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The constant reader

In newspapers of some years ago there used to be frequent references to someone by the name of “constant reader.

There would be letters to the editor signed in that way, and there would be editorial re’ ces to this unidentified person.

A remark by someone who is a “constant reader of the Castlegar News” gave us pause for editorial thought this past week.

Constant reader suggested our municipal councils today lack the decisive drive of yesteryear's, that our chiet magistrates aren't, on the whole, of the gungho type that we used to know; that municipal coun- cils in the West Kootenay all suffer from bureaucratic constipation.

He suggested that councils, in- stead of making quick decisions, paper shuffle and tend to resemble slower, more senior levels of government. They refer matters to committee and to study “by staff” that they used to take a few minutes to go out and look at per- sonally on the ground, and let some alderman make the decision.

In short, municipal councils in general have become so bur ic that they mistaken! believe the paper dance is progress, and that talk is the same as action.

Constant reader asked: “Where are the Carl Loeblichs, the Arnold Laurientes, and the Joe Palygas of yesterday? Even Louis Maglio seems to wring his hands instead of rolling up his shirt sleeves the way he used

The questions are good ones.

Castlegar, Salmo, Montrose, Trail, Slocan, Kalso, Nelson, New Denver, Silver- ton and Nakusp need oa shot of adreneline.

Taxpayer dollars would be well spent bringing in a positive thinking practitioner to a special Association of Kootenay Municipalities meeting. Too many of our municipal people need a

shot of ‘“get-up-and-go pills.” Those that don’t (and Eric O'Dell of Warfield with his Greek costume and chariot at the recent Trail Chamber of Commerce annual meeting comes to mind), are get- ting dragged down.

Come on, municipal people. Start making quick decisions, start asking how things can be done in- stead of offering reasons as to why positive action must be delayed. Let's cut the references to commit- tees and staff by 80 per cent, and let's see decisions made at council

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Let's bring the latter half of the ‘80s into the twentieth century before the twenty-first is upon us.

An offer you can refuse

Howard Crosby made Canad- ians an offer this week that very few wouldn't refuse. The MP from Halifax West says there a lot of people who wouldn't mind paying more taxes if it would reduce the national debt. :

Mr. Crosby's proposal to make it easy for Canadians to pay off the debt by making debt donations tax deductible spawns all sorts of in- teresting ideas.

For instance, why not a tax deduction for Castlegar residents who want to help pay off the city's loan on the industrial park.

Of course, we could always make donations to pay off the provincial debt tax deductible os well. What's good for Ottawa should be good for Victoria.

And why shouldn't donations to pay off individual family debts be included as long as we're going to raise taxes? Who knows where it all could end?

Fred Merriman

Stories are where you find them. Sorry, Burt, this time Kaslo is the setting and Sam Rota is the man of the hour. It matters not that this particular retiree just happened to work for a locally-owned utility company. It's the human side of the ceremony that invokes some res. ponse on my part.

Yes, we heard some roasting and quite a few interesting facts. Man- agement and compadres offered testimonies about yet one more of the many colorful frontline ser- geants who helped make the second largest hydroelectric company in British Columbia what it is today.

For those of you who take your lights for granted, you may be interested to hear some of the opin- ions that were expressed last Sat- urday evening in the Legion Hall in Kaslo: Sam Rota, WKPL District Supervisor (ret’d), never lost an argument. Mayor Jack Morris told a packed house that he would dis agree with Sam until three o'clock in the morning. Finally, Jack would announce that Sam was correct and the argument was settled.

The principal of the high school paid tribute to the former alderman, chairman of the hospital board and fisherman with compliments about the six children of the Rota family who all in turn “increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.”

There were some in the audience who squirmed in guilt over that tribute because many of us can't seem to manage two out of three. Sam and his faithful wife Margaret managed six out of six. It seemed to me that Mr. and Mrs. Rota shared the tributes and honors.

ition was made ning the early hour telephone calls taken

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by Margaret and announcing that power lines were down in a howling blizzard. I understood that she kept the coffee on and the hot soup ready for the return of crew and captain at assignment’s end.

One chap at head office had tried to snaffle an old WKPL sign to bring to the testimonial. He wanted it to be repainted to read, “Kaslo Power and Light Co. Ltd.” S. Rota, propri- etor.

