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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 19, 1981

Canada-Japan

Trade patterns hard to change

EDITOR'S NOTE: Japan
wants to buy our natural re-
sources but Canada wants to
sell manufactured goods.
This story, part of a series on
Japan, looks at that situation
and the likelihood of change.

by Edison STEWART

OTTAWA (CP) - In the
two years since Japan moved
into its spanking new
embassy in Ottawa, part of a
wall has caved in part of the
ceiling has fallen, narrowly
missing the ambassador, and
this summer - with temper-
atures over 30 degrees cel-
sius - the air- ‘conditioning
broke down.

“If that is the quality of
your technology, how can you
expect us to buy a Candu,”
asked Ambassador Michiaki
Suma.

Suma, known in diplomatic
circles for his dry wit, was

Hardy animals

Beefalo thriving

BROME, Que. (CP) - At
Rockledge Farm on Tibbits
Hill in this farming comm-
unity 90 kilometres east of
Montreal, beefalo munch pla-
cidly on the scrub land,
flicking tails occasionally to
brush away flies.

The animals, a pure breed
recognized by the American
Cattlemen’s Association as
three-eighths bison crossed
with five-eighths domestic
cattle, look like any other
cattle.

But when owner Alan
Webster calls, “Come boys,
come boys,” for a moment
they seem to transform into a
thundering herd of buffalo.

Despite their bovine
appearance, says Webster,
there are definite differ-
ences.

“Beefalo are hardier
animals than bovine,” he said
in an interview. “They like to
forage and will eat almost
anything.”

One look at the rocky,
stubby-grassed Rockledge
pasture land proves the
point.The cattle have even
trimmed bark and leaves off
overhanging trees.

only half-joking. But the
answer to his question
appears obvious: In the 35
years since it has been

A Canadian trade official,
who asked not to be iden
tified, said somo of the blame
must rest with Canadian

Candu “nuclear reactor has
one of the best operational
records anywhere.

‘he fa:

nuclear technology, just don’t
want to spend all that time
and money on a Canadian
reactor.

In the end, it seems all
Japan wants is Canadian oil,
gas, coal, lumber, and fish.
There has been very little
room for Canadian manufac-

for example,
Canadian exports to Japan
were worth $4.3 billion - of
which only 3.9 per cent, or
$169 million, were manufact-
uted preducts,

Beefalo also have few calv-
ing problems, grow quickly,
can tolerate extreme temper-
atures, convert roughage to
gain without extensive grain
feeding, and produce high-
protein, low-fat meat that is
tasty, tender and cooks in
one-third the time it takes to
cook beef, says Webster.

In fact, beefalo may be the
perfect meat-producing
animal where poor-quality
pastureland restricts beef

herds.

But that remains conjec-
ture because Webster and
other beefalo breeders in
Canada and the U.S. are
unwilling to make claims
without more research.

GO FAR BACK

Attempts to cross buffalo
and domestic cattle go back
150 years.

LWebster is conducting
experiments of his own on his
162-hectare (400-acre) farm.
He leaves all his land in
pasture so his 125 head can
graze three seasons of the
year. In winter they are
housed in barns and fed
second-quality hay.

which aren't agg-
ressive enough.
It is also difficult for
Canada to complain foo much
Ja

ges! ng sere after
the United States, exports
only $2.7 billion in goods to
Canada.

The official added that
Canada is expanding the
proportion of natural re-
sources exported to Japan
that go through at least some
form of processing before
they leave the country. The
figure is up to 41 per cent.

But he admits the propor-
tion of manufactured exports
will remain small. “If we

said. “It is never going to be
60 or 60 per cent.”

There are somo excep-
tions. Panasonic, for exam-
ple, builds televisions in
Canada for export to the
United States - and business
is booming. Production was

units last year from 27,000
units in 1977.

Toyota, meanwhile, is con-
sidering an aluminum wheel
plant for British Columbia.

