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(CP) — The purchase of three hydro- electric generating plants by West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Ltd. from Cominco, Ne would not affect. customer | rates, say three. top West Kootenay officials. The .B.C.: Utilities Com- mission was also told during the first day of a rate hearing , Tuesday that the $20-million price tag would be less in the long run than the cost of continuing to purchase the power from Cominco, ‘which . owns West Kootenay Power. The officials, J. A. Dren- nan, West Kootenay pres- ident; Jim Brook, the comp- any’s chief financial officer; and Robin Siddall, superin- tendent of resources for West Kootenay, were sitting as a panel before the commission, They said the onfy alter- native to purchasing the three plants“on the Kootenay River would be te construct a maior 3 new hydro-electric plant at the , Brilliant ‘Dam on the Kootenay River or at the Waneta Dam on the Pend @ d’Orcille River. ‘ Construction costs for eith- er of these new power plants The commission was expec- ted to rule today on a juris. cictional question ‘raised ‘by lawyers opposing the-grant- ing of three interim rate increases totalling 49.5. per cent,. which went into effect over the past two years. . No new rate increase is proposed. Two-day boycott ended By The Canadian Press Canadian air traffic control- ers returned to work today, but ‘their two-day boycott of aircraft to and from the United States has left many airports and airlines’ scramb!- ing to clear the backlog, of delayed flights. “We are beginning to clean up the'mess,”” said Transport Canada. spokesman Dean Smith in Toronto. ‘‘But. the situation is still far from ideal.**: Controllers in Gander, Nfd. — directing the crucial air corridor between North America and Europe — were among the first to report for work today. - Officials in Halifax, Mont- real, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton also said control- ers were. performing’ their duties following an agree- ment rearly today between the fedral government and the Canadian Air Traffic Con- trol Association. The agreement, announced by federal Transport Minister Jean Luc-Pepin, calls for the establishment of fact-finding teams to investigate assodia- | tion claims that air safety hes been jeopardized since. about 12,000 U.S. controllers stuck Aug. 3. N: FACE LEGAL ACTION - Many of the 2,000 Canadi. an controllers ‘still face-legal action. The: government ment to court Tuesday to seek“an order to force. the controllets to show why the held in contempt tion last .Octob’ er against engaging in illegal strike acti vity. continued A2 aa | Bargaining resumed’ Forest talks at -critical pod VANCOUVER (cP) - Prospects for labor peace in the forest industry entered a critical stage today as lumber and pulp‘ companies’ headed to’ the bargaining table to reply ed Sa oa demands from | ‘each ‘Sof ‘the: three striking unions. ' Smithers sawmills still running see page AT Both pulp unions - the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp, Péper and Woodworkers of Canada ~ = gave the Pulp and Paper 5 Industrial Relations: Bureau Women demand a retraction. SA delegationsat about 30 women of ‘the :Reformed Doukhobors made a decla- ration this morning to ‘Ely Sopow at. his private resi- dence on Columbia Ave., near Kinnaird Hall. So goes the declaration ‘We, members of the Re- formed Doukhobors are here to make a declaration to you, Ely Sopow. We can no longer ‘remain silent about your slander against our spiritual pastor Stephan Sorokin. We were ready to come to see you on the day after you told the atrocious lie at the, symposium ‘in April, that supposedly Mr. Sorokin des- troyed two box cars filled with children, and we, re- frained from coming only on advice of our council. “We have waited through two symposiums for you to make ‘a retraction, as our council kept telling us’. that. you: could. Since you have made not attempt to retract your words, we are led to believe that either you or.our council have‘ been. lying Bptil Mondey, while restor- - ation of Canadian mail ser-_ vice began. immediately. 2“That gives us a few days to flush out the system,” said a spokesman at federal post ificé;: department head- ‘quarters,:where top officials in’ ‘virtually ~‘all © branches huddled ‘in long meetings "Tuesday to plan the resump- ion of services. The post office reported a generally smooth and peace- swork,.” but “appeared to be an isolated © q postal: workers" hurled cans “and bottles and. broke a window at the main (post office before have three days to return to their jobs. If they do not show up for scheduled shifts before then, they lose pay but are not subject to dis- cipline. The contract includes a wage package aimed at pro- tecting the workers from inflation, a controversial paid maternity-leave plan, in- creased shift premiums, longer: vacations for some, the right to refuse dangerous work and other benefits. Treasury board. officials said the wage package - 6 70-cent hourly raise each year plus a cost-of-living allowance ‘triggered at six per see gintiation - wilt the | incident’; one. Under - back-to-work ; pro- v tocol,’ the inside workers : who sort mail and work at the wickets at post offices - 12.9- per-cent false in 1981 and an 11.15-per-cent raise in 1982. The treasury board esti- mates are based on a pre- dicted annual inflation rate of 12° per cent in 1981 that would provide a 60-cent cost-of-living allowance and a rate of 11 per cent in 1982 that would Peovine’ a 47-cent allowance. .WAGES INCREASED Under these he different sets of demands Tuesday which the, unions said indicated “an area of settlement”. ” The PPWC, presented alist of nine items which included: wage increases of 16 per cent “floor of $1.78 an hour in both years; a cost-of-living adjust- ment clause wk ea provide tyorcenta,for.every. 