+ CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 30, 1976 Winners tn the Recent Bike Decorating Contest for Enries in the 10 to 13 Age Group During 4 Blueberry Creek Fall Fair are Sandra Matt, Rebyn Hyson and Scott By Murray Little THE EARLY BIRD—Yes you have to be one if ie you play or watch pumeear::; childrens’ hockey. ; . Down to the new a arena this past Sunday am. we see the Pups at hockey school. Basics being - taught, like how to cross over your feet, Lots of prat falls. Lots of moms watching; not so many pops. ° PERILS OF THE ROAD— ‘on the way, could not help but note the many chuck-holes in Columbia's not-so-new surface, like the bone-shakers at the curve by H&R Brake and Wheel. These are deep, and come up suddenly, You have to. be alert Surely they have been’ there long enough, city fathers? And are we thinking ahead about some route to _ Credit Card Fraud Booming In Beautiful British Columbia In beautiful British Colum- ia, credit card fraud is a boom- ing business. +s) Those little pieces of plas- * tic, worth only a few cents each, were used in 8,591 frauds in BC, during 1975. Take prostitution and bawdy house offences as ex- amples of crimes treated quite seriously by some’ provinces and ignored by others. 2 In’ Ontario (population eight million) last year, 2,189 offences were re- to : * Canada's preliminary crime. & figures for the year, no other = province—including the popula- j.tion centres of Ontario and Quebec combined—had as may. <"eredit card frauds as B.C, £ Ontario, like B.C. a pros- ; perous place, recorded 2,103 + ‘cases, for an increase of 2 per “téent. Quebec had only. 1,820 © ‘eases, down by-17 per cent. e-"" But B.C.'s rate shot up by ; /246.9 per cent. One Stat. Can. : 2 ‘official offers the theory that 'B.C.'s drug problem is behind ithe credit card statistics. He « ‘contends a large addict popula- + tion uses the cards to support the costly habit. The federal Litera fening of penalties for credit ‘card theft, possession and use. {2 It's no longer classified as a ‘minor theft, the penalty isup to 10 years in prison. Anyway, each region has its own crime personality. ported by police. On top of that, there were 1,050 bawdy house charges in Ontario. But in Quebec, where the population is only two million less, law enforcement officers must have looked the other way. Only 691. prostitution’ cases were reported in LaBelle . ‘Province, and only 56 bawdy house cases. Then; there is the matter of “crime waves"—the uneven ebb and flow of crime from pro- vince to province. ay For example, Prince Ed- ward Island last year had a 21.2 per cent increase in its rate of Criminal Code offences—the largest of any province. Mean- while, New Brunswick, a Mari- time neighbor, had a decrease of 1.8 per cent. One crime phenomenon which Statistics Canada is pre- paring to study, in. greater detail soon is the “Western-in- , clined” crime scene in Canada.* In general, the farther West you travel in Canada, the higher the crime rate. The sta- “SHOES THAT MAKE AN, IMPRESSION FOR SAVAGE SHOES AND + ALL_YOUR FAMILY FOOTWEAR Phone 365-7025 — Pine St. — Castlegar Welcome SHARGEX Stay Your Healthiest! |Poramettes Multiple Vitamins| “With Vitamin C Plus IRON Daily . ‘250 Tablets Family Pak reg. 11.00 This Week at Castlegar Drug .......... $8 95 tisticlans are trying to deter- mine whether the frontier areas of the West and settle- ment patterns influence the figures, Finally, not only crime patterns vary from place to place, but so do police success rates. Quebec, which is the murder capital of Canada, has 79.3 per cent of the unsolved gangland murders in the ate But Stat. Can. reports in its study, Homicide in Canada, that even if unsolved gangland slayings are subtracted from Quebec's total, the province is well ahedd of the national average in unsolved murders. the pulp mill for the ‘long procession of chip trucks, ete.? So far the drivers have done well, but there will be the inevitable failed brakes some- day! oe 8 ee, WHATS NEW?