CASTLEGAR NEWS, Friday, August 11, 1978 Come up while our dollar’s down. ‘British Columbia, Canada TRAVEL INCENTIVE AD placed by Tourism B.C. In major : U.S. newspapers this aummer to bring more revenue to B.C. : businesses. Over Five Million Visitors in 1976 (An editorial in Commerce B.C, Magazine.) TOO MANY PEOPLE IN British Columbia equate tour- ism with motels, hotels, resorts and the various tourist at- tractions, This misconception, aside from being too narrow, can also be very damaging to an in- dustry which is the third largest in the province, is highly labor-intensive and has very little impact upon the en- vironment. Just to put the whole thing into perspective, let's look at some statistics. First of all, as we said before, tourism is British Columbia's third largest in- dustry. Its revenues constitute five percent of the gross pro- vincial product. IN 1976, OVER FIVE million non-British Columbians visited or toured this province Depends On Who Tells It and spent an average $28 per day on services and goods, This represents approxi mately $400 of tourist expendi- tures for every man, woman and child living in B.C. Another reason for travel is business, which cannot be in- fluenced by promotion cam- paigns but is responsible for more than 10 per cent of travel to and within British Columbia. Travellers from within and without British Columbia in 1976 spent $240 million on transportation and $390 million on such things as entertain. ment, recreation, gilts and per- sonal services, The travel industry direct- ly employs 70,000 people or approximately seven percent of the provincial work force, These statistics may be significant to someone in the travel industry, but they should be equally significant to almost every other occupation and profession in British Columbia. THE CONTRACTORS and tradesman who build the motels, hotels and shopping centres can thank the tourists for helping make the projects possible, either in whole or in part. The owners and employees who provide supplies to the ten CasNews Closeup: Tourism in B.C. Tourism Could Become No. 1 Industry in B.C. THE BUCK SHOPS HERE, thousand businesses that cater directly to visitors have been estimated to number in the tens of thousands, Tourism could very well become British Columbia's number one industry. This goal can only be achieved if each and every one of us recognizes the direct and indirect benefits that we derive from the people who travel throughout the Province, make them welcome and ensure they return to tell their friends and relatives the reasons for having a holiday in our province, The scenic attractions are but a small part of the many factors that motivate travel- lers, A MAJOR FACTOR IS the attitude of the people of the tourist industry, the support personnel and the population as a whole. Historical Figure All Cooked Up? (An editorial in the Van- eouver Sun.) THE PROVINCIAL GOV- ernment will probably think twice before using another real figure from history like Captain Cook to promote tourism. Not that it was a bad idea. After all, the English explorer ‘A Smile could Help a Lot (Although enjoying an all- time high in tourism revenues, B.C. still faces similar problems to those encountered by the industry in the province of Alberta, which, saw .a $140 million deficit last year. The following story, reprinted from the Calgary Herald, discusses some of the problems faced by the tourist industry in that province.) “Give a visitor a smile— it's our tradition.” The happy slogan appears on the marquee above a dry cleaners’ shop on the Trans- Canada Highway. =~ But’ some people fear“that’ the tradition has. been changing to one of taking people to the cleaners. And part of the problem, tourism industry insiders feel, is that Calgarians don't seem to realize how important tourism to them. “We're affluent here,” notes Marjorie Zingle, the cheerful woman who runs the Travel Industry Association of Alberta. “We don’t feel that deficit the way a country like Switzerland or Bermuda might,” referring to the pro- vince's $140 million tourism red ink. “We don't feel a direct bite between our apathy and that deficit. “But we need the tourists and their dollars whether we know it or not.” Almost three million of them visited this province last. year—2,843,000, according to government estimates—and spent a bit more than $300 million. About a third of those people pass through Calgary, and about a third of the money—$100 million—stays here. Procedures: 1 WHY NOT HOLD A of all gather together all your articles that It averages out to about $250,000 a day, or $20 a day per person. And what does that mean? Over 60,000 jobs through- out the province directly re- lated to tourism, for one thing— about 20,000 of them in Cal- gary. “The spinoff is tremen- dous,” says travel agent Roger Jarvis. Jarvis also notes that many local attractions enjoyed and taken for granted by Cal- garians wouldn't exist without the tourist dollar—like our mountain resorts, the Calgary Tower, much of the area's dining and night life. “Our big draw is the rockies,” points out Al Bailey of the Calgary Tourist and Con- vention Association. “We're a gateway. If we can get people coming through to stop for a day or two with their $20 a day...” For example, over 150,000 people pass through the pro- vince during the summer months alone who could stop for one night but choose not to, according to