Castlégar News +012. 1926

WILL FORM SOCIETY

Rural parents plan
to scrutinize board

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar school board will be under
the scrutiny of an angry group of rural
parents when the board resumes its
regular monthly meetings this fall.

Led by Graham Read of Blueberry
Creek, the parents, angry over the
board's decision in June to close four
rural elementary schools, have decided
to form a “watehdog” society to moni
tor the board’s moves come Septem

Mission.

The parents want to keep aneye on $10,000

the board to make sure the board's “The national

justifications for closing the schools —
decreasing enrolment and the savings
of about $150,000 in operating costs —
in fact occur.

The parents are also considering

hiring Abbotsford lawyer John Conroy
in an attempt to get a court injunction
forcing the board to reopen Blueberty
Creek, Pass Creek, Shoreacres and
Ootischenia elementary schools.
Conroy was successful last year in
getting the courts to reopen a school in

But Read said the parents will wai
to see if the Canadian Union of Public
Employees will fund the court case,
ber. which he estimates will cost about

level of CUPE is
presently reviewing the rural parents’
case with concern for all the children of
the area and will be contacting us soon
to advise the direction to be taken in
regard to present and future situ

dents.

ations,” Read said -

He said the parents should hear from
cupe next week.

Meanwhile, he said, the parents will
go ahead with the formation of the
non-profit soeidty, which already has
pledges of about $1,100 from 60 resi-

“Our membership is growing stead-
ily and we see this as a sign of
community support from both city and
rural parents to continue. We fully

intend to ensure school board account-

ability now and in the future.”

Read said the parents will file an
application for the registration of the
society next week in Vancouver and
will hold a general meeting later this
month to elect directors and officers.

IGNATIEFF

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WE'RE HERE! . . . Rossland-Trail and Nelson-Creston they're from as s they march to the convention centre to

Social Credit Party delegates to last week's leadership hear the

convention let the people of Whistler know where

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Augue i 3, 1986

Patient critical

EDMONTON (CP) — Michael Mosher of Burnaby,
B.C., is in critical but stable condition following heart
transplant surgery at Edmonton's University Hos-

Mosher, 20, whose own heart was enlarged to
three times its normal size, was the fourth person to
undergo heart transplant surgery at the hospital.

It was the first heart transplant since last May,

when the Alberta government awarded the hospital 4

$1.7 million to establish a permanent heart-lung trans-

Fishermen settle

VANCOUVER (CP) — Members of the 6,000-
strong United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union
have voted to accept a two-year proposed contract
from British Columbia's salmon processors.

A spokesman for the union said Saturday that
fishermen voted 74.4 per cent, shoreworkers 88 per
cent and tendermen 78 per cent to accept the agree-
ment, worked out last week following a one-day strike
and a marathon bargaining session.

Major highlights of the pact include increases in

predicts
shutdown

of America are met, says woodworkers union, president Jack
Munro.
But an industry said forest have
no intention of giving in to the [WA's demands.
“I don't see any reason why we should try to avoid a
is

“Tve gotten calls all day from people saying to shut the

* Earlier, Munro accused the industry of a “major double-
cross” because it rejected IWA demands at a time when
major forest companies are reporting sharply increased

Jack Munro's comments came after released
they appear to be headed for their best year

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“I would think that the outcome is that whether we

Canadian to work toward peace.

“We must respond to the actual
invitation of the prime minister,”
Ignatieff said, adding Canadians should
work for peace “not apologetically, but

Ignatieff was invited to Castlegar by
the Kootenay Centre for a Sustainable
Future to be the speaker in
a 13-day workshop series on peace.
Ignatieff recently retired as chan-

salmon prices for fishermen, a 40-cent-an-hour in-
crease in shoreworkers’ wages each year, on a base
rate of $12.15 an hour and a three-per-cent increase in
pay for tendermen.

The 1,200-member Native Brotherhood of B.C.

wenth or mn we're sing Woy seen said Munro.
of Forest
sid the bly srnings do not pt the Sadr In
to be more generous with its workers.

Canada should call for peaceful use
of outer space.

