“Now there's an example of
justice in the North,” the On-
tario attorney general says
with a laugh that echoes
through the old DEW Line
radar station on the shore of
Hudson Bay.

“The prisoner gets to sign
the guestbook before the at-
torney general of the prov-
ince.”

Just above Roy McMur-
try's signature in the logbook
of one of Ontario's most
northerly communities was
the signature of Archie
Stoney, who hours before

storehouse of anecdotes
about the administration of
justice in the North.

The recent case of Gerard
Mattinas made it obvious the
special requirements of the
court create some anomalies
as it drops in on villages sep-
arated by vast spreads of
tundra.

Mattinas, a Cree from At

had been of as-
saulting his wife.

Because of the distances
covered by the travelling
court party in the North, it’s
not uncommon for the judge,
defence lawyer, provincial
policeman and prisoner to
share coffee during a fuel
stop.

Stoney signed the book,
but knew he was in trouble
when his lawyer told him last
week McMurtry was visiting
tiny communities on the edge
of James Bay and Hudson
Bay to watch the court at
work.

“T've heard about his fam-
ily violence policie:
his lawyer. “This is going to
be a bad day for me.”

Stoney was sentenced to

. was d of
being drunk on a reserve and
fined $50 plus $3 court costs.
He promised to pay promp-
tly.

And as soon as another ac-
cused who spoke only Cree
was called before Judge Ger-
ald Micel, Mattinas started to
pay up — working off his fine
as court interpreter.

When court adjourned,
Mattinas followed the band
chief and councillors to a
meeting with McMurtry, who
presented him with a small
wooden box sporting the em-
blem of the province carved
on its lid to commemorate
the occasion.

“Now there's an example
of justice in the north,” said
David Allen, communications

ing an affair with another
woman.

She whipped up the
flames, ran outside to keep
watch on the rest of the vil-
lage, reasoning that her hus-
band would spot the fire, and
come out of the other wom-
an's house to put it out, thus
revealing the identity of his
lover.

“The interpreter talked to
her a little bit and told the
judge the woman wanted to
go to prison — the longer the
term the better.”

Only then did a band coun-
cillor tell the judge ‘the inter-
preter was the husband, try-
ing to trick the court into
sending his wife away so he
could carry on the affair.

Mortgage company’s
demise shatters dream

VANCOUVER (CP) — Al-
most two years ago, Brian
MeQuirk sold his house and
car in England and moved to
Canada with $57,000 to build
a new life in a new country.

Things didn't turn out. the
way he expected.

Instead of putting his
money in a bank, he bought a
$50,000 term note at a higher
interest rate from Everyman
Savings and Mortgage Ltd.

Everyman was supposed
to pay monthly interest and
return the principal on Jan. 4
this year. The interest che-
ques kept coming until Oc-
tober; the principal hasn't
been paid.

“It took me until February
of 1983 to get a job,” McQuirk
said in an interview.

“That lasted six months.
When we moved here, I
really didn’t think it would
turn out like this.”

McQuirk, a computer sys-
tems analyst, now is col-
leeting unemployment insur.
ance. His wife, Heidi, works
as a-nanny for about $3 an
hour.

When McQuirk invested in
Everyman, he thought his
money was as safe as it would
have been in a bank.

What he didn’t know is
that Everyman’s fortunes’
would soon disappear down
the same sinkhole that took
about $27 million from more
than 2,500 Canadians who

invested in a related com-
pany, Tower Mortgage Ltd.

Everyman, an Edmonton-
based company, was closely
linked to Tower Mortgage
before that company was
placed in receivership last
year. Both were owned by
Edmonton's wealthy Leger-
sky family.

Al Dillworth, director of
investigations in the office of
the B.C. superintendent of
brokers, said Everyman
doesn’t “have sufficient funds
to pay past investors.”

“We would expect them to
put money in trust to pay the
people they already owe and,
to my_ knowledge, they
haven't been able to do that.”

Last August, Everyman
failed to renew its prospectus
with the B.C. superintendent
of brokers. Dillworth said it
would be negligent for the
superintendent's office to al-
low a mortgage company to
sell notes to raise money to
repay its original note-hold-
ers.

Tower sold its own notes
throughout Western Canada.
Its salesmen sold Everyman
notes, but only in British
Columbia.

The decline in real estate
prices in Western Canada
drove Tower Mortgage into
serious financial trouble and
last May, after Tower failed
to file reports required by its
trustee, National Trust Co.,

the Alberta Securities Com-
mission imposed a cease-
trading order against Tower.

