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Castlegar News December 14, 1986

PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE (CP) Gareth Wood,
who in January became the only Canadian to ever walk to
the South Pole and then was left behind at Cape Evans to
maintain the base camp, could be back home’ with his
family in Sidney, B.C., by Christmas.

With the possibility of being stranded for another
year if a spring pullout had to be scrubbed by the
unpredictability of Antarctic ice, a dramatic air mission
was to begin this weekend

“Oh, it's just wonderful,” Wood's mother, Diane, said
in an interview with Vancouver Sun reporter Mark
Hume, who is in Chile to chronicle the bid to get Wood
home.

It involves flying a small, ski-equipped plane on a
perilous flight from the southern tip of Chile over
ice-choked seas and permanently frozen land. The mission
could take only a few days with perfect conditions, but
the crew is equipped to withstand weeks of treacherous
weather.

Wood, 35, a quiet-mannered adventurer who has
been to some of the most inhospitable places on earth, has
made his home for the past year in a small hut on the
blizzard-swept shores of ‘Cape Evans.

The camp was established as a base of operations for
the British-based Footsteps of Scott Expedition. It was
on Jan. 11 that Footsteps leader Richard Swan, British

Wood wants out

But their hopes for a triumphant return were dashed
when they learned their support ship had sank after
being crushéd in ice. The trio were flown from the pole to
the base camp at Cape Evans, Swan and Mear returned
to England, but Wood volunteered to stay behind with
two other British members of the expedition, Steve Broni
and Tim Lovejoy, to maintain the camp until proper
dismantling could be managed.

With the possibility of the three being stranded for
another year, Swan and other expedition members
decided to come up with an alternative. For the past two
months, expedition members made frantic efforts to raise
the $100,000 needed for the 11,200-kilometre return flight
to the base camp.

The Twin Otter plane will be flown by Giles
Kershaw, a lengendary British pilot with years of polar
expertise. Kershaw will have té land twice on rough ice
strips on the return leg to refuel from barrels dropped by
parachute, and he knows the danger posed by the fierce
gales and temperatures that drop to a level that metal
becomes brittle.

Since they last saw him in September 1984, Wood's
parents have had to rely on intermittent letters and
tapes, brought out of Antarctica by scientific expeditions
and shuttled to Canada via New Zealand

Wood is described by family and friends as a modest,
dedicated perfectionist who makes light of his
s and is noted for his unselfish attitude

compatriot Roger Mear and Wood pleted their
gruelling 70-day, 1,400-kilometre trek to the South Pole.

It was the first team to go to the South Pole under its
own power, and without aircraft support, in 75 years.

“That's just Gary,” his father said of his son's
decision to stay and maintain the base until the end
“That's what you'd expect of him.”

Department fi

RICHLAND WASH. five years.
(AP) — The United States Consolidating the opera.
Department of Energy has tions of four present con.
rid itself of a public relations tractors under one is expec
problem and gained a con- ted to save $144 million over
tractor with extensive nu- five years, department offi
clear industry experience. _cials said

Energy Undersecretary Kaiser Engineers Hanford
Joseph Salgado announced Co. was chosen in October to
the selection of joint venture perform consolidated engin
of Westinghouse Electric eering and construction ser.
Corp. and The Boeing Co. to vices it formerly shared with
manage most of Hanford nu- the J.A. Jones Construction
clear reservation operations, Co. The five-year fee-plus
worth U.S. $4 billion over contract is worth $5 million

nds contractor

Other contractors not af.
fected by the consolidation Westinghouse Hanford, a
are Battelle's Pacific North- wholly-owned subsidiary of
west Laboratory and the Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Hanford Environmental of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Boe.
Health Foundation, which ing Computer Services-Rich
employ about 4,300 people. land, a subsidiary of the Se.
The Westinghouse contract attle aerospace giant, will
becomes effective Oct. 1, take over work now done by
1987, and covers about 9,500 Rockwell Hanford Opera
employees in the four com- tions and UNC Nuclear In
panies. Department officials dustries.
said about 600 employees, Westinghouse was selec
mostly top-level managers ted becdisue of its man
and those in duplicative jobs, agement proposal.

would lose their jobs.

