CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 25, 1976 READ THE CASTLEG, JAR NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS "SHOES THAT MAKE AN FOR. SAVAGE SHOES AND ALL YOUR FAMILY FOOTWEAR Phone 365-7025 — Pine St. — Castlegar Ing abroad, The rocks have already begun selling in Canada, an A an dis been In Portland, Ore., deputy ‘Pet Rock’ Fad Turns Man into Millionalre The “pet rock" fad that began in the United States last year is showing signs of catch- about $4 each, small “trai signed up, negotiations are in progress with England, and a ing manual" which accompanics each pet rock has been translated into Japanese. A pet rock is nothing more thana flat grey stone ina small cardboard box designed to look like a carrying case for an animal, complete with airholes, But, seen as an amusing “pet without a problem,” it captured the national fancy and than 80, received. made the man who thought it up—former advertising copy- writer Gary Dah! of Santa Clara—a millionaire in three months, The rocks sell for state geologist Ralph Mason began offering a “genealogy” of any pet rock brought to his office. He has prepared more In Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Lake Superior State College invited entries for a “bicenten- nial all-breed pet rock show" which includes obedience trials and a prize for best-of-breed. 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" Letter to the Editor Line Should Have Been Held - Dear Sir: Except for one well-writ- ten letter, no comments were made on the 25.8 per cent increase—8 mills in the 1976 budget of School District No. 9 over 1976, ‘The message for the need of fiscal restraint and responsi. bility is finally getting through to the various levels of govern- ment throughout Canada, There are clear reasons why the school board felt complelled to Increase the budget as outlined by Mr. Dascher in this paper, ' However, I feel that the guideline or cut-off point in the 1976 budget should havo been maximum 6 to 10 per cent over 1978 and take the unpleasant partly unpopular measures isov- essary, That is the type of leader- ahip from elected representa- tives that we require to avoid in Canada the bankruptcy that is imminent in England (as plan- ned for many years by Moscow and cleverly executed by the cripple the nation by frivolous strikes, exorbitant wage settle- ments, ridiculous featherbed- ding, very low productivity and class warfare helped by ineffi- . lent, snobbish upper ‘ class bungling of the economy. This British trade union philosophy and management incompetence has many follow- ers here, as we can see in our atrike record—about the high- est In the world—in our wage demands exacting more than the cost of living from many of our neighbors who do not have economic power. Unreasonable For Ph. $8909, 58117, 55: 5-6647 or 5-6919, FIT-RITE SHOES Eremenko’s profits and fees do their part of the leased concern for the “little mae "would have been put into practice, no union would ask for more than cost of living in- creases; no premier would shed crocodile tears on TV for the disadvantaged while pocketing a hugh increase in his salary; no prime minister would exhort Canadians to restraint because con trolled unions.) The peculiar penchant of British people for controversy and intrigue mixed with their admirable tolerance and sense of justice and fair play has been exploited by’ their unions: to example and _ policies would have obviated such sermons; no NDP. voter would boast about the big profit he made on his real estate transaction at the expense of his neighbor. H.J. Kemperman ic CLEARANCE SALE of Family Shoes . MENS, WOMENS, - BOYS AND GIRLS You buy one pair at regular price and get second pair for ‘just Te, 212 SHORT SLEEVE PULLOVERS, BLOUSES BONANZA SPECIAL — HALF PRICE ‘A new concept of STYLES and SIZES ; A Variety of up to the minute FASHIONS to please 7-15, 820 _and Half Sizes BONANZA DAYS SPECIALS Ladies’ ps ne - and T-SHIRTS Regular up to $7.98 Come in and:sée our newly arranged... . CONVENIENTLY. LADIES’ DEPARTMENT FOR EASY — FABRIS — © Gently it is seeking federal and ‘SECOND ‘SECTION CASTLEGA ished Every Thursday Morning at “The C. R_ NEWS de of the K, ye" SECOND SECTION VOL. 29, No, 18 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1976 INSPECTING the uafinished building at the corner of Sth Ave. N. and Green St. School are, left to right, Stanley Humphries ‘student helper—Mike, stadent helper—Pat, with Kelth, Lori and Beeld, her's aid Dank, P. tel which will become the new Silver Birch hol have been making th. n ith |, and’ washroom, kiteh which measure 100 by 120 feet, early last Decem! month before. Target date for completion is April 31. Ahead students eagerly i oy in th en and furnace room. The were sited on the grounds, » with the footings paured the 2 which Portable ‘ ¢lassrooms at Blueberry Creek Elementary School. Constructed by the work force of Sehool District No. 9, the building is being enlarged to include an office, wall on one side of the ‘This area must be fen juilding of a retaining Property which has 2 drop to the adjoining property line. iced before the facility can be used.