CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 21, 1982

7, 1947

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It didn't come as too much of d
surprise this week to learn that the
unlon representing 11,000 8.C, Tel
workers turned its back on a
request they work a free day this
month,

What was surprising was. the
company's request for the free day

~ In the flrst place, especially in light

of its announcement just lost week: -

that earnings for 1981 rose 10 per*
cent, from $232.3 million in 1980 to
$255.4 million last year. That's
more than a $23 million increase.

And where did that’ increase
come from? You and }, of course.
In its annual report, B.C. Tel notes
that its rate hike In February, 1981
accounted for the rise in the
_everall return on invested capital,
“which went from 10.22 per cent in
1980 to 11 percent in 1981.

Still, despite an increase. in
overall Investment return and a

+ $255 million profit, the giant U.S.-

owned monopoly went. cap in hand
to its employees — including 3,000
non-union, workers — asking for
wage concessions. :

The idea. that workers should
share the burden only in hard
times is. difficult to accept. But

A tip of

This week's sunny skies ond
warmer weather area sign that
‘spring isn't too far off. But before
we leave winter we'd like to givaa
-tlp of the hat to the city works
crews and A

«or Cominco. We're sure both those

even harder to accept ‘is ‘that a.
company that increased its, invest:>
ment return and made even more. }:
money this year than: last should
seek wage concessions at all. ee
We understand that B.C. Tel has”,

would like-to'see started: this year
and needs a healthy profit to ai
tract-investors. 5
Still, we can't: help but wonder
what B.C. ‘Tel would do if faced
with a’ really difficult economic
situation such as that at BC Timber

companies -would be’ more. than -
pleased to see an. 11 percent
return ‘on their investment and a 10
per cent increase in sarnings. i
{f that was the case, ‘wo ‘also
wonder if. those two companies ,
would then turn to thelr employees
and ask for wage concessions. We
doubt it very much. :
B.C. Te!'s latest manoeuvre does _
nothing for companies experien- ©
cing real economic hardship and
which have been forced to ‘either

“ONE. aang DISTURBS b Me. ABOUT
THIS WAR: ONCINELATION :.., YOU'LL
_ NOTE ee NO foun)

cIANS

‘FOREST INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

seek wage concessions or lay off
employees.

it only, serves to. fuel its
customers’ growing cynicism,

our hat |

Keenleyside Dam was being built
when the.city windrowed snow up president of the Ontario Forest Indus-
on the centre of Columbia Avenue tries Association, can happen to Cai-
and the dam contractor donated ada’s No. 1 industry = the forests.

huge belly dump vehicles that “Added capacity is coming on stream

+ BY KEN SMITH
Canada, notes.Ken Greaves, used to
be No, 1° in ‘hockey. Then other

countries learned how ‘to beat Cana- .

dians at their own game.

personnel in this area. ‘
We were hit with a lot of the

white stuff: this year and these

men and women have done a pret-

job of keeping city streets .

Wy good
taind: the provincial. highways open.
“ Castlegar has a long record now,
of good snow removal practices.
tices... 2.”
- it started at the. time the

Saving tax dollars

The following is.:an editorial
originally carried in The Vancouver
Sun.

-The 11 governments of Canada
met, not long ago, to discuss the
national economy and their un-
balanced budgets but agreed

-about nothing except the need to
public. es,
Naturally, their meeting place, the
-Government Conference Centre in,
Ottawa, was somewhat untidy at-
ter several days of joint labor, Un-
der a recent contract it will cost
$190,000 to clean up the mess.

But the nation’s taxpayers

should not suppose - -that the

d the snow up and then in the United States, our main market,
deposited it at dump sites. where the rotation period’ for fibre
Once city employees and coun-
cils got a taste ‘of good snow — than in our northern climate,” he says.
removal practices, they ‘never. “Transportation, wood supply, labor
looked.back, We're even the envy--- and taxes, are all Jower-there. ye
# Trail and Nelson. a:iai8onth America has yet.to realize ike
“¢Qur thanks to these helpfuf - ‘vast potential, but some. fibre-produc-
people who work on weekends ‘ing trees adaptable to pulping pro-
and throughout the night to make cesses can be grown there in five to 10
the streets safe to drive, years.”