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THE SEVENTH DAY

No longer day of rest

TORONTO (CP) — Sunday: Canadians have always
cherished it as a day of peace, devotion and innocent
amusement.

Not a bit of it.

The truth is that Canadian popular opinion has steadily
whittled away at the blue laws that once strictly preserved
Sunday as a day of rest.

Some blame the decline of church influence and the rise
of a fast-paced secular society. In Toronto, some once blamed
burlesque star Cup Cake Cassidy.

Ontario's ruckus over a threat by department stores
later retracted — to defy provincial law and open on
Sundays should be taken in the context of history. And not
just Ontario history.

Residents of Alberta and British Columbia, where
sabbath shopping has been legal for a couple of years, might
oe amused by the fuss.

But Albertans over 30 can remember when the only
Edmonton movie theatre open Sundays was the Paramount,
where Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning delivered his
Back to the Bible Hour radio broadcast.

And British Columbians won't have to tax their
memories to recall when provincial law required that any
alcoholic beverage served on Sunday be accompanied by a
meal.

ELASTIC LAW

The so-called rubber sandwich law some eateries
wete said to serve reusable fake food to patrons interested
only in the beer — was rescinded last summer when
Vancouver opened its saloon doors to the world for Expo 86.

In Toronto the Good, the first major encroachment on
the traditional Sunday probably came in 1897 when — after
three plebiscites in six years — the streetcars began
seven-day-a-week service

As late as 1950, Toronto children couldn't play in parks
on Sunday — the swings were tied up and padlocked,

Ten years later, the curvaceous spectre of Cup Cake

Cassidy was invoked in city counci! debate as an example of
the horrors that would-be thrust onstage if theatres were
allowed to open Sundays.

The voters went for Cup Cake by a 2-to-l margin. To
her, that first Sunday was a nine-hour bump and grind. To
2,172 buff buffs who packed the now-gone Lux Theatre, it
was history

Toronto Sundays remained booze-free until 1967, but
the mandatory-meal regulation wasn't discarded until 1978.

The never-on-a-Sunday history of any Canadian centre
is nothing compared to some of the regulations through the
centuries.

In 321 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine enacted
what are believed to have been the first Sunday observance
laws. Constantine was concerned about preserving the day
devoted to sun-worship

The term Lord's Day was used in later Roman
legislation and the laws weren't unlike more modern
statutes: prohibitions against doing business, conducting
legal proceedings, opening theatres and exhibiting wild
beasts.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Sunday laws
became harsher. For some transgressions, the penalty was
whipping.

Sunday observance laws had a social as well as
ecclesianstical objective, to ensure working people got a day
off.

Sunday's heyday flowered in England from the 16th to
the 19th centuries. Some laws required compulsory church
attendance.

Since the federal Lord's Day Act was struck down, the
provinces have regulated the day

But Alberta's law was felled by a court that ruled it
unlawfully discriminated on religious grounds.

And on Dec. 18, the Supreme Court of Canada decides
on the Ontario statute — and nine justices may do for
Sunday shopping what Cup Cake Cassidy did for burlesque

Utility sale a first

By BARBARA TANDORY

“We never had this issue before,” Electric Consumers’
Association's executive manager Gerald Abele told
supporters at a recent public meeting in Castlegar. “Never
before has a Canadian utility been sold outside Canada.”

Abele, who founded the ECA last August as a Canadian
alternative to the proposed sale of West Kootenay Power
and Light Co., called his initiative for local ownership and
control of the power utility a “battle for Canadian
soveriegnty and independence.”

The meeting at the Canadian Legion hall, at which a
local chapter was officially formed, was part of an extended
public information tour of the entire service area of WKPL
in the Kootenays and the Okanagan by Abele, a
Nelson-based businessman from the Creston area.

