A4 January 10, 1988 i ESTABLISHED AUG. 7. 1947 LV. CAMPBELL INCORPORATING THE MID: WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SEPT 12,1978 AU PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FE®. 15, 1979 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman PLANT FOREMAN OFFICE MANAGE! ADVERTISING MANAG! CIRCULATION MANAGER TWICE WEEKLY MAY 41980 UG 27 1980 Peter Harvey Linda Kositsin — Gary Fleming Heather Hadley Jed matter produced by that copyright in thot port provided by the adver Goof-up somewhere Work is set to begin tomorrow or Tuesday on construction of a per manent emergency water line from the City of Castlegar to Blueberry Creek. The line became necessary after a tractor-trailer carrying gasoline and fuel oil slid off Highway 3 and spilled its con tents into Blueberry Creek, con taminating the water. The city and its public works department were quick to come to the rescue of the 800 Blueberry residents faced with a Christmas without water. The city connected a firehose from its industrial park and ran it into Blueberry the same day the spill occurred. But in doing so the city placed it self in a precarious legal position Its water license doesn't permit the city to supply outlying areas Neither does its agreement with Celgar Pulp. Co., which pumps water from a pumphouse on the lower Arrow Lake just above Keenleyside dam. The city needed the go-ahead from the province before it could legally supply Blueberry with water. But that approval was slow in coming — 13 days, in fact. And it came then only after the city threatened to shut off the firehose unless ordered not to by the province. So why did it take 13 days to get Provincial approval when the Blueberry Creek Irrigation District approached the Ministry of Municipal Affairs for help just two days after the accident? There was a goof-up somewhere. It seems there isn't the proper mechanism in place within the provincial government to deal with such emergencies. We hate to think what would have happened it Castlegar had decided to be sticky about its legal position and had not supplied Blueberry with water during those 13 days. Even when the city finally ob- tained provincial approval, work on a permanent emergency line was held up for a month because legal technicalities had to be ironed out. Meantime, Blueberry residents had to cross their fingers that the firehose didn't burst. And what happens now? Is the ministry better equipped to deal with a similar emergency in Rob- son, Raspberry or Pass Creek? Will it take nearly two weeks to receive provincial approval for an emergency water supply and more than a month for a permanent emergency supply? The Regional District of Central Kootenay, which is ultimately responsible for the Blueberry area, should seriously look at pressing the province to ensure similar problems are averted in future. Ron Norman I don’t know about you, but I find that the- argument in favor of full-scale privatization of provincial government programs and services has holes in it big enough to drive a chip truck through. Don't get me wrong; I think some programs and services presently provided by the province may be better suited in the private sector. A good example is right in our own backyard: the summer interpre. tative programs operated at Syrin ga Creek Provincial Park. The programs were run by the province for years as part of the Parks Branch. But about four years ago then-premier Bill Bennett began to slowly privatize some services — among them the summer interpre tative programs. And so far the private contractor has done a good job. But perhaps the key thing to note about the interpretative programs are their seasonal nature. They only run for two or 2' months during the summer. There are other similar services at Syringa Creek park that are also contracted out, and which work well. For instance, the wood for the campground fires is supplied under contract. But again, it’s the kind of work perfectly suited to the private sector I” would suggest that full-time positions of a critical nature — such as policing, health care, and, yes, highways maintenance — as less well-suited in the private sector. Let's look at highways thainten ance, since that is at the forefront of the privatization issue at the moment. Granted, some of these jobs are seasonal, but for the most part, highways workers are full time employees who clear snow in winter and maintain roads in summer. There have already been many solid reasons for not privatizing highways maintenance, but I will focus on only one: level of main tenance. What will happen if a private con. tractor in a particularly heavy snow year has already reached his pro- jected budget — and it’s still early February? Will there’ be some in. centive on his part to cut back on the level of maintenance? What will happen if that con tractor finds himself in a financial bind either because he has underbid the local maintenance pro- ject, has