BUYING COAL

But the bulk of Japanese
interest in Canada is ex-
emplied by the recent deal
the giant Mitsui trading cor-
poration signed with Manalta
Coal, A Canadian company,
to develop coal reserves near
Hinton, Alta.

eRiitsuly and its Japanese

The deal is worth $148
million a year and the Jap-
anese are even putting up
half the $200 million - for 40
per cent of the shares - to get
the project started.

It is one of several projects
aimed at doubling exports of
Canadian coat
Jap to over 22 million
tonnes in 1985.

- But the coal will be shipped
to Japan raw. The federal
government's Foreign In-

-vestment Review Agency,

which had to approve the
project, did not even suggest
the coal be processed or the
steel produced in Canada.
“If FIRA insisted on that,”
a Mitsui official said in
Tokyo, “the story would be
entirely different.”
TRIES TO IMPORT

really outdid
might do five per cent,” He

in Que.

While most bison-bovine
breeding has been an effort
to marry the broad shoulders
of the bison with the fleshy
flanks of beef cattle, Webster
is trying to add a third
quality, good mothering
characteristics, by crossing
his beefalo with dairy breeds.

“The beefalo-dairy cross
should produce more milk,
which would help the calves
grow faster so they could be
ready for slaughter sooner.

“If I can find a four-legged
animal that can produce meat

‘without expensive grain

feeding, ll be happy. Why
take grain to make meat
when the grain can be used to
make bread?”

Unlike beef, tke beefalo
calves dont put on fat when
fed grain.

Roughage rations result in
a saving to consumers of
about 15 cents a pound of
gain, said Webster.

He sells most of his animals
on the hoof to local people
who drop by and select the
animal as it grazes. They are
slaughtered at a_ local
abattoir and last week sold at
$1.50 a pound dressed.

Fire spotter has lonely job

LONGWORTH, B.C. (CP) -
Perched atop a 2,000-metre
mountain, fire spotter
Stewart Gilbey has only his
radio and the whistling wind
for company.

For five months this year, .

his home is a lookout tower
atop Longworth Mountain,
about 100 kilometres east of
Prince George in central,
B.C.

The forest service says
that finding fires quickly
results in 95 per cent of them
being extinguished within 24
hours.

From May 1 to Sept. 30, his
work day can vary from
routine to hectic, depending
on the weather.

If there are no fires, his
day begins at 6 a.m.

But he wili be up before
dawn if there are fires, and if
a sotrm comes up during the
night, he stays up and trys to
pinpoint the lightning
strikes.

A flurry of storms that hit
the region between July 16
and 24 had gilbey working
long hours. At times he was
reporting and relaying
messages for 33 fires.

R MISS

One night during the
storms a lightning bolt
missed his cabin by a few

metres, leaving a strong
smell of ozone in the air.

With no new strikes during
the past few weeks, his work
routine is back to norma! -
checking the valleys and
hilltops, keeping a log of
messages, cooking meals, and
trudging down to a nearby
creek for water.

Perched on top of the
mountain, it’s peaceful. So
peaceful, in fact, that Gilbey
says few people can stand the
solitude.

His contract with the
forest service says he can be
required to stay there for up

to 28 days without a break,
but if the mountain is socked
in with rain or fog he can
leave. When that happens he
hikes down to visit his family
in nearby community of
Penny.

In addition to the lookout
towers the forest service
relies on airplane pilots to
report fires, said Jeremy
Campbell, a resource assis-
tant with the service.

And the public helps,
Campbell said. It’s common
for the service to receive a
dozen calls about the same
fire.

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have
peered to buy two million
tonnes of coal a year from the
development for 15 years
beginning in 1983.

P thinks the same
way, Mark Yasuda, general
manager of the North Am-
erica department in the giant
Matushita Electric - the

corporation that builds the
Panasonic brand - said in
Osaka the company makes a
conscious effort to try to
inport an increasing amount
from the countries it sells to.
But what does the company's

trading arm import from .
i

ada? Lumber and tuna
fish
The most prominent sore
point between Canada and
Japan - as far as trade is con-
cerned - is the Candu. For
years Canada has been trying
to sell the Japanese a react-

or.