Travel Alberta statistics. If even half of them could be lured to stay for even one night, $3 million more would be . pumped into Alberta's econo- my. Tourist Region Split in Two Tourist Region “D”, the Kootenays, has been split into “D-East"—administered through the B.C. Rockies Tourist Association—and “D-West"—the Kootenay- Boundary Visitors Associa- tion. The dividing line is along the Purcell Mountains, from Mount Stockdale in the north to the midway point was an interesting character, and the evidence is uncon- trovertible that he came our way 200 years ago. But in a time of rising ethnic consciousness, some na- tive Indian groups question the sunny version of Captain Cook's voyages. They claim that he wasn't the courageous explor- er, that he was lost at Nootka Cove, the Indians rescued him, and that all they got for their Cheaper Dollar Added Bonus (An editorial in the Cariboo Observer of Quesnel.) NO DOUBT THE B.C. tourist industry is unfolding as it should, Although we're only half- way through July, predictions of a bumper year for provincial tourism are already being ful- filled. Unfortunately, we'll pro- bably never know whether these summer visitors have been attracted. by .Grace’s famous smile or by the coun- try's cheaper dollar. IDEALLY, NEITHER has been the main factor in attracting tourists to our pro- vince. Though it may be naive from a marketing standpoint, it would be nice to think that American and other tourists come to B.C. because of our province's natural splendor and because of the treatment they receive from British Colum- bians. As for the low level of the Canadian dollar, we can be glad that our tourists can get an extra break because they have come to Canada. AS FOR GRACE'S SMILE campaign—well, let's hope that the smiles that greet our tourists come from the heart, not from the buttons. friendly efforts was vencreal disease. TOURISM MINISTER Grace McCarthy denies this version of history. Some re- cords back her up. Different historians take one side or the other. Meanwhile Shakespear- ean actor Kelvin Andrew, Cook's look-alike, goes about in tight knee breeches imperson- ating the captain and fending off the occasional angry demon- strator. Mrs. McCarthy at one point told the native groups not to rewrite history for their political ends. Yet she’s using the poor captain for a special purpose—to promote tourism (and her high profile in the million-dollar campaign cer- tainly shouldn't hurt her politi- cally). So why shouldn't Indian groups use the captain as well? THE PROBLEM WITH historical truth is that so much depends on who is telling it. While we don't agree with Henry Ford that “history is bunk," historical interpretation is, shall we say, flexible. Stage to Sea Show; First-Ever in B.C. © Acolorful stage and water the first ' f the tall ships, will perform | in the flogded of its kind in B,C.—will open during Pacifie National Ex- hibition “Discovery Fair" days Aug. 19 to Sept. 4. This special attraction— the Captain Cook Pageant— will run twice each day in the Special Features Bow! at 3 and opm The pageant is a salute to Captain Cook, the British ex- plorer who sailed the Canadian west coast in 1778. When the production moves from the stage to the sea, 15 14-foot replicas of sailing vessels, scaled-down versions sea ; Bowl. fl reat her free attractions ‘at this year's fair include the twide nightly Disco Dance Party; the Nostalgia vintage film festival and three outdoor varlety ithe: atres, saat The demolition derby tim- ber show, agriculture and horse show competitions are’ also free. To ‘The Star Spectacular ‘line- up features Tony Orldndo, Helen Reddy, Johnny ‘Cash, Ronny Milsap, the Miss’ PNE contest, the Royal European Circus and a score of bther top-notch entertainers. | """ m Dr. Nick Schmitt Trod Lon ,..,, By CAM CONRAD > 4)4Dr. Nick Schmitt retired as West Kootenay Health Unit director Thursday after 14 years of service. Reprinted below is an interview from the Trail Times.) .) Nick Schmitt's name and picture often appeared in print these, past 14 years but not because the man was a public. ty, seeker. His official duties as director of the West Kootenay Health Unit and our medical health officer involved him in jituations that made news. +97 Of course, Nick could have avolded some of the exposure by xefusing to comment except when the law or an unavoidable required his input. OF FISH over 50 varietles TODAY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 10a.m. to7 p.m. at the Castlegar Hotel West Coast Seafoods We Only Ask You To Investigate: What The Church of Christ Teaches, Believes and Stands For Fall away 20. 