_ CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 27, 1983

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How many jobs?

From the March 10 Vancouver
Sun. See Deputy Premier Graca
McCarthy's resp: on

had a change of heart, that the -
promise of work and jobs: for:

this page.

If there's not enough money to
go round for hospitals and schools,
how can the B.C, find

haps as many as 40,000 people’
is more important than worrying
about the size of the deficit? -

The. . money has to come from

$510 million for road repaving,
new road and bridge construction,
and diking across the province?

Yesterday's announcement by
deputy premier Grace McCarthy
was so much at odds with so many
things the government has been
saying and doing up to now,
especially in the public sector, that
it was made for cynicism.

The timing, for instance. Why,
if it was of such great importance
to British Columbians, was it an-
nounced during the Queen's visit?
It could have waited until after Her
Majesty had left and Premier Bill
Bennett had the stage to himself.
Delegating the job to the deputy
premier and other members of the
cabinet made it appear second
rate, even if it wasn't.

-Yet there were good grounds
for the belief of the New
Democratic Party's economic
development critic, Stu Loggatt,
that an election is in the offing.

It is quite a coincidence that the
NDP only a few weeks ago came
out with its own $500 million
— 9 progi the

Jat b ‘it’
would mean increasing the previn-
ces debt of $1.1 billion.

Does ‘yesterday's announ-
cement mean the government has

ig prog!

— but where? Some,
if not all of it, will have to be
borrowed, whether against Billy
Bonds or treasury notes doesn't
matter — it will have to be raised if
the government wants to be taken
at its word,

Assuming that the government
‘Is serious and that the work and
jobs it has promised are not just
election teasers — a cruel hoax,
how are the province's strapped-
for-cash schools and hospitals ex,
pected to react?

They are the ones who have
suffered the most through the

, government's period of restraint
and the ones who should most
benefit from any loosening of. the
purse strings,

Mrs. McCarthy made no men-
tion of restraint in her eagerness
to present the construction
Programs as “a part of the provin-
ce’s comprehensive plan for econ:
omic recovery and employment
development... what the premier
had in mind when he indicated that
British Columbia could move ahead
now, and stay ahead in future,
with sound government leadership
and the active cooperation of all
British Columbians.”.

If it’s not a spring election, we'll
hang our heads with the daffodils.

BIOTECHNOLOGY .

‘Japanese i impress.

Canadian

By DARRYL GIBSON
TOKYO — A Canadian scientific
ission sent to apie to study the
is
‘returning to aaa impressed, sur-
‘prised and perplexed, mission mem-

rs say.

The group, senior scientists and

licy makers from government, aca-
‘demia and industry, are to put out a
‘report after their return outlining op-
itions for Canada in biotechnology.’

ei technology - whied some day

y be as pi

scientists

best labs in gene-splicing techniques in
the States and put him to work. In four
months, they were producing inter-
feron in commercially significant
amounts. It is simply amazing.”
“Pierre Coulombe, of the government
of Quebec, was perplexed, however, by
the Japanese desire to go it alone.
“We have identified biotechnology as
a special area for Quebec industry, but
the Japanese I talked to didn’t seem
interested in joining ts,” he says.
“They seem very inclined to do every-

revolution in: this decade as micro-
electronics was in the 1970s — is the
ication of biological .

thing

“Even though our science is more
advanced, no one really wanted to
share on it

systems or processes to manufacturing
or service industries.

Mission leader Dr. Lewis Slotin of
the federal Department of Science and
Technology, says he was impressed
with the level of work going on in
Japan and the progress the Japanese,
are making. But he adds he was sur-
prised at the ions in Ji

Although the companies seem reluc-
tant to join in Canadian projects, Dr.
Argyrios Margaritis, of the University
of Western Ontario, says he was sur-
prised at how eager many researchers
were to come to London, Ont., to study
at UWO.

“We' 're very strong i in biochemistry

approaches,

“We had this idea that, since the
ministry of international trade and in-
dustry set biotechnology out as a tar-
get-area for Japanese industry; ‘that
everyone would be working closely.
together and under government con?
trol. But that is not the case. There are
some very independent and creative
guys here that are definitely going
their own ways.”

