SS. samen OF THE 8.C. PRESS COUMCR News | TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4, 1980 +. 12, 1978-AUG. 27. 1980 ESTABLISED AUG. 7. 1947 WG Ht Mu: WEE Lv. CAMPRELL PUBLISHER AUG. 7. 1947-FES. 19. 1973 Ron Normon PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Horvey OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin rot vested in ond to Castle News hd. prowded eee reap edvertsement prepared trom repro prosks, engrowings, er | Seen eae, Take second look - You have to wonder about Castlegar council's endorsation of plans to demolish the downtov..: library and construct a new building in its place. The decision seems foolish in light of the strong case put forward by Ald. Nick Oglow — council's only dissenting voice on the issue. Mr. Oglow points out that the library building is pertectily fun- ctional, though not for the library's purpo: That doesn't mean someone else couldn't use it. He suggests relocating the library further down 3rd Street to the old Castlegar Hotel site, a move that wouldn't have to cost the city a nickel. The city could pay for the hotel property by selling the present library and lot. The two parcels are apparently about equal in value. I To top it off, Mr. Oglow says it would be cheaper to construct a new library building than to try to work the old building into a new structure. > The move would not only en- courage use of the city-owned parking lot at the end of 3rd Street on 13th Avenue which is used in- frequently now, it also would free space in the parking lot adjacent to the present library. But perhaps the strongest point in Mr. Oglow’s argument is that building the library on the old hotel site would give a much-needed boost to downtown revitalization. The revitilization plan needs a push (or rather a hefty shove) and the new library may be just the thing to get it going. The city would then end up with @ new library building on what is now..a-eundown old hotel site, fetgining the present library While Mr. Oglow’s description of the present library as “good looking” goes a little far, there's no denying the community woutd be better off looking at the present library than the Castlegar Hotel ruins. The library would also benefit from the move in that there would likely be an increase in foot traffic past the old Castlegar Hotel site from shoppers headed to that part of the downtown. Of course Mr. Oglow's argument isn’t perfect. The move to the old hotel property hinges on the city selling the library building — and in today's real estate market that may not be so easy. |e nent ee en TT —EEECEaaaa—_— Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Cast News, In addition, there is concern tht the city shouldn't turn over the library building for commercial use. Thére’s a feeling the building and land were intended for municipal use as a library and should be retained as part of Kin- smen Park. But is the library in fact part of Kinsmen Park? It sits on the park's lower level with the city parking lot, quite separate from the park itself. And really, what difference does it make whether the building is used to house books or offices? One other argument against the move was presented by Aid. Len Embree at a recent council meeting. He suggested thot looking at alternative sites could delay the new library to the point where the city could lose its $200,000 Expo legacy grant. But that seems a bit far- fetched. Word out of Victoria is that the legacy grant will be honored as long as the city doesn't change the basic concept of o new library. Whether the library is located _Lefters to the Editor NUCLEAR POWER vestion of faith? By WARREN CARAGATA OTTAWA — In the end, nuclear power is most probably a question of faith, not technology. Like debates about the Virgin Birth, Creation or the existence of God, you either believe in the engineers — the new priests of our age — or you do not. on the p site or else in the city really doesn't con- cern the Expo Legacy Committee. And time certainly can't be a factor. A new library has been on the drawing board for years; another week or two — of even another month or two — won't be that big a deal. How about it? Why not a second look at the library proposal to see if it can't be located down the street? Rare commodity George Ignatieff talks sense, and that's a rare commodity in today's world. The former Canadian career diplomat and self-styled “peace- monger” delivered a powertul message about world peace during his talk Friday at the Brilliant Cultural Centre. But perhaps the most important part of that message focussed on the role for Canadians and Canada in world peace. Mr. tgnatieff turned to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for sup- port. He recalled the prime minister's speech to the United 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 in- clude the writer's full name ond re Mr. i} y said the quest for peac: the first ob- jective of every Canadian and must be the responsibility of every Canadian. Mr. Ignatieff is taking Mr. Mulroney at his word. He oddress. Only in j coses will letters published without the writer's