HEART MONITOR, valued at $5,194, has been donated to the Castlegar and District Hospital by its ladies’ auxiliary. The machine, shown here by registered nurse, Mrs. Louise Watkin, records the electrical impulses of a patient's heart and displays these impulses on a graph paper so there is a permanent record. The heart rate meter is first set and then when a patient's heart rate goes above or below the set rate, an alarm goes off and automatically the ECG write-out starts moving the recording for 20 seconds. In all, it is ECG write-out, and a memory frame display kit.—Castlegar News Photo dual trace display scope, The NDP government has been accused of returning patronage government to Brit- ish Columbia in its rankest form and of deliberately setting out to impose “a tax-supported political machine” above the province's non-partisan elvil service. The accusations were made last Thursday by former 1 Score: Socialism 38, Free Enterprise 17 NDP is Accused of Returning Patronage | Social Credit MLA Burt Camp- bell, speaking to a “free enterprise _ meeting" in the Castlegar Curling Rink. Mr. Campbell told the meeting that all of the NDP eabinet ministers have one or more executive assistants paid $17,600 while “dozens of politi- cal appointments” have been made to government boards and crown agencies at salaries of up to $45,000. He sald only a fow Social Credit ‘cabinet ministers had executive assis- tants and their salaries av- eraged $10,000. Noting that the president of the IWA—with 80,000 woodworker members—only makes $15,000, the speaker sald Premier Dave Barrett will Bill Smiley, the Man Behind the Typewriter, Is a Wise, Irreverent and Witty Character The Publisher By Shirley Whittington Once a week, a Midland, Ont, high school teacher hunches over his typewriter and stabs out a salty little column about things like mortgages, kids, taxes and the cruel Canadian winter. Bill Smiley, who seasons 150 weekly newspapers across Can- ada with his personal blend of sugar and spice, tells it like itis. He comments on home life. “It is something to be borne, like varicose veins or ingrown toenails.” He talks about family hang-ups. “Momma's tolerance thins with the same rapidity as Dad's hair.” About his job, he says, “Show me a teacher in June and B.C. Gov't. and CNR Sign Agreement fo Reduce Freight Rates For Chips in North in Return for Guarantee on Lumber Traffic HOMEPLAN MORTGAGES First or second mort- gages for the purchase ¢ of ‘The provincial government and the Canadian National Railways signed a major rail agreement last week designed to revive the sagging forest industry in northwestern B.C. At the heart of the 10-year. jomes, tion of debts, etc. One day approval service, competitive rates, no lock-in, no bonus, Phone 492-3841 days collect, evenings or week- lends 493-1291 or write HOMEPLAN REALTY 283 Martin St., Penticton, B.C. - 4! “Division of Teaders- 4"? — Group, an“All- Canadian Companys is a program of significant reductions in freight rates for chip movement along the CNR in return for a provincial guarantee of in- creased lumber traffic. The announcement was made jointly by Resources Minister Bob Williams and CNR senior vice-president Alex Hart. The CNR's board of direct- ors had approved the proposal in Montreal June 28, the day - before the provincial govern- ment assumed contro! of two Prince Rupert pulp mills formerly owned by Columbia Cellulose Ltd. On the provincial side, the - agreement will reduce the costs of chip movement to these mills from an average of $10.58 per 100 cubic feet to $6. Another pulp mil! at Kitimat, owned by Eurocan Pulp and Paper Ltd., will get a gradual reduction from $12.18 to $6.25. Government consulting economist John de Wolf ex- plained this will mean an initial annual freight cost saving of about $2.8 million for Eurocan and about $1.8 million for the - government's Canadian Cellu- lose mills at Prince Rupert. In return, B.C. is guaran- teeing that lumber shipments in the northwestern part of the province, will, ipctease, an. average, by five pet cent per year, although this figure takes into account the cyclical nature of lumber markets. Mr. Williams said the five Bee 4 Credit unions have boosted interest rates on a wide range of savings plans. For example, Term Deposits now pay the highest rates