Slotin says, too, that the degree of
direction from corporation upper man-
agement in many research projects
surprised him as well.

“You hear about a consensus from
the bottom, but many of the places we
visited were certainly being guided by
the presidents.”

* Slotin’s mission visited more than 25
research facilities in Japan, including
government labs, universities and
industrial labs. .

“It's an eye-opener,” he says. “The
university labs would appall most of
our professors.

“They simply wouldn't work in the
mess, but that's because the univer-
sities are for teaching. The real work is
going on out in the industrial labs,

“The companies take a scientist,
train him for the job, or sent him to the
place abroad that will train him, and
then they get down to work. It's very
different from what we do.”

Asan example, he points to Suntory,
the whisky-and-beer giant, which de-
cided to get into pharmaceuticals,

“They took a guy from one of the

and and. ,many .re-
searchers I’ talked -with had read our
publications and were very familiar
with our work. Certainly, much more

familiar than we are with theirs.”

* Slotin points to that divergence in
findings between Margaritis and Coul-
ombe as a difference in the Japanese

: approach to science and technology.

“We,do a lot of our research in the
universities which are very, very
strong in-basie science but here, the:
companies do it. And ona

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- Open letter to residents:

Editor, Castlegar News:
An ‘open letter to: the people of

: Castlegar. on behalf. of all severely
handicapped babies,

children and
adults.”

-Lam seven years old. I am severely
Fetarded, I am blind, I have difficulty
hearing and I have cerebral palsy.
When I was born I didn’t have any of
those things, but I-became very ill
when I was a month-old and my brain,
was damaged by the illness and caused
these problems..

My Mom and Dad love me very
much, they did everything for me,
without any help, until I was three
years old. It was very hard for them,
they felt that they didn't know how to
look after me properly, but there was
no help available to them,- except to
give me up. Ofily then could they get
the help for me that they felt I needed.
What a difficult decision. they had‘ to

make, Can you image, os it a be

Mike to have to give

because that is the- only ay their

needs can be met?

I have lived in special places since I
was three years old. I love to feel the
wind blowing on my face and through
my hair. The warmth of the sun on my
body delights me. When I swim, with
lots of help, of course, in the warm

water my stiff body feels so good. Tlike *

to do this every day. Even though’ my

ijhearing is not so’ good, ‘they: say, it
(seems fine to me.I feel the vibrations

from musical instruments and hear the

boom of the drum when I bang it with

my hand. I can turn on the radio to hear

_\the sounds from it, and when I want to

feel the wind blowing, and I am not
outside, I can turn on the fan. I have
people to care for me, and my Mom and
Dad visit me when they can. I have a
brother and sister so they can't come
very often. Iam happy and I smile a lot.

One day, about two months ago, _
something began to go funny in my —

head — I didn't feel so good anymore —
sometimes I wanted to throw up, ad I
felt tired and un

pret

te Ge bonig to'my Mom and Dad again.1 . tT a
wish they could have the help they -

need so that I could go home and be
with’ my. family. ©. :
i: Norma Collier .
Castlegar

Donation
was in
fact $200

Editor, C * News:

suspected that my tube that keeps the
fluid from my. head flowing into my:
stomach. was not working properly.'I

wonder why they are taking 86 long to -
it for, me? I don't like. these head ne
‘want, nt to

This i is'so uncomfortable, fe feel like my
head: is going to burst. Maybe’ they.
‘think my life is not worth living? I hope
not. The little things are so beautiful to
me, the touch of a caring hand on my,
body, the sun, the wind, the smells, the
many vibrations,

When I am better I would really like

In the news story that appeared in

“the March 16 Castlegar‘News about the

local Food Depot, it was stated in the
last paragraph that $150 was received
from the district teachers. Allow me to
point out that acti he ‘amount was
$200 and it was rece from the staff.
at Stanley Humphries - Secondary
School-and not from the district tea-,
chers.

U Jim Crawford

‘Editor's Note: Information on the
donation was supplied by Food Depot
organizer Sharon Demke.

