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CASTLEGAR,

BRITISH COLUMBIA,

THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978

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Demand _ Improved Working Conditions Improved Wo!

IWA ‘Strikes Saw

Information pickets re- Tmained early yesterday at CanCel's local sawmill opera- tion as sawmill workers con- tinued their strike over work- ing and safety conditions,

Members of Local 1-405 of the International Woodworkers

—— See Union Letter on Page A2

ers walked ‘out after an argu- ment with a foreman, he said.

The committee met with CanCel representatives Tues- day morning to discuss the list of demands, he said, but found the company's position unac- ceptable,

He said the committee d the company's an-

of America voted Tuesday afternoon not to return to their jobs until meets’

swers to union demands to the Local 1405 membership Tues-

their demands,

day

a

Corey vice- chairman of the local's sawmill committee, said about 90 per cent of the 300-member local decided unanimously that Can- Cel's position on a list of about 20 demands submitted by the committee was unacceptable.,

Schafthuizen told the Castlegar News the dispute began Friday morning when sawmill maintenance’ workers

-, were discussing the outcome of

a, meeting the previous day and

Listed di arong the union's to

onion conditions and safety precautions at the company's yecently-opened sawmill addi-

tion, A letter from Schafthuizen ~

and committee chairman Jack Walker to CanCel president Don Watson this week cited the lack of washroom facilities, stairways in the planer section, lunchrooms, windows, and rig- ging for maintenance workers.

Contacted Tuesday by the Castlegar News, Dave Lloyd,

union representatives to dis- cuss safety and working con- ditions. The maintenance work-

I relations manager at the sawmill, declined to com- ment on CanCel's position in the dispute.

Dispute Could Cause Shutdown at CanCel

Monday's breakdown in “talks between CanCel and 45 Arrow Lakes towboat opera-

tors has made the complete shutdown of the company's operations here “a distinct

Exploration To Start This Week

Exploratory drilling was scheduled to start this week at Stampede Inter- national’s China Creek ura- _nium claim 15 kilometres south of here.

President Norman Glick, explaining the company’s all-time high of $5.50 a share, Friday listed the plan- ned drilling among the de- velopments responsible for the increase.

Stampede is a member of the uranium exploration consortium Genelle resi- dents reported was respon- sible for unauthorized ex- ploratory blasting near their China Creek

a Canadian Mer- chant Service Guild spokesman said this week.

The spokesman, who re- fused to be identified, said Monday that if the guild mem- bers who tow logs down the Columbia River. from the com- pany's Revelstoke logging operations strike,the mill will be affected by the cutoff in

aupelyss.

id guild representa- ea pokes off talks with man- agement at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel Monday morning after two hours, and guild

lat

CONDUCTING Tl STS on Kootenay River-fed aquiter on

Selkirk Coll

jeolagist

lege gi Ed Livingston. The pi he tests involved pumping both a 140-foot-deep existing well and the 141-foot-deep newly- drilled weil (left cantre) at the same time for a total discharge

of 4,800 U.S. aie per minute. Also drilted, at ilar oni was.an observation well used to monitor the water drawdown In the aquifer. Drilling was done by A.C. Driliers of Keremeos and testing and equipment were provided by Aqua Filo of Langley.—CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes

CKRHD to Urge Permanent Emergency System at Airport

Board Backs Lighting Request

CasNews Staff The Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District will ask the federal transport minis- try to install permanent emer- Peel lighting at Castlegar

the CKRHD board sup- SHS

posted Castlegar director Mayor Audrey Moore's motion that the ministry's Pacific air command install the system for use in such fons as the

Vancouver for medical treat- ment, ii

Moore said the only tem- porary light. evatable for the

May 20 emergency airlift of two victims of a head-on two-car

collision on Pass Creek Road to

was pie iy “antiquated hurricane lanterns.” The exer- cise could have been “more ex-

nS Graduation Candidates

Honored Tomorrow Evening

The 230--candidates for-

graduation at Stanley Hum- phries Secondary Schoo! will be - fore

ter - voted to reject CanCel’'s pro- posed memorandum of agree- ment.

staff, school board and ministry of education officials, families and friends at the 1978 Com-

invocation willbe" given by Rev. D. Carroll.

Greetings will include those from P, Haley, chairman of the board of trustees, School District No. 9; district super-

But i of both the company and the guild are scheduled to meet again in Vancouver early next week, the spokesman said.

