May 8, 1985 Canada your advertising dollars do better in... ranks 16th OTTAWA (CP) — The av- erage Canadian quaffs nine litres of wine, 86 litres of beer and 8.6 litres of spirits every year but ranks only 16th among the citizens of 29 countries surveyed by the International Labor Organi- zation. The Geneva-based United Nations Agency compiled the list in an international an- alysis of alcohol abuse in the workplace. France led the list with an individual average consump- tion of 86 litres of wine a year, 44 litres of beer and 5.0 litres of spirits. Norway was last with an annual average of three litres of wine, 47 litres of beer and 3.1 litres of spirits. Converted to pure alcohol equivalents and expressed i litres, consumption rates were: France 13.3, Italy 13.0, Spain 12.7, Portugal 12.2, West Germany 12.2, Hungary 11.5, Switzerland 11.3, Austria 11.1, Belgium 10.8, East Germany 10.2, Argentina 10.1, Denmark 10.0, Australia 9.9, Czech- oslovakia 9.8, New Zealand 9.6, Canada 9.3, Netherlands 8.7, United States 8.2, Rom ania 7.9, Bulgaria 7.7, Yug- oslavia 7.5, Ireland 6.7, Brit ain 6.6, Poland 6.5, Finland 6.4, Soviet Union 6.1, Sweden 5.5, Iceland 3.9 and Norway 3.8. “The world is on. a binge,” the agency concluded. Over the last 20 —* it said,_wine_consumption—has increased by 20 per cent worldwide, spirits by 50 per cent and beer by 124 per cent. “This may be good for and taxes but it augurs inf = national health.” The ILO said the cost of al- cohelisnr on the job is stag gering. It singled out as a key example the United States, where annual losses in pro- duction and materials have been estimated at between $49 billion and $120 billion, depending on the calculations used. (No figures were listed for Canada.) “These statistics alarming and revealing,” agency said. Minto chapter holds tea Minto Chapter No. Order of the Eastern Sur held its annual daffodil tea in the Legion Hall April 27. Guests were welcomed by Worthy Matron Marion Booth. Presiding at the ser- ving table which had a bou- quet of daffodils and forsy- thia as a centrepiece, wer Bea Martin, W.M. from Trail, Rowina Warner, W.M. from Nelson; Edith Heslop and Milda Oswald. Marjorie Rush was in charge of the kitchen, assis ted by Justine Buffett, Lynne Miskell, Mrs. Terry Kruse, Marion Ackerman and Ther- esa Klimehuck. The servers, directed by Cathy Stewart were: Betty c Margaret Henne, Bet ty Crawford and Margaret Foubister. The decorating was done by Alice Anderson, and Jessie Donnan with Gwen Sommerfield were at the door. are the sided over by Gladys Askew, Hazel Chress, Milda Oswald and Edith Heslop. Pearal Petts sold tickets for the draw for the decorated cake made by Hazel Chress and won by Mrs. Laycock The door prize, a plant of dark mauve mums given by the Hair Annex Flower Shop, was won by Mrs. Godberson of Robson. All proceeds from the tea THE BUSINESS DIRECTORY Accounting Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Appliances FAST COURTEOUS SERVICE ‘GENUINE MAYTAG PARTS OWE SERVICE ALL MAKES SPECIALIZE IN MAYTAG PLUMBING & » HEATING LTD. 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C. 501. Bellev Hall of Fame Downhill skiers Gerry Sorensen and Dave Murray were inducted into the B.C. Ski Hall of Fame Friday Rossland . Complaint Filed le Salewski' en- te teva teh goieeian with the 8.C. Council of Human Rights .. . AS be The six winning numbers in Saturday’ 's Lotto 6/49 draw were six, 15, 20, 22, 26 and 46. The bonus number was 21. The winning number in this wetok's Provincial draw is 4014980. There ore also subsidiary prizes. tary svepreten Steve Fonyo a his. Journey for Lives campaign... AS WEATHERCAST Sunny skies today with scattered atternoon cloud buildups Tom perature highs near 20°. fonight near 2°, Outlook is oa mix of cloud for the first part of the week 50 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1985 2 Sections (A & B) CONQUERING THE MOUNTAIN . . . City crews finally leveled the 15 centimetre bump (six inches) this Friday on Columbia Avenue near 17th St., dubbed by some “Moore eir (after Mayor Audrey Moore). Bump cropped vu g CP Rail to the railway frock last year. cosNewsPhoto by Ron Normen WASTE FACILITY IN NELSON By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer NELSON — A storage facility designed to tempor. arily house hazardous wastes — ranging from ignitable to cancer-causing materials — is being built within blocks of this city’s downtown. The Regional Special Waste Storage Facility will cost the Ministry of Environment $80,000 to $100,000 to build, and is expected to be finished this month. TURE REPORT The 146-square-metre building, located behind Moss Glass Works on Railway Street, can store hazardous wastes in seven categories: ignitable, corrosive, reactive (still chemically active), toxic, infectious, bioaccumula tive, mutagenic (causing mutations), carcinogenic (can. cer-causing) and teratogenic (causing birth defects). The facility will accept hazardous wastes from the public, schools, hosptials, and government agencies in the Kootenays, and store them in 10 45-gallon drums for appoximately a month at a time until they're full, said Jim Jensen of Nelson's Ministry of Health offices Thursday Then they will be trucked to either a special landfill in Arlington, Ore., or chemical processors in Seattle. Jensen said the facility poses no dangers. “It's been designed as a completely secure