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WEA THER

Power

SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure is building over the coast today and will move inland
yesday

tomorrow and Tu:

\ station
‘]} planned

PENTICTON (CP) —

West

million-dollar substation in
the Oliver area.

Company spokesman Bob
Watson said the substation
will tap into the 500,000-volt
B.C. Hydro line which cross.
es the Okanagan Valley floor.

Police file

Kevin Mason of Castlegar
reported $4,000 worth of
stereo equipment missing out
of his car parked Thursday
night at the Castleaird Plaza,
according to Castlegar
RCMP.

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Thieves broke a vent win-
dow to gain entry, say police.

The incident is still under
investigation.

New chairman
for hospital
society

By CasNews Staff

Terry Rogers was elect
ed chairman of the Castle-
gar and District Hospital
Society board Thursday
night at its annual general
meeting.

Rogers, principal of
Twin Rivers elementary
school, previously served
four years on the board —
two of those as vice.

succeeds out-
going chairman Carl Henne
who — according to society
rules — must step down
from the board for at least
one year, having already
served three consecutive
three-year terms.

CARL HENNE
. steps down

Also elected was Merv Rush as vice-chairman, and
Nick Oglow was re-elected treasurer.

Two regular board positions which became vacant
this year went to Teena Leitch and Margaret Nickle.

Rogers said in an interview Friday that the
continuation of a “quality assurance” program set up
almost a year ago for the hospital will be one of the
board's chief concerns for the coming year.

The program includes a written “mi
which sets out general objectives and services offered by
the hospital.

As well, Rogers said each department of the hospital
has prepared its own mission statement which set “goals
and standards within the, goals.”

“The bottom line is quality care for citizens who use
our hospital,” Rogers said. “This is why it's being done.”

Rogers emphasized that the hospital is now
providing high-quality health care. “We're sure up there
among the leaders for a small community,” he said.

In his report, hospital administrator Ken Talarico
said the quality assurance program “will improve the
quality of service we have by the establishment of goals,
the setting of standards, and the assessment of the
procedure to see that we achieve those goals.”

Rogers said other plans for the coming year may

include obtaining “a specialist or two” for the hospital

AND LOSE 'GAMBLE'

Teachers snub offer

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer

Castlegar teachers lost the first part of a double-barrell
ed gamble when they voted Tuesday to reject the Castlegar
school board's latest wage offer, to take effect during the
first six months of 1985.

Teachers’ bargaining chairman Rik Hall said the board
offered a 1.75 per cent increase, which was broken down into
1.27 per cent for seniority increments, and .48 per cent for a
salary hike.

The board insisted it couldn't afford the raise retro-
active for the six-month period, and said it's offer would take
effect at the end of June, according to Hall, who described
the offer as a “back-end loading of the settlement.”

Hall said the teachers rejected the offer in favor of
going to arbitration because they hope to receive a 1.75 per
cent increase for the full six months.

As for increments — usually paid on a regular basis for

AWARDS

continued from front poge

South Kootenay Electronics Scholarship: Garry
Chernoff, Electronics.

Cominco Scholarship in Business Administration:
Lorne Anderson, Business Administration.

The Diane Phillips Memorial Scholarship: Don
Merritt, Arts and Sciences.

The Society of Management Accountants Scholar.
ship (Castlegar Branch): David Picton and Denise West,
Arts and Sciences.

The Society of Management Accountants Scholar.
ship (Provincial Branch): Berardino de Laurentiis,
Business Administration

Dean's List

Keith R. Abbott, Elaine Anderson, Lorne Anderson,
Daphne A. Armstrong, Brenda Balon, Thomas G. Bell,
Galen Bellman, Linda Blackman, David Buckley, Gwen
Bullanoff, Charles Catalano, Berardino de Laurentiis,
Gerald R. Dooley, John Eastman, Douglas J. Eaton and
David Einarson.