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Put it together now and this will be the 6 fl. tun centre 0 | for many seasons! t Instead, he regularly volun- jy tegr¢d information because, as ‘he’said, “There is nothing more {important than the public's thealth, and the public has a j Tight.to know all the facts about tanything that may affect it.” ‘The private man, however, ‘ And.jow that he has “retired” ‘and oved to Victoria, the time thas;cpme, I think, to tell you’ {soniething about Nick's back- ‘ground and unofficial interests. =” "He was born in 1917 at Mainz on the Rhine, Germany. Great wine country,” he says. ‘His father, a junior high school ‘teacher, encouraged Nick's ‘budding interest in the classics, ‘and he majored in the language ‘of ancient Greece as a gym- pasium (senior high) student. : His interest in the healing prt. was sparked by his mother, “a very good-hearted worman who treated the neigh- borhood’s minor ailments with herbs she collected herself.” As a Nick i tion, and there are few growing in the Kootenays that he can't name at a glance—in Latin— and describe in detail from memory, “This is one of the best areas anywhere for wildflow- ers," he says. “Seml-desert, woodland and alpine varieties can be found within short dis- tances of each other, thanks to our climate and topography. Vancouver Island is excellent, too. That's one of the reasons T'm not utterly unhappy about. moving there,” Nick's large library in- cludes several hundred tree, shrub and flower books as well as detailed diaries of his field trips and finds. His wife, Jean, takes the pictures. “She's much better with a camera than I am," he says, Nick's first ambition was to follow in his father's footsteps and teach school. Classical lan-- guages occupied his first year at university, Then the politics of Germany between the two world wars intervened, Hitler's dictatorship sprouted from the economic and social ruins of the old imperialism and the collapse of the first Weimar Republic, “I didn’t like being told what to teach,” Nick says, “Propaganda, that sort of thing. And I didn't like what I saw asa member of the Hitler Youth movement. That was a lot like our Boy Scouts, but it soon became an instrument of the Nazis. Sol resigned. That could have landed mie in trouble, but not if I was in the army.” Nick had served a manda- tory seven months in a student Put in 14 Yeors of Public Service German front as Allied forces advanced across Europe. In 1945 Nick was taken prisoner when U.S. Army tanks captured his medical unit along with many patients. “Tech- nically, I was a prisoner of war for about a year and a half,” he says. “Actually, I was treating and studying chest diseases, particularly tuberculosis, in a camp hospital." That led, after the war, to five years of post-graduate study at various German in- stitutions including the Univer. sity of Mainz. Nick emerged a specialist in pulmonary medi- cine. In 1950, he heard from friends in Canada of a great need for doctors to cope with tuberculosis among the native Indians, A year later, at Nanai- mo, BC. he was a. busy member of the federal Indian Health Services, Nick's carcer from then until 1958 included a year's internship at St. Paul's Hospi- tal, Vancouver, in order to qualify for his licence to prac- tise medicine in B.C., two years at Nanaimo, and two years as clinical director of the Miller Bay Indian Hospital for tuber- cular patients at Prince Rupert. But he was often in the field, visiting reservations and coun- selling natives along the West Coast from Alaska to the Inter- national Border. “We boated, flew, hiked, even swam sometimes,” Nick recalls. “And we got the job done. We literally ran out of labor i wasn't too great a wrench, ially since the authoriti her on herb hunts, watched as she prepared her medicines and jometimes lent a hand when administered them to pa- nts whose access to profes- nal help was limited by dis- tance, finances or simply the carcity of doctors in those post-war days. Nick actually absorbed ‘tore botany than medical lore. “The ‘herbs intrigued me,” he ‘tecalls. They still do. His hobby today is wildflower identifica- foresaw a need for doctors. After about a year of basic training, he was given leave to study medicine at the Univer- sity of Frankfurt. Then came 1939 and World War II. “I was allowed to con- tinue my medical studies," Nick says, “but the war was still raging when I finished.” As a junior officer in the Medical Corps, he saw combat service in France, in Russia briefly, and on the shrinking i Congratulations . 1B Fred and Cec Wells On Your 40th Wedding Anniversary, h.cAugust 10, 1978. OE With Love From Your Family _X\ Ra FOUR-YEAR-OLD Lamoussh Sawadogo of Upper Volta, Africa, has been ‘‘adopted’’ by Nacemi Quala of Castle- gar, through the Foster Parents Plan of Canada. Ms. Quala’s_ monthly contribu- tion of $19 brings help not only to the foster child, but every member of her family, as well, with a monthly cash grant or material benefits; free medical and dental care, free prescriptions, the sus- talned guidance and counsel- ling of soclal workers and the benefits of many special programs. Where sultable, vocational training courses are made available, free of charge, for foster children, thelr brothers and sisters, and where practical, thelr parents. The objective Is to provide the family with the tools to help them become independent and self- supporting. For more Infor. mation on the Foster Parents Plan of Canada, call 112- 800-268-4883 in British Doors of Distinction . . . Kootenay Builders! Choose from a large| assortment of styles. We will .also make frames, any patients alter a while—TB patients, that is,” However, the deplorable sinitary conditions Nick had seen on the reservations re- mained a problem. Recognizing this, the federal government sent him for a year of diploma study at the Schoo! of Hygene in Toronto. He emerged from that a specialist in public health and preventive medicine. From 1959 to ‘64, Nick served as zone medical officer at Nannimo, responsible for improving the health of Indians’ NICK SCHMITT «+. 