Ss Castlégar News 4vgust-14, 1985 EXPECTING VISITORS . . . Mary Wade Anderson, Laura Adams, Marylin Strong, Evelyn Mayhew and Ann Stasila take part in o Tourism B.C. Superhost seminar held this week at the Fireside Inn. Superhost is a program designed to teach local citizens how to be better hosts to tourists. Financial a growing By GORD McINTOSH The Canadian Press RRSPs, dividend tax credits, mutuals, retr bl planning profession _poor today were once people of average means. “The anxiety over de-indexation of old age pensions = Plastic money not cheap By ROBERT McLEOD Press * * pulling out a piece of plas- tic to pay for that latest ac- quisition may seem like a good idea at the time because it is so convenient. But it is certainly. not the cheapest . way of borrowing money. __The typical interest rate on Visa or Mastercharge cards is between 18 and 21 per cent on any amount not ‘paid within the specified billing period — usually about 21 days from the statement date. (The Royal Bank of Canada is reducing its Visa rate to 17.4 per cent in Sep- tember.) 2 In other words, if you buy something and don't pay back the full amount 21 days after the statement was printed and sent to you, will will start. paying between 18- and 21- per-cent interest on the re- maining debt, depending on which financial institution you deal with. However, if you plan ahead; decide what you are going to purchase and take out a bank loan to cover the cost, you can save a con- preferreds. Such words are part of the financial jargon faced by Canadians who are concerned about their financial security. = ‘Where does the average person turn for reliable, independent information on whether term insurance is better than whole life or whether the stock market isa better bet than term deposits? t Enter the finiancial planner, a new profession developed over the last 15 years to dispense advice and to help the average person through the jargon-filled world of money. management. “ Sophisticated investors have had tax experts and investment counsellors for years, but until financial planners appeared, there was no one for the person of average means to consult. Charles Coveney, a founding member of the Canadian Association of Financial Planners and until this year its chairman, believes b of his new pi i will become as common as the neighborhood pharmacist in coming years as the baby boom generation nears retirement. NEED CONSULTANT The reason for this is simple, he says. It’s i ‘ibl how few C: are ly indepen- dent,” Coveney says. - : So financial planners will likely be very busy in the coming years. - But at the moment Coveney acknowledges there is a problem with financial planners. Because they are new creatures in the financial world, these planners~are ‘not governed by any kind of regulation. There is nothing to stop someone calling himself a financial planner and advising people regardless of competence. The Ontario Sectirities Commission, whose rulings tend to set a pattern across the country, is concerned about this and is trying to put together regulations before ‘there is a rash of consumer complaints, as there has been in the United States. Coveney hopes the commission acts before “fly-by- nighters” flood the business. a3 CHECK CREDENTIALS Until regulations are in place, he advises people to make _ sure any financial planner they talk to is a graduate of the. Canadian Institute of Financial Planning, the association's training arm. Graduation from the Toronto institute's - now for the average person to keep abreast of developments two-year corr couse will be signified by the initials CFP (Chartered Financial Planner) after the practi- in the fast changing financial services industry. People will_ tioner’s name. need a consultant they trust to keep tabs on it for them. Financial planners largely”aim their services at people making $25,000 and up. But Coveney says there are some important exceptions to this depending on personal assets. Say a widow re-enters the workforce at a salary of $15,000 but has the proceeds of a lifé insurance policy to fall back on and outright ownership of the family home. A financial planner would help her to get the best return on her assets. Coveney adds that no one should think they are too poor - to have a personal financial strategy. “Everybody should have a basic financial budget to save. If they don't, it -+ -behooves them to go see an expert who may be able to help them set aside $50 a month in simple savings.” Most Canadians are. woefully ill prepared for retirement, -he says. Fewer than half of those in the workforce belong to any kind of employer pension plan, only 22 per cent of adult Canadians have registered retirement savings plans — RRSPs — and 55 per cent of all pensioners are drawing