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will still have plenty of
post-secondary educational
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sure of the David Thompson
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Smith wrote. ‘

“I am writing to request that this duty be under-
taken by the police forces in the province.”

Smith said he has contacted the RCMP and municipal
police forces to plan for the duty and to reduce the actual
serving of criminal documents to the minimum needed for
“the efficient operation of our court system.”

“Regional and local offices of Crown counsel and
court services will assist’the police to the maximum
extent possible,” he added.

Ald. Bob Pakula, chairman of the protective services
committee, said having police serve court documents wil!
mean less time for police to solve and prevent crimes.

“I think the provincial government should stand up
and take what they've got coming,” he said.

He -said municipalities can't keep on assuming
provincial government duties.

Pakula added in an interview that having police
serve court documents will mean either hiring more
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Both good and bad news

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
Staff Writer
There was some good news — and some not so good
news in the 1983 annual report at the annual general
meeting of the Kootenay Savings Credit Union Tuesday
night.
Joseph Biagioni, chairman of the board of directors, told
200 members that assets for Kootenay Savings reached $113
million in 1983, an increase of $8.5 million over 1962.
This was largely due to an increase in “membership
» said-Biagioni hip grew in 1983 by
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par
560 te-reach 21,080.

Biagioni also said net revenue for 1983 was enough to
“distribute an eight per cent share dividend which amounted
to $501,962.”

But because of declining interest rates, total income for
Kootenay Savings decreased by 17 per cent, or about $2.8
million, said Douglas Stanley, treasurer and general man-
age

total he said. 0)
by only 11 per cent in 1988, compared with 26 per cent in
1982.

r.
This was largely offset by a 14 per cent reduction in

Stanley said a combination of inflation and new services
planned for 1984 “leave little room for a further . . . reduction
in the rate of the annual increase.”

A $13 million increase in loans indi h

above the Canadian credit union system growth rate of 12
per cent,” he said.

During 1983, 4,175 loan applications were accepted,
making a total of $41,737,929 in loans for the year, a 21 per
cent increase over 1962, said Stanley.

Biagioni said the Kootenay Savings Insurance Services
Ltd. had a 16 per cent growth in revenue last year.

This was mainly because of the success of the
“Homecover” insurance package — an all-risk homeowner
insurance package.

Biagioni noted that improvements have been made to
the facade of the Fruitvale Kootenay Savings branch, and to
the interior and exterior of the Castlegar Kootenay Savings
branch.

He said the renovations to the Castlegar branch —to be
completed this year — include extra retail space that will be
rented out.

Guest speaker Donald Tuline, formerly general
manager of Kootenay Savings for five years and now with
the Richmond Savings Credit Union, stressed the need for
credit unions to give support to the B.C. Central Credit
Union.

All credit unions in B.C. are required by legislation to
belong to the BCCCU.

Although it had been reported members of the Nelson
and Trail District Labor Council would attend the meeting to
ask credit unions to complain to the BCCCU about its financ-

in the Stanley said.

This is a 16 per cent growth in loans over 1982 — “well

ing of the Harbor Cove project (which is being
built with non-union labor), no such concerns were publicly
voiced at the meeting.

ut

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er? refused to divulge the subject

seheduletf 15-minute address at 7 p.m. PST but hinted his
Gocial Credit government will introduce legislation that
‘would prevent labor strife from cancelling the Expo 86
transportation fair.

When asked if he planned to come down ‘hard on
unions, Bennett replied: “We never come down hard on
anyone, but the government has been known for taking
strong action.”

Union construction workers have said the downtown
Vancouver Expo 86 site will be a battleground if
non-union construction companies work there.

“There are a number of issues not only on my mind,
but of importance to the people of British Columbia, and
after we go through the due process of government, I'll
talk directly to the people and share those conclusions,”
the premier told a hastily-called news conference.

The premier is also expected to talk about the
eight-week lockout in the B.C. pulp and paper industry.
The two unions involved in the dispute say it is costing
the companies $10 million a day.

DISCUSSED BY CAUCUS

The construction and pulp disputes were diseussed
Monday by the Social Credit caucus, as well as & threat to
public transit in Vancouver and Victoria.

Bus drivers in the two cities, without a contract for
nearly a year, have been conducting a so-called unstrike
involving not wearing uniforms and accepting fare
pay to put ic pr on the government's
Metro Transit Operating Co.

Bennett would neither confirm nor deny that legisla-
tion would deal with any of the disputes.

“I don't want to invite speculation, but I don't want
to stop you (reporters) from doing your job at this
particular time,” he said.

Bennett has said B.C. is an open shop as far as his
government is concerned and he will cancel Expo 86 if
there is a major blow-up over the use of non-union labor
on the exposition site.

PAY HIGH PRICE

The premier said earlier he did not expect anyone
would want to sabotage Expo 86. He was replying to Roy
Gautier of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council
who said neither Expo nor any other major project would
go ahead using non-union labor “without a very high price
being paid.”

