July 14, 1985

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Beiter signs needed

It's encouraging to see that — Castlegar council plans to look into erecting better signs on the out- skirts of the city (July 10 CosNews).

It's _also’ timely that council in- tends to meet with the Ministry of Highways and the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce to discuss improving the signs along Highway 3. The signs along the highway on both sides of Castlegar aren't up to snuff, and with Expo 86 less than a year away, proper signs are needed immediately.

But what's hard Jo understand is why something as simple as better signs takes so long to get done. Council and the chamber have been after the Ministry of High- ways for years to have the signs upgraded, with only marginal suc- cess.

What's the big deal? Adding the name Castlegar and the mileage to signs shouldn't take much.

However, it would be a good idea for council to have a long look around its-own property before it

s-example._The-signs i

“starts asking the province to clean up its backyard.

Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park has been open for more than a year and there still aren't any per- manent signs along Columbia Avenue directing tourists: (and many residents who don't know where it is). he

‘One chamber: representative best described trying ‘to find the heritage park when he said you need to be an orienteer to get to it.

Yet, Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park’ is only the most Sevious

way to the Community Canela need to be improved, and there should be signs directing tourists to places like Kinnaird Park, Bob Brandson Pool and the downtown.

While too many signs can be an eyesore, there's something to be said for well-made attractive signs that show visitors where major points of interest are.

Come on council, set a good example and maybe the Ministry of Highways will follow:

Consumer concern?

In the last month B.C. and the U.S. has been hit with two inciden- ts of pesticide poisoning. Hundreds of people became sick—eating

.. cucumbers and watermelons tain- ted with the pesticide aldicarb.

This week an Austrian wine was pulled off the B.C. liquor. store “shelves because it contains an ad- ditive that doesn’t sit too well on your stomach: anti-freeze.

All three incidents 'sparked nary a letter of complaint.

“Compare that to the uprising

* out

over Coca-Cola's change to its for- mula. That brought on 40,000 to 50,000 letters of protest in the U.S.

And-Canadians jumped on_the-

bandwagon, even though we find now the old. Coke sold in Canada wasn't the same as the old Coke sold in the U.S. In fact, the old Coke sold in Canada is much the same as the new Coke sold here,

Welcome: to consumer concern, 1980s-style. Poison us, but don't tinker with our soft drinks.

Fred Merriman

How. about this heat wave? It reminds me of Phoenix, Arizona. A couple more weeks of this and we can start growing cactus and watch the sand dunes form outside the ‘window as the desert winds move - the landscape about at will.

_The soaring temperatures also bring to memory the story of an ex-Marine who amazed everyone as

he remained ‘seated throughout a four-hour movie in a sweltering Portland, Oregon theatre. The veteran of the Pacific demonstrated no ill effects from the heat though fully clothed complete with heavy jacket and ¢ie.

The rest of that audience sat, perspiration evident upon glistening foreheads and fanning like ladies at a Louisiana ball. I asked for ie story.

“I became separated from a unit during action in the South Pacific. For several weeks I man- aged to survive in the jungle heat with a simple application of self- hypnosis. In time, I was able to shiver from the thought that I was marooned instead on ice in the Arctic Ocean.”

selves once again complaining that -summer is late this year. All this business of chasing around for air conditioners and choosing to walk on the shady ‘side pf the street brings me to yet ther of my favorite subjects. It Might be an appropriate time to mention under- ground housing.

The Apache Indiahs could survice the--desert heat by living in

i which r stone root houses set into the sand dunes. The windows of such dwel- lings were nothing more than a narrow slit just below the sand covered roof line.

Thousands of southern people — even in these modern times live quite comfortably deep in apart- ment-like cliffside caves. At least

one innovative Castlegar resident has built his home almost entirely covered with soil and sod. His house does have a south facing wall built mostly of glass.

Nevertheless, it would be in- teresting to know how his heat and air conditioning costs compare with those of us who live in convent- ional above- ground houses.

