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Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist

The salutation in that letter from

amumber, acipher, a SINful iG

If I hadn't realized it before, I
knew then that time had suddenly
slipped and slurred. I had finally
ceased to exist as a separate, wob-
~/ bling, ‘social molecule: one with a
“- conscience, a brain, ‘a soul, an
“ opposable thumb, a name. I had
gone at last to my’ Final Enumera-
tion, unwept, unhonored and

mny friendly government was a blow’ ‘unsung. The Machine said so.

from a wrecker's ball at the base of
the skull: “Dear 701-269-754 “, it
began bluntly, belligerently, numer-"
ically.

A few casual strokes on the com-

“puter keyboard and I had become

_ Digital: Man, together with every-
one else in The AlphaNumerical

A simple error? A human error?’ Age. And those symbolic grunts we

A sub-human error? Like that
mythical monkey with the typewrit-
er which, given time, infinite time,
will write, by pure chance, the
whole of the Britan-

learned to join together a million
years ago when we swung down
from the trees (grunts a.k.a. lan-
guage) are no longer required.

nica? Just some stumble-thumbed

F pickup truck

i really enforced.

the legislative process.

Jaw into its own hands' so-to- speak.

trucks.

that town ever again.

1995.

A time for common sense

; After speaking with retired coroner Paul Oglow of Castle-
| gar, it was surprising to realize that there is presently no legisla-
, tion disallowing the transportation of humans in the back of a

H Most of us had always assumed it was illegal - yet never

Surprisingly, riding in the back of a pickup truck is a danger-
ous practice that the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act permits.

However, the recommendation made by Paul Oglow and
others like himself to various provincial bodies calling for such
a practice to be disallowed is currently making its way through

Will it take awhile? More than likely, yes.
Meanwhile, one city in this province has already ‘taken the

Penticton. Home of the Peach Fest and a real happening
Place during the B.C. Day long weekend.

So happening in fact, that 42 party-goers were treated in the
city's emergency department last year after suffering from
injuries while riding in the cargo space of various pickup

In order to control both public safety and street theatrics,
Penticton City council has passed a third reading bylaw which
will no longer permit anyone to ride in the back of a tuck in

Allowing the act simply does not jive with the province
wide initiative to have a 95 per cent rate of seat-belt use by

and

of a pickup truck is even worse.

is i it will

still be up to citizens to exercise some common sense. Riding
in a vehicle without a seatbelt is dangerous. Riding in the back

Island?
Yugoslavia?
-@19th) known?

}) What, precisely, is an ‘ode’?

-2) President Tito.
- 3) Home on the range.
4) About 1,000 BC.

and not necessarily to music.

Little Knowledge _

) Whence came the name Galiano oe m Galiano
<2) Who was the first. president ‘of the Repu ic of
}): For what popular melody i is Dr Brewster Higley
4) Roughly how long ago was the Bronze Age)
.) From Dionisio Alcala Galiano, captain of the

Spanish ‘vessel Sutil which explored the Straits of Geor.
ga in-1792. Galiano was killed at Trafalgar

5) Strictly speaking, an ode is an emotional poem
written to be set to music. Common usage would have it
as a lament for some thing or person no longer with us

ona ?
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
damn! I think it was done deliber-
ately, done with malice a fore- and
after-thought, So I'm prepared to
assume the worst. And complain.
No Dear Mr, Jackals or Jessels or
Jeckyls (my name tends to get
mucked about a bit in official
records), no Dear Mortgaged and
Malingering Tax Payer, not even a
minimal Dear Sir. Just figures arabic:

only, please, in the world
of 1989, '
» So if he were alive today, Shake-

Close-Caring. Significant Other Hi
it’s now precisely one two zero zero
hours.'And I’m, like, y'know,
right?, talking Pee Ess Tee.’ Okay?
“Idiomatic and user-friendly, yes,
but I still think it lacks something of
the harmony, rhythm and grace of
the original.

