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Safeway’s Eric Johanson presents Joyce Winkler the 10-speed
Norco “sports” model bicycle she won in a recent draw. Joyce
_ Says she filled out the form as a bit of a fark. The bike is too large
for her small child, and the one she is expecting won't be ready to -
_ ride it for a few years. However, her husband is looking forward

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Delisle of the B.C. Forest Service hangs
precariously out of a helicopter ‘a8 it
sweeps Jow over ‘some spruce trees,
searching for one particular tree in this
forest south of this central B.C.-city.:

The chopper hovers beside the chosen
tree and Delisle reaches out with a set of
bydraulit shears to clip off a ‘metre of the
cone-laden top. ©

“You have to look for trees with a better

_form and ones with a lot of cones,” Delisle

said. “You've gat to watch the tall rotor
and the main rotor (of the helicopter). And

- you have. to be quick.”

The helicopter is a relative newcomer to -
the program, at least in this function, said
John Przeczek, assistant site preparation
co-ordinator for the region:

- Previously, work teams would sift -

through an area after it was logged, said .
Steve. Hough, a silviculture co-ordinatos,
The problem with this method was that
spruce cones can be collected only during
the last week of August and the firet week, .
of September, he said. :

“If no logging is going on at that time,

“you're out of luck,” he said: “Ani If you

wait too long, the cones will mature, they'll -
drop the seeds and you can’t collect
them. oe

‘After a sufficient number. of cones-are -
gathered, they are taken. placed in sacks.

: and stored at the forest service nursery at

nearby Red Rock before being shipped to

the Duncan Seed Cenire on Vancouver ~-

‘sland “Seeds are. extracted there and

io RRINGE GEORGE, B.C. ACP) ice Tinwiiss igepped ‘until NE ieee ‘tor’ sowing.

The provincei is split into 58 séed zones to. -
maich'éach seed’s point-of origin. Any
difference greater than two degrees of
latitude or 150 metres-of elevation from
that point of origin means the seed will not
reach its growth potential,

Hough said the forest ‘service aims to
callect 150 ta 200 hectolitres (412-550
-bushels) in the Prince. George West -
. district at a total cost of $30,000 to. $40,000

The resulting yield of 27 to 36 million
seeds should Jast for three years. --

* ‘The forest service would like a. 10-year .

Edijcation .. Minister’ ‘BW
' Vander Zalm: and , teachers’...
representative ®
~ Kuehn,’ having: sparred
“| verbally. in the: Jast.:|

education cuts, : ‘cailled a:
~ Jemporary- truce | Thiraday..”
Just ‘long: ‘enough’ to’ “an-
_mounce that. nothing, had”
changed. . 1 ‘

After two hours of: what

Kuehn termed “open and ~

honest” digeusslons at the.
’ B.C, Teachers’. Federation |
headquarters, the two held —
a joint news conference to

' restate their positions.:-

Vander — Zalm,
inherited his Edueation
portfolio a scant two weeks
ago from Brian Smith, was

first to the: microphone.
“Look, no black ayea. — no- - choices offered the teachers...

‘bruises,’ he joked before
getting down to. the serious
business of ‘government ©
policy.

He said the government
was still committed ‘to
cutting $60 million from .
school spending. by. fiscal -
year erd,; adding that he

would like the teachers tobe “representing ©

involved in the: im-
plementation of what he
called “a challenge.”

The views . presented ‘to

Chips fall

him by. Federation
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C:
(CP) — Unemployed for six

months and facing car and

appliance payments, 30- |
year-old Brian Bulmer:
~ decided to let the chips fall.

Where they may. .

The resident of this
Vancouver suburb invested -
all his money — $4,000 — to
come up with a tongue-in-
cheek ‘cure for. those who
want to Lurn off the world or
make it stop and listen.

He calls it the Shoulder
Chip and that's what it is.
When properly worn, the

“chip says “Don't bug me;
that. bugs me; or, you bug
me,'' Bulmer says.

