BELL — To Mr of Nelson, a boy, barn April 27 BROAD nis Brood of born May 1 CRAWFORD Jim Crawtord of Castleger, o boy, born Apri OWYER April 26 GRENIER Michel Grenier of Ymir, a boy born April 26. KYLE — TOM Kyle of Fruitvale, a boy April 18 HALL To Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hall Box 188 $locan, B.C. VOG 2c0 i urns ‘and Mrs. Jim Belt To Mr. and Mrs. Den: To Mr. and Mrs. Sean Dwyer of Nelson, @ boy, born HOOPER — Hooper April 7, Castlegar, a boy, MUNNS To Mr. ond Mrs. April 28. 130 MARSH April 30. NAGY To Mr. and Mrs, born April 24 PRESSACCO rand Mrs. Randy born April 16. born PURNELL of Nelson, @ girl, born April 26. To Mr. and Mrs. Judy of Kimberly, a girl, born To Mr. and Mrs. Dave ‘Munns of Robson, a boy, born To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Marsh of Nelson, a boy, born To Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Nagy of South Slocan, a boy To Mr. and Mrs Richard Pressacco ot Trail, a boy — To Mr. and Mrs Gary Purnell, o girl, born April Ph. 355-2473 THE KITCHEN CORNER Ey * For Every Kitchen Need * Ideal Gift Items FULL LINE OF WILTON PRODUCTS LOCATED AT WANETA WICKER 1506 Cedar Ave., Trail H. (BILL) FEDDERSEN 368-8512 EXCAVATING Septic Tan! 355-24 k & Weeping Tile Installation khoe & Dump Truck Service are __ Gravel — Topsoil 56 | (Fatcon, | PAINTING @ DECORATING 2645 VIN 25 FOURTH CASTLEGAR AVENUE c 1 365-3563 © Excav AD ag Road Bull a wesende 0 Fee specializing in NOw ar Our NEW HEeATION: THE GuiTa DOU. r ARTERS OF THE KOOTENA Ys 1425 Bay A Bath Libra venue, Trail EGAR NEWS CASTL 0 panwee 300 F CASIUGAR 8 Good Stock of Lightin, Accessories & Water! Slocan City Phone Carol Magow Dianna Kootnikoft ADVERTISING SALES OFFICE 365-5210 ds Upstairs in Trail's Towne Square Mall 368-5302 359-7460 ‘ot 359-7416 REMPLE — To Mr. and Mrs. Terry Remple ao boy, born April 24. ROOS To John Roos and Nen- cy Corron of Nelson, @ bey, born April 24 SALEKIN — To Mr. and Mrs. Grant ot Solekin of Nelson, o boy, born April 29. TSE — To Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Tse of Trail, a boy, born April 6. WUCHERER — To Mr. and Mrs, Dennis Wucherer, @ boy, born April 26 DEATHS SON — Longtime Salmo resident Seimer H. died April 9 at Trail R Hospital aged 69. Mr. Anderson moved to Salmo in 1936. survived by his wife Nancy two daughters and sons-in-law, Gail and Richard Zolli of Prince grandchildren; and one brother, Clarence Anderson of Soimo. BOOTH — Harold William 8 of Nelson died suddenly a home April 30, aged 61. Mr. Booth and his wite Muriel moved to Nelson in 1956, wher OFFICE GRADUATES . . . Sixteen area di re from Selkirk College's tirst Automated Office Program offered at Trail campus trains students on electronic equip- ment used in the modern office. From left are, back row, Pat Blair, ecently grad lass. The 12-week d Sharon d, Rosella C in, Cheryl Curlew, Noriko Bibby, Mary Anne Leschiutta, Elizabeth Knight, Sylvia Taylor, Debbie Maas Sharon Bay, Barbra Koftinoft. Front row, Brenda Willson, Helen Janicki, Betty Anne Mutten, Bev Allan, Carolle Morris. os a engineer until his death. LARMOUR — Ernest Claude Lor- mour of Trail died April 26 at the for Cominco. He retired in 1976. MAUERER — Hans Mauerer died April 20, aged 83. Mr. Maverer was born in Woltegg, Bavaria, Germany, and came to Canada in 1926. He worked in Ontario in the tobacco fields, and then across Canada in logging and mining camps until ling in the Kootenays in 1940. MORTON Arthur James Mor ton, 68, of Salmo, died April 27 after a long illness. Mr. Morton is survived by his son Doug, daughters Darlene Simmons and Deneida Clayton, and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wite Ella on Feb. 26. WALGREN — Anna Walgren, 82 of Nelson, died April 30 atter o briet illness - Pulpit & Pew By REV. HARVEY SELF Grace Presbyterian Church TRADE FAIR REVISITED Another Trade Fair has now come and gone for Castlegar. For my part, I al- ways enjoy the multitude of displays and the fascinating line of products. Perhaps many of you no- ticed the participation of the Castlegar Ministerial Asso- ciation in this year's fair. Hopefully, the churches’ in- volvement had a positive im- pact on the community, but what I would like to share is not so much how the church- es affected the Trade Fair as how the Trade Fair ought to affect the churches and all people of faith. Three very striking fea tures were obvious to me in all of the Trade Fair exhibits. First of all, every exhibitor had something to market. They would not have been there if they did not. That seems such an ob- vious thing, and yet a reality that people of faith can easily take for granted. As Christ- ians we should be very clear about what we have to offer to the world, Jesus Christ crucified and risen. In a world caught up in despair For Your Convenience.We’'re OPEN MONDAY WIN [7G TICKETS Two subscribers names are listed below. It your nome appears, you're the winner of strip of § Western Express Tickets for this WedriesSay's drow. youre me winnern® To pick up your 1 FREE tickets, drop into the Castlegar News office tomorrow or Tuesdoy end good until 5 p.m., or phone 365-7266 by 5 p.m. Tuesday to ctaim. Find your name below tuck! DRUG STORES PHARMASAVE 1128-3rd $1 ICS CASTLEGAR 365-2912 365-7145 365-2955 365-7787 365-2155 1245 MAIR STYLISTS ING Downtown Castlegar PET SUPPLIES K.C. 