Castlegar council has apparently opted to stay out of the
five-week old pulp dispute.

Council received a telegram from Prinee Rupert council
asking it to contact the two sides in the pulp lockout “urging
them to reach a collective agreement.”

Prince Rupert couneil said it has beeome concerned over
the contract dispute between the two pulp unions and the
pulp industry. It said it has contacted the two sides asking
them to arrive at a settlement “as soon as possible.”

Prince Rupert's telegram to the pulp unions and pulp
industry also asked that the parties bargain “in good faith

without delays or interruptions.”

However, Castlegar council simply received the
telegram for information, without comment and without
acting on the request to fire off a telegram to the two sides in
the dispute.

Meanwhile, Labor Minister Bob McClelland says it's up
to the companies and unions to settle the pulp industry
dispute and the government will not intervene without
request from the warring parties.

McClelland told reporters he would decide on inter-
vention only if he received a request from at least one party.

“| think the strike and the lockout are outdated methods
of reaching agreement, but it’s there and it’s part of the

ut of dispute

settlement process,” he said.

The industry locked out about 13,000 members of the
Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada and the Canadian
Paperworkers Union at 20 mills Feb. 2 in an effort to force a
settlement. The pulp unions retaliated with secondary
pick at the pulp i iated ills, manned
mostly by International Woodworkers of America members.

BC Timber's Celgar pulp and sawmill operations are
both shut down, idling nearly 550 workers.

iations broke off last kend and no new talks

are scheduled.
Elsewhere, a call by the head of the International
‘Woodworkers of America for a general strike to settle the

pulp and paper industry lockout is mostly tactics, the
secretary-treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labor said.

But Mike Kramer said the federation will give Jack
Munro, regional president of the woodworkers’ union,
hearing at a special executive meeting this week.

Labor leaders will consider Munro's proposal of escal-
ating the pulp union lockout and secondary picketing of
woodworker sites into a provincewide labor shutdown,
Kramer said :

On Monday, Munro requested a meeting with the
federation and with the leaders of Operation Solidarity, a
labor amalgam formed last year in opposition to the

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1984

WEATHERCAST

Sunny and warm Thursday with
highs of between 10° and 12° and
lows of -1° to -3°. No precipitation
expected. Friday's outlook is for
cloudy conditions

3 Sections (A, B &C)

Three ferry
workers to

Only three of seven full-time Castle-
gar/Robeon ferry workers to be laid off
April 1 are eligible to relocate to other
jobs within the provincial government.

But Highways Ministry district
manager Roger McKeown is “not able
to comment” on what types of jobs
these would be, or when the relocations
will occur.

One of the three full-time regular
ferry workers eligible for relocation
has already opted for early retirement,
McKeown said.

Four fulltime auxiliary and two
part-timé substitute ferry workers
aren't qualified either to take early re-
‘tiretiient ot to’ teloekte.-

‘McKeown said the seven full-time
ferry positions are not included in 16
positions to be eliminated April 1 in the
Rossland Department of tbe Ministry
of Highways, which has jurisdiction
over the Castlegar/Robson ferry.

The positions which will be ter-
minated include laborers, machine
operators, yard maintenance, technical
and clerical positions, said McKeown.

Two of the positions were already
vacant, and a machine operator,
technical worker, and clerk now have
been relocated, he said.

All the Castlegar/Robson ferry
workers have received layoff notices,
McKeown added.

Highways Minister Alex Fraser an-
nounced last month that the Castlegar/
Robson Ferry will be discontinued
April 1.

Closure
reaffirmed

By CasNews Staff
Three provincial cabinet ministers
have reaffirmed the decision to close
David Thompson University Centre as
of May 1. The ministers made the

statements in separate
Castlegar council.
The letters came after council wrote

letters to

FIRST FLOWERS . . . Four-year-old Jennifer Maar-
tman locates season's first crocuses hey poke
their heads from beneath last year's
and weeds in her mom's flower bed in Blueberry

grass

Creek. Flowers and warm: sunshine ore reminder
that first day of spring is only weeks away.

—CasNewsPhote by Ron Norman

expressing concern over the DTUC
closure.

Education Minister Jack Heinrich
said the decision to close DTUC “was

PEDESTRIAN CONTROLLED

given very careful

“Tt was felt that the David Thompson
University Centre represented a high
cost program serving a relatively small
number of people and, since there were

DEFENCE SYSTEMS

U.S. seeks
more tests
in Canada

WASHINGTON (CP) — The United
States has submitted to the Canadian
government a new set of proposals
concerning defence systems it wants to
test in Canada, government spokesmen
in both countries said today.

The agreement says systems to be
tested could include artillery equip-
ment, helicopters, surveillance and
identification systems, advanced non-
nuclear munitions, aireraft navigation
systems and the guidance system
unarmed nuclear cruise missiles.

« Chimie hes the right to- refuse any
proposal. And tests of biological and
chemical weapons or armed nuclear
weapons’are banned under the agree-
ment,

The agreement requires the U.S. to
submit a list of proposals at the
beginning of each year and this sets off
an approval process that could take
days, weeks or months, depending on
the nature of individual test plans.

Canada is to accept or reject the
principle of the proposals and then
agreements on individual projects are
worked out separately.

For each proposed test project, the
Americans are obliged to provide a
15-month projection of estimates on
what materials might be required in
Canada, what air space or land might
be used and what military or other
support might be necessary from
Canada.