Rosemary E. Felske, Sandra A. Fishwick, Christine
L. Furlotte, Elaine M. Gevatkoff, ja Giles, Patrice L.
Gordon, Aaron J. Grill, Lynda I. Guymer, Gail
Hama-Dagg, Donna Hark, Jean L. Hasler, Nance Henne,
Vietor Hoodieoff and Carman Hutmacher.

Donna G. Jory, Pamela Kent, April L. Klatte,
Stephen Kranz, Gary J. Leong, Norman A. McCarvell,
James NeNicholas, Janet S. McPhee, Don Merritt,
Rosemarie L. Moberg, Eric Moon, Dean Morewood.
Cheryl-Anne North, Anne M. O'Grady and Barbara J
Parker

David K. Picton, Fred Plotnikoff, Cathy Ritchie,
James Robertson, Cindy Ross, Kari Sahistrom, Stephan

ry . Karen E. Schwab Kevin J. S
Andrew G. Tarasoff, Glenn Throop, Cecil Verigin, Ci indy
E. Walsh, Denise West, Douglas M. Williscroft and
James P. Zibin.

their first 10 years — the teachers had hoped the B.
Teachers’ Federa' would win a challenge to a directive
from Finance Minister Hugh Curtis which allowed
arbitration boards to stop increment payments, Hall said.

If the challenge had been successful, Castlegar teachers
would have received increments denied them through an
arbitration board ruling for the 12-month period beginning
July, 1985.

But the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday — the day
after Castlegar teachers voted down the board's offer — that
Curtis’ directive allowing cancellation of increments is
consistent with colle¢tive bargaining procedures established
under the School Act.

“Tuesday night, the teachers didn’t know for sure if the
teachers were going to get increments,” said Hall. “It was
gamble.

“We lost gamble A, gamble B is that we get something
out of arbitration.”

Mike Rodgers, president of the Castlegar District
Teachers’ Association, said the association won't reveal that
the vote on the board offer was because negotiations are still
ongoing.

Last D » Ce ion Commis.
sioner Ed Peck ruled that an arbitrated 2.3 per cent increase
for Castlegar teachers was too much for the six-month
period. Peck said a settlement of 1.5 to 1.7 would be
acceptable.

Hall said teachers resent having increments being
considered part of their wage settlements.

“The big bee in the bonnet is that increments are part of
out contract, and®the teachers #r€ opposed to bargaining
increments,” he said.

The teachers’ bargaining committee plans to meet again
with the board to attempt to work out a settlement before
the wage dispute goes to arbitration, said Hall.

No date for an arbitration hearing has been set

Abuse backlash a worry

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia Teachers’

by the Ontario Teachers’

Federation is concerned re-
cent sexual abuse allegations
may create a backlash that
will virtually handeuff tea-

| ehers in their i with

not to
display affection to students.
“Teachers need to be cog-
nizant of the way they handle
students because of the

students.

But it won't follow its On-
tario counterpart and warn
members against contact
with students.

Male elementary school
teachers are being advised

” B.C.
Federation president Pat
Clarke said, noting the fed-
eration's code of ethies calls
for students to be treated
“with respect and dignity” at
all times.

“Often, a pat on the back or

MILL INQU

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But George Milne, a Westar Timber millwright for 14'/

a hug can be misinterpreted.
And it ean go too far the
other way,” he said. “I've
seen some really unfortunate
situations . . . teachers vir-
tually pilloried for tickling 4
student, or playing with a
student.”

Clarke said the federation
“is consistently putting out a
warning in a low-key way not
to touch students.”

“We're trying to avoid
saying. ‘Don't hug your kid,’

but it comes right down to
that. Male teachers definitely
have to back off,” Ross
Andrew, secretary. of the
Ontario Public School Tea-
chers Federation, said earlier
this week.

Clarke said in British Col-
umbia the federation and the
Education Ministry have
been “trying to establish
joint procedures for identi
fying” classroom pedophiles.

EST

third workman from the scene just before the accident

occurred.

