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Bombers' Murphy a househusband

WINNIPEG (CP) — Wide receiver James Murphy runs
pass patterns six months of the year with Winnipeg Blue
Bombers of the Canadian Football League and uses his speed
during the off-season to keep up with two-year-old son

Bryson.

Murphy the football player becomes Murphy the
househusband, vacuum wielder and mate to wife and dancer

Cherly.
“I enjoy it,” he says.

“It gives me a chance to be closer to my son. Basically,
I'm his pal. When he grows up, I'll be able to say ‘Hey boy, I

used to change your diaper.”

While there are no statistics on the number of house-
husbands in Canada, it appears to be a growing phenomena.

“I never thought I'd be changing diapers and waking up
at five in the morning,” says Murphy, 25. “I said I'd never do
that. But once I had him, those values changed.”

Money may not be a problem for Murphy but economics
played a factor in the decision of musician Bill Hamilton, 36,
to take on the role of house husband.

When his daughter Elizabeth was born eight months

ago, he says he realized that not only would he and wife
Cathy no longer be “footloose and fancy-free,” but she could
make more as a school teacher than he could as a musician.

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mural made with water-
based acrylic paint and clear
lacquer. Each mural takes
about two days to finish.
Dr. A.H. Perleman has one
of in his Ottawa office of a
bear pretending to be a doc-
tor looking into an elephant's

ear.

Children “point and giggle
and say, ‘Mom, that's what
the doctor does to me,’ says
Perleman's receptionist.

Prehogan, who started
Dreams Come True three
months ago, says “original
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longer because children don't
tire or outgrow them as eas-
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IODE
offers
award

TORONTO (CP) — To
mark the 85th anniversary of
its founding, the IODE will
offer a $3,000 annual award
for the best English language
book suitable for children up
to age 13.

In a news release, the or-
ganization which is based on
patriotism, loyalty and ser-
vice to Canada, said to be eli-
gible, the book must be
written by a Canadian citizen
and published in Canada.

The IODE, which marks its
anniversary today, has evol-
ved into an organization of
15,000 members who raise
and spend more than $1.6
million annually on social
service, education and citi
zenship programs.

It was somewhat the same story for Keith Pearce, a
restaurant-equipment salesman in British Columbia, whose
wife Leslie landed the first job when the couple moved back
to Winnipeg three years ago.

Pearce says he doesn’t mind staying home to care for
their daughter Alison, now five years old, and with another
child due in May he feels he even has job security.

He doesn't believe housework is all that bad.

“It's a big sham that’s been pulled over the eyes of a lot
of men,” he says. “It's‘not as bad as it’s cooked up to be.”

Ross Neufeld says he feels great about raising sons
Ryan, three, and Justin, eight months.

“I don’t look at this as a joke,” says Neufeld, who quit
his job as a shipping supervisor in New Brunswick to become
a photographer before returning home to Winnipeg in 1981.

His wife got a job at the University of Manitoba so he
stayed home:

“This is a lot more fulfilling. The best thing about the
other jobs I had were the paycheques.”

Prof. Hilary Lips, who teaches the psychology of sex

i t the University of Winnipeg, says she believes
op aor economy and desire of women for acareer have
contributed to the i ing number of ,

“T think it has been happening because there is a new
sense that rules don't have to be as rigidly defined as they
have been in the past,” she says. ,

“These people are pioneers in a way. Anyone who's
breaking new ground always runs into difficulty.

Pearce admits there have been problems.

When he takes his daughter to a wading pool, he says he
is ostracized by housewives.

a “They ignore me like I'm some kind of leper.”

Pearce also says financial institutions attacha stigma to
a working wife and stay-at-home husband. When he tries to
get work he runs into equally strange attitudes.

“One guy who had no intention of giving me a job called
me in just to find out what I was like.” ;

Murphy can end some speculation about his role before it
gets started. He doesn't wear an apron.

“T'm not going to take this thing that far.”

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Bridge to be

‘path to love’

VATERSAY, SCOTLAND
(REUTER) — Lonely men on
the tiny island of Vatersay,
which has no eligible women,
have been promised a path to
love.

The British government is
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to link Vatersay in the Outer
Hebrides to its larger neigh-
bor, Barra, which has young
women and nightclubs.

