A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 7, 1963 Va CASTLEGAR NEWS 7.1947 4, 1900 - 12, 1978-AUG, 27, 1980 LV, CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG, 7, 1947-FEB. 15, 1973 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman CIRCULATION — Elaine Sallis belong to the advertiser, NS " cy vested in ond belongs 10 Castle News Lid.; provided, however, that copyright in that part ond tha! port only of ‘any advertisement prepored trom repro prools, engravings, etc. provided by the odvertiser shall remain én Thursday shopping Some members of Castlegar's b y are reported to be planning a canvass of shoppers in their stores to deter- as "The Crossroads of the Koote- nays” will be seriously affected if we open on Thursday nights in- stead and effectively shut out those out-of-t hy mine the des and p of 3 regarding Th { night/Friday night shopping. Opening nights is almost as contentious an issue as the subject of which day of the week, if any, to close; and then there's that other real hot potato: Sunday. shopping. However, just as service clubs must periodically reconsider their meeting days to best accom- modate the majority of their mem- di of On the other hand, Thursday night shopping (in this age of going to the beach right after work Friday) is a convenience for many people that would undoubtedly be appreciated by many families. Just witness the large numbers of shop- pers in SuperValu and Safeway on any Thursday evening. _ The greatest favor local shop- pers can do for merchants, and for th hs is to give very serious bers, so periodic which night of the week stores should remain open is a valid un- dertaking. : The most important factor in all this, however, must be the customer. If a good number of Fri- day night shoppers are from the Slocan Valley, Salmo, Genelle, Nel- consideration as to how they an- swer any questionnaire on shop- ping night preferences. Any action taken as a result of the questionnaires’ findings will be long-lasting, and people express- ing preferences in the matter should make sure they are ex- son and Trail, then our Twice a victim. from the ) The idea that automobile acci- dent victims should forget about suing culprits in return for guaran- teed no-fault compensation from the Insurance Corp. of B.C. sounds like a bureaucrat’s dream. But it would be a risky game for the vic- tims. If you were to give up your right to take a careless or dangerous driver to court, you'd be putting your life, now and in the future, in the hands of a group of adjusters, as if your career could be assessed like a damaged fender. The proposal for no-fault com- pensation by an independent com- mittee is faulty on at least three counts. \ First, it would not allow a victim to get damages for the pain and suffering resulting from an injury. People can still get damages for pain and suffering from toss of reputation in, say, libel or slander cases. Is the loss of an arm less worthy of special damages? Second, the proposed compen- sation would be based on an arithmetic formula of 90 per cent of take-home pay. So a victim would need a salary. What about victims who are housewives or childten? If Pp for them were to be assessed some other way, the “system” would become confusing and it would be very difficult to know whether non-income earners were being fairly treated. Third, if an arithmetic formula were to be the guide, how could the bureaucrats assess the career prospects a victim might have looked forward to? For instance, an interning surgeon expects to earn much more money once he's finished training. If he were hurt in an accident, would his no-fault compensation be based on his in- ternship income or on what he might expect to earn as a surgeon? No-fault compensation might be easier for ICBC to administer, less time-consuming than the cour- ts and giving ICBC more control. But to accept it you'd have to trust ICBC and its compensation adjusters more than the courts. The committee is off in some starry heaven if it expects people to do that. For our money the judges and juries in the courts are more reli- able in assessing damages than a bunch of bureaucrats would be, working from some over-simplified formula. FRED MERRIMAN Here are a few things that make Castlegar a nice place to live: it is small enough to be friend- ly, big enough to include a few strangers, Free parking. A good community college within walking 4 4, Coatl s because in this part of the country neighbors do look out for neigh- bors. Should it be