Contacted Monday, resi- dent Tom McKenzie, a mem- ber of an ad hoe group of residents opposing the min- ing of uranium in the area, said he had seen

at Nakusp Tues. day he Harding, industrial relations manager for | CanCel's

said

starting

at 6 p.m. tomorrow evening. For many years, each suc- ceeding graduating class has been larger in numbers and such is the case with the class of "78. It will, in fact, represent a pinnacle for based-on-enrol- ment ‘ions for the next

interior woods

points of dispute included such

fringe benefits as living accom- dati in the

equipment on the claim but it was not in operation.

area. (Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 4)

Local Beer Supply Steadily Dwindling

‘There was more bad news for beer drinkers yesterday as the supply dwindled before noon to 30 dozen bottles of imported stock on Castlegar's Liquor Administration Board outlet shelves.

An LAB spokesman said a new shipment of beer may arrive today to relieve the shortage caused by the current labor dispute ‘between the

Brewery and Soft Drink Work- ers -Union and the Brewery Employers Labor Rleations As- sociation which has shut down four major B.C. breweries.

“We hope to get something tomorrow,” the spokesman said. “But we don't know whether it’s going to come in or not.”

(For earlier story, see Page AQ.) =

1 Diversion Plebiscite

Slated for

CasNews Staff

Central Kootenay vot- ers will go to the polls in November to oppose or sup- port B.C. Hydro's proposed Kootenay Diversion.

The regional board of, directors approved Area F director Clive Paul’s motion that an opinion poll referen- dum on the proposed diver- sion of the Kootenay River into the Columbia be pre- sented in all RDCK muni- cipal and rural areas.

Paul's motion gained board support after direc- tors agreed to delete a paragraph referring to Pre- mier Bill Bennett's failure to meet with the Central Kootenay, East Kootenay, and Columbia-Shuswap re- gional districts to, discuss the diversion.

November

Area A director C. J. Wilson questioned whether the premier had actually refused to meet with the regional districts.

Paul said the premier had on two occasions failed to meet with the RDCK or name alternative meeting dates, But the Area F direc- tor said he had no objections to deletion of the paragraph.

Asked whether the RDCK had the authority to hold the referendum, ad- ministrator Reid Henderson told the board that under Section 213 of the Municipal Act an opinion poll could be conducted without adoption of a referendum bylaw, al- though the RDCK would not have the power to enforce the outcome of the vote.

decade. Each graduating class will become progressively smaller.

As well, the size of the class has dictated the use of the Regional Recreation Complex—

not only for the exercises, but _

also for the graduation ball and supper. With over 1,500 anti- cipated guests and

of schools, J. Holden,

.on behalf of the ministry of

education; and Mayor A.

Moore, on behalf of the City of Castlegar.

SHSS school principal, L. C. Farrell, will address the graduating class and extend wishes on behalf of staff and students.

The candidates for grad- uation will be ‘presented by

{Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 4)

The Regional District of Central Kootenay will not take part in a seminar on an oppor- tunity it does not have.

That was the decision the RDCK board of directors reach.

a of

RDCK Turns Down Ministry Invitation

Directors voted to ignore the invitation after administra- tor Reid Henderson pointed out that the RDCK is still prevent- ed by the Municipal Act from adopting the region-wide eco-

after

thé traditional location at SHSS gymnasium and activity room is no longer practical.

Chairman of the exercises will be Tom Gougeon, SHSS administrative assistant. The

rt ic develop- Facil ministry letter inviting the region's administrator and board chairman to a special “orientation seminar" on eco- nomic development commis- sions in Vancouver June 21.

nomic function when several RDCK areas have already reached their three-mill limit: on taxation.

“I would suggest we can't participate," Henderson said. (Con't. Pg. A2, Col, 2)

HOURS OF PLEASURE are guaranteed to

Fy

ierary users of the Talking Books for the of ta

ind partially slanted st chairman,: Allen

cheque for $300 from c itogar sani | Lions president Walter Tymofievich. This cheque

forary Bore

Ubrary for the use of o1 sighted, but also with a hearing disability. —CasNewsFoto by Donna Embree

covers the estimated cost of three cassette

rT;

recorders for playing ihe orary's collection

ke. Several years ago

reading lens-stand was purchased for the

who Is partlally

pedient and efficient” if emer- gency lighting had been in- stalled at the airport, she said.

The mayor said Castlegar city council had discussed with the ministry the possibility of including the system—which would cost an estimated $150,000—in runway repairs completed at the airport last month. . But ministry officials in-

‘dicated it was too late to

incorporate emergency lighting into the ministry's five-year

Sawmill | Ministry Tests Completed

College Well. Monitored

By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor Long-delayed environment ministry tests on an aquifer eyed as a potential water supply for the Castlegar area were conducted at Selkirk College last

Thursday.