BRIEFLY

years, said the chain tightening had nothing to do with the
movement of the cascade evaporator.

“There wasn’t enough tension on the chain tensioner to
move anything,” he said.

Christofenetti testified that his investigation found no
evidence to indicate the applied force of the chain- tensioner
moved the giant cylinder. However, he added that this could
be possible if, for example, a salt cake was holding the wheel,
and the added tension dislodged it.

Franta’s cause of death was a crushed chest, neck and
thorax, according to presiding coroner Paul Ogiow.

His injuries included: multiple bruises and abrasions,
rib fractures, laceration of the left lung, collapse of the left
lung and partial collapse of the right, a fractured left
collarbone, and brain damage caused by swelling.

Staff at Castlegar and District Hospital were able to
raise a pulse and blood pressure in Franta 20 minutes after
his arrival, but the young man dying at

Verigin said he thought the third man left to go to first
aid because of ‘a headache but wasn’t sure. Normally that
man would have been watching over Franta and his fellow
worker, Larry Jewell, when the accident occurred,

The third workman hadn't been subpeonaed to testify at
the inquest because his testimony wasn't considered
relevant when witnesses were being selected, said Dr. John
Clark, consultant for the chief coroner.

Jury foreman Murray Gratham indicated that the
workman should have been called to testify.

“It seems we do have problems with his unexplained
departure (from the accident scene),” said Gratham,
adding that “it would have been nice to have heard his
comments. Why did he leave?”

Franta and Jewell, who was injured in the accident,
were patching over a hole which was originally an inspection
port into the cascade evaporator when the accident

12:59 p.m. — about two hours after the accident occurred.
e jury's emphasis on the need for “an’ external
watchperson” stemmed from the brief disappearance of a

PWA PLEDGE

continued from front pege scheduled flights

to Vancouver at 4"p.m. and arrive at
5:10 p.m.

Moore said the airline's summer
schedule will have flights leaving
Vancouver “much later.”

He added that fares will be “com-
petitive with PWA", and include
discounts of 25, 35 and 45 per cent.

Moore argued that the AirBC
presence in Castlegar will stimulate air
traffic.

next six weeks.”
Asked about the

airplan

Castlegi

one-time unique sii
The Dash 7 will

“The frequeney ot! service Ra beer =

neneertt ve irtthe-worrt toc wa
out of Castlegar, Moore responded:
“That's entirely up to them (PWA).”

sumfner, ‘he said.

However, he said he “can't believe”
PWA will leave.

He pointed to the Williams Lake
Quesnel area where both airlines
compete.

on a return flight

“We put on two flights a day and

route.

Okanagan

operating a Castlegar to Calgary flight

reliability, he said.

Jensen said Time Air does still not
have a reservation system that can
provide air fare discounts of up to 45
per cent, but said he is “hopeful of
having something resolved within the

place of the Dash 7 on the
to Calgary route this sum-
mer, Jensen said, “That was strictly a

and remain on the route Bent

Elsewhere, Adastra Aviation's Dale
Nielsen said he will fly one flight a day
between Castlegar and Cranbrook
beginning Aug. 1.
passenger planes will leave Castlegar said.

The cost will be $60 one way and
$105 return for adults, Neilsen sa’
He added he is looking at a Castlegar
to Spokane flight and at a Castlegar

routes are still six months to a year

Franta slipped into a narrow crevice between the
cylinder and the chamber wall, while Jewell was able to
avoid fatal injuries by scrambling up the turning cyclinder.

for 94 per cent Asked how the airline can get into
Castlegar so early in the morning when
cloud cover is at its worst, Erik
Anonsen, the company's chief pilot,
said it's because of Air BC's aircraft: a
Dash 7. :
Anonsen said the cloud ceiling is
currently 3,456 feet above ground, but
with a new approach to the airport
devised by the makers of the Dash 7,
AirBC expects the ceiling will be
dropped to 1376 feet for Dash 7s.
He said the new ceiling has received
approval from the regional Ministry of
Transport office in Vancouver “and I
it) will receive

use of the Convair

ituation.”
return for the fall

Moore also promised AirBC will not
fly a twin otter into Castlegar.
His six to eight “We have to be competitive,” he
at 8 a.m. Time Air's Dwight Jensen said his
airline carried 17,088 passengers in
1984 — up 12 per cent from the year
before when PWA operated the
Calgary to Castlegar route.