Abele’s Castlegar visit resulted in a most daring
proposal to date. Members of the new Castlegar and District
chapter unanimously passed a resolution calling on Premier
Vander Zalm to reconvene the Legislature and have a full
debate on the question of ownership and control of WKPL
and power utilities in British Columbia in general

These Electric (Consumers) people should carry on our
message,” shouted a man in the audience. Castlegar
supporters asked Abele to take their message to the public
when he appeared on the Jack Webster show Tuesday

In September, when the association numbered 700 (up
from 17 founding members in August), Abele predicted: “If
we have 5,000 members, the politicians are going to take
notice.”

When he addressed the meeting in Castlegar to urge
local support for a direct consumer purchase, Abele’s group
had over 5,300 members signed up, and local politicians were
quick to take notice

Among a supportive audience of 50 were elected
officials from the various levels of government, including
Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, Regional District of
Central Kootenay Area J Director Martin Vanderpol, and
Ald. Len Embree.

“Why aren't you and your parliamentary friends
standing up in the legislature on this issue?” D'Arcy was
asked from the floor. Because the legislature has not been in
session since early last summer, the questioner demanded to
know whether D'Arcy asked the B.C. Utilities Commission
to postpone their deliberations until a discussion in the
house takes place.

D'Arcy replied that while he didn't think “there's

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anybody happy about the sale philosophically, (the B.C.
Utilities Commission) have to find a point of law.” A judge
can't convict someone, he noted, just because he happens to
like that person.

“While we may have the philosophy, we may have the
national fervor,” D'Arcy pointed out, “the fact is that if we
do rely on the commission to stop the sale, they have to find
a point of law. And I do hope they find it.”

But Castlegar resident Harry Killough, who has been
active ina membership drive locally on behalf of the regional
ECA, pointed out: “If 90 per cent of people are dissatisfied
with it, the law is out of step and should be changed.

Vanderpol from the regional district observed that if a
legal precedent is needed, “we should be able to find it in the
Enabling Act of B.C. Hydro. If not so, it should be completed
from the debate of what the intent of that Act was, that is, to
control B.C. power for the benefit of the residents of the
province. This should be justification enough.

Embree, who represented Castlegar
opposition to the sale at the commission's hearings in Trail.
said that it is “important politically for the people of
Castlegar to get a clear message to the new council.”

“There is a feeling setting in that the fix is in, that the
sale is a foregone conclusion,” he noted. “Reject that notion
categorically

Also present at the meeting was defeated NDP
candidate in Nelson-Creston, Corky Evans.

“It's not nickel-and-dime,” Evans told the meeting. “You
people are sitting in this room fighting for all people of
Canada.”

In 1992 the Columbia Treaty is up for
renegotiations, he said, and what happens now in the
question of ownership of WKPL may determine “who has
the task of sorting out the Columbia River Treaty.”

Even allowing for a Canadian board of directors, “with
an American ownership,” he cautioned, there is “no telling
what may happen. There is no power company in B.C.
crossing lines to the U.S

council in

River

Joe Irving, co-ordinator of the Castlegar and District
Unemployment Centre — elected as chairperson of the
ECA's local chapter at its first organizational meeting
argued along with other speakers for putting pressure on all
elected representatives to intervene at the group's behalf to
stop the proposed takeover

‘I am not prepared to throw it (local ownership and
control) down the river, just because the House is sitting,”
he said

“Control over power resources is control of the
territory,” Irving told the public meeting

"The counsel for Cominco was objecting to the
suggestion that the dams were built from public money,” he
said referring to the coverage of the Penticton hearings in
the daily newspapers.