The most memorable part of the evening for those of us who only thought they knew the man came near the close when two of his former linemen, who journeyed some distance, gave witness.

The first speaker — not accus. tomed to addressing large audiences — said, “We never felt we worked for Sam Rota we worked with him.” The other said, “He used to call me Kid and treated me like a son.” Those two rough, tough linemen each said goodbye to Sam in public with a comradely hug. I told Sam later, it was enough to make a grown man cry.

At the end of it all, Sam Rota closed with a word of gratitude for his wife and a sincere short state ment expressing his surprise and appreciation for all those who at. tended to honor him. He said “Thank you.”

We honored the men with a standing round of hearty applause, not because he was a hero or a king, but because he was just an ordinary guy. Sam Rota did what he could to keep the lights on and make life just a little bit easier for all of us. All, in that room, knew that he was successful on both counts and that the company will be somewhat less without Sam Rota, district super. visor, Kaslo, B.C.

REAL ESTATE TO BLAME

Banking in crisis

By GORD McINTOSH

Just as NSF cheques happen to the nicest people, so do banking crises in countries priding themselves on finan- cial safety, as we learned last week with the near collapse of Canadian Commercial Bank.

It may not have been like the movies with mobs of people outside Canadian Commercial’s grey, fortress-like head- quarters in Edmonton screaming for their money. But the $255-million res- cue of Canada’s 10th-largest bank couldn't have come at a worse time for the keepers of the system.

Ottawa had just appointed a private- sector committee headed by Vancouver stockbroker Robert Wyman to do an overhaul of the deficit-plagued Canada Deposit Insurance Corp.

The 18-year-old insurance fund is still reeling from the Greymac affair, in which the Ontario government seized three trust companies. The $650 million it had to dish out to fill deposit claims ate up its accumulated surplus and left it with a deficit of $332 million.

Barbara McDougall, the minister of state for finance, has said candidly in an interview that the state of the deposit insurance corporation became an urgent priority very early in the life of the Tory government — both for its financial condition and the way it regulates financial institutions.

In the past eight months, federal and provincial regulators have had to contend with trust company failures in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, credit union bailouts in Alberta, emergency sale of a small Ontario trust company, the provincially sponsored it of a medium-sized Alberta trust company and the 11th-hour takeover and refinancing of the Bank of British Columbia last summer.

To add to the urgency, Western Capital Trust of Vancouver folded last Friday owing $77 million to depositors.

All of the institutions, most of them small, fell victim to bad Alberta real estate loans.

Bad Alberta real estate assets are on the books of almost every financial in- stitution in the country. The Royal Bank of Canada, this country’s largest, for example, had problem loans in Alberta worth $567 million last year, according to its annual report. That's more than the loans of some debtor countries.

But as Gerald Bouey, governor of the Bank of Canada, noted in a rare interview last week, large institutions with their diversified asset bases and huge pools of capital can cope. The smaller institutions, often existing for the sole purpose of providing financial development to undercapitalized parts of the country, can't.

The federally led rescue team iden- tified $544 million worth of problem loans on Canadian Commercial's books — the $255 million goes solely to cross the line of solvency. Gerald McLau- ghlan, the bank’s president, says the overriding problem with his institution and others like it is lack of diversity.

Energy loans in the southwestern United States were among the things that were supposed to help. Instead, the energy loans turned out to be the straw that broke the camel's back when they suddenly turned sour because of falling world oil prices, McLaughlan says.

Douglas Day, president of Western Capital Trust, says it now will be very difficult for trust companies to raise investment.

Although there is no suggestion that they are in the same situation as Cana. dian Commercial, such institutions as Northland Bank will have a hard time raising investment money, says Pat McKeough, editor of Personal Wealth Reporter, a Toronto investment advice newsletter. “How will investors know they are not (in bad shape?)”

Clearly, financial regulators need to take a hard look at everything from disclosure requirements to prudential reserves if the country’s bank and trust systemgas we know it is to survive.

(Canadian Press)

Letters to the Editor .

Federal government run by hypocrites

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I attended the Peace Update on Sunday in Trail. It was the first time I had ever attended such an event. It really is an eye opener to what our government is doing in the arms race.

