CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 29, 1983 CASTLEGAR NEWS ... 7, 1947 ¥ 4, 1900. 12, I97B-AUG, 27, 1900 inc LV. CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG, 7, 1947-FEB, 15, 1972 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell pie — Ron Norman — Peter He INAGER — Linda Kositsin jarvey PLANT OFFICE MA\ ADVERTISING MANAGER — Carol Magaw ROOM — Mickey Rea CIRCULATION — Sherry Anderson id NOTICE OF . belong 10 the advertiser. P 7 ts vetted in and belongs 10 Cosite News Ltd.; provided, however, that copyright in that port and that part only of ony advertivament prepared (som repro prools, engravings, atc. provided by the advertiser shall remain in ond y, Time for a change in Now, after several mon- this country need to be over- hauled. And there is no better argument for that than our own Cominco-Steelworker situation. From the beginning, the mood has. ths of posturing on both sides, a mediator has finally been called in and the real bargaining Is about to begin. Of course, this should have i months ago, prior to the been one of conf Management came out i ki i ge a while at the same time noting that because of the poor economy, em- ployees would be laid off for five weeks this summer. The Steelworkers came out just as tough, rejecting company de- mands for concessions and instead asking for a six per cent increase in wages and a better benefit Seatbelts B.C.'s mandatory seatbelt law is probably one of the most contro- versial pieces of legislation on the books. Residents who normally wouldn't have an opinion on 90 per cent of this province's laws get to shouting when it comes to seatbelt legislation, On the one side are the people who always know of someone who would have been killed or at least maimed for life had he or she been wearing a seatbelt. And if that doesn't convince non-believers, there's always the argument that making seatbelts mandatory is a April 30 contract deadline. Instead, the workers, the company.and the surrounding communities have been put through the pressure cooker of hard-edged labor negoti- ations where an agreement — if it comes — won't be signed until the very last moment. The worst thing is that if anoth- er one-year agreement is signed, we have to go through the whole process in less than 11 months, save lives If 80 per cent of the vehicle oc- cupants in Canada used seatbelts, more than 30,000 lives would be saved by the year 2000. And just a one per cent in- crease in the use of seatbelts would save ICBC $1.35 million, That final figure is the most con- vincing for those who simply look at dollars and cents. Seatbelts save money — plain and simple. Currently, 56 per cent of B.C. drivers wear seatbelts. Police and ICBC are aiming for 80 per cent through a province-wide crack-: down that started May 20. The kd will'cul in a two- further erosion of individual rights by big government. On the other side are legisla- tors, police officers and insurance companies. In the latter case, it's not just the Insurance Corp. of B.C. that backs seatbelt legislation, but any, insurance company that offers automobile insurance. The reason is simple: they know seatbelts re- duce injuries and cut down on in- surance claims — thus saving them money. The statistics of course are staggeringly convincing. Of the 800 severely disabled men and women now receiving no-fault insurance benefits from ICBC, only five per cent were wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident. day survey this Friday and Satur- day to determine just how effec- tive the crackdown was. We're betting that, in Castlegar, the survey will show more than 80 per cent of drivers are using seatbelts. In fact, so far police have checked more than 500 cars in this area and 87 per tent of the drivers and passengers were wearing seatbelts. Our only question is, why wasn't the crackdown started when the seatbelt legislation was first introduced? We would like to see an annual crackdown at differ- ent times of the year, just to let drivers know that the law Is enfor- ceable. After all, there's no sense in having a law that isn’t enforced. Canada’s deficit not all it appears to be By AL COLLETTI NEW YORK .