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block entrances to the luxury
condominium project, pre-
venting non-union contractor
Bill Kerkhoff from resuming
work at the site, despite a
court order banning picket-
ing.

McEachern refused a req-
uest from Kerkhoff to have
the court order against pic-
keting posted on the fence at
the entrance to the site.

Meantime, about 200
tradesmen showed up early
today at a Kerkhoff site in
Kamloops, but most employ-
ees went to work on the
$13-million law court project.

“We've got the same kind
of problem in Kamloops with
Kerkhoff, an anti-union,
right-to-work contractor,”
said John Harper, a business
agent for the Carpenters’
Union. “If he had his way,
he'd be paying people a third

Kerkhoff to have:

court order against pie:
keting posted on the fence at
the entrance to the False
Creek. condominium site.

Had it been successful,
Kerkhoff's proposal would
have, in effect, served the
eease-and-desist order on un-
named pickets, exposing
them all to contempt cita-
tions.

“If they are to be cited,
they will have to be cited in-
dividually,” McEachern
ruled.

A contempt hearing
against about a dozen indi-
viduals and unions in the dis-
pute has been set for March
29 when they must show
cause why they should not be
held in contempt.

BOARD ORDER

‘The contempt proceedings
centre on an order against
picketing issued by the Labor
Relations Board and regis-
tered at B.C. Supreme Court,
giving it the force of a court
order.

McEachern criticized the
delay until the end of the
month, saying it is unnec-
essary, because the court is
ready to hold a hearing at
any time.

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TRIBUTE . . . Sam Griden (lett), Castlegar Savings

Credit Union chairman, paid tribute to director
Robert Proctor at the annual general meeting Mon-

CSCU records profit

By RON NORMAN
Editor

Castlegar Savings Credit Union chalked up earnings
of more than $400,000 in 1983, board chairman Sam
Gruden reported Monday.

The earnings enabled the board to pay an eight per
cent dividend to shareholders, Gruden told 178 members
and guests at the credit union’s annual genera! meeting.

The turnout was “one of the largest in the history,”
of the credit union’s annual meeting, added general
manager Harold Webber. In fact, attendance so
surpassed expectations that the 150 annual report
booklets were quickly snapped up and members were
forced to share booklets.

The three-hour long meeting featured special guest
speakers Jack and Selma Dublin.

Gruden called 1983 “a year in which, as a result of
careful planning, firm membership support and dedica-
tion of staff and directors, we continued to realize sig-
nifjcant growth — growth which, in some areas, was the
largest in our history.”

The credit union recorded a record gain in loans last
year. Some $11.4 million in loans was granted “far ex-
ceeding our previous record of $9 million in 1977,” said
Gruden.

Of the total, $7 million were real estate loans — up 27
per cent, another all-time high. The credit union issued a
total of 1,277 loans last year — up 210 from 1,067 in 1982.

Credit committee chairman Bob Proctor said stable
interest rates played a large part in the increase in loans.

“Consumer confidence seems to have returned to our
area,” he said.

But Proctor added: “Perhaps the most encouraging
sign of economic recovery is the large increase in
business lending. Close to $1 million was approved for
such a purpose.”

That's an increase from just over $227,000 the year
before.

Canada Student Loans also jumped in 1983 to
$438,000 from $258,000.

Proctor pointed out that the credit union's delin-
quent loans “returned to a most favorable position.” They
dropped from 4.8 per cent in 1982 to just .9 per cent last

ear.

“Another indication of Tecovery was in the area of
totalling 61, down

from 135 in 1982,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gruden told members that deposits now
total a record $27 million. That included $4.5 million in
1983 alone.

day. Proctor, who sapped down (am the board ak:
ter three years, was given a framed painting on
behalf of the members.

Assets stand a $31 million, an increas of 20 per cent
from 1982.

“During the year as our country struggled to combat
recession, our biggest challenge was to bring in sufficient
funds to meet the strong loan demands,” said Gruden.

He said the credit union had overall earnings of
$401,000 compared to $308,000 the previous year. Net
earnings were $237,000, compared to $155,000 in 1962.

The credit union has retained earnings of $874,248.
In 1982 that figure stood at $637,125.

“Along with our growth in member deposits, assets,
loans and net earnings, we are also pleased to report to
you our growth in new accounts,” Gruden said.

“New accounts totalling 800 were opened last year —
a continuing sign of our acceptance and strength in the
communities we serve.”

He added that it was the board and staff's accurate
forecasting in 1982 of future interest rate trends that
“allowed us to position the credit union to absorb financial
burdens that would otherwise have fallen on individual
members.”

Gruden noted that the credit union renewed mort-
gages at lower rates as their terms expired and allowed
members to reduce rates during the term of their mort-
gages.
As well, the credit union continued to assist
members who were facing economic hardships by
and loan

y of pay
alterations.

Gruden said Castlegar Savings also managed to hold
the line on service charges and even eliminated the
monthly charge on the Golden Account, while converting
the chequing account to an interest-bearing account.

In addition, Gruden pointed to the success of the
credit union's insurance arm, which just completed its
first full year.