Lonely hearts on Vatersay
have faced an arduous three-
kilometre row by boat to
meet Barra’s women as their
own island has for years had
an unvarying pattern of male
babies. There are 20 single
men but no eligible women.

News of the building of the
roadway was received with
joy. One man complained it
was frustrating to row a
fishing boat in bitter cold to
see girls.

Until the causeway is fin-
ished, the men of Vatersay
might send for the overflow
from Plan, Spain. Lonely men
in that tiny town placed a
newspaper advertisement
seeking wives and were met
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BUSINESS

Gov't helps out pasta shop

HALIFAX (CP) — Practising what she teaches
helped a local university professor make her dreams
come true.

Teaching a course in business management at St.
Mary's University, Elissa McRae tells her students they
can make a good start in their own business by learning
how to get governments to extend a helping hand.

That's how she got Pastamini, Nova Scotia's first
gourmet pasta shop, off the ground.

Of course, knowing how to get government aid isn't
enough. The product has to be in demand.

So McRae, 34, a business administration professor,
and her friend and co-owner of Pastamini, Mimi Findlay,
33, came up with the idea of pasta.

They were convinced that enjoyment of good pasta
has become a national trend. And there wasn't a gourmet
pasta shop in this port city.

Viola! They had the product and the know-how to
finance it.

Findlay, a former catering manager for a major
food-services company, handles the day-to-day operatio:

She said teaching the course was what “got me
d-in start Ps

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“I wanted to practise what I preach.”

They started talking about going into business last
April, putting McRae’s business expertise together with
Findlay’s food expertise.

PAYS FOR STUDY

Department of D
Program grant, which pays three-quarters of the cost of

i studies for p new fs
enterprises. The pasta shop qualified as a factory because
it would make its own pasta.

MeRae then hired herself as the consultant, a route
available because she had previously done consulting
work,

As part of the study and still without putting up
much of her own money, Findlay went to Vancouver for
five days to study techniques with the owner of a pasta
shop there.

Once the idea was proven feasible, the two women

of the shop, while McRae, a native of C: 3 N.B.,
with a master’s degree in business administration from
St. Mary’s, continues to teach others the ins and outs of
financing small business.

an ploy Canada training grant, again
taking advantage of their status as a partial factory. The
grant paid four months’ salary for a person they hired
work the pasta machine.

But government grants alone weren't enough to buy
equipment, including the $6,000 pasta
lease space in the basement of the new Spring Garden
Place, whose small boutiques cater largely to a
sophisticated downtown clientele. It can cost up to
$50,000 to set up a pasta shop, McRae said, declining to

reveal the cost of Pastamimi.

Again using McRae's knowledge on how to raise
money, the partners issued limited partnership units, a
method rarely used for small businesses but common in
major ventures such as oil exploration and hotels.

SEEK INVESTORS

By word of mouth, they spread the message that
they were looking for investors. They attracted four,
enough to get the enterprise under way, and in June they N

were in business.

Within six months they knew they were a success. In
January, the business was solid enough for them to buy
out the four limited partners. McRae says Pastamimi is
making a comfortable but unspectacular profit, has an
estimated 75-per-cent repeat-customer rate and a
growing clientele as the word spreads.

Fresh pasta isn’t like the rock-hard product found on
supermarket shelves. It’s damp, free of chemical preser-

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HURTS QUEBEC INDUSTRY

Textile imports blossom

MONTREAL (CP) — A growing number of Canadians
are slipping between sheets at night that are made in China
or the United States and drying themselves after their
morning shower with Brazilian or Pakastani towels.

Canadians industry officals estimate that imports of
textile products and garments grew by 25 per cent in 1983
while climbing by another 20 per cent last year.

About half the imports come from the United States with
the from k rs ies in Asia, Eastern
Europe and, increasingly, Latin America.

The recent selling-off of Wabasso Inc.'s sheet and towel
business, at the white-sale price of $17.5-million, highlights
the enormous problems faced by Canada's once labor-
intensive textile and clothing sector.

In all, about 35,000 textile and apparel jobs, the bulk of
them in Quebec, have disappeared from Canada in the last
decade.

Sales by domestic manufacturers rose last year but still
couldn't keep pace with imports. Canadian firms held 39 per
cent of total sales, down from 41 per cent in 1983.

“Qur only problem is access to our own market,” says
Dominion Textile spokesman Michel Dufour.

