SY GTaRW ABA dy A4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 26, 1983 { CASTLEGAR NEWS 7.1947 ¥ 4, 1990, |. 12, 1978-AUG, 27, 1900 LV. CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FED. 15, BUSHER — Burt Campbell TOR — Ron Norman FOREMAN — Peter Harv: MANAGER — Linda § oaital teln Pu ED PLANT F OFFICE W ADVERTISING COMPOSING ROOM FOREMAN CIRCULATION — Elaine Sallis sa Read ony ods odvertiser, vetied in ond belongs 10 Casile News Lid.: provided, however, erent prepared irom repre prools, engravings, ic, provided by the odvertiser shall remain in ond yihar copyright In that part and that part only of J Reflections on 12 years of education More than 200 members of the Stanley Humphries Secondary School Grade 12 class graduated yesterday, And though this is tradi- tionally supposed to be a time when we as a community welcome them into the adult world and wish them every success in the years ahead, perhaps it is also a good time to reflect on the path that led them to this point and the road that lies ahead. The graduating class has iust d 12 years of basic education for the majority of them, who now will go on to fur- doesn’t carry a price tag, but is even more important than money. But now that we as a commu- nity have invested millions of dol- lars and countless hours educating more than 200 of our young people, where do they go? What opportunities lie ahead for them in Castlegar? Unfortunately, in these economic times the answer to that question isn’t very encouraging. Many of these students will shortly begin looking for work and will be competing with others who are more experienced and who in all likelihood have more ther academic study or tech training of one type or another. Nevertheless, that 12 years repre- sents a tremendous investment — both in time and money — by parents, relatives, teachers, frien- ds and the community as a whole. In simple dollars and cents, we spent an average of more than $20,000 per student to bring them. to this point. That adds up to more than $4 million for the graduating class as a whole — a staggering figure. And money is just the jumping- off point. On top of that is the time, energy and emotional support © It's our duty, then, asa commu- nity to try to ensure these students don't leave the area to look for work elsewhere, Otherwise, we've spent millions of dollars and count- less years only to lose this commu- nity’s future. Though it may be slightly worn, the phrase that this community's youth is its most valu- able resource still rings true. And we can't afford to see that resource drift away. On a more positive note, we salute the graduates of 1983 and wish them well. They represent a group in which this community takes a great deal of pride. May this be the b from I ly Js of nity members — something that of similar successes. A lead to follow The importance of this week's . settlement between Cominco and its 4,450 employees at Trail and Kimberley cannot be overempha- sized. A strike of any major proportion would have been dev- astating for the West Kootenays, not to mention the province as a whole. Just as important, though, is the fact the two sides were able to co-operate and reach an | agree- while the un- ' derstood -workers-were not ‘about te to relinquish hard-won benefits: Asimilar scenario is shaping up in the forest industry, as Kootenay Forest Products mill manager Roger Crossley points out in an ar- ticle elsewhere in this issue. However, the situation isn't exactly the same as at Cominco. Forest industry unions and man- now have a lead which ment. Cominco ly d some of the y's they can follow. Let's hope they do. The MX: is it really the ‘Peace keeper’? By AL COLLETTI NEW YORK (CP) — Calling the MX missile the Peacekeeper is like painting a halo over the Devil. The MX grew out of one The president arm-twisted plenty to get the Senate to appropriate $625 million for testing the MX, but the big battle over the billions needed for con- ion and dep! is still to arms treaty with the Soviet Union. Critics say it may destroy the slim chances of negotiating another. The 90-tonne MX is an intercon: tinental ballistic missile, twice as ac- curate as the Minuteman, the ICBM backbone of the United States arsenal. It carries 10 nuclear warheads, each capable of striking within 100 metres of a target with the destructive force of 30,000 tonnes of TNT. The MX was conceived as a counter- force weapon for the air force, designed for one purpose — to destroy the Soviet Union's capacity to kill in a nuclear war. For more than 10 years, the: Pen- tagon has had a hard time selling MX to the public and Congress, despite the support of four presidents since the early 1970s, Debate in and out of government was fierce over where to put the monster weapon, Governors in the U.S. Midwest didn’t want it in their back- yards. It was too tempting a target