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British Columbians this week
were treated to an insight into the
workings of the magazine
publishing and distribution
business when Expo 86 chairman
Jim Pattison’s magazine whole-
sale company, Mainland
Magazine, was thrust into the
spotlight.

The attention came from the
disclosure that Mainland
distributes magazines depicting
rape and incest. Mr. Pattison’s role
in the ribution was raised by
women's groups in submissions to
the federal task force on
prostitution and pornography.

Wasting little time, Mr. Pattison
quickly severed his ties with
Mainland, announcing this week
he will sell the company because
he cannot head Expo 86 and own a
company tha “a controversial
issue like this.”

But perhaps more important
than Mr. Pattison’s role in the
issue, is the reason why Mainland
Magazine distributes pornography.
That was left up to president John
Seebach to explain.

He said Mainland must
distribute certain pornographic
magazines if it wants to distribute
other mainstream magazines such
as Vogue.

That directive comes from the
U.S. and Canadian publishers of
the mainstream magazines, who
also happen to publish many of the
pornographic magazines.

It seems the publishers want
either the whole magazine line —
including pornography — carried
by B.C. distributors, or nothing at
all.

That puts Mainland Magazine
and other wholesale distributors in
aditticult sitoation. If they don't
agree, the publishers will simply
find someone who will.

It is also easy to see that the
“all or nothing” situation could be
passed along to retail distributors
and then to retail stores. It is a
wonder that all our retail stores
are not full of pornographic
material, given the way the system
works.

There are two ways to tackle
the issue. One is to convince
magazine publishers that

distributors should be allowed to
choose which magazines they want
to carry. That way, retailers could
choose their magazines.

However, it's unlikely pub-
lishers will voluntarily agtee to
that. There's just too much money
in the pornographic magazine line.

The second way — and the
avenue B.C. distributors suggested
this week — is to establish a
review panel. The distributors
have asked the provincial attorney
general to set up a panel to review
pornographic material.

The panel would then decide if
@ specific magazine conflicts with

bi dard

If it does, distributors would refuse
to cariy it.

The second option is, of course,
a form of censorship and thus ‘hot
as appealing as the first option.
But it is not without precedent.

The film industry must pass it's
materials by a government class-
ification board. Some films are
passed, others are passed with
qualifications and still others are
rejected outright.

The review panel would sim-
ply be a print form of the film
classification board.

Help curb
vandalism

The incidents continue to
mount: a broken window at the
Fields store, several broken win-
dows at West's Department Store,
city equipment ruthlessly smash-
ed, park equipment and trees
ruined.

They are all part of increasing
vandalism in Castlegar. And there
is really no way it can be stopped,
except with help from city residen-
ts.

If you se@-someone spray pain-
ting a sign, knocking down a post,
or uprooting flowers and small
trees, personally intervene or call
the police.

Vandalism is a cost to everyone
— either directly in taxes or in-
directly in the increased cost of
goods. It pays us to help curb it.

Fred
Merriman

Bookkeepers arise! Never has the
time been more opportune for the
normally meek, mild and unsung ac
counting profession to assert itself.

There isn’t a bookkeeper alive
from correspondence school to Insti-
tute of Chartered Accountants who
hasn't been aware for some time
that the affairs of business and gov-
ernment are really in a sad condi-
tion.

Most have been too polite to say
so. In the call to battle we must
include women who struggle against
relentless odds to balance the
household budget.

You have my respect because you
have known for years that those
charged with the responsibility are
just not aware of the facts. Yet you
remain silent at risk of intervening
because you are well aware of the
urgent need for applying basic ac:
counting principles to the financial
affairs of even the most lofty.

When was the last time any or
dinary taxpayer had the privilege of
studying a balance sheet for any
level of government,' Crown corpor-
ation or agency?

We hear much about deficits.
What we do not hear are the facts
concerning whether the deficits are
caused by overspending on oper.
ations or on capital costs.