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Personally, I came away from the fair wishing I had several thousand un- spoken-for dollars because I was truly “sold” on numerous products by the exhibitors. But could it be said of every church-goer that they are absolutely persuaded about the relevancy of Christ for today’s troubled world? It may be that many Christians are hesitant about forcing their faith down someone else’s throat and if so that is a valid concern. However, if we are truly convinced about Jesus Christ, then we will find res- pectful and loving ways to share Him with a needy world. And thirdly I noticed that every Trade Fair exhibitor wanted to make a sale. That did not necessarily mean he expected you to buy then and there, but he or she did want you to decide that their product was good for you. The Church must realize that it has a responsibility to call people to make a decision about Jesus Christ, either for Him or against Him. The Church must be prepared to give people time to work that decision through but she can not decieve them by sug- gesting it is okay for them to waffle on this most crucial of issues. Trade Fair '84 taught me some important lessons. I hope they will stay with you as well. Grape growers face disasters TORONTO (CP) — Ontario grape growers face the “dis- aster of the century” in 1984, says Brian Nash, the chair- man of the grape growers’ marketing board. The province's wine drink- ers are deserting local grapes, leaving Ontario win- eries with a dwindling share of a shrinking market. “The 1983 grape harvest in Ontario was labelled the vin- tage of the century,”. Nash said in a recent speech in Hamilton. “As chairman of the On- tario Grape Growers’ Mar- keting Board, I fear — at this moment — that 1984 may go down as the disaster of the century.” How big a disaster? Jim Rainforth, secretary of the marketing board, fears that sales of grapes to winer- ies could be little more than half of last year’s record vol- ume. BUYS MAJORITY The wineries bought about 80 per cent of Ontario's pro- cessing grapes in 1983 — a crop that earned farmers a total of $28 million. Retail sales of domestic wines in the year ended March 81, 1983, where $180.8 million. Last year, the wineries bought more than 56,000 tones of grapes. With con- sumption slipping and big in- ventories of juice built up from 1983, Rainfort said win- eries may buy as little as 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes of the 1984 crop. “The heavy buying our wineries made in 1983 .. . may be enough to supply all their inventory needs for last year, and for half of 1984 as well,” Nash told his Hamilton audience. The wineries are worried enough about the situation to be lobbying the Ontario gov ernment for tax breaks. David Diston, president of the Wine Council of Ontario, said the council has sent a brief to* Treasurer Frank Miller asking for “some tax ation adjustments.” He wouldn't elaborate. The wine council repre- sents all the major wineries. It bargains every summer with the marketing board over how many grapes the wineries will buy and what prices will be paid. “VERY SERIOUS’ Diston acknowledged that the wineries’ big inventories and slipping sales have cre- ated a situation that is “very, very serious.” Sales of domestic wines were down 14 per cent in January compared with Jan- uary 1983; February and March saw drops of 20 and 23 per cent respectively. Even worse, the domestic wines’ market share for the first two months of the year was down dramatically from a year earlier. The domestics had only 40 per cent of the market, compared with 47.8 per cent in the first two months of 1983. And the sizes of the market is shrinking as the wine boom of the 1970s has peaked. The wineries have had to lay off staff for periods of up to a year, Diston said. It's only a guess, but he thinks the number of person-days worked at the wineries this year is down about 15 per cent from a year earlier. DURO PUMPS & SOFTENERS WE STOCK DEEP WELL SUBMERSIBLES SHALLOW OR DEEP WELL JET PUMPS SUMP & SEWER PUMPS _ PRESSURE TANKS (QF PVC PIPE FITTINGS ETC. ETC. ETC. Stocking Distributor. helicopter assembly plant hasn't even begun, but critics are already panning the $514-million project as a likely white