—Well,’ like cedar, shakes. This old and: once expensive product of our forests is now finding favor all, over the place, or did you notice? “Update” you have all seen. Then there is the octagon home down by the tennis courts. But take a look as well at Ootischenia and Pass Creek. Shakes are jake. Ct a ONE MAN'S ART—Just east of the airport is this chap adding on to his mobile home. Hasn't had time to landscape completely, but. joyously’ dis- played in the centre of a small flower bed is a four-foot sculp- ture of a Grecian maid, just being graceful. Look for it! Age Catches Wizard Who Fascinated World He has walked on_ fire,’ swallowed swords: and drunk molten iron, but the Great ‘Longo says the most difficult feat of his long career was taming cockroaches. ‘At the age of 105, Dintist Ivanovich Longo of Russia is alert but bedridden, his face shrunken behind a magnificent grey It is many years since he astonished the world by. train- ing cockroaches to swing on swings, open tiny newspapers and rush at his command to a miniature table where they sat in tiny chairs and ate from tiny dishes. Mr. Longo, who billed himself as the only man ever to+ tame cockroaches, says such men as Thomas Edison, Leo .Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov were envious of his secrets and longed to learn his skills. | A magician, dervish and snake charmer, The Great Longo performed from the 1880s to the 1940s, travelling — through the United States and Canada as well as through Rus- sia, Asia and the middle East. Longo’'s story comes froma newspaper and there is no way of confirming much of what he says. He says he was born in the Caucasus republic of Azerbai- jan, near Iran, and was sent to live with his grandfather in Moscow when he was seven. . Four years later he ran‘ away “to live with Indians and pirates,” but got no. farther than Moscow's busy central market, where he was taken under the wing of. an Italian magician named Angust. An- tonelli. Soon the boy was walking. on red-hot coals and. on the points of sharpened swords. He learned’ a trick “by which he says he made a human embryo appear in a beaker of clear liquid and grow before the * astonished eyes of his audience into a smiling year-old baby. But Longo was still looking for Indians and pirates, and soon’ he had run away again, this time to stow away on a steamer, heading for Constan- tinople. In Turkey, he joined a troop of dervishes and learned their’ whirling dances, their religious rites and “their tricks and hocus-pocus.” Back in Russia toward the end of the 19th century, Longo joined forces with a giant, Ivan Vakulin, and a midget, Joseph- .ino Kron, and set off to tour the world performing such tricks as putting his hands inside a erocodile's' mouth: and kissing deadly anaconda snakes, His cackatoo, | Arra, A Lhe This and A Lite Thet Prohibition Vote-Castlegar the Wettest in the Interior GEMS FROM THE PAST —From the Revelstoke Review 60 years ago column we read: “Revelstoke voted $55 for Pro- hibition and 227 against it. The wettest place in tho’ interior . was Castlegar, which cast only three votes for Prohibition and 206 against.” If this indeed be true, will some real oldtimer tell me what the heck was going on in’ Castlegar in 1916 to assemble that many votera? And did the three “for prohibition” have to Meave sownd, . WE “REGRET TO RE- PORT DEPARTMENT—To this: writer the low-rental housing subdivision now de- veloping at the entrance to the Shewchuk Subdivision near the Celgar Road appears to be running out of room, Furthor- more, the landscaping under- way features two very steep slopes evidently to be grassed. If so, I cannot see grass seed catching in the fall rains, nor‘can I imagine how a mower will negotiate the steop grades, Neighbors sre concerned that + their, fences will fall into the Wheels Keep Rolling Big dusty trucks Hot wide roads Door letter cabs Black gigantic powerful Heavy grey trailer ~ Bticke" lumber “trees - Seats men smoke Big tough men Long hot deserts Beautiful blue sky Small cow passing Long narrow pipes p White clouds moving Gas tanks fume Also, what will the traffic problem be with the greatly multiplied usage of the bad turn-off onto the highway?? ee ie DAMNED IF YOU DO— Hydro is apparently going ahead