There's an | _ irritating trend

among some C
toward the use of portable signs on
a permanent basis.

Everyone has seen the signs.
They usually have an arrow framed
by flashing lights to attract the at-
tention of passing pedestrians and
motorists. They ore plunked out
near the sidewalk every morning
and usually taken inside every
evening.

There's just one problem with
the signs: they're ugly. They make
Columbia Avenue look like a Las
Vegas s

There's no getting around the
problem that much of Castlegar's
commercial sector has been
developed along a long, narrow
road — Columbia Avenue. It tends
to make the city look like o strip
development, but there's really not
much to be done about it.

However, the portable signs

point. But the signs also make the |

businesses look temporary and the
city look cluttered.
Surely, the signs have a place.

But somewhere along the line,
some businesses started using the
signs to supplement their per-
manent signs. The practice has
grown to the point where the signs
are probably the most common
signs in Castlegar.

It's time to step back and take
a look at what the signs have done
to the city. If businesses need more
signs, why not erect permanent at-
tractive signs we can all be proud
of?

Mountain or molehill?

Residents are calling it “the
Columbia Avenue speed bump’
(the only speed bump on a secon-
dary highway) and “Mount CPR" (it
must be climbed because it's
there).

Some motorists attack it like
the stunt drivers of TV's Dukes of
Hazard or The Fall Guy. Others
don't expect it or forget it’s there
until they suddenly find their head
perilously close to the roof of the
car.

It, of course, is the new
Columbia Avenue CPR crossing
The crossing was in dire need of
new paving and the CPR wanted to
replace the rails, so }t was logical
to make the repairs;

Just one problem: no one from

the CPR told the city the new rails
were going to make the crossing
four inches higher than the old
crossing — and thus four inches
higher than Columbia Avenue.

It was a fitting climax to a job
that was a fiasco from the begin-
ning. (The work took nearly a
week instead of the anticipated 1 -
1% days). But then why make a
mountain out of a molehill — or a
railway crossing?

Area drivers will just have to
face up to the fact that the bump
will probably be there until next
spring. There is one small con-
solation though: those responsible
for the bump will © reminded of it
every time thef “revel along
Columbia Avenue

Fred
Merriman

Some people have been wonder.
ing about those buildings which
appeared to materialize almost
overnight on the west side of
Columbia Ave. across from the Old
Arena.

Well, here is the scoop.

A couple of sehool teachers, a
lumberjack, a college professor, and
a few other hard-working Christians
with wives and families began yet
one more branch on the tree. Just as
we all hear different notes in the
same melody, these people wanted
to bring the message of hope and
concern to Castlegar in their special
way

For some time these folks and
their children have been meeting
every Sunday morning in the
Legion Hall. They prayed for their
own building and with their young
and man-sized pastor also beseech.
ing on their behalf to our Amazing
Leader, the buildings came to pass.

Now, as all who pray know, there
is a cateh. “Be careful for what you
pray because there is a 100 per cent
chance that your prayer shall be
answered.”

The portable buildings were
settled on the property. Then began
the backbreaking part where God
turns the details over to human

and his wife were observed painting
and nailing. An unemployed
carpenter pitched in long after the
rest had gone home. A saw filer
came directly from a graveyard
shift at a distant sawmill He
crawled under the building to get it
level while we claustrophobics
handed him the tools.

A teenage girl in working clothes
performed the gopher jobs —
fetching the water, finding the nails.
The project reminds me of the old
barn raising events in our distant
past. Why do they do it?

This volunteer Christian (and
other) activity is typical of towns
like Castlegar. A tough “do-it-your.
self” spirit prevails. The pioneer and
rugged independence-minded
proliferate in these very valleys.

But, why do they do it?

Ask Jim Corbett. No, it's too late
— another passing that is enough to
bring tears to your eyes. Some say
these people are the Georges of the
world who came into the place to
serve those of us who just sit around
waiting for the bananas to fall from
the trees.

Me? I stay away from the place as
much as possible because of a guilty
conscience and this great tendency
to become holier than thou. That
whieh you see becoming a reality
before your very eyes is none other
than the chureh buildings which
shall be the meeting place off the
Evangelical Free Church — a church
which actually sprang from
Seandanavian roots and has support
in the Prairies, midwest U.S. and
beyond

Perhaps one may say the
members have Baptist tendencies
and that is intended as a compli
ment Yet, from personal
experience they are known to
accept anyone into their congre
gation. In fact, it's more like being
accepted into a family because they
share their homes, their lives and
mostly their faith.

is blessed with many
good churches and church congre
gations and even a few good beer
pariors. If you are looking for a
diamond in the last gulp or a light at
the end of the tunnel somewhere
after the last unemployment
cheque, this may be the place for
you.

