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Section *C""

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1978

Three Sections (A,B&C)

Voters Pick 4 Incumbents,

OUT IN THE COLD after the shutdown of thelr schoo! last Wednesday
because of heating problems arising from the strike-lockout of
=| employees, Stanley Humphries Secondary students stage a demonstration In

wor, wtBred. Pyke,

Local Students,

An unsuccessful start for

“mediation talks and temporary
‘eutbacks in already-limited in-

struction at.a local school high-

‘lighted developments this week

in the labor dispute which has

disrupted the’ educations of
bout 15,000 West Kootenay
jtudents for nearly a month,

first Srowiall: ar the season. The school espana this week to resume

front of the School District No. 9 office fast Thursday morning during the

dally basis. (See story below.)
—CasNewsFoto by Lois Hughes

Gilmour Appointment ‘Premature’, Says CUPE's Pyke

Mediation tion Talks Chilled

diate," he said. “And the media:
tor has come to that conclu-
sion.”

He noted Trail trustees ‘did
not attend the meeting, which
“shows the position of the
school board is either that they
have no interest or they are

giving up their interest to the
BCSTA.”

“Labor Minister Allan Wil-
liams’ appointment of Gilmour
as mediator in the.dispute was
premature because ‘the minis-
ter had failed to determine
beforehand. whether either

the five “Canadian Union of
Public Employees locals in a
‘strike/lockout ‘deadlock | with
Selkirk College and four school

..Sistricts, said the Trail local's
four-hour” ‘meeting’ Tiesday”

with Glark Gilmour, the labor

. ministry's newly-appointed me- *

diator, and representatives of
the B.C. School Trustees Asso-

‘ciation, ended with participants

failing to make any progress in
re-opening contract talks,
Pyke said Tuesday. that
negotiator Gordon Stewart and
another BCSTA

Fire Department,
TV Tax Appre

Voters in three outlying electoral areas decided Saturday to

increase their taxesy |

of fire departments for all

of Area I ‘and: Robson‘ Raspberry ‘in ‘Area. J, ‘and. improved
television reception in Area H won approval at the polls.

_ A-total of 57 votes were cast for and 18 cast. against fire
protection in Area I at a cost of up to three tax mills or $45,000

annually.

attending the meeting on behalf
of the Trail school board, did
not indicate they had a new
contract proposal for the Trail
Jocal “and therefore there can
be no successful mediation.”
“There is nothing to me-

In Rob: y, 271 voted for and 35 voted against
establishment of a fire department costing up to 15 sax mills or

$28,858 annually.

And in Area H, 358 voted for and 129 voted against payment
of up to three-quarters of a mill or $4,200 by residents of the area
between Slocan City and Crescent Valley — with the exception of
South Slocan — to help the Slocan Valley TV Co-op Society
maintain its mountaintop transmission towers.

party had any new prop
e said.

The CUPE national repre-
sentative said the talks — ex-
pected to continue in Grand
Forks yesterday and possibly in
Castlegar today — would prob-
ably ‘be.-more successful if
members .of the boards rather

than _BCSTA - representatives ©

met individually. with the locals,

Both’Gilmour and Stewart ©;

were unavailable for comment

C d day, John
Dascher,  secretary-treasurer
for School District No. 9, said
the district had not yet been
notified of plans for any media-
tion talks here.

Asked whether local trust-
ees would attend mediation
talks here, he said school board
members would only atténd if
requested to-do so by the
BCSTA negotiator,

-Tfor, . Castlegar,
rand Forks and

Pipeline. Funding Talks
Continue in Ottawa

Federal and provincial
authorities are “still bantering
back and forth” in discussions
of financing for. Castlegar's
planned tie-in to CanCel’s Ar-
row Lakes water supply, ‘the
city administrator reported this
week.

Bill Krug said meetings
between representatives of the

An Assessment Appeal
Board ‘decision which could
mean a $50,000 to $60,000
drop in the city’s taxable
value will be delayed for up
to a month, according to a
B.C. Assessment Authority
official.

