Ad CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 23, 1982 (— CASTLEGAR NEWS” 7, 1947, |. 1980. ays ra.an, 27,1900 Circulation Mai LV. CAMPBELL — pustisner ava, 7, VO47-FEB. 15, 1972 Publisher — Burt Campbell Editor — Ron Norman Managing Editor — ols Huphes la Kositsin Office Manager — tlsinetse vested in and belongs to Castle News Lid.; prov ony odvertisement prepared I belong to the advertiser, jovided, however, rom repro proots, engravings, etc. provided by Re ‘that copyright in that part and that port the advertiser shalt ‘emai d Cost of being free The offects of the provincial of h and health care most likely really won't be felt until later this sum- mer — after the beds have been closed, the nurses laid off and a waiting list established. But we would venture to’ guess that the effects will become even more pronounced the next time a provincial politician has a hernia or torn knee ligaments and is put ona walting list along with 12,000 others, It all boils down to the fact that a free health care system is really only worth anything when its ser- vices are available within a reasonable amount of time, The “free” aspect ‘of the system starts to lose its appeal when patierits find they must walt up to two-years (as in Britain) for elective surgery. More pretzel logic Like many local Businesses - and others elsewhere in B.C, and across the country — the Castlegar _ News has reduced staff in the face “of a faltering economy that has affected everyone. It was not without some interest, therefore, that we reported a news story on the front page of one of our recent editions that the federal government is giving the Kootenay Reporter $14,670 to hire students to “build the paper's base as a regional community newspaper.” And then earlier this week we had a student who worked on the Kootenay Reporter apply for a job with us. He explained that since he hed been a volunteer with the paper, and had also received a small sum of money for'some of his efforts, he wasn't eligible to be considered for one of the five positions being funded. Thus, a student with some experience on the paper Is without a summer job, while at the same time the Castlegar News watches its tax dollars used to subsid , Sviscerate the je syatom a .. . these cutbacks will white away at essentials, oe down, to the bone: emasculate Mt Remember When? 30 YEARS AGO. From the May 22, 1952 Castlegar News The members of Castlegar’ District ion were ly fortunate Thursday evening in that, after doing full justice to one of Mrs, Martini's famous Italian suppers, they heard as guests two people who are _ : vexperts in their field. The first was Dr. W.L. Wright of Robson and formerly “Professor . of Music Brandon College,,, who ‘bad chosen to play certain platiofarte, - selections with commentaries,: Dr. Wright's modest protests that spring. gardening had marred his playing were quickly belied by an altogether delight- ful and informal performance, which he opened with a Chopin Prelude.” Mrs. George Magwood, the second _ guest. speaker, chose to speak on the “problem of ae Fetarded child.” e The first na in the. “Shsictalan of the new three-storey, 28 ° bedroom - hotel, which the Central Hotel Co, Ltd, natructing LL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘vr gtceranicgneacotegescit Kristiansen responds Editor, Castlegar News: As our defeated exMP and now crit another local newspaper at a time when we have been forced to lay off some of our own employ Hf. in a recent letter to ie edifor, has seen . fit be make derisive comments on. The federal government's — and Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen's — priorities for funding summer programs is surely called into question. This is the same kind of pretzel logic that keeps interest rates where they are. Cooperation the key The ‘new “Buy ¢ from an: editorial page Jamie Lamb column in. the Vancouver Sun, which was, in turn, based on some very selective and colorful excerpts from one of my recent speeches in the House of Commons; it struck me that many of your readers might appreciate the opportunity to read the entire speech and judge for themselves. 2 “Acopy of the entire unexpurgated edition of this 20-minute speech which was, by the way, delivered by 6:30 a.m., is enclosed for your anticipated use — complete with _heckles and rejoinders. hon. member for Prince George-Peace River (Mr. Oberle) has no great love for what that project seems to be doing in his constituency. There are large-scale hydroelec- tric prjects that are shipping electricity across the line for far less than they could get for it there. . In times like these we tend to forget the stupidities that led us into the present crisis. These super-effi- cient oil companies that my friends to the right and hon. members opposite like to tout as being the champions of ‘initiative and skill got us into a mess a few years ago and, all of a sudden, hundreds .of years of oi] reserves turned into 20 or 30 years of reserves in‘one fell swoop. That is the kind of leadership’. and imagination of which a lot of Canadians have had enough. gUnion program that started ' he ¥week in Castlegar and Trail deserves the full support of both communities, That