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CASTLEGAR NEWS, elon 17,1982

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there are so few boat manu-
facturers in the country that
“they have the customer at
their mercy.” They often
Have to wait many, months
for a part from the manu-
facturer, “and that's bad
business.”

When he isn’t in his shop
repairing boats he is prob-
ably building his house. Since
his first’ boat he has built
many others. He.also builds
cedar hottubs to sell and
when he was 16, he put up an
800-square-foot cabin all by
himself.

Bill told me that he gen-
erally takes his vacations in
the winter, when the boat
business is not at its peak. He
loves to spend his winters

“somewhere where its hot";
Florida, New Orleans, Hous-
ton, Arizona.

Cars are another hobby of
Bill's; “not old cars, neat
cars," he says. He flew to
Vermont three years ago to
pick up a Bricklin. I had
cnever heard of the Bricklin’
car and Bill told me the story.
They were built in New
Brunswick almost 10 years
ago for export to the U.S. Bill
figures that he was one of the
first persons to re-enter a

* Bricklin to Canada.

This past -summer he
bought and sold a silver 1960

Mércedes. He's also owned a
1959 Jaguar, and dreams of
someday getting his hands on
a Ferrari.

Bill also loves the game of
hockey. He's hit pucks

NEW TREND .

oF

By

_ CHISHOLM MacDONALD

TORONTO. (CP) — ‘The
long wrangle seemed over.

With deft strokes of a pe:
two of Canada’s ablest poll-
ticlans came'to terms, com.
mitting’ the country to’ the
moat ‘energy sensitve era in
“its history. Yet: the ink. was

barely dry on - their,

pricing sareoment when dis-

-Car- rental

Industry
DORONTO (CP) — The car
rental industry will be hard
- hit in the next’ few months,
; particularly by. the’ Nov. 12

federal budget, the chief ex.

. Ron Giles at drill press in repair shop which keeps busy as high ins

terest rates have people favoring repairing boats over buying new ones,

‘ around the ice ever since he
was six, moving up the ranks

from minor hockey teams to’

Junior Hockey in Rossland.
Now he enjoys being on a
Gentlemen's hockey team,

and “plays center or any-
where.”

He enjoys hockey, not just
for the competition, but for
the fun. “I laugh ‘a lot out.
there,” he told me and I

didn't find’that’ hard to. be-
Heve, a friendly, fun-loving
guy.

“Really ‘erazy,” he calls
himself. “I've done some
really crazy things,”

*, down thi

ecutive of the largest Can-
adian-owned rental company

says.

Walter Tilden of Tilden
“Rent-a-Car System Ltd. of
Montreal says his industry is
heading for a shakeup with
tome outlets, regardless of

company, already closed
down and others on the road
to’ closing.

“The new budget . cut.

cations! teaveling
question:. 4: evafon

“views”

dwellers to cities .

Sam Bredler,: preghdett of:

Budget ‘Car Rentals;‘Toronto

Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont., is
just as

pessimistic. ‘
“We are in a Catch 22 ait:

uation,” he. says, adding that
his industry's. profits have

been going down for the past -

three years while business
volume has grown. “We face

 will’at least double by 1986.

say, and.energy costs should
not Be seen in isclation from

* other developments that.are
je “social “and.

reahaping ,
economic order of the coun-

try.
“Erle |Hates, a Toronto:

based’ energy, consultant,
saya there‘shouldn't be any

sinnlits, analysts are coking:

at long-term) energy costs °

‘through a-murky. erystal ball

‘pecause of variables “in the

" agreemont, The gradual '
s,

price increase: . based on
the world pricé of'dil, to say

-nothing of other inflationary
‘pressures, and it’s tough to

‘assess at this point what the

“Impact of either will be five

years hence,

However, even the most
optimistic forecasts are that
gasoline and home-heating oil

Spokesmen for the Consu-
mers Association of Canada
agree that higher food prices

are bound to result from in- - ,

creased energy costs, but the

MORE FACTORS
+ INVOLVED
Ruth Jackson, a vice-presi-

panic over oil price

Even the. petrochemical
industry, from’ which -num-
erous everyday consumer

costs in car pricea and the
cost of money. 3
“Where we were able to

derive, will be able

to live with the higher prices:

withoyt greatly increasing

the price of the products, he”

finance car buying at 10-'to aye.

12-per-cent interest,: we are <
now paying up to 25 per cent..
wecan;”

. With the

write off on our ¢ars to 16 per
cent in the first year, com-
‘pared to 80 per cent in pre-
‘vious years,” he says.

“In the rental business we
_ sell our cars normally at least
once a year.so the depreci-

ation’ allowance is crucial ‘to,

‘us. We will now only sell our

_ cars every two or three years.

and there is a poor used car
market, particularly for larg-
: er cars, so we are taking a big
loss on them.”

