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The accident this week in which a transport truck flipped over while to negoti the

significont. But if CP Rail is suc- cesstul with its bid to dump its

cotner at the Highway 3 inter- change points up the need for major highway improvements in this area.

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almost certainly have been s ely injured, if not killed.

The accident was the second at that corner in recent memory. Several years ago a transport truck carrying beer spilled its load all over Columbia Avenue while trying to make that turn towards Trail.

Again, no one was hurt in that accident, but it seems only a mat- ter of time before innocent victims will be killed unless the corner is redesigned.

The need to upgrade the inter- change is all the more imperative in light of the news that CP Rail hopes to abandon its Castlegar to Midway line. The number of trucks transporting logs and chips down Columbia Avenue to the Celgor Pulp mill and the Southern Wood Products sawmill is already pretty

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It has -been nearly five mont since the turnstiles at Expo 86 fe’ silent and the gates were padlocked. But while Expo 86 may have faded into memory for most of the province Castlegar residents have a daily reminder of the world’s fajr that transformed Van- couver's False Creek: The huge Ex-

‘po 86 sign at the Highway 3 inter- change.

Here we are well into March and the sign is still there — long after most of Expo itself has been dismantled and hauled away. The sign, which looked’ great during Expo, now stands by the side of the Southern Trans-Canada Highway as a testimony to how slow the wheels of government move sometimes.

The Ministry of Highways, looking to shuffle responsibility for the sign onto someone else, of- fered the sign to the City of Castlegar if the city would agree to

dary branch line, the number of trucks using Columbia Avenue will likely double.

And that means more trucks carrying huge loads coming down the Blueberry-Paulsen hill into Castlegar.

One solution the city is con- sidering is a bypass road behind the Flamingo Motel and through the Oglow subdivision. But the road is a poor choice. Trucks would have to make a right angle turn at the light on 17th Street and a block later make another right angle turn onto the bypass road. Then they would roar. through a residen- tial area.

The solution isn't a bypass road, but a secondary access road above the city, a road built to handle truck traffic. The major obstacle to such a road is, of course, money. The road would be expensive to build and to maintain. But it is clearly the best solution.

With the possibility of double the number of transport trucks wheeling their way up and down Columbia Avenue, it’s a solution the city should be pressing hard to achieve.

inviting maintain the landscaping. The city

lined, pointing oyt that the pperty is within the ministry's jurisdiction.

But when it appeared the ministry would simply leave the valuable property vacant, the Castl Chamber of C e

Elizabeth's Lady-in- Waiting, in to the Royal Tour Scrapbooks.

e " “Her Majesty thought it most kind of you and the ist Castlegar Guides to send Her those books, and bids me sent to you all the Queen's most sincere thanks.

“Yours sincerely,

“Margaret Haye.”

The Castlegar bridge is making the

Letters to the Editor

headlines this week with reports from Victoria ing its aT

Stop cruise testing

To protest the recent cruise missile test last Sunday I sent the following letter to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, Defence Minister Perrin Beatty, Liberal leader John Turner and NDP leader Ed Broadbent.

“Lam very distressed that, under our present government Canada continues to play a part in the gloval proliferation of nuclear weapons by permitting year after year the testing of nuclear- capable cruise missiles in Canadian territory.

“This complicity in the nuclear arms race is contributing to a regrettable deterioration of Canada’s good name — built up over many years by dedicated and diplomatic leaders — as a resp-

stepped in and agreed to do something with the area — but just what has never been made clear.

There was a suggestion that a welcome to Castlegar sign replace the Expo 86 sign and the chamber was to approach the ‘Highways Ministry about helping move the Expo sign. But that appears to be as far as it got.

That was last December. It is now March and tourists will soon be heading this way — if they haven't started already. And what will they see as they come into Castlegar? An. old Expo 86 sign. Not very inviting, is it?

Ron Norman

The Mulroney government's problem is simple: It has lost the public's trust. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney started out his term with a huge majority in the House of Commons, a direct reflection of the goodwill with which the Canadian populace entrusted him

But ina little more than two years _

y has that trust. Once lost, the public’s trust is nearly impossible to regain. Ask Pierre Trudeau and John Turner.

Mulroney and the Tories have failed to recognize the obvious: People voted for them because they wanted change. They didn't want the old Liberal power broker system run by the likes of Jim Coutts and Keith Davey. They had had enough of patronage and pork barrel polities. They wanted change.

Instead, they received more of what the Liberals had given them: Patronage of the worst sort and porkbarrel politics that rivalled anything the Liberals had ever done. (Perhaps the worst case is the prison now under construction in Mulroney's own siding.)