“We must make star peace a
priority,” Ignatieff said. “This is an

SOCREDS

opportunity for star peace, not star with a will.”

wars.” Ignatieff, who represented Canada
at both NATO and the United Nations,
“We cannot leave it to the powers

Ignatieff also stressed that Canada
and Canadians should take an active
role in world peace. He quoted Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney's speech to
the United Nations in which Mulroney
said the quest for peace is the first
objective of every Canadian and it
must be the jlity of every

that be.”

He congratulated the Doukhobor
community, many of whom were in
attendance at the talk, and said they
“have been proved right”
against war.

Elegance in
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Cestiosird Plaze Westar Mining Ltd. officials

ran into a barrage of verbal
abuse from 300 residents
here when they tried to
explain a controversial plan
crities say will denude moun
tain tops on the outskirts of
town

‘The firm has applied to the
British Columbia govern
ment to dump overburden —
rock and soil stripped off coal
seams — over the west side
of the Greenhills Range and
within sight of Elkford.

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cellor of the University of Toronto.

Prior to that he had a lengthy career in
the Canadian foreign service, including
stints as Canada’s representative to

NATO, the United Nations and am-

in their
Award.

Some open-pit mining is
also proposed within viewing
distance of the community, in
the coal-rich Crowsnest Pass
region of British Columbia.

bassador to Yugoslavia.

Now in his 70s, Ignatieff is president
of the group Science for Peace and is
the 1984 recipient of the Pearson Peace

Plan angersresidents

Elkford Ald. Sandy Austin
received a standing ovation
when he pleaded with Wes-
tar officials to axe the pro-
ject.

Kalesnikoff
passes away

Pauline Kalesnikoff, be-
loved wife of Sam Kalesnikoff
of Castlegar, passed away
Saturday, Aug. 2, at the age
of 56 years.

The funeral service will be
held at the Castlegar Funeral
Chapel at 1 p.m. Tuesday
with Pastor Ken Smith of-
ficiating. Burial will follow in
Park Memorial Cemetery.

Friends may call at the
funeral chapel beginning at
noon.

Mrs. Kalesnikoff was born
April 9, 1930 at Champion
Creek where she grew up
and married Sam Kalesnikoff
in 1946. She moved to
Castlegar in 1964 and began
operating the Blue Top Rest-
aurant in 1972.

She continued to operate
the Blue Top until illness
forced her retirement in
1982. She was a past member
of the USCC and currently a
member of the Pentecostal
Tabernacle. She enjoyed gar-

continued trom tront page
dicker over a company request for a
break in its water license fees.
Cominco has said it can't proceed
with the modernization unless the
company’s water taxes are lowered.
Campbell quoted McClelland as
saying, “A solution is at hand but it has
yet to be ratified by cabinet.”
Campbell said McClelland did not
have a date in mind but indicated
approval of the agreement could come
at the first cabinet meeting after the
leadership convention.
Whether that cabinet meeting is
Premier Bill Bennett's last as premier
or Vander Zalm's first remains to be

anywhere.”

charisma,

Meanwhile, Socred stalwarts in
Rossland-Trail sang Vander Zalm's

are reasonable to begin with, I think past
he'll reciprocate. (But) I don’t think
he’s going to take any crap from

Of the Rossland-Trail delegates at

Whistler, perhaps Vander Zalm's big-
gest booster is CKQR radio general worry

beginning of the race.

“I think Vander Zalm, no question, is
an excellent man,”
listed among Vander Zalm’s assets
integrity and a proven

remarks for which he was
severely criticized were “blown out of
proportion” by the media and others.

As for speculation that Vander
Zalm’s election will be a blow to Social
Credit party unity, Brady said not to

“Let's not panic about unity,” he
said, noting that the party has “lots of
excellent people.”

“We don't need (Finance Minister
Hugh) Curtis, (Municipal Affairs Mini
ster Bill) Ritchie and (backbencher
Stephen) Rogers,” said Brady, re-
ferring to three MLAs who have

said Brady, who

“| have every confidence he’s going indicated they may not work for
to do an excellent job.”
seen. Brady said some of Vander Zalm's

Vander Zalm. “We've got good men
behind to take their places.”

praises in interviews Friday, calling his
charisma an asset and downplaying his
reputation for having a fast lip.