Mining report
released

tomorrow

By ERIC BEAUCHESNE

OTTAWA (CP) — Health
and safety in the mining in-
dustry will be a major aspect
of a federal report to be re-

, leased next month, a govern-
me official says.

Mines Minister Judy Erola
refuses to discuss details of
the report but says “ies a
long-term paper looking at
the. industry in Canada and
the’ thrust of its develop:
ment.”"

She says she has promised
to keep the report confi-
dential until after discussing
it with her provincial coun-
terparts here Jan. 18. She
plans to discuss the report
with labor and industry be-
fore its release.

Success of the report, the
result of a two-year. federal
study, depends on provincial
co-operation because, with
the exception of the. so-
called Canada Lands, min-
erals are a, provincial _re-
source.

“The fact that the re-
sources belong to the prov-
inces puts a great deal of
onus on tlie provinces,” Erola

says.

“I think there is little bit of
nervousness becouse of the
general mistrust between the
provinces and the federal
government,”. one govern-
ment official says, “And

Save on a ‘dream room for your. baby.

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design: with
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because it is a provincial re- .

source there is a little bit of
mistrust about what we
really mean.”

But Erola says “we are
planning no intrusions into
provincial authority,” adding
that the report will not be
controversial.

University
given circus -

TALLAHASSEE, FLA.
(AP) — Florida State Uni-
versity, with classes in
clowning, high-wire walking
and juggling, has been given
a present that couldn't be
topped: a 98-year-old travel-
ling tent cireus.

The Clyde Beatty-Cole
Bros. Circus, with assets of
$2.6 million, was donated by
owner. Jerry Collins.

The gift includes a big top
that covers 4,200 square me-
tres, 30 tractor-trailers, a
water truck, a dining truck

# and 12 hectares of land.

Collins, who advertised the
circus for sale last year be-
cause of heavy losses, said he
decided to give it to the
Florida State University
Foundation because of the
school's long tradition.

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“It's
uf n it’s. the

Management consultant
Frank “Feather sets an ex-

‘treme’ scenario. He sees ad-

_ same players tyring to cut up

a smaller pie,.A lot of mar-

. ginal: people got into. the’ in-

dustry, hoping to ‘get ‘rich
quick. ‘The. new ‘budget - will
decimate the industry.”

‘Piereé! Habib, cprialdeat :

and general manager of Avis
Rent A'Car System Inc.; says
the budget depreciation
move will force companies to
either increase rates or sac-
rific

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many of the hardships that
would result from
steep energy costs.
‘Feather, who describes
himself as a professional fu-
turist, says an iinportent re-
ality is’ often overlooked —
the emerging computer age
is already shrinking the dis-

tances people traveltoearna |

living or otherwise manage
their lives.
Whether optimists or pes-

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dent of the rintion, Bays
other’ economics ‘are also
coming into play such’ as

more cost-efficient use of fer-"

tilizer and improved methods

of ..food processing, preser-

vation and storage.
Farmers already: are -de-

‘monstrating that less culti-

vation and’ tillage is nec-
essary to produce their crops

‘and thisalladds uptoenergy

conservation, she says, ~

Bruce Wilson, co-chairman
of the’ association’s energy
policy committee,’ paints a
somewhat ‘gloomier picture.

It's true, he says, that food
prices will rise at a slower
rate than energy costs, but
food is always an energy-
intensive proudct.

“Labor and middlemen are

going to demand escalated

incomes to' try to keep pace
with these new increases.

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Private hood .
ornament contest

LONDON (AP) — Mem.

bers of the Royal Family ap.

The puubeheaoote was spotted

by ever-vigilant Fleet Street,;
weekend. Andrew, 21, is the .

younger brother of ‘the. heir

:. player, has a miniature’ pony:

and rider. on his' Ford Gran:

“ada, a horse and jockey at full’,

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Sahbary 17, 1982

A7

New ambassador sees
‘some easing of tensions

By GLEN SOMERVILLE

WASHINGTON §(CP) —
’ Canada's new, ambassador to.
“the United States, six weeks

} into the ‘job, says he feels
Canada.

oy forward,” : “should help

“lear the air on that issue,

Allan ‘Gotlieb ’ said in: an
interview...