Area assessor Derek
Turner told. the Castlegar
- News-Tuesday that after

hearing CanCel’s appeal. in
‘Vancouver Friday against
the actual value assessment

Board Orders Summations
~ On CanCel Sawmill Appeal

given its sawmill here, the
board requested written fi-
nal summations from both
the company and the assess-
ment authority.

Turner,, who attended
the appeal hearing, said
arguments were presented
and eross-examinations com-
pleted by legal counsel for
both parties Friday. Rather
than call both parties back to
Vancouver to make verbal
summations, the board de-

: eided to receive them in

written form, he said.

The delay until the
board informs the assess- -
ment authority of its deci-
sion is “liable to be a month,”
he said.

“The first people to
know will be the appellants,”
Turner said. “The actual
decision of the court is sent
to me and I have to send the
decision to the company.”

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BC. p
ministry and the federal de-
partment of economic expan-
sion continued in Ottawa Mon-
day over the financial details of
providing the city with a new
water supply.

Krug said the city his
received no word on progress in
the talks, which also include
representatives of the federal
Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation, “but we hope to
hear ere long.”

Commenting last week on
the apparent lack of progress in
discussion between the two
levels of government, the chair-
“man of the city’s select water

committee told council mem-
bers his committee was im-
patient with the delay but
hoped for positive news on the

financial pgekage.for the pipe-
line “in another two weeks.”

“Since the word has not
been no, we're hoping the word
is going to be encouraging and
we are going to get substantial
financial ‘participation in the
cost so the system can go ahead
in the spring,” Ald. C. S.
Fowler said.

Asked by Ald. Len Embree _

whether the committee would
make the financial details pub-
lic before any agreement ‘is
signed by the city, Fowler said
they will be released after the
“whole package is put to
gether.” y

School District No. 9 may
have to resort tosuch measures
as boarding up windows to cut
down vandalism at local schools,
trustee Ernie Mills said Mon-

+ day.

Mills, chairman. of the
school board's building and

reported to
ee that a total of 79 school
windows were broken last
month at a cost of from $5,000
to $6,000, and said his com-
mittee was s investigating sever:

Newcomer

By RYON GUEDES
CasNews Editor

Less than one-third of the Castlegar’s registered voters Saturday picked four
incumbents and one newcomer to represent them on city council and the School

~ District No: 9 board for the next.two years.

After 1,155 voters—33.1 per cent of the city electorate—cast thelr votes ‘Len
Embree and Gerald Rust retained their aldermanic seats and the third city council
position vacated this year by C. S. Fowler went to Heather Hallett, while Ernie Mills
and Stewart Webster were returned as city trustees.

According to results released this week by returning officer Barry Baldigara, Rust, a supervisor

at Cominco's Trail

poll with 771 votes. Close behind were

Embree, a carpenter, with 725 and Hallett, a housewife, with 717. Roger Cristofoli, a security guard
and first aid attendant, ‘trailed with 582 votes,

Webster, an engineer,
placed first in the school board
poll with 739 votes, while Mills,
retired, received 724 and Rod-
ney Gilmour, a social worker
drew 513,

Although there were 3,441
residents registered on the
voting list this year, an extra 51,
registered at the polls, Baldi-
gara said. :

‘A total of 40 votes were
cast in the advance poll, 34 in
the mobile poll, 1,980 at the
Royal Canadian Legion hall and
2,717 at the Castlegar South
firehall.

Contacted this week, Rust
told the Castlegar News he felt
his re-election at least partially

"GERALD RUST
++. topselty poll

reflected city voters’ ‘satisfac.
tion .with “council. policies I
have been’ party to over the
past few years."

* Asked what he considered
responsible for the poor voter
turnout, he said candidates in
this year's election ran “a quiet
campaign.”

“T-don't think there were
any major issues,” said Rust,
who has served: almost con-
tinuously since 1957 on Kin- .
naird and Castlegar municipal
councils. “Certainly if there
were they didn't appear at any

of the meetings or in any of the
comments by the candidates.”

He said he was “pleased
and gratified” with his re-

fairly obvious: to the com-
munity.”

He attributed low interest
in this year's election to the
lack of a Trace and

election but was
disappointed” with the overall
response at the polls, which he
said may indicate “a degree of
apathy within the community
to its elected officials."

