VICTORIA (CP) — Senior government sources say a
motorhome used as. Jack Kempf's mobile constituency
office is part of an investigation into the former forests
minister, the Vancouver Sun says today.

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her departure from her senior secretarial position in

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has family health problems so changes were contem-

plated.

EXPLAINING PLAN . . . Southern Wood Products mill
manager Wade Zammit tells Castlegar council about

modernization plans for Westar mill last night.

Alderman Terry Rogers looks on. — cosews Photo by Ron Norman

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He predicted the mill will need 900,000 cubic metres a
year in just two or three years. He said because not all of
that will be.available from the TFL No. 23 the company will
be forced to look to other sources such as purchasing from
other timber companies.

Ald. Albert Calderbank expressed concern that the
additional logs will increase truck traffic through Castlegar.

Korda a;

“It could result in some increased traffic through town,”

he said.

However, Korda said most of the logging trucks moving
down Columbia Avenue now are destined for the pulp mill,
not the sawmill.

He said only about four or five trucks a day passed
through Castlegar to the sawmill this winter, with 99 per
cent of the logs transported down the Arrow Lakes by tug.

Korda also said CP Rails plan to abandon its Midway to
Castlegar rail line shouldn't affect log shipments because the

mill doesn’ ship any logs by rail.

Meanwhile, Zammit noted that 80-85 per cent of the
mill's finished product is shipped to the U.S. He said the mill
hasn't noticed any effect from the 15 per cent tariff duty on
softwood lumber.

However, Zammit said the lumber markets have been
buoyant because of speculation about the tariff and last
summer's IWA strike.

“I know we've been riding a high,” Zammit said, adding
that he expects the market to change sometiine because it
has been traditionally cyclical. However, he said he can't
predict what will happen in the next six months.

Comincoand unionbegin
contract negotiations

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

Cominco Ltd. and United Steel-
workers of America Local 480, 631 and
8820 exchanged formal contract prop-
osals in Kimberley last week in the
first of what union spokesman Bob
Schmidt predicted will be “a difficult
set of negotiations.”

Schmidt told the C: News

ations but he ‘did say that the company
is about a quick

“I think everyone is hopeful that an
agreement can be reached quickly that
is beneficial and satisfactory to all
parties involved,” he said. “We want to
be at that bargaining table and arrive
at a collective agreement.”

According to an information bulletin

to local union bers, the

today that Cominco continues to insist
it is struggling financially.

“The company is taking the position
that cash flow is a very poor situation,”
Schmidt said. “They say they are not
making any money, they are still in the
red and they do not want to give much
of an increase that would affect that
cash situation.”

Cominco spokesman Richard Fish
said it is against bargaining policy to
comment on ongoing contract negoti-

union is seeking a two-year contract
with across-the-board wage increase of
45 cents an hour per year, a “30 and

~ out” pension, existing cost-of-living

allowance (55 cents) to be rolled in May
1, 1987 and such things as improved

ment in hours rather than weeks and a
part-time workforce.

According to the bulletin, Schmidt
“demanded that the company not try to
bargain the contract at the 11th hour
on April 30.”

Schmidt also insisted the company
bargain “like adults” and have their
proposals prepared for the member-
ship before the contract expiry date of
April 30.

The bulletin said he company repre-
sentatives initially responded favor-
ably and agreed to bargain fairly but
“they then preached their tale of doom
and gloom and proceeded to give the

a -20-minute

sick leave and contract bene-
fits, and imp: contract

The company, on the other hand, has
proposed a three-year contract, with
existing cost-of-living allowance, elim-
ination of rest days, vacation entitle-

‘ion on what they preceive to
be declining world metal prices.”
The next meeting will be held March
17 at the United Steelworkers Union
hall in Trail.

Mulroney reacts to polls

-» OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister, Byian-Mulreney,

» A recent Gallup poll suggested Tory support among

Zammit also dispelled a rumor that many of the mill's
new employees are from butside the Castlegar area.
In response to a question from Mayor Audrey Moore,

Zammit said,
Castlegar people.”

“The foundation of the people there are

As well, he said the Vancouver contractor for the
modernization program hires local tradesmen.

Public reaction sought

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Commons transport commit.
tee will travel across Canada
this month to hear public re-
action to federal plans to
deregulate airlines, railways,
truckers and marine cargo
carriers.

The government agreed to
let the committee travel be-

cause of public interest in the
legislation, committee chair-
man said in an interview
Tuesday.

