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In’ response to a delegation of seven airport employees concerned about the security of their jobs in the event of a federal transport ministry takeover of the facility, council approved airport committee chairman Ald, Gerald Rust 's motion to send the ministry a tel ig Ci of the airport until a more suitable athannerent can be made. The proposal said the city would resume management of the airport only on the conditions that it would not be required to continue operating it after March 31, 1979 and that the ministry “absolve and save the city harmless for any liability whatsoever in carrying out this operating function in its behalf.” Rust told the seven employees — the airport manager, secretary, janitor, foreman, equipment operator, fireman and mechanic — that if accepted the offer will provide a five-month interim period during which pressure can be put on the ministry to provide them with job security, which a senior official said could . Rot, be guaranteed in a federal government takeover of the function. He said the pressure must be exerted through various government agencies as well as through Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and Kootenay West-MP Bob Brisco to resolve the situation, “particularly in the interests of the employees.” think it would be a shame to see seven well-established families in the community suddenly find they're begging for jobs in the:street,” the airport committee chairman said, “Ina short submission to council earlier in the meeting, airport fireman Bernie Van Rassel, spokesman for the employees, said a decision on the future operation of the airport was “long overdue”. He said the airport employees feel they have been “patient and co-operative to an extreme” during the city's dispute with the ministry'“in spite of the fact that we are the most adversely affected group.” Van Rassel said employees considered a walkout action “to First to File - Nomination Ald. Gerald Rust is the ‘first to file nomination pa- pers for Nov. 18 municipal,’ regional and school board clections, .the, Castle, City clerk Barry Baldi- gara, returning officer for. the city, confirmed that Rust. —who has served almost continuously since 1957 on Castlegar and Kinnaird municipal councils—filed for re-election Tuesday after- noon. © A total of seven elected . positions, for which nomi- nations close at noon Mon- * day, are available this year. GERALD AUST (See earlier story on Page Bl) ..hatinring Hunters Genelle Herb ho with Uranium Back at ‘The uranium Norgold Potatoes Red, B.C. Grown, No. 1 Grade ...cssscssssssessssesseesesesnees 11 Fl. oz. ae oe Healt 14 fl. oz sind 99" Assorted Baby Food (With one at store) Cream Corn Taste Tells, 14 fl. oz.tin .. Bleach 50:°3.49 B.C. Onions................ 25% B.C. Carrots No. 1 Grade .......ecseses Be icine Products | Ketchup Spaghetti: 252:53.99 —— White Magic, 28 fl. oz. jug ... 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DAYLIGHT Us SAVINGS Beg TIME A ENDS [i fellow residents Eric Taylor and Brent Lee faces charges of intimidation under Section 381 of the Criminal Code for allegedly obstructing on July 10 an access road used by Manny Consultants, conducting the tests on behalf of the China Creek Uranium Consortium to get to the first drilling site— said Monday the equipment . was about 200 yards north of the creek, He said the drill resembles closely the equipment used by Manny. “Tcan see the drill from my kitchen window,” he said. “They had a truck and were up there working today.” But Tom McKenzie, a spokesman for the Genelle ad hoc committee organizing oppo- sition to the drilling, noted that activity had subsided at the new drilling site. “They don't seem to be doing much.with it,” McKenzie In Return fo publicize our plight” but after ‘discussion with acting mayor Ald. Jim Gouk decided to give the city and ministry more time to make a decision, The sitpatt committee chairman cited the ministry's lack of terminal and navigational needs of ms airport and he potential liability “resting on the taxpayer of Ci he which prompted the city's move in August. 13 ee notice of withdrawal, He said council decided after over one year of the city's of the airport that for any airport handling first-line carriers “should rest with the air traffic experts.” But Rust told the employees council had their interests at heart “and have done everything we can to get a commitment from the ministry to safeguard your positions at the airport.” He. referred to the city's Aug. 30 letter to Al Bach, the ministry's Pacific regional administrator, objecting to his statement that the seven jobs would be subject to civil service’ competitions. The letter pointed out that under the terms of its operation of the airport the city was required to retain incumbent staff, and added that the city expected the ministry to honor the same commitment, Responding also to various questions to which employees said .they were unable to find answers, he said airport personnel_are city employees who would be given appropriate notice “in the unlikely event” that they are not retained after the city withdraws from the airport function. Rust said severance pay for the employees would be covered by their collective agreement with the city, and relocation expenses would be worked out between the city, Canada Manpower and the ministry if required. Any benefits, including salaries accruing to