The polling craze

Can there be any doubt that
Canadians are being polled to
death? It wasn't quité as bad
before the federal election. Then,
it seemed like it was only every
month or so there was an opinion
poll telling how the country felt
about capital punishment or man-
datory use of seatbelts.

But since the election cam-
paign started, polling has reached
ridiculous heights. It's created a
whole new Canadian industry as
political parties try to gauge not
only how they're doing, but how
their opponents are doing.

And if that isn't enough, news
organizations have rushed to see
who can be first with the
“detinitive’ poll. The result has
been a bombardment of polling
results and information about
who's ahead of whom. And it’s not
over yet. There are sure to be at
least a couple of more polls bet-
ween now and Sept. 4 — including
one on the eve of the election

Lost in the rush to publish the

porters of o party well ahead in the
polls may feel the party is doing so
well it doesn't need their support
— and so don't vote.

By the same token, supporters
of party that has had a dismal
showing in the polls may not turn
out because they feel their vote
won't moke any difference
anyway.

Senior Progressive Conser-
vative candidate Sinclair Stevens
made another point this week
when asked about polls published
during elections.

He said he sees the need for
polls as private input for political
parties, but feels it is more impor-
tant that people assess the issues
and come to their own conclusions
on the relative strengths and
weaknesses of the leaders and in-
dividual candidates.

Th ‘8 no question polls are
of some value to the political par-
ties. The help party strategists
determine how the parties will

cs their didk » which

information is the q t
whether“the polling results should
be made public at all during an
election. The question surfaced
this week when politicians from all
three major political parties
suggested polling results and
predictions should be kept from
the electorate until after polling
day. It's a valid point.

Polli results seem to con-

ues rather than make

in the electorate's

instance, voters may

have been leaning toward o par

ticular party, but with the results of

the latest poll, swing to the party

that's ahead in the poll only to be
with a winner.

By the -seme token, other
voters may decide that the party
down in the polls needs their vote
more, and so vote for the under-

Polls can have a similar in-
fluence on election turnouts. Sup-

traits to play up and which to de-
emphasize.

But polls really aren't of any
use to voters, other than as a
curiosity. For that reason, it is time
Canada looked at doing away with
polls during elections.

He's not
PM yet

The Progressive Conservatives
have opened up such a huge lead
in the opinion polls everyone
seems to have conceded the elec-
tion to them. But it was still a little
much when one local’ radio an-
nouncer said Thursday “Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney” was due
to arrive at Castlegar airport any
minute.

Fred
Merriman

In a recent column on the
mythical professional driver, this
writer, was careful enough to
qualify his status as an amateur. As
facts would have it, even that
description proved excessive. How
ever, let me plead mitigating
circumstances.

Here is my case, your honor:

Time: 18:34 p.m. Aug. 11, 1984.

Place: within the village limits of
Warfield, B.C., specifically at the
location known as the Webster
School intersection.

This person of the first part,
legally identified as a duly licensed
class five operator of a motor
vehicle and subject to the terms and
conditions as outline in the Motor
Vehicles Act, did without intention
to contravene or disobey that Act
find himself in semi-violent contact
with another motorist.

May we take this opportunity to
submit the following maps, draw
ings, photographs and statistics as
exhibit one through four, res
pectively. Briefly summarizing the
significant items: Yield means does
not mean come to a complete stop.
At the first indication that a yield
situation is noted some 300 feet of
visibility is required to note the
presence of an uphill car which is
granted the right-of-way.

The distance between the yield
marking and the point of contact
was 140 feet. The distance from the
outer limits of visibility to point of
contact for right of way traffic is
260 feet. A margin of safety
between one and two seconds.

We should bear in mind that the
vehicle 5

It is this party's intention to
plead that this passivity caused his
vehicle to be in s most vulnerable

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position, on a curve at a badly
marked or identified intersection in
the face of an approaching vehicle
legally proceeding at 50 kmh.

At that particular time, also, a
vehicle had approached the inter.
section from the north. As our final
argument may we plead innocent
on the grounds that Section 175
does not refer to a Yield sign.

Your, honor, in summation. It is
important that 35 years of safe
driving in conditions ranging from
the California freeways to mountain
snow-covered highways not go
uncontested by’a “Russian roulette”
intersection that leaves a yielding
motorist in a fully stopped position
mere inches away from a moving
vehicle negotiation a 90 degree turn
at 560 kmh.

The other option is to check for
traffic and get through the 140-foot
“danger zone” as quickly as pos-
sible. The least expensive way to
prevent similar accidents which
could foreseeably cause serious
injury or death would involve the
placing of a sign which required a
full and complete stop before
proceeding.

