CASTLEGAR NEWS, Su thule July 29, 1976 Early Breakfast Under Bright Skies was Good Way to Get the Day Under Way During the Weekend Festivities as Demonstrated by These Satisfied Faces * A Humorist Looks at the American Election Why Not Give Voters Flu Shots By Art Buchwald One of the things that has both political parties worried is the apathy of the American people. There is‘a fear that the 1976 presidential election could produce one of the lowest turnouts in recent election years, My friend Rademacher has, a solution to the problem. “Why not give everybody their flu shot on election day?" he said. “Then they have to come out.” “How would you do ite" I asked him. “Simple. You have two booths—one for voting and one Tennessee Aromatic Cedar Chests ‘ Every Bride’s dream Artistic Desay Superb mel nu MIDVALLEY. "SHOPPING: CENTRE Slocan Park for the flu shot. After a person votes he gets his shot.” “Why not give him his flu shot before he votes?” “Because,” said Rademay cher, “he might get sick from the shot and not want to vote.” “But what about children, and people who aren't eligible to vote?” “They would have to show up, too, but we'd have a third booth for them. If they can prove they're too young to vote or they're not a resident of the state, they would get their flu shot without having to pull a lever for one of the presidential candidates.” “But wouldn't getting a flu shot keep a lot of people away from the polls? There are many voters who don't like to be stuck with a needle.” ““I thought about that,” Rademacher said, “and I think I have the answer. Anyone who votes on election day and receives his or her flu shot gets a free lollipop. Fs OE re V Occupation Send for your & FREE 1976 NELSON HOME BUYERS GUIDE - Contact: Jim Lamont , Box 3116 - Castlegar, B.C, NELSO: MAM PACTOMRD HUMES. SUP AND mai TOON M aN - Ty, J ae “A free lollipop?" “Sure. Most people don't mind getting inoculated’ if the doctor or nurse gives them a free lollilpop afterward.” “I think they should get a free lollipop if they vote,” I said. “With the choices this year, it's going to be much more painful to vote than it isto get a flu shot.” Rademacher said, “I hadn't thought of that, It would mean two lollipops. One for voting and one for the flu shot. That could run into a lot of money.” “What difference does it make as long as you get a large turnout for the election?” I said, “Have you made the suggestion to the Democratic and Republi- . can parties?” “Yes, but FE got a mixed reaction on it. The Democrats want everyone to get their flu shots in October, two weeks before the election.” “Well, the shots were Ford’s idea and ifa lot of people get sick from the shots they'll blame the president. They'll say, ‘I'm not going to vote for a man who gave me swine flu.” “The Republicans,” said Rademacher “want the flu shot to be given after the election because they're also nervous about how the inoculations could affect the president. That's why I. came ‘up with election day as a compromise. If the people get sick, they'll already have voted so it won't affect their choice. It would bea big mistake to have swine flu decide who the next president of the United States would be.” “It's a good plan,” “The beauty of it,” he said, “is that the networks could give, the results of both the election’ and swine flu shots at the same time. ABC, CBS and NBC could go on at eight o'clock at night and say, ‘On the basis of our computers with three per cent of the. vote in, President Ford has won in Maine by 75,000 votes, Twenty-five thousand of these votes, according to our sample precincts, now have 101 deg. fever and 35,000 won't be able to go to work tomorrow.” “Fantastic. The audience will stay with television just to find out how the flu shots turned out,” I said. “Right,” Rademacher said. “It will give the presidential election a real shot in the arm.” + ant, said the ancient Chinese Ann _ LANDERS Dear Ann Landera: This letter is based strictly on my own feelings about elgarets, after 24 years of smoking, I'm ashamed to admit Tmatill at it, I doubt that my words will have the slightest impact. on the heavily addicted. For me, all the words in the world will not take the place of that first cigaret in the morning, I'd rather address