for Soviet ICBMs, they reasoned, and everybody and everything could disap- pear in nuclear hell-fire. A presidential commission finally decided to put the MX alongside the Minutemen in strengthened silos al- ready in place. The Pentagon dubbed the MX the Peacekeeper. And so did President Reagan and Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger, leaders in the MX cam- paign. Weinberger argued that if the MX were good enough for four presidents, it should be good enough for the American public as a matter of national speurity. come. Reagan said he wants to use the MX as a bargaining chip in disarmament talks with the Soviet Union, when they resiime next month in Geneva. The president wrote several con- gressmen, saying: “Clearly, consistent with our national security réquire- ments, the overall level of peacekeeper deployment will be influenced by So- viet strategic programs and arms re- duction agreements.” The president may be on the right track on arms control, but the odds of succeeding are against him. The Kremlin simply doesn't trust the West and trusts Reagan even less. Ever since the Allied powers in- vaded the Soviet Union after the First World War but failed to overthrow the Bolshevik regime, the Kremlin has been obsessed with its own survival that borders almost on paranoia. Some western experts fear that with MX in the picture, arms control will be impossible to achieve because the So- viet Union will match the U.S. weapon for weapon, McGeorge Bundy, elder. statesman and confidant of several presidents in- cluding the late John Kennedy, says deployment of the MX could upset the single most important element in ef- fective deterrence: the survivability of deliverable nuclear weapons. Having a second-strike capacity is “absolutely critical" to deterrence, Bundy writes in the New York Review of Books. He served as special assistant on national security to Kennedy and now is professor of history at New York University. ANNdN44Q44CCUEUANGNUQCONEESNBE}UOUOUUCbggSqOUGOQOUAyOOdaueanaggeggunt Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the Juno 3, 1948 Castlegar News Leitnera: If your clothes don't fit let a tailor ‘with years of experience measure you for your next suit, Many fine samples to roses eee . H Draw for the leather craft purse in aid of the hospital will be held Monday, June 7th. . e Room for rent: One or two girls, apply Mrs. Frank Pagura, “Maple Street. . s * * ‘ For Sale: Used combination cook stove and heater in good condition, cheap for cash. Enquire at Zibin's; in Robson. 25 YEARS AGO From the June 26, 1958 Castlegar News Good use is being made of the old fire truck on mosquito control spraying reported health chairman Mrs. EF. Rysen at the Iast meeting of the THALIDOMIDE: 20 YEARS LATER Drug's MONTREAL — It’s been 20 years since a drug sold under the namo Kevadon made an infamous entry into the netherworld of pharmaceutical scandals, But the effects of the all-purpose dative once for effects still felt Quebec in Montreal and works for the provincial League of Rights and Liber- ties. She lives in a comfortable, self- contained basement apartment in her father's suburban home where she dreams and sch of getting more women have kept. the drug’s now- familiar laboratory name — thalidom- ide — seared across the hearts and minds of Canadians. Of the 115 deformed children born to Canadian women who took the drug, 70 have survived. Scattered across the country, they are still bound together by a scandal that shocked the world and forced per- manent changes to drug control and treatment. . Most victims the cum- money from Richardson: Merrell Inc., of th is settlements in 1975 ranging from $100,000.to $999,000, depending on the severity of the malformations. The fight for financial security con- tinues today with 14 Canadian claims, eight of them from Montreal residents represented by Philadelphia lawyer Arthur Raynes, who, together with Clevel: lawyer Donald Traci, nego- Benegbi, a pretty, dark-haired, woman who drives a specially equipped car, hopes to buy a house some day and travel. Denis Henry, 21, can't hear or talk intelligibly. He was born without ears after his mother Lorraine was given thalidomide at a hospital where she was having @ pregnancy test. Henry is co-owner and assistant. manager of a medical clinic that ive services for the. bersome artificial arms built for them in childhood, preferring instead to use their own flipper-like appendages. They now rarely rely on help from the medical professionals who brought , them together in the, 1960s. and early 1970s for three-month training ses- sions, Most grew up with their families and went to regular schools. Today, they are polishing up their formal education and making decisions about jobs, marriage and children. Mercedes Benegbi, 20, born with shortened arms, is studying to be a social worker at the