~ — - -Herald on Monda “Hoop WORKERS - Some i in, s some out | VANCOUVER (CP) the Lake Cowichan area of "Vancouver Island who have. been off the job since Jast — , About, 1,000 woodworkers in Contract “talks for 28,000 coastal and southern Interior woodworkers continued in -Vaneouver amid criticism of the.“industry's latest wage werk decided today to return; 7, “olfer’ ‘by ‘Jack Munro, IWA work, "However, while that return ‘towerk was under way, 1, $00 members of In- ternational woodworkers of ‘America walked off the job in the Port Alberni area, - The . woodworkers are Frciating what they say is ‘slow pace of contract otiations with Forest trial Relations, which "bargains for 128 B.C. forest - The IWA members off the. po today are employed at MacMillan Bloedel . Cee ae Camere ond an Freshwater : 7 J . experience ‘Youngsters ‘between the ages of # and 13 iS yeare can the Lakelse eri July 3 W and: -con- tinulng every Tuesaday, Wednesday - and» Thursday until August 23,- The program includes ecology, water safety, games, swimming and iking. Lunch must be babs rad é6ach- child. n can sign up at the Terrace arena from July 4 to 4 from 10 a.m: to 1 p.m. No paper. on Monday Knox Coupland, Herald ge manager, says there will be no publication of the Terrace-Kitimat Daily y, July 2, due to the Dominion Day holiday, neste “region president, On Monday, the companies ‘hnoreased to'elght per cent from 7 1-2 per cent their wage offer in the second year of a two-year agreement. ‘They earlier offered a. 76- right cents-an-hour increase in the first year on the base rate of $2.16 in the contract that ex- pired June 15. “Those figures don't turn me on except that it’s an indication ‘that they are continuing to move,” Munro ‘ paid in an interview “Tuesday. The sweetened ofier was ete Te offering neg : year and a six-per-cent in-| “crease in the second. ' The union originally asked: for a $1.50-anhour increase in a one-year.agreement but - Munro has indicated the union will go for w two-year pact if the ‘conditions are He also said he doubts the union will go for a coat-ol- living clause, preferring instead to have the money up. front. In the pulp industry, results of a strike vote by the. 7,500-member Canadian Paper Workers Union should be known Friday, the same day talks resume between fhe union and the Pulp and WEATHER ; The skies continue to be} sunny spotted with clouds the afternoon. The expected high today Is Celsius and the overnight low ia 8 degrees, with vo major iseues contract, Pulp workers Terrace council wants 2 help with the fee cost Terrace District Council will write to the federal .government and ask the police if they are interested in sharing the: #,200 cost of architect fees for the. propos RCMP headquarters in Terrace. 7 “We understand that. the district. requires as phase one some. :con+. ‘ ceptual and preliminary ‘ design work to be done in order ‘to egtablish- a ‘construction’ cost which ‘ will be used in arriving at a rental arrangement with the RCMP,” says RUPER T GRAIN PORT Quick action is i _ cian iin Mae” for F otal iniovéchient"*" commissi new tran- wert anigter says his first’ Beiority is to move more Prairlt grain to export mT don’t move 20 per cent ‘ more wheat in 1979..." said though the prospect of not doing so was unthinkable. ‘In an interview sand- wiched between.a meeting with a Vancouver group and a cabinet committee, _Mazankowski said his main concerns are quick action on new grain-handling facilities: at Prince Rupert, B.C., and, the a tment of a grains commiasioner with wide ‘The commissioner would take over from the Canadian sibility of making sure that sufficient railway cars and elevator space are available joner would make public any breakdown in the graimhandling 4: ers “and say with aut whether the te wave the wheat board or the grain elevators are at fault,” veaid Mazankowski. _ Since his appolntment last month as transport minister, Mazankowski has been busy getting briefed on the many facets of his department and meeting delegations from across the country who want to get a handle on what directions he is aiming. Much of the time has been spent on grain handling, a job he feels former minister Otto Lang didn’t handle well, He also says a transport department report on air safely ordered before his appointment will bear out his . claimewhtlein posit parliamentary 9 on. that air eafety in Canada R.B. Archambault, the Vancouver architect who - was consulted. The second phase will involve a presentation drawing or a model to be used for referendum purposes, says Ar- chambault, ‘The second _ phase is expected to cost $2,100. 