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waiting for resolution of the
office and technieal employ-
ees dispute.

Union president Fréd Trot-
cr meal tee CECE to

pite the executive's recom-
mendation to reject obvious-
ly - meant--.members had
“maintained the strike to
their financial limits.

Court news

Frederick Vigue was sent-
enced to three months concu-
rrent in jail after: pleading
guilty to forcible confinement
and pointing a firearm at
another person.

Vigue was also sentenced
in Castlegar provincial court
this week to six mionths

A $75 fine was handed to
Seott Stevens after he ple-
aded guilty to being a minor
in'pibsianién of slecbel.

Jody Hackman was put on

ing and failing to attend court

after being served with a
summons.
eo 8 « ‘

Causing mischief to public
property and breaking and
entering earned Darry! Pon-
gracz terms of
six and 12 months, respec-
tively.

He pleaded guilty to the
first charge and not guilty to
the second.

Pongracz also got six mon-
ths probation for being un-
lawfully at large, to which he

to defrauding the public.

Ferry
. back on
the job

By CasNews Staff
The Castl /Robson

contiaund tice Wedel Gide
The group will be publicly received by local peace
groups in every town. They will seek audiences with
mayors, town councils and heads of state to plead for
peace.

Askevold says the group will be emphasizing two
points in promoting peace and friendship. One point is
youth exchanges.

Citing France and Germany's friendship since World
War Il: Askevold says, “The two countries
cranged mre tn Br lon Yang see

wer epbey are the best of friends. ‘Today you couldn't
give that order.to go to war. srbes We'ore vie
decision-making

“Our ‘objective is to build bridges, establish a trust,
People don't trust each other.”
PO peice sates on cearrgersaaatvelarge ry ants
world “for cultural’ and human
crises eta aks it wanctooesary to epond’tieap
of dollars on armaments when money should go to hunger
and educating

" Askevold says.
fie bald be thoaght af tbe iden ot =: pence ttip about
three -years-ago when he was skiing at Christmas.
“Here I was alone (separated from the rest of the
Stel AONE Saulden © streik: we she thie
about 15 yéar# ago'with teen-
sieeds UPHRORNUY Va eek Pocgie water reed} be
it”

But now Askevold believes the worid is ready and on
Feb. 12 the group will leave. Vancouver and begin their
journey from Frankfurt along the USSR border, then into
the Soviet Union, Western Europe and back across North
America.

“I had to do my share in my little way in promoting
peace. There were:15 people who wanted to do the same.

~ JOURNEY FOR PEACE.

oy
journey across Europe and North
Anemone eet

—Contiows Prato

“To me it was most important to dé something about
peace,” Askevold said.

“I realized we were drifting toward total annihil-
ation.”

Behind the trip are many hours spent organizing the

of Europe, reducing the high cost of lodging.
be the accommodation in Russian and Romania.

one group with a tent, another with a pancake
a third with « financia}

“As well, the three party jeaderd ‘of parlidment in
Ottawa agree,.and that is a very rare occasion indeed,

Peace Prize, is the group's honorary sponsor.

Police file

About $1,000 in damage
was done to the city’s She-

ferry was beached for three
days last weekend, but is
now back in service with a
replacement motor.

The motor “went down”
Saturday, and the ferry was
Pree on Tuesday, said

Foresters rap minister

Roger. ppesinurtie a
He said the engine was

Sear aes Of bay piers 8°

put out the service.

“There have been rumors,
been

VICTORIA (CP) — Pro- seen as part of the pr
and Brit-

fessional

ish Columbia's biggest forest
union laced into Forests Min-
ister Tom Waterland on Fri-

hatchetman for the big forest

‘ companies and

predicted the
cuts will cost B.C. taxpayers

“COFI got what it wanted,
probably more than it ex-
pected,” he said.

