Legislative Library. Parliament Sldgs.. 5° Victoria, B. C. vevV Celgar pulp is being used in medical clothing aT Vol. 39, No. 18 Top talkers Stanley Humphries Secondary School's The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 drow were 7, 12, 13, 14, 36 and 43, The bonus number was 20. The $500,000 winning number in Friday's 6. Provincial lottery draw is 2569 is d to take IT'S SPRING . . . Anne Jones and ‘Mishka’ spotted crocuses pushing through snow this week in her gar- den __ a sure sign spring is here. Jones’ other flowers should be doing well too as March came in like o lamb Saturday. Temperatures rose to 8°, tying the mark for the warmest March 1 on record. Costews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk U.S. RULING WORRIES SHAKE MILL OPERATOR By CasNews Staff and News Services The imposition of border curbs on sales to the Wnited which totalled $250 million last year shake and shingle States devastating, mill operators in British Columbia And Fred Hadikin's shake mill in Brilliant is no say exception Hadikin and other operators commented after the U.S. International Trade Commission said this week imports of shakes and shingles from Canada are the most important source of concern to the U.S. lumber industry The also said the panel will recommend some form of relief to President Ronald Reagan Hadikin, announcement owner of Brilliant Lumber Reman and Shakes Ltd. said although he doesn’t sell much of his product to the U.S., imposing a surcharge or duty on shakes going to the U.S. will still affect his business. Hadikin, who said he can't afford to ship his shakes to the U.S., said his connections are in the Calgary and would ba Edmonton areas. But he said if a surcharge is placed at the border, B.C. companies shipping to the U.S. will begin shipping to the prairies — Hadikin's market — causing demand on the prairies to fall. Hadikin said the same thing happened to the lumber market in B.C. before 1980. Hadikin, in the lumber business for 28 years and a partner in the former Hadikin Brothers sawmill in Brilliant, said prior to 1960 there were only about six or seven B.C. sawmills exporting overseas. Not many mills wanted to cut for the overseas metric market, he said. Hadikin Brothers was one of the few mills that shipped overseas. He said it worked out well until 1980 when the economy took a downturn and the Soviet Union began selling to the European market — Then B.C. mills started exporting more to US markets. The same thing will happen with the shake industry if the U.S. places curbs on shakes going to the U.S., he said. “If B.C. mills stop shipping their stuff to the states they will ship it to the prairies where there is a shortage of materials,” Hadikin said. “The minute; they start / shipping that market will be flooded - “Our country hasn't got the population to Absorb this volume of timber.” he said. “I know every mill is Koing to suffer. Eventually the backlash will come batk and everyone one of us is going to suffer” / on poge A2 about six months, with the _Ready for by! ans profes ris on © Gian roan more economia NCERN LIGHT A CO Council rejects By RON NORMAN Editer Castlegar council has rejected a Ministry of Highways proposal for a new four-way stoplight on Highway 3 ‘The road would be used by all traffic headed to north Castlegar from High- way 3 and all north Castlegar traffic headed east on Highway 3. H near the CP Rail overpass. The light was included in the latest ministry plan to upgrade the inter. change at Columbia Avenue and High way 3. Also included in the plan is a prop sal to™'move’ the present light ‘on Columbia Avenue at the interchange south to a new location near the old Valley Maid store The ministry would then construct a road between the light on Highway 3 and the light near the Valley Maid on Columbia Avenue. — CALLS IT ‘FAIR’ The plan al lis for the elimination of the current Highway 3 exit that runs behind Castleaird Plaza. However, council rejected the plan, saying north Castlegar traffie would still have to make a left turn to head eastward on Highway 3 “resulting in more of an ineonvenience than at present.” As well, couneil expressed concern that the plan doesn't give enough con. sideration to the impact of the prop osed new “connector” road on adjacent residential properties; on properties isolated by the new road; and on prop nterchange plan erties in the vicinity that may suffer from “commercial encroachment.” “It's not my idea of the best thing for Castlegar,” Ald. Terry Rogers said of the latest plan. He noted that the plan Woodland Park and That's the reason for on Highway 3. suggested, but highways has rejected it as too expensive. Brisco touts budget