Natives ask for help

VANCOUVER (CP) — Native Indians have asked
Premier Bill Vander Zalm for help resolving their land
claims, because Ottawa has not been co-operative.

“Tm hearing from native that federal
people aren't addressing very well or very quickly,”
Vander Zalm said Tuesday.

“if | can bolp in thet regard, by all means I would
help to bring some pressure on the federal govern-
ment to do whatever it is that needs doing.”

Tourists scared away

VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourists are scared away |}

by reports of dirty water at Vancouver beaches and $1

“There's no question we have an emergency
requirement that all the players with any concern over
the cleanliness of the beaches here and the Georgia
Strait must get together,” Reid said in an interview.

Freight cars derail

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The derailment of 10
cars of-a 58-car westbound CP Rail freight train closed
H] both the Canadian National and CP Rail lines through
| the Fraser Canyon Tuesday.
The cars derailed near North Bend and ripped up
about 45 metres of track.
CP Rail spokesman Don Bauer said two of the 10

the derailment, Bauer said, and no one was hurt.

Sea lion fatally shot

VANCOUVER (CP) — Sunny, the 270-kilogram,
Expo-loving sea lion was fatally shot by the SPCA
Tuesday as the large mammal sunned himself near the
world’s fair site.

SPCA spokesman Bob Gordon said the seal was
old and sick.

“We had to do something. Otherwise the animal
would have stayed there and died.”

The first shot didn't kill Sunny, who was lying on
a wharf. He dragged himself to the edge and rolled
into the water.

Gordon said it took 45 minutes to find a large jj

enough gun to finish off the hefty sea
Sunny had delighted Expo
sunning himself at the world’s fair.

Settlement reached

sea lion. |
visitors in July by

BCGEU pact reached

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — The British Columbia Govern-
ment Employees Union and provincial government repre-
reached a early today after

an ——— bargaining session.
at a 7:15 a.m.

est cocdusie than coatadel 6 fell session
that began early Monday. The two sides had been meeting in
earnest since Premier Bill Vander Zalm met recently in
Victoria with union leader John Shields, providing a more
optimistic tone for bargaining.

Details of the agreement wer not released, but the
contract was said to be for more than two years.

Negotiators were aided by mediator Vince Ready and
had been meeting steadily in recent days after months of

inactivity.

“T'm glad to say that we have achieved all of our goals,”
said Shields. “We have achieved a non-concession agree-
ment. We have achieved a fair agreement, and we have
achieved a creative agreement.

“I think we'll benefit the members of the union and
serve as a model for others who are looking for creative
solutions.”

Government negotiator Bob Plecas credited the
premier for the quick resolution of the dispute once talks
resumed.

“Finding a collective agreement is difficult at the best of
times,” Pleeas said. “This has been a long, hard one. I think
Premier Vander Zalm set the climate when he met with us
last week and got the talks back on track.”

A union spokesman had indicated Monday that some 80

MISS PNE CONTESTANTS . . . West Kootenay Miss
(from left) Miss
. Sandra Watts, Miss Rossland, Colette
and Miss Trail, Lee Ann Ward were

PORTLAND, Ore. (CP) —

has been reached between Boise Cascade Corp. and |]
union officials on a new contract for 2,200 of the

company’s Northwest U.S. mill workers.
nt, reached late Monday, followed an
announcement by the Lumber Production and
Industrial Workers union earlier in the day that a
previous company offer had been narrowly rejected.
It calls for an average rollback of $2.87 US in
hourly wages and benefits. Boise Cascade unionized
workers now average approximately $16.75 an
hour in wages and benefits.

Rogers hits TV trail

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cowboy hero Roy
Rogers is hitting the television trail to urge U.S.
voters to draft TV preacher Pat Robertson for
president.

Political consultant Dick Minard, who until
recently worked for Robertson, showed reporters a
commercial Tuésday in which Rogers and his wife,
Dale Evans, urge people to join the National
Committee to Draft Pat Robertson.

“Our goal is to convince the American public Pat

is a legi' said Minard, and
the commercials are “just the beginning” of the effort
to convince Robertson to run.

Family members killed

land dispute, the Press Trust of India news agency
reported Tuesday.

Press Trust said police in Uttar Pradesh state
were seeking Gurmit Singh in the death of his father,
two elder brothers and the brothers’ wives and their
eight children, who were killed Sunday in a village
southeast of Nel Delhi.

Police said the 13 people were killed as they slept,
allegedly by swords wielded by Gurmit Singh and two
accomplices, the news agency reported.

4 leaders charged

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police charged four

opposition leaders with murder in the eastern city of ,

Lahore today and rioting broke out in southern
Pakistan as anti-government forces pressed their
drive to oust President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq.