Allan ‘Sinclar, COFI vice-
president for government
relations, said the report re-
ferred to by Skelly was -a

He said the cuts should be
seen in the light of the gov-
t's

in northwestern

Washington state has come
up with a new catch phrase to
replace the Inland Empire, in
hopes of drawing more at-
tention to the area.

“Continental Crown — A
Five-Star Attraction” has
been selected by the Inland
Northwest Tourism Coalition
for use in its mailings and ad-
vertisements, said Bob Myk-
lebust of Sandpoint, Idaho.

“I think it has a little more
zing to it,” Myklebust said.
“We're talking about some
guy standing in front of a
travel agency in New Jersey
and wanting to find some-
thing a little more exciting.”

The coalition was incor-
porated last month and cov-
ers 40 countries in Eastern
Washington, Northern Idaho,
and Western Montana. Also
included are parts of Alberta
and British Columbia.

Myklebust, a vice presi-
dent of the group, said coali-
tion members “are very
much interested in promot-
ing our area in a co-operative
way.” ‘

Dennis McLaughlin, legal
counsel for the group, said it
hopes to promote regional
tourism on both a national
and international basis.

He said the coalition is
working with a number of
groups on funding matters.

Papers
remain a
mystery

CALGARY (CP) — The
trove of Nazi documents and
photographs hidden in a
farmhouse attic near Golden
since 1945 apparently was
never the property of the
Canadian military, a senior
official of the National Ar-
chives said Friday.

Jerry O'Brien, chief of
state and military records,
said in a telephone interview
from Ottawa it's unlikely
Fred Schiesser would have
come across the more than
3,000 articles as part of his
duties with the Canadian
Military Intell Corps.

KICK-OFF .

Clown helps kick off Heart Month by handing out balloons at

Castleaird Plaza Saturday along with other heart fund supporters. Canvassers will
be going door-to-door this month collecting funds tor B.C. Heart Association

CosNews Photo by Tracy Woh

Reporter joins staff

Adrian Chamberlain, 25,
of Vancouver, has joined
the staff of Castlegar News
as a reporter-photog
rapher. Chamberlain re
places Diane Strandberg
who has returned to uni-
versity.

Chamberlain was born in
Nanaimo and grew up on
Gabriola Island in the Gulf
Islands, graduating from
Nanaimo’ Distriet Senior
Secondary School in 1976.

He worked for a year
before furthering his edu:
cation at Victoria where in
1982 he received a Bache-
lor of Arts degree major-
ing in English Literature
from University of Vic
toria.

He worked for a year in
Edmonton before return.
ing to school at University
of Western Ontario in
London where he received
a Master of Journalism in
1983.

Chamberlain has worked
for the London Free Press
and most recently was
working for North Shore
News in Vancouver as a
freelance writer.

Chamberlain is married
and his wife, Penny is
working as a physiother
apist at Trail Regional
Hospital.

He enjoys music, playing
the guitar, reading, and
playing golf.

ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
. joins CasNews

Schiesser, a corporal, ship-
ped home a crate of Nazi
papers, photographs and
other artifacts before the end
of the war. When he returned
home he forbade his family
from looking at the collection
or telling anyone about it.

Schiesser died last August
at age 80 and the family dis-
closed the collection’s exis-
tence last week. It includes
photos of German leaders
and military figures by the
party's chief photographer
Heinrich Hoffman and docu
ments signed by Hitler, Hein-
rich Himmler, Martin Bor-
mann and other members of
the Nazi inner circle.

Although most of the mat-
erial is fairly routine, it has
sparked interest by Nazi
memorabilia collectors.

O'Brien said Schiesser's in
telligence work involved in-
terception of. enemy radio
signals, first near the front
lines in Italy and later in
London. It’s unlikely he
would have encountered the
material during his duties,
said O'Brien.

‘spreads across B.C.

VANCOUVER (CP) The effects of secondary
picketing by locked-out pulp and paper workers in British
Columbia began to spread at the start of the weekend,

ing the involvement of the B.C. Labor Relations

" Board in the bitter labor dispute

Stevedoring at the N wharp obtained
an injunction from the labor board Saturday to halt

picketing by pulp workers that put longshoremen off the job

y.