; And according to the project engincor interviewed 8 at the site during the tests, prospects ‘look good.’

geologist Ed Li

i of Vi told the

Castlegar News he was monitoring the effect pumping a-total of 3,800 U.S. gallons of water per minute for 24 hours from an existing well on college property and a new well drilled for the test

would have on the aquifer. Livingston, who was also involved in the drilling of the three-year-old existing well, said the’ drawdown in the aquifer was being monitored at an observation well also drilled for the test and would be the basis for calculations on the capacity of the sand-and-gravel aquifer, fed by the Kootenay River, over a longer period of

ie. 2 “The idea is not to test the

‘Health Ministry Officials Meet With Board

The promise of a second look at a proposed short-term hospital improvement financing scheme highlighted a frank dis- cussion between health minis- try officials and the Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District board Saturday.

The board and representa- tives of the ministry's hospital programs branch met behind closed doors to discuss a list of 18 questions on ministry poli- cies which had previously been a.source of dissatisfaction among CKRHD directors.

capital expenditures program,

she said.

“It is utterly ridiculous that in the latter half of the 20th Century we have to operate in such a fashion,” said board chairman Martin Vander- pol, director for Area J. He said it was “equally ridiculous” that the newly resurfaced runway did not include permanent emergency lighting.

The board supported Nel- son director Ald. John Neville's suggestion that the CKRHD also seek the support of Nelson and Trail city councils.

Directors also voted to seek support from Kootenay- West MP Bob Brisco, Rossland- Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and the provincial health ministry's hospital programs division.

One of the two accident victims evacuated from Castle- gar Airport died last week in Vancouver General Hospital. The other victim was treated and released.

Outlining some of the board chai

Martin Vanderpol said after the ©

meeting that the hospital pro- grams officials had agreed to take the proposal for a one- or two-year tax levy by the CKRHD to pay back its portion of $573,289 borrowed for hos- pital improvements in 1978 “back to Victoria for considera- tion.”

new well we've drilled,” he said. “The question is whether if you put several wells in the aquifer it could accommodate them.”

“What we're prepared to say is that it looks good in the context of what we're trying to

do,”

He said the tests—origi- nally scheduled for completion in February but delayed by problems in getting legal access to college property and the prospect of a strike by Cana- dian Union of Public Employees members working at the col- lege—also included chemical

(Con’t. Pg. A2, Col. 3)

THE INSIDE

e@ PUZZLE: What is this man trying to say?

Page B11

© PROGNOSIS: Up to 200

Kootenay West constitu-

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‘pol said t deputy minister John Glen- wright told directors he would give the CKRHD an answer to the proposal before the board's next meeting.

Glenwright said the minis- try officials had previously mis- understood the proposal and thought the CKRHD board was suggesting the ministry pay off its own share of the debt by short-term borrowing, Vander- pol said.

“If approval is forthcom- ing, we'll be assured a major. victory,” the chairman said. “In

(Con’t..Pg. A2, Col. 1)

-Spend More Tourism Money on Campsites

B.C.'s provincial tourism ministry should encourage “a little more thought and plan- ning” in the operation of pro- vincial campsites according toa Castlegar resident.

In a letter to Tourism

* Minister Grace McCarthy, R. . H. Wadey cited the general

deterioration and the operation of the campsites, particularly locally, as problems deserving more attention in the ministry's campaign to attract more tour- ists to B.C.

The letter said campsite table tops were not removed for winter storage or refinish- ing and have been vandalized in some cases, and signs “were not hung in time for the May 24 weekend.”

April had “ideal weather" for camping but no clean-up or work was done, and no water, garbage cans or firewood was

weekend during the, summer season.”

Wadey’s letter also noted that.no firewood was cut at Syringa Creek for the May 24 weekend,

“Some of the money that was, in some cases, wasted on promoting Captain Cook could have been much more wisely spent on our own provincial campsites,” the letter said,

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Weathercast

SUNNY SKIES today, how- ever a breakdown in the weather pattern is indicated for the weekend as clouds start to move in, bringing cooler temperatures,

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City Sprinkling Bylaw in Effect this Week

City homeowners are allowed seven hours’ sprinkling daily under regulations which came into effect Monday.

Under the city’s Water Rates and Regulations Bylaw No: 109 —approved by city council last month—sprinkling will be allowed between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. as well as between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. No sprioking will be allowed between 9 p.m. and Ta.m. and 10 a.m. to

5 p.m.

The lations restrict each h

provided at area Wadey said the the letter.

“At Syringa Creek Camp- site, it appears that the north section or one-half of the campsite has been closed for the season,” the letter con- tinued.

“Last year the sommnsile ran at full

to one sprinkler at

any time, although owners of automatic sprinkler systems will be permitted to operate them from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. to Tp.m. Hospitals, schools and the city automatic sprinkling systems will be allowed three days per week.

Filling of swimming pools, also covered by the regulations, requires approval from city works and services staff. Upon request pools may be filled at the discretion of the city, although topping of swimming pools will be permitted,

Abuse of the T

will result in under the

terms of the city's water rates and regulations bylaw.