— Comparing Can- adian and U.S. federal deficits is a favorite pastime of pundits whenever Ottawa presents a budget deep in red ink. But comparisons often are mislead- ing since the taxing responsibilities of the two countries are vastly different. One popular but misleading format is to interpolate population with budget figures —the old 10-to-1 ration, Since Canada has one-tenth the population of the United States, Fi- nance Minister Marc Lalonde’s proj- ected budget deficit of $31.8 billion in the fiscal year ending next March 31 translates into $310.3 billion for the States. So far this year, the United States is running a federal budget deficit of $25 billion a month and probably will break the $200-billion barrier for the fiscal year ending Oct, 31. But the pundits also will note the feds in Washington still are spending at a rate much lower than the feds in Ottawa. But that is not exactly the case. During a discussion about the Can- adian and U.S. tax systems in New York, Pierre Lortie, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange, noted some stark differences, The issue between Canada and the States is that expenditures for some programs are carried at different levels of government, each with different taxing responsibilities, Lortie said. Tf you look at the Canadian financing of health, social security and post- secondary education, all those expen- ditures are in the provincial govern- ment budgets, However, 50 per cent of the rev- enues for all that are in the federal budget, which is a 0-per-cent payback to the provinces. Ottawa has to collect those revenues. “What you have to do is add up the provincial side plus the federal side to see what your deficit for the govern- ment sector is,” Lortie said. “Then you compare it to what the states, the municipalities and the feds are doing in the U.S. and see what is your total government fiscal stance in that area.” The feds in Washington could be cutting “quite significantly" in their expenditures on health, welfare and education, pushing those costs to the states and driving a higher deficit at the state level. While Washington is trying to trim the federal deficit, the states are finding themselves going from a surplus to a deficit position, forcing them to impose new taxes, The end result is that you still have a deficit to pay somewhere. LETS MAKEA DEAL + SIGN HERE: "Shall we say that we've all talked to one another; that goes on in every campaign, but I don't think any concrete deal has been made.” ._ — Peter Pocklington, May 24, 1983 UNICEF STRUGGLING In search of.sol By PAUL KORING UNITED NATIONS — UNICEF, best known and most successful of the United Nations’ many agencies, is searching for new solutions in the face of tight budgets and mounting chal- lenges. From the bright orange boxes of Hallowe'en to the bloated bellies of babies, the United' Nations Children Fund is perhaps the most pervasive of all humanitarian agencies and one Whose aims are impossible to fault. Yet only. four years after the ‘International"‘Year of the Child, ‘de. pressed économies and increasing numbers of people in need have made meeting the plight of the world’s poor even more difficult. Jean. Ripert, UNICEF's director general for development and inter- national economic co-operation said earlier this month that the world is facing a “time of great difficulty and economic crisis.” “As was too often the case, the most vulnerable group suffered the worst. The poorest of the poor had been hardest hit.” A four-pronged effort to meet basic health and nutrition needs of children was launched last year by UNICEF and the agency has set as its goal reducing by half the number of child deaths. The world’s countries generally endorsed those plans during the annual UNICEF debate earlier this month, But no UN debate can avoid being sullied by politics. Efforts to establish a major administrative office in Namibia (South-West Africa) were prompted as . much by the anger of developing coun- tries over South Africa's | n utions Canada’s commitment to the agency, noting Canada was the agency's sixth- largest: contributor and one of its staunchest supporters since its incep- tion in 1946, Lindores also questioned the new bilateral focus within the agency. While special large-scale and 1 lly financed could occupation of the mineral-rich terri- tory, as any particularly‘ humanitarian need. ‘ . UNICEF's 1984-85 budget exceeds ‘r$1 billion, yet-40,000-childrendie daily _ dae thes nat statistics,” “onSS” of | Hut suffering tend’ to become meaningless in a world numbed by numbers, but that death rate would eradicate Canada’s entire population in less than two’ years, The world spends 600 times as much on arms annually. UNICEF's size, 1,900 workers in more than 100 countries, also makes it difficult for the agency to project a single image, something the staff at headquarters want. But among some developing countries, there is a push to decentralize UNICEF. The claim is that the-agency can better serve the specific needs of individual countries if authority is closer to the field. Among the concerns were those expressed by the Canadian delegate, Douglas Lindores. While he reaffirmed extend UNICEF's