CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 11, 1963 7, 1947 CASTLEGAR NEWS 4.1980 . 12, 1978-AUG, 27, 1980 LV. CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FEB. 15, 1973. Ce peri Compal EDITOR — Ron Norman FOREMAN CIRCULATION — Elaine Sallis Mickey Read ony odvertisoment belong to the advertiser. ‘vested in ond belongs to Cottle News Lid.; provided, however, that copyright in that port ond that port only of Prepared from repro proots, engravings, etc. provided by ‘the odvertiver shall rer 7in in and Time for action It comes as no surprise that the Municipal Affairs Ministry has tur- ned down the revitalization plan for downtown Castlegar because it is not specific enough. Work on the plan over the last they will see any provincial loan money for downtown improve- ments — and those decisions need to be made soon. It's been more than a year and a half since the ) revitalization com- d Eileen Fle! “s few years has-been ized mittee by a lack of among downtown businesses as to what the city core should look like. The lack of in turn pr y plan for revitalizing the downtown core. It took nearly that long? to get the plan before the led the downtown revitalization committee to steer away from any sort of “theme” for the city core, ‘which in itself isn't a bad idea, Af- ter all, Castlegar isn’t Victoria or Nelson with an abundance of heri- tage buildings on which to base a theme. Neither is it Kimberley, which has staked its future on the "Bavar- ian” theme, transforming its down- town into a replica Bavarian village. But the difficulty reaching a consensus appears to have led the tee into the false premise that “anything goes.” It won't, as the provincial government was quick to point out this week. Downtown businesses won't be given low interest loans without coming up with a/firm plan, one which outlines things’ liké which street will be renovated first, how Pl | government. Let’s hope the revised plan won't take as long, because’ Castlegar could find itself with an aging downtown, while neigh- boring cities like Nelson forge ahead with their heritage rebuild- ing scheme. But it’s: not just neighboring cities we should be watching out for.As revitalization program ad- ministrator Martin Thomas pointed out in the CasNews article this week, other B.C. towns are quickly getting their plans approved and work started. In fact, this year alone, the province has confirmed 20 revitali- zation. programs with loans totalling nearly $5 million, That means other are lay- ing a sound economic base from which to operate once the economy turns around. What is needed is a sense of J . The com- many trees and I will be installed, _ and just what the in- plan to do to revitalize the street. mittee needs to lead the way in preparing a comprehensive plan for sub to the p and then it needs to will sim- ply fae to face the fact that tough . decisions need to be made before Quote of Word this week that former Tee aeeedl frjitacts reveals yet agether diménsion about the peoplaiwho.run hockey, . and about Mr. Hull. Mr. Hull, who appears much more at ease down on his ranch looking after cattle than in the arena sports box commenting on NHL games, requested that his memorabilia be returned last year take firm action in implementing that plan. the week when the management decided to charge an admission fee to the hall, 5 Toronto. Mr. Hull stood up to the NHL brass, commenting, “I felt that for 23 years people paid to watch me play. | don't think they should have to pay to see a broken hockey stick and dirty underwear.” Touche. "NE cugccevnagceccecnsterercavianeseeenrecnccnce cence FRED. res, MERRIMAN It is most difficult for us, the general public, to reach an opinion or conslu- ‘A case in point is the recent des- truction of a commercial airliner as it made its way, apparently off course from Anchorage, Alaska, to stops in the Orient. 4 The Soviets claim they'd destroyed the target because it did not acknow- ledge their request to identify itself. A local traveller tells us that it is rather common for commercial airliners to en- croach upon Soviet air space and to do so.in darkness to avoid detection. Perhaps it is as simple a reason as attempting to cut fuel costs. If that is so, then Korean Airlines is largely at fault for flying in such a way as to endanger its passengers need- lessly and putting the plane in a position where battle-ready military men must assume the worst and ask questions later. War is not polite, courteous or hu- mane. As long as the major powers devote huge sums of men and materials to defensively making ready for attack, then we will continue to experience such incidents. It is sad and most unfortunate that so many helpless civilians lost their % tory?” most naive question of all: “Why is any territory dangerous — are there not friendly skies all over the world?” * We can raise so many questions — questions. childlike Why