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CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 4, 1981

| “Last travelling store? >

NORTON, NB, (cP) =
Supermarkets havo been
blamed for putting many
small corner storés out of
business, but they have not
been able to beat Don Gray:

Gray runs a store with a
difference — it's mounted on
the back of his 1/1 ton truck
and takes groceries to the
front doors of about 100 cus-
tomers in ‘rural southern
New Brunswick. "

“He is 65:years old and
has been packing:.his trav-
elling -grocerpiowith .meats,
vegetables; canned goods and
other groceribs “for ‘AT -yeara,
‘The businessthasn't produced
mucb:profit but Gray has no
plans ‘to Yetire.’ «...

“¥ deal mostly with farm
people, .sbme’ of ‘them, - like .
Ine, : are over : the. Killuand
some of them aretgone,” he
said. “The: youngom: people,
the sons and daughters‘of my
old customers, ‘I can't sell
them nothing ~i.I'/guess
they're all supermarket buy-
era.

*o, suppose it's a lost
cause, but I'll still carry on as
long as I'm able because
there's nothing else to: ido at
my age.”

Gray's ‘service nei is
unique in New Brunswick.
But at one time: travelling.
grocers were a common sight
in this and other provinces.
When he started working the
southern New Brunswick
communities sround Sussex
in a Ford Model T truck, he
was one of about ‘six: oper-
ators.

Now he is an oddity in an
age that has opted for the
cool convenience and imper-
sonal efficiency of the super-
market.

SERVICE VITAL

For many older people in
isolated areas elong Gray's
150-kilometre route, the tra-
velling ‘grocer’ provides a
vital serviee. He brings food
they might otherwise get
only with considerable diffi-
culty; he brings: friendship;
and occasionally, he brings
help.

Once he found one of his
customers completely dis-
abled with frozen feet after
her wood stove had gone out

be
her home on his rounds,
When he came, he lit the fire
and called for help. Unfor-
tunately the woman died
later after cangrene set in.
About half ‘of Gray’s

customers are elderly. He
has become a tradition in.
their lives as well asa con-
venience and perhaps he has
saved them money.

. “I havo ong’ or two cus-
tomers who have been honest
enough to tell me they save
money by buying from mo
because when they go to the
supermarkets, they buy a lot

.of junk they don’t really

need,” he said.

Gray's father peddled
his wares in the same area by
horse and cart. Gray's grey
and blue truck is equipped
‘with propane stoves to keep
the store warm in winter, a

refrigerator: and- shelf. lined
walls packed with goods. ‘\

Each ‘Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, he
slips on his white apron and
hits the road to make ‘his
rounds,

Gray said people, espec-
ially the. elderly, appreciate
,the personal touch in their
“shopping, and he has some
hope for the future.

“I hope supermarkets .
won't’ take over completely
and J don't think they will It
seems to me the little stores
have been picking up in the
last year or two and I would ~
like to sée that continue.”

: Throwing out |
former leaders :

WARSAW (AP) —
The Polish political faction
that came to power after last
summer's nationwide strikes
continued Saturday to root
out the last vestiges of the
discredited former leaders
whose policies are blamed for

the economic crisis that“

touched off the walkouts..
Poland's official " news
agency PAP said former
Communist] Party boss Ed-
ward. Gierek, former pre-
amiers Edward Babiuch and
Piotr Jaroszewicz, ideological
chief Jerzy Lukasiewicz and
former vice-premier Jan Szy-
dlak were removed Saturday
from the presidium of the
AllPolish Committeo of the
National Uely, Front. -
gency said the
front, reed 7 Polish Presi-
dent Henryk Jablowski, also
decided to eventually accept
representatives of ‘oldarity,
the independent trade union
that led last summer's
strikes, into their ranks.
The National Unity
Front is an umbrella organ-
ization which includes the
communists, two other par-
ties snd various others in-.
eluding church figures. The
front has little real respon-
sibility in the day-to-day run-
nings’ of the country. Its
principal tasks include’ the

lists-for--—were..the-last two.

the elections to Poland's Par-
lament every four years.
PURGECONTINUES ~~
@ significance of Sati.
urday’s action is that the fac-
tion within the, party that
came to -nower after tha
strikes has continued _ 2, .

C Nitat St

atistics ?

MATHS.
BARRY — To Mr. and Mrs. Norm
Barry of Tall, ason. born Dec. 22.