So TI am now Citizen 701-269-
754 and I live happily’ with a
woman called Citizen 722-855-085
in a small suburban house which
bears the friendly and enchanting
name V7E 5G6. I have eight bank
accounts, all with different code
numbers, but not counting the four
in and El Salvador. A

and I have 1.0°children a: 3.5
grandchildren. There's an old car at
the door we affectionately call LLB
215 but we never use it. i

722-855-085 does all her shopping
at'1-800 plus any six-digit letter

ode:

PIZZAS from Chicago, for
example, if she feels peckish on ‘a
Friday night. That way she can
shop the world without ever leaving
V7E 5G6 or putting gas into LLB
215,

So we're just your average, | Inid:

Wednesday, July 10, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

Letters to the Editor .

If Earth sent us a message - we didn't hear it

" Dear Editor,
: Lightening flashed over
Krestova, there was a power fail-
ure, smoke came out the back of
my radio, but suddenly I thought
T heard the following report from
an unidentified radio station:
“The US. isn't going to go to
war over. any Mt. Mumbo
Jumbo”, said George Bush today
in an unprecedented address to an
emergency meeting of the U.N.
General Assembly in New York,
The speech came amid
rumours that dissidents in the
are secking Congres-

back, clawed-backed,
alphanumbed, credit-carded, SIN-
coded Canadian family. At last

man has to beat Wilsonian claw-
back somehow, for heaven’: 's eee

tally, I counted no fewer than 48
codes and ciphers attached to my

Ina Iw
State Soldier M13429, but that Was
long ago'so let's forget it. If you
want to hold warm and friendly

speare would be
his Sonnets to the Dark Lady using,

almost solely, the binary number .

code: is one or zero and
; No variations allowed. So I wonder,
vaguely, how he'd recast his sweet
but shadowy “When I do count the
clock that tells the time/ And see
the brave day sunk in hideous

"2
Something like this: “Timewise,

with me, sorry, I now
have to say dialogue, I have another
name. Put your digit in the dial and
call me 271-9847. And if you're
doing it from a distance, add my
Christian name, will you? That’s
604, But don’t try to FAX me. Iam
the last living Canadian to be fax-
less, I refuse to put yet one more
numerical tattoo on my soul and
psyche. 722 (that’s her nickname)

person, And that doesn't
include hat size, foot, neck, chest,
sleeve, waist, weight, and: the
replacement ribbon for my word
processor. Mannesman Tally 180,
6N542-O-D, if you're interested.
Go ahead. Try ordering that one
by phone when you have a bit of a
Churchillian lisp and the clerk is
bent on leaving for lunch. . .. or a
spot of aftemoon lust. :

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal
of The Open Learning Institute.

Beta)

By Don Addis

BoRN IN CAPTIVITY

(0.1991 Creators Syndicate, tne. ss

Slings
and
arrows

Nigel
Hannaford
Syndicated

Presently before the BC Human
Rights Council is a ca:
nicely illustrates i
ma which can sneak up on a person
in the course of a day’s work. rs

Cecilia Moore, a 30 year old
woman who is a Roman Catholic,
was fired in 1985 from her job as
an auxiliary financial worker with
the Social Services Ministry
because she refused to sign docu-
ments covering a it’s abortion
expenses. Her suit with the council
charges religious discrimination,

At one level, it’s fairly clear. The
supervisor said “Sign it!”. She
refused an order and was fired for
insubordination. When the boss
says do something, you refuse at
the risk of your job.

On another level, it’s not clear at
all. During the Nuremberg war tri-
als, dozens of Nazi officials were
accused of various war crimes
including the murder of prisoners
of war and the deportation of Jew-
ish people to concentration camps
and all that went on there.

Their response was that they just
followed orders.