necessary, we keep an eye out for each other's property. | have said it before and it bears Most of the mer- o' We have several creditable res- taurants serving good meals at reasonable prices. These eating places share at least one thing in common. . . warm, friendly and helpful waitresses. Walkers and nature lovers can stroll around Zuckerberg Island or meander along the trails in Kin- naird Park. We can listen to con- certs in the park. Our family is especially fond of the walk around Nancy Greene Lake — just a short drive in the cool mountains. Castlegar is so centrally lo- cated. We have the choice of three good shopping areas in Trail, Nelson and Castlegar. It is a simple matter to drive to Spokane, the p or even Cranbrook and Creston, Another favorite is the drive to Istoke via Nakusp or perhap: the drive to New Denver and across to Kaslo, then back home to Castlegar — Blueberry Creek, ac- tually; it's just a matter of degree. You can ride your bicycle to church and expect that the bike will remain untouched for the ride home again. Most people that | know do not lock their cars or their homes because most people in Castlegar are honest — or perhaps: chants and businessmen in this area have always given good serv- ice at a reasonable price. Some of them go out of their way in the service and understanding depar- tment. Wait, there is much more. We have one of the best golf courses in British Columbia with annual mem- bership dues that are the envy of our city cousins. We have lakes and beaches for swimming, so pure even the Arrow Lake ‘is a drinking reservoir for an entire city, * We also have hiking, huckle- berry picking, gold panning, moun- tain climbing, exploring old logging roads and mines. It makes no difference if you are young or old; if you are in reasonable health you can hike to the top of Old Glory, the Kokanee Peaks or Idaho Lookout. If all these possibilities are making you breathless, then you can sit under a black walnut tree sipping a cool lemonade or lie back and watch the white clouds drift south or north, depending on the breezes. We appreciate this place, and I hope you do also. TM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AHOKIDELREUUUNEUANAANOHUONELUUEAAGAAALUUNGGAEONENONEEUUEUUEaEengUCoonaanaeasaceesaeaeeocgUeiAt Working towards peace telegram to be sent to Prime Minister Affairs Minister ‘ ir of the recently ed Trail District Peace Action Committee (TDPAC) met in Genelle and considered steps to’ be taken to make thé: TDPAC an import- ant part of the communities in the Trail area. Plans were made to advise citizens of the many peace activities presently under way all over Canada. Meetings will be held, films made available and shown, speakers will offer to address interested clubs and groups, petition- ing, phone trees, and mailings will involve as many people as possible. As a first immediate action the th d the Allan MacEachen, and Defense Minis- téerGilles Lamontagne: “Trail District Pesce Action Committee objects com- pletely’'to cabinet. decision to allow cruise missile testing. Canada should ._Fegain its role as peace maker and become a leader in efforts to halt arms race. For the sake of mankind let's put some common sense into international affairs, Canada must stop special Monday evening at which the grounds committee gave a report on the new playgroutd being purchased at Kin- naird. s s s The Kinnaird Softball’ team won their second game on the new school grounds. The condition of the field made it very difficult to judge ground- ers. . es 8 s 4 Sixteen Castlegar and Kinnaird boy scouts returned on Monday, from a most happy and successful eight-day camp at Camp ‘Tweedsmulr, Fruitvale. s s Castle Bakery: Saturday special: Jelly rolls 80 cents, coconut tarts, six for 20 cents. ' s s s All Legionnaires with cars, and others wishing to attend the legion zone picnic at Fruitvale on Aug. 22, please report to Bert Martin as soon as possible. ‘ Dance in Kinnaird every Saturday night. Kinnaird Rhythm Boys orches- tra. 25 YEARS AGO ‘ From the Aug. 7, 1958 Castlegar News Eighty-eight and a half per cent to— 90 per cent of SHSS students in Grades 11 to 18 passed in departmental exams, against a B.C. average of 75 to 80 per cent. Ninety-three per cent of the SHSS students who wrote Grade 12 senate, tal 7 them. This with 96 per cent testing and stop Ameri militarists.”