lative Library, rarliament Sldgs., 501 Belleville St Feb, 28 Former firefi By RON NORMAN Hditor A former volunteer firefighter is a hero after putting out a fire Monday evening at the Woodland Park Co-op Apartments in which a 14-year-old girl suffered first and second degree burns. Wayne Ackerman, 48, rushed to the aid of the Bonnie Lioyd family after a blaze broke out in the Lloyd apartment at #1-1684 Silverwood Crescent. “It's his quick action which saved the place from any further damage,” deputy fire chief Theron Isfeld said in an apartment in the | interview Tuesday fF alll ke fel if file By CasNews Staff The City of Castlegar has an offer industry can't refuse. The city will forgive municipal taxes on any new industrial building or improvement in 1986 and 1987 under the terms of its Partnership in Enter. prise agreement with the provincial government Castlegar council approved the tax yates at its last meeting. Ald. Albert Calderbank explained that if an industry made $1 million in improvements, it wouldn't have to pay any 1 taxes on the imp ments in 1986 and 1987. However, it would have to pay taxes in the next three years. Under the five-year Partnership in Enterprise agreement, industries will have to pay 10 per cent of municipal taxes on improvements in 1988, 25 per cent in 1989 and 50 per cent in 1990. APARTMENT FIRE . . Volunteer fireman checks t d Hospital where she was treated and rejeased. “She's in good condition,” Isfeld CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1986 PWA unions say ruling will help ;j di d Park Co-op Apart- . g in beneath rug for lingering remains of fire that broke ments. A teenaged girl was injured in the blaze CosMews Photo by Doug Morvey HURTING THE ECONOMY D’Arcy blasts gas tax By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, the New Democratic Party's energy critic, has blasted the provincial and federal government's new gas tax increases which went into effect on New Year's Day. “Taxes on motor fuels are already depressing the British Columbia econ omy,” D'Arcy said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “In this year of Expo 86 the govern. ment cannot afford to discourage tourists from travelling in our prov i ince.” D'Arcy added that B.C. is already at for fuel and electricity than their American neighbors. “Provincial taxes have already for- ced electricity and natural gas prices in B.C. far above those charged to con sumers and competing industries in the U.S. northwesi.” he said. “World pet roleum prices have been falling, while in B.C. gas prices continue to escalate,” he said “Meanwhile, the provincial govern- ment is exporting our vital non-renew- able energy comthédities at a fraction of prices charged to B.C. taxpayers. . D'Arcy called on both Ottawa and Victoria to roll back gas tax increases. On Jan. 1 the tax on clear gasoline Only industrial impr ify Ald. Len Embree was the only alderman to vote against the proposal. “I just don’t agree on principle that tax benefits should be afforded to industry when the residential com munity will have to pay for it,” Embree said in an interview “Somebody will have to pay” for the reduced industrial taxes Embree said, adding he thinks it will be the home owner. a we to the U.S. northwest and Alberta in energy costs. “As of Jan. 1, the pump price of gasoline will be 37 per cent higher than the same tank filled in the U.S. northwest and 21 per cent higher than in Alberta,” stated D'Arcy. “If we had the same tax structure as Washington state gas it would cost 42 cents a litre Canadian in B.C.,” he added. D'Arcy said consumers and indus- tries in B.C. should not be paying more ine d by 41 cents a litre, bringing the new rate to 8.64 cents a litre. Also increasing by .41 cents a litre waa the tax on clear diesel, sending the new tax-rate to 9.08 cents a litre. D'Arcy said 55 per cent of the gas prices charged at the pumps goes to taxes. Twenty-six cents of each litre goes to pay oil and gas companies, while 31 cents goes to taxes — 17 cents to the province and 14 cents to the federal government Gumis D’ARCY . . giafe're paying more VANCOUVER (CP) — Striking unions at Pacific Western Airlines will be helped by a B.C. Supreme Court ruling preventing the company from limiting the number of pickets at Vancouver International Airport, a Faye Dougias, chairman of the Can- adian Air Line Flight Attendants Association, said the union's lawyers will be referring to the decision at future hearings in Saskatoon, Calgary and Winnipeg, where picket action has been limited.on.an.interim basis by court decisions. In his ruling Tuesday, Chief Justice Allan McEachern deplored the tactics used by the airline and refused ication for an inj i limiting the number Vancouver airport. of pickets at Douglas said she hopes the ruling will encourage the pany to re- that Judge especially the fact Eachern i the company,’ examine their position and take a more serious approach to the talks. But airline spokesman Jack Lawless said the company isn't worried about the effect the ruling might have on future hearings. “The only reason we apply for an injunetion is in reaction to violence on the picket lines,” Lawless said. The chief justice enjoined the striking unions from assigning active picket duty to six individuals who were identified as being involved in earlier picket line incidents “I am not satisfied that the pickets any more to blame than the strike breakers,” said the judge. PWA has gone to court several times since Nov. 20, when 1,800 members of the International Association of Mach inists, the flight attendants and the —INSIDE NEW YEAR MESSAGE: Prime Minister Brion Mulroney, in his. New Year's Day message to Canadians, says the recent Reogan-Gorbachev sum- mit provides the world with “true hope” thot a ‘durable peace” may yet be achieved... Aé numbers as trails, . . 82 RATE CLIMBS: OTTAWA the 9.49 per cent set last week Although the bellwether rate weekly increases, not is at its highest level in about seven months money market players and economists said recent increases in the rate reflect o temporary year-end weakness in the dollor and should not lead to any immediate increase in other lending rates OSCAR TIME: Who's big in the race for this year's Acodemy Awards oo A SKUNG TIME: The snow may not be that great yet on the downhill slopes, but it's just fine for cross-country skiing gt the Paulson ski Pf The Bank of Canada rate continued to move up in defence of the dollar, rising to 9.62 per cent today from workers at the Castle gar Community Complex and the Pioneer Arena have reached a contract settlement with the Regional District of Central Kootenay giving the wor. kers a 3.5 per cent wage increase in the first year, RDCK administrator Reid Henderson said today The contract, signed Dec. 22, affects six workers, all members of the Can adian Union of Public Employees Local 2262. In addition to the first-year increase, the two-year contract also gives the workers a 2.7 per cent increase in the second year, Henderson said. He added that the contract “follows the format” of the agreement the city of Castlegar reached with its CUPE workers. The first-year wage retroactive to March 1 increase is FEELING LUCKY?: We have a complete list of the Provincial lottery NEW EXHIBIT: The National Exhibition Centre will present an exhibit by Yukon artist Ted Harrison beginning Sunday Ae following three consecutive The dollar was trading at 71.35 cents U.S today, less than o third cent above its all-time trading low of 71.07 cents U.S. ee