Mail s

OTTAWA (UPC) -

- Mail service could be

restored within a week if
mside postal workers
accept aie tentative
agreement worked oul
between their negotiators
and the government that
could end what will hkely.
be the longest postal
strike in ‘the country’s
history.

Federal mediator Alan
Gold told reporters -after
seven hours of talks
Thursday that the two
sides had agreed on a
settlement covering the
main issues in the dispute
- salaries, maternity
leave, paid holidays and

A4 - Sunday News, August 9, 1981

trike.

almost over

health and
provisions.
The settlement must
now be ratified by the
23,000 member Canadian
Union of Postal Workers,
a ‘process that union
president Jean-Claude
Parrot said would take
several days and thus
prolong the 38-day strike.
“Il have reached an
agreement with the
employer and it’s one |
can hive with,” Parrot
said, refusing as did Gold
and Treasure’ Board
President Donald
Johnston to reveal any of
the’ details before the
ratification vote.

safety

Forest fires
ravage Greece

ATHENS, Greece
(UPI) - Forest fires raged
out of control in villages
around Athens Thursday,
including a blaze less than
five miles from ancient
Olympia, birthplace of
the Olympic Games.

President Constantine
Karamanls urged, the
government to investigate
the real cause of the
blazes because of charges
the fires were deliberately
set.

More than 4,000 troops
and thousands of chan
volunteers backing up
local fire bngades were
battling the fires across

Greece.
pianes

southern
Firefighting

worked over the en-
dangered regions until
dark.

All fires in the semi-
rural northern outskirts
of Athens have been
extinguished, officials
said. They added that
forest fires south of the
capital, however, were
classified as not under
control.

The fires, which have
ravaged Greece for the
past week, have killed
three people, destroyed
dozens of homes.

_| Tough measures

being readied

OTTAWA - Pinance
Minister Allaa
MacEachen, concerned
over pressure on the
dollar, threatencd Finday
lo impose tough new
measures if major
chartered banks and
companies don't respect a
request to stop lending
moncy for foreign
tak covers.

MacEachen, back
bnefly from ai Cape
Breton holiday, also said
he was considcring

borrowing from foreign
countnes to bolster the
dollar.

Last week MackEKachen
asked the mayor banks to
voluntanly stop lending
moncy for
tak covers

“I eapect’) them = to
follow through with this
request,” he said “This
tremendous amount of
moncy is putting
downward pressure oon
the dollar ~

forcign

Skies are safe
says U.S. official

W ASHING TON The
US) government, backed
by many) pilots, tast
Friday disputed claims by
foreign ou traffic con
trollers Uhatl! So shacs are
unsafe and sand there are
no plans to cul back
service because of oa
nationwide strike

“There's no) question
the skyways are salc ~
said Transportation
Secretary Drew Lewis

Ihe Fedcral Aviation

Administration
another 12h

addcd

military
controllem to the air
traffic control system

bringing to almast SOO the
number working in
cmviban control facilucs
ance the Professional Air
Teattye
Organizanon wenl on
strike last Monday

The FAA alse has
frozen domesti flights
fora month at the current
reduced level

Controllers

FROM PAGE A3

Alderman Ralph Hall had
also questioned the necessity
of paying the $600,000 in
utility services but voted. in
favor.

Dean presented her ob-
Jections in the light of other
impending developments.
She wondered whether such
a contribution might be a
precedent for the Fullerton
development from which,
she said, the City will
hopefully also get land.

Other developers, she
said, had been asked to pay
great sums of money, such as

City gets
windfall

from
SeaBus

North Vancouver City has
received $240,000 as a result
of property taxes for the
SeaBus terminal being paid
directly to the City for the
first time.

City treasurer Dave
Moulding will say only that
the situation arises through
the SeaBus previously being
registered in an agency (the
oprovincial government)
which was not taxable, as
way of explanation for the
change.

Until this year, the
government has paid the
City a grant in heu of taxes
for the SeaBus but Moulding
says: “It was certainly
nothing approaching — this
figure.”

The City received
payment for the SeaBus
laxes a few days ago by wire
transfer.

Moulding says the City
assumed it) would be
receiving the taxes

But Jo Emc Martin, the
B.C Development Cor:
poration’s general manager
of the Lonsdale Quay.
comments

“DThas as more than the City
could ever have capected
since previous lax revenue
analysis, carned out by the
City and Lonsdale Quay, had
not anticipated payment of
the taxes from the SeaBus
operations

BCDC also paid the City
$160 000 taxes Uhis year on
ws $400 000 assessment for
the quay development so far

Upon completion of the
quay 44 heduled tor 1984,
the cntte complex will be
paying a total of $10.9 mathon
in terms of IYAT tan dollars
of which $540 000 will be
revenue direct to North Van
Caly with the remainder
gotng to the (VRID and in

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