Time Air's load factor was 56.2 per
cent and the airline made it into

However, those

in competition with Time Air.

“down the road,” he added.

Castlegar 290 times out of 310

Court news

Dougias Bates was fined ter he pleaded guilty to re

$400 after pleading guilty to
impaired driving this week in
Castlegar provincial court.
Bates was also fined $300 af.
ter pleading guilty to failure
to submit to a breathalyser
test
* «

Deborah McIntosh was
fined $150 and put on three
months probation after
pleading guilty to remaining
in a licensed establishment

after being requested to
leave.

* 28 «
A $150 fine and three
months’ probation were

handed to Sydney Jensen af.

maining in a licensed estab-
lishment after being request
ed to leave.

._ 8 «@

A 30-day concurrent jail
term was handed to Troy
Simpson on two counts of
mischief. Simpson was also
given a three-month conse-
cutive jail term for posses.
sion of stolen property

. 8 @

Lenard Harshenin was
fined $400 and given a 12
month probationary term af.
ter pleading guilty to break
ing and entering with intent
to commit an indictable of.
fence.

Abortion policy clashes with
hospital goals says pro-lifer

By CasNews Staff

A hospital society member
suggested that a written
statement of philosophy for
the Castlegar and District
Hospital which mentions the
dignity and preservation of
human life is incompatible
with the hospital's practice of
performing abortions.

Herman Kemperman of

Alleged

Blueberry Creek asked those
at the Castlegar and District
Hospital Society's annual
general meeting Thursday to
“deeply reflect on what these
items here stated will mean
in terms of the continued
operation of the abortion
committee.”

A statement of the hos-
pital’s philosophy, composed
this year and read out at the

torturer

in Alberta?

CALGARY (CP) — A cus-
toms official says a man
wanted in connection with a
bizarre California sex torture
prison may have crossed the
border into Alberta.

However, RCMP are tight
lipped about reports that
Charles Chat Ng could be
heading to Calgary, where
his sister lives.

A man fitting Ng's des-
cription entered Canada on
Thursday evening though the
border crossing of Chief
Mountain, near Waterton Na.
tional Park in the southwest
corner of the province, said

Lyle Oens, outport super
intendent for the border
crossing.

At the time, the man was
driving a light blue, late
model vehicle and indicated
he was going to the Waterton
townsite for a few days.

A customs official at the
crossing failed to ask for
identification or search the
man’s care because an RCMP
alert for Ng had not yet been
received, Oens said.

“It was a real routine type
of questioning because we
had no reason at the time to
think there was anything out
of the ordinary,” Oens said

He said there is still no
proof that the individual was
Ng.

RCMP refused to comment
on Ng’s whereabouts.

Human bones, sexual tor
ture videotapes and other
evidence was recently hauled
away from a remote house
and bunker east of San Fran
ciseo. The dwellings were
used by Leonard Lake, a sur.
vivalist who killed himself
while in police custody last
week

meeting, states the hospital
believes “in the dignity of the
human person, recognizing
that each person has physi
cal, mental, emotional and
spiritual needs and rights
and that these must be res.
pected and cannot be viol:
ated.

“This respect is reflected
in the tireless efforts in this
institution to serve and pre.
serve life .. .” the statement

says.

The hospital's policy on
abortions is “in sharp con
trast to the policy stated
here,” said Kemperman, who
identified himself in an inter.
view as a “pro-life” sympa.
thizer who has spoken out on
abortions at hospital society
meetings for about five
years.

