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Public hearing needed

it’ hard to believe that less than
two decades ago a first-class letter
could be mailed in Canada for
only six cents. It seems more like
light years ago.

But that's how much a letter cost
to send in 1968, the first year
Canada adopted a universal rate
for first-class mail.

In those days postal rate in-
creases were few and far bet-
ween. Those golden years lasted
only until 1971 when the first in a
long series of rate increases went
into effect.

Since 1971, postal rates for first-
class mail have increased an
average of two cents a year: from
seven cents in 1971 to 34 cents this
June.

if the statistics show anything,
it's that Canada Post has opted for
rate increases whenever it needed
to cover its increased costs.

Surely, it's time the Crown cor-
poration began looking at avenues
other than increased postal rates

to meet its increasing costs.

In tact, it’s time the Crown cor-
poration began to be treated like
some other, Crown corporations
and was forced to justify its rate
increases through a public
hearing.

At least that way, Canadians
would know whether Canada Post
was making an effort to keep the
lid on postal rates or whether it
simply jacked up rates whenever it
ran into higher operating costs.

Castlegar News readers may not
be able to stop the postal rate in-
crease. But they can intorm their
political representatives how they
feel and demand a public hearing
into postal rate hikes.

The act of Parliament creating
Canada Post, the Crown cor-

poration that replaced the old post
office department in 1981, gives
citizens the right to complain about
the rate increases scheduled to
take effect June 24.

If the past is any indication, the
federal cabinet won't use its
powers to stop the increases.

However, it would know what the
average Castlegar News reader
thinks.

Complains should be directed to:
Perrin Beatty, Minister Respon-
sible, Canada Post Corp., Rate
Representations, Sir Alexander

bell Build Conted.

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Lesson
to learn

Castlegar council's decision to
deal with the Sunday shopping
issue in committee of the whole
rather than during the regular
council meeting was understan-
dable, but still a poor judgment
call.

Council obviously felt it would be
easier to discuss the contentious
Sunday shopping bylaw behind
closed doors. It apparently
recognized that Sunday shopping is
a no win issue. No matter which
side council took, somebody
wouldn't be happy.

So to avoid any heat council
decided to shuffle this issue off to
the more comfortable contines of
committee of the whole.

It was a mistake, though a rare
one for council when it comes to
dealing with issues in public. In
fact Castlegar council is one of the
more open local government
bodies.

Nevertheless, Mayor Audrey
Moore admitted the mistake
during this week's council
meeting, saying the issue should
have been discussed at the regular
meeting.

Perhaps now council won't be
quick to send a sensitive issue to
committee of the whole again —
and that’s one of the positive
things to come out of all this. And
it's a lesson all our local elected of-
ticials could take to heart.

NATO expected
to support plan

By JULIET O'NEILL
WASHINGTON — The Mulroney
alence toward par:
ticipating in American research for the
Star Wars anti-missile defence pro
gram puts Canada in the same boat as
key West European allies in the
U.S.-led western military alliance

By most accounts, the overall initial
reaction by members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization to the
U.S. invitation to join in Star Wars re
search is guarded and hesitant. Can
ada, for one, may be waiting to see
what the others do.

The alliance has just over seven
weeks left to decide whether to par
ticipate in the program, known offi
cially as the Strategic Defence Initia.
tive to research a space-based defence
system of advanced technology to
shoot down enemy missiles.

Critics fear it will ultimately lead to
an arms race in space. The research
invitation puts NATO members in a
quandry. There is continued pressure
from the U.S. for a greater con
tribution by the allies to their own
defence.

But they don't want to touch off
internal political rows like the ones
that swept Western Europe over the
NATO deployment of U.S. cruise and
Pershing 2 nuclear missiles. And they
don't want to blow any chance of new
U.S.-Soviet arms control agreements.
At the same time they want the
economic benefits of research

The May 26 deadline for a response
was contained in an invitation last
week from U.S. Defence Secretary
Caspar Weinberger to the NATO allies
plus Japan, Israel and Australia

Australia instantly said no. West
Germany balked at the deadline.
France has promoted the idea of an
alternate West European research
program. Britain has expressed reser
vations. Italy and the Netherlands
appear reluctant

And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
says that while his government is con
sidering the invitation, Canada’s en
thusiasm is “restrained.

