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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Jan. 28, 1960
a0)

Kinnaird Has Best Claim
To Highway Ceremonies

Highways Minister Gaglardi has advised the
Village of Kinnaird that although plans have not
yet been drawn up for the ceremonies surround-
ing the opening of the Kinnaird-Christina Lake
highway, he feels that precedence established by
the opening of other new links of highway in
the province should be followed and the cere-
monies should be held at a mid-point on the
road. aS

“This would avoid any dispute as to the
choice of community for holding such a cere-
mony,” noted Mr, Gaglardi.

We point out, however, that this statement
would be true only if another ‘community had as
valid a claim as has Kinnaird to the ceremonies+
but they don't,

When: a new link of highway is opened in
other parts of this province, it usually means an
improved, direct link to another part of the
province, The opening of we Kinnaird-Christina
Lake link of the 3 High-.

‘The opening of this new highway means that
it will no longer be necessary for buses and auto-
mobiles to detour through the friendly forcign
nation to the south of us to get to the Okanagan
and the ‘Coast. Plane service here during the
winter months cannot be counted on and because

‘of the restless natives trains don't run. Highways

give us the right to call ourselves British Col-
umbians.

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‘That the Boundary and Okanagan have an
interest in the opening of this highway link
cannot be denied, but it is not as important an
interest as is the Kootenay's:; The number of
persons travelling » eastward from those areas

TIMELESS TOPICS

“For a- limited time only.” These familiar words are often
printed below an advertised article. First it appeals to the eye,

over the new road will be nothing in
to the Kootenay residents who will use the link
to visit the Coast. ¥

The Kinnaird-Christina Lake highway will
Join this area to, the rest of B.C. and will cut

then you notice the time to
purchase this article is limited, therefore one must act immed-
iately if.we wish to take of the offer ext

We may fill out the form, send it away and ‘in due time
receive the item, or completely ignore it, that is our privilege.

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driving time from the K to
to nine hours, For these reasons

way means more than this. tt means the joining
of the Kootenays to the rest of B.C. by an all-
weather highway route. £

Kinnaird’s reasonable request for the formal
road-opening ceremonies should be agreed to by
the Department of Highways.

CPA Must Give Service
To the Travelling Public

One of the main arguments used by sup-

porters of CPA's attempt to get a trans-Domin-

_ jon airline flight was that Trans-Canada Airlines

spersonnel, secure in the knowledge that their

held a on try flight,

did not go out of their way to be of service to
the travelling public.

In the case of the Castlegar airport, the ar-
gument used in CPA's defense against TCA can.

be used against the B.C.-based aifline.

Plane.service in and out of Castlegar is ir-
regular during the winter months. Of approxi-
“mately 150 scheduled flights in December, 1958,
January, and February of 1959, 89 flights were
unable to land here. The travelling public under-
stands the weather ‘conditions which dictate .the
cancellation of a flight and are willing to put up
with this, but what they are not willing to put
up with and should not have to put up with is
the indecision and unwillngness of CPA person-
‘nel to advise the public of changes in flight
schedules until the very last moment and of their
lack of knowledge of such simple matters as the
schedule of the airport limousine.

Last week a Castlegar resident attempted and
actually succeeded in leaving this area by CPA.
After much kidding .between the reservations
clerk and someone at the airport ("Don’t ask me
embarrassing questions,” laughed the person on
the airpert telephone when the reservations clerk
asked what time the li left Ci ) the

’ made a typical campaign remark when he

The travelling public has enough trouble
flying in and out of this District between Octo-
ber and March of every year without having its

sdificulties added to by misinformed airlines per-

sonnel,

Politicians and the Press

Always Have Their Troubles

Politicians have always liad their trou:
bles with the press and Duff Pattullo, who
ized the Liberals to victory in the 1933 elec-
tion had his troubles with the Vancouver
Province.

