B6é CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 22, 1981 DRAFTING CLASS of Selkirk College Vocational Centre, Nelson, recently were hosted by Cominco for a tour of the company’s central shops and engineering operations at Trail. At a classroom session with Leon Davenport, Cominco’s general superintendent, technical and design services (right) Brian Wilk are (from left) instructor Joe Harshenin. ins, Norma McMillan, Kelly Campbell, Kim Aiken, Darrell pressed with the structure of the wa oa Crowley, Brenda .Nelson, Byron Eady, Mary McLaren, Rosalyn Genero, Clark Purvis, Ann Quaedvlieg, Elroy Verigin, Kelly Tamelin, Fred Green and Steve Clement. Harshenin said the Cominco visit was very worthwhile for the class. He sald they were particularly im- Price right for gold investment VANCOUVER (CP) — Gold, which fell below $400 U.S. an ounce Tuesday for the first time in more than three months, is at a good price for accumulation by long-term investory, says one of the world's foremost gold experts, Eugene Sherman said Tuesday that, although gold is ort likely to fall than. to shoot up in price in the near | term, purchases are in order for average investors who lack the agility, know-how and high-level research of professional traders, Sherman is an economist and vice-president with In- ternational Gold Corp of New York, the marketing arm of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. He was in ‘ing op \. Agreement step backwards By MADELAINE DROHAN VANCOUVER (CP) — When workers at the Crows Nest Resources Ltd. coal mine in h B.C. When the arrangement came before the B.C. Labor Relations Board and detuiis were revealed, complaints faced from unit who ating engineers’ local in- volved, agreed that collective agreements signed with lo- cals without members are ratified a controversial con- tract last weekend, the com- pany and the union pro- claimed a new era in labor history, but rival unionists say the era looks suspiciously like the Middle Ages. Located near Fernie in the coal-rich Elkford Valley, the mine gained notoriety last summer when Crows Nest signed a collective agreement. with a memberless local of the International Union of 0 ; unusual in the mining indus- try, but it was commonplace in the construction industry. BULK NOT MINERS The bulk of the union's membership in B.C. and the Yukon is in heavy con- struction, road building and dredging, with only 2,600 of its 11,000 members working in mines. Alaggia said with another company and another union, the method of signing might have left the door open for an argued the vagueness of the contract language and the lack of protection for the worker were unprecedented in B.C. mining agreements. The company said it was vindicated when workers voted 90 per cent in favor of both the union and the con- tract in Nov. 13 vote, but disturbing questions raised amid the din have not en- tirely been put to rest. Fred Alaggia, business P ive for the oper- inferior agreement. In this Obsolete holdings WASHINGTON (AP) — Some members of Congress are wondering why the U.S. government, a trillion dollars in debt; can’t sell off the stuff. - it doesn't need, like a light- house on Oahu, Hawaii, or prime resort property on Mantucket Island, Mass. The General Services Ad- ministration says its listing of unneeded or obsolete hold- ings by the biggest landlord in the United States is far from complete, but it already knows of $1.3 billion worth. Moreover, that value is based Sister to take animals to states MILL BAY (CP) — Sister Julia, manager of the con- troversial Good Shepherd Animal Shelter, intends to sell more than 56 acres of land owned by the nonprofit society, and relocate — along with more than 300 animals — in California. But two recently ousted society directors, Heather Hives and David Cutts, want to stop the nun because they do not think some of the ani- mals at the shelter — about 16 kilometres south of Dun- can on Vancouver Island — could survive the journey and change of climate. on original purchase prices, Senator Charles Percy and may be short of today's i (R-Ill.) and R case, he said, it allowed the two parties to forge a con- tract that contains daring in- novations. Chief among these, says Alaggia, are provisions made to encourage upward mobil- ity among workers. Under what he called a “multi-skill program,” workers at the mine embark on a training program where they are financially rewarded for each new skill they learn. The more they know, the more they are paid, an incentive designed to produce more skilled’ workers and to de- crease boredom. But Jerry Fast, staff rep- resentative for the rival Can- adian Association of Indus- trial, Mechanical and Allied Workers, said the multi-skill sections of the contract are worded in such a way that there is no protection for worker seni In the B.C. mining indus- try, Fast said, there are no master agreements. Unions to speak to a gold investment seminar. The precious metal closed Tuesday in Zurich at $397.50 a troy ounce, down from $404.50 Monday. It closed in London at a median $899,125, down from Monday's $404.876. The last time gold closed below $400 was Aug. 1 with each company. ABIDE BY CONTRACT Because of the way the contract was agreed to at Crows Nest, the workers must abide by a settlement they had no part in formulat- ing, said Fast. “This flies in the face of every democratic principle.” Fast’s union, although out- side the mainstream of the Canadian Labor Congress, represents