holding facility,” he said The drums are sealed, and are filled with an absorbent vermiculite material, so the containers would retain their contents if somehow opened If there's a spill inside the building, it drains into a holding tank. The building is also virtually explosion and fire proof, said Jensen, with a state-of-the-art ventilation system The new facility — one of nine in B.C. — gives the public a safe way of disposing of toxic wastes without harming the environment, says Jensen. “Five years ago, for the most part, the public was disposing of them in landfill operations, in sanitary sewers, or on backroads when no one was watching,” he said. “I get calls every once in a while from landfill operators who pick up five gallon drums of pesticides and don’t want them going in there.” Industries and businesses which regularly produce toxic wastes are supposed to take care of the problem themselves, but the Ministry of Environment will remove up to about 22 gallons from members of the public at no cost, Jensen said. Larger quantities are removed for a transportation and disposal fee. He said people wanting to dispose of wastes at the Nelson facililty shouldn't haul their rat poison and DDT containers down in person, but make arrangements through the ministry office. The most common varieties of household toxic wastes are unused pesticides — such as 2-4-D and the banned DDT — wood preservatives, mouse and rat poisons, and old medical supplies, said Jensen. He adds, “It’s surprising the things we've picked up. “Tve gone to houses where they've had boxes of dynamite. Five gallon bottles of sulphuric acid.” Other potentially dangerous substances picked up inelude “explosive” pievie acid from hospitals, and flammable metallic sodium, phosphorus and ether compound from schools, Jensen said. Similar hazardous waste storage facilities are under construction in Terrace, Williams Lake and Prince George, and are already in operation at Penticton, Victoria, Nanaimo, Kamloops and Surrey — the last two being the largest in B.C. continued on poge A2 BUDGET BROUGHT DOWN Homeowners to pay more taxes By RON NORMAN Editor Most Castlegar homeowners will pay between $30 and $45 more on their city tax bill this year. Castlegar council brought down its 1985 budget this week which calls for a $76,850 increase in taxes — or 3.83 per cent more than last year. Mayor Audrey Moore called the budget “responsible,” adding that it “reflects the difficult economie times.” She said she hopes the budget will help spur economic recovery in the city. “We had to have some money this year,” Moore said in an interview. She said the slight tax increase was neces- sary to maintain city services. Tt” would” be “poor fiscal manage- ment” for the city to neglect its road, sewer and water systems and then have to borrow heavily in the future to upgrade the services. Moore also called the increase “the first increase in three years.” How- ever, last year the city hiked taxes by $93,000 or 4.7 per cent. Nevertheless, the city trimmed some $500,000 from its provisional budget so that it will spend a total of $3,728,291 this year — about 1.6 per cent or some $60,000 more than it spent in 1984. As well, the city’s share of and District Hospital costs fell some $61,000 this year, while its share of the Regional District of Central Kootenay budget dropped by some $63,000 from 1984. For homeoWhers, the budget trans- lates into a slight increase on their tax bill. For instance, a home assessed at $68,500 will pay about $36 more this year. A home assessed at $50,000 will pay a total of $746.68. A home valued at ‘$60,000 will pay $896 and a home valued at $70,000 will pay $1,045. But the biggest winner in this year’s budget is Westar Timber. The forestry giant is expected to save as much as $600,000 on its tax bill this year. Westar won an appeal which reduced the assessed value of its Celgar pulp and lumber operations. As well, Wes- tar will benefit from recently an- nounced provincial government tax concessions. The province cut its non-residential school taxes on machinery and equip- ment by one-third this year: Victoria plans to reduce the taxes by another third next year and eliminate the machinery and equipment tax alto- gether in 1987. Westar has a total of $72 million ware of machen The same tax concession is also available to other B.C. businesses. The result of the concessions is an overall drop in local taxes of more than This year, those taxes total less than $3.5 million. A detailed breakdown of the city budget will appear in Wednesday's CasNews. ‘Pulp workers wind up appeal By CasNews 5 Staff Workers at Westar Timber's Celgar Pulp Operations wound up a two-day appeal to the 1 Insurance Commission board of ref- erees Thursday and came away feeling good about the outcome. “I figure it was about 50-50,” said Rod MacKinnon, spokesman for the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1, which represents the 270 Celgar pulp employees. MacKinnon said he feels good about the union's presentation to the three- member board of referees — i of labor, a chairman. But he added, “I think I'm feeling more relieved about it.” The union has been preparing the hae for more than a year, after the C dead the 270 pulp workers $513,000 in benefits during last year’s industry out. The appeal began March 19 at the Fireside Inn but was unexpectedly cut short after