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Vera Holiad, ‘spokesm: for the DRIE minister S clair Stevens, said the de- partment is: still considering a change because the current name is long, complicated, “confusing and people don't understand what the name really means.” But it is not a priority and “I really don't.now to what extent that report was really ever considered here.” She said she understands the study was commissioned by senior officials, although Regenstrief said it was auth- orized“by Stevens. The study was obtained by The Canadian Press under Test device TORONTO (CP) — ‘Some people selling water purifiers in Ontario are using a mis- s leading test device that pro- duces sludge in tap water that otherwise wouldn't be THE GOSPEL ROAD FEATURING JOHNNY CASH/JUNE CARTER CASH ROBERT Sunday, December 22 6 O'Clock in the Evening AT THE PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 767 - 11th Avenue, Castlegar © You will not want to s this exciting film which depicts the life of Christ from His brith to His death and resurrection. 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The report was based on two-hour interviews with about 120 people in 14 “focus groups” in seven cities — Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Quebec City, Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg — from Oct. 23 to 26, 1984, just a month after the Tory gov- ernment took office. Regenstrief said the groups were heavily weigh- ted toward people who were “a little bit upscale and cer- tainly business (oriented).” The study tested seven departmental names in addi- tion to the current one, six of which were provided by the department — Development change studied Canada, Commerce and Re- gional Development Canada, Enterprise Canada, Industry Canada, Commerce Canada and Expansion Canada.. One name, Economic De- velopment Canada, was added by the researchers. Development Canada. was the “hands-down winner among English-speaking par- ticipants and comes third among French-speaking par- ticipants,” the study repor- ted, adding that one ad- vantage is that “it does not smack of Liberal, socialist or interventionist thinking.” However, it recommended adding “ ic” to the Giving up alll for priesthood TORONTO (CP) — At the age of 26, Kevin Kindelan had fulfilled the dream of millions — he had a Harvard education, fistfuls of money, vacations on the Riviera, fast cars and a beautiful girlfriend. His was the good life, thanks in part to his rapid rise up the corporate ladder in a huge multinational corporation. Then he gave it all up to become a priest. Two years ago, Kindellan acted on a feeling that ha been gnawing at him since high school. “Twas dating and living, on the.fast track, but there was still the question of . . . there had to be more,” he said in an interview. “It was a good life and Club Med is nice. But it's not the be-all and end-all.” His emp Alcan Aluminum Corp. in C! d Ohio, had just offered him his fifth promotion in four years — manager of a $130-million production line. He turned it down and instead entered St. A ines Roman Catholic Seminary in the Toronto title because it “brings the department into focus.” misleading The purifier has a reverse osmosis membrane and two carbon filters — technology ied an . murky, then use purified wa- ter which stays pure-looking. Clive Holloway, a_chemis- try professor at York Univer- sity, became aware of the device._ when a_ student brought one to class to dem- onstrate it. The~ student's brother was selling $500 water purifiers made by For- ever Living, a sales company based in Phoenix, Ariz. “The purification equip- ment certainly works, but the test is objectionable, said who d the precip’ tor in a laboratory. “They're showing something in the water that wasn't there orig- inally.” A precipitator has two ele- ctrodeés, one iron and one al- uminum. When an electrical current is passed between them, the iron rusts and turns the .water dark and murky: = MARY, WADE ANDER Wenderlully warm. comiortobie ON home with lireploce in livingroom Barone tenets 2 =< = > =] Lo) > 4 S m 2 a ce) cities. ‘OFFICE 345-211) HOME 345-3750 Mounteinview 4 ‘Agencies Lid. IMARY_WADE ANDERSON! y. who app Meresz to check_out the de- vice further. Meresz also found the pre- cipitator was not certified for electrical safety by the Can- adian Standards Association or Ontario Hydro and could be dangerous. RISKS EXPLOSION “Hydrogen is given off and if there are any sparks in the area, you could get an ex- plosion at the bottom of the jar.” he said. z Keith McGhee, Ontario general manager of Forever Living, ‘said his company neither sells _precipitators nor condones their use. “I've been telling our people, ‘If you've purchased a precipitator, bury it,’ " Mc- Ghee said. “ ‘You don't need it to sell the (water puri- fier).” ” : by the Canadian Water Quality Association, a self-regulatory industry group. This type of water purifier generally sells for between $199 and $399. _“It will make a difference in the water, there's no ques- tion,” said association pres- ident Lou Smith. “But the use of the little gizmo to demonstrate it is a fraud.” Even purified water will turn brown and slimy inside a precipitator after 12 to 24 hours, Smith said. Precipitators cost about $60 and can be purchased through mail-order sellers in Canada and the © United States. The water quality association advises its mem- bers not to use them because of the possibility of mis- interpretation. ~ Forever Living, which also sells cosmetics and food sup- plements made from the aloe vera plant, has been oper- ating in Ontario for four suburb of Scarborough. “You can't just say ‘time out’ while I check this out,” said Kindellan. “Once you quit business, you walk away from it; give up your place, your job, your connections. “But I still have my. car (a $20,000 Audi Coupe). There are some things I haven't given up.” Many of Kindellan’s friends are “yuppies making mega dollars in New York, Boston and Los Angeles,” who pes) y" Decomberts. 