ever recorded in the history of British Columbia per cent figure is conservative, and he forecast major increases in private sawmilling activities in the north. It is also expected that Can-Cel and Eurocan will build new sawmills. Freight rates for hauling lumber remain unchanged, but the government's guarantee of increased volume will mean an eventual $10 million to $15 million annual increase in CNR revenues, according to Mr. Hart. -, “Mri Williams said. B.C. soon will be asking for bids on cutting rights to private in- dustry in the area. Mr. de Wolf estimated the region is being logged at only 25 to 30 per cent “{t$ Bnnual chpucity.F The minister described the package as “critical in relation to the turn-around of the w and pulp economy of the northwest.” He saw the. re- duced freight rates for chips as the “balance wheel in that regional program.” Mr. Hart saw the agree- ment as a “commercial deal” and noted that it applies to all future sawmilling and chipping operations in the region. The agreement covers a vast section of B.C. west of Endako (90 miles west of Prince George) and north of the 53rd degree of latitude (an east-west line roughly 275 miles north of Vancouver). Up toa dozen sawmills will be established along the CNR's main line in the region and . future branch lines. The reductions in the freight rates for chips will come gradually as lumber production inereases. Mr. Hart said this amounts tq an “incentive basis", and he estimated the average rates will drop below $6 per 100 cubic feet by about 1977. T'll show you a:character with a crumpled shirt, a wrinkled brow and a desperate look in his eye.” He has this to say about the puzzling business of living: “The Sixties produced the millions of kids who are now a mystery and terror and be- wilderment to the relics of the Frightful Forties.” To readers of his column, Bill comes across as a wise, irreverent and witty man, It’s an honest projection. He writes the way he talks. Sitting in his favorite chair—an uncomfort- able straight-backed job—he'll curl one hand around a drink and run the other through his thinning white hair. He listens, while conversation flows around him, then deliversa wry and usually definitive comment, in a voice as comfortable as a rusty porch swing. This wiry unsentimental wisdom is the reason acquaint- ances from eight to 80 ask him for advice. This is why ex-students invite him to their weddings, and why every female he meets falls a little bit in love with him, And this is why a clipping from a Sask- burning the midnight oil with a baby son as well as a stack of text books, Bill had his eye on post-graduate studies in Eng- lish with a view to teaching, but tragedy intervened. Ivy's brother-in-law, the editor of the Wiarton Echo was drowned and there was nobody to take over the paper. Bill stepped into the breach and for years he lived “the happy harried life of a small town newspaper editor, rushing to get ads out, covering council meetings and Women's Instt- tute mectings”. In addition, he wrote a personal column free from. editorial and reporting restrictions, The little column caught on. Soon other editors were picking it up and some of them paid him as much as 60 cents a week for it, Before long over 80 weeklies wore reprinting Smi- ley's Sugar and Spice, and the proofreading, mailing and bill- ing became a family industry for Bill, Ivy and the youngsters, Hugh and Kim. When the Telegram Syndi- cate offered to market Bill's column, everybody was de- lighted, No more sticky tongues him as “by far our most popular syndicated columnist”. Bill was born in Perth, Ont., and was studying at Victoria College when World War II began. He joined the RCAF, became a Typhoon pilot . and took part in many dangerous missions, like hitch- hiking 380 miles on a 40-hour pass to see a girl. He regards this escapade with the same puckish spirit as the time he had to circle an airfield for a couple .of ‘hours * Gwith.a live bomb-hanging from his wingtip. The chaps down below wouldn't let him land until they bad cleared away all the men and. machines. “T landed,” he says, “like a mouse in kid gloves walking on eggs. Then I ran like a bat out of hell, in flying boots, with a parachute bumping on my bum.” The high times were abruptly interrupted in 1944 when he was shot down