14 years local service scattered all over Vancouver Island and most of the Lower Mainland. “Sure, we were mainly in- terested in public health pro- grams,” Nick says, “bul we did everything—pulled teeth, de- livered babies, taught basic sanitation to kids and adults, set broken bones, and tried to cope with the enormous pro- blem of alcoholism among the natives, It causes more ac- cidents and suffering than you can imagine.” When Nick was approach- ed by the provincial govern- Trail Merchants Seek Six Day Shopping Week The Downtown Retailers’ Association in Trail says a large majority of its members want to move to a six-day shopping week, closing at 6 p.m. each day except for the 9 p.m. Friday . closing. The association would like Trail City Council to amend its bylaw accordingly, and quickly enough to accommodate the busy back-to-school season. The DRA, formed recently in anticipation of the opening of a competitive shopping centre later this year, informed Mayor Chuck Lakes ina letter that ina recent survey of 37 members, 32 favored the extended shop- ping: hours, two favored the status quo and three did not respond. ‘The six-day week was sup- ported unanimously by the DRA executive, said the co- chairmen of the survey, Wes Pickering and Bob Durkin, who asked for the bylaw amend- ment to be made by Aug. 21. Little Joanne Is Britain's Bionic Babe For the benefit of photo- graphers, three-year-old Jo- anne Brennan lifted a popsicle to her mouth with her right the blonde-haired toddler took a two-fisted grip on a stroller and wheeled her doll across the lawn at her North London home, ment in 1964 to direct the West Koolenny Health Unit and he the district's medical health of- he was, as he put it, “quite apprehensive." “I'd never seen Trail, and some people said I'd be crazy lo go to Uhat lousy place,” Nick recalls, “Bul the work sounded like a challenge, and I like chal- lenges." So Nick and his first wife, Edith, came with their four small children, Margaret, Susan, Michael and Cathy, saw and “fell in love with the area, the cily, the people and the work.” g Route to Kootenays like Keith Graham of the union and Nigel Doyle of the company deserve a great deal of credit for the healthy environment we Trailites enjoy,” Nick said with obvious sincerity, The word retired appears in quoles early in this story. Nick will never retire, not even to pursue his flower hobhy full-lime. He may work even harder based at Victoria than he did at Trail. For one thing, he's a mem- ber of the provincial Pesticide Control Appeal Board. For another, he's a member of a three-man task force independ- There's ing about Trail—a social warmth—that I've never found anywhere else,” Nick says, “and, of course, you can’t beat the Kootenay-Boundary country for outdoor recreation. We never regretted the move, not for one minute.” His public health service here is a matter of record and common knowledge; I'm not even going to summarize it except to point out that Nick thas been the.solo, principal or co-author of some 20 technical papers in leading scientific journals, Most were written at Trail. Their subjects include the effects of trace elements on human health, trichinosis—a public health problem insofar as people who eat improperly cooked game meat may con- tract it, and tick paralysis. A recent paper on today's chemi- cal hazards to human health has, as many of his other writings have, attracted world- wide interest among doctors and scientists. Nick would have talked all afternoon about the satisfac- tions of his work in the West Kootenay, but I had to cut the interview short. He did insist, however, that I acknowledge his appreciation of the “close, harmonious relationship" he has enjoyed with the Trail Regional Hospital staff and the members of the city's two medical clinics. He also made a point of praising the cooperation he re- ceived from such seemingly polarized organizations as the United Steelworkers of Ameri- -ea Local 480 and the city's industrial giant, Cominco. “Men “pause, to ently a fluoride pollution problem at the re- quest of the Newfoundland government, For yet another, he's a member of a six-man federal team assigned to develop guide- lines for blood-lead levels na- tionally. For yet another, he will be in practice as a private environmental consultant. Nick, by the way, was made an honorary life member of the Canadian Public Health Association at its 1978 annual meeting in Halifax recently. The citation read: “For out- standing contributions i Where he'll find time for flowers, for reading which he does ‘voraciously’, for jogging which may be abandoned for swimming due to an arthritic condition, and for being a very social person, I simply can't imagine. Nevertheless, Nick al- ready had plans for fitting them all into life at the C “Oh yes,” he says, “I've got some more papers to write, and I'm researching my family's history—our roots—but just for my children, not publication.” And somewhere in that busy schedule, Nick Schmitt will always find the time to remember Trail fondly. “T'll always be a Trailite; a proud one,” he said, looking out my office window at the town and the green slopes of Lookout Mountain. Perhaps I imagined it, but I'm almost sure Nick's voice broke a little when he said that, and he was almost gruff as he said goodbye. The sort of gruff that tries but doesn't quite suc- ceed in covering up emotions deeply felt. 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