8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Oct. 20, 1966 Vernon Citizens Opposed . . »» 21,200 Students Seck Entrance Community College Bogs: = in Politics The number one question Okan- in bay to pay, $10,000 annuallly for 9: djusted. annually according to report on higher If Dec,\10 nded ‘establishment’ ‘of in the planning and arguing ‘stages and there is a Senger : that it may not get beyond this ‘stage, for a. body of respected : Vernon citizens is now actively i posing the present college fr They warn that unless the : plan is drastically modified they ! will urge Okanagan Valley rate- payers to defeat a Dec. 10 referendum seeking ing approval of expenditures to construc- tion of the allege. ‘They are opposed to the present socation, and’ financial arrangements. The referendum must be er cent of the ted th r le nine school | Fovin in last Jebiscite,| about curbing inflation the cor- ‘The districts are South Okan- this re ferendu bers chairman Kelly, a er; Frank ‘Vernon’s Mayor Lionel Mercier. Dr. W. “That's what makes it so tou; the present college plan. Tine el in Lake. ‘The lease calls for the gpuege| fi cost of living. ‘The lease is| ™ B.C.| renewable after 95 years. Pating in the er @ college | sho: recomme) will open i in 1968 to an eatimated Tegional colleges’ In’ Castlegar | 1,; 200 at atu Kelowna. une Kelowna College is still} Taxpay yers Committee is girding itself for a campaign’ to oppose The asyernon Parents and committee, which has the aaigyrial support of the Ver- non News, Tumors a key mem: salesman; Neil Devideon, a lawy- A’ Castl “illiamson, a tele- sharply, critical graph official; and recently also | A. tons ela Wirt shea oar ens, fernon 00! ir chairman Inkster. ing Certified | € gh in a small community like ours.” Vernon school board ‘backs fizens of Vernon sup- the com- mittee believes that the college | set a better * must be re-assessed now eae the couterencs the as based on Penticton partici-} project, | Now that Penticton is not in| 8 the formula |- pan, he ‘said; be rea) ed te discover | éa a more central toes elite for the nine participating regions — 8 He sald the, formula Dr.|, Giles used in his report to select | Pine with “the rental being the Kelowna ‘site of the College | whi Lee legar accountant a 1 of Premier W. C. Bennett’s blunt warning to labor and unions about infla- criticism came from couver last Fri YM, Macbeth, ‘who attended the conference with his wife, said the premier was not going rect way. and added jhe should By Castlegar El oaiien obvious inflation .was creeping | vall f up ion ‘on the province for six fol eB! ession | ait ht months, NOW we get the ret at the inflation was som yy wasn’ dis- cussed ‘when he was going to 1 le. Tie’ Macbeth, described the premier’s gettough warning as of the doubletalk because ‘Sf we need action, the govern: ment has'to.set the example in its own spending. “Pm not) jconscious, that the F ‘is not p gz Pp was agan, Kelowna, Enderby, Armstrong, Revelstoke, Vernon and Salmon ciple of tablishing a.college to serve region. ° The Okanagan Regional Co lege Council, yy made up of repre: was Shier sentatives of the nine particpat- ing school districts,’ | stead- fasty based all its planning on Below tocation the ol findings of surveys, the report | fr of 1982 and a report in 1965 b; ’ Dr.’ Fred +s fs stand staged _on the 0,2 ind (continued from page one) see shick several months ago, th: Tesigents, ‘were told at last week's was “che result of ‘a‘professor of] by Mr: Gray. ghee education at the Univer. ility. immediately west of Kelowna and overlocking Okan- el. and operated entirely by the community. eae The. eee penne nas a 1 ig estimated = 15-