ESTABLISHED AUG.7. 1867 Tok AAD WR same OF THEE.C PRESS COUNCE News TWACk WEEKLY MAY 4, 1980 cv Canmaen wested in ond belongs to Cos! Ud pr Belong to the odver ter PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-468. 15. 1979 ONCE OF COPYRIGHT: Full. complete end sole copyright in emy printed master produced by Conte "News ° Jowsded howeves Say advermement prepored rom repre prooty, engrave 12. 7R-AUG. 27. 1980 Ud Nercopyrght 1 thot part and thot port only of edveriner shot Tne toma mond -_, Sigh of relief Castlegor’s council's decision to retain the 60 km/h speed limit on Columbia Avenve brought a sigh of relief trom many Castlegar drivers. Reducing the speed limit to 50 km/h would have slowed traffic on the city’s busiest street to a crawl. Anyone who has been cought behind someone driving at 50 km/h knows how long it takes to get from one end of the city to the other. The reduced speed limit would have made the long line of cars on Columbia even longer, creating even more difficulties for cars trying to get into the far lane on Columbia from side streets. Besides, Columbia Avenue is wide enough to easily handle a 60 km/h speed limit. Council's decision to move to a single 50 km/h speed limit throughout the city except os posted on Columbia Avenue, Arrow Lakes Drive and at schools and parks would also be a good idea if the goal is to improve traffic enforcement. But isn’t the goal supposed to be sater streets? What was wrong with the 30 km/h speed limit in residential areas? Most of those areas aren't suited to 50 km/h anyway Postal Deficit Reduction (Proposal Wt) And as for the removal of the 30 km/h tab from the “We Love Our Children” signs, that will mean now the signs will read: “We Love Our Children” which won't mean a heckuva lot to anyone. Letters to the Editor recently requesting trees for the streets and to beautify Castlegar as a whole. “It is definitely the company's in- terest in assisting various public bodies in the beautification of the country- and offered to come out personally in to make arrang for On Saturday evening Bob Sommers banquet. eo ee YEARS AGO From the May 25, 1961 The city could look into repl the 30 km/h tab with something along the lines of “Drive Deten- sively” or “Drive Carefully.” What about here? There was a song in the late 1960s that began with the line: “Something's happenin’ here; what it is ain't exactly clear.” That could best describe the situation concerning the possible health implications for West Kootenay from the radiation emitted by the nuclear accident at Chernoby!. The question on everyone's mind is just how much radiation spread to Canada and the West Kootenay in particular? Health and Welfare Canada has been monitoring the radiation levels through its network of 28 stations across the country. Health elficials. have..used . the. .data gathered from_those stations to advise Canadians. But why just three sites, and why those particular sites? Wouldn't it have been wiser to include sites that have high levels of background radiation, such as those in the West Kootenay and Okanagan? While there ore apparently no significant occurrences of background radiation within hun- dreds of kilometres of Revelstoke, the area from Slocan to Rossland shows major occurrences of radiation from uranium deposits. it's safe to assume that background radiation in this area would be higher than in other areas. And that raises another question: While’ the. levels of roiri water radiation are acceptable in Vancouver, which is relatively free ot back d rodi when the r of rain water in Vancouver revealed levels of radioactive iodine-131 more than 30 ‘times Health and Welfare Canado's ac- ceptable level, an advisory was issued recommending that anyone who collects rain water and uses it es the sole source of potable water find an alternate source. Similarly, health officials removed the advisory Friday when tests of Vancouver rain water showed levels of iodine-131 below the federally accepted level. it seems like a good system — but there’s one major problem with it. The problem is not so much with the bility of the actual i tested, but with the number of test sites. 9! are those levels acceptable in the West Kootenay where background radiation is apparently higher? It's a question that can't be an- swered at this time because health officials don't have any data from this area. It would seem logical to test major B.C. centres, as well as oreas with known high background radiation. That wouldn't mean opening o testing centre in Castlegar. All it would mean is taking samples from Castlegar and sending them to Vancouver — both simple enough given that an Environment Canada office and the airport are both located here. Twenty-eight testing ore just not enough to provide intor- mation for a country the size of Canade. While the data from the Vancouver testing station is more than adequate for Vancouver area residents, it really isn’t much good for Castlegar residents or those who live in Cranbrook or Kelowna. Gronted, the provincial Radiation Protection Service hos been testing rain water from three other B.C. sites — Terrace, Prince George and Revelstoke. Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The re News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, 8.