The same thing, says Greaves,

growth is three or four times faster”

1 ani; writing. to make known ray
views on recently, publicised enyiron-
mental issues in the Queen Charlotte
Islands, The eminent Dr. Suzuki in past
weeks stowed a’ CBC film’ on. “The

| Nature of Things” concerning'the es-"

tablishment | of ecological reserves in
the Windy Bay-Dodge Point area of the
‘Queen Charlotte Islands.

* Matiy ‘people have the impression
that the environmentalists would like
to establish a park in this area. This is
not the case at all, An ecological zone is
closed to the public and would prohibit
entry except those with a special gov-
ernment permit to enter this. area.

T would point out that there. arg al-
an many ecological reservea in ‘the
Area, and we already have 112 of these’

_” reserves in British Columbia. The size
+ of the ‘area’ asked: for'‘an_ ecological

“reserve in: this case is also unaccep-

table, as it is many times larger than
any other in our Queen Charlotte
Islands.

Al, there is in Victoria in the
of the

S staff of only three people to monitor

Canada noe from top: spot

This makes the forests. by far: oxpertie Canulans have developed in

* Canada’s biggest export product, about
four times the total net . foreign:

exchange earnings of agriculture and
food, fish, iron, steel and non-ferrous
metals, crude: petroleum,’ transporta-
tion and automotive equipment.:” !
Last year, the industry invested $4.5
billion in new equipment and plants.
That's 20 per cent of all of the country’s
new. investment in manufacturing.
The industry and its direct employ-

ees kicked in $8 billion in taxes to .

federal and provincial governments.
: One more statistic, An estimated 300

-emiatenes,
have no other industry to aupport their

people.
Greaves. notes that\ governments
have been criticized for. giving some

Only: by iP and
productivity, says Greaves, can Canada
hope to keep abreast — let alone ahead
— of major competitors with thatr cost
advantages.

federal government is careless
with money. Its thrift has been *
demonstrated beyond doubt by the
experience ‘of a newspaper
correspondent who paid $2.50 for
photocopies’ of 10 - official
documents. «

A week later, he received in the
mail an‘ extra bill of 18 cents, the
tax: overlooked in the original in- from a few statistics.
voice.’ Clearly, the government Forests cover about one-third of
watches the ‘pennies. No one Canada, and they pr i job in 10,

improvements?

‘At the moment, they're not good.

The federal and provincial govern-
ments now put back only five ceits of
each tax dollar they receive from the
forest industry. That tax bill now runs
at $8 billion a year.

;The economic demands: for more
attention to the forests are: obvious

What are the prospects’ for sich”

forestry grants to mioder-
nize their ‘plants.
But these grants are a small part of

what the industry is plowing back .

itself, and an even smaller part of the
return the governments get in jobs and
taxes. -

“alk,” says Greaves, “about casting
your bread upon the waters.”

. The outlook for the forest industry
this year is bleak, especially inthe
lumber. sector, because of the inter-

national recession which has crippled

i housing markets in the United States
Canada.

and‘
Until the housing ‘industry regains
its feet, there won't be any marked.

seems .too have noticed, h direetly or ‘That means more
that the second letter cost postage than one "million jobs. .

of 30 cents (not to mention the Sales of forest products total more
wages of the clerks who addressed _- than $22.6 billion a year, with Lee
and sent it.) billion experted.

nt in the outlook.

Greaves notes that in recent talk
about developing an industrial strategy
for Canada, much attention is given to ~
high-technology industries.

He agrees this is merited, because of

o—

FRED mERRIMAN

education,
Why should it have been my ietial privilege to have well famed
rofessors semi-privately lecture myself and a scattered few on most
interesting subjects for Rts t hour?
It is a gross misuse ! time. It Is
the who is not
- way enjoy a beneficial effect from the knowledge acquired by the few.
Inthe Orlent: education is a privilege of the highest order.
Here in i materialistic West we consider education o state-
fi right — jh like the right to t fres

letal,

unfair for

and will only In the most indirect.

+. Ils also oon that wat feel the benefits in the creation of new.
and better products. -
That new was t to ‘us by dedicated

fields as’ telecommunications,
phasors and nuclear energy.

“These all have a growth potential,
but they require massive eectaat
and ‘a :waiting period for healthy
returns and adequate markets for the
end products.” -

But the: forests have the plants in
place, andthe potential markets, if
they: are. given | the environment
through investment and government
policy to develop them, he says.

