6 a2 _ Castlegar News une 18. 1986 Reisman hopef By NORMA GREENAWAY WASHINGTON (CP) — Canadian and U.S. negotia tors vowed Tuesday not to let current trade disputes impede attempts to work out a freer-trade deal they have said should create more jobs on both sides of the border. Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, lauded the co-operative approach taken by both teams in their first day of serious talks. Reisman said there is “no question” an agreement can be reached by: the time the U.S. administration's current negotiating authority expires in January 1988 if both sides work diligently The latest round of talks was to end today, although the two teams are expected to meet at least once a month through the summer before getting into more detailed negotiations this fall Deputy U.S. negotiator Bill Merkin said both sides are looking for the same thing in an agreement — in- creased two-way trade, greater prosperity and more jobs in Canada and the United States. Reisman and Merkin said they have no intention of let ting recent flareups over specific trade issues, such as imports of Canadian lumber and cedar shakes and shin. gies, get in the way of the negotiations on a broad trade pact. “We didn't dwell on it, Merkin said in an interview. “One doesn't want to get bogged down in those sorts of mandate from the Canadian government to try to solve existing trade irritants and told reporters the talks must proceed despite such dis putes. countries since President Ronald Reagan imposed a five-year duty on imports of Canadian cedar shakes and shingles. Canada retaliated by imposing tariffs on some U.S. books and periodicals, computer parts and a range of other products. A recent U.S. decision to conduct an inquiry into whe ther imports of Canadian lumber should be subject to duties also has prompted verbal protests from Cangda. As the negotiators met, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter issued a Trade i have heightened between the two Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's “enthusiastic” endorsement of the freer-trade initiative in a televised address to Cana. dians on the eve of the talks. But Liberal and NDP mem. bers of Parliament wanted to know Tuesday just what kind of deal Mulroney has in mind with the United States. Opposition Leader John Turner movked Mulroney's reference in| his television appearance to-the Canada. U.S. auto pact as 4n example of free trade Turner said the auto pact is an example of managed trade designed to protect Canadian interests. New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent accused Mulroney “of shifting his position and refusing to answer direct questions about his plans. DISCUSS DISPUTES In Washington, negotia tors refused to be drawn out on the specifies of what they discussed. However, they said they diseussed the cur. rent tariff battle without trying to resolve it and talked about the provincial governments’ recent. agree- ment to stop challenging the freer-trade talks as long as Mulroney provides an update every three months. Merkin said the U.S. is satisfied Ottawa worked out enough-of an understanding with the provinces to allow the talks to go ahead U.S. officials and some key U.S. senators have said a trade agreement will not be approved by Congress with out assurance provincial bar riers to trade will be reduced or dismantled. “Clearly an agreement that was reached at the first ministers meeting in Ottawa is a very helpful agreement in terms of these ongoing negotiations,” Reisman said “I think everybody is pleas ed.” But Quebec Premier Rob ert Bourassa said he wants CIRCUS . . . Circus pertormer marches past crowd with popdile, one of many animals performing at Saturday's Shrine Circus at the Castlegar Com- munity Complex. Union criticize talks VANCOUVER (CP) Negotiators in British Colum. bia’s turbulent construction strike are reported near agreement, but a split has developed among the unions. Officially, union negotia tors won't comment on the talks between the Construc. tion Labor Relations Associa tion, bargaining for 650 unionized contractors, and the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council But a leaflet critical of the negotiations is being cir culated by three unions rep- resenting plumbers, boiler makers and elevator constructors. The leaflet says the two year deal under consider ation contains a $4-an-hour wage cut as well as a 50- per-cent cut in the daily travel time allowance and elimination of leave for workers on out-of-town jobs. Road closed Saturday By CasNews Staff A section of Cotumbia Avenue will be closed for part of Saturday so CP Rail can redo a railway crossing CP Rail spokesman Morris McAree said the section of Columbia Avenue past the Castlegar-Robson ferry will be closed to traffic. He said Celgar road traffic will be detoured through the Ogtow Arrow Lakes Drive. Ferry traffic will not be af fected, The section of road will be closed at least until 3 p.m. to allowCP Rail_to perform necessary work for redoing the crossing Union negotiating chair. man Roy Gautier refused comment, saying only: “Talks are in progress and hopefully we'll reach a conclusion in the next several