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\ By BRIANGREGG
fe oop 7» erald Stall Writer
‘The déveloginent of manpower in the Skeena e area: ”

requires: dni examination of every aspect of society
and- community, says Dr, Sandy Lockhart,’ coor-

‘Manpower Development

“The SMDC is described as a regionally-facused
xo ‘of labor ard ‘industry representatives"with
: "-spoperation ; and support from various levels of -
: government}: and, with a self-imposed manilate to aan
reapond t to the. institeitional under-development, and.”
” eyelical. economic problems ‘of this region. : |
-Five-years ago industry, was worried that’ there -
were massive labor turnovers in places like Terrace
‘and Kithnat while places like Smithers remained
very stable. During the last few years, however, the ~~:
~ labor force has stabilized as‘economic development © -
_ lopped in this area and people held on to their jobs. .
"which had become scarce, Now that comznunities —
like Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Smithers,“ Prince -

George and northeastern B.C. are 'p

g for

another burst of development jobs will become

-Tmore availaable ‘and the local. economy will once mere
again have a high Jevel of Labor. turnover as workers Le
+ look, for better.jobs in another boom period. ‘ oy,
"Another area of concern for the SMDC is to try to’ “>.
balance. the economic equation. ‘The large. scale .
organizations are having.a great impact on this
area which has undergone the transition froin small =:
scale family business type of. economics- to large:
 geale: big business type of economics, -‘SMBC Is’
- looking for ways. to make the less desirable. large.
. Seale operations ‘more desirable and:to find new.
~ Ways to serve the best interests of the small peal

= famlly type o€ business.-

. Some organizations like the ‘department a labor,
“the Canada Employinent Centre, the Labor Couicil

: “and the ‘Regional District’ of Kitimat-Stikine ‘hav
~ Sometimes wondered if SMDC hasn't been trying t

* ‘cut into its territory;, but Dr. Lockhart says that

. SMDC has been doing just the opposite. “We want to:

. \dgvelop.a mew perspective as an independent, out. :
“sider so that'we can assist. these! institutions see

. their problenis better.

“Everything wedoisdoneon an init basis Wo

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“ PERRACE-RETIWAE

Friday, February 20, 1981 7 :
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Dr. Allen Gottesfetd has been collecting rocks and fossils
_ for 16.yéars; and all that work is now going to pay off for
Northwest Community College, which he donated his .
collection to. Dr. Gottesfeld Is living in Skeena to discover
~~ what has happened to our conifer forests during the last -
2,000 years. Here Or. Gottesfeld studies fossil sharks teathie;:

ra

He is ‘quite Impressed with his observations of this ares.

“There are three areas in Skeena that are world class —

localities for fossils. It is very undervalued; for example, _

the Copper River area ylelds some great finds that would be .

_ valued In any large metropolitan museum. ae
, . - COrien rete Prete? -

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Eight provinces. now.
| Opposed to. proposals ‘|

REGINA. (CP) — Eight of
Canada’s 10 provirices now
are opposing Prime Miniater
Trudeau’s constitutional
reform proposals following
Saskatchewan Premier
Allan . Blakeney’s . an-
oouncement that he too could
. mt them. '

Blakeney told a news
sonference: Thursday that

Ittawa has not made enough .

changes to. the ‘proposed
sonstitutlonal resolution on
wnternational trade. of re-
jources, the amending

formula and the Senate to -

arn Saskatchewan's sup-
port., -

The announcement left
anly. Ontario and *New
Brunswick on _ Trudeau's
ide. .

But Blakeney ruled out
joining British Columbia,

_ Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec,

Prince Edward Tiland and

*. Newfoundland. in opposing

the constitutional Tesolution :
a ‘“nier found friends in B.C.,

in ~ court... - Instead, -

resolution : outlining his

government's opposition 0

the federal proposals will be , ‘governmental

introduced ini the’ Saskat-
chewan legistatiite ' for. full
debate.

When asked in Vancouver
for his -reactlon to
Blakeney’s announcement,
Trudeau said: “What's

pew?”

The prime minister sald he

, had been expecting the Sas-
- katchewan, decision for

_ about two months,

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- exiticism from others, in-
chiding Jim Fleming,
‘minister of.
multiculturalism.

-Bitt the Saskatctiewan pre-.

Alberta and Quebec.

