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_ , Herald Staff Wiiter i
-Skeenaview patients will pay close-to $55 almonth: more.
° : starting. July 1st. if
“The provincial miniitry of health announced increases! in
. . the direct charges of several health services last month.
_ fl those: services were long term and extended care, . ‘where =
” the daily. rate-of $4.50 wac raised to $8.50. The present pate:
“+. worke gut £0, approginiately $200 a month. Alter July: Ist, Arlt:
_ -bearound 1 ae re
woe Despite this Increase, the _execiitive “drei of

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io then simething’ can be worked out with human resources so
that the bill is pald.”
This is the first ineréase i in the long term and extended ce care
programs since it was first launched in January, 1978.
_ -#"The |ncrease.waa ecessary, all costs are going up for
meals, rooms; everything. Also the government nurses: just
‘received a huge jncrease,” said Galbraith. .
. ‘The average cost for a patient.each day Is $65. at
Skeenaview, Patients pay approximately 10 per cent of that
with the provincial government subsidizing the rest. .
Other increases will occur in acute care hospitals, where

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the daily cost to the patient for inpatient care will increase
from the current $4 to $5.50 a day, -

Day ‘surgery charges will be voing from. $2 to 6 and:
medical plan premiums, will increase about 15 Per. cent,”

Lastly ambiance services will be raised to: $19. for the firet
40 kilometers’ plus . 20 cents per. kilometer thereafter to a
_maximum of $25.

. According to the minlitry, the increases effective July 1,
will-establish leyels which will now be adjusted annually on
the basis of flectuations inthe consumer priceindex. «|

‘Skeenaview, Gordon Galbraith, feels that the patients wil be
_ able’ to afford it;
“I'm not anticipating any. problems, the old Age Pension’
7 fast went up to about $340 so they should be able to cope.” "

“Patients receive room and board at Skeenaview.
Although the majority: .of people staying at the: lode are:
.elMderly, there aré.a few that are younger: Most of them
«receive handicap pensions which enable. them fo meet the
. payments.
“lf for some reason a Dereon cannot make the’ payments

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Poor runs predicted

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
outlook for ‘this year's
Salmon : fishing season
became b! leaker Thursday as
the = federal - . fisheries
department. ‘announced | an
other.; ‘commercial. fishing
closure, .

a Commercial - sockeye
‘salmon fishing. in Rivers

| short
| . term

~ Bargaining

; up ‘the river were
hatched, there was an
unusually low number of fish

ore clout -

By. G HL, DOTINGA

; erald: Staff Writer :

' ime. canidlan Association
of: Smelter and Allied
Workers, Local 1, wil] be
gaking for a ‘31 per cent
average wage increase over
20 months when their con-
tract with Alcan expires next
October. -

If the ‘union gets the
contract they want, it'll
mean workers earning the
base ‘rate: of $8.74 .an hour

ge RE,

a

Fisheries
Inlet, on the mainland’ 400
kilometres northwest of
June 23 as scheduled be-
cause of indications ‘there.

A- fisheries 8 okesman charges”

said fishing .will not: be '
ve made thelr way toward
If the.

Vancouver, will not open” confirms
will be a poor fun.

allowed until 769,000 salmon
c sea pending.

ean apa hatirly
wage Will Increase from the
‘ patrent: $11:73- to F1S2h

The other major point in ~

+ stacle in.

adjusted every .

now will make $11.63 by July
} 1982, Parr negotiations
ae: wv

‘the. unién’s proposal: is. the
length: of the contract.

, Previously it had been a

three-year contract, now
CASAW would like it to be

‘shortened to 20 months,

g at the same time as

Arvida and other Alcan

smelters in the east. Alcan
would like to keep the con-
tract expiry dates different

sothat inthe event ofa strike

‘there is not a total shutdown
‘of bil their smelters. Also,

‘because Alcan wages are

red to those in
company would

aften com
forestry, t

“Hike ‘to negotiate after

forestry workers have made
asettlement. — ;

However, Pegley, \a 7
union leader, does. dt see
that as. being a major ob."
contract

négotiations:

“Most unions ask for a one-
year contract “because of

‘rising inflation,” Pegley

said. "We've compromised
between that and the three

year. contract. if the price is,

right. we're willing to,

“negotiate. "-

Pegley said the union here

wanted the comimon expiry
. date with the eastern.
= ‘emelters. . *

‘“Fhe ‘obvious reason is
that it will give more weight
to the union"

Another proposal in

” GASAW'd-.rough draft of

thelr wage package was a
cost of living allowance.to be
three |

. The allowance will

, be verived from a formula of

‘1¢ pet’.2 per cent rise in the
consumer price index, based

on binveight per cent inflation

‘rate, to be ralled into the
hourly wage.

‘According to the union
Alcan's ad standing in

- terms of market conditions,

‘alumitium prices and

sible expansion indicate the

that this will be CASAW's
‘or a good contract
warm very optimistic, the
union iteell is in real good
shape, our committee is the
beat 'veseenin recent years

and we're ready well in -

advance,” sald Pegley.