days.” In Quebec, meanwhlie, 100,000 construction workers were reported to be obeying emergency legislation order ing them back to work. The legislation was passed only hours after the workers escalated their series of rotating strikes to a full seale walkout Residents protest spraying NELSON, B.C. (CP) — Forestry herbicide sprayers backed off Monday when they were confronted by 36 residents who blocked a road to Gold Hill, a logged site in the Lardeau Valley at the north end of Kootenay Lake. Group spokesman Norwick Gray said six trucks, two loaded with the herbicide Roundup, were stopped. Gray said forest officer Gord Grunerud threatened to call the RCMP, but when the -group refused to move, Grunerud backed down and said no spraying would take place that day John Sedlack, forest ser vice district manager, con firmed the RCMP were standing by and he would confer with police on further action. “People are opposed to the use of pesticides by public agencies on public land in the Lardeau Valley.” Gray said. “The regional district of the Central Kootenay has declared this area a pesticide free zone. We feel public servants must respect the will of the public.” Sedlack said the group's stand will make it impossible to avoid confrontation. Three die in Salmo crash By CasNews Staff Three people were killed and another severely injured Monday morning in a head-on collision near Erie Lake about five kilometres west of Salme. Salmo RCMP say an east bound Toyota pick-up collid- ed head-on with a westbound Cadillac at about 9:05 a.m Both drivers and one pass enger were pronounced dead at the scene, an RCMP spokesman said. The names of the victims have not been released, pend ing notification of next of kin A fire prevented rescue personnel from reaching the trapped otupants, police say One person was taken to Trail Regional Hospital with serious injuries. Cause of the crash is not known and police are contin Ging their investigation, the RCMP spokesman said. Costtews Proto by Pru! Colderbonk COLBERT TO HEAD BCAC Dr. Jack Colbert, chairman of Selkirk College board, is the new president of the British Columbia Association of Colleges, following elee tions at the association's recent 19th annual meeting held in Penticton. Dr. Colbert served last year as the association's vice-president BCAC represents 16 col lege and institute boards located throughout the pro- vince, serving as their voice in discussions with the pro vineial government, particu larly the Ministry of Post Secofidary Education. It also promotes public interest in and support of non-degree post-secondary education as offered by the various col leges and institutes Tourist alert VANCOUVER Tourist Alert issued Wed nesday by the RCMP. The following persons are re quested to call the contact listed below for an personal message Mr. and Mrs. P Ontario; her father Emile Ferko, Darryl! Mr. and Mrs Tac oma, Wash., Jeanee Frew Mr. and Mrs. Alex Ken nedy, Burnaby: Doug Ken nedy Henry Lievers. Sherwood Park, Alta., Dorothy Lievers Gary Selman, Calgary; Mike Weaving Chris Zbytovsky. Unity, Sask.; Vinee Zbytovsky (CP) — urgent Carroll, Edmonton; Jundt TRAIL TAKEOVER continued from front pege Trail economy conducted by CLC researcher Tom Poetsche. Toronto economist Peter Warrian echoed that predic tion saying that “Cominco will never again play the, role it played in the past.” ul of trade deal the right to veto any prop- osed agreement with the United States’on freer trade. Bourassa said in an inter- view in Montreal veto power is needed to protect Quebec industry from the impact of a general lowering of tariffs with the United States. He also said Quebec op- poses any inclusion of the province's cultural identity or social programs in the pegotiations. Canada and the United States exchanged $168.7 bil lion Canadian worth of goods last year, with Canada en- joying a surplus of $20.5 billion. PST Draining on examples from the evolutionary theory of adaptation, he said “We have two kinds of people: splitters and lumpers. The thing that is splitting us up is the role of large corporations,” he observed. “No possible adaptation for survival is possible if we don't keep it in mind.” With the Castléak N TREET TALK SAFEWAY’'S new man. ager is an outdoor thusiast who views move to Castlegar as an assignment “to God's coun try.” Dale Bobby comes to Castlegar from Nanaimo, but he was raised in White Rock where he started his career with the company. He worked in 13 Safeway stores in the lower main- land before his appoint ment as manager at Nan- aimo. An avid ballplayer, hav- ing played baseball and se nior men's fastball, Dale enjoys fishing, hiking and . . hunting His wife Rebyn and two sons, Ryan, nine and Michael, seven, will be coming to Castlegar when school DALE BOBBY . new Sateway manager ends next week. Robyn is a vice-president of the Delta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi while Dale was a charter member of one of White Rock's two Lions Clubs. The couple have bought » home’here and, in Dale's words, “intend to put down deep roots in the community.” CURIOSITY HAS often been aroused in Castlegar about the meaning of the letters “DEE” which appear on a large