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Castlegor's annual SunFest
celebration continues today and
we urge all our readers to attend
and support the wide range of ac-
tivities offered. A glance at the
photos taken of some of yester-
day's events show how fun-filled
this yearly community event has
become

Yesterday's parade, while
perhaps having slightly fewer en-
tries than some parades of years
past, was nonetheless of the same
traditional high calibre. And the
enthusiastic response given by the
large crowds that lined its route
certainly reflected this fact in their
applause

Whie we refer our readers to
the special SunFest tabloid
published with our Wednesday
edition for full details on today’s
events, they include everything
trom the ever popular Rotary Pan-
cake Breakfast to the nationally
recognized Selkirk Lions Club frog
jumping championships.

The vigorous competition for
the SunFest Challenge Cup (where
relay teams-of runners, cyclists
and canoeists give their all) proved
a real cfowd plegser last year and
is being repeated this year, os are
the firemen’s ‘competitions spon-
sored by the todies Auxiliary to
the Robson Volunteer Fire Depar-
tment. (This latter activity includes
such events as a bucket brigade,
hose laying, even “powder putt
competition$ ond will see par-
ticipants taking part from Alberta
and the United States as well as

4 meena es

Letters to the Editor

“it used to be something called public transit . .

they did away with the public.”

. then for reasons you're too young to understand,

A recent survey by company repre-
i di ‘that

ly 350 residents and businessmen in the
Castlegar area want telephope service.
._ 6 © *.

A meeting of the sports committee of

acting as chairman.

It was resolved that the object of the
sports committee is to promote, assist,
finance and generally sponsor the wel-
fare of sporting activities in this area.

. 6« *

The Members of the Castlegar Ki-
wanis club motored to Colville Friday
to pay an official visit to the Colville
club.

‘The occasion was the presentation of

our own East and West K ys.)

There gre beer gardens and
concessions at both Pass Creek
Park and the Kinnaird Park, while
the men’s commercial softball
tournament continues throughout
the entire day at Kinnaird Park

So. . . grab your family, a pic-
nic lunch and supper, and join your
friends and relatives in the ex
citement and fun of the final day of
yet another successful SunFest
celebration

Commitment needed
from candidates

The story is told about the
young man who, after killing both
his parents, asked for compassion
trom the presiding judge, who had
sentenced him to hang, on the
grounds that he was an orphan.

This story is somewhat
analogous to what has occurred
with the terminal building expan-
sion program proposed for
Castlegar Airport.

As reported in a front page
story in Wednesday's Castlegar
News, Transport Canado officials
have proposed that the’new ter
minal building be reduced in size
by almost one-third even before it
gets to the drawing board

Citing deregulation and the
dropping of the Boging 737s in
favor of the Dash 7 aircraft on, the
Castlegor-Calgary run, Canadian
Air Transportation officials “ex
pect” new forecasts will suggest
the smaller terminal to be more
appropriate

Ald. Len Embree’s comment
that the federal ministry's
proposed action is “short-sighted
is almost an understatement. Ald
Albert Calderbank points out that
even the present terminal building
was too small before it
finished.

The Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce's transportation com
mitt under Nick Chernoff's
chairmanship, is already hard ot
work planning strategy for ob
taining improvements to the air
port that will permit a vastly im
proved completed landings per
centage

The new issue is one in which
the Chamber's involvement, along
with that of Castlegar city council
is vital

The larger terminal must be
built, and a committment to do so
should be obtained from Kootenay
West's three federal election can
didates

was

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Fred

Merriman

An item in the Castlegar News
that singled out the now popular
obscenity Deferred Income Tax
bears some comment.

Since the Chartered and Certified
Accounting Societies will not en
lighten the public it falls upon this
columnist to interpret the mystery
and hopefully reduce the odor that
surrounds the alleged big business
devise to supposedly reduce or
eliminate income tax

Defer does not mean eliminate. It
means postpone, put off, or to place
at some time in the future. The
amount of income tax to be deferred
is the result of a caleulation whieh
follows more or less this order: The
Department of National Revenue
issues rules for calculating Capital
Cost Allowance, commonly called
depreciation by the man in the
street. In reality one has very little
to do with the other. They do have a
lot to do with each other, however,
when the question of deferring in-
come tax arises.