the airport personnel, would be agreed to between the ministry, the city and any third party involved, he sai aid. * Commenting on the motion, Ald. Albert Calderbank said it SPECIAL preview celebration ot Waneta Plaza was well attended with all Indication of a ‘green light’ for its official grand opening yesterday morning. Speakers Tuesday evening Included Rossland MLA Chris D’Arcy, Trall mayor expect our city to accept the liability of the running of the airport and all the hassle we have had is unwarranted.” Ald. Len Embree said he was concerned about the public liability the city would still face if it continues to run the airport, Asked by Embree about the new insurance package under APPOINTED SPOKESMAN Bernle Van fi alrs views of rt city council Tuesday evening. Looking on are alrport tower chief Pete Minchuk, Dave Williams, chalrman of Selkirk College’s aviation department and Barry Ehman, focal Pacific Alrlines represented a slight change i in the city’s stand on the airport operation. “In the initial stages we informed the ministry we did not want to run the airport in any shape or form,” Calderbank said. “I feel that we have met them quite a long way by agreeing to operate it until March.” , “It should be clearly understood by the ministry that to © Sototate tstcate rote fa agate Se nate tite es sof She eset 08+, roy hee 5 retest tet, oi coat Kee OP ay ES o me raze Daon Shopping Contre, ‘Rod Schroder. Guests, who received dinner with Phoenix Band providing live entertaln- ment, toured the facilities which Indicated quailty through- out. Yesterday morning the officlal ribbon-cutting ceremony consideration by the ministry for insuring airports across Canada, Mayor Audrey Moore said Bach indicated in a call to the city Friday that insurance tenders had been opened for the’ new package. Bach also indicated the new package will ensure that the airport is “properly” covered, but said he was unable to say whether it would provide up to $100 million liability coverage, Moore said. Ald. Jim Gouk pointed out council discussed with Bach in a Sept. 27 meeting the prospect of continued operation of the airport at no liability to the city. “He's made it quite clear that the alternative to us not running it is for the ministry to take over ona very restrictive and limited basis in which ease they would be responsible for any liability whatsoever," Gouk said. Moore said the “third party” agreements, recently proposed as an alternative to the ministry running the airport, are only in use at three airports with regular jet service in Canada. She said she did not consider such agreements “a viable alternative.” “I think it’s upperinost in Lhe minds of this municipality that unless we are saved from all liability for the airport we could go into receivership," she told the airport employees, “You're all taxpayers and I am sure you wouldn't want us to put you in that position.” | Castlegar Airport serves a population of about 80,000 in the Kootenays and the risk should not be confined to the 6,500 residents of Castlegar, she said. Van Rassel said near the end of the discussion with council that the airport employees were satisfied the city “has in the past and will in the future endeavor to keep our best interests as well as those of the community at heart.” Neither Side Eager said. “I suppose they're waiting until after (the trial) just in Daytight saving time ends at 2 a.m, Sunday morning—and He said the committee was Sales in Retail Quantities Only ‘CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED you get an extra hour of sleep. , Clocks revert to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday, thus giving B.C. residents the oppor- tunity to make up that extra hour ‘of sleep that was lost when daylight saving went into effect this past spring. -* However, to:prevent get- ting to church an hour early Sunday, people are advised to move their clocks BACK one hour when they go to bed night. also “keeping a low profile” while awaiting the outcome of the trial, issuing a newsletter “to keep residents informed" and maintaining correspon- dence with the Atomic Energy Control Board, agency responsible for setting safety standards for radiation. “It's our intention to con- tinue our correspondence with the AECB and the mines minister of B.C. in an attempt to get some positive answers,” he said. the federal” Chuck Lakes, Kelly Douglas president Doug McLellan, Fred and Pi of Woolco pi took place as people throughout the district flocked for thelr own tour.—CasNewsFoto by Lols Hughes Conflicting testimony by two Crown witnesses highlight- ed the first day of trial here Tuesday for three Genelle men charged with obstructing ex- ploration of uranium deposits near China Creek. ~ Testifying in provincial court at the trial of Herb McGregor, 46, Eric Taylor, 32, and Brent Lee, 33 — scheduled to continue yesterday in Ross- land —, were the mines minis- try’s chief regional inspector and the geological engineer conducting the exploration with which the three Genelle resi- dents are accused of interfering | on July 10. Manny Consultants presi- dent Emmanuel Amendolagine said he had been involved in exploration at the drilling site south of China Creek.since the summer of 1977 but he did not Two Crown Witnesses’ Testimony Contradictory Trial of ‘Genelle Three’ Opens learn until April 1978 he was working near a watershed. Testifying later, chief in- spector Bruce Lang told the court