[atesetaumattcem tm wegen aS ET ea Seesaw + os Ss Ato eg ae oie : SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS to students of Blucherry Creek School | Matt; Grade 5, Jack Normadeau and Estelle Cormier and Grade 6, S were presented on Awards Day to Grade 1, Kathryn Sherlock and " Tony St. Dennis and Ken Sherstobitoff. The scholarship awards tBrad Pereversoff; Grade 2, Connie Batchelor; Grade.3, Karen were presented by Mre. John Michelson shown here ih the ‘Andersen and Wayne Gritchin; ; Grade 4, Ken Cormier and Sandra recipients. ‘John Dalziel Photo Chamber Meetings fo Resume {Members of the local ROMP detachment. will be jnyited to the first fall: meeting of, the Castlegar and District Chamber ‘of Commerce at which they will be asked to give a short talk on the breathalyzer +> This was announced by ‘chamber, president Dave Sil- Vester at last Th yy night's meeting held in the Hi Arrow ‘Arms as ‘adjournment: was‘ ‘called forthe summer, soni n the Fall with RCMP Invifed per meeting were KC Day's, queen Brenda Healey and ‘her two Princesses Roberta Kul-: and Lit Also in attaceenes were the 10 candidates: for the 1974 KC Days and their sponsors. Final Meeting OF Kinnaird WI Until Sept. 10 Members of the Kinnaird. Women's Institute met at the home of Mrs. J. Brownlie for their. final meeting, until Sept. ap Rasimaprrat bag uly aKa} ee TT Surprise Kitchen Shower Held for Lori Kaardal A surprise kitchen bridal shower was hold in Robson recently at the home of Mrs. G. Johnson honoring Miss Lori Kaardal whose marriage to Rick Anderson took place last Saturday. On arriving at the Johnson home the guest of honor and hor mother each received a lovely rosebud corsage, *- Games were the feature of the evening along with the girls reliving their school daya.:Thé many kitchen gadgets were presented to the guest of honor . in'a large decorated box. Lori extended her ;most: sincere thanks for the wonderful sur- priso and for all the lovely gifts for her kitchen, Refreshments were served by hostesses Miss Geraldine and Miss Christine Johnson with the honoree cutting and . serving a lovely shower cake to all the guests, Electrical Fault in Swifch Halts Watering in Kinnaird _ An‘electrical fault ina ; switch is given as the cause on Wednesday of last week which affected No, 4 well in Kinnaird resulting in immediate stop- page of sprinkling by residents. These restrictions were rescinded ‘at’ approximately four that afternoon. “There was alsoa failure of + No, 8 well ofa minor nature but the combinations of the two made it a real serious problem,” ; said Mayor Ed Mosby. Water restriction of a single sprinkling to each house- holder with even numbered homes watering on even dates . and odd numbered homes. wat- ering on odd dates have been enforced for several weeks’ now. While some residents have expressed “the opinion there is no need for gegulations of alternate days for the section Unions. Set for Lengthy Sirike in: Cominco Dispute feontinued from ‘page ‘1) laborer's $4 hourly. rate would increase to $5.10 forthe first” year, and ‘a’ tradesman's ‘$5.55 ‘rate. would: increase to! $7. Mr. McLean saild the nego- tiable d-ye of the Hands pes ss the Boner “cEach candidate was: Intro: Pleate to.be held: in Nelson. on dices by. her. sponsor, after | nail - which she’ gave a’ thumb. sketch of herself-and’ why she, would like'to'be, the successful + aeanaidets at this SAT. te WE Cook: book and me cheque for. $10 ‘were presented ear's celebra. , ito a strident in home: economies hi ithe: hes marks. The ~ Castlegar een Now - Opened for the Summer. <: ‘The long weekend marked - ibe opening of the Castlegar Museum’ located ‘in the base- “Jackie Geiger, assisted by THE CARPET CENTRE: Upstairs: S. TRAIL TIMES BLDG, PHONE 364-2421 ‘one: her young ‘lady, is. on: hand ‘every .week day except Monday from. 2 to: 8 p.m. assist visitors. Further items have. Been added to the military uniforms display with: many’ other: new items obtained during the win- ter months to be put on display shortly. The Castlegar Museum. will remain open until the Labor Day weekend. i % Wes A busy day. was spent at. the Kinnaird Park on Tuesday when the W.I.:ran the. conces- sion for’ over 400 children for. their. school: picnic. _Hot ‘dogs, : : kool-aid, iced: lemon’ tea, bars, ’Mr.: Freeze and’ other goodies. were enjoyed by. kids. ‘ ‘A very.informative : report. ©: of the Biennial Conference, held ‘at Notre Dame in Nelson, was “given by the'delegate Mrs. Phipps. Five inembers also. led. attend ~ Mrs. Kay Bate-was the lucky, winner ‘of. a raffled - ‘picture. SPECIAL 90 DAY TERM DEPOSIT DEMAND DEPOSIT AES ONE-YEAR TERM DEPOSIT 9% Per Annum LEY D we 84% rer Annum Invest in” Your: CASTLEGAR - SAVINGS CREDIT UNION Serving the Slocas,: Kootenay and , Columbia Valleys with branches at Castleaird ' Plaza Phone 365-7232 Slocan Park ing the ‘right: to. strike, ef- fectively’ constitute ‘a cost-of- living: agreement, which is'one ‘of. the union: demands “He said the union demands are the ‘same at'Kimberley and Salmo, althot ‘bonus clause whic! effect\at "Kimberley. :; "Picketa have been' up since midnight Sunday, and there has h mine workers pide ‘been'no trouble. However, Mr, ~McLean ‘said,”the ‘union is awaiting a’ provincial Labor ; Relations. ‘Board! shearing in: Trail later this month: to determine whether first-line supervisors are officially class- ified.as‘ union bers. At rates, includ 7 The orderly shutdown Sun- day. came (after the’ union served 72-hour strike’ notice Thursday against: the com- pany's mines, metallurgical and chemical plants. The agreement with Cominco.’ A‘ company:: statement Monday said 450 staff workers, - members of the Association of that’ was the former’ Town ‘of Castlegar, council has bya majority decision, called for the_ enforcing. of uniform watering restrictions, RCMP. Identify Drowning Victim 4 Crescent. Vailey RCMP shave identified’Jose Martin Ezcurra, 80,\of Spain, as the man who apparently drowned last. Thursday in Koch Creek west of Passmore. Search attempts continued Friday. but ‘police said no body has yet been, recovered. : Mr, Ezcurra’ fell’ while ‘erossing the creek on a’ foot- bridge, ‘made by. felling a tree, at about 5.15 a.m, ‘Thursday. and was swept away by the fast flowing water. He was part of a crew clearing a power. line right-of-way. = Air and ground searches Thursday failed to discover any trace of the man. CRE Te ae reat ie mipantmpennerention nn NT 2 . TRUCKLOAD SALE OF FISH i FRIDAY, JULY 5 i “We vit Cattoger Twlce 3 “Month 4 | WEST COAST SEAFOODS "DaCosta ‘BA KERY. Today; at | sal and Saturdey | iA “CRUSTY. BUNS, vecesees doz, 49c PIES, Each .. PHONE 965-3022 “13 Pine Street (next. to, West's Dept. Store), as CLOSED ‘MONDAY. 1 For Holiday Time’ HAVE YOUR FRONT END. CHECKED BEFORE LEAVING: and. . . Haye Your Disc. ’ Brakes Checked - “Now! “KA Pad in time © ) saves i Rotor!” Ken’ 5 Auto & Wheel a nmed PHONE 365-7532 Commerical and ‘Technical Em- ployees, “have also struck. in s have 110 at. Kimberley-- 4 Scholarship Colin Pryce of Castlegar, a member of Stanley Humphries teaching staff; has been award: ‘ ed ‘a travelling scholarship to _ “India through the Shastri.Indo- * ' Canadian Institute: | based at’ “McGill 1 present, he said, about:half are’ honoring the picket lines. ats Water Use Differs ‘Little Very little difference in water use by the former. towns that now make up the City of Castlegar was noted during the “month of May. The former Town of Kin- naird’s water use was quoted at 18,518,346 imperial gallons ‘while the former Town of Castlegar has recorded 13,615,- 533 imperial gallons. The same month in May of . last year the Town of Castlegar. used 20,583,600 imperial gal- lons. Warning Issued By RCMP On . Dogs at. Large Local RCMP. detachment is receiving a few complaints in the Robson area of dogs run- + ning at large. For the information of the public section 12 of the sheep protection act states: that: “No dog should be allowed to be-at Jarge at any time between sunset and sunrise unless accompanied by or with- in reasonable distance of the owner or some person having the charge or care of .the dog.” Mr. Pryce will be leaving - ‘today for Montreal to join some 20 other graduatestudents representing all the Canadjan provinces, The group will fly to India and ‘will spend six weeks in that Jcountry.: Three weeks will be ‘spent. at Delhi University and another. three weeks ‘will be used ‘for. touring. the industrial and his- toric: ites hrouehonbt the ‘subcontinent Nhe: Deer. Causes». $400 Damage To Compact Cor A 1971 ‘Datsun ‘vatained approximately $300 to $400 damage Sunday morning when it“went into the ditch after swerving to miss.a deer. “ parks this year, and that means Marlene Leggett Ronnie Melntyre, Karen Melntyre, Robin Hyson, suas lc 4, Barbara Gattrell, Ben Markin, Jennifer Schulte and Donnie Tamelin; Grade 5, Randy Skublen and Peter Zeboroff and Grade 6, Colleen Sook and Sheldon Sookachoff. —John Dalziel Photo ' Confessions of a Rip-Off Real Estate ‘Subdivider A Sliver of Land... But, Oh the Problems. By Jack Wasserman ~ Vancouver Sun ‘Confessions of a Rip-Off Real Estate Subdivider—Or: how. the schnook columnist became the only. person to lose money on a réal estate transac: tion this past year! It wasn't easy. In fact, it - took nearly: 10° months’ of strenuous effort. During that period there was.a near drown- ing in a sea of red.tape, and the