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gor, B.C. Letters must be signed ond include the writer's full name ond address Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Nevertheless the nome and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grommar Guarantee needed first Editor, Castlegar News: Re: Proposed waterslide for Ooti schenia Through the past few weeks, I have become increasingly disgusted with the attitude of the people of Castlegar and the surrounding areas. We, the people of Ootischenia, are being depicted as “nar inded” and “unprogr - to the extent that we have “lost touch with reality”. I think that a very unfair picture has been painted of the people of Ootischenia as depriving the child- ren of the Kootenays from having a waterslide. Firstly, to Melody Semenoff of Thrums and the 100 persons that signed the petition: If the people in your area feel so stongly about our refusal to the waterslide, then I suggest that perhaps you should circulate a petition to have the .waterslide built in the Thrums area instead of wasting your time with the one against the Ootischenia proposal. I deeply regret not being able to attend the public hearing for rezoning. However, I have attended previous meetings, where members of CETAC were in attendance for other various reasons that they wished to have land subdivided. I wish to point out that even though various members of this group hold large parcels of land in Ootischenia, (primarily in the area of rezoning), none of the members resides in Ootischenia. Therefore, they could not possibly understand the feelings of the people who actually live in the area. Perhaps if any of them did reside here — especially in the area the slides are proposed — they would have different feelings of having a water- slide in their back yard. However, I feel this is not as major a factor as the actual guarantee of what will be built. I would love to have a waterslide. How- ever, the members of CETAC were asked to obtain a development permit so that we would in fact be guaranteed that the waterslide would be built. They absolutely refused to do this, citing various evasive reasons. If the property is rezoned as per the current bylaw, we have absolutely no guarantee of any slides being built in the near future, except the verbal promise of CETAC and some beautiful drawings. The developers could ac- tually turn around and sell their property to basically whomever they wished and the new owners would be able to put in whatever business they wished. It is this shat-I-feel is-of concern to the people of Ootischenia. I chose to live here because the people are very careful that our area does not get exploited by persons who might wish to make a “fast buck” I am not prepared to agree to rezoning an area without an absolute guarantee that residents here and in the surrounding areas get what we have been promised The members of CETAC do not wish to take out a development permit and thus leave me no choice in concluding that they actually do not intend to build the waterslide, but might perhaps turn around and resell their property to some other business. I am not prepared to gamble the area in which I live on just verbal promises and no written guarantee. Give me a written guaran- tee and I would welcome it with open arms. But give me evasive promises, then stay the hell out of my back yard. In concluding, we all pay our taxes just like everyone else, be it residing in Castlegar or the outlying areas, and we have every right to agree or disagree with what comes into our particular community, just as people in Castlegar or Nelson or any of the outlying communities. It seems, as well, that the public outside of Ootischenia does not realize that CETAC itself stated that the waterslide alone would not be feasible and that other supporting businesses would as well have to be put in the area of rezoning before the waterslide would be built The way the bylaw currently reads CETAC coyld hypothetically first build a gas station (to compete with the 10 in Castlegar already), then a few years iater they might build a motel (to compete with the five or more other hotels downtown that are experiencing low occupancy), then maybe 10 years, from now they might recall the waterslide and think about building it. Of course, that is if they can find sound finantial backing which it appears CETAC is currently lacking. All those persons who have clad their children in bathing suits might as well sit down, for it is my strong opinion that it will be a very long wait — if ever — for all of us to get the opportunity to enjoy the waterslide. Evelyn Voykin Ootischenia HOUSE OF COMMONS Debate ugly, By ALAN BASS OTTAWA — It sounded like two inner-city gangs poised for a back.alley dust up, as cries of “scumball” and “(T'm) pissed off” and “shut your mouth or I will come there and shut it for you” echoed the walls. But phis was no gang war. This was debate in the House of Commons, during the recent battle over conflict of Quotable Quotes interest e' against former industry minister Sinclair Stevens. When the 33rd Parliament began its work nearly two years ago, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney promised a new era of “civility.” JUSTICE Minister John Crosbie, described Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen as a “medical curiosity” be cause he keeps his lips sealed. “He hasn't had a leak in 18 months,” Crosbie said during a recent speech REVENUE CANADA accidently is sued an unemployed laborer a cheque for $241,644 after his 1983 tax return was reassessed “It opens your eyes first thing in the morning, I ean tell you,” said 21-year old David Cameron of Toronto. 