*AULDS — a ii: aa Mrs. Allen
Foulds af Nelton, @ daughter
born Dec,

kkk
GREENE — To Mr. and Mrs. Bick
Greene of Rossland, a son, | m1,

KEITH — To ae ou Mra. Craig
Relth of Nelson, a son, born Dec,

KEVIN — To far end Mes. Kevin
Pickard of Nelson, a son, born
Dec. 28. .

nk *
POSTNIKOFF — To Mr. and Mrs,
Jim Postnikett of South Sfocan, a
doughter, born Jan. 2.

Me

xt
UECLU: To Mr. oni
Harold” Uelure of ‘iontond, a
daughter, bom Dec

JENSEN — 13 ar. ond Mrs, Finn
pensen.ct ce of Gastlegar, o doughtar,
orn

OBITUARI

DALGREN — Treda Hedvi;
Augusta Dolgren, 83, of Nelson
died Dec. 22 in the Koc.tency Lake
District Hospital, Service was held

‘irom the chapel of the
Thommen Funcral Home with
Rev. Dan Haugen officisting,

Burial was in the. Nelson
Mamortel Park, a
Mal *

GAULAMORE:  —
Gallamore, 63, of Trall died bes
2 In Trail Regione! Hospital.
unaral service was. conducted

I Presbyterian Church tn Troll with
Rev. ‘Bll McNeil officiating.
Cremation follow: wed.

*
JAMESON ** con winston
damesan, 65, of Taghum died
30.’ Funeral service to be

held Jen, S irom the shopel of the
Thompson Funeral Home with
Rev, James ©. Wilson officiating.
Interment will be in Nelson:
‘Memorial Park |

HAW — Cyril Kershaw, 60,
of Nalton isd. Beer 746 Vs
Kootenay Lake District Hospital,
Memoria! service wos

Re
* plan officiating, Interment

was In Nelson. a Meraoriat Park,

MARSDEN —"Ethal ‘Marsden, 90,
of Nelson died Dec. 23 in
Kootenay Loke District iioapital
Service was held Dec, 30 from

9 Saviour's Pro-Cathedral with ton

A.C, Smith officiating. Burlal was
in Nelson memorial ork.

wn iki
McVIE — 76, of
ail ‘ied beet 19 in rai Regional
Hospital. fomerer mass was

BAY AVENUE

” 1458 Boy Ave., Trail
368-9566

father Charles
Saotinil Jan trom Ourledy of
Ferpetual | Help church.
Crematicn foll

*

— Robert Allred sop-

ples Ey of Salmo died Dec. 23 ot

jis ‘home. Funeral service was
conducted Dec. ij oh tom Car

HADIKIN BROS.
EMPLOYEES.

wish to
express

THANKS
to 2
the

MANAGEMENT
forthe

. truly generous

considerations

given over the
Yuletide Season.

berey’
with Rev. Bob Pu
Burial was in Sime Cemetery:

‘SMITH — Grate Butte Smith, Se:

0% Troll died Dec. 26 at hom

Funeral, service wos

from the Allia
with Rev. Rick Nicol’ and Doug

Boyd officioting. Busial was In

Mountain View Cemetery. -

* ‘
iON — Beatrice taure,

» Walton, 84, of Nelson died Di

in Willowhaven Private
Aospial Funeral service was
hel

ficiating, Cremation followed, °- *

purge Gierek regime mem-;
bers and sup,

| (Recreation News oe ‘Four charged. ir in

You may, now register

“for the 1981 Winter Leisure

Program, The program s¢-

fl
lachment,

tivities are outlined below for
our convenience. ~
4 ‘The pre-school children

‘Sean register for tumbling

dlassos, This activity will
emphasize the child's early

modern jazz : ‘will comme ce
at Winlaw.
‘The’: youth “ana adult *
activities commence on Jan, .
28 with St. John's Firat Aid,
The physical fitness and nu-
trition analysis ‘class: also.
-commences this same even-
ing. This class is designed to

balance and
Story hour sessions will also
be introduced for the pre-
Salen. The children will
be. exposed to a library
aimiosphere ¢ at an early iy age.
of -

daily iteitisaal intake and
general j health, in relation to.
fitness,: A-

smbit

‘vandalisin’ spree :

Four . fen, one: from ,
Vancouver and .three from
: Castlegar, have been chargéd'
with several offenses ds a re-[
sult of a vandalism spree in .
the South Slocan srea. > {
Crescent Valley ROMP
report no named have been
released at this time but all
‘four are duled to appear

edie ie

1 court in Nelson

tion
and phen ety parr ba-

The
* dron’s tnctivities start with
art classes. These sessions
‘will develop the individual's,

