4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 2, 1976

Service for Lorne Hartson, 25, Victim of Helicopter Accident —

Funeral service was held “Monday from the chapel of the ' pCastlegar Funeral Home for Lorne William Hartson, 25, a “resident of Castlegar who died “as the result of a helicopter ac- = cident near Revelstoke Aug. 24, Born Aug. 4, 1951, in Kim- berley, Mr. Hartson came to Castlegar in 1953 with his parents. He took his schooling cin Castlegar and graduated ‘from Stanley Humphries Se-

teondary School in 1971.

, He received his com- ercial fixed wheel pilot's cence through Adastra Avia- ion of Castlegar and continued

‘his training with Northern

Helicdpter of Abbotsiord, Te

ceiving his commercial hell- - copter pilot's cence in 1973.

He flew with Athabasca

° Airways of Prince Albert,

‘Sask, for a time at Dawson

+ Creek before taking up employ-

+ ment with Highland Helicop-

ters of Vancouver in 1974, He was flying for them at Revel- stoke at the time of the ac- cident. :

Mr. Hartson had been working toward his alrcraft engineer's licence and had at- tended a number of courses in Texas, He was to be the High- land Helicopter local repre- sentative to be based in Castle- gar. He also held an industrial firat aid B ticket.

Mr. Hartson spent six .

years with Castlegar Air Cadet Squadron No. 681 and started his flying with a scholarship through the squadron. While in Castlegar he was a member of ‘the Castlegar Search Sn Kes- cue,

He married the former Margaret Rose Rebalkin of ‘Thrums.

While working toward his commercial pilot's licence he also worked on construction.

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He loved the outdoors and was a.self-trained bushman. He also enjoyed cooking,

Mr, Hartson is survived by his wife, Margaret; parents Mr. and Mra, Ivan Hartson; a brother, Dwayne, all of Caatle- gar; two sisters, Miss Crystal Hartson of Calgary and Mrs, Louise Nygren of Burnaby.

Pastor Harold Clark of- ficlated at the service during which organist Mrs. A. Fer- worn played “Be Still My Soul,” “Nearer My God to Thee” and “Amazing Grace.”

Members of the Castlegar Air Cadet Squadron No. 581 were in attendance, wihie Et

“Dunn, Gordon “Asi

Houghton, Kirk Saree ron John

Laing, Jim Nemrava and Dun-

can McNabb as pallbearers. Cremation followed.

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publishing field might be atumped if asked to name the volume that has these dis- tinguishing characteristics:

© To most who have read it, it is known simply as “the Big Book.”

e It has been one of the best

Tronslated into Nine Lenguages

The Story of Alcoholics Anonymous’ “Big Book’

the pioneers decided to write down thelr experience and {ideas and make them available to a wider audience.

- The book was divided into two main sections, The firat re- duced the alcoholics’ recovery experience to a statement: of principles and procedures, The second section contained 28 ‘personal stories of recovery from

sellers of the past two decades, More than 1,450,000 hard-cover copies have been sold in two editions since 1989,

e It provided the name for a worldwide’ social movement that now has an estimated 1,000,000 members in about 92 countries,

No author or: editor is

in” identified anywhere in the book. j

elt was published pri- vately on a shoestring and at- tracted virtually no attention the first two years it was in print, It became a best-seller on the strength of a magazine

article.

‘The book? It is “Alcoholics Anonymous,” the basic text of

taking a child's first ered apart from inflation, she is also facing competition.

Mrs. Meg Young, a jewel- ler, of Los Angeles has taken up an old Belgian custom of having the tooth set in an 18-karat gold ring. The cost:

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Mra. Young’s manager said they have customers waiting for their child’s tooth to drop out.

ig the same name.

The Big Book has helped open the way to a life of happy sobriety for many thousands of alcoholics. It has offered evi- dence to relatives and friends that problem drinkers | can recover. It also provides re- vealing insights into patterns of “alcoholic thinking” to dé sociologists, and others | con- cerned with the _problem of alcoholism.

