CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 14, 1980 Road conditions prevent meeting ' Dangerous road conditions caused cancellation of a meet- ing of the West Kootenay Board of Health Wednesday in Castlegar. said today. A proposed -$600 million em- ployee wage freeze until Sept- ember, 1982, cannot be the subject of real bargaining with the United Auto Workers union because “all I've got to bargain with is their jobs,” ference. BOUEY CONFIDENT OTTAWA (CP) — Inflation will probably not fall, below the current annual: rate of 10.9 per cent in the next few years, Gerald Bouey, pee of the Bank of Canada, said toda: “It. wall: be hard to make quick progress against inflation in the next year or so,” Bouey told re- porters at a rare siews:‘conference after meeting federal and provincial finance ministers for 90 minutes. Rising energy and food prices will continue to push up the rate of « inflation, he said, but “in time we will succeed in getting the inflation rate down.” He would not predict when the drop would come. STRIKER WEAKENS BELFAST (AP) — One of 40 IRA terrorists on a hunger strike “to the death” to back demands fo: political-prisoner status is going blind and weakening in North Ire- land's Maze prison, a government spokesman said today. The Northern Ireland Office, which administers the strife-torn ‘Tacocea told a news con- . i province, said 26-year-old Sean Me- Kenna’s condition was “deterior- ating markedly” “after 52 _ days without solid food. ‘ The spokesman said McKenna. and another hunger striker, who was not identified, were rapidly losing their sight because of vitamin’ . deficiency. ‘Both men were among seven Maze prisoners who ‘launched the hunger strike Oct. 27. All the hunger-strikers were _ taking salt and water. LOTS OF GRASS 2 BEND, ORE.(AP} — Oregon State Police say they have con- fiseated a ton. of marijuana with a street value of $1.6 million in Central Oregon. Troopers arrested three Can- adians and a Florida man Tuesday and charged them with trans- portation, of a controlled substance. They each were released on $15,000 bail, ! Arrested were Lewis T. Dec- ker, 36, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Perry M. Murphy, 24, of Alder- grove; Steven L. Szollosi, 23, of Abbotsford; and June Tom, 25, of Toronto. Officers said they sighted a truck trailer on a cinder road off US. 97. They said at least one person was loading marijuana from two cars into the trailer. The cars and a truck-trailer were impounded. TIME NOT RIGHT ODANSK, (AP) — Lech Wal- esa, leader of the independent labor movement, warned today the time is not right for further strikes in Poland. “Society wants order right now,” ‘Walesa told reporters fol- lowing ceremonies in Gdansk and Gdynia commemorating workers killed by police and troops in December, 1970, food price riots. “We have to learn negotiations instead of strikes,” Walesa said, adding that strike threats raised’ public concern about transport and E other problems. LESAGE'S MOTHER DIES QUEBEC (CP) — Cetile Le- sage, mother of former Quebec ~ premier Jean Lesage, died today in a Quebec City nursing home. She was 91, Funeral arrangements were not immediately made known by the * family. Jean Lesage, chief architect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and head of a provincial Liberal gov- | ernment from 1960 to 1966, died last Friday.