‘who left here’. sii and imagination in the

‘age: t
x)

‘-ereation of artistic designs.
‘The’ gymnastics sessions are
seperated into two groups.
t class will involve a

Tedles heed, fit. sessions
bes nein; in. 8lo-

Jan. 28. -
. ‘The * charges result from

damage toa B.C. Tel building:
which was illegally entered in‘
the early hours Friday and to‘
which damage occurred - to
thd interior. Two of B.C. Tel's
veliicles were also damisged.

"0" A privately owned

hicle was severely damaged
in what police alls a related
incident. ann

Tota! damages have t

been.estimated ‘at $1. see

ercises,
and various. sronp acid elvis
Yogay
be available for boron
it

= /Police Briefs

“What police deteribe as

Le (air itrducio 9 gyms
ed... Tho - inter

whi
their body. ‘In'addition exer. a serious hit and run, which

occurred approximately

p = control will itro- - 11:55 p.m. on Thyrsday, is

presently being investigated
Fundamentals of move. by local RCMP. *
‘eit ‘Wil. commence in ‘Slo:

porters,
Members of the ih ae

coe woreda pectin eee)
minjater and long-time Glor-
ek rival, as gno of the orgen-_
ization’s

Commy

watpelevated to the
eB pease PAP

 Miczaee leading figure.
in Polish Politics for nearly 20 -
years, was considered a po- .
tential rival to Gierek in the
early 1970s. But he was

f
foralgh Rinigter Stefan Ols-

dropped from the party's”.

ruling Politburo and did not
emerge as a major political
force until last summer.

Olszowski also was .
dropped from the Politburo -

during Gierek’s regime and
was returned to the all-
important policy-making

¥pcticier: i
jecting for she paper,
“next few

lays.

*The job of your
| carrier is made caster if
‘The or, she doesn't have
to make a second or
even third call.

‘Please. consider.
your. carrier. He or 3 she
is: an

phasize th fundamen-
Maar paying auch ms

ori,
“entated the indi:
vidual interested in Might
flowing dance movements,
Fixed poses and steps will be
combined with various dance
volley-

‘chord’ development. At ra
Yend.-of the sessions each
‘student will be able to apply
thelr. skills to play lous.
tnelodies. The level IT class
will be a continustion of the
‘~ beginner's Beran A chil-
dren's judo be in-
troduced during hte pro-

mi,
This- Japanese art ap-

ball and men's basketball will
be available ‘at the. various
Valley schools. Guitar lessons
* and judo will also be availablo -
for these age groups.

‘arious * filhhs ‘will ‘be
shown throughout, the Valley

‘The selections

y \ your
Winter. Program brochure. *
be-

they don’t earn their
rotit until you've paid
lor your paper. That's
why thoy’ Sepraciete it
if you're ready the first
time hey call, ‘

business ‘person: and]:

plies the of move-
ment, judgement and ‘lever- |
‘age, ‘Two dance classes

be available for the children.

Ee the valley. Creative dance -

and movement will take place
‘at the’ Slocan ‘Park Com-
“munity Hall and ballet and

wilt
during the. first
week in January.

‘You may register:at the he

recreation : office ‘until Jan.

Polico report a vehicle
driven by Debérah Sharples
" tlegar’ was rear-onded
by. a‘.hit“and run vehicle
causing approximately $1,500
damage ‘resulting in a pass-
engor in the Sharples vehicle,
- Irene.’ Sharples, ‘being in-
jured. Sho was taken to the
local hospital where she was ~

treated and then later ‘re-
; lensed.) :

The fleeing vehicle has
‘been’ deseribed as a newer
‘GMC or Chevy pickup. Pos-
sibly, green’ in color. with
«primer paint spots. The ve-
hicle is believed to have re-
ceived damage ‘to its front
‘passenger side. 2
ee ee

~fwo windows have been
re! ed either on
eve: or. New

dam-

Confident and secure _

By BRUCELEVEIT’ -
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Cariadians are entering

31 otro the First .

id D 0
liance, Church in Trail -

Jan, 3 in the Proctor United.
Church with Rev. Peter Faris of-»

Your Carpet
Headquarters...