The AA movement got

under way in 1935, and in 1938

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The only part not written by an AA member was an introductory statement by an “anonymous” New York doctor who had worked with a number of the men telling their stories in the book, In later editions, this doctor was identified as William D. Silkworth, one of the first medical friends of AA,

ncing was a serious problem. Few of the alcoholics bed money to invest, but shares were eventually sojd—many on

Proposal Defeated

A proposal to ban smoking ‘for the first 90 minutes of council meetings in a Norfolk, England town has been de-

‘some members might resign if the ban was im

ifeated. { } Ald. Simon Gelberg said!

the installment plan—in a has- tlly formed private publishing company. In the spring of 1939, the book was published. Unfortunately, an ex- pected feature article in a large magazine did not materialize, As a result, the young move- ment was saddled with nearly

6,000 unsold books and large .

incidental debts, Loans from sympathetic nonalcoholic friends barely kept the pub- Ushing enterprise alive,

‘Then, in March, 1941, fol- lowing an article on AA by Jack Alexander in the Saturday Evening Post, sales began to zoom.

A second printing was ordered that month, and sub-

gram, The personal story sec- tion-was revised substantially, howover, to permit Insertion of 88 case hlatories,

The third edition will be published in 1976, No changes have been made in the basic text, Thirteen new stories have been added to reflect the range of present-day AA member ship.

‘The Big ‘Book has been

into nine

Afrikaans, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Flemish and Portu-

guese, - Today, all shares in the publishing company set up decades ago have been acquired by AA's General Ser-

- vice Board, a group of 21 trustees, and are held in trust

for the Fellowsti. AA lished three

publ other texts: atelve Steps and ©

Twelve ” a series of

Stil, the problem of making a suitable text available in other tongues is one of the most pressing: publishing ‘matters now confronting the -Fellow- ship's General Service Office in New York. The Norwegian edition set a pattern for author- ized text

sequent were

“necessary at froquuily intervals

thereafter to keep up with de- mand. A relatively small per- centage of sales over the years have been through bookstores; most copies have been dis- tributed through local AA

groups.

The first edition was 400 pages long. In 1956, on AA’s twentieth anniversary, a re- vised and enlarged edition was published. No changes were made in the basic text de- scribing the principles and pro-.

_ cedures of the recovery pro-

overseas, it Was {allowed by editions in French, German, |

interpretive essays, “Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age," a historical survey of the So- clety's first two decades, and “As Bill Sees It—The A.A. Way of Life,” selected writings of AA's cofounder, Bill W. To most members of the society, however, the Big Book will; probably always rank as favor ite AA reading matter,

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‘Briefs from RDCK

While the regional plan- ners work to find a compre- hensive garbage disposal solu-

* tion, complaints continue to

filter into board offices about dumps. Three letters were on last Thursday's agenda of the Regional District of Central Kootenay board meeting,

Genelle Waterworks. of- ficials were threatened | with “legal action’ by the’ Regional District of Kootenay Boundary for dumping ‘refuse at Blue- berry Creek, instead of using the Trail dump. New Denver . Forest Ranger Clifford Jupp asked the town to help prevent accidental burning of its dump during fire season. And a Yahk. resident about the

The RDCK’ directors stated that the Brilliant-Ter- race Park should be kept as a park. The decision came as a request’ from the B.C. de- partment of recreation to state its feelings about the park. An application has been received to subdivide a portion of the park

New Denver for construction of its new water, ceystena.

The “Creston Valley Re- creation Centre requested the RDCK hold a further refer-

‘endum in the area to add two’

mills'to the tax levy for rec-

condition of the dump there and of Creston and Erickson people making “refuse pilgrimages”, to Yahk.

However, the Wynndel Recreation | Society. informed the board by letter it ‘would not support the two-mill increase.

West Coast

TOMORROW, FRIDAY, SEPT. 3 ~ 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Castlegar Hotel

Seafoods

To Institute Job’s Daughters; Laurie Wickett Honored Queen

Laurie Wicket”

Miss Laurie Wickett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wicket of Castlegar, will be Honored Queen when the Castlegar Bethel U.D. of the International Order of Job's

+ Daughters is instituted by:the :

Grand Guardian Council of B.C.

~The’ institution will’ be Sunday in the banquet room of

the Castlegar and District

Centre. This cere-

Seniors to Get Break in CP Air

Fares ‘Overseas

‘A break for senior citizens, families and groups travelling on CP Air's transcontinental routes has been announced,

‘As of Sept. 1 the airline has waived weekend restrictions

and allow travel anytime

|, ‘for those eligible for special

, discount fares.

Previously, the 10 per cent. i

a is open’ tovonly the parents of the initiates, Master Masons and the wives, daugh- ters, sisters, mothers or wid- ows of a Master Mason.

‘The evening installation:

ceremony, where Miss Wickett

will be installed as Honored Queen, will take place in the same hall. The public are cordially invited. and many friends and relations of the girls will attend from various parts of British Columbi Alberta, and.Saskatchewan..