. The TDPAC continuing committee will meet again today (Aug. 7). Every- one is welcome to attend. Please phone 867-7122 for information. F.E. DeVITO Fruitvale ~ Facing the facts Editor, Castlegar News: The Canadian Abortion Rights Ac- tion League finally admits that even legal are not safe. Serious No noise. please Editor, Castlegar, News: As one who enjoys a peaceful life and tries to ensure that my neighb: physical and emotional complications .often result from induced abortion at any stage of the pre-born child's ‘growth. “. re i A 1a YBveiys woman has the right to ‘know the dangers of legal abortion,” a book by Ann d small and tightly closed and especially lable to damage on dilatation.” (Quo- ted from the 1975 National Academy of Science study “Legal Abortion and the Public Health,” page 61. In this study 66 per cent of girls who underwent induced abortion of , their first child suffered migearriage, stillbirth, premature birth or: infant ;- death of their next child. None of these affected the second child that hundreds of women die of legal abortions each year in the U.S, She cites many pro-abortion studies that show abortion clinics are espec- are not disturbed by undue noise and rough-housing by my household, I resent the dumping of gravel, and the grinding, deafening noise of a large dump truck on a Sunday morning — July 31 — just before 8 a.m. ' Even though I had arisen at 6 a.m. as usual to enjoy the serenity of the early morning hours, I do not appre- elate this thoughtlessness and would wish those responsible to reconsider their actions. T hope those involved will read my letter. Perhaps we can return toa quiet peaceful Sunday morning. (Mrs.] GRACE NIXON Castlegar ially because of i speed, lack of sanitation controls, lack of patient history, thriving business for unscrupulous doctors (ex-illegal abor- tionists), little or no post-abortion care. Women have gone home to bleed to death from hemorrhaging. Infection is a common complication. An 800 per cent increase in tubal pregnancy and a 700 to 1,600 per cent increase in placenta previa are just two very dangerous consequences of in- duced abortion. ~ Abortion affects teenagers even worse than women in general. “The cervix of the teenager preg- nant for the first time is invariably THE CRUISE A LEMON? Cruising for a bruising By CARL MOLLINS WASHINGTON — The cruise is getting a bruising from critics — inside and outside the U.S. Government — who say the computerized super- missile won't fly right. Beyond the buildup of peace protests in Canada, the United States and Europe against the projectile's place in the nuclear arms race, there are I bul be tested by recent agreement in its i hed model 4n h of girls who gave birth to their first child, Induced abortion has definite nega- tive emotional complications on 90 per cent of women. Long term depression, guilt and grief are common. A of Ci i reported, in 1981, that of 5,620 attempted suicides in the city in the. previous 86 months, 4,000 were wo- men, 1,800 had had abortions and 1,400 of these were between the ages of 16 and 24. The date the aborted child would have been born is the most risky time. This is madness we don’t need here in Canada. Women deserve to know fully what they are choosing. Abortion rips the fabric of a nation to pieces. above obstructions and below enemy radar di Canada. But the Boeing Corp.'s air-launched version of the cruise has already been declared operational — while tests continue — with B-62 bomber units of the Strategic Air Command at Griffiss Air Force Base in upstate New York, at Wurtsinith base in and ‘p it com- plaints that the cruise missile is a costly lemon. e The critics say the missile tends to veer off target or crash, a contention that tends to be supported by a U.S. Senate panel's current proposal to slice development funds and send some versions back to the drawing board. The critics say the cruise whose prime reason for being is to duck defence, is vulnerable to an enemy's counteraction, a critique that seems to be reinforced by Pentagon plans to shift to a so-called stealth version designed to be harder to hit. The Pentagon simultaneously insists that its babied new weapon of the 1980s and beyond is doing fine in all its various current versions — produced for U.S. forces of NATO, assigned to both strategic and tactical arsenals, armed with either nuclear or conven- tional warheads, designed for firing at-Grand Forks, N.D. Ground-launched Tomahawk cruises from General Dynamics Corp., also to be operated by the U.S. Air Force, are scheduled to be based in Western Parts of the system are produced by Litton in Toronto, the target of a fire-bombing