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Forestry layoffs continue .

Layoffs in the B.C. forest indusiry have increased another 16 percent in the last lwo weeks lo mure than 15,500, and the provincial government has been ciritcized for dragging ils feet in providing remedial action,

- G. L. Draeseke, President of the Council of Forest Industries of B.C., said on Tuesday (hal it is within the power of the provincial government to take action to at least moderate the unemployment siluation In the forest industry, Draeseke said forest industry officials will meet with Premier Barre(t and Forests Minister R. A, Williams on November 4 io further urge this action, '

The proposals the forest in- dustry urges the _ provincial government to act upon, which were pul forward as early as last August, include:

- Reappraisal of the stum- _ page formula to include ‘-Qurrent,” . realistic cost

allowances, rather than the aut-

of-date, historic tigures ‘now being used,

~- While the above reappraisal is being undertaken, stumpage should be immediately reduced te the minimum;

~ Immediate impasition ofa moratorium on all waste billing or penaltics on logging sites, except thal partion over 1,000 cubic feel-per acre. (This penally is normally one-and-a- half times royalty for wood left behind on logging sites.)

_ = Speedier cutting permil approval, and more flexible application of logging guidelines. ‘

Draeseke sald: “‘one of the reasons that mills are becoming less and less competitive with market prices is the failura of the provincial government tao give realistic cost allowances in the stumpage formula. These actions have been urged on the provincial government for some time to no avail, We will again press these actions on the gZovernment when we meet with

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Well so much for us gelting off easy-famous last words. it seems like its been one “calasirophe after another.

First of all the roads wash oul.,

the Canyon City bridge gets a big hole in it and the Greenville residents wereoul of power. We just get Tecuperated from that and it starts to rain again. I guess actually i! never quit. More roads washed out, a slide ‘Which puls the whole Valley aut of power and a runaway creek which completely isolates us in Nass Camp. The creek just ourside of camp -is tired of following its natural course and decided to take the road only by this’ lime it was more like a raging river. Several residents who have been in. camp for a

“3 _fumber of years (8-10)' have . -Never seen it like this before and -

we sure hope none of us see it again, It sure is a weird feeling

lo be cut off from the outside,

world, We didn’t even know _ What was going on at Aiyansh, Canyon City or Greenville and

: they're only afew miles away. .: Took several days before they got the road fixed and we were able to come and go at least-to

the store or Aiyansh.

It seems that Hlness comes at

\he most inopportune times. Eunice Moore from Greenville had a stroke and Lawrence Adams from Canyon City took . siek with what was thought to be Pleursy. and both had to be flown. into Terrace by helicopter. I {oo had my own problems with my second + youngest coming down with bronchitis. © Went down lo Aiyansh to see the nurse and get some medication but her and the dther (wo aids Loretta ~ Clayton and Doris Tait had gone - fo Prinee Rupert for a con- _ ference and then get stranded in .. Terrace. They were later flown

- home by a special Might. ’ However, Dwas able to gel some from ihe Health Aide in Canyon City, UW sure is terrible when

you have someone sick'in the .

middle of the night, no lights, and no heal, knowing that you *- couldn't get him to a hospital if

«he get worse. But luckily he's

. Betting better. It’s amazing the

> pawer of antibicties, whatever

“would. we do wilh oul them. os Other than the illness il was sort “al niee sitting around the table ” with a keresene lamp flickering overhead, playing cards and communicating with each other rather {han staring silently al a blaring T.V. It seems we were just getting used to ne power _ and if came back on, then we

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were getling used 'o having it back and it went off again. Problems, problems, oh whal a month this has been. Sure a lot of things happening thal we can tell our grandchildren about- “Oh | remember, it was back in October 1974---" .

At our Ludies meeting, special guesis were Linda Samland from Aiyansh and Jeanne Hoback from Nass Service who were forming a committee to do a survey on Postal Service in the Valley, Stephanie Hudson volunteered lo help. This meeling had a fantastic turn out with 20 ladies prasent, the best we've hadfor a: long time. Keep it up ladies, we need your support. Pauline McClannan and Judy Jacobson have volunteered to look after ihe'Sunday School and they first one Will beheld on. the 29th- would you believe Tuesday School. All the children are welcome. The Fireman will sponsor a fireworks display and a Halloween party with games and goodies. There will also be prizes for the best costumes, There will be a Rummage and Bake Sale on the 7ih af November in the afternoon and there will alse be a door prize and a cake raffle. Everyone do come out and sponsor the Ladies Club. Rummage wili be picked up on the 4th or can be dropped off at House No.9.

