A2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Ju: 2.10, 1981 The B.C. Timber, Colgar mber Division first aid feam, who took first in the senior first aid event at the West Kootenay Mine Rescue and Firat Aid Championships in Nelson June 2, competes in a provineial competition on Saturday in Kamicopa. “ This is the third year that this group has been together. The first year they were : Last year they won’ the zone competition held in Nel- son, then competed in the provincial finals, which. was won by a Cominco team from Kimberley. The team is com- prised of the following: Gerry Bindert, personnel supervisor at the Celgar Lumber Division. He has been involved with Industrial First Aid since 1968, having been an instructor for the past 11 years. Bindert brings many years of practical and academic expertise to his position of team captain. Steve JSmieff, first alter- nate team captain, is present- ly employed as a timekeeper firat aid man at the Celgar Bawmill. Jmieff is the holder of an “A” industrial first aid ticket and is also involved with the emergency medical ‘This will be his second shot ie a provincial champion- i on ied team member is Jerry Antignani, mainten- ance planner, relief foreman at the Celgar sawmill, Antig- pani also holds an “A” Industrial first aid ticket and ‘has been involved in previous competitions, : Fourth team member is Archie Makortoff, fire and security officer at the Celgar Sawmill. Makortoff is also an industrial first aid attendant and an experienced compe- titor, : Besides the team partici- pants in the competition, ‘travelling to Kamloops with them will be “Team Coach Marvin Sommers, Trainer Rod Payson and Manager Bob Pakula, ase CANCEL FIRST-AID Team Members, left to right, Archie Makortotf, Jerry ‘Antignent, Ste Smieff and Gerry Bindert. Contentions Controversy follows shi CALGARY (CP) — A small group of anti-nuclear demon- strators shouted their angry condemnation of CP Rail and nuclear radiation early today asan eastbound CP Rail train carrying uranium concen- trate arrived in Calgary. Only about 17 demonstra- tors witnessed the six-engine train pull into the city about 5 a.m., nearly three hours be- hind schedule. The train was held up for three hours while rail officials searched about 80 kilometres of track tween Sicamous and Revel- stoke, following’ a bomb threat received in Vancou- ver. The. demonstrators in Cal? gary booed and waved signs as the uranium-loaded rail ears in the middle train passed them, “It's not a protest speci- fically against CP Rail. It's a registration of our protest against the whole nuclear fuel cycle,” said Dave Pol- ster, a spokesman for the Calgary branch of the Cana- dian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. “They are hauling a jee” toxic material, uranium yel- lowcake. It ranks right up. there with chlorine gas.” The material comes from Australia and is destined for the Eldorado nuclear uran- ium refinery in Port Hope, Ont. It’s being carried in 12 bright red crates,- covered . with stickers saying “Dan- gerous.” Railway security’ were posted at points along the route through Calgary. While the Calgary demon- stration was. without inci- dent, several demonstrators ‘narrowly escaped injury Tuesday while trying to stop the train in Kamloops. Henry Paynter was pulled from the tracks at the last moment by his fellow pro- testers. “There was no way that train was going to stop," ssid Paynter. CP Rail policeman Alan Atterton said in a telephone. interview that Paynter would have been killed and Changes RCMP pay year OTTAWA (CP) — Trea- sury Board President Donald Johnston announced. today that the cabinet has decided to grant Mounties a pay year change to Jan. 1 from April 1. The Mounties had been talking about forming a union to represent them if the change, promised last year, was not made. The ‘government. an- nounced May 28 that a 12-2- percent pay increase for 14,871 uniformed members of the ROMP would be retro- active to April 1 only. Flag thefts Headache for city. Using flags as curtains is a popular idea in Castlegar, and it is irritating Audrey Moore. : It is not that she sees the decorations as disrespectful, but she is annoyed about where many people are get- ting the Qags. It seems a popular source is the city hall's flagpoles. ! Delivering a “mayor's re- port” to the council meeting Tuesday, Moore said she is “affronted” that city employ- ‘ees regularly have to hang’! UN to look new flags in front of city hall because the flags are being stolen frequently. The expense, and the times when the building is un- adorned, bother Moore, She said people should recognize that flags are expensive to replace, and it “is a poor thing” for people to see the city hall without the Can- adian and British Columbian flags flying in front of it. She is urging parents who find their children suddenly possessing flags for curtains, to recognize the problem. Johnston said cabinet has agreed to change the start of the RCMP pay year to Jan, 1. But the additional $12.8 mit- lion added to the payroll “must be absorbed from | “pala. the train missed him by only three metres. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, CP. Rail spokesman Charles Gordon said it would have been impossible for the 73- car train to stop in time. _’ “A train isn't like a Volks- wagon — it can't atop on a dime,” said Gordon, Reid Fowler, a. math and physics teacher at Okanagan College in Salmon Arm, said he took gama ‘radiation read- ings of the train‘as it passed through the Salmon Arm rail vyard. He says it is leaking large amotints of uranium, Fowler said a gama scin-° tillation counter registered a reading of 160;to 200‘ times. the normal background level for radiation. Fowler, who has a master of arts in nuclear physics from the University of Sas- - katchewan, said gama radi- ation is equivalent to high- density x-rays. He said the radiation leak isn't necessarily harmful at those levels and the main danger is the possibility of a derailment. A spokesman for the B.C, Federation of Labor said the organization is planning to meet with provincial trans-: portation affiliates later this month to discuss.a strategy within th RCMP’s general § budget so that no additional cost will accrue to the gov- ernment. Johnston also announced withdrawal of several fringe benefits announced May 28. They included double ime for working days off or holi- days, and a reduction in the time required-to reach max- imum constable pay to three years from four years. He said the decision would mean & 12,27-per-cent pay in- crease effective Jan. 1. Un- der the package, the starting pay for recruits would rise to $20,650 from $18,480. A con- stable would reach the max- imum pay scale of $27,400 in four years. Johnston sid treasury board ministers in the eab- inet “feel that the 1981 com- pensation package for the’ i ROMP. is a generous one.” pment toemploy when shipments of dangerous commodities: are shipped through the province ‘in future. Tom Fawkes, director of communications, sald the fed- eration is not happy about the yelloweake . moving through the province. However, the dangers in transporting yellowcake uranium are. in’ dispute. Atomic Energy . Control Board and personnel’ ol from the B.C, ministry ‘of health on hand when the uranium was unloaded at the Fraser Surrey docks in New Westminster, VANCOUVER (cP) oA B.C Telephone Co. super- visor said yesterday he re- fused to do’'the work of striking union members “be- cause my conscience wouldn't Tet me ‘sleep at‘night.” * Dave Grundy of Castlegar, a telephone supervisor, told a Canada Labor Relations - Board hearing he refused to carry out work normally per- _ formed by striking Telecom- "munications Workers Union members during the si week ’'strike, which began Feb:.10. ~. The. company ‘responded : by. suspending him for five weeks when he returned to work and demoted him by. taking away his supervisory status over 44 employees, he Grundy was testifying at the hearing at which he is seeking the protection of a federal law prohibiting an employer from disciplining an employee who refuses to do work normally done by union members legally on strike. i COULD SET PRECEDENT Federal labor officials say the legal battle could end ina precedent-setting decision which will effect - relations of .an. estimated 600,000 federal employees, employers and unions across Cana Grundy, who had been through other B.C. Tel strikes during his 21 years with the company, said ie, simply wasn't prepared to subject himself and his family to another gruelling work BCGEU can picket court facilities KAMLOOPS (CP) — Mem- - bers of the B.C. Government Employees Union,.on strike against the B.C. Legal Ser- vices Society, can picket court . facilities throughout the province, the B.C, Labor Relations, Board Fuled Tors. day. _ Local 68 spokesmen Dave ‘McPherson: said the board has defined the courts as a place of business for the legal ‘Accommodation Required in Slocan Valley _For management personnel. © 2or3 bedrooms preferred © Rent and maintenance will be guorenteed. CONTACT: Mr. A. Savinkoff Personnel Manager ‘Stocan Forest Products services society. But he said the union must give 24 hours notice of picketing and must supply a member te the court to: provide release docu- ments. © Eighty five cmployecs: of + the’ ‘legal * services ‘society throughout. B.C. have been’ without a contract since last year. The main issue in the I dispute is wages. Lech DAVE GRUNDY . decision pending schedule.which meant work- ing six to seven days 8 week at 10 to 12-hours a day. “It'a too high a price to pay," he said later. “I am not going to do work during a‘ strike that isn’t necessary. I said I would work regular hours, do my regular job and be available for emergency: situations. “I made up my mind that I was not going to be used as a pawn and pitted between the employer and the TWU un- @er any circumstances, I be- eve individual rights take precedent over corporate Fights and the Canada Labor Code allows that it be done.” Hopwood said the organi- zation, which has been slowly losing members aince the strike ended, is paying Grun- dy's $1,000-a-day legal f He said B.C. Tel's 2,650 supervisors are watching the results closely. A ruling upholding Grun- dy’s right to refuse company orders to do union’ work during a strike would: give supervisors legal protection to allow them to refuse future strike, he said. A board decision is cordially invites you to an Open House at the Fireside Motor inn Castlegar, B.C. Jane 15, 1981 2-4p.m, and 7-10 pa. % = Spacial Preview of our 1981 Christmas Collection of fine needlecraft kits. %* ~Creatathon... . brin: which you have finish along Creative Circle Kits ed in a new way. * Door Prizes ¢ Creativity Awards © Booking Gifts bring a friend Please contact me should you require further Information ‘SALLY WALTERS 65-5094 Kyoto Garden IN STOCK Arklow Nitto Sale Prices In Effect While Quantities Last Until Fri., June 26th ye ©, erude ofl from Brooten to 8t.1 PICK UP of the'1981 cénaus forms con: | not yet been: contacted