~ Thenegotlating committees,

consists of Wiho Papen-°
brock; Ray Pegley, Ken
Rutsatz, John Monteério,
Arné Burnlp, Ross Slezak
and Jim” derman. Akan
has not yet officially an-
nornced who is on their
committee. -

CASAW's contract with

Adan expires on October 24,

floated down to the closest mill, See page ; 3 forstory, 9° i

on the Nass River logs are tied into smailbooms, taken, to the mouth of the river and tled Into o bigger booms. They are then

 Phote by Caria \ Witten

B.C. is backing. aM ay 1

By ROGER eMiTH-

OTTAWA (CP) — British
Columbia and the federal
government reached | a
tentative: agreement on
financing rall lines to carry
northeastern B.C, coal to
port early today but a few
hours later. the province was
having second. thoughts. -.

_. Senator: Ray. Perrault, oe

unions. ‘voting .

government ; leader in: the

-Senate;aaid the deal reached
after more than 10-hours.of |
_ talks was put on hold when:

B.C. Economic Development
Don Phillips said it must be
‘discussed. by provincial
cabinet...  -

Phillips gave Perrault that
Message just as federal and

provincial, officials were.
‘sitting down: to work out

details of the broad deal the
resulted from. negotiations
that lasted until 2a.m. today.
The deal would finance
building of new rall lines and
upgrading of new ones to
transport the northeastern
coal which coal companies
want to sell to Japan.
Perrault said at a news

conference that the word to -

hold off on the deal came
presumably from the office
of B.C, Premler Bill Bennett.
The B.C. cabinet is to meet
Saturday to discuss the deal.
“We think we've reached
some kind of agreement in
principle,” Senator Bud
Olson, federal ‘economic

development minister, said

after the talks ended. .

“We need a ilttle more.
time ‘for officials to work out
details."

Don Phillips, Olson's

counterpart in B.C., said he.

was satiafied with «the
progress but added there are
eel va few wrinkles to Lron
“I'm quite certain we'll be

‘able to finalize a deal

tomorrow (Friday).”
Representatives of
Canadian National Railways
and five coal companies
attended the talks earlier in
the day. But the two
governments negotiated
alone in the later hours.
‘The new rail lines must be
financed and existing ones
upgraded 80 the coal com-

panies can calculate freight
charges in the price they
offer the Japanese com-
panies. -

The Japanese have given

until Sunday’

the Canadian companies

already exterided. ‘from: the
end of May — - to‘offer a price

‘for the annual sale. of 5.3

Construction —

VANCOUVER’. (CP)
B.C, ‘and: Yukon : Building
Trades Council has begun ‘a
strike vote among : 45,000

constriction workers in the
province, council president —

Roy Gautier said Thursday.
The mail vote; resulta’ of

which won't be known for |
about three weeks, ‘followed |

a breakdown in talks

Wednesday between. the -
representing 17-

council,
unions, and Construction La-
bor Relations ‘Association,

bargaining body for about

800 companies, —.

Talks ‘broke: down over
wages and other issues,
including a the unions’
demand for a common af-
filiation clause that would

allow them to refuse to work: -

alongside non-affiliated
unions, -
The employers apparently

are atudying a unlon counter-

Gas plant
shut down

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
high price of Canadian
natural gas exports and the
U.S. recession have resulted
in reduced sales and the
shutdown of a company gas
processing plant, Westeoast
Transmission president Jahn
Anderson sald Thuraday.

The company said in a
news release that because of
the reduced exports, it will
close its Pine River plant,
about 185 kilometres north of
Prince George, until Oc-
tober, when the winter
heating season begins,

" offer, details of which were
not revealed.

Union officials: insist they’

will not break the tradition of

B.C. construction workers.

getting the best agreement
in Canada — highest set-
tlement so far is a $3.04 an
hour package of wage and
benefits in a two-year con-
tract racently approved by
Alberta construction unions.
an e® C, unions want $3.50
n-hour in, a.-one-yeat
package. -Management has.
offered: $3 an hour over two

. years'on anaverage package

rate of $15 an hour.
Gautier said the em-
ployers’ offer isn't good

enough because there is”

resistance to union requests’
for a cost-of-living protection

clauge in the second year.:

There have been more

than 400 meetings between .

the two parties. No date has
been set for a resumption of
negotiations.

Gautler said the the af- Ee:

fillation clause will help the
unions resist non-union and
right-to-work  contraclors.

The building trades shut
down work at the Duke Point
industrial part near
Nanaimo, B.C. for several
months because = In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America  conatruction
workers were building a

-sawmill at the site. The

project resumed without

resolution of the jurisdic- .

tional dispute. °.

CLRA president Chuck
‘McVelgh said a common
affiliation clause would
make it possible for the
unions to shut down any
industrial, commercial or

public project.