In Kharipur, in southern Sind province, about
1,500 protesters tried today to attack a railway station
but were met by police firing tear gas and charging
with batons, witnesses said.

There were also clashes in the southern city of
Karachi, where an estimated 200 youths huried rocks
at buses and attacked a gas station before being
dispersed by police, witnesses said.

At least 26 people have been killed in battles
actoss Pakistan stemming from the defiance of
oppostion leaders to a ban on protests.

per cent of the issues had been resolved, and that a settle-
ment was near.

Wages and specific contract language were reported to
be the final hurdles for the negotiators. The union sought a
2% per cent wage increase in the first year of a two-year
contract and three per cent in the second.

The 34,000-member union has been without a contract
since Oct. 31, 1985 and members-voted 83 per cent earlier
this year in favor of striking.

About 160 members of the union went on strike for one
day at the Finance Ministry earlier this summer, the union's
Fesponse to government demands for what the union called

sii in the coll
‘Those concessions included a two-year wage freeze, longer
hours and cuts in sick benefits.

The union's executive decided to suspend the strike
after former premier Bill Bennett threatened to legislate
union members back to work unless they returned to their
jobs and promised not to strike until Expo 86 closes Oct. 13.

Executive members said later they called off the strike
io wait for the Social Credit party to select a new premier to
succeed Bennett, who had announced his retirement last
spring.

The union has been firm in demanding some kind of
wage increase, even though spending estimates approved by
the government in the spring did not allow for any boost in
government workers’ pay cheques.

The one-day walkout sharply contrasts a 13-day strike
the union launched in November 1983. Up to 80,000 workers,
including a majority of the province's teachers, walked off

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WKPL SALE

continued trom front pege

Cady charged that Cominco never honored its
commitment to follow the announced bidding schedule.

“It says much about Cominco’s good corporate citizen-
ship,” he added.

Cady added that he is particularly upset because he
planned to discuss the purchase with Bill Vander Zalm
during the premier's visit to the West Kootenay next week.

Cady said the regional districts’ hopes for a change in
legislation allowing them to purchase West Kootenay Power
were also buoyed by the recent appointments of Energy
Minister Jack Davis and Minister of Municipal Affairs Rita
Johnston.

“Maybe that’s why Cominco jumped quick,” he said.

Cady met Tuesday night with the Central Kootenay
regional district's advisory committee, which includes
Mayor Audrey Moore, to — the next step.

He said the i at

Brisco acknowledged that his office has received a
number of calls about the sale since it was announced
Monday.

But he said “the court is still out" on whether the sale is
not in the best interests of the region.

He pointed out that Utilicorp has been around since
1925 in one form or another and has developed an expertise
in producing “peak power”, such as power needed at supper
time during winter months.

He suggested the corporation could apply that
knowledge so West Kootenay Power wouldn't have to

employment circumstances at West Kootenay Power and
will not build the $80 million purchase price into West
Kootenay Power rates.

And Brisco said the sale puts Cominco in a “better

regional board meeting in Noes that the regional districts
either drop the purchase bid or proceed with appeals
through the B.C. Utilities Commission.

Meanwhile, Moore said she has written the utilities

jon on behalf of Castlegar council asking that
before any sale is completed there be “full-scale” public
hearings.

Moore also warned that the Canadian and B.C.
governments should be “wary” of the precent-setting sale.

Rossiand-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and Bob Brisco were
both hesitant when asked if they would intervene to block
the sale.

“I would like to have a lot more information,”
said.

Brisco said he would represent his constituents in an
appeal to Investment Canada “if there is a strong feeling of
rejection and reasoned argument for rejection of this
proposal.”

Mail delivery
set back

D'Arcy

TORONTO (CP) — A
power blackout in the city's
east end that shut down a
postal sorting facility. on
Tuesday will set back mail
delivery across Canada for
the rest of the week, Canada
Post says.

The post office sent more
than 1,00 employees home on
the night shift after the
blackout shut down the giant
Eastern Avenue plant, which
processes about five million
pieces of mail each day.

Spokesman Ed Roworth
said mail delivery will be af-

fected across Canada because
most of the country’s mail
moves through Toronto.

“It will knock us back four
or five days until delivery is

| position.” The sale would cut Cominco's long-term
debt by $140 million.

In addition, Brisco pointed out that Cominco has
interests in U.S. businesses, such as the Red Dog mine in
Alaska, so Utilicorp's West Kootenay Power purchase is a
“saw-off.”

But D’Arcy called it “most unfortunate” Cominco
decided to sell the utility outside the country. He also said
the sale to a U.S. corporation “surprised” him because there
was no previous word on bids from American firms.

