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Work together

Charlie Cohoe and the Central M Adi

Cc did a ci dabi at last weekend's ference.

Perhaps the salient teature of the conference wasn't the fact that the area is not suitable for a major tourist destination resort, but the need for the area to cooperate in marketing and promotion.

Frank Addison, a respected travel marketing consultant, said it best when he told the conference West Kootenay operators aren't competing against businesses down the road, but against Hawaii, California and Florida.

The point is that the area needs to work together, marketing the

job tourism con-

region as a package. Once tourists are here, then we can fight over them.

The conterence was also impor- tant because it forced us to look at tourism in the Central Kootenay. Cre obvious problem is lack of ac- cessibility, and that problem is no more apparent than on the Lower Arrow Lake.

The lake is virtually inac- cessible for anyone without a boat. It's time the region pushed for a road along the lake in conjunction with a proper lakeshore develop- ment plan.

The lake is an untapped tourism resource we can no longer ignore.

The brain drain continues

B.C. lost another leading educator this week in Len Bruton. The prestigious dean of a new engineering school at the Univer- sity of Victoria resigned, saying he couldn't build a world-class faculty “under the prevailing fiscal circum- stances” and charging the provin- cial government with “completely mishandling its relationships with its universities.”

Two weeks earlier University of B.C. president George Pedersen resigned, saying the Social Credit government's education policies had made it impossible tor him to continue.

Mr. Bruton is returning to the University of Calgary as dean of engineering and Mr. Pedersen will become president of the University otf Western Ontario.

Their resignations signal a problem in B.C. post-secondary

. education system. The. province is slowly losing its top academics and is having trouble attracting top educators from outside B.C.

The “brain drain” has been

going on for some time. Mr. Bruton’s and Mr. Pedersen’s depar- tures simply brought the issue into sharp focus.

The problem is just as apparent on the community college level. Selkirk College, for instance, lost a host of instructors when David Thompson University Centre closed its doors.

Even more significant is the college's turnover rate. As the budget is trimmed and faculty are required to do more and more, in- structors are squeezed to the point where they must decide if they want to remain, or if they would rather seek a position at a com- munity college outside B.C. where the situation isn't so drastic.

The fault isn't the college board's. Its budget is set by the provincial government.

But the problem remains that Castlegar is losing college instruc- tors and will have trouble attrac- ting the same calibre simply because of the education situation in this province.

Sateen

Seven girls have been chosen by the IODE to run for May Queen on May 24. Lois Delorme, Eleanor Patmore, Dawn Jenks, Laura Stuckleberger, Shirley Taylor, Helen Friesen and Donna Muirhead.

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The plane that has been flying the Kamloops hockey fans to Trail, landing on the Columbia River at Robson, was forced down on Shuswap Lake on its return trip on Tuesday morning.

The pontoon-equipped plane made a safe landing but was damaged slightly.

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Gerry Wanless was guest speaker at Tuesday's Kiwanis Club meeting. Heading a committee chosen by the Projects Society to look into the possibility of a rink at Castlegar, Mr. Wanless spoke on _this subject. He

his two others to make similar inves- ig garding a ity hall “No, he isn't asking if you are kidnapping someone, importing dope, a nuclear device, subversive aliens . . . he says, and a park. . .

DO YOU HAVE ANY SMUTTY PICTURE BOOKS?”

OUTSIDE CANADA

Hate laws tougher

By CHISHOLM MacDONALD

TORONTO — Flashing a victory salute after his conviction last month for publishing false news against Jews, Ernst Zundel chuckled at the threat of deportion to his West German homeland.

That penalty would be akin to “being sentenced to paradise,” he flippantly told a reporter. “I can't be punished by being sent to a place where there are comforts, money and supporte:

But Ken Norman, a Canadian Bar Association official, say: most any where he'd go, Zundel would run into tougher (publishing) laws than he would in Canada.

“Almost everywhere the laws are tougher — except in the U.S.,Australia and New Zealand.”

Zundel, 46, a West German citizen with landed immigrant status in Canada, will be sentenced Monday on a charge of knowingly publisbing. false information likely to cause social or racial intolerance.

The maximum sentence is two years in prison and immigration officials are

Fred

The hand that feeds me shall suffer a nip on the little finger. With that attention getter, let me say that I disagree with the caution recently given me that I should limit the subject matter within my column to “the Castlegar area.”