The Corporation for various rea-
sons estimates the useful life of its
fixed assets, capital plant and
equipment, land excluded and
makes some estimate of salvage of
scrap value at the conclusion of that
useful life.

Quite often the Corporation feels
that the assets will last a fair bit
longer than the Department of Na
tional Revenue. The maximum cap

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ital cost allowance set down by the
Tax Department exceeds those per-

is
by the business concern. The Com
pany divided the cost of the capital
plant by the number of useful years
and arrived at a percentage for de-
preciation or wearing out costs must
less than those maximums estab-
lished by the government.

Since most fair-sized business
operations pay 52 per cent of their
net profit to the government it is
only reasonable that they, like all of
us, should claim the maximum
allowable to reduce the current year
income tax.

Remember, however, that the
books of the company will show that
their expenses are less than they
reported on the tax return because
they did not charge depreciation as
heavily as the tax department
would allow. The company would of
course pay dividends on the after
tax_profit which in turn becomes
taxable in the hands of the recipient.

The final calculation to establish
deterred income tax goes this way.
Hew much tax would the company
pay if it charged full capital cost
allowance rates to depreciation ex
pense for the year then dedu-t the
tax they would pay using their own
depreciation sthedule. The result is
placed in a deferred income tax
account.

Working is necessity

Editer, News:

Your July 11 article headlined
“Homemakers Stripped of Self.
Esteem” moves me to respond on
behalf of the many women for whom
working outside the home is an econ
omic necessity and not a hard-line
feminist choice.

In B.C.’s “New Reality” not every
woman who holds down a job is a
divorced magazine editor. Most of us
are employed in far more mundane
occupations, usually at low wages.
Some of us find our jobs rewarding, but
in these times, all of us have to be
considered lucky to have jobs at all,
because the only choice would be wel.
fare.

In the Castlegar community, this
applies not only to single parents, but
to an increasing number of two-parent
families where the father has been
laid-off from a job in industry or
business, with no recall date in sight.

Perhaps the shaky. self-esteem of
Mrs. Allenson, who is quoted in the
article, would be enhanced. if she could
recognize how many working mothers
envy her that “choice to be there for
my kids all day long” and “enjoy their
childhoood.” Unemployed mothers
must envy her too, as her use of the
word choice implies that she could get a
job if she wanted one. It also implies
that she has an employed husband who
can foot the bills for shelter, clothing,
food, ete.

At no time is the envy of working
mothers for the homemakers we sup-
posedly “downgrade” greater than at
the hour when we slog through the
door, hungry kids in tow, at the end of
a full day’s work to face the necessary
cleaning, cooking, laundry, shopping.
chauffering, etc. which amounts to a
second full-time job. As we don our
rubber gloves, it’s a safe bet that at
times we might wish we lived in some

kind of 1950's-style Utopia where every
family had a dad, every dad had a job,
every pot had a chicken, etc.

For working-class families in the
Kootenays, however, this is not the
“New Reality.” Few mothers today are
working to provide extras as may have
been the case 10 years ago. Instead,
our wages are spent on grocery bills,
rent or mortgage payments, and the
other survival needs which didn't
disappear when Dad's job at the mill
did. And as the cost of living increases,
even in families where a father is
working, his income may still be insuf.
ficient to meet family needs.

For single parents, choice again is
hardly a factor. A single mother with a
child over.six months of age is con.
sidered employable by the Ministry of
Human Resources, and can be expected
to provide proof that she is seeking
workin. order to secure her monthly
welfare pittance. If this parent has two
or more children under .12, she is
eligible to choose welfare — in other
words, to choose dependency, poverty
and social stigma for her family. Some
choice!

With an airy wave of her hand, our
Mrs. Allenson dismisses daycare — a
necessity for most working mothers —
as not up to the standards she would
consider. In doing so, she downgrades
the efforts of professional daycare
workers and the countless hours of
time donated by community-spirited
volunteers which go into providing
quality daycare services which do meet
children’s needs.