University of EUTHANASIA Making By MARK LISAC EDMONTON — No Canadian doctor has ever been convicted for killing a dying patient with a lethal dose of a pain-killing drug. That is one reason medical and legal officials are watching closely the case ofa baby who died of a morphine over- dose in an Edmonton hospital’ last October. -.. Dr. Roy le Riche, registrar of the Alberta College, of F i PI deaf. The young man says his dream is to set up a full-service clinic for the deaf, There is also a recent graduate from /agricultural college, another studying to be a translator’ and -one, young. woman living in Prince Edward Island who ig married with three children. A number of the victims’ families settled privately with the company when told Quebec's old civil code forbade them to sue after one year from the date of birth. Twenty-six other families went through a long court battle in New Jersey and eventually won out-of-court tiated the New Jersey settlements. But some victims’ families settled with the company in 1969, before Raynes and Traci succeeded in court. And Marco Benegbi, Mercedes’ - father, agreed to a monthly pension of $200 in 1979 because “I believed my first lawyer, who told me I had to settle or get nothing. We were poor. So I settled.” Two years later, Benegbi heard i} Village Council. Mrs. Rysen said she accompanied the truck when it was taken on its first detail.. Three quarts of DDT and 120 gallons of oil have been sprayed on known mosquito breeding grounds near the river, A. Dube of casnegis won the Rotary Club Barrel Derby with his. guess of four hours and 24 minutes for the berrel to navigate the Columbia be- tween Syringa Creek and the Castlegar ferry. Mr. Dube was only 17 seconds out in his guess as the barrel made the run in four hours 23 minutes and 48 seconds, . * * » At the West Kootenay Mine Safety Association Mine Rescue and First Aid _ competitions June 14 at Salmo a local girls team won second prize in the novice event for First Aiders. Those comprising the team were Judy Whittaker as captain, Gerry Whittaker, Celia Rivers, Noreen Flet- cher and Linda Hesketh, * . . Fred Horcoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Horecoff of Robson has joined the Can- about larger awards the. company was making. “I” hired the lawyer the company lawyer told me to go see. We settled for $300,000.” He now is hoping ‘for “a “third ‘ settlement™~ from™'the~’ adian 's univer- sity graduate engineering program at Hamilton, Ont. Fred graduated from SHSS in 1955 and is a 1958 graduate’‘of the Provincial company whose executives he calls;:: Instituteof-Teehnology and Art in “bastards.” His daughter Mercedes is also unhappy: “I don’t see why I should be deprived of anything. I want to travel, ‘have a car, a house, live a nice com- fortable life. “T can't live in my father’s basement forever . . . I want what others can have because they work and I can't have because of a pill.” (Canadian Press) death decisions at Montreal's Clinical Research Insti- tute, told a national medical conference in Edmonton recently. Modern medicine has created an ethical crisis with a variety of new techniques, he said. “But I feel the greatest ethical chal- lenge we face is that of death de- cision-making.” Alberta Attorney General Neil paves has ge a fatality inquiry geons, ruary he had ordered the overdose. That-doctor was immediately sus- pended from’ practice by the college and has slice left for his home country of Israel. The medical director at his hospital in Israel says the man is being made a scapegoat and Canada’s lawyers, doc- tors, clergymen and legislature should “sit down and come to grips with euthanasia.” The federal government may have to come to grips with the issue within a few years. Its Law Reform Commission has published a working paper on euthan- asia. The commission found no convictions in Canada. Of 16 prosecutions in the United States, 10 ended in acquittals, two in dismissal of charges and three in conviction but with suspended sen- tences. One case resulted in a life sentence. Witnesses tend not toreport cases of mercy killing, police are not inclined to lay charges, prosecutors are not anxious to handle them and juries are reluctant to bring in guilty verdicts, the commission's study says. It says the doctors and nurses have a difficult time determining, in the cir- cumstances, exactly what society will tolerate. “We no longer know the difference between right and wrong,” Dr. David Roy, director of the Bioethics Institute of the aeath of the Abies baby. He has said the principles involved in any case of mercy killing are clear: laid, then where is this killing going to stop?” But Dr. J.H. O’Hanley of Charlotte- town, a member of the Canadian Medi- cal Association's subcommittee on ethics, said the association clearly does not endorse active euthanasia and he does not think it is practised. “All I can say is that it's not wide- spread down here where I work,” he said. “I know it just doesn't happen. I haven't heard of it happening in the Calgary. 