—Castlegar News Photo Hydro Proposes New Dam < “Tm prepared to hear anyone who wants to be heard,” {provincial government approv- Mr, DeBeck eaid, noting he has tal for the Revelstoke power ‘authority to hold a hearing ‘project, a new dam on the - under Section 29 of the provin- Columbia River that willbethe cial Water Act. largest power producer in the province. B.C. Hydro announced re- dro also needs approv- — als under the federal Navigable > g Waters @ Brotee ection Act and 1 __ Internatio iver Improve- set a tbe project ments Act, } which disclosed the new g ave ‘serious effects ‘: Provisional treasury board jaa? on approval is also required. A Ware atudy’ by Dr. ‘Victoria, provincial wa-~ -Harry Teported last May ter rights comptroller Saeed that the Revelstoke © project DeBeck said be will hold public would cost some $1,067 billion. bearings on Hydro's appliation The Mica ‘Dam, still not for a water rights licence, complete, is to cost an esti- ‘probably this summer. mated $742 million, and. the TOMLIN S2HRZ78. 9 Site 5 - Comp. 11 S.S..1 — Castlegar “SALES. & SERVICE We Supply and Install SEPTIC TANKS & FIELD Mike Tomlin _ Walter Tomfin” 365-5511 : 365-5034 Peace River project, $730 mil- lion. Hydro hopes to call ten- ders’ in December this year with construction to begin early next year. First power would be produced by. 1982, By 1990, with all 10 pro- posed generating units operat- + ing the dam would be producing 2,700 megawatts of ‘power, This compares with the - 2,416 megawatts of the Bennett Dam on the Peace River, now the province's largest, and the projected total power output of 2,400 megawatts at the Mica Dam. The Revelstoke Dam is to be built three miles north of the city of Revelstoke -in “Little Dalles Canyon. It is to have a + height from bedrock of 530 feet, a length of 1,600 feet and a water “head” of 420 feet. The reservoir behind it would be less than a mile wide and extend 80 miles upstream, almost to. the Mica’ Dam, covering 26,000 acres ‘and im- pounding four million acre-feet of water. The power project would employ from 1,000 to 3,600 men during a six-year construction period. Flowered Prints, Polka Dots, Stripes, Children’s “Novelty Prints Fabrics to’ Please Everyone Bonanza Hardware Sale KEM PAINTS at SALE PRICES SUPER. KEM-TONE EMVELVET Unk Hardware Do-lt-Yourself & Save SALE ends SATURDAY, MARCH 27% AIR TRAVEL AGENT FCR ALL } AIRLINES . © Reservations © Tours ; © Hotel Accommodations Department Store PHONE 365.7782 pu YOUR LINK HARDWARE DEALER REWARD | -C.P. Rail, Nelson, BC,, offers a reward of $200.00 to any : “ person(s) for information leading to and arrest, prosecu- ‘tion and recovery of a portable radio, property of C.P. ‘Rail, stolen on or about 25th of November, 1975. Information will be treated in strictest confidence ‘and can be given by contacting R.C.M. Police. TELEPHONE 352-3511 - Pulp: Workers Want Rollback Off Wages The Pulp, Paper ‘and Woodworkers of Canada have decided that any rollback- or- dered by the federal anti-, inflation board should be ‘ap- plied to their union members’ basic wage, rate, % ‘The decision, made by the PPWC's wage caucus, could complicate settlement~ of the. master pulp and paper industry ~ contract since the other pulp union—the Canadian Paper- workers’ Union—has indicated it prefers a rollback in the area of fringe benefits. ia The decision by the PPWC's was made on Tuesday of last week following a state- ment that the B.C. pulp and Paper companies have agreed to provide retroactive wage benefits to their 18,000 employ- ees even though they have not yet signed final, collective agreements with the two unions involved. However, Reg Ginn of the * Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada had stated the day prior to the wage caucus he was not sure his union wants the - money right away. The problem, said Mr. Ginn, is that the PPWC is still deciding on where it wants the anti-inflation board's rollback of the pulp settlement applied, Search . A 40-hour. Starve-a-thon, ‘sponsored by Search, a group of Christian’ young people, was held. last weekend at the Catholic Hall in Kinnaird. The money collected through will go for relief funds for Guatemala and is to be adminis- ‘tered through CUSO. . The 18 people “who ob- served the. fast all found the weekend to be a worthwhile learning experience. The reali- The board reduced the 16.1 per cent total increase to 15 per cent in the first year of the master agreement. It had been expected the PPWC and the C; Paper- “the United Church $4,000 to Guatemala Through Local Efforts + The CUSO sponsored Gua- temala Agricultural Project (GAP) has recently sent the ‘yp_of $1,000. an eppropriste technology centre in Quezal- tenango, Guatemala, The B.C. Agriculture “Aid Fund will match» the $1,000 and the Canadian International Devel- opment Agency (CIDA) will match the result, Thus, the citizens of Castlegar are responsible for contributing $4,000 to this vital y goto the» United Church Youth Group, to Women, to the Robson Women's Institute ‘and to so many individuals known and unknown who gave most generously. Thanks also to city council who has lent its moral support to the project. GAP has received pledges of‘ further sums: and ‘so the + $4,000 is only the first contribu- tion from Castlegar.