over Holland and imprisoned by the Germans. He came home witha knee disabled by an SS boot, and with plans to complete his Honor English course at the University of Toronto. There he met his dark-eyed wile, and he's been announcing ever since that she is the root of all his’: troubles. They had only been mar- ried a few months, subsisting on love and very little money, when biology threw a spanner into the works. Ivy (Susie to, her friends) became pregnant and Bill developed TB. » “After a year of separation —he in a sanitorium, she at home in Wiarton—they both resumed their college careers, SUPER CAR SERVICE d on page 16) _have a salary of $52,000. He said the socialists “have no conscience when it comes to spending the people's money on themselves.” “During the election Mr. Barrett went around with a big smile shaking the hands of all the electorate—now he's shak- ing their confidence.” Mr, Campbell, a Castlegar . resident, urged all free enter- prisers to gather around the Social Credit banner. In turn, he urged Social Crediters to “draw the (membership) circle larger. Open the doors wide... Enlist your friends and your neighbors in the. battle to + eliminate radical socialism from our beautiful province.” He said that of the 91 government bills passed during the recent legislative session, "14 were highly controversial and have changed the way. of life in this province.” Recalling that Premier Barrett and a number of his cabinet ministers signed the Waffle Manifesto, .the former. MLA said the Waffle Group has been repudiated hy the NDP's federal party and’by the NDP in several provinces, “But here in B.C. the Waffle is in charge.,.the Waffle is in charge and individual, competitive enterprise is under attack.” “Right now the score in B.C. is 38 to 17. And if you're in favor of individual initiative, old-fashioned thrift and common-sense government, then you're not on the winning team.” Mr. Campbell predicted Rossland-Trail riding will re- turn a Social Credit member in the next provincial election. “Nowhere in Rossland-Trail today will you find a majority of voters who would be prepared once again to endorse a socialistic philosophy.” ST. DAVID'S CASTLEGAR wine Asta REGIONAL ECUMENICAL PARISH Anglican & United Churches SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE ROBSON COMMUNITY MEMORIAL CHURCH 9:45 AM. Service on July 8, July 29, August 19 9:30 AM. Every Sunday: oa Shared Worship Service “eton “Parish Office Phone 365-8997 Rev. T.M. Allen and Rev. E. R. 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Signals an of Castlegar ly News Photo Bill Smiley, the Man Behind the Typewriter, ‘Is a Wise, Irreverent and Witty Character (continued from page 14) from ‘licking envelopes and } stamps! Although he was esta- blished as an editor and columnist, the urge to teach lingered in Bill. Off he went to OCE. Ivy managed the juggling interviews, news reports and PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 701 First Ave, | Pastor: Rev. H. H. Graham Chureh Ph, 36.5212 Sunday School 9.55 a.m. Mo. a Worshl 11 am, Evang ice 7 pm Tur 3 i Gibte Study 7.30 Friday: Young Peoples 7.80 CHURCH OF GOD + 7th Ave, Schedule for July and August Grou qyorship 10:30 am. ‘G D Discussion 11:15 am. ‘service DUTCH CLEANING SERVICE 24Hour Service _ Phone Zenith 6826 825-4632 or 352-7123 MARKEN ENTERPRISES Amway Distributors Ph, 365-5459 Kinnaird, B.C, BOUNDARY Electric (Castlegar) Ltd, Electric Heat Specialists Medallion Homes Ph. 365.7241 FAMILY SHOE RENEW 631-3rd Ave. CASTLEGAR one 365-3231 24 hr. 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Phone 365-6141 Castlegar the ofa home and familys with cheerful efficiency. gan his teaching career ‘in Midland, where he is now head of the English department of Midland Second. , ary School. Lately he has joined athe Argyle syndicate. The Telegram tried to ‘retaliate by featuring another well-known columnist in Smi- ley’s format, but his loyal readers weren't fooled. As far as they're concerned, Bill Smiley is irreplaceable. . Proof of his readers’ affection and involvement ar- rives in his. mailbox almost every day. When he mentioned a few years ago that his daughter Kim was dangerously ill-with “hepatitis,''s flood of letters arrived, with or for her recovery. When he said that, in his opinion, cable