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isolated snowshowers. Highs -2
to 4°. Clearing and colder tor
with a low of -10. Monday will be
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Vol. 37, No. 101

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1984

2 Sections (A & B)

TENTATIVE CONTRACT

Marine workers
reach agreement

By RON NORMAN
Editor
Westar Timber and striking marine
workers at Celgar Lumber Operations

SATELLITE SYSTEM . . . Meteorologist Tom Willson
with Casflegar Airport weather office's new
= satellite photograph system. System provides

Forecasts made
easier with new

WEATHER WATCHER

have reached a
agreement, the
learned

tentative
Castlegar

contract
News has

4
mee
hed

and is one of only

CostewsPhoto by Ron Mormon

detailed weather information
three in Canada

major airport,” says Willson: 3,200 feet and a visibility of
three miles.

“So it’s very important that we can give accurate
cloud heights.”

That is done by using the weather office's new

weather system

By RON NORMAN

Singer Bob Dylan once wrote: “You don't need a
weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Tom Willson would probably agree

Simply knowing which way the wind blows may have
been good enough for Dylan, but it isn’t for Transport
Canada, the B.C. Forest Service, the Ministry of
Highways, or most Castlegar residents.

They want detailed weather information and
that's where Wilson comes in.

He heads the three-man weather team at the Castle
gar Airport weather office.

Wilson opehed the office in 1972. Less than a month
later he was joined by Jim Richards and three years later
by Jim Fishwiek.

All three are still there. They are perhaps best
known by their radio weather reports (they do 14 a day).
But the radio broadeasts are only a fraction of their
overall job.

“We're primarily for the dispersion of weather
information,” explains Wilson, as if that says it all. It
doesn't

Besides the radio broadcasts, the weather office
prepares detailed information for the Transport Canada.
The trio of weathermen are responsible for calculating
the cloud ceiling over Castlegar, which in tort
determines whether Pacific Western Airlines and Time
Air flights ean land ‘here or not.

“Castlegar has the highest limits in Canada of any

It fires a laser impulse into the air.
Part of the beam is reflected by the clouds back to the
ground

The weathermen then measure the time it takes the
beam to travel from the ground to the ¢louds and back
“and come up with an extremely accurate cloud height.”

But Wilson says the weather office never relies
strictly om the ceilometer. It also regularly launches
weather balloons.

That may sound antiquated
wrong,” says Willson

With Fishwiek's arrival in 1975, the weather office
began providing detailed information for the B.C. Forest
Service. In fact the Office assigns one person each April
for six months “jgst for fire weather,” says Willson

And a8 of Nev. 1 the office began giving specialized
forecasts to the Ministry of Highways to help the
ministry. plan shift schedules.

The forecasts inclode things like when it is likely to
begin snowing, when it will stop snowing and how much
snow wilh aceummulate.

The forecasts have been made easier since the
arrival of the METDAS system (meterological display
and analysis system), a machine that provides detailed
satellite photographs.

The machine was installed on Dec. 2, and Castlegar is
ene of only three weather stations in Canada which has
one.

but they never go

METDAS is tied inte the weather satellite dubbed
GOES ,West. GOES West is in a geosynchronous orbit —
it goes around the world exactly the tims the world
makes.one revohition, making it “hang” in the sky 23,000
miles @bove the planet

“We get a constant pieture,” from GOES West, says

continued om page A?

Neither side would disclose details of
the agreement until the 30 marine
workers, members of the Canadian
Merchant Service Guild, voted on the
pact today

Pickets remain up
contract is approved

The agreement came after a mara
thon 14-hour bargaining session Friday
that went late into the night

will until the

the Guild’s Arrow
Lakes representative, said Saturday
the three year contract “is an ar
rangement that we can both live with.”

And Conroy said he's happy to have
reached an agreement.

When you go through something
like that everybody is happy it's over,”
he said.

Ken Halliday, Westar vice-president
of human resources, agreed. He said
Saturday it will be “a relief’ to get
operations “back to normal.”

Halliday said if the marine workers
approve the contract, they will return
to work on Monday morning.

However, he said he couldn't say

Ed Conroy Jr.,

CASTLEGAR SCHOOLS

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer

All lunch-hour supervisors at Castle
gar schools will lose their jobs on Jan.
1, according to schools superintendent
Terry Wayling.
PoWayling-exid Phursdxy-the~ board
decided to eliminate the 17 positions to
save $23,000 during the January to
June fiscal period, when the district's
provincial funding is reduced by

$82,000.

He said dropping the supervisors
was considered preferable to eliminat
ing teaching positions, or reducing
student programs

Arbitration
board hears
submissions

By CasNews Staff

It’s now up to a three-man arbi
tration board and. Ed Peck, commis
sioner for the Compensation Stabili
zation Board, to settle contract nego
tiations between Castlegar
and the school board

On Tuesday and Wednesday the
arbitration board heard submissions
from represetatives on both sides from
Castlegar, Trail, Nelson and
Forks school districts.

