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By CALVIN WOODWARD
Canadian

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FREEPORT, ME. — It's darker than dark along the
coast of Maine near midnight on a wintry Sunday night.
But at L.L. Bean, the lights are shining, a cash register
chatters and hardy shoppers crunch through the
newfallen snow.

The famous Maine outfitter “threw away the keys”
35 years ago and has only closed twice since — when John
F. Kennedy was assassinated and when Bean himself died
in 1967 at age 94.

Bea: is said, decided to keep the doors open when
he got tired of people waking him up in the middle of the
night to buy a pair of his Maine hunting shoes.

Much of Bean's folksy legacy remains, despite the
Harvard expertise and computerized efficiency that have
transformed the back rooms where old clerks used to
trade hunting yarns as they shuffled about filling orders.

The company has grown ‘rom a modest maker of
leather-topped, rubber-bottomed shoes in 1912 to a retail
and mail-order enterprise with sales of about $3 million in
1965, $30 million in 1975 and over $300 million in 1985.

TRY CANADA

L.L. Bean has recently completed its first
distribution of catalogues to Canada, taking advantage of
new Canadian customs rules phased in last year to
expedite mail-order deliveries.

Mail orders from the United States are now
delivered to the home after Canada Customs attaches a
bill for duty, if any. No duty is charged for an order under

$40 Cdn. Previously, such parcels had to be picked up at
centres and the duty paid there.

L.L. Bean employs 1,850 people full time in its
manufacturing centre, shipping warehouse and only store
and it distributes 75 million catalogues a year. More than
two million people visit the store each year in Freeport, a
southern Maine town of 6,000.

Amid its bustle, the company prides itself on its
kayaking clinics, on having helped a caller from California
name his dog, and on having refunded $2.85 plus tax to a
customer whose boomerang never came back.

It uses employees as models for its faintly archaic

Ignoring the vagaries of fashion, its executives
declare “function, function, function” is the bottom line in
everything from the cedar-stuffed dog beds to the
goose-down comforters and buffalo plaid shirts.

The image is of old-time country storekeeper who
knows his solid, no-frills merchandise inside out and
trusts his customers without limits.

Can this be for real?

Well, the packs of dehydrated quiche and orange
mandarin chicken do signal concessions to those who
prefer gourmet to gruel on the camping trail.

And the average customers these days are no longer
professional outdoorsmen, but men and women of high
education, above-average income and a fondness for
outdoor recreation, the company says.

“Almost in spite of itself, Bean gear has attained
chic,” the fashi
Quarterly concluded, praising the “unforced pean al
its goods.

But behind the scenes, hands-on management means
gtting hands dirty. Top executives hike, hunt, kayak or
climb, and each year they embark on a rugged excursion
more than 60 kilometres long, into the nearby White
Mountains.

New products —-from collapsible snowshoes to
underwear — are tested on all outings.

Canada looks

EDMONTON (CP) — From the cafes of small-town
Saskatchewan to the corporate boardrooms of Calgary
there's a new look to the latest wave of business investors.

They come from Hong Kong.

Through the early 1980s, the British colony has been
overtaking Germany as the favorite place for Canadian
governments and private business to round up fresh money.

The biggest coup so far has been Nova Corp.'s deal to
have Li Ka-Shing take over 43 per cent of Husky Oil Ltd. of
Calgary.

Nova chairman Bob Blair announced the agreement in
December.

Li's Union Faith Ltd., with more than $6 billion in
assets, is to buy out minority shareholders and spend $359
million for part of Nova’s share in Husky.

The deal wipes $200 million in Husky debt off Nova's
books. It injects $359 million into Nova, a Calgary-based
chemical, pipeline and manufacturing conglomerate. It
commits Union Faith to putting up another $1 billion for
Husky investments in the next four years.

Other Hong Kong business owners are expected to
conclude that Alberta must have something going for it if
can attract Li, whose business empire was expected to make
more than $900 million in after-tax profits in. 1986.,

Last November, the Hongkong Bank of Canada agreed
to spend $63.5 million to buy the faltering Bank of British
Columbia. The bank is a 'y of
and Shanghai Banking Corp., one of the world’s largest
banks with assets of about $108_billion.

The Bank of B.C. deal gave the Hongkong Bank of
Canada 30 new outlets in B.C., and one each in Calgary and
Edmonton.

More humble plans have sometimes gone astray.

The Saskatchewan government has had to rethink its
dream of transplanting entrepreneurs from Hong Kong to
Prairie towns.

“We have pretty well quit dealing with them,” said
Randy Chambers, chairman of the economic development
committee in the central Saskatchewan town of Watrous,
population 1,830.

Three years ago, Watrous was waiting for the Hong
Kong investors who had bought a children's wear store, two
cafes and land for a dry-cleaning plant.

“Some of them never even showed up,” Chambers said
in a telephone interview. “They just sent us a Christmas
card from Vancouver.”

