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“PARLIAMENT BULLDINGS on a

‘Some... Thornhill: “cresbaled that, riderstip “passengers are e high .

: Toay..waot.a °° %Y “past been-‘steadily ‘in- thonths*' te. . provide ove schoo), - ‘students,’ 7
"is ayatern lke Terrace « . 7 peeping monthly'to.a . ’ bused’ ‘2 per cent of all - transit routes.and bus: * followed . by college: -
Selby have seen _— high’ in ‘ Japuary of 7,673 ; -fiders.are ‘adult, 95 per. | slope with road clearing ~ "+ students - and.” com: .
- “tin operatton but thatis * revenue PASSEMBETS: . -cent’: ‘ae: students, Mnutérs. The afternoon’

“rush: hours - follow .a’
iimilar pattern, with --

a’ fatter. for ~ the.
Regional : ‘Distr et? oF:

followed . “byt senior |
_seitizens, ‘al’ 9. per. cent, ”
ciao pereéat .

asa more convenient « — flanner’ forthe -UTA,
way touse the bus,and ..  -  sayait willtake another:
doing so cone - " year before ridership .*

Vee > JSWe were goltig to go’
“into a bus system with .
" § them -50-50 but they...

> opted out,” nays Mayor

a the. “mid-day, “ridérs_

, an ‘average. of 320 rides. . ‘consisted. malniy,. of.

1k -~yperday over. r the week. - . " onthe same hus, but on ~. female: shoppers. and .
Dave Maroney,” 0 0. 6) St. peaks. “during: the "a different route. ve , some sedlor’ eltizens: : fo ” for ridership are on the
“In a resént report by. << -thorabig and aftericon =.) The? UTA” reco ‘Principle destinations Between Jan. $ and | Bench’ “and Kelth.
the Urban Transit. .”.: sommuter: periods, . “mendes: ‘that the’ ‘diseiet were downtown, °°" Feb. 13atotalofieforty. ~~ Estates where future -
Authority to the Terrace. 7 .." . passengers" of Terrate set ip a road’ t followed by the senior - cent books and 11 thirty: residential growth is
District Council it is ia ‘travel: On the Keith. so maintenance - ‘program -:: and Janior . -secondary boo 7). Gent Books’ mre beea Fe ‘expected to-take place.

tuto insurance services, the

"years, while ICBC has of-

. tiorale is ao low, one-fifth of picks and*a brace and bit (above) Caledonia Senlor Secondary School wIIl be [ust a few of the many hun-

ite tat

é British Columbia’s major

‘Tel dispute :
bitterness -
increasing

- VANCOUVER . MCP). = members, C
‘Bitterness: in the “B.C, called’ in--bo-” ‘calm
: Telephone Co. strike-lockout situation.»

“Atta

province’ && company: of- - “At Kamlooge; officis
ficials continue efforts’. \ported a telephone cable
- shutdown’ maintain services in thetace ° chipped by an axe Wet
- VANCOUVER (CP) — The of increased picketing: ‘*.: " neaday night, cutting

At = Prince’ “George: “t mmailler centres, in|
members of the : ering ° area as: well as to
| Telecommuications : ey _ Kamloops, suburbs, -

city that every inedixt ‘~dielals’ said the ma
building would be sur- © downtown post office will
rounded by pickets: if ‘picketed the moment BE,
telephone'supervisora repair. ‘Tel supervisors enter the
the ‘city ‘hall. kwitchboard. building to deliver _ pt

‘ Insurance Corp, of B.C. Is
preparing for an imminent
shutdown of government

Office and Technical Em-' .

vagints toiprepare for a total
“shatdown," “said , Fred
Reet epeares

would include arerias and inside workers that em!
~* other cénitres needed for the - ployee who respect the
B.C. . Winter: * Gattes, picket line will be ¢
Jock out all the employees or . scheduled for March's to:8, tobe taking part inan
fuel) the anger and ue 2 : eae oie é Supervisors “at Kelowna _ Wark stoupage.
triistration of the employees, - : eee a Ade 4 wre. ‘pelted. with manure ©

causing them to walk off the : fa j

“Tndications are. the
‘corporation intends to either

corporat shied
* dart $34 Of fis 2,200 union em-
ployees, -and about 40
workers went on strike two
weeks ago.

The OTEU, without a
contract since Dec. 1,
demanding a 52.8-per-cent
wage Increase over two.

day that’ ‘Fompany. éflice “would agreé to a three-y a0
doors. were damaged’ by pact only if it received 4
rocks and smeared ‘ith mud ‘farther rete incresse from
and human excrement,:; °- the Canadian: . Radio,
’ Pickets at the Revelstoke television and ‘Tele
office alzo were beefed up by communications Com
a bus load of” 0 _ talon mission.

fered 23.8 per cent.

__ “Trotter said the union sug ;
rt full poblic inquiry in the
event ofa shutdown, because
such a shutdown would cost

motoris fs moore in ae _Suste Demelo, Natalle Soares, Lucy Weissner work on n thelr respective 7 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The students

ting the labor dispute. Duarta and Gorette Barbosa work projects (below) for the Terrace and are in Mr. M. Speight’s Grade 7 class
He said that,because of an Irom Age Village with tooth- District Sclence-. Falr In -the ~ af Veritas School In Terrace. They

. the ICBC work force in- while Caroline Hendry, Lisa’ Ster- gymnasium Friday, March éfrom7. dreds who will enter this year’s
‘cluding «“‘many = senior, her Lawrence Stella and James  - p.m. to 1(p.m. and Saturday, March sclence fair,
highly. skilled employees” a “
tigy not return to work after
g lengthy shutdown.
“Such ‘a loss of staff
‘coupled with the already
critical - staffing problems
could result in tha cor- ;
poration becoming a mere
collection agency, collecting
". premiums. ami. disbursing
these td the private sector at
a substantially greater cost
to the motoring public,” he |

Big firm

-forest: products companies
" gid Wednesday that its
Vincciver head office staff
| willbe cut by more than one- .

Weted & Derm car ciig.

Western Forest Products Open:

Lid. blamed high. interest 24 hours. Fe 635- me

rates as a mafor reason for “We Satisty Tummy & Tank:
365 DAYS AYEAR" :

: the Iosses and a .stalf
_ Feduetion of 6 from a
“ cirrent ‘Vancouver em.

"ployee total of 1. het yreM V TEND,
‘“We have a heavy
fs millon which will —ee ; LTD. | Nq-
tiuich higher as we proceed, rae 24 ng
with ‘modernization fians, sod ; ‘ “a Complete Office ;
, he told a staff meeting. . Jailed. _ V. xCOUVER (CP) — A. Justice William Trainor husband and took a loaded . late Tuesday ‘ofa Coffee Service”
STE . oe: _ Pakn Desert; Calif. women told Elizabeth Hutchinsen, revolver, kndwing that the _ charge of manslaughter.
He ‘sald head office statf h r=] was sentenced Wednesday to @3, who was convicted of confroniation was going [
will be trimmed by eight t re e * three years in prison for “ manslaughter by a B.C. be emotionally charged. © . Wife. " Hutchinson di
transfers, 13 early, =~ _ fatally shooting the husband Supreme Court jury, thatshe | Mts. Hatchingon had been coding to Vancolver from
retirements and 3). ter: : years she twice married and had arranged. a con- charged with first-degres theU.5. with the intentida 4728 Hwy. 16W, TERRACE
minations.. ee Ay "+. divorced, ‘  frontation with her former. murder buf was convicted killing H non, then 62, : :
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