doesn’t mean we should all go out and buy new cars (though we ‘won't stop anyone)..In fact it's doubtful just how many residents will take part in the scheme, given the gloomy unemployment picture in this area, Still, what makes this program attractive is the idea of “between « labor union, : credit ‘union and two major , car dealerst to take a lead ‘Ase guide-to~your -readers:-Mr- Siddon js PC, as are Messrs. Mc- Dermid,-Scott and Elzinga, while-Mr. role in economy. ‘the West Kootenay That's the type of cooperation the area seems to lack. If we can all take the lead. from ; this haps — just perh Program, p iP: ip — we could help soften the blow of hard economic times. . ~ and slide : .FRED MERRIMAN Health care — it's. actually sick care Several months ago some of us were fortunate enough to hear a ~ worker from-India. of her adult life to call sick care 1! The lecturer was a gontle, soft spoken woman who had devoted most ealth care in the rural section of a country which must face almost. insurmountable problems in’ providing’ a. resting place for the sick and broken population to heal in some dignity. - he famous Mother Teresa and her band of sistering angels carry the dying from the streets, provide a mat on the floor and a little clear’ water. Food and medicine is simply not available, Then we fly across the sea to Canada where men of high intellect @ most inaccurate of all names. . . th health care: The gentle woman from India inf space. dus that t care for the sick. The quality af. health care success Is measured by: the number of beds that a hospital doetn't have. Doctors are doing what they can to reduce the numbers of pedple occupying hospital bed A recent article th the Le ion Magazine tells us that 25 per cant of the people mending in Canadian hospitals are victims of self- inilicted Is in India to injuries. The smoking, obesity and heart conditions from over-eating and insu ficient exercise programs, and alcohol and drug abuse. Could we add injury from motor vehicle accidents? Then we peek inside some of our’ extended care hespitols where we see samabody 's mother and father cancer caused by ick care at the hands of — in the closing years. care and custody of — out of mind, many of the elderly Should thet few “Joans of Arc" left in the world wake strong, healthy and even wealthy families of the.elderly flit about their personal business. It does not seem fair that children normally receive care from their respective parents, yet those same children will riot tend the needs of their own elderly parents when they b — like It reminds me of the elephant ritual where the aged beasts simply drift off from the herd and find a dying place. No effort is made by the younger animals to postpone the end. It comes quickly and quietly. We lumans appear fo go through the ritual by assigning our el: the state and the medical community. Out of sight A survey would also find that the collective taxpayer pays for the slow motion dying places. {t is cruel, polust ¢ and completely unfair that is NDP and thus his re- joinder wil] be seen as directed to the PC honorable member ‘who preceded My only comment on my ery-baby- predecessor's whimpering is that the really disgusting and obscene perfor- mance in Canada is what the Liberals and Tories are doing and have done to this great and wonderful country of ours, T trust that you will afford your -_ readers the chance to make their own decisions as to the accuracy. and appropriateness of my remarks, Let them call it as they see it— as I did and will continue to do, That's the tradition of my Kootenay West CCF and NDP predecessors. It is the Liberals and the Tories who have on apology to make —for the harm they. have done to all. Lyle a, MP Kootenay West . Some hon. Members: Hear, hear! © Mr, Lyle 8. Kristiansen (Kootenay West): Mr. Speaker, I thank the.Tories down there for their applause. It is very nice of them. . Siddon: You need a hand now © and again, Mr. Kristiansen: At this time. in the morning one needs all the help one can ceige rf Mr. eMetighatd: Where the hell have ol been,all night? Mr. Bristiansén:, I managed to get two or three Hours of sleep. I am in somewhat of a better shape than a couple’ of people will be because of it. think all hon, members in this Hoare feel rather! sad during the debate because’ of, the sorry mess caused yy the continuing policies of the ding-bats and the ding-a-lings, the Tweedle-dums and Tweedle-dees of Canadian history as far as energy policy is concerned. A number of my colleagues and a number of other ‘hon. have di: d the ,single- erly to the The wedding ceremony uses 1! when they, would much rather’ be at home win their families. It is ap- preciated that some are completely beyond the ability of home care. je words, “till death do us part”. Parents have always felt some obligation t to tend the young. the population d core indicate that many grown children feel no sense of ‘love, respon- sibility. oreven duty to care for their parents. for. their years would of health care in practice: A jave us an small village h was full to ( beds were empty again. Pp with suffering from beri beri. The doctors asked why this vo epidemic had occurred. Workers