McCarthy responds

Editor's Note: The provincial
government's job creation
programs—some would say lack of
them—have been a subject of con-
troversy. In lanthanted a March 10

je gi .
that they would. be putting $460

million aside for highways capital
projects was criticized by media
and opposition members who
suggested the. program was
nothing new, but in fact simply the
1983 highways capital works
budget. This is Deputy Premier
Grore. McCarthy's 's response. ,

“QUESTION 3
itch 12 issue

nas Yageouve se:

hat “Thi ent’s latest.
“oh eraatioa’-psageara ar.io-lec, little
more than an announcement by the
government that it plans to budget $60
million less ‘for highway work in
1988/84 than it did in 1982/83.” Is this
statement true?

ANSWER

The statement is totally false. Our :
‘4 ba a

$190 million in now funds for fiscal

is.
“Canada just doesn’t have

1983/84 for x d highway con-
ion and i Moria

with marketing networks and all the
other infrastructure that the Japanese
giants can bring to bear. It will be a
long time before we leave basic science

— road paving, new
bridges, etc. This is in addition to the
$270 million budget originally planned
for highways capital projects,

Total highway capital

.
oe

GRACE McCARTHY
. - new funds

ated spending initiatives under. the

ministries of environment’ and agricul-
ture. ‘What additional funds and how
many new jobs will be created through
these initiatives?

ANSWER

Some $36 million has been allocated
over the next two fiscal years (1988/84
and 1984/85) to create more than 1,00¢
jobs in 16 major flood: protection

the

and go into th
on the scale of the Japanese.”

But he, and other mission b

and i in fis-
cal 1983/84 will ieeins total $460
million, rep ing a $209.4 million

say the Japanese trip has been most
important to the Canadians and will
help formulate strategies for national
and provincial policies on b:
research and development.

Slotin, who also led missions to
France and West Germany, says he is
confident there is a role for Canada to
play in the global development of
biology and biotechinical science, es-
pecially in plant science and crop
improvement.

“We may not move into pharma.
ceuticals like the othors, but certainly
we'll be growing better wheat, rape--
seed, apples and peaches, and going
strong on basic research.”

(Canadian Press)

increase over projected capital pro-
gram expenditures in the current fiscal
year,

QUESTION

How many jobs will be created
through this expanded highway con-

struction and improvements program? ,
SWER :

The $460 million high capital

projects

This represents an additional allo-
cation of approximately $12 million in
each of the next two fiscal years over
and above current annual allocations
for flood protection through: | the
Ministry of Environment.

An additional $7 million has been
allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture
and Food over the next two fiscal years
(1983/84 and 1984/85). This represents
the incial share of about $20

expenditures will create up to 82,000
Jobs: 8,000 in direct employment on

nillion in accelerated work on drainage
improvement and flood control on

projects (includi 600
temporary ministry positions and 6,500
jobs through private contractors), and
another 24,000 indirect jobs.
QUESTION
The cabinet committee's March 10
announcement also mentioned acceler-

Jand, range land improve-
ments and market development for.
food products. ~

Allocation of this funding to specific
projects and between fiscal years will
be determined in consultation with the
federal government. This program will

‘create approximately 180 new per-
manent jobs, help preserve about 200
existing jobs, and ‘create 6,000 man-

‘months of temporary employment.
JUESTION

Qi
+ Almost’ ayear ago, the provincial

<: government: Promised 10,000 tempor-

ary‘jobs under the Employment Brid- '
ging: ‘Assistance Program. Recent press:
‘teports indicated that the program was.)
80. per cent ‘shy of its target. Is this
re

ANSWER

No. It is true dl the EBAP pro-
gram was slow to get going. It was a
new program, and private sector spon-
sors were initially reluctant to’ par-
ticipate. It was a case of many potential
sponsors waiting to see how the pro-
gram really worked before coming on

Also, there wera some initial design
problems, such as the amount of money -
allocated to cover overhedd costs.’ As
these problems. became: evident, the
Cabinet Committee’ authorized _pro-
gram changes’ where. ‘these were
needed, and undertook extra efforts to
contact, potential employers. By fall,
these efforts were: paying off, and the
forest recovery program is now
working well.