d income from the ‘A separate organization, The Canadian Association of Registered Financial Consultants, will start offering a two- to three-year classroom ¢ourse at Toronto's Seneca College in September, leading to an RFC (Registered Financial Consultant). The cost of a financial practitioner's service varies across the country from $35-$40 an hour in Prince Edward Island to $100-$150 in Toronto, Coveney says. amount of money in interest. DEPEND ON CREDIT At the Toronto Dominion Bank, for example, a fixed- rate loan, where the interest rate remains the same no matter what happens to mar- ket rates, currently starts at 11.75 per-cent, while a vari- able rate loan can cost as low as 10.75 per cent, depending on your credit rating. Suppose you borrow $1,000, to be paid back over one year. With the variable bank loan at present rates you would pay about $60 in interest. With the credit card it would cost about $120 at 21 per cent interest. The savings become even more pronounced when you compare a bank loan with the - interest rates charged on de- partment store cards. At Sears Canada Inc. and The Bay, the interest rates work out to 28.8 per cent a year_ on unpaid balances. Borrowing $1,000 over a year at that rate would cost about $160 in interest. Dome to release shares CALGARY (CP) — Dome PF Li d 2795 Highway Dr. in Glenmerry, Trail U. 7336 government to make ends meet. It should be noted, Coveney says, many of the elderly Crash depresses JAL stock (REUTER) TOKYO — board the Boeing 747 died Monday night's crash of a Japan Air Lines, jumbo jet which killed 520 people has depressed the company’s stock and prompted its pres- ident to offer to resign, but it has not affected ticket sales during the busy summer holiday season. President Yasumoto Taka- gi. 73, expressed his inten- tion to resign today at a meeting with Prime Minister Yasuhi to_dis- cuss the disaster, in which all when it smashed into a re- mote mountainside north- west of Tokyo. - ‘The share price of the Jap- anese flag carrier, which is 35.7-per-cent government- owned, has fallen 17.2 per cent since the crash, closing today at 6,290 yen, or about $35 Canadian. JAL's share price jumped to a record 8,014 yen last month: but one analyst said it might dip as low as 4,000 as a Tuesday it will release the last 9,167,788 common shares paid to its lenders as a fee for rescheduling about $5:3 bil- lion in debt. The released shares may be resold by the lenders. A.M. FORD “Your Ford Country Headquarters’ DELL “Save $$$ with the Auto Sellers at A.M. Ford"'! bY DENNIS ie a Bob Knox, vice-president of public affairs for Sears, says nearly three million people use, Sears cards and the vast majority let their unpaid balances run on long- er than a month. “These people are using their accounts for long-term purchases,” he said. NOT WISE Such people are not making wise use of their money. - “I have no hesitation in ad-, vising people about to make a major purchase not to use their Sears, Eatons or other cards,” says Tom Delaney. secure, comfortable from city cenfre. ~~ Gall for Clip ond Save! 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Since the swimmers are after three months of swimmin; just peaking in performance g many records were set. Out of 38 new individual records, Aquanauts set 10. They also set seven of 11 new records in relay events. Wendy Pilla set four new records out of four events entered. Her record in the 50 metre freestyle is faster than the current provincial record set at last year’s provincials. Steven Cundy set. two new records while Robyn Craven, Jennifer Small, Colin Carew and Tom Carew set one each. Jeff Schuepfer of Robson set three new records, and Ariel awarded for first place, seven for second, down to one point for an eighth place finish. The same points are used to determine totals for all-round individual performance (aggregate) awards. © A Fee MacDowell of Robson set two. Each gold aggregate winner received a trophy donated by area clubs and businesses. A special trophy, the Russell * Beattie Memorial Trophy for boys division six breaststroke d 19 aggregates. Leading the haul was the Division Four girls sweep of all awards: Jennifer Small, gold, Leanne Bentley, silver with Tracy Picco and Laurene Brown sharing the bronze. Other gold aggregates went to Amy Morin, Robyn Craven, Steve Cundy, and Steve Junker. ‘Silver awards were given to Ian Dudley, Wendy Gouk, Mario Fehrenberg. Wendy Pilla, and Tom Carew, with bronzes going to Melanie Gibson, Danielle Crockett, Aimie Chernoff, Jarrod Isfeld, Helaine Oleski, and Colin Carew. ~ “Robson swimmers collected nine aggregates including was pi 1d to David Krell of Kimberley. 