about 2,000 mine workers out of B.C.'s total of about 5,500. Although he is concerned about vague wording and lack of seniority protection in the contract, he says his union’s main purpose in ap- pealing to the Labor Rela- tions Board was the lack of market by a factor of 10 or more. The list ranges from an old naval machine shop on Ocra- coke Island off North Car- olina, to the main post office in Olathe, Kan., to the Mak- apuu lighthouse on Oahu. And it cites 12 “under- utilized” hectares of land on Nantucket Island. The value is listed at $1,000, or $82 a hectare, for prime resort property. Larry Winn (R-Kan.) have introduced resolutions that would require the president to inventory all property not needed, excluding parks, monuments and _ historic sites. A procedure would then be drawn up for selling the property, at real market. prices, with the proceeds to be used to reduce the na- tional debt. QUESTIONS REASONING Percy said: “When we are holding on to property that we no longer need, where there is no earthly use for it, it is like someone deciding for sentimental reasons, ‘I won't sell my house when I buy another one. I. . . wili hang on to the old homestead, buy another house and hang on to the two of them, buy another and hang on to the three of them. The animals are currently housed in several buildings on the Good Shepherd shel- ter property but new muni- cipal zoning restrictions pre- vent major reconstruction so the shelter has to move be- fore it is condemned. Last year, the Victoria branch of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals investigated the shelter and found no signs of cruelty to animals. But the society made several recom- mendations to improve the quality of life for the more than 400 animals living there at the time. : “You would examine their sanity if they did things like ‘that. But that is what the federal government does.” Mertz said President Rea- gan’s Office of Management and Budget, which has been searching for ways to reduce the U.S. deficit, has been “very interested,” and presj- dential counsellor Edwin’ Meese has expressed support for the idea. A nugget of information BC. mini earths” alot MOI “more Operating mines in British Columbia earned $418 Ata time when unions are pressing for concrete details in their contract, with all benefits outlinedas com. pletely as possible, this agreement represents a giant step backwards, he said. Fast is emphatic in arguing that comparisons cannot be made with the construction industry, where a master b at the time the agreement was signed. Fast said his union never attempted to organize the 140 Crows Nest workers and when a third group, the United Mineworkers, filed for certification this fall, the association dropped out of the board hearings after making its point. 0. “The ‘h analysts would say gold is to go lower,” Sherman said in an interview. “But even though it could get low or higher in the near term, who can tell? Federal gov't bookkeeping criticized OTTAWA (CP) — Auditor General Kenneth Dye criti- cized federal bookkeeping practices this week, saying they understate Canada’s debt by $9 billion, By Dye’s reckoning, the accumulated deficit — Fi- nance Department figures place it at about $86 billion at the end of August — is really about $95 billion. Dye said the annual spend- ing deficit, which in the last” fiscal year was a little more than $12 billion, would in- crease anywhere from $400 million to $1.8 billion if his suggestions were imple- mented. collective agreement may exist for each trade. Ratified by working tradesmen, these master agreements cover all tradesmen and are binding on any construction firm 4 hiring union labor. Thus a new firm can sign a contract with a union local without members because the work- ers, when they are hired, will be covered by these existing agreements. valley landscape nursery © Exclusivel; at Valley Landsca INI EAN Seeds Nursery. © Full Line of Flower & Vegetable Seeds. BULK ORDERS should be PLACED NOW ORDER YOUR FRUIT TREES NOW For Spring Planting NURSERY 226-7270 Winlaw, B.C. DESIGN & ESTIMATES William J. Dudley, L.A. 365-5702 es The energy used to heat water for your home costs money so it may pay you to examine the efficiency of your system. 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Verigin-Voykin wedding vows The man called A late afternoon ceremony at tho Brilliant Cultural Cen- tre on July 25 united in mar. riage Natasha Voykin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Peter N. Voykin of Pass Creek, and Floyd Frank Ver- igin, son of Mr, and Mrs, Nick N. Verigin of Slocan, The bride was dressed in a traditional Doukhobor en- semble of polyester satin with scalloped neckline and lily-point sleeves. Her head- dress was a shawl with white doves and red roses and she carried a bouquet of red roses, orchids and baby's breath. Attending the bride were her cousins, Patricia Voykin and Sheryl Sookachoff, both of Pass Creek. Both girls wore Doukhobor ensembles of blue and white floral and carried bouquets of blue and white carnations with baby’s breath. The groom's brother, Mr. Gary Verigin of Slocan, was best man and usher was Mr, Harvey Shkuratoff, the groom's cousin of Winlaw. Blue and white carnations, bells and were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Frank Verigin. WINNIPEG (CP) — A soft-spoken lawyer from Sel- kirk fooled a lot of political pundits who claimed he just didn’t have it in his personal makeup to beat