It puts a stop to the.want-.

, lostalkrabouteit, ‘sAyadrome.
Lie llis. «versatile, "toe Slt
either starts. or stops tall
‘about unemployment,’
poor economy and high
mortgage rates, he said.’
Bulmer has thousands of
‘chips lying around. on his
bedroom floor but within
weeks he hopes to ‘have -
them in stores packed in
litile yellow boxes. with full.
instructions for their: use.
“It was just an idea I had
when I was sitting on the
couch one day,”’ Bulmer

supply, Hough said. The average period ' said. “I was quite serious

between collectible crops is. about Bix:
years and although seeds can last 15 to 20
years in. storage, the success rate of
. Rerminating Some seed lots is too low te be
useful, he said. \

Foresters don't know exactly why cone .
crops are good in some years and bad in
others, but there seems to be a correlation.

cone crop the following year, he said,
if that, theory holds true, there should be
an excellent crop next’ year, he said.

. To determine what a crop will be like, ©
* the forest service uses marksmen to shoot.

branches off trees, usually in February,
The branches are then put in water to let
the buds: grow.

Hough said: the current. _Mmanner of
harvesting and germinating will continue
until cones from genetically-superior trees
¢an_be biologically engineered for. stable.
results. me , at

or

~ Phillips leads with chin

' VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C, Industry —

Minister Don Phillips took it on the. chin .

"Thursday from. union and contractor

representatives for his remarks about the
industry shutdown he made in Kelowna,
B.C, Wednesday,

“Phillips lambaated’ both. sides in. the -.
three-week-old strike-lockout, saying they.
should act “like grown men” and warning
thai the B.C. government “may ‘have to -

chiange the rules” if the dispute isn't) ~

settled quickly. .
‘Chuck - McVeigh, ' Contractor... Labor, |

“Relations ‘Association pregident® sald? 3
~. Phillips’ comiments.. were’: “totally - un=
called-for.' : ;

a it ‘think’ it's sential’ ‘that you un-
derstand thefacts in the dispute before you. -

7 make statements like that,” McVeigh told:
: reporters.

” contractors have acted with a great deal of

_ Tesponsibility, They're very mature and

"I-can ‘assure you that our

we took great exception to .thase
“remar ,
_ Roy Gautier, “chairman, of the 17 con-

"struction unions’ joint bargaining council,

said ‘the building trades were “pretty __
' shocked?’ by Phillip’ remarks. . *
“They ‘were competely. untimely,” " he.

- said, noting they were made two days alter.
the unions had asked the government for”

mediation in a renewed effort to reach an-
, agreement with the associatlony« -

Clark Gilmour, head of the provincial

: mediation - services, : Was subsequently:

“ appointed by -Labor ‘Minister. Bob’

McClelland to assist the parties,

Gilmout has imposed anews blackout on on,
the new round of contract talks that is due_
_ta continue today after an opening session .
Thursday, :

4

we bagt

its rank. interference! in the free eallettive,”
_ bargaining process. ; .

“We have: to assume: the minister was

: Idon’t think he’s too knowledgeable about

- collective bargaining, ”

Al the iime of the strike Jockout; the °
unions were ga two-year increase in ,
“ wageg.and
_associalion’s pre-ahutdown
“amounted:to $4an hour but the package

~ was offfelally withdrawn lagt week... + |

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“Philips faa. not - made the. mediator’ a. ,
“Job any easier,” sald: Gautier. ‘We think =

ts of $5.20 an hour. The |
“offer

about the whole thing. :
People are pretty well fed
up and this should give them
an outlet,

“Every day I pick up the

. Newspaper and everyone is -

getting laid off. They’re
‘even throwing eggs at the

between a warm, dry. spring and a good _ prime minister. Now that’s
kinda crazy but it’s cer-

tainly an Indication of what

people are thinking. This is ~

one outlet for them,’”

Tt works the other way .