Still, bets are on that NATO will

utlimately dip into the research effort.
It has already swung behind it, issuing
a joint statement of support for the
U.S. initiative last week. And Lord
Carrington of Britain, the NATO
secretary general, predicted in Wash
ington on Wednesday that unity will
prevail.

The Soviets are waging a campaign
against the U.S. Star Wars program
and say that a nuclear arms control
agreement under negotiation will not
be achieved if the research is not
abandoned.

External Affairs Minister Joe Clark
got a first-hand taste of the campaign
in Moscow on Wednesday when Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
asked Canada to reconsider its already
stated support for the U.S. research
initiative. “We declined to do that,”
Clark reported.

The Americans have issued repeated
assurances that what the allies have to
say about the program is important to
them. Robert McFarlane, the White
House national security adviser, re
cently told foreign affairs writers that
“since this is a research program, our
allies’ thoughts are essential as we
examine the capabilities and set per
formance criteria for the defensive
technology.”

Further, no step away from an
offensive deterrent structure which
has so effectively kept the peace in
Europe can or will ignore the voice of
our allies.”

Despite such comments by senior
Reagan administration officials, there
is no mistaking the irritation felt in
Washington when doubt is cast on the
Star Wars initiative by allied for
eigners.

A good example is the case of British
Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe who
publicly aired concerns and raised basic
questions about its potential destrabil
izing impact. Four days later he was
subject of a scorching rebuke by As.
sistant U.S. Defence Secretary Richard
Perle.

(Canadian Press)

testing one, two, three, four. . . testing. ...”

AFTER 20-YEAR SPLIT

Moscow courts China

LONDON — The dance of the super-
powers has gripped the attention of a
worried world since Mikhail Gorbachev
came to power in the Kremlin last
month.

But the troubled East-West relation.
ship, its tensions concentrated at the
arms talks in geneva and the possibility
of summit between Gorbachev and
President Ronald Reagan, is only one
element on the Soviet foreign policy
agenda.

The way also seems open for rap-
proachment between the Soviet Union
and China, two Communist giants dis-
tanced by an ideological split more than
20 years ago.

On Tuesday, while a bipartisan U.S.
congressional delegation was having
talks with veteran Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko, his deputy,
Leonid Ilyichov, was meeting with a
Chinese delegation led by Vice-Foreign
Minister Quian Quichen.

Although the Sino-Soviet talks were
the sixth in a series aimed at patching
up strained relations between Moscow
and Peking, they were also the first
since Gorbachev became general sec-
retary of the Soviet Communist party
last month.

met with Vice-Premier Li Peng, who at
ion of

per cent of 300,000 Japanese television

56, also anew

younger leaders in China. Li had his
audience with Gorbachev immediately
following the leaders of Eastern
European states and ahead of those
from Third World socialist states and
the West.

“We would like to seriously improve
relations with the Chinese People’s
Republic . . . and believe that, given
reciprocity, that is quite possible,” Gor-
bachev said at that meeting.

Canadian experts travelling with
External Affairs Minister Joe Clark on
his visit to the Soviet Union last week
suggested that Gorbachev may have
staked out Sino-Soviet relations as his
area of foreign policy interest, leaving
Gromyko to direct East-West policy.

Clark also heard first-hand of
Moscow’s new attention to relations
with China. In talks with First Deputy
Premier Ivan Arkipov, Clark was told
of Soviet interest in China's economic
experiments involving incentive
schemes and foreign investment.

Arkipov went to China last Decem.
ber, the most senior Soviet leader in 15
years to do so. Given the Soviet
Union's chronic economic problems, the

Gorbachev had earlier lied he
intended greater emphasis on rel
with Peking. At the funeral of his pre-
decessor, Konstantin Chernenko, he

trip i pt him.

With a view to correcting the lop-
sided trade balance in Canada's favor,
Arkipov quoted statistics showing 50

sets factured under licence in one
of China’s new free-trade zones had
been sold in Canada.

That would be startling to the archi-
tects of the Soviet Union's rigid, cen-
tralized economic system. Few Soviet-
made consumer goods are of a high
enough quality to please Soviet con-
sumers, let along those in the West.

But several experts on the Soviet
Union caution against expecting rapid
or ical change in either economic or
foreign policy. The moves, when they
come, will be deliberate and gradual,
they say.