Pressure from low-priced imports keeps the prices
charged by Canadian producers down, squeezing their profit
margins. In the case of Wabasso, this meant a loss of $8
million for 1984, forcing it under after 78 years of operation.

Dominion Textile Inc. — Canada's biggest domestic
producer and the buyer of Wabasso's modern mills at
Trois-Rivei » Que., and D ‘Ont. — lost $2 million
in the six months ended Dec. 31, compared with a profit of
$10.3 million in the corresponding period a year earlier.

Dominion Textile’s agreement to buy Wabasso — it will
continue selling products bearing Wabasso's rabbit
trademark — will mean the closing of plants in Welland,
Ont., and Shawinigan, Que., and cuts two ini

Sinclair Stevens, minister of regional industrial

expansion in the Conservative government, describes the
had .

“To suggest that the industry just can’t hack it and that
you have to write it off is just totally wrong,” he said
recently in Montreal, noting that 10 per cent of Canada's
manufacturing jobs are in textiles and apparel.

Canada has bilateral agreements with about 20
low-wage countries to limit their textile and clothing exports
here to specified levels. Steveps said the Conservative
government will consult the industry to set a steady market
share for them over the next 15 years, allowing Canadian

companies to draw up long-range investment and
modernization plans.
But more jobs will be eliminated the year 2000.

The Canadian Textile Institute, which ited that about
34,000 textile and clothing jobs were eliminated in the last 10
years, calculated that employment in the ‘sector —
concentrated in Ontario and Quebec — has fallen below
170,000 from levels exceeding 200,000 in the early 1970s.

Quebec remains Canada’s leading apparel source, but
only has 55 per cent of the jobs now — a decline from 66 per
cent in 1974.

While jobs have been slashed, the productivity of the
remaining workers has doubled as the industry has
automated.

Textile and apparel firms have learned that software
doesn't refer to silk underwear, the computer programs to

yarn spinners at 90,000 revolutions a minute.

run open-end
and shuttleless weaving machines that produce four times
more fabric than the old looms.

Computers are used in fashion design, as well, and
fabric is cut faster and more cleanly with lasers as high-tech
takes the place of low-cost labor in the industry.

Some jes have decided to switch rather than

facilities. This amounts to a loss of 1,775 jobs.

Federal government policy toward the industry
combines tariff and quota protection with “rationalizations”
to maintain some textile and clothing jobs while paring down
the domestic share of the market.

In 1981, the Liberal government created the Industrial
Industrial Renewal Board to encourage stronger firms in the
sector and to find work for the unemployed.

“We will probably have a leaner but stronger industry
when the board is wound down in March 1986,” explains
board vice-president Georges Shai.

GM to import
S. Korean cars

GM in Europe, Losh said at a
Chicago Auto Show preview.
Losh said he was pleased

CHICAGO (AP) — General
Motors Corp. may’ import
South Korean cars under the

Pontiac name as early as the
1987 model year, a company
official said.

“We're finalizing the de
tails now,” of GM's joint
auto-making effort with Dae-
woo of South Korea, says
Michael Losh, general man.
ager of GM's Pontiac divi
sion.

The cars will be front
wheel drive subcompacts
based on the new version of
the Opel Kadett made by

with Pontiac's showing in the
sports-car and big-car mar-
kets. “Where we've got a
need is high-volume, low-
priced, entry-level cars,” he
said

Losh wouldn't say how
many South Korean cars
would be imported, but said
the capacity of the new as-
sembly plant there would be
150,000 cars a year. Industry
analysts believe most of
those cars would be U.S.-
bound.

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Shanghai's gain. Utex Corp., a Canadian maker of raincoats
and outerwear, still designs its garments here but has the
bulk of them made in Asia now.

“We had no alternative but to compete by importing
ourselves,” Utex vice-president Dave Gerber said in a
telephone interview from his company's Montreal head
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CALGARY (CP) — Some-
times known as junk jewelry,
often thought of in terms
such as tawdry and vulgar,
rhinestones are making a
comeback.

Why this shimmering fake
gem, which replaced diamond
with an affordable bit of glit-
ter, is making a return in the
1980s, is a mystery to collec-
tors.

Maryanne Dolan, author of
Collecting Rhinestone Jew-
elry, said: “It has a sense of
deja vu, where have I seen
this happen before? With

Victorian jewelry, that's
where.”
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