1985 CastlégarNews <7. RRSPs yield valuable benefits By ROBERT McLEOD The Canadian Press Retirement may seem far away to someone in the early stages of a career — but that’s when it pays to consider the merits of a registered retirement savings plan. ‘The earlier you start an RRSP, the greater the effect of compounding, where interest earned is added on to the~ principal amount to earn still more interest. ‘The effects of starting early can be remarkable. For example, a booklet issued by Canada Permanent shows that if a person contributes $5,500 a year toa plan starting at age 40, that: plan will have $595,000 in it by age 65, assuming a constant 10-per-cent interest rate, with interest compound- ed annually. Delay starting that plan for five years and the total at age 65 would be worth only $346,514. In other words, for five extra payments of $5,500 — totalling-$27,500 — you gain an additional $248,486. The extra growth you get from starting an RRSP early also makes a big difference when you retire and switch that sum into an annuity, which pays you a regular income. LIMITS SET Currently, Revenue Canada rules state that each taxpayer's total annual RRSP contributions, which are tax deductible, may be no more than 20 per cent of earned income to a maximum of $5,500 a year. If a taxpayer is a member of a registered pension plan, the limit is $3,500 minus contributions to the pension plan. : vice-president of retirement programs and personal financial services for Royal Trust, provides an example of how an RRSP can grow when even modest contributions are started early. If you contribute $100 at the beginning of every month to your RRSP starting on your 30th birthday, you will have ‘accumulated $371,310 by the time you are 65, assuming the plan earns a constant 10 per cent. If someone who is 65 were to use that sum now to buy a fixed term annuity from Royal Trust, it would pay about $3,450 a month until age 90. However, if you wait until your 40th birthday before starting to deposit $100 a month, the tota] sum accumulated by age 65 will be $134,760. That sum today would pay only $1,250 a month until age 90. i “Clearly, registered retirement plans should be part of a checklist in any financial plan — and an early part of the checklist at that,” McConachie says. couple of months salary, you should be contributing to an RRSP,” he says. “Achieving financial security is a lifetime process.” Delaney cited the unfortunate position of one of his clients as an example of what can go wrong if people do not plan ahead. The client is a 59-year-old chief executive earning $83,000 a year, but with a mere $24,000 in his RRSP, $10,000 in Canada savings bonds and no company pension plan. “There is no way I can save him from 1 Westcoast Seafoods located at : Castlegar Mohawk FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 10.a.m, to7 p.m. when he retires,” Delaney said. BEATS MORTGAGE And in response to the often asked question, “Should I invest in an RRSP or my mortgage,” Delaney is unequivocal: “The higher your income bracket the more you should concentrate on investing in an RRSP at the expense of your mortgage,” he said. For In fact, Tom Delaney, financial and adviser to the Consumers’ Association of Canada, says RRSPs rate just behind the top financial priority of paying off credit card bills. “Once you have done that, and put aside a cushion of a le, if you ib $1,000 to a plan and your marginal income tax rate is 40 per cent, the government will return $400 of that money to you. ‘That's an excellent return on your investment and the rebate could then be used to pay down your mortgage. ‘Endorsement stands sait no. God. are successful by society's terms but not by their own, he “They've gone to good schools, make lots of money, married cute girls, had kids, own BMWs, go skiing in Austria, and that's happiness,” he said.“They say they. aren't happy — that’s the joke of it. “They get all the judos and they look for fulfillment from their jobs, but they say: ‘Do I feel fulfilled as a human being?’ And the answer more often than not is Kindellan’s decision to enter St. Augustine's — which was met with joy by his parents and bewilderment by his girlfriend and other friends — came after some long, hard thought, not after being mystically struck by. years. Since ii g wa- ter purifiers in July, the firm has sold about 2,000 units, McGhee said. 