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ministers failed -to 'reach’-

: agreement on the crucial
Ovr Action Ad Phone issue of .production quotas

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Saturday.

Meanwhile, Vénezuela’s oil
minister warned a price war
could slash the official cartel
price by $14 a barrel.

The oil ministers of the.18

, members of the Organization

of. Petroleum Exporting
Countries have been trying
to ‘settle longstanding dif-
ferences on dividingthe inter-
national cartel’s share of the
world market.

Some ministers say ‘they
have agreed in principle on a
$5-a-barrel price cut, but that
such a cut would be contin-

gent on. an agreement. on-~

production quotas.
” Oil Minister Humberto Cal-

. deron Berti of Venezuela said

Saturday that competition

:with’ non-OPEC .' exporters

could drive‘the cartel’s’ offi-
cial price to $20 U.S. The
current OPEC ‘official. price
— often undercut on the spot

market — is ‘$34 a barrel. .:”

“Mf we start fighting, all of
us, it will go.down to $20 a
barrel,” Calderon. said. The
average world price of oil is

He declined to identity them: fear.
hi

“In Caracas, the Vene: elan

currently about: $32. 60 a bar.
re g

CITES DISSATISFACTION

Calderon stressed his was
not ‘the only dissatisfied
count

“I believe ‘there are several
countries that are not happy,
he said, adding that he meant
‘at least two'er’ three more.” :

timistic. I think that we
reach an agreement.” ':.

Asked whether an accord

was: reached to cut. the‘ $34) mi 0

in British capital

JOHANNESBURG, South
African (AP) — Zimbabwe
opposition leader Joshua
Nokomo flew to London on
Saturday, repeating charges
that the soldiers of his bitter
rival Prime Minister Robert

Mugabe had tried to kill him...

Nkomo fled from Zimbab-
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Johannesburg aboard a twin-

‘engine charter plane and was

taken to an airline courtesy
room before leaving on a

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The 66-year-old former
guerrilla chief was due in
London about 6 a.m. -today

after a brief stop in Nairobi,

Kenya.

“If I thought it was safe to
go back (to Zimbabwe), I

would have gone back yes-

terday,” Mugabe said before
he left.

“Tam going back home,” he

said, but would not say when.

Nkomo claims government
troops were looking for him
when they burst: into his

~ house last week and killed his

driver. .

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come to this when they. start
shooting at you in your own
home,” he said Saturday.

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‘coliform count exceeding Canadian’ apd BC. water alle fi

guidelines.

slained that soi)

contain coliform bacteria, and. human’ and animal waste:

Iways contains large numbers of this bacteria: -
f Harnedek ‘noted in his report’. that - disinfection :

"required if more than five per cent of samples taken, over a

30-day Berfod have a total coliform density greate: than 10

per 100 mi

a aieeilea is also Laster if wate:

Saniples ea inthe Robson: “Raspberry area. shaw tl
mples’: collected contained coliform’

drinking’ water. However, the report shows that 11 samples.
‘of water contained fecal coliform organisms.

The study of water quality in Genelle show that of 42.
samples taken, 18 or 48 per cent contained coliform bacteria, °

Of. these samples, five. exceeded the standards and 18
4; contained ‘fecal coliform bacteria.» ‘

Tho water quality assessment’ report stated that of a6
community water systems sampled in the area, 19 failed to
meet the Canadian Drinking Water Standards, ‘Howeve:
Harnedek noted that six of these communities. made the
necessary improvements once the, problem was noted,

Barnadek-reported that coliform bacteria‘ was present
in two of six samples taken in the China Creek water works.
And in Deer Park, two of nine samples contained coliform.
Only one of these samples exceeded the guidelines...

In Poupore Improvement: Distri t,: four. of 84 samples

yiare harmful ‘in‘th
arry diseases nuk as hepatitis. ‘The higher’ the colif
count, the greater the chance these. euooniaie diseases’

care present, he added.

In’ the summer ‘of 1982,: 184° water samples from’ 21:
bathing beathes were submitted to-the, provincial bactéi
pology laboratory for fecal, bacterial analysis. -:

‘The bacterial standard for bathing beaches, requires
“that the fecal coliform count — expressed as the mean of.at:.

least five samples‘taken over a 30-day: period — must: not! *

- exeted 200 fecal coliforms for every 100 millilitres of sample.

: Y Giasiag ‘the West. Kootenay beaches wit ‘those in’
c.. the Lower Mainland, Harnadek said “This would be lke.

jewel in comparison.”