'A new trophy was given this year, the Sportsmanship Award. Donated by Dick Buckingham in memory of his son, Jim who was active in competitive, swimming, the trophy was presented to the Beaver Valley Dolphins swim club. They more than met the criteria established for the trophy; parent participati i of swit and parents, attitude towards winning or losing, and responsibility for prompt arrival for events, for keeping tent area clen and neat, etc. __ For the first time in the Kootenay region an electronic HOCKEY SCHOOL . . . Parti: College practice techniq: Tuesday. The hockey coll pants of Kootenay Hockey ues ‘during session held lege, for players between ages 8-17, runs until Aug. 24 at the Community Com- plex. CasNewsPhoto SAINT JOHN, N.B. the start of the 1,500 me! Games. The Woodstock, Ont., the Canadian nationals two off the Games record. “I think I just wanted said Purola, a student at Ontario in London. medals in track and field. Gail Pringle of Ottawa standings with seven gold Scotia one gold, three Saskatchewan one gold a bronze. CANADA GAMES . Ontario tops standings By LAURIE STEPHENS memory work for her Tuesday in four minutes 15.54 seconds, shaving almost six seconds (CP) — Blustery winds and tough opponents did not bother Jill Purola, but a previous bad race was still fresh in her mind when she lined up at tres at the Canada Summer runner, 21, finished sixth at weeks ago but she made that y, winning the 1,500 metres. to make up for the nationals,” the University of Western Purola was one of five Ontario athletes to win gold completed a comeback from a broken neck with two kayaking victories. | At the end of the day Ontario topped the medal |, four silver and five bronze. British Columbia had four gold, six silver and one bronze, and Quebec had two gold, three silver and seven bronze. Alberta had three gold, a silver and a bronze, Nova silver and three bronze, nd Manitoba a silver and a kilometre racewalk in 25:12.31 after leader Alison Baker was disqualified for improper technique with three laps left. Steve Bachop of Victoria won the men’s 1,500 metres in 3:47.12; Andrew Boswell of Edmonton took the men’s 100 metre in 10:90 seconds; Lornette Daye of Edmonton won the women's 100 in 12.10;-and Carla Wilson_of Toronto took the women's 100 hurldes in 14.53. In baseball, Newfoundland lost to Ontario 7-6 but came back to defeat Saskatchewan 13-1; Quebec downed New Brunswick 13-8, then was defeated by British Columbia 10-7; Manitoba trounced PEI 28-6; and Nova Scotia beat Alberta 12-6. LEADS DIVISION Ontario leads Division-A with a 2-1 record and British Columbia sits atop Di ion B at 2-0. In volleyball, Alberta defeated British Columbia 15-9, 15-13, 12-15, 12-15, 15-13; Quebec beat Northwest Territories 15-1, 15-1, 15-2; Nova Scotia defeated PEI 15-4, 15-9, 15-2; downed 15-5, 15-11, 15-5; Manitoba edged. Nova Scotia 10-15, 16-14, 15-7, 0-15, 15-2; Alberta advanced past New Brunswick 15-12, 15-11, 7-15, 15-9; and Ontario blanked _ PEI 15-12, 15-4, 15-10. In. field hockey action, Nova, Scotia shaded Two other track and field athletes broke Games records. . BREAKS RECORD Edrick Florial of Montreal won the men’s triple jump with a leap of 16.07 metres, breaking the record by almost a metre, and David Williams of Toronto outsprinted Kevin Tyler of Ladner, to win the 400 metres in 46.59 seconds, erasing the mark of 47.79 and the Canadian junior mark of 46:74. Tyler's time of 46.83 also was under the Games record. In other field events Tuesday, Martha Hart of London won-the women’s javelin with a toss of 50.26 metres, and Peter Dajia_of Toronto won the men’s shot put with a distance of 16.51 metres. Sian Spacey of Victoria won the women's five- AUUNNVUUUTSADENOOUUEEOUOEAUEAUELUTOOEEE EU EAAEETT TENET Newfoundland 1-0; Quebec tied PEI 1-1; Ontario blanked Alberta 6-0; British’ Columbia thrashed: Saskatchewan 10-0; Manitoba edged PEI 1-0; and New Brunswick downed Newfoundland 5-0. r After two days of field hockey: competition, B.C., Ontarigq and Manitoba are undefeated. Pringle, 18, broke her neck in an automobile accident in March 1984 and doctors warned her not to expect to compete again. But she came back and Tuesday won the 500-metre kayak singles and teamed with Lisa Stott of Mississauga to win the K-2 500. Derek Schrotter of Chateauguay, Que., won the 500-metre canoe singles, Robert Eckley of Burnaby, won the men’s 500 kayak singles, and Darren Burke and Kenneth Popowich, both of Lower Sackville, N.S., won the 500 canoe doubles. ‘ four golds. This regional meet served as a tune-up for the provincial championships also to be held at the Trail pool on ‘Aug. 22-25. Diving and water polo championships will also be held at the same time. This sary . marks the first time the B.C. has held its i timing system was used. Providing the swimmers finish with a strong touch the system automatically