It didn’t wash at Nuremberg,
however and those that weren't

No such thin

StatsCan says the recession is
ending, but you wouldn’t know it
he

Canadian Pacific’s venerable
Chateau Montebello, which prides
itself on being known as the world’s
largest log cabin, should be packed
with vacationers trying to beat the
July heat of Montreal, Toronto and
New York.

But not this year.

The hotel is busy, but business is
down. And the story is the same in
the which line

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eprom erent wimtgean tte «ape

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the main street of this quaint Quebec

village.

We arrived here by boat. A pleas-
ant two-hour sail down the Ottawa
River from the nation’s capital.

‘As we left‘ we were treated to a

executed got long prison sentences.

The heat that has been generated
by the ongoing debate over abor-
tion may have obscured many
aspects of the truth but one thing
which both sides seem agreed upon

‘is that there is a moral dimension to

i

it. The lesson of Nuremberg would
appear to be that when a person is
called upon to do ing which

Forget about the Nazi officers
for a minute. Think about the
French policeman who knocked on
some hapless Jew’s door in occu-
Pied France and asked him to
accompany him to the police sta-
tion. Then there would be the bus
driver who transported the man to
the railway station, the porters and

violates their conscience, the usual
disciplinary code should break
down.

In other words, all those Nazi
officers on the witness stands
should have said ‘no’ when con-

~ fronted with some outrageous order
that they knew to be wrong. (Easy

for us to say, of course. At the time,

“it would have been a quick way to
which “va penal battalion on the eastern
dilem:: X front. They had every incentive to

follow orders.) ~
So does the morality of Nurem-

" berg apply to the people of BC? .

Yes.

uy who got them on the
train, the driver who operated the
engine, the people who stamped the
Papers. We haven't even got to
Auschwitz yet, but already dozens
if not hundreds of people have lent
their shoulder to the wheel that
ground the life out of hundreds of
thousands - millions - of people.
History will have little to say
about their part in it - and few ever
came to court - but they were a part

of the system as much as thecamp'
* guards and the men who never saw't

‘ the chmps but caused tlieiti to exist.
The difference if any, is one of
degree, not kind.

So we come back to abortion in
British Columbia today. A clerk in
an office may have to stamp-a
Paper for a woman to receive an
abortion; a receptionist may direct
her steps and a nurse prepare her.
We haven't even got to the doctor
who is to perform the operation yet,
but the nature of the system is evi-
dent. Most involved would deny
that they were baby-killers; some
might even feel that that they were
doing a good deed.

The end result of it, though, is is
that a life is silently but painfally
terminated.

Many people today - a majority,
some claim - feel that abortion as
birth control is wrong, immoral.
One may express the hope that our
legal system will show a little more
compassion than the fascist state
and permit: conscientious objection
where the moral basis of orders is,
to say the least, an object of debate.

eee

the. towering cliff on which the Par-
liament Buildings sit, one or two
pleasure craft at anchor. It's the per-
fect way to take a quiet break, just
minutes away from the office.
Jean-Claude Lacasse has “flote-
botes”—aluminium barges powered
by outboard motors—for rent by the
hour at Hull’s modem and well-run
marina. But on warm sunny days
when he should be sold out, there
are still rentals available.’
“This town is supposed to be
recession proof,”’:he says,,“but that
isn't true: when it comes to recre-
ational and other discretionary
nt
eee number of
boaters from Quebec City, Sorel and

they openly wonder how we Cana-
dians can afford to live. Fuel costs
about twice as much here as in the
United States.

Taxes are only part of the prob-
lem.

‘You can blame taxes for the high
cost of gasoline, cigarettes and
booze. (We who neither smoke nor
drink thought we had it made until
‘we got into boating. Now checking
the comparative price of fuel has
become a daily ritual, like reading
the stock prices.) +

But another big part is regulated
Prices.

Canadians pay more then Ameri-
cans for milk, eggs, chicken—the
basic elements of every family’s

other Se. L

‘sailed to Ottawa with their red .

