A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 20, 1983. ‘A salute to our Pie hah fk & Sixty-four Cominco plants, shops and offices at Trail won.B.c. Safety Council Awards-in the last half of 1982. This list of awards involves more than 2,200 employees. It should be noted that'some areas with outstanding safety records’ are not. listed here : because they were ‘between awards” in this period and working toward the next one. . * TRAIL OPERATIONS SAFETY AWARDS RECEIVED July 1, 1982 — December 31,- 4982 ’ ‘Man Hours. 77,400 - 51,588 70,800.” 106,200 46,000 - 96,520 41,037 32,529 ATTA "-435,000 | Group _ Award ; Employees ENGINEERING.CONSTRUCTION ? . €&M Ironworkers, Welders & Steel Fab E&M Ironworkers, Welders & Steel Fab E&M Pipefitters, Plastic Fab, Machinists & Millwrights E&M Pipefitters, Plastic Fab, Machinists & Millwrights Sulphur Gas Handling Sulphur Gas Handling Sulphur Gas Handling ENGINEERING SERVICES Foundry Machine Shop FERTILIZER OPERATIONS Maintenance Storage & Shipping LEAD OPERATIONS .- Lead Furnaces, S Shift Lead Furnaces, Q Shift Slag Furnaces, Q Shift Slag Furnaces, T Shift Slag Furnaces Group Slag Furnaces Group Smelter Furnace & Yards Group Smelter Maintenance, Pipefitters Lead Refinery, S Shift Lead Refinery, E Shift Lead Refinery, J Shift ~ Lead Refinery, L Shift Lead Refinery; R Shift ” Silver Refinery © Metal Products Fabrication Refinery Maintenance. OPERATING SERVICES Equipment Depot, Operators Fire Department Fire Department First Ald 2 Salvage Yard/Warehouse TRAIL TRADES SERVICES Bricklayers Carpenters Carpenters Electricians Instrumentation Painters Pipefitters ‘Roofers, Insulators: Service Maintenance, S Shift Service Maintenance, T Shift Yards Yards ZINC OPERATIONS Roaster/Acid Operations Q Shift Roaster/Acid Operations R Shift Pressure Leaching Plant Pressure Leaching Plant hing Plant Op Sulphide ceeoring: R Shift . Sulphide Leaching, R Shift Sulphide Leaching Plant - Oxide Leaching, T Shift Melting Plant, R Shift Melting Plant, Q Shift E&M Operations, Melting Tailor Shop Yards - Bronze . 36 Silver Silver Gold =: Bronze: .: Silver Bronze Bronze 2... Bronze: ».-" Gold 3 Bronze: ne Silver Bronze Gold. - Bronze Bronze . Silver, : Bronze Gold Silver Gotd Honor . Bronze 144,000 48,909 72,112 213,000 35,1 35 Gold 62,900-. Distinction Honor Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Bronze Instr New E&M Maintenance New E&M Maintenance Old E&M Maintenance Maintenance Steel Fab, Ironworkers & Welders Bronze NOTE: B.C. Safety Council Awards, in order of importance, are: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Award of Honor, Award of Distinction, Award of Excellence. Bars are available in each subsequent year on the anniversary date. A special Million Man’ Hour Award is also available ‘The safe way isn’t just the right way, IT’S THE ONLY WAY”?, Cominco ‘ $109,000: “MICRO- -COMPUTER 7 New lab planned | By CasNows Stat! - Selkirk College is spending a total of $70,000 on a micro-computer lab to. be * established at the Trail Cam- pus, college principal ‘Leo Perra : told college board ‘members at its annual gen-. eral meeting this week. | The college will spend $40,000 for micro-computer ” lab-micros and software, to be installed: iu. the near. . future, "The. funds will be . taken.out of this year's oper- ating budget. “We have been cost saving “Winning Western Winning Western numbers for the’ Feb, 16 draw. for’ ‘are’ “7089887, , 9455282, 8452703, B206808, and 8888106. : :-- _). 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The remaining $30,000 — for portable micro-computers .and software — is to be taken out of the surplus funds from the 1981-82 budget. ‘The micro-computer lab is presently operating with four Apple Il-plus computers. Computer application courses at the lab will be started in May, the board was told: Extension Centre’ programs are expected to start in October. The . computer: i lab «: will house two Micom ‘Wordpro- cessors and 10 micro-compu- ters, Perra explained in a written report. The lab will provide three forms of speci- alized services. He said a wide variety of computer appliction courses will be developed. me on a scheduled drop-in basis, Perra said, An instructor will be available to answer ques- tions during tutorial periods, As woll, individunls who * have registered; for the courses or tutorials will’ be able to schedule practice time on the available: equipment. A schedule of fees'is to. be established for the different: services. At its Deceniber- m ting, the board approved a $80,000 expenditure for the purchase of 12 portable microcompu- tors. But Perra said a call for quotes indicated