Still, Gorbachev has called for
“intensive work and bold thinking (to)
give full scope for initiative and cre-
ative endeavor in order to attain higher
economic results.”

Although that falls short of the
radical changes wrought by China's
Deng Xaioping, Moscow is paying close
attention to China's experiment.

Improved relations with China would
also offset the new ties between Wash
ington and Peking.

Nevertheless, serious obstacles re-
main, including Moscow's backing of
Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia, the
Soviet military intervention in Afghan
istan and ~ massive Soviet military
presence along their disputed common
border. (Canadian Press)

for longtime L

Bloomer. His interment was the first in

the Castlegar-Kinnaird cemetery, &

site which he had helped to establish.
.

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
e From the April 13, 1950
News
A funeral service was held this week
area resident T.L.

. .
The reinforced footings for the class-

room block of the new Junior-Senior

high school are being poured, and the

forms for the Industrial Arts block are

almost complete. . =
.

.
An ad for Robertsons grocery store

lists, among its money-saving specials,
six chocolate bars for 25 cents, and
Robin Hood cake mixes at two for 59
cents.

Robson Elementary School pupils

staged a concert for their parents one
afternoon this week. Those taking part

included Lorraine Schuepfer, Dawn
Waldie, Judy Keim, Violet Zaitsoff,
Geoffrey Hett, Gerald Card, George

Rilkoff, George Wanjoff, John Zibin,

Jeannette Androsoff, under the super-
vision of Mrs. J.H. Smith. Miss Mildred
Raine was the efficient announcer.

. *

Thirteen carloads of freight came
into Castlegar by Canadian Pacific
freight during the month of ‘March,
showing a steady increase of freight
handled here. The cars were made up
as follows: three of hay, one of feed,
one wood, three coal, one poles, four
cement and one of steel.

25 YEARS AGO
From the April 14, 1960
News

Canadian Pacific Airlines have in
formed city council that the taxiway
area of the municipal airport will need
enlarging for the four-motored DC6B's
that will go into operation on the Van-
couver-Calgary run later this month.
The 72-seater aircraft will replace the
twin-engined Convair currently ser-
vieing the Vancouver-Calgary run.

. 28 @

Installation of machinery for the
production of kraft pulp at Celgar will
start next week with the erection of
the pulp drying machine. About 800
men are now employed at the site “and
in general work is progressing accord
ing to schedule,” according to Norman
A. Scott, industrial relations super.
intendent for Celgar.

.

Works chairman Jake Hendricks
said gravel had been put on many
village streets during spring breakup.
“I was over every road in Kinnaird . .
They were all passable,” commented
Mr. Hendricks.

. 8 «

Baseball season gets underway for
district kids. Organizing the event this
year will be G. Lind, president; B.
Lamb, vice-president; L. Ackney, sec
retary-treasurer; J. Lewis, equipment
manager and T. Dalton, publicity
agent. Registration fee was set at $1 to
help cover the expense of equipment.

15 YEARS AGO
From the April 16, 1970

Castlegar News
SHSS principal John Holden has

Letters to the Editor

History proves otherwise

. ar News:

The letter to the editor in the March
31 Castlegar News under the heading
“Interim Accord Signed” remonstrat-
ing a former news release “Doukhobor
Factions Sign Pact” (Castlegar News
Feb. 27, 1985) could be viewed with
some amusement by Doukhobors in an
older generation who are acquainted
with the factual history of the Douk
hobors in Canada in a more realistic
fashion than the youngsters signing on
behalf of the Fraternal Council, Chris-
tian Community and Brotherhood of
Reformed Doukhobors.

Let it be understood that it would be
virtually impossible to present a suc
cession of indisputable facts to nullify
the statement “Documentation pre-
sented throughout the E-KCIR ses
sions conclusively demonstrates that
the division of the Doukhobors was de
liberately created and perpetuated by
the Verigin leaders” in the space
allowed in a letter to the editor such as
this. Suffice it to say that recorded

history of the Doukhobors proves
otherwise
Serious consideration should be

given though, as to the manner of
Stefan Sorokin’s appearance onto the
much-troubled Doukhobor scene. Sure
ly, it could not have been all that
coincidental for a Baptist missionary, a
refugee fleeing the repressive rule of
the un-Godly Russian Bolsheviks seek
ing asylum in the West, to accidentally
find himself in the Doukhobor midst in
British Columbia?