- Local swimming’ Pools also fared well in the report;,

Harnadek noted.

“Of the:11 samples collected from: Bob, Brandson pool
“only one had coliform bacteria present. In Robson, none

the five samples contained coliforms.

Ee “Generally,.all of ‘the public pools were well run a
,) efficiently, managed,” Harnadek said in his report. He ai
later that; any problems were ule, aces once poo!
tified, is

nee?

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: Two. Castlegar businesses

“were broken into ‘sometime;

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court this” ‘week Kelly Magee.»

ter pleading. guilty. to re-.

fusing to submit to aibreath-
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id
‘Thomas ‘Simpson was fined
$100 and placed on probation
for six months after pleading

guilty to seusing a distur.”

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Columbia district.

« The Castlegar weather oF
‘fice. reports that this south-

‘cash was taken’ from Castle-'
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6th “Ave. in’ ond, ‘break-
while an automobile ‘motor :

“was taken . from Armour
a Plating on Columbia Ave. in
the second ‘incident:

Both cases are’ still. under
police: investigation.

erly ‘flow, also ‘helped
break ‘temperature records
last month, although « the
freezing levels remained low
enough for ski areas to re-
‘ceive: amounts. of snow ‘nec-
‘essary. to maintain excellent
skiing conditions.

’ Total rainfall for February
was 83.6 mn — almost twice~

the normal ‘amount. “and 2
mm more ‘than the:previous
record of 78.4 mm set in 1979.

The mean maximum. tem-
perature at 4.4 °C. was ‘an
1.7° above normal and the
mean minimum temperature:
of -0.4° was:3.6° above nor:
mal, This resulted in a.mean
temperature of 2.0°C, which

is 2.6 above normal for-the’

month and 0.4 above the
record 1.6°C set.in- 1977. |

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“ports that ‘the 21.8 cm of’

snowfall was nearly ‘one-half
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TORY EADERSHIP

Mulroney on the verge.

MONTREAL (CP) — Brian
Mulroney stopped short of
officially announcing his can-
didacy Friday night for the
federal Progressive Conser-
vative leadership, but ‘out-

Ltd. said he nad breakfast in

Halifax with 17 party organ-

izers, including Nova Scotia

‘cabinet ministers, and lunch

with 75 other Conservatives
to be

lined candidly his

the

strategy ina radio interview
to his hometown.

Mulroney, who’ was in-

Halifax, told Montreal station
CKVL, that if he gets the
support he needs during
tours across Canada, lie will
announce ~his candidacy ‘in
Ottawa during the week of
March 21." eae

“If the people I respect in
the party reach a-conclusion
and say: ‘Listen, Brian, we

feel your turn hasn't come, or ,

you don't have a contribution
to make,’ then I'll gracefully
accept their opinion arid do
something else with my life.”

Mulroney said if he gets
the support he is seeking, his
campaign will revolve around
two themes: “economic re-
vival and job creation.”

The 43:year-old president
ot Iron Ore Go, of Canada

vseats in'the 102
>ross Canada where there are

“I wanted to know. two
things before - announcing.
First off, I wanted to know if
serious Conservatives feel I
have a contribution to make,
and secondly, I wanted: to
know if people. at the grass-
roots feel that way too.”
He said. the’ “grassroots”
answer was provided this
week in Montreal when 4,000
people. jammed a downtown
hotel to hear him speak.
‘NOT GOOD ENOUGH’
Mulroney added’ it ."“was

_ simply not good enough,” for

the Conservatives to win: in
the -1980 - electio:

significant French-Canadian
populations. .

~, “No matter how wonderful
our ideas and policies are,

we'll never form a Holy na-

nly two.
Tidings: ac- -

tional government if we give
the Liberals a 100-seat gift at
the start of every general
election.”

Mulroney said aside froin

to: his Quebec support, he can

count on backing from Mari-
time delegates “because
that's where I attended uni-
versity.” Mulroney went to
St. Francis Xavier Univer-
sity in Antigonish, N.S., and
Dalhousie : University* law
school in Halifax.

: He said:.he can count on .

“impressive” support, in the

West. He said in the early:

1960s, he visited .“every
farmhouse -in ‘the West" as
executive. assistant to then
argiculture minister Alvin
Hamilton,

He took exception to re-
porters’ contentions in Hali-
fax that Joe Clark was

“crucified” at: the recent -na-

tional party convention in
Winnipeg.