Recognizing that the program’ 's slow
start would not producé’ the targetted
number of jobs,in one year, the pro-

- gram was expanded in September to

include a community, recoyery com-
ponent, allowing approyal of projects
sponsored by non-profit community
groups outside the forest sector. By
February, 8,717 jobs had been ap-
proved under the two EBAP compon-
ents.

It is now projected that the Employ-
-ment . Bridging Assistance Program
will create 9,750 jobs this'fiscal year
and that provincial expenditures will
total about $9.5 million.

QUESTION :

Will the forest recovery and com-
munity recovery components of EBAP
be continued next fiscal year?

ANSWER

Yes. The province has notified the
federal government. of‘our desire to
continue EBAP. in.fiscal_1983/84.

* Ferguson of Nelson,
*

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Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sidney

' Greenstreet and’ Keenan Wynn in The
* Hucksters — A best-selling novel’ be-'

comes a vivid realistic plete.

Ce ee

b
The Anglican Parish Hall was the a

scene of the annual Easter sale of the
United Church WA on Saturday after.
noon last,

The eight tea tables'were decorated
with vases of pastel-colored ‘pussy
willows, dainty cardboard bunny ‘bas-
kets and tiny egg cups.. Mauve and»

“yellow serviottes added to the Bastet

‘decoration motif,

Serviteurs at the tea’ tables were:
Mrs. 'J. Gemmill, Mrs. C. Fraser: and”
Mrs, H. Sontmers. <
* The local Guide ‘Annostation incotiig
was held at the home of Mrs.'C} Potts
recently. It was decided to have a rum:
mage sale in the latter part of April, in”
the Parish Hall.

“At the close of the meeting: the
hostess, assisted’ by Mra. °F. Marsh,
served dainty Fefesahments:

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‘Monday, March 27th inthe’
dh Hall +++ music by The Men

‘i125 WEARS AGO

From the April 3, 1958.

Castlegar News "

In honor of his 90th birthds , Robert
Tozer was fetted Monday. night when
some 75 guests. attendedna,, turkey
supper in the United Church Hall.

., Special guests were Mr. Tozer's'son

and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Tozer, and Reverend T.J.S,

* o,
The West Kootenay Health Unit
wishes. to announce that Salk Polfo

Vaccine is now available for all babies -

over seven months of age. We fee] that
parents of these younger children may
not realize that the vaccine is available

as the age limit last year. was one year .

old.

In the villages of Castlegar and Kin--
naird there are about 200 preschoolers
who have never started the series —
now is the time to have the two. doses
. cone; manth,apartrr go that the body,
will have; sometime to build up { it im; ,
munity before the polio season later in
the. summer. nie :

soo

Highlight of the Air Cadet’s Visitor’s
Night last week was the presentation
of a beautiful silver model plane by C.S.
McKenzie, Inspector of Schools, on be-
half of the Canadair Company.,

The silver model, now the property
of Air Cadet Squadron 581, is ta be
awarded each week to the top cadet,
who may keep the plane until the next
award is made.

15 YEARS AGO
From the March 28, 1968
Castlegar News

Last Thursday the main lounge at
Selkirk College was once more en-
livened with student activity: This time
the centre of attraction was 19 jubilant

, Students from the Lay Training Center

at Sorrento, located near Kamloops on
+ Shuswap Lake. Their program was one
qf singing in which everyone present
k: part) This: informal group pro-
ided the right atmosphere of. relief as
*stadents rapidly near their days of

*
The Castlegar Pip Rep hockey team
+ closed out a successful season with a
whirlwind tour of Vancouver which
saw them come up with two convincing
wins and a tie against Pup Rep teams
from three different ‘Vancouver
groups. .
5 YEARS AGO
Brome the the a 30,1978
‘News

Gusttcegs te airport's three-month run-.:

way closure will begin Sunday, airport:
manger. John Michelson said this
week.

Michelson told the Castlegar News:
Tuesday the runway will close at even-
ing ‘grounding time for transport.
ministry-approved resurfacing of its
runway. Construction will begin Mon-
day morning.