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Ht just came to my attention that during the power outage

the teachers fram Alyansh’

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The COFI President said the forest industry isn’t seeking charity, but. rather common justice, He said that, because the provincial forest service uses historic trends in com- puling cost allowances, lhese allowances are out of line by up 10$12,00 per hundred cubic feet of wood.

“The cost allowance figures have in no way kept pace with (he economic realities of the last few years,'’ he said..

“We're nol asking that the provineial government put cut mills back into.a profit position, but instead to establish a more reasonable cash flow which will go a long way towards moderating the unemployment picture,"

Draeseke said thal the new government policy of imposing waste penalties on all wood remaining at a logging site exceeding 250 cubic feel ‘will ageravate an already ex- tremely serious siiuation for our indusiry. We simply cannot support these new waste _ assessments in addition to cur ather financial burdens.”

On the malter of logging guidelines, Draeseke urged the government to administer these

policies so as to minimize extra costs imposed on logging. This could be accomplished, he said, by “providing quicker, more flexible approval of cutting permits with a view to planning more economic legging.”

In many cases, he said, companies have to wail up lo a year for approval af culling permit applications, meanwhile" having to undertake costly road construction when they don’t know if or where they are going. to be allowed ta log.

Draeseke said these govern- ment actions are essential ta help the forest industry and the province through the coming difficult months, There is no immediate prospect of im- provement in the badly slumped lumber market which is responsible for the widespread layoffs.

’ The ‘current layoff figure stand al 19,585, up 16 per cent from the October 7 figure of M772, ¢ .

“This is the eighth con- seculive week in which the

layoff figures have continued to

increase, with a total more (han double the number of unem- ployed when we first started reporting the figures in August,” Draeseke said.

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Computer Rejects False

Hospital Claims

Male, mothers, Mary’s prostale operation, Jehnny’s D and C, and there's even one -about the pneumonia admission who went hame with a cast on her leg. .

Sound weird? It is! But the girls in the B.C. Hospital In- surance Service are used to hearing such stories, and these are just a few of the many such claims rejected by an IBM compuler located at the Parliament Buildings in Vic- foria, To erpis human and when you're handling thousands of palient claims fram hospitals every day, mistakes will happen.

I's a pretty complicated setup which begins the minute a person Is admitted 1o hospital. -

’. A claim wilh the palient’s name ‘jlravels a kindof paper route

‘before being paid, starting with the hospital admitting staff and from [here to the Claims Distribution Centre at BCHIS where claims are sorted into various categories such ag minor surgery, oul-of-pravince, and day care services, Once sorted they are passed to the yarlous-

* sections. responsible for each are -

calegory where they processed and checked Lo see who pays the bill, whether it's BCHIS, the Workmen's Com-

pensation Board, or the Federal —

Government. Insurance companies also make a_ sub- stantial contribution, through liability claims for car accident vielims and other third party liability’ claims, oo

The slaim now heads for ‘the Medical Consullation Division where details are assessed and iranslated by medical coders tall graduate nurses) into standard code-numbers to be

punched .on IBM cards. Par-

{Iculars are recorded but the patient’s privacy is protected, because claims are filed numberically and not by name.

The data, coded from well over 5,000 claims a day, forms the basis for statisties used lo determine where and whal hospital facilities are required, and also how long and ex- pensive treatment should be. This information not only helps BCHIS improve patient care and increase efficiency, but itis a valuable resource for national ~ and provincial healihand safely research sludies. The data compiled, includes drug and alcohol abuse, cardiac arrests, accidents, allergies, all abor- lions, congenital: .defects,

poisoning, maternal ---com--*—-~

plications, batléred babies,‘and* many other cases of ‘specific interest to researchers. For accurate assessment, - division sends cul over 700 ° requesis a month for more details of diagnoses and treatments, the cause of hospilal stays. which exceed accepled norms, and other facts. -And with per diem rates

- priced between. $50 and $100,

along with waiting lists and bed shortages, their. concern for accuracy is easily understood.

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care are medically eligible. Close waich is also kept for complications which may prolong hospital stay.

Once passed by the medical coders, the claim is sent to the key-punch operators, where all information is punched on data processing cards and sent tothe computer. The results are used for statistical purposes, and Lo advise hospitals as to whal claims have been processed.

it's in this final stage, however, when an otherwise serious routine is sametimes broken up by a computer which refuses ta believe that grandma had a baby at 90, or the one about ‘the five year old married patient.

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