Last week the subject was drop-out students and potential prodigal sons. The readership re sponse was good and did in fact range well beyond China Creek and Shoreacres. For more than 30 years it has been my contention that parochial thinking has been a serious hindrance to positive devel opment and =“ ip the tri-city area

This commuter F machio:t the circle tour five days a week and I see great possibilities in’ a self-sup- porting economic, social, academic and cultural community comprising Trail, Rossland, Warfield, Castle- gar, Nelson and all those commun. ities in that highway circle. It can, must and should include one of my favorite little towns — Salmo. Take water for instance. In no way should one of the largest fresh water reservoirs in the province be held for the exclusive and private use of Castlegar. I love that place and have the highest respect for couragesous Audrey Moore, but exclusivity for a precious water resource is not fair.

None of us are sure why all communities except Castlegar were excluded from Arrow Lakes water. However, if vengeance lies in the signatory hearts then it is probably fair to say “touche”

Meanwhile, in current times, we are not sporting with the foil. Those of us formerly struggling in local irrigation districts admit to an admiration of your alertness and strategy in striking a contract which eliminates the competition and sets up @ powerful trading option. Nevertheless, water and air at least, should be a community

Merriman

property. That community should be as large as reasonably possible. Castlegar (the water giant) could offer its thirsty neighbor a drink as a token of peace and co-operation.

Take the proposed Trail arts centre. There are said to be nearly 50,000 men, women and children in reasonable driving distance l. Perhaps an arts centre on the scale of the Spokane Opera House with a $400,000 down pay- ment should pay for itself. It could be situated on the Esplanade.

Take light industry or even a major manufacturer; designate Sal- mo with its flat valley, north-south railroad, rock and other mineral resources standing ready in the nearby hills, as the natural setting for such development. A compre- hensive view of the communities making up the West Kootenay (which should also include Grand Forks and Creston for the valuable advantages they possess) could generate enough activity to also fill the various industrial parks at Nelson, Castlegar and Trail.

Mr. C., we must turn away from a parochial, competitive view in these valleys. Castlegar consumers spend dollars in Trail and Nelson. Nelson people drive to Castlegar and Trail for deals that are hard to beat anywhere. We are all tourists around here because we can often be found shopping outside our trading area. ally, take the media (excluding TV): three radio stations and three newspapers could be expanded or further improved in such a manner that one would only deduce head- quarters by the masthead or call letters. It is quite exciting when you think of the possibilities.

If we carried on our lives within a community of 50,000, it is certain economic, cultural and social im- provements would be ours. From 30,000 feet, we three are fortunate neighbors — and friends.

the before deciding whether to proceed with deportation measures.

But while there have been the expected cries from outraged citizens that Zundel should be promptly kicked out of Canada for his anti-holocaust Propoganda, there are also reser. vations.

In fact, many say Zundel should never have been prosecuted. Where are Canada’s cherished freedoms of

expression and opinion? some ask. Others argue that Zundel’s views should have been ignored rather than dignified with widespread publicity.

Zundel, who has been in Canada since 1958 without applying for citi zenship, was convicted of one of two charges laid under Section 177 of the Criminal Code.

A district court jury convicted him on the basis of a 1981 booklet he published — Did Six Million Really Die? — which dismisses the Second World War genocide of Jews as a hoax and a Zionist conspiracy to extract reparations from Germany.

‘The Zundel trial contained an inherent risk of absurdity’

He was acquitted of a second count, relating to a letter by Zundel titled the West, War and Islam, in which he warns the Arab world that Zionists, bankers, i and Fr

distortion,” he said.

Zundel’s prosecution began as a private lawsuit by Sabina Citron of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance As- sociation, which broke away from the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1978 to pursue pedlars of hate literature more vigorously.

Citron's move wasn't welcomed by the Jewish Congress and other Jewish organizations that were compiling evidence against Zundel — and it also created a dilemma for the Ontario Attorney General's Ministry.

Roy McMurtry, then attorney gen- eral, had to decide whether to take over the prosecution under the fuzzy Section 177 or to allow it to proceed privately and risk accusation that the government was not concerned with bringing Zundel to justice.

McMurtry finally responded by ordering his ministry to take over the prosecution and appointed Peter Grif. fiths to prosecute.

Section 177 is a seldom-used statute

were banding together to form an evil world government.

Freed on $1,000 bail pending his sentence, Zundel says he will appeal the conviction.

Alan Borovoy, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. iation, said the Zundel trial contained “an inherent risk of absurdity — and that risk materialized in this case.”

The successful prosecution of Zundel could “encourage prosecutions in res- ponse to other allegations of historical

and is releg to a grey area of the Criminal Code — stuck between the offence of common nuisance and that of performing an indignity to a dead body.