tough-talking Sterling Lyon, the Progres- sive Conservative premier of Manitoba. But Howard Pawley, the New Democratic Party pre- micr-elect, won Tuesday's election handily, grabbing 34 seats to the PCs 23 in the 57-seat legislature. Pawley first tasted politi- cal victory in 1967 when under leader Ed Schreyer, now Governor-General, he won the seat of Selkirk, north of Winnipeg. He was de- feated in federal bids for the CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 22, 1981 Pawley speeches he was to give that NDP in 1967, 1958 and 1965. day. Pawley held several port- folios in Schreyer’s govern- ment and as YBN 1 was responsible for reforms ia family law and improve- ments in human rights rela- _ tions. Reporters who covered the recent provincial campaign found the 46-year-old pre- mier-elect a good story teller — a fact that the PC gov- ernmont tried to cover up with a tirade about how he just wasn’t a political leader. During the campaign, Pawley would retreat to the back of his bus where he would practice making Pawley, who lives in Sel- kirk with his wife Adolo and their two children, Chris, 18, Believed last great mystery of London LONDON (AP) — British archeologists’ have found what they believe is the “last After 10 months of ex- cavation at 2 cost of $160,000, the team from the Museum of London's dep of ur- ban’ hs found what is “99-per-cent certain” to be a foundation pier of the Roman bridge at a site only a few metres from what is now London Bridge, in the capi- tal’s financial district. ERCIVIL used for the decor of the re- ception hall. Highlighting the head ta- ble was the two-tier wedding cake decorated in a blue and white theme. The top layer was heart-shaped and fea- tured a double-ring cake top. Master of ceremonies was Mr. Harry Zarchikoff of Win- laws. Mr. and Mrs. Verigin are making their home in Perry Siding. Will intervene in hearings on Site of dam VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Hydro's proposed Site C dam on the Peace River in northeastern B.C. should be rejected and the valley land preserved for agriculture, says the provincial New Democratic Party caucus. The NDP, in a brief to the B.C. “Utilities Commission, said Hydro is not taking into full account the social and environmental costs of the project, which would flood 6,500 hectares of land, of which 2,227 hectares are in the agricultural land reserve. The NDP is one of about 70 Albums are not enough TORONTO (CP) — Cou- ples about to tie the matri- monial knot are no longer satisfied with recording the big event just with an album of glossy photographs. More ambitious — not to mention wealthy — families long have been able to film weddings on Super 8 movie cameras. Now the advent of videotape recorders. has slashed costs and made mov- jes at the altar an everyday The figures tell the story. Buying and processing enough Super 8 footage to film six hours of a wedding ceremony and reception would cost the amateur pho- tographer more than $1,400, a video camera can do the growing number of profes- sional photographers offering videotape recordings as an alternative to stills because he- noticed “so many people doing their own recordings of wedding groups in parks like Allan Gardens.” “Iusea planning to intervene in the commission's hearings on Hy- dryo's application for a proj- ect certificate to build the $2.64 billion dam. Those hearings will be held from Nov. 24 to Dec. 11 in several in filming, working in the background to get natural shots at the bride's home beforehand, during the cere- mony and at the reception afterwards. The minute you start posing people, they get Peace River and reopen Jan. 5 in Vancouver. The NDP caucus brief, Chris QUALITY NOT TOPS One drawback he says, is that the quality of videotape pictures doesn’t yet match Super 8 movies or stills, but new processes will soon close the gap. Industry sources estimate there are about 150,000 homes in Canada with a videotape recorder-player but it was always assumed the machines were used mostly for taping television programs and playing movie . cassettes. In the late 1970s, only about 10 per cent of VTR purchasers ‘wanted to buy the additional cameras to complete their kits, but in the last year has jumped to 50 per cent of new customers. Cameras can be expensive sat around $1,400, but this in- the professionals to do the job because of wedding-day + Did that +419 417 you Know (e+ PES es) jitters. the, capabilities for 2'' : ‘color, sound, zoom lens, fade- in and out and even titles. But this price tag can be a little steep on top of at least $800 for the recorder for many families when they still have to pay for the church service and reception. The answer is rent a videotape camera just for the day. One Toronto video store rents the cameras for about $60 a day during the week and $125 during the week- end. A tape costs $28. Do-it-yourself with a rented camera is obvio the cheapest alternative but many couples prefer to pay MLAs jland-Trail), Robert Skelly (Alberni) and Barbara Wallace (Cowichan- Malahat), was released Mon- day. It says cheap, hydroelec- tric power has been the basis of most of the B.C.’s manu- facturing industries but should not be considered a renewable resource because it largely prevents alter- native uses of rivers and val- leys. It says the energy growth rate should be reduced by encouraging conservation ad structuring rates to promote efficient use. 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