Serving't the Pr rassive. Os “Skeena High graduatés from 1952-1964 returned home on the weekend. Thére were LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY PARLIMENT BUILDINGS Victoria, B.C.. V8V 124 Volume 76 No.147 Hotsprings solution needs cooperation “Herald Staff Writer - TERRACE - The minister of lands parks . "dnd housing has suggested a close liaison between community groups and the: Regional District of Kitimat Stikiné will get work underway on the Lakelse Hot- Springs. _ The latest-toss of the hotaprings hot potato was included in a letter sent by lands minister Jim Chabot te the. Lakelse Hotsprings Development - Association. The ministry and the. regional district have been trying toavoid responsibility for the stagnant hotsprings situation with the regional district especially concerned about the possibility it might end up covering the cost of any future development, Chabot suggested to the Lakelsa .Hot- springs association that it should "work closely with the Regional District of Kitimat Stikine in. developing your proposal. ” The Skeena region lands manager has, also told the association that it must come” up with--firm ‘costing figures for its proposed two phase development. “Development association officials ex- pect the major cost of re-opening the outdoor pool and coffee shop to be the new sewage disposal system. The cost of the new system is estimated at close to $100,000. The association itself’ has decided to form a non-profit goclety under the Societies Act in order to help deal with the . ‘large costs Involved in formulating an acceptable proposal . for ‘hoteprings development. The. original executive: has. been replaced with a steering gommittee in- order to help deal with thetransition. Lea Rahr has beer: appointed chairman of the new committiee. BCGEU prepares for strike . VICTORIA (CP) — The B.C. Govern: - ‘ment Employees Union asked a mediator involved in talks between the union and - Zovernment negotiators to book out of the dispute Monday night, paving the way for a strike by 40,000 workers midnight Wednesday. John Fryer, union secretary - general, . said Monday night the union asked Dalton ‘-Larson to.book out of the dispute and. that ihe union now is. planning to begin: strike - - action at 12:01 a.m; PDT Thursday. ;Negotlators for the union. and the B.C. Government Employee. Relajlona.Burean - “hei babgaanied througtiout “ihe” three-day ‘holiday weekend unttl talks broke down -late Monday. - The union served 72-hour strike notice Satyrday when its contract. expired, but er the Public Service Labor Relations Act; it could. not legally strike while a mediator was involved in the dispute. Union members were in an “excited and determined” ‘mood Monday. night at Victoria. strike headquarters, a union spokesman said. ° The union, which bargains for workers _in ali 23 government ministries, Is ‘determined to surpass the. LOper-cent:. maximum wage’ increase allowed’ by the government under , its ‘compensation - stabilization program. o Also at issue is a government demand _ fora four-per-cent boost in productivity in — _ exchange for a two-per-cent wage in- ' crease. Mike Davison, chairman of the Government Employee Relations Bureau, said. Friday that the government has two _ Proposals for increasing productivity. erg fetal netreta “Tam not saying they are all a bunch of - lazy buggers, * Davison said. We're not -- talking about speed-up or stuff like that. “We don’t want factories. We're service oriented,” One proposal is to increase the hours of "work by 16.8 minutes, up from the seven- hour day: The other is to give the government more: control shift scheduling inorder to > cut down on overtime payments and to ’- have workers on hand when needed. wee unlon has rejected both proposals ita own, ' sald daly Fryer, contract was $11.54 an “hour or $1, 157 a. month. The government has a daily payroll of about $3.2 million a day. Government negotiators say each one-. - . _ percent increase in wages would cost taxpayers $10 million a year. A likely target for sirike action would be B.C.'s 213: liquor stores, at which. 1,700 .. {alltime and 1,600 auailliary workers are employed,” Liquor revenues are no small part of the government's total budget — in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1981, the latest figures available, total sales-were $798.8 - million with $280.4 million in revenue to the government,..- .. ‘Joyce Courtney, spokesman for the Liquor Distribution Branch sald licensees, small, liquor store operators iff remote. ' communities were Increasing their orders ‘in anticipation of a liquor drought. .Liquer steres also have reported business has increased during the las! few weeks. oto a _ Economic war advocated EDMONTON (CP) — deficit of almost $20 billion, ‘He can’t see the federal ‘Canada’s economic crisis is all four ‘palnt a picture of government admitting its. so severe that something chronic unemployment and” folly now or accepting that close to a wartime coalition inflation for the forseeable ‘the emergency.is so great is needed to get the country future. moving again, says Alberta - Senator Ernest ‘ Manning. - Manning, “that it should join in a a - former. wartlme-style coalition to But ‘Max’ Saltsman,’ a political. scientist and former New Democratic . Party MP; contends the problems are more social and moral than economic, — Brian- Mulroney, “president of the Montreal- based Iron Ore of Canada Lid. and onelime candidate for leadership of the federal | Progressive Conservative . party, believes the solution ‘is to let .the world. know Canada is ready to welcome foreign investment virtually’ unfettered. ; ‘Hu - Harries, -economic consultant and former Edmonton. Liberal MP, sees - _ Canada’s recession‘as being. induced ‘by’ an eastern Liberal establishment” - which didn’t want political or economic power to shift - to the West and saw oil revenues as a way to sub- - sidize federal economic _ mismanagement, | ‘The four men made their remarks in separate ~in- ..[. terviews. . With nalional unem- ployment and inflation both about 11 per cent, high bank interest rates and a federal Alberta. premier, sees -dnly. ‘two ways.~out. of» the - economic. squaeinina, — all of its economic plans and theories or- it must be . ousted. ‘: tackle. the’ problems in a. . non-parilson way. But } Manning says wore - See ‘Economic’: page: 3 INSIDE Sandeci & Howlett page 2 . Local sports pages. 5 887 : Comics, horoscope page 8. Classifieds pages 10811 ». Gomerstang. page. 12. fo "S.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE 635-2333 or 635-9095 - WHY BUYNEW?” 0 oy “WHEN USEDWILL DOI, ‘Do a youwant parts totix up your car but your budget won't altow it? Baad ihe high cost of new parts with ° vay used parts from 2690 Duhan (justoft Hwy. 16E) ! '