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Castlegar News october 25, 1907

It's Time
for a Change.

It's Time
for Oglow as Mayor.

For more information, or a ride
to the polls, call 365-8200.

PROGRAMS

TO EASE
CHANGES

VANCOUVER (CP) —

Civil servants caught up in

British Columbia's sweeping privatization plan will have
their move into the private sector eased by a wide range
of special services and perks, Pretnier Bill Vander Zalm
promised Friday.

Vander Zalm also said job losags resulting from the
sale of two Crown and 11 government
operations will be minimal.

“The 7,240 employee# either can do the same job in

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to the Social Credit party's annual convention.

‘The premier estimated there are as many as 2,500
vacancies in the civil service as a result of last spring's
hiring freeze, although he admitted some empléyees with
specialized skills might not find similar work th th
foversiment and will have to look ‘elsewhere.

were distri to the pi 85,000

employees in advance of the premier’s announcement
outlining special services for those moving to the private
sector.

Employees will be to become owners and
will be provided with a number of incentives.

They will include preferential treatment in bidding
that would favor any employee group whose offer is
within five per cent of a non-employee bid; training
programs paid for from current ministry budgets; and a
lease-back arrangement that would make it easier to
purchase government equipment.

But the NDP Leader Mike Harcourt was not
impressed with the benefits program and said as many as
10,000 jobs will be lost.

He likened it to the Socred’s 1988 restraint program,
which resulted in thousands of government jobs dis-
appearing.

“It's a carrying on of the same program that Social
Credit has been doing since 1983, whether it be with Bill
Bennett's scowl or Bill Vander Zalm’s smile,” he said.

John Shields, president of the B.C. Government Em-
ployees Union, said there is no doubt jobs will be lost,
but it is too early to guess how many.

STATION TOUR . .

« City engineer Kevin Li
Castlegar Heritage Advisory Committee

John Charters give tour of the C.P.R. station house to
members of the B.C. Heritage Trust Friday.

—CastewsPhoto by Suri Ratton

BRIDGE

continued from front poge
Trust not to grant any money to
heritage projects that have been
moved from their original sites, Sloan
managed to convince the group to
make an exception in the case of the
station house.

“Generally, the Trust policy is to

opportunity for the community to focus
on their heritage,” said Patterson.
He added that the B.C. Heritage
Trust meets six times a year and four
of those meetings are in areas other
than Vancouver and Victoria. In each
area where a meeting is being held, one
or two special heritage projects are
brought to the attention of the Trust.

this is just a matter of getting it off the
railroad property,” said Patterson.
Sloan said he was impressed with
the tour of the CP Rail station, saying
he is learning more about it every day.
“It's (the station) changing every

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Funeral today
for Grace Kavlo

Grace Kavlo (Kavaloff) of
Oasis passed away Friday,
Oct. 28 at the age of 68.

Funeral services will be
held at the Castlegar Funeral
Chapel beginning today at 7
p-m. and continuing Monday
at 10 a.m. with burial at 1
p.m. at the Brilliant Cem-
etery.

Mrs. Kavaloff was born
Oct. 8, 1919 at Champion
Creek and grew up there and
in Creston. She married Mike
Kavaloff at Champion Creek
and after their marriage they
moved to Vancouver.

In 1945 she moved with her
husband to Oasis where they

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Funeral arrangements are
under the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

not support the movement of heritage

buildings. We were convinced by Bill and some of the other people,” said

Sloan . . . that the move of the building Sloan.
across the tracks to the other side still

it can still be interpreted as a station ity.”
effectively,” said Patterson.

He added that it would be a
different thing if it was being moved “a
mile or two away from the tracks-but

Patterson said Zuckerberg Island
keeps in enough of the railroad... that is a “real opportunity for the commun-

“There's a genuine heritage build-

“In Dawson Creek, for example,
they have moved and restored a grain
elevator and resurrected it as an art
gallery and they have a tourist infor-
mation booth in their train station
which is on the property and there are
all kinds of opportunities like that
around the province and Castlegar
certainly has enough heritage both in
the station and Zuckerberg Island,”
said Patterson.