The 12,700 members of the Canadian Paperworkers
Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada
were locked out of 20 B.C. mills on Thursday

Bill Bryant, first vice-president of Local 8 of the PPWC,
said pickets went up at the Vancouver Island wharf because
MacMillan “Bloede! had put 1,900 tonnes of pulp from its
Harmac mill onto the wharf just before the lockout.

The Harmac shutdown also forced Doorman Pulp Chip
Co., with nowhere to send its wood chips, to shut down
immediately, affecting 54 workers.

Canadianoxy, which supplies Harmac with bleaching
chemicals used in the pulpmaking process, laid off 20
workers Friday and Pacific Forest Workers Ltd., in nearby
Ladysmith, chopped 90 sawmill workers, saying it had no
place to store wood chips

In the north-central B.C. community of MacKenzie, 400
employees of two sawmills owned by Finlay Forest
Industries Ltd. and B.C. Forest Products were idled because
of secondary picketing.

TO SEEK ORDER

Dave Gunderson, executive director of the North
Cariboo Forest Labor Relations, said he would ask the Labor
Relations Board Monday for an order to end picketing at the
two mills.

At Port Alberni and Castlegar, International Wood.

Space satel

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) — Officials raised the
possibility’ Saturday that the $75-million Westar VI commu-
nications satellite exploded 45 minutes after it was ejected
from U.S. space shuttle Challenger and now is merely
chunks of lifeless junk orbiting the Earth.

“So far, we have not been able to raise a peep out of it,”
said Bill Ziegler, a spokesman for Western Union, which
owns the satellite. All the vast tracking facilities available —
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the
military and private — swept the heavens for the satellite
which vanished Friday

They found only two large objects never tracked before
and a number of smaller pieces in an orbit that would
consistent with a failure of the satellilte to climb on its
rocket

“We attempted to communicate with some of those
objects without any success,” Ziegler said. “We are not at all
certain these objects are Westar VI or PAM (the satellite's
rocket carrier).”

Ziegler said possible causes of the satellite-rocket
failure are too many to list. “The possibility of an explosion is
one of the possibilities that is being looked at,” he said. “We
have no confirming evidence it was or it was not.”

A second customer, the government of Indonesia, had
NASA postpone Saturday's shuttle launching of Palapa-Ba,
anelectronic twin to the Westar VI. A decision was pending
whether to release it today or Monday, or to bring it back
home.

On that decision hinged another: should the Challenger
stay up an extra day to accommodate the delay. On Tuesday
and Thursday, mission specialists Robert Stewart and Bruce

workers of America members at two sawmills refused to
handle the steam, idling a total of 730 workers.

The industry was working at near capacity before the
lockout, even after raising the price of pulp $40 a tonne on
Jan. 1.

But Don Saunders, chairman of the Pulp and Paper
Industrial Relations Bureau, said it makes more sense to
weather labor disputes during the winter than in the
summer, when they tend to drag on longer.

Most collective agreements in the pulp and paper
industries of eastern Canada and the Pacific Northwest
expire in the spring.

Art Gruntman, head of the Canadian Paperworkers
Union, which represents 7,200 workers referred to the
eastern in I ber when he d his
union's rejection of the industry's last offer.

“Nearly all of our agreements in eastern C ja will be
expiring in April and May. If we don’t have this thing settled
here, there certainly could be some pressure put on right
across the country.”

In the east, the Canadian Paperworkers Union will ask
for a shortened work; week in an effort to preserve the jobs
of its members, said national union president James
Buchanan.

The union will be seeking a $1.25-an-hour wage increase
in a one-year contract. “We need something near 10 per cent
to hold our own,” Buchanan said.

In B.C., the unions want no concessions (such as losing
statutory holidays), no three-year agreement and pension
inereases in keeping with the cost of living.