miscalculated another maintenance contract elsewhere in B.C., or simply finds his personal finances in ruin? Will that lead to poorer maintenance in an effort to trim costs? As it stands now, if we are dis. satisfied with the way the Highways crews maintain our roads, we complain to our local MLA who in turn passes on the complaints to the Highways Ministry It works much the same way with our own city works depart ment. If city crews are slow clearing the snow from in front of my house, who hears about it? City hall. After enough flak, the local politician puts pressure on the city engineer. who speaks to the works crew foreman, who instructs his crews. If that doesn't -work, I can complain come election time. But that kind of political recourse would be lessened if the work was contracted out. It seems to me that the priv atization issue involves two warring philosophies. One says government work cap be done cheaper and more efficiently through private enter- prise. The other wonders why the work can't be done as efficiently and as cheaply with government work- ers? Surely, that is simply a man agerial problem If the liquor stores aren't doing what the provincial government wants them to, whose fault is that? If the Highways Ministry isn't as efficient as provincial politicians would like, who should address that problem? From where I sit the whole privatization: issue looks like an attempt by Premier Bill Vander Zalm to eliminate or considerably weaken the B.C. Government Em- ployees’ Union. Why else would we have a government of free enter- prisers running our programs and services who say that other free enterprises can run those same pro- grams and services better. It just doesn't make sense. Ti CAN CUSIUNMS & EA Remember When? 40 YEARS AGO + From the Jan 15, 1948 N Castlegar Air Mail for Castlegar proved to be a boon to the district. A local resident received a letter from Eng. land dated Jan. 9, The letter reached Castlegar by Jan. 12. * The Commissioners held a special meeting for assessments of new houses and buildings and adjustments on im- provements to present properties. ¢ e 8 The regular monthly meeting of the United Church met at the home of Mrs, R. Hunter with Reverend J.T. Horricks in the chair. The meeting was then declared ready for election of officers for the new year. « * * « Members of Kootenay Temple No. 37 and Twin Rivers Lodge No. 70 held a You telling me Mulroney and Reagan's free tr. igreement signing ceremonies was just kidding?” Letters to the Editor Politics not a game I saw Ed Broadbent's and Mike Harcourt's basketball game on TV and was appalled at the ignorant assump- tion that politics is nothing more than a Sinful to chop down tree I would like to inform the public of just what goes on in our midst. On Columbia Avenue you will notice on the northside of Rumford Place, there are a few blue spruce trees growing along the sidewalk. Some smart aleck had the guts to cut down one of the blue spruce for a Christmas tree for the house. Whoever cut it down doesn't realize that those beautiful blue spruce were grown from seed, planted some 25 years ago. They were taken care of all that time. It's heart-breaking to us to lose the tree. We hope whoever did this will have it on their conscience for the rest of their lives. Would they enjoy a stolen Christmas tree? Don't they consider this is a sin, especially at Christmas time? Fred Swetlikoe Castlegar Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our oftice at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gor, B.C. Letters must be signed and inciude the writer 5 tull name and addi nly in very exceptional cases will letters be published thout the writer's name. Nevertheless the nome and oddress of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity. clarity, legality and grammar game. Well it may be a game to them, but to many people in B.C. and Canada politics and the future of our country is serious business — very serious business indeed. It is so much so, that in my opinion voting for either Broad- bent or Harcourt is unthinkable. Don’t prattle on about loss of national identity Ed, we haven't had any since you and Pierre Trudeau gave Canada to the French. I must say though that both Broadbent and Harcourt seem adept at using people's fear and ignorance for their own ends. The NDP appears committed to state takeovers in energy, mining, manufacturing and banking, and the setting up of a commission to roll back prices and profits. Exchange controls, limitations on foreign investment coupled with public sector splurges to bring down unemployment also seems their mania. Can anyone imagine bringing money into Canada where they can’t get it back out again? The socialist government in New Zealand, on the other hand, seems to have embraced capitalism with a vengeance. Imagine, no more exchange controls and subsidies to farmers and money-gobbling state enterprises privatized. “Rogernomies”, said the Wall