These people seem to understand.
That may be their mission and could
explain their dedication to getting
the building finished before this
weekend. Thank God.

Letters to the Editor

Think about the kids

asked by im Castlegar School Board to
accept the full-day kindergarten prog.
ram for their kids, starting Monday,
Nov. 5. The parents very loudly said,
“No!”

When the “pilot” project was started
this year in Robson Elementary School,
the school board assured parents at a
public board-meeting that this was only
a pilot project for Robson which
would be evaluated before anything
more was considered. Now only two
months into the school year, the board
is asking another school to do the same
because, according to schools superin-
tendent Terry Wayling, it is “econom-
ically sound”.

Tarrys parents say that their four
and five-year-old children must be up
at 6:30 a.m. to get to school by bus and
would not return home until 3 or 3:30

p.m, in the full-day. program.

They also say that there would. not
be an aide inthe classroom. Who would
supervise these children during recess

and lunch times? Would they be
expected to behave like the older
children? And what about those
children with learning or behavioral
difficulties? Can they cope with the
stress of six to seven hours in the
classroom and another two to three
hours getting to and from school?

The full-day program may turn out
be worthwhile. Only a detailed evalua
tion will provide enough information to
make a rational decision.

I urge the school board to reconsider
its position, Put aside thinking about

the dollars and think about the kids. At
the end of the school year, ask the
Robson parents for their impressions.
And next fall, ask the Grade 1 teathers
to assess the children and see how they
compare with children they have
received from the half-day program.
Only then will we be able to determine
whether a full-day kindergarten pro-
gram is one of benefit or jeopardy for
the children of Castlegar School Dist-
riet.
Kay Johnson
Castlegar

Please address all Letters
to the Editor to: The
Castlegar News, P.O.Box
3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN
3H4, or deliver them to our
office at: 197. Columbia
Avenue, Castlegar, B.C.

Letters must be signed and include
the writer's full name.and address.
Only in very exceptional cases will
letters be published without the
writer's name. Nevertheless, the name
and address of the writer must be
disclosed to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the
right to edit letters for  bearity, clarity,
legality’ arid: graniniéf.

TO STOP STARVATION

Food just not enough

national system for averting African
food crises.

“Just sending food does not stop
starvation,” said Paul McCabe, a con-
sultant for the U.S. Office of Foreign

curtail involvement by outside experts
essential to distributing aid fairly and
quickly and supervising relief pro
grams.
Ethiopia is a dramatic example.
According to U.S. reports, at least
50,000 tonnes of retief are backed up in

situations closely to help local govern.
ments take precautions early. Then
scarce emergency relief can be ration-
ed effectively

But donor governments, interna
tional organizations and private agen
cies have not developed a single

warehouses and on ships in
ports, and some of it is already rotting.
Even with transport available, few

Disaster A who li in
drought relief.

“If you dump a lot of food into a
country, no matter how needy, without
things like trucks, spare parts, fuel and
salaries for drivers, you will lose the
food needed to save lives,” he added.

Dramatic footage of dead and
starving people in Ethiopia, shown on
News last week,

say that when

roads pei the country's worst-hit
areas.

Political concerns complicate human
itarian efforts. Much of the famine
areas are held by rebels. “Authorities
are not going to feed implacable
enemies, anywhere in Africa, no
matter what the United Nations might
tell them,” McCabe said.

In neighboring Somalia, famine
threatened wide areas in 1980 and
1961. Despite a better road structure,
shorter distances and few internal
political hostilities, up to half of food
aid was lost to spoilage or theft — or

by the army.
The only effective answer, relief
officials agree, is to monitor food

for priorities.

The UN Food and Agriculture
Organization in Rome maintains an
early warning system, but many criti
cize the FAO for exaggerating some
situations and underestimating others.

FAO reports say 150 million Africans
are threatened by starvation, a figure
reached by adding total populations of
affected countries. Specialists say the
actual figure is closer to 20 million,
adding that overestimates make it
harder to pinpoint the neediest cases.

A report issued this week by the
office of the UN Disaster Relief
Co-ordinator said more than 35 million
people in several regions of Africa hft
by drought are desperately hungry.
Much of Africa has suffered drought
almost continually for the past 15
years.