“At this time we need a man with
that type of flair,” said Sid Crockett of
Genelle, who was a delegate at the
Whistler convention.

On Vander Zalm's reputation for
shooting from the lip, Crockett said the
premier designate will “back it up and
do it if he says something.”

At the same time “he’s not afraid to
admit he made a mistake,” Crockett

said. Bob and Fran Moffat of Ooti
schenia think Bill Vander Zalm's him.”
election Wednesday as leader of the
Social Credit Party is “fantastic” —
but not just because they happen to
be the premier-designate’s Koot
connection thanks to the
marriage of their son Scott to
Vander Zalm's daughter Juanita.
“He's a good man for the job. He
speaks his mind and he says what he
Bob Moffat said. “He

It was Crockett who noted Vander
Zalm’s new nickname Zambo but said
the name does indicate a confronta
tional attitude.

“It's just some good fun with the
man. He can take a lot of criticism — he enay
can hand it out but he can take it.”

Crockett’s wife Marianne, also a
delegate to the leadership convention,
said Vander Zalm's years out of politics

may have mellowed him somewhat. means,”

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer man.”

Vander Zalm good
man, say in-laws

Vander Zalm is a “perfect gentle
“He has a very nice way about

Moffat’s wife Fran agrees with
the assessment.

“We've met him quite a few
times. He’s a really, really nice man,
easy to talk to and a good listener.
When you talk to him you know he's
listening to you, he’s paying at
tention.”

She said Vander Zalm will do a
good job if people give him a chance.

voted 89 per cent to accept the same pact.

Royals arrive home

PORTSMOUTH, England (Reuter) — Prince
Andrew and his bride, the former Sarah Ferguson,
returned from their honeymoon in the Portuguese
Azores on Saturday aboard the royal yacht Britannia.

The couple, married July 23 in Westminster
Abbey and now the Duke and Duchess of York,
appeared briefly on deck after the vessel berthed at
Portsmouth naval base on England's southern coast.

The duchess, her red hair tied in a pony tail, wore
a T-shirt with a palm tree on it, apparently a souvenir
of the honeymoon cruise round the Portuguese islands
in the Atlantic.

Strike averted

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actors’ unions and film
and television producers reached agreement on a
tentative three-year contract Saturday in a 14-hour
bargaining session that narrowly averted a U.S.
entertainment industry strike mainly over wages and
residuals.

“It was really getting down to the wire,” said Dick
Moore, national spokesman for the American Fed-
eration of Television and Radio Artists. “Nobody
thought it could go too much longer unresolved. We
were close.”

Dynamite explodes

BEIRUT (AP-Reuters) — A plastic bag of dyna-
mite hurled from a speeding car exploded Saturday in
a suburb of Christian East Beirut, wounding five
people and breaking windows for 100 metres around,
police said

Windows at the British Embassy's visa séction
were blown out.

SETTING UP SOME SHADE . . . Lars Basboll and
family relax at their campsite at Syringa Creek

TOURISM

Provincial Park, one of the many popular West
Kootenay outdoor attractions.
Costews photo by Chery! Calderbonk

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Jim Young, manager of the Castlegar Sandman Inn
could not be reached for comment, but a spokesman for
the hotel said business is down about five per cent from
July of last year.

In fact, the only time there was an increase at the
hotel was in June when the Trans-Canada Highway
through the Roger’s Pass was temporarily closed.

The said the Sand: a15to20
per cent increase in business because of Expo. But that
hasn't happened.

In fact, the reverse has occurred. The Sandman Inn
has had several tours cancelled because of Expo.

“Those tours were cancelled because people were
staying down on the coast for Expo,” the spokesman said.
“We really expected a lot more business (because of
Expo),” she added.

She assumes that a lot of people are going to Expo
via the new Coquihalla Highway, which cuts off a couple
hours in travelling time to Vancouver.

She noted that Kamloops and Merritt have come to
life. She added that another reason why the area isn't
getting as many tourists is because many, people are
spending their time in the Okanagan. The Okanagan is a
more popular spot than the Kootenays, especially for
people with children, she suggests.

“There is far more for kids to do there,” she said.