COMMUNITY

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NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY

Dance to the Occassions at the Robson Hall, Midnight
Butter. Party Favors. Mix and Cottee Members $25 00
couple. Non-members, $30.00 couple For tickets call
Blythe 365.2580. Grahom. 365.5002. Roberta
Sponsored by Robson Recreation Society

PEACE ON EARTH

The annual

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jeoce on Earth Christmas party for the
whole community. Sunday December 18 30 pine
Community Complex. Potluck supper, with ham ond
turkey provided. Santa Claus. Live entertainment. Spon
sored by the May Day Social Club ond the Castlegar
District Unemployment Action Centre. Tickets $5.00 per
person. $2.00 for unemployed. at the Unemploy
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Beer prices jump

VANCOUVER (CP) — Two major breweries in
British Columbia have announced their intention to
raise beer prices, but beer drinkers be able to
enjoy current prices through the Christmas season
because the increases won't come into effect until Jan.
7.

Provincial Finance Minister Mel Couvelier put a
halt to price hikes announced last month by all three
major breweries because not enough notice was given.

Both Labatt Breweries and Carling O'Keefe
Breweries said the increase amounts to 50 cents a
12-bottle case — bringing the total price to $10.80.
They said the adjustments were needed to cover
increased operating and material costs.

Premier officiates

VANCOUVER (CP) — More than 1,000 people
turned out at the former Expo 86 site on a chilly
Friday to watch Premier Bill Vander Zalm officially
open Christmas at the B.C. Complex.

The crowd gathered around a 12-metre Douglas
fir from Sooke while Vander Zalm and his wife, Lillian,
used an uatomatic lift to place a star atop the tree and
turn on 100 strings of Christmas lights.

“Christmas is a time when we celebrate the birth
of Christ and also to have families get together,”
Vander Zalm said, and he wished onlookers a “merry
and a blessed Christmas and a wonderful, happy
1987.”

Woman not poisoned

VANCOUVER (CP) — A coroner's jury has found
that an elderly woman thought to have been poisoned
after mistakenly being served detergent instead of
fruit juice in Surrey Memorial Hospital died of natural
causes.

Gudrun Sveinbjornson, 87, died Sept. 13, five
days after the detergent Mikro-Quat was served to a
number of elderly patients in the hospital's extended
care unit.

But there was no evidence that the woman or four
other patients ever drank the caustic liquid after it
was served to them. A doctor told the inquest he could
find no trace of the detergent during his

impaired driver sentenced

VANCOUVER (CP) — Dennis Allan Epp. 33, of
Abbotsford was sentenced to five years in prison and
barred from driving for 10 years after being convicted
of running over a group of people at a softball game.

Epp was tried on two charges of criminal
negligence causing death, three counts of criminal
negligence causing bodily harm and a charge of
driving with a blood-alcohol level in excess of .08.

Court was told Epp was impaired when his car
drove off the road and into a park where people
attending a softball game. Two were killed and three
injured. Epp contended his brakes had failed

Agreement reached

VICTORIA (CP) — Members of the British
Columbia Ferry and Marine Workers Union have
voted heavily in favor of a new two-year agreement
with the B.C. Ferry Corp.

Lee Cochrane, spokesman for the 3,300-member
union, said members ratified the package by a
75-per-cent majority

It provides a $60-a-month wage increase across
the board in the first year, retroactive to Nov. 1, and a
three-per-cent wage increase in the second year. It
also includes what the union called improvements in
contract language on the issues of contracting out and
technological change

Soviet plane crashes

EAST BERLIN (REUTER) — Sixty-nine people,
including members of a school group, were killed in
Friday's crash of a Soviet liner near East Berlin.
East Germany announced Saturday

Transport Minister Otto Arndt, head of a
commission set up to investigate the crash, said the
schoolchildren came from the northern city of
Schwerin, the official ADN news agency reported

He said 12 people were rescued from the
wreckage after the Soviet TU-134 airliner crashed into
woodland as it tried to land at East Germany's
Schoenefeld airport

Ministers suspended

GENEVA (AP) OPEC ministers suspended
talks until Monday after failing to agree on a plan for
cutting oil production and raising prices.

