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By BECKY RAGLON
. Herald Staff Writer ©
A number of unanswered questions still remain regarding”

the fate of 90 Skeenaview e employees, Dave Makinnon, area.

staff representative of the BC. {Government Employees
Union (BCGEU) reported Wednesday. og
Skeenaview, which at one time housed 150 patients and

-employed 90 people, is being phased out. Anew '55-bed .
facility is, planned for Terrace which will empliy 24 to 23"

people,

agreementin place insuring that the jobs in the new facility
will be offered to the employees of Skeenaview.

“The ministry people might try and: be cute,” said -

Makinnon. “If they try to play games we'lltake steps to see:

that they don’t’.

Cooperation with the Skeenaview Society has been ex-
cellent according to Makinnon, and the union has had a

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The BCGEU agreement covers 57 Skeenaview employees
— those that have two years service and are not subject to
lay offs. Once official notice is given employees are faced

: with several options. First, they can be offered another job. -

by the ministry.,

“The job offered might not necessarily be in Terrace —

which.is an’ impossible. situation for same people,” said

“", ‘Those who choose to move can be placed by a priority
Makinnon says that at this point there is no firm

placement committee of the BCGEU which meets every six
weeks to match up people and jobs throughout the province.
* Once anemployee is notified they must tell the ministry if
they wish to stay in Terrace. If they want to be Placed in
Terrace the agreement calls for a two year period in which
the empliyee is immune from job offers outside of Terrace.

Another option for’ employees’ with 10 years of service

would be early retirement. Employees 55 years or older

COMP. 77/78

could get up to five years +s pensionabld service. Makinnon
says this is an attractive option for five or six of the em-
ployees.

If at the end of the two Jear period an employee has not

been placed, or doesn't opt for early retirement, then they: _

are eligible to six months severance pay.

The collective agreement ‘covérs only the regular em
Hloyees of Skeenaview. There are also d number of
auillary employees. who. will be lald off according to
seniority. These are people who when they were hired were
told their jobs would disappear in a two or three'year
period. Seniority is their only basic protection,

’ The extended care unit planned for Mills Memorial
Hospital does come under the BCGEU agreement for
employees.

“Thereal issue is that the povernment-is getting
responsibility, by puting them in Mills Hospital,”
Makinnon. “When the dust settles the fact that Skeenaview |
will have been roughly halved shouldn't be Jest. ‘is part of

ut of its

Thursday, April 30, 1961

Terrace teachers plan to
walk out of their claserooms ,
Wednesday, May 6. They

Nishga
suspend
section

has voted to suspend a sub-

section of the Indian Act
which descriminates

Ed Wright, Village Ad-
ministrator in New
Aiyansh, says’ what they
hope to have stspended is
the sub section which
disenfranchises Nishga
women who marry non-
Indian men, .

“Indian affairs say they
wil) have trouble getting
this enforced," said Wright.
“We've tried to carry it a

that’ all Indian people that
lost their status be re
instated.”

Wright describes the issue
as a touchy one, especially
for wealthy bands, There
have been court cases in
Ontario and the issue has
surfaced in eastern Quebec.

‘ will be holding a study
session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
to impress upon board. of
school trustees and the
public that they are fed up

“Terrace Teacher
Association president
Wayne Wyatt said, "The

Schools

By MICHAEL HOWLETT |
Herald Staff Writer
The Kitimat School
District .. 60 Board = of
Trustees. “gave fourth
reading -and final _gdoption
to their 1961 weet Wed

represents an "inciease of
4.166 mills or 8.5 percent
over: 1980's rate of 48.64

The total tax requirement
is. split with $9,132,521
coming from the District of
Kitimat and $209,600 coming

' Skeenaview ae fate ‘still unans wered

: <=,’ &

an over all thing happening throughout the province.”

Makinnon said the government: contracts ont certain
Fespaxsibilities to local aocteties on 4 per diem rate which is
often not in line with actual costs,

“Tt inevitably means that B.C. Hydro will get paid, and

B.C. Tel will get paid. It inevitahly means they will turn to

labourers to cut coals." -

Makinnon also fears iat by farpiing out certain aspects

"of health care the, government might inadvertently be

the service offered to citizens! Local societies _
don't have the staff regources or facitities goverament-run.

agencies do: yon

: to
i

“Local input is an excellent idéa,"’ said Makisnon “but
don’t ask for only 70 per cent of the wage. a

“Homemakers, debt and alcohol councilling - they'l
have good people, impressed with the objectives but you
‘wind up with the revolving door effect ttyea cent pay 18 .