willy-nilly to build the Revelstoke Dam. The slide ex- perts do not wish to stake thelr reputations that the Downle drainage will sdccted, however. One wonders why Hydro is _ even bothering with a hearing! Local boaters tell mo that’ ” Hydro is not living up to Its present obligation under the Columbia River Treaty to keep the driftwood out of the Arrow reservoir, and my own neigh- bor is a witness to what drift- wood can do to a propeller! Hydro also confesses that yes, they did know that they would one day bulld Revelstoke Dam, but this did not prevent - them from locating the access to.Mica at too low an elevation toavold the flooding of some 40 miles of expensive roadway, It will-cost a cool $80 million to rectify the fuzzy thinking! We are tempted to say, “come on nuclear power.” And why not. Isn't that a Ganadian specialty? 9 Eremenko’s FIT-RITE SHOES : QUALITY SHOES for the family. ’ For Dress — Casual and Work J. Emery —Doug WE. 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Support the Castlegar + District United Way = 7" VOL. 29, No, 41 -_ CASTLEGAR: BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER.7, 1916 Re. 25 CENTS (HOME DELIVERY 22 CENTS) rats to aes agencies “because. of everyone's, ‘ighasife e grsht is and unrealistic for this ‘day to Thuraday evenings when ‘the rooms are cleared by 10:90 p.m. + Restrictive: budgeting . for Selkirk -Collego': has been lamed * for : -,coverii Blueberry Creek Irrigation District Takes Steps to Protect Its Watershed — “The Blueberry Creek Ir- in the watershed, the irrigation .Figation District is out to fight district has asked the forest for its: water a; + service to hold any future work ; > /Asin past battles, the most ~ until an alternative water sup- recent pretien involves’ pro-- ply is found for. the 760 the ‘neigh: ~. -residoats of-the-arca. - - > borhood of Btueberry. ‘Creek, “Assurances by the for- ‘which residents in the area feel estry branch that this develop- 5 hast calesieated (seriously al- ment would be conducted with great care to protect the water mae district will'face two source can only be viewed with provincial government depart- = ments: under.the mediation of the Regional District of obedant of the area’ in. question would be. < disast m “Andee extol at dig GROUNDWORK Wa ATID acepticiam,: based on the past performance in the Blueberry Creek area,” the letter said. Bill Kavaloff, a member of the Irrigation District, showed an almost Bitter -attitude - Wednesday of last week, to- ward logging work in the Blue- . berry area. “If you're realistic, a Ing. ging company.wants to get in, the spring and at present; the letter”: - te roads are being o log land and get the hell Mr. Kavaloff said. “There's not much the forest - service can do,’As soon as the man “is. around the corner thoy'ra back-a$ whatever they were doing,” ‘At the meeting last Satur- day, the RDCK moved that meetings be held between the Irrigation District, the: RDCK, the Provincial Water Rights Branch, and the Foreat Service. Questioned on Wednesday of last week, Forestry repre- sentative John Cuthbert said the “Blueberry Creek ares is classified “category one,” mean- ing arex residents and water users would be consulted be- fore any further work was al-. lowed in the watershed. as always. %: eases The United Way: thermo- moter has boon placed on Nomination deadline’ for candidates in both: the munici- pal and trustee election is just a Uitte: more ‘than’ two weeks” away. | ‘At the last regular council meeting it was noted that the ‘and Allen Selbis will be up for election, . Terms also - Eileen Hughes who represent the Gity of + of trate for § School District No, ) ‘The term: of. trustee js seat of aidermen,G: 8. Rust, |” expires. : Nominations clone 12 noon, “Oct. 25 with Nov, 20 election » day. ‘Three Patrol Cars. Take wai lowing: the Hing 25 aul cident. pirate water which blocks. the,” which “involv type “of cold’ water that was present in this particular case.” ‘2M. Bryeh said his findings ~ = 5:30 p.m, Sun, e ndneee 12 noon - T p.m. re court Tuesday. Tigh He is to be held in custody and will appear in court again Nov, 2. 4