were sent into the village to look at the water supply, eating hobits and sanitation. The problem was located and eliminated. The y, track psychology of the megaproject and the inevitable problems which will arise later on because we tend to put all of our eggs into one basket, sometimes in a basket of a slightly different color, but one basket nevertheless. We seem to be playing pharaoh in this country. For at least, 5,000 years, politicians have been building pyramids every time they think they are in trouble. The only difference between ‘those of today and those that ‘were built in Egypt 5,000 years ago is that most of * the ones we are building or trying to build in this country now turn to dust even before they are erected. ‘It' does not seem to matter very much whether it is a giant oil sands project or whether it is B.C. Northeast Coal which almost seems to be on the’rocks before it gets started. People are saying it is ‘priced by $20? I know that the it-is-this-sort of thing that has allowed _ the resent government, among others, to-create its own “Can- adianization” version of the Tasmanian devil that looks like one thing, acts like another, and brays like something else, and is not particularly productive. Other megaprojects are involved such as the coal deposits in north- eastern British Columbia. There is talk of shipping this non-renewable re- source across the ocean at a subsidized price to low-cost industry whose products will come back to compete with our own, That is another glorious result of the various national energy policies that we have seen in this country, one after the other. B.C Hydro is shipping huge quantities of hydro- electric power south of the border at a price which is far lower than the market could bear. It appears that the new nuclear station in New Brunswick is going to share its excess electric power from that nuclear plant — which has’ been a boondoggle all its own — down south of the line. And yet we talk about energy self-sufficiency, Mr. Speaker. One of the reasons that I dwell on that is that Kootenay West had its own megaproject a few years ago. That was another boondoggle, Mr. Speaker. The Social Credit premier of British Col- umbia at that time was a man that many of us had a great deal of affection for. At least he knew a little bit about ‘. life, having gone from the bottom up, and unlike some other politicians in this country, he understood a little bit about how people and how communi- Speaker. That is the way they act and it has been the same in this country for over 100 years. Tam a relatively new member of the House, Mr. Speaker, but one of the things that ‘makes .me sad is the combination of the spirit of arrogance on the side opposite and the . of Trail,” B.C., is ‘co! Castlegar’s Columbia Avert the | Eremenko -De| ‘ began Saturday morning when a fleet of trucks and, the village bulldozer began excavation work on the prop- erty. ‘The bulldozer was. put on a 12-hour shift Tuesday and work is Pro- ceeding at, rapid | pace. ic Some 60. ‘Castlogar Kiwanis, Club members; and guests ‘ enjoyed an evening of:fun and frolic in the Twin Rivers Hall Tuesday evening when the. Club sponsored another of its famous “ladies nights.” Highlighted. by: the induction of two new members, the event featured a banquet, performanc- - es by guest artists dancing to the music of two different orchestras and a bar spirit of revenge that has been present in the Conservative party ever since the Kamikaze squad led them to self-immolation in December 1979. The choice that is before the Canadian people is whether the Prime Minister~ (Mr. Trudeau) is going to kill them'on purpose or whether the Conservatives are going to do it by accident. That is the only choice. i, Tommy Douglas used to tell a story about the old cream separator, I - will not into that,.but what is going on with the ener; icy-togay. x9) minds. me of it. All pee know how todo .is shovel public money at people, whether it is to the oil companies or to the people who, unfortunately, have been left without jobs in this country. They always want to shovel money at people. The Tory/Liberal policy on energy is continually to shovel money into one end of a pipe and then to call it a suitable’ reward for’ private initiative when their friends in the oil industry — who, by-the way, help finance their parties and their election campaigns — grab the cash as it comes out the other end, If it does not come out the private end of the pipe, the PCs and the Liberals keep shoving it into the public end. They call that providing additional incentives, When they have shovelled so much of the.taxpayers’ money into the pipe that it is forced out of the private end, then the companies compete to grab the spout and take the risk of being trampelled in’ the rush. That is about the only kind of risk that some of the friends of the people to my tight and some of the more secret frieids of members opposite take. They get 98 cents out of the dollar, so that is not much of a risk. It is an old story and maybe people get used to it. I said I was saddened by the combination of arrogance and revenge <4that I see around here. Ever since the late evening of February 