For the most part, these highly-
committed people are struggling to
keep daycare standards high in the face
of inadequate funding which has not
increased since early in 1962.

The economic New Reality — re
cession, inflation, automation, record.
high unemployment — which has

PLANS REJECTED

placed many West Kootenay mothers
in the work force by necessity makes
pious remarks about how it really is
better to stay home seem irrelevant
and even a little insulting. Working
mothers who struggle daily to put
bread on the table and provide a nur-
turing family life should get a pat on
the back, not a slap in the face.
Cathy Lafortune
Castlegar

MP. using
government
money?

Editer, News:

From the latest NDP activities, it is
evident that their campaign machinery
has been underway for several weeks
now. There is no harm in that, however

the ling gavel by the Castlegar
club to Colville, the home club of the
Lieutenant-Governor Neil McLure.
The program was conducted by the
Castlegar club and the guest speaker
was Dr. J.Evans of Robson, speaking
on Democracy.
25 YEARS AGO
From the July 23, 1959

News
Rick's store opens tomorrow on lst
Ave. between Pine and Main Streets.
Formerly known as Rick's TV, Rickey
Couch has now expanded his business
to include furniture, records, china and
small giftware and has built a new
store to house his expanding business.

. «© 8

The inhalator was used by the
Castlegar Fire department Saturday
when it answered a fire call to a resi-
dence on Ferry St.

Fire chief Ed Lewis said the resident
of the household was melting paraffin
on the stove for use in sealing her
preserves “when it must have flashed.”
The flames were sucked up into a cup-
oard by a cooking fan located just
above the stove.

The cupboards caught fire and the
fire department was called. The inha-
lator was used on the woman.

. 8 «

A cavalcade of cars will leave Castle-
gar for Kelowna on July 31 to join the
celebrations on Aug. 1 when Premier
Bennett burns B.C.'s direct net debt on
Ok e.

I do take to Lyle Kri:
using government money in his bid for
an MP's seat.

His most recent circulars making the
rounds of area homes, claim to gather
opinions to be used by him in Par-
liament to represent our views. How
could he have used this information,
when Parliament was scheduled to be
dissolved before the survey was com-
pleted?

The information, though, will come
in very handy during the election cam-
paign, and will not have cost the NDP
anything since it can be claimed as con-
stituency business.

I would rather have someone in
Ottawa who was working for West
Kootenay, instead of someone who was
trying to beat the system.

Robb MacHaltic
Trail

Thatcher has stumbled

By PAUL KORING

LONDON (CP) — The lords, the
courts and the unions have dealt Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher's govern
ment a series of stunning defeats in
recent weeks.

Only a year ago, Britons gave That
cher the most overwhelming election
mandate since the Second World War.
Perhaps too secure witha 142-seat
majority in the Commons, Thatcher
has stumbled badly.

Her authoritarian style has alienated
many Tory back-benchers. So fragile is
party loyalty that the prime minister
took the remarkable step of denying
unsubstantiated reports that more
than 100 Tory MPs had been meeting
secretly to plot her downfall

Yet the government is beleaguered
on every front. After 19 weeks, strik
ing miners have been joined by dock
workers, bringing this island's crucial
ports to a standstill and stalling the
still-fragile economic recovery.

This week, a high court judge over
turned Thatcher's clumsy attempt to
outlaw unions at the government's in-
telligence unit, calling it a breach of
“natural justice.”

REJECTS PLAN

That reversal came less than two
weeks after the House of Lords re
jected the government's ill-conceived
effort to abolish metropolitan govern
ments, by replacing the elected (but
mainly Labor) councillors with ap
pointed Tories.

Peers found themselves honored for
defending democracy while Thatcher's
government was forced into another

personal front. A simmering brouhaha
over whether she used her influence to
help her son's company win a contract
in the Middle East was capped only
when Mark was dispatched to an ar-
ranged job in the United States.

Criticism im the media has predic
tably fallen along party lines, but the
recent publication of a critical analysis

omist newsmagazine have served as
rallying points for critics.