name. Never- theless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegor News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar. Canodi follow Mr. Mulroney's advice and get in- volved in the peace issue. The more involvement, the more in- fluence the peace movement will have on government policy. Canadion and Canada can make a difference and that's retreshing to hear for those of us who thought world peace was ona d hill slide. Quotable Quotes ZSA ZSA GABOR, a veteran of seven marriages, commenting on her plans to wed an eighth time to Prince Frederick von Anhalt, Germany's 45- year-old duke of Saxony: “I went through so many rich men and young men, it's time to settle down.” CANADIAN HIGH jumper Debbie Brill, when asked ifishe remembered her first gold medal at the Common- wealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland 16 years ago: “Not much. I was drunk most of the time . . . I got so loaded at the Queen's party they had to carry me to the team bus.” NORMAN SPECTOR, outgoing deputy to Premier Bill Bennett, says the premier is “very warm, with a good sense of humor, extremely loyal to his staff and motivated solely by his conception of what is in the public interest.” SOCRED leadership runner-up Brian Smith: “Tl be a hands-on pre- mier, I'll tell you. But not in the West End.” SOCRED LEADERSHIP hopeful Bud Smith: “If elected experience was the only criterion, Dave Barrett would have made a helluva premier.” BOB McCLENAGHAN, angry at people who kept popping in and out of a hearing for the man Bill Vander Zalm: “He scares the hell out of me.” about the safety of nuclear power are beyond the ability of most of us to competently understand, let alone challenge. That leaves the de- cision to either accept the word of the priests or deny it. There are some physicists and engineers who do not accept the assur- ances of their colleagues who support nuclear power, but for the general public, it comes back to faith. Which engineer do you believe? Is it possible to have an accident involving the simaltaneous loss of the various systems which keep the reac- ter from boiling over and melting down? Will the zirconium alloy surrounding the uranium dioxide fuel teact with oxygen and produce an explosion? And will that explosion rip through the containment structure? And if it does, how much and what kind of radioactive debris will be released into the envir onment? Before Three Mile Island and Cher nobyl, most Canadians believed the en gineers when they said the unique de sign of the Candu reactor — and its series of backup safety systems, and backups to the backups — would protect them from a catastrophe like Chernobyl. This year’s accident in the Ukraine is the worst in the history of nuclear power, and an event that may eventually trigger the reformation of the religion of nuclear technology. At one point, he talks about the thermal behavior of a molten pool of pressure tubes and reactor fuel during J.T. Rogers, a professor at Carleton University, wrote a study in 1984 for the Atomic Energy Control Board, the federal agency which regulates nuclear power, about the “thermal and hydrau- lie behavior of Candu cores under sev- ere accident conditions.” The study assumes a certain se- quence of events in which things do not work the way they were intended. Using computer models, Rogers then tries to figure out whether the core would melt and, if it melted, whether ‘Like debates about the Virgin Birth ... you either believe in the engineers — the new priests of our age — or you do not’ the accident would lead to a breach of the various structures which surround and contain the reactor. He concludes that even a serious accident in a Candu reactor, in which fuel melts at temperatures as high as 2,700 degrees Celsius, would not result in a disaster like the one which the world witnessed at Chernobyl. But the way Rogers reached that conclusion is virtually imcomprehen- sible. Only another engineer or physi- cist would be able to challenge his con- clusions. his hy “For non-boiling conditions, the cor- relation of Kulacki and Goldstein was used to predict internal heat transfer coefficients for the top surface, and the results of Mayinger et al, and of Gabor, et. al. were combined to predict the internal heat transfer coefficient for the bottom surface.” Even if you believe Rogers, do you believe Kulacki and Goldstein and Mayinger and Gabor? Norm Rubin is a researcher at Energy Probe in Toronto and a stern critic of nuclear power. He says the assurances of engineers are just where Ontario Hydro has eight reac- tors humming away on the outskirts of metropolitan Toronto. If Norm Rubin is right, then we are all in trouble because, if and when Pickering goes, it might well take a large part of Toronto with it. If J.T. Rogers is right, the Candu reactor is safe and may be safer than other reactor designs — and the world will eventually beat a path to our door. In the meantime, we will have a rela- tively inexpensive source of energy power to all live better electrically. Like any faith, it is tested best: by doubts. (Canadian Press) Sexually active at 80 But they