places each swimmer in order of finish, and records a time correct to one thousandth of a second. Problems arose among the younger swimmers when their light touches failed to activate the Summer outside the Vancouver-Victoria area. The top three finishers from the regionals in each dividual event and the top two relay teams in each division advance to the provincials. Castlegar A it one of the largest summer swimming clubs in the province. placed 26 swimmers and 22 relay teams into the provincial championships. They will be competing against swimmers ‘This was timers and place judges. ‘The championships were by having back-up manual also recorded by Shaw Cable for community channel broadcast. This d sees most clubs at the Robson pool competing in the River Otters Invitational Meet. Some teams from the coast are expected to be at Robson as a warm-up to the pi the is American sets record DOVER, ENGLAND (AP) — A Texas geologist set a record Tuesday for the fast- est swim across the English Channel, starting from France — on the way, he proposed marriage to his girlfriend and she accepted. Peter Johnson, 26, of Mid- land, Tex., took eight hours, 20 minutes to swim the 21 nautical miles from Cap Gris Nez, between Calais. and Boulogne, to St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover. z He shaved 14 minutes off the previous France-to-Eng- land record, set in 1984 by Lyndon Dunsbee of Dover, England, said the Channel Swimming Association, which supervises swims and keeps records. ‘The fastest-ever crossing was made by an American “woman, Penny Lee Dean, who in 1978 swam from Eng- land to France in 7 hours 40 BASEBALL minutes. Four hours into the, swim, Johnson proposed to Julia Hughbanks, 28, also a geol- ogist from Midland, who was riding in the escort boat. Johnson and Hughbanks are to marry next year, they said at the end of the swim. “I didnot think I had anything left four miles out (from England), but I man- aged a sprint at the end. to get the record,” Johnson said. ‘ALL-OUT" “It was an all-out effort, and the last four miles seemed like 10,” Johnson said. : Hughbanks said of the swim: “It was nerve-rack- ing. - Johnson's coach, Tom Het- zel, said the swim was de- layed when the escort boat broke down in mid-channel. “The boat lost engine Canada loses EDMONTON (CP) — Luis Casanova hit his fifth home run in four games as Cuba continued its domination at the Intercontinental Cup baseball tournament with an easy 11-4 victory Tuesday over Canada. . Cuba, the 1984 -world champions, has won all four of its games. The C of-strength for Cuba in the team’s first four games, going 10 for 18 at the plate and driving in 13 runs. Luis Tissert earned his second victory of the tour- nament, pitching a three-hit- ter through seven innings. Starter Rod Heisler took the loss, giving up six runs on i: é seven_hits-in power, and we lost about half an hour while the sails were hoisted. I think we would have been close to Penny's record if the-problem with the escort boat had not de- veloped,” said Hetzel. Another American did not succeed in crossing thé Chan- nel on Tuesday. Robert Sond- heim, 35, a planning super- visor for disabled people from Sharon, Mass., set out from France with Johnson. Sondheim swam for eight hours but gave up four miles from Dover. -His swim raised $14,000 for charity, the Chan- nel Swimming Association said. A six-man relay team com- posed of Belgians. and Jap- anese swam from France to England in eight hours 33° minutes, but high winds and waves forced them to aban- don their plans to immedi- ately swim back to France. Each team member swam for 30 minutes at a time. Canadians win VANCOUVER (CP) — Wes Clements tripled home Jim Adduci in the sixth inn- ing to put Vancouver Cana- dians past Calgary Cannons 3-2 in Pacific Coast League baseball Tuesday night. Clements, making a rare start after being called on as designated hitter when Car- los Ponce went up to Mil- waukee Brewers of the American League earlier in the day, struck out in his first two plate appearances. In the sixth, he drove the ball off the left field wall after Adduci had been issued a two-out walk by Joe Witmer. The Cannons had taken a 2-0 lead in the third off Bill Wegman. Kevin King singled and scored on a double by Ed Martinez, then Martinez was sacrificed to third and scored on a base hit by Ricky Nel- son. The Canadians got one in the third when Brian Giles singled, then went all the way home: on a groundout when Calgary first baseman Pat Casey threw the ball away as Giles headed for third. A walk to Bob Skube and a double by Mike Martin tied the game in the fifth. Wegman (7-11) pitched his seventh complete game, with six hits, seven strikeouts and no walks. Witmer (6-8)-also went the distance, on four