The sign which indicates Cast-
legar and Nelson straight shead
gives the non-resident motorist «
distinct impression that he enjoys
the right-of-way. Such should be
removed.

indeed dangerous under the most
ideal conditions.

Your favorable opinion will be
appreciated.

—————

. What we're hoping for this time is a poll result calculated have some back-foom boys
quaking .

in ith anic.”

‘Letters to the Editor

, Castlegar News:
In June a member of the Valhalla
Wilderness Society wrote a letter to

the Editor essing gen.
erated by the visual man.
agement zone inthe Slocan Valley plan.
That member referred to a meeting
sponsored by the Ministry of Mines and
Ministry of Forests where information
and a slide presentation on visual
management was given.

Loggers and the forest industry have
never argued the existance of the

Brisco
supports
Socreds

that he would do the sqme in the next
election. >

One can only assumd that Bob Briseo
supports Bill Bennett and his erratic
government, the extra-billing for med-
icare, and the cutbacks and long
waiting lists for needed surgery and
the betrayal of Nelson through the
destruction of DTUC.

I applaud Bob Brisco's courage in
telling us who and what he supports
but could never vote for such policies. I
guess that is what democracy is all
about.

Ted Bell
Castlegar

Conflict not
even begun

* News:

I would like to draw attention to
some terms used continually through
out the planning process: “Resource
conflict” and “land use conflict” and
that the Sloean Valley plan will provide
“future harmony” in the valley

I submit that if this plan is approved
and implemented with all its proposals
and implied land use controls, and with
so many people in opposition then the
conflict has not yet begun.

it again

Editer, Castlegar News:

I see the sanctimonious NDP are at it
again. Mr. Kristiansen wants to plug
“tax >

“tax loophole” in

savings plans. For many people it is the
only way of putting aside money to
cover their retirement years. It is like,
most “tax Joopholes,” a deferring of
tax, not an avoiding of tax
If Mr. Kristiansen does not under.
stand the real need for RRSPs and the
fact one does pay tax on those monies
eventually, then Mr. Kristiansen has
no business being anywhere near
Ottawa. If he does understand it then
he is being less than honest in his
blanket condemnation of “tax loop-
holes.”
Wiltiem J. Sullivan

PP!

had detrimental effects on the forest
industry to date. It has been applied
with reason to logging practices and
with for is 1

the
erecting of buildings on open
and golf courses.

More controls and “stricter enforce-
ment” are desired by pro-planners. It
has been a general consensus among
pro-planners that the government —

ities, and will continue to be applied
with or without the Slocan Valley plan.

What the government in Victoria
fails to understand is the concern for
the extent to which visual management
will be applied through implementation
of the Slocan Valley plan.

The Slocan Valley plan is a regional
district plan and the responsibility for
the implementation will fall primarily
on the regional district, a level of
government in love with private land
use controls and in bed with pro-plan

process
concern has been expressed for visual
controls over private property devel-
opments and private property resource

__srttgatigpss The Valhalla, Wilderness

as far as it can on
planning consumptive use watersheds
— is not going far enough, and must go
further; and that these proposed
restrictions should apply to all water-
sheds, all wildlife areas and the visual
management zone.

In studying designated maps of the
area, there is nothing excluded within
the valley except the lake bottom. Is it
any wonder that as a logge: I am not
in favor of a plan which is nothing more
than a foot in the door for those who
desire to strangle anything and every-
thing which takes place in this valley.
We do not need the proposed visual
management zone and we do not need
the Slocan Valley plan.

New Deaver

Letter writer does
not know his Bible

Editor, Castlegar News:

About a month and a half ago as I
was reading the newspaper I came
across this letter: “My advice to save
human lives, is that instead of
hundreds of thousands young boys and
men being killed is to let president
Reagan of the U.S. and Chernenko of
the USSR come out in the open and
wrestle, who beats who, then get up,
shake hands and love thy neighbor as
thyself; just like David and Goliath.”

Most of the article sounds good
from a political and humanistic view
point and, yes, it would be good to see
this happen. Furthermore, from a
biblical standpoint this will not happen
because of what prophecy has to say
about these two nations.

In the last part of the article it
states that both powers should “come
out in the open and wrestle, who beats
who, then get up, shake hands and love
thy neighbor as thyself.”

First of all, it would be good if this
could happen in order to save t ous-
ands of lives, but you and I know that
cannot happen unless we turn back to
God and do what the scripture states in
11 Chr. 7:14 — “If my people, which are
called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pri and seek my
face, and turn from wicked ways
them will I hear from heaven, and

forgive their sin, and will heal their
land.”

Secondly, the person who wrote
this article does not know his bible, for
in 1 Sam. 17:40-54 we read that David
not only smote Goliath but also
beheaded him and all the Philistine
army fled.