‘ in reconstruction, At the time of the disaster, several CUSO volunteers in the vicinity were fastrumental in. providing im- : mediate assistance to those in . Need. A CUSO funded appro- priate resources for rescue operations, Since the centre was situ- ated ina relatively remote area with minimal contact with the remainder of the country, it . Provided one of the few sources of rescue material and person- nel in the area, The project will attempt to_ not only reinstate a safe, but temporary water delivery sys- tem and health care facilities, but also will provide equip- ment, tools and advisory ser- vices for, reconstruction pur- poses, rs CUSO recently forwarded ~ ‘i a description of the activities of the resource centre since the tragic earthquaké. The follow- ing are excerpts from that letter: Losses due to the recent catastrophic earthquake in estimated to be ~ * Guatemala are $1% billion which, when com- pared to a GNP of approximate- ly $420 million provides some “measure of the need for extern- al reconstruction assistance, Santa Maria Chiquimula is a small town of 5,000 inhab- itants (see map) which was, totally destroyed by the earth- quake. Several other cities in workers’ union would accept a ‘reduction in fringe benefits rather than alter the basic pay s:hike. of 80-cents an hour. - in favor. of taking it off the top ‘and leave the fringes -alone,”. said Mr. Ginn. “This way it + would affect everyone equally." ‘subterranean -shifta, the water table was ~ ~ displaced resulting in complete | ° “But our people seem to be, pepper fears sad cessation of a continuous; safe water. supply. Prior to the ‘The pulp companies want th to ‘apply the &0-cent-an-hour increase backdated to last July :1 when cal pay owing. “They seem to be trying to force our people into accepting the retroactive pay," Mr. Ginn complained. The anttinflation board has already ordered the 16.1 per cent total increase negoti- ated by the pulp unions rolled ck to 16 per cent in the first year of their proposed two-year agreement, However, the unions are currently appealing the deci- sion mainly on the grounds that past-service .pension ‘benefits should not have been included in the total compensation ‘al- lowed by the board. Holds 40-Hour Slarve-a-thon zation of hunger came across very strongly, as it would not have without the personal experience of hunger, even if only for a short while. The activities of the week- end ineludéd prayer, discus: sion, singing, and watching films. Ann Holden of Blueberry Creek was a guest speaker and showed slides taken while she lived in Nigeria. A special and unexpected highlight came on Saturday evening, with a talk by Bishop jNicholas DeAntonio of the Honduras. The Bishop talked of assist Santa Maria Chiquimula- With the coming rains and the lack of good housing, it is certain that further damage and illness | will be. evident, Without adequate medical ser- vice in these critical months. it is a definite reality that equal or greater numbers could per- ish from disease aa did ‘from that actual disaster, Further information about GAP can be obtained. from: Michele de Rham, Castlegar or Ann Holden of Blueberry Creek. FREE 1976 NELSON HOME BUYERS GUIDE Name i. Address _ Phone z ” Occupation ‘Mail to: P.O. Box 700 Kelowna, VIV 7P4 oD. EL SOM MAM PACTURED MOMED SUP AND Mal TOON BOUNDARY MECHANICAL LTD. Formerly BOUNDARY ELECTRIC (Castlegar) UD. NOW MOVED TO THEIR NEW LOCATION 625 Meadow Brook Road (1 mile West of Castleaird Junction on Blueberry-Paul- son Hwy., turn right at Dept. of Highways Maintenance Yard, Castlegar, B.C.) : Handling . : . _. NEW J-M RING-TITE PVC ‘Building Sewer Pipe Light-weight . .. easy to hividle, exceeds CS.A. specifica pret Rubee er cant Lactet inveallation = na “ealecnt welds — no a required -al main as J-M Ringtite Pipe was used Contra for City of Castlegar Sewer System installation. pode id re! THE KOOTENAY BOUNDARY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE invite all interested persons to attend a Seminar on Festivals and Sepctal Events to be held on Saturday, March 27th at the ‘HI-ARROW ARMS HOTEL his experiences in the Hon- jduras and gave an entertaining yet very poignant portrayal of {life in an underdeveloped coun- jean perhaps be summed up in BO (this small quotation from Ae- sop, “When the great help the (small, both are saved.” “The mood of the weekend’ CASTLEGAR, B.C. — 9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. ‘Topics ‘include: ; - . LEGION © ‘PROMOTION @ FUND. RAISING @ PARADES @ VOLUNTEERS, ETC. Fee may be pald at the door. We Offer Complete Installation Installation includes: : i REGULATIONS. DRAINAGE STYSTEM. We Will Check: WITHIN THE REQUIRED LEVELS OF THE CITY'S INSPECTION DEPARTMENT, QUOTATIONS ON INSTALLATION Xe) and your DIGGING — PIPE INSTALLATION — TESTING — BACK FILLING — PUMPING OUT SEPTIC TANKS AND FILLING WITH APPROVED MATERIAL AS PER HEALTH CONCRETE BREAKING AND REPAIR FOR HOMES THAT REQUIRE REVERSAL OF EXISTING VENTING AND DRAINAGE PLUMBING TO BRING THIS SYSTEM th Registration: fee $5.00 including lunch. For more information Call — Earl Hansen’ Regional Tourism Co-ordinator at 427-7449, Kimberley, B.C. SUPPLY OF SEWER PIPE & FITTINGS PHONE 365-2121