that suitable micros are available ‘within the amount’ designated, how- ever, planning activities for the initiation of the proposed programs have ‘suggested a more desirable approach: The college will assign 1% instructors to the lab, who will be ible for. man- courses, will ‘pr: one-day courses in either general or . specific appli- cations, A tutorial service will also “be established for individuals aging the lab and providing the services, The will also develop learning packages instructional area. Royal couple on tour PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO (AP( — Queen Eli- zabeth and Prince Philip spent Saturday at sea aboard their royal yacht Britannia. ‘after visiting a British- financed steel mill. The royal couple is sched- uled to arrive at. this sun- drenched Pacific coast resort eae They wili-mect with President Miguel de la Mad- rid for the last time on this voyage before cruising up the west coast of Mexico to Cali- fornia. . On'Friday, the 57-year-old British: monarch .toured a steel mill i in Lazaro Cardenas “United Kingdom.” The royal couple arrived * -Thursday in Acapulco aboard an RAF plane to begin an, eight-day visit along Mexico's’ west coast. De la Madrid was host to a dinner in the royal couple's honor: Socreds hold meeting | By CasNews Staff The Rossland: ‘Trail Social: sis holding; underwrite the plant’ ’s expan- sion. Critics have questioned the expansion at a time when the market for steel has declined worldwide, ~ During the tour, the Queen refused to wear a hard hat as _she viewed blast furnaces “Sand saw red-hot steel bars forged. While in Lazaro Car- denas, she also unveiled a plaque with an engraving that said her visit’ was a “show of good will and rein of the me sis at 7:30 p.m: Tuesday’ at the Hi-Arrow Arms Motor . Hotel. The. Socreds will be holding their nominating.con- vention March 28 at Tadanac Hall in Trail, So far.only one man has declared that he is in. the running. Marten Kruyase, economic development com- missioner for the: Regional District of © Kootenay- Boundary, is letting his name stand. Phil Brooks, constituency president, declined to iden- tify and co-operation between the peoples of Mexico and the 7885049, 8821383, 9763687, 9814839. AMC Eagle Wagons 1251575, 2853250, 6574755, 7188987, 8822728 | SPECIALS FOR. YOU Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week ©. cRISCO SHORTENING MACARONI & CHEESE Catelll 2256 Pkg. o..eeee INSTANT COFFEE ex 34° Woz. for. SUN RYPE APPLE CENTRAL FOODS CO OWIiED € OPERATED 2717 Columbia Ave. “CASTLEGAR be- cause of the organization's policy. : (COURT NEWS _/ In Castlegar provincial court this week, Jason Mar- . kin pleaded guilty to being a 4m minor in possession of alcohol and was placed on four months probation with condi- tions. “= * « Louis Hoodicoff pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was sentenced to three months in jail intermittently’ and placed on probation with conaitions; sc oe iaandie Harmston plediaca guilty to driving without valid insurance. He was;fined , $800. Harmston ‘was! also! Sentenced to 14 days in jail intermittently and placed on probation for driving with a blood alcohol count over .08. 8 @ James Mackay pleaded guilty to being a minor in possession of aleolial and was fined $50. ~ - « « In last week's court news Joan Hall was reported pla- ced on six months probation with conditions for theft over’ $200. It should also have been reported that she was'givena * conditional discharge, after * pleading guilty to the charge. Let us bring Wer ‘ to life with a life [> long experience of ee ity and moisture resistant non-metal marking cabinet Interlors. — VISIT OUR SHOWROOM 2228 - 6th AVE., CASTLEGAR 365-3110 Free Estimate & Design Service | MUDSLIDE m continued from front pa; safety to the community at this particular location.” ~He pointed: out that haz- ardous chemicals are. trans- ported alon wd the -section of, railway and said telegraph ~ lines adjacent to the railway are leaning-over, : - “It appears that the bed under’ the railway ‘tracks could slide enough to derail trains travelling over this section,” Zahynacz warned in the letter. 