Vander Zalm reveals
privatization plans

By DAPHNE BRAMHAM

VANCOUVER — A sell-off of provincial government

Police file

A 2%yearold Westbank
man escaped without injury
early Thursday morning
when the car he was driving
flipped after hitting an icy
patch.

Police say Barry Gorkoff

should be enjoying your Sun
day Costlegar News.

was driving a 1981 Toyota 6.5
kilometres west of Castlegar
on Highway 3 about 4 a.m.
when the car hit a pateh of ice
as it came out of a curve, The
car slide sideways and rolled
into a ditch.

Damage was estimated at
$4,000.

should | fe sii

Yes. by 9.0.m. Sundays you

Weather

in Canada was officially launched
Friday by B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm before an overflow
crowd at the Social Credit paity’s annual convention.

“We are not following a path,” he told an enthusiastic
crowd of more than 1,500 delegates crammed into the
elegant Hotel Vancouver ballroom. “We are going where
there is no path and we are blazing a trail.”

In a reaffirmation of the party's free-enterprise roots,
the premier put an estimated $3 billion worth of assets on
the auction block and told 7,200 of the province's 35,000
employees they will be affected by the sale.

Vander Zalm expects the government will save $25
million in the 1988-89 fiscal year as a spinoff of the first phase
of privatization.

A year and a day after Vander Zalm's Socreds won a
convincing electoral victory, the premier reiterated his
Promise to balance the provincial budget by the end of his

ewe’ 're not privatizing for the sake of reducing the

accumulated debt,” Vander Zalm said, “but with the purpose

of creating more economic opportunity like nowhere else in
Canada.”

ON THE BLOCK
‘The major items for sale are B.C. Hydro's gas division,
railway operations and research and development services
as well as B.C. Systems Corp., which operates the govern-

“s economic development advisory council, indicated
an interest in purchasing Hydro’s gas division, which has
assets of $516 million.

PLANS PRAISED
Oksana Exell, speaking for the 80,000 B.C. members of
Canadian Federation of I Independent Business, was
hi ic about the pri

“Things are being sold off in bite-sized chunks that we
can handle,” she said, adding that the B.C. program puts the
federal government's plans for privatization to shame.

But labor leaders were not impressed with either the
program or Vander Zalm's promise of goodies for employees,
whose jobs will be taken over by the private sector.

Those include early retirement with no
penalty for those 65 and older; incentives for employees
wishing to set up a company to contract out the services
they presently supply; and a six-month continuation of
health and dental benefits after their positions are priv-
atized.

Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C. Federation of
Labor, said he is “unalterably opposed” to the plan.

“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind the premier is
willing to sacrifice jobs and services pe '0 poopie just to see his
own political philosophy satisfied.

DIVERSE SPEECH

Vander Zalm did not limit his anniversary speech to
promises for the future. He listed his government's
accomplishments — among them more funds for indepen-

TET

Briefly

New Westar head

VICTORIA (CP) — Westar Mining, Canada's
largest coal-exporting company, has hired the former
president of the B.C. Buildings Corp. as its new
president.

Petér Dolezal, who had been with the Crown
corporation for 10 years, will assume his new position
Nov. 30.

Dolezal will be replaced at B.C. Buildings Corp. by
Dennis Truss, currently vice-president of adminis-
tration.

Bid rejected

VICTORIA (CP) — An application by Northwood
Pulp and Timber of Prince George for construction of
natural gas bypass pipeline has been rejected by the
provincial government after a-review by the B.C.
Utilities Commission.

Northwood had wanted to construct a 5.5 kilo-
metre pipeline from Westcoast Transmission’s main
line directly to its pulp mill, by the local gas
distribution utility operated by Inland Natural Gas.

The utilities recommended against
granting Northwood an energy project certificate,
providing Inland promptly offers the pulp mill a gas
transportation contract at specified rates and con-
ditions.