absolutely shattering discovery ° that at least’one of Canada’s major. banks apparently doesn't have any legal status in British Columbia: No matter how much ey the Block Brothers have made; they've earned every ae common’ with ‘most peop! le, my personal experience ; with the coal estate. pone ines was: the purchase of -a',hoi back’ in’ the. stone ia i was still slave to acquire ‘a roo? aa a mortgage » without "sacrificing food and medicine. ‘Ultimately that led to the ownership of a small house— * shared. with..the mortgage company—oni'a ‘sidehill ‘plot of - land in West Vancouver. Even though it was the, cheapest. lot in the neighborhood It was‘ the - last.to sell because it'was the most topographically ridiculous land’ in! an’ area’ of impossible terrain, which 1 is part of ‘the story. Several years ago my neighbor .and- I undertook to develop ‘our respective proper. . ties, He wanted to put in a back. yard, which was impossible because of an underground spring on the hillside above us, which regularly” soaked the area, Inorder to have room for a_ catchbasin, he “gave” me sliver of his own property.:That sliver enabled me to square off a point of my triangular lot. Because of ‘the layout, sand a ‘large stand’ of hemlock forest . which formed’a natural bouhd- ary, that. sliver. of land wasn't even in sight of his own’ house. The, total amount: of land was something less that 300: square feet, chopped off the 13,000 square feet he owned. I was-all’done ona handshake and ‘that was the end of the sé Vand he'd be putting hi “home on the market, approval was good for 90 days, I protested mildly’ that: a survey seemed redundant. The - area had been: surveyed, and subdivided a mere 20 years ago and the stakes still existed, If that wasn’t enough, the munici- Pality had surveyed the pro- perty.three years earlier when sewers were installed. The ‘rules said “Get. it surveyed." I called the land * surveyor who'd made the origi- nal survey. He suggested to the - powers that be that it would be sufficient’ to. move one stake. “Four weeks and $380 later ada ‘complete survey‘of my property ‘and all the -adjoining lots. I’also had ‘a ‘thick’ roll ‘of.” plans including Six_copies on patures of the to our’ mutually. "advantageous arrangement he suggested i “You better do. whatever is ~ formalize. the necessary property I Itall sounded 50 simple. I dropped. into the’ municipal office and. told them what I.had in mind: Everybody smiled and was most co-operative. A pleas- ant man behind ‘the counter in public: works “depai handed me.a form entitled) Application for. subdivision, °I was accompanied by a four Page list of instructions. Within \. a week I had received approval to have the area a surveyed The ‘ vey: ‘a black ink pen and set out to get the required signatures, : “properly. witnessed. “My” neighbor's business on the market. In‘ late 78, the ‘mere listing: ofa house’ was tanta- “Everything,” was the reply. So far. so good. A week. and then it was. mount to selling it it, which i is just what ‘happened. Just about the time that the house sold, the municipality approved my subdivision plan. “Twenty dollars, please.” Then, everything went into limbo! while the sale of my neighbor's home proceeded, ° four months after I'd begun my exercise. in subdividing. I won't bore” you with the grim details of what happened trom that point on. Except for. the goodwill of the new neigh- - bor: it 'might have’ all gone up the spout. Besides the new ‘owner’ there) was’ also a new ,'mortgage company, and an- other firm’ of lawyers who had to_process everything. That, meant. another, set of- signatures on the documents. for.the. land yegistry; offi company on the. To and there was a: brief: moment */- of panic when it looked'as if one department of the Royal: Bank didn't know what ‘another de- partment was doing. Canada’s Yukon _Isa Top Tourist Draw for. U.S.A. A total of 311,374 visitors crossed over the .border into Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1973. This .was an increase of 40,477 over 1972, or nearly 15, per cent. + eS More tourists came from California than from any Cana- -° dian. province ‘or American - state. ‘The California total tal- tied: to-18.4. per ‘cent, '.with Alaska, Visitors next at 9.2 per. © cent. Oregon visitors ‘made up 1°8.5, per, cent. of the total, followed by British’ Columbia - with 6.9: per. cent. Next in percentages came - Ontario at '5.3,. Washington. at. 5.0 Alberta at 4.4, Michigan at © rep Illinois at 3.2 and Ohio at "A total of 75.8 | per cent of the visitors were from the - United ‘States, with 21.9 per cent from Canada itself. Most: travellers to the Yukon Territory—225,467— eame in by ear or. by recreation- al vehicle. Some 45,643 came in’, | + by air, and 40,264 came in by-¢ “other means.: ors Semi-Gloss LATEX ime 010° ‘Best Quality : eee Goncial Paint. ~ .. at the Lowest Prices @ OVER 1,000 GLORIOUS COLORS @ BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE FINISHES % Several Hundred Rolls, of cy WeAUL-LeP-A-P-E-R In the Most Exciting Pattems Always in a 603 Columbia Avenue "Your Decorating Headquarters”. -OGLOW BROTHERS — Telephone 365-7202 By late April I had another bill for nearly $200 in assorted legal fees. Considering the mess I'd made of things—imag- ine using ordinary black ink!