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. Tuesday, May 22, 1984:

~ Schulmeister crew finishes first

’_ by RALPH RESCHKE
Herald Staff Weiter

KITIMAT— An exuberant crew

. .from the Willie Schulmeister raft
crossed the finish line first in the
lth annual Delta King Days raft

_ race, held in Kitimat on Sunday,
beating’ out the Kitimat Elks and

“They fought'a lard batiie and weird race for thelr efforts.

Kitimat Booming Contractors en-
tries in the process, .

The winning team from Terrace

covered the eight kilometre course
in 46 minutes, but according to
crews from all three leading rafts, it
was race for the finish right to the
very end; with first place changing.

The Willle Schulmeister team from Terrace earned first
place In the Kitimat Delta King Days raft race on Sunday,
beating Jast year’s winners, the Kitimat Elks by a 15 second
margin. .Holding the victory cup is ‘raft captain Willie
. Schulmeister. From left to right in the back row are Tom
Schul meister, Marvin Schutmeister, Paul Schulmeister, Ray

’ Scheper and Lawrence Schulmeister,

Not shown is

remaining crew member, Henry Schulmeister.

- Timber ‘industry

PORTLAND, Ore, (AP) — After a
year of strong sales and rising

employment, the U.S. . timber. in-

dustry has fallen into a slump that is
hitting especially hard in the In-
dustry's heartland.

Timber companies _gorged

themselves on lumber Jast year and.

the first quarter of 1984, reopening
mills as housing construction picked
up after the lean years of 1981-82.
In the last six weeks, however,
lumber and plywood prices hame
fallen and mill inventories have
swelled, More than 2,500 people have
_ -been or will be laid off this month in
Oregon = mills | owned by
Weyerhaeuser Co., . Roseburg
Lumber Co. and Publishers Paper
Go. .
Industry representatives blame

_ Fising mortgage rates more than.

anything else. They. also cite poor
weather, Canadian competition and
misplaced trust in optimistic
forecasts,

_ “Everybody was predicting that
this would be a pretty good year,”
said Weyerhaeuser chairman
Robert B. Wilson. “It’s an election
year, and typically that kind of thing
has an effect on the markets.

“And then, all of a sudden, the
faucet got turned off.”

Lumber production for the week
ending May 12 totalled 335 million

' board feet in 12 western states, said
the Western Wood Products
Association, a trade group, That was
down five per cent from the same
week in 1983,

Shipments of lumber from mills

totalled 313 million board feet, down
10 per cent frem a year ago.
Inventories swelled to 2.67 billion

|. faces new slump

where they are going to have to
make a decision about curtailing
and. cutting shifts," said Fred
Reseburg, the association’s director
of economic services.

He said Canadian imports are
cutting deeper into the U.S. market.
Twelve . billion board feet of

. Canadian lumber were bought in

_ 1983, up from 11 billion in 1979 even .

though overall consumption fell. -
Falling prices were to blame for

_ the 400 layoffs at Publishers Paper's
Molalla’ and Tillamook mills, said

company spokesman Bill Lesh.
Publishers president G, Web Ross,
announcing the. layoffs two weeks
- ago, told Molalla millworkers to
protest federal budget deficits and
"their effect on mortgage rates,
. “There's too much lumber forced
_ into a market that can’t take it all,”
said David Evans, editor of Random
Lengths,’ a market reporting
newsletter. a

hands about five times before the ..
race.was over, . |

The Kitimat Elks raft, which won

until shortly before the finish line, 1
when they hit a log and got spun

ground. : en
‘The Schulmeister raft jumped .

get!
a

ee ‘arnt “3

Although winners la

second in this year’s Delta King Days raft race on Sunday.

ahead and went onto win the race.

-.In six years entering the event, the
. Schulmeister raft has won first
" place three times and: placed third

the race last year, was in the lead .. three times.

Approximately 100 people lined

_=-bothsides of the river at the finish
“tine to watch the race, which is

2 at hy

currently being organized by the
Hooks and Crooks Social Club.

Race organizer, Roger Tumer,

_ said that the procedure to start the

race was a little different this year,

as the crews of each raft had to

complete a $0 yard dash across sand
a stone to get to their rafts,

in raft race

Unce there, it was every man for
himself as the crews jostled for

. position, and made their way down

the river, -

- Last to finish the race this year,
was the submersible raft entered by
the Irly Bird crew. The finished the
race almost half an hour after the.
winners did. se

hs

—y e ve

st year, the Kitimat Elks raft placed before the finish lIne that knocked them out of the lead. The

first three finishers followed each other across the line only
The crew blamed the.loss of the race on a log they hit shortly 15second apart. More pictures on page 14.

VANCOUVER (CP) Bob Skelly
defied the addsmakers Sunday and
was the surprise winner of the
British Columbia-New Democratic
Party leadership. oS

Skelly, 41, the member of the
legislative’ assembiy for Alberni,

- attracted the supporters of four

other candidates as they dropped off
the ballot, then faced off against
Victoria lawyer David Vickers on

_ the fifth ballot.

. The final count was 606 votes for
Skelly, 452 for Vickers,

His voice shaking, Skelly thanked
the delegates for their support
during the five-month campaign.