We are supposed to be a country which wants peace, but our military budget is $9.6 billion for fiscal year 1985-86. Canada ranks within the top 20 per cent of world military spenders when measured on per capita basis, and ranks around 10 per cent in total dollars spent.

These figures make me wonder, when our government talks about peace. It would look like our govern ment is run by hypocrites. It is proven that countries which have the highest military spending have the lowest rates of economic growth. Also, military spending is said to be a benefit

to the economy and provide jobs, but this is found not to be true over the long term.

These are only a few things I learned from the peace update. I would hope that more people could have a chance to have their eyes opened to the arms race in Canada. It was disappointing to only see one alderman from the area attend the peace update. If we want disarmament everyone is going to have to get involved (teachers, doctors, municipal officials, provincial officials and of course the people of Canada).

If our government spent less on the military our unemployment rate wouldn't be at 20 to 30 per cent in this area. The government could use this money for real job creation. Please get involved.

Todd Wallace Trail

Quotable Quotes

JACK MUNRO, president of the Interational Woodworkers of America, came up with the best line at the recent national economic conference in Ot tawa.

Labor and management are like partners in a marriage, Chief Justice Alan Gold of Quebee Superior Court was telling a workshop. Like it or not, they must stay together for the sake of the children (the economy)

Okay, replied, Munro, “but labor would like to change positions once in a while.”

CONSERVATIVE MP Howard Cros. by wants to make it easy for you to

give the government a hand in reducing the national debt by making debt donations tax-deductible.

Crosby, the member for Halifax West, introduced a resolution during private members’ hour this week to amend the Income Tax Act to provide tax deductions for money contributed solely for the purpose of reducing the debt.

“There are a lot of people who say they don't mind paying more taxes if it’s used to reduce the debt,” Crosby said. “Maybe if they had a vehicle to participate directly in reduction of the deficit, they could act themselves.

Headline inaccurate

Editor, Castlegar News:

In response to your front page article of March 27 titled “Lack of Seedlings — Forest Renewal Ignored in B.C.,” I suggest that the headline draws an in- accurate conclusion and is unneces. sarily negative.

If seedlings are not available for Selkirk College's forestry program, it is likely that the college either re- quested the seedlings too late, or plan. ned to plant an area which the Ministry of Forests considered to have a low priority. A more logical conclusion to draw from Selkirk's lack of seedlings is that these seedlings are in high demand by both industry and govern ment and therefore reforestation must be going strong in B.C.

Although the government, forest industry and general public could all be making greater contributions to the renewal of B.C.'s forests, it is not cor- rect to conclude that this work is being ignored. Every year an increasing number of trees are planted, and the B.C. Ministry of Forests has been en couraging private nurseries to help meet the demand for seedlings.

Perhaps a more appropriate headline would have been “Castlegar Supports Increased Forest Renewal,” a state ment which makes positive inferences about both the City of Castlegar and the progress of forest renewal in B.C. Isn't it common knowledge that undue criticism rarely produces positive re. sults?

J. Hipwell Forest Tech. Castlegar

Remember When?

35 YEARS AGO From the April 6, 1950 News Castlegar Building Supply display ad reads: “We have a choice lot for you at Kinnarid, right alongside the main highway. This lot is all ready for you to start building on. Just bring your plan in to us today. Prices to suit your means. House and lot complete from $3,000 to $8,000." . 26 *# Mr. Joe Klasson, building super- intendent for contractors on the new high school building, says preference is given, in hiring, to local taxpayers who are in need of work. The building will be in full operation after Easter. . .

Mr. George Atcheson has been ap- pointed by the board of directors of the Castlegar Cooperative Transportation Society as supervisor of all drivers’ classes. Since the Village is growing so rapidly, more buses will be needed in the future; therefore, more drivers will be required and the Drivers’ School conducted by Mr. Atcheson will meet the hecessary requirements.

25 YEARS AGO From the April 7, 1960 Castlegar News

West's Dept. Store was dynamited during the early hours of April 2 with an estimated damage of $3,000. Al- though Cpl. Angus Macdonald declined to specifically blame the fanatical Sons of Freedom sect for the bombing, store owner R.A.D. West said he believed that group responsible.