3 GP Rail's. McKee replied in an Oct. 26 letter'that CPR en- gineering staff, would install stakes in early November for reference to: monitor the slope and in the spring of this year will monitor the slope on a continuous basis, “At present I do not feel that this particular ‘area .is going. to pose. immediate danger to our grade, subse- quently causing a derail-' ment,” McKee said in the let- ter. Zahynacz said in an inter- view Friday'that the city has tried to stay out of the issue, except to warn CP Rail. “The city ‘can’t really get involved when it’s. private ‘ property,” he.explained. ‘Meanwhile, Ted McAfee, part-owner of Armour Plat- ing, said in an interview’ Friday morning that he'esti- mates damage to his building and contents’, at about $100,000. McAfee said the slide oc-, _ curred between 7:80 and 8:30 a DEVASTATING SLIDE ++ + Top phto shows Armour Plating building and slide. Photo was taken from atop the embankment. Photo Fb. 3 a.m: He sald he-drove by the building about 7. a.m.’ and didn’t notice anything, But when he ‘arrived for work shortly after, the- concrete block wall.on the. north side and. rear wall on. the west side had been caved in by the mud.” The: mudslide pushed an $8,000. truck stored in: the rear of the building about 15 to 20 feet across to the other aide of the building. The mud also tossed heavy metal tubing and steel across the floor like toothpicks. _ No major pieces of equip- ment were damaged, though McAfee said:three expensive pieces were located, in “the rear of the building. 5 “They were just positioned in the right places,” he said. . He pointed ‘out that’ a $10,000 crane pulley system, the’ roof’ beams was des- the walls caved in: and ‘the roof collapsed’ and a third roof beam teetered on its last Mud covered much of the rear of the’ building and‘ water was:.everywhere ex-° cept in'the very front of the business, Asked if he is ‘insured to cover the mudslide, McAfee declined to comment, noting that he has retained a soli- citor: who is advising the owners of the matter. danger of CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 20, 1983 )Mineral producers ‘short-sighted’ VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. ‘mineral producers aro short-sighted in thinking that when markets are bad they'll be bad forever, and when markets are good they'll be good forever, a Vancouver economic consultant says. One reason for this is that fe metals prod) Modak said he anticipates a rise in U.S. economic ac- tivity by the end of this year. He said that prediction is based on a loosening of the U.S. money supply which started in August, 1982. He said lower interest rates in the U.S. will spur in B.C. are intermediate products — useful for what can be made with them and not for what. they are, con: sultant Tanu Modak said. “Consequently, there’s a time lag in the demand- supply process,” he said. “When you come to a reces- sion, the whole bubble bursts and. producers sit around with long faces and say things will never improve again, “At the moment, ‘things are bad, but I can see demand and prices going up. Non- ferrous metals are ic activity there, add-" ing that the current recession has left “a tremendous amount of slack” in U.S. in- dustry, creating room for considerable growth. Modak said that because drops in production take so long to affect non-ferrous metal demand, producers are left with unanticipated sur- pluses following boom per iods. “It takes a long time. for companies to realize what's happening. As you go down the cycle, non-! ferrous: metal fin in upsurge by the end ‘of the year in B.C.'s lumber ex- ports, “The gradual rise in U.S. housing starts now is reducing the slack. In 1983 the lumber industry is ex- pected to reach the break- even point. “Nineteen eighty-four is expected to be good as a “result of the pent-up demand for housing. 1984 and 1985 should be banner years.” Schwartz, in a talk on long-range energy prospects, said coal will take a dominant energy role, especially in in- dustry, supplying up to 65 per cent of Canada's energy needs by the year 2080. She said oil will be used almost exclusively in the transport sector, adding that oil and natural gas will ex- perience dramatic declines.in their share of total energy consumption. A building blocks. There's no ua .way. that any of these metals are going to become obsol- ete.” 2 Modak made his commeits. at a conference sponsored by the University of B.C. com- merce. - faculty's executive p office and 4 very bad way, and this has a8 tremendous impact on profits.” Modak also predicted an said that while energy output will increase by 2.5 per cent per year, the cost of energy will restrict consumption. MASS KILLINGS by representatives from nine companies, among them Im- perial Oil Ltd., B.C. Hydro and Cominco Ltd. Participants were given a cheery picture of B.C.’s re- sources future, including a glowing outlook for coal and forestry, by Modak and UBC commerce professor Sandra Schwartz. es 3 COMINCO continued trom front poge Fish said the headline ac- companying, a Province Fargey’s comments “a bit far.” The headline read, “Com- «.inco may close