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Editor's note: Canadian lumber exports take about 33 per cont of the U.S. market and were worth $4 billion in 1985. U.S. lumber producers are demanding duties on the imports. ‘This is the first part in a series looking at the dispute from both sides of the border. By GARY KINGSTON Canadian Press

. VANCOUVER — From the dusty, screechy sawmills to there is worry in

the posh corp the British Columbia forest industry.

It is the all-too-familiar spectre of American duties looming over softwood lumber imports.

Three years ago Canadian lumbermen fought off a similar threat. But now, tenacious U.S. lumber producers in the South and Pacifie Northwest, backed by sympathetic and have lobbied for another into their that Canadian lumber is subsidized.

‘They are seeking a countervailing duty of as much as 27 per cent on Canadian lumber imports which have taken an increasing share of the American market — 33 per cent in

to start within a year, Wilder said.

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1985, compared with 19 per cent in 1975. JOBS AT STAKE

Lfast year, those lumber exports to the United States were valued at $4 billion and government officials estimate 60,000 Canadian jobs are at stake, most of them in British Columbia, whieh accounts for about two-thirds of the exports.

“Sure they're nervous about it,” John Whitmore says of his 800 employees at five sawmills in Prince George and surrounding areas.

“I can't blame them. We're all nervous.” Whether optimistic about winning or resigned to losing, lumbermen are unsure of what the new American environment will bring.

“Why make plans for something you honestly believe should never be?” asked Whitmore. “I think that (three years ago) we proved that we weren't being subsidized, that we were on a fair level with the U.S. producers.”

The American producers say their case is better documented this time and that new interpretations of U.S. law governing subsidies on natural resources should help

FEES TOO LOW The central U.S. argument is that stumpage rates — fees paid for harvesting timber from Crown land — are too

and provincial go’ pr and the Canadian Forest Industries Council. The industry spent $4 million fighting off the duties in 1962-83; estimates are that it will cost twice as much this time,

While he fully supports the Canadian position, Whitmore ds the moti of the producers.

“If you can shut off a big volume of wood coming in from another country and push your prices way up, why not? Let's face it, Congress has to be listening to these people because they have a fair amount of unemployment, and

company’s annual production of 136 million board feet — the standard used in the industry despite metrication — is exported to the United States. CALLED GREEDY’ To Killy the American action is led by “a bunch of

ting as B.C. battered badly in the early 1960s when housing starts slumped and markets tightened, try to restore their balance sheets. Killy keeps track of a number of forest companies in Canada and the United States, “and if they think they've got problems down there, then we must have it in spades.”

He said it's difficult to assess the impact of a hefty duty on Canadian lumber producers generally, but it would force some marginal operators out of business.

“OUr company has slowed down the rate of progress on some of our capital projects in a kind of w attitude. History would tell you that the individual or company with yery deep pockets probably survives where the guy who has very shallow pockets doesn't.”

Aside from the threat of a duty, Killy said the industry also has to be concerned that its current health rests on the record North American consumption of softwood lumber — 45 billion board feet last year. The surging U.S. economy has raised annual housing starts to the two million level, but any drop, combined with the revival of American producers, could mean the demise of “more than just a few mills.”

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low. Canada responds that they are geared to the costs and problems of harvesting the trees in a difficult terrain and climate.

The International Trade Commission has already found that Canadian softwood lumber imports are hurting the U.S. industry. The U.S. Commerce Department is now investigating whether a duty should be imposed on the imports, and its preliminary ruling is expected by Oct. 16.

Just days before the new investigation was announced, the U.S. imposed a 35-per-cent tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles — used on buildings for siding and roofing — which have made proportionately beigger inroads on the American market than softwood lumber. Almost instantly, hundreds of the 4,000 jobs in B.C. shake and shingle mills .

“That certainly enhanced the concern,” said Hugh Jones of B.C. Forest Products in Mackenzie. “We've been living

‘The Canadian position in the fight against the softwood duty is being advanced by an informal task force of federal

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said. $35,000-a-year job as execu- Long, 52, a lawyer for 27 tive secretary of The Inter- national A ion of Lions

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Long said his was voluntary, but added that within the club, he has been a target for “a vin- dictive group that doesn't let up, a group that’s been out to get me from day one.”

But he said he was not under pressure to resign.

“It took 50 hours a week and I couldn't do it an¢

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ran past Castlegar. Hope to see you out. All programs st the amphitheatre unless otherwise posted.

‘Thursday 9 p.m.: “High, Wild and Remote” — slide presentation on backpacking and scenery in the Kootenay high country. FRIDAY 2 p.m.: “Skin and Skull Display” —'see the hides and skulls of animals of the Kootenays. Meet at the adventure

playground. 9 p.m.: “History of our Arrow Lakes” — slide show. See some of the lakes’ paddle wheelers.

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2 p.m.: “Childrens Nature Games” — Meet at the adventure playground.

8 p.m.: Special Guest Speaker — Jackie Yocom who runs the animal hospital will be bringing a live racoon, skunk (descented), hawk, and ferret, and will talk about her work.

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2 p.m. “Wild Tea Party” — taste some wild teas. Meet at the public beach picnic area.

9 p.m: Film Night — “Atonement”

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2 p.m.: “Rocks and Rolling Stones” — display of rocks and minerals found in area and the formation of our mountains. Meet at the adventure playground.

17:30 p.m.: “Evening Walk” — to the lookout on the Pine Trail. Meet at the bulletin board in the

Funeral held for

Castlegar away on Sunday, July 27.

Mr. Lyons was born at in 1967, but continued to work on various projects in the area.

He was a member of the

Golf Club, curling . ¢lub, and the Royal Canadian Legion and was an avid gar dener.

Mr. Lyons is survived by his wife, Cherie, at home, one son Wayne of Castlegar and one daughter, Trudy of Van two sisters, Margaret Kirkwood and Ruby Lyons of Toronto, Ont. He was predeceased by two brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel earlier today. Cre- mation has taken place.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

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In 1949 he came to B.C.

Former

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Wednesday Anastasia (Nell) Stefoniuk, former resident,

: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 p.m Thuredoy’ died suddenly July 28 in

Youth Meeting 6:30 ‘Abbotsford. She was born in Prud.

, Sask., on Oct. 11, 1912. She moved to Castlegar from Trail in 1960 with her husband Fred and sons Bill and Greg, and ran the Pallette Cafe, formerly Rig- by’s Coffee Shop.

Mrs. Stefoniuk moved from Castlegar to the coast around 1966 and had been living there since.

She is survived by her

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Doug Glover, director of the West Kootenay Enter- Centre, will be in Washington, D.C.

contributions of small business. “As a Canadian delegate I'll have a rare opportunity observe the mechanisms and dialogue that national policy,” Glover said. 's Washington agenda are a White

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“I expect to bring back to Canada and the Selkirk College region advanced knowledge of the policy and decision making procedure,” said Glover. “Such insight should enhance my ability to counsel small business clients who come to the Enterprise Development Centre for assistance.”

The West Kootenay Enterprise Development Centre is located in Castlegar and funded by the B.C. Ministry of Education through Selkirk College. Its function is to assist individuals in transforming their urial

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