“In one period in 1983 compared with a similar period
in 1982 general insurance sales grew by 64 per cent,” he
said and revenue growth tripled.

He noted ‘that the insurance agency added another
full-time agent in 1988 — Vera Rezanzoff.

“Castlegar Savings Credit Union has enjoyed growth
and success despite the extremely difficult financial
climate that has persisted over the past four years,” said
Gruden.

He attributed the growth to the professional staff, to
the directors and to the fact the board is sensitive to local
needs.

receiving complaints

fhtreated in the ahermath of Uv y

finding mission to Canada in April, 11 e

In interviews with prisoners and: | priso
Amnesty International team heard allegations that ¢onvicts
in the segregation unit were beaten, with tear gas,
kept naked in their cells and deprived of sleep and proper
food.

“The Amnesty International delegation found that
there exists at least ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that
there was within the meaning of the UN Declaration on
torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or

h in the A ion during the per-
iod beginning July 26, 1982,” the report concludes.

Amnesty does not conclude there necessarily was
torture and ill treatment, but says it believes there is
sufficient evidence to demand that the Canadian govern-
ment undertake a full and independent investigation.

Three guards were murdered and the two leaders of the
uprising committed suicide. Four convicts were later found
guilty of the guards’ killing.

LAUNCH SUIT

Prisoners have since launched an $18-million class
action suit alleging their rights were violated by prison
authorities following the riot.

The Amnesty team, which consisted of a lawyer and a
doctor, received sworn statements about torture and ill
treatment from 18 prisoners and interviewed six of them.

The most serious Amnesty allegations concerned the

tha dhowers or shad oling water dumped on them whl
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Sit sedipeare eald they had tear gus sprayid' Gish thle
mouths, and all 18 prisoners said they were tear-gassed
through the food hole of their doors in their windowless
cells.

DENIES CHARGE

The report says the director of the prison, who also was

interviewed by Amnesty, denied that any prisoners were

by aerosol cans in the segregation unit during
the entire period of Amnesty's investigation — July 25 to
Nov. 1, 1982.

The report quotes four prisoners who said they were
held while their testicles were squeezed, hit or threatened
with a knife. Other prisoners said they were forced to
perform sexual services and three said they were urinated
on.

One prisoner told his lawyer that his head was pushed
into a toilet while another said he was smeared with human
feces.

large
in second place behind Mon-
dale in his hometown of Chi-

cago.

The 42-year-old preacher
and community organizer
vowed to stay in the fight for
the nomination, telling sup-

: “We're tough; we'll
hang in there; it’s a three
man race.”

Results of 79 per cent of
the popular vote gave Mon
dale 42 per cent, Hart 37 per
cent and Jackson 18 per cent.
Three per cent was divided

Several of these incid were also r d by
prisoners who had not been the victims, Amnesty says.

The human rights group says in the report that it
received full co-operation from the Canadian government
and was given access to prison service employees, prisoners
and guards.

Amnesty has sent a copy of the report to the Ottawa

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Cocaine
jungle
raided

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Police in Colombia raided an
isolated jungle cocaine pro-
cessing plant guarded by
communist guerrillas and
seized 12,500 kilograms of
cocaine with a street value of
$1.2 billion, a U.S. ambas-
sador said Tuesday.

“It’s the largest drug raid
ever in the world,” Lewis
Tambs said. “Never has any-
one been found with that
much cocaine . . . It's the
largest drug arrest ever by
any standard — money value,
product, the amount seized.”

Tambs described the co
caine seized as “about one-
quarter of the estimated an-
nual consumption of cocaine
in the United States.”

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treatment of convicts in the prison’s segregation unit, Of the

HEALTH COMMITTEE STUDY

government.

Limiting doctors is outlawed

OTTAWA (CP) —

The
Cc health i

ber of doctors in areas such
as Vi

finished its cl by-cl

the 1

study of the proposed Canada
health act Tuesday as it
approved amendments
sought by interns and resi-
dents, nurses, optometrists
and other health profession-
als.

In a move that will prob-
ably affect British Columbia
the most, MPs decided that
provinces will have to pro-
vide “1

probably isn’t strong enough
to outlaw Quebec policies
that effectively limit the in-
comes of young doctors in
greater Montreal as a way of
encouraging them to practise

lobbying provincial govern-
ments for a larger role in the
health-care system.

Dr. Roland des Groseil-
liers, president of the Cana-
dian Association of Optome-
trists, said the changes re-
move earlier concerns that
some provinces might use the

here in the provi he

said in an interview.
For nurses, optometrists,
physiotherapists, podiatrists
and chiropractors, the com-

toe for all. medicare ser-
by doctors.

evel Hugh Tildesley of Ed-
monton, president of the
Canadian Association of In-
terns and Residents, said the
amendment will make it il-
legal for the B.C. government
to withhold medicare “billing
numbers” to limit the num-

mittee appr two amend-
ments that would allow prov-
inces to bring the work of
“health care practitioners”
under medicare.
LARGER ROLE

Ginette Rodger, executive
director of the Canadaian
Nurses Association, said the
bill's new wording will en-
courage nurses to continue

Munro named
to Expo 86 board

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Jack Munro, regional pres-
ident of the International
Woodworkers of America
and a vice-president of the
B.C. Federation of Labor, has
been appointed to the board
of directors of Canada Har-
bor Place Corp.

ground will allow him to
make an excellent contribu-
tion to the board,” Austin
said.

