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ELECTION ‘86

POLLING CLERK .. . Betty Wiebe greeted voters at the
advanced polling station at the Fireside Inn Saturday

VANDER ZALM

Wiebe said business was steady

Image dealt blow

By STEVEN MERTL
Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — Premier Bill Vander Zalm painstak
ingly-built new image as a conciliator has suffered two
serious blows in the. final days of the provincial election
campaign leading up to the vote Wednesday

The Social Credit leader's attempts to resolve the
three-month-old woodworkers strike blew up in his face last
week when the union disavowed his mediation efforts and
union president Jack Munro sued him for libel

The latest, perhaps even more telling blow fell when the
U.S. Department of Commerce levied a 15-per-cent import
tariff on Canadian softwood lumber

Observers weren't surprised with the decision, taken
after U.S. lumber companies argued Canadian lumber pro-
duction received subsidies, although the tariff wasn't as
large as the 36-per-cent duty U.S. producers had demanded.

However critics now are taking aim at Vander Zalm for
shattering the united front Canada had, until last month,
presented against the tariff demand.

Vander Zalm, whose shoot-from-the-lip style as a Socred
cabinet minister was all but forgotten after he won the party
leadership last July, staked his new image on the hope
Canada could work a compromise with U.S. lumber interests
and head off the tariff ruling.

Before the election call he announced the province
would review the contentious issue of stumpage the
royalty charged logging firms for Crown timber, which U.S.
companies believe is too low. Forest industry executives and
federal officials were aghast, arguing the review was a tacit
admission there were problems with stumpage and that it
cut the legs out from under Canada’s case.

REJECT COMPROMISE

The U.S. lumber industry rejected a Vander
Zalm-sponsored compromise which would have raised
export prices, clearing the way for the tariff decision

Vander Zalm’s election rivals were quick to capitalize on
the failure

“The B.C. industry has not been helped by Vander
Zalm's interventions,” NDP Leader Bob Skelly said. “In
effect, Vander Zalm changed B.C.’s plea from innocent to
guilty while the jury was still out.”

Liberal Leader Art Lee said Vander Zalm had grossly
mismanaged the tariff negotiations, resulting in a decision
which threatened thousands of B.C. jobs. Lee said Vander
Zalm clearly had chosen the wrong tactics at the wrong time,
making a bad situation dramatically worse by demonstrating
the weakness of Canada’s position.

Vander Zalm said he was disappointed with the ruling
and found its reasoning incomprehensible.

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But soon he reverted to the relentless optimism which
has characterized his response to tough questions during the
campaign.

“I think the countervail came off a whole lot better than
what it might have,” he said at a party rally in Vancouver
“It could have been 32 per cent. It’s at 15 per cent. We've
still got 45 days to negotiate the percentage down, so I don’|
feel so bad about where we're at now.”

The premier tried to explain the Vander Zalm election
style to supporters in Vancouver

“Style is not a smile as has been suggested by some of
the media,” he told a party fundraiser in his Richmond
riding.

“Style is how you propose to govern.”

ELECTION ‘86

Mother-in-law
supports NDP

PENTICTON (CP) — Bill
Vander Zalm's mother-in-law
says that she has been the
target of phone calls accusing
her of embarrassing the B.C.
premier and Social Credit
leader since she stated pub-
liely she likes NDP Leader
Bob Skelly.

Marie Mihalick said the
phone calls started at 6 a.m.
Friday, and she plans to get
an unlisted phone number.

“I didn’t tell them who I am
going to vote for,” she said. “I
am going to say that I don't
know who I am going to vote
for.”

She said, however, that
she “was always NDP and I
have voted NDP all these
years.”

Mihalick told reporters at
an NDP rally in Penticton
that she likes Skelly and she
was a supporter of former
NDP premier Dave Barrett

She said her son-in-law was

a good gardner and worked:

hard, but: “I don’t know if
he's going to make a good
premier.”

Now, she said: “People are
saying ‘you have disgraced
your son-in-law and your
daughter.’

She also said reports that
she is working for the NDP in
their Boundary-Similkameen
riding office are incorrect.
However, she said she visits
the office to spend time with
friends who work there.

Vander Zalm said his
mother-in-law was just try.
ing to be nice to everybody
when she said she has always
supported the NDP, and that
she belongs to the Social
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while she is technically a
Social Credit member, she
purchased a membership last
spring only after being
pressed by family members.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — One sociologist calls it an
electronic attempt at forging social identities.

