Legislative Livrar: Parliamant Bldgs., Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 WEATHERCAST Cloudy with showers t with shower activity increas Ing by oyenin }» Mone Sih shewbre" High wil be will continue : Fall overnight low near 0%, VOL. 35, NO. 27 CASTUEGAR, Bairish COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1982 2Sections.(A& B) - School adie ae off 1 nine employees By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar school board an- nounced this week it will close one school and lay off :nine employees in order to ‘comply with Premier Bill Bennett's public sector re- straint program. The cutbacks will take ef- fect this September, ; As well, the board will delay three new programs scheduled to start this fall — the computer, Russian, and gifted student programs, Other areas hit by cut- backs include: e office, janitor and school supplies, - . © trustee and employee seminars and workshops e long distance telephone e school furniture and equipment replacement. © maintenance items, such painting e school field trips and bus trips z Altogether, the cutbacks will’ save the board $225,000 from a: $9 million operating off. males ‘will increase 23.3 per cent this year instead of 25.8 mean the layoff. of, a part-time per cent before the restraints janitor. © were ordered. “The board greatly regrets The Robson old tworoom the impact of the budget re- school will be closed and the straint Program on present two grades — 5 and §— will and pointed by the board's failure. to publicly’ protest the gov- cranieat'a arbitrary ‘action, our local be forced to attend Twin services. However, it will en- Rivers School.” ‘deavor to continue to provide Tho. two Twin Rivers a quality education for all Grado -7 classes will attend students,” said a board re- Kinnaird Junior Secondary, lease, School. In addition, about eight or restraint program is-not de- nine Grade 1 and 2 students clared law, it will retain its “The board sdded thatit the. who would normally attend Pass Creek Elementary will sient Woodland Park Elem- entary. However, the board said Tarrys Grade 7 students will remain at Tarrys. The moves mean a reduc- original budget, However, Castlegar Dis fiscal autonomy. t “It seems ludicrous that at a time when greater de- mands are being placed upon our public school system that the government of B.C.’ sees fit to’ réduce‘ and ‘cut the ‘many worthwhile’and inno. vative © teachers have worked hard to develop y and impl trict president Paul Medvedeff wasn't pleased with the cuts. “While the CDTA recog- nizes the:dilemma’ the local school board was placed in by -aide, and lab aide will be laid “The public should take a which result in the reduction of the quality ‘of. our. edu- cational offerings, the quality tion of ‘two teaching posi- in i 2 tions, a ‘half-time itinerant. physical education teacher, a part-time French helping tea- cher, and a special education er, In the non-teaching area, a child. care worker, school (AP) — d win United States on Satur- and wi day after unleashing dozens Co ollege unions will be delayed, Killer’ : leaves 31 dead A mereiless storm storm very- ” thing in its path, killing eight hotographer Cheryl Wishle loom along OthA potted tose bush i Mall rh. Castlegar. But’ closer in- the roses were ‘actually fled onto bush with eo aes and bush was designed to fool passersby. . —CorNewsPhoto + MAE 4 = above lorestry in ‘terms of , U is further labor relations ‘board solidation,” Ehman said.: hearings. i .7 7 \-“Both aides have 'no objec- Last week, the two ‘ult tion to being: in: the same unit,”‘he said. went through two days of wi the vocational instruc- tors want to remain with the shivered underablast ofhigh wrecked. winds, hail and snow: that closed schools and ‘slickened roads, residents of San‘ Jose, Calif., got a break from ‘the people and injuring at, least claims, the Ministry of For- 200. ‘An apartment complex ests’ five-year plan, and a .was second institute’ to train skilled *: laborers * were just - demolished ‘homes ‘and 'busi- at a meeting Friday of Koot- nesses to guard against loot- enay West MP Lyle ’Kris-’ ers, while paramedics dug for. tiansen.and-: his constituency til’ the two sides meet, “Some time ago, BCGEU members‘ applied to change certification to read that all vocational instructors at Sel- BCGEU and the faculty asso- week of rain and ‘floods that ciation :would: prefer :to be has forced’1,800'people from part ofan independent union. their homes, . He said the BOGEU has a The ominous’ clouds that different way of operating in rumbled into. the. mid-Atlan- that-it-is more centralized tic states Saturday: brought and. the: faculty association thunderstorms ‘early in‘ the mere bodies. Sirvivors wan- ‘ dered around: what ‘was left” of their homes — the founda- tions. ‘A family of five was killed advisory council; MLAs Chris D'Arcy ‘ (Ress. land-Trail) ‘and Lorne Nic- olson '(Nelson-Creston) were also in attendance. . kirk Collegé be ‘part-of the would like to. be as: inde- BCGEU .