attack last year by anti-cruise protesters. The systems to propel and guide the cruise are also the primary targets of technical critics who say the cruise doesn't work. Inside institutions such as the General Accounting Office of the U.S. Congress and outside watchdogs over 8 th Washington-based Project for Military Europe b in D The Tomahawk design for the U.S. Navy faces funding austerity and is P cite secret and published reports that the engines render the missiles vulnerable to an enemy's while ph such as last year. ys . s s W.T. Waldie retired Friday. after 36 active years in the lumber business. Waldie entered the lumber business in 1922 when he went to work for his father at William Waldie & Sons Ltd. His father had started the mill in 1910 and Waldie entered the business when he finished school. When Waldie and his brothers John and Bob sold their mill to Celgar Ltd. in 1952, he became plant manager at Castlegar. . s s An 11-year-old boy swam across the Arrow Lakes Thursday. Ronnie Lampard, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Lampard of Castlegar, swam across the lake at Deer Park. Ronnie ‘was “accompanied on his swim. He certifi: cates at YMCA camp. 15 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 8, 1968 Castlegar News A Kinnaird man and a former Castlegar woman are two of the 161 persons selected Monday evening for a chance to win $100,000 in the City of Montreal's: monthly voluntary tax . draw. Ron King of Woodland Park in Kinnaird, a pulp division staff member and well-known local piano teacher, and Mrs. Bernice Bogan of Trail, a former Castlegar woman who was em- ployed by Young Agencies at Kinnaird, were among the 161 names selected at random from among the approximately 417,000 who contributed $2 each to the scheme. s s e A 80-year-old China Creek man was treated at Castlegar Hospital on Wednesday afternoon of last week for a rattlesnake bite on the right thumb suffered at Selkirk College. Mr. Betula had collected the rattlesnake in Grand Forks early in May and had donated it to the college. He had returned to the college last week to donate a turtle and apparently saw the rattlesnake. e ° The old paddlewheeler Minto was consigned last week to a fiery death and burial beneath the waters of the lake she travelled so often. The proud boat, which plied the Arrow Lakes for 56 years, was towed out to the middle of the lake at noon last Thursday and her last owner, Walter Nelson of Galena Bay, applied the torch to her broken body. 5YEARSAGO’ .. From the Aug. 11, 1978 Castlegar News About 70 angry Genelle residents allowed the removal of uranium ore from a drilling site near their China Creek watershed after a two-hour con- for outright by the Senate armed service committee, which influences the scale of deve- lopment, funds, unless performance improves radically. Variants of the self-propelled flying bomb, produced by Boeing or General Dynamics, are stubby-winged, pilotless planes about six metres long. They have the same kind of subsonic-speed jet engines. They are programmed to reach targets about 2,400 kilometres distant. They are guided by similar McDonnell Douglas- Litton Industries electronic systems known.as Tercom, computerized radar from airplanes, ships, or mobile ground vehicles, and destined to gismos d d to direct them at treetop level to the target, swooping snowcover and metals on the ground may confuse the guidance systems. The cited faults have been reported publicly during the last two years, An air-launched cruise launched over a Utah test range crashed in neighbor- ing Nevada on May 24. Another went off course last Dec. 19 and was di d when a Ty hute’ was deployed and malfunctioned. There was a crash last September. The weaponry watchdog office of the " G 1A with RCMP last Friday. Nearly 50 RCMP members — many of whom were bussed in from surroudning West Kootenay detach- ments — were at the scene to prevent any interference in response to reports that ore sampled had been vandalized and a local woman had blocked the removal of the samples by helicopter the day before. s . s Up to 100 temporary at Cominco's Trail operations beni Office has publicly criticized various aspects of the cruise program — from cost inflation to crashes — in successive reports almost from its inception. ted to be ilable this fall to Inter- national Woodworkers of America members left out of work by the June 17 fire at CanCel's local sawmill. SonsomeerrrnnoearirenoemuremTITN Return to. . STAY Young people today are