Gruntman, and Jim Sloan, president of the 5,500-mem.
ber Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, haVe said they
are willing to settle for a low-cost agreement but they “won't
be steamrollered.”

lite missing

McCandless are to don back packs and perform the first
space walk without a lifeline.

Shuttle have five
previously, using the same system. The satellite is attached
to a rocket stage called a Payload Assist Module, or PAM,
which is pushed out of the cargo bay by powerful springs.

The shuttle moves nearly 13 kilometres away and turns
its underside to the PAM to avoid damage from the rocket
blast that comes automatically 45 minutes later. Since the
astronauts can't see the firing, the only indication that it is
moving as planned comes from telemetry.

On Friday, a ground station thought it had received a
signal, but that proved to be false.

Flight controller Randy Stone said NASA checked and
rechecked its data and confirmed that the Challenger as
tronauts were not at fault in the failure of the satellite to
move toward an orbit some 35,880 kilometres above the
Earth. He said mission specialists Ronald McNair and
Stewart did “an outstanding job.”

As though to reinforce that view, the astronauts were
told by mission control in Houston, Tex.: “We want to
congratulate you on a fantastic launch. You did a great job
(Friday).”

Radar trackers are hampered in their broad sweeps of
the sky by the shuttle. One source said shuttle commu
nications with the ground were knocked out for a time
because of the interference and NASA had to ask the
military to stop for a while.

A source who asked not to be identified said the North
American Aerospace Defence Command had counted 17
pieces.

L hed Ali

CASTLEGAR AND DISTRICT

Tough year for library

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar and District
Public Library survived a
difficult year in 1983, accord
ing to librarian Judy Wear.
mouth. It was a year that was
marked by budget cutbacks,
reduced grants and a de
crease in circulation.

But Wearmouth said it was
also a year in which staff
pulled together to maintain
the quality service, and the
community rallied with
grants and a sponsor-a-book
campaign.

Wearmouth made the re-
marks in her report to the li:
brary board’s annual meeting
this week.

She said 1983 began with
the news that the library
would have to operate with
budget cut by 10 per cent.

“As the main areas avail-

BENTAX

able for cutback were the
salaries and the book budget,
the staff volunteered to fore.
go the customary raise and
cut our office working hours
and holiday replacement staff
in order to save the book
budget as much as possible.”

The result was the library
was only closed for one hour
more each week than usual.

Still, the book budget suf.
fered, Wearmouth said. “Our
processed acquisitions for
1983 totalled 1,590 — a drop
of 966 from 1982. Wearmouth
said the “lower than usual
figure” reflected the tight
book budget.

She added that the fewer
acquisitions may have also
been partly responsible for
the 10 per cent drop in cir-
culation. That translated into

a decrease 7,000 to 62,700
from 69,900 in 1982.

As well, Wearmouth said
nearly 460 books were placed
in storage because of insuffi
cient space.

In an effort to maintain the
book collection, the library
board initiated a sponsor-a
book campaign where pa
trons were invited to select
books they'd like to see in the
library.

“The response to the ap-
peal was tremendous,” says
Wearmouth. “The commun
ity came to our rescue with
$1,304 in individual and club
donations and we're im
mensely grateful to our
friends for such tangible sup-
port.”

Other contributions came
from the Castlegar Arts
Council — $600 for art books;

the United Way — $500; the
Legal Services Society of
B.C. — $300 for legal mater.
ials; the Sons of Norway, and
the University Women's
Club, who made a joint con
tribution for a $600 reading
lens; and the Castlegar Le-
gion Auxiliary which also
donated a $600 reading lens.

The Kiwanis Club also
came in for special praise for
its contribution extensive al-
terations made at the Castle-
gar Branch to create new
shelving in the basement.

“We're indebted to the
Kiwanians for their hard
labor and the considerable
costs involved,” Wearmouth
said.

Wearmouth also touched
on the numerous special
events sponsored by the
library.

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