‘Supporting Laurie Wickett will be Cathy. Kruestzky_ as senior princess, Dana Smith as junior princess, Joy McNabb as guide and Kim Smith as mar- shall.

This fraternal order is open to all girls between the ages of 11 and 20, with direct

Masonic relationship. Any in- ”

terested girls may contact any ofthe above persons for further information.

Daycare Centre Spruces

Up for Its Reopening

Castlegar’s daycare centre

fare for’: senior. citizens and the 17 per cent

discount on cross-Cana- da routes did not apply on Fri- days and Sundays and the 10 percent group travel discount was not valid for flights from 3

to 9 p.m. on the same days.

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with gay colors and

aromatic with paint odors as .

volunteers and staff prepare to re-open the centre for Sep. tember. Qutside i

with a variety of experience. The downstairs portion of the centre is now a nursery school for children ages two through five years, Children attend for three-hour sessions

getting a facelift, as well A children’s furniture and toys inside:

A thank you has been ex- tended to everyone who has donated mat to the centre which includes arborite for table tops from a local building supply, and paint from the local school

| board. Hobbit “Hill Centre for

at least twice a week. Nursery school is designed for children who need a social and learning experience for a few hours at a time; whereas day care is for children. who need care while parents work, attend school or are involved in recreational activities.

Registrations are being

Society Will Continue —

By John Bohle A ‘committee to develop cooperation between the government agencies and Slo- can Valley Resource Society will continue to function. “Government financing has ended but expressions of use- fulness from both government agencies and Slocan Valley re- sidents urged it should con- tinue.

Plans for an active season were set out at a meeting held

+ in Vallican on Thursday of last

week with changes in format of meetings agreed upon. 3...‘ Subjects. to be handled at the: next “meeting, which. is scheduled’ for Sept. 0, are gravel pits and fish ponds.

_ Short-term small’ acreage leases from the forest service and woodlot size and lease pos- albilities will be the topic for October's meeting to be held on

_ the last Thursday of the month.

The forestry department is

Communications Cut

Telecommunications | ser- vice was restored in the West

Kootenay area on Thursday of |

last week after. a break in the

telephone cable resulted in dis- -

ruptions for hours. ‘The break disrupted ser-

vice to the Castlegar airport,

the weather office and the de-

. partment of transport, Also af-

fected by the cable breakage was radio station CKQR. - Telephone service was also disrupted for a few hours for residential and commercial ‘customers in’ the Qotishenia area just east of Castlegar. ‘An operator of a backhoe machine is thought to have ac-_ eldentally’ severed: the cable: =

Slocan Valley Resource

preparing a trial package of small acreage teases for public

Prong term leases of crown forest, as asked for by the Slocan Resource Society under present government policy, have no precedent.

ghee Milner stated that

does not

Invitations to” participate have been extended to munte- {pallties, mining interests, log- fing couteactons and any fa terested group.

Meetings will he qnen to.

the public, Only elected or ac-

cepted appointed delegates

may: vote. The chairman is to cl

fend { itself to long-term leases,

they become too lengthy.

Castlegar Man is Killed. In Helicopter Accident

. A Castlegar. man, Lorne Hartson, 25; was killed Tuesday evening of last week near Revelstoke, when the helicop- ter he was piloting crashed in dense brush,

Revelstoke RCMP re- ported the incident occurred about 16 miles east of the city. Hartson was the sole occupant of the Bell Jet Ranger heli-

copter, which was apparently on a commercial flight at the time of the crash. The craft is owned by Highland Helicopters Ltd. of Richmond, and was op- erating out of Revelstoke. = -

‘The RCMP spokesman said the crash in under investigation by both the RCMP ‘and: the Ministry of Transport. :

Scholarships Presented

Humphries Students:

~ A number of graduating

grade 12 students ‘in the -

Kootenays have won $500 each in the annual department. of education competi-

ships, eet a complete list is net :

avi : Throughout B.C. .there :

were 4,149 candidates, of which

tions.

Recipients from Stanley Humphries Secondary School are Julie R. Byra, M. ‘Jean March, Rick T. Morris and Louise M. Richards.

‘There were more winners

.. in the Kootenays of the further.

education’ oriented © scholar-

1,877 i the require. - ments for the examination. A graduating student muat havea “B" average simply to qualify for the four examinations, in- cluding English’ composition, < Formerly a $200 grant re- stricted to educational use, the grant this year has’ beed increased .to $500 and has no restrictions on it,

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