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a2 Castlégar News October 22, 1986

HSA workers return

By The Canadian Press

Striking health care technicians returned to work

Tuesday at Trail Regional Hospital — at least temporarily.
The technicians, members of the Health Sciences Associa-
tion, had been on strike since last Thursday

An HSA spokesman said union members in all five of

the B.C. hospitals on strike since last Thursday were sent
back to work. The other hospitals included Roya! Columbian,
Victoria General and hospitals in Prince George and Vernon.
However new picket lines appeared at 11 other
hospitals Tuesday, including Boundary Hospital in Grand
Forks. The strike has cancelled all but emergency operations
at those hospitals and some heart patients say they might
become victims of the labor dispute.
Tatos, 61, of suburban Coquitlam, said Tuesday
the life-saving heart operation he needs has already been

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cancelled twice this month because of hospital labor
disputes.

His doctor said the surgery might be delayed further as
bby ahainatarymacieel stoppage by the 5,500-member
Health Sciences Association.

“Te been taking six nitroglycerine pills a day to fight
the pain and anxiety,” Tatos said in a cardiac ward interview
at Royal Columbian Hospital in nearby New Westminster.

Tatos is one of 200 patients waiting to be transferred to
Vancouver General Hospital for a quadraple heart valve by
pass Pickets hospital
Tuesday.

WAIT FOR CALL

“It's terrifying to think they might wait until he has a
heart attack before they can do the operation,” said Tato's
wife Jo-Ann. “You have no idea how horrible this has been —
waiting for the phone to ring, hoping each time it's good
news.”

New picket lines appeared at major hospitals Tuesday
— Vancouver General, Richmond General, Burnaby General
and Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. Six other hospital
unions have agreed to provide only essential services.

Dr. Robert Hayden, associate director of the cardio-
vascular surgical unit at Vancouver General, said the strike
has seriously affected health services already undermined
by a shortage of nurses and technicians.

“Hospitals are now only doing surgery on those too sick
to send home,” said Hayden. “Mr. Tatos and others are
certainly suffering because of it.”

Rev. Bud Raymond, an Anglican priest who is also
waiting for heart surgery, said he is praying for those who
are waiting in pain. He said the waiting “unnecessarily brut-
alizes people.”

PICKETS INCREASED

The union said it increased its picketing because of what
it described as a lack of will by employers to settle the
dispute which has also hit St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver,
Royal Inland in Kamloops, St. Joseph's in Comox and
hospitals in Prince Rupert, Kimberley and 100 Mile House,
as well as Boundary Hospital.

The association includes lab and X-ray technicians and
physiotherapists.

On Monday, the association asked Premier Bill Vander
Zalm to relay a new offer to the hospitals’ bargaining
committee, but Vander Zalm said he did not want to be
directly involved in the dispute.

The association said it wants a 10.2-per-cent increase
over two years but the offer was rejected by the Health
Labor Relations Association because it cut in half the length
of a four-year agreement reached last week but rejected by
health workers.

Nelson airport
given $70, 000

By CasN Staff such as Air BC and Time. Air
Nelson Municipal Airport who may need to use the
will receive $70,000 for run- airport from time to time due
way repairs from the federal to adverse weather condi-
government. tions or emergencies.”
Kootenay West MP Bob The release said the funds
Brisco made the announce. 2°¢ 4 further indication of the
ment Tuesday on behalf of federal government's on-
Transportation Minister going commitment to help
John Crosbie. strengthen the economies of
“This is particularly wet Nelson and all of Kootenay

come news because the run ete |

way at Nelson is badly in : sais

ce y available through a federal
need of repair,” Brisco said in : :

a ‘prepared ‘release program designed to assist
Propel : local airports in making im
“I expect this announce- provements.

ment will be enthusiastically Most of the money is ex.

received by the City of Nel-
son, the Nelson Pilot's As.
sociation, other local avia-
tors, and airlines

pected to be used for runway
repairs but a portion will be
used to conduct a design
study for runway overlay.

CONSUMERS GROUP .. . Gerald ‘Abele appeals to
small crowd at Sandman Inn to join the Electric Con- sas.

sumers Association in a bid to halt sale of West

WEST KOOTENAY POWER

Kootenay Power and Light Co. to UtiliCorp Ltd. of Kan-

Costiews Photo by Mike Koleaniho

Association fights sale

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

The executive manager of the
Electric Consumers Association said
Tuesday night he believes in retaining
Canadian ownership of Canadian util-
ities.

“A foreign corporation has control
over your power bill,” Gerald Abele

* told 15 people at an ECA meeting at

the Sandman Ini in Castlegar.

The ECA was formed to try to halt
the sale of West Kootenay Power and
Light Co. to UtiliCorp of Kansas City,
Mo. for $80 million last summer. The
sale must still be approved by the B.C.
Utilities Commission.

“This is your last chance to protect
your interest,” he said.

“Let us consumers put our money
where our month is.”

Abele, a construction contractor
from Nelson, said local consumers
should purchase WKPL. He said if each
of WKPL’s 250,000 consumers invested
$320, they would raise the $80 million
necessary to match the UtiliCorp bid.

“T'm not saying that every consumer
will put up $820,” he said. “Many have
already indicated a desire to purchase
much more. Corporations like brew.

eries and sawmills may want to pur.
chase a million dollars worth, and why
shouldn't they?”

Abele said the investment risk is
minimal. He said WKPL is a well-man
aged, growing and efficient company
He added if it is a worthy investment
for foreign companies then it has the
same potential for local consumers.

“I'm not anti-foreign investment; I'm
pro-foreign investment,” he said, “as
long as it comes in and produces
something new. To come in and
purchase something in existence, to
siphon out of this country, is wrong.”

Abele insisted “nationality is not the
issue.”