Several of the oil ministers said after four hours of
talks on Saturday that they hoped to overcome the
obstacles, including conflicting demands by Iran and
Iraq

The two Persian Gulf neighbors, both cartel
members, have been at war since September 1980

Assault planned

HALIFAX (CP) — Dalhousie University is
reviewing security arrangements because of reports
that an unspecified animal rights group plans an
assault on the university's laboratories.

“We heard through our sources... that Dalhousie
had been targeted for some form of intervention by
individuals unknown,” said Robert Fournier. Dal
housie’s assistant vice-president of research, in an
interview Saturday

Dalhousie, the largest university in the Atlantic
provinces, is also the region's primary facility for
medical research. Hundreds of animals — mostly
rodents, cats and dogs — are used for a variety of

medical experiments.

Threat exaggerated

JOHANNESBURG (REUTER) Opposition
politicians accused President P.W. Botha on Saturday
of exaggerating the revolutionary threat in South
Africa

Both left-wing and right wing politicians criticized
Botha's televised address to the country Friday night,
calling it “very old news” and an “unconvincing red
herring.”

South Africa's largest anti-apartheid group, the
United Democratic Front, said the government is
betraying its desperation.

Arms

dellars

Canadian

may be a key financier in the
controversial sale of arms to
Iran, the Toronto Globe and

north of Toronto, ‘owns the
Black Hawk Inn in nearby
Richmond Hill and also a net
work of companies in Canada
and the Cayman Islands.

His complex financial net.
work reaches from a multi
million-dollar residential es
tate protected by guard dogs
and electronic gates, to Van
couver, Salt Lake City. the
Cayman Islands, Hong Kong,
Tel Aviv, Tehran and Wash
ington.

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ove A mem

- - Columbio Avenue was made just a little more Christmassy this week with the
addition of the Castlegar city hall's light display.

HIGH TREASON

BONN (AP) — A presidential secretary charged with
spying told the Soviet Union where chemical weapons
are stored in West Germany and passed on secrets about
the deployment of U.S. missiles, a newspaper said

Margarete Hoeke, 51, was charged Thursday with
high treason. corruption and disclosure of official secrets.
Hoeke, who is accused of spying for the Soviet Union
from 1971 until her arrest last year. faces life in prison if
convicted.

“This is obviously the most serious case of treason
since the Guenter Guillaume case in 1974,” Hans-Juergen
Foerster, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office.
said in an interview

Guillaume. a top aide of former chancellor Willy
Brandt, was arrested in April 1974 and later convicted of
spying for East Germany. Brandt resigned after
Guillaume’s arrest

The mass-circulation Bild newspaper said Hoeke
gave the Soviets details of an agreement between the
United States and the Brandt government on the storage
of chemical weapons in West Germany

“That had been one of the best-protected secrets in
the West, the newspaper said. West Germany is the only
country outside the United States where the NATO
alliance stores chemical weapons.

U.S. top secrets sold

Bild said it obtained a copy of the charges against
Hoeke. The story, sent by Telex to news organizations on
Friday, was to appear in today’s editions.

Bild said Hoeke also told Moscow about talks
between Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and
U.S. State Secretary George Shultz on the deployment of
Pershing 2 missiles in West Germany. The first missiles
were deployed in 1983.

The newspaper said Hoeke also routinely reported to
the Kremlin on cabinet and other political meetings,
conflicts in the government and in NATO, and secret
western analyses of Kremlin power struggles.

The federal prosecutor's office in Karisruhe refused
comment on the Bild report.

A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, Alexander
Prechtel, said Hoeke has acknowledged spying for the
KGB. the Soviet secret police

Prechtel said it appeared that a strong motive for
Hoeke’s actions was a “special personal relationship” with
the man who recruited her in 1971, an East German who
went by the name of Franz Becker

She received about the equivalent of $23,500 Cdn.
and jewels from Becker and vacationed with him in
Denmark and other places in Europe. Prechtel said.

Hoeke is to be tried early next year in Duesseldorf.