By CasNews Staff The tax increases contained in Fi nance Minister Michael Wilson's bud get could be offset by a decrease in the rate of inflation brought on by~ the budget, says Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco. “The important thing to recognize is . . . both the international community and the Canadian business community consider it to be a budget heading in the right direction,” Brisco said Thurs. day in a telephone interview Ottawa. Because of that, the rate of inflation will likely fall, Brisco said. A drop of only a single percentage point in the inflation rate will offset any tax inereases for the average Canadian Brisco said. Brisco pointed out that should the inflation rate fall by two percentage points, Canadians will actually better off. Briseo downplayed the tax hikes. noting that the tax increases amount to only 50 cents a day for the average Canadian. Brisco also called the cuts in govern ment expenditures “really very sub- stantial,” pointing to the fact that over the next five years 70 per cent of the reduction to the federal deficit will come from cutbacks, while only 30 per cent will come from increased taxes. He said the government has already started to trim programs, and pointed to the elimination of the CHIP program and Petroleum Incentives Program, and reduced subsidies for Via Rail. >, CN Marine, and CMHC. riseo called the Wilson budget ” While some in the financial com ity wanted “gore on the floor,” the fw budget steered away from that. ‘iseo said. At the same time, that the budget trims expenditures, it provides for low income Canadians, Brisco said He noted the prepayment of the child tax credit which should affect one million families. Under the program low income fam ilies can receive an advance payment from be on the child tax credit of up to $300 per child starting this November Brisco said low income families now will be able to borrow $100 or $200 from banks using the tax credit as collateral, instead of having to turn to tax discounters in a time of nved. “It gets the tax discounters off their backs,” he said. Brisco said the budget provides dir ect funding “to those who are most in need” and cited the $100 million over the three years welfare recipients. Brisco especially praised Wilson be cause “he has achieved what he set out to achieve:” reduce the deficit Asked if there was anything he didn't like about the budget responded that he can't see anything he would like removed or amended “at this stage,” adding, “I want to more carefully digest the information next for training Brisco rates sparked by the budget. He noted that lower interest rates have already created an increase in housing starts. Brisco also said he liked the proposal for an international banking com- munity in Vancouver, and saw spin-off benefits for Kootenay West. “Up until now it’s been extremely difficult for Canadian business to. . . take on major construction proposals,” Brisco said. Through an international bank, international deposits can be made to spur major projects Those projects will require construe- tion workers and “we have a lot of unemployed construction workers in Kootenay West” Brisco said. PWA ticket agents go back to work By CasNews Staff and News Services Things are back to normal at the Castlegar Airport as striking Pacific Western Airlines ticket agents and baggage handlers returned to work Two of the three workers on strike at the airport were back on the job Tuesday and the third returned Wed nesday The three. members of the United Auto Workers, returned just prior to a Canada Labor Relations Board ruling Thursday night that said the strike by the UAW is illegal because the union has ratified a collective agreement The CLRB also ordered the union to inform its members they are no longer on strike The auto workers reached a tenta with Canada’s third 2 and ratified it tive agreement largest carrier Jan overwhelmingly a week ago. The Castlegar workers won't be alone in their decision to return to work. Union negotiator Hemi Mitic said Thursday night most members will likely return to work “over the next few days.” PWA spokesman Jack Lawless said that the company believes the UAW members will begin returning to work tonight or Monday morning. Lawless said the company had given layoff notices to “about 250 contingent employees” as well as seven or eight groups under contract assisting the airline during the strike, including cargo handlers. Lawless said each union member would have to decide whether to cross the picket lines of the two unions still without contracts — the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association and The International Association of Machinists.