“If I was from Idaho and another
country walked in and purchased Idaho
power, I'd be equally as upset and I'd
stand up to do something about it.”

Abele said the means by which Utili
Corp purchased WKPL was also
wrong. He said the American bid came
in four days after the due date of the
preliminary bidding.

In addition, he said Cominco,
WKPL's owner, accepted a preliminary
bid when the bidding was meant to
proceed to a final round. Finally, Abele
said UtiliCorp’s bid exceeded the next
highest Canadian bid by $20 million.

“The book price of WKPL is around
$45 million,” he said. “Such an ex
cessive offer 1 would call a takeover
bid.”

Abele said a credit union group has
shown interest in assisting financially.
He said consumers could go to the
credit union to purchase shares in
WKPL.

One man at the meeting, who
declined to be identified, asked Abele
why nothing was being said about the
Chinese purchase of Westar Timber’s
Celgar pulp mill. He said, “Nothing is
really being taken away from us (with
the WKPL purchase) like lumber.”

The man left before a reply could be
given

Abele said he was dissappointed in
the meeting's turnout. He said about 75
people attended a similar meeting in
Salmo.

Abele asked all those present to help
any way they could. He asked for ECA
membership forms to be distributed
and information centres to be estab-
lished. He said the Association's mem
bership has already reached 2,500.

“We consumers must gét together
for a strong united voice, he said. “This
may easily be your last chance.”

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Families
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OTTAWA (CP) Six of
every 10 single-parent fami
lies headed by women are
living in poverty, the non
profit National Council of
Welfare said Tuesday

The council said prelimi
nary Statistics Canada data
indicate the number of such
families reached 261,000 in
1985 and has been growing
every year since 1981

The percentage of other
families and single people
living in poverty declined
slightly in 1985 as the econ-
omy improved, it added.

Council director Ken Bat
tle said it's not known how
many children under 18 are
living in families with in
comes below the poverty
level

“When a family breaks up,
the mother still tends to have
the kids,” he said in an
interview. “Even if she was
employed before, ber family
income is going to be more
than halved in all ikelinoed =

The council's analysis of
the latest statistics also
shows that women in other
family or non-family situa
tions tend to be worse off
than men.

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TREET “TALK

THE NEW owners of Celgar pulp mill have changed
the mill's name. When Westar Timber owned the mill it
was called Celgar Pulp Operations.

The sale was finalized Oct. 10, a new company was
formed under the name Celgar Pulp Co. The mill's
address, telephone and telex numbers remain the same.

THE VILLAGE of Slocan has received a $17,000
Expo legacy grant to pay for renovations to the village's
ballpark and the new logger sports area.

THE NEW transit system's bus stop signs were
installed this week. The attractive “pole”-type signs are
easy to spot. Now all we need is the bus and we're set

HAVE YOU noticed that there are two Shell service
stations in town?The former Woodland Park Esso has
changed to Shell. And right across the street is Junction
Shell

RUMORS HAVE it that an Arby's is coming to town.
Believe it when you see it.

CHAHKO-MIKA MALL plans about $300,000 in
renovations over the next two months. The Great-West
Life Assurance Co., owners of the mall, and Dominion
Management, the mall's manager, said they have
awarded the renovation contract to J. Sawada Con
tracting Ltd. of Nelson

The remodelling will include major changes to the
interior of the mall. The three skylight areas will be
enlarged allowing more light. As well, additional lighting
will be added throughout to brighten the common area

The interior will be painted and flooring laid, com
bining larger tile areas and new carpet.

Mirrors will be used throughout to accent the
features and the mall's furniture will be refurbished.

HAVE ANY 1950s-era clothing lying around?Screen
Gems Canada could use it. The film company is making a
period piece called Housekeeping in Nelson (and around
the West Kootenay including in Tarrys and Castlegar)

Anyone who has clothing that may be appropriate
for use in the film should call costume designer Mary

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IR THOSE wondering who's who on the new
Cominco board of directors, here's a scorecard:

Norman B. Keevil Jr., president and chief executive
officer of Teck, was appointed to the board and elected
chairman succeeding M. Norman Anderson who resigned.
Robert E. Hallbauer, senior vice president of Teck, was
appointed to the board and elected president and chief
executive officer.

The other new Directors include Nerman B. Keevil
Sr., chairman of Teck; David A. Thompson, vice
president, finance, Teck, who will also serve as chairman
of a special financing and restructuring committee of the
board; Norman -Fussell, executive general
manager, MIM Holdings Limited, Brisbane, Australia;
John Middlin, director of Metals Division, MIM Holdings
Limited, Brisbane, Australia; Heinz Schimmelbusch,
member of board, Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfrut,
West Germany; Klaus Zeitler, president, Metallgesell
schaft Canada, Toronto.

Directors resigning from the Cominco board besides
Anderson were chairman and chief executive officer, L.
Barber, F.S. Burbidge, R.W. Campbell, S.E. Eagles, P.A.
Nepveu and W.W. Stinson.

Continuing on as Cominco directors are J.L.
Anderson, Duthie, R. Hougen, DJ. Kelsey, R.A.
MacKimmie, FH. Tyaack and W.G. Wilson.

THE NADIAN/AMERICAN exchange rate can
be regarded as higher (or lower!) on one side of the
border than the other depending on whether one is
selling or buying currency

Most people believe financial institutions on this side
of the 49th parallel charge more then their counterparts
do in the United States — and that stores there are
cheaper still.

Most stores in Spokane at the weekend were offering
a 30 per cent exchange rate, which looked pretty good.
When a $50 bill was proffered, they gave you
American and then took the price of your purchase out of
the $35

However, if you gave a $50 bill to the Bank of
Montreal here in Castlegar on Monday, they'd give you
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