er er Pn meee ere Le i) Parliament Victoria, Be Ce. V8V" 1X4 Bldgs., 50 Vol, 92, No. 14 E Published Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” SERVING Castlegar © Salmo Robson © Genelle Gleberry Creek Shoreacres © Throms . Slocan Valley and City New Dénver © Silverton 30 Cents - CASTLEGAR, «/BRITISH“COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1979 bests Saad concerns will be the Social Credit strategy in Rossland-Trail for the May 10 B.C. Brooks. PHIL BROOKS ++ six hours daily general election, according to candidate Phil Brooks, a 35-year-old Fruit- vale medical technician picked in mid-February to run against incumbent New Democrat MLA Chris D'Arcy, stressed the importance ‘of private ‘versus public ownership, cited by Premier Bill Bennett Tuesday evening when he announced the election, .as well as develop- ment of manufacturing and , tourist\industries in the riding as important issues in Kooten- ay West. “I feel the whole question we have now, heading into the 1980s, is can we control our resources and maintain control of those resources within the province and within control of the individual,” he said, "I-think the ‘objective should be to + More on Page AS "Lions Ponder 3-Day ~ Trade Fair Next Year : The success of the:Castle- gar Selkirk Lions’ third’annual West. Kootenay -Trade Fair April'20 and 21 could result in extra day ‘of attractions in . He-said the 40,000 square and outside the complex was sold out by Jan. 28, é “The. response “was ‘over- whelming from business firms throughout: the - Kootenays,” Stasila ‘said, “We've had. re- fromVa: display .in ,or- around. thi vei on bes y"-for' tha club to plans for future ly it’s going tp be big enough that. we're going to have to go ‘for a. three-day effort,” Stasila “said. “Judging ‘from just the response from the people we've questioned, there ‘seems to be a majority that. would go for, the three days.” Rather. than’ ending on a Saturday, the weekend event would last until late Sunday. afternoon, he sai TV Week appears on color- ed newsprint in this issue of the Castlegar News {instead of white bond paper) because of ifficulties in ining bond he. which 80 exhibits will be“on' “the is reine u The 1979 trade fair: chair- man, said ‘the «club expected attendance this year to equal : the more than 15,000 spectators “who were at the 1978 show. “By the looks of it, just from ‘the applications coming , back, we're going to’have close to $5,000 worth of free prizes - again this year," he said. “There's going to be the usual $1,000 cash prize each day.”. He said products ondisplay will include ‘mobile homes, rec- reational vehicles, home fur- nishings, garden equipmentand ~ latest automobiles, boats, trailers, supplies, motorcycles, motors, heavy equipment, . clothing, sporting goods equip- ment, televisions, radios, ste- reos, microwave. ovens, office stock. our printer that every attempt + is being made to obtain bond paper-and we will reinstate’ it just ‘as ‘soon as ‘a supply is obtained, We have been assured by. and supplies, dairy products, toys, bicycles, spe- ecialty shops and swimming . pools. Brisco, Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, representatives More on Page Al0 .” The planned elimination of 10 School District No. 9 elementary teaching posi- tions will be the topic of a meeting between district officials and concerned par- ents Monday. aM <>. District superintendent - John Holden -and Anne Jones, the board of trustees’ education committee chair- - man, will attend. the dis- cussion sponsored, by the Kinnaird-Valley Vista Par- ent-Teacher’ Group ‘to an- swer questions on the tfeet Meeting to Discuss | Elementary Cutbacks told the Castlegar News this week that the purpose of the meeting will be “simply to + get as much information as we can” about the decision trustees said was necessary because of declining enrol- ment and the need for 1979 budget controls. . She said both parents and teachers of elementary students in the district are concerned about the effect the planned cutbacks | will have on ‘the quality of edu- cation and are aware Castle- gar’s i per stu the gradual 0 the’ positions and the dis- continuation of elementary teachers’ preparation time will have on. elementary school students. Parent-teacher group spokesman Susan Hammond dent has. been “notoriously low” in the past. “I think what we want to- know is whether the board is concerned about the quality of education or More on Page Al0 / BEYOND The Margaret Trudeau Story. C REASON . ministry is: still. officially re- Kootenay West MP