B8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28, 1981 Little spot market fuel available VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver refineries have os CE e@ ee ; New insertions, copy changes and d _, Cancellations for the Castlegar u \ ' News Business Directory will be accepted before the first Wed- . y nesay Issue of each month only. te Telephone 365-5210 - WEATHERCAST Legistative Library. Farliament Bldgse, sol Victoria, Bs. Cé Ne . Highs will be around bec with run so low of heavy fuel oil that some ships with con- tracts to bunker here have z been redirected to U.S. ports, say shipping and oil industry executives. Most of the port's regular customers are being looked after, but there is little or no spot market fuel available. Spokesman for major Van- couver refineries had differ- ing opinions Monday about aR |= DUNWOODY & CO. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. the current of, bunker, but all agreed sup- plies this month have been tight. Neil Palmer, of Shell Oil's maritime department in Van- couver said, “We're sold out for December. Anyone look- ing for spot fuel in Vancouver is out of luck until January.” A spokesman for Gulf Can- ada, however, said his com- pany is having no problem meeting demand either from regular customers or the spot market. Imperial Oil also main- tained there are sufficient supplies to meet “historic” contracts. “We have been able to supply our regular custom- ers,” said Dick Wilton, of Imperial’s marine sales. “If we got an inquiry from someone in dire straits we would look at it very closely, but we don’t have a surplus right now. That's how the bunker market is. You sell to your supply capability.” Censorship martial law still wanted TORONTO (CP) — Can- adians favor civil liberties on specific issues of women’s and native rights, but still want martial law available to the federal government, a York University study shows. In the 1981 survey of 3,300 people, which was part of a larger five-year study of social change in Canada, 90 per cent of the respondents believed women should get equal pay for equal work. And more than 70 per cent felt women should be prom- oted or hired to compensate for past disciminatory em- ployment practices. Two-thirds of those sur- veyed agreed with a state- ment that native peoples should have some form of self-government, Michael Stevenson, a pol- itical science professor, said there was a departure from the liberal stand on the ques- Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B:Sc., C.A. Resident Partner EMERGENCY APPLICANCE REPAIR SERVICE & APPLIANCES SOLD ° MAYTAG © SPEED QUEEN . © GIBSON GENERAL ELECTRIC CASTLE TIRE . (1977) Ltd. 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The new 80-cent stamp is stamp, becat in the bottom right hand” corner where the 30-cent de- nomination should be. . The “A” stamp was issued earlier this year before the new Canada Post corporation had made a decision on the postal. rate increase. Until the new 980-cent stamps become available, residents wi'l have to use the special “A” stamp. However, the stamp is only allowed in Canada — any mail , leaving the country must have stamps showing their denomination. And what about those who forget about the new rates and send their letter with the old 17-cent stamp? . Castlegar postmaster. Rus sell.Deans says the person receiving the letter: will be forced:to pay double:the dif-.*-:: ference — 26 cents. BCRIC - meeting here By CasNews Staff BCRIC shareholders and BC Timber employees in the West Kootenay will be given an- opportunity .to question senior executive c of BCRIC at a special “mini” shar sholder meeting Feb. 15 in Castlegar. BRUCE HOWE . +. BCRIC president Maureen. Ross, . BCRIC shareholder relations man- ager, told the Castlegar News this morning that the meeting has been set for 7 p.m. in the arena. Ross was unable to confirm which executive officers will be at the meeting. * The Castlegar meeting will be the fifth in a series of Casi! News will cost 30 cents. Kay Shields di ys post office's new “ stamp which 126 APARTMENTS PLANNED $7 million rental project revived | By RON NORMAN Editor Eachen’s Nov. 12 budget. Workers at the site were faced with a work stoppage after the budget called for an 1982 has given new life to'a $7 million Cast ry ment development. allow Harwyn Properties to arrange financing and get the footings in place for the sec- ond apartment block before the MURB program ends. Shockey said footings for the first block have already “ apartment blocks at 17th Street: and Woodland Drive: behind Maloney’s — looked like it wouldn't get off the ground. But Jim Shockey, project from his Vancouver home that at least two of the three ahead, depending on rental demand. That's good news for the area construction industry — in‘ light of recent layoffs at Cominco and in the local forest industry. weren't as FIVE YEAR OUTLOOK By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA (CP) — Gains will be made in the war against inflation over the next five years but workers will pay for those victories with their jobs and wages, the Confererice Board of Canada says. Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, will gradually ease toa low of 6.6 per cent by 1985, moving back up to 69:per cent in 1986, the The board’s forecast’ of lower inflation ‘and high unemployment and real economic growth .averaging three per cent a year for the next five years is in line with other economic forecasts, in- cluding that of Finance Min- ister Allan MacEachen con- tained in his Nov. 12 budget. PROVIDES HIGHLIGHTS Other elements of the board’s forecast include: — Inflation-adjusted over- research organization says in its first five-year forecast released today. However, interest rates will “remain well above the rate of inflation and also > high both by all spending in. the economy will grow on average only 2.6 per cent per. year. — Real exports will in- crease 5.6 per cent per year with strong growth for chem- icals and paper and allied and as compared to rates in fi the United States.” Also,lower inflation will not be h d without ports sow: resulting in continued in thes? mer: significant coste, as “the unemployment rate remains above eight per cent until 1985, and by 1986 unemploy- ment is still above the 7.2 per cent rate reached in mid 1981. chandise