Yet penalties in those countries remain on a par with the maximum two-year sentence in Canada, he said.

Compared with Canada, hate lit- erature laws are extremely tough in totalitarian states, such as Soviet Bloc countries and Guatemala, he said.

And they are significantly tougher in Israel

(Canadian Press}

Letters to the Editor

The following notice appeared in a full-page ad for West's Dept. Store: “On April 20, 1930 this business was purchased from the late W. J. Farmer. In co-operation with our suppliers we are pleased to offer our customers the specials listed to celebrate 20 years of growth.” Under dry goods and cloth- ing, some of the specials included: 24"x45 bath towel — regular $1.25, special 89 cents; ladies’ blouses, lace trimmed — regular $3.25, special $1.98.

25 YEARS AGO From the March 24, 1960 News

An offer by Kinnaird Transfer of one of its gravel pits for use as a garbage disposal pit was termed “almost a Christmas gift” by Comm. George Carr at the last meeting of the Castlegar council. Art Geronazzo, who owns Kinnaird Transfer, has asked only that he be reimbursed for the taxes paid on two gravel pits in the village ($45 a year).

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Finance chairman G. S. Rust told Kinnaird council that he “can't see” where the 1960 school budget can be cut down. Major increase is “about $46,000” in teachers’ salaries, said Mr. Rust.

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Celgar announced this morning that Stolberg Construction (1957) Ltd. was successful bidder for a contract to provide labor for the construction of the first two units of Celgar's new sawmil here. Labor and materials for the sawmill building and dry shed will total close to $1 million.

Castlegar

Mayor Murray Little said yesterday the Town of Castlegar is calling for tenders for drilling and installing a third well to augment their domestic water supply. Council will be asking Celgar Ltd. to contribute to the cost of the new well under the 1960 agreement with the town.

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For over -s years, the Castlegar eee have been served through

he pastors of Trail and Nelson and the

A tourist attraction?

Editor, Castlegar News:

I would like to take this time to praise whoever was responsible for the railway crossing at the plaza. It sure is quite the accomplishment.

You really can’t blame one group in particular (as in the highway ministry, CP Rail, or the city works department) on their great craftsmanship. I still wonder how much taxpayers money

went into creating this joke for all to see (and feel).

Is it ever going to be repaired properly (at more expense, of course), or is our local Chamber of Commerce going to make it into a tourist attraction? The name Moore’s Moun tain is kind of catchy when you think about it.

Don Ball Castlegar

Quotable Quotes

PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney came under attack this week from the NDP who charged he is practising “pork-barrelling patronage hypocrisy” with the appointment of 13 Conser. vatives to Air Canada’s board of directors.

“We now have 13 new Tory bagmen swilling at the public trough,” charged NDP finance critie Nelson Riis.

Riis paid particular attention to Gayle Christie, former mayor of a Toronto suburb, who told a reporter who inquired about what she knows about transportation: “I can drive well.”

ALEX MICHALOS, a Chicago na tive on sabbatical at Dalhouse Univ. ersity in Halifax after 19 years in the philosophy department at the univer. sity of Guelph, Ont., says marital bliss inereases with improved communica tion between spouses.

Particulary important, Michalos

said, is the ability to understand “non. verbal cues like shrugs, silence and throwing pots and pans.”

DAINEL STEINBERG, a 37-year. old criminal law specialist, successfully argued this week that the Vancouver bylaw on parking infractions doesn't have the power to link owners of overparked cars to the people who parked them.

Provincial court ruled that the city doesn't have the power to enforce its overtime parking bylaw.

Steinberg said he took on the bylaw, not out of any great sense of principle but “because I was going to court with some tickets and I needed a defence.”

He says he’s personally beaten 29 tickets on various legal points and paid “hundreds” of others.

“I get them about every single day, sometimes two a day. I got a parking ticket today while I was in court winning ices” won

Geta sports writer

Editor, Castlegar News:

Why don't you get a writer for your sports page who knows what he is talking about?

The writer now gets names wrong for hockey and quite often its hard to figure out what he’s talking about.

Quite often the sports scores are wrong too. I know, I've been to some of the games. Don't get me wrong — most of the paper is pretty good.

T.F. Horton, Blueberry Creek Editor's note: Our sportswriter is a she, Cheryl Calderbank.

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, Castlegar, B.

Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name.and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Nevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar.

of other Christians who penny their churches and homes for services.

