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Activity was Recreation Department. sponsored by Castlegar CosNewsPhoto by Ryon Wilson ed item, men's shirt, woman's blouse or dress, tailored it- em, child’s garment); stuffed toy; embroidery, (chicken scratch, patehwork, embroid- ered item, needlepoint, bar- gello, crewl); quilting (hand- quilted cushion top, wall hanging, quilt and other); applique, rug-making, wall. pickles (dill pickles, sweet mixed, pickled beets, bread and butter pickles and rel- ish); canning (tomatoes, ber ries, plums, cherries, peach es, pears, apricots, fruit cock- tail), baking (various cate- gories); jams and jellies. ” By MADELAINE DROHAN OTTAWA (CP) — The annual inflation rate dipped fa fn, June to its lowest point in 12 years; but say the 4.1-per-cent rate was achieved at the prac 47 jobs and the economy. “If we stopped the economy dead, we would have no inflation,” New Democrat MP Ian Deans pointed out. “But that would be useless.” The member for Hamilton Mountain said in an inter- view that high interest rates make it impossible for people to purchase goods and if people aren't buying, jobs are not being created. “It's nice to bring inflation down and I think most people are happy to see inflation down. But you have to take a look at the cause and effect. Quite clearly this is a response to the interest rate Policy and the interest rate policy is destroying the economy,” The Bank of Canada rate, on which the chartered banks base their rates for mortgages and consumer loans, has returned to levels last seen in 1982. The bank allowed it to increase to 13.26 per cent last week in order to support the flagging Canadian dollar which is trading near historic lows against its U.S. counterpart on foreign exchange markets. The dollar dropped below 75 cents U.S. for the first time in history last week. It closed Monday at 75.27 cents US Progressive Conservative critic Chris Speyer says he ou tre tan tended se nan ate a increased in cree ey dosan’y servrio imap in Went of Ue fect that we have 1.4 million people The annual rate was 4.8 per cent in May. The drop to 4.1 per cent in June brings it down to levels last seen in June 1972 when the rate was 4.0 per cent. an dollar and a lack of confidence in,the economy,” he said in an interview from his Cambridge, Ont., office. REALITY BLEAK “The reality is that the over-all economic situation is ineredibly bleak.” Speyer said merchants didn't increase their prices during the Great Depression and they're not about to do it now because of the poor economy and lack of demand. However, he said the government did something right by calling an election so that Canadians have a chance to choose a new team that might inspire more confidence. The lower inflation rate is good news for Prime Minister JOhn Turner who is out campaigning for the Sept. 4 general election. Turner has said he supports the economic policies of Finance Minister Mare Lalonde, who was reappointed to that portfolio when the new prime minister formed his cabinet earlier this month. But defending Lalonde and his policies has meant that Turner has also had to answer for the weak Canadian dollar and high interest rates. The drop in inflation has been the first good economic news he's received since the campaign began July 9. 8 Canada noted that the lower year-over- year increase in consumer prices was due mainly to gasoline price wars that took place a year ago. When they ended, gasoline prices increased and the effect of that increase was to force the consumer price index up in June 1983. On a month-to-month basis, the agency's consumer price index rose 0.4 per cent in June after recording 0.2 per-cent increases in the previous three months The government agency said higher food and trans- pertation costs were responsible for the month-tomonth inerease. The cost of clothing, health and personal care remained unchanged between May and June and housing, recreation and education costs dropped. It was feared that the dollar's drop would fuel inflation because it increases the price of U.S. imports for Canadians. And, since more than two-thirds of all imports to Canada come from the United States, the effect could be substantial. Economists also argue that when import prices rise, the price of similar goods produced in Canada also rise. One economist said it's difficult to determine whe. ther the lower dollar has affected the inflation rate. “Who knows how far inflation would have dropped if the dollar hadn't fallen?” he asked FRIDAY, JULY 20 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. NOW OPEN In the Hair Annex Building For all your FLORAL NEEDS 365-3744 PLANT & GIFT ANNEX 1241 - 3rd Street ne inaccessible Robson WI Crown land B.C. GROWN ; _ finns = 519, 59° VANCOUVER (CP) Ninety-four per cent of Brit: ish Columbia is Crown land but residents are often bar- red by “no trespassing” signs. The Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C., in a study that looks at rights of access, provided several examples of hicular access to this alpine area but now a gate blocks the road. The private road passes through property owned by a company that bought the land once mined for copper. East of the private property is Crown land but people can only reach it by hiking more not been replaced by legi- slated rights. The report makes a host of recommendations for improv ing access. They include fines for illegal posting of “no tres. passing” signs, more linear parks for recreation