Greaves. quotes a’ recent federal

these : ecological: reserves, and they
have admitted in other forums that

! they can only make studies in'up to six

of the reserves in any one year.

There: are no black bears ‘on Lyell
Inland, and rio totem poles either. The
totem poles shown were on Anthony
Island. ‘The clear-cut logging shown in
the film is on Talunkwan Island, and
does not represent the logging on Lyell

_ Even the salmon streain that seemed
so important’ to. the moderators, is

-foatod on an land far Yo the north of

there — Louise Island.
, Further, the “Windy Bay” water:
shed is not the last. unlogged water
shed in the South Moresby Island area.
There are at least six more major
that have: no’ mining or

the, 1960s-will.be dominated by two
the

nj sometimesgits

logging activity and will have none for

Rrtartevaete

: To allow’ the establishment of : ‘the

Sauls expatalon of the rossurce Dave’ a

industrial Piaetthoy towards pain
international competitiveness.”

He calls that a realistic assessment. -

What it means is that: Canada is
going to have to pay more attention to
such resources as its forests — to
develop, and use. them — to ensure
future growth,

South Africa
Press
muzzled ~

By ALCOLLETTI
NEW YORK -— Interference with
the civil rights of the black majority in
South Africa is” 80. _ great that the

want to muzzle criticism -with prose
controls. -.
For the first time, Fresdom House

group, based in “New. York, has been
conducting annual freedom surveys for
“12years. South’ Africa has always

and profit-minded -b $ wo
beyond th of k led
Other questions about nivarsitios that ‘remain

d to skirt the not-free category
in: previous: surveys but ‘Raymond
Gastil,: director of the survey, says a.

me centre.on the who adv

_plete state ownership in all-cases — incised land and business en-
terprise. Will someone please tell ma — doctors and lawyers excluded,
— why the 1p on Y Ig col on

Pease in point: John Grad completes law school — subsidized by

esidaratty:d od 1

for. the
group. why he was net In business for} imesh

tasked a
smi mall t

school. Granted, John studied, held a part-time job and

walked to classes. However he did not pay the full share of the per-
sonal cost of his education.’ -

enters the t and ch the same

the general public — most of whom likely have not Pei trom :

him eminently
more ayalitie than any swledy businessman present In the room to

He iostttchy admitted. that not once in his years at y did

that the situation no longer can be

, ignored.

“The scale of interference. with the
rights of the bisck majority in this
regard has been, and remains, so

- massive ‘that it must be more fully
.” Gastil writes.

anyone — student or that the
is would be used for ahy other purpose than as. an soured

semi- Niterate perhaps $100 an hour or a fixed pe: of the
estate or intl ds to ‘millions of dollars. it
doesn't seem fa felr that ‘the dull, the unmotivated or those lacking the
ould have to subsidize
the smiocation reach then pay the scandalous loos they in fact helped set
up by educating the pro! ational.

ledae tt 1

‘board which ranges up to Sto, 000 an academic year. Perhaps in that
‘Mes some opportunity ‘to. cut the cost of education. Some do it by

of some pew firm mae MacMillan Bloedel or perha for the rouly in--
secure, _— pupllc service at the Pe hraresa ‘or federal level.
The most

Is room and

Those with knowledge should pay for.

If trequire the knowledge of a doctor, teacher or engineer | must
pay for those services. It is most meet and right that | accept that fact.

Now back to the Orient. We are told that man unlver-

. we can get’ on with, the mych more sensible method of, making?

r nearly starving.
lows for education tripled: —. and they should — then perhaps:

sity students are so imbued with the philosophy that education Is a
privilege that failure to achieve suitable passing grades causes them
to take their own lives. In this Sountry | 1@ blame the teacher or the

ihe and students walk away from tha results with a ho-hum me

he POE P ab That the general public pays -for ¢

audience ‘would be far larger cnet only tl the ea best would lecture.
a
np ee the — just as | am pleased

der ds have not yet been
ta s
wi be be 50 sox
to
it pelle mean all the quicker we will be forced'to -

he
‘cduvatton rogéss then has to very dearly for the sores of
Gat ving that dj roty in return.
Fe ee OO Ca |

hope that the cost for any education as now presented
knock over the status quo and get on with the modern ways of the

screens. The
pebltant. foot much more’ sensible’ methods will ibs
future which is now full upon us.