At’ any rate, talking with
the Americans about their
distaste for the Foreign In-
vestment Review Agency

before the General Agree-

ment..on Tariffs and Trade

inly is not confron-
tational and is preferable to

’ bitter arguments that do not

Gas sales given boost

VANCOUVER (CP) —
eold- snap that had Be
residents shivering boosted
natural sales to. new.
. highs for the first 10 sede of

gallop on a Range Rover, and ¥

s.beating dog cn 0

* days," ‘said

“We've hit record levels of
gas sales for five out of the 10

Westcoast’s vice-president in
charge of gas supply and
“Last Friday | we

sales.
shipped - 1.488" billion: cubic

- Of that: volume, about 809
million cubie feet: per day is

(Canadian) a thousand cubie
feet for that, and Willms es-

illms,’ timates that pumps $5 million

a day into Canada. -

Because some of the gas’

sold to the U.S. comes from
outside B.C., the province's
share of the benefits is about
$4 million a day.

Gas exports to the US.
have been depressed for two -
years. :

Westcoast’s total gas sales
this year are 7.1 billion eubie
feet.

lead any »” said Gotlieb.

ax Washington Officially in-*
formed: Canada last week

that it-wants forma! consul-

tations about the operation of

FIRA, which the United

States contends violates in-

ternational free-trade rules

by ‘imposing legall-enforce-
on

Canaga increasingly imposes
government rules upon busi-

ess operations,

i: Besides being a “very ex-
aggerated” description about
differénces that have given

wise to current strains be-

tween the two nations, Got-

z . lieb maintains, the U.S. char-

ALLAN GOTLIEB

... Felations stabilizing
The sudden appearance as
a controversial’ issue of
FIRA, a seven-year-old moni-
otoring program to ensure
foreign businesses entering
Canada by takeover or ex-
pansion offer some. benefits
for Canadians, Mustrates the
careful. management needed
. relations,

STRESS
One of his priorities, to be
pursued - thorugh personal

acterization ignores genuine
differences between Cana-
dian and American develop-
ment requirements. .

pendence on trade with the
United States. f

The 63-year-old ambassa:
dor, formerly _ under-secre-
tary of state of external: af-
fairs, points out that in the
United: States economic ac-
tivities like ‘shopping and
broadcasting are
for “Americans ‘exclusively.

contacts and public ki
is to for Ameri-

corporations in Canada.

The U.S. decision to carry
its objections to FIRA before
international organizations
caps “a very vigorous year”
sfor the Reagan administra--
tion, Gotlieb notes, during
which the United States has
strenuously objected to Can-
adian nationalist economic

cans that’ there’ is'a real
difference between American
interests and those of Can-
adians. .

Gotlieb bristles: when
asked /about U.S officials’
testimony ‘to Congress ‘last
fall, on the subject of Can-
adian economic policy, that
the Reagan administration

__ favors free enterprise while

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or of

business activities in Canada.
- It isn't difficult to find ex-
‘amples in which’ the United
States hasn't been'“a perfect

” example of a free-enterprise

state,” Gotlieb claims. Amer-
icans will be reminded about
it when they take their FIRA
objections before inter-
national authorities.

Without specifying a Can-
adian defence to U.S. charges
that FIRA flies in the face of
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duce barriers to free trade,
Gotlieb insists “it is going to
be up to them” to demon-
strate that Canada is contra-
vening any international
trade

Expensive

. Money on

=the. loose .
SALINAS, CALIF. (AP) —
A suspected car thief .who

spent $76 in dimes and quar-
ters from the auto's trunk

‘didn’t know the coins were”

worth $582, police say. And

he left untouched 200 silver

medallions worth $1,800.
Minted before 1964, the

_ allsilver coins are. worth at

least seven times their face
‘value. Now they may be in

the hands of filling station _

attendants or in the tills of
food stores somewhere along
U.8. 101 between Salinas and
Santa Barbara, where the
man was arrested, police
said,

“Someone out there has a
lot of expensive money,” said
Detective Tom Huff.

‘The rolls of dimes and qua-
rters in the trunk of the 1980
Pontiac Grand Prix had a
face value of $500. The car

The suspect had spent $75
of the coins, at face value,
before the car was recovered

‘in’ Santa Barbara. nearly 12

hours later.when the Call-
fornia Highway Patrol

-stopped the driver for sus-

picion of drunken driving.
Police arrested Jose Ponce,
21, of Mexicali, Mexico.

Gives up his
job to save

someone else’s

Sixty-yearold Art Bruns-~
berg took one look at Min-
nesota’s troubled economy
and decided to quit his job to
help save someone else's.

‘After almost 13 years with
Crookston’s street depart-
ment, the snowplow operator
said city-wide rumors of pos-
sible layoffs of one or two city
workers spurred his resig-
nation Jan. 1.

“They've got families,
house payments, m«
bills, one’s got a pregnant
wife,” Brunsberg said in an
interview. “I don't have that.
Idon't like to see good people
suffer.”

Brunsberg said be has
enough money stashed away
to survive until he can get a
pension two years from now.

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