ELECTRONICS AWARD + + + Susan Zander Nelson resident and irom program at Sine College, Castlegar Campus, accep- ts "Presidents Award of Excellence” from Wayne Chernoff, president of the Castlegar chapter of chs: vo notably, ‘open’ po U tonstruction workers would still be able to invoke clauses — refusal to work alongside non-union workers — en eee Se ee y would WOE Ye oid sold wtb hereon, Meantime, the industry and union are trying to hammer out a new contract to replace an agreement that expired at the end of April, The meeting Tuesday was the first since the unions walked out of a stormy January bargaining session when the employers tabled demands for sweeping rollbacks. The contractors, facing increased competition from non-union firms, want a return to a 40-hour week from 37% hours, reduction in overtime rates, an end to travel allowances and changes to contract language allowing them to resume a greater role in the selection of work crews. The unions have proposed a two-year agreement with a $1-an-hour wage increase in each year and improved health and welfare benefits. Union tradesmen now receive $22.75 an hour in wages and benefits, The contractors have voted in favor of locking out workers if necessary, but have not decided yet whether to invoke it. MORTGAGE PLAN , neil, “It (the application) is still there and hapetully’ it it ~ won't pose a problem,” said McVeigh after from a morning session in which the bargaining committees of both the association and the council met fate to face. ‘We're going to meet today (Tuesday) and hopefully tomorrow.” Asked what the union's reaction was during the meeting to the ion's move for a \d-desist order, MeVeigh said: “They're not excited about it naturally, They know we have to represent the employers. They're affected by this too. “The applicatian is before the board but we're doing nothing about it for the time being.” > Roy Gautier, head of the building trades council, “said the two sides will hopefully meet for three days. “Right now the LRB order hasn't come up.” The construction union has committed itself ta. a campaign of sporadic work stoppages to protest the provincial government's controversial changes to the labor code. Last week, thousands of construction workers downed their tools to attend a rally to discuss the ramifications of the labor code amendments. The workers Society of Engineering Technologists of British Colum- bia. Award is presen each year by Society of Engineering Technologists to recognize. the student who best the of a prof technologist. 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MARIA GORETTI Genelle — 12 Noon Canada ninth in hospitality VANCOUVER (CP) — Mo- ments after saying “negative statements can only hurt” Canada's tourism industry, provincial Tourism Minister Claude Richmond told indus- try representatives Tuesday that they are not as hos- pitable to visitors as they should be. “We've got a long way to go,” Richmond told the Can- adian Tourism-Hospitality Advisory Council on Human Resources. “Maybe we're not minding the store.” Pacific Rim residents are particularly short-changed when they come to British Columbia because few stores and services have multilin. gual staff, he said. Richmond singled out restaurants, be cause he said most do not provide menus in Oriental such as NDP against proposal OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberals’ mortgage rate pro- tection plan got a rough ride in the Commons on Tuesday as the NDP came out against the proposal and Progressive Conservatives offered only lukewarm support. New Democrat Bill Blaikie called the plan a “protection racket” and described Hous- ing Minister Romeo LeBlanc as “the Al Capone of the housing marekt.” Conservative housing crit- ie Roch LaSalle said the Institute should estimate arms OTTAWA (CP) — The first order of business for the government's. proposed peace institute should be to set out undisputed date on the number of nuclear arms held by each of the five leading powers, the inter- national president of Parl- iamentarians for World Or- der said Tuesday. Doug Roche, a Conserva- tive MP, said estimates of nuclear holdings differ wide- “When I go to Japan, of- ficials ask me, ‘If you're so serious about getting us over there, why aren't the menus in Japanese?’ “I don't have an answer for that one,” he said, adding that most restaurants in Japan have English-language menus. Richmond noted a June 1983 Japanese newspaper poll of more than 1,000 re- turning citizens at Tokyo International Airport that ranked Canada in the top three countries for scenic beauty and future tourism potential, but ninth in hos. pitality and friendliness. ly g to the type of arms such as warheads, mis- sile launchers and tactical bombs included in the count. He told a Commons com- mittee studying the proposed Canadian Institute for Inter- national Peace and Security that the public has to be sat- isfied the government is for- mulating policy based on un- disputed facts. And the pri- mary role of the institute should be to provide those facts. Peace and security cannot be achieved through com- petition in arms, added Roche, who represents an organization with 650 mem- bers in 31 countries. “Deterrence is a flawed policy,” he said. “We go on: stoekpiling nu- clear weapons far beyend the original needs of deterrence in the now certain knowledge that all human life is at stake given an error, terrorist ac- tion, or a government's de- signed first strike.” The MP for Edmonton South said a nine-point de- claration by six world leaders calling for a halt to the nu- clear arms race is remarkable because it’s the first time non-nuclear states have in- tervened “in a field long con- sidered the exclusive domain of nuclear powers.” Prime Minister Trudeau, invited last week to add his name to the list, said he couldn't sign the declaration because of a U.S. led-policy of building up western de- fences. “We reject the notion that any country would have to leave its present military al- liance in order to participate in the Four Continent Peace Initiative,” said Roche, re- ferring to the declaration. protection being offered to homeowners is too little, too late and he promised to push for improvements when the plan goes to a Commons committee for detailed study. The two MPs made the comments during debate on amendments to the National Housing Act. The most im- portant sections of the bill would allow the government to make good on its promise to cushion homeowners against major increases in mortgage rates at renewal time. The proposed plan would be available to anyone who bought a home or renewed a mortgage on or after March t of this year. Homeowners would pay a fee of 1% per cent of the value of their mortgages to a maximum of $1,050. In re- turn, the government would pick up most of their addi- tional monthly housing pay- ments. if mortgage rates on renewal were up more than two percentage points. Blaikie, who represents the riding of Winnipeg-Birds Hill, said the plan will be very expensive to homeow- ners and won't provide any real benefits unless mortgage rates go sky-high. In that sense, he added, it’s like the kind of protection money demanded by gang- sters to keep a property safe from disaster. Blaikie said the govern- ment would do better to take direct action against lending institutions to keep mortgage rates from returning to “criminally high” levels. Union workers angry with UBC VANCOUVER (CP) — Unionized construction work- ers. are angry at the Uni- versity of British Columbia's decision to award a $5 million contract for an extension to student residences to non. union Wilson Industries. Carpenters’ Union spokes- man Colin Snell said it is the first non-union contract awarded at UBC in years. Sell said the carpenters have taken the matter to the B.C. Labor Relations Board, claiming Wilson Industries is a “dummy company” set up by a unionized firm in order to pay lower wages. Other action is under consideration, he said. David McLean, chairman of UBC's board of governors, confirmed that Wilson’s low bid was only $100,000 lower than that of a union company, “but it would have been to- tally irresponsible for us to not have accepted the low bid.” He said it was a “figment of (Snell's) imagination” that UBC had a policy of using only union construction firms. LADA'S HIGH-SCORING L PRICES START AS LOW AS °5585° 1984 is the best year yet for people looking for value. That's because our 1984 line-up of Ladas is the best ever. We've got the new Signet 1.3 and Signet 1.5 family sedans and the Lada 1600. For sport sedan enthusiasts we have the Signet Sport models. And for 4X4 fans, there's the Niva , Hatchback and the stunning new Niva Cabriolet. And all sedans are backed by a 3year/80,000 Km. expanded warranty** anda 5-year anti-rust perforation warranty — both at no extra cost. Stop in and check out our line. We can score one for you. 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A break from snowmelt flooding and mudslides in the Rockies ended Tuesday when the temperature climbed back into the 30s Celsius with more heat. predieted. Five houses in Vail, Colo., were evacuated Tuesday as a wall of mud six metres high, 48 metres wide and 300 metres long: crept toward the ski resort. While the slide on Tuesday was moving at the rate of about nine metres an hour at one time, officials who kept an all-night watch said it was barely moving this morning. Bank of B.C. VANCOUVER (CP) — The Bank of British Columbia, which calls itself Canada’s western bank, took a tumble on the stock exchange today as the financial community reacted to the bank's plan to suspend its quarterly divi- dend on common shares. Trading on the stock re- sumed today after the bank requested Tuesday that trad- ing