‘maple leaf fags flying high to mark
Canada. 3

‘But there: ‘were. few,

y
That's because those prices are
set—not by the market—but by the

g as recession proof

Marketing boards guarantee the
least efficient producer a decent liv-
ing, and the most efficient a finan-
cial windfall. The system makes
agri-business rich at the expense of
the consumers who can’t afford the
high price of Canadian milk,
cheese, eggs and chicken. This is
clearly unacceptable.

Canadian consumers are being
forced to head South, and so far,
despite our scenery, there is no com-
pensating tide of Americans heading
North, either by car or by boat.

We finally did meet an American
group here at Montebello. Their
boat bears the name of Diamond Lil
and lists her home as St. Johnsbury,
‘Vermont.

They've been coming here for
years, but this year has been too
much even for Diamond Lil.

be seen along the Ridesa or
Rivers. boating

lar view of the Parli
Buildings, looking up from the
Ottawa River behind the parliamen-

; tary Library. Ticked ‘away beneath

ng boards.
If Canada is to become competi-
tive with the A then the

the ion and high
Canadian Prices, their two-week
tour has been cut back toa long

government has got to lower the tax

The government: can't lower

1s taxes until the deficit is under con-

trol, hopefully in the nest ‘year’ or

‘Not long enough for Canadian
tourist eperalors.

CFTO-

Duffy y hosts ios Editon o on

sional support for massive retalia-
fory strikes against Earth for ther

located in the Phillipine Islands.
Dissident former Chief of New
World Order military operations
General A, Shaw called fora
joint U.S. Soviet nuclear strike
against the biosphere: “Today
Subic Bay and Clark Field are
cinders, tomorrow it will be New
York and Washington, D.C. It's
time to forget these bleeding
heart planet huggers and get out
there and kick some pl: y

tary. radiation’ shield and ‘global’
climatic system”, said one, who
noted that even if Bush was
tempted to push the button, the

military budget for this year has,

already been blown over Kuwait.
Sporadic reports that occan

currents in the Pacific briefly.

spelled out a warning message
using floating volcanic ash were
firmly denicd by Pentagon

butt.”
Sources close to the President
said Bush believes that civilian
of earth requires no

with the computers”, said one,
referring to the fact that all spy
satellite data i ee first processed by
Califor-

assistance in finishing the planet
off. “We're going to triple our

recent di ic assault
on the largest of the U.S. over-
seas military bases, which were

Award was not won si

Dear Editor,

Recently I received a Citation
for Citizenship Award in Ottawa,
It was indeed a great honour to
receive this award. I would like
to thank the Castlegar Multicul-
tural Society for nominating me
for this award, John Armstrong
of International Education,
Selkiic College, for the letter on

my behalf, and the City of Castle-

the

bers to 15 billion within 50
years, and we've already done a
fine job destabilizing the planc-

During our visit to Ottawa,
Lyle and Vera Kristiansen, our
local MP and his wife, were
excellent hosts and helped to
make our trip a memorable one, I
wish to thank them publicly for
being so gencrously with their
time and assistance.

This award my

rae

nia, a Enowa hotbed of planet
hugging computer hackers,

An obscure political formation
thought to speak for the planet,
the Greens, couldn’t be located

ognized, I certainly did not win
this award single-handedly.
Many individuals and organiza-
tions worked along beside me.
School District #9, the City of
Castlegar, the Kiwanis Club, the
Rotary Club, the Castlegar
Selkirk’ Lions, the Knights of
Col the Royal Canadian

community volunteer work —
mainly my work in helping peo-
ple from nationalities become

Legion, and the Catholic

for Comment, Analysts stated that
Green politics failed to find sup-
port from the masses who felt
to concem th

with the short term even as they
knew deep in their hearts that
there consequently would be no
long term. “They said the Greens
weren't living in the Real
World”, said one former member,
“The Real World is speaking for
Herself", said another.