2a deadline |

million tonnes ot

least $3.5 billion’ over 10
-interested in making a ‘deal

‘with Japan.” ~
The coal would mové ‘from,

_ Prince Gedrge-. along the

CNE mainline, which will be

- ‘upgraded at a cost of about
“$70. million,
-. Rupert;. where -It“ will be

-loaded at a facility to be built
_ at Ridl

to “Prince

Istand. ,
ts the - moat important’
p in the’. almost . 1,000--
hilometre trip to port is the.
railway from the coalfields
to existing. tracks hear
Prince George.
‘Phillips said B.C. has
insisted on the more ex-
pensive ‘Anzac route, which
Includes five tunnels That

tom coal deal"

“outa lead to. ‘asjor cet.

metallurgical coal, ‘worth at *
phe mitister- “aaid!* ‘the

yeats, But Australia is also: .

overruns.

present ‘government ,7

not tle the handa of=future
‘B.C,,, administrations, by
choosirig a route that, could

‘interfere. with’ future, ‘power

developments. .

Provincially- owned. ‘B C.
Rail estimated the cost of the |
115-kilometre Anzac lipe at ©
$215 million: CNR, which has ©
been asked to build the line

_has said the price would. be
“at least $300 million but that -
‘is based on ‘B.C, Rail data

and aurveying. .

“As far as we're con-
cerned, the engineering
work hasn't even begun,”
said CNA president R. E.
Lawless as he walted for the
federa-provincial meeting.

Gov’ t attacking |
union’s charges |

: VANCOUVER (CP) — The
. _ provincial’ government is
fighting . Back | . against
charges -it. is
‘their civil servants’ pension
security.
Advertisements ex-
plaining recent legislation
changing. government
employee pensions will run
in most B.C, anily news-

papers this weekend,
communications

plannin, 4
adviser David Brown sail

taking away Th

“The intent ‘of the ads is to
make cléar what the govern-
ment p to the civil
servants and to the general
public,” he said.. “We're
lsying out the sallent facts of
the proposed changes,”'

Peete

spawning! eacapenet ip less
than '750, efi

‘thinook sj ane) jalmon in
the Fracer River and
southern Pa part of the Georgia

Bill’ Otway, executive-
director of the B.C. Wildlife

‘ Federation, sald, he reluc-.

tly su the sports”
© faatly pppoe. port:

in the Fraser’
- River and southern Georgia.

Strait, -
But a Fraser Vailey. anti~
. poverty group is protes
the closure on the grounts it
wil hurt pensioners, welfare
reciplents. and other poor
le who rely on fish for

"Fisheries “biologist. Robin .

Ln.)

Harrison blamed the poor

_ gaimeon runs this seasod on a”

’ varlety of factors, but ad- ~

mitted fisheries ls not sure-
which ‘factors had the

' greatest effec
Harrison said that in 1976,

the year the Saloon ‘now

-' act
F aetog une

-could be charged.under

By ROGER ‘SMITH:
OTT Ly (CP a

Kenney. . ‘Dem. in
northwestern ‘British
‘Columbia is not back 2
normal in a few days, the
steer heaer Td ‘gecretary to
eries Minister. Romeo
LeBlanc said Thuraday.

George Henderson said in -
an interview that. Alean
Fisheties Protection ‘Act if it
doesn't comply with a

. fisheries department request
‘to double the water flow into
_ the Nechako River.

Earlier, he. said during
Commons question period
that water flow s00n
be back to normal as a result
es fnestings ‘between

ent and company
offelals

“In the next few days, we
will be making sure the

water tate over the dam Is

back up to 1,000 cubic feet (a
second),” " Henderson said. °

Volcano blows
its top again.

VANCOUVER, Wash. .
(AP) — Mount St. Helens
roared back to life ov t
with its first eruption
directed at a

tion. centre, prom
ting five Oregon countles
go'on alert and forcing
evacuations in the area
around the volcano,

From the Portland, Ore.,
area southward through
Oregon 8 Willametie Vall

oemed & million le were
to stay Indoors and to

_ Wear face masks if they left

shelter.

major.

Scientists said the blast
Thursday night was the third
major tion in a month
and could become the worst
alnce May 16, when the
volcano dusted aix states
with ash and killed dozens of

people. 7 .

“Tt looks like an atom
bomb,” an observer in a U.S.
Forest, Service plane
r “It's very, very
black... .. It's still booming,
it's really booming."

“It's a major eruption. a
aaid Pete Rowley, a
Geological Survey veologlsi,

Doubters are meeting today

No, 77, will be 77 years old today,
and will talk to those at the meeting
by telephone.
“The soclety tries to discourage |
: belief in silly superstitions,’ Lear

CHICAGO (AP) — It's Friday the
13th, which means the Anti-
superttin Soclety will be meeting

The agenda provides time for
smashing mirrors, trampling four-
leaf clovers and opening umbrellas

Indoors. .

The society meets only on Fridays
that fall on the 13th, and today’s
meeting at a fashionable downtown
one this Year. ee

club is the onl.
“In 1981, there will be

president. *

tributions.

Grange, who wore football jersey

Fridays the 13th — in February,
March and November,” sald Les
Lear, the society's executive vice-

The group was organized in 19%
by 13 members, including George
Halas, owner of Chicago Bears of the
National Football League. He and
one of his former stars, Harold
(Red) Grange. e, wili be among 26 nen ©
honored y for their civic con-

p.m.

There will be 13 black cats
roaming about the room while the
meeting ia held from 4:13 to 6:13

There are 313 members in the