WEATHERCAST - Gloudy Thursday with morning fog and sunny intervals, As the Winter Gomes progress it will cloud over during the weekend with snow flurries, Highs will be Ground 3° with overnight lows noar -2°, Victoria, B.C. VBV 1X4 vot. 35, NO. 18 3 Sections (A, B & C) s Tecichers may face layoffs poniered byt ihe cout Te aday ev ete regular supper the: presentation of the.1982 Citizen not Ot the Yeor. award t ts. left to :right, 1971. Mike: Sawchenko, ting 1966.R.A.D. Weat (decease 1978 Doris it to ant. 18 1960: ohaay Cla 2. Lawl “Denny Hughes,’ Mi Webbe 997 Layd Grou! 1973 Arlee Anderson eel Bin Easton for.1967 Ann Easton decease 1955 Mrs... "ise to ns cone, 1969 urt:Lamb for 1959 Jack Webster (deceased 1974 Harry fan K Bates (joint winners), 1976-Bob: By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board has * been ordered to roll back the 26.8 per cent increase in its operating budget to comply with Premier Bill Bennett's Liat seciar fiscal restraint Preshool district’ secretary- - ‘treasurer John Dascher said Tuesday the board must cut $225,000 from its $9 million to the 12 per cent ceiling laid down by the premicr last ‘month. “That amounts. to a two and a half per cent cut,” Das- cher explained. ,Dascher said: the board's 1983 operating budget must also be held.to 12 per cent — but for the full-year, not just the last quarter. In 1984 the budget will follow the Con- Voperating budget — or nearly “sumer. Price Index: "2.5 per cent. That will reduce the 1982 ’ operating budget increase to ‘28.8 per cent over last year. ).: 1970 Harold MacBain (oint-w win rst recipient, 1965 Bill Waldip, -1964:.Norm Fi n' (deceased), 1961: Rose Johnson, 1972 Mrs. Gwil Huphes,:1963 Her WW. Walp ana torr Be and: at Jong terin Aisability lan. : > pl : -: However, there were some in this: contract’ eight months without a. con- tract, members of the Inter- national“: Woodworkers » of: Aimerica local 1:405 and 1-417 ~ at BC Timber’s Celgar woods : and sawmill operations have ratified tacnew.; two-year , andthe one eee by. other, IWA members... ‘Wayne Nolan, president of loca! 1-406, told the Castlegar “News Tuesday in a telephone interview from Radium that BC Timber . succeeded ‘in reducing ‘the .existing wage “The ‘contract! covers about’ scale’: to, bring. local -IWA 600 -workers ‘at Castlegar, Nakusp and Revelstoke: i. iThe: agreement, retroac-. tive to July1, is basically the samé.as that~signed last September, by. the IWA ‘and , forest. companies in the, reat. of the’ province. z The package’calls for, a 15 “per cent increase in the first year and 13:per ‘cent‘in the _Second year,! ‘with some addi- ’ «tonal vacation + + Revises? workers | into ‘line: with their counterparts in the southern “Interior. ° As well, office workers lost ‘their paid* half-hour. lunch break :;which):they had en- joyed fc Ni ity” voted in? favor. of the agreement despite a unani: mous. recommendation : from. ‘the negotisting committee to: reject it Be CasNews Statt : The. eyes of B.C; shift to “the West’ “Kootenay tomer: row (Thursday) night as. the “ 1982 B.C. Winter Games kick’ Trail: ., ~ Premier. Bill Bennett, wi be’ on-hand ‘for the ‘special “opening ;'¢ remonies 'tomor-" row night ‘at; 7:30 p.m. in the * Gomiheo Afena. Those -‘at* tendilig'are advised to be in we seats no later than TIS Though Trail is hosting the Games, the surrounding eam com- mnities of Castlegar,” Ross- land'and the’ Beaver’ Valley willl also help stage, some of ‘the 22 ‘different events plan- ned over the three days. into line .with: the rest at ,the province. Ken More at Woodland Park Esso, who started the war nearly a month ago, increased his prices’ Tues- day to 42.7 from $4 cents litre — an increase of 8.7 cents a litre or nearly 40 cents a gallon. <”: Prices at Esso before the war were 88,9 cents a litre. “We're hoping: it’s all over with Siow,” he said. “It all depends: on what ‘everybody does. If they all ‘come up the saine, then it’s we'll’ be back :in.”’’ - will happen),”. he said, sven. never know in this “tow \. “You never ' worry, too all over with. If not: then “It's. hard to say (what: "much about it. We're try- ing to atay with the reat. Whatever they do, we'll do the same. More noted that his cus- - tomers’ aren't saying too much about the sudden in- crease. : “They're just happy that - they got it (low prices) be- fore,” he said... - The sudden change in the gas war was sparked by. a’ Jan. ‘1 increase’ of $2.25 in the wellhead price of a barrel of oi] — an in- ”-erease’ passed onto con- sumers 60 days later by an agreement | between the federal goverment and the oil companies. ’ Prices across the coun- try rose March 2 by almost © two cents a litre or nine cents a gallon. But! not all stations in Castlegar ‘raised .their prices. Castlegar Co-op, for instance," was still selling regular gas for 34 cents a litre Tuesday. A ‘spokesman. for the company -said he. didn't. know ‘when: the “prices \.! Larry Webster, manag- er of Columbia Auto Ser- vice (Gulf), was still selling his gas ‘at 38.9 ‘Tuesday morning and’:hadn't de- cided how much to increasé his sales.’ "He said he thought he would wait until his tanks run low before increasing * the prices. Although he. hadn't checked ‘to- see what .the _ other stations were charg: ing, Webster said, prices at other.: ‘businesses * would probably influence his in- crease. Turbo and Petro-Canada were also stalling on price’ hikes Tuesday. < However, Junction Shell “increased its prices to 86.9 . from 36.5. Prices skyrocket after. e truce called in gas war Junction Shell’s Robert Wozney changes prices on pumps signalling end of gas war. —CasNewsPhoto by Cheryl Wishtow.