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If we don’t match OTTAWA (CP) — Amid torrents of rain and a storm of protest, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney sum: med up his government's position on Via Rail in a simple cliche “Use itor lose it,” he told rain-soaked reporters at the government's retreat at Meech Lake, Que. Federally owned Via Rail has been rumored for some time to be a target for budget cuts, but a report Monday said the federal spending review committee is considering shutting the passenger rail service down completely. : Mulroney and Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard are two of the few politicians with little to say on the master. Mulroney says the decision on the cuts has not been made yet, and Bouchard says the gover nment will not act until it receives Via’s financial projec* tions in June Other politicians — federal, provincial and municipal — have joined unionists, lobbyists and railway levers in opposing Via’s abolition. “This country was built on the railfoad and I can’t imagine tearing out that underpinning,” said Ontario Premier David Peterson in Toronto “Eliminating passenger service in Alberta would be detrimental to our tourism industry,”’ said Alberta Tourism Minister Don Sparrow in Edmonton. ‘I'd like tosee it stay, but be modernized.” And Alexa McDonough, leader of the Nova Scotia New Democrats, said in Halifax; ‘*The kindest thing one could say ... is that this is spectacularly bad planning and irresponsible, reckless public investment.’ Not everyone believes the government really inten: ds to shut down Via, as annunciatéd by Nova Scotia's transportation minister. “I think they may be flying a balloon to test the waters,"’ said Geroge Moody, mixing ametaphor or two Proponents of that theory say the government is threatening to scrap the service so the public will feel relief — rather than outrage — if Via merély receives a Supermarket chains have jomed B.C unions in Condemning a cut-rate con tract at Real Canadian Super Stores that they say threatens their survival Safeway, Overwaitea and Save-On. Foods have contracts that provide their workers with higher wages and benefits than newly negotiated rates at the five Vancouver-area Super Stores and at the Extra Foods Stores in Clear brook and Kelowna Bryan Wall, vice-president of in dustrial relations for Overwaitea, said the creation of a new local of the United Workers Uhion that accepts below Feod and Commercial standard rates gives the competition an unfair advantage we've _made existing contracts have been placed in jeopardy ‘It's threatening the viability of our competitivé situafion,"’Bellsaid We're going to have to bargain an agreement that ensures our ability to be competitive HALFCOS1 In a newsletter, Wall told his com pany’s 6,000 B.C Save-On-Foods stores and 49 Over employees at 10 waitea outlets that the Super Stores will be able to operate al a wage cost of five cents for each dollar of sales, com pared with 10 cents a dollar at more established stores In other words,’ they can sell everything in the store at five per cent less that we are able to and still make a their prices, they get our customers and we stillgo broke.” The new local is part of the union that represents. workers at the major, grocery chains But Local 7 s agreed to a four ear ocstcike SMract! thay: ‘unlike those of other major” food stores, extended health coverage and eliminates sick makes no provision for pay and long-term disability pay Industry standard pay rates at major chains such as Safeway and Over waitea call for a new cashier working 20 hours a week (0 earn $57,766 over the next four years. The Local 777 con tract pays $44,855 over the same period 29 per cent less Wall said Overwaitea and e-On Would be in savings to them of 40 per Wall said Safeway spokesman Don Bell said as a result of the new deal with Super stores and their national fair Foods, — We've just picked up six thousand new teller machines. Our Cue-Strata Machines join the Interac” network of ABMs. Now that’s convenience! NJ Here in the Kootenays we have two ‘One-cem profit tor each dollar of ales," he said If we meet their prices, we will lose four cents of each dollar sale and TT-02 an “Ont $0 an hour paid their cashiers start pared with $7. counterparts at the Real Canadian Super Stores. Distributors finish dumping Chilean fruit VANCOUVER (CP) Up to $400,000 worth of Chilean fruit im pounded after the international tain ling scare two weeks ago will be dum ped by Vancouver-area produce distributors by midnight tonight The dumping operation, involving up to 20 tuckioads of fruit from various Warehouses, started Saturday, aid Gary Hammonds, general manager of David Oppenheimer and Associates, one of the largest impor ters of Chilean produce Government inspectors are super vising the disposal of the fruit at the Burns Bog landfill in suburban Delta We-can-import-ne-new fruit-untit all the Chilean produce has been removed from the pipeline,” he said Haale pnieer Perrin Beatty last week gave wholesalers the option of destroying the