myself to your readers who are 17, as I onc? was, with a set of heallhy lungs, white teeth, clean blood coursing through my veins—and in my pocket my first package of cigarets, How was I to know that 24 years later I'd be so hooked that any thought of quitting would be out of the question? How could I know, at 17, that I'd be waking up each morning to a mouth that tastes like the bottom of'a bird cage? How could I know my teeth would be stained dark brown and my chest would feel as if it were filled with cement dust? All knew is that smoking was the cool thing to do.” Although I have never seen my lungs, I know how they must look. My uncle, who is a surgeon, once showed me some “before” . and “after" pictures. “Sit in on an autopsy one of these days," he said. “You'll see that the non-smoker’s Jungs are a bright pink. When I open up the chest cavity of a smoker, I can at once tell about his habit, because the entire respiratory syatem is nearly Pach, Senyndinton howng he ni) SF (Naud ion like lumps of coal.) Still I continue the filthy habit, going half crazy on mornings when I'm out of cigarets. I go digging through ashtrays and wastebaskets for a long butt to satisfy my craving. I pace the floor like a hungry lion, waiting for the store to open. Then I hurry, unshaven, and hand over another 55 cents for a package of suicide, With that first puff I realize nothing about it tastes good. ‘Those ads are a lot of malarkey. But the people who sell cigarets couldn't care lese-about me. I'm hooked and they love it. They run those sexy ads, telling you to BC mon But don't be footed, it'snota pping on. It’s a hearse, If 1 could write cigaret ads, Ta ee you pictures of myself, coughing till the tears come, gargling away a rotten taste that keeps returning, spending money I can't afford—stupid me, sucking on a little white, stupid pacifier. ‘Then I'd show you pictures of the clothes I've burned, and the people I've offended with my breath, my smoke, my ashes, my matches and my butts. This is me, Seventeen, a rasping, spitting, foggy-brained addict who has let the habit consume me, a “can’t quitter” who creates his own air pollution, who prefers carbon monoxide to oxygen, whose sinuses are constantly draining. Me, with the yellow fingers and the foul breath, smoking more and enjoying it less—telling you that I wish to God someone had wised me up when I was Seventeen. —A Damned Fool Who Hates Himself Dear Fool: Your signature reveals the reason you continue that filthy, expensive, offensive and destructive habit. Get some professional help. When you like yourself better, you might decide you're worth saving. Good luck; junkie, As Ann Landers 1 by— KOOTENAY TRADING POST. 123 Main Street — Phone 365-3719 * 1G DISCOUNTS! NEW CHESTERFIELDS |... USED FRIDGE .. NEW DELUXE KROELER HIDEABED - BEDROOM SUITES i 6 pee. CHINA CABINET, Coloni EVERYTHING IN THE STORE ON SPECIAL Acupuncture Humans . . . Now Horses The “Royal Hong. Kong Jockey Club will begin using acupuncture to treat ailing race horses. experimental cases next month. “Acupuncture has alleged- United States to cure a number of complaints, including sprain- ed tendons, which is the most “common type of injury in race Dr. J. A. Auchnie, the club's chief veterinary. consult- ly been used in China and in the. * ~ AERO TAXI. Fast — Courteous — Reliable’ Phone 365-5700 Page Baldr po Phone 3657725 or 365-5890 A FULL LINE OF POOLS, & ACCESSORIES ‘GUARDEX POOL CHEMICALS “WANEIA TYDRG-cLECTRIC POWER PLANT TOURS JULY 5th - SEPTEMBER 3rd ONCE DAILY AT 1:00 P.M. FIVE DAYS EACH WEEK, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY For safety reasons, children under 12 years of age ¢annot be taken on tour. Tours last about an hour and we suggest comfortable walking shoes be worn. west kootenay power 367-9043 BOUNDARY MECHANICAL LTD. (Formerly Boundary Electric — Castlegar Ltd.) is now also Open on Saturdays 8 am. to 5 p.m. for the sale of Sewer Pipes and Fittings Stocking: John Mansville Ring-Tite pipe and fitfings. No cementing or gluing required. For All Your Home Connection Needs call at BOUNDARY MECHANICAL LTD. 625 Meadowbrook Rd. — Tum Right at Dept, of Highways on Castlegar-Christina Lake Hwy. Telephone 365-2121 429 Legislative Library, Parliament Bldgs., 