being greatly challenged: An ever-enlarging'technological ope world is increasing its demand for greater and greater skills and knowlédge. This means that today’s students MUST have some form of education beyond the basics. Recognizing this, the following institutions Regional Colleges — Vocational Schools | Technological Institutions and Industries Offering Apprenticeships - are providing programs designed to properly prepare young and mature students for today's changing world. Counselling avenues are available (such as the-Career Centre at Stanley Humphries Secondary School and Selkirk College's Community Education Offices), and from such agencies as the provincial Ministry of Labor's Apprenticeship Training and Program Branch. Everywhere You Look We're Looking Good Selkirk College isa ¢ ni college with West located in Nelson, Castlegar, Trail i to offeri and several other 9! a wide range educational opportunities and training programs, the college provides services in academic, career and vocational counselling, financial assistance and wome: Admini: in’s access. TRAIL CAMPUS Th Centres | the CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Offerings includ v tration, C y Childhood Education, Electronics, Forestry, Nursing; Social Service Worker and Wildland Pp ploy prog Long Term Care Alde and Licensed Practical Nursing; first- and second-year university transfer courses in the Arts and Sciences; prerequisite courses for an Adult Basic Ed vand courses. ROSEMONT CAMPUS Pre-employment, the new TRAC (Training Access) Early e delivery of a full range of education services in communities suth as Salmo, Midway, Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, New Denver, Naki Grand Forks, Kaslo and the Slocan Valley. jerings Include g 1 interest courses, upgrading, self-improvement offerings and some credit courses. Learning formats include short- term, full-time and part-time studies, Adult Basit Education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) courses are also part of the college's wide range. of offerings. Basic Skill Pi nt, College F y, and. Learning lable. Prog in micro- and an Office Administra- program and app! ig prog Pre-employment programs include Office pre:emp oy men) Prod Vance | Drafting, | g, Ski Resort Op ment, Welding. TRAC: Common Core; Occu tional tion program is provided through the Trail campus. Management and Employee Training Services offers a wide range of skills workshops for adults In the work force. Distance Education olterings lable th i; ded by the Millwright, ‘lalty | Heavy Duty and other ore d by Selkirk College. jevel Mechanics, Electrical, Millwright, Machini: Inboard/Qutboard and Automotive Machinist. Apprenticeship offerings include Millwright, Automotive Mechanical Repair, Heavy Duty Mechanic and Electrical. Some upgrading programs are also available. DAVID Wags tcl INIVERSI' ut A joint venture of Selkirk College and the University of Victoria. Selkirk College offers one-year certificates in ' h Working ani phic Design: For more int formation, contact the Selkirk College office in your community or: Selkirk Coll (Castlegar Campus) Box 1200, pre Bc. VINgJI y Telephone: (604) 365-7292 Selkirk College (Rosemont Campus) 2001 Silver King Rd., Nelson, B.C. VIL1C8 Telephone: (604) 352-6601 David Thompson University Centre 620 Tenth St., Nelson, B.C. VIL3C7 leph (604) 352-2241 three-year diploma in Fine Arts; y and University; transfer programs in Fine Arts, Music, Theatre, and Writing, and a two-year university transfer program in the Liberal Arts. Continuing education courses are also available. The University of Victoria offers upper level courses leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, a Bachelor of Arts (General) anda Bachelor of Education, as well as a Post-Degree Professional Program in Education. Selkirk College (Trail Campus) Extension Centres Division 845 Victoria St., Trail, B.C. VIR3T3 Telephone: (604) 368-5236 ‘ CAMPUS TOURS Tours of each of Selkirk College's campuses are available to individuals and small groups. ag Castlegar Savings Credit Union Kootenay Savings Credit Union TRAIL \ SOUTH SLOCAN FRUITVALE NAKUSP CASTLEGAR NEW DENVER SALMO WANETA PLAZA ym | | 615 - 2nd Street, Castlegar For reservations phone 365-7282 School District No. 9 (Castlegar) Let Our Bank answer your questions. © CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE * CANADIAN IMPERIAL. BANK OF COMMERCE 298 COLUMBIA AVE. — CASTLEAIRD PLAZA IG A TOTAL OF SIX DAY SERVICE IN THE CASTLEGAR AREA.