COMMUNITY NEWS CONS! TODAY Come February, a lot of people scramble to get an RRSP before the deadline date They may not be doing themselves any favours by impulse buying It's important to choose the proper type of RRSP to meet your long term needs <_ { and save taxes ° If you'd like to talk about retirement ning, of financial planning in general Ican help. CAMERON BOND *~ ‘SELKIRK COLLEGE . CASTLEGAR CAMPUS DEPT. OF ELECTRONICS CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE OFFERINGS We are prepared to offer one of the following courses. Please contact Continuing Education before Feb. 15 your registration. The course which is most heavily requested will be offered. DIGITAL TECHNIQUES AND RS A 10 week (30 hr) lecture/lab course covering the fundamentals of digital logic and contro! ni Iminating with the fund I of microprocessor operation and programming. Or FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROPROCESSOR OPERATION AND P' ING A 5 week (15 hr) lecture/lab course covering the operation of the microprocessor and its utilization in microcomputer systems for data manipulation and industrial control applications. FEE: Digital Techniques — $125 Fundamental of Microprocessor — $62.50 Contact Continuing Education at. Selkirk College CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 351 — 365-7292 “Here's cara THE KITCHEN CORNER * For Eyery Kitchen N * Ideal Gift items ones FULL LINE OF WILTON PRODUCTS LOCATED AT WANETA WICKER 1458 Bay Ave., Trail 368-8512 Qi Bt or Carol Magow a} Dianna Kootnikoff ri o3 ADVERTISING SALES by Bl 5 2 OFFICE 365-5210 c,:.-—_| [FALCON | PAINTING 8 | DECORATING | CASTLE Gan VIN 281 AVENUE c 365 3863 ighting ‘od Stock of Lig noth Accessories & Waterbeds Moll Upstoirs in Troil's Towne Squere Phone 368-5302 STIHL: COLUMBIA SAW . & SERV! STIHL “7 199 COLUMBIA ave CASTLEGAR, B.c STIHL’ — — 365-2710 Wome 357-9545 Le & Anita Giester SALES SERVICE > pewTaLs A unique program thal teaches smokers how to quit and stay free from smoking is coming to Castlegar. Called Time to Quit, the program, developed by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Health Promotion Direc- torate of Health and Welfare Canada, will begin in late February. Locally, the Time to Quit program is being sponsored by the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health. A committee under the chair- manship of USWA Local 480's Gord DeRosa has been formed to run it. The committee includes Medical Health Officer Dr. Monty Arnott and represen- tatives from Cominco, Castle- gar School District, Trail Re- gional Hospital, medical clin- ies and churches. Time to Quit is unusual among the various “stop smoking” methods because it is based on the idea that people can learn not to smoke, says a prepared re- lease. « The program does not use the usual seare tactics, but approaches quitting in a positive way. It is aimed pri- marily at people who want to quit smoking but haven't been able to, the release says. A simple, free Time to Quit kit now is available. It in- cludes an instruction book that helps. understand the smoking habit and teaches different things to do instead, before actually quitting. The instruction book helps analyze smoking habits and choose the best way to quit. Finally, the book shows how to handle Quit Day and how to stay’ free of smoking. During the course of the three television Shaw Cable's Channel 10. The first prepares people for quitting smoking, the second explains how to quit and the third takes viewers through the quitting process and shows them how to re- main non-smokers. Pulpit & Pew By GEORGE JAMES Calvary Baptist Church DEATH PENALTY IS A DIVINE LAW The following appeared on the editorial page of the Chatham Daily News. Sir: The horrible ‘murder. ing of some our fine police officers and other citizens, the past months, has caused a growing crescendo for the return of the death penalty. The death penalty is not a human law. It is a Divine law, commanded by our creator, the all-wise God and moral ruler of all mankind. It was a transcription of God's holy and righteous nature when He ruled, for the protection of society, “Who. sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God He made man,” Genesis 9:6. Hence capital punishment was Divinely ordained, not simply to be a deterrent to others, but to be a righteous and just penalty upon the convicted murderer, and for this Biblican reason. Each of us is made “in the image of God," not in the image of, or descendant from the baboon, as some think and teach. Being made “in the immage of God” resultan- tly endows us with an im- measureable dignity, value and potential, which enables us to be