Speaking in Revelstoke the fiery Duff

said:

“Tam ready at any time to listen to a
Socialist and to allow him to‘speak as long
as he doesn’t advocate a course of action
contrary to. constitution practice. I'ni
not so sure, though, that under a Socialist
administration I would be given. freedom
to speak as ¥ saw fit. The Vancouver Pro-
vince has abused me a great deal, but I say
frankly, I would sooner live under a system

passenger was advised that the limousine leaves
the Hotel Marlane at 3.15 p.m, It left at 2.50 p.m.,
25 minutes earlier than the passenger had ibe
told it would,

BILL 43 — Parl 3

hereby’ such freedom of expression would
be possible than under a Socialist system,
which would very likely prevent me from
speaking at all.” — Revelstoke Review
'

later, we mect one who proudly displays the article
identical to the one we had seen offered “For a limited time
only.” What would be our reaction? We might wish we had sent
immediately, but one glance at the date tells us te offer has
expired,

God has placed an expiry date upon His priceless ‘att of Sal-
vation, Men and women view daily the wonderful redemptive
work displayed in the lives of Christians. Their attractive’ lives
create a desire for the same transformation by the power of
God. They must accept God’s offer of Salvation while the grace
of God is extended and the Holy Spirit makes them very con-
scious of their need to accept NOW eternal life.

“My Spicit Will Not Always Strive With Man,” .. Genesis
6:3, proves His offer is for a limite] time only, Accept Him now;
tomorrow may be too late. — Miss F. Clemo.

EFFORT NEEDED TO MEET COMPETITION

Canada is fortunate in the extent and Variety of its resources,
ssays the Brockville Recorder: “But we cannot . be compla-
“cent or to. take it for granted that our ‘Standard of living will
automatically, improve. Constant effort is needed to pare costs

improve products if. we are to hold our own in today's ine
creasing competition.”

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Adop! Enlightened Agreements

The Gordon Commission re-
port on Canada’s economic future
stressed two important points
that do not seem to have regis-
tered as well as they should have
in BC,

‘One was that Canada for
many years to come will have to
depend on primary industries for
its basic income. The other was

that Canada’s economy can re-
main healthy | only by adapting ie

all the oO

tion of the publi who
opinions in the poll.
‘The closest these guid

procedure and the short-term re-
In

to our economic future, came to
being recognized was, when the
following question was asked:
“Js there anything you can think
of that the provincial government
should have done, or should be
doing, to help settle labor dis-
putes?” -

Only’ 43 per cent of those
had answers. Of these

self to
world markets.

‘These points are of great re-
levance to B.C We have a hea-
vier investment in primary in-

11 per cent thought the govern-
ment should control the cost of
living, and 6 per cent thought
the “government feos. old
round-table ne

dustries, and greater
on outside markets,
other area in Canada,

By allowing our costs of pro-
“duction -to become bloated to the
point where we have priced our-
selves out of important markets

than any

omic factrs with all pasties b be.
fore strikes occur.

‘Government control ‘of living -
costs is not a practical proposi-
tion in a free society, and in any
ease could not be imposed by a
A round

we have gone against p
the logic of the Gordon report.

A recent public opinion poll
on labor-management troubles
in B.C, shows that the public is
‘aware of the need for better re-
lations, and a sounder basis for
agreement between these two

main agencies. But the heavy de-"

pendence of B.C. on outside mar-
kets and need for reasonable
production costs, was almest en-
tirely ignored by the eross-sec-

sult in

older countries with a longer ex-
perience, and where .economic

education is further advanced,
basic factors affecting the econ-
omy of the.country and the long-
er-range welfare of labor and in-
dustry, usually receive greater
recognition,

‘The. example. of Norway
might be quoted. Labor and man-
agement in the forest industries,
for instance, decide on fair
shares for labor and manage-
ment by” consultation and bar-
gaining. But the basis of sharing
is the procurable market price.

Tho ‘process is not. carried
on hind-end-to with no regard to
price or profitability. as-is the
case in BC, In other ‘words, they
share what they cah get for their
on an agreed basis.

table ic fac-
tors could bring eat basic points
of good or bad practice from the
standpoint of the province’s ec-
onomy. - .

This‘his been attempted in
bargaining procedure, but the re-.
sult is usually unwillingness of
either main party to consider
matters that do not advance their
own partecular interests.

In this. country we place -

Any increase in return comes
from increased. productivity, and
this both work. to achieve,
This may be regarded as too
advanced for B.C. But before dis-
missing the idea we should take
into careful consideration this
further fact,’ Norway 1s getting
all the forest products business
it can‘handle.
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3Ib" 69:

Water Resources Comm. Report on Columbia Power

The following is the report
of the water.

