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(604) 534-7441 © Fax (604) 534-1802 Corinthian Construction, Nelson, B.C. © 625-9398 '89 GRADS . . . students (left to right) James McLeod, Maria Holmquist, Sheri Lyn Makeiv and Steve Graham graduate this year from the Castlegar Christian Academy. The school's graduation ceremonies were June 23. Story, B3. Americans want Canada TORONTO (CP) — A majority of Americans would like to make Canada the Sist state but 85 per cent Qf Canadians — some of whom say their southern neighbors are snobbish and pigheaded — reject the idea, suggests a poll released by Maclean's magazine Sunday Sixty-six per cent of Americans questioned favored or strongly favored bringing Canada into the fold. Thirty-two per cent opposed the idea. Among Canadians, 14 per cent wan- PRODUCE AVAILABLE PRODUCE EXPRESS Grand Forks Will be across from the Oglow Building Monday, Wednesday & Friday Fresh Strawberries PLUS OTHER FRESH Walter Siemens 1331 Bay Ave., Trail 364-1285 1142 Cedar Ave., Trail 368-8820 Nelson Margaret Jeffels Teresa Kooznetsoff 515 Vernon St., 354-4405 Dale Bradley 1695 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-2111 Your Local Notary Public A professional, qualified to draw Mortgages for the following Financial Institutions e Bank of Montreal e Bank of Nova Scotia e Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce *Canada Mortgage and Housing e Castlegar Savings Credit Union ¢ Nelson and District Credit Union eThe Royal Bank e The Toronto Dominion Bank Talk to your Loans Officer Exercise your choice to use A Notary Public ted to join the United States, com- pared with 85 per cent who opposed or __strongly opposed the idea The only regional disparity in Canadians’ opposition to becoming a Sist state came from Quebec, where almost a quarter of residents polled favored the idea of statehood. One reason for the gulf in public opinion between Canadians and they liked least about Americans, a quarter of all respondents said it was their ‘superior attitude."” By contrast, most Americans couldn't think of a nasty thing to say about Canadians. The poll by Decima Research sur- veyed 1,000 people each in Canada and the United States between Feb. 25 and March 8. When applied to the 1 Americans may be the way they see each other and the major issues con fronting society, suggests the poll CANUCKS ARE Amsenios iword the results are conside accurate within 3.3-percentage points 19 times out of 20. Despite Canadians’ apparent disdain for joining the United States, a But the poll indicated many more differences between Americans and their nothern neighbors than similarities, Among them: American respondents described themselves as ‘*independent minded,"* while Canadians déscribed themselves astolerant — Almost all Canadians polled (97 per cent) were aware of the free-trade agreement. Few Americans (12 per cent) knew about it — Few Americans polled (12 per cent) were also aware that Canada is dly (28 per cent) to describé Canadians, followed by nice, neigh- bors and wonderful, The most popular word used by Canadians to describe Americans was snob (11 per cent), And while Americans were also described as good and friendly, the next most-popular descriptions pigheaded, aggressive, powerful and obnoxious. When Canadians were asked what were prising 49-per cent of those potted favored adopting a common currency Thirty-nine per cent of Canadians also favored a common defence and foreign policy COMMON FEARS Among other issues, Canadians and Americans have a common fear of walking the streets at night. Twenty- one per cent of Canadians and 26 per cent of Americans said they had been robbed or assaulted. named Japan most Canadians (83 per cent) correctly poin- ted to the U.S. as their biggest trading partner — American respondents identified drugs and the deficit as the two most imported issues. The Canadians poin- ted to pollution and the environment The results of the survey will be published in the July 3 issue of Maclean’s, which is available today Bt f Jj However, Speakers pricey By DAVIDSTAPLES Edmonton Journal EDMONTON (CP) — You want to spend the evening with Jean Chretien? For $5,000, you've got the former federal Liberal cabinet minister and likely candidate to replace current leader John Turner How about former United Nations ambassador Stephen Lewis? He goes for $4,000. Or free-trade opponent Mel Hurtig? A bargain at $1,500 to $2,000. If you're looking for a speaker, Peter Block can get you those public LEGION BRANCH 170 BINGO THURSDAYS Lic. No. HOURS: Monday-Thursday 2 Noon - 11 p.m. Friday & Saturday 12 Noon to 12 Midnight EXCEPT BAND RIGHTS & SPECIAT OCCASIONS: WEEKLY MEAT DRAW! Every Soturday ot 3 00 p m Phone 365-7017 figures and many others ranging from abortionist_ Henry Morgentaler to baseball's Spaceman Bill Lee. Block, 26, grew up in Edmonton and moved to Toronto to run the biggest campus speakers’ bureau in Canada, the Canadian Programming Service. The bureau was set up nine years ago by the Canadian Federation of Studen find Canadians to speak on university campuses. Before, only American agencies provided the ser: vice ts to Today, Block has a list of more than 70 speakers to choose from, including Alex Baumann, sports-en tertainment lawyer Rich Winter, jour nalists Peter Mansbridge and Mike Duffy, ballet dancer Veronica Ten nant, publisher Jack McClelland and feminist Susan Cole. Block said the speakers cost as little as $1,500 or as much as $5,000. The most popular are Chretien, Lewis, Mansbridge and Duffy, whoare one of the first speakers signed by the agency Winter's clients include Esa Tikkanen and Grant Futir — both of swimmer Oirie lee PICNIC rguesle whom the Oilers “Winter's name isn’t a household name, but he is taking on the hockey establishment so there is something of an interest there,” Block said in an in- terview have threatened to quit MAY DISAGREE “The whole idea is to bring in people who will make people think, to challenge people. You may disagree with the speakers, maybe even em- phatically disagree with them, but- that’s all right "You're good." Block said many business groups want someone to come in to stir up their Since the agency was formed, others have started up, but emphatic and that’s people Block said his has an advantage in recruiting speakers “The tie-in with colleges and univer- big _help,"’ he said.