ase the USSR so fear the United States military machine and why is the United States so paranoid of the Soviets? All the while they trade with each other. We watch each other's athletes per- form. We exchange cultures and auto- mobiles. Russian people on the Moscow transit system look not unlike Cana- dians or Americans riding on the similar kind of transportation in cities like Vancouver or Tacoma. Let's be honest about this incident. The United States and Russia are presently at war. They have not yet got around to shooting at each other, but they are training for that even- tually. For a reason that is completely over the heads of people in the general populace in both countries, and those of us also in neighboring countries, the two superpowers do not trust each other. They are diplomatically courteous to each other's face while their various security departments are spying on each other through the kitchen door. Personally, I can hardly wait for some distant world to dispatch a fleet of Star Trek ships to hover over this quarrels peaceful folk into the family fight and that’s not fair. Perhaps activity from somewhere out in space will cause all the belliger- ent types to quit the feuding and band together in prosperity and peace — before the family breaks up over the questions of power and money. reunion planned Castlegar News: In 1984: the = University ot Victoria sol cents ts Site ae In this, + major. of Aa tbe bln May oot lost contact with us to write and let us have their address 80 we may send them relevant information. Sonja Birch-Jones Abunni Director of Victeria P.O. Box 1700 Victoria, B.C: V8W 22 CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 11, 1963. aay. 4 Rian ph program to rebuild the system across Alaska,.Canada and; Greenland woorsungiatat enthusiastic ball fans pray diam There is also uncertainty whore bid by Washington to pt Otawata ik apart ¢ tab for renovation i ‘financed by. been deating ae withthe abiasUat h and is exon To would tke any of Uiabe who have Sha ‘dare the, ‘unton-y ment in B,C, link itself by name with the Solidarity ‘Movement of Poland? It's just a cheap and shoddy gimmick to : cash in on the publicity and sympathy: generated ‘for Poland's’: underprive- leiiged workers. B.C. has the strongest labor movement (and the worst labor AMIDST. TOUGH TIMES British un sie pabulldl By PAUL KORING “LONDON — Fittingly, high winds and waves lashed the holiday resort of Blackpool this week as Britain's trade unionists gathered to take stock of the” turmoil within the labor movement and equivalent of the Labor. Congress, has been buffetted by some i harsh realities. ‘ High unemployment, sagging mem- bership and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government's convincing re-election in June under- scored that change was overdue in Britain's onee-powerful labor move- ment. The gathering of labor leaders tradi- - tionally begins the political year in Britain and the congress wasted no time in displaying the deep divisions which tear at it. While mod led_b: MARGARET THATCHER +» «preparing for labor reforms 1y chairman Frank Chapple issued a call for dialogue with the hated Conser- vative government and a Crea taking stock of Labor’s b d Britain but it re-positions the congress in the political : With union membership down, by nearly 20 per cent in the last three liners demanded the Sartiasars policies be met with continued defiance and no co-operation. The battle was bitter but quick and decisive. By Tuesday an overwhelming two-to-one vote had supported Chap- pel's call for , talks with the gov- years, the had little choice but to move toward the political centre. The union movement's problems are only made worse by the miserable showing of the Labor party in the last election. It ran third, behind the new DRGs cosacks have ts be made unpopular as they may be; because the other half'of the working ‘population just ‘can't pay ‘the whole shot, Keep up the good work Bill Bennett. , ‘A. G. Magaw Salmo k Union leaders told contenders for the ‘Labor party leadership who arrived in Blackpool on the stump that they Preren.t weneomens While no one expects the unions to courtship ot convenience being played by ft and } the new Social Democratic’ party. pahecote! srins the oper h hand as the clear ‘alternative to ‘the Tories then the unions ce sented to students at Selkirk College s ¥ J a, ‘last Friday as three invited speakers ; 4 panes, aalama, wYomahs, s ahegts of ice in the skating rink: motion that the curling club be granted over Half the area of the rink was'de- ‘The issue of student pct was pre- i Sibson, Works démanded greater freedom for univer: custom ‘made Electric aly students to determine thelr own destinies. Heading tbe three waa Martin Loney of Simon Fraser University, president- elect of the Canadian’ nica ‘of 8tu- dents. In « hard-hitting address urging con- frontation between ‘students and ad- ministration, Mr. Loney declared that students could run Canadian’ univer. Picea wrees the older seaecstion Bow doing = If ot: batter. ‘ Carol Magaw Dianna Koomikoft ADVERTISING SALES tomorrow fasting, to dramatize the Plight of the vietims of the ctvil war ja Gasllogar and Kinnaird: United Churches and St. David's Anglican, participants in the regional econoriieal parish, have pledged that the financla} enna irae day's meals will be OFFICE 365-5210. FAL CON sppeal of __ualons will cloacly know where their political fortunes lie. In the meantime there is the That cher governme: ernment to deal with and the membership slide. 