No discussion on the application
of taxpayers’ money can be com-
plete unless those expenditures can
be related to a balance sheet which
should report net worth.

Even those households that by
necessity or expertise adhere to an
operating budget are still hard
pressed to produce a statement of —

net worth or a balance sheet. Let’s
concentrate on the public purse.

Somewhere in Castlegar there
stand some buildings which were
built with our money. This writer
was present at the ribbon-cutting
ceremony. They are fine buildings.

The accommodation is made avail-
able at a most reasonable monthly
rent. An instant lawn was placed
within a few days. In my most afflu-
ent days, pangs of jealousy would
overcome me.

We were told that units would be
available to the general public after
the list comprising the needy was
exhausted.

This bookkeeper made note of the
revenue and operating expenses
concerning these particular public
buildings.

The gratutious government rep-
resentative and the benevolent so-
ciety steering committee indicated
that revenues would match ex-
penses. Since most clerical types got
their start somewhere near St.
Louis, the unofficial audit was per.
formed.

Deliberately, or as a matter of
oversight, no mention was made of
the fact that interest costs alone
would probably exceed $100,000 a
year and some future generation
would be required to pay a New
York financial institution more than
$1 million.

The list is endless. Nothing will
change until the lowly bookkeeper,
complete with green eye shade and
arm band, rises from his backless
stool at the sloping ledger table and
states firmly: “Sir, I intend no
longer to be a creative accountant.”

the blind see,
walk. May 1-10, Civie Theatre Centre,

of Thrums.
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‘An organizational meeting of- the

CCF will be held in the school room at

Letters to the Editor

the ity hall on Monday.
. ee e@

At a meeting of the Board of Diree-
tors of the Castlegar District Projects
Society, Sam Dower was the unani-
mous choice for president. Nick Oglow

Tories supported bill .

, Castlegar News:

Earlier this year, in a letter to the
editor, the logal Progressive Con-
servative Party, candid: d

party and our former Conservative MP
for Kootenay West voted for it at both
major stages. But the Conservative

idate’s memory is not the only one

that I do somdjresearch into certain
events surrot medicare funding
and, in particyla#{into what was the
bill that led to block funding by the
federal government in 1976.

He said “. . . our present medicare
mess stems from Bill C-68-introduced
by the Liberals in January 1975. That
bill fundamentally changed the federal
share of medicare costs.” .

In fact, Bill C-68 was a bill that
limited the increase in the federal
share of medical services and education
costs to a 13 per cent rise for the years
1976-77 only. He was right, however, in
that the Conservative Party did
support the NDP’s opposition to that
bill.

For the record, the bill that
“fundamentally changed” the basic
nature of federal funding for medical
services and post-secondary education
was Bill C-37, The Federal Provincial
Fiseal Arrangements and Established
Programs Financing Act, 1977, under
which the federal government partially
funds health and post dary educ-

that is faulty.

Just a few days ago Mr. Benno
Friesen (PC-MP for Surrey-White
Rock) was arguing emphatically ag-
ainst the government's recent motion,
Bill C-12, an Act to amend Bill C-37.

In doing so Mr. Friesen was
“reminding” the House of how the
Opposition had opposed the 1977 Act,
until Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristian-
sen interjected, “But you voted for it.”

Somewhat taken back, Mr.
Friesen replied: “We argued against
it. Were you here?” To which Kristian-
sen responded, “I looked at the record
yesterday.”

Following Kristiansen's subseq-
uent comments and questions in which

“forgetting something in some in-
stances.” (All of which is recorded in
Hansard, on April 10, 1984.)
Finally, the last straw. The day
before, on April 9, the NDP moved an
di to the present Act (Bill

ation through the transfer of “block”
amounts of cash and a trans{gr of tax
points to the provinces at any
guarantees that these monies Will be
spent on what is intended.