“This (Castlegar) is a good halfway spot for people
coming from Calgary or Lethbridge. Maybe we need
more advertising.”

She said when the Roger's Pass closed in June two of
the tour companies which were re-routed through
Highway 3 didn’t even know the area existed. She is
hoping that next year these companies will start

re-routing more tours into this area.

“They were really impressed with the scenery,” she
said.

“It's really up to the chamber and the tourist board
in this area to get out and get to these companies,” she
added.

Elsewhere, visitor traffic at Syringa Creek Pro-
vincial Park campground is at a healthy level this
summer.

Park supervisor Jack Markin reports that 2,100
people have stayed at the campground from mid-May
through to the end of July.

Last year about 3,700 people visited the campground
from mid-May to the Labor Day weekend.

Markin says this year’s figure should be about the
same as, if not slightly under last year’s total.

Markin notes that many campers are from the West
Kootenay but adds that there are a few visitors from
Alberta; aswell as points in the U.S., like California,
Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, and Massa-
chusetts, and Washington state.

“The states people really like Syringa,” Markin says.
“They're really surprised at how well maintained (the
— are).” And they're amazed at how much water B.C.

But Markin also agrees that has Expo has drawn a
lot of people from the area.

But not everyone is going to Expo.

Lars Basboll of Calgary, his wife and four children,
are staying away from the crowds at Expo, and instead
are touring the southern part of B.C.

The Basbolls, who planned to camp at Champion
Lakes provincial park, missed the turnoff and ended up at
Syringa Creek campground this week instead.

"We've bon hurting badly fo Bie Jers mow.” he said.

debt loads as a result of the sudden economic downturn in
the early 1980s.
“Their first priority has to be debt reduction,” he said.
Keith Bennett, president of Forest Industrial Relations,
added that the current contract dispute has not involved

over the i

out issue, not

Munro said the industry's first concern now should be

its employees.
“The first priority should be some pittance to the
for them. But instead the industry is

staying off the job indefinitely, Munro said. About half of the
union's membership is off the job now. Munro called the
strike July 23 after a breakdown in talks with the industry
for a new contract.

But Bennett said the forest industry has no intention of

“If he wants an all-out strike, that’s his decision,”
Bennett said.

Expo deficit
$200m — so far

VANCOUVER (CP) — Expo 86 had a deficit of $206
million up to June 30, but chairman Jim Pattison says the
final loss will probably be close to the long-predicted
figure of $311 million.

dening and her many friends
at the Blue Top.

She is survived by her
husband Sam; one son, Gary,
of Cranbrook; three daugh-

“We just hope he gets a chance
before they gun him down.” she
in a premier. said, referring to Vander Zalm's

“Yes, I think you've got to be past ability to attract criticism.
firm,” although, he added, “You've Scott Moffat was married to

doesn’t beat around the bush.”
He said those are good attributes

The latest incident came as Moslem leaders ridi
culed Christian President Amin Gemayel's latest pro-
posal for ending Lebanon's long and bloody civil war.
Gemayel surprised many by calling for Syrian help in
ending the war.

“Maybe his style hasn't changed but
he'll probably be more discreet,” she
said. “I think he knows some things are
better left unsaid.”

Marianne Crockett also doesn't ex

WHILE VANDER ZALM PLANS

The government's quarterly report contains the first
peek into the fair’s financial books. Finance Minister
Hugh Curtis, whose mirfistry prepared the report, said in
Victoria the figures may be “virtually meaningless”

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Swor-basy

In Castlegar provincial
court this week, Gregory
Karpowich pleaded guilty to
escape and being at large
without excuse and was
sentenced to an additional
month in jail to be added to
his unexpired term.

Karpowich also pleaded
guilty to false pretences and
was sentenced to an addi-
tional month in jail to be
served concurrently.

ters, Viole’ Fischer, Lillian
Whitley, and Naida Stooch-
noff all of Castlegar; nine
grandchildren; brother Bill
Postnikoff of Fruitvale; two
sisters, Grace Hadikin of
Castlegar and Mary Skulnec
of Fruitvale.

She was predeceased by
three sisters, Mabel, Anne
and Doris.

