Vigtord a.’ Sunflower The winning number in Friday's Provincial SS lottery was 2552784. Open The: six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw are: 9, 16, 31, 38, 43 and 45. The bonus number is 5. Page B2 WEATHERCAST ‘Sunny with cloudy periods today, with highs of 21 to 34. A 10 per cent chance of rain. Showers are expected for Menday, with o 40 per cent chance of precipitation. 50 Cents ~_ VOL. 37 No. 45 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1964 - 2 Sections (A & B) O-DAY VETERAN . . . Earl Rourke, member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 (Castlegar, was 28-years-old when he took part in the legen- dary D-Day i 40 years ago dnesd D-DAY: | 40 YEARS The 30,000 Canadians who fought in, the Allied invasion af Europe called D-Day had one other common enemy apart from the Germans. Fear. Many of the young Canadian soldiers’ who participated in D-Day on June 6, 1944 were experiencing battle for the first time, ‘As they were shipped across the choppy English Channel, or flown across, ready to be parachuted into Normandy, some thought of the catastrophic attack on Diéppe two years before, in which three-quarters of the Canadian forces were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. in six hours. % platoon in the 8rd Canadian Division which took part in the D-Day invasion. “You're seared . .. and you just go,” he said, “Some- body says go here traini ler. « someone said, ‘Ab Culley, 63, of Castlegar, was part of a mortar BERED : < ‘God, I'm hungry,’ . . . With all the excitement and confusio#, there was no time to est,” Culley remembered. Castlegar resident, Ear! Rouke, 68, recalls how the men felt as they were shipped across the channel to fight the battle for which they'd been training in Britain. “We were apprehensive; we we were going ” said Rourke, formerly a machine- “We knew we were heading into something awful dangerous .. . | don't think there was a day when I wasn't seared: There were a lot of fireworks in that Normandy campeign.” The Highlanders landed at a small French town, and then scrambled up « bank to establish a bridgehead, until tanks and heavy artillery were unloaded from landing craft. Then’ they .moved on to attack the airfield: at += Jess than 10 kilometres east of the larger ‘and Caen’ the Calgary High tefinery — which Rourke remem. CEL Dynamite blast rips CP rail line By CasNews Staff Nelson RCMP are investigating a dynamite blast which damaged three metres of CP Rail track 24 kilometres north of Castlegar Thursday night — the fifth bomb ineident in two months for the West Kootenays. A stick of dynamite exploded at about 11:15 p.m. near the Kootenay Canal Power Project, causing about $700 damage to the track. Cpl. Rudy Linke of the Nelson RCMP said police “don't know” who's respon. sible for the bomb — which was hand-ignited, and had a safety fuse. Linke said no one was injured in the blast. He said the closest house was about halfa-kilometre away, and no trains were expected near the site ‘when the bomb exploded. It took CP Rail crews only a few hours to replace the track, and the rail line between Nelson and Castlegar was reopened According to Linke, the bomb was similar to “the bomb found in Castlegar that failed to explode last month some time.” That dynamite bomb was discovered April 30 in Brilliant under CPR tracks TICKETS SELLING WELL — about 300 metres from a Christian school. A dynamite bomb exploded in Gilpin — eight kilometres east of Grand Forks — on the same day, damaging a utility pole. Gilpin is a tiny community populated mostly by members of the Sons of Freedom sect. The bomb incidents follow a similar pair of events which happened April 9 near Grand Forks. An explosive device blew up CP Rail tracks near the town, and another undetonated bomb was discovered three kilometres away. Sports pool makes splash By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Castlegar residents have joined others across the country in becoming part of Sport Select Baseball, Canada's MaeLeod’s Store gad Mountain Ski and Sports Hut in Castlegar also began 6 fesidelite-an opportunity to play tha pease 0 haase: The weekly contest offers C: “It’s pretty good,” he said. “The odds are more than the average (lottery).” “There's been a few winners,” Ar chambault said. He said he decided to become one of the ticket sellers because he thought “it would be neat.” “I have nothing against any lot teries,” he said. “I don’t have anything against people buying lottery tickets.” He described as “idle talk” the recent an opportunity to pick winners in How pool works, A2 scheduled professional sports events throughout the year. Presently, base- ball is the only game offered. Sharon DeJong, an inventory clerk at MacLeods says the tickets are sell. ing well. “They: were slow at first,” she said. “It's a little confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it’s quite easy to pick who you think is going to win.” For sports fanatics, she