In the interim, the Jap-
anese utilities and the gov-
ernment’s international trade
ministry want the Candu.
But so far the anti-Candu
faction has won out.

Prime Minister Zenko
Suzuki has ordered another
in a series of studies on the
issue. But it probably won't
be finished until late next
year.

Artists experiment with raku

VANCOUVER (CP) - A
Vancouver group is trying
some new things with the old
art of raku, the technique
originating among Korean
peasant potters and adopted
by Janpanese tea masters
during the 16th century.

Until recently, the art of
raku was almost exclusive to
ceremonia Japanese tea
bowls, but five B.C. arti-
sans have explored its use in
sculpture and in larger
pieces, both functional and
decorative.

A metallic lustre - usually

copper or bronze - is the
hallmark of raku pottery is
acieved by using coloring
olixdes instead of convention-
al ceramic glazes.

A raku artist places the
piece in a contianer filled
with sawdust or straw and
the resulting dense smoke is
absorbed into the glaze. The
oxygen in the coloring oxides
is burned off in the process
leaving almost pure metal
behind.

Potter Walter Dixter says
that raku is one of his
favorite techniques because

the effects of the heat and
smoke are so unpredictable.

“Your're never sure what's
going on in the kiln. You can
get some control with ex-
perience, but there are
always lots of surprises,” he
said.

Dexter, a 1952 graduate of
the Alberta College of Art,
still has to work in stoneware
and give workshops at the
Emily Carr College of Art in
Vancouver for his bread and
butter. But he says people
are starting to recognize the
special qualities of raku.

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VANCOUVER (CP) - The’

day when the Pulp, Paper
and Woodworkers of Canada
refused an industry uitima-
tum that the Union's nine
locals return to the mills
toether or not at all.

The PPWC threatened to
keep’ its 5,500 members off
the. job ‘and to ‘picket? mills
manned. by other forest
unions, to defend the: tradi-
tional right fo individual
locals to negotiate, loca
issues.

The pulp industry says all
issues are industry: issues,
while the PPWC maintains

‘that certain’ issues, such as

northern: allowances, ‘should

-be dealt with on a local level.

- that’s ‘not enough.

Local autonomy

PPWC rejected

The PPWC- the only union
to reject the forest industry
agreement - has also declared
war on the other two forest
unions, announcing Friday
that it intends to begin

bargain os an industry and
we can't give things. in one
mill that we’ can’t‘give: in
another. That's called cutting
the lamb out of the flock and
we won't do it.” aa

raiding their
during the winter.

Both of those unions - -'the
48,000-member

PPWC vi Jim
Sloan said secondary. picket.

ing by his members) is'a
if

Wookworkers' - of Aacuise
and the 7,000-member ‘Cana-
dian':Paperworkers: Union -
ratified the new pact Friday
and are set to return to work
Monday.
SET CONDITIONS
Dick‘ Lester,

George
of:

strong the’ dis-
pute over local issues festers,
There are five locals’ still
engaged in “bull “sessions”
with local management at
Canadian Cellulose in Prince
Rupert and Gasthoney FBR
and | Paper,

industry demand

with his leadership and pre-
dicted that the PPWC would
nik Fs, tas ve cee

the Pulp and Paper Relations
bureau, said Friday “it’s a
condition of our offer that
there can be'no agreement
until all-locals: agree to go
back ‘and -untl’; all. these
so-called local: issues’ ‘are
settled at the industry level.”

“They’ve given us a partial
acceptance ‘of our offer and
We

‘orest
M4 Cranbrook and Tahsis in
Gold River. :
Meanwhile, the PPWC's
threat to sign up members of

the ‘same tact
it's had since it'was fool”

ared:, wi where a: spill: at a”

Taiwan jetliner crash

Debris being probed

SANYI, Taiwan (AP) - In-
vestigators ‘combed through
wreckage searching for the
cause of an explosion that
killed all 110 people aboard a
Taiwanese jetliner on a dom-
estic flight Saturday. Wit-
nesses ‘reported seeing
bodies plunging to earth.
*Three Americans and a
prominent Japanese writer
were listed among foreign
passengers‘aboard the Far
Eastern Air ‘Transport Bo-
ing 737 jet, which had: been
switched from another run
and delayed for two hours
before takeoff from Taipei
because of “abnormal pre-
ssure” in the cockpit. ~