Through Bill C-37, this formula for
fiscal and political irresponsibility
replaced the former and more account-
able system of “conditional funding.”

The 1977 Bill C-37 was opposed
only by the NDP. Despite their
protestations, both the Conservative

Shades

Editor, Castlegar News:

The other day I was listening to an
interview by the media of Brian
Mulroney, leader of the federal Pro-
gressive Conservative Party.

Mulroney was very emphatic that
the present government was decadent
and bereft of any new ideas to solve the
problems facing the Canadian people.
Elect the ‘Conservatives led by Brian
Mulroneyj and all will be well. They
have all the answers to correcting the
deficit, the unemployment problem and
the bugbear of inflation.

He did not give any specific details
as to how he was going to do this, so I
guess he is just asking us to have

Please address all Letters
to the Editor to: The
Castlegar News, P.O.Box
3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN
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office at: 197 Columbia
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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 News reserves the
right to edit letters for brevity, elarity,
legality and grammar.

C-12) as follows:

#  “(3) Any such contribution for
hospital insurance and medical care
programs and post-secondary edu-
cation programs shall be expended by
the provinces for the purposes of those
programs only.”

All Conservative MPs present,
including 16 from B.C., joined the
Liberal government to kill this NDP
bid for government accountability.

One would think at least BC

Conservative MPs would understand
the ity of such an di

No province has diverted as many
federal dollars away from the intended
purpose of post-secondary education as
has- the conservative government of
B.C. ‘

The PC's action was unforgive-
able. All BC Members of Parliament
are — or should be — personally
acquainted with what our provincial
government does with federal funds
it ded for post- dary

We in Kootenay West are suf-
fering the closure of David Thompson
University Centre in Nelson and
cutbacks in our local colleges while the
provincial government spends our tax
money on wildly uneconomic show-
places, subsidized mega-projects like
Northeast Coal, domed stadiums, B.C.
Place, and Expo in Vancouver.

Federal Conservatives are having
a difficult time disguising their support
for the action ofthe BC conservative
Social” Credit government and its
policies. While they vote against the
NDP amendment, the next day they
present arguments which sound as if
they would like some accountability.

British Columbians are only too
familiar with politicians who say
wonderful things during an election
and do the exact opposite afterwards.

At least the federal Conservatives
have one, PC Finance Critic John
Crosbie, who is “honest” enough to say
publicly: “If I told you what I would do,
we'd never get elected.”

Also: “Our leaders have got to be a
little less honest — we're not being
devious and tricky enough.”

Vera Kristiansen

Nelson

of R.B. Bennett

“faith,” which I think is a llittle much,
when we consider that unemployment
stands at 1.5 million — the majority of
which are between 16 and 24 years of
age. If this continues, they will be
written about as the “lost generation.”

While listening to this interview,
which became very dull, I dozed off and
I guess I was dreaming, because all of a
sudden I was carried back to 1930, and
was at a meeting listening to R.B.
Bennett, the leader of the Conservative
party at the time. He was very loud in
his condemnation of the government
which he said was void of any new
ideas. He said, “Elect me and I will
blast my way into the markets. of the
world, I will put the boys back to work
and bring prosperity back to Canada.”

He did not give any specific ideas
as to how he was going to accomplish
these objectives, but he asked the
people to have “faith”.

My dream continued on and it

seemed as though the people kept the
faith because they elected R.B. Bennett
and the Conservative party with a
landslide victory.

It did not take the people long
before they realized it took more than
faith to solve the problems. Unemploy-
ment increased, the markets of the
world were cluttered up by everybody
else blasting away.

The people soon lost their faith
and voted out R.B. Bennett and the
Conservatives at the next election in
1935.