he cautioned Amendola- gine about the proximity of the exploration to the watershed before December, 1977. Amendolagine, who said his firm first started explora- tion on the site on behalf of the China Creek Uranium Consor- tium in “July or August” 1977, told the court he did not know about the watershed until he heard reports by Genelle resi- dents of blasting in the area in April. He said his firm, which started its exploration of the site with ore sample blasting, were not responsible for the April blasting. He said the mining claim map of the exploration site did 12 Accused Appear At Nelson Hearing Twelve persons, charged with setting fire to a home that had belonged to the late Anna Markova on Sept. 23, appeared in provincial court in Nelson yesterday morning for a preliminary hearing. At press time, court was still in session to decide if there is sufficient evidence to put the seven women and five men on trial. not indicate the creek in the area. But Lang testified that in“ an inspection of the drilling site in 1977 he told Amendolagine “he had to be very careful because he was near a water shed. He said he certainly would.” Vancouver lawyers Leo McGrady, counsel for McGreg- or and Taylor, and Craig Paterson, counsel for Lee, agreed with Crown evidence that the accused — charged with intimidation under Section 381 of the Criminal Code — refused to obey a direct RCMP order to let the Manny crew use an access road to the drilling site, July 10. But they chal- lenged the lawful right of the drilling crew to conduct the tests near the watershed. McGrady cited Section 176 of the Criminal Code, dealing with public nuisance endanger- ing the health, safety and comfort of the public, as well as Section 30, dealing with the right of citizens to prevent breaches of the peace, as justification for his clients’ con- duct. He-also cited Section 27, dealing with the right of indi- viduals to use force if necessary to prevent commission of an offense as another part of the Criminal Code entitling citizens to “self-help.” Provincial court judge I. B. Josephson overruled ad hoc Crown counsel. Peter Moir's argument that the trial should deal only with the circum- stances of the arrest but re- stricted the defense lawyers‘ presentation of evidence to facts relevant to the explora- See Page A2 — ee THE, POLLS: The nominations deadline for numicipal, regional and school board elections draws near. POLITICIANS: B4 An endangered species? 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Nan Hendrie, WKEEA steering committee chairman, said representatives of the school boards and college voted unanimously Saturday in favor to serve 72 hours lockout notice “but we will not use it unless we are forced to do so by CUPE.” Hendrie said Sunday the steering committee was “still hopeful” the college and school systems would not be disrupted by the non-teaching employees, who rejected the WKEEA's final offer last week of a 16-per- cent wage increase over two years, but is still prepared to use the lockout if the CUPE locals start a series of rotating strikes. She noted Sunday that the strike was expected to start as early as Tuesday, when the labor ministry mediator in the contract negotiations was scheduled to withdraw. But Leo Plamondon, presi- dent of CUPE Local 1298 in the Castlegar area schoo! district, on Monday said the union had set no date for the strike. He said it was unlikely that a strike would begin before yesterday. Also contacted Monday, Selkirk College bursar Alex Reibin confirmed that the dis- pute would be the topic of a public forum scheduled for yesterday at the college. Reibin, scheduled to state the college council's position at the forum yesterday, said stu- dents, faculty and Mickey Kina- kin, president of CUPE Local 1341 was also expected to parti- cipate. He said he had heard reports that the CUPE local -had assured students there would be no strike at the college until after the. forum... Kinakin was unavailable early this week for comment. “Council is making a chronological. statement on what ‘has happened and will repeat the plan of operation it issued after last Thursday's meeting,” Reibin said. (Chairman Bob Buckley urged college council members last Thursday to complete the open session of their meeting as quickly as possible to provide for more time for discussion of “significant developments in the field of labor relations” in closed session.) Reibin said the college would not use the lockout before current Labor Relations Board hearings resolve whether CUPE or the Association of College and University Em- ployees will represent non-, teaching employees at Nelson's David Thompson University Centre, operated by Selkirk. Interviewed last week, CUPE national representative Fred Pyke said the five locals rejected the WKEEA's final offer because they had de- manded parity with Okanagan CUPE members. The differ- ence between the Okanagan rate and the rejected final offer is about 22 cents an hour, he = Yes! Support the Castlegar District United Way STORY WEEKEND WEATHERCAST FOG this morning with sun- shine for the better part of th day, turning to clouds is SMOG GOTHERIN’ evening and extending into OPE. GOT the weekend. Probable show- i DATE ers for tomorrow and Satur- WITH day. Daytime highs of 10° EAVY with overnight lows of 2°. SMOKER. Entertainment . Pages A4-AS A Erma Bombeck age AIG Home on the Range . 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