TV was exploitation, he was visited by two officials from a large cable network, who suggested that perhaps he was only kidding and would like to retract or modify his statement ina later column. He wasn’t. He idn't. Last year he wistfully remarked that he'd like to get away from it all and enjoy a summer vacation with his wife—perhaps in the form of an auto trip across Canada. Invita- tions flowed in, offering every- thing from deep sea fishing in the Maritimes to dancing under the stars in British Columbia. A column commenting on the Bahai religion inspired a spirited if ungrammatical, reply from an irate Westerner. For a writer like Bill, a colorful family is a definite asset, His wife, to whom he has referred variously as “the Old Lady", “the Battle Axe", or “the Boss”, is in reality an intelligent and attractive lady who gets fan mail of her own. + She's as. interested in writing and reading’ as‘ he ‘is,’ and plays a’ mean game of chess. If ionally she does Garner and Jack Ludwig. As long as I'm teaching, I won't have time to start anything so ambitious.” Because there are never enough hours in the day, Bill often has to turn down invitations to speak, or to conduct writing seminars. The few speaking engagements he has undertaken have proven to b memorable occasions for his listeners. To a high school graduat- ing class he said, “Tonight 'm supposed to speak to you about good reading habits...The choice of speaker was a hilarious piece of niiscasting.” In 1971 he opened a speech to the officials of the Royal Canadian Legion this way: “You must wonder, what a... piddling little one-time flight- foot is doing addressing such an august body. And I wondered the same.” He has served on the panel of judges for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor for several years, a role he enjoyed because it kept him abreast of in Canadian writ- wacky, like setting You CAN SAVE YOUR HAIR FREE CLINIC IN KINNAIRD ON SAT., JULY 28 Sealp Specialist here to .Demonstrate.New Home Treatment * Free Scalp Examination BSee Mr. ‘Sims in person. Learn how baldness can be stopped, and new hair grown on your own scalp. The new. methods permit you to actually stop your baldness and improve your hair in the privacy of your own home. i) NEW TREATMENT Now, even if you are, or have the mantlepiece afire at Christ- mas, it's all grist for Bill's mill. Daughter Kim, a beautiful redhead with a blinding smile, is currently a sudent at Erindale College, where she is earning professorial raves for her writing ability. Smiley's readers know all about her. They have been following her exploits through Bill's column, from her first music festival to her summer hitch-hiking adven- tures. Hugh, Bill's handsome son, was also at university, and Smiley afficianados remember columns about his piano recital, his summer working on the boats and the time he broke a finger Indian’ wrestling in Mexico. Bill's attitude to his kids is a typical blend of sugar and spice. “Those selfish brats? Let them look after themselves:'I'm going to enjoy life without worrying about a pair of rotten ingrates.” As he says this, he writes out a healthy cheque to help with college expenses. Is writing the column ever a chore? Yes, says Bill. “It has to bein the mail every Tuesday night, and every minute writ- ing it is hard work. I hate it except when it’s finished. Then I either feel the glow of knowing it came off, or a small worm of misery starts eating away at-me and I. can't eradicate it ‘until the next column.” Will he ever write the Great Canadian Novel? “There are quite a few of them around already,” he says, “by fellows like Callaghan, Richler, Hugh ing, a ‘subject i in which he is intensely interested. : His ambitions are stated in this’ snippet from an old column: “When I'm 85, I want to be known in the Nursing * Home as ‘that old devil Smiley, who pinches your bottom eer time you pass his wheelchair’ In the meantime, every Tuesday night Billi returns to his century-old brick house and dumps ‘the day's crop of unmarked essays or exams on the kitchen table. He settles himself at his typewriter with a drink {anything wet—Coke, coffee, beer, tea) and a smoke (Tll smoke till I croak!”) and percolates his weekly ration of wry comment. 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