corri- dors, acquiring rights of way across private land and de- signating historic trails so they become public high- ways.” Threads Guild prevented access: than 10 kilometres. @ Valhallas Provincial Park East of Williams Lake, in in the West Kootenay, is the Cariboo, there is a public passes offering classes IW STORE BAKERY SPECIALS SLICED BREAD 99° SUN-RYPE APPLE JUICE mostly accessible by boat. trail. The trail roads One of the few access starts south of Slocan City and crosses private property. Parks official Gordon Rath- bone says the road was not gazetted as a public road. As a result, the owner can leg: ally deny access. Utopia Lake, just east of Britannia Beach, is an alpine area overlooking Howe Sound. Once there was ve- through private property and the property owner has post- ed “no trespassing” signs on his lands. Judith Cullington of the Outdoor Recreation Council wrote the report with John Rich of the West Coast En. vironment Research Founda. tion. The study warns that some traditional rights of ac- cess have been lost but have The Slocan Valley Threads Guild in Winlaw will offer two classes by local fibre ar. tist Sharon Pawliw. The first, a one-day work shop on Tuesday, is “De sigting and Cutting Chil dren's Clothing.” Learn to be creative recycling leftover fabric and adult clothing. 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Many quilting techniques, including the beautiful and intricate Seminole Strip Quilting, will be demonstrated and, again, students will take home a finished item WEAVERS WIN CONTEST A Selkirk Weavers and Spinners Guild team won the first sheep-to-shawl contest at Fort Steele recently. Sandi Cram, Sandy Don The seven teams which competed in the contest were dressed in periodic costumes, adding a nice touch to the setting A sheep-sheering demon- stration added interest for REGULAR OR DIET PEPSI OR 7-UP KETCHUP $969 KITCHENS, VANITIES, CHINA CABINETS, DESKS, ETC. VISIT OUR SHOWROOM CORTAN CALL COLLECT 365-3110 2228-6th Ave., Castlegar Colville’s Biggest SALE EVER... 16th Annual LAUNDRY DETERGENT $999 Prices Effective July 18, 19 & 20 IN THE CASTLEGAR STORE OA CAPE WAY LIMITES ane SALES IN RETAIL QUANTITIES ONLY SIDEWALK SALE FRIDAY & SATURDAY JULY 20 & 21 OPEN FRIDAY UNTIL 7 P.M. Come On Down! ...It’s Fun Shopping IN COLVILLE! ohue, Ruby Marsh and Ben and Ingeborg Thor-Larsen the many spectators. The day ended with an auction of the won the competition by spin ning and weaving a 50.8cm x handmade shawls. 183 cm shawl in record time Members of the five events, winning four. FOR THE BICYCLE NEEDS? THE BEST OfAIS ARE HERE... NS 7) Guild of two hours, 60 minutes. The weave and spin at the Douk time was the best ever for hobor Historical Village on the team, which has entered Wednesdays and Sundays during the summer months. has busy year Robson Women's Institute has ended for the summer after enjoying a very busy year. A few highlights over the year included upgrading the cemetery, canvassing for the Cancer Fund, hostessing the flea market kitchen, the District Conference in Fruit- vale and the Provincial Con ference in Vancouver. For Robson Days the In- stitute sponsored a prince and princess, toddler and baby contest. Winners were: Toddler boys, Justin Ozeroff; Toddler girl, Amanda Brewis and baby, Jillian Zurek. The Institute will be en- tering a float in the Sunfest parade, featuring a few of its older members and the Rob- son Days royalty. Spelling bees and essays were also held in the Robson School during the year. Win- ners of spelling were: Grade 1, Robyn Lambert; Grade 2, Leona Jones; Grade 3, Mich- elle Storm, and Grade 4, Gavin Mealing. Winners ot the essay contest were Grade 3, Bea Sallis; Grade 4, Gavin Mealing; Personalized mugs were given to the winners. With the fall fair fast ap- proaching on Sept. 8 entry forms are finalized and will soon appear at Kel Print, Johnnies Groceries and Wests. Prizes as well as ribbons will be awarded this year. % Local weaver: to show slides Robson weaver Kathy Armstrong will present 150 slides, titled “Baskets Nat- urally” at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Nelson Museum. The slide presentation will be followed by a short work shop during which the audi- ence can practice some sim ple basketry techniques. Armstrong will bring about 20 of her baskets, which will be on display from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, ing baskets for about five years and has exhibited at Bowman, Mont., for the Northwest Hand Weaver's Association, for the Fibre Golf Conference in Victoria and the B.C. Festival of the Arts, Images and Objects II. About two thirds of the slide presentation concerns native baskets and the rest of the slides are samples of Armstrong’s basketry and baskets from around the world. One of her baskets took over 200 hours to make and one 150 hours to compose She used a coiled technique and stitched every quarter of an inch. The basket is cov ered with pine needles. Armstrong's show is part of a weekly series on Wed nesday evenings at the Nel. son Museum. Trail gets help VANCOUVER (CP) — Ex po 86 management got on the phone recently and helped the city of Trail to solve its tree shortage problem. “Expo has been very co operative and it looks like this story is going to have a happy ending,” said Trail city manager Ken Wiesner in a wants to plant 60 trees as part of its revitalization pro- gram. But when the city or. dered the trees, its general foreman was told that the management of