For Your Convenience OPEN SUNDAYS SORRY NO DELIVERIES ON SUNDAY BIRD oracen sree 10 a.m to 3 p.m « IRLY 224¢ Castlegar 365-2175 6th Ave Counselling Assistance to Small Enterprises Ed Delamont will be at the Fireside Motor Inn in Castlegar on Wednesday, June 10 from’ 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. and at the North Shore Inn in Nelson on Thursday, June 11 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. He will be available to discuss, without charge, your business problems, proposals or expansion ideas to determine if a counsellor could assist you. For more information or an appointment call: E.H. DELAMONT 426-7241 (COLLECT) 30-1 1th Avenue S., Cranbrook, B.C. Federal Business Banque fédérale @ Bank de Canad DEFECTS RULED OUT IN AIR CRASH SPOKANE, WASH. (AP) — Structural flaws and flight- control problems have been ruled out as possible causes of a U.S. Air Force tanker crash that killed seven, ae anybody to talk to you about it” The April 2 report was one of several probes into the crash of the $19-million US i tanker, Some Padings on $100 MILLION a9 General strike costly VANCOUVER (CP) — Monday’ ‘3 planned provincewide general strike against proposed labor legislation could cost British Columbia $100 million, says the chief economist for the B.C. Centtal-Credit Union. And if a summer of labor unrest follows, it will shake investor confidence, Richard Allen said. ‘But Michen} Walker, director of the conservative ive Fraber the—industrial —eording-to—one-ii board report. The Air Force Safety Mis- hap Investigation Board re- port said that investigators were focusing on weather conditions, the aircraft crew's skill and training, the plane's ability to perform the maneuvers it was flying, and i that made site by the middle of June. ‘The KC-135 jet tanker crashed while rehearsing routines for a newly formed Stratgic Air Command aerial- demonstration team called the Thunderhawks. The team included the tanker and its ion B-52. y indicate two of the plane's engines stalled shortly before the March 13 crash at Fair- child Air Force Base. Information from the ré- port was published by a Spo- kane newspaper. “You've got a document that is for official use only,” said a Strategie Air Com- mand spokesman at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., after being asked to comment on the report. “You can't expect The six aboard the tanker and another Thunderhawks ¢erew member on the ground were killed when the plane wept down. The Thunderhawks teaif” was to make its public debut during Fairchild’s open house early in May. All Strategic Air Ci aerial-d introduced prea 2 and the general strike — if noti noticed by foreign investors at all — will have a positive effect outside British Columbia. Allen said his estimate of $100 million is based on the assumption that three-quarters of B.C.'s unionized workers will strike Monday. Lost wages would be $36 million, he said, with 360,000 people each forfeiting an average $100 a day. Indirect costs, h as cuts in corporate profits, could be $40 million to $65 million. The $100 million is small compared with British Columbia’s $56-billion annual gross domestic product, the total value of goods and services produced, Allen said. FEARS INSTABILITY “But investment is critical,” he cautioned. “If the impression is one of labor instability. then it could encourage a lack of investment. The perception could last for several years.” Walker said the legislation and strike could signal foreign investors that B.C.'s labor climate is changing stration team planes were grounded following the ac- cident. ly. “The day of protest signals a change to the Labor Code and that might be a signal to investors that B.C. is now a place to invest,” Walker said. “In discussions I've had in my travels, the perception is that (the islati is welcome.” LOTTERIES BE A YEAR-ROUND GARDENER with a SOLAR PRISM GREENHOUSE The Ultimate in Backyard Greenhouses! Y ict Wh MANUFACTURED BY ‘SUNRISE FIBERGLASS ENGINEERING, INC. W. 17} Sanderson Way Sanderson Field Shelton, WA 98584 ON DISPLAY 3 DAYS ONLY Sunday, May 31 Monday, June 1 Tuesday, June 2