Let it be understood that the part
played by Stefan Sorokin on behalf of
the Old Order Russian Orthodox

Church, comes precariously close to
fruition in the fulfilment of the vow
made by the Church priesthood at that
time to avenge the Doukhobors for
their renouncing the Church ikon wor-
and setting precedent for other
dissidents to follow. Let not anyone
delude himself that Stefan Sorokin's
role as a roaming missionary, a meek
mediator, and an accidental peace
maker was without premeditated de-
signs.

Today the stakes in the resolution of
the controversial Doukhobor problem
are of inestimable proportions. Whe-
ther the International Ecclesiastical
Hierarchy as reflected in the con
temporary institutionalized church and
their loyal cohorts succeeds in brand-
ing the Doukhobor-Christian faith as
some sort of a subversive arson and
violence-based intrigue, or whether the
Doukhobor ideology triumphs as a
champion of peace, goodwill, and moral
righteousness, will undoubtedly rest in
the ultimate decision of history, of an
agency beyond the power of mere men.

In conclusion, it would be approp-
riate to say — let not the members of
the Fraternal Council of the Reformed

brimful with abominations and filth
iness of her fornication” (See Revel-
ations Chapter 17), to cause the ul
timate demise of this “accursed Douk.
hobor heresy” which is threatening to
expose her hypocritical interpretations
of the teachings of Jesus Christ — the
Prince of Peace.

John Perepolkin

The facts
be damned

News:

I note with great interest an editorial
in your weekly entitled “Sun, sand and
MDs (March 3, 1985) states that the
Canadian Medical Association will hold
its annual meeting in Bermuda

I had already resigned myself to a
meeting here in Ottawa this August. I
now see that I owe a debt of gratitude
to the Castlegar News and whoever
was responsible for writing this item.
In one fell swoop you have succeeded in

group delude t! Ives into Z
that unearthing the evidence of who is
responsible for the “bomb-death” of
Peter (Lordly) Verigin, and other items
on their list of “outstanding issues that
must be explored and resolved” — will
diminish the intent of the “Babylonian
whore who from time immemorial had
fornicated with kings and emperors,
and even unto these last days i

1g me and the 1,499 other dele.
gates to our annual meeting from the
nation’s capital to a Bermuda beach.

The facts be damned: for the
Castlegar News, no feat is too great.
By the way, could you see what you can
do about our 1986 meeting? It's in
Winnipeg

to intoxicate the Son of Man by offering
him a drink from the golden chalice

been ap d district superi

of schools with the department of

education. He has been principal at

SHSS since 1963.
*

.
Single Minor Baseball Association
for the twin towns of Castlegar and
Kinnaird became a reality with the
towns and outlying areas amalgam
ating for the Colt and Pony leagues.
ar

In a recent letter to the District
Chamber of Commerce, Recreation
Minister Ken Kiernan stated the
department is in a position to proceed
with the development of the Syringa
Creek Park and it was hoped to begin
after April 1, the start of the new fiscal
year.

*_ 28 «

City Centre Motel in Castlegar is
getting ready to host a special meeting
of the B.C. Motels, Resorts and Trail
Parks Association, the largest accom
modation association on the North
American continent.

5 YEARS AGO
From the April 16, 1980
News

A new life awaits a family of “Boat
People” who arrived at Castlegar
Airport under the sponsorship of St.
Rita's parish. Comprising the special
committee to aid the family of Pierre
Bounnhot are Father Michael Guinan
and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Anderson of
Castlegar.

. ¢

A pep talk to Kootenay West

Progressive Conservatives and a des-

cription of his new role as a key adviser

to Opposition Leader Joe Clark high

lighted a speech by former MP Bob
Brisco here last weekend.
* 26 «

Funeral service, which included the
attendance of a large number of judges
and lawyers, was held this week from
Castlegar United Church for well
known Barrister Michael (Mickey) E.
Moran, Q.C., 58, of Castlegar, who died
April 11 at Vancouver.

April 14, 1985

TEA FOR THREE . . . Local resident participated Friday

in the annual Spring tea held by the Castlegar Senior

Citizens at the Senior C

Nazi may be dead

OTTAWA (CP) — West
German authorities don't
know if the man who once
topped Canada’s list of want-
ed Nazi war criminals is still
alive, a government pros.
ecutor says.