15 YEARS AGO From the June 27, 1968 Castlegar News Two Castlegar district golfers have won honors in the Fifth Annual Silver City Invitational junior golf tourna: ment in Trail. Taking first in the junior event was Don Konkin of Castlegar with a low gross of 83. Third place went to Terry Perehudoff, also of Castlegar, with a low gross of 85. « «. Canada once more has a_ clear majority Liberal government in Ot- tawa and NDP candidate Ran Harding won the representation for Kootenay West in voting Tuesday. The Liberals have about 20 seats more than the 182 required for a clear majority in the Trudeau House, Locally, Harding, successor to vet- eran MP Bert Herridge, swept the field from the three other candidates with a lead of more than 4,000 votes over his nearest rival, Don Griffiths, candidate for the Liberal party. % * . . Kindergarten graduation for stu- dents of St. Rita’s kindergarten was held last Saturday in the Twin Rivers hall. The beginners’ school is under the direction of the Franciscan Sisters of A gz P lther: a *. *. . of a Seventh Ave. property h ia has in it an i: of deliberateness, and in that sense the normal charge would relate to homi- cide. “It would be the normal charge to result from such a situation if there is sufficient evidence.” Any change to the Criminal Code involving euthanasia should be care- fully thought out beforehand, he said in an interview, adding he is not thinking about proposing any change. “It's a complex and to a large extent moral and philosophical issue as well as a legal issue, and because of that any people who have views on it should be thoughtful and careful in their consid- erations.” Dr. Hugh Lafave of Toronto, director of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded, said it would be “unconscionable” for Crawford to re- fuse to take legal action. : Active euthanasia is clearly a crim- inal offence, he said, and groups across the country are watching what is happening in Alberta. Mary Ellen Haggerty, president of the Alberta branch of Canadian Physi- cians for Life, said she doubts the baby was the first to be killed by drug over- dose in the city. “It's not that we have a vendetta against this doctor, but he has to be charged,” she said. “If a charge isn't will almost ly be asked to look more closely at euthanasia in the wake of the Edmon- ton case and of a British Columbia court case in which parents asked for their child to be taken off a life support system, But the Law Reform Commission has not suggested active euthanasia be allowed under the law, Dr. O'Hanley said. Even if it were allowed, he said, many doctors would refuse to practise it, just as many now refuse to perform abortions. AOUAANSTREEUUUUUUDAAUUUAEANEAAUUU CEM LaRCUAANDU NN NAEAANTU ELENA Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 8H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. ENAEDOREGAEEAAQEUUUCCALUOGUUOECEAEUONLAD LEAN ATUNGGTEAEEAUATGUN Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Nevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar, ink Kinnaird for construction of a church was approved Tuesday by town council after its third week of consideration. Even council was split on the matter, however, with two of the four alder- men taking each side of a reconsider- ation vote and the actual question de- cided with two assents, one negative vote and one abstention: * Castlegar bow executive and circle members held a joint potluck supper and meeting Monday on the lawn at the home of Mrs. I. MacNeil. Twenty members were present. * 8 6 The garden of the J. Raine residence in Robson was crowded with guests from Victoria, Trail, Castlegar, Kin- naird and Robson as they enjoyed a Strawberry Social recently, sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary Association of oe Robson Community Memorial 5 YEARS AGO From the June 29, 1978 CastlegarNews = * An early morning fire Sunday com- pletely destroyed the office building of Slocan Forest Products at Slocan City. An estimate of the value of the 12-room building was not available. However, it was covered by insurance. HONORARY MEMBERSHIP . . . Koote: Ingram ‘(left) p mental in honorary nual general meeting. ig the Soclaty. Pi nay Columbia Child Care Society piesident Dale to Norma Collier, who was instru- was made during the Society's an- Erosion destroys land EDMONTON (CP) — At a time’ when the world erying out for increased food production, millions of hec- tares of Prairie farmland are being destroyed by salt pois- oning, erosion and jsoil fer- tility loss. But governments have launched no major efforts to tackle the massive problem. Various studies have found that lost income from waning crop yields across the