“The unborn child

needs dignity and respect,”
he said.
“That is what I would like
each one of us to reflect on.”
Following Kemperman's
comments, outgoing board
chairman Carl Henne said:
“No matter how (people in
the community) think or feel,
I think we're all working to-
ward the betterment of the
hospi
Earlier in the meeting,
said the hospital
“quite proud” with
the written statement of
philosophy, and an accom
panying mission statement
According to Gwen Cavan.
augh of the Nelson Future
Life group, Castlegar and
District Hospital performed
51 abortions in 1984, while
about 140 births took place
the same year.

Coal project
hearings set

WASHINGTON (CP) —
The International Joint Com
mission has scheduled public
hearings on both sides of the
Canada-U.S. border into a
dispute over the environmen
tal impact of a proposed
coal-mining project in Cabin
Creek, B.C.

The commission, a Cana
dian-U.S. body that oversees
transboundary water pollu
tion issues, has scheduled

hearings July 9 in Kalispell,
Mont., and July 10-11 in
Fernie.

The dispute has become
known as the Flathead con
troversy, named after the
cross-border river basis. En
vironmentalists say the basin
would be harmed by the mine
planned by Safe Creek Coal
Ltd. of Vancouver, a sub
sidiary of the multinational
Rio Algom Ine

UNION HEAD

VICTORIA (CP) — Mike Dumler has been elected
president of the British Columbia division of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Dumler, 38, is a recreation program director from
Nanaimo. He won on the first ballot at the
division's convention in Victoria, defeating John Kirk
of Kelowna.

Dumler succeeds Owen Dykstra, who returns to
his job as a municipal employee in Burnaby. Bernice
Kirk, who is no relation to John Kirk won a fourth
two-year term as secretary-treasurer.

MAN DROWNS

NANAIMO (CP) — A 47-year-old Nanaimo man
drowned Saturday after he slipped on rocks while
trying to land a fish on the shore of this Vancouver
Island city.

Allan Gilchrist, who had been fishing with his son
and a friend, was found face-down in the water at 8
a.m. about an hour after the mishap.

RCMP say exposure was the likely cause of death.

FIRES RAGE

PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — A total of 77 forest
fires were reported burning through the Prince
George forest district and the B.C. Forest Service said
weekend lightning storms were forecast.

Five new fires have joined to burn 6,000 hectares
in an area south of the Liard River, at Sulphur Creek-
Scaffold Creek. Another 8,000 hectares are burning
north of the Liard, in the Nordquist Lake-Grayling
Creek area, about 64 kilometres east of Liard Hot-
springs.

The forest service said 155 people using 21 pieces
of equipment — cats, tank trucks and skidders — six
helicopters and sesven fixed-wing aircraft were
fighting the fires.

GAS WARS

KELOWNA (CP) — A gas war in this Okanagan
city has cut the price of a litre of regular gas to less
than 31.5 cents from nearly 45 cents since mid-week.

John Melntyre, manager-leasee of a Petro-
Canada service station, changed his price five times
Wednesday and another three times Thursday.

“It could be up this afternoon or first thing in the
morning,” he said. “You never know.”

ABORTION SURVEY

TORONTO (CP) — A slim majority of Canadians
believes that any woman who wants an abortion
should be able to have one, a survey conducted for the
Toronto Globe and Mail indicates.

Fifty-three per cent of the 2,044 adults surveyed
said they agreed with the statement: “Every woman
who wants an abortion should be able to have one.”
Forty-one per cent disagreed and five per cent were
either undecided or refused to say.

Higher percentages of those surveyed said they
approve of abortions if they are conducted under
certain conditions.

AIR DEFENCE

WASHINGTON (REUTER) — U.S. and Canadian
forces begin an air defence exercise over North
America today, Pentagon officials said Saturday.

Jet fighters from the North American Aerospace
Defence Command will try to intercept bombers from
the U.S. Strategic Air Command.

A Pentagon spokesman said the exercise, code-
named Amalgam Chief, would involve about 175
aircraft. He said the jets would try to avoid populated
areas as much as possible, but sonic booms might be
heard in some places.