He said, “I think we are going to
come out of this campaign much
more unified and-rouch stronger
than: ever. And, (Premier Bill)
Bennett eat your heart out.’

“But,” Skelly warned - the
delegates, “Now the test begins: In
-1986, there’s going to be another
election 79,000 votes separated us

. (from the Social Credit) in the last

election.. They're going to be the
hardest votes we've ever won in our
dives." .

MUST FIGHT -

Before that test comes, Skelly said
the party must fight the upcoming
federal election.

. "The Conservatives and Liberals
say they are going to make a
comeback in British Columbia. .
We can beat them both together and
we can beat them separately. Let's

do it”
‘ ‘The new leader also paid tribute to

88 people killed

At least 38 people were killed in
accidents across Canada during the
Victoria Day weekend, including a
bizarre mishap In Windsor, Ont., in
which two hitchhikers travelling on
the back of .a pickup died from
suspected... carbon monoxide
poisoning. :

A survey by The Canadian Press
from 6 p.m, Friday to 6 p.m. Monday
local times showed 25. traffic
fatalities, five drownings, five fire
deatha,.one death in a plane crash
and the two suspected carbon
monoxide deaths.

beard feet, up 17 per cent. ‘Windsor licé said Nadien
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died Sunday after apparently
inhaling exhaust fumes from a

. faulty tailpipe.

The two hitchhikers were
discovered in the back of the truck,
which was enclosed, when the driver
stopped just outside Windsor, police
sald. They had been riding in the
truck eboul an hour.

In another accident, Diane Wendy
Donnelly, 23, of Toronto, was killed
Saturday when. the motorcyle on
which she was @ passenger was hit
by a car being chased by police.

There were £2 other traffic deaths
and two drownings In Ontario.

In Quebec, eight people died -in
traffic accidents, one person
drowned and five were killed in
fires. .

There was one death reported in
the Atlantle provinces — when a
single-engine plane crashed near

’ Bathurst, N.B. No deaths were

reported in Newfoundland during
the holiday weekend.

Tn Saskatchewan, lwo people were
killed in a two-vehicle crash near
Macklin, about 200 kilometres west
of Saskatoon. There were no deaths
reported in Alberta or Manitoba.

former leader Dave Barrett, who led
the party. to victory-in 1972 and then
suffered three successive defeats.
Skelly promised a consultative
leadership and said he would travel
the province talking to the con-
stituency organizations, community
groups and unions to develop new
party. policies.” .
Vickers, who has neyer held
political office, had been expected te
go one-on-one against Bill King, a
former labor minister in. Dave
Barrett's government because the
two Were led the first two ballots,
Vickers was gracious in defeat and
moved the -traditional motion to
make the selection - of Skelly
unanimous, _ ;
CHANCES THWARTED
King's chances were thwarted
when Dave Stupich, a party loyalist
who early in- the campaign had
pledged support to King, freed his
delegates after the third ballot.
King dropped off the ballot after
the fourth vote. Following a brief
meeting with his organizers, King

“Skelly defies NDP oddmakers

led his delegates through the middle
of the convention floor, singing
~ Solidarity Forever and chanting

Skelly's name. ‘

Margaret Birrell, who dropped off
after the second ballot, marched to
Skelly with King. Graham Lea,
dropped after the first ballot, had
earlier committed his support to
Stupich. ‘

Skelly was the youngest in the six-
vay race to replace Barrett, who was
premier from 1972 to 1975, “As
Barrett met him at the podium and
presented him to the cheering
delegates, Skelly appeared slightly
awestruck by the commotion.

He spoke briefly, thanking his
supporters, before being whisked off
to a provincial caucus meeting.

ON PARTY'S LEFT

Skelly, the youngest candidate in
the six-way race to replace Barrett,
claims to reflect the policies of the
parly's left.

In his speech Saturday, he told the

delegates Saturday he supports .

‘giving aboriginal people the land

hey claim they owned in B.C. before
Canada was settled by Europeans —

. Which the party’s stated policy does

not, .

' He said, “We must transform the
economic order so we can guarantee
a decent standard of living and a
quality of life to all citizens."

The former schoo] teacher has 12-.
years of experience in the
legislature. However, he told the
convention Saturday, ‘The days of
effective Opposition ‘in the
legislature) are over, We must
become a party committed to
proposig all possible solutions to the
problems... We must think and act
like a party of government.” =

Skelly’s wife, Alexandra, said she
knew all along that her husband.
could win. She said it was just a~
matter of convincing the delegates.

Mrs. Skelly expects to keep a low
profile as wife of the leader of the
Opposition because their children
are still young — a daughter, Susan,
is 10 and their son, Robbie, is eight. .

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The northwest chapter of the Appralsal
Institute of Canada is pleased to announce
the appointment of the incoming executive .
officers for this region. Standing from left
to right are Steve Cullis (public relations), «
Peter Lepold (chairman), Gary Stanford

BOSE UWS GE
DANE TEN

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(secretary), Clark Hiles (vice-chairman),
Rob Samson (treasurer).
wishes to thank the two outgoing directors,
Bill Henderson and Jin Haffey for their
efforts and assistance.

The executive