hits, eight strikeouts and four walks. A crowd of 6,059 witnessed the- opening game of a four- game Cannons-Canadians series. Mets extend winning streak ; Pittsburgh 6-5 as Joaquin Andujar broke a tie with Gooden for the major-league lead with his 19th victory of the season. “He had a time, earlier on in the season, when he was By The Associated Press There are times when New York Mets — despite the heroics of Dwight Gooden ly in “He's always been my No. 1,” Johnson said. “I might have babied him a little too much earlier.” EXPOS WIN Elsewhere, it was Mon- treal Expos 4 Chicago Reds when Darren Daulton hit his first major-league homer. Aguilera got the Mets’ first hit in-the third ming and capped a two-run fourth with an RBI single. Aguilera is 8-for-20 this year. . Wally es he fails, all is generally lost. The Mets, clinging to a one-game lead in baseball's National League East, got a top-flight performance Tues- day night from Orosco, who pitched out of an. eighth- inning jam to preserve a 4-2 victory over Philadelphia Phillies and extend the Mets’ winning streak to nine games. a It was enough to keep them ahead of St. Louis Car- dinals, who held on to beat successful only about half the time on his save situations,” New York manager Dave Johnson said of Orosco, who got his 13th save after totall- ing 31 in 1984. “He wasn't winning the matchups he would normally win.” But Johnson never lost faith in Orosco, and he was rewarded when the left-hand- er entered the game with no one out and the bases loaded ‘and got out of the jam by al- lowing only a sacrifice fly. 1; San Francisco Giants 4, Houston Astros 2; Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 2; and Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Atlanta Braves 1. Starter Rick Aguilera, 6-3, hurled seven strong innings, got two hits and drove in a run in the victory. New York tied its own mark for the longest winning streak in the NL this season. Agulera was bidding for his first major-league shutout with two outs in the seventh Backman, who extended his hitting streak to 12 games, had three of New York's 10 hits. He is 18-for-31 against the Phillies this season. CARDINALS 6 PIRATES 5 It was a struggle for An- dujar, 19-6, who pitched 7 1-3 innings, gave up nine hits, struck. out two andwalked two. But batter mate Darrell Porter made it possible by stroking a tworun double following a game-tying hit by Terry Pendleton in the sixth. dropped to 2-3 and must win their final two games to have a chance of making the play- offs in the eight-team round robin. In other games Tuesday, the United States dumped Nicaragua 11-5 to improve its record to 2-3. The Nicar- aguans are winless in five starts. South Korea improv- ed its record to 4-1 with a 9-1 victory over Australia (1-4). Canada started out quickly against the Cubans, jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on RBI singles by Allan Mouthe and Jim Kotkas. “Cuba wasted no time tak- ing control of the game, how- ever. Casanova hit a three- run homer in the bottom of the first and the Cubans never looked back. Casanova has been a tower third innings. UNITED STATES 11 NICARAGUA 5 Catcher Scott Howard hit the tournament's first grand- slam to highlight a seven- run third inning for the Americans. It was just the second home run of the tour- nament for the United States, which won the silver medal at last summer's Olym- pic Games. The United States must win both its re- maining games — against Japan and Cuba—to keep its slim playoff hopes alive. SOUTH KOREA 9 AUSTRALIA 1 Third baseman Ho Baik hit two home runs and added a single to lead the South Kor- eans, who pounded out 16 hits against three Australian pitchers. First baseman Kun Woo Kim also had three hits for South Korea. Rockettes camp opens Monday The Stanley Humphries Secondary School Rockettes Basketball’ Camp which opens Monday at Selkirk College will feature the lar- gest enrolment in the camp's seven-year history. “Girls from all around the’ West Kootenays have regis- tered so far,” says camp dir- ector Doug Pilatzke. “And as usual there is a large number of local girls who hope to enter the basketball pro- grams at Castlegar area schools.” The camp is open ‘to all girls 10-15 years of age and features 35 hours of instruc: tion and activities. Activities begin each day at 9 a.m. and run until 4:30 p-m.. All campers play two league games per day as well as participate in a cut- throat league, free-throw ° competition. dribbling con- tests and other activities. The camp coaching staff includes local basketball coaches' from KJSS ‘and Stanley Humphries as well as current and past members of the SHSS Rockettes. ‘Girls who have not yet registered should arrive at the Selkirk College gym be- tween 8 - 9 a.m. on Monday.