have to fight a lot of pre- judice to keep their relationship going. The problem? Lillian, a widow, is 79 and Charlie, a widower, is 86. The-couple met in an extended-care nursing home in the Kingston, Ont., area a year ago and the sparks flew — physically as well as emotionally. However, as far as staff and family members are concerned, Charlie and Lillian are just too old to have such The nursing home employees feel Charlie's romantic overtures to Lillian have become an embarrassment. And his son-in-law and daughter aren't too happy about the hand-holding, hugging and obvious sexual feelings between the two older 5 Enter an ally —Dr. George Merry, a physician and professor who lectures to anyone who will listen that the elderly do have sexual feelings, and that such feelings are healthy. “We are sexual beings until we die.” says Merry, who is an assistant in the department of medi cine at Queen's University in Kingston. The need “to suckle, to be hugged and cuddled is never lost through life.” But Merry, who described the case of Lillian and Charlie, says that when older people become sexually active, those around them — whether it be family or staff in a long-term care facility — misinterpret the behavior. “There is very little information available about this subject,” Merry said in an interview. “Three types of behavior are identi fied as sexual and as causing problems in long-term facilities,” he said. These touching, grabbing or exposing geni talia; and implied sexual behavior such as openly reading pornographic lit- erature or requesting unnecessary genital care. “Masturbating in public, particularly by male residents, is considered a common problem by long-term care facilities how to counsel residents. in the whole area of sexuality. me: ‘Hell, in my day they didn’t even say the word sex. It was a dirty word.” Yet in the past 20 years, this same At a recent meeting here the Castle gar District School Board made a number of arrangements for the coming school term. Mr. H. Bate, former vice-principal of the Castlegar school, has been app pointed to the principalship of the five-room Kinnaird school. This in cludes the present three-room unit and the new tworoom unit, which is expected to open at the end of August. Mr. Bate will have grades one to six under his charge. . °* *¢ The Canadian Pacific Railway is planning more improvements at their station here it was announced this week. Plans call for a new concrete platform which it is understood, will be the same width as the present wooden platform, but will be of greater length. . * * The Cubs were held hitless for four innings but finally they started to hit the offerings of former Cub chucker Rocky Plotnikoff but they couldn't get a run until the seventh. The Cubs are at present firmly entrenched in second . 8 6 Mr. and Mrs. Alex Creighton and Mr. and Mrs. W. Collinson have re turned from spending a weekend at Christina Lake where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. White. 25 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 3, 1961 News There have only been 30 fires so far this year in the Castlegar ranger district, reports forest ranger Hugo Wood. 7 2« * N. T. Ogiow resigned Tuesday night as chairman of the Village of Castlegar. He gave his reason as a possible conflict of interest in a new venture his company — Oglow Brothers Building and Supply Co. — is attempting, which would involve negotiating and bar gaining with the Village of Castlegar. Comm. Aage Sylvest was elected chairman by his fellow commissioners following Mr. Ogiow's resignation. . 2 8 Orthodox Doukhobor women and some men were busy Sunday and Monday clearing the debris and making repairs to Verigin's Tomb which was shattered by a blast early Sunday morning. Two Orthodox Doukhobor community halls were burned to the ground at Winlaw and Perry Siding over the weekend and_ incendiary bombs were found in and around various buildings at Brilliant, Ooti sehenia and Pass Creek. The outbreaks were apparently triggered by an Orthodox move to buy lands ° . 8 Contracts have been awarded for the South Slocan overpass on Highway 3 Hon. P.A. Gaglardi, Miriister of High ways, has advised the Castlegar News. 15 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 5, 1971 News Fame Construction of Trail was the low bidder on additions to SHSS when tenders were opened last week by the board of trustees of School District No. 9. Approval for the awarding of the $166,248 contract for additions has been received from the board. treasury Education Minister Don Brothers will officially open the British Columbia Mining School on Red Mountain near Rossland on Friday of next week. The school is the first of its kind in Canada. . . . Castlegar council is to write Pacific Western Airlines asking that daily plane service be provided to Calgary Ald. R.W. Cook made the suggestion and copies of the letter will be sent to surrounding communities and the Air Transport Committee. 