5 . Bellev, Victoria, B. C. VBV 1X4 STLEGAR NEWS Published Every Thursday Morning at ‘The Crossroads of the Kootenays”’ SERVING Castlegar - Kinnaird Robson + Genelle Blueberry Creek Shoreacres - Thums Slocan Valley and City New Denver - Silverton CASTLEGAR, BRITISH a FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1976 Fae, ———————————— 20 CENTS PER COPY VOL. 29, No, 32 PLEDGE BOARD for the old arena has been uncovered by Wit Slogan of the Leduc of Kinnaird who rescued it some time ago from one of the and wen the, Legios Hall was original Ferry Won't Be in Operation ‘For Awhile After Hit With Logs The Castlegar Peay is expacted to be out’ of com- mission until sometime nex week following an early morn: ing accident. this week. Sometime éround 2 am. Tuesday a bundle of pulp logs is "believed by highways’ depart- ment officials to have caught the cables which guide and \ drive the ferry. District superintendent of ‘highways, Roger McKeown of * » Rosslans ” Big Motorcycle Gang Presents No Trouble The large contingent of motorcycle club members who passed through Castlegar .on Monday caused no problems for local police: An RCMP spokesman said the motorcyclists, some 60 in number, passed through en- route to Nelson with no laws + broken. The bikers—members, of Satat's Angels from:yancouver” and, the! 7101 its: from | Nansimo—have been followed + by” plainclothes policemen: on: their trip through the’ interior of the province. The motorcyclists: left Nelson nyout noon on Tuesday, leaving behind a number of policemen who had been on 24-hour call and only one arrest. John Victor Gregory “ Vancouver was char, Nelson City Police me aan horses,” Auchnie said, $5,000 BINGO Aug. 21 Castlegar art. will be tried-on a. few You can dial long distance to most places in BC and enjoy the same reduced rates on Saturday as you do on Sunday. l F asto Most Places in B.C.: . Exceptions include calls to some northem points not served by us, and I calls from the OK Tel area. D.D.D. (112) Rates: I {Station-to-station calls vyou dial yourself.) * Minimum charge of 20¢ percall. I Saturday & Sunday | 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday - Friday 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. regular day rate (8. a.m. to 5. 1A | 5% off | i Every day of the week. I 11 p.m, to 8 a.m. For more rate information, please dial 0" for operator. asks too about our discounts on calls to places outside ee B.C. regular day rate (8 a.m. to $ p.m.) SE a CS % off | BOTH ® | chase along Baker Bt sete sah several alleys. The man was finally stop- ped by a second police car on Cedar St. He was released on an unspecified amount of bail. ‘The bikers arrived in Nel- son on Monday about 4 p.m. and concentrated on Baker St.op- posite the Queens Hotel. They found: just: about every store and bar in town closed. However, a bar employee - at the Queens Hotel said the beverage room there was opened after the © bikers “threatened to stay for a week" unless one bar in Nelson was open ‘The two sang were Te. y bond” *“quired’to post a a'securit ‘against: possible “Gamage: ‘and © were ‘allowed to’ drink.:'The barman sald no damage and no trouble resulted. * “It worked out fairly well,” the .police spokesman said. “There ‘was bo damage | and nobody: hurt.’ Tourist Promotion — To Get Discussed British Columbia’s Depart- -ment of Recreation and Travel Industry has ‘accepted an in- vitation from *the Kootenay Boundary Chambers of Com- merce to send a delegation’ to the Kootenay area to discuss tourist promotion plans. with the area's business include David Livingstone, act- ing deputy minister, as well as Paul Barry, winter: travel de- velopment officer, ’ ‘The format for the travel industry seminar will a opportunity for area ere i tors to’ become familar’ with plans, id, said the ferry was anchored on the Castlegar wide when the incident occurred. He, said the anchors on the main drive cable and one guide cable “were pulled’ out while “only ‘minor damage was done to the. ferry itself. However, it. is not: yet known if any damage was done to the drive mechanism of the © ferry and this won't. be, Se Only 10 Small Spot Fires So Far This Fire:Season “Reports Ranger. his crossed that “this could be the year we get away real