Wilhelm Mohnke, com.
mander of the Ist SS Panzer
Division and later a major-
general who commanded
Hitler's Berlin bunker, was
still alive when the German
government closed its -inves-
tigation of him five years ago,
said Hanns-Rudolf Wirsich in
a telephone interview from
Lubeck.

Wirsich, in the interview
with the Ottawa Citizen, re-
fused to reveal the investi.
gation’s conclusions, saying
only that the file now is
buried in government arch.
vies, and the Canadian em-
bassy in Bonn was informed
of the results.

Mohnke is believed to have
participated in the deaths of
59 Canadian prisoners during

the Second World War. He
was captured by the Rus-
sians when they overran Hit-
ler’s bunker, but Canadian
authorities could not per-
suade them to hand him over.

It is presumed Mohnke
served time in a Russian
penal camp, but it is not
known how he managed to
end up in the town of Lubeck,
where he was discovered by
British author Rev. Leslie
Aitken. Aitken tipped the
Canadian government to his
find in a 1976 letter to the
RCMP, who assured him ac-
tion would be taken.

Bruce Macdonald, a 82-
year-old retired Windsor
judge who headed the Can-
adian army's No. 1 War
Crimes Investigation Unit,
testified this week before
Justice Jules Deschenes’
federal commission of inquiry
into war criminals in Canada.
He later noted the apparent
lack of action taken against

Doctors okay
fee freeze

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia doctors
have agreed to a fee freeze
for the second consecutive
year because “our economy is
in terrible shape,” the pres
ident-elect of the B.C. Med
ical Association said Friday.

Dr. Gerry Karr said doc
tors approved a one-year, no-
increase fee settlement with
the provincial government by
a vote of 1,519 to 811.

The agreement, retroac-
tive to April 1, also provides
for decreased fees if medi-
care costs increase by more
than 3.5 per cent over last
year’s figure, but Karr said
that is unlikely to happen.

“I think that the accep-
tance of this agreement rep-
resents the sense of social
responsbility on the part of
this profession,” said Karr,
who officially takes office at
next month's association con-
vention.

“I don’t think anybody in
the profession is happy about
accepting a settlement in
which they see their income
falling.”

The doctors believe they
must “continue to show and
demonstrate restraint even
though inflation has convert
ed their zero increases into
sub-zero realities,” said Karr.

He said theat because the
doctors’ 4.2-per-cent increase

HAPPY 40th
ANNIVERSARY
PETE & MARY
From all the Family!

for 1983 only covered their
overhead costs, this will ac-
tually be the third conse
cutive year without a pay in
crease.

Karr said the average net
income for a family doctor in
B.C. — after he has paid his
overhead — is about $60,000.

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When Canada withdrew its
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‘still in progress against al-
leged war criminals were
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say that even if Mohnke is
ive, Canada may not be able
to prosecute because the kill-
ings are alleged to have
taken place outside Canada
and are therefore not cov-
ered by the Canadian Ex-
tradition Act.

Commander
takes desk job

EDMONTON (CP) — The
commander of Canadian For-
ces Base Edmonton has been
moved to an Ottawa desk job
in the wake of the March 29
fatal midair crash of two
military aircraft over the
base.

since July
1982, refused comment on
the sudden transfer following
the fiery crash which killed
10 airmen.

“Following the crash of
two C-130 Hercules aircraft
at CFB Edmonton on March
29, a decision has been taken
to transfer the base com-
mander Col. Peter DeTracey
to National Defence Head-
quarters in Ottawa,” said the
official Department of Na-
tional Defence transfer or-
der.

Capt. Bo Lemm, base in-
formation office, said he ex-
pected DeTracey was “a bit
surprised” when notified of
the transfer.

“I never dreamed they
would be so... stupid,”
an angry Tom Watt, direc-
tor of Alberta Transporta-
tion's aviation branch, said
Friday. eo

Watt, 63, said DeTracey
has been made a $dapegoat
for the crash and been
shafted by defengé depart-
ment brass in Ottawa.
said DeTracey will be “pig-
eonholed” in a job where he
can be ignored.

The move also cancels a
prestigious, one-year ap-
pointment set for July to the
National Defence College in
Kingston, Ont., a last step
before promotion to briga-
dier-general.

“He sure won't be going
any higher. It's a disgrace,”
said Watt.

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