be halted. The stock was at $9.75 in early trading, down $1.25 from Monday's close. Bank chairman Pfevor Pil- ley said Tuesday the decision to suspend divident pay- ments was made reluctantly. “Passing a divident for a bank is not a usual occur- ence,” he said. “But we felt that it is not good manage- ment to pay the divident when you don't have the earnings. “The bank is not in a deli. cate financial condition, but rather it’s in a sensitive ec- onomy,” Pilley said. Much of the bank's loan portfolie is in the West, par- ticularly Alberta, where the economic recovery is not yet in sight, and in British Col- umbia which is only slightly better. LOAN PROBLEMS Pilley blamed the dividend suspension on poor earnings, the narrowing of interest- rate spreads with rising rates, a continuation of weak loan demand and an_ in- crease in the provision for loan losses, which jumped to $14.7 million for the six months ended April 30, up from $12.6 million during the same period last year. The bank also reported that net income for the six months dropped 78 per cent over the same period last year. There was a loss of four cents a share after preferred dividend obligations, compar- ed with a profit of $1.43 a share for the first six months last year. The second quarter loss A 10 between Fruita.and Loma, state police te tebe obese tev eae It oe remain. on Tuesday, the weather service warned of possible fi along rivers in higher elevations where dense sn ¥ THREAT OF FLOODS gets A soggy cold front battering the East extended today” from New England to Florida, bringing with it the floods. Sandbags were piled Tuesday night along thé swollen Winnipesaukee River to protect downtown’ businesses in Franklin, N.H. Four families were evacuated from nearby. Tilton and several roads were closed in Keene, Civil Defence spokesman Frank Haley said. Minor flooding was also reported today across northern New Jersey, the counties immediately north of New York City and in isolated parts of Connecticut. ‘ Crews worked today to reopen railroad tracks south af Pittsburgh where an Amtrak passenger train derailed Tuesday, causing minor injuries to 24 of the 158 people on board. Officials said a 26-metre section of track bed along the swollen Youghiogheny River washed out before the train jumped the tracks. Thirteen flood victims died in Oklahoma, where water gushed in strong torrents through Tulsa on Sunday. A 16-year-old girl drowned Monday in King, N.C., when her car was washed into a swollen creek. was $1.05 million or cents a share. Analysts say there suggestion that the might go under but if its finances were that bad, ano- ther bank would be desig- nated to merge with it. “It has been well known that the bank has serious financial problems, but I think they'll slowly work their way out of it,” said Alix Granger, head of the Van couver brokerage house op- erations of Toronto-based Deacon Hodgson. “A merger is not nec- essarily a bad thing. If they could merge with a bank with strong national exposure, I think it would be a good thing. It would would make the bank stronger.” NOT CONSIDERED But Pilley said the bank has not given any consid- eration to a merger. “We don't feel the question is necessarily to be strong. Instead, I believe the issue is eight stocks down to maintain our unique ser- vice to B.C. and western Canada.” The Bank of British Col- umbia is the only Canadian bank with head offices in British Columbia. The bank's actual loan losses last year jumped 83.2 per cent, the highest rate of increase in the banking in- dustry. The next largest was a 47.9-per-cent increase suf- fered by the Canadian Imper- ial Bank of Commerce. Provision for loan losses are based on a complex aver- aging formula, which means that the bank's 1983 losses will continue to hurt earnings for several years. On the plus side, the bank reported a four-per-cent total asset growth in the second quarter, including a six-per. cent growth in its domestic commercial loan portfolio, a remarkable feat given the bad economic conditions in British Columbia and Al. berta. Gov't to fight the recession VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment will do everything pos- sible to prevent the return to hard times in the province, Premier Bill Bennett said to- day. Bennett told reporters his government will do that by continuing to do what it is doing “and more.” He said he was aware of news reports predicting ano- ther recession in 1987 but re- Apple wins court ruling SYDNEY (REUTER) — In a landmark decision, an Aus- tralian court has overturned a ruling against the Apple computer company of the United States, saying that a competitive company from Taiwan had duplicated its software. The full bench of Sydney's federal court upheld on Tues- day Apple's appeal that a Taiwan-made personal com puter called Wombat infring: ed its copyright. Last December a judge in the federal court decided that computer programs were not entitled to copyright protec: tion, a ruling that the soft- ware industry had described as a disaster. Apple claimed the Wombat computer is similar in shape, has a similar keyboard and incorporates copies of pro- grams used in Apple compu- ters. 