Often, I refer to the U.S. in this column. Reports indicate that lit- erally thousands of homes in that country are now built routinely half-submerged into hillsides fee

Letters to the Editor

Who ‘assured’ board? :

“Editor, Castlegar News:

I would like to address the state- ments by our school board regarding noon-time busing. In the article in the July 7 CasNews trustee Doreen Smecher says, “the board was assured that. the parents of Valley Vista studehts were prepared ‘to arrange their own transportation.”

Which parents did you talk to about this? Not one parent I have talked to has even heard from the board. We didn’t -even—know—the— board was considering reinstating noon-time bus- ing. How could we even present a case before the board if no one mentioned this to us?

Did you take into account how many

parents will be working or going back to school and thereby unable to pick up our kids at noon-time? How about single moms who have to work to support their families?

‘What about the fact that quite a few of us have one, if not two younger children at home in addition to our five-year-old? Car pooling won't work if you have three kids of your own, plus

yourself and you -have only four seat ‘

belts. Better yet, did you consider the fact-that-some parents have only_one car and the breadwinner needs thai car to get back and forth to work?

I know that legally my son doesn't have to’ attend kindergarten, and keeping him out should be an

Remember. When?

. 35 YEARS AGO From the July 13, 1950 Zi Castlegar News -The department of Health and

"Welfare has approved the application “for the appointment of an advisory

board: for local Public Health Nurse,

Miss M. Cressman. The function of the

board is to assist and advise the public

health nurse in her work in her district.

* Miss:Cressman, who comes here from

the Prince ‘Rupert District and has

seen nursing service in Africa, is

already hard at work getting acquaint- ed with her new district. - 2 *

‘The ever-present problem of library space was discussed at a recent meeting of the Castlegar Public Library Board, and further steps will be taken to attempt an early alleviation of the difficulty. The librarians’ report indicated that circulation is still well over 300 books per month.

Twenty-seven cars of freight ar- rived for Castlegar dealers last month. They were comprised of the following: coal — 12 cars; lumber — one car; feed — 3 cars; paper — 1 car; sugar, — 2

_cars; roofing — 1 car; pipe — 2 cars; tile —3 cars; electrical equipment — 1 car;

______and_plaster_—_1_car_____

25 YEARS AGO From the July 14, 1960

Castlegar News Great joy at being reunited with her son whom she had not seen in 32 years, and of meeting her daughter-in-law and + grandsons whom she was seeing for the ist time, was shown by Mrs. Anna arkova. when she arrived recently oe Russia. Mrs. Markova, 58, is the

My son is ready for school and needs -daughter of Peter Verigin I and the peers and the structured learning mother of John ‘Verigin, executive- that kindergarten can offer. secretary of the Union of Spiritual In closing, I'd like to ask the board ‘Communities of Christ. who “assured” the board that parents | Peay eee would arrange our own transportation?. | Construction is well underway on the : f : innaird swimming pool, according to

Ed McGauley, president. of the Kin- naird Swimming Pool Society. The hole is dug and carpentry has started. The society is dependent on volunteer labor and Sonations: of money. and materials.

Did you ask even one parent how * he/she felt? Considering that there are 87 students going‘into kindergarten in Valley Vista you should have contacted at least 19 to make a-statement like this. Try calling us. You'll be surprised at our answers. C.

. hospital * r cial Jack Bainbridge has vestgusd | to accept Iris F. Johnson a’ position with the B.C. Hospital

Valley Vista Service in Victoria. He came here from L . England in May

U.S. DEFENCE

— 4 under attack

By LARRY BLACK

NEW YORK — Nothing demon- strates the contradictions of Reagan- ism as thoroughly as U.S. military

spend ling. It amounts to a $300-billion ‘public works project the White House is-trying to slip into its $1-trillion budget for 1986. :

Ronald Reagan was elected presi- dent five years ago on a radically conservative economic program which’

welfare state is still thriving, with hundreds of billions of tax. dollars propping up inefficient domestic in- dustries and praviding millions of jobs to Americans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed.

“The Pentagon is the second-largest socialist economy in the world-behind the Sovjet Union,” as Republican con-_

<gressman Charles Grassley put _it earlier this year, complaining that lack

pr unbridled competition and cuts in government expenditure. And in most of the economy, he has done just that, stripping away laws which established order in the marketplace redistributing

- a diminishing fraction of the country’s

wealth in social spending. diminishing fraction of the country’s |_- wealth in social spending.