** Whenever we contact a speaker it is well and fine to say we'll get dates with various service clubs or chambers of commerce. “But consistently it’s the colleges or universities that are the most challenging, and the speakers learn a lot from that.’ Block said the agency is always looking for new talent. Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, for example. “IL was told by one school they would pay $30,000 for him,”’ Block said. ‘*They paid Henry Kissinger that much." sities is a da YOUR KOHLER DEALER FOR KITCHEN & BATHROOM FIXTURES A design to meet id. Ci every scheme. Cast iron sinks with durable enamel finish * Kitchens © Vanities * China Cabinets * Marble & Onyx * Countertops * Sinks Etc. Moving toa new location July 3! See our New line Of NORELCO CABINETS 2245-6th Ave. Cas 365-3110 . 3 June 28, 19869 THE PRICE IS RIGHT . cent in the last year. O - For those who can afford it, fur prices have di 4 and an ore jropped almost 30 per d with P decline-eccording to industry spokesmen. ur market feelin economic freeze WINNIPEG (CP) — When those winter winds blow this year, con- sumers with a yen for the feel of fur will be able to take advantage of market conditions that have cut prices by almost one-third, say industry spokesmen. They put the blame primarily on overproduction but say a general economic slowdown has hurt. Still looming over the horizon is the impact the anti-fur lobby may or may not have on consumer buying habits. “Prices are down 30 per cent from the fall of 1988,"" said Moyer Hurtig of Winnipeg's Hurtig Furs, who points to aslack economy asa factor. “You will be able to buy a-decent mink coat that was $4,995 for about $3,195. A racoon coat that last year was $3,995 will now be approximately $2,695."" Alison Beal, marketing director of the Fur Council of Canada, said fox, raccoon and even Canadian lynx are cheaper and, depending on style, a consumer can expect to pay anywhere from 20 to 30 per cent less for medium- range merchandise “Presently, unit sales are up but total dollar volume is down because skins are less expensive,” she said None credited the anti-fur lobby, which has been making gains in Europe, with having much of an im- pact on sales. “The decline in fur prices is part of a normal market cycle,’ said Tina Jagros, vice-president of marketing for Hudson Bay Fur Sales Canada Inc. in Toronto. “It occurred in the "40s and ’60s as well, for example, and the current situation is aggravated primarily by over-supply of product and warm win- ters in the past few years in the three major markets — Europe, North America and Japan.”” Mink represents 75 to 80 per cent of the retail market in North America and t this year, 41 million ranch! mink were produced worldwide. That's million more than last year without a corresponding increase in demand And when the mink market fell it took everything else with it, said Larry Hecht of J.H. Hecht and Son, Win nipeg fur manufacturers. “Mink fell because there was too much product and it wasn’t selling at a high price,” he said. **When the new season opened in April, everyone bought at low levels As a result, all type of furs at all price levels are affordable to everyone Jordan Livingston, chairman of the Pro-Fur Committee for Canada, chairman of the Retail Fur Council of €anada and first vice-president of the Fur Council of Canada, said furs have gone back to being one of the best buys around five “There is no question that prices are at a five-year low,”’ said the Hamilton fur retailer. TH CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION YOUR COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CENTRE FOR OVER 40 YEARS! CASTLEGAR 601-18th St. 365-7232 SLOCAN PARK Hwy. 6 © 226-7212 Sleep affects learning WASHINGTON (AP) — Students who study bard Monday through Friday and then party all night on weekends may lose much of what they learned during the week, says a Canadian sleep researcher. Carlyle Smith, a professor of psychology at Trent University Peterborough, Ont., said that retaining new, complex knowledge is a fragile thing. It can be disrupted even by mild sleep deprivation during critical nights just after learning the in formation. “It appears skewing the sleep cycle by just two hours can have this effect,” said Smith. This means that the sleep periods following a class ora study period can be as important to learning as the book work itself, he said “Watching a long, late movie the night following a class and then sleeping in the next morning will make it so you're not learning what you thought,”’ he said. ‘You'll not lose it all — just about 30 per cent.”” Smith described his research on Sleep deprivation in a paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Sleep Societies He said he controlled the sleep of four groups of students after they had all been taught a complex logic game and alist of paired words One group had no sleep for the night after learning the task. The same night, another group was awakened whenever one of the students slipped _ into the deep phase of sleep called rapid eye movement sleep, or REM Another group was awakened during sleep periods that were not REM, and the fourth group was allowed to sleep normally When tested a week later on the paired words, none of the students in any of the groups had forgotten anything. But when tested on the com- plex logic game, the groups deprived of all sleep or of REM sleep all showed they had lost about 30 per cent of what they had learned compared with the other two groups. Smith said in an interview that his earlier studies have shown that the same experiment conducted on the sleep cycle the third night after lear ning a task gives about the same results. Sleep deprivation the second night after learning, however, seems to have no effect This means, he said, that the studen: ts who party all night on Friday after a tough week in school will lose 30 per cent of what they learned on Wed- nesday and on Friday. If they also lose sleep on -Saturday, then Thursday’s learning is affected. He said studies monitoring REM sleep have shown steep increases in the length of such sleep on the first and third nights after learning a major task. The brain, he said, apparently needs these periods of rest to properly sort and store recall later Professional the information for . f / ¥ Public Fax Service 365-2124 * confidential * businessuse personal use + worldwide PKC) we STRONG & Associates. 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