And he said he has asked the B.C. Utilities Commission
to take a long look at the

DrArcy also said he “wouldn't mind” if Premier Vander
Zalm took a similar approach to Utilicorp that former
premier Bill Bennett took to the proposed sale of MacMillan
Bloedel to CP Enterprises.

Bennett blocked the sale, saying B.C. is not for sale.
However, Noranda later bought MacMillan Bloedel.

“I certainly wouldn't mind Mr. Vander Zalm ‘saying
something of the same sort (with West Kootenay Power),”
D'Arcy said.

South African
wine sales up

VANCOUVER (CP) whether they like the wine or
don’t like the wine, but ob-

view eg SOY eh

back to normal,” Roworth #

said. “For the rest of the
week and through the week-
end we will be working over-
time to get the system back
to regular service.”

A Toronto Hydro spokes-
man, who said power was
restored early today, said the
blackout was caused when
two cables “faulted” because
of wiring problems.

the job during the pace which

‘a full-seale general strik:

threatened to escalate into

Services struck included liquor stores and registration

of births and

marriages.
‘The focus of that strike, which came during the depth of
a recession that crippled British Columbia's resource-based

rnment’s plan to cut down

economy, was the provincial gove!
the public work force by 25 per cent.

The strike ended following 4 controversial Kelowna
accord between Jack Munro, president of the International
Woodworkers of America and a member of the Solidarity
Coalition executive, and Bennett.

The union argues that its members’ pay rates have
fallen well behind those of public workers in other provinces
during the last three years. ‘ ‘i ony st

nion spokesman said the bi-weekly average of
omnes is eat in Canada, with Newfoundland at
the bottom.

Since November 1983, workers have received across-
the-board increases of three per cent in November 1984 and
a further one per cent in April 1985.

Boy making
progress after
operation

LONDON (CP) — Matthew Ekroth, recovering from
arecent heart and lung transplant operation, celebrated
his seventh birthday in a hospital bed today with a liquid
meal and a rendition of Happy Birthday from his nurses.
Matthew, whose diseased heart and lungs were
replaced in a transplant operation at London's Harefield
Hospital Aug. 14, received many small gifts from hospital
staff and from friends and relatives at home in
Tsawwassen, B.C.
But the real birthday treat was that he was making
progress after the operation.
“We're just very pleased that we've got toa birthday
at all,” Don Ekroth, Matthew's father, said. “So many
times in the last few months we didn't think we'd reach

seven.”

said.

in his hospital room.

Ekroth said he and his wife Katie, who flew to
England with their son in late June, had not planned
anything special for Matthew's birthday.

“He's not really in a position to appreciate it,” Ekroth

“We told him that when he's up and around we'll
shop for something for him, and he liked that.”
The Ekroths spent the day briefly visiting their son

For the first time since the operation, Matthew was
off his diet of shaved ice and being fed through a nasal-
gastric tube. Ekroth said his son was “very thin” but
should begin to regain weight soon.

Medical staff continued weaning Matthew from the
régpirator that still performs most of his breathing. As
Matthew gone geared new organs, he must relearn how

haemangioma

pulmonary
and lymphangioma, an incurable disease that had reduced
his lung capacity by more than half.

Crestbrook has
best quarter

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Crestbrook Forest Industries
reported its best quarterly
earnings in five years Tues-
day but said the labor dispute
with the International Wood-
workers of America threat
ens future earnings.

The Cranbrook, B.C., com
pany said in its second-quar.
ter report that net profit for
the three months to June 30
was $2.9 million or 39 cents a
share, compared with last
year’s second-quarter loss of
$3,000.

“The company’s signifi
eantly-improved results in
the second quarter resulted
from improved production,
quality and sales with all

Fire
burns out
of control

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP)
— Two large forest fires ex.

of control in southeastern
British Columbia.

A fire in the Wildhorse
Creek area, 18 kilometres
northeast of here, covered
600 hectares. District for-
estry officer Norm McLeod
said officials hoped the fire
would move up the creek so
crews could subdue it in high,
rocky terrain.

Provincial Emergency Pro-

- gram officials and the fire

commissioner's office advised
ranchers to be ready to move

- if the fire turned back into

the Recky Mountain Trench.

Firefighters also worked to
contain a second fire at
Skelly Creek, about 50 kilo
metres southwest of Cran-
brook that covers more than
500 hectares.

wood product facilities op
erating at capacity,” the
company said.