only one day when the union's lawyer, Terry was called away on urgent family business. The hearing — which was closed to the media — resumed Thursday morning and lasted about 4'/ hours. The union should know the result of the appeal within 10 days, says Mac- Kinnon. If successful, the appeal could affect the whole labor movement by prov- iding locked out workers with UIC benefits. Employment and Immigration Can- ada officials denied the benefits last However “MacKinnon said the un- ion’s main point in the appeal was to “prove the lockout wasn't a labor dispute, but was an inventory shut (down).” The union charged that the company locked out its workers to reduce an oversupply of pulp inventories and to raise pulp prices. In fact, the union said pulp prices rose by $100 during the 10-week lockout. The union also charged that similar moves to reduce pulp inventory were made this spring, but benefits to workers were paid in the usual way. Eric Mitterndorfer, president of the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations year, citing the federal L Insurance Act which says no one may receive UIC benefits because of a work stoppage due to a labor dispute. Steelworkers to vote on proposal By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Workers at Cominco's lead-zine operations in Trail will vote this week on a@ proposed settlement for a new contract. Mediator Richard Longpre has made recommendations for settling all out standing issues between Cominco and the United Steelworkers of America. A strike planned for Saturday at operations in Trail and Kimberley was averted Wednesday after union and management negotiators agreed to consider a settlement. But reaction to the proposed set tlement, has been mixed. Union Local 408 president Ken Georgetti, would not comment person ally on the proposal. But he said re action is mixed among the members He added Friday morning that it is too early to tell what the reaction will be as the details of the recommendations were just posted. The proposals includes five cost-of living payments over two years with a sixth COLA payment in February 1987 to be triggered if inflation goes over seven per cent. Local 480 members will vote on the proposals Tuesday and Wednesday and results should be known by Thursday, Georgetti said. Union negotiators won't make a recommendation to its members on the proposal, he said. Meanwhile Jim Saare, president of Local 9705 representing office and technical workers at Cominco, said his members will vote on the proposed settlement Thursday. Saare also said his bargaining com mittee won't be making a recommen dation to members on the proposal. “Each one of the bargaining com. mittee members will be expressing his personal view,” he said. Saare commented that the proposal is “the maximum we can get without a lengthy and prolonged strike.” “In that case, it's an acceptable settlement,” he said. “I do believe it would take a prolonged strike to get more money. I do hope a strike has been averted. “In a strike over money, we might get 10 or 25 cents . . . but it doesn’t take a mental giant to tell it isn't worth it,” Saare added. He also said he is “disappointed that there's not more money there.” Another major issue for the 525 Local 9705 workers was job security, but Saare said those issues have been resolved Meanwhile Cominco spokesman Richard Fish said the company has also agreed to study the recommendations The Steelworkers announced early Wednesday that 72-hour strike notice had been issued and the union was planning to walk out Saturday morn ing The company had offered a three year contract with no wage increase for the first two years and cost-of-living increases in the third. Bureau, the pulp industry's negotiating body, to the claims, saying the lockout was not because of high pulp inventory. MacKinnon said the union's argu- ment that the lockout contravened sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights was “the toughest thing to get across.” He said the UIC had argued that the board of referees cannot consider a charter argument because Charter cases must only be heard by a court. However, the union claimed that the French version of the Charter uses the word “tribunal” rather than court and tried to establish that the board of referees is in fact a tribunal and should hear Charter arguments. Asked for the three-member board's response to that line of argument, MacKinnon said, “They had big eye- balls.” The Charter argument was import ant to the pulp workers’ case because the union argued that under the Charter workers should be guaranteed “security of person.” “You can't leave somebody deso- late,” said MacKinnon. Pulp worker Art Dusseault gave evidence Thursday of the financial hardships that he, his family, and other pulp workers went through as a result of the lockout. As well, the union argued that the denial of UIC benefits breached the equality provision in the Bill of Rights. “We were locked out when it was an inventory shut (down),” explained MacKinnon, “when someone else has an inventory shut(down) and they get VIC. that's not equality.” In addition, the union argued that by pred pulp workers UIC benefits, e Ci actually z pao acsomeee 's bargaining position and weakened the union's bargaining stand. In that way, the union said, the Commission breached the neutrality priniciple of the Unemployment In- surance Act