‘TORONTO (CP) — In a marked turnaround from the optimism indicated last year, ‘a majority ‘of Canadians be- \[. Heve business conditions in ‘thelr : communities: will be either bad or not too good in six months, suggests aGallup poll released Saturday. . pane poll, which ‘surveyed in -July, NOW is: the time to. SAVE UP. To” $800 9 furnaces includin ling the "9 96% efficient with: ‘no chimney... A Also in stock’ Canadian Ganeral Electric ‘heat pumps,:‘the No! energy and cost saver in North’Amierica. COME IN; AND SEE us OR GIVE JACK A CALL 364-1258 5S p.m. Mon: thru Fri. » Ganodians c are less optimistic. belioved business. conditions ‘in'thelr communities ‘will be berta (though very good, good, tiot too gobd or bad in six.months, cent of respon- mnditions ‘would | be not too good or bad, 80 per cent sald it would be good or very good. Ten per cent said they didn't know. When the same question ¥In e- er." fighters are kee ine ‘an eye : jon the sky and crossing thelr ‘Ay: giant’ ‘fire’ ertag’ t ‘160,000. hectares in northern: ,B.C. ‘is still burning and ‘offi- ‘elals feel’ they, may have to was asked last -year,-53' per...’ | cent of respondents said con- £,, ditions would be good or very. good compared to 83 per cent “for bad. or,-not’ too good. Fifteen per cent said a they didn’t know. » Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) — The quested to contact the near- est detachment of the RCMP. for. urgent 1 airs i we're: sling fairly ondtank weather much diy swarm temperatures. and er than ae the! B.0.:.'some. wind: and, of : courde;: like Calgary CALGARY (CP) — Eastern Canadian criminals have. ‘become’: disillusioned with the. harsher ‘economic ’| ‘climate ‘in Calgary )-and are returning home, others from British Columbia are taking | their Place, says. Calgary following. people are. re- police " While i 6.7 per cent in the frat ‘seyen .months of 1982 compared to the same. period in 1981. Crosby-Jones: said’ the. parent exodus of. criminals ‘Wholesale layofts of federally back East began as economic: ceftified employéea — except conditions worsened ‘in ‘the’ city early this Bred result of @ decision’ Friday in Superintendent Pha Gros.’ by-Jones = sages: whol Van Bryce, Cal- et, | Mel and Margaret. Drews, Burnaby, B.C. Eric -and Helen Halpin, “Dunean, B.C. mes-’ # lane Donnally, Lake For- '~ Tl. unemployment in B.C. may. account for the movement, of criminals into Calgary. He also, linked ‘the | econ- omic ‘slump to a sharp increase in robberies and thefts in the -eity, which has seen the total. number of criminal offences increase. by in ity, f less than‘ ay f accounted for. he. Arenas Court, But last month, Eaterners ‘iloreai it ‘may’ apply’ to accounted for” “only: 18 )-pe workers: in’ other federally controlled sectors; In the meantime, there has His decision, against which 2 ‘telephone company. filed arrests ‘of ‘people’ ori; : from B.C., Crosby nes sald. clare invalid a’ regulation : Save up to 30% onibaty furniture Jenny Lind cath Turned splndies Dressing cable ‘dropside. ‘White ot contour top. c and single’ maple finish. Will be $298 Now and bath me legs and two storage Shelves. Brown Bears 225 __ print vinyl cover. Our 1 Matching canopy A solid maple Spindle canopy. ‘vith ae or (i whitg nish, fay maple, Four-drawer chest St ot white finish, Wil ibe sua Comfy car seat ‘913 off a mesh playpen bia ott 8 folding high chal Baby can sit or snooze. wat vin Bawlonyt 40 x 40, folds for easy With vinyl padding over and comfortable padded storage. 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The. statutory provision said an employer who intends to terminate a: group of workers exceeding 800 in number must give 16 weeks notice of the intended ter- mination to the minister of labor. | Certain provisions in the regulations to the code define ,. when a termination is, in fact, a‘layoff. They say the 16- week: notice period does not’. ‘apply to layoffs.’ The court. struck ‘down ,that, proyisiop. The action before Justice Spencer concerned a suit in| which. the Telecommunica- tions. Workers Union. chal- . lenged B.C. Tel's conduct in -laying off:1,800 regular em- ployees:.’ Lawyer Morley. Shortt « suc: sort of the same ‘There were 20, ing in Alborta’ on Saturday, including, a monster, in ithe } | Footnor Lake srea, ometres northwest monton, That fire, still out of control, covers 200,000. Bi tares, ‘ No new fires ;.were ported Friday .or Saturday : wity the weather, the main | cause‘of concern for the 1,024 } men in the fire. crew: 1a cessfully submitted that the { employees were entitled, un- ; der the federal Labor Code, ; to 16 weeks notice before the ; layoffs could take effect. He also was, successful in } arguing that the regulation to the code, under which,em-, ployees deemed to be laid off,. § not terminated, aren't. en-. ; titled to, the 16-week Rotice { period, is invalid.. The effect. of the judges i decision, pending the appeal, is, to, make B.C. Telephone + reinstate , the , 1,800; employ. eesand give them the proper ' ,16-week. period of. notice. : The judge said the 16-week notice provision’is to enable. workers to overcoine the dif- ficulty of finding ‘other em- ‘ployment, that difficulty be- ing substantially increased by the large “number; of Per- sons terminated... "Six die in shootout” < From AP! 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The director of the airport,’ Aydemir| Akbudak, was among the wounded and_an-«: other airport: official, Erdo- gan Batisinir, was among tho « hostages initially taken, the: agency Feported the “early 1950s setiling in Vancouver where : ‘she. ‘worked as a nurse at’ Van... ; couver General Hospital. She” came to Castlegar in.1977. Audrey Shepherd is. vived by. one sister-in- Patricia Shepherd of V: ver, and several nic nephews. Funeral arrangements. ‘are under the direction‘ of -the’. Castlegar Funeral Chapel + In ‘Castlegar: ° provincial court this week, three People were fined for. driving with a \. blood alcohol count over .08, KNOW ABOUT NUTRITION PROBABLY SHOWS ON YOUR _ ~ WAISTLINE. LEARN‘TO GET SLIM AND STAY THAT WAY AT Assorted. pietty prints: -< 7 Guts: tosses Sites 1210 24 moat Friday 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. STOR : Money to Saturday 9:30 a.m. one TW DIET CENTER! _ APPOINTMENTS VAILABLE: ANYTIME: Li Fined ‘$400 ‘or, 80 ‘days in “jail was’ William: Holmes. Ward Walsh received a fine . dai A of $250: or sey. Arnold Laube 1 e “JOHNNY'S : GROCERY: reteen 368-7041, Processed, continued (ram front page ‘ Provincia! Bovernment, offices, in Victoria wail Rot be Oglow doesn't know yet it drivers’ Hieonces find ‘out sonictime this ‘week. ° \. , © Forests will still be protected duriog the ‘isthe asa aix-man tultlal “altack’ crew” willbe on hand: ‘with’ Permission to cross picket lines to pick: up equipment in the event ofa forest fire;‘Les Stilwell; regional protection officer, said air tankers will be‘on alert‘in case of fire. As‘well, a duty officer will be‘available 24 hours’ day*to. man the: forest” fire alert’ telephone | line at ‘Zenith-5555. e The Glade, Robson ‘and Harrop regional ferries: ‘life and death’ situations, according to ‘Al Lowndes, area staff Tepresentative for ‘the: BCGEU; :* ao. And-h if will not be at the Castlegar Maintenance yard said, “We were told if there was an emergency we would be asked to cover it.”, There is'a bright side to the strike as campers will, ‘because no one will:be around to collect fees. But Monica Randel, a spokesperson for Parks and Outdoor, Recreation in Nelson, sald the parks will: not be maintained during the strike. This ‘t ‘means washrooms will niot be: cleaned and there: will be:no garbage ‘pick* up. Campers’ are’ being ‘asked to take their, garbage” with them, Randel said. :: Castlegar BCGEU Becners joined 40, 000, other services after 11th, aie ‘between the ‘union’ and the ht. asked. employees ‘to look ~because of the strike, So. Bowden, dressed in a IT Yo. { The flotilla, : including sev- eral emblazoned with a: map of . Gabriola, ‘swim trunks and runners and. picked up: a makeshift crew for the five-* kilometre:‘run ‘across the open waters of Northumber- land-Channel. «*. : -‘His. crew consisted of a