HOPPER PLAGUE

REGINA (CP) — The battle against one of the
worst grasshopper invasions in memory has spread
into cities, towns and villages in Saskatchewan, as
municipal crews spray roadsides to curb the spread of
the insects.

John Bachorcik, who farms near Estevan in
southeastern Saskatchewan, said he and his neighbors
have been spraying for almost two weeks.

“It's a day-by-day deal, as we see them we spray
them,” Bachorcik said. “But you have to keep checking
or else they'll get away from you.”

Cool, ‘wet weather has slowed the grasshoppers’
progress, but the potential threat to crops across most
of southern Saskatchewan is still listed as severe or
very severe.

STEEL CONTRACT

THUNDER BAY, ONT. (CP) — With a contract
approved by its Sudbury, Ont., counterparts paving
the way, United Steelworkers of America Local 1826
at Inco Ltd. has reached a tentative agreement on a

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Inflation
rises but
slightly

OTTAWA (CP) — Inflation
remained subdued at 3.9 per
cent last month, and that’s
good news for the govern-
ment but bad news for indi-
vidual Cabadians.

The government's May 23

three per cent for the elderly,
families and taxpayers means
if inflation remains
they will bear its full impact
starting next year.

But for the government,
it's good news — perhaps
even better than a zero in-
flation rate.

If inflation maintains its
current level, or is reduced to
three per cent by the end of
the year, not only will the
government not have to bear
any of the brunt of inflation,

eee ie Moberg (to;
from Selkirk College board chairman Dr.

P)
ack Colbert, while

but it stands to make a little
Chairman's Merit Award
je (below) Brenda Profit to boot.

Semenoftt (balon) accepts Lieutenant-Governor of B.C.'s award from Rossland-Trail

MLA Chris D'Arcy.

KEEP_ AMERICANS

As such, the budget meas-
ures have removed much of
“af financial incentives the
trapped government
= to do beyond continuing
to hold the line on inflation.

 CosNews Proto,

‘The partial deindexation of
old age security payments,
family allowance payments
and the income tax system
will add close to $1 billion a
year to the federal treasury
starting next year.

At the same time, modest
inflation, while not threat-
ening the economy, will help
reduce the $200-billion na-
tional debt because the gov-
ernment will be paying back
the money it owes in deflated
dollars.

Prime Minister Brian Mul-
roney conceded at a news
conference for the public, the
deindexation measures
“could indeed have a nega-
tive impact unless, I suppose,

tually nothing.”

But he denied the gov-
ernment plans to profit from
the combination of low in-
flation and partial deindexa-
tion.

Hijackers free most

ALGIERS (AP) — Arab hijackers who seized a TWA jet
and killed one man flew back to Algiers Saturday and freed
all aboard except about 50 Americans, officials said.

The sky pirates also set a new deadline for meeting
their principal demand, the release of Arab prisoners held
by Israel.

If Israel does not free 700 prisoners by 9 a.m. GMT
Sunday (2 a.m. Castlegar) time hijackers told Algerian
negotiations they would “leave Algiers for another
destination and the price will be paid,” the official Algerian
news agency reported.

It said the gunmen did not specify what action they
would take.

There were conflicting reports about the number of
hijackers and the number of hostages still on the Boeing 727,
which was commandeered Friday with 153 people aboard
after taking off from Athens, Greece, en route to Rome.

David Venz, a TWA spokesman in New York City, said
there were more than 12 hijackers on the jetliner. The U.S.
ambassador in Algiers, Michael Newlin, said he thought
there was four. Earlier, it was believed there were only two.

One of the passengers freed in Algiers, Christine Cooke,
from Boston, Mass., said that on the second stop in Beirut,
“about six more guys (hijackers) ran onto the plane. They
were heavily armed.”

Venz also said there were 43 people still held aboard the
plane, all believed to be American men. But another TWA
spokesman in New York, Sally McElwreath, said: “The

numbers are very tricky, but according to my count there
should be 49 passengers and three crew, plus the hijackers.”