Garde Gardom, B.C. inter.
‘relations.
minister, sald Blakeney’'s

. Gecision is a clear. sign that
Ottawa must return to the”

bargaining table. —

“Surely by now it must be
_ lear that'more and more

Canadians are rallying to the
defence’ of ‘our - Canadian

tradition and denouncing as.

unfair and inappropriate the ©
present unilateral activity of

the federal ‘gabinet,” sald

Gardom In. a prepared .

slatement.

| “The sheer Tact that Sas-

katcbewan ‘now is onside
will be well-known across
Canada and will add,to the
mounting pressure that
‘Trudeau must try to explain
away as he tries to push the

’ resolution through the Howse -

of Commons," said Dick
Joboston, Gardom’s Albefta :
counterpart.

state . for

TIMBER FIRMS ~
FACE CUTBACK

HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, B.C, (CP) —

Thureday. -°".”
During an interview, Waterland said ‘he is

 ». determined to have at least 25 per cent of the annual

allowable harvest in every timber supply area of

.B&. logged by small, independent companies. =.
“The timber then’ would be sold through com:

petitive log markets to companies with existing
ils,

Pu)
‘ Waterland was in ‘this, eastern Fraser Valley

community to address the annial convention of the

’- B.C, Professional Foresters Association. -
Under the plan, existing mills would keep 75 per

cent of their total timber requirements in a secure

- tenurearrangement and bid for the rest of the wood
" of an open market, be sald. :
- Smaller companies with access to the remaining
25 per cent of the timber would sell directly to
_  exifiting milla rather than operate thelr own facil-
. ites,
. “The anil: firms would have & different timber
_cutting fee system, geared to the selling price of ;

their logs.”
Curtently, little Crown-owned timber is logged by

_ companied certified under the forest ministry's :
 small-opefator program. ; a
About % per cent of the comiferciel tittber land

in B.C. is Crown owned and leased to forest com-
panies.

Wateriand also said public meetings will be held .

this year into proposed changes to the provincial
appraisal syetem on which the cutting fee or stum-

‘page is based. In 1979-80, sucti payments totalled -
more than #00 million to the provincial govera-

ment, -

Some -
Be. céastal timber companies will eventually have

their logging rights cutback to make room for more © -
‘ competition; Forests Minister Tom Watecland said

=

' erease -

. don't work o ona continaing responsibility. to what we’
are looking at. The operative words for. what wedo -*
is catalytic ‘and: Maison ... ;
miessages for groups that are not -talking to: one:
+ another,”, says Dr. Lockhart. reer
Dr. ‘Lockhart saya he has been trying to design »
; solutions to the problems he sees in this area, Hig...
y ‘main view has been to examine social, community. _
““gnd-economic development; Dut since he plans'to'
~ leave in May lo return to his job at the University of...
. Trent, SMDC ‘will probably find. someone’ whose
ee ‘focus in on' managerial development,.
 Oye.of. the major problems Dr, Lockhart sees is’
the Jack: of involyement by native Indians in |. on
- dustry in this area which has the largest proportion’: aS
of native population in relation to the proviticial’: - -,
: population anywhere in Canada. The natives have .. =
"(by and large been left out of economic ‘develop-”.:
ment; but they Will have to find their own solutions ~._”
with: unioris and’ industry acting as _Brocess ‘con-".” “

we will often run -

. ii si ni ain
"ato, There are more milwrights in this area ,

on ‘empire-building when it wants to: expand.:"Dr, © :
: oe: .; 80es to Victoria for more money to expand .. « SMDC *

than anywhere elsa in B.C. yet ihe nearest tralning. vs
’ facility for Anillwrights is ‘in Prince Gearge. The © .
reasons are polilical and Dr. Lockhart agrees with: * ‘ :
local people when they gay .the situation is absurd. an
Northwest Community College is one of the few. -
- colleges in the province that Is not interested in

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"George doee not have imperialistic reasons when hi *
ae. always supported him ‘for that. -Feason,"" says :
Dr. Lockhart.

‘Dr, Lockhart ays that Kitiqnat i past its west es ne
a community; and although Terrace is riot'a” bad". yee
“community it is npt the best. because it tends’ to..
-lyolite people socially. ‘Drugs and: alcohol area
“problem here; but they are warge in Pritice Rupert."
nenities’ such as the ‘hot: springs’ should be!
" “developed for Jocal people; much like an‘arena ora ae

~ gwitnmoing pool, but the provincial goyernment is - aa
an “developing that facility for the people outside of this: :
-Fegion'as a holiday. resort. Lockhart. says bela

_ Flying

- defied: courts

VANCOUVER (cP) ~The’

Telecommunications :
Workers Union: -has been

found i in contempt of a B.C..