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

Bob Brisco, MP
CONSTITUENCY TOUR

6—c c y Office
AUGUST 6 — 5 Nelson Heritage Inn

to 4 p.m.
AUGUST 7 — id eed.on Village Ottice
9:30 a.m. to 12 noon
AUGUST 7 — Silverton Hotel
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
AUGUST 8 — Nakusp Village Otfice
m. to 4 p.m.
AUGUST 9 — Edgewood Legion Hall
9 a.m. to 12 noon
AUGUST 9 — Fauquier Aqua View Motel
2 p.m. to 5 p.
AUGUST.11 — Kaslo Village Office
9 a.m. to 12 noon
AUGUST 11 — Meadow Creek Community Hall
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
AUGUST 11 — Argento
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
AUGUST 12 — Riondel Restaurant
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
AUGUST 12 — Crawtord Bay Community Hall
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
AUGUST 12 — Boswell Community Holl
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
AUGUST 13 — Trail Terra Nova
8:30 a.m. to 12 noon
AUGUST 13 — par spsy City Hall
2 5 p.m.
AUGUST 14 — ‘Salmo Trapper Johns
Morning

Police file

pect Vander Zalm to be confronta-
tional, but she added that he won't be
one to back down in a fight.

“As long as you get him one on one or

amount, granted.

got to watch what you say a certain

On a personal level, Moffat said

Juanita Vander Zalm — the singer
who gave a musical boost to her
father’s campaign — last December.

Bomb blast kills four

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Four three were killed and
and 24 injured when a bomb planted in a bag of meat
exploded Saturday in a butcher shop in Walvis Bay. and

another bomb injured one person near Cape Town, the
South African government said.

Walvis Bay is a South African enclave in Namibia,
which is also known as South-West Africa.

There was no immediate indication who carried out the
attacks.

Three people received
minor injuries as a result of a
two-vehicle accident Friday
afternoon on Highway 3
about 10 kilometres west of
Castlegar.

Castlegar RCMP say Ray-
mond Lytkowski, 20, of Mis-
sion, driving a 1979 GMC
pick-up, had pulled over on to
the shoulder of the highway
and was attempting to make
a u-turn when he was struck
by a 1985 Pontiac driven by
69-year-old Ronald Dow of

Grand Forks.

Dow, and two other occu
pants of his car, his 60-year.
old wife and an unidentified
five-year-old child, were in
jured and were taken by pri
vate vehicle to Castlegar
Hospital.

RCMP have charged
Lytkowski with failing to
signal a turn.

Damage to the two
vehicles is estimated at about
$8,000 as a result of the acci.
dent which occurred at 1 p.m.

The exp broke a three-week lull that followed 13
bombings across South Africa June 14 to July 10. Those
blasts killed three people and injured 120, and were blamed
by the white-minority government on the African National

guerrilla group. The ANC neither claimed nor
denied responsiblity

The government's Bureau for Information said the

Anders Karlsson
funeral Tuesday

Anders Justus (Gus) Karis- Castlegar in 1938. He en
son of Castlegar passed away joyed travelling and working

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WAREHOUSE

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Aug. 1, age 81. Mr. Karisson
was born Dec. 4, 1904 in
Rappe, Bergunda, Sweden
He came to Canada in 1924,
settling in Saskatchewan. He
moved to Prince George in
1926 and to Trail in 1930
where he began working for
Cominco. He retired from
Cominco as a welder in 1971.
Mr. Karlsson married
Anne Plotnikoff in 1936 in
Trail and they moved to

around his house.

He is survived by his wife,
Anne, and nieces and nep-
hews.

The funeral service begins
11 a.m. Tuesday at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel
with Rev. Ira Johnson offici

ating. Burial in Park Memor-

ial Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements un
der the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

midmorning explosion at the Atlantic Meat Market in
Walvis Bay killed a black man and a man and woman of
mixed race (colored). The bureau said six victims — two
whites, two blacks and two people of mixed race — were
hurt seriously and taken to hospitals in Walvis Bay or in
Windhoek, the Namibian capital 260 kilometres east of
Walvis Bay.
DESTROYS SHOP

The bomb destroyed the butcher shop and broke
windows in nearby buildings. It apparently was brought into
the shop by a customer who bought meat, put the purchase
in the bag and left the bag in the store, the bureau said.