are tinves in the Central Kootenay Area and / retain. their will for the next week. Here Marion Bur-. ton of Genelle picks up'a Form 2A from Mrs, Ellean Makeiv, Citizens who have Allote a little time to make blood donation.” “Ahh, someone else will do ‘iCome on, Admit it, How often have you thought or said those words when ap- proached to work for a good cause, to.donate a few hours of your time or talent to a school group or a charit; or to donate’ blotds: Today, in spite of every: thing you ‘read about this being the leisure age, people seem .to be busier than ever, with pressures and demands from every side. Often it’s easier to’ bow out of the volunteer. scene. altogether, with the excuse that someone , sk. forms ‘until’ the. census ‘ representative calls, and treatment. of ‘disease, there is no one else. There is * blood. products. And “only : People can give blood. - Last’ year © more ™ than: 250,000 people acrgss Canada + received blood transfusions.: Reversing decision on report cards _ VICTORIA (CP). — Edu cation Minister Brian Smith said Tuesdsy he has sent a Memorandum to school su- perintendants, reversing an earlier“direction he “gave banning the use of letter grades on report cards, Smith said - that letter grades may be used on pri- mary report cards only after consultation with both staff and parents. He said, he fissued the original directive list fall be- cause he -had many .com-. plaints from citizens ‘asking that letter, grades notbe used © for small children. Parents preferred anecde-. tal reporting in “which the’ dually on each child's | ‘prog: ress. But since then, several schools asked the minister to reverse that decision. He said they have shown him cards they designed that use letter grades, but don't compare the students. . As a result, he said, he changed his mind and will ‘allow the’ cards,, provided they “do not compare -chil- . dren but assist in the under- standing of the individual - child's Progress. 1 teachers commented indivi-. ..§ for’ women ‘5 ° ganizations’ : Furniture Vi ile ‘nest “ PRICING - only in major surgery of all. kinds, but for treatment of shock and burns, and dis- eases such as leukemia, hem-: ophilis (a bleeding disorder) : and anemia.’ 1. ¢ : For many people, blood — and the fact that it was avail- able when they needed:it — made the difference between * life and death, * ‘ + If you are in good health © and between 18 and 65 yéars of age (17--with. parent's. permission), the: Red: Cross. and thousarids of-people who need blood everyday’ need’ you. Be a blood donor’and © learn what the Red. Cross slogan “Friends for Life” is really. all about: There's ‘a clinic being held June 17 from. 2p.m.to8 Pm, at the Legion Ollmen make hit in central ‘Minnesota, . BROOTEN, MINN. (AP) ; — Independent ollmen say an, exploratory well near this: central ‘Minnesota. commun- , ty has found oil and natural ' ‘sgas. ‘If: the discovery is proved by additional wells, it. viwould ‘be’ the first oll) dis-. »eovery, in ‘the state. : The.ollmen say they have * obtained leases for drilling on 000. acres “in Pope, Stearns, Swiftand Kandiyohi. 7 counties, an area known as ;) Bonanza Valley. The reports; (ware. causing excitment in - v Hi Broatett| ‘centre of the lease : Toca residents Bay tho. oil. men will need to hit ofl in two more wells’ before an. ui- naméd oil company — will tring a: pipeline to move migration . "paperwork: to ol tain these people chn take up. @ to nine months. . government to.improve Can: adian tariff laws on foreign manufactured: health equip ment. io Power said health care stitutions spend significant | amounts of money to import" specialized equipment. In‘ other” business, ‘del gates rejected a’ resolution for more government, inter- - vention-in issues such as abortion and blood transfu- sion. - The resolution, ‘presented ~ by. the. British, Columbia - Hospital Association, called » for the government to’ nar- row legal interpretation. in these areas. It said “health care facilities could then: ‘avoid’ making. crucial ‘deci- sions concerning abortion, *| and blood transfusions. RO WALIOWN CASTLEGAR +9914. 3rd St... {80 steps from lots of free parking) Phone 365-2101 The prices marked on all our merchandise is the. suggested mark ‘up by the ‘manu- facturer — if we get special pricing so do. you — you know where you're ‘at with OTTAWA (CP)'—A 33 million’ increase, in govern- hoe S ee ade : ment funds for women's or- Ca a fe ee : : s SB a : i 3 ELER ganizations across the coun--: SELECTION : Not duplication — our floors are not ited B. bringing the total to $4.1" with duplications fe Me space. At TAKS you antiounced today. by Secre-' - i eee ae , and price million this fiscal year, was find Norley — well displayed merchandise ro" y' tary of State Francis Fox. we have pictures, lamps and accessories,” yrices when you are at TAKS. Ys OFF ‘Pink Lady, Shana, Kyoto G a \- more, Castle Glen, Thurles, arden, Ken High Tor. SALE 51732. at Israeli’s " attack Friday UNITED NATIONS (REUTER) — The UN Sec- urity Council has set Friday ‘as the date for formal consid- ration of last, Sunday's Is- eli attack on an Iraqi uclear installation near Bap. ACES GROWN. NO. J... — and to cample: : : " Fox made the announce- ; st ¢ ment ‘at: the opening of a « ANTAKS you will be pleasantly greeted — . 8° . LONG ENGLISH. GREEN GREEN HOUSE NO. 5 EA. we are genuinely happy you choose to . 4 come thto our’ store, All warranty: — backedby well svalified service peopl 45 pce. set. 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