ey THREE PLANS:
The Cc

-tee of‘ the Chi

River

of Cr y

Board‘ has

B.C. as: it aaniles to the three
the of

a 1959- report to the
Joint

-Jof 2,513 feet, on the Kootenay
river at Dorr, four miles down-

stream from the mouth of -the
Elk river, the Byll River Dam

for.
Columbia river power and to the
building, of High Arrow dam 4%
miles above’ Ci

on water of t the Colum-

bia River Basin, This report de-

scribes three baile plans for the
eC R

It. will be noted that the
committee's recommendation was
changed when presented in Nel-
en Saturday fo as ‘to call for

ver Basin ‘in anda ‘These plans
@iffer” furidamentally in: the
amount of \Kootenay river water
that, would be diverted into the

ion of the | C

an
+ report.as Benten: “but withol-

ding approval of the High Arrow |”

sstorage pending clarification of
the relocation problems. involved
therein,” ea al

“(Maps of the three proposals
for the development of Colum-
‘bia river power were carried in

_ the’ Dee, 23 issue of the Castle-
Bar News, The full-text of the
committee's report was carried in
the Jan, 22 issue of the Nelson
News.)

The report, as it applies lo-
cally, follows: Y
RECOMMENDATIONS

The water resources commit-
tee of the Associated Chambers
of Commerce, of Southeastern
B.C, recommends that the As-
. 8ociated Chambers of Commerce
support, the non-diversion plan
and particularly — recommends
that plans be made for the con-'

. Struction of Libby, Mica and
High Arrow as a package. ar-
rangement time wise, so that
Mica and High Arrow will not
be secondary to Libby storage in
receiving credit, for downstream

_ benefits.

Your committee recommends
that the Associated Chambers of
Commerce oppose the Copper
Creek-Luxor and the Dorr-Bull
River-Luxor projects, both . of

* which ‘ could.” cause’ . excessive

NON-DIVERSION P|
The first is the. Non-Diver-
sion plan, which includes the Lib-
by Dam with a pool elevation of
2,660 feet,on the Kootenay Ri-
ver 13 miles upstream from the
mouth of the Bull River.. |

In this plan there will be no
diversion of water from the Koo-
tenay river into the Columbia ri-
ver. The lake above the Libby
Dam would extend upstream 95
miles, 42 of which would be in
Canada, and would have a sur-
face area of 47,800 acres, 17,600
of which would.be in Canada.

‘The luke abovd the Bull Ri-
ver Dum would extend to Canal
Flats and have an prea of 47,700
acres,

The second. is the Copper

cludes dams'at Copper Creek and
at.Luxor, The Copper Creek Dam
is on the Kootenay river 12 miles:
downstreem from Canal Flats.

, . A: lake’55 miles Jong, 39,000
acres.in area, having a pool ele-
vation of 2,711 feet,. would be
formed between Copper Creek
and Luxor- Dams, This plan
would divert an average of 3,600
cubic feet per second of Kooten-
A river water into the Colum-

ia,

' DORE DIVERSION
The third is the Dorr Di-
version ‘plan, which includes the

Creek Diversion’ Plan, witich in- | Low

to the existing division of the

on the river and’ the
Luxor Dam on the Columbia,

A lake 94 miles long, 86,100
acres in area, having a pool ele-
vation of 2,703 feet, would be
formed between the Bull river
and .Luxor dams. This plan in-
volves the pumping of 3,000 cu-|
bic feet per second of water|
from the forebay of the Dorr
Dam over the Bill River Dam,
and thus provides for the diver-
sion of an average of 8,000 cubic
feet per second of Kaotenay ri-
ver water into the Columbia, ri-
ver,

HIGH ARROW
Coupled with each of these
three’ plang is a dam called the
High Arrow Project, 416 miles
above Castlegar in’ the Lower
Arrow Lake,
:, The lake above this dam
would ¢xtend upstream 145 miles
to Revelstoke and would have an
areh of 130,000 acres, This would
be ‘40,000 acres larger than the
present area of the Arrow Lakes,
The surface of this new lake
would be about 40 feet above the
present high water level of the
er Arrow Lake and would
flood many of the summer homes
and settlements. on the Arrow
Lakes, *

three previous plans in that. it
does not create a new waterway
to divide great sections of the
country, but merely enlarges the
surface area of an existing-wa-
terway and does not greatly add

country,
COPPER CREEK-LUXOR
* - POWER OUTPUT,
Each of these plans would
produce about ‘the same amount

Dorr Dam, with a poo) elevation

+ of relocation in southeastern B.C,

of power in the Columbia River

ton.
High Arrow differs from the

Basin. The average output in ki-
lowatts would be 16,808,100, 16,-
926,500 .and 16,831,500 for the
Non-Diversion, Copper Creek Di-
version and Dorr Diversion plans
respectively,

