B6. CASTLEGAR NEWS,-February 10, 1982

workplace linked to illness

VANCOUVER (CP).— A
University. of B.C. health
study of foundry workers has
found a significantly higher
incidence of respiratory dis-
eases among the workers, a
spokesman for the Workers
Compensation Board spokes-
man said.

The study by the univer-
sity’s Occupational Disease
Research Unit compared test
results of foundry workers at

Mainland Manufacturing: in ,
the Vancouver suburb’ of
Richmond with a control
group.

The h discov-. d

workers were exposed ‘to |

elovated ‘concentrations: of
sillea dust.’ But:: nearly ‘all
measurements for methylene
fi

ered s doubled rate of chronic
bronchitis’ among . foundry
workers and a rate of asthma
many times higher than the
general population.
Measurements by the
board, which took part in the
study, confirmed.that’ many

On In-Stock
Linoleum & Carpets.

See Us Today
For Specials on -

‘Supply Ltd.

WAREHOUSE
FLOOR COVERING
SPECIALS

Top Quality Floor Covering By
Poerless, Armstrong, Westmills,
Conquiliums and many many more.

Mitchell

490 Front St., Castlegar 365-7252

(MDI). were

-found to be within the
board's present standards. -:

Study director Doctor
Moira Yeung said the high

prevalence of chronic bron-

chitis, asthma and abnormal
lung functions among foun-
dry workers is likely due to

exposure to chemical emis--

sions fram the binding ays
tem and high levels of par-
ticulates. The binding system
contains MDI.

The study recommends °

levels of air contaminants in

the foundry be reduted ‘by

engineering controls or by
ofless

Postal: chief's: raise

OTTAWA (CP) — ; Cariada
Post chief Michael: Warren

dubbed ‘appropriate’

‘got a. “responsible and en- 3

tirely appropriate” pay raise
of less than eight per cent,
Postmaster. General * Andre
Ouellet said Tuesday. |<,
Defending. the ‘boost

against wide criticism, Quel- ‘f

let ‘said: Warren, “head. of

Canada‘ Post ‘since .October, '

:has in’ fact been, working for

the’ government ‘since’ last ° i

/April when he was appointed

‘special. adviser 'to

Cabinet receptly: approved
raises of up'to:12.3 per ‘cent
for nine. other. Crown’ corpor-
ation heads and four top ex-

‘to.the minis:

chemicals. In the meantime,
it said respirators should be
used.

> but, © Ouellet
stressed that Warren, esti- ,
mated: 'to earn.” between

, $100,000 and $150,000 a year,

A».

February

Ladies’ &
Men's Wear

, premiers to support a wage.

ALFONSO APA

1364 Bay Ave., Trail 368-5314

MICHAEL WARREN
.. «gets pay raise

got well below the top in-

ie.

bg

Equipment not selling

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
high cost of money gave B.C,
logging and | sawntill ‘equip-
ment companies \a\:one-two
punch In 1981.

But some are fighting back
with innovative and aggres-
sive advertising,

High. interest ‘rates have’.
; dropped housing” starts’ in

North America dramatically,

-reducing logging'and sawmil

ling revenues and ‘making
lumber companies think twice
about purchasing new equip-
ment. ~

Tt has also: driven up the
equipment industry’s costs in
an equally dramatic manner.
“High interest rates are just
absolutely, disastrous,”’ said
Bill Black,’ marketing . vice-
president of Champman Ip-
dustries Ltd.

“They're really hard ‘on
equipment people with large

inventories and high-priced”
”

the e
of restraint under which the
government’ and the new

Canada Post Corp. now are

operating, I view Mr. War-
ren’s increase of less than
eight per cent as responsible
and entirely appropriate,”
Ouellet said in a statement.
;- The raises were pushed
through about a week before
Prime Minister Trudeau, call-
ing for restraint to help fight
inflation, appealed to the

freeze for public servants
earning more than $50,000.

