CASTLEGAR NEWS, ' Thursday, Jan. 2, 1964

CASTLEGAR NEWS

“Here let the press the people’s rights

by gain”

unawed by

J and Forty- seven

Sylvest Retires With an Impressive Record

Genuine thanks and appreciation
from the residents of the Village of Cas-
tlegar should go out this week to retiring
village chairman Aage Sylvest who steps
down after 2% years in the village’s top
elective position. and from a total of four
years of voluntary service around the
municipal council table.

It would be both foolish and inane
to suggest that those years, or at least the
past 12 months, have been quiet ones
full of civic progress and harmony. The
last year certainly has not been such, But
Mr. Syl took a to
his job and a dogged persistance, as‘ well
as a questioning and enquiring attitude,
that far too often is the exception rather
than the rule to service on municipal
councils,

Mr. Sylvest—a man of exceptional
ability and talent—can also look back
with satisfaction at the financial picture
for the village while he has doubled: as
chairman of the finance committee. But
he was to learn, as politicians at all levels
learn, that quite often healthy surpluses
are more of a political hazard than they are
ar or apprecidted budgeting
virtue. Everyone has different ideas on
how such surpluses should be spent.

The tremendous use that the village
made of winter works under Mr. Sylvest
must be of satisfaction to him for it was
he who emphasized at all times the ad-
vantage which the village should take of
the willingness of the two senior govern-
ments to pay 100 per cent of the wages of
former welfare recipients hired by the
municipality. There were those who ar-
gued that there should be a greater per-
centage of 75 percenters hired, but the

Snow Removal Praise

While criticism of snow removal pro-
cedures ‘have been directed at the depart-
ment of highways this winter, no such
words can be directed with any justifica-
tion at the Village of Castlegar.

Municipal works crews in Castlegar
are to be congratulated on the efficient,
quick and thorough job they have done of
‘snow removal so far this winter.

Village crews have been out before
dawn, on every day that snow has fallen
and streets have been plowed and the
business section opened up before most
people are up and about.

compromise finally reached whereby one
out of every 10 of those hired under win-

ter works should be the: type where the }#

village has to pay 25 per cent of their
wages was a compromise that didn’t a-
mount to much and cost the village very
little.

As chairman of the water committee
while still a Mr.
saw the present storage tank built and
the village turn to wells for its source of
domestic water supply. The wisdom of
this move isn’t seriously questioned now
as the trouble Kinnaird is having with
drinking water from the Columbia is ob-
served. And as for the recerit remark of
the sanitary inspector to the effect that
something sometimes found in detergents
showed up once in the village’s well wa-
ter, it seemed to most at the time to ‘be as
ill-advised and as unnecessary of concern
as some of the remarks and statements

attributed in recent weeks to that gentle-|

man’s immediate superior in the West
Kootenay health unit.

Whether or not council, under Mr.
Sylvest’s leadersdip, followed a subdiv-
ision development policy that was sound

and reasonable is still a matter of opinion.

jn Castlegar, but the number of new tax-
paying homes built in the Castle Bar sub-
division during the past year would sug-
gest that the policy wasn’t all as ill-advis-
ed as has been suggested.

The retiring chairman also led the

initial fight against air pollution in this ich
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VIGTORIA REPORT

BY JAMES K, NESBITT
it And’ here we

politicians are
ab ae wishing each oth-

: Sad}

arid planning to, yell and scream
at each other when the 1964 ses-
slon of your Logialature gets go-
ing January 23...

The Legislative Buildings are
closed this week, from Christmas
Eve to next Monday morning. It's
a nice, long holiday for the clvil
servants, and I think they should
remember it when they say the go-
vernment doesn’t .treat them as
well as workers in; private indust-
ry are treated. Civil servants have} t
many benefits other workers don’t

Politicians Will Fight Soon|_

enjoy. They never have to faco the
horrora of the lay-off, They have

| More security than most other

workers,

Clerk of the House Ned de
Beck and Herbert Bruch, Social
Credit member for Esquimalt, are
ba from a meeting of the Bri-

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IN tC

. Maysio. Mr, de Beck says our ap

gislature doesn't lack dignity, even
though a lot of people are sure
it does, He says that the yelling &
shouting that sometimes goes on

|merely shows the earnestness of
‘our members in espousing their

causes, -.
The trip to the Parliamentary
convention each year is a nice lit-
tle plum the Premier hands out
to his favorites, Hugh Shantz, when
he was ‘our Mr, Speaker, went to
Australia, and Tom Rate and Dan
Campbell also have he: these trips.
to distant. places, Nice work if
you can get it,
are out to the

A New Year’s
Message From
Labor Minister

By Hon. L, R, Peterson
Minister of Labor
Minister of Education

Once again it is a pleasure to
extend New Year's greetings to
the people of British Columbia.
During the past year much: that
is beneficial to the working men
and women of the province has
been These

The
legislative opening, and not near-
ly all who want to ‘be there will
be there, because there's no room
for more than 400.