2,000 DELEGATES to the Team sters convention in Las Vegas over whelmisigly rejected the call by less than 80 dissidents to cut Jackie Pres- ser’s current annual salary as president to $125,000 from $225,000. “We should be paying him a million,” one delegate shouted, triggering loud applause. ROBERT DAWSON, Expo 86 dep- uty commis:ioner-general, when told that the China pavilion at Expo is selling clothing from Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, with the Made in Japan labels slashed away from some of the collars: “You're pulling my leg.” A FLYING replica of a great ptero- dactyl, making its first public per formance, turned a flip-flop in its early moments of free flight and crashed to the ground. “Now we know what happened to the dionosaurs,” said a colonel at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where the demonstration was held THE FREER trade issue spilled into debate on the Forestry Ministry's spending estimates this week in the provincial legislature. “Sit down!” NDP MLA Robin Blen- coe shouted at Attorney General Brian Smith when Smith rose on a point of order that debate had strayed too far from the estimates. “You sit down yourself, you yappy little spaniel,” Smith retorted. } , veteran MPs say the mood of this Commons is as ugly and bitter, if not more so, as any they've seen. “I was around here during the Diefenbaker-Pearson years and quite frankly it’s worse than during those years — much worse,” said Conserva- tive MP Jim McGrath, who has 29 years of Commons experience. Television news viewers got a glimpse of Parliament's rowdy new style a few weeks ago, when they watched Liberal MP Sheila Copps leap chairs to lunge at Stevens after a Commons committee meeting, and then saw Liberal MP John Nunziata scuffle with Small Business Minister Andre Bissonette. But there's nothing new about ugly scenes in the Commons. Rowdiness, personal insults and even violence have long been part of Canada’s parliamen tary tradition, as have pleas for more genteel behaviour. The Commons could be very rowdy in Sir John A. Macdonald's day. At one point in 1882, a debate on fisheries was cut short by a wild melee after some MPs, for unknown reasons, set off firecrackers in the Commons chamber. The offenders were firmly rebuked by outraged Commons leaders. Insults have also been a regular feature of Commons debates, although current putdowns are somewhat blun- ter than the ornate taunts of earlie:~ times. “He stands somewhere between a fifth — and fifteenth-rate lawyer,” Liberal MP Joe Rymal said of a Tory MP in 1882. “Ten thousand souls like bitter Conservative MPs have blamed the Liberals’ so-called Rat Pack for the current nasty atmosphere in the House. Opposition MPs blame the government for refusing to answer many questions and for stonewalling during crises like the Stevens contro- versy. However, veteran NDP MP Lorne Nystrom says he thinks the rat pack and the government are equally to blame. He describes the tactics of rat packers Copps and Nunziata as “politi cal thuggery,” but says their tactics are invited by the slippery, secretive style ‘insults have been a regular feature of Commons debates’ of y and Deputy Prime Mini ster Erik Nielsen. “In some ways, the House is a reflection of the prime minister,” Nystrom said. “If he would have higher that which actuates the honorable gentlemen opposite could lodge in a flea’s skull and then have as much room to play in as two frogs could on the broad bosom of Lake Ontario.” In 1971, former prime minister Pi- erre Trudeau mouthed a common pro- ity at Conservative MPs, although ed later that all he'd said was grumbling that it's too stuffy. “We do not want to turn Parliament into an afternoon society meeting.” com} Tory leader John Diefen baker in a 1965 debate on Commons procedure. “After all, strong men have strong opinions.” dards in terms of openness and honesty, then the Sheila Copps, John Nunziata crowd would be seen as so extreme that they would be curtailed by their own party and public opinion.” Veteran MPs comfort t hy Cc News Celgar pulp mill manager Eugene DeLuea this morning announced plans to hold an open house at the new mill. . 