Others getting raises in-
cluded: Air Canada president
Claude Taylor; CBC presi-
dent. Al Johnson; Mitchell
Sharp, commissioner of the

‘Northern Pipeline: Agency;
_ and Bill Hopper, chairman of

Petro Canada.
The salaries and the size of
the’ raises are secret. —-

Sears Catalogue stores
your moneys worth... ‘and more.

Columbia Ave.
Castlegar

“How hard hast been? “It’s

been @ disaster as far as .

logging equipment is. con-
cerned,” said Ted Dunn: of
Opsal Steel Ltd., in business
Since 1912,

Business at Charlie Smith
Machine -Works Ltd. has
dropped 50 per cent in the last
2% months,.’ sald co-owner
Syd Bulford.

He expects to end the year

five- to 10-per-cent below the -

brake, manufacturer’s. usual
S1. million in revenues. ~
OWE!) iG

Said partner Alf Hansford
of River Industries Ltd. in
Prince: George: ‘We're ‘def-
initely hurting.” . Rivers
ended "1881 about $500,000
short of its sales target of $6
million,

Many, companies have
‘coped by watching costs and
cutting staff.

“inning Tractor & Equip-

one who stands to potentially *

ment, the largest equipment
dealer in North America, has
teduced its workforce from. a
peak of 2,364 in’ March by 282
through normal attrition, and
by a further.287 Jayoffs'and 60

terminations, chairman

Maury Young said..
Chapman. Industries: has

“cut its workforce by two to.18..

November when a big con-

act ended and he ran out of

make-work projects Festock-
ing invento

tory...
He's also ict the cleaning
* contract gO.

Some ‘companies have or
are planning to beef up their

advertising efforts ‘to try to.

create a ‘market.

~The times are stich that
you have to do everything
you can to make it happen
. because it's not happening
the way it was," sald Vern
Cope. ‘president of Pioneer
Sawmill Equipment Ltd.
“The, phones ‘aren't ‘ringing
the way they used to.’’

ING ADVERTISING

“Radio and television are not
the normal media for adver-

“Its price was right at $39.-
000. What the hell could you
have bought for that six
months ago? Now a guy can
buy a whole mill.””

That mill might cost 5250.-
000 new. *

He's. generally optimistic

about the forest industry and
is seclng new people come
into the industry, some of
them unemployed bush wor-
kers.
“thin there’s an awful lot
of small operators trying to
get back into business, work-
ing seven days a week, 12
hours a day. They're looking
for used surplus. They don’t
care if it’s modern."”

Letter carriers
accept two-
‘year contract
OTTAWA (CP) — Letter
carriers have accepted by
87.7 per cent a two-year con-

tract with more pay, better
it better it

tising logging but
Double D. Equipment. .co-.
owner Joyce Stevens thought

the company should give it a*

try because that’s where the

“loggers might be found —at

home.

It's worked. . The ads are

creating about four new cus-

tomers a week, she said.
Cope of Pioneer Sawmill is

benefit by the tough times.
His speciatity is used equip-

-ment.

“In these times, I probably
get the first call becausé
“everybody is looking for
used.

One advertisement in The
Vancouver Sun for a portable
sawmill attracted ‘six callers.

leave and a dental! plan.
Robert McGarry, presi-
dent of the Letter Carriers’
Union of Canada, said Tues-
day that 15,000 of 22,000 car-
tiers yoted. The contract is
the first for the new postal
operation since it became a

_Crown corporation in Octo-

ber. i

Carriers will receive a
13,8-per-cent wage increase
in the first year, bringing the
hourly wage to a carrier with
two years’ experience to
$11.19. That includes an esti-
mated cost-of-living adjust-
ment.

During the second year of
the contract, hourly wages
tise 87 cents to $11.56 plus
the cost-of-living adjustment,
which could run as -high as
$1.04. Their last contract ex-
pired Dee, 81.

Although the wage settle-
ment was criticized for run-
ning ahead of last year's
12.6-per-cent annual inflation
rate, the postal corporation

- says it can recoup: some of

that money through Product-
ivity clauses.
"Pe

iy!
and transportation, -will moe

the wage settlement down to
a@ more acceptable 11.3 per
cent in the first year and 10.1
per cent in the second.