25 per.gent jncreaso;in the . ow f give: “LTD (long:tere pune in the tradésmen's eames. double what the industry previously offered. Monnwetie, Forest” ‘Indus. tri said Munro. ‘Lester sald the employers coastal lumber firms, was’ to, . meet‘ early today ‘with’ the: International Woodworkers of’ America negotiators’ who Tuegday demanded, to be given a final offer. FIR pre- sident Keith Bennett refused to table, a final offer ‘bit remained optimistic Date is.‘ still CPU’ president’ said: “We'd like ’a ? settlement for’ the whole in- dustry, That: ‘means all three unions should have input into the agreement .... LAnd I believe the industry. also wants an agreement with all three unions.” ‘ “They sant; afford an quick le. After Tuesday's talks, IWA regional president Jack: Munro said he was “getting completely, and totally frustrated”.with the industry stalling his union:‘while D ig'a hoped- for. ‘united’: approach’ to the federal - Current record interest rates and the value’of the dollar were most frequently mentioned issues as’ provin- cial delegations arrived at the British Columbia legislature, for a closed session. Newfoundland Premier Bri- an Peckford said the’ major economic levers are in the hands of the federal govern- ment but it is time for the 10 provincial governments and Ottawa to co-operate. on th - just. the IWA, for. instance, because where could they sell their chips, aand_,if \they only settled with the pulp unions, then where. would. they: get’ jogs from...» °; 5 Continued on A2 who says the dollar should be | above 80,or 85 cents U.S. it government . should abandon its policy. of propping up the international value of the dollar'and work confidence in the cuaee Peckford said. ‘Premier Rene Levesque of Quebec called for a Conference board forecast B.C.’s growth to. falter OTTAWA (CP) - Most areas of the country will ex- perience improved economic growth this year and next. The Conference Board of Canada said. today in its latest quarterly provincial forecast. the growth forecast this year to 2.5 per cent from 8.5 per cent. 3 In Alberte, the slowdown’ in economic growth is seen as gradual. ‘Growth is forecast to slow'to 4.8 per cant this “A welcome respite from the : 1 recent steady diet of gloomy economic news,” is how the non-profit economic research group describes the situa- tion. - Production “will grow by over three per cent this year and nearly as quickly in 1982, after exhibiting scarcely any gain in 1980,” the board said. The strong, positive tone of the forecast - which flies in the face of other recent . dict is hourly rate for the average postal clerk would increase from. the current $9.30 to $10.50 by the end of this year and to $11.87 by the end of 1982. _ The average annual salary would - rise to $24,357 from $19,410 over the life of the agreement. Postal workers lost about $2,000 in wages during the strike. Strike pay, provided for the last four weeks, was $60 weekly and given only to those who manned picket lines daily. Business leaders are trying to calculate the financial toll of the strike. because the board made its comparisions with the weak economic. performance of 1980, spokesman Kay Ken- dall explained. Also, the forecast is based on the assumption that the country’s. pects, 4 re capture “leading roles” in the economic expansion next year. Saskatchewan ‘is ‘this year’s star performer with a 5.8-per-cent growth rate and a “still exuberant” rate of 4.2 per cent likely next ysar: “Even this projection may prove excessively modest tie at currently indicated, grain yields surpass all previous records,” the forecast said. A breakdown of the for fore- ee by industries shows: Agricultural production will increase by four per cent or more if the weather con- tinues to co-operate through the of the current current fed energy dispute willl be settled this fall. “The only provincial econo- mies seen as slowing this year are Alberta's, where oil and gas exploration and crude petroleum production have dwindled, .and British. Columbia, where labor dis- putes are curbing. output growth,” the board said. GROWTH In British Columbia, forestry strikes haye lowered growing season. - Forestry output is pro- jected to fall by two per cent . this year due to the flat. Columbia, The industry is expected to rebound _ by. seven per cent in 1982. -Fish production will rise 10 per cent this year and a further five per cent next” year. Sterling Lyon: pt Manitoba criticized’: Prime ‘Minister ‘be to settle on energy pricing. . Although Newfoundland is: ea Az -The* ‘oltiae’ of nianufset- uring production will rise 3.5 _.per cent this 'year and 2.5 per first cent next year.-A strong half this year is being offset, by:high interest rates, which are ~ weakening « “consumer deman, -In ‘the construction in-. than the'rates now in effect. Little further growth is ex-° “pected to grow by 8.6 per. yon tls yeaes tial (82: pete: cent in 1982. tions will: be, hurt by, ‘the: - strike. Wholesale and retail trade. will. grow 2.7. per cent- this year and one per cent next: year. High interest rates and: the. drop in real incomes are. bismed for stalling further strongest, Any Towdowin ts consumer demand will”