commuter on his way to work “in Nanaimo, a young man an- ;xious to get back to his wife _and ‘a.; newspaper . reporter a photographer. \ ‘Tye’ never: been to Nan- row- boats, had the blessing of the |. pickets at the Gabriola ferry dock. A picket captain: said: “If people make their own inde- pendent way to | Nanaimo, I don't: mind.” Luckily the sea was calm and there were no large ves- sels in the channel. After an hour at sea — the ferry’ usually takes 20 min- utes — Bowden pulled up at the government hart and aimo in this before, but I. headed for court. » . COLLEGE current ‘levels and” college faculty Gord sSurrent employment levels. jordon Gibson said Friday that the men- > fons v wage rollhacks, “where. agreement has been reached with that: group.” He said where agreement cannot. be reached on wage rollbacks, then the group will have to achieve the reduction through \ a: ‘shorter . work week, job. sharing or layoffs, He said new: appointments which can be delayed will not be filled. . Turning to other costs, he closely: at travel -expenses, “Trips outside the college re- gion should be ‘examined to determine need and’ benefit to the.. college. Closer at- tention should be given to the of: hotel Castlegar weather office Te LA large trough ‘of cool and moist. air which settled over Ke for ‘the. first the association's audited fi- nancial statement. Visitors to. take advantage, of. the rate the half ot July, resulted: inva in the K “Our of earning and expenditures for the fis- cal year were within one per. cent of the actual figures and despite some significant ‘in- flationary pressure, our cost ‘control measures. proved .to be extremely effective, com- On Aug. 14 the Spokane Spokesman-] -Review will’ car-. ry a’ series‘ of -half-page-ads inviting US. : visitors. to “conie on'up while the dollar is down.”. Tourism Bi C. is sponsoring “This means mentéd Inger Magas. .° The report will be’ filed at ‘the KBVA's: annual ‘general. meeting in October . and shows total-revenies = of $162,482, and “total expen ditures, of $158,562. that our association members and other businesses will be able‘to piggy-back: their: ad- vertising in conjunction: with |; the Tourism B.C. ads at a re- duced © rate,” said .KBVA manager Denny, Edgar. " mean of 18.19, just °. off the record set last year. -The ‘highest. tempera- ture for the month was 82.2°, The ’, previous ;;- record low maximum cf 82.9° was cet in 1981, ” Precipitation was also. well ~ above average with 64.6 mm of rain falling in the area. However, 1981 was wetter still with a record 88.5 mm of rainfall... The last half. of the month showed. more’ promise ‘as weather turned warm cand Arye, dation.” Reon As. well, he said long dis: tance telephone costs ‘should’ be reduced. Last year those costs’ were -more than $70,000; _: Duplicating: costs should also be. reduced: he aldo Finally, he said'the admin- istration will-look: at closing the college for three weeks at the: beginning ‘of Suly, | ef- fective next year. ‘However, ‘one program that won't be cut back is the ‘ college's capital expense pro- ‘gram which © includes DTUC. ‘residence: renova- - tions, a new, roof for the col- lege; anew alarm. system, renovations to the main lounge and. alr seaditicning improvements. 6 met with Perra and ruled out wage rollbacks at this time. Gibson said that depending on the details, the association ‘is looking at asking members to take one day’a\ month off without pay. to, help, tte col- budget by said: the y- month concept would be bet- ter than:a ‘simple two-week layoff in one block. As well, it is. preferable to the as- sociation ‘executive than a wage rollback, since the in- - structors’: salary base would remain the same, he said. “Whether the government is going to go along with it, I don’t know,” ‘he said. He added: he ‘has a feeling the province is looking for a wage rollback: of some: kind. Gibson said the association has eight months left in its contract with the college and the days off: would probably amount to. between five and seven. “If it gets. more than’ that +++ then I don't think we can go along with it,” he said. He’ noted instructors could take the days off on statutory holidays. * Gibson also ‘anid Perra warned that the province will not increase the college's budget next year — but the budget will remain frozen. Spokesmen for PPWC and BCGEU were unavailable for comment. ‘But;by 7 a.m." Saturday, lines as long’as two kilom- etres had formed at major. terminals: as’ stranded tour- ists and residents scrambled to ‘cross ‘Georgia Strait.’ | The ferry service renewal capped the first official day of the first-ever strike ‘by gov- ernment: workers in B.C. home in Kelowna Saturday, earlier had indicated: tial services legislation might be invoked if ferry’ service was disrupted. Fryer said the move was a gest c good falth and its: desire to resume bargaining, but gov- night ‘to, a: few ’ travellers > 7 pickets Friday in’ the first direc! infrontation’ in the country! isince ‘the federal government introduced its six-and-five Per cent wage limits. Although: the B.C. union bargains with the provincial’: government, the proyinco © tightened its, earlier ‘wage. restraint guidelines after the: federal government ' intro- duced the six-and-five ° per cent reatraint formula. 7) ‘ Eseentials services such as ~ ‘prisons,’ mental health’ hos- pitals, forest firefighting and air ‘ambulances are being maintained. ‘The rentalsman's office in Vancouver attempted to hin- : die urgent cases Friday with ‘five ‘managers ‘working : in’ place: of the: usual ‘staff''of |: jabout 100. The skeleton staff. had" $50,000-a-year | ‘deputy Some’ government’ opera- <4. ations, Including Vancouver- ; area liquor stores, were velosed as early as‘lunch-time Thursday. : Union: general stcretary John Fryer announced the surprise ferry openings after the ferry corporation lost a Labor Relations Board appli- cation to restrict pickets’ at terminals, Most ferry work- ers, members of. another union, observed the .govern- a employees’ pickets Fri- Prouiler Bill Bennett; un- for at his : wd JOHN FRYER : ernment negotiator Mike Da- vison sald he didn’t think the government's offer of 11.5 percent. over. two years -would be improved. The 40,000-member ‘union wants 16 per. cent in a one-year.: contract ‘and job security for the almost 50 per cent of its members who are al part-t * The ferries and liquor out- lets head a long list ‘of gov- rentalsman Chris‘ Green ‘re- placing’ a. $14,400-0-year be $ the province's 800 union con- tractors. The government. workers. ; began with a atrike: fund of! $21, million, Fryer: said, add-"\: ing they also have’ unlimited credit with banks‘owned by unions in the U.8: and West LIQUOR : shut: by 4 Province stocks up | VANCOUVER. (CP) weil before ‘the B.C. . Gov- stores are closed but that doesn’t mean thirsty’ British “Columbians are facing: drought: ~ For’ starters, prudent drinkers built up their stocks Pilots. break “record MONTREAL (CP) — Two Canadian : pilots: landed at Dorval ‘Afrport here at 1:28 p.m. PDT. a bit Union shut down the liquor stores. Runs: on” the government outlets, before’ they closed Thursday in a premature start’ to. the strike, left 7, shelves bare and stocks de. pleted. You can still buy ‘the stuff locally, import: it legally.’ or . illegally — or make your own. It is likely that: beer sup- - plies to hotels and other out- lets ‘not controlled by the union will not be affected. It goes directly from breweries to outlets other than gov- ernment stores without com-: ing under‘union jurisdiction. Loyd Manuel, executive weary but well within time to break an’ around-the-world * flight’ record bys about 50. “hours. Don Muir, 26, a bush pilot from: Sioux Lookout, : Ont., and “Andre. Daemen, 22, a of the- B.C, Hotels Association, said: “We expect deliveries to continue as normal to hotels and pubs and we will sell as normal — by the drink or by the case fo take out.”