lucky.” Mr. Wood saya the number of: fires is “way,’ way ‘below. normal” because of wet weath- er conditions, +# He said\the higher - ele~ vations haven't dried out yet,’ ands he's never « seen ~-sich and Though arrangements for’ 4 thes visit-are.’ limary ata of Mhe "trip “will: S induftry seminar to Creston. on’ Sept. 21 “or ' 22, which will - be open © to’ all persons interested inthe future of tourism in the Kootenays. . It is ex; that: mem- bers of te delegation will Joint Festival of Arts Labor Day By Jokn Bohle ‘A joint festival of arts will be held in New Denver Centen- nial Park on the Labor Day weekend. It will be sponsored by the Arrow Lakes and Slocan - Valley Arts Council. ‘All artists, ‘crafts people Weekend | and interested persons are Invited to attend, ‘participate, and help celebrate the’ first annual event. : ‘The program committee is: headed -by Don Bazuik of Burton for the Arrow Lakes and Bob Inwood of Vallican for, Castlegar News Price Increase September 2 ~ Eifective Sent. 2, 1976, the price of the Castlegar News will increase to 22c from the present 20c. The. increase is the first in two years, and is directly in that time. * attributable to increased printing costs and the cost of newsprint Subscription price of the Castlegar News by mail delivery will be increased at the same time from $8 a year to $9. Expressing regret at the need for the increase, Castlegar News publisher Burt Campbell at the same time announced plans for an enlarged newspaper in the fall. He said eae new, interesting features are ’ under 's News ant ataffs designed to male ine Castlegar News “The Newspaper With The Personality.” They request a brief resume of particular. ta- Ients or abilities and require- nents for space, staging booth, ine board: of directors report it has begun to operate ” as an information gathering service and agency with regard to obtaining. grants, indice. and other aids to artists and erafts people. ‘The Women's Theatre Group has beep assisted by an $800 grant. , The directors have estab- lished a monthly ‘newsletter that goes to all members, An appeal for all artists and crafts people to join .is voiced by Joel Harris of Win- law, co-ordinating secretary. Fest Had Messy, But Happy, Faces as well as.to make suggestions __for-additionsl be alternat < under the sponsorship’ of the” Kootenay Boundary: Chambers of Sommeree, with additional details to’ be ‘announced at a Inter, date, < , Wood Lot Study Group is Formed “In Slocan Valley. >» By John Boble Av study group for oper. ators of wood lots—their own, or on crown land if and'when available—will be chaired by -Corky Evans on behalf of the Slocan. Valley Resourse 8o- ciety. + Fees and a grant from the society will be used to purchase books, ‘ drafting paper, in- , erement borer, compasses and supplies. Training’ will entail one meeting a month plus practical work. Outside: lecturera will teach and practicality studies of owner properties undertaken. Individual utilization of the ‘forest will keynote planning of each lot. The student pre- senting a term paper judged as the best for utilization of his ‘own property will have mem- bers of the class spend one day's work thinning, road building or implementing the ens of the winner: ‘spot’: break’, dawn 28 follows: twoon railway | rights-of-way,~'one lightning, one garbage dump, one ‘camp- fire escape and five caused by children: termined until the cablea are. back in mee and the ferry is started The | highways official said he didn’t know why the ferry didn't break free and jioat down the river, All three cables were. broken but somehow they got tangled together and held i cferry in place out in the river. ACanCel tug attempted to return the ferry to shore “starting: at/8 a.m, but wasn't able to accomplish the task on its own, A’ second tug then ‘assisted in the rescue operation and the job was done sometime after 8:30 Tuesday morning. Highways‘ crows “aro. at work: setting 2 anchor bolts, The bolts then have to be grouted in and the concrete allowed to set before':the cables can’ be re- connected and the ferry placed community groups, ectivills more successful. CanCel Bulletin a. Beara faz Panic ‘The interior pulp and lumber operations of ‘Canadian Cellulose this week announced