trade. perf — The dollar will appre. ciate over the next five years because of the rising inflow of long-term investment and the attraction of compara- tively high interest rates. Soviets lash out at U.S. sanctions By The Associated Press Most U.S. allies withheld rt on P Rea- to turn back the hands on the watch of history. The ad- less course regional mini to provide information on com- pany activities. Bruce Howe, president and chief executive officer of BCRIC will be special speak- er at the Jan. 12 meeting in Prince Rupert. He will be joined by Don Watson, chair- man of the board, and John Montgomery, BC Timber president. The Prince Rupert meet- ing will be the first meeting where employees are invited. The concept of regional mini-meetings grew from suggestions made at the spring annual general meet- ing where shareholders asked for regional is gan’s sanctions against the Soviet Union for the military crackdown in Poland today. But the Soviet Union and its allies condemned the mea- sures and predicted they will aggravate East-West ten- sions. “This is the latest in a series of attempts by the White House to step again on the ‘path of threats and blackmail, a path that has long been bankrupt,” the So- viet news agency Tass said in of the Reagan administration is doomed to failure.” “Czech ia’s official _ Tuesday. But prospe bright _. fol! -Mac- program at the'end of 1981. But two days after his budget announcement, Mac- Eachen agreed to extend the MURB program until the end of the year — as originally scheduled. Harwyn Properties de- cided to go ahead with one of the three apartment blocks, saying it couldn't arrange financing and: pour footings for the other two blocks by the end of the year. months — sometime in’ Aug: ust — at which time con- struction on the second block = _ sense (to build),” “We definitely would have held: off,” he said. He pointed-out that inter- est rates alao played a part in development plans. _ “As long as interest rates are high it doesn't’ make any he said — ‘The latter are costs during will begin, depending on the {2 eeructe rental demand. Shockey said excavation on block, 48 in the second and 42. in the third. said the third But: the whole develop- filled. ment was put back on track The ores five months will have still. gone. the three apartment blocks — Declining inflation and some growth in real wages in 1982 and 1983 will ease the” burden that hotiseholds have borne over the. past two years.” contained in the federal bud- get, will grow 2.8 per cent a year. Inflation witteasé up — The pent-up demand for. automobiles. means that spending on durable goods will’ show the . strongest be, ‘interest rates. Housing starts will average 195,000 units over the five -years, well below the 220,000 average of the five years ending in 1980. Walesa agrees to negotiate By The Associated Press Solidarity chief Lech Wal- Soviet and Polish leaders about this continued repres- esa has agreed to begin sion.’ negotiations with Poland's martiallaw regime, said un- censored reports reaching the West. Military council members contend the | coun-. try is calm, In Bonn, the West German growing and worker discip- line is increasing. The government Tuesday acknowledged eight people have been killed in clashes since martial law was de- clared Dec. 18, said reports Earlier official re- ports conceded seven deaths, but unconfirmed reports put the number in the hundreds. President Reagan on Tuesday banned natural-gas Pipeline equipment ito the Soviet Union as part of trade the sanctions, which would halt a Soviet gas pipeline.to Bonn and other Western European capitals involved in the gas deal was that the Soviets will look elsewhere for equipment to build the Polish television an- nounced industrial price in- creases beginning Jan. 1 Le news agency called the sanc- tions “a brazen interference in the internal matters of other countries, a gross at- tack which lacks any logical foundation.” Its Communist party news- paper, Rude Pravo, accused Reagan of “fanning Anti- Soviet hysteria.” IGNORING ADVICE? ‘The Hungarian newspaper a from ton. ’ “They in the White House stubbornly do not want to take into the fact that times for unable to attend the annual meeting in Vancouver. have changed and that no- body is given an opportunity d devoted half its front page today to a com- mentary saying the United States was acting against the advice of its allies. Reagan on. Tuesday an- continued on page A2 fons ‘to put p doubts in the minds of the GOODBYE 1981 HELLO 1982 This is the last issue of the Castlegar News for 1981. It includes a wrap-up of the year’s local events on pages C1, C2 and C3. The C: News’ and news offices will be closed Friday, New Year’s Day, but the next edition of the paper will appear as scheduled on Sunday, Jan. 3. The Castlegar News staff and management, as well as all our carriers, wish our loyal readers a happy and prosperous New Year. SITERERSESICEEERTIGSIRTO TNO Castlegar Safeway Castlegar will stay with pounds and ounces until 1983. Michael have changes until Feb. 2-11, 1983. Trail will follow between Feb..14-18, and -the last area in B.C. to convert will be Nelson — between March 7-11, 1983. The scales themselves \ employes Barb Johnson ‘weighs ' meat in Retail foods scales in Castlegar won't convert to metric, until 1983. No metric scales here until 1983 will not have to be replaced — only the inside, says Tweedie. The Weights and Mea- sures division of the fed- eral department of Consu- mer and Corporate Affairs hopes to have all food scales in Canada converted by the end of 1983. It’s the first time metric conversion has been dealt with in different districts. Tweedie says the food seales are the third and last area of conversion for Canada. Ottawa's decade-old metric plan began in 1975 when Celsius temperature scales replaced Fahren- heit. The second phase; in 1977, involved a switch “tax writeofis that are attrac- Project ‘written ‘off‘at a rate. of five > per eent a year. pounds ‘and ounces. —CosNews Photo, last conversion phase. Stores like hardware, won't have to be concerned et. Ny eas metric weights, other stores will be forced to change their scales. But food outlets won't get any government reim- bursement for converting, though the cost can. be used as a tax writeoff. — The conversion . price varies with each type. of scale.