Congress wants facts

WASHINGTON (AP) Members of Congress.
frustrated in efforts to get to the bottom of the Iranian arms
affair, stepped up their denunciations of the U.S
administration Saturday. with Republican Senator Bob Dole
calling some actions “just plain stupid.”

Dole said President Ronald Reagan should convene a
special summit of western leaders in Washington to give
them the facts about the Iranian policy

Dole and Democratic Representative David Bonior said
the affair is punching holes in the administration's strategy
of supporting rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government
and threatens the credibility of all U.S. foreign policies

Profits from the sale of the U.S. arms to Iran are said to
have been funnelled to the Nicaraguan Contras

Amid the criticism State Secretary George Shultz flew
home from a weeklong attempt to assure European allies
that U.S. foreign ‘policy is on course

He summoned John Kelly. the U.S. ambassador to
Lebanon, to find out what Kelly knew about arms sales and
their relation to negotiations for the release of American

Lebanon. No details of the meeting were

Dole, meanwhile, told 3.000 people in Durham. N-H
potential voters in a key 1988 primary election on the road to
the presidency. a position Dole is expected to seek that
“there is nothing wrong. in fact there is everything right
about supporting the Nicaraguan rebels.”

will of Congress, even to help the Contras, was just plain
stupid.

White House spokesman Peter Roussel said Reagan
welcomes Dole’s suggestion of a meeting of Western leaders
to clear the air

The president is doing everything humanly possible to
get all the facts out to the American people.” Roussel added

Bonior, wondering “what happened to the $30 million in
profits from the arms deal with Khomeini, profits the Contra
soldiers fighting in the field claim never to have seen,” said
the affair has “deeper and wider” ramification than the
Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon

Gainers workers
offered contract

EDMONTON (CP) One when the strike ended
of the ugtiest strikes in Al The strike began over
berta history could end today union wage demands for
when more than 1.000 em about $13 an hour but it be
ployees of Gainers Inc. meat- came a fight over the replace

Cayman Islands
Canadian link
in,arms deal

Press

Companies based in the Cayman Islands appear to be

the link between two Canadians and the Saudi Arabian
who claims C: i in the U.S.-Iran
arms deal he arranged.

The Wall Street Journal, quoting unidentified sources,
said that Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller agreed to provide
as much as $40 million U.S. in credit to Adnan Khashoggi
during the time that he arranged the arms deals.

The newspaper said it was unclear what part, if any, the
financial backing played in the deal and Canadian officials
caution there is no indication Canadian laws were broken.

Fraser, who has homes in Monaco and the Cayman
Islands, is a director of Vertex Finances S.A., a company
based in the Caymans.

He was appointed head of Triad America Corp,.—
Khashoggi's U.S. interests — last March 25, the same-day
Vertex filed documents in Utah relating to a $9-million U.S.
loan it made to Triad, based in Salt Lake City, The Canadian
Press has learned.

Fraser is a director of Euro Bank Corp. in the Caymans
and Skyhigh Resources Ltd., a Vancouver-based company of
which Khashoggi is chairman and a major shareholder.

SAME NUMBER

A Euro Bank employee said from the Caymans on
Friday that Vertex could be reached through the same
telephone number

Khashoggi said in an ABC interview this week that he
arranged a deal with financiers from Canada and the
Caymans after two other Iranian arms deals were
negotiated last year.

A trustee acting for Vertex was listed on the March 25
county di as Godfrey M. who on the same
day acted as trustee in another $9-million loan to Triad from
a company called Euro Commercial Finances, B.V.. a
Netherlands-based concern.

Last June, the London Sunday Times reported Fraser
was associated with Euro Commercial.

An employee in the Salt Lake County records office said
Friday that Mangum had been at the office the day before
He could not be reached immediately

Canadian banking records show Euro Bank is a
privately owned firm licensed to operate as a bank and a
trust company in the Caymans.

