The Times-News from Twin Falls, Idaho • 3

Thursday, May 12,1988 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho A-3 Idaho Miners reject latest offer, opt for strike The union returned to work under a unilaterally imposed company pay plan that set wages for the average miner at $10.30 an hour until this August. The old contract had pegged that wage rate at about $14 an hour. Under the company proposal, wages would be tied to the three-month rolling average price for silver. Brown said the proposal would have put the current wage at about $10.05 an hour. He said the bone of contention was the minimum wage rate pegged to silver selling at $5.50 an ounce or less.

The company has proposed a $9.30 floor wage while the union has pressed for a $10.30 committee that these matters could be addressed and resolved without a strike," Hullinger said. After being shut down for 19 months, the mine reopened six months ago without a contract. Since then, union and management negotiators have met on almost on a weekly basis. Calling the strike a last resort, Brown hoped the walkout would be brief but maintained that depended on the company. "What we were trying was every conceivable effort to avoid a confrontation," he said.

"Both parties were trying to come up with ideas. None of us wanted to see a strike, particularly at a time when the valley needs that additional income." BIG CREEK (AP) Union miners at Sunshine Mining north Idaho silver mine went on strike Wednesday after negotiators failed to agree on any modification of the company's latest contract offer. "The company refused to make any improvements on its offer, and we were left with no choice," said Steve Brown of United Steelworkers Of America Local 5089. "After 16 months of negotiations, we were getting nowhere." The union negotiating committee unanimously voted for the strike by the 300 miners at midnight Tuesday, continuing to object to the proposed wage and benefit provisions in the latest contract proposal. No new contract talks have been set, Brown said.

"At this point in time we are really bewildered," said Sunshine Chairman G. Michael Boswell. "We haven't come to any fast and hard decisions as to what our position will be." Boswell said he thought the company had made a proposal that the workers would agree to, citing Sunshine's acceptance of the union's plan to tie wages to the price of silver. Company negotiator Don Hullinger also said union-management committees were proposed to investigate ways to resolve independent miner contract problems and complaints over medical benefits, but Brown said that after 16 months of talks, the time for committees had passed. "We tried to point out to the union's Judge will rehear arguments for new trial BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) District Judge James Herndon MAKE JOYCE YOUR CHOICE Joyce Grandstaff Republican Candidate for Twin Falls County Commissioner District 1 Please Vote, May 24th.

(Paid Political Adv.) Herndon agreed to merely dismiss -it after Rhoades maintained his rights were violated because he was not persent for arguments on the original request. Rhoades, 31, was convicted in March of the February 1987 killing of Stacy Dawn Baldwin. He will be sen- tenced Friday, facing a maximum penalty of death. Defense attorney David Parmenter said Rhoades was at the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise when the first motion was argued April 4 even though he had requested that Rhoades be present at that hearing. Police hit gambling operation CHUBBUCK (AP) Officers seized $1,000 in cash and checks, poker chips, cards and dice here in an early-morning raid on a Chub-buck office building.

Bannock County Prosecutor Larry EchoHawk said Wednesday a search warrant was used to enter the office complex, capping a five-month investigation into illegal gambling. Officers also seized about 25 bottles of liquor and a quantity of beer, he said. What officers described as gambling records and other financial ledgers also were taken as evidence, the prosecutor said. Development along Snake OK'd IDAHO FALLS (AP) The Bonneville County Commission has unanimously approved a planned unit development for construction of 66 summer homes and a golf course along the South Fork of the Snake River at Heise. It's a controversial proposal, which earlier went to the Idaho Supreme Court.

At a news conference Wednesday, commissioners said the vote of approval for the Hay Ranch project was unanimous. The decision requires the development to start within two years. Dick Hays, Osgood farmer and owner of the riverside property, said he would begin development as soon as possible but had no firm timetable. Idahoans to climb Everest INKOM (AP) Inkom residents Jeff and Kellie Rhoads have been chosen to climb to the top of the world with the Wyoming Centennial Everest Expedition. It will be Kellie Rhoads' second attempt at conquering Mount Everest.

The couple was selected from more than 200 applicants for the "Cowboys on Everest" team, said expedition publicist Anne Stroock. Last year, Kellie Rhoads and nine members of the Snowbird Expedition were stopped 4,000 feet short of the summit by a violent storm that swept away the team's tents and killed four members of another expedition. Water boiling ordered HAYDEN (AP) Hayden Lake Irrigation District officials have again advised their 500 residential water customers to begin boiling their water this Sunday as the district starts drawing flows from Hayden Lake to meet irrigation demand. But District Chairman Bill Batey said the boil order to ward off the intestinal disease giardia may be the last the district has to issue. The lake, like all surface waters in north Idaho, carries the giardia parasite, which can cause cramps, nausea, weight loss and diarrhea in humans.

Lake study funds released SANDPOINT (AP) The Reagan administration has finally agreed to release $300,000 earmarked by Congress for a water-quality study of northern Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille and the Pend Oreille and Clark Fork rivers. State officials, including members of the congressional delegation and Gov. Cecil Andrus, had been pressing for release of the money, claiming the study was critical and the state had already committed significant resources to preparation for the work. Congressman Larry Craig said Wednesday he had been informed by the Office of Management and Budget that the money would be released. The agency had tried to block the expenditure, claiming it would open the gates for other states to demand release of money for what it called "add-on" projects.

Violence council gets funds BOISE (AP) The Idaho Council on Domestic Violence has been awarded $221,000 by the Department of Justice to help support state and local agencies that provide services for crime victims and their families. The award is from monies in the federal Crime Victims Fund, which was established by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. The fund is financed with fines and penalties assessed on convicted federal defendants and can receive up to $110 million each year. New Asphalt Racing Surface Armed Forces Display SATURDAY MAY 14th -Tt mid Ll i IRee STOCK Fun for the Entire Family Bring the Kids Gates Open Races at has agreed to rehear arguments supporting a motion that convicted multiple killer Paul Ezra Rhoades be granted a new trial in the slaying of a Blackfoot convenience store clerk. After initially denying the motion for a new trial earlier this week, Groups plan sober, safe grad parties NAMPA (AP) Senior bashes are part of the tradition of high school graduation.

But local groups in Canyon County are taking steps this spring to keep the celebrations of graduating seniors safe and free of alcohol and drugs. "I'm tired of seeing kids slaughtered on the highways after keggers," said Frank Lanum, an organizer for the party at Vallivue High School. "We want the students to know there is a place they can go for fellowship and go to see friends," Lanum said. Lanum's group along- with other parent and student organizations are sponsoring the alternative parties at Vallivue, Nampa and Caldwell high schools that will offer "food, prizes sports and community" on graduation night. The school administrations are not directly involved, and the only real requirement is that students be sober and avoid drugs and alcohol while attending.

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