a $1,000 - diam held cach day. The Kootenay Kilti Kiltie Pipe wife who jacked the truck up; crush and: attempted to administer, , By RYON GUEDES News Mayor Audrey Moore re- ceived official notice Monday from Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis that the provincial government will continue paying the city’s policing costs for 1977. Curtis said ina letter dated Marck 26 that the government had. considered the financial burden assuming costs for . RCMP service on April 1—after a previous three-year policing grant—would put on the city. “I. am pleased to advise that the government is pre- pared to make.a grant to the . City of Castlegar at this time for an amount ‘equal to’ the estimated police costs of 1977— $112,500,” ‘Curtis’ letter said. “And payment will be made in the immediate future." * Moore ‘said she had re- ceived unofficial notification of ‘Curtis’ decision on the grant prior to receiving the letter. «> “DL think taxpayers in the city should be very happy with - +s the’ provincial government for -assuming police costs this year,”.she said, adding that a seven-mill tax levy would have been necessary for the city to assume this yeat"s costs, “We've had quite a few expenses for a recently-amal- gamated city,” she said, “We've had a new zoning map for the city, a new sewage system, and a new community complex. = “We have been asked to take over some of Columbia. Ave. and maintain the road to Celgar, we've drilled for wells’ and not found any water, we've aerated the sewage lagoons in the former town of Castlegar.” She said the ‘precedents for such a grant were set in 1978 when ‘several -B.C. cities, : in- cluding ‘Fort St.“ John’ and >,‘ Quesnel, were given special .; consideration by the provincial government for policing granta. “Until .: those ® precedents, cities over 5,000 ‘fn’ population . had’’ to. assume. ‘their “own ‘policing costa,” Moore said. She said the grant. was fa‘ - nine-month: abatement: repre-. - s senting: only. $112,500 of the $160,000 to. $160,000 required to fund * policing for: a whole. year, but added that Curtis is - “leaving Foom for Rogotlation’: in 1978, Youth Council Seeks _ Organized Activities '“To explore and develop methods of: providing services and ’ activities ‘to! meet the recreational needs and inter- “ests of the youth of Castlegar, primarily the 18 to 2l-year age group. “To promote participation »° in activities organized for young People. * “To develop’ a better re- jetween young | ay nei develop better’ com- fomdan af commingtos: Monday.” of conspiracy to ‘commit. arson Jan. 9'at the Passmore Com- 29 originally ro We! ven aye of : proceedings ‘when’ illness : RCMP. who staked out the : community hall’ where a sym- posium on Doukhobor History was scheduled. ‘The Sons of Freedom’ re mained. clothed: during: Mon- day’s appearance.’ munication between adults and the younger generation.”. “ jose are some of the formal objectives of the Castle gar Youth Council, a. si: member elected body of young - people representing Selkirk College, Stanley Humphries Secondary School and Kinnaird Junior Secondary who are ‘trying through organized acti. vities ‘to generate the interest: °~- the community have nothing to do. on: Friday, and . ‘Saturday nights,” Warner said Tuesday;. + “Exeept maybe go to a hockey.