Carpets by Ivan Oglow
‘365-7771

body during a shakeup, in.
the New. Year in a’ com:

volumes to -ouiline WHY

Canadians are satisfied with
thelr engine oil. -

Previously, _ Sagine oil

ust!

ee recs
be more to the point.

‘ge were the front windows

of Stedman's and Century 21.
ge Maas

Police are presently in-

7 vesbleating the break and

try into Classic Fabrics in -

Sich a small amount ’-of. |

change was taken. Entry is

: reported to have been made:

Bis novermusut— 90
in and: through a rear window.:"

August,
OUSTED* placent aura, and
Tiebiued and Jaroszewicz secure that —

~premiers..
‘under Gierek. Babiuch, who 8 rollersksie «= _
in

Feb-.
ruary, was ousted during the The federal qavernment

«Aug. 24 party and govern-~ just said-so, in a six-volume

ment shake-up that: paved. report. based on:more than
the way for Gierck’s downfall, “8,000 interviews:— and the
two weeks later. -

The shake-ups. came af-

. lio'to:you, would it?
ter the government negoti-

Mind.you, there is cause

ated an erid to the strikes by- for concern in that we're ndt-
‘agreeing to allow workers to. all that clutched ‘ up-- about”
and.

‘although the .
world. may, be-gulng: ta.hell on”
they approve

“federal government wouldn't -

i
bought, and bunged edawi a
helebinto;the. engine:when:

* corisumer..’
a atts a
‘ina ‘companion document,’

everssuch; siimova szenmed: ‘néed:

indicated! byva dry. dipstick.1
Suddenly,. the govern-
asking

and’
settling thoir grievances with

- we're satisfied ‘with ‘the a

to. rather. Caspar. Milquetoast.

like about engine oil?-

It isn't as if we rubbed it -
vigorously into the armpit of
or dashed it be-

form independent trade un-
ions, to go on strike, and. light‘bulbs, fuses and chil-

granted -other concessions © dren's shoes, living-room fur-"

-unprecedented:in a Soviet niture or wheelchairs.
bloc country.

>The birth of the union ‘that, we're satisfied.
movement has led to several - Or —we were until now.
Uberalizations in Polish so The problem is, the govern-
WE Ng +. ment couldnt find room insix

“Where
does it lead?.

+ With seventy- five years .
now inthe past, f
Pve noticed that
sorrows do not last |

1981 .

That troubles seem

to disappear

When faiths pure light
makes our path clear. -

So — trusting God

I need not dread ©

The shadows that
. may, lie akead.

‘Complete | f
Insurance

But engine oil? With

“We are e seeking a responsibie in

hind the cer of bu evaniag
those products “lend: them-
selves readily: to a day
assessment of. efficiency.

But,:.to ask ‘whether -

oil as such - 88 opposed to
what? ;

And, how do you feel
about combs? That's another
little iteni ‘Canadians as a
whole: are . “satisfied” with,

. great, deal of thought to the

efficiency of the ‘comb, “t
What “does ell

and purveyors of services. ~*
things. stand now,
towstes we come across asa

Also 01
dents of missing wallets were
reported, One by Dan Laktin

banch — far more inclined to’ |. RIDE EMPIRE
‘ewitel’ than ‘fight. : LINES eREEL

‘The conelusion,-in BUS

fe Lvoy ict to Spokane ond
Just “al. figs er ian paras
waves 80. satiated with is
engine oil and how it is that .
‘ane, Washington
find anything. : #8 Phone (509) 24-4016

who was playing hockey wt.
the Castlegar and Distrité.)+
Community Complex’ w! hen
$20 in cash and his id
tification cards were Ai.

_ .moved from his-wallet which

was left in his jacket.

Peter Laurie of rae
oar said his vehicle, thigh,”
‘was. parked at. Chick-a-das, °
Lane, was broken ‘into. and. *
his wallet taken from. the
glove compartment, It con- ‘
tained $45, credit cards and
identification. :

investigation.
° 8 phase as

During a 12-Kdur period -:
from 4 p.m. Fridayto 4 aims”
Saturday 14 complaints were °
investigated by-local RCMP.’
During this time‘one person:
was placed in‘tth¥ cell‘ to

: epee the, nightivtor being

drunk, two. idrigepa were
charged for ‘being impaired,
two liquor ‘seizuges' were
made, . one person,- charged

with possession of marijuana
and Se: disturbance calls an-

are coming Te

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“doctors? -

How does it help us to
have it-proved ‘that we are
“dissatisfied” with the post
office, take-out food, parcel

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RESOLUTE .BAY,
This is th

- N.W.T, (CP): —

land of the midnight i in and
hoonday darkness,

Here on Cornwallis ‘Is-,
land, in the High Aretic, the,
, black southern sky turns
gun-metal blue at about 11
a.m, and a pencil-thin line of
pinkness shows ‘along the
horizon, It fs the Promise of.
dawn,

- But the promise will be
broken as soon as it is made.’