FORCED TOMOVE ..
Gastil says:the forced movement of
one million or more people inte often
undesirable rural and:urban camps.is
‘serious. Ta thatiwayjPretacia ls able to’
enforce ‘its policy of concentrating.
blacks into, into, PP Myeh-too-small black «

! erga pas pee ae ON
“partly free” in the survey has forced

. Movement of people on a comparable __

os eat lettoes for r

proposals
should be thrown out by the Envir-
onment.and Land Use Committee, in
Victoria.
BL. Smith
Sandspit .-

Ode to
a horse.

This poem. was taken from the
“Courier-Merchandiser”. I thought it
reallly seemed appropriate with insur-
ance renewal here again and recent
hikes in gas prices — again. °

Ode To A Horse
Oh horse, you are a wondrous thing,
No horns to honk, no bells to ring,
No licence buying every year, =~

With plates to stick on front and réar.

No‘sparks to miss, no gears to strip,

You start yourself, no clutch to slip,

No gas bills climbing up each day,

To steal the joy of life away.

Your inner tubs are all okay, .

‘And thank the Lord they stay. that
way, ~

Your spark plugs never miss or ‘fuss,

Your motor never makes us cuss.

Your frame is good for many a mile,
-Your body never changes its style,
No speed cops chugging in your rear,
Yelling summons in our ear. *
Your wants are few,

And easy met,

You've something on

The auto yet!

Donna Zurwick,
Castlegar”

‘EEGRERROGRERSRRAGEALEBOTACUUSROARLLNECTELOUDA CI QUNGLAANENIOQOLELNCEEIE
All letters to the editor: must :be
signed and include the writer's ‘full

name and address. In very exceptional ©

cases letters will be published without
the’ writer's name, but the name’and
address must be. losed to the editor:

The newspa es the right to
ns of: space, clarity

and grammar. 1"
ae

He notes that no other. “not-free” VIN Sia

state allows as much publi erticiam of
“Its policies,

electoral competiti on as Bouth Africa,
: but 20 million blacks remain without.
, the right to vote.

A 60th wedding anniver-
sary was celebrated Feb.
16 by incmel area resi-

the first offence.

_ quest of a‘citizen but no one,

Latigrs | to the editor should be sent

Gas to Robson. where

married ‘in Champion.
Creek, B.C.’ in 1982 and *

MR. and Mrs. Jol

~ Golden anniversary

thay lived for..21 ‘years,
raising a family of five”
children.

“In 19565 they, settled in
Castlegar, and now reside
at 714 12th St.

Their five children are:

"sof Vancouver, Mrs. Louise °

Castlegar, Bill Androsoff of
Rossland, Jeanette Fenton

Wishlow of. Castlegar and
Helen Shennan of Edmon-
ton. -

John and Peat also have
eight: grandchildren and .

" pight;to feed hungry: wildilfe
East

is, bad. news) for an
: Kootenay, rancher’s elfalfa
crop.

Hans Hartwig had accused
government -employees of
> changing the animals life-

) style so much they damaged

his property and stole his al-
falfa, He wanted the branch
to pay $80,000 for bis lost
crop.

But Justice W.J. Wallace
said that although he had
sympathy ‘and ‘regret for
Hartwig, there is no law to
uphold his argument that, in

spoiling the elk with hand-
outs, the branch was negll-
gent.

The problem started with
six bad winters in the 1970s
when the elk were starving

and the branch fed them high -

protein ‘alfalfa. The elk ac-
quired a taste for the new.
enriched fodder. _

But to the elk’s distress,
the winters became milder
and the program was dis-
continued. .

80 the elk descended on
Hartwig’s K2 Ranch at Canal”

Flats near Invermere, where’

alfalfa grew in the fields and

sik, lay in stacks in greater quan-

tities than at the government

: ‘etation: 2.4 kilometres away.

The ‘kitchen was well
looked after by Vera Popoff, |
and Verna Taranoff assisted ©
by serving when needed. The
door prize of a beautiful cake.
in the shape of a large sham-
rock

Gecorated with green ‘
“was won by Mrs. J. Heslop

and..the ‘hand ‘towels were
won by Nellie Zubek.
The proceeds

for

A

‘thes.