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A request by Fred Bonnett for a building permit to construct a bowling alley in Castlegar on Ist Ave. was turned down at council's regular meet- ing. A motion to refuse permit was passed by coun the village's intention to put in an alley servicing those businesses fronting on Ist Ave. and those on Columbia Ave.

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Building permits worth $21,120 were approved by Kinnaird council at its re- cent meeting. The permits were issued to: Gordon Archibald, addition, $3,360; Nick Shelfontiuk, siding, $500; Andy Shelfontiuk, new house, $3,000; W.D. McCreight, septic tank, $100; W. Bon- deroff, new addition, $4,160; Lloyd G. Bignell, new house, $10,000.

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The Castlegar and District Golf Club dues for 1960 were set as follows: family membership $20; single mem- bership, $15 for men and $12.50 for ladies; membership fee for juniors whose parents are not members was set at $5.

15 YEARS AGO From the Aril April 9, 1970 Castlegar News

Midget League winners at the close of the hockey season were the follow- ing members of the Bantam Rep team, coached by Mike Lauriente: Lawrence Gordon, Eddie Zebroff, Gerry Mosby, Pete McGauley, Ralph Tassone, Joe Kambick, Tom Hughes, David Bozek, Murray Price, Mike Popoff, Robin Heagy, Mark Earp, Kevin Moran, Larry Price and Gilbert Turcotte.

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The Town of Castlegar will submit a short brief at the public hearing on air service to be held by the air transport committee of the Canadian Transport Commission this week. The brief will ask for “good service, cheap rates, and a through service to Calgary.”

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At a recent joint meeting of the Blueberry Creek Recreational Society and the Blueberry Creek Centennial ‘71 committee, all present agreed to pur- chase property for a future park and play area.

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Kinnaird’s Mayor Colin Maddocks has been named to the steering com- mittee of the lower Columbia basin water study approved by the regional board of Central Kootenay Regional Distriet. This committee will be made up of a representative from Castlegar, Kinnaird, areas I and J, as well as a member of CKRD.

A revived Castlegar Chamber of Commerce this year will assume its original role as organizer of the Sunflower Fest, according to chamber vice-president Larry Bosse. The cham- ber office will serve “as a focal point for organization while service clubs look after their end as they have in previous years,” Bosse said.

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Ald. Heather Hallett told city council this week that Castlegar taxpayers’ share of social aid costs will drop by three per cent but increase by about $10,000 this year.

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Stanley Humphries Secondary School's play entitled “Babel Rep,” dir- ected by L.C. Farrell, was selected the best play at the four-day West Koot- enay Drama Festival held recently in Castlegar. As well, the two actors from the play, Rob Beynon and Ben Nich- volodoff, won the best actor and second best actor awards.

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ae . SETTLING IN . . . Kimiko (Kim) Mitobe, Rotary Ex- change student from Tokyo, makes herself at home

EXCHANGE STUDENT ARRIVES

By JOHN CHARTERS

When school starts again on Tuesday, Stanley Humphries Secondary School will have at least one additional senior student. Her name is Kimiko Mitobe (Kim), a Castlegar Rotary Club exchange student from Tokyo.

At the regular Tuesday dinner meeting of the Castlegar Club on April 2, Mitobe, who had just arrived via Seattle and Kelowna, had the opportunity to meet not only the Castlegar Rotarians and their guests from Nelson, Trail and Grand Forks clubs, but 16 other Rotary Exchange students from six other countries, who are travelling around the district during the school Easter break.

In an earlier letter to her first Rotary “parents,” Bill

with Bill Craven family. Mitobe will be attending Stanley Humphries Secondary School.

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and Karen Craven, Mitobe had written of herself: “I am 18 years old, but I am very short so I am often looked (on) as a junior high school student. I am poor in English (she isn't) and have a little misgiving, but I am looking forward to going to school (in Castlegar).”

One of her hobbies, she says, is the traditional J tea y which she promises to do for the club. Once she is established here, it is probable that she

B.C. debt at $15.4 billion

VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbians have been most generous through the years — lending more money to the provincial government and its Crown corporations and agencies than any bank, life insurance company or wealthy private investor.

The total net debt of the government, its corporations and agencies is $15.4 billion.