Interviewed by telephone
from Portland, Ore., where
he is attending a union
convention, Munro said the
appointment of a labor rep-
to the board was

The ap was ann-
ounced by Senator Jack
Austin, minister responsible
for the development, which
will include the Canadian
pavilion for Expo 86 that will
subsequently be converted
into a trade and convention
centre and cruise ship ter-
minal complex.

“Jack Munro is an impor-
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discussed some time ago by
officials of the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor.

While he admitted he did
not know much about Canada
Harbor Place at present, “I'm
obviously looking forward to
getting involved in it,” he
said.

Munro has been regional
president of the wood-
workers’ union since 1973.

new to drop ser-
vices like optometry from
their provincial medicare
plans.

There are still no guar-
antees that provinces like
Alberta will maintain those
services, he said, but at least
they won't be able to use the

health act as an excuse for
dropping them.

The main purpose of the
legislation is to discourage
extra billing by doctors and
hospital user fees — except
room-and-board charges for
patients who are more or less
permanent residents of a
hospital or similar institution
in the opinion of their doc-
tors.

Provinces that continue to
allow extra charges will lose
one dollar in federal medicare
grants for each dollar pati-
ents have to pay out of their
own pockets.

194 teachers
to be laid off

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Vancouver school board has
voted to eliminate 194 teach-

represent almost
cent of the distri 5
A special committee study-

ing i by

meaning the size of the aver-
age high school class will
increase to 29.4 students.

And George Pedersen,
president of the University of
British Columbia, said the
university, faced with a $9-
million deficit this year, is
preparing to cut tenured
academics and administra-
tive staff.

Assistant school superin-
tendent Gerry Staley predic-
ted that larger classes and
less personal attention and
help for slow-learning chil-
dren are in store for students
at elementary and secondary
schools.

The school board cuts,
which will also eliminate 28
counsellors, administrators
and special needs experts,

ing the 's financial
position will report by mid-
April, but Pedersen said, “I
don't see how they can avoid
the conclusion that we are in
a state of financial exigency.”

Dennis Pavlich, the univer-
sity’s faculty association
president agreed with Peder-
sen and is recommending
that the faculty approve a
plan outlining termination

lures.

Under the terms of their
collective agreement with
the university, tenured fac-
ulty members can be fired or
declared redundant if the
institution finds itself in a

Pedersen would not est-
imate how many staff would
be let go but said the process
will be expensive.

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among who have
since dropped out.

Mondale, 56, acknowled-
ged his margin over Hart was
not great and refused to take
back the front-runner label
he lost to the Colorado sen-
a string of state defeats
las'

A record 2.7 million voters
went to the polls, part of a
state-by-state process lead-
ing to the nomination at a na-
tional convention in San
Francisco next summer of a
Democrat to run against Re-
publican President Ronald
Reagan on Nov. 6.

The primary included the
popular vote, called a beauty
contest, and selection of
delegates to the summer
convention where the winner
needs 1,967 of 3,933 delegate
votes. Further big contests
are scheduled during the
next few weeks in New York,
Conneticut, Pennsylvania
and Ohio.

The Illinois results boosted
Mondale’s lead in committed
delegates as they pledged 90

delegates chosen in state pri-
maries and caucuses 80 far to
612 for Mondale, 882 for
Hart, 61 for Jackson, 127
uncommited and 116 ‘for
others, a category which in-
cludes those who have drop-
ped out of the race. Some of
those listed under former
presidential candidates are
committed to Hart.

Racial divisions that have
been wracking Chicago city
polities under Mayor Wash-
ington spilled over into the
presidential primary and
were symbolized in the clos-
ing days of the campaign by
controversy over a Hart ad-
vertising campaign against
Mondale.

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Page 5, item 27. The
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Kootenay Savings
Credit Union

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, March 27 - 7:30 p.m.

GUEST SPEAKER:

DONALD F. TULINE
jot Officer, Savings Cr

Richmond, B.C.

Trail, B.C.

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ATTENTION

During this

period, the

Branch Office at South Slocan Will Be Open:
vinFriday, March 23 — 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
vionmaturday, March 24 — 9a.m. -2 p.m.
Monday, March 26 — 10a.m. -5 p.m.

Waneta Plaza Branch Is Open:

Friday, March 23 — 10a.m.

Saturday, March 24 — 10a.m.-3 p.m.

-6p.m.

Monday, March 26 — 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Trail Branch Is Open:
Friday, March 23 — 10a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monday, March 26 — 10a.m. -5 p.m.

CASTLEGAR BRANCH OFFICE WILL RE-OPEN TUESDAY,
MARCH 27 AT 10 a.m. FOR REGULAR SERVICE

Kootenay Savings