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‘TERRACE —_ - Jean Cormier; senior vice

ident’ of BCRIC; John. Montgomery,
" ‘president of B.C. Timber, arid three local
Plant managers paid “a courtesy call” on
Terrace District, Council ‘Monday.’ af-

press, but late‘Tucaday Cormier talked to
the Herald, :

. Cormier's analysis of what's wrong with
the Terrace forestry industry is shart - and
_bitter..‘nobody wants to buy the products.

they produce...at least notatthe pricethey
_ have to charge to be viable.” ue

He “noted that B.C. Timber’s first
‘shipment of their product under the new
brand name Weststar to an export market
was shipped from: Terrace mills and

week, = :
Cormier’s: view of the’ Terrace Wood
industry is that it is. totally dependant 0 on

af

should ane ‘In England in about ” __ representatives.

politicians can do to get the milly back

a the pulp mill in Prince Rupert, “Terrace
_ 4s the supplier of fibre and chips for Prince |
Rupert, and Prince Rupert is dependant

upon the world: price which is now

_. depressed at $460 per ton,” he says.
ternoon. That encounter was closed ta tha |
.which he Bays is the reason for a mill

Inventories are slowly, being reduced,

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opening on Sept. 7, He denies that it is so. fat

workera ‘can ‘get enough ane in at ‘the
plants to extend UIC

_ With BORIC and B.C Timber looking

“toward Japan and Eprope for more _
markets, he noted how difficult it was for

mills to change sizes to 1 % inches which
was done in Terrace and commented that
the conversion to metric | units iseven more.
complex.

Finally Cormier had a comment area
“There is nothing local.

operating, it Is all based 0 on the world

‘markot,” he said.

Job creation planned

‘Herald Staff Writer Oe
TERRACE — The federal government :
has allocated $575,000 for a job creation
program entitled Canada Community
~Bevelopment Projects to be administered _
‘by the Employment Development Branch.
This money should result in 140 short
term jobs; none will last more than one
year. The groups “targeted” to {ill these
positions are youth, women, and those
whosé UIC benefits have rm out. There is
also §$ million allocated to employ natives
through out B.C,

The funds are part of a §270 million. -heip defray other costs such as the usual

~deductions and some equipment. |

national and $15.5 million provinelial .
budget for the CCDP program |. -
For. Terrace, it is a substantial increase

~ from the amount given the area last year

which was $351, 000 and initially resulted in *
4 jobs.

"There may bé more money coming,
Karen Davis of EDB says there ia $41
million more in a Special Response Fund
held by the federal | government, This fund

Council

Herald Staff Writer ; .

TERRACE — Three separate public
meetings scheduled back-to-back by
Terrace council Monday met with an
averwhelming sound of ‘silence from the
people who did not attend, _—

The first meeting was to deal with’ a
proposal to change a partion of land near .
Samson's Poultry Farm from rural to.
_ residential “to allow for future develop-
-‘nient of urban bine residential subdivision -
lots.

The second meeting was to consider
changing the regulations governing a
“portion of lang near Frank’s Field to allow
for the future contruction by the Seventh
Day Adventists of a church there. ‘

The last hearing was to allow discussion

- On a proposal to change the area of land on

- the south side of the CNR tracks bounded

is to be distributed to. areas of high »
As yet, she says, those |

unemployment.
areas haven’t been chosen, .
The money is to be spent on projects

. ‘promoting non-profit, low income housing, ....

tourism, better access to public buildings
for the disabled, energy conservation, and
community restoration and. development.
Hf hon-profit organization. wishea to
sponsor a program that would fail into one
of the above categories, the CCDP would
pay the “labor dollars” or wages. This is

' * not-a cost sharing formula. In ‘addition,

CCDP will pay $50 per week per person to

“For those working on a project the

"wages will be $202 per week for super:

visors. and $175 per week for workers.
Each supervisor would average about five
workers. .

' ‘Thedeadline for applications is Sept. 90.
For further information contact the
Employment Development Branch at 635--

ws ignated” ~

. by the averpass, Keith Avenue, and Kalum
Street; from a heavy industrial to a-

commercial designation.

Terrace lawyer Jack Talstra naked for- ~

an extension on that one on behalf of the
receivers.for MacGillis and Gibbs.