With its cover showing Thatcher's
foot hovering over a banana peel, the
Economist said her “second govern-
ment is stepping out to become
Britain's most inept since the war.

“The mishaps, mistakes and omis
sions that have characterized its first
full year now have ministers in diffi
culty with farmers, miners, peers, local
authorities, EEC allies, even city
financiers,” it added. “Nothing seems
to be going right for Mrs. Thatcher and
what goes wrong is increasingly por
trayed as somebody else's fault

“Nor does she value heip in ad-
versity. Her eabinet is more dominated
by its prime minister that any since the
war.”

And the newsmagazine held out little
hope for improvement.

“Since much of what is wrong with
the government is rooted in the prime
minister's own personality it is hard to
say what can be done about it. She may
need to be taken down a rung but the
relevant rung is out of reach of the
others on the ladder.

“The danger is that, as before the
Falklands war, a simmering rebellion
in the party and a steady advanee of
labor at the polls will render the prime
minister even more, gloof, embattled
and rash in her décisions,” it warned.

It's a.message her critics inside and
outsid@the party have been delivering
for years.

Castlegar and District Social Credit
members will form a cavalcade which
will leave the Castlegar ballpart at 5
p-m. The Castlegar-Kinnaird-Robson-
Blueberry section of the cavalcade will
then meet the Genelle-China Creek
section of the cavalcade at the Genelle
school. They will then meet the Trail,
Fruitvale, Montrose and Rossland
groups near Patterson.

15 YEARS AGO
From the July 24, 1969

News

Castlegar voters will cast ballots in
December on a referendum seeking
approval for Sunday sports and enter.
tainment in the community.

Under provincial legislation passed
this spring, Sunday activities are al
lowed provided approval is first ob-
tained by a municipality from its
voters.

. 6 «6

A provincial election will be held in
five weeks time. The date, Aug. 27,
was announced by Premier Bennett on
Monday.

In the Rossland-Trail riding, first
caftididate nominated was Tom McKen-
tie of Genelle who will carry the NDP
colors.

Second candidate officially om.
inated was Liberal Joe Remesz.

Education Minister Don Brothers,
who was first elected to represent this
constituency in a byelection in 1968, is
expected to again win the Social Credit
nomination at a convention scheduled
for Monday at Trail

.

Castlegar’s No. One team captured
the Zone Six Little Canadian trophy on
the weekend when they shut’ out
Creston 2-0 Sunday afternoon in the
final game of the three-day baseball
tournament held at Kinsmen Park in
Castlegar.

Castlegar

A Castlegar forestry official reports
that a lightning strike was reported
Tuesday night about 200 yards above
the Timberlane motel resulting in
three bombers being called in and a
four-man ground crew

Also reported were strikes sighted
above the golf course and airport.

os 8 6

The Kootenay Doukhobor Historical
Society is establishing a trust fund in
memory of Peter Legebokoff.

The society is soliciting donations
from all citizens of the region to sup-
port the establishment of a special
Doukhobor Library and Archive.

SUNFEST PICNIC . Fern

Schwartzenhaver (left) of

Castlegar and her sister Germaine Seguin of Spokane

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enjoy sandwiches and the warm weather at the Senior
Citizens Suntest Picnic held at Kinnaird Park Friday.

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Olson wa

KINGSTON, ONT. (CP) —
In a seven-page letter to the
Kingston Whig-Standard,
mass murderer Clifford Ol.
son says Canada should have
executed him — by lethal
injection — for his slaughter
of 11 children in British Col.
umbia.

Olson, 44, who is serving
11 life sentences at maxi:
mum-secutity Kingston Peni-
teniary, said capital punish
ment is the only way to
protect society from first:
degree murderers because of
its deterrent value.

Life imprisonment, he
says, gives him nothing to
look forward to but “escape
at all costs.”

Olson spent 21 of 24 years
between 1967 and 1981 in
Canadian prisons. Released
on mandatory supervision in
1981, he murdered 11 chil
dren between the ages of
nine and 18 in the nine
months before his capture
and buried their bodies

across the lower mainland of
British Columbia.

It was the highest toll of
any mass killer in Canadian
history.