And still the Tories haven't got the message. Why else would they appoint Jack Chernoff to the Canada Post Corp.?

There's nothing wrong with Cher noff and he will likely to an adequate job on Canada Post's board. But his appointment smacks of patronage.

He is the president of the Progres. sive Conservative's Kootenay West Constituency Association and was a key figure in Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's election in September, 1984.

Even if Chernoff does a great job on the Canada Post board (and he very well could), that's not the point — and that's what the Tories seem to be missing. The Tory appoint- ments must not only be above board, they must be seen to be above board. In this instance, as in others with this government, that is just not the case.

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I saw Joe Clark on TV this week being grilled by Opposition mem bers in the House of Commons. Clark was stoically holding the fort and answering questions about the latest Tory impropriety. He looked almost weary in his responses.

I couldn't help but wonder how

ected pe: king and p ki nation of the world.

“It is my understanding that Can- ada's granting of pefmission ‘to test these missiles was made contingent

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Practice safe sex

In the current debate over AIDS and whether we should teach in the schools protective measures to children as they sexually mature, it seems that the condom is being regarded as a panacea; and any sexually active person ob- serving the debate may be led to believe that its use would be all that is required to avoid infection.

AIDS virus is present in saliva and tears and if you have a cut in your mouth during a kiss with a carrier there is a possibility that you could become infected. Also, there is a failure rate associated with the use of condoms as a birth control device, and this would presumably apply to the control of AIDS.

A more effective answer for people engaged in a serious relationship would be to practice “the safe sex” techniques of avoiding any exchange of body fluids during their initial encounters and to both visit their doctors for the antibody test.

Perhaps the Webate should focus on whether this test should be available in schools, not on whether the subject of sex should come up at all.

Critics of widespread testing of low risk-group. individuals question the cost, or whether the individuals who test positive will be discriminated against, or whether encouraging peo- ple to do this is just catering to hysteria. Yet all blood destined for transfusion in Canada, which is taken from a very low-risk group in the first place, is tested for the AIDS antibody. Having a sexual relationship has got to be at least as normal as having a blood transfusion. Since we have the tech nology to make both equally ‘safe, why not?

David Lewis Crescent Valley

Clark must view the dals en. gulfing his party, and in particular Prime Minister Mulroney. I thought back to Clark's time as prime minister nearly eight years ago; that nine-month hiccup in Canadian history

Those were the golden years (er, golden three-quarters of a year) for the Progressive Conservatives. The biggest seandal was Clark losing his luggage on his first trip abroad as prime minister

Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gar, B.C.

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upon the USA upholding its global obligations to honor arms limitation treaties (such as the SALT II Treaty) and to negotiate seriously with the USSR on the reduction of nuclear arsenals. =

“In view of the USA's apparent refusal (to date) to live up to either of these obligations, why does our gover- nment continue (apparently with no questions asked) to allow this nation to test these machines of death in Canadian territory?

{Cruise missiles present a very dangerous and destabilizing addition to the nuclear arsenals of the world, since they are essentially non-verifiable and non-detectable by radar, and further- more are highly transportable and readily obtainable by other fiations.”

On Feb, 27 a CBC Radio open line event was hosted by Lucy McNeil to survey public opinion on the questions of testing these missiles ykear after year; of an estimated 12 well-informed people who called in, eight or nine (including several callers from the U.S.) were strongly opposed to this testing in Canada. I tried for more than 30 minutes (with no success whatever) to get on this busy open line — which is proof of the urgency of this question.

If planet Earth is to escape annili- hation it is gravely important that Canada and other minor powers

even if only through testing delivery mechanisms.

The ;.new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — in comparison with previous Soviet leaders — appears to be offering us a “whole new ball game”. Without suggesting that we should make, any indiscriminate concessions, surely — for the sake of all the peoples of the world — the west block cannot continue to slam the door in Mr. Gorba- chev’s face — as President Reagan has done in the past — without taking a close look at this new leader's

E.T. Kenney gave the House a two-hour report on the work of his public works department and its plans for the coming year.

Castlegar News

The sister of a Castlegar resident belongs to cne of the world’s most exclusive unions — Studio Teachers of America. .

Mrs. Irene Burke, has the honor of teaching Jerry Mather who appears as “Beaver” in the Leave It to Beaver TV series. Her duty is to see that Jerry has eight hours at the studio, three of which must be classroom work.

Acting abilities have very little bearing on school work, observes Mrs. Burke. She has taught for eight years.

