lative Library, tazen oria, Five Castlegar Rebels have been named to the KUHL all-star team . . . 8. PICKET PROTEST . . . Pair of pickets by striki Cable workers went up Friday morning outsi legar office in dispute over Tel's downtown Cast! Sldgs 8. +» 501 Bellevitie St c. Award winner Show B.C. telephone company supervisors phone lines in Nelson and Trai repairing Shaw Cable —LesttewsPhote by Ron Norman B.C. Tel picketted By RON NORMAN Editer More than 100 B.C. Tel employees in Castlegar, Trail and Nelson were off the job Friday when they refused to cross picket lines set up by striking Shaw Cable workers. However, a B.C. Tel spokesman said the company will apply to the Labor Relations Board for relief if the picket ing continues at its facilities this week. vill do something if this Clark said in an inter In Castlegar, pickets went up outside B.C. Tel's downtown office and the company’s plant on Highway 3 at 7:30 a.m. Shaw Cable workers said they were protesting repairs to telephone service carried out by telephone company supervisors after unionized telephone workers refused to cross a picket line at Shaw Cable. The cable firm's telephone service in Trail and Nelson was knocked out earlier in the week when telephone lines were cut. Clark said B.C. Tel will maintain only emergency service as long as its offices remain behind picket lines. The work will be done by supervisors. Clark added that B.C. Tel did not SLOCAN FOREST PRODUCT. Mill won't burn waste By CasNews Staff Slocan Forests Products has no plans to burn wood waste contaminated with a highly toxic wood preservative at its Slocan sawmill “The rumor is totally false,” assis tant accountant Diane Smith said in a telephone interview Friday from Slocan. Smith said mill manager Harry Ar gatoff has posted a notice to employees informing them that the mill will not burn the treated wood waste. The wood waste is from lumber treated with chorophenals at Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd. near Kaslo. The small sawmill treated lumber with the wood preservative for about two weeks last fall. However, the company was ordered to stop using the chemical when gov. No word on legacy grant for library By CasNews Staff be at least February before po 86 Committee jon for a $200,000 It will the Castlegar learns if its applic: son said that Consumer @ Affairs Minister Jim Hewitt — the ter responsible for legacy funding return from holidays until Feb. 3. ‘Anderson said a ministry spokesman in Victoria said no grants would be until Hewitt returns. she hasn't grant since Castlegar grant to match the City of Castlegar’s $200,000 contribution. The grant will be used for a library expansion. Meanwhile, Grand Forks has re ceived a $575,000 Expo legacy grant. The city applied for an $850,000 grant to match the $800,000 funding from the city’s slag fund and $55,000 from public donations. Grand Forks plans té use the funds to build an indoor swimming pool. Projected cost of the pool is $1.7 million The Grand Forks pool committee is meeting to discuss ways to make up the grant shortfall. Grand Forks is within the riding represented by Hewitt. seek an LRB injunction to halt the picketing Friday because it would have come too late in the day. The cable company workers, mem- bers of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1003, have been on strike since Aug. 13: The electrical workers, who cur. rently earn $15 an hour, are seeking a union shop and have said they do not want a wage increase. The company wants an open shop and has offered an 11 per cent wage hike. Shaw Cable is maintaining repair service with supervisors, but has dis- continued its community program ming. ernment officials learned of the prac- tice. When wood containing chlorophenals is burned, it creates deadly dioxins that can get into the food chain, falling as rain or smoke ash. Dioxins are highly toxic to humans by inhalation or skin absorption. Meadow Creek usually burns its waste in a large open fire at this time of year, but open fires don't generate enough heat to destroy the dioxins. The company was told by envir- onment officials to come up with a list of possible ways to dispose of the waste safely by the end of this week. One of the ways to dispose of it is in an incinerator that can burn the waste at an extremely high heat. Only two mills in the West Kootenay have that type of incinerator: SFP’s Slocan sawmill and Westar Timber’s Celgar pulp mill Another option is to truck the waste to a secure dump site Horst Aldinger. a major owner of Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd., was en route to Kelowna Friday and was un- available for comment. However, Ministry of Environment engineer Cari Johnson said he under- stands the company has submitted the list of options which “is in the mail.” Johnson said the environment min- istry will likely receive the list early this week and shortly after make some decision on the safe disposal of the wood waste The six winning numbers jn las: draw were four, 12, 21, 40, number was two. The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provin- cial lottery draw is 5146640. UIC HEARING WKPL proposes two-tier system By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer There were new and innovative proposals along with old familiar ones among the 13 formal submissions Thursday at the Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance held in About 75 people — most of them unemployed — heard the presenta- tions, which described the impact, of unemployment on West Kootenay residents and suggested changes to the UIC Act. Comitiigsioners Frances Soboda, vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress, and Dr. Moses Morgan, Canadian scholar, sat in Kinnaird Hall for more than 3‘ hours listening to the Bob King, representing West Koot- enay Power and Light, suggested a two-tiered deduction scheme. The first part of the program would remain as an income plan for involuntary job ‘re- placement, while a second part would see workers voluntarily pay funds to provide for things like retraining one industry towns. King said the voluntary contribu. tions would be tax deductible and ad ministrated similar to a registered re. tirement savings plan. Should the in dividual not require the funds, they. HOT ENOUGH FOR YAP . Richards of the Castlegar weather office c meteorologist could be integrated with the RRSP or the Canada Pension Plan. He noted that over the past 10 years, unemployment insurance costs at WKPL have risen 350 per cent. He said all British Columbians and 37 per cent of all single British Columbians were receiving either unemployment insur- ance or welfare at the end of 1985. From 1980 to 1984 the number of British Columbians on welfare in- creased by 85 per cent, Dalton said. He suggested a unique pairing pro gram involving retirees and young people which would reduce UIC claims while at the same time increase general revenues and help greatly with the federal deficit. Dalton explained that a person who wants to retire cannot do so because he would lose the $300-$400 per month of a fully topped-up pension. But if the gov- ernment topped up that pension, an unemployed person could be brought Jim yecks a Last year was the driest year on record... A2 year. “In my judgment, if the hardships of unemployment were made more read- ily known, the families with substantial incomes would be more than willing to help the families who are less fortun Picken also said the forest industry is a key to more jobs. Joe Irving, speaking on behalf of the Unemployed Action Centres of the East and West Kootenays, addressed continued on poge A3 thermometer to see if the spring-like temperatures ore really os warm as they seem.