5 YEARS AGO From the July 29, 1981 Castlegar News B.C. Hydro’s preferred reservoir level for the Murphy Dam project could be announced late next month or early in September. That schedule was given by Bill Mykes, B.C. Hydro’s community re lations officer, during a meeting Tues day with Mayor Audrey Moore, to discuss the concerns the city had raised earlier about the handling of the Proposal. . . . Marlane Hotel Ladies Softball Club took first place over the weekend in the Cranbrook Sam Steele Inn Ladies In vitational Tournament. . Ceigar of the Castlegar Men's Com. mercial Fastball League defeated Revelstoke Inn 3-0 Sunday at Kinnaird Park to win the SunFest ‘81 tourna ment trophy and $800 . 8 e A $9 million effluent treatment plant for Cominco’s Trail lead-zinc operations was commissioned Monday by the Hon Rogers, British Columbia's minister of environment. er ENTERTAINMENT August 3, 1986 BOB SEGER HAS HAD HIS UPS, DOWNS NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter Bob Seger, who blew out of Detroit like a whirlwind a decade ago and took the country by storm, is often called a heartland poet and one of the great voices in rock. " His new album, Like a Rock has sold more than a Like a Rock, was in the Top 20 last month. Seger became an overnight sensation 10 years ago, after spending 11 years singing his songs in a friendly, gritty style. His first single was Heavy Music in 1965 for Cameo Parkway. There were ups and downs, though. “In 1976 we did a Pontiac Stadium show, where the Detroit Lions play, and sold 78,000 tickets,” he said. “The next night we had 900 people in a 1,200 seater in Chicago. “There were pockets. We did really well in Orlando, Tampa and Miami way back in the ‘60s. Cleveland did well. Chicago didn't.” Z.Z. Top used to sell out stadiums in Texas and do small places in Philadelphia. It was the era for that sort of thing. HAPPY TO SING “I was never really frustrated. I was happy to make a living at something I really loved. When everything ned, it was really surprising. I always thought I had something to offer but I just figured I was one of those people who for one reason or another didn't get the right breaks.” > Seger, who started his first tour in three years last month, formed the Silver Bullet Band for Beautiful Loser, the album he made when he returned to Capitol Records. He'd signed with Capitol in 1968 and left in 1971 for Warner Bros. In 1976, Capitol put out Live Bullet and Night Moves. Both sold platinum. Seger sings for two hours in a high-energy show on tour. “I can only do about four a week. In order to do the United States properly, you need 100 concerts and that's 25 weeks without a break. We'll take breaks. I figure it'll run till March. And we've got to look at Europe and Australia.” Making Like a Rock took Seger three years. “It was ridiculous,” he readily admits. “It took on a life of its own. It said, ‘Just try and finish me.’ It finally hit its stride in July 1985. Up until then we'd recorded whole albums in studios in Michigan, Muscle Shoals, Ala., and Miami. “A lot of the reason this took so long was us trying to get back to the quality where it sounds really good on a stereo.” Billy Joe Royal bouncing back NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer Billy Joe Royal, best known for his million-selling rock “i” roll hit Down in the Boondocks in 1965, is bouncing back. But it hasn't been easy. Take January, when one of those quirks of fate struck. His soul-flavored song, Burned Like a Rocket, was a Top 10 country hit in early January. It was ready to move up the pop charts when the Challenger exploded Jan. 28, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The title of the song made it inappropriate for further radio play, thereby thwarting efforts to make it a pop hit. “We were getting pop airplay without trying.” the 40-year-old singer said. “The song was No. 1 on a pop station in Tampa. The company felt it would be a bigger pop record than country.” Nevertheless, Royal's success on the country charts marked a turnaround in a career that had nosedived since his Cherry Hill Park was a rock ‘n’ roll hit in 1970. His second country single, Boardwalk Angel, reached the middle of the country charts in June. Both it and Burned Like a Rocket are included on his first country album, Looking Ahead. FADES FROM SCENE Royal had faded from the music scene in the late 1970s though he still performed, living off hits like Down in the Boondocks, Cherry Hill Park, 1 Knew You When, Hush, I Got to Be Somebody and Greatest Love Asked for the low point, he replied, “Which one?” “I played the clubs, some good and some bad,” he recalled. “I worked a hotel here in Nashville one summer to try to get someone (a record label) interested in me again. “I thought about leaving the business, but I can't do anything else. This is all T've ever done.” These days, he's on the billing with country stars like Ronnie Milsap, George Jones and Steve Wariner. He sings his old hits, his new country songs and country material like He Stopped Loving Her Today, She and I and Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold). “T'm trying to devlop a country association (identity),” Royal said in an interview. He closes his club show with Down in the Boondocks, which he