CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 14, 1983 AT BOOKSELLERS MEETING Bibles make way for video games. By ERNEST KEENES WINNIPEG (CP) — The religious book business in Canada -grew to a $100 million industry on Bibles, but soon the quiet reading room may give way to the bleeps and plonks of video games. Calculators were almost as much in evidence as cruci- fixes at sales demonstration booths at the Christian book- sellers Association's annual meeting held in Winnipeg this week. Along with the religious program at the group's 18th convention were seminars on How to Improve Your Cash Flow and How té Control Your Accounts Receivables. Some of the busiest booths at the five-day convention were How to Subscribe to the Castlegar I Circulation Dept... Costigan News, interested in get- tng th ‘ie Castlegar News as O Carrier O Mail set up. by firms selling accounting kits and compu- terized business services. Even video games are moving up as the leading edge of religious marketing, said Glen Cameron, associa- tion executive vice-president who estimated the current trade at $100 million a year and expects more growth in the future. Word Records, a major supplier of records and tapes, has brough out educational computer quizzes such as know your bible, life of Christ and Great Men in the Bible. They also introduced Music Machine, a video game which’ spokesman Russ Cook said has a Judeo-Christian theme. Judeo-Christian theme. *“Most video games empha- Music Machine promotes’ more positive values,” Cook said. “the child moves an Easter-type basket catching falling hearts and music. notes.” ATTENDANCE DOWN There were 145 retailers. registered at the convention — 10 fewer than at the pre- vious meeting — along with 70 exhibitors representing more than 300 publishers and distributors of books greet- ing cards, records and other religious tokens. Religious booksellers are still predominantly family, operations with annual turn- overs of about $50,000 each, Cameron said in an inter- view. But the largest in Canada, the recently-opened_ Canadian Bible Society book store in covers size war and but de a KOOCHIN WEDDING . . - Leslie Koochin ‘and Debbie _ Mrs. George Kelly of Green- 929 square metres and has fice better. The company. millions of dollars in annual just opened a 470-square- sales. metre store in Toronto, Keith Cheshire of W.G. almost doubling the city’s Mitchell Family Books, the space devoted to religious exhibitor at the con- books. vention, said the show iteelf | Cameron. said, “The first was “fiat in the extreme,” but objective of Christian peck business, overall has never sellers, is ministry of the. i publie, but ‘booksellers have” } Le ens A business, too, “Excellence in all things is’ 1 the model we're trying to promote,” "he said. “We're by Ministers inthe West Kootenay, striving to develop an image th ‘tem Moor backroom.” PRANKLIN.KOTYK OF FRUITVALE couples wed in May Nancy Ann Kelly of Castle- gar, eldest daughter of Mr. & lowers. The bride carried ‘a cis- cading bouquet of burgundy and wood, B.C., and Franklin Murray Kotyk of Fruitvale, How nicely the Bible suits the ‘message to the trend of the day summed up in a neat ‘one,’ two, three, sequence. Wisdom, might abd riches — all a great sickness in our s0- ‘clety, not because God-given intelligence, ” power and there have exploded in our =e have walked on the out of the air and computer- ized the world to dines to our dared to let’ out of the bag. We are a clever biinch but haven't got sense enough to ledge of the truth.” Well spoken Holy word! It is true that we can find our’ way dominate, power to destroy, power to conquer nations cast down Kingdoms, yet innocent. child lisping her, “Now I lay me down to sleep” is wiser than unbelleving parents who say, “I won't make my child follow any re- ligion, he has to make the. choice for himself.” But Jesus said, “Suffer the little Ge dren to come unto. me.” “Money is the’ root: of in evil.” That's a lie and it is a misquoted test from the Bible. The verse reads “The rE i See te Mere neh tise het ee ea CASTLEGAR NEWS, August.l4,1983 BS Robots taking: over jobs MONTREAL (CP) — Asp line products they are already ly holplag to che pe robots and an integral part of our society. But men ie Mare Selsey are not impressed by the new tech health incréased wealth and pean time and d massive ut th los ot 2 millon Canadian fobe by 1991—as the result of and Ottaw announced last week the creation of a steerin; fe 1s lor a prop d centre to study the issues of growth and the of a “Canada P and y many of them in research centres, but there are 4,500 at work. in the U.S. and 16,000 in Japan. say that by 1990, 80 per cent of the drudgery. Caissey, 82, welds 204 holding studs on 51 cars every hour at the General Motors Canada Ltd. plant in nearby Ste.Therese for $500 a week. Unemployment is one of his greatest fears. “I don't care ifa machine could doa better job than me, I would rather have a sore back than be on unemployment insurance. If you don't have a job you're a nobody,” said the 13 . “The job's worse than boring but it's my job. It gives “enough money no that I can get a sense of personal worth from things outside’ work.” GM official Paulette Charbonneau ‘says it could take “two of three years, maybe more, but of course robots are coming. " Charbonneau could not predict what ‘the impact would be on the 3,900 workers at the: Ste-Terese plant. However, a recent federal goverpment study warns of handling of goods and 15 per cont of all welding will be done by robots. In Japan, about $160 million a year is being spent on the development of a totally new concept — the sequential logic computer system called G6, or fifth generation. If the project say the will be able to emulate the human brain. It’s believe such a development will place a radical stress on society. The jobs of countless semi-skilled workers like Crissey and eve those of skilled workers like pipeline welders may be replaced by machines, ‘And a recent federal task-force report titled Micro-Elec- tronics and Employment says that although women make up more than 40 per cent of the work force, two-thirds of them are in jobs that are prime targets for he Non-smoking _ men live longer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cig- arette smoking is the over- reason that men olding in The latter is: intended to bring together research and professionals involved in the field to OES the future's needs. social and industrial Murray Hardie, executive director of the federal task force on is creating a new society whether we like it oF not. We can't iurn back the clock. “But technology itself is neutral. The key is how we use it. We cannot let our society forget that our future is people, not machinery.” at ‘3 it i essential for society to that’ ‘only those employed should get a plece of th pie” because.“the pie is sehr made by machi technology change. STUDIES PROBLEM Government, business, and industry are ea the problem. ~*~ ‘ Safeway’ S te said Valaskakis, to ensure the new health is ‘eed so that everyone will be better. off.” have a shorter life expectancy than women, but a rising incidence of smoking among teenage girls suggests women may lose their statistical ad- vantage, a new study says. American women today can expect to live to 77.9 years old, 7.6 years longer than men, says the U.S. National Centre’ for Health Statistics for 1981, the latest ycar available. In about 1900, women’s longevity over men was only two years. But the study of more than 8,300 people in Erie County, including interviews with the relatives of 4,394 people who died between 1972 and 1974, shows statistically that men who never smoked: and were not killed by violence. could * expect to live. a Fong. co women. The life erteciamtes of men who smoke fewer than 20 packs of cigarettes in their lives are statistically equal to those of women if mase deaths attributable to accidents, homicides and suicides are removed, shows the study by Dr. William Miller of Edin- boro, Pa., and Dr.:Dean Ger- stein of Washington, D.C. “The resulting life expec- tancy figures for non-smoking men and women of parallel age were virtually ‘identical. Thus, differential rates of cigarette smoking are appar- ently the overwhelming cause for the male-female longevity difference,’’- the _ study con- cluded. Treats A oT ks ere pS ie ~__ oF git te Huot were wed in Pickardville, Alta., May 14, 1983. 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