Bob : BUSINESS AS USUAL af th port as’ Ken_ Sii @ Castlegar Air- i d of oa 3 ey v the ‘sirp Adga Systems International, and alrport manager John Michelson, right, walk the tarmac. Simpson, scheduled to remain at ort until . ya gar News the public would not see a change-in service at the airport unless it was for the better. : —News/MirrorFoto by Lois Hughe: sterday, told the Ministry Takes Over Airport, _ Adga on Tem feet of exhibition space inside - Responsibility: for Gastle- gar Airport passed smoothly from the City of Castlegar to, . the federal transport. ministry. at 12:01 a.m: Sunday, ‘according. to .a ‘senior § official” ‘of’ the Ottawa-based engineering firm ificena tiGaedet: liom Suwaitingeonts sponsible for' the facility and a ministry official currently sta- tioned at the airport will be responsible . for its operation’: until, the ’signing of the three- year contract with Adga around April 22. it PRL re ., long-term ‘contract. for opera- tion of the facility. Ken -Simpson, vice-presi- 3 dent: of Adga Systems Inter-"” “national — supplying manpow- er: tinder -an_ interim contract ‘until the federal treasury board approves the company's pro- posed management ofthe air- port over three years for $801,100 —.told the Castlegar News Monday the transfer was made without any disruption of routine or flight schedules. ° Simpson said the transport faced layoffs because the miuis- try “expected a delay in -the approval of the contract afte the city’s withdrawal from the operation .Saturday “have all-. become our employees," he said. , . He said Adga will issue a press release after the signing of the contract announcing the . firm's official responsibility for the airport and identifying the personnel who will be working at the airport. & “As it looks.right now, the. 3 55 “seven airport employers sho. porary Contract staff that ‘will be there will be the. staff we. presently have,” said Simpson, who was sched- uled to remain at the airport until yesterday “to handle the paperwork.'and - establish ‘our udgelary control procedures. d | CUPE Local Ratifies New Pact With | Brooks Seeks || : , |New ‘Converts’ “two-barrelled” campaign on both provincial and local He alsc declined to disclose what proportion of the 17 CUPE members voted for Tatification, * i; But the Local 943 presi- dent agreed that the negotia- tions between CUPE and the city, conducted last Thursday and Friday, were “done in a gentlemanly manner." “Everything, was friendly and above board,” Harrison said. “There was no problem, I felt, in bargaining.” Contacted. in Vancouver By RYON GUEDES CASNEWS EDITOR this week, CUPE Four Sections (A,B&C&TV Week) A yet-to-be-unveiled memorandum of agreement between the city and about 20. Canadian Union .of Public Employees members won union , ratification Tuesday following swiftly-concluded negotiations last week. Mike Harrison, CUPE Local 343 president, confirmed after the union meeting that the local membership had voted to approve the proposed set- tlement although he declined to discuss details of the agreement until city: council ratifies the agreement next week. se e Harrison refused to answer Castlegar News questions on the union's original wage demands as well as the actual wage settlement because "I'd be telling you exactly what I said I couldn't tell you.” sociation, d in the Fred Pyke attributed the speed and success of the conclusion of Castlegar's negotiations partly to the ratification of the two- year contract between the City of Trail and CUPE Local 2087 last week, Pyke, who was involved in the Trail settlement but not the Castlegar negotiations, cited an improved relationship between the union and the: Kootenay. Boundary Labor. Relations As- Trail talks by former trade unionist Darwin Benson. “Asa result the settlement in Castlegar went smoothly,” he said. “The breakthrough came with the City of Trail and . it just fell into Une in Castle- gar.” = Asked how the negotia- tions here could be influenced by the Trail settlement when Castlegar is not a KBLRA More on Page AZ Robson Area Residents Vote In Saturday Firefighting Poll Firehall will start in mid-May if Robson area residents vote in favor in Saturday's referendum of spending up to $120,000 on fire protection, the Castlegar News was told Monday. 