The deadline for settlement before
the disputes were automatically sub
mitted to binding arbitration was Nov
15 for all 75 B.C. school districts

According to Lach Farrell, who
represented Castlegar teachers, the
arbitration board must make recom
mendations on contracts before Dec
31, when the teachers’
year contract expires.

However, Peck — who isn't bound t«
a deadline — has the final decision on
the contract, and ean return it to the
parties for further adjustment

Farrell, principal of Staniey Hum
phries Secondary School, declined to
comment on the hearing held in
Castlegar, saying, “Nothing is decided
at this particular stage.”

Farrell pr a for

teachers

Grand

current one

“It's difficult for the teachers. They
will not be happy; they are not happy,”
added Wayling. “It was a very relue-
tant decision taken by the board.”

Dastlegar District Teachers’ Asso-
ciation president Mike Rodgers said

“the ‘Introduction of noombour super.
visors was part of a teachers’ contract
made two years ago
would be broken if the supervisors
were taken away.”

“We're not happy, not at all, but
we're working on a proposed solution
with the board at this moment,” said
Rodgers Thursday

He said, under the School Aet,
teachers will be responsible for noon
hour supervision.

“It just spreads us a little thinner,”
he said. “It's especially hard on the
little schools where you have four or
five teachers. It means they're on duty
every day.”

Rodgers said the CDTA will decide
on its next move at its general meeting
Tuesday if a solution between the
board and the teachers hasn't been
ready by them

Wayling said noon-hour supervisors
were added to the teachers’ contract in

perhaps more affluent days when the
school district had more resources at

their disposal.”

Noon-hour
only staff to feel
straint.

Wayling said negotations are
underway with teachers’ sides.
sonal attendents and child-care work
ers to work out a reduction in their

the
effects of re

supervisors aren't

the
now

per

work assignments to achieve a saving
of about $7,000 for the January to June

when Celgar sawmill workers and the
woods workers in Nakusp would return
to work

Some 150 to 180 International
Workers of America employees at
Celgar have been laid off since Nov. 22
because of the strike

Al Blessin, Celgar industrial rela
tions manager, said plans to bring the
employees back to work will be final
ized this week

The Guild has been without a con
tract since October, 1983 and on strike
since Nov. 21

Guild members transport about 85
per cent of the logs used at Celgar
sawmill

No more supervisors

*t

TERRY WAYLING
. . $23,000 saving

fiscal period. This affects nine staff in
the distriet.

As well, three custodial staff sched
uled to retire over “the next couple of
months” will have their jobs posted at
seven: rather than eight-hour days to
save money, Wayling said.

Board chairman Doreen Smecher
said the subject of noon-time super
wasn't raised during recent
contract negotiations, with teachers
which ended last month.

It was something we were willing to
talk to the teachers about, but, like I
said, it never came up during nego-
tiations.”

visors

Authorities to
dispose of chemical

BHOPAL INDIA (REUTER)
Authorities made last-minute prepara
tions Saturday for the “nearly fool
proof” disposal of a poisonous chemical
which killed more than 2,000 people
when it leaked from the Union Carbide
plant in Bhopal almost two weeks ago

But despite the assurances of safety
from the country's top scientist, tens of

the Castlegar teachers Wednesday
The representative for the Castlegar
school board, a¢ well as Nelson and
Grand Forks school boards, was Allan
Akeburst. The Trail trustees’ repre
sentative was Dieter Bogs of Trail

The nominees for the teachers on the
arbitration board is Parzival Copes, a
professor of economics and commerce
at Simon Fraser University

The achool boards nominated Gerry

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of continued to
flee, turning parts of the city of 900,000
into virtual ghost towns
The gas neutralization operation at
the Union Carbide plant. expected to
take five days, begins at 9 a.m. today
About 13.6 tonnes of methy! isocyanate
will be converted to pesticides

The process has been dubbed Opera
tion Faith because the Madhya Prad
esh state government has asked all
Indians to pray for its success.

In another development Saturday,
Bhopal police blamed negligence and
lack of safety equipment for the Dec. 3
disaster

“The (investigating) team has pin-
pointed negligence that caused the leak

as well asa list of safety equipment
that should have been there but was
not there,” Police Chief Swaraj Puri
told Reuters

Puri said investigators had seized
company documents which would play
a major role in prosecutions connected
with the deaths and hospital treatment
of 125,000 in the world’s worst indus
trial accident. Some reports have but
the death toll at up to 2,500 and the
number of people injured at 200,000.

Puri said the two top Indian ex
ecutives of the Indian subsidiary of the
U.S. chemical conglomeratre were se-
cretly moved out of the eity several
days ago to a heavily-guarded govern
ment guesthouse

The Madhya Pradesh High Court am
dered chairman Keshub Mahindra atid
managing director V.P. Gokhale i.
leased on bail of $22,600 Friday
they spent one week in
charges ingluding criminal