- Supreme Court order for. the
seco : time,, _

Mr, Justice *
‘McKenzie: ruled ‘Thurday ©
that in using flying pickets
against. B.C. Telephone Co. °

supervisory personnel, the .

and. ‘deed. ay
McKenzie saidhe wouldn't

pass sentence until Justice.
‘Ken Meredith pronounces:
sentence for the anion’s sit-
ins ai B.C. Tel offices earlier: :

this . month.- Meredith

Mediator
Federal

» Right, paying the company's

‘Fate-increase condition took’
. the matter out of his”

jurisdiction.
: Kelly, appointed by Regan
last week, said he brought

- the parties to agreementon a.

three-year contract, except

_ for the company condition.

‘Terms were the same as

“those contained in a report ~

. last. fall by’ federal con-
ciliation “commissioner Ed
Peck, plus 12 per cent in the
. third year.

- Peck recommended a two-
_year contract, retroactive to
Jan, 0, that would in-
journeyman
 Hineman’s pay to $13.75 an
" bour by July 4 (itis year frem
i $11.15, oe

* The. Canadian Radio-

_ Mayor Ss appeal denied |

‘He ‘tata inconventence

regulting from. work: slop-
pages such. as: those-tby -

members of Canadian Union *

Of Public Employees j in i
| Maneoiver-area - “commu-
nities doesn’t. warrant
government ‘. interferejce.

In the civic workers strike,

now, into its third week, an.

.. appeal by Vancouver Mayor
Mike Harcourt failed to.
cotivince coungil members to
hold a special meeting
" Thursday outside city hell
and away from picket lines
in a show of good faith.
Tuesday's regular meeting
waa cancelled for lack of a
quorum when civic workers
withdrew special passes and
several aldermen refused to
- cross the tighter picket line.
Striking inside and outside
workeri, membera of the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees, picketed all
public ‘schools in Maple

Lloyd

union: had ‘treated-a court .

bows out Westie, Page,
oof. Crossword, Page 19. -
television “and ‘felecom:. - Gomer, Page 4

mediator Bill
Kelly excused himself from:
“the: dispute ‘Wednesday.;

pickets

[nove

‘detente sentencing until tthe RA

. dispute Lg settled. The 11,000- . HE LD
member union promised to TURES
respect court-ordered — catZat ads, Pa :

”_ Festrjctions' during ~ ‘the | IM a eee |
strike, Which ‘began’ Feb. W. Comics, Pages: 19, i ; :

-Earller,’ federal’ Labor -
Minister’. Gerald Regan _
‘admitted he had fajled in a
- personal bid to eiid thé bitter —
‘and. controversial ‘labor |

’ Around the, Tows,

- for ‘another rate jncteabe ‘as us

‘a condition of setting the 14 {
month dispute, said -Thur-
sday he spoke to company
_ president Gordon, MacFar. «
- Jane‘by telephone but made

little progress. _

munications Commission ..
recently. granted B.C. Tel. a
.12.5-per-ceht! increase’ for
: residential phone rates dnd a -
_15-per-cent increase for busi’ .
‘ness wubseribers, - - ath
- Meanwhile, provincial
Labor Minister . Jack:
Heinrich warned that British .
Columbians “must ‘be
prepared to suffer inconven-’
lence for the benefit of mair-
taining free collective:
bargaining during the
current rash of. labor .
disputes. ~
“‘There’s going to be some
pain, there's ‘going to’ be
some inconvenience,” °
Heinrich said during an
interview in Victoria. “But
that is the price we are all.
‘going to have to pay because
we all want the system to
work,”

: thei B.C. Professional
> Foresters Association
’ takes) a’ stand: en: the
Provincial: - ‘forest.

“ami ‘over.’ ‘But they.
aren't. all _ unhappy.
. Page &

Ridge on Thursday. Sw

About 25 of the “450
atenchers refused to’ "cross _ - Hustle of majer league
"picket lineg>. . ' @ baseball, pays H's only

A tnion picket was taken [) men Playing a kid's
‘to hospital and two others | game so play ff like a
were jnjured when struck by ‘2 kid. Page. —
‘a truck at a. Richmond
landfill.

Police said the ‘track mi
driver was stopped by,
pickets and after a short
. discussion, drove . into the |

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