Rust said he considered
the support he received Satur-
day “fairly representative” of
the electorate, “but would
much rather have had a victory
with 50 per cent or even 60 per
cent voting.”

Embree, also contacted
this week, said he felt: the
positions he has taken as an
‘individual member of council in
the past two years contributed
more to his re-election that did
support of council's policies.

“I tend to: be. fairly out-
spoken, and certain positions L-
take naturally because of. my
background,” he said. '“And:1
thi these positions.

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aa HALLETT

Emergency procedures
‘were put into effect yester-
day morning after the con-
trol! tower‘at the Castlegar
Airport “received, a radio
‘distress signal over its radio
from a helicopter.

Police said a Bell 212
helicopter, believed working
in the Fruitvale area, had
contacted Castlegar Airport
for tanding instructions
shortly before the. distress
call was heard. The final
words received were “trans-
mission failure.”

An airport spokesman
said Highland Helicopters
put three of its helicopters
into service to conduct an air

Reports received at

press ‘time oie indi-
cated the downed helicopter,
belonging to Bow Helicop-
ters of Calgary, was located
in a ravine off from the new
highway. .

According to the re-
porta, wreckage of the heli-
copter was scattered. Just
before 11 a.m., two persons
were dropped by parachute
into the area by a search and
rescue aircraft from Comox. ©

Anambulance as well as
a police car reportedly head-
ed ‘to the scene which is
believed to be near an old
access road,

*: Police confirmed that
the only occupant of the
downed helicopter’ was the
pilot.

79 Windows Broken in October

_ School Board Eyeing Board

that have come up already are
that we may have to board up
half the windows or repiace
them with plexiglass, which is
terrifically expensive,” he said.
“Or that we put special screens
over them to try and stop them
from breaking.”

The committe has not "yet
received cost estimates for the
proposed solutions yet, Mills
said, “but we're working on it.”

Trustee Anne Jones sug-
gested the committee discuss

against
ee breakage.
“Some of the suggestions

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STLEGAR

OFFICIAL: "PRESENTATION of $1,000 alr pack unit w:
to th Castlegat Fire Department this week by CanCel
Chuck Dinning In’ gratitude for the

r
id In fighting the June 17 fire which caused

more than $5 million damage. Pictured, left to right,
jant fire chief Roy Percival, Dinning, fire chief
Archambault and Ald. C. S. Fowler, elty councli’s Protec

Diversion Poll.
At Complex
This Weekend

Castlegar area voters
will get a chance to support.
or .oppose * B.C... Hydro's
proposed Kootenay. Diver-
sion in a non-government:
poll at the Regional Rec-
reation Complex tomorrow,
and Saturday.

Organized by the Save
the Kootenay Committee,
the poll will be conducted at
*a booth manned by volun-
teers at the Blueberry Creek
Craft. Fair in the. complex
“from 10 am. to 10 p.m.
tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Saturday.

policies with the
city, which also faces the prob-

lem of damage to public prop-
erty. She noted that the high
local incidence of vandalism
was “not confined

beer bottles littered the oytside
area near the window.
_ Area 1 trustee. Lovette

to. the month -of October,”
although it “seemed to be a bad
month.”

District Secretary-treasur-

-er John Dascher said when he

investigated the triggering of a
fire alarm at Kinnaird Ju-
nior Secondary School Satur-
day he found a window which
had been shattered by a beer
bottle against it. From 30 to 50

agreed with the
suggestion that school windows
be boarded up, and added that
the breakage is probably being
caused by students.

District superintendent

-John Holden disagreed, citing a

report by the Castlegar News

last week that a 20-year-old

man was sentenced in provin-

cial court after pleading guilty

to vandalizing road signs, He
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VANDALS 56
We can discourage them if
we help the courts and
police do their jobs.

VICTIMS B11
Expect action from them
and thelr parents, Fred
Merriman warns,
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WEEKEND -WEATHERCAST.

INCREASING CLOUDS are
expected today with a light
snowiall towards evenin,

There will be a partial clear:
ing Friday. and Saturday.
However, another disturbance
is forecast for Sunday. Day-
time highs will be 0° to 1°,
with overnight lows near ~4°.

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