—it could have been far worse. In total, that useless sliver of sidehill'in West Vancouver _ cost,me more than $700. The legal documents say that I paid “One dollar and other valuable considerations.” The mortgage company " gave it a value of $100 for. Jegal purposes. : Infact, I still haven't paid for the land. My neighbor and I had agreed on the. price last summer when it all started and Tmust get around and ‘pay the” agreed fee one. bottle of Beef- eater Gin: many first-time visiturs. For those first-timers, as well as for experienced hands, the B.C. Automobile Associa- tion offers these safety tips. Make your first stop within a park at the visitor centre, especially if it is your first visit to the preserve. Become ac- quainted with the park, its terrain, facilities, unusual weather and camp area condi- tions, wildlife and other fea- tures, Drive carefully. Go slowly and be prepared to stop for animals, Be alert for natural hazards, such as loose. r Guard against becoming capti- vated by the scenery when at the wheel. And give large vehicles such as logging trucks, travel trailers and motor, homes plenty of passing room. Be extremely careful with fire. Do not build: any sort of fire in an unventilated or poorly ventilated space. Always make certain a fire is out by throwing dirt, water, or both on it ‘Let park headquarters know if you plan a trip away from populated areas of the park-by leaving word of your destination and intended length of stay. Take ample water, a good map, compass, first aid fit, spare‘rations and extra clothing. i Watch children closely so they do not venture jnto dangerous areas or become lost. feed or pet any wild animals. “Cute” bears and other animals are highly unpredicatable, and close contact should be avoided. Never. swim alone and avoid fast-running and other dangerous water areas, Ask'a ranger’ "s'advice before attempt: * ing to boat on any. park water area. Do not over-exert yourself, Take frequent rest periods and enjoy the natura! beauty about you. Wear proper clothing and low-heeled, shoes for, walking. says that first-aid facilities are available at every - national park and that rangers are trained to. meet virtually any. emergency yisitocs) ei: encounter.’ Do not attempt’ to: hand- CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, July 4, 1974 Want to Sell Your House? Mirror Lake Tent & Trailer Park “The Family Resort” , dust 2 Miles South of Kaslo — Our 73 Dewse Private Lake Is the Warmest in the West Kootensys — Nicest Washrooms in North America — The Jack Morris Family — Telephone 353-2349 KINNAIRD TRANSFER LTD. L.A. (TONY) GERONAZZO, MANAGER EXCAVATION — HAULING — BACK HOES CONCRETE GRAVEL — PIT RUN GRAVEL, TOP SOI — 34 CRUSHED ROAD GRAVEL DRAIN ROCK — MORTAR SAND “Septic Tanks ‘and Disposal Fields a Specialty” Phone 365-7124 g tin IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER me MAYFAIR HOTEL: provides spacious new: accommodation with’ fully equipped kitchens, cable TV, phone,’ frée ..parking: and: view balconies, All this for $16.00-single: and $4. additional ~. With compli-, ‘mentary coffee and tea” service for your addi enjoyment. On you: i next visit to Vancouve; Dae ey stay downtown: at: the, Mayfair Hotel located at Hornby and Robson Streets. |; For reservations, write to: THE MAYFAIR HOTEL 445 Hornby St.. Vancouver 1, B.C. or Phones a 604-667-6751. eith ana eNs Our Most Valuable Export Sure, they're a little ‘young now, but in just a few years they'll be leay- _ing Kootenay West. Just as their brothers) and sisters are leaving now. Why? No jobs. In fact, hou ing to find a place to live. “so short that they have to leave just “We can’t afford this situation. Kootenay: West. needs these young peo- -ple and to keep them here we need: more secondary. oe Skill-inten- ‘ siye and environmentally safe secondary industry. We need a man in Ottawa who can cut through the red. tape thot stands between us and the economic programs that'll: proyide jobs and a future for our children. We need a responsive MP with energy and drive: We need Brisco. Bob Brisco More Than Ever i ee oer een meres aees