says the chances of winning are higher. “You know the teams and you know who's going to beat who. It's a sport- sman's lotto.” Lyle Archambault at Ski jur 1 dispute sur ding the sports lottery. Provincial lottery corporations — which operate Western Express, Lotto 6-49, the Provincial and other lotteries — have warned its ticket sellers they must give up selling the province-run lottery tickets if they sell the federal sports pool tickets. Neither MacLeod’s nor Mountain Sports Hut sell provincially-run lottery tickets. The provinces argue that they have sole control over lotteries under a 1979 agreement with the federal govern- ment. However, the federal government has countered that the sparts pool ix not a lottery, but a game: of chance. and Sports Hut says ticket sales at his store are also starting to pick up. Church By RON NORMAN Editor The ehurch has every right to be involved in the “political arena,” says the moderator of the United Church of Canada. However, Dr. Clarke MacDonald warns there is a difference between a political stand and “political meddling.” Churches should do their “home work” on an issue, reach a consensus among church members and present that point of view, MacDonald told about 100 chureh members and visitors at a public meeting Wednesday in the Castlegar United Church. But he added that the church must also “respect the rights of people to differ.” ° MacDonald said “this is the tension” that often develops in the church be- tween its members. He also said the church has to decide how far to go in presenting its options to decision makers. “We have to be persistent in our ap- peals for justice,” MacDonald said. “Water wears the stones,” he added, quoting from Proverbs. MacDonald acknoweldged that some have criticized the church “for being in the boardrooms of the nation. I can easily understand it. “I feel attacked when the church is hile, Major League baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn is unhappy that sports fans in Canada can bet on baseball games and has made attempts to halt what he calls the “infringement” of the league's copyright. Archambault said “baseball people in the states have been gambling on baseball for years and years in Las Vegas and they’re making more money than they'll ever make up here.” “I don't know what the big stink is all about.” The sports pool was created by the federal government to previde a source of revenue for fitness and amateur sports, arts and culture and medical and health research. Sports pool revenues will also assist with funding for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. Sports pools are available in at least other 40 countries. A network of more than 25,000 re- tailers has been established in all prov inces across the country. Coupons are priced at $2 each. The sports pool is expected to raise between $75 and $80 million a year. The minimum jackpot prize pool in each weekly cycle is $250,000 but is expected to climb substantially. The contest is based on the parimu- tuel system in which the number of players and the number of winners decide the individual amount won. and politics mix CLARK MecDONALD ... warns of ‘meddling’ how the church can best make its ethical judgements heard among the world’s corporations, he said. MacDonald said one criticism lev- elled at the church is that the chuch should not take a direct role, but in- stead inspire ite members to take up issues on their own. But he said corporate society “doesn't work that way anymore... organized corporate power .. . has to be impacted by organized corporate power.” That's the reason for the world's churches getting together and making public statements, he said. MacDonald was in Castlegar as part of a tour of B.C. He visited Nelson Tuesday and Wednesday morning and spoke to a Castlegar peace group prior to the public meeting. On the issue of human rights in Guatemala, MacDonald added: “The worst thing to me is the leader in Guatemala is a born again Christian . and yet he's responsible for the murder of men, women and children.” MacDonald sidestepped the contro- versial question of ordination of self. declared homosexuals, saying that as moderator he cannot take sides. The issue will be addressed by the United Church council in Morden, Man. in August and MacDonald said he must be seen to be fair and just in his role as moderator at that conference. “It doesn't mean I'm not saying anything,” he quickly added. He said it is important to keep in mind where the report on ordination of homosexuals originated. He said the issue was not “con- cocted” by the church, but arose at decision-making conferences where members asked for ordination guide- lines. “] stand strongly for human rights for homosexuals,” MacDonald pointed out. “They are people of God as we are people of God.” However, he said ordination into Christian ministry is not a human right — “it is a rite (of the chureh),” He said it is up tothe church to continued on page Ad