One would think this capital
would grow tired of all the fuss
and feathers of opening day, but
we never do. The crowds still
flock, and the ladies dress up in
their new spring fashions, and the
hats blossom and ned, and every-
body who’s anybody at all is there,
seeing, and enjoying being seen.
It’s all.very fashionable, top-draw-
er and high protocol — the correct
thing to do, you know —.

A legislative session is expen-

sive — about $400,000, which in- |’

ments have resulted in better wa-
ges and working conditions, great-
er skills and improved industrial
relations,

Last year the Board of Indust.

area. His letters, briefs and
to various industrial, government and pu-
blic bodies will be recalled and although
this newspaper can’t get quite as concern-
ed over this matter as

revised 12

wage orders and brought them in-
to line with current economic con-
ditions. Among the orders were
those governing the hotel and ca-
tering, mercantile, manufacturing,

seem ‘able to do, nonetheless the regular
six-month meetings started between coun-
cil and the company on the subject are a
good idea. At least they are a good idea
with the reservation that they are a good
idea only so long as open minds are
brought to these meetings by both sides
and provided that both sides are willing
to view the other party’s views with some-
thing other than suspicion of their mo-
tives.

When Comm. R. C. Maddocks retired

‘from council a few years ago wé expres-

sed the hope in this very space that at
some later date he would return to the
municipal scene. We again express this
hope in the case of Mr. Sylvest and it is
certainly expressed with no‘less. sincerity.

Ultimatums from Notre Dame Not Wanted

Notre Dame University president,
Rey. Aquinas Thomas, speaking to the
Nelson Rotary. Club, stated that he
“would not sacrifice the university or
the service to students merely for Nel-
son's satisfaction.”

He was referrng, of course, to the
regional college _plebisci which nar-
rowly passed in Nelson.

This is nonsense and the dignity of
Notre Dame University has suffered be-
cause of it. The many institutions, busin-

- esses and individuals in Nelson who have
supported the university both financially

and otherwise deserve more than an ul-
timatum delivered by a man whose in-
terests, we suspect, are as miuch com-
mercial as they are accademic.

If Notre Dame officials feel that
they can get a better deal in Penticton
than they have had here, then the decision
to move or not to move is theirs to. make.

Whether they go or stay, let us have
done with the Ar 1 col-

fishing, repair and ga-
soline service-station industries,
and the occupations of janitor,
elevator operator and elevator
starter.

Prior to revising the orders,
the Board travelled to various parts
of the province and heard repre-

rt from parties.

cludes — 52
members at $6,400 a year, You
figure it out; it gives me a head-
ache 20 to do.

Leave us face it — a great
deal of a legislative session is a
waste of time — oceans of politi-
cal talk and much political spar-
ring for political position. How-
ever, as our Premier woul say, this
is democracy fa action, and it's
worth every penny and every hour.

It was always thus and always
will be, I never can understand why
our legislative bodies just will not
streamline themselves. Our sys-
tem of governing ourselves is top-
heavy, definitely out of date, cum-
bersome and windy.

However, no-one's going to do

In most cases the new orders esta-
blished considerably higher mini-
mum rates, They also

ig about it, aud so I suppose
we'll just have to endure it, until
the people decide’ to tell their

e
principle of the 40-hour week by
increasing the number of indust-
ries and in which it

elected what to do,
instead of the other way around.
We Canadians are an extremely

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of pay after he lias worked 8 hours
in the day and 40 hours in the
week,

These and other changes in
minimum wage orders have raised
the standards of many employees
in British Columbia,

In its endeavors -to improve
the climate of industrial relations,
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dustry, with respect to
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to identify possible studies and co-

lege will offer some duplication of Notre
Dame's program, of course, but it is also
true that Notre, Dame will benefit as
much as anyone else from increased
higher education in the immediate dis-
trict,

The conference was highly
successful in getting representa-
tives of labor and management
to consider industrial relations’
probiems objectively on a long-
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that study. groups will be formed
to examine industrial. relations’

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The W. K, Kiernan _is-
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Victoria this week:

“It is my sincere wish in the
1963 festive season, that everyone],
in British Columbia will enjoy a

A Personal Column

By BURT CAMPBELL

All-Ganadian Uniens
The necessity and i imaportanee

Deserve Our Support

have also brought about an save
ani

oe Properly
if is readily recog-

happy Cl and a
New Year,

“May I assure you that the
Department of Recreation and Con-
servation will do all possible dur-
ing the coming year to.ensure that
this province will continue to enjoy
the ‘finest in hunting and fishing
and a park development program
to-bring outdoor recreation to ev-
ery citizen.