fruit or exporting it to the U.S, for resale if they could find a market, but Hammonds said the delay caused by the impounding of the ripening fruit meant that export is no longer practical Produce being dumped includes grapes, nectarines, peaches and plums, as wellas onions The distributors, such as Kelly Douglas and Safeway, will be compen seated for their losses by their suppliers in the U.S pensated by Chilean exporters, Ham monds said All Chilean fruit in Canada was or dered—pulled_fromthe-shelves_after , Which in turn will be com. traces of cyanide were found in two Chilean red seedless Philadelphia grapes in reduced VIA Rai be shut BRIAN MULRONEY «use it or lose it NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said the government should scrap its ‘plan to buy nuclear submarines @timated To cost at least $8 billion — rather than scrap ping Via Rail SHOULD BE FIRED John Turner, the Liberal leader, said Bouchard should be fired and a public inquiry called into ‘whole mess in transportation.”” Mulroney admitted there are problems in the tran: sportation industry, but said Bouchard is a strong Mulroney, following a meeting of cabinet’s priorities and planning committee, said Via is operating at 20-per-cent capacity and drawing $600 million a year from the federal purse He admitted the government promised to enhance the service in 1984, but added then transport minister Don Mazankowski said the spending would be reviewed if people didn’t take the train. minister and the man to fix the problems Concerns about air safety have plagued the in dustry-recently-and-prompted-Claude-Lafrance, an assistant deputy transport minister, to resign last week Bouchard is expected to announce this week a new board to investigate air, marine and rail accidents and possibly a new investigation into the Gander, Nfld., Arrow Air crash that killed 256 people in 1985. for a comeback in the Linited K-Tel trading halted TORONTO (CP) — K-Tel Inter- national Inc., -which built a fortune on fading artists’ greatest hits, is trying ; “We -maited president, Mickey Ejifenbein, said in a gas exploration and other money telephone interview that he hopes to have the ban lifted soon losing ventures. The U.S. company survived a year in and elsewhere. But the Ontario Securities Com: mission halted trading Tuesday in shares of K-Tel on the over-the counter market, a network of traders linked- by telephone or computer wrong address They Nave been, or are being, remailed The company’s roots are in Win: nipeg, where it was founded in the early 1960s, but its head office now is in Plymouth, Minn., a suburb of Min 0 fecthe: ptey-but the originatCanadiarr operation went out of business The stock was quoted on the Min: neapolis over-the-counter. market Tuesday ata bid price of 87 cents US. K-Tel came out of bankruptcy a much smaller company, but it. is UtiliCorp expects increase UtiliCorp United has announced it expects to achieve a 14.5 per cent in crease in first quarter net income despite milder-than-normal winter weather throughout much of the com: pany’s serviceterritory. UtiliCorp, parent company of West Kootenay Power, has estimated that first quarter net income would be $17.7 million Compared (6 net income of $15.5 million in the 1988 first quarter Earnings per share for the period en- ding on March 31 are estimated to be 82 cents versus 80 cents per share in last year’s quarter, and operating revenues are projected to be $213 million com pared to $227 million. Average common shares outstan- ding increased fo 20.7 million in this year’s quarter from 18.6 million in the 1988 first quarter. Most of the increase is due to an issue of two million new shares of common stock in August 1988. Richard C. Green, Jr., UtiliCorp chairman and president, said the projected first quarter. results are primarily attributable to the com- pany’s Missouri Public Service division. Although Missouri Public Service is a summer-peaking operation, it is ex- pected to post gains for the first quar- ter due to increased revenues from gas sales. The division in September 1988 received an order from the Missouri Public Service Commission allowing it to increase gas rates by $4.1 million annually, or 12.9 per cent. Missouri Public § ¢ al: customer growth and red costs for electric power production. ‘“The-importance_of| a diversified earnings base is again being illustrated,’’ Green said. ‘We're looking at our best first quarter despite temperatures that were above normal in much of our service territory.’” UtiliCorp, based in Kansas City, provides electric and gas service to seven states through its divisions, Missouri Public Service, Peoples Natural Gas, Northern Minnesota Utilities, Kansas Public Service and West Virginia Power. West Kootenay Power in British Columbia is a Canadian subsidiary. UtilCo Group, PSI, and EnerGroup are non- regulated subsidiaries specializing in— utitity-and-energy-related-investments and services. Your Castlégar News carrier will. now be collecting for delivery of the paper for the past month. 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