Some people try it out of curiosity — others just like to
get on the phone and talk. And some, particularly the
teenage boys who dominated the conversation on a recent
Sunday night, are looking for a date.

But whatever the reasons, Partyline seems to be a hit
since it was started in May by the British Columbia
Telephone Co.

It’s a simple way to strike up a conversation. You just
dial the number listed — listen to a recorded message say
you're being charged for the call — and then jump into an
ongoing conversation with up to nine other people. There
are separate numbers for teenagers and adults.

In its first 18 weeks, Partyline handled nearly half a
million calls — an average of roughly 6,000 a day, says B.C.
Tel spokesman Roger Varley.

About 70 per cent of the calls are made to the teen
number. There are 10 lines for teenagers and four for adults,
with each line holding 10 callers.

COSTS MONEY

In the Vancouver calling area, it costs 10 cents a minute
for the first minute and five cents a minute after that. It's
also accessible throughout British Columbia — at the
long-distance rate in effect at the time.

Lest the conversation turn to matters that could rapidly
heat up the telephone lines, B.C. Tel has trained a total of
about 20 “moderators” to tap into the calls. A caller is
warned his call may be monitored.

“The moderator can jump from one conversation to
another,” Varley explains. “She's there to make sure the
service is enjoyable. If the conversation is lagging, she can
throw in icebreakers.

“She also makes sure no one is using obscene language
or inappropriate subjects — anyone who is spoiling the
service.”

For example, there was the fellow who played his
electric guitar into the phone.

The moderator can isolate the troublesome caller and
give him a warning. If that doesn't work, she pulls the plug.
NOVEL APPROACH

Rick Gruneau, a sociology professor at the University of
B.C., says the service — similar to an informal conference
call — may owe its popularity to its novelty and to today’s
highly mobile society.

“Families are often flung apart. It can be very difficult
to build lasting hy s in the it di ity.
You don't have to risk much on the phone. And it’s more
interactive than Johnny Carson.”

While Gruneau calls Partyline a comparatively innocent
phenomenon, he says it might be questionable if it

for face-t is

“It's a well-known fact that long-distance romances are
unsatisfactory. Human beings communicate with a whole
range of things, not just speech. You say things from far
away and you can't read the face so you don't know how to
take it.”

Varley says telephone contact has led some people to
meet in 5

“What we term Partyline regulars have got together on
numerous occasions for pub nights, dinners,” Varley says.
“We know of one couple who met asa result of Partyline and
have become engaged.”

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release from the club.
is aiming its
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separated or widowed adults

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enable people like ourselves
to meet other single persons
and to provide an opportun
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as part of a group,” the club
says in the release.

“We are striving for a club
that has interests for every
age group.”

Members must pay dues
and “behave in a manner de
sireable to the club the
release says

The club will kick off its fall
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B.C. Tel employees are still ironing out the bugs in
new computerized digital
system installed in Castlegar late last month.

But according to Ray Hackett, central office main-
tenance man, the bugs now found in the system don't
normally affect B.C. subscribers.
B.C. Tel
Castlegar, says Castlegar is the eighth or ninth office in
the Columbia area to be converted to the new system. He
says more conversions are scheduled through 1993.

service manager

Larry Jeeves, central office supervisor for the West
Kootenay, says Fruitvale and Rossland are to be con-
verted next May or June. Nelson and Trail are already
digital. Nelson was one of the first areas of the province

Jeeves says the new system is the most modern
telephone switch apparatus in the world. The new digital
system requires all customers to dial all seven digits
when making a call, instead of only four digits.

Jeeves says one of the main advantages of the new
system is that the calls are now clearer and faster. With
the old system, there was a delay between dialing the
number and the time the phone rang at the other end, he

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with each number dialed. The call was processed one
number at a time, making the completion of a call much
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like call forwarding, calling waiting, conference calling
and speed calling — will soon be offered.

The conversion took place Sept. 28, and was com
pleted in a mere seven minutes; that’s how long it took to
chop the wires on the old system and turn on the new
system

Jeeves says Castlegar lines are fed into Trail,
location of the main computer parts. However, the actual
switching part of the system is in Castlegar.

Jeeves says the cost of the new equipment was about
$1.5 million. But there were other costs involved with
rearrangements that had to take place.

Jeeves said the “biggest bugs” in the system were
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