“The leader received more
votes in 1983 than in 1981,
but he chose to resign,”
Mulroney said.

Housing : still affordable

* VANCOUVER (CP) — A
University of B.C. housing
expert says Canadian hous-
ing is no less affordable today
than it was 10 years ago, and
it will continue to be af-
fordable in future.

Michael Goldberg, associ-
ate dean of the UBC faculty
of commerce ‘and business
administration, said a myriad
of housing alternatives. not
available 20 years ago is
keeping housing within the
reach of most Canadians,
despite brief periods of vol-
atile prices ‘such as in Van-

* couver two years ago.

“With - condominium ow-

nership, co-operative owner-'

ship, townhouses and thin
homes on narrow lots, we
have a dimension of afford-

ability we've never seen be-
fore," he said.

In: the. 1980s,. the only
choices were a single-family
home or a highrise, he added.

Ina book called. The Hous-
ing Problem:-A Real Crisis?,
Goldberg notes that 63 per
cent of Canadian households
owned a home in 1981 com-
pared with just 60 per cent in
1971. While house prices rose
-about 190 per cent in Canada’
between 1971 and 1981, Gold-
berg said household incomes
increased by more than 226
per cent and per capita in-
comes rose by more than 228
per cent.

In B.C., the pi ge of

But Goldberg said the drop
reflected the growing urban-
‘ization of the province — as
more dense, rental housing
projects are constructed —
rather than an affordability
problem.

The belief that young fam:
ilies have found it more dif-
ficult to purchase housing in
recent years. is also de-
bunked, he said, by figures
which show the average age
of.new home buyers in Can-
ada dropped to 31.7 in 1981
compared with $3.1 in 1970.

Goldberg said the reces-

_sion has’ forced potential

homebuyers to lower thoir

households owning homes
dropped from 71 per cent in
1961 to 64 per cent in 1981.

housing noting
the increasing number of
persons moving into multi-
family units.

VANGOUVER. (CP) —
long and: bitter battle Taek
attempts by laid-off sawmill
workers in Revelstoke, to get
out of their union is all but
over after the Labor Rela-
tions Board ruled Friday that
a decertification vote should
be held.

“Most of the guys I've
talked to are just ecstatic,”

»said Dave Barefoot, secre-

tary for a group of Downie

CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 13, 1983 A3

ight—

CasNews.Photos
“By Ron-Norman

Street Sawmill workers who
wanted out of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of
America, ‘

“This thing has been auch ay

drawn out process . . ‘. the

. government passed the Char-

ter of Rights faster than it’s
taken to get this thing set-,
tled.”

“The 150 workérs were laid

off in October, 1981, when ,

the mill was shut by its own-

er, Federated Cooperative
Ltd. of- Saskatoon. Company
officials said the closure, just
months after the union was
certified after years of try-
ing, was because of de-
pressed lumber markets.

_ Last summer, the workers
tried to defer a 13-per-cent
wage increase effective July
1, hoping it would help get
the mill running again. The
union thwarted that move

"Former Grit minister
_ linked in bankrupcty

MONTREAL (cP) — For-
‘mer Liberal cabinet minister
Bryce Mackasey was linked
with a now-bankrupt Mon-
treal machine-tooling firm
that lobbied for federal con-
tracts in 1981 and 1982, two
businessmen said Friday.

. Also, documents filed in
the bankruptcy . division of
Quebec Superior Court say
that Mackasey was on the
board of di of Les

documents é as being on Hall's
board .of directors, said he

never gave an. v anger t to they 2

offer to be a board

and found it “this
that his own némig Seal on

list.

Also on Friday, Gordon -

Fletcher, president of Hall
Engineering Ontario Ltd. of
Cambridge, Ont.; said that
when his firm was selling its

Ateliers d'Usinage Hall Ltee.
in late November, 1981, just
before Mackasey says he ap-
proached a federal cabinet
minister on ‘Hall's behalf:
Mackasey, MP for the
southern Ontario riding of
Lincoln, says he turned down
an offer to joil Hall's board
alter receiving legal advice
from the law clerk of the
House of Ci

in 1981
Mackasey was named as a
member of the group of buy-
ers,

MENTIONS NAME
“His name was mentioned
as one of the. reputable
people involved in the group”
when ‘first: meetings were
being held about. the sale
with r

Ateliers d'Usinage Hall had
little technical or engineering

‘+retained $275,Q00 in pre-
“erred shares of Les Ateliers,
Fletcher said he did not fol-
low the affairs of the Mon-
treal company and had no
idea the firm was having
problems until it was forced
into bankruptcy in May,
1982.