On March 1 of this year, Castlegar Lutherans moved into the Castlegar United Church on Maple St. which they

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In her “Coffee Break” column, Lois Hughes writes that “flying isn't for men only”. Lucille Haley, who learned to fly from Al Laing of Castlegar’s Adastra Aviation has set an altitude record for single-engine light planes. Miss Haley, who instructed for Adastra Aviation at Castlegar in 1965 and 1966 and lived in Nelson, set an inter- national altitude record of 18,700 feet in her single-engine Fleet Canuck.

Scheduled to open August at the edge of Kootenay Lake within blocks of downtown Nelson, the Chahko-Mika Mall is named after the native Indian term for the logging festivals celebra- ted in the y's oaty days.

ACP Rail car, loaded with phosphate rock, was part of a five-car section which was secured in South Castlegar but somehow rolled free. The section was found to the north of the site with one car completely off the track and another partially derailed.

* 6 About $20,000 damage was sustained by a Beech Baron C55 aircraft this week when its landing gear collapsed during touchdown at Castlegar airport. Pilot and passenger in the aircraft werenot injured. Airport closure be- fore the plane was moved from the runway resulted in the cancelling of a

scheduled air evacuation.

LONG-TERM PROBLEM ... Margaret Garrison of Trail’s Kiro Manor discusses long-term care

(left) and New Democrat © Bob Skelly.

WRITES HEALTH MINISTER

user fees with Chris D'Arcy

D'Arcy urges user fee review

By CasNews Staff Rossland-Trail NDP MLA Chris D'Arcy has written to the Health Minister urging him to lower user fees for long-term residential care, which cost 75 per cent of federal

pensions.

D'Arcy said in an interview Thursday from Victoria that provincial user fees for long-term care for pensioners not only takes up three-quarters of their old age security and guaranteed income supplement, but the provincial govern- ment has regularly increased user fees for the past few years to match increases in federal pensions by 75 per cent.

“Basically what happens is government gives old age pensioners a raise, the provincial government takes 75 per cent of it,” he said. “Pensioners are

annoyed about it.”

In a March 19 letter to Health Minister Jim Nielsen, “This practice has made meaningless the hard-won federal increases to basic pensions which were

D’Arcy writes:

intended to lift these pensioners a notch above their previous income situations.

“By federal government standards, the practice keeps long-term care residents poor, spending at least 75 per cent of their income for necessities. Statistics Canada says Canadians should be allowed 58 per cent of their income for necessities, and the rest for items beyond the essentials.”

Such a scheme is “mean spirited at best, and cruel at worst,” says D'Arcy in the letter. “What the federal government gives, the provincial government takes away.”

Long-term care refers to society-sponsored residences

d by the provincial government. usually have a small bedroom, eat communally, and need some personal attention, but not the medical attention of a hospital.

D’Arcy’s letter follows a recent visit to long-term care residence Kiro Manor in Trail, where the MLA and provincial NDP leader Bob Skelly heard concerns of residents there.

hi the federal

Anti-smoking project takes time

By CasN. Staff An ongoing student anti- smoking campaign in Trail, Rossland and Beaver Valley seems to be producing mixed results, but the project direc- tor says it’s only a matter of time before more teenagers

drop the smoking habit.

Statistics on Project Non- Smoker, released at the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health annual meet- ing in Castlegar Thursday, suggest that from 1982-83 to 1983-84, students smoking at the junior secondary school in Beaver Valley increased in both Grades 7 and 8, despite the program.

Project Non-Smoker is an ongoing experiment, so far covering the three-year per- jod 1983-85, said project director Dr. Monty Arnott, who is also medical health director for the CKBH.

As well as Beaver Valley, the program is designed to help Grade 7 students in Rossland and Trail schools remain non-smokers.

“Basically what happened is it takes a time for the project to get established, and become effective,” said Arnott in an interview.

He said the project only deals with a few hundred students, which can cause results to vary more from year to year than a larger sample.

And many of the students

in the area covered “come from blue-collar homes where the parents are man- ual workers” — a segment of the population which tra- ditionally has a higher per- centage of smokers, Arnott said.

“If that’s so, the children in these homes are influenced by their parents’ smoking.”

Results from junior high schools in Rossland and Trail

showed either slight de- creases, no change, or slight increases in the number of student smokers.

Project Non-Smoker was first introduced in Berkley, Calif., where results showed a 30 per cent decrease in student smoking over several years.

Grade 7 students who are entered in the Project Non Smoker program are instruc-

ted in six or seven one-hour sessions conducted by Grade 12 students on how to resist beginning a smoking habit.

Students also watched a film on smoking, completed a questionnaire on smoking practices, and some had saliva samples taken to test smoking levels.

Arnott said the program will be started in Nelson schools this year.

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