A company spokesman, like other officials contacted in
the Caymans, cited local banking confidentiality laws in
refusing to disclose details on the affair

Neither Fraser nor Miller could be reached Friday
Gregory Brown, a New Yorker described by a Skyhigh
official as a top Khashoggi representative in Canada, said
reports Fraser is part of a “Canadian connection” in the Iran
all nonsense.”

SHAREHOLDER

Brown is president of Tangent Oil and
Houston firm listed on the Vancouver Stock Exchange
Khashoggi is a significant shareholder of Tangent

Trading in shares of Skyhigh and Tangent Oil were
halted Thursday on the Vancouver exchange pending news
released which had not appeared by the close of Friday's

arms deals are

However. he added. “breaking the law or defying the

Police File

Two people were taken to
hospital last week with mul
tiple injuries as a result of a
motor vehicle accident in
volving a school bus and a
car

At approximately
p.m. Friday. Dec
bus driver Dorothy Fleming
of Castlegar pulled out on
Highway 3A from Glade
Ferry Rd. when she was
struck by the vehicle driven
by Mike Poznikoff of Winlaw
heading east

Both Poznikoff and his wife
Marie were taken to hospital
and Fleming was charged
with unsafe entering of a

through highway

There were no children on
the bus at the time

A motor vehicle accident
Monday resulted in approx
imately $40,000 property
damage

Jim Hadikin was proceed
ing westbound on Highway
3A exit ramp to Highway 3 at
about 8 a.m. Monday when he
lost control of the loaded
logging truck he was driving
on the sharp curve of the
ramp

The truck slid across High
way 3 and overturned in the
ditch

No eng was injured and
Hadikia’ was charged with
driving contrary to the wea
ther and road conditions

packing plant vote on a
four year contract offer

It's not a perfect agree
ment.” said a weary John
Ventura. president of United
Food and Commercial Work
ers Local 280-P. as a ten

© agreement was an

nounced Friday night, 6'2
months after he led a walk
ou

But it's ome he can live
with. Ventura said

The strikers keep a pen
sion plan Gliners wanted to
wipe and they get their
jobs back

The wage settlement will
be announced after the vote
But Ventura said the union
did not get parity with other
Canadian packing

which the union

major
plants
wanted
Peter
Pocklington insisted for
months that the 800 to 900
non union workers keeping
his plant running for $8 an
hour would keep their jobs

Gainers’ owner

ment workers.
SETTLE ISSUE

“Once the scab issue was
settled, the rest fell into
place.” Ventura said

Final details of the settle
ment were worked out at an
all-day session Friday at the
Alberta Labor
Board offices.

But Pocklington said the
heart of the deal was struck
in his office Thursday be
tween him and Kip Connolly
intrnational union represen
tative. with Premier Don

Relations

Getty acting as mediator
Pocklington said he had
not wanted to give in on the
replacement workers
Getty, whom he credited
with a major role in achieving
the tentative settlement. in
tervened a week ago and
made it clear the strikers
should get their jobs back
“This has been and was
stated to me as the policy of
the present government,”
Pocklington said

session

Skyhigh is completing a takeover of Edgington Oil Inc.,
of Long Beach. Calif. The deal pushed Skyhigh’s stock from
68 cents a share earlier this year to $15 a share last month

Tangent, after not trading since September, resumed

trading last month and in one day shot from 10 cents

to close at $18.25

share

The burst came after Tangent announced plans to
launch a communications satellite and sell its service to

governments and companies

in Asia. The share price

dropped this week and the company got a halt in trading

pending a clarification

Cady re-

elected

as chairman

By CasNews Staff
George Cady was reelec
ted as chairman of the Re
gional District of Central
Kootenay at its inaugural
meeting on Saturday

He was unopposed for the
position as was Area J dir
ector Martin Vanderpol who
was re-elected to the posts of

acting chairman and chair
man of the Central Kootenay
Regional Hospital District

Cady said the regional dis
trict faces a “very challeng
ing year.” He added that the
RDCK can expect its forestry
committee to press the
provincial government to
create more work for
loggers of this area