~ “We in British Columbia arc
indeed ‘fortunate to. have unex:
celled recreational resources. It is
my earnest desire that all of these

ti fo be

to the advantage and enjoyment
of all our people and for all who
come to us as visitors.”

cad by most people today. Thus
it is that the growing trend in this
Dominion towards all-Canadian un-
ions is not only heartening, but
also worthy of our support and
encouragement, _

Unions have provided a se-
curity for the wokring man and
his family that was not known be-
fore their establishment, But they

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Reviewing the nation's econo-
my during 1963, the B of M notes
that prowth has been “solid, if un-
spectacular” and says, “It has been
a year highlighted by the largest
Wheat crop on record, with sales
to match, a significant increase
in exports and more tempered
growth in other sectors, Further-
more, there is every indication
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on the part of the individual ie
des-union member to take an ac-
tlve part in the internal affairs of
union.
One of the healthiest trends
today is the decline of the old-
style, foreign-dominsted — unton.
There is a growlng feeling amongat
workers that labor should be re-

to the best advantage of all Ca:
nadians,

This, in turn, has brought about
an increased responsibility: upon
the members of all-Canadian uni-
ons to make sure their unions don't
fall under the control’ of outside
elements — such as the “Fair
Play for Cuba” bunch and others
—— who stand for the opposite of
everything our nation stands for
and who stand opposed, in fact, to
the very fundamentals on which
all-Canadian unionism is belng cs-
tablished and bullt,

Sincere Cansdians who are
lending’ both \their support and
their organizing abilities to the
cause of all-Canadian unions are
doing so because the other unlons
have’ become too closely connect-
ed with policies directed from
outside this country. At the pre-
sent time about two-thirds of our

voice in the management of their
own union affairs because they are
dominated and overshadowed by
their American counterparts, a

In addition, they realize that
the flow of union dues which con-
tinues to pour across the border
would be much: more profitably
spent in promoting the real inte-
rests of organized jabor in Cana-
da.

Certainly if we believe that
the strength of a nation depends
upon the partnership of its citi-
zens, we must also realize that
the counter demand for loyalty to
an: international union can_ onl
weaken the moral fibres of the
individual nations,

This is also why the working

ask for a political party of his
own. He doesn’t favor the political

exercise his political freedom at
the polls and vote for the party
he favors. And he wants this same
right for his fellow trades-union
members.

But while members of an all-
Canadian union have the respon-

ership for their union, so too does
that leadeship have a responsibi-
lity to-exercise that trust with
intelligence and wisdom.

The leadership of an all-Cana-

of

to deliver as plums to its members
instead of providing a high stand-
ard of democratic. procedure, vi-
gorous leadership, proper utiliza-
tion of union resources and im-
proved union-management under-
standing is riding for a fall — to
the detriment of all of us for it
will only put the day of all-Cana-
dian unionism that much. further
off.

It is apparent that Canada’s
growth in’ the future will depend
largely on responsible union lead-
ership provided by men who are
themselves working men, and, on
free all-Canadian unions devoted
to the best interests of the Cana-
dian working man as part of the
whole Canadian scene.

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ii \ i rt Undoubtedly much good has
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He came down to earth on a predestined program held locally might decide to| Columbia as a result of the confer-
___mission, ‘i rs finish their studies at Notre Dame rather | ence.
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_At Silver Birch

Turkey dinner with all the
trimmings filled the menu for the
Christmas party held at the Silver
Birch School.for the Handicapped | &
on Dec. 17. Parents, directors and | §
guests shared in a pleasurable

JOHN VOGWILL
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Above

DESHOND T.

As for faculty staff, we believe that | vince. With such a solid and sub-
depth of His soul increased educational facilities will at-
tract more teachers to our area.

Basically, this is a needless strug-
gle between private and public ed
Come on, Father Aquinas, where is the
cooperation or lack of it of which you
speak? Perhaps you were not invited to
sit in on college discussions with govern-
ment school board officials, but do you
invite them to sit in with you when a new
program is instituted at Notre Dame?
Amen. — Nelson News

To lead all mankind toward a brotherly
goal.

Wis love He willed to us, His peace He
bestowed;

The fountain of life from His lips ever
flowed,

And the message is still the same now as
then:

‘PEACE ON EARTH, PEACE ON EARTH,
AND GOOD ‘WILL TO ALL MEN?’

— Margaret Obedkoff

stantial base, I am hopeful that
the New Year will witness increas-
ed benefits for the working men
and women of British Columbia.

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Jolly Santa was most generous,
aided considerably by the. gifts
contributed by the IODE for the
handicapped “youngsters, as .well
as by a box of gifts from the Cas-
tlegar Brownies.

festivities with her donation of a
decorative Christmas house cover-
filled with candy.

These events are of such im-
portance to handicapped children
and: it-is a gatifying experience
to be part of such pure enjoyment,

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