Trail smelter.” “Fish said the headline did not accurately reflect Fargey's comments. Meanwhile, the. B.C. Su- against an appeal by the Canadian Association of In- dustrial, Mechanical and Al- lied Workers in its bid to take over certification of employ- ees at Cominco, CAIMAW had asked that the Labor Relations Board be directed to hold a vote at Cominco’s Trail operations. Judge Victor Dryer said he agreed with the board’s find- ing that the number of em- Saturday. Crews also had to move telegraph pole that was i below shows CP Rail crew realigning track above embankment over . ployees who signed up during the three months prior to the date of certification appli- cation did not constitute a majority of employees. PRINCESS GRACE She ‘lost control’ NEW YORK (REUTER) — Prince Rainier of. Monaco said in an interview pub- lished today that his daugh- ter, Stephanie, told him the accident which took the life of Princess Grace occurred when the former film star Legality questioned: “panicked” and “lost control” of her car. In an exclusive interview with Life magazine, the prince said that “Stephanie was serious when she said, ‘Oh, mommy panicked. She didn’t know what to do. She in Thatcher case REGINA (CP) — No date was ,set Saturday for a pre- liminary hearing. on abduc- tion and mischief charges against former Saskatche- wan energy minister Colin Thatcher and lawyer Tony Merchant. Thatcher and Merchant appeared in a special: provin- cial court session to hear the charges. But defence counsel objected that the abduction charges under section 250 of the Criminal Code rhay pos- sibly come under provincial jurisdiction and therefore could not be heard. There also was some ques- tion whether the legality of the charge could be ruled on before the charges are read anda plea entered. The court will decide if it has the authority to hear an argu- ment that the charge is un- constitutional on March 10. Thatcher is to appear in Court of Queen's Bench Tues- day as part of the custody battle over his nine-year-old yh The lost control.’.” He said Princess Stephan- ie, who was injured in the car erash in the hills I newspaper story simply took preme Court Thursday ruled . pogo different calibres were used, he said. ALL ASIANS Dr. Gary Bonnell, King County deputy medical examiner, said all the victims were Asians, ranging in age from “the 20s as far up as 60s and 70s.” : Eleven were found in the main room of the club, and the body of another man, who was not bound, was found in the office, said Bonnell add- ing: “Some were shot once and -others shot multiple times.” The people in the club had been playing a Chinese game called paykyo, Slessman said. Gambling paraphernalia, in- cluding dominos, chips and dice, was found, but no money was seen. Only people of Chinese an- cestry were allowed in the club, and had to be recog- nized to gain entry, said Slessman, indicating the vic- tims may have known their assailants. One resident of the neigh- borhood who asked to remain unidentified said the Wah Mee club — the name means Beautiful China — had oper- ated in the same location for 20 years. inland cuts VANCOUVER (CP) — In- land Natural Gas Co. Ltd. announced Wednesday it in its prices system. Inland, which serves more than 100,000 residential and would pass on a federal tax to its customers. With the permission of the B.C.. Utilities, Commission, Inland will cut its prices by five per cent, passing along to consumers a reduction in the federal natural gas and ges liquids tax. The price cut is retroactive to Feb. 1. This translates to 1.85 cents per billing unit, or about $21 a year for the average home on Inland’s in the: Interior, estimates the total saving to all customers at $9 million for 1983, B.C. Hydro's customers in the Vancouver area will see a 4.5-per-cent reduction on their gas bills. Hydro spokes- man Flint Bondurant said Wednesday that translates to an average $25 a year for the average Hydro home cus- tomer using gas for space heating. CCROSSWORD athe Mirite 2 Stuff... answer inW Wed. Pan i h A 885 Bee - Monaco last September, had said hernia else about. the: want to ‘press her, of course. Maybe someday she'll be -more talkative. One can feel that she's closed off on that subject.” . The ruler of the tiny prin- cipality on the French Riv- iera also said that he believes the doctors who stated Prin- cess Grace could have sur- vived the stroke which she suffered before the crash. “I must say it’s a dreadful thing tot hear after you've lost . girl's stepfather Tony Wilson has temporary custody and is also seeking Permanent” cus- tody. 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