found

inner tubes—some

MISSING RAFTERS |
FOUND; ALL SAFE

PRINCE igen! BS; (CP) ~ Ten youths,
reported m early Monday on an inner tu
down the Salmon River north of here, ha r

An RCMP spokesman said Monday that the final
‘ youth had been spotted and the entire
Two youths were found early Monday walking in,
heavy bush country near the river after abandoning
the inner tube trip. Seven others, still
tubes, were spotted later by an RCMP plane
inne youths, aged between pe and at, sel a may
ly and others
ether—to drift 16 miles downstream to the Salmon
ver bridge north of here, When they failed to arrive —
at the rendezvous point by midni
who were to meet them repo

ve all been
rty was safe,
in their inner

out Sunday

t Sunday, friends
them missing.

ARMSTRONG
Town swells
with reunion

ARMSTRONG, B.C. (CP)
— The population of this
north Okanagan community
rose 33 fe cent during the
weekend as 800 graduates of
the. old Armstrong High
School between 1952 and
1957 came home for a nos-
talgic weekend of renewed
friendships, story-telling
and all-night parties.

“It was the biggest thing
that ever happened to this
little community of 2,400,”
said focal publisher Jack
Jamieson, a: member of the
reunion committee.

“Jessie Falk, who taught
here in the 1950s, came all
the way from Glasgow.
Others came. from just
about every part of Canada.
and the United States.”

. Registrations began
‘Friday at 6p.m, and were
followed by a wine and
‘cheese party in the curling
‘rink that lasted to4da.m. °
' “We provided a local
‘accordionist, but the old

ads, ended up providing
heir own music and
entertainment,’”’ Jamieson
said.

On Saturday, all four
district schools were staffed
by former teachers who
acted as guides and hosts
and the school board ran
buses over the old routes.

This was followed by a
fashion show of 1950 styles, a
peef barbecue and another
dance that lasted until 4a.m.

Jamieson said the second
dance was 80 big it required
two bands.

After two nights of
revelry, nearly 600 persons
turned out Sunday morning
for a pancake breakfast
provided by local
merchants.

Jamieson said all but 10 or
12 persons were
accommodated in the

lage.
Some of the visitors even

stayed until Monday to help’

clean up.

LEAVES VALDEZ

Alaskan crude oil

| aboard the ships

' VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) —

Weather forecasters predict

‘ealm seas and light rain for
‘the first sailing out of this
‘transAlaska pipeline port of
a supertanker loaded with
Alaskan North Slope crude

ail,
The 120,000-ton ARCO

Juneau, loaded with 900,000 ©

barrels of North Slope
crude, was scheduled to pull
away from the pipeline
terminal at 1 am, EDT
Tuesday, bound for Atlantic
Richfield’s refinery at
Cherry Point, Wash., about
1,500 miles to the south, —

The first oil to complete
the 900-mile journey down
the pipeline began gushing
aboard the tanker Sunday
afternoon, and Alyeska
Pipeline Service Co. of-
ficials said Monday the
Operation was progressing
without problems. |

Capt. Emery McGowan of

the ARCO Juneau estimated
it would take 80 hours for the
supertanker to reach the
entrance to Puget Sound,
where it will pick up a pilot
for the five-hour run into

Cherry Point, .
McGowan, a_ veteran
supertanker skipper,

commanded the $40-million

ARCO Juneau’s maiden |

yoyage, The vessel, built at
a Maryland shipyard in
1974, has carried oil from
Mideast ports to US.
refineries on the West and
Gulf coasts ever since.
Alyeska officials
eontinued Monday to
experience problems with
Pump Station No. 9, which.
was brought on line earlier
than planned to make up for
the loss of Pump Station No.
8. The pumps at the station
near Fairbanks were
destroyed in an explosion in
which one worker died.

Hewitt plays down
financial assistance

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP)
— Agriculture Mcnister Jim
Hewitt said Monday there is
little chance the provincial

overnment will give

inancial aid to south
Okanagan fruit growers
without crop insurance
whose crops were destroyed
“by last week's hailstorm in
the area. ;

“7 ynderstand that
perhaps as many as half the

rowers did not have
insurance, even though it
has been available for

ears,” Hewitt said in an
‘interview during the annual
“peach festival.