Most national associations
and transportation compan-
ies were able to appear in
OttawafMe said. Going across
the country will allow the
committee to hear from pro-

NEC waiting
for funds

By CasNews Staff

The National Exhibition
Centre is still waiting to hear
from the provincial govern
ment and other organizations
on funding for a proposed
expansion of its facility.

The NEC hopes to expand
its centre in @esischenia in
two phases. The total cost of
the new addition is estimated
at just under $1 million

NEC director Lucille Dou
cette said Castlegar council
has promised to put up
$22,000 providing the NEC

Weather

Cloudy Thursday with a
few showers. Highs 6°-8
ond lows 2-4". Little
change Friday

can secure the rest of the fi
nancing.

Doucette added that the
centre has asked about 12
other groups to help finance
the project. She said the
NEC is still waiting to hear
from the provincial govern
ment on a request for a
$200,000 grant.

Doucette said it is always a
problem getting financing
when the amount requested
is $500,000, but added that
the centre is not having any
“special problem” trying to
secure funding.

The first phase of the
expansion would cost
$500,000 to complete and
would include repairing prob
lems to the existing building,
adding a covered loading
dock, setting up the Castle
gar Museum and redesigning
the gallery in order to make
the walls straighter.

The entire ‘project would
take 24 to 30 weeks to com
plete.

vincial governments and re-
gional associations.

The committee is studying
two bills which would im-
plement the government's
proposals to lift many of its
economic controls over~the
transportation industry,
allowing the demands of
travellers, business and the
marketplace to dictate future
transportation services.

The tour begins in Van
couver on March 16.

The committee will be in
Edmonton on March 17, Re-
gina on March 18 and Winni.

More national hearings will
be held in Ottawa the fol
lowing week. The committee
will be in St. John’s, Nfld., on
March 30, Halifax on March
81, Moncton, N.B. on April 1
and Montreal on April 2.

The most controversial
parts of the bills are the
changes to rules governing
railways and trucking.

Funeral
begins
Thursday

Peter Gorkoff of Brilliant
passed away today at the age
of 83. Funeral service held at
the Brilliant Cultural Centre
beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday
and continouing Friday at 10
a.m. Burial will be at 1 p.m. in
the Brilliant Cemetery

Deregulation of the airline
industry is virtually complete
and has been accepted by the
airlines. Their unions warn
that deregulation will lessen
air safety and lead to the
layoff of thousands of work-
ers.

The railways say the chan-
ges will force them to lower
freight rates and leave them
littlg room to reduce costs.

‘Truckers want a national

bedevilled’ ay ‘polls showing a sharp sag in his popularity, has
‘dumped his press secretary, shifted his top adviser out of his
office and reassigned his communications director.

Mulroney announced in a news release Tuesday night
that senior adviser Fred Doucet will lose his powerful post
as the prime minister's key political adviser and become
chairman of the little known organization committee for
international summit meetings in Canada.

Communications director Bill Fox, reappointed as
a special, is being replaced by Bruce Phillips, the press
attache at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and former
Ottawa bureau chief for, CTV.

Press secretary Michel Gratton, involved in a
controversy late last year over allegations of sexual
harassment, has left for the private sector.

A source said Gratton was forced out of his job in the
hope of improving Mulroney's image and popularity.

Mulroney has been under intense pressure from senior
Conservative strategists to fire his senior staff, many of
whom are close friends who had little political experience
before the Tories won their landslide victiry in 1984.

Senator Norm Atkins and former Newfoundland
premier Frank Moores, both key Mulroney advisers, are
thought to believe that Mulroney's troubles are party
attributable to political greenhorns on his staff.

Mulroney didn’t fire or shift top aide Bernard Roy
despite criticism from Moores and other Tories about the
principal secretary's lack of political savvy.

Doucet is said to be on the hit list of senior party
officials and cabinet ministers who blame him for many of
the policy setbacks the government endured in recent
months.

Doucet's duties as key adviser on American, British and
francophone relations appear to have been left to the
External Affairs Department.

Fox takes over responsibility for the prime minister's

safgty code and deregulation

Coalition chairman Bob
Beckwith said deregulation
will help make Canadian-
made goods more competit-
ive at home and abroad.

“This, in turn, will allow
the Canadian economy to
create and secure more jobs
for Canadians in all parts of
Canada —and will provide an
impetus for developing new
products and services in all
sectors, including the trans-
portation sector.”

Meanwhile, a major rail
runion urged the committee
to reject the bill.