number of the chip trucks which roll through our community en route to Westar's Celgar pulp operations. The letters, in Roman script, are actually “DCT” and stand for Dan Chambers Trucking. DCT operates out of Lumby and is one of the largest chip trucking firms in British Columbia. Sawmills with chips to sell will often lease DCT trucks, or enter into hauling agreements with the firm. Celgar purchases $12 million a year in chips from outside suppliers at Golden, Donald, Revelstoke, Midway, Grand Forks, Fruitvale and Creston and many of the sawmills it buys chips from use DCT rigs. OUR MENTION of the USCC youth choir heading to Expo 86 to perform drew a response from Ray Tereposky of Pass Creek, who noted that there is more than one youth choir performing at Expo. The Krestova Youth Choir will be taking its 40 members to Expo to perform and it will cost a total of $12,000 for the excursion. : The choir can be seen from June 29-July 6. GRADS OF '86! Defect blamed in He also predicted that Cominco, “once a self-reliant empire in base metals — and a dominant force in local economy — is on its way to becoming a dependent processing zone He joked that Cominco might become a public utility, in which case the Steelworkers would join government unions. Warrian explained that the world economy has changed corporations in the “splitters” category Irving said-“it is up to the rest of us to be not only lumped together but working together.” B.C. Federation of Labor secretary treasurer Cliff Andstein, Georgetti's running mate for the executive of the federation, said “B.C. is experiencing jobless growth” and that the way to recovery is through alternative economic in a fundamental way as a result of competition from newly industrialized countries like Korea, Singapore and Brazil, where most of standardized mass production has been moved. Unable to compete, the western economies are moving to small specialized production. Large companies like Cominco, he said, “have come into crisis.” They have become “more vulnerable, more dependent on the public purse.” Simon Fraser University economist Joy Leach, another speaker at the conference, agreed that “something's changed in the western economy.” planning Community ownership emerged as a central feature of the community-based economic development A Sunday workshop group concluded after an impromptu survey of local business that “there is almost no local ownership.” This means money leaving the community, resulting in shortage of development capital Workshop discussions at the conference proceeded on the assumption that in the difference between rich and poor regions at issue is not money but how long it stays in the About 1975, she said, “people started to wait for things to come good and they are still waiting. It didn't come good.” In the good old days, Leach said, “the governments had an alliance with industry: we give you money, tax breaks, you provide jobs. That deal is now off,” she observed. “But the government hasn't yet figured it out and keeps on putting money in.” The task of the organized labor, said Steelworkers’ Georgetti, is to convince the community to stop waiting for things to come good again “The local rolls of the unemployed still believe that Cominco will recall them,” he noted, “and for that reason don't realize. the scope and magnitude of the problem.” ConVening the conference, Georgetti spoke of forging closer ties with the local business community “The local business community has to be more involved,” he said. “If any brick walls still stand in the way of cooperation, then these walls have to be taken down quickly.” Joe Irving of the Castlegar Unemployment Action Centre, invited to speak on the regional unemployment conference held in Castlegar last spring. echoed the notion that the alliance of small business with Cominco was based on the consumption pattern dictated by this single industry town employer SCHOOL CLOSURES board permission to close the schools, said his concern is that procedure is followed “The minister's office has to ensure adequate public input,” he said In a related matter at board meeting, the trustees passed by a narrow 4-3 vote a motion from to strike a committee “to plead the case of small elementary schools in the province,” to Hewitt “The closure of small schools is not just happening in Castlegar. It's hap- in Vancouer. everywhere,” Johnson said, noting that high schools in the year financial consideration from the Min istry of Education. “We've been accused on a number of continued from front poge He said the parents realize the board must close some schools because of the district's declining enrolment and the lack of funds to staff all the schools in the district. “They (the trustees) have to reduce the number of schools the way the economy is,” he said. “They can't operate at the same level as before.” But Read said closing the four rural schools is not the long-term answer to the problem. . “It's a quick solution,” he said. Read met for about 45 minutes Monday with Education Minister Jim Hewitt who was in Castlegar to an nounce an Expo Legacy Fund grant to the Castlegar Library. Read said Hewitt was “very recep tive to being asked