I woke up in somewhat of a daze,

‘Brian Mulroney was still asking the

people to have faith, and it was difficult
for me to distinguish between Brian
Mulroney and R.B. Bennett. At this
point I came back to the reality that
history repeats itself and people forget
easily.
Leo T. Nimsick
Cranbrook

Landowners should
be aware of plan

Editer, Castlegar News:

I would draw attention to a

paragraph in Part 1 on page 38
“Settlement Strategy” in the Slocan
Valley Draft Plan.

“The regional district, in con-
sultation with landowners and the
general public, shall prepare land use
control bylaw for the valley. In the case
of areas requiring more detailed
settlement planning, zoning shall be
adopted and revised to reflect planning
policy upon adoption of the plan by the

regional district board. A zoning bylaw
for electoral Area H shall conform to
the policy guidelines outlined in this
plan.”

Last-minute panic amendments to
the Slocan Valley Plan may try to
eliminate content like this but I believe
every landowner in this valley should
give full consideration to this state-
ment.

David Groenhuysen
New Denver

was elected vice-president and Walter
P hoff was elected recording sec-
retary.
. 8 8

The Kinnaird Anglican Church mem-
bers held their annual meeting at the
home of Mrs. B. Mahoney and a com-
mittee was elected to investigate prop-
erty for a church.

25 YEARS AGO
From the May 7, 1959
News

B.C. Telephone Company will soon
be introducing harmonic ringing in the
Castlegar exchange.

In an announcement from B.C. Tele-
phone Company headquarters in Trail,
District Commercial and Traffic Man-
ager T.E. Brett said the introduction of
harmonic ringing means that multi-
party line subscribers will only hear
the ring of their own telephone and not
the rings of other parties on the same
line.

“Coded ringing — a long and a short
or some other combination — will thus
become a thing of the past,” he said.

. 8 @

Notice — Castlegar and District
Hospital. This is an appeal to those few
people who have not yet driven or
backed their automobiles into the
wooden guard rails around the hospital
parkways. Will anyone who feels an ir-
resistable urge to take a crack at these
rails please do so, if it can be con-
veniently arranged, before the end of
May, so that they can be repaired once
and for all. There are also a few small
trees still standing for those with am-
bition.

. 8 8

The Robson Recreation Society held
a successful Variety Concert on Friday
evening in the Robson Community
Hall.

‘The program was opened with the
singing of O Canada, followed by the
Brilliant School choir singing four
pieces.

15 YEARS AGO
From the May 8, 1969
Castlegar News

Bulldozing and surveying began last
week at the transmitter site for radio
station CKQR which is scheduled to be
in operation in Castlegar by July 30.

The transmitter is to be located im-
mediately south of the golf course with
studio facilities in the basement of the
Oglow building.

* 8 6

A tree to be planted on Columbia
Ave. was presented to Castlegar
council Tuesday night.

The tree was presented on behalf of
the Grade 9 F, G and H classes at SHSS
by a delegation headed by student Bill
Anderson.

. * «6

Sunday saw a sizeable crowd of
spectators out to see the first West
Kootenay Soccer League game of the
season between the Castle Stars and
Trail’s Cantin’s Movers.

Early in the first period, the Stars
scored two goals in rapid succession.
Scorers were Tony Ferreira and John
Pacheco.

* 8 «6

MLA Tom Berger, new provincial
NDP leader, will be speaking tonight at
the Colombo Hall at Trail.

A candidate for the CCF in the Van-
couver-Centre provincial seat in 1960,
Mr. Berger was elected the first
president of the NDP of B.C. in 1961.

Castlegar

A fire Sunday resulted in Monashee
Sporting Equipment being totally
gutted in spite of efforts of firemen
from both north and south stations to
save the bulding.
* 8
A northerly flow of cool air, com-
bined with clear skies gave the Koot-
enay region a minimum temperature of
-7.5° on April 1, which broke the old

daily record of -7.0° set in 1917.

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OTTAWA (CP) — Senator Keith Davey, «

Liberal party strategist, says that if the Liberals’ lead over
the Conservatives continues ‘in future polls, he would
recommend an election soon after the leadership convention
in June.