Business is booming, corporate pro fits are reaching all-time highs, but the U.S. government deficit — which con- “gervative economists say is acting as a brake on economic development — is

reasons of ance and security management. In

not r ig. That’s because in one sector of the economy — defence

an area as famous as the K: with its hundreds of underground mines, one would think that it is a logical extension that the workplace could well be our dwelling place.

None of-these ideas is new. A tour of the H.B. Mine some years ago revealed 10-metre high tunnels and air more pure than outside. A Salmo resident reported that one nearby mine contained a chamber high enough and wide enough to accommodate the entire Village of Salmo.

The main chamber at the’ Mica Generating Plant is capable of providing seating for 3,000 people. Again, there are some very ex- pensive homes in the Okanagan which appear to be built deep into the hillside. It is for certain that they are buried by roof and three sides.

In this rugged country where flat land is at a }remium it would seem logical to develop fashionable ac- commodation in the slopes and mountains around us. The level ground ‘could. be reserved for agriculture, sports and aspects of commerce that require level ac- cess. The average temperature below the frost-line is 60 degrees winter and summer. Just a thought on a baking day in July, 1985.

Pi ji and Pp! — the

of in defence pi was costing the U.S. economy billions in waste.

Other Americans, including many ‘traditional Keynesian economists, argue that public spending on defence — which has doubled in the last five years, and will add up to $2 trillion more over the next five — is in fact leading the U.S. economic recovery.

Without this thinly disguised public works program — which’ constructs weapons .rather the highways and bridges of the 1930s New -Deal programs — the United States-would never have recovered from the 1982 recession, they argue. -

Either way, weapons-spending

of 1957. Construction of the Castlegar hospital started in June, 1957, and Mr. Bainbridge worked with the architect on it and supervised the purchase of equipment. The hospital was opened in April, 1958, and the first patient was admitted May 5.

15 YEARS AGO

From the July 16, 1970 Castlegar News A public beach with 900 feet cf sandy

shoreline is slated for construction at Syringa Creek Park for the enjoyment of local residents and tourists alike. Besides blacktopping of the new high- way to the park and the provision of public parking for 140 cars, other work to be done at the park this year includes erection of 30 picnic tables.

waste — whether one is talking about $640 toilet covers, $7,400 coffee pots and $400 hammers, or the $244-million ~ General Dynamics overcharged the Pentagon — is becoming a major feature of the U.S. economy.

Defence hawks argue that abuses and waste are in fact rare, or have occurrred only in the procurement of minor items and spare parts. Abuses are inevitable in a system which lets some 13 million contracts a year, says John Fisher.

Others argue that there are abuses precisely because so much money is spent_on defence, and because of the subsidy nature of most defence pro- curement contracts. 2

“When the Pentagon decides to build a complex new weapons system these days, it oftén. seems to run into disaster,” notes’ Business Week. “The promise” of advanced. technology seduces designers and eager con- tractors into taking big risks with the public’s-money.”

St. Peter Lutheran Church will be installing and ordaining its first called pastor this weekend. Robert D. Naber

after the service. “This is another great step forward for the newly-formed St. Peter Lutheran Congregation,” related Vicar R. Klein. “This, I believe, is the first ordination-of any Lutheran pastor in the Castlegar-Kinnaird area.”

B.C. Tel has proposed to bring Thrums, Tarrys and the Glade portion ‘The magazine notes that the Reagan _f the South Slocan exchange into the administration's unprecedented peace- Castlegar telephone exchange area. time arms buildup — representing a92 The idea met with approval at the per cent increase in weapons research recent meeting of Kinnaird council. At and ee Castlegar, council noted ‘that the

Quotable Quotes

MAD DOG VACHON is, well, mad! The legendary hero of the Saturday afternoon wrestling mat is upset that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is en-

"forcing a rule that prohibits TV alcohol

ads that feature well-known people. The CRTC has butlawed a TV ad featuring Vachon plugging: Labbat Light beer.