(Associated Press)

Signs point to Reagan win

By JULIET O'NEILL
WASHINGTON — President Rea-
gan seems to have had everything on

three weeks from his 74th birthday.
Even the Communist leadership of

lived controversy over his age and
stamina that arose after a bumbling
performance during a national televi
sion debate with Democrat challenger
Walter Mondale. ‘

Generally he held tight as Mondale
has tried to pry open his grip on the
eountry issue by issue: the threat of
recession because of the burgeoning
federal budget deficit; the slowdown in

arms control talks with the Soviets

He has stuck to sweeping themes;
painting Mondale as 1 doom-and-gioom
sayer, asking voters if they are better
off then they were four years ago and

his record with that of his
predecessor Democrat Jimmy Carter
by using such phrases as “American is
back, standing tall.”
Compared with the public anger and
agony over Carter's handling of the
Iranian hostage crisis during the last

presidential election, Reagan has stood
virtually unseathed by his major
foreign policy failure — the suicide
bombing in Lebanon that took the
lives of more than 200 marines on a
peacekeeping mission and the subse-
quent bombings at insecure U.S. diplo-
matic posts in the Middle East country.

On a personality basis, the election
contest has been Reagan,
with his well of i a

ve
rie

have artificial ice in the arena for the
coming winter season.

7 28 «6
Union Jacks were presented to the

A Union Jack for use in the Cub hall
was presented and one for use on
parade.

o 28
In Cadtlegar this morning to visit
Celgar’s pulp mill site was Hon. R.G.
Williston, Minister of Lands and

A. Barelay, executive assistant to he
president of Celgar.

Mr. Williston and Mrs. Black were
accompanied on their tour of Ceigar by
Rossland-Trail MLA Donald L.

New teachers in the Castlegar and
Trail Districts were guests of Cominco
on Saturday in an annual tour held to
give them an opportunity to see some
of the company’s operations.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Nev. 6, 1969
News

Castlegar
Mrs. Walter Jacobson who was re
cently presented her long service cer.
tifieate for 20 years of service to
education in B.C. as a school trustee by
Donald Brothers, Minister of Educa.
tion at the 66th annual convention of

‘In the last 10 years of service she has

served as chairman of the board.
7 8

Castlegar Mayor Murray Little will
seek re-election in the civie elections.
He will be challenged by Bob Mad-
docks, local businessman and one-time
mayor.

the Peace by Carl Loeblich culminated
Wednesday as Paul Ogiow was sworn

gift for turning political liabilities into
assets and a robust appearance, has a
built-in edge over Mondale, a less
lustrous 56-year-old, prone to looking
tired and sounding dull. It was only
toward the end of the campaign that
Mondale, plunging in the polls, seemed
to finally rise to the occasion.
Reagan's personal attractiveness has
bégn so strong that poll after poll
shaws a majority of Americans -con-
sider him a strong and effective leader
eyen though they question some of his
p bam ala

on military a
~ (Canadian Press)

and tos neon sign thc local besieten

. from left) Father Walter

meeting were: (back row.
Donoid, Penny. Freno-Link, Marc Marcolin, John Chor-
ters; (front tow) Leo Perra, Tom Bilin, Donald

. d, Jim Gray and Jack Colbert.

College foundation workshop

By J.A. CHARTERS

For le, the McGill Uni Alummni A

Ten West Kootenay met last at
Selkirk College for an all-day workshop on the organization
and workings of a college foundation.

College administrative officer Penny FrenoLink,
retired Cominco executive Marc Marcolin, vice-chairman of
the college board Walter Donald, board chairman Jack
Colbert, retired teacher and CasNews columnist John
Charters, pharmacist Tom Biln, solicitor Donald Skogstad,

alone provides the ity with $1 rion Wn while
the alumni of the University of B.C. gives $866,000:

One of the first requirements in establishing a
foundation, it was pointed out, is to get priorities and on the
basis of these, to formulate a long range plan. ,,

A second essential ingredient is to fynnel,gll gifts and
donations through the office of the executive dirgctor to
ensure an accurate accounting“and issuance of /proper

college principal Leo Perra, and Cominco
Gray met with Olds College Foundation Executive Director
Bob Redpath and Director Marilyn Sharp in order to study
the steps involved in setting up and operating a college

foundation.

Olds is a small agricultural college in the Alberta town
of the same name. It has been in operation for the past 70
years but only recently has it found necessary to establish a

foundation.

The two visitors from Olds — who donated their time —
worked as a team and made extensive use of the very
complete and extensive portfolios with which they had
equipped the group an impressive array of topics was

covered.

Foundations were a fact of life in colleges and univer.
sities throughout the continent, the pair said, and their first
line of support was to be found in their alumni associations.

Tories defend
$13,000 flight

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Mulroney, promis
ing tough measures in Mon-
day’s throne speech to deal
with the “sadness” left be
hind by the Liberals, de
fended Saturday the use of a
government jet at a cost of
almost $13,000 to fly Finance
Minister Michael Wilson to
meet him in Florida last
month.

“Tt was important govern.
ment business,” Mulroney
told reporters when asked
why Wilson could not have
flown commercially in view of
the Conservatives’ repeated
lament that Ottawa's finan
cial “cupboard is bare.”