$595 million deficit:

OTTAWA (CP) — The
federal government: spent.
$595 million more. than it

tary
deficit for the first 10 months
of: the fiscal year to $8.744

; billion, the Finance Depart-
_ ment reported. '*
(The January statement of ‘ticit.for the month of $1.085:»
lh

spending to $53,278 billion,

for. an accumulated deficit of

$8.744 billion, The fisca] year
in Ay

Comparable. figures for the
previous year said the gov-
ernment spent $5.887 ‘billion
in January, 1981, and raised

.852 billion, leaving a: def-

government's

PA the cost of paying. for the

public debt — primarily the debt went up because of high
‘money it borrows from the interest rates, including the
public by selling bonds and 19.6-per-cent rate the. gov-
‘treasury bills — declined in - ernment is paying on more
January by $776 million to’ than $10-billion: worth of
$92,497 billion from the pre- Canada Savings Bonds sold

‘vious month. $.
» The decline was due main-

financial
the’ government is eae
3

Jast:; fiscal “year. But

spending. is not ‘ exceeding
-revenue as much ga it did the

so'the deficit

‘ti Faised $4.99, baon a ‘and

smi

“Not a soul appeared at the |
Massachusetts legislature in
Boston to boo, bless or bark
about legislation that would >:
require dogs in the state to
‘wear. diapers - when they ”
leave home turf.

‘The proposal, which would
be subject’ to approval. by
communities, called for fines .
of $20 to $100 for owners who
permit their ‘pooches' to run
around with bare’ bottoms.
No’ fine would be, levied on

“The bill was ‘submitted to”
the legislature’ by. “Senator”
Louis’ Bertonazzi at the re-

—human or canine — showed’
up for a Hearing on fhe.
——— :

 Caleisct |

GROCETERIA &
LAUNDROMAT

Ae 6

| Monday - - Saterday
8:30 - 10:30 p.m.

& Holidays
9- 10:30

of ‘the 1980-81: fiscal: ‘year,
‘revenue totalled $36.427 ‘bil-

billion, leaving ‘a: deficit -of
$10.479 billion, +.
The statement says the:

last. November.
Public’.debt charges in

Ay stoc individuals cashing’ January ‘cost "$1.108: billion,
Bonds ‘and’ wp from’$090 million’ tt-De- chat
-eorporations and financial in-' cember. The debt cost for the

stitutions. cashing: treasury; first, 10 ‘months of. the fiscal

bills,;i- thus: reducing: the’ “year-

‘mount of money the “gav-
ernment owed’ the public.” ;

~ was ~$11.564. billion,
‘compared with $8.687 billion
during the same period ‘in

wuts, the-debt went down, 1980-81.

‘The. elk made’ themselves
at home. ‘They began stop-

ping at'the ranch for their

evening meal, a night's rest
and a ‘substantial breakfast
before setting out to the high
country for a day’s browsing.

Wallace said the quality of
the food and of

During the trial the branch
defended its actions as rea-
sonable, and also said the
‘rancher could have pro-
vented damage to the hay by
simply enclosing the hay-

stacks with boarding to keep =

out the elk.

Wallace said it is not
negligent to conserve and
manage wildlilfe so as to in-
crease the health and num-
bers of the elk even though
foreseeable incidental dam-
age may occur to others.

Interest of developing the
range lands for the co-oper-
ative use of wildlife and < cat

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Mafeh 24) 1982

But he suggested that the |]
provincial ministry, in the “|

m0

10% %».

QUILTS, BEDSPREADS,
SLEEPING BAGS, DRAPES

tle, assist those
particularly exposed to loss.

‘The judge said finally that,
if he had come to a different
conclusion, he would have
awarded damages totalling
"$80,865 for fencing and loss of
hay crop for the years 1978 to
1981,

AND WALLHANGINGS

the location were so superior
to their traditional wild for-

(ofter good during March only)
PLAZA...
CLEANERS -

age that the elk inued to
feed there in increasing num-
bers.

~ Before, two or three dozen i
would visit the ranch. Now,

they. regularly collect
groups of 100 to 150,
BECAME OVERBEARING
But in satisfying their
newly- -acquired taste for al-
falfa, thoy lost their natural’
reserve and “‘developed over-

dows the rancher's fences in.

their insistence to feed on his
alfalfa, and trampling and
fouling that fodder which
they did not consume,” the
judge noted.

Wallace said-the rancher
did not, in the Eradition of the
Old hides arr

food and wrecked fences.

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