5 Cliffe Churches, chairman of the Robson and District Fire Commission, said:the purchase of $70,000 worth of basic equip- menti-as ‘well..as. the: $50,000 construction project “are all ready to.go".in the event the. who have as members of the fire depart- ment are continuing their twice- weekly training. “The training end of it is . really tremendous," he said. “You can see a vast difference from the time they started, and . - we've had no dropouts.” Churches said he expected a good turnout:for the voting, More on Page Al0 Hall Asks Local--school : trustees istry officials at the ‘auditing’'and inventory, pro- cedures they started about two *weeks'ago.** : <"E-think:about 90 per cent of it’s been completed,” he said. “A few loose ends still have to be wrapped up.” ~~~ Asked what price Adga had cited for temporary man- . ning of the airport, he said the sum .was calculated from’ the - firm’s tendered bid for manage- ment of the facility for three years, “| A BOUQUET FOR KATHY HUSER Is present- Salmo Mayor Merle Hanson as the people’ of the Village of Salmo, backed by its school band, turned out Monday. to greet the four local skiers who took port in the. Pontiac Cup final at Mont. St.. Marie, Que. Sixteen-year-old Huser captured the ed bi village-wide celebration planned for-her. Fourteen-year-old Dian (Dee Dee) Haight was first over spring FIS series. Also skiing well earning the. right to take part In the Pontiac Cup finals were fifteen-year-old Kelli Lee of Rossland and seventee: old Felix Bolczyk of Castlegar. 1 —News/MirrorFoto by Lois Hughes ear: irporrhave nearly finished the’ “in th area’ between’ the Keen- leyside Dam and ‘Brilliant’ Ele- mentary School :approve the ‘ expenditure: teres ; Churches said a contractor~ has been picked for. the project and the site approved: asa firehall tocation “will be’ pur- chased after- approval’ by the referendum.” “The building plans are all prepared and ready to go-to a point,” he said. “We didn't want to go ahead and do it until we had approval.” He said much of the con- struction of the 2,040-square- foot concrete-block building will be done with volunteer labor. "We've already got a good response. from local trades- people and people with building backgrounds,” he said. “There are a lot who. have already indicated they're willing to help Meanwhile, he said, the 29 Sterling Newspapers Open Local Bureau Two West Kootenay dailies owned by the Sterling news- paper chain are “responding competitively” to the Castlegar News and Mid-Week Mirror’ with the opening of a co-op- erative news and sales office in Castlegar. Opened this week at 355 Columbia , Ave. in premises shared with Castlegar realtor Jack Hipwell, the bureau is staffed by advertising sales “may be asked to atten 8,to 11 arbitration hearings Tuesday. : eae Fred Pyke, the. Cana- dian Union of Public Em- ployees negotiator repre- senting the non-teaching em- ployees of four West Koote- nay school. districts and “To Attend Hearings. Trustees — Selkirk College in. proceed. |.” ings convened by Dr. Noel Hall, said Hall was “quite” | disturbed" over the absence, ‘ from Hall, was expected ‘to attend the Grand Forks dis- trict hearing scheduled for yesterday and today. More on Page Al0 Brewster Challenges — Cost Cited by Embree . Reports that Castlegar will pay nearly $40,000 for regional planning in 1979 are “extrs- vagantly wrong,” according to. Area H director Norman Brew- ster. . Ina letter appearing in the representatives of both the Nelson Daily News and the. Trail Daily Times. Craig Weir, publisher of The Times and a West Koote- More on Page Al0 Castlegar News this week Brewster — chairman of the Regional District of Central- Kootenay board's planning com- mittee — said the city will pay about $27,000 rather than the‘ figure quoted by acting Castle- gar director Ald. Len Embree at last week's board and city . council meetings. Embree's figure represent- ' ed one-fifth of, the $197,674. gross budget provided in the $3,406,873 overall 1979 budget, he said, rather than Castlegar's share of the $195,100 actually levied against member areas, “An important fact ob- secured by gross budget figures More en Page A9 EDD & Aa Bringing Maggie from Montreal to the West Kootenays. COMMITTED: Cclé ‘We haven't forgotten our own backyard. AnnLanders. . . . Page C15 Anniversaries and Editorial Job File. . Max Haines . Outdoors: WEEKEND WEATHERCAST'§ ‘| CLOUDY today with sunny periods, some chance of iso- lated showers. The weekend will be cloudy with sunny periods and cooler. Tempera- ture highs 12°- 14°, overnight lows 0° - 2°. People and Places . Page Cll Plan of the Week . . Page B14 ‘” Pulpit and Pew. . . Page BIG Showbiz ... Page BG . Street Talk . Page C7 TV Week . Section Vital Statistics . . . Page B13 Your Stars .. . Your Turn Page B2 Canada: Juvenile Champ ‘resulting in a Pages C8 & C9