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It’s extremely good protection for the workers,"’ said Local 6719 president Richard Boyce. ‘I wouldn't be surprised if it’s the best inCanada.”” The 1,200-member union has been on strike at the copper mine near this southern Interior city for three mon- ths. . Talks adjourned. early Mediator Vince Ready told the sides he will try to resume negotiations when there are indications one or both sides are prepared to shift their positions. We just weren't able to come to an Tuesday agreement on wages and pensions,” said Boyce Highland Valley Copper negotiator Rod Killough said Ready simply ran out of time as he has other commit ments. “I don't think it hurts us,to have a day or two to rethink our positions, said Killough Boyce said the sides have moved considerably on wages but ‘we still havea distance to goon pensions.”” The contracting-out issue, which had stalled progress on monetary issues, was resolved Sunday morning. According’ to Boyce, the tentative agreement assures job protection from work being contracted out, including warranty work on company equip ment The agreement. siates: “No em ployee shall be displaced or laid off or their rights to recall deferred as the result of contracting out or as a result of a contractor's employees providing warranty work.”” The sides also agreed on new holiday pay and weekend shift premiums. The mine workers have been on strike since July 6. The last contract expired at the endof June Fatal heart attack claims former MLA INVERMERE (CP) — Jim Chabot, Social Credit cabinet minister, died at his home Monday, apparently froma heart attack. He was 62 Chabot represented the riding of Columbia River in southeastern British Columbia from 1963 until 1986 Chabot was known in the legislature for his wry wit, frustrating the Op: a former position with responses such as: ‘*You will have an answer, my friend, in the fullness of time.” Born in Farnham, Que., in 1927, Chabot moved to British. Cofumbia in the 1950s as a railway supervisor. He and his wife Grace eventually settled in Invermere where he became active in local politics. He got his first cabinet portfolid in 1971 as minister of labor, which he held until the Socreds were defeated by the New Democrats in the 1972 elec Keevil mining VANCOUVER (CP) They dub: bed him Evil Keevil for his lightning quick style of doing business But friends and business associates say Norman Keevil will be remembered as a Renaissance man who combined a brilliant academic career with a stellar business life Keevil, who built Vancouver-based Teck Corp premier mining companies, died Mon. day of cancer. He was 78. into one of Canada’s NEW GMC v-8 ted Ya-T. 4x4 Speed, Rally Whe Heavy Duty Shocks, Heavy Duty Heater. intermittent Wipers, Tin Windows. Stk. No. 8-01770 KALAWS KY PONTIAC BUICK GMC (1989) LTD. 1700 Columbia Ave Castlegar DI. 8917 365-2155 Collect tion After the Socreds regained power, Chabot held the ministries of mines and petroleum resources and lands, parks and housing. His last ministry was provincial secretary and gover nment services. He was dropped from cabinet by Bill Bennett in February 1986 Chabot did not run for re-election in October 1986 Acting premier Rita Johnston said Chabot was a man of great humor, integrity and dedication to principle.” On behalf of the vacationing Premier Bill Vander Zalm and the government, Johnston sent sym pathies to Chabot’s family and ex pressed tribution he made to British Columbia Chabot was on the board of the B.¢ Building Corp. appreciation for the con He is survived by his wife and five children leaves legacy In the course of his career, he received the Order of Canada, the an nual Inco Medal from the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and, just last week, Canadian Mining Hall of Fame He was a gambler, a risk-taker,”” said Bill James, former head of the Toronto-based mining company Falconbridge. ‘That was good for a place in the him, good for mining and good for Canada He was also smarter than hell I always admired the way he was able to leave his career as an academic to practise the things he had been said Roland Michener, a former governor researching general and a longtime business associate and friend of Keevil Michener, who will deliver a eulogy at Keevil’s funeral in Vancouver on Friday, said Keevil “had an inventor's mind and was always looking for something new.”” EARLY DAYS Keevil, who enjoyed wearing his hair shoulder-length, first distinguished himself as a geo-science professor. Af ter graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in sciences, he taught at Harvard and University of Toronto. He published 45 _ scientific during his 15-year span in academia His reputation spread and he was in vited during the Second World War to join the top-secret Manhattan Project, a group of scientists who succeeded in papers developing the first atomic bomb. But it took too long for the FBI to give him security clearance in time for the history-making sche! Custom Built ALUMINUM RAILINGS Won't Rust — Baked on Enamel! ~ FOR FREE ESTIMATE CALL PETE 365-7086 Briefly Nail penetrates man's skull DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A nail accidentally fired from a nail gun penetrated about four centimetres into a carpenter's brain and nailed his cap to his head, but a doctor says the man shouldn’t suffer any serious ef- fects *}'ve had worse headaches,” said carpenter Lance Grangruth, who said the headache was the only complication he suffered after the nail went into his forehead “I didn’t actually feel it goin,” he said, ‘I heard the gun go off “L tried to take my hat off and it wouldn’t come off. Then I knew it had gonein."" Dr. William’ Himango said he used pliers to remove the five centimetre nail from the frontal lobe of Grangruth’s brain at St. Luke's Hospital. Grangruth was kept in intensive care for observation People rally to protest tax RED DEER, Alta. (CP) More than 3,00Q,people jammed a hall Tuesday ina show of anger against the federal goods and services tax. The rally was delayed 15 minutes as eager protesters caused a traffic jam three kilometres*long outside the building. The meeting was organized by a group of Red Deer lawyers calling themselves Canadians Against the Goods and Service Tax Boos erupted at every mention of the names of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney or Finance Minister Michael Wilson Guest speaker Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute drewa round of applause when he accused the federal esas of **fiscal mischief.” “This is not a sales tax'reform package,’ Walker said, adding that half of Albertan family incomes already are consumed by taxes. “It’s a $6-billion tax grab.’ Storm hits central Alberta CALGARY (CP) A warm, quiet autumn day suddenly turned chaotic for thousands of central Albertans Tuesday afternoon when a vicious storm swept through, killing at least one person and causing exten sive damage Winds that -hit almost 120 kilometres per hour tore through the region, tearing roofs from houses, flipping trailers, causing accidents, overturning two small airplanes, downing trees and power lines and knocking power out The wind is thought to be the cause of a fatal 14-vehicle pileup near Bassano, 120 kilometres east of Calgary. A dust storm made highway visibility zero. just before the crash, which also injured several people, RCMP said The winds brought hail, snow and rain as temperatures plummetted from 18 C to4C in just 10 minutes. Five freed in South Africa JOHANNESBURG (CP) The South African government says it will free five African National Congress leaders jailed 25 years ago with Nelson Mandela, but the man most black South Africans consider their leader will stay in prison President F.W. de Klerk said eight aging prisoners, including leading ANC political strategist Walter Sisulu, will soon be rel tribute to the spirit of reconciliation which is presently evident in our country”’ He gave no date but a prison official said it will be within two weeks. Anti-apartheid activists welcomed Tuesday's announcement but called the move insufficient unless the government also legalizes banned organizations, frees Mandela and lifts restrictions on many black leaders ased to “con: and to take part int he negotiations for power-sharing notin prison. Woman shot accidentally EDMONTON (CP) Saturday when a hunter who had accidentally shot his 75-year-old wife didn’t come to help. The hunters had mistaken Gladys Nelson for a bear whose tracks he and another hunter were following ““It hurts me that when I asked them for help they took off,’’ John Nelson said in an interview from Edmonton's Misericordia Hospital, where he has been at his wife’s bedside since Saturday John Nelson says he was dumbfounded Nelson said he heard later that the men ran to a neighbor's farm where they asked to call police. The shooting occurred on the Nelsons’ property at Lone Pine, Alta., about 140 kilometres northwest of Edmonton Gladys Nelson was shot in the lower abdomen with a gunshot slug, police said. Doctors operated to remove the bullet RCMP havesaid they expect to lay charges in the incident Mayor warns against crack MONTREAL (CP) devastating drug that could send crime rates skyrocketing in Canadian cities just as it has in the United States, the mayor of Kansas City warned a Montreal gathering Tuesday Crack “cocaine is a treacherous and ‘Asa result of crack use, violence has erupted in many of our cities, both large and sniall,”* 500,000. **1f you haven’t experienced (the crack epidemic), | urge you to take immediate steps to educate citizens about it and avoid additional markets for this very debilitating drug, said Richard Berkley, mayor of the city of about he told the opening session of the European and North American Conference on Urban Safety and Crime Prevention CASTLEGAR, YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT. B.C.Tel is conducting a reterendum in your community concerning long distance calling from Castlegar to Trail You have the opportunity of having one-way extended area service to Trail. If the majority of votes received are in favour of this service proposal, basic monthly exchange rates for all customers in Castlegar will be affected. 7 The deadline for voting is October 23, so please take a few minutes today and send in your ballot. For more information, or if you have misplaced or did not receive a ballot, please call your local B.C Tel office BC. ‘We make it a way of life. VOTE BY OCTOBER 23. BUD SMITH ... deputy chairman Smith named to strategy group VICTORIA (CP) Attorney General Bud Smith said today he has been named deputy chairman of a new Social Credit caucus committee to form strategy for the next general el tion Smith was appointed by Premier Bill Vander Zaim, who will be chairman of the new committee The decision to form the committee was made after an emergency caucus meeting last week called for Friday after four Social Credit backbenchers resigned from the caucus, saying they feared for the par ty’s future. The meeting was The attorney general was chief ad- viser to former premier Bill Bennett before becoming a member of the legislature and cabinet minister Smith said the committee must en’ sure that the Social Credit house is str- ong and solid before the next trip to the polls Last week, the Kamloops MLA said he didn’t think the Socreds could win an immediate election. But now, he said he believes the party can get re- elected in six months Smith said the premier is well attuned to advisory committees and has gone out of his way to consult people. Vander Zalm will announce the other committee members when returns from his two-week Hawaiian vacation Workers to get back pay VICTORIA (CP) — Union hospital workers in British Columbia are get ting retroactive cheques averaging $6,000 following a nine-year battle over job classification said Sean O'Flynn, secretary-business manager of the 29,000-member Hospital Em ployees Union “The battle was a long one. We never gave up.” The $7.8 million in retroactive pay will go to several hundred workers, “It’s quite a victory, said union spokesman Lecia Stewart The chairman of the General local of the union said ‘highly resistant to reclassifying orderlies and dietary aides."” Marty Térpenning said several ar bitration hearings were held on the Victoria management was issue over the nine-year period “but the ground rules kept changing with each arbitration.”” Office Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space tor rent in Castlegar, News building. Includes general of fice, private office, storage area. 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