And in Washington, State Department spokesman Tom
Krajeski said it was believed the hijackers still hold 51 or 52
hostages, including three crew.

REPEAT DEMANDS

The hijackers said in a communique reiterating their
demands, carried by the Algerian news agency, that they
still held “about 40” captives.

The hijackers freed 53 passengers, mostly en and
the elderly, and the five female flight attendants in Algiers
after Greek authorities released an accomplice of the air
pirates.

About an hour later,

the hijackers freed 10 male

, captives, who were taken by bus to a VIP lounge at Houari

Boumedienne airport.

“It was terrible; it was the most terrifying experience I
ever had,” said Penny Bamford, 34, from Hanover, Pa. She
said the hijackers “were a little nervous but also kind to us.
They fed us and gave us water but sometimes they kind of
shoved us with their guns.”

The plane was forced to land in Algiers for the second
time in 24 hours Saturday morning.

Before the flight left Beirut the second time the
hijackers killed a male passenger and dumped his body onto
the tarmac, apparently to convince the control tower they
were serious about their demands, which included refuelling
the plane.

The pilot told the control tower: “He just killed a

Phone PM
says MP

OTTAWA (CP) — Pen
sioners and others who op-
pose the government's plan
to partially de-index old age
pensions next year should
call Prime Minister Brian

contract for P. pl at its
mine.

A ratification vote for the 130 union members is to
be held June 23.

Details of the memorandum of agreement,
reached after only 2'/ days of talks, are being
withheld until the vote.

A contract ratified May 30 by the union’s Local
6500 in Sudbury served as a substantial model for the
Shebandowan workers, said Henry Garau, Local 1826
staff representative.

A y and telt him so,
says New Democratic MP Ian
Waddell.

Mulroney's office number,
Waddell added, is (613) 992-
4211. Call collect, he advised.

Waddell also told the Com.
mons it was not only seniors
who should be worried about
the impact of the budget

Proposal to eliminate index
ation protection against the
first three per cent of in
flation.

“I would like to point out
that the ordinary Canadian
who is 50 years old today and
will retire in the year 2,000
will lose $36,000 of pur
chasing power,” Waddell

said.
“Therefore, the salt and
pepper group, the 50-year.

olds, should also phone the
Prime Minister and demand
an end to this terrible
scheme.”

He just killed a passenger,”
thrown from the plane.

The hijackers said he was a U.S. marine, but no
American official has confirmed that. “We haven't got the
body yet. We don’t know,” said a State Department official,
who asked not to be identified.

Two Shiite Amal militiamen said they took the body to
the morgue at the American University Hospital in Beirut.
They said he had been shot in the left temple.

PAPERS MISSING

In Beirut, the Christian Voice of Lebanon radio station
said the victim was 25 and his last name was Brown. But
hospital sources said there were no identifying papers on the
body.

The State Department said there initially were 122
Americans on theplane, TWA Flight 847, including eight
crew members.

It was the third hijacking in the Mediterranean in a
week, and followed the seizure of Jordanian and Lebanese
airliners.

and a body was then

inflation Was rediced to vie

Mulroney
may retreat

on pensions

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney —
hinting at an retreat on the plan}
to cut infl for old age — declined
Saturday to rule out the possibilty it may be scrapped or

pre-summer
caucus meeting at which the issue was aired and MPs!
studied the results of a post-budget poll.
“At an appropriate time, as I've always indicated, I
will announce on behalf of my party and my government
whatever action is required,” added.

and its possible effects “will be closely monitored in the
course of the next few months.”

Health Minister Jake Epp went even further, noting
that the plan would only go into effect Jan. 1, 1986, and it
would be “impossible to monitor something that yet is not
in effect.”

However, in recent days Mulroney has been
increasingly candid about the extent of the political
opposition against the idea, which includes many
premiers, business groups, both opposition parties and
thousands of seniors.