indwelt by God, through His salvation, there- by linking us with eternity. Therefore, the crime of killing one made “in the image of God” is so enor- mous, so heinous and so hor- ribly wicked, that the only just punishment God has de- creed for such a diabolical deed is the death penalty. Yet, in a sense, the death penalty, when applied to the proven guilty killer, acts as a deterrent. The death penalty will effectively deter such a person from killing again, which he might do if he were parolled .. . as has been the case. Hence, in the light of Holy Scripture, abolition of capital punishment is virtual rebel- lion against our God, the lawgiver and moral ruler of the universe, who sent His Son to pay the death penalty we deserved for our sins, so that by His salvation we may love one another, and not kill our neighbor made “in the image of God.” — Rev. R-EJ. Brackstone, Chatham OLD NO. 23 IN NELSON Streetcar project aided by grant Work on Nelson's historic streetcar No. 23 is set to re- sume at Selkirk College's Rosemont Campus after the project received a Canada Works grant totalling $21,700. “This will allow completion of the seats, flooring and in terior veneer finish,” said Bruce Meldrum, director of vocational studies. The grant will provide 14 to 16 weeks of employment Meldrum announced that replacement running gear for streetcar No. 23 has been located — in Melbourne, Australia. With’ the help of Rotary International Clubs, the trucks, motors and elec- trical braking system is being salvaged off of a later model vintage streetcar and will be shipped to Seattle or Van. couver by container cargo. Once landed in North America, it is a simple train- for four ‘kers. Parti- cipants in the college's Sim- ulated ‘After-TRAC project will start wiring jobs rélated to the installation of the run ning gear in early February. ing to send two pro- fessional driver training stu- dents down to the coast to bring the running gear back to Nelson, Meldrum said. If all goes as planned, Mel- - . Canada World Youth exchange MMM ° students Rasika Kulkarni (left) of india and Canadian student Lisa Maloney show the art of cooking Indian drum hopes the running gear will arrive by July 1, Canada Day. He plans to invite Flora McDonald, Minister of Employment and Immigra- tion, to the Rosemont Cam- pus to attend ceremonies in- volving the display of street- car No. 23 on a short section of track on campus. “Should all that come to pass, the next step would be to get the community in volved in establishing a route for the restored streetcar,” said Meldrum. He indicated, that the busi: ness community in Nelson advocates a streetcar line down Baker St., with a pos food furing demonstration sible return along Vernon St. Another scenario has the restored No. 23 following a waterfront route from Lake- side Park to the Nelson land- fill, west of the airport. A third possibility, which Meldrum admits is a longshot due to the complexities in- volved, would see the two routes connected and a sec- ond streetcar, an exact rep- lica of the original, placed on-line to inerease the vol- ume of tourist traffic. “All this is far in the fu- ture,” conceeds Meldrum, “but once we have one oper- ating streetcar, anything is possible if it receives com- munity backing.” given to Foods 12 class at Stanley Humphries Secondary School on Friday. Cosnews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk Local woman marries Jacqueline Shutek, daugh ter of Alice and Andy Shutek of Castlegar, married Larry Grey, son of Jack and Pat ricia Grey of Vancouver in a Jan. 24 ceremony. CREDIT UNION CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CRE Births & Funerals BIRTHS ACKERMAN — To Mr. ond Mrs. Mike Ackerman, a girl, born Jan. 28. BLAIR — To Carla Blair, o boy born Jan. 26. BYERS — To Mr. and Mrs. Howie Byers of Castlegar, o boy, born Feb. 5. DANIELS — To Mr. and Mrs Roland Daniels, « boy, born Jon 28. DAWSON — To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dawson of Robson, o boy born Feb. 3 DENIGER To Mr. and Mrs Mike Deniger of Fruitvale, o girl n Feb. 1 GUBERT — To Mr. and Mrs. Les Gilbert of Fruitvale, @ boy, born To Mr. and Mrs. GRAHAM — Peter Graham, o boy, born Jan 2 GRAHAM — To Philip Grohom ‘and Melody Carroll of Castlegor @ boy, born Feb. 6. HICKS — To Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hicks of Slocan, o boy, born Feb 3. get an days. H&R BLOCK TAX REFUND BUYING SERVICE expertly prepared tax return free-of-charge plus 85% of your refund, usually within three working Ask about Cash Back, the tax refund buying service from H & R Block. 