. e

On March 16, 87 members of the *

Senior: Citizen’s Association’ met in
their centre for an evening of enter-
tainment, provided by Mrs, Rose
Wenzel on the piano and Mrs, Kay An-
dreashuk on guitar.

An-Irish theme was: enjoyed
throughout the evening with J, Dalziel
leading the gathering in the singing of
many old songs,

* .

Betty Leitner of Cistlagie has won
the B.C. Teachers’ Federation's G.A.
Fergusson memorial award for the

The award, ing memory of one of the
federation’s founding members-and an
early president, is the highest award-
the federation bestows on its members
ay a for outstanding teaching service

sin he

CCTM

‘the'strength of her womanhood, Reared by one strong

“heard the Canadian writer, Michael Onseatle: reading’
. excerpts from his latest ' book: Renata 0

; eventually settled: in Cana’

original player i in the drama.
a

% uasell Baker is the Pulitzer prize-winning columniat
of the New. York Times and he has written an enchanting®
memoir’ ‘Growing’ Up. Born’ in a tiny village in the
mountains ; of: Virginia, Baker was, brought up’ by: a

“a

widowed ‘mother who raised three children during The’ HF
Depression, without any means of financial support. Her

fierce determination not to be defeated shaped her -8on's
life as he had to “make something of himself” and prove

woman, he. married another, . benefiting from ‘their
strength but not letting it dominate :him. He. portrays, |
dozens ‘of interesting characters — Uncle Harold,’ the |
famous liar; a bootlegger “bottled,” rather than buried, in
a glass coffin; the matriarch Ida Rebecca and her 12 sons *
— to name a few of the rich portraits he: paints’ of the
valient-men and women, who faced disaster with good:
cheer, and usually muddled | through. ‘

‘nListeners to cace idsningalde program : will have

e Family,’ ia
series of

family and their outrageous, bale i Ondaatje was. born:
in Ceylon ‘into a heritage, ae » part Tamil,’ part |
Singhalese, but he left the; ae ‘the bee ‘of 11-and:?
yeturned “nearly 25°
years later on a sentimental” aa to sort out?
half-remembered fragmentd'of his own experience, family: |
legends and scandals.’ His: exotic grandmothers ‘and:
gin-sodden father are larger than life characters drawn *
with humor, respect and compassion. He writes beautiful, ’.|
orginal, poetic prose which lets us see and smell the lush -
tropical vegetation, listen to the excited conversations, ©
and feel part: of his Japulous family)
hd
Anthony. Grey's isa vast. novel of an
American obsessed with the fighting, women and oriental. |
mysteries of Vietnam. It starts with his first spellbound
taste of French —Colonial Saigon as an impressionable
15-year-old in 1925 and follows Vicinam's tragic history.
through to 1975 ashe returns to the country again’ and
again, lured by the exctic city and an illicit romance. His
love’ affair plunges him into the bitter personal ‘and.
national conflict; and his own family’s involvement in the
Vietnamese War serves to bring events in. Vietnam's _
history — Dien ‘Bien Phu, the Tet offensive, the fall of.
Saigon — into vivid. focue
* Beit
: Pat Barr is deatiar writer fascinated by. the Orient.
Her novel Jade isan epic of 19th century China, a tale of
two worlds and a ewomat torn between them. A daughter :
of Exgitsh a
thé massacre of | the. Chitistiaiy in-1670; ts separated from:
the rest of her family and taken prisoner as a concubine.
After years of captivity, she escapes — only to find she no
longer fits in with the European community. Accepted by
neither world, she travels throughout China in search of a
place ‘for herself. China’s turbulent history, beautiful
landscape and contrasting cultures are brought to life for
us as the author describes’ an ancient civilization. soon to
disappear for ever.

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Phyllis Whitney's new book Emerald has been
eagerly awaited by her many fans. The setting for her
latest “gem” of romance and suspense is Palm Springs,
California, where  !eng-buried Hollywood secret is about
to emerge and disrupt and threaten many. lives? An
ancient tragedy is about to be replayed, featuring our |
heroine, the great niece of a famous old star who was the

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available at newly constructed
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Offering 1, ‘28 3 bedrooms plus 2 ‘han-
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. Maranatha Court
Box 3506
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