National Trust is also
Everyman's trustee and it
has told Everyman it has
until Feb. 6 to rectify its
problems.

Before Tower was placed
in receivership last October
— leaving the accounting
firm of Peat Marwick, sp-
pointed receiver-manager of
Tower's’ affairs by the Al-
berta Supreme Court, to sort
out the mess — Everyman
Savings injected $730,000
into Tower, its sister firm
under the Legersky’s control.

Also last October, Every-
man Savings began to default
on interest and principal
payments to its note-holders.

Then Parkcrest Consult-
ing Ltd. entered negotiations
to buy Tower Mortgage. In-
stead, it bought Everyman
Savings.

William Grantmyre, Park-
crest chief executive officer,

has refused several times to _

answer telephone: calls from
reporters. David Pender,
who identified himself as an
officer of Everyman Savings,
has refused comment on the
purchase.

However, he did say that
Everyman Savings is trying
to negotiate with the super-
intendent of brokers to re-
sume business in British Col-
umbia.

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2 Sections (A @ B)

LOCKED OUT . . . Pulp workers (from left) Ted Kajzor,
Tom Batchelor and Archie Stewart set up information
picket line outside Celgar mill after company served

union with lockout notice. Lockout is costing com-
munity $60,000 a day in lost wages.

— CasNews Photo by Ron Normen

Group to study computer needs

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer

Castlegar school board has rein-
stated a task force to investigate the
of

which may result in teacher lay-offs,

and_“reduting student population.”
The school board will receive about

$300,000 pal next year from the

| asia Ld
the school district.

The task foree will review the
current status and objectives of com-
puter programs, make suggestions for
future plans, see what

and Wayling
says peer ty for the district will be

ting expenses — most of which goes to
salaries.

down about 70 by next

“4 aseaia cothtvary tha wa would | be
talking about a (computer) program

functions the computers can carry out,
and look into computer training for
school staff.

“It will give myself and the school
board some advice,” said ‘district
superintendent Terry Wayling. “We
need recommendations . . . and a sense
of direction.”

This step towards revitalizing. the
district's computer. program’ comes
amid decreased provincial funding,

y

ina but
ths board needs to know . _ the best

ise of in an
context,” said Wayling.
“We want to make the best use of
resources in the circumstances.”
According to Wayling, the budget is
divided into, two sections: capital and

amount of money available for opera-

an hitorisa report on Feb. 18, anda final

report in
Hall said the Castlegar school dis-
eT en te ne.

see ate te Re Sentreter peo

eon a provincial level, we're up =e

BACK-TO-WORK ORDER

Celgar sawmill
seeks LRB ruling

By RON NORMAN
Editor

More than 600 pulp and woodwork
ers at Celgar’s pulp and lumber oper
ations are off the job again today as the
lockout by the province's pulp and
paper industry entered its fourth day.

But that could change. B.C. Timber
appealed »Friday to the provincial
Labor Relations Board to order 270
employees, members ‘of the Inter
national Woodworkers of America,
batk to work at its Celgar sawmill.

The employees walked off the job at
8:30 p.m. Thursday after voting not to

Effects felt, A3

work with steam from the pulp mill
produced by company supervisors.
Al Blessin, Celgar sawmill industrial
relations manager, said Friday that the
company is arguing that the wood-
workers’ contract does not allow the
union to refuse to work with a “hot
."
Bigssin said BC Timber is hoping to
have.the LRB hear its case Monday.
lockout is costing the Castlegar
community more than $60,000 a day in
Jost Wages from the 600 employ of

vince the two pulp unions to return to
bargaining immediately.

The two unions have been without
contracts since June 30, 1982 and are
still adamant that they won't meet with
the industry before mid-month.

The unions are refusing to accept a
three-year agreement — the length the
employers are insisting they need to
bring stability to the industry.

“We commenced our lockout effec-
tive 6:30 p.m. Thursday,” said Burt
Collier, industrial relations manager
for Celgar pulp operations.

However, he said the mill began
shutting down operations at 10:16 a.m.
Thursday, one hour and 15 minutes
after the 9 a.m. deadline passed
without the companies hearing from
the two pulp unions.

Collier said 330 workers, members of
Local 1 of the Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada, are affected by the
lockout.

He said pulp mill staff is still showing
up for work and keeping the mill
heated. That accounts for the steam
area residents see rising from the mill's
stacks.

hile, PPWC Bd

9 tn dren

VHS pRaVitice s "Te pals ‘and paper
companies, part BC Timber shut
down their 20 milis Thursday, locking
out 12,700 workers.