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He said working married women also havé less time to devote to their jobs because of commitments at home. Consequently, Block said, they are less productive in the workplace. Ice cream popular It seems North Americans not only love their ice cream — they eat about 18 litres a person a year — but there is growing demand for top-of- the-line frozen stuff. A recent survey indicates sales in the gourmet or superpremium category have grown by 47 per cent during the last eight months in On- gory posted a 14-per-cent gain in the last year. “The superpremium prod- ucts have done for ice cream what designers did for the blue jean industry,” says Food never VANCOUVER: (CP) — As if shopping _until_ midnight seven days a week wasn't enough, now there are super- markets that never close. The newest one, Impact Foods, is located in the Van- couver-area municipality of Surrey. The store has employee- owners and three shifts of workers with a total of 180 full-time employees. store closes The store includes a key cutting booth, shoe repairs, on-site photo finishing, a bank machine, an ice-cream parlor, a deli and a flower shop. Impact Foods says it has Canada's first automated bot- tle return machine, which takes bottles and spits out a coupon to be cashed at the checkout. It also has a can crusher that does the same thing. Pythian Sisters have active fall Kootenay Temple No. 37 Pythian Sisters have had an active fall with MEC Lil __Neumann president. '’ In October members of- ficially welcomed Grand Chief Roxie Reeder. On Linwood Tipton of the Inter- Remembrance Day, Edith national Association of Ice Ferguson, representing The Cream Manufacturers. “They Pythian Sisters, and Gordon have added a whole new Ferguson, representing the dimension to the market.” Knights of Pythias, took part tario. 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The winner of the Pythian Christmas food hamper was Ruth Maze of Castlegar. The second prize of a cushion went to Mrs. B. McKay of ‘Trail. “Talk about overstuffed!" _.- = But not over priced! Robert McConachie, Subsidies encouraging pesticide use WASHINGTON (AP) — Many—developing—countries are encouraging farmers to use too many icides with subsidies, Repetto said. But the-International Rice _Insti- tute studied rice farmer i i in the Philippi generous subsidies, says 2 ‘Washington research group.’ Surveys of nine countries showed subsidies in eight of them ranged from 19 per cent to 89 per cent of the retail price, said the World Resour- ces Institute, a non-profit environmental policy re- search. organization. Pakis- tan, which-ended most sub- sidies in 1980, was the __ exception, the institute said. ‘This encourages farmers to use more chemicals than they would if they had to pay the full costs,” wrote Robert Repetto, author of the re- port. - = “By the same token, subsi- . dies discourage farmers from controlling pests by methods that rely_less- heavily on chemical applications.” In Asia, use seems about the same for large and small farms, but elsewhere, pes- ticide use is predominantly _ on large estates growing cash crops such as cotton and ban- anas, Repetto said. “Yet, the side effects of and found that using: pesti- cides up to a moderate level gives the farmer 3-2 odds of more than making up the cost of the chemicals through higher yields. At heavy use, the odds. remain the same under subsidy, but shift to 2-1 ‘against recovering pes- ticide cost if subsidies are re- moved because yield gains decline as more pesticide is used. Subsidies are achieved through various methods such as favorable exchange rates: for importers, direct sales to farmers by govern- ment agenciesbelow cost, favorable tax treatment and below-market interest rates on loans for purchase, the report said. In some countries the farmer may not even be the one to decide whether and how much pesticide should be used — in Egypt, the gov- ernment sprays the fields. Pakistan ended most_sub- sidies after government studies found its direct Pp ide use — pi farmworkers, poisoned water supplies and high residues of pesticide residues in food supplies — adversely affect low-income households and. the whole. population.” YIELDS DECLINE Little is known about the precise amount by which pesticide use is increased by P program was ineffi- cient, the report said. Since 1980, private firms have en- tered the market, competi- tion has increased, and al- though total use has in- creased, use of active in- gredients “has apparently remained lower” because of the introduction of newer chemicals. Fire hydrant . idea for th STUART, FLA. (AP) — You say you're looking for that Christmas gift for the dog that has everything? H.C. Hoffner has the solu- tion: fire hydrants. That's right, Hoffner, a supervisor at Stuart’s sani- tation garage, buys fire plugs from the-city and sells them for $25 each to pet owners. He started two years ago, buying 25 used hydrants at a public auction. . “I could have sold 100 if I had them,” he said recently. Business has been so good he plans to buy more hy- drants nexf,month when the city auctions off another 10 fire plugs. 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Ron Hub- bard's contribution towards a safer, saner, world” — Mayor Reg Easingwood says he won't retract- the commem- oration because it was made solely. in honor of Hubbard's book The Way to Happiness. “It. was granted on the basis of the book, not on the church. I know nothing about the Church of Scientology at all,” Easingwood said after a council .meeting Monday stand against things such as drug abuse and destruction of the said Monday that council was approached by assoc- JUST IN TIME FOR III Fy Yo RES Baa) ny ) MN 4 es. a =. & Pins OVERSIZE SWEATS Jackets and Shirts in Fashion Colors. Youth Night Shirts with Your Favorite Transfers. ae 4 LTV HU didn't plan to the i which ac- The Church of Sci I founded 29 years ago by Hubbard, has never been far from allegations of scandal and cultism. 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