The carriers’ union, one of
the least militant in the
postal operation, gained con-
cessions better than those
won by the inside postal
workers during- a 42-day
strike last summer. <

‘The new contract provides
carriers with a dental plan
under which the corporation
will pay half the costs.

The carriers also matched
the inside workers by getting
four weeks of vacation after
eight years and 17 weeks of

fully-paid maternity leave for ”

3,500 female employees.

Christmas
seals’ best
year ever.”

The annyal Christmas Seal ©

Campaign, organized .by the

“B.C. Lung Association, .has

had its most successful'year

-ever, in spite of poor econ-
“omic conditions in the prov-

. ince, ‘Lung Association Presi-

" 365- 3331

‘dént.Dr. Jack Rosenblatt has
annount

“Contribistions from the

Castlegar- area totalled

$8,784, up from: last year's

$8,608. The Castlegar Christ-
mas Seal Committee. Chair-
man was Grace Ackney of the
Castlegar Rotary Anns,
Meanwhile, Rosenblatt —

“a Vancouver allergist — said

British Columbians contri-

buted ‘$782,000 to the. 1981:

Christmas Seal Campaign,

which ended officially on Jan; :
31. He said this represents a'
16 per cent increase over the
1980 campaign, which had ‘

Sontributiens of $673,000.
Christmas Seal: Cain:

mg which: begins ceach.
year in late October, ‘Ins.

Sources,

1 Before the tat turn of the century when Brim.
tuned Lowe. as and won a fury when Feed 5

luc! Tek mn dint kay Tea the time, bu’ his

luck-was 3 all tea, oan wasn cad inan:
mat

robust icra dummoned ini eo sae

valued at ee a sti

through the dire a au tons inosher

fe . But tragedy was not to. ture its fickle back
the ensuing

tribe, for in y
death: was to hawnt Louies and her asso! chil:

of 1897, Louise’s little ‘tour. ear-old:
gan tate oaey of 1 died after being illo!

days. A year later, Florence's eight-year-old

: Cora. succumbed suddent pee in apparent

ealth all her short,
Within a year of Cora’s untim
made a return trip to the Bltae:

manat her, side was Charles lya, es

by working on ¢ on the Salrond all the live Tong

je menage by b

“gon, Its is toward deci

I
“Pata See,

son, parent: j
members .of the familly, ie ngarod i sgpny,
before way.

other.
for some, months
s serine to

26-year-old Art : Bisacnette,'a wpolice sete, to
live at Mrs. Vermilya’s house. Art t become
ecustomed to: Lo Z

young cop

chin.
: het coroner, a man called’ Ho!

enough about these matters ‘that he decided at

Eno senic was found
a badly 16 comfortably dispatch four

her/own.

Police ‘were ! fratrate
ce of inh

algns of reco’
~ her nurse ‘for’ som

e -ham and e; eggs. Ni
Wiseman: was a slated shat her patient was se ose last

taking
Just befo: edigalng {nto the ham and e
told W an shat she hated bla

“‘However,” she said, “You veil find some white
or in an old talcum der.can on the second

the corner. Do you mind :
fetched the rand Louise |
Peppe: Lau

etc she was con
‘The .talcum can had ‘contain

ringing
op heen

pecimen one nioes what he saw in“

re being me de publle.
isto! lg le to find any

‘After: Tase oar rulside witnessess who
ries bout her came:forward.

by Vancouver's‘ Fraser Insti-

‘tute. Single working. women

in Canada are paid, on the

- average, 99.2 per cent of the.
salaries of’ their unmarried

. male counterparts. ‘
“Marital status is’ perhaps

thé most important explana-

tion’ of ‘male-female ‘income’

differentials,” says Michael

Walker the institute's direc

tor. “The salaries ‘of. neyer-
married Peonle are sential

the oe research 6 érgan-

ization, is based on a series of’

portunity | pro-
grams in the United States
and Canada.’ *-

- Walter Block, senior.econ-
omist of the institute, says in
his research marriage tends

to increase the earning’ po- |

tential of.a man and
that’ of a woman because

:. women tend to take on more
than their share of child-rear-
© ing, housework and other do- ,