recorded at the age of 19 in Cincinzati. It was that tune that enabled him to perform in concert halls all over the world. ALOT OF CAMARADERIE “I remember touring and meeting people,” Royal said. There was a lot of camaraderie. | got to tour with Tom Jones, the Shirelles, Brian Hyland and others. We got to be close friends.” He also made a lucrative Coca-Cola television com mercial which showed him singing “it's the real thing” in the Grand Canyon. “Things went well for five years,” Royal recalled. Then came the career downturn. “When you're cold, no one wants to hear you,” he said. He recorded Burned Like a Rocket more than a year before it became a hit. He tried for months to get Nashville record labels to pick it up. It’s not unusual, he said, that he turned to country music to rescue his career. Carmela's Hit iV... Hoppy Birthday from all 531-2nd Street, Trail, (Above Tony's Pub) of usiil PT 1 CasNews WORKS EXHIBITED . . . Helen Margaret (left) of Deer Park beams as she chats with a visitor during the opening of an exhibit of her paintings at the Homestead Soup and Sandwich Shoppe. CosNews photo by Natote Roorbatol! Exhibit opens at Homestead More than 30 portraits and scenes in several media by Deer Park artist Helen Margaret are on display until Sept. 5 at the Homestead Soup and Sandwich Shoppe in Castlegar. Margaret, whose full name is Helen Margaret Waterson-Roller, was born in England but raised and educated in Toronto. She attended evening courses in life drawing. oils, pastels and watercolors, and has experimented in these media for the past 20 years. A particular interest is doing portraits. For seven years she designed children's toys, and this led her to open a craft store. She has also done some work in ceramics, stained-glass, glass-etching, print-making and rug sculpture. Her principal interest has always been painting, however, and she lives near Deer Park on the Arrow Lakes where she now devotes her full time to painting. THE DIRT BAND Feet planted in country got its first No. 1 record when Long Hard Road (The Sharecroppers Dream) took the top spot on the country charts. Since then, the Dirt Band has had six straight singles in the Top 5 on the country charts and recently issued a greatest hits album, Twenty Years of Dirt The group's first big hit came in 1970, with its version of Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr Bojangles. A few years later, the band moved to Colorado and, after a string of minor successes, came back strong late in the decade with An American Dream and Make a Little Magic Ibbotson credits the group's longevity in part to the steadying influence of singer and guitarist Jeff Hanna and the fact that they've never had much money over which to fight The band primarily stayed together, though, because By JEFF HOLYFIELD GOLDEN, Colo. — For 20 years, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has lived patiently at the edge of success. The band has racked up periodic hits but played them in places where a show is measured “by the number of teeth on the floor at the end of the night.” The Dirt Band still per forms in those halls, as well as in large arenas, but the waiting is near an end. The group's unique sound — still close to the original despite two decades of refine ment — has been discovered by country music fans, giving the five-man band its first clearcut market. To members of the band, that means they've arrived, even though they never really went any where “There's no way around it,” said Jimmie Fadden, who plays the drums and har monica. “We can take a song and try to make it sound like they're as close as brothers, he said. Ibbotson's counting on that closeness and family feeling to help the band withstand its growing success. The Dirt Band also has the sobering memory of the album it put together right after Mr. Bojangles “We thought we had the formula, so we went into the studio and put together this album. It as a_ terrible, terrible album,” Ibbotson said. DISMISS QUESTIONS Band members dismiss questions about how they managed to be so good for 20 years “I don't think we've been that good,” said John Me Euen, who handles the fiddle, banjo and guitar “The problem with this band is that we'd get a hit and we'd coast instead of working hard to duplicate that. Another problem is that this band has always been country or we can try to make it sound like pop, but no matter what we do, it still sounds like us.” “We feel more comfortable now because we have our feet planted firmly in the country market,” said vocal- ist and bass player Jimmy Tbbotson. The group still plays the same mixture of folk, blue- grass, rock, pop and country On Highwoy 6, Winlow Aaa - Ropert’s Restaurant | LICENSED PREMISES For Reservations Phone 226-7718 Scenic Dining Continental Cuisine Sunday Brunches Mexicon Speciolties Homemode that it unveiled in its first performance on May 13, 1966, in Orange. Calif. It has added more twang, though, to help it ease into the country market. The group was discovered able to work, even when we hadn't had a hit in a while. 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