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Published Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays”

Section ‘*C"’

Vol, 31, No. 42

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1978

oatRY

Three Sections (A, Ba)

CUPE Locals Reject Offer,
Serve Notice on Schools

Non-teaching employees of

the Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and
,Grand Forks school districts
and Selkirk College served 72
hours strike notice Tuesday
after rejécting a proposed wage

+ increase of 16 per cent over two

years,

_ And if the labor ministry's
mediator in negotiations be-
tween the five locals of the
Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees and the districts “re-.
ports out,” the strike will begin
in “between a week and 10

"the chairman of the

that the mediator will force the
two parties back to the bar-
gaining table to avoid the
strike, which would affect about
45 CUPE members and about
3,000 students in School Dis-
trict No. 9,

“We can't use him as a tool
to prevent a strike,” Hendrie
said. “The mediator would only
come in if he saw any likelihood
of a settlement.”

Commenting on the CUPE .

representatives’ rejection of
the WKEEA offer, she noted
East Kootenay school board

Employers Association steer-
ing committee said yesterday.

Nan Hendrie told the
Castlegar News it is unlikely

recently agreed to
the : same increase percentage.
She said WKEEA ‘mem-
bers feel taxpayers cannot
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Relief in Sight
For the NEC

Easing of ‘this year's
financing pressures on the
local National Exhibition
Centre is possible in the
‘near future, a senior Na-
tional Museums of Canada
official said here Tuesday.

Dann Michols, director
of the federal agency's mu-
seums assistance programs,
told the Castlegar News he
will recommend the National
Museums board of trustees
release an extra $9,000 to
the NEC without requiring
it to raise $18,000 from other
Leourees

~ $650, 000

Michols, interviewed af-
ter a meeting with NEC
director Bernard Bloom,
stressed that the release of
funds will be subject to the
decision of the board of
trustees, but “I doubt if
they'll have trouble with it.”
Release of the $9,000 identi-
cal to the sum approved for
core funding for the centre
earlier this year, will enable
Management to develop
some basic objectives for the
NEC, he said.

“The government ack-

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Borrowed ©

For Selkirk College

Sale of $650,000 in deben-
tures for Selkirk. College's
planned renovations to Pate-
naude Hall at the David Thomp-
son University Centre in Nel-
son won approval by the School
District No. 9 board Monday.

Coroner Calls
For Inquiry
Into Death

Coroner Carl Loeblich has
ordered an inquiry into the
death of Walter Legebokoff, 20,
of Crescent Valley, following a
single vehicle accident Sunday
evening on the Robson Road
near the Pass Creek junction.

The 1974 Chevy van, which
Legebokoff was driving, is
reported to have left the road
and rolled, totalling the vehicle.

Legebokoff and a passen-
ger, Daniel Michael Saliken,
were taken to Castlegar and
District Hospital. Legebokoff
died early Monday morning
while Saliken was released with
minor bruises,

. ‘Trustees voted in favor of
the debenture sale on behalf of
the college—which has not yet
assumed ‘corporate status and
is unable to borrow money—
after being told by district
secretary-treasurer John’ Das-
cher that it was subject to a
100-per-cent provincial govern-
ment grant to cover the debt
and its accumulated interest.

According to the terms of
the short-term debenture sale
the debt must be repaid within
six months by the borrower.
+ The board also approved
two debenture sales to cover
the costs of a number of district
projects.

Trustees gave three read-

sings to a debenture bylaw for

$67,000 at a 9.3-per-cent in-
terest rate which completely
sold out Capital Expense Pro-
posal No. 3, covering additions
to Ootischenia Elementary and
Kinnaird Elementary, purchase
of two school buses and mis-
cellaneous purchases and ex-

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Loudspeakers, Radios
A Must for Buses

Public address systems
and AM radios will be standard
equipment in all future pur-

Alcoholism
Counselling

Proposed

The proposed hiring of
an alcoholism-coinsellor for
Castlegar is under investi-
gation by the city's health
and welfare committee, com-
mittee chairman Ald. Bud
Godderis said last Tuesday. |

Godderis told city coun-
cil that ina recent discussion
with representatives of the
Kootenay Alcoholism So-
ciety, CanCel and other

chases of. buses by Schoo!
District No. 9, trustees decided
Monday.

The school board support-
ed, transportation committee
chairman George Anutooshkin's
motion to include the $300 cost
of a public address system in
the overall cost of each bus “for
safety reasons.”