However, in a letter to its
1,300 employees, Crestbrook
president Stuart Lang said
the strike by 750 wood
workers which started Aug.
7 was shut down the com
pany’s woodlands and wood
products division operations
throughout the East Koote-
nay

“The facts are that Crest
brook's earnings for the first
six months are excellent . .
but we should not forget that
it will take approximately 12
years of this type of financial
performance to simply main
tain operations and replace
worn-out components and
obsolete equipment in our
sawmills,” he said.

DEBT INCREASES

Lang said Crestbrook's
long-term debt position in-
creased to $63.1 million by
the end of 1985 from $28.1
million at the end of 1984.

About 17,000 Interior
woodworkers are on strike
against companies belonging
to the Interior Forest Labor
Relations Association.

Contracting-out of work is
the major issue, as it is with
the union and coast firms
represented by Forest In.
dustrial Relations.

Wayne Nowlin, president
of the Cranbrook local of the
woodworkers, said Crest
brook’s letter is an attempt
to negotiate outside the
union.

“Contracting-out here in
the Interior is a bigger issue
than it is on the coast, and
Crestbrook is one of the
guilty parties.”

Nowlin said contracting.
out, where non-union com-
panies are hired, has cost his
local 450 to 500 jobs in the
past four vears.

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report on Paul Desmarais and his two sons, who control
Power Corp. and Consolidated Bathurst.

By DENNIS BUECKERT

Canadian Press
MONTREAL — Transitions of corporate power
can be turbulent affairs but business observers have few
worries about the future of Power Corp. as president
Paul Desmarais gradually hands over control to his two

sons.
“Why should there be any problem?” asked Chuck
Wiltshire, vi

the $7.1-million profit reported in 1964.

Paul Jr. suictoorand Hvi's pee iti ame SaMiieOul
father as chairman of

Inflation
rate up
4.2 pct

OTTAWA (CP) The
inflation

of

A reporter asked Paul Jr. whether he saw himself as
following in his father's

“I wouldn't see it in those terms because my position

is a lot different than my father’s when he started,” he

‘That's an understatement. The brothers will be
taking over a corporate empire with assets estimated at
$1.8 billion, spread over many industries, and over many
countries.

By contrast, Paul Sr. started out with nothing more
than a failing bus company at Sudbury, Ont., which his
father was on the verge of selling. When Paul Sr. took the

Securities. “They don't make guys like Paul Desmarais
every day, he's a very unusual person. But I'm told that
Paul Jr. is fitting right in there.”

Paul Jr., 31, was recently appointed president of
Power Financial Corp., which includes highly-profitable

FEATURE REPORT

companies like Montreal Trust, Great-West Life, and the
Investors Group.

His younger brother Andre, 29, is focusing on Power
Corp.'s media assets, including Montreal's La Presse,
three other dailies, eight weeklies, and substantial
broadcasting interests.

It is not clear who will be responsible for other
interests such as Consolidated Bathurst Inc., the pulp and
paper giant. In all, the Desmarais group controls 121
corporations.

The impression so far has been that Paul Jr. and
Andre will act as equal partners in running Power Corp.
once their 59-year-old father retires, but Wiltshire des-
cribes Paul Jr. as the heir apparent.

Power Financial made a net profit of $108.7 million in
1985, a strong advance over the $95.2 million that it
earned in the previous year.

In Pisaproivone the — of Gesea Ltee., the
& profit of $5.3 million in 1965, a substantial decline from

over during his summer holidays from law
school in 1950, he acquired 19 used buses and $384,000 in
debts.

Desmarais, a private person who rarely accepts

engagements or grants interviews, described
the beginning of his career in a January 1974 interview
with the Quebec magazine, |’ Actualite.

“It was a difficult period,” he said. “It often happened
that I spent 24 hours a day in the bus garage. I got
involved in everything: ticket sales, administration,
vehicle repairs, and so on.

“Money was scarce. Sometimes the wives of
employees would come tell me they didn’t have a cent to
feed their families. I gave them what was necessary and
made up the difference with bus tickets.”

But by the end of the year he managed to build a
surplus of $3,800. By 1955 he had capital of $100,000, and
began buying other bus companies, until he dominated
bus transportation in Quebec.

Along the way he failed some of his exams at
Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto, and abandoned his
plans of becoming a lawyer.

His political connections are extensive. Journalist
Peter Newman says in his book The Canadian Establish-
ment that Pierre Trudeau's plan to run for the leadership
of the federal Liberal party were hatched in Desmarais’
office.

His younger son Andre married France Chretien, the
daughter of Jean Chretien. But he has denied being a
Liberal partisan.

stability.” But bank governor
Gerald Bouey has repeatedly

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warned Ci that they
must not become complacent
about inflation.

John Grant, chief econo-
mist at Wood Gundy, sup-
ports the central bank's
anti-inflation thrust and con-
cedes there were some dis-
last month.

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