“There are a lot of things about television that I don’t like, either,” says Vachon.

“I don't like those Herbal Life ads that offer minerals and herbs that say they'll turn you into a super athlete.

“And I don't believe in religion — yet they let these preachers who promise eternal life advertise: ‘Send me your money and you'll go to heaven!”

Vachon's response to the CRTC?” “Get off my case!”

CAPE cop Ranger Irving Tubbs was more than a little surprised this week when he glanced out his window only to see two women standing there without their shirts on.

““I was standing at’my desk when I realized there were semi-nude ladies standing outside my window,” Tubbs

said. “They-chose to do this outside my way which demonstrated what was

window.”

The two women removed their s! to protest the Cape Cod National Seashore’s ban on nude sunbathing. The two, who say the ban is sexual discrimination, a jailed.

PRIME E MINSTER Brian Mulroney shared this joke with his Manicouagan consitituents last week at the north shore port of Blanc-Sablon, Que.:

“I was saying to an elderly gentle- man the other day up inthe other end the riding, after 10 months as pri minister, searching for a complifaent. I said: 1 suppose there have been worse

tha

“So I said, thinking he was hard of hearing, ‘I SUPPOSE THERE HAVE BEEN WORSE PRIME MINISTERS THAN_ME.”

“He said: ‘I heard you the first time, son. F'm just trying to reme’ mber.”

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$2.8 billion it plans to cut from mass

craft.

One and a ‘half billion in cuts in elderly will pay for a marine amphi- administration Proposes to open on

next year would cover the cut it z A of the breweries, local pubs have ended .

fostering. costly fiascos in weapons ~matter was investigated by B.C. Tel at development. the request of the Castlegar and “And while much of the attention on _ District Chamber of Commerce and felt the Pentagon waste is focussed on $400 . the chamber can be expected to make a hammers, ‘the major systems are _ thorough study of the proposal. ee ae SYEARS AGO York Times tried to translate Pentagon par hanstncesh hd ead waste and dubious expenditures in @ ——pians for a welcome home celebra-

being forfeited at their expense. Teen eke meatal ou Shears!

For the price of a US. navy comm: __in_the-world-Olympies—for-the-Physi-

airp! cally Handicapped in Arnhem, Holland,

last week. Plans include a band, ban-

ners, and a local dignitary to meet her at the airport.

ne pi engineer Seymour Melman noted, the administration could forget about the

transit subsidies. A proposed cut which would virtually end passenger train 2. od bd service in the United States is equi- The Castlegar RCMP detachment valent to buying 26 air-cushion landing _ has a new staff-sergeant. John Stevens has recently ‘arrived from Kelowna to take over the position. housing and energy subsidies to the bags ti The summer is turning dry for beer ink. in Castlegar, lockout -of-brewery workers by the ‘ies and a

bious assault ship. The $4 billion the

in the

system.

tween guns and.butter better shown " than in the administration's proposed fiscal 1986 budget,” writes Melman.

off-sale of beer. The liquor store ran out of beer earlier this week and an expected delivery of suds towards the end of the week didn’t arrive.

“Nowhere is the contradiction be-

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will officially begin his pastoral duties _

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July 14, 1985 , Castlegae

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Woman.

celebrates -

birthday

CLARA SAUNDERS . - 90th birthday

Mrs. Clara Saunders céle- brated her 90th birthday on July 7:

Attending her special day were daughief Ora and hus- band Jim Blackmet of Delta. Daughter. Hazel and her husband John Buick of Dun- can_and_son_ Brick

and wife Joy.

The birthday cake was,

made and decorated by Joy Saunders.

Floral arrangements were received from family, friends and the Pythian Sisters along with cards of good wishes.

Lotto West

A $309,713 went to one

_ winner in’ thé July 10 Lotto

West draw.

The eight numbers drawn were 4, 10, 11, 19, 33, 36, 42 and 55. The bonues number was 2.

Winning numbers drawn in B.C.’s Pacific Express lottery were:

For $100,000: 322074.

For $50,000: 328589.

For $10,000: 043190.

In the event of a dis- crepancy between_ these numbers and the__ offi winning numbers list, official list shall prevail.