Street Journal, seta pace for reform that few countries matched. Not one word is said about $200 million a month coming into Canada from Hong Kong or the sale of a pulp mill to communist China (half-owner- ship), yet the sale of West Kootenay Power is shouted from the rooftops. The sale of featherbedding government services to the private sector will benefit us all. According to the BCGEU over 5,000 jobs will be lost by priv- atization. That's a terrible indictment of the union when the same job can be done with 5,000 fewer people. At a cost of $45,000 per job, that’s a saving of $225 million. I would like to keep the hospital medicare system and the schools under government control even if it costs more because I feel standards of service would be more uniform. But let's not kid ourselves that we have to choose soon between the best possible medicare system and the best possible system we can afford. No thanks gentlemen, keep your game to yourselves. Anyone who realizes that governments have no money of their own but just powers of taxation and that something has to be sold at a profit somewhere to provide taxes wouldn't want any part of you and your schemes. P.S. Iris, let's not compete; there are so m&ny wonderful things happen- ing in B.C. that I feel there is more than enough work for two PR representa- tives. F.W. Peitsche Fruitvale O'Connor omitted Ina recent story in the installation of a much-needed wheelchair ramp at the Castlegar Rota Villa this writer omitted the name of Mike O'Connor of West K Concrete Ltd., who donated the concrete. The ramp was installed by Rotarian Nick Chernoff of Trowelex Ltd. My apologies to Mr. O'Connor for the oversight and the sincere thanks from the Castlegar Rotary club and the Roto Villa, for this act of public service. John Charters Castlegar Rotary Club Second-best is OK By JOHN CUNNIFF Associated Press NEW YORK — Aiming to be second, not first, is a time-h ed and hil hy. Tt is an outlook that helps to avoid errors, but allows capitalization on the errors of others. It is less risky than being first; the downside is modified. It is less stressful. It probably ha’ a bigger payoff. It puts an emphasis on caution and patience. It specializes in the wait-and-see attitude. Some call it gutless. : It is a philosophy widely espoused in: year-end statements from investment advisers who, in the golden days of autumn, were urging headlong commitment to soaring stock markets. Underlying most investment advice now is the caveat that second:best isn’t always bad. It is not stated that baldly, but is inherent in such advice as “be selective” or “don't be greedy,” or “look for conservative, dividend-bearing stocks rather than high fliers.” Second-best as a way of life was cast aside in the stock market run-up to Oct. 19, but has never ceased to be the guiding rule in some other investment areas. Ask the Japanese. * For years, Americans prided themselves on exploring the scientific frontier. The Japanese watched, examined the research and then developed many of the most profitable high-tech products. “The strategy of a rapid imitator, or ‘fast second,’ benefiting from the mistakes of the pioneer, has much to recommend it,” observes Professor Nathan Rosenberg of Stanford University. —s He notes that while the United States pioneered the transistor — first successfully tested at Bell Telephone Laboratories 40 years ago — Japan was first to succeed in the large-scale commercialization of transistor technology for radios. Japan also obliterated early U.S. dominance of color television. More recently, the video cassette recorder, invented in the U.S.A., has been commercialized almost entirely by the Japanese. A tenent of the second-best philosophy is that the leader makes the errors, spends the money, subsidizes the inventors, perfects the product and does all the mundane work such as clearing patents. Second-best, meanwhile, waits patiently, conserving cash, tooling up and planning market strategy. Its research budget is limited to observing what not to do — or how to do something better. It is a strategy widely practised in real estate, where some of the best and most courageous practitioners suffer the cruellest defeats. joint of officers in the Parish Hall with some 60 members and friends in attendance. . The Wicked Lady starring James Mason and Margaret Lockwood is playing at the Castle Theatre. 