questions” about the school closures. However, he added that the minister said he won't inter vene in the dispute between the board and the parents. Hewitt told reporters Monday clos ing the schools is “a management de cision by the local school board.” Hewitt, who has not yet given’ the Johnson pening rural last small, province oceasions of not But ion to form a enough with the government, that we haven't addressed all of the issues. This is one way we can address the issue.” Anutooshkin e should have struck this com mitfee not after the fact but before the community. Community ownership was the solution proposed to keep the dollars re- circulating in the area as long as possible. In order to turn around the troubled economy of single industry town Leach urged “local control to recover the loss of local ownership,” calling community ownership “an ethical investment in the community.” She spoke in strong terms of a strange situation where people with money in the bank watch their young, their children and grandchildren, leave the area rather than dip into their savings. “There is nearly $60 million on deposit in B.C.,” she said, “$15 billion in -savings,” which she called “undirected money.” The Trail area has one of the highest amounts of personal savings in B.C. Leach, who is also director of Van City Credit Union, the second largest credit union in North America, drew laughter with “a saying we have at Van City: ‘It's 11 o'clock Do you know where your money is? ” The answer is, she said, “probably in Toronto,” which has an unemployment rate of 5.1 compared to about 25 per cent around here. Because “banks believe in borrowing money rather than putting them into the community, if you put money in the bank it walks out at night.” fact. We've let the horse escape out of the barn and now we've closed the door.” Conroy said the board is being “fairly naive” in going to Hewitt “Hewitt is getting exactly what he wants — school consolidation. We're wasting our time and effort. I feel we're not going to get any kind of support at all.” Smecher also opposed the motion, but for a different reason. She said closing the schools is a local board decision and represents the autonomy from the provincial government that boards across B.C. were asking for. “I think the minister's point was well taken when he said it was the board's decision to close the schools. We've asked for autonomy to make decisions that control our school district. “Now we're asking for protection from our decision.” A motion by Anutooshkin to post pone the closing of the schools until the committee is formed was ruled out of order by trustee Gordon Turner, who was acting chairman while debated her motion. the proper Monday's It's happening received special being aggressive criticized the committee as “too Johnson 161 HECTARES BURNT Forest fires quiet Castlegar said today “If it warms up, we can expect to find a few more fires from lightning strikes,” said Skip Walsh, Arrow district protection officer. Walsh said today's cloudy, damp weather makes it dif. ficult to locate small_ spot fires. By CasNews Staff The B fire near the summit of the Castlegar-Salmo high: way is still in the mop-up stage and a number of spot fires caused by lightning str kes over the last few days have been put out, a spokes. man at the Ministry of Fores field office in “It might be a couple of days before we find these {lightning strikes) if in fact they caused fires.” He said patrols are out now looking at where last night's storm went through, concen. trating on the west side of Arrow Lake. Meanwhile, 70 men cont inue to mop up the B fire, which consumed about 150 hectares of forest, and is the only major fire in the district to date In total, fires have burned 161 hectares of forest in the district Cost of fighting the fires stands af $214,538. rollercoaster accident EDMONTON (CP) A manufacturer's defect caused the deaths of three people on a_roller coaster at West Ed monton Mall, a spokesman for mall owner Triple Five Corp. said Tuesday Michael Mooney. director of the real estate develop ment corporation, said an axle disengaged from the last car of the Mindbender roller coaster. “The permanent installa tion that failed is inaccessible (to. safety inspectors and maintenance men) at all times,” Mooney told a news conference. He refused to specify which defective part he was referring to or how an inves tigation concluded it Trip MONTREAL (CP) — Aud rey, Chloe and Matthew Res. pet, the first test-tube trip lets born in Canada, sleepy but healthy Tuesday, three days after they were born at Ste-Justine’s Hos. pital Mother Danielle, 29. father Theodore, beaming. “It was a good Father's Day present,” Theodore said “She was supposed to have them on my birthday, which is in a couple of days, but they decided to come for Fa ther’s Day which is just fine with me.” The couple lived in Port Cartier on the shore of the St. Lawrence River where Theodore, an American United States grain inspector. They attempted for five years to have children and decided to try the in-vitro fertilization program at Que bec City’s Laval University Hospital Centre. 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