1444 - Columbia Ave., Costieger 365-6151 9 to 6 Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. KALESNIKOFF — To Mr. and Mrs Ken Kolesnikott of Castlegar, o boy, born Feb. 7 LEAVITT — To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Leavitt, a boy, born Jan. 28. MELO — To Fernando Melo ond Cindy Yuris, a boy, born Jan. 22 McEWAN To Mr. and Mrs Chris McEwan of Trail, o girl born Jon. 31 McFALL Mr. and Mrs Robert McFall of Fruitvale, o boy born Nov. 29, 1984 MORRISON — To Mr. and Mrs Ted Morrison, a boy, born Jon 28 To Mr. and Mrs Robert Peebles of Rossland, o boy, born Jan. 17 PEEBLES POOHACHOFF To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Poohachott of South Slocan, @ girl, born Feb. 7 DEATHS BLAIR — Helen Elizabeth Blair 58, of Warfield, died Jon. 31 following @ brief illness. In memoriam donations may be made to the CAT Scanner Fund core of the Trail Regional Hospital CURRIE — Funeral services were heid Thursday for longtime Nelson resident Annie Currie who died Sunday aged 90. DePENCIER — Funeral services were held Feb. 7 for Louise Jonette DePencier of Nelson. who died Feb. 4, aged 86. FANDERLIK Or. Velen Fan derlik, 77, of Trail died Feb. 2 in Trail Regional Hospital after o brief iliness. interment wos ot the Mountain View Cemetery. FRASER — Margoret Eviyn Fraser died Jon. 24 aged 70. A White Rock resident, Mrs. Fraser spent many ving in Balfour. Nelson and Rossland HILL — Helen Sophie Hill of Wor. field died Feb. 4 at T ono! Hospital following a long illness She wos 74. Mrs. Hill had been a 54 years. She worked for Comin. co and was a janitor tor the Trail school board. Memorial donations may be made to the 8.C. Heart Fund, Box 310, Trail. McCANN Arthur (Art) Mc Cann, 48, of Cranbrook died Feb. 2, after a brief iliness. Peesies Dophne Christine Peebles, 44, of Slocan, died Feb. 7 ROCHFORD Patrick (Paddy) Rochford of Fruitvale died Feb. 5 @ fertilizer supervisor, retiring in 1968. Mr. Rochford was @ former Fruitvole Village Council, o former chair mon of the Fruitvale Water Board, and was post-president of the Fruitvale Senior Citizen's Association STARTUP — Edwin (Scotty) Stor. tup of Parksville died Jan. 23 af. BUSINESS Espionage done ‘for love of buck' TORONTO (CP) — When a rival firm seems to virtually steal a strategic game plan from its competitor and scores a coup in the marketplace, it isn't always by dint of hard work or astute business planning. Sometimes it boils down to plain stealing, better known in executive suits as industrial espionage. It seemed just too much of a coincidence that the day before a major listed was to atwo-for-one in trouble by anonymously tipping off the competitor about the shares. In the second case, the marketing of the cosmetics firm was closely watched by a New York-based or izatic The rival di d the ph drank regularly at a certain bar. . It wasn't long before a beautiful woman started split of its shares, a rival firm bought up a big chunk of them. The share price jumped on the announcement, the rival sold and made a tidy profit. Then there was the case of a Montreal cosmetics firm being beaten at its*own game by a rival last year. The cosmetics company had worked for a year on a unique form of packaging, but the competitor came out with an identical package in just two weeks. In the first case, an executive secretary at the brokerage house that had handled the share split had been having an affair with her married boss. SHE'S JILTED When the boss called off the affair, she tried to get him Tokyo wooe TOKYO (CP) — Since before the start of the 1980s, Japan has been slowly twisting open the valves that controlled the flow of Japanese yen to offshore borrowers. But in 1984, the trickle burst into a flood — 1.7 trillion yen in syndicated foreign loans alone. And the biggest buckets to catch the increasingly liquid currency were firmly in Canadian hands. In 11 transactions, Canadian governments and government institutions tapped the Toyko market for 228 billion yen, the equivalent of $1.13 billion Canadian and ineluding the current Tokyo record for a single loan, 120 billion yen in July to the federal government. Joining Ottawa were Quebec and Manitoba, for two loans each, and British Columbia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick for single loans. The Export Development’Corp., Hydro-Quebec and Newfoundland-Labrador Hydro also came to the Tokyo money well. In 1985 several of the same borrowers, and probably new Canadian groups, are expected to be here in force. SOME CAUTIOUS The currently weak yen (it is near a two-year low versus the U.S. dollar) will make some money-managers cautious for a time, but when the yen strengthens, “we will be ready,” Terufumi Hiroshima, international