Meanwhile, after months of contro-
versy and an unsuccessful last-ditch
attempt to stop it in court, the first test
in Canada of the U.S. cruise missile
went off without a hitch Tuesday.

The flight triggered protests across
the country, including a promise by

—inside

BOSWELL BONANZA:
Classical guitarist Stephen
Boswell’s concert Friday at
the Valican Whole Centre
ws a hit with the packed
house, according to
reviewer David White.
Boswell also performed in
Castlegar and Nelson as
part of his B.C. tour AG

NDP Leader Ed Broadbent that mem-
bers of his party would wear black arm
bands in the House of Commons today
to show their opposition.

Maj. Dick Adam, a Canadian Forces
spokesman, said initial reports indi-
cated the test was successful.

“Perhaps when they look through
the engineering data and the technical
data it will show something different,
but from a quick look it looks great,”
Adam said.

The test of the unarmed missile,
which-anade its-2,600-kilometre flight
slung beneath the wing of a B52
bomber from the United States Strat-
egie Air Command, was designed to
check out the weapon's guidance
system.

The missile in effect guided the B-52
— a monstrous plane with a wing span
of 56 metres and a takeoff weight of
221,000 kilograms — along the flight
corridor.

It entered the corridor above the
Beaufort Sea and flew over the North-
west Territories, across northeastern
British Columbia and northern Alberta
to its destination at the Primrose Lake
Air Weapons Range, straddling the
Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

After passing over the range at an
altitude of approximately 300 metres at
about 12:30 p.m. MST, the plane rose
to its normal cruising altitude en route
to its home base in Grand Forks, N.D.,
without ever touching down in Canada.

SCANS

The low-flying missile uses a sophis-
ticated computer to scan the terrain
below, compares the readings to a map
and guides itself to the target. The

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Traffic light rejected

By RON NORMAN
Editor

alternate programs available within
the West Kootenay region and in other
parts of the province, the decision was
made to close the centre.”

Heinrich added the decision to close
DTUC was difficult, but was required
“considering the economic cireum-
stances that are in existence.”

Tourism Minister Claude Richmond
and Municipal Affairs Minister Bill
Ritchie also cited i as
the reason for the centre's closure.

“These are different economic times
and it is regrettable that many
programs and endeavors have had to
be foregone,” wrote Richmond.

However, he péinted out thatthe
cost of operating DTUC was ighly-
double per student compared to the
cost at all other colleges and institu-
tions in our provinee.”

Ritchie wrote: “Every ministry of
government has been required to
reduce public because of
present economic circumstances.”

POLTERGEIST: In a startlingly similar experience as that depicted in
the movie ‘Poltergeist’, a Columbus, Ohio tamily has moved into a
motel and out of their house they say has taken on a life of its own,
with objects flying through the air, lights flashing and a shower that
turns itself on... A2

new Safeway store.

Henne noted, “We realize there's an

Castlegar council has rejected a sug- awful traffic problem there” and said
gestion that the city replace its traffic the lights are “being looked after.”
light at the intersection of 3rd St. and In other council news:

Columbia Ave. with a pedestrian con- @ Council has asked a soils analyst to
trolled traffic light. ‘ prepare a report on the condition of the

The works and services committee Castlegar Road and proceed with test
ruled that a pedestrian controlled light holes for soil stability tests.
is ical because of the heavy ‘The report will be forwarded to the
traffic and the short distamée between works and services committee for rec-
the intersecti The said ion. Council wants to ascer-
it feared the light would create “severe
traffic congestion.”

As \well, committee chairman Ald.:
Cari Henne said there are a number of
¢hildren downtown and they may push
the ‘traffic light button “for fun.” ,

“| don't think anyone's in that great aw
hurry,” Henne that they ¢an’t
wait 88 seconds for the light to change;

Meanwhile, the city has received

pproval for installation of traffic lights
at Columbia Ave. and 17th St. near the

@ The city works and services crew
has been given the green light to pro-
ceed with the $30,000 first phase of the
Dumont subdivision storm sewer pro-
ject. The first step will be to survey the
area.

e The city’s main firehall will have a
silent alarm installed for a one-month
trial period.

WEATHER PEOPLE: Warm weather makes a difference on people's at-
titudes — just ask CasNews reporter Adrian Chamberlain, who does
‘our On The Street survey every week ... A3

HAIR RAISING: LONDON — Former John Coombs claims his cow
Primrose is curing his baldness — by licking his head.

Coombs, 56, who farms near Salisbury, southwestern
England, says he made the discovery atter Primrose licked some cat-
tle food dust off his pate as he bent down.

’A tew weeks laters hair was growing in an area that had been
bald for years

The farmer has the whole herd working on the problem now,
The Daily Telepgraph newspaper reported today

Coombs encourages his cows to lick his head every doy and
believes he will soon have a full head of hair.

“1am definitely getting a lot of new hair growth,” he was”
quoted as saying. “There could easily be a scientific explanation,
Some ingredient like lactic acid could be the magic ingredient.

@ The National Exhibition Centre has
asked the city to provide fire protec-
tion. The city is preparing a draft
agreement including cost, service and
conditions. The agreement must go to
couneil for final approval.

road.

‘As well, the city wants to see if it can
prevent closing the road to truck traffic
duriig spring breakup.

Last year the road was closed during

e Council rejected @ request from
Verigin Industries Ltd. of Trail to
amend its subdivision bylaw regarding
security deposits.

Verigin Industries plans to develop a
174-unit manufactured home subdi-

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