Anutooshkin said the use
of the systems—included in two
buses recently purchased by

‘the district—by the bus drivers.

had averted a number of

serious accidents which would |

have involved students,
“When it’s protecting chil-
dren, it's worth the $300 cost,”
he said.
‘Trustees also approved
Anutooshkin's further motion
to.include a $200 radio in each

it became clear to his com-
mittee alcoholism “is a real-
ity in the community” and
there is a need for a coun-
selling service for suffering
alcoholics.

He said the successful
candidate for such a position

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bus pi by the district in
future.

The transportation com-
mittee chairman said several
school bus drivers already
carried their own radios in the
buses and found their pas-

FIRST SHOVELFUL’ ale earth turned In'cere-
mony, roma Park Tuesday by,

start of the sane Lion

$300,000 woreite of ss vel

elu president ‘Alex Chevel-
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Cerl :Loeblich,
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Ald. Jim Gouk.

| Gity Awaits MoT Proposal

t Withdrawal

Details of a federal transport ministry proposal for the continued operation of '
Castlegar Airport by the city are expected by Tuesday, according to acting mayor: :

Gouk told the Castlegar News this week a ministry official has promised to.
present the proposed terms for the temporary management of the airport by the
city—including a new liability insurance package—to enable council to make a
decision before its Oct. 31 deadline for Castlegar’s withdrawal from the operation.

He said the ministry, which has considered the use of blanket liability insurance coverage of up to
$100 million to replace the many $10 million policies currently held for individual airports, has
proposed the city continue managing the facility until April 1, 1979,

The acting mayor said Al
Back, Pacific region air trans-
portation administrator, told
council in a recent meeting that
a “third party" arrangement,
the only other. management
option considered acceptable by
the ministry, could not be put
into place before that date.

The seven airport employ-
ees whose job security Bach
said could not be guaranteed in

the event of a management
changeover have adopted a
“wait and see” attitude, said
Gouk, who met with the
employees Monday.

Gouk said the seven em-
ployees indicated they had
contemplated staging a walkout
in-response to the ministry's
position but decided to await
council's decision.

Seven Positions Open

Contacted in Vancouver
yesterday, Bach said the timing
of the announcement on the
details of the liability coverage
will be “very tight.” He said the
federal government called for
tenders on the national insur-
ance package only last Thurs-
day and it was still too early to
speculate on the liability cover-

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Still No Nominations

No nominations had been
filed as of noon yesterday for
seven seats available in muni-
cipal, regional and school board
elections Nov. 18.

Expiring this year are the
terms of:

e Ald. Len Embree, Ald.
C. S. Fowler and Ald. Gerald
Rust on Castlegar city council;

e John Moran, Area I
director-on the Regional Dis-
trict of Central Kootenay board;

e Ernie Mills and Stewart
Webster of Castlegar and Vera
Kanigan of Area J on the
School District. No. 9 board.

f. the. .in-

tions—for which the deadline is

Director Criticizes Rezoning Plan

The proposed rezoning of
9.27 acres of Ootischenia land
newly released from the Agri-
cultural. Land Reserve has
drawn criticism from the area's
regional district representa-
tive.

WALKING PAVEMENT during th
the Canadian Union of Postal Worker
Norma Moll are two of the 15 i Ide wo
ar

rt for work at the Casti

Area J- director Martin
Vanderpol told the . Regional
District of Central Kootenay
board Saturday he opposed
owner Jack Hipwell's applica-
tion for rezoning from its

‘present “developing urban” use

as Ds ie
strike begun Tuesday by
Kay Heuer and
ho did not}

A local

eg
Canada Post spokesman said the strike, which also alfected
nine Letter Carriers Union of Canada members who honored
the picket line, was expected to end under the back-to-work

sengers’ conduct improved sub-
stantially when they listened to
the radio,

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Tuesday.
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to provide for “highway com-
mercially oriented" develop-
ments and businesses.

He agreed with Hipwell
that rezoning would eventually
be necessary to accommodate
industrial and commergial
growth resulting from in-
creased use of the ~newly-
opened Castlegar-Salmo high-

way.

“But I am not'in favor of
plot rezoning as such,” he said.
“I think what we will want is a
proper development plan for
this area.”

Vanderpol said the Colum-
bia River Valley is “a reason-
able and a pleasant place to
live.”

“I think only by proper
planning will we be able to keep
it that way,” he added.