The Copper ‘ Creek Divers-
jon plan would produce the most
power in the whole of the Basin,
the Dorr Diversion plan would
produce the most in Canada and
the Non-Diversion plan would
produce the most In the United
States of America,

High Arrow could be the key

flood control resources of the
Columbia river, High Arrow and
Murphy Creek would have 8,000,-
000 acre feet of storage and Can-
ada’s annual share of down-

be $12,500,000 from power and
$2,500,000 from flood control, a
total of $15,000,000.

those living in the Arrow Lakes,
the High Arrow project may be
i

- FAVOE NON.

Although the Non-Diversion
plan would produce less power.in
BC. than either of the-diversion
plans, the overall power produc-
tlon in the Columbia Basin is
approximately the same for all
three plans, !

Therefore, it would appear
that the .Non-Diversion plan
B.C. if additional’ benefits were
granted to this*province to com-
pensate for the larger. quantity.
of power that could be produced
in B.C, by the diversion plans.

NON-DIVERSION BENEFITS

‘The Non-Diversion plan pro-
vides the most benefits to the
Kootenays.: It permits the build-
ing of the “Libby Dam which
would give the earliest flood con-
trol for the rich agricultural land
on the Kootenay Flats near Cres-

Libby Dam, already authori-
zed by U.S, Congress, would pro-
vide. stored water. for. the pro-
duction of an additional 240,000
kilowatts of average power on
the Kootenay river between Nel-
son and Castlegar, °*
VALUE OF HIGH ARROW
In appraising the economic
and ‘social dislocation that flood-
ing the Arrow Lakes would bring
we should realize that after ih-
cluding $100,000,000 as an ap-
‘propriate | share of the cost of

THE: GREENS MADE ir. ALL: RIGHT! é

‘all $100,000 of It. Mind you it took Mr. Green 18° years -
‘and that’s what he made, not what he kept. Like the Greens,
most of us in our lifetime. will earn: more than this imposing
pile of bank notes. Question Is: how much will we keep? Sys-
._ tematic saving at the B of M. helps you keep more of what ‘
you make. dust ‘one of those 100,000 dollars will open a
“savings account, for you. Keep It strictly for saving,” and

+ there’s one thing you-.can’ say for the money. you put Into
that account. -e.you have, really got it made.

to Vancou-
ver, Kamloops. and Trail and
$60,000,000 for construction. of
High Arrow Dam, Jand and relo-
cation, the best . i

could be equally ‘attractive to|-

with other reservoir sites it has
many advantages, especially in
benefits to Canada and BC. ~ «
Costs related’ to flooding of
property for. the \High Arrow
Project would be $32,000,000 as
compared to $67,000,000 for the
Dorr-Bull River-Luxor project.

for unlocking’ the power and'|/—

stream benefits is estimated to

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LIBBY ARY

It appears that a storage dam
at Libby is essential for early
flood control for the protection
and further development of the
agricultural land on the Kooten-
ay Flats near Creston.

OPPOSE DORE PLAN

The Dorr Diversion Plan,
which precludes the development
of the Libby project should be
rejected on grounds that it would
transfer the future. power po-
tential of the Kootenay river
'from the present’ industrial dis-
trict of southeastern B.C, to an
area which has insufficient_re-
sources to warrant major gener-
Ation of power for local consump-|
tion, iu
The Dorr Diversion of Koot-
enay river water into the Colum-
bia river during the low water
Season would: reduce the firm
energy capabilities of existing
Plants between Nelson’ and Cas-
tlegar by about 30,000 kw.
In addition to this there is
the harm that: would be done to
the Kootenays by the great bar-
rier created by the flooded area
between Dorr and Luxor, and by
the removal of the opportunity
for ji on the

available indicates that every
dollar spent on the annual cost of

this project would; bring in $5 as,|

Canada’s sflare ‘of dowstream
benefits consisting of $4 from
power and $1 from flood control,
The flooding and relocation
costs would be in the order of
$32,000,000 for roads, railways
oe houses and other proper-
ies,

Kootenay River of the 240,000 kw
available under the Non-Diver,
sion Plan ig the Dorr. Diversion
plan were followed,

DELAY FLOOD CONTROL ON

‘KOOTENAY FLATS

The importance of the Libby
Project cannot be measured sol-
ely by the increased power -po-

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