Until the courts stepped in, union and non-union
workers had been involved in a bitter confrontation at a
‘Vancouver condominium project near the Expo 86 site
where a non-union contractor has a $17-million contract to
complete a project started by a union firm.

‘About 7,000 members of the Canadian Paperworkers
Union and 5,500 members of the Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada were locked out by the industry Feb.
2, and talks broke off last week.

The Canadian Transit Union is seeking a nine-per-
cent wage increase over three years, exemption from the
Public Sector Restraint Act which gives the government
the power to stop vital seniority and layoff privisions
from public-sector union contracts, and reduced work
hours.

Unions step
up the fight

BND ig (FRAT

BURNABY (CP) — Union-
ized members of the con-
struction trades in British
Columbia are intensifying
their fight against non-union
contractors, union leaders
said Tuesday.

Roy Gautier, president of
the B.C. and Yukon Building
Trades Council, said protests
against non-union contrac-
tors will be stepped up across
the province and there will
be a renewed effort to organ-
ize non-union workers.

For three weeks, unem-
ployed union tradesmen have
picketed a Vancouver con-
dominium construction site,

preme Court found the coun
cil guilty of contempt of court
last week for disobeying a
court order restricting pic
keting at the site.

Gautier also told a news
conference that the council
will press the provincial gov-
ernment to strengthen its
Public Construction Fair
Wages Act, which sets wages
for government-funded con-
struction projects.

Meanwhile in Victoria,
about 300 members of the
Vancouver Island Building
and Construction Trades
Council demonstrated out-
side Royal Jubilee Hospital,

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government planes rfinke the
same trip, at the same time
with empty seats.

“That doesn't make any
sense to me,” he said during
debate on the spending esti-
mates of Transportation
Minister Alex Fraser. “Why
couldn't I warm a seat in that
government aircraft and save
the taxpayers of British
Columbia $134.50.”

Kempf said he was not
speaking just for himself, as a
member of the Social Credit
backbench, but for all mem-
bers of the legislature.

“I see absolutely no reason
whatsoever why the tax
payers should pay $5.2 mil
lion a year for this air ser-
vice, and have people travel
in the same air space at the

CHRIS D'ARCY . . . MLA’S
should have access to
government aircraft “only
if seats are available.”

same time and spend another
$134.50 each of the taxpay-
ers’ money.”

New Democrat Chris
D'Arcy agreed with Kempf
saying members of the legis-
lature should have access to
government aircraft “only of
course if a seat is available
and if a plane is going in the
same direction.”

He noted that when the air
service was set up under the
previous New Democratic
Party government, menibers
of the legislature were per-
mitted to use the govern-
ment aircraft.

suggesting
they be permitted to use the
plane when there is a seat
available.”

It would save taxpayers
money and make proper use
of available aircraft, he said.

Kempf said there are ways
to use the government air
Bervice to the fullest, and
“still save the taxpayers of
British Columbia a bundle in
the process.

“We could have twice the
service at the same price if it
were privatized, but if it isn’t
privatized, then for God's
sake let's let the people that
are elected to this chamber
utilize that service. There is
no reason why the taxpayers
Mould pay twice.”

Fraser said the govern.
ment has considered selling
the government air service to
the private sector but no de
cision has been made.

He said particular scrutiny
was given to the service's
schedule runs between Vic-
toria and Vancouver.

“No decision has taken
place but we're not finished
with that.”

lowed to watch kiddie porn
and other sexual material.

The “arousal” therapy is
part of an ambitious, new
treatment scheme Ottawa is
planning for as many as 100
sex offenders at Agassiz
Mountain Prison in the Fra-
ser Valley.

“If their sexual preference
is little girls, we show them
pictures of little girls,” said
federal consultant Jay Camp-
bell.

“Some of it is kiddie porn,
some of it isn't, some of it is
just pictures of little girls.”

Campbell said Tuesday the
idea is to measure the sexual
response of the criminals,
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plethysmograph.

“It is done in private lab
sessions specifically to meas-
ure sexual arousal,” he said.
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vacy, professionally and
without prurience.”

Once aroused, the convicts
will then be encouraged to
develop an aversion to their
perverted desires.

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at a stalemate.

Forest industry companies and their two pulp and paper unions have

been negotiating for almost a year.

The industry has been shut down for seven weeks. Now the Canadian
Paperworkers’ Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada have

refused to negotiate to end that shutdown.

The unions have even rejected an industry suggestion that the two sides
jointly seek mediation. The talks are at a stalemate. People are losing jobs.
The economy is stagnating. And the industry is losing international customers

—some likely forever.

We tried to break the stalemate by offering to negotiate these issues.

@ We offered to negotiate on pensions. The unions refused.

@ We offered to negotiate on running time. The unions refused.

@ We offered to negotiate on job security and seniority provisions. The

unions refused.

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