‘too; he said.

. When the chips are worn: .

in public, people get
curious, They stop,. they
point, they-ask “what the
_ chip is and théwearer gets a
chance. to pour out his |

- troubles.

As Bulmer- says,. it's
better than throwing ORAS.
’.. Bulmer wore a chip when
* telling of his troubles get-
ting inte the market. It isn't
easy, he said. First he has to
get a store to handle them,

then he has to make certain’

-. no one else steals his idea,
.. Then he“has to worry_that
the recession’ doesn’t end

| Clean

who -

Vander Zalm

i VANCOUVER ACP) —

"president Kuehn a ‘be
nadé known’ to the
goverment, sald Vander.

ad
. Suggested the. ‘province's.,
_ 38,000. teachers agree to an
- immediate 10-per-cent wage ©
_ Cut. This ‘plan’ was -ovef--
- Whelmingly rejected: by

delegates to
conference last weekend.
School boards were also told :
by. the: ministry - 1983
spending must be reduced -
- by $55.5 million. |

Kuehn Bald that. in cutting -
spending, ‘the government
was in effect ‘'diemem-

a Federation .

Group. spokesmari A

Blakey; -/ ya. ‘former
Pederation president, ‘said’

“Larry - “Balm, “but T-ean’t promise”. ‘ earlier this” manth $15,009
aveuge

- has been

i

efeat the.’

' Social Credit ‘governmentiin::
}: tha - next’ ‘qlection. Blakey:
‘sald a. similar, teachers’

group t raised. about--$75, /000.
‘and. helped. defeat: W. A. C,.
‘Bennett in-the:1972-election:_
- making» récommeridations: .

‘Which. hé lost to the NDP,

Kuehn said a: ‘groundswell -
“. associations

“of public ‘opposition would
convince .the government
not to “diamember” - the

education system, much as.
‘a ‘similar, Tevolt had con:

*yineed thé government in

plan.

‘the 1990s to discard aimmilar

~ Vander Zalm .|aaid’, the
~ nituation y could n be
compared! to ‘the. ‘19

“They . didn’t. . ‘have: ‘$1; 0
-, millian to” cut from,” he”
said, “What'we. want to cut,
(960 million): ia. more than’
‘the entire’ educa ion: budget.

at that time.!” ee

to the 76° local’ teachers
ag: yet,
prefarring -to., await. the

outcome of alegal cliallenge ©

_by the Vancouver school
board. to the budget cuts, -

The board sent a letter
Aug. 20° to the Finance
Minister asking for $200,000

"program. 1

. Kuehn ‘nal he is, “ak - legal ‘advice that . the

in. operating’ ey. the
the “school ‘district

sage ‘the;

restraint a
the: money. is. =}

bd

“ae ernment has "withheld mn

not forthcoming by. today;.

‘The ‘board said it has: had

government’: had

no ,

authority - to. arbitrarily... \-: ‘
" reduce 1982- budgets..

‘the: “school ‘district pimtis to. 7.
‘sei the patliest date possible. val
ia B.C. Supreme Court.

Vander Zalm. said ‘he ‘ _

prepared to bring-
legislation to-block the egal
challenge. He has given the

school boards until Sept. 15

to show how they wil) cut

. Bulmer said he may burn

spending by $0 million.
bering the education -
system.” He added the -

— accept the pay cuts. or
face layoffs. —.- ‘were
unacceptable and he called
for a show of public support
to convince the government.
that education js a ‘top
: Priority,

' The Federation belangs to
4 coalition of si, groups |

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before the chips hit. the
‘market. Then he. has to
wort if no one buys them.

“They have other uses .
too, you know,’ Bulmer -
said. “I wear them when I:
watch football games. You
see, Treally hate it when my
wife asks me to take out the
garbage. in the last. two
minutesof a Lions and
Edmonton football game, 80
I wear the chip.

“Et works for a while, but '
not for a full 24-hours, un--
foriunately.”

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