— not. just the vo- pendent’ as it can. i alee instructors .at Nek The: faculty association feels that: it is capable of pat ‘Faculty A making and president Gerry Ehman said, doesn't want to be controlled “This had the potential of by outside headquarters, Eb- day and at least one tornado in Georgia, where one death also occurred. Weather fore- casters ‘said ‘the storm sys- tem would ‘not' wreak’ the havoc in the East that it left’ on the Plains, . when a tornado threw a tree. ‘The major issue of concern on their home near Hope, in. was ‘the’ forestry + industry, . rural ‘seathwestern Arkan- where ‘85 per ‘cent of the sas, / area's unionized forest work- hh Peru, ‘Ind, a tornad are unemployed, Kris- which ripped through the’ tiansen said. - downtown area early Satur- John Adams, department day caused only three in- head of the Selkirk College juries, But property damage forestry program, noted that removing employees from our bargaining unit. “In response, we applied to vary our certification so’as to protect employees involved.” man said. . The The tornadoes ‘ were faculty ‘association spawned by the collision of “consists: of the equivalent of cold air from the north and 180 full-time members while warm air from. the. south. the BCGEU has 40 to 70 They killed 10 people in Texas, 13 in Arkansas, three was heavy: Gas pumps were ripped out; the post office was blown apart; 11 busi- nesses, 150 homes and: at least 50 cars lost their roofs within the provincial Minis- try of Education, natural re- sources programs are not priorities. “That's a bit scary,” he. said. 1On strong criticism at the meeting was directed at the Ministry of Forests’ five-year Fehabilitation plan. “The five-plen for rehabil:” about 20 yn president of IWA local 1-405 (East and West » Nowlin also mentioned the drastic shortage of tree nur- series in the provnice. “The capacity is about one-tenth of what. is re- quired,” Nowlin said. -But the future of the forest, industry does not look opti- istic. Al Thornton, of B.C. Tim- ber’s Celgar mill said figures show that 20 per cent of all lumber mills in B.C. will be ‘down or on a, reduced cap- acity through to 1986, “Studies and studies doesn’t do much for the guy at the sawmill who doesn't have a dob,” Thornton com- plained. = An area of .concern to the West Kootenays. The findings came from a labor council pen p Syne is the of. railway freight rates. Thornton said lumber can be shipped at a cheaper rate, through the United States than through Canada. : “I would ask Lyle to-do what he has to do to stop the» ‘nonsense that is costing Can- adian jobs,” he said. “It could be a matter of'a.’ couple hundred people when to get a view of the sane ment situation, | various 1 H such’ as’ plant workers, aud, : UIC offices. “Things are looking worse every day.” Bannert said. “The present. policies. of (Prime Minister Pierre) Tru- deau and) (U.S. President you put everything gether.” Ronald) Reagan contribute, to the’ economic disaster.” “It doesn't make’ any god damn sense,” Thornton ed. z Unemployment figures show a 25 per cent unem- ployment rate in the West Kootenay, with the figures higher in some trades. Dennis Bannert, vice-presi- dent of the Nelson and Trail District Labor Council gave preliminary findings on the Bannert. gave figures that’ showed ‘an: 80. per ‘cent: un- “employment rate within the International | Woodworkers of Anierica, “40: per cent among the carpenters’ union, and 22 per cent in the elec tricians’ union. © He also said ‘that ‘240, workers have been’ laid off from Cominco and more will follow in coming ‘weeks.: y Ebmac said the college members, From CP.; AP-REUTERS : Britain won United’ Nations Security Council “approval ofa lution calling for an of Argentine invasion troops from’ the Falkland Islands. ° ; The vote was 10,to one, with four. abstentions. . The Soviet Union, which had been expected to veto the * resolution because. it is an importer of Argentine wheat, ‘abstained, thus. allowing the resolution to pass. China, another. permanent council member with veto power, also abstained along with Poland and Spain. ; Panama was the sole dissenter. Meanwhile; eBritish armada “in wartime order” will sail tomorrow for the occupied Falkland Islands to back Britain's for the 1 of an invasion force ‘with gunboat diplomacy. Argentina has vowed it “will not retreat” from its seizure ‘of the British Crown colony and the British government has warned that if diplomatic efforts fail, “we will have no choice but to press