Expo, the transportation and communi. cations fair to be built in Vancouver in two years, had bought so many from local nurseries that the price had Auto ind DEARBORN, MICH. (AP) — American carmakers are thriving again, but the home town of the auto industry still bears the deep wounds of its recent depression. Crumbling brick factories. smokestacks against the sky Empty streets. Silent “Monuments to failure,” Ford Motor Co. chairman Philip Caldwell calls them. “I happened to drive over to see the (new) GM plant not to run the company is at a January and could retire if he chooses. But recent weeks have found him as busy as at any time in his career at Ford, defending his $1.4-million salary and bonus for 1983, flying to Europe to shake up the sliding Ford car operations that he made a success a decade ago — and point in his career when other corporate chiefs might begin slowing down. He will be 65 in so long ago — I hadn't been over there for a long time,” he said. ‘Boy, there are a lot of monuments. It’s just sickening, really.” Caldwell, a product of the strict schools and lifestyle of the orderly Ohio farming plains who does not smoke, drink deciding a question that may form much of his legacy The question is whether Ford should take large parts of its U.S. automaking to countries with cheaper labor and leave behind more “monuments.” WON'T RULE IT OUT PEOPLE’S INSULATION SERVICES Be Energy Wise! Save Money and Do It Now! WE USE ENERGLASS New and Old Homes INSULATED $500 Home Insulation CHIP GRANT Now available for all homes built TRAIL———-NELSON — 4 ASTLEGAR O1SV4———SYOd GNVYD telephone interview The West Kootenay city city clerk Jamie Forbes been driven up, said deputy Kenneth M. Wyllie Barrister and Solicitor Is pleased to announce that = Susan E. 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The two men complain about federal budget deficits, blaming them for pushing up interest rates. When that happens, the sellers of big-ticket consumer goods get hurt first The other complaint is lack of a national industrial policy that results in the Japanese having currency and tax breaks amounting to $1,500 to $2,000 for each car they sell in the United States. STRAWBERRIES You Pick or Buy Picked G & LFARMS Grand Forks Open Every Day Dawn to Dusk No Appointment Necessary You Pick 75*lb. — Picked $1 Ib. Bring Your Own Containers TURN LEFT ON 19th ST. NEAR THE GRAND FORKS ARENA AND FOLLOW THE SIGNS TO G & L FARMS PHONE 442-5775 OR 442-8095 Metal worker strikes hurt West Germany By The Associated Press Seven weeks of metal- workers strikes cost West Germany four per cent of its total industrial production in May and June and will hurt the country’s gross national product in the April-June quarter, the West German central bank said. Elsewhere in Europe, France's government said its economy was growing at a faster rate than it had pre viously estimated, and in Italy, the government pre dieted an increase of slightly more than two per cent in GNP. Americans trained Deutsche Bundesbank, the West German central bank, estimated in its July report that the strikes knocked about one percentage point from West Germany's poten tial GNP forecast for the April-June quarter. The strikes, which Bundes. bank said were the most costly in West German his. tory, caused the loss of about 10 million workdays in auto- mobiles and related indus. tries. Its direct effects cost the manufacturing industry an estimated four billion marks, or $1.4 billion U.S., of net output, and workers in the metal industry lost an es- timated two billion marks, or $700 million. In Paris, France's National Statistics Institute said France's gross domestic product grew 0.7 per cent in the first quarter, swinging from a decline of 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of 1983. In Rome, Italy's state Economic Study Institute said the country's gross domestic product should grow a real 2.8 per cent this year, but that growth will slow to 2.5 per cent in 1986. Being a carrier is more than a job . it's an unforgettable learning ex perience. It teaches young people how to use their time wisely to Parents. Your child's first job could make a difference Look around. Some of the most successful people you know were once newspaper carriers There's a good reason for that for Toyota jobs TOYOTA CITY, JAPAN (REUTER( A sweat stain darkens the bright blue uni form emblazoned in red with the word “Toyota” as the American worker bends to insert windows in the cars passing on a Japanese as sembly line. Les Myers, 25 years a member of the United Auto Workers union and a former worker at General Motors’ now-closed car plant in Fre mont, Calif., has been at it for two hours non-stop. He is more than ready for his 10 minute break Call 352-5386... Ask to see our The training that Myers and some 150 other Ameri cans are getting at Toyota's Takaoka plant in “Japan's Detroit” is part of a far reaching experiment in labor-. management relations by GM and Toyota ‘It's a sort of test to see if American workers, especial ly UAW members, and Jap- anese management techni ques can go together smooth- ly,” said Toyota spokesman Masami Doi. But Myers and the other, trainees who will form the core of 2,500 workers to be employed at a new GM Toyota joint venture at Fre- mont see it in more personal terms. “People from that plant have been out of work for two years,” Myers said. “They're willing to go in and learn teamwork to have a Jo PIONEERS PROJECT The UAW is the unknown