Most of the 104 passen-
gers were Taiwanese and no
Sanadiens were reported
aboai

aahed whether thé pre-
ssure problem was connected
to the crash, Harry Ho, the
airline's vice-president for
sales and traffic, said he
didn’t think so. He also said:
“We will determine whether

To West Berlin

Heb. mtn?
roiisn Gii liner i

BERLIN (AP) - A’ man
hijacked a polish airliner on a
domestic flight Saturday and
diverted it to a U.S.-air base
in West Berlin, where he
surrendered and released the
38 other p and the

Aahotage'w was involved or not
after a thorough investiga-
tion.”

The direcotr of Taiwan's
Civil Aeronautic Administra-
tion, Mao Ying-tsu, said: “At
the present moment, it’s diff-
icult to determine the cause
of the crash.” He said the
Boeing 7387's flight recorder
and flight data bos had not
been found, and that he
called in a team of Boeing
specialists to help.

MOST BODIES FOUND

Workers searching the de-
bris were hampered by the
heavily wooded, hilly terrain
and by hundreds of curious
people who flocked to the
area, some 150 kilometres
southwest of Taipei, the
capital.

However, the rescue work-
ers. recovered all but seven
bodies by late Saturday
night.

The passenger mainifest
included Americans H.
Grossman, G.B. Garrs and F.
Servin, all males with no

L

be fed and questioned before
returning to Poland.

The plane, en route from
Wroclaw to Warsaw, landed
at dusk at Templehof air base
in West Berlin and was

plane's crew members, offi-
cials said
Itis the second such Polish
hijacking this month.
Officials said the freed
passengers and crew would

U.S. military police.
Officials gave no further
details on the hijacker or
whether he was armed. In
Warsaw, an airline spokes-
man said the hijacker was

home towns listed. Eighteen
Japanese, and two other
foreigners of unknown -na-
tionality also were listed. The

rest of the 104 passengers,

and all six crew

other apparently died in the
blast. and the crash.

The jetliner, owned by
Taiwain’s domestic carrier,
was bound for the southern

hsiuing, 185 kilo-

unity. P
agenda for the meeting will
include electing executive

déred
swimming pool, library,
second ice sheet to replace
the old arena, and a per-
forming arts centre.
‘LRepresentatives of all
groups involved in the use of
1 faci-

were Taiwanese.

The nose and tail sections
of the plane were found six
kilometres apart, officials
said. Bodies were scattered
and

port of.
metres southwest of Taipei,
flyingat 6,705 metres when it
blew up at 9:66 am. an
airline spokesman.

The plane had been switch-

e
the surrounding woods.
Policeman Peng Ching-wen
was walking nearby when he
heard the explosion. He said
he looked up and saw bodies
falling out of the plane “like
people dumping thins out of a

“ude Yin-lan, 18, was work-
ing on her family’s tea garden
whee, she saw the body of a

-ash through the tile
root of a house in the garden.
The body of a woman fell into
the courtyard, she said.

FOUND ALIVE

One passenger was found
alive, but died on the way to
hospital, officials said. All the

armed with a grenade.

On July 21, a 21-year-old
man, Bernard Pientka, hi-
jacked an airliner on a flight
from Katowice to Gdansk. He
was ordered held in a West
Berlin jail pending trial on air
piracy charges.

Since then two other
would-be hijackers have
sought to divert LOT dom-
estic flights but were over-
powered by security guards.

ed from a schedule run to the
Pescadore Islands because of.
the problem with cabin pre-
ssure.

It was the first major air
disaster in Taiwan since
1975, .when a Viscount jet-
liner, also owned’ by -Far
Eastern Air. Transport,
crashed at Taipei airport,
killing 28 people.