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‘The Village of Castlegar has sent the ing telegram to Prime

John Di ker, ‘Premier W.A.C.

prosposals on nuclear disar We cannot afford to fail to make at least some progress on this issue.

With all due respect (and hats off) to the men and women who risked their lives and gave their lives — for our sake — in the two world.wars, one does. not have to be a military expert to know that the very worst weapons available at the time of World War II were children's toys in comparison with nuclear-armed cruise missiles — and these missiles are only the babies of the existing nuclear arsenals.

If World War III were ever to start, it would not be the “war to end all wars” (as W.W. I was supposed to be) but rather the “War to end all people.” I believe it lies within human ability (with all possible help from divine powers) to prevent World War III. We must not fail. We must get actively

their ind from the irrational collision courses being pur. sued by the superpowers in the nuclear arms race. If these minor powers are to continue exercising their voices for mediation and reason among the nations of the world, they must not be involved in the nuclear arms race —

ii d in this prevention. We must insist upon sincere and unceasing negotiation by all parties until nuclear weapons are finally eliminated from this planet. To accept anything less is to accept nuclear annihiliation. Harry F. Killough Castlegar

Positive aspect to watershed process

Our personal involvement in water- shed planning in the Slocan Valley on behalf of our respective ministries spans a long period of time from before the development of the Slocan Valley Plan in 1981 up to and including the recent negotiations with the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance (SVWA).

Recent Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance letters and news articles em- phasize the difficulties that are asso- ciated with achieving integrated re source in i

open houses, letters, field trips and personal contact.

6. There is improved cooperation between government agencies to make integrated resource management work. This is a major step forward from a decade ago.

7. The study of information collected has resulted in elimination of areas from timber harvesting because of the risk to the water resource.

8. The integrated watershed man-

use watersheds. We wish to emphasize some of the positive results of public involvement over the past seven years.

t process has been further improved as a result of the past 18 months of negotiations with the SVWA.

Bennett and H.W. Herridge, MP: “We urge you to acknowledge the extreme seriousness of the latest act of terrorism in the Kootenays, Further- more, we suggest that common sense and national pride requires that sucly be ied by

effective senior government action to deal with the completely intolerable situation that now exists in this area.”

15 YEARS AGO From the March 9, 1972 News

More than $190,000 will be spent this year to expand and improve telephone facilities serving the Castlegar area, the B.C. Telephone Company an- nounces.

Don Knight, B.C. Tel’s customer service representative for the West Kootenay, said the program is required to keep pace with growth in demand for services provided by the company.

He said the funds allocated for Castlegar are part of a $2.8 million program for additions and improve- ments to telephone facilities.

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For the third year in a row, the Stanley Humphries Rockers have won the Kootenay High School Senior Boys Basketball championship.

This past weekend, while the Midget Reps were battling their unsuccessful bid to wrest the hockey laurels, SHSS took on Cranbrook in a two-game total point series.

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On Wednesday the RCMP were combing the Columbia River banks for a 12-foot life boat stolen in the early hours of the morning from the Castlegar ferry.

5 YEARS AGO From the March 7, 1982 News B.C. Timber's Celgar sawmill con- firmed this week it laid off six salaried

1. We have seen a in- erease in the awareness by govern ment and industry of the public concerns associated with anticipated resource development.

2. The Slocan Valley Development Guidelines of 1985 reflected the com. bined desires of the public, industry and government.

3. The approval of an_ integrated watershed management policy by the provincial government places the pri ority on watershed protection.

4. Recognizing the sensitivity of many of the areas in the Slocan Valley, the ministries have committed them. selves to a more detailed level of data collection and evaluation. This now is occurring.

5. A more open information ex- change between government and the public has resulted. This has been

on

d through public meetings,

9. C -y measures have been developed to help ensure maintenance of good clean water should an unfor- eseen event occur.

We are very positive about the process that has been developed. There is a need to proceed with the planning fer individual watersheds with the continued involvement of the public. We look forward to working with the technical committees for the various planning units to develop specific watershed objectives and plans.

Reiner Augustin Forest Service Castlegar

and Ken Gorsline Water Management Nelson

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as a cost-cutting measure — and the outlook for the mill's more than 400 hourly workers is still gloomy. _Al Blessin, Celgar's industrial rela- tions manager, said Friday that some of the six salaried staff were laid off in December and the rest were laid off ‘just recently.”

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The provincial government's 90-day freeze on government funded capital works projects has meant that two Projects scheduled for Castlegar and District Hospital are “now in limbo,” according to hospital trustee.