Turner shaken

MONTREAL (CP) — Several hundred drug-in-
dustry workers closed around a nervous John Turner
on Saturday, shouting in protest against efforts by
Liberal senators to block a drug patent protection bill.

The Liberal leader appeared visibly upset by the
noisy demonstrators who were bused to the Uni-
versity of Montreal where Turner was attending a
Liberal policy conference — aimed in part at
developing new ideas for job creation.

Campbell named

OTTAWA (CP) — David H. Campbell of Van-
couver has been named chief justice of the County
Court of British Columbia, Justice Minister Ray
Hnatyshyn announced Friday. ;

Campbell, who graduated in law from the
University of British Columbia in 1949, has been a
County Court judge since 1974.

Hnatyshyn also named John T. Steeves of Van-
couver a judge of the County Court of Westminster,
B.C., and Thomas J. Melnick of Cranbrook, B.C., a
judge of the County Court of Kootenay, B.C.

Rate remains
OTTAWA (CP) — The government won't change

decrease how much individual Sone aa
‘inance ptigekoud Michael Wilson said.

TALKING WITH ROYALTY . . . Harry Shukin, director
of the Heritage Village in Verigin, Sask. was one of
several people from that province's Doukhobor

Doukhobors

By ROBERT RUSSO
Canadian

Press

The Queen left for Britain on Saturday after a 15-day
Canadian tour that saw her bid a reluctant farewell to a
member of the Commonwealth while approving the
evolution of another.

The Queen and Prince Philip weren't greeted by the
rock-star reverence given Prince Charles and the
Princess of Wales during their 1983 visit.

But the 61-year-old monarch met with drum-beating
natives in British Columbia, unshaven oi] men in
Saskatchewan and was cheered by monarchists and
booed by separatists in Quebec.

The Queen left Quebec City aboard a Canadian
Forces Boeing 707 after her first official visit to Quebec in
23 years. Prince Philip left on a separate flight for
Denver.

During her three-day stay -in Quebec, the Queen
gave her blessing to the Meech Lake constitutional
accord that Quebec aa a ie faa brio
soe the copstitution was.

‘here has been a considera a ne the he den

community to welcome the Queen and Prince
Phillip. —Phote by Pete Ogiow

meet Queen

said during a state dinner hosted by Premier Robert
Bourassa.

“The constitutional accord of 1967 recognizes that
Quebec constitutes a distinct society.”

In Kindersly, Sask., 3,000 people sat in the bleachers
while the Queen and Prince Philip watched four oil
workers operate a 10-metre tall portable rig set up on a
flat-bed truck.

For 's Dr ity, one of
the highlights of her trip to the province was her visit to
the National Doukhobor Heritage Village in Canora, 200
kilometres northeast of Regina.

The Doukhobors were persecuted in 19th-century
Russia for pacifism and so-called heresy. More than 7,400
Doukhobors fled to Saskatchewan in 1899 with the help of
Queen Victoria.

During her stay in Canada, the Queen had to
compete for regal space in newspapers with reports that
her eldest son's fairy-tale marriage to Diana, Princess of
Wales, was on the rocks.

pe os been eee rere) family, the Queen
refused: to comment. on the reports.

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BROADBENT |
TO FORCE
ELECTION?

OTTAWA (CP) — ners Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent
"y tactics to force

bn clestion an free trode. s

Broadbent told 100 delegates to the NDF's national

Canadians’ concerns about the agreement with the United
States.

“Unlike the Conservatives, we don't believe that the
only way to become successful is to become an Ameriean,”
Broadbent said to prolonged applause.

Canada has built a confident society that is the envy of
the world, and while many fine things have come from the
U.S., Canadians have their own vision of what society should
be, he said. a

“Canadians need, Canadians desire, and Canadians must
have s general election on this issue,” Broadbent told

The NDP leader repeated an oft-recited complaint that
Mulroney had no mandate to conclude the trade
with the U.S. Given Mulroney's opposition to free trade
before the Conservatives came to power in 1964, he should
eall an election “if he has any moral integrity,” Broadbent
added.