Obedkoff receives degree

DAN OBEDKOFF . .. UBC grad

Daniel Obedkoff, son of

Peter and Margaret Obed- koff of Castlegar, received his Doctor of Medicine deg- ree at the University of British Columbia's convocation exercises. , He graduated with a first- class. standing and was also the recipient of the Mead Johnson of Canada Ltd. Prize in Pediatrics. This prize is awarded to the student with the highest standing in ped- iatrics.

Obedkoff received his early education in Castlegar, spending a year at Selkirk College before transferring to UBC where he obtained both his B.Sc. and MD. deg- rees:

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Pulpit & Pew

By TED BRISTOW. Castlegar United Church

Dave worked as a prison chaplain for many years, so I naturally asked questions about life behind walls. Un- like what some of us tend to believe, it's no holiday resort.

He told of an ordinary young-man-who- wanted to mae a quick. $1,000 by smuggling a pound of nare- otics into the country. He was given seven years.

The first week inside, he found out it. was going to be hell. Oldtimers, for . enter- tainment, got one of their high on dope and brew, and then tempted him with the new young man. After a brutal -homosexual rape, the young man cowered in a corner for hours, and it took the best efforts of the chaplain and others to help him begin to get over what had been done to him.

The rapist had asked-the chapain for psychiatric help, and the chaplain had tried, but something about a con- flict _ between federal and

ding, and give the wrongdoer a freedom to begin again. .

He has ideas about alter- natives to long sentences, helping ex-cons with the difficult adjustment to -the outside, counselling ‘with the victims, and crime preven- tion.

He was here to talk about capital punishment. He fears. that in the near future, it may be politically advant- ageous for someone to re- open the question.

He and some co-workers have been gathering ‘the many studies made on the subject, and he's putting together a manual to be published soon (if the modest $5,000 for its production can be found somewhere.)

He understands the fears and resentments of ordinary people. He admits to feelings of revenge within himself. But he knows, because he's close to the subject, that capital punishment does not prevent murder. —

He feels prevention comes

things like gun police — educatiori,

more by control,

urisdiction kept the man where he was, with terrible results.

I.admired Dave for having been able to work in a jungle like that, without despairing.

Dave is not in prison at the moment, he’s working on an inter-church task force that studies prison reform and alternate sentencing. He was in Castlegar to meet a few“of | us earlier this month.

He spoke with admiration of-a group of -Mennonites-in Ontario who are working at reconciliation: bringing to- gether the criminal and vic- tim to talk about what happened, create understan-

ity self-help _ pro- grams, and the‘like. a

He's realistic, not. a blind idealist. Asked if there are some behind bars who should never be released, he said, sadly, “Yes.”

He's made a study. of the subject from a religious pers-

pective. He recommended to applied to someone

us a Bible study by the Dave. Presbyterians called “Hang-

Somehow, I feel the label “Christian” can be properly

like

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By CasNews Staff Brush firés and the’ record dry weather have béen caus- ing headaches for the Cas- tlegar Volunteer Fire De: partment.

Fire Chief Bob Mann said Friday that the department has answered several brush fire calls this month, in- cluding one Thursday after-

noon on llth Avenue near, _ 5th Street.

‘Smoke from the fire, which began shortly before 1..p.m., could be seen throughout the downtown area. The depart- ment sent a pumper truck to the scene and put out the’fire in minutes.

Mann_ says the fire was started either by the ‘rays from the-sun shining on a broken glass bottle, or by youths smoking or. playing with matches...

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“I've been back there three times,” he. said.

Mann stressed that open burning is banned and the city is not giving out burning permits until the heat- wave passes.

He said ‘the city has also asked owners of incinerators not to operate them until the weather changes.

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He showed us publications by the Lutherans, United Church, and Mennonites, all opposing capital punishment on religious grounds. He told as the Canadian Roman. Cat-

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He wanted us to know. that we could be informed by more than just epinions and* reactions.

But as much as I was impressed to know how much ‘information is available, I was impressed by Dave himself. Here was a man battling against difficult odds on behalf of men and women most of .us ‘would rather forget, or get rid of. ,

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