25 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 10, 1963 Castlegar News “Castlegar and District Teen Town” was the name given to the local teenage organization. It was not affili ated with the Teen Town organization of B.C. at the time of the announcement but it was considered. a possibility a little later on. * 6 © A $100,000 expansion program was announced for the Trail chlor- alkali plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company early in 1963. * 8 («8 At the federal-provincial policy meeting on the Columbia River Treaty it was the stated intention of the B.C. government to imptement the treaty as negotiated and the federal government signed the treaty with the U.S. on this basis. +“ 8 « A special committee — in addition to the five standing committees — was established for the Village of Castlegar by village chairman Aage Sylvest. The special committee on air pollution had two members: Mr. Sylvest and Comm. R.C. Maddocks. * «© « At its regular monthly meeting, the Pass Creek Park Board finalized its planning for early development of Pass Creek Park. * 8 « A suggestion was laid before Castlegar council by representatives of the Castlegar Curling Club. The Club wanted the Village to co-operate with the club under the winter works pro- gram to build a five or six sheet curling club adjacent to Pioneer Arena. 15 YEARS AGO From the Jan. 4, 1973 News Increased residential and business telephone rates went into effect in the South Slocan, Thrums and Vallican ex. changes. * 8 A former priest in Castlegar, Father J.J. Morelli was one of five British Columbians out of a list of 40 Canadians to win the Order of Canada award. * 8 « An 86 per cent pay increase for teachers in School District No. 9 was announced by the arbitration board. * 8 « A successful elk transplant, sup- ported actively by Castlegar Wildlife Association, took place Dec. 19 in Deer Park-Syringa Creek area. The trans. plant consisted of four bulls, four calves and 12 cows. * 28 6 A course in fly-tying was offered by the Selkirk College department of continuing education. * 28 « Castlegar and District Curling Club and the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society were two of the four projects included in the local initiatives grants which created 62 jobs. The federal government contributions totalled $115,000. The City of Green- wood and the City of Trail were the two other recipients of the grants. Castlegar Castlegar council started review- Having ived the the land, obtained the permits and funded the cost overruns, they are greeted by a downturn in the economy. Their cash drained, they lose control. Second-best comes in with a low-ball bid, takes over the project and corrects the errors — just in time for the next economic upturn. Think of this in 1988, as perhaps more people should have in 1987. Late last summer and early in the autumn some of the wisest stock investors deserted the market, convinced that while there might still be money to be made it was much safer to sit back and be second-best. They missed some of the big profits near the market's top, but preserved their capital from the crash. Lately they have been seen buying up stocks at deflated prices and extolling the virtues of being second-best. ing b licence fees for itinerant merchants, with any eye to making thosé merchants pay more for their business licences. * 8 « An éarly retirement incentive program slated for startup this year was questioned because of salary in- creases recently awarded to Castlegar teachers. * 28 @ CP Rail installed a new “hot box” in Fernie as part of a $26 million natural program to improve the safety of train operations. The device was attached to tracks near populated areas to provide protection against derailments. January 10, 1988 News THIS PRIEST RIDES OWN MOTORCYCLE MONTREAL (CP) — Rev. Andre Leblane can't refrain from chortling heartily when he describes how some people are taken aback by his appearance. “Especially when they see my tattoos,” the Roman Catholic priest said gleefully. Without being asked, the trim, 56-year-old Jesuit lifted the sleeves of his black Harley-Davidson T-shirt to reveal a tattoo of Christ on one bicep and a motorcycle on the other. Christ obviously plays a major role in his life, but so do motorcycles. His eyes light up when you ask him for a picture of him riding his latest model. “I ride a Harley now,” he said with unabashed pride. “Soft-tail, custom.” Leblanc, who teaches liberation theology at the Laval Foreign Mission just north of Montreal and once a week at St. Paul University in Ottawa, wears a Roman collar when he says mass, but otherwise he prefers casual clothes. His jeans and T-shirts also serve as his other uniform. Every Thursday morning, Leblanc zips up his leather jacket, climbs onto his Harley and heads down to Montreal's red-light district to spend a few hours talking to young prostitutes in a drop-in centre that he helps run. He knows the young street people he’s trying to reach will not always come to him, so he wades into the seedy nightspots along Ste-Catherine Street in search of wayward souls. On rare occasions, the priest, accompanied by a friend, has gone into strip clubs to talk to the young prostitutes there. “I don't go to win converts for the church, but to help these people,” he said. “In order to help them you must get close to them.” “Jesus was close to the people and he dined with prostitutes without judging them and was not afraid to be among these people of ill-repute.” GET RESULTS One doesn't usually picture a priest sipping a draft in a topless bar but Leblanc’s superiors are quick to ‘Leblanc climbs onto his Harley and heads down to Montreal's red light district’ acknowledge that his methods, though unorthodox, yield results. At the Laval Foreign Mission, Rev. Levis Veillette was reluctant to discuss Leblanc in detail except to say he approves of his actions. “I know Andre's work and it is well recognized among his confreres,” said Veillette. “He has the support of everyone here.” Lebianc said he realizes he is given some liberty by his superiors and he is’ very appreciative of his freedom. “A lot of them tell me, ‘Andre, I could not do what you're doing, but I'm glad you are doing it.’ ” Alice Dionne, who has also worked at the drop-in centre with Leblanc, said most people don’t think of him as a priest, but as an excellent volunteer. “He's very good with people, extremely kind,” said Dionne. “And besides, we see too many really strange things here to take note of something so minor as that.” For 14 years, Leblanc worked as a missionary among the poor in Chile, Honduras and Guatemala, helping them stand up for themselves. He considers working on Montreal's mean streets to be a continuation of his efforts in Latin America. 1§ MISSIONARY “I became a priest to become a missionary,” said Leblanc. “I did not want to concentrate all my efforts on solving the church's problems but on solving the people's problems. And I can do this right here in Montreal.” He also seems to be able to do it in his own unchar- acteristic way using his own unique methods. But his casual dress has caused him minor problems from time to time. “I was invited to speak to a group at a week-long spiritual retreat out of town once and I have no car, so I decided to go on the motorcycle,” he recounted. “I arrived on my bike wearing my leather pants and my leather jacket and I was immediately asked by someone at the door ‘What do you want here?’ When I told him I was the priest, he couldn't believe it,” Leblanc chuckled. Leblanc uses the story to bolster his argument that the sterotyped image of priests as kindly little old men with Irish accents patting the heads of children and threatening the members of their congregation with damnation on Sunday mornings is an outdated one. “All of that has to change,” said Leblanc. “Most people don’t realize that there are some priests among them wearing jackets or blue jeans — some of them even swear.” Fat cats have it made Parliament Hill felines well fed By DAN DUGAS Canadian Press OTTAWA — The fat cats of Parliament Hill have it made — free accommodations, free food, their every need looked after by devoted government workers. Purring the day away, knowing they'll be pampered for the rest of their lives, they make their home in the shadow of the Peace Tower. These are real cats. And although they don’t quite live the lives of members of Parliament and senators, they're well-fed felines and have been for a long time. The cats’ story began with a mysterious old lady, Irene Desormeaux. No one knew much about her or exactly when she startedbut every day — rain, shine or snowstorm — she trudged up the hill leading to Parliament, her back bent by the weight of shopping bags full of cat food. She had a long walk — four kilometres from Hull, Que., on the other side of the Ottawa River. When she appeared, a dozen or so strays would hop the wrought-iron fence from their hiding places and rub them- selves on her legs as she deposited the day's goodies near the west entrance to the main House of Commons building. So devoted was she that, with the help of a couple of office workers, bread-box-sized hutches were built for the cats about five years ago. The hutches nestle beneath bushes near the statue of William Lyon Mackenzie with its inscription: “Duty was his law, conseience his ruler.” When Desormeaux died last summer, conscience ruled and caring for the cats simply fell to groundskeepers, nearby office workers and regular visitors. “Here guys, come on out,” calls head groundskeeper Ed LaFranchaise as he bends back the bushes to show off the Commons cats. And out they come — orange. tabbies, a couple of black and whites, a grey-colored scrapper who appears to have lost his last fight and part of an ear, all looking for the familiar hand-outs. $< ———" ntative of the Bank will be in on to discuss your Business’ Financial and Management needs. Why not call us today at 426-7241 (collect) to arrange an appointment La Banque oftre ses services __ dans les deux langues oficielles BACKING INDEPENDENT BUSINESS o jank de développement ® Canad at Busi: Banque {édérale “You can see they're not suffering,” LaFr says. “Look at the size of them.” A box of Kentucky Fried Chi¢kent and remnants of a sandwich sit in front of one of the hutches. MEET STANDARDS LaFranchaise recalls the woman, know affectionately as the Bag Lady because of the bundles she brought, and knows he