For. 98 days in succes-
* slon, the glimmer of dawn
fades into days of darkness.

thoes eal summer there is

ny The‘ sun will not shin
fe again until sometime in

ia -The péople whe live and :

ine" — more than half, the
non-Inuit stay in Resolut
Tess than six months — ‘Terry

*, Basarabe and Mark Vivian,

dispatchers for a smail ‘Arctic
flying») company, °

PEQUESTIONS REASON

+ “Doesnt ‘bother “me a
bit," said Basaraba, But then
“he ade "Why ‘ (Anybody. i)

work here — Inuit hunters, ‘

"sh At noon its too datk to

read a wristwateh. ‘The. air-

port’ tower light ‘swings end: »:*

. lessly. through.a black’ sky,

and trucks keep their’ head- .:

lights on'es thoy travel the
streets, always driffed with
anow. +

‘i Life'for. the most part <§

takes iplace indoors.
Ei

byvith this land of-
contrasts for’. cen-
: priail -. their.’ tradi-

the winters working indoors

at the raed ministry of
transport base.

There’ arg 5 seals. to be

_ caught and polar bears are 50

sithe. Inuit, who *

say. tho “be
oaks gives them fow

Vivian : ‘was: sanervous
about.the first dark'season in
the north but foundtthe only.

real problem was‘getting up

in fhe morning Sh 0

Or. party.
wipomece lot of parties
in’ Resolute Bay'“and’ tis
y-goers are easy. t
laa cotfee shop ‘the ant
ing after.

‘Now; hat .the “Holiday:
it over, how-:

things will

julet’ down, and ook

depressing,

‘;Hothing to ‘look: 1

then.”

Except that day
time {n' February
first ray of suallgh
break the horizon’
promise of cin will Bee
filled

Fae

or tho times: or ‘the end re-

sult; but this came to me as a-

, Feliable, report of how:‘an
eo

in occupied.

‘ nm
; during darkness at this time of year,

numerous they're often shot | ;

in’ middle‘of the street. But.

because of the.darkness, the
Inuit fin unting difficult.

Be foun with -snowmobile

\Krestova, he grow up: on
coming’

‘Vancouver stand °

plained to the Ontario ‘Hu- -

‘man Rights Commijasion’

“but not now. f think : the ~

ballet ‘people ‘shor
‘time ‘for a ‘change an

T wasn’ bedi
thenGastliganr News; nDdobe

ter in Ottawa, e ponsible for
ntiin=

of Mf foun

-one brother, Paul, of Theams, es

.... Burial took place‘at.the..
Shoreacres «Cemetery “ “with :
funeral’ “arrangements- urider’

“the. direction of Castlegar ?

Be Funeral Chapel. : Sew

Funeral aes was held — gars ¢

Bitby from ‘the: Castlegar

: ‘HarveyiBird, 70, of Castlegar

‘who died Dec. 80. .'

“Sept. 28, 110 ‘nt

: ae nars

(Sheila) -
; Paul; Donna, °
Sandy: and "Sheri;

Bird ‘of Blueberry Creek and,

It ‘is resélution time again ans
two-faced Roman god Janus wh:

the, threshold of the

of ‘responsibility for on

year. With one face he looked backward at th year, whieh had inte;
looked

_just passed, ‘and: withthe other ‘hi
inning. First th lo

o daighter, Mrs. Paul placa:to he

rifle

"death, It was a

that there was always

ee ee of peneegh ae
fre sisters; ‘Alcs Redburs of . killed by a ervotis friend as wellas iby an intentional and alert denyin
se Y EES

n ‘some one sia!
‘choice, not for me but for his own’

gone tain mean ‘eitheror chidfeo of one .
OF one choice or the other, I will suspect ho is ‘=|

‘actoes th valley at‘our own,
that's what ‘we, look like to

epuathienn cara

Thirdly, I will eontinue to like arid enjiy’fioop!

_ they

try.
of disconcering’ friends. Did

‘That a L kee me oitt of mischief
eo Others