reach, Lindores suggested they might also threaten the essential multilateral nature of the organization. UNICEF successfully. emer; tee Beebo an from its first metamorphosis — fro Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the May 27, 1948 Castlegar Nows 1 The IODE May Day was a grand success and drow hundreds ‘of people from the surrounding district into town. Columbia Avenue’ was lined with people to see the parade, which started | off from the school, headed by the IODE float carrying the May Queen Barbara Easton, retiring queen, Ara Reed, the princesses and attendants. The parade was a colorful ‘display of floats, decorated bicycles, tricycles and wagons, ae Sen te The crowning ceremony took place at the ball grounds. Regent Mrs. D. Magee accepted the crown from ‘retiring queen Ara Reed and crowned Barbara Easton queen of 1948. The Grade 1 pupils .danced.the May Pole and the pupils of Mrs. K. An- dreashiuk entertained with dancing much to the enjoyment of the crowd. Dozens of races followed for all the children, : *. * 4 : According to your tax notice, a pen- alty of 10 per cent will be ‘applied on unpaid taxes on and after July 1. YEARS AGO From the May 29, 1958 Castlegar News A minor panic occurred in Robson. Monday because of a rumor that. 18 rattle snakes had escaped from Allen Woodrow's zoo, 3 Mr. Woodrow, ‘accompanied « by -seven other persons including three game wardens, went to Grand Forks a month ago to hunt snakes, The snakes will be on exhibition in the zoo soon and in the meantime are in a “padlocked box so it is impossible for them-to escape.” ~ . * « The 800-ton 28-car Castlegar ferry is back in operation after having its hull painted inside and out and the “rear end tightened up.” The. ferry returned from Nakusp Monday and the changeover with the Needles ferry, which was in operation here, took four hours, = - e » . LAC Mickey Fairres was presented with a shield at the Air Cadet Banquet in the United Church hall May 21 for having the highest standing in all air cadet, subjects. +++ Phe -bariquet followed the Cadets’. annual i ion which was held at thé: relief fund to help war-ravaged Europe's children to a global aid and development agency. However, both the power and the purse strings have remained largely in the hands of the industrialized coun- ~ tries. Although programs have always been conducted in conjunction with the f ry i the airport. The award was presented to Fairres by F/Lt. H. Carling, Air Cadet liaison officer from Vancouver. 15 YEARS AGO From the May 30, 1968 Castlegar News Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Tru- deau will visit the Castlegar-Kinnaird ‘area this coming Monday morning, 8 oO . developing countries want even great- er say.in the dispensation of all aid. The danger is that by becoming too focused through bilateral arrange- A g at the C: airport by private plane, he will go directly to Selkirk College where he will address a large outdoor rally on behalf of Koot ‘West Liberal candidate Don ments and i UNICEF may lose some of its well- deserved global reputation, And in a world where every two seconds a child dies’ unnecessarily from disease or it more than is at stake. (Canadian Press) Nuclear power taking a beating in the U.S. By PAUL KORING NEW YORK — Still reeling from the near-disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979, the U.S, nuclear industry's image as the energy of the future has been badly tarnished. The latest is an ultimatum by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut down two 20-year-old reactors at Indian Point, N.Y., on June 9 unless workable evacuation plans can be drawn up. About 288,000 people live within 15 il of Indian Point, more than It might be ted differently but the net impact is the same. “But in Canada you cannot do that because of blish around any other plant in the U.S. Power from Indian Point's two reactors makes Broadway's bright lights beckon ys of financing,” Lortie said. “So the feds just have to dish it out until they sit down and make a reasonable bargain around the table.” Using surveys by the Organization of Economie Co-operation and Develop- ment, Lortie said that until 1982, Canada’s total government position was fourth among the top six indus- trialized countries in terms of the size of the deficit to the economy. Ahead of Canada were the United States, France and West Germany in that order. ~ “Now the feds have a problem in Canada. I don't dispute that. But I'm saying that when you are comparin countries, you have to compare apples and apples.” (Canadian Press) 50 away in New York City. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has upheld a state’s right to block con- struction of nuclear plant on certain grounds. No new reactors have been even ordered for five years. Others have been delayed. . Meanwhile, mountains of nuclear waste grow while the search for suitable underground disposal sites is embroiled in protests and regulatory red tape. far superior to the records at coal-fired, oil-fired, or even hydroelectric generat- ing stations, But a growing public fear dogs the nuclear industry. Six years ago 68 per cent of respondents to an NBC poll favored nuclear plant construction. Last’ November, public approval had slipped to 29 per cent. In the meantime, ‘the spectre of catostrophic meltdown has. become firmly, if not fairly, en- hed in the public i Three Mile Island scared a lot of people. So did movies like The China Syndrome. Even for those not opposed to nuclear plants, they have become like toxic waste dumps. However nec- essary, no one wants one close by. Energy consumption projections, like one recently prepared by Conoco Inc., still foresee an increase in nuclear’s share of the energy load during the next two decades. Currently it provides about 12 per cent of U.S. electricity. While power consumption actually dipped — by two per cent — last year, bright fc for ic recovery to block new might foil those plans, Irrespective of the need for, and the advantages of, nuclear power the in- dustry simply cannot grow without gaining the confidence of the man in the street, {Canadian Press) LETTER Peitzsche apologizes Editor, Castlegar News: It seems I have been amiss and caused you and your newspaper, as well as Lyle Kristiansen, MP for Koot- enay West, some embarrassment. Specifically, I refer to the statement I made in a recent letter to the Editor, ofa “black armband reception" by Lyle of Ronald Reagan, president of the United States. The statement is untrue and I ize to Lyle Kri! and all Griffiths. se Castlegar electors will go to the polls Sat., June 8 to elect an alderman to fill the 18-month vacancy caused by -the resignation of Ald. Jack White. When nominations closed at noon Monday, two men had entered papers. They were former alderman Lorne Zinio and Carl Henne. . . . Recognition of 25 years of service in Guiding was given Mrs. H. Johnson, division commissioner, at a special tea honoring her last Saturday at the Rob- son community hall. *_ * « John Ernest Wood was presented Monday with a certificate from the Royal Humane Society for a life-saving act after an accident at the Castlegar ferry two years ago. Mr. Wood was one of two men who dove into the icy wa- ters of the Columbia River in Novem- ber, 1965 to rescue two children, pas- sengers in a vehicle which went off the end of the ferry, plunging into the water. Also assisting was Victor Osis. 5 YEARS AGO From the June 1, 1978 Castlegar News The Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce tourist information booth will open June 26. And for the first time it will- operate right in the Castlegar area. Vice-president Bill Jones told cham- ber members last Thursday that three students had been selected to run the booth — located next to the Doukhobor Village — after they complete, under chamber sponsorship, a five-day travel counselling course at Selkirk College. *. * * A Castlegar businessman was among the new B.C. Sports Hall of Fame ind: and prosperity include projections of of poor pli poor performance and shoddy construction have all been uncovered, further dis- crediting the industry. Still, nuclear industry proponents proudly point out that in 26 years of commercial operation not a single individual has died as a result of a nuclear power plant accident. That's Jy inereased energy de- mands, . Nuclear power, which is clean, cost- competitive, and free from off-shore political turmoil, still can be cham- pioned as the best option. But the industry's image problems, the in- creasing clamor of anti-nuclear acti- vists and the growing ability of local d. Sterling Presi- dent David Radler already apologized for the same untrue allegations in both the Trail Times and the Nelson News on March 19, 1982. l erred in reading only half the story and hereby make public apology for my fe toa black armband recep’ by Lyle of Reagan. F.W. Peitzsche Fruitvale honored at the annual Ban- quet of Champions in Vancouver last Thursday. Druggist Tom Biln and other mem- bers of the Vancouver Rowing Club — University of B.C. eight — oared rowing crew which won a silver medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics were among the teams slated for aggregate induction this year into the Hall. CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 29, 1983 Look around. 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