The lockout came after the com-
panies said they were unable to con-

Conroy, said in an interview that the
PPWC doesn't plan to meet with: the

He said the union was “dragged
around by the nose for seven or, eight
months” when the compiipies didn't
want to negotiate, then suddenly the
companies decided they want to nego-
tiate.

He said the companies are “taking a
calculated risk” by locking out the pulp
workers. “The onus . . . is on them.”

As well, he said the lockout will have
an affect on the community — “but
that’s what the bureau (Pulp and Paper
Industrial Relations Bureau) is going to
have to live with.”

In another dispute that has taken a
backseat since the lockout, BC Timber

Board ruling prohibiting sawmill
workers from striking over local issues.

BC Timber’s Celgar sawmill. workers
have yet to vote on the three-year in-
dustry-wide contract which cails for a
wage freeze in the first year, a four per
cent increase in the second and a 4.5
per cent boost in the third.

The Celgar workers and other 1 mem-
bers of IWA Local 1-405 have refused
to vote on the pact until a dispute over
supplementary life insurance benefits
has been resolved.

‘The union took a strike vote Jan. 8
and 96 per centiof the Celgar workers

until the d Feb. 16

meeting.

“Nothing’s . . we're still
going to negotiate with them on the
15th of February.”

NELSON LOSES 51 POSITIONS

Forestry jobs

By RON NORMAN
and ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN

Forests Minister Tom Waterland’s
announcement Friday that his ministry
will cut 506 positions April 1 to reach
its target of reducing its work force by
25 per cent will hit the regional
forestry office in Nelson the hardest in
the Kootenays.

The Nelson office. will lose 51
positions, while the Arrow Forest Dis-
trict headquartered in Castlegar will

Forestry reaction, A2

lose just one position. And that is a
clerk position at the Nakusp field
office.

“There will be no changes bere in
Castlegar,” said Cal Belmont, Arrow
Forest Distritt operations superinten-
dent.

However, Belmont added in an
interview Friday that more positions
could be lost in Castlegar once the final
figures are all worked out according to
the collective agreement.

The Arrow Forest District has-the
equivalent of 38 full-time

“We knew that something was in the
works because the government has
said there will be cutbacks.”

Meanwhile, Nelson regional manager
John Cuthbert said his office’s “61
positions are being identified as being
redundant as of April 1.”

Workers in “redundant positions”
will either be laid-off with severance
pay, be transferred to another job in
the forest service, or can retire early, if
eligibile.

The cutbacks plan will result in a
total of 400 people leaving the forest
service in B.C., with 506 occupied staff
positions being cut. .

Waterland said by the beginning of
the 1984-85 fiscal yeer, the tiiniatry
will have 4,145 fyll-time
down one-quarter from its 1982-88 staff
level.

In the Nelson region, 428 people now
work for the forest service,
Cuthbert.

He said the forestry support services

— jobs like mechanics and carpentry —
will also feel the brunt of the cutbecks.

to, Waterland, there will

life insurance plan and have its work-
continued on page A2

axed

Last summer it laid off 19 seasonal
workers. The layoffs affected 50 per
cent of the suppression crew.

Belmont said Friday's announegment
was no surprise.

be “some further staff next

year in line with overall government
objectives.” *

“With Friday’s cute; the Forest
Ministry has chopped the of

peace and friendship.

Student’

By CHERYL CALDERBANK

Cd

A 21-year-old area ptadest will be one of 18 penple’
taking part in a 50,000 kilometre journey in the name of

Kathie Voykin of Slocan Park will leave from
Vangouvér’ with 414 other pedple Feb. 12 to begin a
fiveganedle File theeuth Sarre snd North Aste

Voykin will be'one it 118,60) residents in the group
A 16th person will join thé caravan in Europe.

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reeerianl tT coud dp

It was Voykin's sister who becaine interested in the

trip and_ began

corresponding with organizer
Askevold. But she married and eouldn't go, 90 Kathie

Askevold, a 16-year-old re

Creston, will lead the group through 23 countries across

East and Western Europe, the Soviet Union and North
America. The trip includes 4 two-week shiy in the USSR.

‘Askevold was in

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: ‘hn Chay" ees tel ash alge sealslalaa ive the

Peace and F

"group will be promioting peace and friendship:

Sigurd

tional, 1984 is

the name of the trip. The group will be travelling under

the slogan, Above All

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