» Louise «
"pepper. -

* ‘Interest. No fees.

orth.
anadian .
rust

™

Authorized Representative:

And Agencies Ltd., 1129 Fourth St.,
engareen ae Telephone: 365-3392

,

Elizabeth Nolan had been engaged to ‘Frank Brim.
. She told authorities that her fiance had
ed. He told her

ip were exhumed. Arsenic was found in

. New dilemma
uise was transferred to:jail while authorities
though Louise

ha a
ied small’ am insurance money as
result of some of the eachs, she she had had gained nothing
from the deaths of others. e killed? The
answers came fast and Rios
Ap mndertaker from Barrington | tod of how
Louise ni ised serious! ‘sick people in'the commu-
nity, sta’ side until they breathed
last. aout then mpany the corpse
the undertaking parl parlor aed elp prepare the
bodies fo: Vermilya’s havior had
seemed strange then’ s Now her weird actions held
more sinister connotations. When another under
taker from Chicago re orted the same stol
Louise's motive became a Sie took
The death of others and was thrill ea tote stout the
dead. When there were not enough deaths of friends
corpses ‘by killing

bors, he. provided
Reber of be on family...
t: Louse. should

-. DONE SO BY NOW.

"CASTLEGAR . th E lo 10, 1982

LOSING

‘IF YOU COULD.
LOSE WEIGHT |
_ BY YOURSELF, ©
YOU WOULD HAVE

Together we can make
it happen!
@ NO SHOTS @ NO DRUG
@NO CONTRACTS ©. -

CALL TODAY FOX A FREE CONSULTATION -
Mon. Fri. 7. bpm Sat. 8:30-9:30 a.tn.

65-6256

or 352-2426 (colluct) aftar hours

of our customers
Saturday.

WE’RE OPEN

For the convemenc
who work flonday +

ELTEF

Free Brunch
For2At
Mr. Mikes.

4H m not voting ives because: \don't like the site. ; :
pt referendum: ‘authorizes ONLY the Borrowing | of oie money. If. sufficient evidence

‘ov
q poll willbe taken of the entire area.

“We can't afford

er.the ch

ew brary i in these bad ‘economic times.

st the library board,

We cdnnot:atford:NOT to build it now — in 2 years time it could cost $2 million with
current.escalating costs, and part of the book Collection: ‘ts going to be put in storage

NOW

I'll cost mort
“The: Mini

+. library. ‘Th

due to lack of pace.

jort by. the. time isis built.

within this limit.

i) can’t afford an increase in my taxes.
it you live in. Areas,|.or-J.you will pay $18 a year if you own a $60,000 house. in

secueads val re iy =
property).

‘Municipal Affairs has set a limit of o million’ for construction of the
rchitect will-decrease the size of certain parts of the Pulding to keep

1. but it is ONLY A $5 A YEAR INCREASE over what you
rice. (The cost is tied to the taxable value of your

Ima Senulaner — what value for'my tax money will | get at the’ new vi

You'll have access to 26,000 books and magazines. If you're hous

Und) and fiving in

1, Jor Speeper. volunteers can take you to the library to choose @ your own books, or

drop off
recorders, special ‘whole page” magnify!

-tiveout of town, Why should | support a library for Castlegar?
This will

: > will recelv

u at home. There are large print: ‘books, au

lio books with tape

at no extra cost.

ities

bea REGIQNAL library for all area

a larger

People in
‘out of town special consideration" e.g., book Bick up and drop off in each
of books in Russian; free access to 26,000 books which

Castlegar Yosidents: have paid for over the last 30 years; regular deytime opening
chours ond some.evenings.

My kids can use the school library.
The library will be open’6 days a week, (regular store hours) and some evenings.
,Students' will have study tables to work at, quasar materials, be able to attend

there will be more

hops on.current topics

“space for pre-school activities e.g. puppet Sloan and story hours.

7 If you need a ride to any of the polls phone either branch of the library

365-6611 or 365-7765

This advertisement! was paid for by donations from library supporters,