5 The: federal. overn- ‘ment is expec mg ‘ 60 percent of the “‘gubjéct *t0"" reas} “Board” “approval and referéndum ‘approval, says Bob-- Halleor, municipal ¢ administrator. the major airlines but with the smaller ones, he says, Somé air regulations are not enforcable and there is a need for more department acne for air safety in- re. Pand despite Lang's denials that Canada has dropped from seventh to 11th place in in international alr safety, the minister says the depart- ment's own report says this is the case. . Mazankowski also says be favors dere ulation of smaller airlines, par- tleularly those operating within a province, The provinces ces themselves should ing. becuse, they provide use they facilities and are blamed. for insufficient service. Healso says he will consult the transport industry when new alrport facilities are put in place, unaware that the tren . merchant Paper Labor Relations. Bue’ erika broke ot last. last, week the companies. number of non-operating holidays and improvements wa on plan. - Union Ooresident Art Gruntman sald Tuesday that a major concern js, in, creasing pensions for’ rede by local Lions ib75 and now rective #182 a. montis. : “ po When talks broke off, the industry had offered 6 cents ‘an hour in the first year.and six per cent in the second year of a two-year pact, The union’ wants 15 per cent in each your of a te sume babe rate a. te WA. an “Downtown | Lions care “and try to help others — Terrace | ! Downtown Lions’ president: ' Ken opiak announced iM adonation of $165 members to Lions Care. The cheque was givon to multiple district Lions Care: Chairman Al Purschks. Purschke stated the donation would be enough to build one hours fora family in Bali, a y which is trying after a severe __ earthg 2, Rejection would be new setback QTTAWA . (CP) countries, Fisheries Minister Jim’ McGrath _ warned tion on Georges Bank In the Gulf of Hsin, BicGratheatdinan american senators: seem fas as unpopular in Atlantic Canada as in the U.8,: he supports extending Atlantic figheries zone beyond: 200 nautical miles so all fish stocks on thé con Hnental ahelf woukd be under promise ed_ “Teal we maui, bo be centre’ - ‘Would begin ate eee mains at Malton airport and improvements at Mount and He landing) service between Montreal, Toronto and Ot- tawa and what should be done about the now-atalled second Toronto airport. He also an he favors the rebuilding of the Canadian a marie e among world’s larges but aillowad to almost comp! die out because of heavy costs. There would be pe rab sidies and no handouts, the minister sald. But a” be favorable climate created | alo ines | jpowners, ie oe Labor _ Prince George man makes’ it big in the business world PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) ~ Keith Yoraton gots cagay when asked for figures on the financ ial performance of his vine industrial "Basness fi isn't that bad — it’s that good. Yoraton knows that news travels .fast and that competitors will also recognize this central B.C. city of 75,000 as a " potentiel gold mine for any service company that plays ite cards . He’sa millionaire, Yorston said in a recent interview and QM Industries Ltd, his’ privately -held company, has veased ite business 10 times in the last six years alone. That Yorston was in the Tight pla place at the right time th the approach ty further lusteated business's origins as 8 od man machine shop in Ques- mal, #0 south of Prince George. , QM Industries is a Pr led company of 160 ‘employees which supplies the pari, pu'p and paper, natural gaa industries with a long list of roducts fanglng from Pearings to custom-made conveyor systems. Yoraton’s first move was to leave his family's Cariboo- ranch to buy the Quesnel machine shop which served . many independent sawmills in the area with parts and . repairs. Then he maved on to acquire Prince George Machine Depot Ltd., one of a handful of machine shops in the area, That's where good timing played a hand. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway was pushed through to Prince George, providing a young to ~ forest indy lustry with a direct link to the coast and a larger market for its products, Twenty-seven years inter in 1970, that indstry would be embarking on expansion plans totalling mora than $400 mililon. Despite the rallway and the boom it eventually ted, times were tough in e 1850s, Yorsten said. “We had to carry a lot of Independent sawmill operators on our backs,” he said. “There was no other way we could do business. They *yorston’s frontier atyle of doing business earned a grassroots loyalty. QM In- dustries serves some of the biggest operations, but many small-timers till number among the company's most r customers, His biggest challenge came as the industry Weyerhauser, and Prince George Pul: Paper moved in and g bled up small competitors. QM would have gone the same way, said Yorston, had he not recognized that he had to grow bigger aa well to meet bigger demands. “You have to know when the right time is to expand,” Mie a pulp mill ¢ larger pulp m oper. ators were having 80: diffleulty obtaining replacement parts for thelr from Europe. Pulp mills count lost production time in mainutes and It was no smal] advantage for QM to be on the spot with parts, . Yorston said. Vancouver based competitors iike B.C. Bearing, CAE, Bitco and Mainland undry established branch offices ‘machines, many im bere, but they're at a dis- advantage sgainat a local firm which ean adapt quickly to meet its market, eventually, pulp mills started builidng their- own parts. inventories, QM saw sdapted to the Dew taarhet and by insta ay acted as a catalyst for mining, natural gas and ol! exploration. au added prefabrication of steol In- dustrial buildings to ite ' growing list of services, QM also managed to cath In on a economy in northwestern Alberta, has recently enterad the eastern Ca- and a rapresentative in Atlanta to service Georgia's pulp and paper industry. Yoraton said, however, he's aware of of the danger his company too “an MIT (Massachusetts Inatltute ef Technology) study a few years Md “wat aos 1 tee United oe ae eeanter 200 employees operated the efficiently." nyeeaton, now 4, says that ideally QM, would remain under that number. | While" tt ai Eas 23 any action now scuttle talks aku: praval for the 200-mile‘zo fisheries. treaty allocates fish stocks between Canadlans and Americans in the Georges Bank area which both countries claim as of thelr 200-mila fis zones. The treaty is built on com- promisa which means fish- . ermen in both countries will be tissatisited, McGrath months before a U.S. sedate committee begins studying the treaty, several senators congressmen have at- tacked it, Until the treaty is ratified, Canadians and Americans aren't allowed to fiah in each other's waters, Officials are worrled that overfishing by . ‘both countries on Georges ~ Bank will worgen. Rejection by the Senate will mean-that negotlations will have to start again "from the start’ for both coasts, McGrath sald. There are four areas where the 200- mile Hmits of the countries overlap. ‘The Herald, Thursday, June 24, 1979, Page 3 POLICE NEWS. Terrace RCMP report Robert Vandenberg, 20, has been charged with willful damage after 2 man was out the win- dows’ of the bank of Nova Scotia Tuesaday night. ‘Police alzo stated that several warranta for Van- denberg from Edmonton City police are outstan and sald Vandenberg appear in court Wednesday, In observance of Dominion Day, Sunday, July 1, 1979, the District of Terrace Municipal Offices will be closed on Monday, July 2, 1979, The following change In refuse pickup Is introduced: be picked up on Tuesday, July 3, 1979. _ _ The sanitary landfill Is open 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Tuesday to Sunday. Closed all day Monday. District of Terrace Garbage normally collected on Monday will. a ay - Post Canada and USA. hone up to 30 grams L » [Printed papers and greeting © feards up to.50 grams ther countries. Aerograms and Jetters upto 20 grams © - please enquire "35 cents" For more information, at your nearest post office. Postes - Canada The weight Steps . are new... rates are the same. [Effective July 1, 1979, the Post Office i is metric! 3 basic 17 cents : 15 cents sf ' " i ™ ' yf i" i i at rts " i vl o I ay a 14 PH a oa wet oo ‘ps ~ a aera ee en ore ee aa “mT