Outside the U.N., Bush for-
merly denied the Earth’: ‘8 power
saying, “New World Order is in
control. If Barth did send us a
Message we didn’t hear it.”

David Lewis
Cresent Valley

ingle-handedly

I would like to especially
thank Marti Howard, Sally
Williams, Mary-Beth Small, and
anid Price (City Clerk) for their

e])

One hundred and Eighty—three
people have become Canadian
citizens in Castlegar since 1985.
This was possible because of the
fine co-operation and enthusiasm

Women’s League all partici
each time we held orientation

Although I

“acr for supp
so completely,

was the individual that was rec-

1 and citi hip
monies,

cere- -

ree om ie
nity. Thank you to everyone.
Alexia Tumer

The surface of artisite pollution protesters

> Dear Editor:
* Now that everyone has studied

Skill is no longer valued. The
public may desire art as it was

the techniques used by envi
mentalists over the years to gain
attention for their causes, it was
only a matter of time before artis-
tic pollution protesters would sur-
face.

i) The Committee to Remove
Artistic Pollution (CRAP) staged
Q protest outside the National
Gallery on Ottawa Tecently,
awarding the prestigious five
doo-doo rating to the “artistic”
works inside: the $1.5 million
‘painting” consisting of three.
‘swipes'on canvas thatsome M.Ps~
-claimed they could havé done
-with.a paint roller, the famous
“sculptures” consisting of slabs
prof beef, and perhaps most

notably, a collection of what .

looks like gigantic piles of fresh,

_ Booey cow dung strewn on the
' gallery floor.

High artistic mucky-mucks

! explained that we, being the great

unwashed, can’t be expected to

understand that to artists today,

“only the conception matters.

d by bygone ages, but
this is what artists are producing
today.”

The “conception” is that the
Public is so divorced from art that
the artists th Ives express

to direct funds,

My sentiment is with CRAP. If
the National Gallery has decided
“art” today is a piece of #*$1, get
rid of it. Let the government
money go to those who still

struggling in poverty trying to
express their vision,

David Lewis

themselves by presenting them
with a piece of @$*! The biggest
joke of all being that this work is
actually welcomed by the cura-
tors, and the “artists” laugh all the
way to the bank. This kind of
thing had been going on for

decades -and it ts ; wearing a bit +...

Tt would |

pitt bree eda

‘fun to watch the
the

the “artists” and curators would
then bleat about how important it
is for the public to be presented
with piles of #*&!, that to cut out
art is to cut out the soul of civi-
lization, etc., ad nauseam.

There are plenty of artists try-
ing to give full measure in an age
of dearth, an no one has ever
been able to consistently figure
out who is who when attempting

Obituary
Mike Plotnikoff

On Friday, July 5, 1991, Mike
’ Plotnikoff of Pass Creek passed
, away at the age of 89 years.

Funeral service will be held at
(the Castlegar Funeral Chapel
! beginning Sunday, July 7, 1991
‘at 7:00 P.M. and will continue
‘ Monday, July. 8, 1991 at 10:00
‘A.M. with burial at noon at the

Pass Creek Cemetery.

Mr. Plotnikoff was born
November 3, 1901 in
Saskatchewan and came to Pass
Creek with his parents in 1910.
_He lived most of his life at Pass

.Creek. He worked as a farmer .

_and in logging and sawmills of
,Kootenays. Mr. Plotnikoff
‘enjoyed his farm animals espe-
cially his horses and was an avid
‘ gardener.
He is survived by his 3 sons,
. Mike, John and Pete all of pass
Creek, Sixteen grandchildren and
“thirty-two grandchildren. One
brother, Bill of Castlegar, and
“one sister, Pearl Voykin of Hill-
;erest, Alberta. He was prede-
"ceased by his wife, one son, two
brothers, Nick and Alex and two
"sisters, Mary Soukoroff and Polly
‘ Shmoorkoff.
Funeral arrangements are

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