4 Chapple vows to “argue with the government and build a partnership that can revitalize Britain.” But: arguing with the government may be muted while the labor move- ment rebuilds itself. PeUaihy Mas ted ais ee popularity has been sliding,” admitted Chapple. pit I ntooeile ferme t 'y Nor- man Tebbit. The vote signalled labor's shift away from the left and will be considered a victory by the Thatcher government which is readying controversial labor legislation reform. Union acceptance of the unpleasant reality that the Conservative govern- ment and its staunchly pro-business policies will be solidly entrenched in Westminster for the next: five years won't mean labor peace in recession- on average, the lowest num- ber of votes since the turn: of the century.. ‘With the party that has championed leaderless and in up to what it is,” Chapple somberly told the congress on opening day. extreme left which has had a disproportionate shape of power within the congress, Chapple said “solidarity is not just the majority sup- Porting the few but the few supporting’ the majority.” of Britain's, political’ “PAINTING & ‘DECORATING | 2649 GABE Teo CAaSTieGar VIN 281 368:3863 RADIATOR REPAIR government decided it “will go along with and ‘supply ‘the support from whichever project the sarbey chooses.” _U.S. protests. joann of jet NEW YORK (REUTER) — Americans who planned’ Soviet vacations are staying home, vodka is blacklisted and: Soviet flags have been tarn from their poles as U.S. citizens expressed outrage this week at the downing of a South Korean airliner with 61 Americans aboard. ‘ While the U.S. government protested at the highest _ diplomatic levels, individuals found their oyny ways to»: demonstrate. ¢ “We wor't sell to murderers,” said signs outside some of the miny frult abd produce shops in New York operated by Korean-Americans. New York dise jockey: Don Imus, ‘declaring “T can't stand it any more,” left his studio and stormed across to Rockefeller Centre to tear down the Soviet’ standard from the array of United Nations member flags. In Miami, anti-Communist Cubans staged a 1,000-strong rally, carrying a cross fér each of the 289 lives lost and ripping a Soviet flag to pieces. In Los Angeles harbor, the Soviet freighter Novokuiby; . fhevek lay Idle as American dockworkers refused to unload: - intruders coming OveE hie Earth's curvature or high- RECEIVES THREATS - t ; frequency radar that can peer over the horizon, scanning, The ship, believed to have a cargo of vodka and lumber, {as far as 3,000 Kilometres, by bouncing signals off the was under coast guard protection after a number of violent ee threats were made against it. Vodks, which in the last 10 years has become the best — ;, selling spirit in the United States, was singled out for ,Ayptems are being developed for the » the east and west coasts of North America, LaFors ‘said. “3S, “However, Maj. Edward Home of the Canadian ‘Forces told reporters last month that upgrading of the Nine states — Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Iowa, "DEW Line is needed ‘as. stopgap measure until’ the Ohio, Alabama, Idaho, West Virginia, Virginia and: Missis- ‘iid-19908 when ‘siith'''sophisticated satellite tracking |’ sippi — have asked retailers to remove popular im; stations are available for the North. Russian vodka from their ‘shelves and to cancel future He said the North American defence system is on the orders. ; verge of developing. over-the-horizon continental radar i systems that would ‘lose some gaps. But because of the 1 cia Washington. DOs fio) par ener dtew 8 co ah ss he buildup of Soviet eruidé missiles ‘and the effect on the ||: PO Bee ee ae tes : e eH new.radar | m of the northern atmospheric |’. ler Jesse Jackson, a possible hatte ‘known His pala presidential candidate, cancelled the Soviet leg of his forth rely < coming European tour and’according to the tourist industry l the & one dropped plans for autumn trips to ‘ ie President Reagan ordered the U.S. offices of the Soviet ESCORT CHE ee nee gstights to Montreal. for 60 days. GUARANTEED ‘FOR THE TERM OF THE DEPOSIT Per Annum Interest WITHOUT NOTICE ” PHONE US FOR DETAILS... Kootenay Savings Credit Union TRAIL SOUTH SLOCAN FRUITVALE NAK mits CASTLEGAR NEW DI VER SALMO WANETAY PLAZA