has standards to meet. “She'd check the boxes and change their paper,” he says of Desormeaux's daily ritual for at least 10 years. “She'd have plastic bottles with her and fetch clean water for them every day from the fountain.” In the winter, she'd got into the Commons building and get the water from the women's washroom. Desormeaux was so well known that when U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited Parliament earlier this year, she was let through a security cordon that halted access to the Hill for all but a select few. Vietnam's ‘little Gorbachev’ By PETER ENG Associated Press HO CHI MINH CITY — A few years ago, food company manager Nguyen Thi Thi barely escaped arrest by Vietnamese authorities who disliked her western-style business’ practices. Now authorities point to her as a praiseworthy example of the new wave of entrepreneur in Communist-ruled Vietnam. The rehabilitation of Thi and her Food Co. of Ho Chi Minh City illustrates the changes Vietnam has made in the year since Nguyen Van Linh, 72, became general secretary of the Communist party. Sometimes called “the little Gor. bachev,” a reference to reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Linh also speaks of restructuring and ‘openness. His western-style reforms, including limited free enterprise, are designed to revive an economy strangled by dogmatic central control. Linh says his top priority is improving living cond- itions. . In his populist style, Linh has told officials to listen to the people, encouraged public debate and even pitted himself against the entrenched bureaucracy with a regular newspaper column that blasts corruption. Slocan man dies Raymond Salisbury of Slo- can, B.C. passed away Dec. 21, 1987 in the Castlegar Hospital at the age of 55. A miner and construction man, he moved to Slocan 20 years ago and worked throughout the area, on the Waneta Dam and drilling the Slocan Bluffs, as well as in mining. He leayes his wife Marg- aret in Slocan and two sons, Bill of Coleman, Alberta, and Ronald of Powell River; one granddaughter Marin; three brothers Chuck of Castlegar, Brian of Ottawa and Norman of Ottawa; and two sisters, Pauline of Victoria and Jean of Lethbridge. There was no service by his request. Planning a June Wedding? We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins etc. me See Us At 197 Columbia Ave. and all should be well! home Yes, by 9 a.m. Sundays you should be enjoying your Sun day Castlegar News it you're not, we want to correct the matter. Hf you fail consistently to get 7 Sunday Castlegar News 9 a.m., then phone us Y . Call 365-7266 and ask for cir- letion. DONATIONS Are now being, accepted for Rosemary Condy ‘and her three children due to the New Year's Fire which destroyed A TRUST FUND HAS BEEN SET UP AT KOOTENAY SAVINGS CREDIT UNION Castlegar their Signposts of change abound in Ho Chi Minh City, the commercial centre formerly called Saigon, and in the frugal national capital, Hanoi. Many families have turned homes into private shops peddling a wider variety of goods, and new buildings are going up. Newspapers speak of “decadent” behavior by officials, complaints of soldiers in Kampuchea and other once-taboo topies. In the early 1980s, Thi tan’ Ho Chi Minh City's official rice distribution network and made it prosper by violating widely accepted principles. She reduced her staff of state workers, paid higher wages to the more productive workers and built a net- work of family-run businesses prod- ucing other types of food. One day policemen surrounded her office. She credits Linh, who was then Communist party secretary in the city, and Mayor Vo Van Kiet with protect: ing her. Thi, a Viet Cong guerrilla operative who had fought U.S.-led forces in the Vietnam War, still runs her company, and her principles now are enforced nationally. Linh joined the anticolonial move- ment as a youth when France still ruled Indochina. He endured years in French jails before the Communist victory over French forces in the North, and for decades organized the underground Communist party in the South. After the 1975 Communist victory in South Vietnam and the pullout of U.S. forces, he gained national attention with pioneering economic reforms as Ho Chi Minh City party secretary. He was dropped from the national Polit. buro by hard-liners in 1982 but was reinstated in 1985. Then, in 1986, party chief Truong Chinh, strategist Le Due Tho and Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, all party co-founders, dramatically re- signed after taking responsibility for an economic crisis that had undermined confidence in the party. “Look squarely at the truth,” Linh told the congress which approved him as national party chief. Vietnam, one of the world’s poorest countries, had been left behind as its non-Communist Southeast Asian neighbors advanced economically. Under Linh’s reforms, private enter- Coming Soon . ./. 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