Most of ‘the immigrants sold their Watrous holdings
after settling in Vancouver or Toronto. One family settled in
Watrous but moved to Toronto two years later.

All the businesses are still there, with local owners.

Preeceville, Sask., population 1,300, wasn’t a strong
enough magnet either.

Two families from Hong Kong had moved in by 1984 to
open a restaurant and a clothing store. Others were

to Hong Kong

expected to arrive and set up a tire shop, car wash and auto
dealership.

“I think they all ended up moving to Toronto,” said
Russell Peet, president of the local economic development
committee.

Hong Kong has become Alberta's largest overseas
source of investment money and entrepreneurial immigra-
tion, said Bruce McDonald, director of the Calgary Economic
Development Authority.

“Most of the Hong Kong investors we've spoken to are
looking for a stable economy, a stable place politically,”
McDonald said.

Jim Wright, Edmonton's director of economic develop-
ment, said the city is stepping up the presence in Hong
Kong.

Edmonton set up displays in the Hanover trade show in
West Germany for the last three years “and we haven't got
anything out of it so we're not going back there,” Wright
said.

But civic representatives will probably go to Hong Kong
after a trip to northern China this April, he said.

“If we aren't going there we are losing by default.”

In Regina, Don Jesse, director of economic developm-
ent, said $20 million of a proposed $25-million Chinatown
development in the city could come from ihvestors in Hong
Kong.

Some of the appeal in Western Canada is the presence
of an established Chinese population.

Chinese restaurants and other service industries run by
Chinese immigrants or their descendants are as common on
the Prairies as junior hockey teams. McDonald said about
40,000 of Calgary's more than 650,000 residents are of
Chinese descent.

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FOR SALE: Schoo! bus. seats
Ides fos patios oc post ® on "8. stleger, Trail and Fruitvale,
9 $132." minjmum service chargs

Stes 2600.
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pets, 365-5156. 365-6610.

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HILLTOP SERVICE 2329 after Sp.m. 3/20

BDRM. older house, partially
contained, across from irpor

3 BDRM. house with ih big yord;
fear Robson school. 365-7128.

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OLDER bare, “house: peaee:

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wae 9 cretericed ne follows; One to 12,

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Columbic Ave. Costlegar. ttn/20

Hids/month, 352-7719 atter 4
3/9

Castlegar, sun-

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carport big yard,” near
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ONE BDRM. house, $200/month.
Robson 865-5025 alter 5 p.m.

3/19

DOWNTOWN 2 bdrm." api.
fridge, stove, __ firep!

5/month: 965-2758. Ava able

Two-Gallon

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29. “3/9
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small Trampoline $50; ‘metai
bathroom shel $20: cord
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5 DOZ. wide mouth canning jars
From with lids and tings. $5 per hr

300 Acres | Seger meee
iv Tri-Vac,
of Logged Area | $20. 365-5615.

one WHITE bathtub, new con:
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1300 CC VW engine, not running.
$40. 365-6156. a/19

JOLLY JUMPER, $12. New
Fir/Lorch 80%. Persons in:
terested in buying all or part | FET POPES
of the rights to the laying tim

ber from the area should call | column tree of char
Andy at

365-2811

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articles must not total over $40
and each item must have a price
stated. We will run your ad tor 3
issues. n/B4

DOWNTOWN 1 berm cy
fridge, stove, $260/moni Ri
17al arebie pelts 709
LARGE 2 bdrm. suite, close to
downtown, $250/month. 365-
6663. 3/19
2 BDRM. stove, fridge, laundry,
facilities, daycare close $300.
365-8063. TA

Large 2 and’3 bedroom units

with lots of yard. Possible

subsidy available, Small pets

welcome on approval. Office

Open 2-4 Wednesday or leave
oss

age.
365-2677

SMALL ne ppd house, ux

bsmt, $200 / nth.

640/365-2111. ‘Ask for Peter.
EYAL

3-BORM. house, ae ‘in bsmt., 2
baths, very, cleon older

51 Columbia: ‘365 6440/3965;
2111 ask tor Peter
FURNISHED one bdrm.
tment, $210/month. 365-!

FURNISHED 1 bdrm. suite; —-.

bachelor suite; downtown a:
Unlities included. 365-7853. 3/18
FURNISHED or unfurnished one
bdrm. apt. close to town.
Suitable for son. 365-
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7 ORM. house adjacen
Elementpry School. ‘vaio

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ONE truckload horse manure,
$35. 365-6304 _ 9/20

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Sygor-old quorter horse. 365.

JOHNNY'S =, an
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Or
Feeding Now Available
Oranges 138+ SELF FEEDING BLOCKS

nner Hours —Be.m.-0p.m. Del 25 Kg. Blocks for
bayer arr e-7 ad Horses, Dairy and Beet

ARROW BUILDING

Ceunfiower Cotlo 16s

17” HURRICANE
Good condition. $50.