Canada indicate that the government isn't listening to
them.”

However, he did not explain what procedural tactics the
NDP caueus might use.

Many of the obstructionist tactics formerly available to
opposition parties can no longer be used under parlia-
mentary reform measures introduced last year.

Broadbent told the council that Mulroney deceived
Canadians during the trade negotiations and the deal will
end Canada’s control over its pharmaceutical industry,
energy supplies, and culture.

He noted that the U.S. is negotiating with countries
such as the Soviet Union and India to sell subsidized grain —
a violation of the agreement.

He also lashed out at Liberal leader John Turner, saying
he failed to take a strong position on the agreement.

“We have said that if we come to power, we'll give the
Americans six months notice ard tear up the agreement,”
Broadbent said.

“I'm worried about the Liberal position. I'm still waiting
for John Turner to say whether they'll tear it up if they form
a government ~-.and he hasn't said that yet.” '

‘The party's nagional council fmeéte-figain today to

The usual $75,000 limit on bonds that
can buy has been dropped to $20,000.

But the bonds, which go on sale Monday, will still
yield nine per cent a year.

Judge appointed

OTTAWA (CP) — Laurent Cossette, a Quebec
judge, has been appointed to settle the contract
dispute between Canada Post and its 23,000-member
Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

The legislation that ended the 17-day postal strike
and ordered mail sorters and wicket clerks back to
work provides for a three-month period of mediation.

If Cossette, the chief judge in Quebec City's
municipal court, can't get the two sides to agree on a
settlement within that period, the legislation requires
him to render a binding decision on the terms of a new
contract.

Baby improves

LOMA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Week-old Paul
Hole, who received a heart transplant at birth, has
been removed from life-support systems and hospital
officials say he “has a healthy, lusty cry and powerful
lungs.”

The condition of Baby Paul, the youngest person

Loma Linda University Medical Centre, where the
operation was performed Oct. 16.

Canada will not
follow U.S. lead

WINNIPEG (CP) — The Canadian government hasn't
been swayed’ by the decision of the U.S. House of Repre-
every J A ‘ican in-
terned vat the Second World War, says Multiculturalism
Minister David Crombie.
is sticking by an offer made in a letter sent last
March to the National Associ of J

MORE LETTERS

discuss for a general election.

Reporter's facts wrong

I thought it was a travesty on your
part to print bits and pieces of Mr.
Balabuck's letter (Renata Parents
Upset, Oct. 18 Castlegar News), when
the Castlegar school board was still de-
upon the matter. In regard

he added in an interview. It included an offi ca apology,
repeal of the War Measures Act, under whichs the intern-
ment took place, and a community fund:

“That's where it sits right now,” Crombie said after
attending a function at the University of Manitoba to kick off
universities week.

“As for the action in the United States, I don't think it
has concluded.”

The package approved last month includes $1.2 billion in
restitution, which would provide $20,000 to those of
Japanese ancestry wronged by the American internment
program. The plan has yet to be considered by the U.S.
Senate.

Art Miki, p of the iation of J: Can-
adians, said at the time he hoped the U.S. action would spark
new talks in Canada. Negotiations broke off here in July
over the issue of direct payments to individuals and no new
talks are scheduled.

to Mr. Balabuck’s letter, he asked us to
consider two possibilities — either send
a bus all the way or pay him for the
“real” travelled. To the

travelled, and then at the board

If you think I'm exaggerating

date of Mr. Balabuck’s letter, the board
was paying only the Ministry of Edu-
cation’s allowance, which had a max-
imum of 50-kilometre round-trip which
could be paid for travel from beyond
the district’s bus routes. Your reporter
focuses only upon the request for a bus
— a distortion at best.

However, your follow-up article
(Board Rejects Request, Oct. 21
Castlegar News), adds misinformation
to distortion. Your repgrter simply did
not report the events of the board

. Inetaet,-he went

ment retroactive to the first day of
sehool.