investment manager at the Bank of Tokyo, said in an interview. With record trade surpluses with much of the world, a world-leading propensity to save among ordinary Japanese and the largest amount of life insurance per capita of any country in the world, Japan's money pool is fast becoming a vast lake. And in 1984, Japanese bankers, securities sales- men and insurance companies almost tripped over each other wooing Canadian borrowers to Tokyo. The Canadian loans, mostly at fixed rates for 10-year terms with a five-year grace period in which only interest is paid, are heavily subscribed by Japanese insurance Vestgron earni Vestgron Mines Ltd. re- were $4.7 million or $1.12 per inking at the bar, struck up an acquaintance — and later an affair — with the employee and was eventually hired by him into the cosmetics firm. The trade secrets were leaked out to the competitor within a short time. “One of the most cost-effective ways of doing research and development these days is to steal it,” says a member of the on trad t p jon for the A i Society for Industrial Security. “For every act of espionage that’s done for love of country, there are 100 done for love of the buck.” While subtlety, seduction and blackmail account for thefts of trade secrets in many cases, sheer carelessness is blamed in others, say detective agencies specializing in such activities. s borrowers companies who see Canada as one of the safest places to lend their money. Koichi Sato, manager of the international investment department at Daiichi Mutual Life Insurance Co., said his company is bullish on Canada, adding that 30 per cent of his company's foreign securities holdings are in Canadian instruments. Japanese financial houses, including securities firms, insurance companies and banks, had at least $3.55 billion Canadian invested in Canadian bonds by June 1984 and Sato indicated most companies are looking for more investment. But so far the losers have been the Tokyo branches of the big five Canadian banks. Of the 11 major Canadian loans last year, Royal Bank had about the best luck, getting in one three, but the performance was far short of what Gary Turner, senior representative of the Royal's world corporate banking division, would have liked. Turner said the Canadians seemed to be invited as an afterthought into the few syndications they participated in and appeared to be ignored in the others. “We would definitely like to be in the management group of syndications and are certainly interested in any syndications by Canadian government borrowers,” Turner said. Ted Little, senior vice-president at the Bank of Montreal's Tokyo branch, was blunter: “I think all the Canadian bankers are in a fit of pique (about minor or non-existent roles in the loans)... We can do these deals and it's upsetting not to be asked.” Because many of the syndications involved long-terms and fixed rates, participation by the Canadians is seen as difficult by Bank of Tokyo, Loans Term-Credit Bank of Japan and Industrial Bank of Japan, three lead banks in the 1984 Canadian loans. ngs drop in ‘84 million or 69 cents a share, on duction in the year resulting ported that unaudited consol. idated net earnings dropped in 1984. Earnings for 1984 were $4.2 million or $1 per share on sales of $56.4 mil. lion. Net earnings in 1983 share on sales of $66 million. In the fourth quarter, Vestgron had a loss of $500,000 or 11 cents a share, on sales of $15.5 million com pared with earnings of $2.9 Stock report The Toronto Stock Ex change followed its strong New Year's sprint into Feb- ruary by reaching a record weekly tally Friday Despite falling 7.77 to 2612.92 on Friday, the TSE 300 composite index rose 37.47 points or 1.45 per cent over the week and broke a weekly record high. The market gained $2.8 billion over the week to $193.4 bil lion. On Friday, 11.4 million shares changed hands as 358 issues declined, 288 advanced and 317 were unchanged Continuing weakness of the Canadian dollar, which touched a record low of 74.79 cents U.S. Thursday, promp- ted the Bank of Canada to in crease its lending rate to 10.31 per cent from 9.75 a week earlier. The increase caused nervousness in the market toward the end of the week In New York Friday, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slipped 0.11 to 1,289.97, leaving it short of its all-time high 1,292.62 reached Jan. 29. Still, for the week the average climbed 12.25 points. Volume slowed consider ably from its heavy pace ear. lier this week, totalling 116.46 million shares com. pared with 151.73 million Thursday. Friday's session mirrored the market's performance for most of the week, where the broader market