forward with our plans.” : Buckingham Palace said Saturday the Queen's 's second son, e2year-old Prince Andrew, had been recalled to duty as an anti-submarine helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Tavinefble leading the 40-ship fleet. In: tHe British House’ of Commons, Prime Minister Margaret ‘Thatcher faced angry MPs howling. for her resignation as she announced plans for the naval task force. “It is the government's objective to see that the islands ‘are freed from occupation and returned to British administration at the earliest possible opportunity,” she told or were smashed by trees. the Commons at its first Saturday session since the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. . “The Falkland Islands remain British territory. No aggression and no invasion‘ can ‘alter that simple fact.” Several thousand. Argentine troops seized the South Atlantic archipelago from 79 British marines Friday. . HOSPITALS READY. An Argentine news agency said. the British nuclear submarine Superb was already off Mar del Plata, about 900 nautical miles north of the Falklands and that hospitals in Mar del! Plata had red crosses, painted on their roofs and were told to prepare for casualties in the event of hostilities. There was no official n the report a: and Defence Secretary John Nott stopped short of an outright commitment to attack. But Nott said if diplomatic efforts failed — “and they probably will” — to dislodge the Argentines: “We will then have no choice but to Press f ewer with to live in peace... They do not want to be Argentine.” Thatcher said Falkland Islands Gov. Rex Hunt, flown to Uruguay, told her by telephone that the 79 Royal Marines had tried to defend his residence against overwhelming forces, The killed one and Sritain to free Falklands Navy will put to sea in wartime order and with wartime stocks and weapons.” : Seveal Conservative backbenchers joined opposition wounded ‘two. Hunt and the others will fy to London Sunday. MARINES HIDING In Buenos ‘Aires, a journalist who accompanied the invasion forces said a group of British Marines had escaped and was hiding in the interior of the main island. Thatcher announced that in adaition. to dispatching the armada, her had froze: assets in Britain and was prepared to’ irapoas further sanctions, Britain broke diplomatic relations Friday. But opposition Labor party’ MPs shouted for the resignation of Thatcher and the foreign and defence our plans, retaining secrecy where to act as circumstances then demand.” Press Association, the British domestic news agency, quoting authoritative sources, said the task force would leave from Portsmouth and Gibraltar and rendézvous at: Ascension’ Island. The tiny ‘South Atlantic island, 2,600 nautical miles’ from the Falklands, is the nearest British possession to the Falklands. Thatcher said Britain must preserve the islanders’ right to stay British. “Their way of life is British. Their allegiance is ' to the Crown. They are few in number, but they have a right over what many Britons consider the country's biggest humiliation since the failed attempt to retake the Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it in 1956, ’ Many governing Conservative party MPs, faces buried in their hands, groaned as Nott, white-faced and shaking visibly, tried to fend off charges that London did nothing to prevent the Argentine invasion of the colony populated by 1,800 sheep farmers, British since 1833. “We were not unprepared,” said Nott, battling to speak above hoots and jeers during a tense three-hour debate. “From next Monday, at only a few days’ notice, the Royal demands for the of Nott and Foreign Secretary * Lord Carrington over the handling of the affair. “What has happened to the Falklands is a disgrace to the’ British flag,” said Tory MP Nicholas Winterton, calling on both officials to take the “honorable” course and quit. “In the next week or two, this House, the nation and Mrs. ” Thatcher herself will find out of what metal she is made,” jibed former Conservative cabinet minister Enoch Powell, urging military attack. Labor member Lord Wigg jeered: “We have spent 111 billion pounds ($222 billion Canadian) on defence since the end of the last war and we can't knock the skin off a rice pudding.” . In Buenos Aires, Defence Minister Amadeo Frugoli said Argentina “will not retreat from its position as regards to the steps already taken.” He added that the rights and property of Britons living in the. Falklands “will be: respected.” Several A it by marines, seized the Falklands and t the dependent South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands early Friday, suffering one dead and two wounded. The islands had been held by the British and claimed by Argentina since 1833.