WEATHERCAST Sunny ond litte’ ‘wormer Sunday with the. outlook for more sun: shine but increasing cloudliness CASTLE - 3 by te Highs oround 20° and VOL. 34, NO. 33 35 Cents CASTLEGAR MAN, Glenn H.. Watt, 1 18, has poe ch charged with aneieg : . without due care ‘and s : Saturday afternoon.on the Kinnaird Bridge. Watt rand ie passenger, . Chris Osachotf, also of Cestlegar, were taken to Castlegar:and ~ ‘An ee tor rezone & Froperty to:allow it. to be \ used as a ‘site for..a' new courthouse will be considered |. : at a‘special meeting: of - -elty has learned. The ‘application if) cipasisa tobe: referred: to’ the. full + council ° meeting’ ‘Tuesday =. .. night, ahd a'date { a public di b - Tuition raised. again On March 17, Selkirk Col- lege board approved a 15 per cent tuition hike. Now, at its April 21 meeting,:it has ap- ‘The-response to a petition being. circulated by ° the . Castlegar and district library board will determine if. an- other attempt is made ‘to build a new library. here. Hf enough: Peorle sign the. iP proach thi city of Castlegar . atid. the Regional District of 3. Central -Kootenay~.and: ask ‘of ting Selkirk - College should haves 2 tuition ‘revenue ‘of $207,000 981. Perra’ said “allege docs have the author- .” If the petitions 1 by too few people, the ‘reared will consider that response as alack of public interest and it will reassess its priorities, people. must. ‘tions ‘before the: board will approsch: the..two municipal * ents, ity taregulate its own tuition: - ‘The «tuition “increase, if given finat approval, will be parts — 15 per cent for the fall session, and an addi- - tonal 10 per cent in January. Perra said he calculated the 25° per. cent. yearly ‘in- erease based. on an anticl- pated -five. per cent yearly college. growth and 10 per cent annual inflation. If: this increase is ap- proved, the tuition fees could rise ‘to over $300 over the three-year period, from the . present $125. CALGARY (CP) —_ A former chairman of Canadian Fina 011 Ltd., forerunner of- Petrofina Canada Ine.; saya diréctors of the -firm’s Bel- gian parent company stand to make $24 million as-a result of the takeover of Petrofina Canada by Petro-Canada Ltd. : Trajan Nitescu of Calgary, who retired. in 1966 as chairman and cheif executive officer ‘of Canadian Fina, pieced a full-pege advertion: Battle for MacBlo won by Noranda TORONTO (CP) — Nor-; if shareholders at the” com- anda Mines Ltd, of Toronto, pany’s annual meeting Fri- has won a si: battle for. Machen Bloedel . Ltd. of Vancouver, ‘ ‘Canada’s largest forestry company, in a $826.5 million deal which Noranda says will mean daz- 2ling financial gains in a year or two. Noranda,. described by many financial analysts, as North American's premier . Fesource company, said Fri- day it will pay $126.5 million in cash and $500 million in convertibie preivrred Nor- anda:shares for 8.9 million Mac Blo common shares — an offer equivalent to $62 cash a Mac Blo shareholders of fered twice the number of shares Noranda needed: for controlling 49.8-per-cent in- terest in Mac Blo, but Nor-- anda said it will stick to plans to buy only 8.9 million shares. ‘Noranda vice-president’ per this years but.“with the com- pany's present major capital: program, results in a year or two should be ‘farily daz- ge" QUESTION LINGERS | _ But an unanswered ques- \ tion lingers: Did Noranda pay more than necessary be- cause of a bid for Mac Blo by British Columbia Resources Investment Corp. that waa “never registered with the Toronto stock market? Noranda chairman Alfred: Powis said in an-interview Friday. the. circumstances of - the unofficial B.C, Resources bid ‘are’ still not understood. Powis said Noranda prob- ably paid more. than ‘nec- essary for Mac Blo if the B.C, Resources bid,,which-at the - time matched a Noranda bid ” of $66 a share, was not a real’ ‘Adam, Zimmerman told , : one. "Body discoverad:. Police have identified © ‘the body found ‘Friday morning near the Beiltiant; bridge on Wiliam man stumbled and struck his head some time during the night. Foul play is not-sus- pected The body was found by a Ve ment in Fiday’s edition. of the:Calgary Herald. The . advertisement out. lines‘ Nitescu’s . lifelong -in- volvement with Petrofina 8. _A,, criticizes the sale: of the: and questions the windfall profit the parent. company's directors stand to make, ." Copies - of a: brief . upon. which the ad is based have been sent to Petrofina Can- ada: and Petrofina’ S.A. directors.: The ad follows distribution of a circular this . ~ week giving details of trad: ing in. Petrofing Canada : shares by 16 officers and dirertors at: the Canadian vPro Nadeat, Petrofina ident, made a profit of about $300,000 in January on Petro- fina stock before the Petro. Canada bid was announced... He has called his. profit “lu AA A Dodd, vice-president of Petrofina Canada said this week there is. nothing un- scrupulous about an $11,000 profit he’ made by. buying shares in the firm the day befolre the takeover bid waa announced, * that a Swiss brokerage’ firm of which former’ gis a vice president was paid almost $1 million to handle. the takeover. Under. a Petrofina 'S. ‘A managers of the Belgian firm share four per cent of: the; E company’s annual’ unconsol idated profits, says Niteocu's : ad. The sale of Petrofina Can- ada.assets to Pel not yet. complete, will cost Petro-Canada $1.46 billion, or $120 a’ share. Niteseu said - the deal, - financed by the Canadian taxpayer through a federal. tax’ on. petroleum products, will have a“ urthouse has not yet demands: | rejected = should happen. - OTTAWA (CP) — The government has rejected most of the demands’ of Can- ‘ada’s largest postal ‘union‘in the “final rcund. of contract .talks before the post office becomes | a” Crown Porper- ation, 3 The government's detailed positions were made public Friday’ in‘ oral and written effect on -petrofina - B.A. In the ad, Nitescu urges Petrofina Canada directors to recommend that Petrofina 8. A. directors direct “a portion of ‘the parent: company’s profits' be’ granted to the members of Petrofina Cana- da-as compensation for the fact that most of them will be obliged .to work: for Petro- Canada against’ their will.” - TORONTO (CP) — Sig- nificantly more Canadians - approve than disapprove of the: acquisition of “fore- ‘ign-owned Petrofina Can- ada Inc, by Petro-Canada, a Gallup poll. shows. :- » The poll, ‘conducted in mid-Arpil,, shows that 45 support’ the. $1.6-billion takeover, compared : with 29 per cent who oppoee it. About one in four ‘did, not give.an opin ion. Many Canadians ‘approve of deal | t, ‘Atlantis i } thee in ‘tc criticize the pir- _chae. : Per cent of those surveyed : The poll also shows that in Ontario, . Quebec: and \British | Columbia, about one in four disapprove of the takeovers while ih the’. and glove /S However, the offers Tall far : : short’ of the ‘postal workers’ / demands, other .areas ° such as-discip: ‘lective agreement. twa conciliation ‘Roled on "its second day. of hearings ‘into the contract. with the 28,000-member Canadian. Union of Postal Workers. . Three themes run through the (rejection: they,..would “cost too much, they would restrict currently:flexible conditions “or they, would boost: benefits for’ postal user groups are, agreeable,” and. nothing: Everyone is waiting for a de- cision to be made be someone else. The B.c. Building Corp, (BCBC), which would be res-: ponsible for ‘Phe city council: } basa i that definite word on negotiations to arrange a temporary fa: brad to house the i ugh ‘construction of the S ‘opening dai pends lease with the city and acing. any renovations, is waiting to’ hear what the provincial court judge's comments. spokesmen said Friday Using the hall. has been discussed, but it is not ap- proved yet, and. the: BCBC - has been asked to look at it, sald Florence Gilbert, district «’ manager in the’ -Kootensys for court services, on -Tuos- day: She added Provincial Court Judge Bruce, Joseph-- workers too far beyond most other workers: : - The government’ has’ of" fered some improvements in : some main areas cf disagree- ment — .wages, health and safety. ‘protection, disagree- ment, maternity- -paternity if and boot More than 600 union mem- bers at Coniaey unanimously elr leave, If he saya it is acceptal : the Hall will he uses ey, .