Damage from the short
storm is expected to exceed
several million dollars.

Crops affected include

apricots, peaches, pears,
apples-and some grapes in
Oliver in the Okanagan and
near Creston. in the
Kootenays. .
- The storm, which stripped
leaves from trees and
bruised and cut fruit, has
been described as the worst
in 20 years.

Hewitt said he hag asked
for full reports on the extent
of the damage.

This year’s peach and
apricot crop, much of which
comes from the southern

rt of the Okanagan valley,
is up almost 12 per cent over
1976.

Early damage reports put
losges at up to 80 per cent in
the areas hardest hit.

{

UP YOUR BLOCK
(and back again. That's
as far as you need to
walk to bea bit fitter
than you are now).

RAI

once 6

Walk a block-Today. .

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The British Columbia
Government Employees’
Union executive voted
Monday to conduct a strike
yote among the union’s
97,000 members later this
month, but — general-
secretary John Fryer said
the union will go through
mediation before issuing
ballots. ‘

“We don’t hold any great
hope out that mediation will
settle this dispute,” Fryer
said. “We think it will be
settled with a strike.”

The union has met with

-contract

Bear Lake,

cn Tes "MEDIATION FIRST-FRYER. ; oe
Civil servants plan strike vote |

the provincial government
in nine separate
bargaining since June in an
attempt to replace a

midnight Sunday.

Fryer said there are still
at least 10 major unresolved
issues including wages, the
right to take grievances to
arbitration and extension of
benefits.

The government’s two-
year wage offer of 4% per
cent in the first year and
three per cent in the second
is below the amount allowed
under the federal gov-

rounds of .

that expired’

Blue River, Boston Bar,
Bowser, Brackendale, Bridge Lake, Britannia Beach, Burns Lake,
Cache Creek, Campbell River, Canal Flats, Castlegs

Celista, Chase, Chemainus, Chetwynd, Chief Lake, Chil

ernment anti-inflation
guidelines, Fryer said.
“We have rejected that

‘offer as insufficient on two

ounds,” he said. “One is
lat [t is not even at the AIB
guideline level, which is six

r cent in the first year and,

and
pays

‘cur the second,
furthermore, it

absolutely no attention to—

the cost of living problem.

“We are not
signa contract that does not
have built into’ protection
against the escalation of the
cost of living once the

guideline program ends.” -

repared to’

The Union hada cost-of-
living adjustment clause in
its last contract. —

“They (the government)
have shown a.naivete in the
extreme if. they expect: the -
second largest union in B.C.
to be the only union to
accept a settlement which is
below the AIB guidelines,”

er said.
e union will apply for a
mediator today. It will be a

minimum of 10 days from

his appointment before the
union is in a position to take
a strike vote, in keepin;
with strategy adopte

-

i pag
this week
— for3S‘or less.

_ Abbotsford, Agassiz, Ahousat, Aiyansh, Aldergrove, Alert Bay, Alexis Creek,

Armstrong, Ashcroft, Aspen Park, Avola, Balfour, Bamfield, Barriere,
Beaver Cove, Beaverdell, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Black Point,
Boswell, Bouchie Lake, Bowen Island,

ar,
ako,

Chilliwack, Christina Lake, Clearwater, Clinton, Cloverdale,
Cluculz Lake, Cobble Hill, Comox, Cortez Island, Courtenay, -

- Cranbrook, Crawford Bay, Creston, Cumberland, Dallas,

Dawson Creek, Decker Lake, Donald, Dragon Lake, Duncan,
Duncan Lake, Dunster, East Pine, Elkford, Elko, Enderby, .