More than a quarter of that is owed to the Canada Pension Plan. Ottawa sends back to B.C. virtually all the contributions made by B.C. employees and their employers for the province to invest as it likes. Since the pension plan started, this has amounted to nearly $4.2 billion.

Publi tor workers in the province are another large source of loans, through their superannuation and pension plans.

They are owed about $2.4 billion. Their funds — like those from the pension plan — are managed by ,the provincial government.

TOTALS MATCH

This pension fund tatal of $6.6 billion matches almost exactly the amount of money the government, its corporations and agencies have raised through public issues in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Another $1.3 billion has come from direct deals with financial institutions.

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will be able to do it for other interested groups in the community since Rotary expects to act as junior ambassadors for their own country.

Next week the Rotary club will hold a joint meeting with the Kiwanis, Lions and Kinsmen to hear Dr. John Hall speak on his work and experiences for the past two years in Papua New Guinea. About 100 guests are expected and a silver collection will be taken for the purchase of proper water storage tanks for the native people.

Following an earlier executive meeting, President Dr. Waldo Yule announced that the club will sponsor a candidate in the upcoming SunFest queen contest and will sent one student to Adventures in Industry and T , a week-long workshop in Ont. in September.

Curtis issues warning

RICHMOND (CP) — The provincial government won't allow British Columbia school boards to grant teachers sal- ary increases at the expense of jobs, Finance Minister Hugh Curtis say.

“School districts that lay off teachers and consequent- ly end up with fewer teachers than the established or per- mitted ratio will have their grants reduced,” Curtis said. “It is my belief that with this change they will not attempt to do so.”

He said at a news con ference this week that salary increases to teachers this fis cal year could result in up to

by the Education Ministry must be used to maintain ex- isting levels of service and not for any wage increases. Some school boards have submitted budgets that ex ceed Education Ministry guidelines and include pro- vision for salary increases. Curtis said he is issuing a directive under the Financial Administration Act to ensure that the pupil-teacher ratios in effect won't be exceeded because of salary increases. In his March 14 budget, he said there was no provision for teacher salary increases. “Those school boards which have submitted bud-

istry in order to provide for salary increases for teachers — and a number have done so already — obviously would have to lay off other teachers to provide pay increases for their remaining staff. And the government frankly will not let this happen.” LAYOFFS POSSIBLE Curtis said the move doesn’t guarantee there

the community to support school boards that submitted budgets above government guidelines.

Delegates also agreed the federation should provide legal and financial help to “any local association taking job action.”

Elsie McMurphy, first vice- president of the federation, said the announcement by

B.C.'s total debt amounts to about $5,280 for every man, woman and child in the province.

When the federal debt is included — an estimated $226 billion or $8,863 each — next year’s over-all total becomes about $14,500 a head.

The provincial debt is made up of three parts: the money the government has borrowed for itself; the money it has borrowed on behalf of Crown corporations and agencies; and, the guarantees it has given on repayment of money borrowed directly by those corporations and agencies.

More than half the total provincial debt — direct and guaranteed — is owed by B.C. Hydro after two decades of building major dams at up to $2 billion each and an expensive transmission network.

Hydro, which has stopped building for now, owes $8.3 billion.

The provincial government itself is the next largest debtor with about 15 per cent, followed by schools at six per cent, and hospitals, slightly less than five per cent.

Although the total provincial debt is expected to rise 8.4 per cent this fiscal year, the increase is relatively modest.

In the 1950s, the province's total debt annually grew by an average of 15 per cent. In the 1960s, it rose an average of nearly 27 per cent a year.

The government's own share of the debt is expected to cost the provincial treasury $265 million in the 12 months to March 31 this year (about $92 a head); $384 million (about $132 a head) in the next 12 months. In 1981-82, servicing costs were just less than $17 million, or $6 a head.

The Finance Ministry says B.C.'s debt standing looks “very good” compared with other provinces.

If “commercial” debt (the money owed by B.C. Hydro and other crown corporations and agencies that have an income from which to pay back their loans) is taken out, B.C. is second from the bottom in per-capita debt.

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Layoffs may take place be- out for a wage freeze while cause of declining enrolment, they are not responsible for he said, although early re- the “mess” the education tirement and other factors system is in, McMurphy said.

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