' CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 25, 1977 Kids iutt WORD SEARCH Hidden aie 15 words to circle, Words 90 across, down, diagonally, upside-down, and backwards. ‘CAN YOU FIND THEM? fi is ie Hom-handed Federation of Labor Storting = Socreas’ Useful Enemy its bes eae Then Call on... LU MLTE, “Hero et the p press the people's y rights maintain, unawed by | . Birthstones Months CASTLEGAR NEWS Why was the baby raised ‘on monkey milk’ What happens when a cat ealsalemon? |. What insect would make the best outhelder? |. Why does a cat, when it enters aroom, look first to ‘one side and then to the . When sousa chimp chase abanana? What is worse than a Centipede with sore feet? wOMaOFeULM DEO Y -y shige e ry ‘awn a U}09 0} YOO saunies shemre ‘snd snos: % a t t “AaquoW fgea e sea WW aenenag “1 Iv SY3MSN Q c E M — AR A L o R P N x A v cy o L 8 Q N Y 0 B € F 4 P DAMHB-~-XTVUVUYOMPHAE -rOrrocxz—>EV> errorOryD ONOOruvnoDccCZZ-— A 8B 1 a 3 6 J v i) 6 A Y N E XZAUMEXAHKTAME> 4Ax- EHX UVNOAONZ ANF VOANACDMOBMm |. Garnet |, Amethyat Aquamarine |. Olamond Emoratd L. Turquoise m@ecr»xzExrmezeco wonom2z0nroraD—-oA xpmeomEt influence and unbribed by gain” (An editorial in the’ Vie- ° Party in. the last provincial general election.) ‘Apathy, Apathy Everywhere sec : | It wasn't really a lack of water pressure © that caused hydrants in Robson to malfunction Rduring, a brush fire three weeks ago. 3 Tt was apathy. the height of the. fire, season, z Sresidents who were not concerned enough about. Sthe threat. of fire to formulate any form or S system of ‘protecting themselves from it. 3 An all-too-convenient target for the blame is the. Robson: Irrigation District, the body Sresponsible:for the maintenance of the .area’s 3 Pass Creek water supply. The bitter’ reality eresidents will have to accept is that the apparent Yinactivity of the irrigation district in the area of hfire protection is a direct reflection on their own ‘failure to participate at its meetings and ‘give ithe execiitive members some sense of direction, S "'Phe‘agrument that heavy drawdowns on iPass Creek’ always affect the pressure in the 12. inch pipeline- during the summer tends to Sobscure the failure of residents to develop any ‘kind of measures which could even partially reduce the fire hazard. = Apathy‘in an area which was tinder- dry at Apathy from secure in the k asa dress stand to benefit from fire protection. And perhaps they'll be a ‘little more not received the community suppect it needs to set up water regulations with teeth. Even an adequate supply from Castlegar’s planned CanCel pipeline tie-in would not auto- matically eliminate. Robson's fire ‘protection vacuum. According to'a spokesman for the district forest service, residents have made no successful attempt to provide their own fire protection in at least 20 years. Neither does the argument - that an adequate pipeline system and some skeleton volunteer fire department. would: involve’ a prohibitive | price—if you'll\ pardon’ the | ex-' pression—hold any water. Householders who pay the highest possible rate for fire'insurance I ing to think that if the Social Credit government ‘didn't already have the B.C, * Federation of Labor around, it would “have to create it: for political’ purposes. . Nothing could give the government as much’ public: support’ for its silly, hamhanded moves as the - childish, -hysterical over-reac- tion of the labor body to those moves, In recent weeks, the feder- ation has taken strong ex- ception to two bills the govern- ment ‘has introduced—one to '* abolish the: Vancouver Re- sources: Board, and one to re- organize Notre Dame Univers- ty, in. Nelson, part of the re- to include the abolition of. the faculty as- jation: there. As has been that some available for things that: cannot be replaced by an insurance payoff. Ina sense, the fire three weeks ago served I for some larger blaze. ol bo a the pan night’ per- wil a hours daily because the irrigation district has cast. depends on the ‘Parliamentary Name-caling a Lost Art By LEONARD MEYERS B (From the Vancouver Sun. :The writer is a Vancouver free- slancer). ss i ie NAME-CALLING, ES- ‘pecially in our hallowed halls of ‘Parliament, isn't the venerable art that it used to be. Oh, to be sure, there are feeble attempts at affixing un-. Even in Jordan would find it equally ©, “difficult to call a particularly vexatious member ‘a: pixilated pimpernell, a joyless jellyfish, or-even an emasculated gnat. There'd be more than insults flying in the house. : -It.is almost: laughable to imagine Grace McCarthy call- ing the leader of the Opposition The Hon. Horned Vip er But p four-letter words are woefully pedestrian and -hardly carry. the solid impact, the rapier-like thrust, the acid-tongued shafts of in- vective that would blanch even an Iron Duke. Others resent our parliamentary house being turned into an outhouse. NOT.ONLY THAT, BUT ‘our own B.C. legislature there thave been heated exchanges linterspersed with crude name- ‘ealling such as racist, bigot, ‘Hitlerite, fascist, McCarthyite i(not Grace), eunuch, liar, pa- : itronage peddlar, .. dictator— :pretty unimaginative, prosaic ‘stuff. When is the last time you heard a member of P Se eae ot or a gimracked gerrymanderer, She is far too polite. And if she were goaded into it, you canbe sure she'd - have a special smile and a lapel button for him. ‘After: all, he could be a future tourist to Victoria, Nowhere in the Western _ world today will you ‘find a member of P call his mentor across the | floor §Pounder;villain, a raj nj a horn-toed hornswoggler or a dastardly knave?. ~ Can you imagine Premier Bennett calling a member ‘ofthe four-letter words aré infantile, characteristic of a kid that can- not count beyond four. And the hardened, seasoned veterans of the parliamentary jousting scene—men like Disraeli, Lloyd George, John A Macdonald and Winston Churchill—who called + Hitler’ a monster, a eae anda. pointed out previously on these pages, both bills have serious weaknesses. >The Notre Dame bill hand- les the labor. problems there clumsily, to say the least, and the resources board bill takes away. valuable local accounta- bility in the social services field, as .wellas causing a few problems for the workers. The federation is quite right to op- pose both pieces of legislation. But now. the federation is talking’ about calling, | of enemy . of. the