The board voted to refer
the rezoning application to the
Area J advisory planning com-
mission and RDCK technical
planning committee for recom-
mendation. ©

Hipwell: said-in his appli-
cation, he: believed the area
needed “a large motel, a family
restaurant, an evening grocery
outlet and a small business
block which might contain a
real estate office.”

The application confirmed,

“ “to allay the fears of the tech-

nical or, planning committees”
that Hipwell intended to make

Board Snubs
Beautiful B.C.

Sales Scheme

The B.C. tourism ministry
has failed to sell local school
trustees on the proposed sale of
magazine subscriptions by stu-
dents as a money-making ven-
ture.

The School District No. 9
board approved its education
committee’s recommendation
that it reject the ministry's
offer to allow the schools to
keep $1 from every 4 Beautiful

B.C. sold

available water from his own
well on the property, to install
proper septic or sewage plants
conforming to health require-
ments and to construct build-
ings conforming with all build-
ing and fire safety bylaws.

The owner said he also
believed there was sufficient fill
near the property to raise its
low -land above any flooding
level.
Comments in the applica-
tion itself said location “is the
key” to the property, to which
access is off the main highway
from a secondary road. The
proposed new use of the
property “should be of no public
hazard or conflict with neigh-
boring land or ownership uses,”
it said.

noon Oct. 30—two have indi-
cated they will seek re-election
and one has announced his
retirement.

Embree, first elected in
1976, recently announced his
iritention to run, while Fowler
decided for personal reasons
not to seek a second term after
serving for one year in a seat
vacated in mid-term by Ald.
Brian Kilpatrick. Rust, who has
served on Castlegar and Kin-
naird municipal councils almost
continuously since 1957, could
not be reached this week for

Kanigan announced this
week she would seek) re-elec-
tion, while Mills said he had not
yet decided whether to run
again and Webster was un-
available for comment.

Nominations for municipal
and city school trustees’ posi-
tions will be accepted in city
hall chambers at 460 Columbia
Ave. The RDCK: office at 601
Vernon St., Nelson is the place
of nomination for the Area 1
director's election and the
school board office at 881
Columbia Ave. is the place of

ment. was Moran.

for com- -

for. the “Area” J
trustee's position, ,

$1,000 in Damage
Caused to Schools

Smashed windows, scratch-
ed doors, a broken electric
meter and a car smeared with
human excrement were among
the nearly $1,000 worth of
damage caused recently by
vandals at two elementary
schools, local trustees were told
Monday.

Trustee Ernie Mills, chair-
man of the School District No. 9
board's buildings and grounds
committee, reported that since
the Thanksgiving weekend ear-
ly this month, vandals removed
screens from and scratched
writing into doors, littered
grounds with broken bottles
and broke the West Kootenay
Power meter for the second
time at Robson Elementary.

Maintenance supervisor

Power Halt Cause
Still Undetermined

A-yet-undiscovered grounding fault near the 800 block
Columbia Avenue is the suspected cause of Monday's 90-minute
power failure in Castlegar North, a West Kootenay Power and

Light spokesman said this week.

Eric Colman reported Tuesday that the power failure, which
started at 9:25 a.m., occurred when the fault tripped the West
Kootenay Power Castlegar substation's northern feeder and the
reclosing relay was shut off for safety reasons.

Colman, said repair crews were unsuccessful in their search
for the fault, “a fuse blown near the forestry office,” but service

was restored at 10:55 a.m.

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Nick Bonderoff cited more than
$800 worth of damage caused
over the same period at Kin-
naird Junior Secondary by
vandals who smashed windows
throughout the building. He
estimated at about $150 the
cost of the labor required to
repair the damage at Robson
Elementary.

In response to Mills’ sug-
gestion that outside lights be
installed at Robson Elemen-
tary, Bonderoff questioned
whether they would deter the
vandals. He said their recent
covering of a caretaker’s car
with excrement at the school
was an example of their at-
tempts to intimidate school
district employees. .

Questioned later, Bonder- -.
off said secondary school stu- --
dents are suspected of van-.:
dalizing the school property. He ~
said he found the lack of co-
operation from residents living -°
near Robson Elementary “dis-
couraging.”

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LOW CLOUDS will be in the
valley this morning, quickly
burning off around noon ‘to
‘sunny skies with tempera.
tures reaching 15°. There will
be a minor disturbance Satur-
day morning giving some
clouds but the fine fall weath-
er should continue through
the weekend. Temperature
highs will be in the mid-teens
with overnight lows near 4°.

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