‘Tt was the consensus of council that some
concerned people who might otherwise
have attended the hearings were away on
holidays. Therefore, all the hearings have
been adjourned until Aug. 30. -

The only concrete item fo come out of the
evening was the decision to leave the
municipal policy concerning strate titles

just as it is, That is the means by which .

owners may convert apartment buildings
intocondominiums,. Council felt there was
more than adequate provision in. the”

existing cules to prevent tenants from,

being tossed into the streets willy-nilly.

\French leftists. banned

*" IGTORIA (CP) —

- PARIS (AP) — The.
French © cabinet today
banned the extrenie leftist
group Direct . Action,
making it a crime to belong

Mo the organization which.
has ‘claimed responsibility.
for threé anti-Semitic at-

tacks this month.

The cabinet action came -

one day after President

Francols Mitterrand: said

the government. will fight
the current outbreak of anti-

Jewish terrorism in France.
with the appointment of a ¢

“new public security. chlef,

- more special police and a

Pa

computerized: Information,
service.

Direct Action had never
registered . with - - the

government, as required for
‘all associations. The
cabinet’s action will make .

prosecution of the - group's

members: possible even. if’

they are not: accused: ‘of a
specific crime, oo
Under French law, any

“person convicted of “‘par-.
ticipating in -the direct or‘

indirect. maintenance or

‘Teconstitution” of a banned -
group can be jalled for as ©

Jong as two years and fined

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Wednesday, August 18, 1982

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s The B.C. ” Government
Employees Union will not sanction’ any strike

_. -by itg members before Monday, John Fryer,

the union’s general seccretary ‘sald Tuesday,

‘ Fryer's remark came as the union and

_. Zovernment were preparing to resume formal: --
bargaining today for the first time since 30,000. .
‘union members walked. off the job at liquor

stores, ministry offices, the courts, and other

: government operations Aug, 5to Aug. 13.-Union
-members returned to work in. what the union

called a conciliatory gesture.

Essential services such as air ambulance,

“mental institutions, - and jails have - been

maintained by about 10,000 union members ,

throughout the dispute.
Fryer and Mike Davison, chairman: of the

“Government Employee Relations Bureau,
agreed at an informal meeting Monday to”
- resume talks today.

Fryer : had promised Monday that union

members would continue to work normally at :
‘their jobs while. talks were continuing,

The union has been working hard on‘ new
strike strategies should bargaining collapse,
Fryer saidr

_ Initial discussions will focus ona iong list of -
. Hon-monetary issues, with a tacit agreement

that such major stumbling blocks as wages and

productivity will be-left unt later. -

that the last obstacle to the PLO. withdrawal
was removed. when the: ‘PLO bowed to Israel's
demand’ for : the unconditional return of a

- captive Israeli pilot and. the bodies of five

Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon, = -
Butros told reporters that he was empowered

‘by the Lebanese cabinet to maké a formal
request Thureday to the United States, France - .

and Ttaly to provide the 2,000-man

multinational peacekeeping force that, will .

overseg the evacuation of. the PLO fighters and

Syrian ‘soldiers from. the’ besteged Mealem
western sector of the Lebanese capital. Hesaid: °.
- will meet the. ambassadors of those countries a

Thursday. a

.-The government spokesman had earlier sald
that the request for the buffer force‘would be

made today, but the 22-man cabinet was late in
meeting because of : “prolonged ‘discussions

over procedural technicallties"” between the
U.S. and ‘Lebanese mediators. —

The’ spokesman. said: the ‘PLO agreed

Tuesday night to hand over Israeli pllot-Aharon |

Ahiaz, who.was shot down on the first day of
Israel's invasion June 6,.10 Lebanese:-Prime

“Minister Shafik. Wazzan, and Wazzan. will

Bellver him to U.S. presidential envoy Philip
bib, _.
‘The PLO also agreed to hand: over to

Lebanese authorities the bodies of five Taraell

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“q think we will ‘make some progress on a
number of these issues,” said. Fryer.
“When we met earlier this week to discuss

returning to the bargaining table, we felt there
was some flexibility in management's position. -

Some nuances have changed.”

But Fryer expressed concern aver the
government's persistent demand for increased
productivity as the only way to Improve its

. final wage package of 6% and five-per-cent

increases over two years.
‘The union has demanded an- immediate

; seven-per-cent wage increase and another six

per cent in six months. ..-- —

“We'still see this a5 a Major problem, Our
members are not Interested-in making con-
cessions, and the government is just suc-
ceeding. in making | them furious with its
_ Suggestions,” Fryer said.

“Wages and productivity are clearly. ‘tied
together in the government's mind. They're the
toughiea,; so they can wait while we try to come

to grips with such other items as our auxiliaries -

and women’s issues. "

expired July 31, was $11 Ee an hour.