“If the trend which we see now continues through the
leadership convention, then I'd say let's go to the country
quite quickly,” he said in s weekend interview with
Standard Broadcast News.

“We are heading into our fifth year and we have to have
an election sooner rather than later and with the numbers
improving, we should have it sooner.”

Davey said he saw no need to cancel the Queen’s visit in
July, should it coincide with an election, and believes Can-
adians share that view.

“Elections in Britain take place when the Queen's there.
I don't see that as a factor at all.”

Results of a national Gallup poll taken in late March and
released Tuesday showed the Liberals’ popularity at 46 per
cent and the Tories at 40 per cent. A Gallup poll in early
March indicated the Conservatives had 54 per cent of the
decided voters compared to 82 per-cent for the Liberals.

It is the first time the Liberals have led the Tories in the
poll since August 1981.

But Davey said it has been evident the last six months
that the Liberals’ position is improving.

HATRED ABATED

“I think more significantly (than the fact of Prime
Minister Trudeau's resignation announcement), the rather
intense hatred of the Liberal party began to abate about the
first of the year.”

When asked whether the decline in Liberal popularity
over the last several months was due to hatred of Trudeau
or the party, Davey replied: “Pierre Trudeau always in polls
ran ahead of the Liberal party. A lot of Liberals wouldn't
agree with this and wouldn't understand this, but it is
(hatred) of the Liberal party.

“And that hatred began to abate I think partially
because of the prime minister's peace initiative, partially
because of the Lalonde budget.”

Davey said the change in public support for the Con-
servatives indicated by the poll will mean a resumption of
internal party bickering.

“When they're ahead, they all hang together. When the
numbers start to reverse, they tend to fly apart. It will be
interesting in the face of these numbers to see whether the
Tories can keep their act together.”

Although Davey expressed admiration for Conservative
Leader Brian Mulroney, he said he felt Mulroney should
have made clear policy statements in the early days of his
leadership.

“I think that was a big mistake because . . . with a new
leader like Brian Mulroney, the people of Canada wanted to
know precisely what he thought about issues of concern.

“But instead, he has left the impression that he hasn't
made up his mind or he doesn’t know what he thinks.

“It's a classic example of the Tories, as they've done for
so many years, always wanting to fight the last election,
rather than the next election.”

Brakes weren't
installed correctly

VICTORIA (CP) — The air
brakes on a bus that crashed
Jan. 30 on Mount Washing-
ton, killing two teenagers re-
turning from a ski outing
with classmates, were incor-
rectly installed, a coroner's
jury was told Friday.

brakes on the Conmac Stages
bus were hooked up in such a
way that it took longer for
compressed air to go through
the system. Therefore, he
said, the brakes would not
release quickly, resulting in
more wear.

“fn demonstrating the sec-
ondary parking brake sys-
tem, Wright explained it is
not generally viewed by
manufacturers or drivers as
an emergency backup sys
tem. However, he said, if it's
the last braking capacity a
driver has, it’s better than
nothing.

Bus driver Kerry Griffith
testified earlier he did not
use the parking brakes after
the main system failed be-
cause he had been told it
would do extensive damage
to the braking system.

The inquest, which began
Monday, is expected to last
two weeks.

Al Wright, an expert wit
ness called by the coroner's
office, said that because of
the faulty installation there
would be more wear than
usual on the brake drums.

He said this would mean
maintenance would be re-
quired more frequently.

The Conmac Stages Ltd.
bus, which was carrying 64
Claremont Senior Secondary
School students and staff
despite a seating capacity of
only 45, lost its brakes while
coming down the winding
mountain road. The driver
was forced to crash the bus in
a ditch.

Adam Kerr, 17, died in the
crash and Scott Branson, 16,
died a week later of head in-
juries.

love shine on
Wright gave the inquest a other

demonstration of a bus air
brake system. He said the

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