Walvis Bay, a 1,140-square-kilometre enclave midway
up Namibia's Atlantic coast, contains a South African naval
base.

The Pretoria government has administered all of
Namibia since the First World War, despite repeated United
Nations resolutions calling for Namibia's independence.

Less than three hours earlier, nearly 1,300 kilometres to
the south, a bomb shattered windows at a post office near
Cape Town.

The Bureau for Information said the bomb went off in a
plastic trash bin outside the Lakeside Post Office, near the
seaside town of Muizenberg on the Cape Peninsula's eastern
shore.

The bureau said the 65-year-old postmaster suffered a
cut finger and was treated for shock.

Opposition politicians and anti-apartheid leaders,
meanwhile, assailed President P.W. Botha's move Friday to
aullify court rulings that struck down emergency orders
issued by divisional police commissioners.

LACKED AUTHORITY

The police had issued the orders under the countrywide
state of emergency imposed June 12. Two courts ruled last
week that divisional police commanders lacked authority to
issue curfews, banning orders and other restrictions.

such authority and made the
amendments retroactive to June 12.

Smuggler jailed

MOSCOW (Reuter) — A U.S. citizen has been
sentenced to 3 years in jail for smuggling rare
violins out of the Soviet Union, the newspaper Sovet.
skaya Rossiya reported Saturday

It said Peter Thomas D'Oria worked as the ac
complice of Sergei Dyachenko, a teacher at the
Moscow music conservatory, who was sentenced to
seven years for his role in the scheme to disguise
valuable antiques for illegal export.

The paper said the two had smuggled out five
unique violins worth the equivalent of some $190,000
Cdn since 1983.

D'Oria is married to a Russian and worked as a
translator in Moscow

Graves found

MOSCOW (AP) — Two new graves were found
Saturday in a cemetery section reserved for Cher
noby! victims, indicating that the worst nuclear acci
dent in history had claimed two more lives.

The graves were found with those of 23 other
Chernoby! victims in a special area of Mitinskoye
Cemetery, a half-hour drive from the centre o}
Moscow near the village of Mitino.

Bush in Egypt

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) U.S. Vice-President
George Bush arrived in southern Egypt Saturday
from Jordan, where he and the Jordanian prime
minister disagreed as to whether new ideas toward
peace in the Middle East had been aired in talks with
King Hussein.

Bush flew to Luxor, 725 kilometres south of Cairo,
from Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, where he and
Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai briefed re
porters separately

Egypt is the final stop of a 10-day Middle East
tour that Bush began in Israel. He travels to Cairo
today for talks with President Hosni Mubarak and is
scheduled to leave for home Tuesday.

Socred losers relax

VANCOUVER (CP)
While premier-designate Bill
Vander Zalm mulls over his
plans for British Columbia's
government some of his un-
successful rivals for the
Social Credit party leader-
ship say they're not thinking
any further ahead than a
weekend suntan.

“T'm going to get a suntan
this weekend and catch up on
the summer,” Provincial
Secretary Grace McCarthy,
the third-place finisher, said
in a telephone interview.

McCarthy said she had met
with Vander Zalm but
wouldn't say whether her
position in cabinet had been
discussed.

“We have to see what the

new premier would like to
do,” she said.

Vander Zalm, who won the
leadership Wednesday night,
had no cabinet support for his
bid and some sitting mem-
bers said they would not
work with him if he won.

Vander Zalm left pro
vincial politics in 1983 after
eight contentious years. He
once’ called his cabinet col-
leagues gutless and said a
comment McCarthy made on
an issue was stupid

Two of Vander Zalm's less
friendly rivals were also coy
about their future plans.

Former cabinet minister
Stephen Rogers, who drop-
ped out after garnering only
43 votes on the first ballot,

said he planned to take it
easy over the weekend, swim
and play some tennis.

“I bought two new cans of
balls for the weekend to burn
off calories from all those
campaign lunches,” he said.

was one of the
leadership candidates to
state he wouldn't serve in
cabinet if Vander Zatm won
but said he preferred to
recover from the campaign
before thinking about his
future.