a new service for local Ina joint statement, Wilf Sweeney, general manager of interior pulp operations, and Ed Higgs, manager of the company’s interior lumber operations, said the company would provide a “Community Bulletin Board” each week in the Castlegar News for the use of Castlegar and district non-profit organizations. The Community Bulletin Board will appear each week on page 2, and organizations can use it for notifying the’ public of planned events and activities. Mr. Sweeney and Mr. Higgs said they. hoped groups will use the service to help make thelr many and varied vial for Community Bulletin Board is to be iubriied directly to the Castlegar News, + in operation.” “es Cra tng Gate Bas Wo Wes nav Unies the Shovelting MotBod? Fear of $2 Million Loss Led to CanCel - Decision to Close e Rupert Sulphite Mill - “The @ Canadian Cellulose ~~ _sulphite pulp mill at Prince Rupert would lose at least $2 million if it operated for the full year ‘of 1976, according to a confidential report prepared by ihe: company’s - management and reported on by the Van- couver Province newspaper. Instei the . Crown- + controlled company is prepared to’spend the same smeunt to assist the 800 employees .who will be Inid off when the mill is shut down‘in October, ithe report says. GanCel announced last month it would shut down the mill so it could be converted tate, a kraft mill, a process xpected to take about two yan and cost $100 million. The ‘announcement ‘has sparked © considerable | contro- versy, with Prince Rupert city. council “andthe main union involved (the Pulp Pep Paper and of will ts awarded those com- pleting the course. ‘Anyone interested may get in touch with Mr. Evans. Truck fs. on Fire Wednesday Night Police report a truck fire in Robson at about. 10:30 p.m. ‘Wednesday. The fire, in the engine of a truck owned by Bruce Dennevs >" of Blueberry, Creek, is. still under investigation. _ Into Dork When ~ Power Pole is Hit A. section | of © Blueberry 4 Creek .was plunged into dark- : Deas at about 9:p.m. Monday Canada) _ in- sisting that the j ee should be saved by keeping the mill open ‘as long as posrible wl while the ‘conversion takes place. following as .acciaete involving | ‘a power pol A reine was backing up acar on 100th, St. when he hita power pole, snapping wires and blacking out the area. The compa y report, pre- pared ‘fora May 25 ‘meeting between management and Forests Minister Tom Water- land, ‘states that. the con- atruction schedule would allow the mill to be kept open for all - but the last six months of the conversion. » “Hi sulphite pulp markets were favorable, it would have “ been possible to continue oper. ation of ‘the 'sulphite mill until that time,”.the report says. 2 Robson Residents May Win Big Lottery ‘Two Robson people may be $100,000 richer between them in a few weeks time. A sieket held by D. Vv... Lucas’ of © preliminary draw for the Kin-Win lottery for the Physically Handicapped in B.C. ; One of the: 10. will. be awarded the grand prize with. the final draw. Aug. | 18 ite ‘Vancouver. The other nin ‘tecelve prizes from $10,000 to $1,000. the relief and rehabilitation of the ‘physically handicapped of this province began more than ‘30 years ago following the polio epidemic of 1944 which disabled large number of people, many permanent]; However, it ‘goes. on to. explain that markets for‘sul- | phite pulp “continue to be” severely depressed,” both for sale of dissolving pulp (used'in ©; , the making of rayon and similar fabrics) and of sulphite paper - pulp. Past October'it was’ pre- {°dicted the sulphite mill would jose $2..million in, 1976,: the © report says. However, by. the time the report was written in mid-May, the mill had lost $1.5 million, $560,000 of it in April alone. This ‘shows the losses might exceed the $2. million mark for the whole year, the report suggests.. : It notes also that the profits of the company as a | whole were down for the firat quarter of 1976, totalling only $6.5 million net.compared to - $10.2 million the year before. Since the market situation was not expected to improve before the end of 1976, the: ‘company decided the best pos- sible move was to shut down - the sulphite mill and proceed as quickly as- possible with. the conversion. :