To get Olson to reveal the
burial places of his victims,
Solicitor General Robert
Kaplan authorized the pay-
nent of $90,000 into a trust
fund for Olson's wife and son.

“Capital punishment is a
deterrence,” Olson said in his
letter, adding “over 100 in-
mates doing life for murder”
he has known over the years
agree with him.

“Many of these had their
sentences commuted from
hanging in Canada, and 80
per cent of these inmates
believe that Canada should
have capital punishment,” he
wrote.

In one rambling sentence,
Olson said he would not have
murdered his young victims
if there had been a death
penalty.

“The deterrence of the
death penalty, had it been

Cancer funds
exceed goal

The Castlegar Canadian
Cancer Society exceeded an
$8,000 goal set for a April to
June fund raising campaign
by raising $9,892.

According to campaign cha
irman Joan Martini, a “good
portion” of Castlegar's don
ated funds will come back
into the area to help cancer
patients with special emot
ional, financial or physical
needs.

Irregularities in normal
body functions should be
checked by a doctor early, as
this is the time many cancers
can be beaten, said Martini in
a prepared release

Pamphlets on cancer are
available at all medical of.
ficers or by writing the
Castlegar Canadian Cancer
Society at Box 3292, Castle.

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available in Canada when I
committed the murder of the
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I'm sure and I believe would
have had deterrent effect to
stop me from committing the
taking of my little brothers’
and sisters’ lives as | had
done,” Olson wrote.

In addition to its value as a
deterrent, Olson also insists
capital punishment is more
humane than life imprison
ment.

“What man in his right
mindis going to serve 25
years in jail under the pres-
ent conditions of the law?” he
wrote. “What man can live
under these barbaric, inhu-
mane conditions, locked up 23
hours a day in a cell, without

a work program? The ani-
mals in the zoo have more
civilized living conditions to
live under than I find myself
living under in Kingston
Penitentiary.

“What is more humane?”
he asks. “To let myself be put
to death by the government
or to spend the rest of my life
in prison?”

But Olson is particular
about the means of his death.

Lethan injection, he says,
puts a person to death with
out unnecessary suffering
and is not “grisly.”

FAVORS INJECTION

“The electric chair, gallons
or gas chamber, and the
firing squad, are barbaric,
especially hanging,” he said

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DANBURY, CONN. (AP)

founder’ Rev. Sun Myung
Moon was in a federal prison
Saturday where the South
Korean native will serve an
16-month sentence for in
ome tax evasion.

Moon, 64, was whisked into

Pthe Federal Correction In
@titute one hour before a
udge's deadline expired mid
night Friday night. He ar
‘ Fived in an entourage of four
ears and was greeted with a
flurry 6f news camera flash.
es.

Moon scampered through
afront door of the prison
before many realized he had
left the car.

Moon igi

tax charges

ing escorted to a dormitory-
style room in the minimum-
security facility, where -he
will be treated as any other
convict, prison officials said

However, he clearly was
the object of much prepar-
ation before his arrival.

Danbury police put extra
men on duty to patrol the
prison’s main gate, while
federal agents filled two
small trailers placed on pris-
on grounds in anticipation of
Moon's arrival.

Another obstacle facing
prison officials as they deal
with Moon is that he speaks
only his native Korean.

Job openings

Details of these and other job
opportunities are available at
Troil Canade E: 1 Centre

835 Spokane Street
Phone 368-5566

Medical Clinic in Trail requires
@ licenced Medical Laboratory
Technologist for a period of four
months commencing August |
(1580)

Figure skoting club in
Castlegar requires an Ice Skating
Instructor. (243D)

Texi Drivers ore
Trail. Must hove class
four license. (268T)

A Castlegar employer requires
‘on experienced Major Applionce
Repairer for permanent em
ployment. Hourly wages — ser
vice truck supplier. (2711)

A Pre-school
required

Teacher is
the Castlegar area

This is o part time position to co
ordinate a program for 2-5 yeor
olds with the help of parent co.
teachers. (309J)

A six-month opening exists tor
@ Certitied Auto Body Repairer
Wage rate of $16 per hour
(2997)

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