Terry Rogers said in a recent release that the hospital board had hoped to proceed with a sundeck for extended care patients and a 55-bed addition for long term care patients.

of 12 we arrive at a salary of $28,260, plus ‘expenses.

Quit wasting money

Regarding Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's taxpayer-financed trip to Ger- many:

With an AIDS-like local eeonomy in his riding are we to be glad that NATO

Europe. I feel bad when the old vets get together and drink and get weird or ery talking about things that hap- pened over 40 years ago, as if it were

to bear the costs except to defend Canada. Quit wasting so much money, Bob, on things that don't make our lives any better.

Isn't that a definition of what your job is, Bob? To make our society

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M and M boys a hit

By GORDON GRANT Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Stand aside Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson, the M and M boys are on the move.

The M and M boys? Yessir. Mazankowski and McKnight. They're perhaps better known as politicians than singers, but judging from their reception this week

on ‘Parliament Hill they're a boffo hit.

‘Mazankowski; “of ‘course, ‘is’ Don, deputy minister and government House leader and McKnight as Bil, minister of Indian affairs and Northern Develop-

ment.

They made their singing debut, complete with western shirts and Stetsons and backed up by a country band, at a party they threw along with Charles Mayer, minister of state in charge of the wheat board.

Minister John Crosbie, a Newfoundland Tory, be sent north because “he has enough hot air to melt the entire

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Some of the most enthusiastic applause came from Barbara McDougiall, minister in charge of privatization , consumer affairs minister and Otto Jelinek, itinigter of fitness and

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Crosbie replied he could not be “expected to match a geyser like that, too many bakers ‘spoil the broth.”

JEAN PIGOTT, chairman _of Commission, will receive the B'nai B'rith Canada 1987 award of merit, next month at a $250-a-plate dinner.

Pigott is a former member of Parliament and was chief executive officer of Morrison Lamothe Inc., a

While a member of the House she would frequently show up at caucus meetings with cookies for her fellow Tories, earning herself the nickname Cookie Monster.

GOV. GEN. Jeanne Sauve has a few more dollars to

Sauve got a raise to $70,000 tax free, up from $49,000, government's spending estimates show. The increase is retroactive to April 1, 1985.

LIBERAL DAVID Berger was the target of Tory laughter in the Commons on Thursday, thanks to some unfortunate wording in a preamble to a question to the

He said he was happy to see that Brian Mulroney had been to the University of Waterloo, an institution that had lost numerous members of its facultyto jobs in the

“The prime minister's biggest export has been our brains,” he said to laughter and catcalls from the

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Police seek alleged bigamist

SEATTLE (AP) — Police are seeking a former airline flight engineer who they be- lieve has been married to as many as six women, fathered as many as 16 childrén and maintained homes in at least four states.

The search for John Char- les Lutter, a 45-year-old for mer flight engineer for United Airlines, began last summer after several of the women reported him miss- ing.

King County prosecutors filed a bigamy charge against him in September.

Lutter’s Seattle-area wife, who married him in 1980 and has filed for divorce, said she thought she was the only women in his life.

“He was a religious man, and he also told me he wis a one-woman man,” said the woman, who had a baby by Lutter. “The other women said he told them that, too.”

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want her identity disclosed, has since learned that Lutter may also have been married to women in other places, including Florida, California and Colorado, Some of the marriages may have been by common law, police said.

Lutter's lawyer, John Eti- enne in San Mateo, Calif., said that Lutter has been in contact with him periodically. The women still love Lutter, Etienne said, and “I was hoping this whole thing could be settled with the women.

The census of wives, rela- tionships and children is ii precise, but the investigation so far suggests that from 1966 to 1986 Lutter was united, either by marriage or common law, to at least six women,

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OTTAWA (CP) — Statis- ties Canada usually knows how much of everything there is in the country, right down to the number of flusb toilets. dient

But last year somethii went wrong and the agency lost track of the amount of gold. It then took long months of statistical head scratching for them to find they had over-estimated gold imports by $1 billion and over-estimated gold exports by about $500 million.

That miscalculation, now quietly jcorrected, messed u) its figures on trade and in- ventories, two key measures used in calculating total econ- omic growth.

“We've had a terrible time,” said Barbara Clift, who is in charge of that sec- tion of the agency which measures the growth in the economy.

Clift. stressed, however, that the errors did not affect overall growth figures for the economy because they bal- anced themselves out in the complex calculations.

But one economist, whose forecasts were thrown off by the efrors and ensuing re- vision of figures, is upset.

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