int. The federal and Quebee governments are sinking $175 million into the plant — te be built by Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Tex. — plus another $100 million to help Pratt and Whitney helicopter engine. Canada Inc. develop a new The newspaper Le Devoir asserted in a four-part series this week the helicopters to be assembled at Mirabel, north of Montreal, have a limited market and lag technologically behind those of Bell's major competitor, Aerospatiale of France. The Mirabel plant will produce three series of a light, twin-engine helicopter, with world marketing rights. Ottawa believes there is a market for 3,380 tored craft 1986 and 2002. to be p d there between But Le Devoir said the entire world fleet of twin-motors to date is only 1,400, most of them built by three European i plants samé business. The MBB helicopter, said Delvecchio, has “special operating characteristics for hot climates and high altitudes.” Each company was aware,of the. other's investment “and decided their products were complemen- tary. Ottawa says the Mirabel project will create 2,778 jobs. Breaking down the taxpayers’ investment, that translates into roughly $90,000 a job. The standard for the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion, says Le Devoir, is $10,000 a job. Construction will begin within days on a pastoral site north adjoining Mirabel Airport, 60 of Montreal, another money-losing federal project. Quebee and Ottawa are supposed to recover their $275-million investment in the plant through a two-per-cent royalty on sales. But even if sales reach the proj billion, the government share would only be $170 million. Delvecchio said royalties are only one of the benefits Ottawa will reap, others transfers, and jobs. ¥ io Business Directory debdiens eid accepted up to 5.p.m., May 29 tor the month of June. Brian L. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 being taxes, companies since 1971. Last September, there were only nine light bi-motors in Canada — out of a total of 1,444 com mercial helicopters. RIVAL PLANT Another helicopter plant is being built by Messer- schmitt-Bolkow Blohm at Fort Erie, Ont., in partnership with Fleet Industries Ltd. Ottawa and Ontario will plow $34.9 million into the Fort Erie plant, that will also build light bi-motor choppers, which would seem to make it a competitor for Bell. Supporters of the plant, including Bell's top brass and many politicians, were fast to challenge Le Devoir's con clusions. Ina speech to the Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Bell president Leonard Horner acknowledged the commercial helicopter market is saturated and his company is selling only 200 craft a year, down from a pre-recession high of 800. But he vowed: “We'll come back. The industry is known for its peaks and valleys.” Quebec and federal officials, both politicians and bureaucrats, insisted the taxpayers’ investment is safe. Rocco Delvecchio, director of the aerospace directorate at the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion in Ottawa said sales of twin-engine helicopters are increasing because MORE ADVANCED? Le Devoir asserted that Bell lags behind Aerospatiale in the use of new composite materials for rotor blades and rotor hubs, the part of a power train that connects rotor and motor. Horner acknowledged Bell “didn’t get into composite rotor systems as fast as some others for a lot of reasons,” but now “we build the best composite rotor there is.” As for future sales, he said the Mirabel plant, with its world marketing mandate for the three types of helicopter, already has orders for 220 units, of which 80 per cent should, based on the usual market tendency, become firm. “We have maintained world wide our share of the market, and I see no reason that should change,” Horner said, noting that Bell has sold 26,000 helicopters since the 1940s, and built 54 per cent of all choppers flying today. He said the market is assured because there are bound to be plenty of wars in the world. And developing countries will buy more helicopters because they can't afford many airports for fixed-wing aircraft. “The military around the world is starting to look at twin-engines,” he added, noting that armies buy 60 per cent of all helicopters. Ottawa's Delvecchio said “sales of twins actually they are considered safer to o} one motor. perate than choppers with only increased during the when other sales MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certitied General Accountants 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 “Detective Shenko, lady. You called in about a missing cat...” 8.$.0.D. OPTOMETRIST 1012-4th St., Castlegar Phone 365-3361 Tues. -Fri. 9a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.