GETS LETTERS

NDP Leader Ed Broadbent told reporters Saturday
he received 400 to 500 letters on the matter last week —
100 on Friday alone — “a response the like of which I've
never seen before.”

Meanwhile, a Toronto pensioner who berated
Finance Minister Michael Wilson in the Commons
hallway outside the caucus meeting told reporters he
“ought to go back to square one.”

Marion Moore, who identified herself as “65 plus”
and a Conservative, stopped on her tour of the
Par to Wilson's that,
the would be if people that
unless spending cuts are made now, social programs in
ithe future could be threatened by the deficit.

“I think that rather than offering explanations it
would help if you would consider that it (the pensioners’
opposition) could be valid,” she told an uncomfortable
Wilson amidst a blaze of television lights. She also
politely challenged his assertion that some seniors
support the plan.

Moore later dismissed Wilson's response as “more of
the stock answers which they have been using over and
over,” called his budget “very unimaginative,” and said it
has weakened — but not destroyed — her support for
Scarborough West Conservative MP Reg Stackhouse.

BUDGET ACCEPTED

Mulroney — while saying the polls show “completely

in

nd I diseussed with my colleagues the manner in
which that might be done and took good note of their
suggestions, which were really very interesting.”

The plan — which the Finance Department hoped
would have saved Ottawa $1.62 billion by 1990-91 —
would have limited inflation protection only to that
amount above three per cent.

With inflation now running at about four per cent,
that means old age pensions would rise only one per cent
next year and the purchasing power of the pension would
fall by three per cent.

y did not elab on what i the
MPs gave him but one route is to boost the guaranteed
income supplement now paid to the poorest pensioners.
Under that scenario — which Epp has estimated would
cost $860 million by 1990-91 — people receiving only the
old age pension would still lose but those with no other
income would be protected.

Labor probe
okay —Fryer

VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia govern- *
ment should not be allowed to halt an investigation by the
Geneva-based International Labor Organization into labor
practices here, a leading labor spokesman said Saturday.

John Fryer, president of the 240,000-member National
Union of Provincial Government Employees, said Premier
Bill Bennett's Social Credit government refused to allow the
investigation into government labor practices even though
the organization is doing similar studies in Alberta, Ontario
and Newfoundland.

The ILO.is a United Nations agency that monitors labor
practices throughout the world and is responsible for
enforcing international treaties on labor standards.

The mission, scheduled to arrive in Canada in

ber, is ing toa int from Fryer’s union
about legislation restricting provincial government employ
ees’ bargaining rights in the four provinces.

The ILO decided last November that it was unusual to
receive so many complaints about labor practices from a
country like Canada, Fryer said.

“But unknown to us, the B.C. government found out and
wrote the ILO. We don’t know what they wrote,” said Fryer,
whose union is the second largest in Canada. “The ILO said
the additional information made it unnecessary to
investigate B.C.

“What was in the letter?” Fryer asked. “Did they tell
the truth?” he said, adding that attempts to find out the
contents of the B.C. government letter through the Access
to Information Act were unsuccessful.

“Whatever B.C. told the ILO, they didn’t want anyone
else to see. We should call upon the B.C. government and
say: ‘You bloody well agree to that mission coming to B.C.’ ”

‘PREMIER ON RAMPAGE’

The union president told about 300 delegates to the
annual B.C. Government Employees Union convention, “Bill
Bennett is on a rampage in this province. He is on a rampage
against the old, the young, the sick and his favorite

President Ronald Reagan said Friday in W
“We're doing everything that can be done,” to get the
hostages released.

Shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, freed passengers
began deplaning onto several airport buses and were taken
to the airport terminal, Venz said

— his ploy in the provincial government.

“Tf there is hope of getting this province back to
business, it must get Bill Bennett off its back,” he said.

Fryer said he had been told recently by federal Labor

Minister Bill McKnight that the federal government also had

no objection to the organization's investigations in Canada.

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