. B COSTS MORE 1s touched down after flying six days, seven hours and’ 23 minutes in a globe-girdling effort to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. Muir and Daemen were the firat Canadian pilots to at- tempt to break the record of seven days, 18 hours, 18 min- utes and 27 seconds set by Robert Muckleston, a lawyer from Seattle, Wash.,,in 1978. A crowd of. about 1,000 cheered and a Scottish pipe band played as the aviators made a thrilling fly-past in single-engine Cessna 210, christened The Wings of Life, just touching down and tax- ing to a hangar housing the flight's control centre. Muir's mother, Joan, lit- erally jumped for joy for a minute and a half, while her son was on the verge of tears and expressed amazement with how smooth the flight went... -. “Canada’s a wonderful country,” Muir beamed. Then he added: “Mr. Cessna makes good aircraft.’ The duo certainly did see — albeit hurriedly. — a good chunk of the planet, having made pit stops in St. John's, Nfld.; Shannon, Ireland; Na-° ples, ‘Italy; Cairo; Bahraini; Bombay; Madras; Kuala Lumpur; Manila; Guam; Maj- urao; Honolulu; San Franci- sco; Denver and Chicago. Provincial TORONTO (CP) — The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery is “There are also subsidiary prizes, He d- ‘buyers, though,. that. hotels can charge up to a maximum of $10.25 a dozen, including taxes, for a case of beer that would cost about, $8 at the liquor store. ‘The liquor board also oper- ates 74 special - outlets in addition to the 218 stores that are behind picket: lines: Eleven are at wineries or distilleries,’ mostly in. the Okanagan. The other 63 are agencies, usually the general store.in more remote .com-' munities, But those stores will not be’ able’ to restock if they run) dry . because the _Exfensive ead distribution centre is closed-and picketed. © Major hotels stocked up on- :beer’ and’ liquorin antici- pation of the strike. “We have about triple the quantities we. usually. carry,” said, Rainer..Laundbart,. as- -” gistant food and beverage director at the Four Seasons. Hotel..in- Vancouver;=“about enough to last. two or three weeks.” “As for importing booze le- gally, it will cost the price'of a trip tothe U.S. for 48 hours ‘or the combination of excise “and ‘sales ‘taxes. imposed ‘by Canada, Customs at the bor- der.’ A a@-hour ‘visitor ‘to the U.S. can bring back 40 ounces of liquor or 24 bottles of beer ~ ‘without charge, but only once every: three months. +) If duty’ is paid, up to two gallons can be brought back on every trip. but ‘charges range to $8 a case on beer, $12 and up for a 40-ounce bottle of: liquor and up to $10.12 for a magnum of good champagne. = Neighboring Alberta can be a haven for. those in east- ern B.C. but federal law, not ‘normally enforced in times of labor peace, forbids. trans- portation of alcohol across provincial lines except by government agencies. Said an RCMP spokesman “At the moment:we do not contemplate any special _ patrols but our regular pat- rols will be alerted to the possibility of liquor being smuggled from Alberta.” layoffs hit Okanagan wineries - KELOWNA (cP) — closure of B.C.'s 218 ine. stores is a blow, to Kelowna’s wine industry. Mission Hill Vineyards Inc... has been forced to shut down its operation and lay off 25 of Mission Hills laid off five sales staff in Vancouver and 20 workers in the Okanagan plant. ‘The year-old company has invested $1 million in its “and has’. just its 30 ployees for the duration of the B.C. Government Employees Union | strike. “that: began Thursday. Liquor stores. were - the’ opened a store in the winery which will continue to oper- ate during the strike. Calona Wines also of Kel- owns, one of Canada’s largest + which operations to close ‘when the 40,000-member union: began striking ‘for higher wagea. about 11.8 ‘million litres of wine annually, is not laying ‘off any of its 100 | Kelowna though the loss Nick Clark, Mission Hills, ‘when he an- nounced the layoffs Friday said: “The situation is ex- tremely serious.” Clark estimates the winery does 95 per cent of its bus- iness through the Liquor Distribution Branch. of BC. salés represents a substantial cut in the com- pany’s market, Bruce Schmidt, national sales man- ager, said Friday. Calona also sells its prod- ucts in Alberta,- Saskatche- wan, Manitoba and Ontario.