18, 1980 this incompetent kamikaze squad to my right, otherwise- known as the Con- * servative party, has been sulking. It ties tick. We could use a little more of © that kind of horse sense today. He “+ made a couple of real dandy mistakes, “however. One was the Columbia River Treaty and the various and ‘ dams that were “not going to cost the province a nickel.” We see the same ‘kind of economic’ genius behind the Nationa) Energy Program. A lot of people tonight seem to not want to talk about anything but Al- sands, but there is another issue in this motion, Mr, Speaker, and that is the Alaska highway pipeline. I know that the hon. member for Edmonton East (Mr. Yurko) and the hon. member for Yukon (Mr. Nielsen) had a little good- natured fencing match over that issue a short while ago. The issue of the Alaska highway pipeline and how we got into the sorry situation that we are in today again appears to be on the back burner. I wonder why no one has spoken about the prebuild tonight? We sometimes talk about people “ being in bed together, Mr. Speaker. ‘The Liberals and the Tories may not be in bed together but a lot of people suspect that they are going at it pretty hot and heavy somewhere behind the * bushes. They just do not like to do it out in the open. They are both nourished from the same tit, Mr. has been mired in a well of self pity. When they tire of banging their heads against the wall or, more often, bang- ing their heads against each other or engaging in some other act of self-flag- ellation, théy rise only to vent their rage at everybody in sight, shouting, “Revenge, betrayal, conspiracy, un- fair,” in a useless and increasingly said attempt to focus blame on: others for. their own. miserable ineptitude. PC no longer stands for Progres- sive Conservative, Mr. Speaker. It stands for pitiful castaways. That is what they are, ‘pitiful castaways. Somebody ought to do a TV serial on them. They have been cast ‘away into the garbago can of political’ oblivion, and the more you hear from them, the more you know that they have really earned that role.’ i Mr. Scott (Hamilton-Wentworth): ‘That is’what ‘happened in .Saskat- chewan. Mr. Kristiansen: It makes you sad because they have had some pretty good people in the past, and there area few good ones there now. One of them had to leave, and he now sits behind us over’ here. .The ‘hon, . member for Edmonton ‘East is one, and the hon. * member for Qu’Appelle-Moose Moun- tain (Mr. Hamilton) is another. There ‘continued on poge AS where refresh were a 8 @ : The Castlegar community newspap- et, “The Castle News” is e: right along with the community it serves. The arrival of. new press equipment and two. staff additions make it an independent peel i fer the first time in history. * s . A very important ceremony in the life of the Kinnaird Presbyterian con- gregation took place on May: 18th, in -the laying of the corner-stone. of the 4 new building. Rev.-Lyall Detlory M.A;, Tt Mi, of Prailj:inid the -stone-antl preached on “The Church of Jesus Christ.” A large number of members and friends attended this first service in the new church. The atudent minister in charge-for the summer is Alex MacDonald, of Niagara: Falla, Ontario. 25 YEARS AGO: : 3 From the May 23, 1957 Castlegar Nows Victoria Day celebrations sponsored here by the Lillian Killough ‘Chapter IODE, attracted a large crowd, despite overcast skies and threatening rain. The parade started as usual from the Castlegar School and was better than ever, as more organizations’ “entered floats. 8 8 « scot If you haven't been able to see the glass ball atop the high school flag-pole don't blame your spectacles — it isn’t there. Due to an unfortunate accident the pole was dropped while the West Kootenay Power Company crew was in the process of raising it, emashing’ the ball as it hit the ground. John Wiig brought the glass ball reflector from Norway as a gift to the «school when he visited his homeland over a year ago. * . Plane service for Castlegar and dis- trict will be stepped up to seven days 4 week with the addition of Sunday flights, commencing June 1. . Announcement. of the new flights was made in the Airport Committee renort tothe regular dinner meeting of the Chamber. of Commerce last week. . » “15 YEARS AGO From the May 25, 1967 Castlegar Nows ‘An estimated 4,000 people turned out, at Pass Creek Park Monday ‘to consume more than 8,000 cold: drinks and an almost inestimable.quantity of hot dogs and hamburgers’ while. wit- . nessing ‘the joint Centennial “calebra- tions of Kinnaird and Castlegar. A warm sun greeted the. morning parade, which began at Kinnaird and: wound through Castlegar and nee the highway to the park. s 5 YEARS AGO May 26, 1977 Residents on First: Avenue South and Dumont Crescent, you're out of _luck: your houses are too far apart for mail home delivery, - ‘Responding to’ city staff’ “investi- gation of complaints from residents in the area, G.R. Bussey, head ‘of: the delivery requirements section of the B.C. and Yukon Postal District: opera- tional services branch, said in a May'9 letter, the distance between calls must average less than 40 yards to qualify for home delivery. + TL Kristiansen responds . 2