Val Bourgeois, Canadian
vice-president of the Inter-
national Association of Mach-
inists and Aerospace Work-
ers, said deregulation will
provide few real benefits and
put the jobs of thousands of
workers at risk.

He said the bill will allow a
major diversion of rail traffic
away from Canadian railways
to American lines at a cost of
many more jobs.

Deregulating the trucking
industry will just make it
easier for major American
trucking lines to take over
the Canadian industry, Bour-
geois said.

hedule and ap fe also becomes top advisere on
communications strategy, a position he apparently held as
communitations director.
The unilingual Phillips has long been considered a likely
replacement for Fox who has been blamed by Tory MPs for
the government's popularity sag.

decided voters has fallen to 22 per cent, making» the
government the most unpopular in the history of Canadian
polling.

Gratton is being replaced by Marc Lortie, senior media
adviser in the prime minister's office and a career civil
servant at External Affairs.

Hansen flying

to army base

EDMONTON (CP) — Rick
Hansen will trade his wheel-
chair for wings today when
he takes a side trip to Can-
adian Forces Bases Cold
Lake in a northeastern Al-
berta to “fly” in a CF-18 jet
fighter simulator.

Hansen, on a four-day
break from his Man in Motion
tour to raise money for
spinalcord research, was
lured to the base by his
personal interest in aviation.

“He'll have an opportunity
to try to fly a simulator on
the CF-18s,” Maj. Jan Mar-
tinsen, base information offi-
cer at Cold Lake, said Tues-
day.

The simulator is a func-
tional cockpit with a screen
that simulates actual flying
conditions to train student

pilots before they enter a real
plane, Martinsen said.

Eric Boyd, Alberta tour co-
ordinator who set up the Cold
Lake trip, said Hansen has a
tremendous interest in avia-
tion and plans to obtain his
pilot's licence when he com
pletes his trek.

Boyd is one of the few
paraplegic pilots in Canada
and will fly Hansen to the
base in his four-seat Grum-
man Cheetah at no cost to the
tour.

“Hansen, who has raised
more than $6 million for re-
search ipto spinal cord in
juries, leaves Edmonton on
Sunday morning on the final
leg of his world tour. He
hopes to reach his final des-
tination, Vancouver, by mid-
May.

D’'ARCY

continued from front page

address little that would benefit the
Castlegar area.

He explained it is important that
industries, such as pulp and paper, not
be ignored to the point where they be-
come “technologically obsolescent.”

“Something needs to be done to help
modernize if we're going to stay com-
petitive in the world market,” he said.
“The basic industries must be stablized
but nothing in the throne speech
addressed that.

“Fortunately industry obselescence
in the Castlegar area is being dealt
with in a viable way,” he said.

D'Arcy also said the elimination of
double member riding will have little
impact on the Rossland-Trail area but
he admitted the throne speech’s ref.
erence to a “more democratic work
place” is disconcerting.

“I wasn't aware that the workplace
was not democratic now,” he said. “The
same rules that apply to ernment

apply in the workplace.

“If the largest number voted to be
unionized they were, if not, they
weren't,” he said. “That doesn't mean
we always agree with the democratic
decision.

“It sounds like they're going to inter
fere with the decision making pro-
cess,” he said.

D'Arcy also referred to the an-

of a Royal C ission on
Education as a delay in actually ad.
dressing education problems in B.C.

“This is the first time in history B.C.
has spent more on welfare than
education,” said D'Arcy. “That's a
black miPk on B.C.”

D'Arcy pointed out that the exor.
bitant level of welfare spending is due
solely to the large number of unem
ployed.

“The speech fails to recognize in any
meaningful way that B.C. has half a
million people on UIC, or income assig-
tance,” he said.

D'Arcy explained that, according to

Statistics Canada, 27 per cent of the
men in B.C. under age 25 are unem
ployed.

“No wonder we have young people
seeking work in different areas of the
country, as wea the world,” he said.
“We would like to see incentives to
bring those people home.”

On the other hand, D'Arcy is hope
ful that some of the committees the
provincial government has created to
address different issues are “working
committees.”

“I'm looking forward to seeing if they
will put their effort where their mouths
are and address these problems.

“But it's easy to talk specifics,” he
said. “What we really need is more
opportunities for people to find good,
productive work and contribute to the
economy.

“There's nothing wrong with the
B.C. y that higher employ
couldn't solve,” said D'Arcy. “We've
had seven months now of good inten
tions without action.”

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