"keep them."

Teachers plan |
May 6 strike

recent unpopular demotion
of school principals has
brought to a head the
festering discontent of
teachers. Personnel
practices in this district are:

’ qut of date. They are simply

“The board has indicated

| a willingness to discuss with
. us the development of a

written set of personnel and

This is a commendable first
step. However,. in.view: of:
the. strong” public “concern
we. feel the board’ should
reconsider its actions with

_ Pegard totwo principals and

Give them 2 second cha:
ce” ‘
Wynit also said tha the:

public is weloome ta attend? =f
the study session tobe beld:.

in’ the Terrace Hotel.:
Teachers will not be: in:
schoal that day, 2

)

budget adopted

" hout by business from the

last meetings minutes in-
volving the turning down of
a request made by Joan

‘Gubbels to be allowed to

continue ‘renting school

| Seats bo teach plano.

However, later’ in the

meeting, after haying heard”
-  severalsiatements mage hy:

the membors of the public
attending the meeting in
favor of such a motion, a:
similar motion concerning
the theatre was passed. The
second motion was brought
about by: request made by
the Kitimat Community
Arts Council for free use of

request | from the Kitimat
District’ Teachers |
Association. for represen -

' tation on the District Budget

Committes.. Tt was felt that

. the committee must remain
_Doa-politicaland non-biased
if It iy to work effectively, ©.
and that theteschers might
ie a pieatble conflict
interest situation if they sat

on the comittee: The

present arrangement, of | -

having. teachers. views

represented through an o

elementary and. a secon-
dary representative was felt:
to be satisfactory. a
_A letter will be sent to the

The Indian act is written so
that the man retains Indian
status and women marry in.

“We are in disagreement
with non-status,"’ said
Wright. ‘The Federal
government offered this to
Jodians in return for certain
privileges. Now there are
children who are bitter
about what their parents did
ta them.”

Wright says that the
problem is that Indian
‘Affairs will have trouble
gétting the resolution en-
forced.

Sgt. R.F. LeBlond and Const. John Snape look over new floor plans fora
proposed RCMP building which wauld give them three times the floor
space they now have. Terrace Residents will be faced with making a
decision on the new bullding sometime In June. Members of the tacal’
RCMP detachment will be af-the Terrace Jaycees Trades

: weekend with floor plans and information and will-be glad to answer any
questions the public may have. .

Falr this

BCRIC experiment has failed but...

The British Columbia
Resources investment
Corp. (BCRIC) has been'a
failed experiment but if its

te structure is al-
tered its shares could
double in value, a

disgruntled shareholder and .

Montreal businessman said
Wednesday.

Irwin Miller, billed by a
group = of §=—s unhappy
shareholders as a
prominent businessman
with 2 master plan that can
save BCRIC, said if the
company structure is not
changed then the firm's $960
miltion in assets should be
sold and the proceeds
distributed among
shareholders

Miller, an executive with
MiBer Foam Enterprises
Ine. of Montreal and holder

_ of 100,000 shares of BCRIC,

Predicted that if the firm’s
“defective and = un-
democratic structure’ is
madie to conform wilh other
companies, the share value
woukl jump to the $8 to $10
range from the current $5
level. ©

Miller bought his shares
at about $4.

lf BCRIC’s § vatuable
assets. were liquidated,
shareholders could expect a
return of $10 to $12, be said.
BCRIC, a holding company
initially established by the

B.C. government from a
collection of Crown-owned
firms, now holds forest
industry shares. worth $300
million, Kalser Resources
shares worth $550 to $600
million, and Westeoast

Tranamission shares worth
$60 million,-Miller added.

Shares of the con-
troversial company were
first distributed -w eligible
British Columbians in 1979

‘after an election pledge by

Premier Bill Bennett, They
hada book value of $% and in
1900 hit a peak of $9.25
before sinking to the record

* low Monday of 44.95.

As well as -diziributing
five free shares to each

Invex hopes for strike

By MICHAEL HOWLETT
Herald Stall Weiter
It’s ‘third time lucky’ and
not 'three strikes you're out’
thal Invex Resources Ltd. of
Vancouver hopes is the
correct adage to use to
describe its local mineral

exploration efforts.