2 6 Students from all parts of British Columbia will receive their degrees from the Unitersity of B.C. today and Dawn Vasey Waldie of Robson and Frank Perehudoff of Thrums. . . . A Victoria Day carnival sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club at Kinnaird Park on Monday was termed a huge success. SHSS student Wanda Havdale won the queen's crown in the beauty contest and fashion parade. Mrs. AD. Johnson of the Kinnaird Little Theatre was commentator for the show. Inter- mission music was provided by Bruce possibility of having land in the vicinity of Pass Creek set aside as a park. C.A. Anderson, chairman of the Chamber's park committee, ced yesterday afternoon that the chamber has been advised by Hon. Earle Westwood, minister of recre- ation and conservation, that a reserve has been placed om the land in ques tion at Pass Creek by the Land Settle ment Board and the land will be used as a class C park. 15 RS AGO From May 27,1971 News Plans for Governor-General Roland Michener’s visit to the Castlegar Kinnaird area next Tuesday were out lined to Kinnaird council at a special meeting earlier this week. Mr. and Mrs. Michener are sched uled to arrive at the Kinnaird junior secondary school next Tuesday from Rossland. They will be met there by Mayor Murray Little of Castlegar and Mayor Colin Maddocks of Kinnaird. 7 28 6 The combined forces of Castlegar and Kinnaird were more than sufficient last Friday as Castlegar ran off with top honors in the A school division in the annual West Kootenay spring track and field meet. Held at Haley Park at Warfield, the Cominco Shield was presented to Suz anne Van Yzerloo and Brian Polovini koff. . 2 6 A total of 163 students, the largest class ever, will mark the end of 12 years of schooling at SHSS tonight with commencement exercises. Chairman of the exercises will be SHSS principal Bob Patrick, the in- vocation will be given by Rev. G.A. Park, who will also be the guest speaker. . 28 6 Tenders will be called June 27 for a new terminal at the Castlegar airport. The building, valued at $261,000, will replace the present facilities. . 2¢ Plans for d post office facil with the truest cliche of parliamentary democracy — that it's better to fight in Parliament than to wage war in the streets. “This is the way we resolve our problems in this country,” says McGr. ath. “We don't do it by revolution, by rioting in the street. “We do it by fr ities in Castlegar could be called for tender in late summer. 5 YEARS AGO From the May 24, 1981 News Castlegar Candidates for the Miss Castlegar title this year are: Leona Sorenson, Leanne Smalley, Diane Vader, Colleen Dascher, Susan Tischler, Cathie Ward, Parliament. wouldn't be functioning properly, it wouldn't be serving Canadians prop- erly, if you had a bunch of powderpuffis in there. You've got to be aggressive.” (The Canadian Press) ee) tion in Parliament Wanita C. and Lorene Tamelin. . 7 The City of Castlegar has approved spending about $27,500 on a new com munications system fer the fire de- partment. Editor, Castlegar News: Nowhere does the Criminal Code of Canada allow “abortions to protect the health or well-being of preg’ women” as was printed in the May 18 edition of your newspaper. The law does state that abortions may be formed in cases where a woman's life or health is in danger. In reading the government reports and documents prepared prior to the 1969 change in the abortion law, one sees that the intent of Sec. 251 of the Crim- laid down by their boards of directors, arid ignoring the law and its intent, === Kube denounces inal Code was not to include social KEYNOTE SPEAKER i Linda Williams, author of Teaching for the Two- Sided Mind, shares her knowledge with local and out-of-town teachers during a workshop at Selkirk College Friday. Williams was the special guest at the workshop, part of the learning assistance teachers’ conference hosted by the Castlegar Learning Assistance Teachers’ Association. Costiews Photos by Simon Birch Epp issues ultimatum OTTAWA (CP) — Health Minister Jake Epp is giving the tobacco industry until the end of next month to come up with plans to control smoke pollution before he brings in any legislation of his own “T've given them to the end of June to come forward with plans that they might want to make in order to control what I see as a very serious public health issue.” Epp said “I will wait to the end of June obviously keeping my options open to move on areas of legislation that could be considered,” he said New laws could be brought in areas such as transpor. tation (banning smoking on buses, trains and airplanes), agriculture (moving tobacco farmers into other crops), and new messages on cig arette packages, he said. 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VIC 2P1 BACKING INDEPENDENT BUSINESS CLRA demands bil li it | He et I | | i steTth ri ili ie f jist * teres ¢ j iif | hh i E t the bargaining body for Brit- ish Columbia's 650 unionized contractors, does not back down on its demands.” li ge F students for the 1986 Fall Term. 365-7818 tohes ecodemi. sperituel. emononel ond physcol i Canadian woman climbs Everest KATMANDU (AP) — By reaching the summit of Mount Everest this week, Canadian Sharon Wood be- came the sixth woman to conquer the world’s highest ing peak. Everest on May 29, 1953. Wood was d PUBLIC NOTICE Wood, 28, reached the top of the 8,848-metre mountain on Tuesday via the little known side route from Tibet, China, and celebrated by fly- ing the Canadian and Chinese flags in victory. It was the second ascent of Everest by a woman via the north face. The first was a Tibetan woman named Phan- thog on May 27, 1975. All the other women who have scaled the mountain, on the Nepal-Tibet border, have j rhe i ji ! 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