Meanwhile, both Mulroney
and Wilson — speaking to
reporters as the Conserva-
tive caucus met to prepare
for Monday's opening of Par-
liament — continued to em-

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Jim ack and credit to the donor. This includes not
only capital but non-capital donations.

In the case of the Olds Foundation, non-capital
donations included such unlikely items as trees, a guard dog,
frozen yak semen, hay, artwork and word processors.

Perhaps the most unusual of these gifts was an
experimental organic waste digestor. It takes in all organic
waste and turns out heat for the buildings, fuel gas, and
compost and has saved the college many thousands of
dollars annually.

Furthermore, since it is such an efficient machine, and is
operating in an experimental agricultural college, visitors
from other similar colleges come from all over the continent
to study it.

Selkirk College has different di and

MOSCOW (REUTER) —
The return of Josef Stalin's
daughter to Moscow 17 years

igfter defecting to the United

States has prompted specu-
Jation among diplomats that
she may be forced to publicly
denounce the West.

Her return, announced Fri-
day in a brief Kremlin state
ment saying her Soviet citi-
senship was restored, has
caused a sensation and west-
ern diplomats said her home-
coming delighted the Soviet
leadership.

Since, a television news
bulletin Friday night, there
has been no further word on
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daugh.
ter of dictator Stalin whose
namé is synonymous with re-
pressions and mass murders
in the Soviet Union.

But diplomats said Satur
day she would probably have
to make a public statement
critical of the West. They
drew parallels with the case
of journalist Oleg Bitov who
reappeared in Moscow in
September after defecting to
Britain last year.

In a news conference and a
series of articles in the Liter.
aturnaya Gazeta for which he
wrote, Bitov alleged that he
had been abducted by British
security agents and tortured.

Alliluyeva's defection in
1967 caused a worldwide
sensation and she outraged
the Kremlin by publishing a
book giving details of her
father’s private life.

She was asa

objectives — a flying school, nurse's training, forestry, and
others — and as a consequence has somewhat different
needs, the two said.

Nonetheless, it must be prepared to take advantage of
every opportunity to remain efficient, sensitive and
appropriate to the needs of the community and the students,
said Redpath and Sharp. And it was in this respect that the
foundation — though it is a separate entity from both
government and the college — can be valuable

Several di ker Dorothy

Castlegar School Board Chairman Doreen
phasize the need for auster- h Gordon and bank thanager
ity. Charles Foster, were unable to attend the workshop, but

Mulroney, asked by a re will receive the minutes of the meeting.

porter if there will be tough All in attendance agreed that it was an excellent
measures, replied “Yes” al- presentation and Redpath and Sharpe were thanked.
though, asked to elaborate In turn, and in a lighter vein, each of the participants
later, he said that had been was given a signed certificate in “Philanthropic Appreci
“an improper choice of ation” by the visitors — a gentle reminder of a theme which
words” and what he meant to ran throughout the workshop: “Everyone likes to feel that
say was that “hard but fair his or her efforts are recognized and appreciated; everyone
measures will have to be likes to receive acknowledgement for what he or she has
considered.” done.”

REMINDER . . .

For Your

traitor in the Soviet press
and stripped of her citizen
ship in 1970

But in an interview with
The Observer newspaper in
March, she made it clear she
was pining for relatives in
the Soviet Union and was
disillusioned with the West.

“I have not seen my son
and daughter. for 17 years
and I havea grandson and a
granddaughter whont Ihave
never seen,” Alliluyeva told
the British newspaper.
“Sometimes it's a superhu-
man effort not to drop every-
thing and run and get a ticket
to go and see them.

“Sometimes I don't care
what the regime is, I just
want to see my grandchil
dren.”

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She also said that when she

learn what the reality is and
it is in many ways a dis
appointment.”

Alliluyeva referred to the
Soviet people as “we,” indi-
cating that she still identified
strongly with her native
country.

However, she did say she
felt she could not go back
even if she wanted to because
of her youngest daughter —
“She's an American as apple
pie.”

Defection constitutes trea-
son under Soviet law and the
criminal code states that as
such it is punishable by a
prison sentence of 10 to 15
years or by death.

The official Soviet view is
that only people with rela-
tives abroad would willingly
choose to abandon their na-
tive country.

In the last few years when
Soviet citizens have defected,
their families remaining be-
hind have often come under
pressure to speak out against
them or plead for their re-
turn.

However, defectors seldom
return. Diplomats said as far
as they knew Bitov was the
first person to do so since the
1940's.

Defectors to the West in
recent years have included
arts celebrities, diplomats
and occasionally military per-
sonnel. This year alone, said
a Radio Libery research
bulletin, there have been 20
defections, including film dir-
ector Andrei Tarkovsky and
theatre director Yuri Lyubi-
mov.

rm "treat Union

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