In the third paragraph, your
reporter states that the board's Policy

tioned at the board meeting, so how
could your reporter have come up with
this statement? In actual fact, making
that kind of decision is not within the

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NOTICE

FOR THE SAKE OF
THE SAFETY OF
OUR CHILDREN

If a school bus is stopped on the high-
way with red lights flashing ALL
motorists from EITHER DIRECTION
MUST STOP and must not proceed un-
til the red lights stop flashing.

Board of School Trustees
School District No. 9
Castlegar

The government is also offering for sale 11 government
services, including bridge and highway maintenance opera-
tions; environmental and agricultural testing laboratories;
the Queen's gece stationery supply stores and market-
ing services; and forestry nurseries.

Riverview Psychiatrie Hospital in Coquitlam will be
transferred to a non-profit society, funded by government
grants.

‘The premier also announced plans to review the
province's social services, education and health care systems
with an eye to containing costs.

“We can't afford to let spiralling cost increases jeopar-

” he said.
premier’ Inland
Natural Gas president Bob Kadlec, a member of the

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Local 480 Members

creation.

He boasted of increased party membership and crowed
that Social Credit is the only provincial party in Canada that
“owes no favors to the Conservatives or Liberals or NDP.
We only owe it to the people of British Columbia.”

in his wide-ranging speech, Vander Zalm levelled a
blistering attack at the Opposition NDP and its pro-choice
stand ofl abortion. And he touched on everything from gang
violence to his support of a Canada-U.S. free trade agree-
ment.

“Tl commit to find violence whether it's teenage gangs
in Vancouver or the kind that takes place in Nicaragua,” he
said. “And I'll stay committed whether violence involves an
atomic bomb or a free-standing abortion clinic in downtown
Vancouver.”

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Local 480 will no longer be valid

AFTER OCTOBER 31, 1987

by

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ground-based lasers in
the Soviet Union are powerful enough to destroy U.S.
satellites in low Earth orbit and even damage sensors
on satellites orbiting at altitudes of 35,800 kilometres,
a U.S. air force general said.

Such laser capability is just one of many reasons
the United States needs to expand its launch cap-
abilities and take other actions to protect its space
“assets” in the event of a war, warned Gen. John Pio-
trowski, head of the U.S. Space Command.

“ran attacks

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — An Iranian speed-
boat attacked a Greek-owned tanker in the southern
Persian Gulf before dawn Saturday, setting it on fire
but causing no injuries, gulf-based shipping sources
said.

Te speedboat. hit the ph pearing 1 ble

the cout of Dub the sour ad

Offices bombed

KUWAIT(AP)— An explosion ripped through the
empty offices of Pan American World Airways in
Kuwait y ‘ing them but

hurting no one.

The explosion was apparently from a bomb placed
under the Pan Am sign. The blast occurred two days
after pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem extremists in Lebanon
threatened to strike at U.S. and European targets in

the region.

among the 22,000 uprooted from the West Coast, stripped of
their property and place din internment camps because they
were considered a security threat.

Miki also wants a $50-million community fund, for a
total package of $400 million.

Crombie, who has offered a $12-million community fund,
said the association's demands are just too costly.

“We've only found common ground on matters of
principle. We have no common ground on matters of money.
The request for $400 million is a sum that is quite con-
siderably more than the government feels is appropriate.”

Report calls for
Indian involvement

VICTORIA (CP)— There ives, which it described as
should be more Indian in- integral parts of the heritage
volvement in the protection conservation system.

British The task foree, headed by

Social Credit member Kim
Campbell (Vancouver-Point
Grey)held 11 public hearings

letter sounded better than the decent
decision the board made on the Bals-
buek’s behalf. Frankly, I believe the

in your reporter's eight paragraphs.
I wish to correct these for the

because they pay school taxes, they
should be with bus service.”
Where did the 14 parents with children
come from? As far as we know, we are
assistance

teen properties in Renata paying
school tax.”

I trust that if you re-read Mr.
Balabuck’s letter and compare the in-