. Davison was reluctant to predict a settlement

from the new round of contract talks..

“But I intend to reserve judgment. The union

PLO evacuation to. begin

Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros said
-the-.departure. of Palesting. Liberation
Organization fighters from West Beirut and
_ Lebanon is to begin on Saturday or: Sunday. ”
Butros made the statement after 9 Lebanese oe
government spokesman in Béirut agnounced a

: + soldiers killed daring this invasion’ and provide

information locating: the graves of four Israelis

‘killed during the 1978 invasion of southern
' _- Lebanon, the spokesman said, © - _
, Previously the PLO demanded that.

guerrillas captured during the invasion be

‘exchanged for. the pilot and the bodies.’ But:

Israeli officlala said there would be no ex-

‘change, and PLO official Jamil Hilal said:his |.’
organization agréed to turn over Ahiaz and the

bodies. in return for a verbal. promise from

Israel to release an unapecified numberof. PLO |

prisoners at an unspecified future date.

Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon told -

Israeli Television Tuesday night: “Not one

terrorist will leave and not one member of the
, multinational force will enter until we receive:

the pilot.’*

Israel’ contends the 70m: Paleitinians it hag

prosecution,

Diplomatic sources said the advance guard
' of the peacekeeping: force, 350 French soldiers,
will arrive Friday in Jounieh, the’ Christian
port 20 kilometres north of Beirut. The French
will move into Beirut at dawn Saturday, the
to begin overseeing the.

sources said,
evacuation, which is to take about. 15 days:
‘During the evacilation, the initial French

~- eontingent will be Joined by 450 more French .
soldiers, 800 U.S. soldiers, and 400 Italians.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese were threatened

~.~Wwith a domestic political crisis resulting from -

Moslem opposition to the Christian militia

‘seems a lite Wore n moderate, and If they say

they're ‘cautiously optimistic’ then I guess I
would agree,” he said. .

In B.C.’s other major labor dispute, hopes! for .
‘an early resolution to the construction shut-
- down were dashed-Tuesday as union and in- -

dustry negotiators decided against a speedy

_ return to the bargaining table.

. The decision waa made ata meeting between
Chuck McVeigh, Construction Labor Relations
Association president and Roy Gautier,

chairman of the building trades’ 17-union joint
bargaining council.

. McVeigh said both sides § are becoming firmly

- entrenched in’ their positions ‘and we are just _

too far apart to warrant further negotiations at _
this time.” ‘
The province-wide strike-lockout, now in its
10th day,- has affected more than 35,000 con-
struction workers,
“Unless the unions: change their mind by 5

' pam. PDT Friday, said McVeigh,’ the

association's 80. contractors ‘will wilhdraw

their last contract offer providing ‘an increase

in wages and benefits of $4 an hour aver two _.:- oe

years. -
The unions are seeking full retroactivity. {not

~ provided in:the association offer) and a com-

pensation increase similar to earlier. con-
struction. settlements in Alberta of between

44.00 and $5.10 an hour on a base rate'of $19.50.

on. weekend:

‘commander ’ who is the only announced cane.

didate for the country’s’ prealdency, .

Moslem and Christian elder -siatésmen met .
for two hours at the presidential palace: -.

Tuesday and announced that the election by

"Parliament ‘should he held. . Thursday as

‘Buf one of the elders, fornier prime minister
; Saeb Salam, @ leader of ‘the Sunni Moslem

community, said Moslem members of
parliament “are ‘not. agreed that elections:

should be held in such haste" and may boycott

the voting session,

- Parliamest is now mide up of $0 Christians |
and 42 Moslems, and a quorum of two-thirds, or:

62; is necesiary for the election to be’ held. A

| bayeott by taf the Moslems would prevent the 7

voting... oe
(Deum National Pact that has divided

'. the spoils since 1943 says the ident
> must be a Marcnite Christian while the prime
Minister and speaker of ‘parliament are —

Moslems. The ‘incumbent president, Ellas
Sarkis, cannot succeed himself.

The Only announced candidate is Bashir
‘ Gema

‘son of the leader of the largest

~ Christian « ‘party and the commanier of the
t-Chtistian militia, which has been co- -

eperatiig’ ‘with the Israelis since the invasion.
’ Terael on Tuesaday made a ‘show of pulling its

forces back from the- parliament building,

which is in central Beirut on the Green-Line
frontier between Christian East Beirut and the

Moslems halt of the city:

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