Invex is currently looking
at @ copper and silver
deposit at Kelly Creek, up
the Copper River about 35
tiles East of Terrace.

Invex is the third ‘com-
pany in recent years to have
éxplored the site. Native
Mines Co. looked it over
from 1964-48, whilea French
Company,

1000 feet of drift from which
they stucdied the rock in the

Cathedral Mining, the
surlace deposit was outlined

Pecheney ©
- Development Co. drilled

’ at between 200-440,000 tons

of recoverable ore con-
‘taining three per cent
copper and two ounces of
silver per ton. ,

Invex hopes that the use
of new sophisticated geo-
‘physical and geochemical
exploration techniques’ will
determine the exect over all
nize of the ore body.

To this end, ihey've
budgeted $500,000 and have
senta i0 man crew up a four

- by four road off the Copper

River Haul read into , the
site. Another crew will join
them when the required
drilling equipment becames
available.

Invex Spokesmen classify

, the site as ‘sub-marginal',

at this point but claim that
its development. might
occur if the present
program can double or.

triple the located ore ton-
nage. It will be the overall
tonnage rather than world

“multi-millionaires

mineral prices! which will

determine if an mine would
be considered. *

If. such a mine was. to go
in, it would create per-
manent employment for
between 100-150 people.

It would take about -iwo
years.for the mine to be
developed, and it would be

‘managed by fnvex and

Cathedral, Both companies
are Canadian-owned and

have oll and gas as well as

mineral interests.

The financing however is
being put up by the Texas-
based Hunt Brothers,
Lamar and Nelson Hunt,
who
unsuccessfully tried to

corner the world’s silver’

market last year. As a
result, Invex and Cathedral
would split a 30 per cent
nor-assessable interest in
any future development,
with a 70 per cent Interest
remaircng with the Hunts.

eligible person, Bennett
invited investors to buy
more at %.a share, But
recently, with the stock in
trouble, Bennett has denied

_ Boy respansibility, saying
- the firm is now a private .
- eatity.

> Miller, speaking at a news
conference Wednesday held
by the Committee of In-
vesiors to Regulate Cor-
porate - Boards (BCRIC

“uniquely undemocratic
and unfree enterprise
system,”

Normally in a compaay
there are. checks. and
balances: which make
directors accountable to
shareholders, he said. But
there [fy no such ac-
countability In BORIC,

Shareholders are divided
and by govern
ment-applied rules that
Prevent one person irom
holding more than one per
cent of the shares. .

“If this experiment is
doomed, why not stop it and
ive shareholders the $10 to
$12 the assets are worth,”
he said.

from the surrounding rural
area. .

School District 80

- secretary-treasurer Reg

Stowell, said if his report to
the board that the increased
mili rate would.be “to an
extent beld down by the fact
of a $20,000,000 increase in
assessed valyes’. Assessed
values for. 1981 total
$176,000,000 as opposed to
$157,000,000 far 1980.
The board also approved
and submitted to the
ministry of education its
capital expense program
for 1961 which totals
$506,635. Large items
budgeted include $100,000"
for a sprinkler system at
Mount Elizabeth Secondary
School, $75,000 for one mini-
bus with a wheelchair hoist,

‘two66 passenger buses, and

$60,000 for a boiler
replacement at MESS.

Other large items include

a $20,000 wheelchair en-
trance for and $235,000 ©
for beating and ventalation
work at Nechako School.
The board also approved.
an application for a $20,000
nor-shareable capital

five Apple Ii micro-
computers and «a card

reader for the
continuation of the
highschools on-going
computer science prograni.

seemingly contradictory
position after alternating
negative and positive votes
on a similar motions made
at Mondays meeting.

‘The board initially turned
down a-motion made by Dr.
Cid Ling with respect t

policy for allowing the
school district's facilities to
be used for educational
purposes by outside groupe.

The motion was brought

the Mount Elizabeth
Theatre: on June’ 7. ‘The
council has planned to stage
a performance of the United

. Liquor. Control Branch jn
‘Victoria and a copy to the
_ District of Kitimat urging
the licencing bodies to take
into serious consideration
which does ‘not allow ‘en the proximity of the

casicn the board declied to «=—- Seog
cn cnet ‘would terest. “KITIMAT”
The board turned down a pag 3

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