_ Fairmont, Falkland, Fauquier, Fernie
- Grove, Fort Fraser, Fort St, James,

F

Field, Flatrock, Forest
ort St. John, Francois

Lake, Fraser Lake, Fruitvale, Fulford Harbour, Gabriola
Island Ganges, Genelle, Gibsons, Giscome, Gold Bridge,

Golden,

‘old River, Grand Forks, Granis'

Grasmere,

e
Grassy Plains, Greenwood, Gulf islands, Hagensborg,
Haney, Hansard, Hartway, Hazelton, Hedley Hendrix
Lake, Highland Valley, Hixon, Holberg, Hope, Horsefly,
__ Houston, Hudson's Hope, Invermere, Jaffray, Jordan
River, Kamloops, Kaslo, Kelowna, Kemano, Keremeos,

Kersley, Kimberley, Kitimat, Kitwan

a, Lac la Hache, Ladner,

- Ladysmith, Lake Cowichan, Lakeview Heights, Langley,
Lantzville, Lasqueti Island, Likely, Lillooet, Little Fort, Logan
Lake, Lumby, Lytton, McBride, McLeese Lake, McLeod Lake,

Mackenzie, Manning Park,-Masset, Merritt, Mica Creek, -

earlier this spring. A target
group,’ likely liquor board
workers, will carry out the
strike if it is approved. :

The‘ provincial. executive
also ratified an agreement
covering the transfer of civil
servants to the new B.C,
Building Corp. (BCBC),
which replaces the public
works department.

Fryer said the ent
establishes seniority as the
basis for BCBC hiring. The
900 workers left without jobs
as a result of the transfer
will have a number of
options under the agree-

4

- Midway, Mission, Montney, Moyie, Nakusp, Nanaimo, Nanoose,
- Naramata, Nelson, New Denver, Newton, New Westminster,
__ North Kamloops, North Nelson, North Vancouver,Ocean
Falls, Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Mission, Oliver, 100 Mile House, —
108 Mile House, 150 Mile House, Osoyoos, Oyama, Oyster Bay,
ar

Parksville, Parson, Peachland, Pemberton, Pender

ur, Pender

Island, Penticton, Pineview, Pitt Meadows, Port Alberni, Port Alice,
Port Clements, Port Coquitlam, Port Edward, Port Hardy, Port McNeill,
Port Mellon, Port Moody, Port Renfrew, Port Simpson, Pouce Coupe

Powell
Qualicum,

Queen C

Riondel, Rock Creek, Rolla, Rosedale, Rossland, Rutland, Saanich

Salmon Valley, Sandspit, Sardis,
Sicamous, Skookumchuck, Stocan,
South Slocan; Sparwood, Spences B

Summit Lake, .
Ucluelet, Union Ba
- Vernon, Victoria,
Westwold,

Willowbrook, Willow Flats,
Youbou,
Zeballos. .

, Valemount,

_ Long distance weekend rates have
really got people talking.

Because between 5 p.m. Friday and gm
5 p.m. Sunday you can dial direct -
(112) to most places in British .

Savona, Sa’

River, Prespatou. Prince George, Princeton, Pritchard, Quadra Island,
arlotte, Quesnel, Radium, Red Rock, Revelstoke, Richmond,
1, Salmo, Salmon Arm,
ayward, Sechelt, 70 Mile House, Shalalth,
Smithers, Sointula, Sooke, Sorrento, South Ka
, ridge, Spillimacheen, Squamish, Stewart, Summerland,
Tahsis, Tappen, Tasu, Taylor, Telkwa, Terrace, Thrums, Tofino, Topley, ‘Trail,
unt, Vallican, Vananda, Vancouver, Vanderhoof, Vanway, Vavenby, ~
Wellington, Wells, Westbank, Westsyde, West Vancouver, Westview,
Whalley, Whistler, White Rock, Whonnock, Wildwood, Williams Lake, —_—.
Willow Point, Winfield, Woodfibre, Wynndel, Yahk, Yale, Yarrow,

f
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mloops, ~*

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$y

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ment: ye
- other jobs {n the public

service as t become:
avallable;

~ retraining with full pay .

for up to two years;

". early retirement for
those 55 years or alder;

- severance pay equal to :

three weeks normal pay for
each of the first two years.of
service plus. one-half
month's pay for each

additional year of service up:

toa maximum of six months
pay. :

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weekend. And
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