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VOB 1GO Saturdey ferred all questions to Fi- nance Minister Hugh Curtis. “What we're doing is im- plementing policies, stren- ghtening our base and our competitive position inter- nationally, trying to attract capital to prevent British Columbia from suffering any economic downturn,” Ben- nett told reporters before entering his first cabinet meeting since returning from a selling junket to China. “Our total comitment is on upturn, our total commit- ment is on investment, and our total commitment is to see jobs developed in British Columbia.” Curtis denied the news reports which quoted him as saying he believed “1987 will be a recessionary period for British Columbia.” receive FREE Northwest Blvd. (604) 428-6646 Tuesday - Curtis said it was “remin. iscent of fiction,” and sug- gested that the reporter may not have been present at the meeting reported upon. The finance minister said he. did not predict there would be a recession, and only alluded to the fact that it is cyclieal, and “that there are those who are forecasting another recession in North America over the next few years.” He also said he does not expect to have tax reform in the 1985 budget as reported. This study “may lead to some alteration of the tax structure, but I was very careful at that particular meeting to say that that did not mean widespread re- form.” COME IN AND CHECK OUT OUR NEW “SERVICE POLICY" With your purchase of any set of 4 new quality tires from K&A Tires © Alignment Check Valued at $20. ® Tire Rotation Valued at $12. © Tire Repairs vatued at $7.50 each. © Tire Balancing every 20,000 miles S.B.R. STEEL BELTED RADIAL WHITEWALL P215/75R14 . P205/75R15 .. P215/75R15 .. 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But Tass said today: “What about a hunger strike? Here are the exact medical facts, Sakharov feels himself well, is eating regularly and carries out an active way of life.” A Soviet source said ear- lier today Sakharov had been taken to hospital Friday be- cause of complications stem ming from his fast. The Tass report did not say whether Sakharov is in hospital or at home in the closed city of Gorky, 400 kil- ometres east of Moscow. He was ordered into internal exile in Gorky in 1980. The Soviet source, who is not a dissident and whose work gives him access to of. {ial information, said he heard that doctors ordered Sakharov taken to hospital last Friday. PROTECTS HEALTH “They were very, very concerned about his health,” said the source, who asked not to be identified. He said Soviet authorities are an- xious to protect Sakharov's health because he is so well known in the West. A friend of the Sakharovs reported on May 8 that Bon- ner had been told not to leave Gorky, where Sakharov was exiled in 1980 and was in- formed that'she is under in- vestigation for anti-Soviet slander. Gorky is closed to foreigners. Relatives of Bonner in the West have said she e Sakharov on hunger strikes on May-12. valued at $6.50 each, marriages’ between in-laws official ¢ table was", would be rare and said most drafted for ‘the Anglicans’, people “might still prefer to Book of Common Prayer list: avoid them” in much. the ing 30 relatives a man same way as many feel un not marry and similar for easy about lawful marriage bidden marriages for a between cousins. woman, The bans were writ- Baroness Nancy Seear, a ten into English law with Liberal party politician, led slight modifications over the should be able to marry other in-laws, including father-in- law or mother-in-law. Under the law, a man and the panel, which ineluded centuries. woman who are related as theologians, a former judge, England's 1949 Marriage step-parent’ and —-step-child a sociologist, a mierobiolo- Act lists 27 relatives who are prevented from marry- cannot be married, beginning with parents and ranging through the grandparents of a spouse to adopted children. Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Robert Runcie, set up the panel in May 1982 to “thoroughly study” the mat ter, after the House of Lords voted down four bills since gist, a psychologist, a lawyer and a bishop's wife. Among those consulted by the panel were two news- paper columnists who answer questions from readers about sex. Marriages of affinity — as non-blood marriages are call- ed — are forbidden in the Old 5 R The panel's lawyer, Lionel Lennox, said the Church of } England's 43 pishops will de- bate the report soon and it probably will go before the church's governing General Synod this november. 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