What the Americans, Russians
and even us as Canadians need to do is
to: humble ourselves to the fact that
we as a people need God; seek God
with all sineerity; turn from our wicked
ways of idolatry, humanism, com-
munism, sexual perversion, pride,
materialism, power hunger, criminal
indulgence, and from any form of sin.

When the Americans,

when he was out looking for the ranch's
horses.
oe «
Parking meters will not be installed
in Castlegar for at least one year.
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The new Cut-Rate grocery store in
Kinnaird officially opened its enlarged
Started

Groceteria has now enlarged its
Epitome Sot font <2 top
. 2° @

Owing to inclement weather, the
annual garden party of the United
Chureh, which was to have been on the
lawn of Mr. and Mrs. T. Waldie's home
last Thursday evening, was held in the
Community Hall.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 28, 1969
News

Castlegar
Burt Campbell, editor of the Castle-
gar News and Socred candidate in the

day's vote. Mr. ~
fous with 2,786 votes. NDP William
King came second with 2,300 votes and
Liberal candidate Dougias Stewart was
third with 378 votes.

The Social Credit party under the

we as Canadians and all those from
other nations begin to do this then God
will hear from his throne in heaven, he
will forgive our sins and he will heal
our lands, and, yes, in turn we'll all get
up after turning to God and we will
then “love thy neighbor as thyself;” not
as David and Goliath, but as a people
who have renewed their lives to God in
prayer, realizing that it is God only
who can bring hope and peace to this
dying world
Rev. Morley Seltys
Asst. Paster, Pentecostal Tabernacie

Castlegar

warning?

blasting may have been necessary, re-
sulting in a longer wait. On returning
home, I phoned both CKQR and the
RCMP, neither of whom knew any
thing about this major traffic disrup-
tion.

We have travelled this road numer-
ous times during the summer and were
unaware of any problem that would
cause the Highways Ministry to shut it
down for repairs.

Surely, they could have scheduled
the work for the fall when the traffic is
considerably lighter or at least done
the work in the early morning so as to
inconvenience a minimum number of

Needless to say, we were unim-
pressed as were all the other motorists
travelling west on Highway 3.

Richard B. Wolff

Castlegar

Kenzie by more than 1,000 votes.

. 28 6

Eight-year-old Joanne Yule placed
third in the eight-year-old and under
back crawl event at the B.C. Summer
Swim Championships held last week-
end in Vancouver.

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silk Gress and grey sandals, the
part; president meets 14 busines people, asks the

waitress for a beer and then asks

manager

Myrna Howard: “What's the hold-up? We've got to get

twirls the seafood fettucine

legacy of a broken marriage.

She talks about the economy and stresses the need

he Chrysler

priorities — may differ, but the peace-
promoters agree when there's an elec-
tion, there’s a greater chance they'll be
heard.

“We have always urged people to
talk to their politicians and tell them
their concerns,” says John Broderick of
V “s tireless End The Arms

that.”

around by

‘After a quick plug for Turner — “he's tenacious,

strong and an honest man” —

Campagnolo asks for their

support, quaffs her beer and is off to an interview
Before lunch, she meets with Dr. Norman Rigby of

the B.C. Medica! Association, two representatives of the

Greek community and does an interview with the

community cable channel.

Campaigning with Campagnolo is like being a jogger
trying to keep up with an Olympic marathoner. She is
fighting for every possible vote — fighting in the wake of
a Vancouver Sun poll done the week of Aug. 6 which

she is trailing Conservative incumbent Chuck
Cook by 18 per cent with 30 per cent of the electorate
undecided.

Her pace is gruelling and it is taking its toll. A
scheduled 4:30 a.m. appearance on CTV's Canada AM has
been cancelled because Howard said Campagnolo needed

a rest.

In the afternoon, a television interview runs longer
than planned so she is 20 minutes late for a coffee party at
Lynn Valley Lodge, a senior citizens’ home and extended
care facility in North Vancouver. Some of the 36 people

waiting grumble about her tardiness.

When she arrives, Campagnolo tells them about her
roots in British Columbia, a few local issues and asks for
support. She answers some questions and then circles the
room, kneeling down to talk to each person. She promises
to come to their craft sale in November and tells one
woman that her silver brooch, purchases in Aruba, has

demons on it to scare off her enemeis.

After her walkabout, Campagnolo waves and. says,
“Goodbye my friends. We've got more wars to wip.”

“Prom ‘there it's off to knock on doors —

Race, which sponsored an April peace
walk that drew tens of thousands of
chanting, placard-waving supporters.

“But when there's an election, it
brings the politicians back to their con
stituencies. People can talk to them on
their doorsteps.”