-12 noon —_—————————— Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc., C.A Resident Partner ASK CHES OR JOHN FOR BeAUMARK the , APPLIANCE: ay WITH B.E.W.C. 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Lenders say the law allows unscrupulous homeowners to abandon their houses, leav- ing the bank or finance com- pany holding an over-priced property that will not return the face value of the mort: gage. “A lot of people are walk. ing away from their contrac- tual obligations and the land and property do not satisfy the debt,” said George Hil- ton, Edmonton manager for the Mortgage Insurance Co. of Canada. Mortgages insured by gov- ernment agencies, such as Canada Mortgage and Hous- ing Corp. and the Alberta Home Mortgage Corp., are exempt from the law, that is they can sue defaulters per~ sonally. The Alberta com- pany, though, has traditional- ly been reluctant to sue, law- yers say. COULD SUE Lawrence Penney, execu- tive director of loans for the Alberta corporation, said his agency will be watching for abuses and there could be lawsuits. Private insurers are stuck, though, and Hilton said that may mean an end to so-called high-ratio mortgages, where the owner's equity is only 10 per cent or so. First-time home buyers may find them- selves forced to come up with a down payment of 15 per cent, making it harder to buy. “If you're lending money VSE stock prices VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in mod- erate trading Friday on the Vancouver Stock Exchange which reported a closing vol- ume of 10,146,675 shares. Of the issues that traded, 216 advanced, 241 declined and 398 were unchanged. The VSE index was 1090.91, up 1.67 from Thursday's close. American Resources Pre- ferred A was the volume leader among industrials and was steady at $2.95 on 75,000 shares. B.C. Resources re- mained at $3.65 on 12,410 shares, Potter Distrillers A was unchanged at $1.40 on 2,100 and Balco Industries held at $13'/2 on 1,500. York Centre Class A was steady at $6% and Proflex Ltd. re- mained at .06. On the resource board, Pezamerica Resources war rants B rose .05 to .80 on 253,500 shares, Zytec Com- puters advanced .27 to $1.65 on 249,800, Nevcal Resources Ltd. gained .02 to $2 on 181,950 and Acheron Re- sources Ltd. rights. were steady at .01 on 147,882. Windmill Enterprises climb ed .02 to .17 and Palliser International Energy declin- ed .07 to .77. Templar Mining led trad- ing among development is- sues and remained at .81 on 361,400, Poney Exploration Ltd. rights gained .01 to .03 on 164,750, Templar Mining warrants D were steady at .13 on 153,500 and Mineta Resources Ltd. was un- changed at .20 on 120,750. Texpez Oil and Gas warrants A fell .01 to .07 and Capella Resources Ltd. was steady at -70. valley landscape nursery McLellan Supply Ltd. a - For All Your FENCING NEEDS Goa) 4 INOUSTRIES LTD. WINLAW 226-7270 All Types of Metal_ and Plastic Counted Woven Chain Link. CASTLEGAR 365-2262 out you want to have some kind of negotiating aid in dealing with people who aren't making payments,” Hilton said. The loophole in the act has allowed so-called dollar deal- ers to operate in Albera. These firms buy up houses from financially squeezed owners for $1. The new gwn- ers then renege on mortgage payments, while renting the house during the time it takes to foreclose. The practice, while un- scrupulous, is probably tech- nically legal, Hilton said. Foreclosures can take up toa year in Alberta, although Hilton said recent cases have speeded up. WANT CHANGE Lenders are lobbying the province to change the law, but the government seems reluctant to close the loop- hole. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Jim Horsman told the legislature it would be SAVE 30% Carpets of Tibet (in Stock Carpets Only) CABINETS Dutch Sale Continues unwise to tamper with the law to settle what may be a temporary problem. Hilton said the real prob- lem is that the few people who walk away from mort- gages are hurting the major- ity of people who are doing their best to cope. “It's spoiling it for the bona fide borrower,” he said. “There's a number of peo- ple out there who can pay and they're just saying, ‘Look, I don't have any equity in the property,” and I'm not going to pay.” Hilton said a change in the law allowing lenders to sue would not be a catastrophe. “You can be sued for any other loan you take out,” he said. “I don’t see people in the rest of Canada jumping up and down.” He said an amendment would not mean crippling lawsuits for people who are honestly broke. “Why sue somebody who doesn’t have any money.” SPRING COLOR during our ANNUAL SPRING SALE! ALL WINDOW COVERINGS © Venetians * Verosols © Woven Woods ¢ Verticals © Custom Roller Blinds Savings of O% SAVE 20% ON CUSTOM MADE DRAPES Free in-home measuring service. 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