Fletcher said there was no
suggestion that Mackasey
would be dding any lobbying
for contracts for the Mon-
treal company.

Harrison, president of the
Montreal Board of Trade, has
told the Montreal bankruptcy
hearing that an influential
lobbyist received a $400,000

On Friday, Claude Brun-
eau, a former vice-president
of Power: Corp., said in an
interview that Jean Bruyere,
chairman of Les Ateliers
d'Usinage . Hall, told him
Mackasey was involved in
Hall when the firm asked
Bruneau to be on its board of
directors in 1981.

Bruneau now is chairman
of Imperial Life Assurance
Co, of Canada.

Bruneau, whose name is
also listed in the bankruptcy

loan in 1981 and
age in cash in exchange

Fletcher ar ina telephone
interview. -

. “His (Mackasey’s) was not
a major name but it was a
nice name, it was one we had
heard all’ our - lives,” said
Fletcher, adding that he did
not find it unusual for an MP

. to be involved in such a busi-

ness deal. «

Fletcher said he did find it
strange that the people who
eventually took over Les

to obtain fed-
ath contracts for Les Ate;
liers.

Mackasey has denied that
he obtained money in con-
nection with government
contracts.

Harrison said in his tes-
timony the lobbyist’s money
was deposited in a bank ac-
count in Ottawa belonging to
the numbered firm, 109609
Canada Ltd., which he said
belonged solely to the lob-
byist.

and a group representing
what it said was a majority of
the workers sought -to have
the union decertified.
REJECTED REQUEST
The labor board rejected
the request in October, say-
ing the IWA was protecting
its entire provincial mem-
bership by rejecting the de-
ferral suggestion and that.

the union had not ceased to .

represent a majority of the
workers because it continued
to pursue concerns, The
group appealed and.a three-
member board panel ruled in
its favor Friday in a split de-
cision,

Barefoot, who hoped a vote
could be held within a week,
said he was confident that
without the union, the work-
ers could reach a satisfactory

wage agreement with the.

company that would help get
the mill operating again.
“We'll also be able to:talk
to the company about whys
to increase‘ productivity, ‘and
other issues,” he said. “F’also
think the fact. that there
won't be a duty (on lumber
exported to the U.S.), the
empty lumber yard and the

spring break-up will help us
get back to work.”

Plant manager Bill Mallett
said he didn’t want to say
anything “that will upset the
apple-cart” before the vote,
but indicated that any thing
that will help reduce the
company’s costs will improve
the chances of the mill re-
opening.

He said an operating bud-
get for the mill indicated that
an increase of between $30
and $40 a thousand board
feet for lumber was needed.

“We need an increase in
selling price to get mobilized
and we think it will be there,”
Mallett said. “And if the
workers were to get decer-
tified and let's say agree toa
rollback of wages to July,
1982, rates, that works out to
a savings worth about $17 or
$18 a thousand, so we
wouldn't need as much of a
price increase.”

He also said resolution of
the union difficulties would
eliminate a lot of friction be-
tween workers that had been
hurting productivity and
“make the mill a happy place
to work again.”

Rolis loans cars
in sales drive

LONDON (AP) — More
than 1,000 potential Rolls-
Royce customers are being
loaned a Rolls for a day in a
new British sales drive.

The lucky 1,000 won't even
have to pay for the gasoline.

Traditionally, Rolls-Royce
Motors, Ltd. exports about
60 per cent of its output, and
its biggest market is the
United States, where 971 of
the luxury cars were bought
in 1982,

After trimming 750 jobs
and 34 dealerships in Britain
late last year, the company
founded in 1904 by racing
driver Charles Stewart Rolls
and engineer Frederick Hen-

ry Royce is trying to boost its
sales at home.

“We have got to get more
people into our motor cars,”
chief executive George Fenn
said Friday. “But to appre-
ciate the experience, they
need at least a day.”

The four demonstration
cars to be loaned for a day
range from the 55,000 Ibs.
($104,000) Silver Spirit to the
Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, Sil-
ver Spur and Corniche Con-
vertible, which cost up to
73,000 Ibs. ($198,000).

Rolls-Royce owners have
included Lawrence of Ara-
bia, Lenin and Henry Ford,