Prairie provinces will total $6.6 bil- lion during the next 17 years. During this time, the stud- is ies say, the amount of surplus Canada has for export will drop to eight million tonnes from million tonnes. . ‘ And the big losers will be Canadian farmers and the world’s hungry countries. | Soil specialists say the 2.18 million hectares of Prairie land. now affected by salt poisoning will increase by 4,000 hectares this year. Salination occurs when the land gets too much water and 4 6 ’ Meadowbrook Dr. Castlegar Priced to sell | TODAY Century 21 Mountainview Agencies Ltd. : presents AN OPEN HOUSE TODAY 1 to 4 P.M. on weet Loge lt, Fully finlhed up ad down. Amwitt tones, | leaves salt de- Paintings given to honored members Photographs of children playing, plus examples of their artwork surrounded the approximately 85 individuals who attended the annual general meeting of the Koot- enay Columbia Child Care Society June 20. | The’ Society administers the West Kootenay Infant Development Program and Bernt Hill Children's Cen-* i esldest Dale Ingram listed changes that occurred over the past year, notably the integration of Hobbit Hill's Special Needs Program ‘with ‘regular childrens’ pro- gramming. Ingram intro- duced Marilyn Strong, the Society's news administra- An honorary membership in the Society was presented to Norma Collier, who was instrumental in beginning the Society 14 years ago. Norma was president for three years and taught in the Special Needs Program for nine years after that, before leaving to continue her work on behalf of handicapped adults. Reports followed from the directors of the Society's two Programs and from the Castlegar Community Ser- vices Centre which, although now forming its own Society, had its birth under the auspices of the Child Care Society as the Volunteer Ex- change, The Community Services Centre the board Director Ann.Holden was given a parting tribute and, in consideration of her years of dedication to the Society, was presented with a framed painting by David (Slik) aged five. of the Child Care Society with a certificate of volunteer service in thanks, Sandra Crossley, director of the Infant D CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 26, 1983 Attention Men & Boys! For An seonons . s ; Boys & , Bormett Sum Wear z “965-6761 gram has led to a steady in- crease in the demand for the services of herself and co- worker Karol Elliott, especi- ally as infants are being di- agnosed as delayed younger, and so remain on the three- year program corresponding- ly longer, In her report, Hobbit Hill program director Cathy La- fortune described the initi- ation of a fully integrated program at Hobbit Hill, cred- iting the staff and manage- ment committee for its suc- cess. Lafortune then pre- sented a slide show which showed the intense interest the centre’s “normal” chil- dren take in helping and relating to those with handi- caps or delays, The Child Care Society al- so announced that its annual membership fee will increase to $5 for individuals and $10 STRAWBERRIES | You Pick or Buy Picked”: ' G&LFARMS Grand Forks Open Every Day. Dawn to Dusk No Appointment Necessary Program, noted that increas- ing awareness of the pro- Local economy expansion eyed ‘A Manpower adjustment has been estab- posits’ during evaporation, becoming worse over time. At the same time, the studies say, wind erosion will strip 160 million tonnes of prime topsoil from farmland in the three Prairie prov- inces, which means many farmers. are working with half the topsoil their fathers used. : Nor is the Jand as rich as it~ once was. A ‘combination. of factors -bas leached the sojl’s fertility -pijd in the 65, years since the “ Prairies: were first broken to the plow, nearly 60 per cent of the original organic mat- erial has been lost. ‘TURN TO FERTILIZER In attempts to keep their land productive, Prairie. far- mers poured $239 million worth of fertilizer on to fields in 1982, “If nothing is done, West- ern Canadian agriculture will be reduced to a backyard operation in less than a gen- eration,” Don Rennie, a soil thed to research and coor- dinate programs to help pull the central Kootenay area out of the economic recession and to improve long-term employment opportunities. Representatives from the “Central Kootenay’ Regional District's Economic Develop- ment Commission, Nelson and Trail District: Labor Council, B.C, and Yukon Ter- ritory Building Trades Coun- cil, and unorganized labor sit on the committee which was established in April with hopes of lief for the unemployed, members are taking advan- tage of existing future em- ployment assistance pro- grams available through the . various levels of government. For example, the. commit- tee was able to obtain the federal Portable Wage Sub- sidy Program for the entire Central Kootenay. 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