“I think the worst thing
you can do is make a rash
decision,” he said.

Friends have urged him to
stay in polities, he said.

Jim Nielsen, health and
human resources minister,

Union eyes wage

VANCOUVER (CP) —
B.C. Government Employees
Union says there is a pattern
of two-per-cent wage incre-
ases in the first year of
settled contracts emerging in
the province's public sector.

And this is close to the pay
hike needed to settle the civil
servants’ dispute with the
government, union president
John Shields said

He said two key settle

ments covering 2,000 em
ees at
Corp. of B.C.
couver-area

point to an area of wage

settlement for his 34,000
members.

“The ICBC settlement is a
real signal,” said Shields.
“It's the first major Crown
corporation that has settled
and the pattern is clearly
there and it’s near what
we're looking for

ment but it's pretty close to
what we asked for.”

The three-year tentative
ICBC pact contains annual
wage increases of two, two
and 2.5 per cent.

The Greater Vancouver
Regi District's

ment with locals of the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees and the Van
couver Municipal and Reg
ional Employees Union pro
vides a two-per-cent increase
in the first year and 2.15 in
the second year.

The average annual in.
crease in B.C. public sector
settlements over the past
year is 2.2 per cent, says the
Business Council of B.C.

When bargaining broke off
in early July, government
employees were seeking «a
first-year wage increase of
2.26 per cent, three per cent
in the second year and the

who ended the race with only
30 votes after the second
ballot, was back at work in
his cabinet office.

Nielsen backed away from
reports he, too, wasn't inter.
ested in working with Van-
der Zalm

“I really don't understand
these silly questions,” Niel-
sen said in a telephone inter-
view from Victoria.

Nielsen insisted he never
said he wquid refuse to serve
in a Vander Zalm cabinet, but
that the decision to stay on
would not be automatic.

“You have to be asked
first,” he added.

Nielsen said he planned to
take the d off and do

because they contain all one-time capital expenditures
weighing down the red-ink side.

Pattison confirmed the figures and said they cover
the revenue and expenses of the fair from the date the
first employee was hired, in February 1981, until June 30
of this year.

Total revenue for Expo is listed at $368 million, con
sisting of $240 million in fair revenue plus $128 million in
Lotto 6-49 income dedicated to the fair

Expenses, according to the government report, total
$574 million made up of $312 million for capital (con
struction) costs, $49 million for property acquisition, $165
million for operating expenses and $47 million in interest.

The result is a deficit of $206 million up to June 30.

SINCE INCEPTION

“Those figures are cash in and cash out since the
inception of Expo in February 1981,” Pattison said. “The
figures are correct but you can't relate them to profit and
loss at this stage.”

He said he believes there will be no change in his
previous prediction of a deficit ef between $300 million
and $400 million.

Original fair financial predictions were for ex

some gardening

hikes

removal of all concession
proposals

Shields said pay raises in
the deals covering the in
surance corporation and Van
couver-area municipalities
are the bottom line for his
union

He added that he sent a
letter Friday to premier
designate Bill Vander Zalm
congratulating him on his
victory at the recent leader
ship convention and urging
him to directly enter contract
talks.

Government negotiator
Bob Plecas could not be
reached for comment

os $802 million and revenues of $491 million
for a projected $311-million deficit.

BCRIC loses

VANCOUVER (CP) losses. B.C. Resources closed
Resources Investment down two cents at $1.16 a

Corp. lost $5.5 million or share Friday on the Van
eight cents a share in the couver Stock Exchange
three months ended June 30
the company reported

Westar Mining. a sub
sidiary of B.C. Resources

It had a profit of $1.2
million for the corresponding
period last year. Net losses
for the first six months were
$5.2 million or nine cents a
share compared with $3.5
million or seven cents a share
last year

The company blamed
lower prices for energy pro-

ducts and prolonged labor

disputes at its mines for the

reported a net loss of $8.2
million for the three months
ended June 30 compared
with a loss of $3.1, million
before extraordinary items
for the first six months this
year, compared with $18.5
million last year

After extraordinary items
both years, net income for
the six months was $81.7
million compared with $91
million last year