Hydro
office
confirmed

B.C. Hydro has confirmed
it will be opening an office
soon in Castlegar.

The office will he esta-
blished as soon as a location
can be found, Ron Monk, a
sompany, spokesman, said
Tl

be in September.

Monk added the office will
operate as an information
centre two or three days a
week, as well as serving as a
work station ofr B.C. Hydro
departments working in the
area and a meeting place for
company and local area rep-
resentatives.

lities are invited to attend
the meeting. -

Selkirk
- wants: to
offer
emining

‘k College wishes to
f invel ed with

I'plant sent 28'people

te hospital and forced 10,000 -
ite.

pando
lined vacuuth, truck hoped.to

pump out shett 500 gallons of
silicon* ;.tetrachloride ‘

toxic
that cemuainod th a drainage
system below the plant.
; Small” amounts’ of the
ical still: were

‘Police kept’ the
cordoned off Saturday.

+ as steam, but: police spokes-

man Char Heiser said there

“ was no longer any danger .to
the 70,000 people who work

in'the industrial area on the

VANCOUVER (CP) -

_ Metro Transit Operating Co.

is acting irresponsibly by
locking out union ‘emp!

San »Fire- Chief,
Jack Drago said could take)
days...

Drago ‘said at a news
conference earlier that while °

the leak’had “decreased to a:

Oakridge depot « Saturday,”
‘service: within

{be city and’ to’ and from =
“tauniel- *

-over the pi
wage categories, who are
dissatisfied with their unions
and with'the two-year forest
contract. © ,

The ‘contract. provides

erage industry
wage rate tyo $16.17 an hour
from $11.55.

“We've also been informed .
. by the MTOC that there is no
longer any memorandum of

and the

at at Vancouver maintenance
seoet and disrupting _bus
for thoneands of
Hid throughout the Van-
couver area, a spokesman for
the Amalgamated Transit
Union said Saturday.
Jim Daley, the union's
1 vi

“Wo are not going to be as
irresponsible as the

also said a Metro spokesman
had told him Saturday that a
i tract

to the
5 industry, the
industry's area of greatest

College Principal Leo
Perra says the of
has

reached between them
Thursday now is invalid. A
Metro spokesman was un-
available to confirm the
statement.
The union asked its 2,400
to

d it is
prepared to support Selkirk’s

involvement in the. selivery :

of: short-term programs

the mining industry.

The college has ‘accepted
the challenge and advised the
ministry of ‘the need for =
financial commitment after it
was asked, in 1979, to con-
sider the assumption of the
B.C. school of Mines ad
Rossland,

The mining school there
closed down almost two
weeks ago because student
enrolments and manpower
pada were dropping and

future for the development of
a major operation

ip ti work-
ing despita the lockout at the

Slight

Selkirk Collogs Principal
Leo Perra says he anticipates
a slight growth in the budget
for the 1982-88 school year
and very little growth for the
year following.

Perra says he doesn't
foresee cutbacks in any areas
except where there is very
little student interest.

The college won't know
until next April how much
it’s going to receive from the
ministry of education.

A budget submission was

at

Transit Centre,” Daley’ ‘said.
“We hope that our directive
shall have the desired: effect
and the service.to the put bie:
is not further

Daley said Metro hed told:
him that if union members"

locked. out.

are ready to. talk sensibly,

> they ‘will meet with us," he

report’ immediately | to the

+ union's office in Vancouver.
hasbeen doo to the lockout of. eae be

The lockout, which went
‘into effect at 8:30 am.
Saturday, affects about 450
of Metro's 865-bus fleet.

the lockout notice was served

budget ee

made to the gov-

d in the _ pianni

ernment Iate last week. The
David Thompson University «
Centre
made Thursday - and the
Selkirk college request Fri-
day in Victoria.-

The ministry requested
the college administration to
make a list of cuts: would
occur should a no-growth
budget be eee for the
next year.

The board

presentation. was _

document. presented at its

for the tentative endorse-
ment. One was that the board

students and faculty. The
other reason was that it is
not ‘possible to implement all

dorsed recommendations