extended its rally without the help of a surge by the blue chips. CLEAN COTTON RAGS WANTED Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. sales of $19.5 million, for the comparable 1983 quarter. zine prices increased during the first half of the year, prices decreased in the remainder of the year which is the period when prices for most of the production from the Black Angel Mine is de- termined. Lead concentrate revenues were adversely affected by lower prices received for the silver content. Sales ton nages of both zine and lead concentrates exceeded pro- in a decrease in inventories. Operating costs charged to earnings in the fourth quar. ter were adversely affected by a four-week shutdown in December. The company reported that zine concentrate sales in 1984 were 128,600 dry metric tonnes compared to 143,900 dry metric tonnes in the previous year. Sales of lead concentrate amounted to 26,700 dry metric tonnes compared to 38,500 dry met ric tonnes in 1983. FBDB to hold business seminars The Cranbrook branch of the Federal Business De velopment Bank will be pre senting a number of business management seminars this month. On Feb. 19 a session on Tax Tips will be presented in Nelson. Guest seminar speak er will be Mike Berg, C.A. A session on How to Ar range Financing will be held the following day, again in Nelson. Finally, on Feb. 21, there will be another full-day ses sion in Nelson on Bookkeep- ng. This seminar offers an in troduction to bookkeeping techniques and includes the preliminary steps for prepar ation of financial statements. Registration is limited, so interested parties should contact Sharon Coventry at 426-7241. Careless talk during a bowling evening, in a bar or at a party can lose a firm its multi-milliondollar advantage over another. < An employee of one large Canadian company once was able to learn of a rival's five-year plans during a plane flight by reading over the shoulder of the man in front. Some firms pay teams of people to pretend they're making telephone surveys when they call employees at home and try to learn inside information. Some advertise non-existent openings for highly. specialized personnel at big salaires, knowing they're bound to get some applicants from rival companies. Then they grill them about the work they're currently doing. Others have been known to take down the licence numbers of every car in a firm's parking lot, then run a check on each owner. In that way it’s possible to discover their rank in the firm and whether they're having financial or emotional problems. The Toronto-based Intertel detective agency was called in when: the head of an Ontario manufacturing company realized he had been regularly missing out on multi-million- dollar contracts with the federal government. SUSPECTS BUGS “Someone seems to know every move I make,” the executive told investigator Jim Bopp. “The office has to be bugged, and people are claiming we're not answering our calls.” Bopp found nothing when he and a colleague went over the office looking for electronic bugs. But later, going through a desk drawer, Bopp found a printout of all the telephone services being rented in the firm's name. “Why do you have two answering services?” Bopp asked, the executive. “We don't have-any answering services,” the man replied. “Well, you're paying for them,” said Bopp. Then he checked and found the firm's former general manager, who had quit to work for a competitor, hired the answering services before he left, with orders to monitor the firm's calls. He phoned each day for messages, stipulating that they be given only to him. And it was through those calls that he learned every move his former boss was making. But, says a security consultant, the most dangerous employee is the guy who starts a conversation at a party by boasting: “Do you know how much stuff I shipped last week?” FURNITURE | WAREHOUSE Tues. - Sat., 9:30 - 5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” rag womers Lamessy sa.aee Gna 6a Protessional and Homeowners Saws * Expert Parts & Service Dept. Soles Service Parts ® Precision Accessories Grinding * Sharpening Cominco sells shares Cominco Ltd. has sold 800,000 shares from its hold- ings in Pine Point Mines. The company says the sale was made primarily to in- stitutional investors and will result in Cominco continuing to hold 2,321,570 or approx imately 51 per cent of the outstanding shares of Pine Point. Pine Point's 4,516,363 com- mon shares are listed on the Toronto and Vancouver Stock Exchanges and are held by approximately 4,500 shareholders. One call To Diet Center Could Change Your Life! 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