Reductions and
enlorgements
up to HN" 17"
LARGE 2 BORM. TRAILER in Rob.
5 minutes trom Gas
partly furnished. $225/-
month. 5-7) 88. ___ttn/02

.. gar
space. 9. ‘3/18
4 BDRM. house, Blueberry, 2
baths. Seek lease tenant. 365-
3226, 7/6

Quier 2 bdrm. apartment.
ts. Seniors preferred. gr
tindié 16

Pty RENOVATED,
contained,
hes

spacious
location. Close to shoppi
Ideal for students ractors

‘apartment.
3s included.

[premenl 3 bdrm. mobi rane
. close to bus route.
birt

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ARROW TAKE FRONTAGE, 7 plus
forested, priva

mt ded. isolated

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SAVE MONEY! South Castlegar,

bdrm., basement; assume
‘it pay

17x68, with I woddnien.
my extras. Gene . Askin

© 1&2 bedroom units

© Fridge and Range

© Very clean & Homey,

© Would Furnish on
Request

© Ask for more infor-
mation on Senior
Citizens retiring pla

PH: 365-6213
‘ONE bdrm. furnished Riverbank

tric eat,
$275 month.’ Available
March} Ph. 399-4130. 13.
SELKIRK MANOR
1 and 2 bedroom opartments
starting ot $275. Quiet well
cared for building. Fridge. stove
included. 365 1/80
TWO BORM. TRALEE Gener,
call 365-3848 or 365-3

APPLICATIONS cre being
received for 2. and 3 bdrm. family
rental’accommodation located in
Castlegar. Featur are
children's playground and tenant
gor ‘ent supplement
Soe epip to qualified applicants.
For further information and op-
jeose contact Mr.
2667 or write to

2,500 39.11. of restaurant.
Could be converted to
retail office space.
CASTLEAIRD PLAZA
1100 sq.ft., good exposure.
Only vacant store in Plaza.
WAREHOUSE
2,200 3q.4t. of warehouse
Located in new building.
Reasonable rent, excellent

tion.

OFFICE RENTAL
400 $q.4t. oftice.
Heat and lights included.
$250/per month.
600 SQ. FT.
Office space. Heat

and light included.
$350 per month

2 BDRM \. mons Atco Sierra
14'x70", 5 mojor a OES ian.
condition,

7013. 9

CLEARANCE SALE OF
USED MOBILE HOMES

ieage 3 bam $17

1iguse rbdrm $1 5 1300

Tighe 3 ode, $

1-12'x82' 2 bd i 4
patie assem. $4,800

All Units F.O.8. Sales Lot
MORE

FOR

CALL 365-3551
NORTHWEST HOMES
bases Contoger

BDRM. mobile home:
. with two room additions
covered deck
365-3353. ttn/

16-FT. HOLIDAIRE trailer,
cor oad condition, $2,800.

Soe §o'500"3 368. ‘54.

5 wre FRONTIER FORD, 23-f1.. 460

Commission, No.
Lakes Drive, Castleger

3:1 BEDROOM mobile home with
large ‘addition ond garage on

Nr in enelle
Boas7month Children and

pet welcome. Interested parties
‘only call 856-0596 collect. LAL

TO LEASE: 3 bdrm. house, close
to schools and Legros Fen
ced yard; carport, $400/ en
Available Apri 1368-7109

SMALL 96 sq.ft. of
Avenue Kinnaird, $150/month
including all utilities. 365- 3328 0

7 BDRM. HOUSE, South
Castlegar, $325/month. No pets
pleas

@. 365-5770 atter 5 p.m.
7/20

MARANATHA
court

Lorge one, two and three
bedroom apartments, own en-

‘on one year lease. Family at

mosphere

PH. 365-7161

ONE HEXAGONAL commode,

aa a 'x20", . One round
$20. One table ‘amp,

$50"365:2692. 3/1

4. $18,000 O.B.O. 365-5723.3/26

1979 6-1. GALAXIE comper, 3.
dge, stove, furnace,
ingrovlic jacks, $3,300.

SENIOR CITIZENS, may sirares
items fo in this column tree
of char o°. 365-22
GhS have your Pharmocore Cord
Number handy. We will run your
od for three issues, three items
only, limit $200 for three items
The price of each item must be
sta t#n/07
oa CRIB with, mattress ond
mmper pod, $25. Baby's wooden
chair, $25: two 24
Electra stereo speakers, $40.
(Phone) 365-5497. 3/20

FOUR GMC 15° rims, $15 each
365-6743. 3/

THURSDAY, Friday,
Sunday March 12 to 13. 4p.m.,
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3 BIKES: one MX bike $60, one
10-speed $70 ond one jumper
bike $70. 365-8246 3/20
APPROX. 2 dozen assorted jars
$2.50. One single box spring. 3°

7h ACRES treed land in

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Will sacrifice me for $1 500

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