Operation Dismantle, the 6,000
member, Ontario-based group that at
tempted fully to ut

to peace.
cil for Interna-

tives have broken party lines on issues
related to peace and disarmament, and
Carole Christopher of the Non-Partisan

supplying United Nations peacekeep-

Some members of the peace
movement have been holding debates
among representatives of the three
major parties or asked the politicians
to articulate their positions in tele
phone interviews, while others — such
as End the Arms Race — have dropped
flashy brochures into mail slots, asking
voters to support “only those poli
ticians who really are committed to
ending the arms race.”

Broderick’s organization, which rep:
resents 150 peace groups in British
Columbia, asks voters to consider whe
ther the people they elect will push for
the ation of the cruise missile

Quadra Committee on Development
and Peace, believes a heightened push
by peace activists is the reason why.

A move by Liberal party president
Iona Campagnolo to stray from party
and government policy and call for a
mutual and verifiable nuclear arms
freeze by the United States and the
Soviet Union marked a “significant

But she also says the changing poli-
tical views reflect the concerns of the
Canadian public. A recent Gallup poll
indicated more than 80 per cent of res-
pondents were in favor of a mutual and
verifiable arms freeze by the super-
powers.

“We're experiencing the realization
that the arms race is more dangerous
than it was four or five years ago,” she
says.

(Canadian Press)

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Trudeau's seat a fight

MONTREAL (CP) — Vic
tory won't be easy this time
around for the Liberals in
Mount Royal, the affluent
Montreal-area riding consid-
ered the safest Grit seat in
the country while it was
represented by Pierre Tru-
deau.

The former prime minis.
ter’s well-oiled machine reg- eral ca

Until

slate of

June coi
got into

ularly delivered victories in only resolved July 81, just
all the riding’s polls, gather- five weeks before election

ing up to 80 per cent of the day
vote while the Conservatives Tory
couldn't get enough volun- been
teers to provide a full comple-
ment of poll eaptains on elec
tion day

However, few people in
Mount Royal are predicting
an easy win for Sheila Fine
stone, the former teacher
chosen to r the Lib-

she plans to do six to nine hours a day from now until the
federal election Sept. 4. Campagnolo changes into a
different pair of high heels in the car — Howard says they
each wear two to three pairs of shoes a day to ward off

aching feet.

“You see a lot like that,” she says grimly
After two hours of doorknocking, it's off to another

radio interview.

erals in the federal election
Sept. 4.

“Sheila is a trouper,” says
Stephen Huza, Finestone's
campaign chairman, “but
when your candidate is not
the prime minister. you have
to spend a lot more time

Grits were preoccupied with
the Liberal leadership race —
the local 4,000-member Lib-
eral association sent a full

Jean Chretien to the party's

over who would be the Lib-

campaigning
March with a team of en
thusiastic amateurs and ac-

June, Mount Royal

delegates supporting former Liberals.
nvention. They then
a hard-fought battle

indidate which was French-Canadian.

Sharon Wolfe has

‘alice soned politician.

tive community volunteers.
Tory association membership
in the riding has risen in one
year to 2,500 from 250 and
most of the new recruits are

More than half the 80,000
voters are Jewish, almost 20
per cent are over 65 years old
and about 20 per cent are

While both Finestone and
Wolfe are candidates for the
first time, Finestone is a sea-

She was an employee of
the provincial Liberal party,

advising three political oppo-
sition leaders on policy, and
active on the federal level,
seeing ideas on key women's
issues develop from riding
resolutions to official federal
Liberal policy.

The buoyant 56-year-old
grandmother has taken to
campaigning like a duck to
water, saying: “I'm not run-
ning to catch up to Sharon
Wolfe but to my own tar-
gets. I started going door-to-
door in June meeting the
4,300 Liberal members. Now,
I have to reach the general
population.”

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Campagnolo's high profile as party president puts
her in great demand. Howard says the negative side of
that is Campagnolo gets so many requests for interviews
from both the local and national media it cuts into her
time for local campaigning. no fault of her own, the Con.

And Campagnolo knows going to doors is the only | servatives began campaign.
way to defeat Cook and New Democrat David Schreck on ing in Mount Royal four
election day. months before her campaign
got off the ground.

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task is that fact that, through

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A. Secondary Schools

Tuesday, September 4 is an “In Service Day” tor secondary teachers only,
so students enrolled in grades 9 to 12 at Stanley Humphries Secondary
and grades 7 to 8 at Kinnaird Junior Secondary will NOT attend classes on
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should register at the appropriate sec school on Tu: . Report
cards from the last school attended should be presented at this time

B. Elementary Schools

All elementary schools in the District will be in operation on Tuesday.
September 4. This day is NOT an “In Service Day” for elementary
teachers. Morning bus runs will operate at the same time as last year.
However, students will be returning home earlier then usual in the otter-
noon, so they are advised to still bring lunches if they normally eat lunch
at school

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