Sa Castlégar News September 16, 1987 {Fac ON PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 CASTLEGAR vIn 2S ri FOURTH AVENUE 365 3563 f Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoft ADVERTISING SALES ‘AR NEWS hues ne ewe CASTLEG, 0 cen 3607 OFFICE 365-5210 IBM goes to war with Digital NEW YORK (AP) — International Business Machines Corp. used to say it wouldn't comment about but the giant has public in a “war of the MIPS” with rival Digital Equipment Corp. A glossy brochure for customers spells out the per formance of IBM's new 9370 mid-sized computer, com- paring it against machines from Digital as well as Data General Corp., Prime Computer Inc. and Gould Inc. MIPS stands for millions of instructions per second and is a measure of computer performance, IBM's aggressive approach is putting Digital somewhat on the defensive as it brings 50,000 people to Boston this week and next week for speeches and guided tours of its computer line. IBM's new tactic also seems to indicate the world's largest computer company is getting less fearful of being ae of throwing its ties iayh ert. of wr ‘own “Cotupetitive Conduct Guidelines,” moet recently revised in 1983; which reaffirmed IBM's practice of not disparaging competitive products. TELLS CUSTOMERS In another change, IBM lately has begun telling customers more about what to expect in the way of new products. That angers competitors, who say IBM can freeze the market by talking about products before they're ready to be sold. “Especially in 1967, TBM has changed its conduct,” Bob Dj P of Annex R th Inc. of Phoenix, a computer research and consulting company, said. “It’s all been veiled under this theme of “The Year of the Customer.’ “Under the banner of making itself more sensitive to customer needs, IBM at the highest levels, like (John) Akers and (Edward) Lucente, are doing things that in my days people would have been fired for.” Akers is IBM's chairman and chief executive. Lucente is vice-president and group executive of the Information Systems Group. Djurdjevic, who worked for IBM from 1970 to 1978, wrote about the IBM brochure last week in a special edition of Compaternerid magazine tied’ to the DEC World show in Bostor : Digital started "the fight over performance in January, when Bob Glorioso, a vice-president in charge of large computers, told a select group of analysts that Digital's “net usable MIPS” were about 42 per cent greater than IBM's, according to Djurdjevic. IBM's brochure on its 9870 came out in February, several months before the new computer was released. Work to begin on Greenwood site Work will include 160 metres of drifting to estab- lish ore reserves below and near old stoping in the upper Kenar Resources Ltd. will soon start a work program on the Gold Drop property near Greenwood. LOCKER BEEF ALBERTA GRAIN-FED © GRADE A ere Bh) cate LAG -kg. 3.61 w. 1. 64 CUT, WRAPPED AND FROZEN. Downtown Castlegar Store Only. North Star adit. Under- ground diamond drilling is also planned to test the down-dip extension of the vein below the 250 foot level drift. A public offering has been arranged to provide neces- sary funding for the work program. A statement of material facts has been filed with the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Extensive underground development was carried out on the Gold Drop and ad- joining North Star claims from 1925 to 1940, with over 800 metres of crosscuts, drifts, and raises completed on four separate levels. Ore shipments up to 1940 totalled 860 tones grading 0.68 oz. gold/t and 4.1 oz. silver/t. Since 1984 the property has been rehabilitated with the reconstruction of two main portals and the tim bering of the lower North Star adit. Dewatering and sampling of a 75-foot winze on the lower North Star level $216 MILLION IN SALES Yogurt busi MONTREAL (CP) — Cleopatra bathed in it and legend has it Genghis Khan's warriors got their courage from it. But Canadian food marketers took a long time to discover the profit potential of yogurt. As recently as the 1950s, the ancient dairy product was sold mainly in health-food stores alongside such oddities as edible seaweed. It came in only one flavor — plain. Now, yogurt is as trendy as the miniskirt and available almost everywhere, mixed with everything from mangoes to kiwi fruit. It is one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry. “The yogurt business is doing very well in Canada,” says Rene Desmarais of Agropur, the giant Quebec dairy co- operative which produces Yoplait, the country's leading brand. SALES JUMP Yogurt consumption in Canada. has increased dramat- ically over the past 20 years, Desmarais says. Canadians bought about $216 million worth of yogurt last year — an average of 3.2 kilograms per person, up from 0.18 kilograms in 1966. The dairy industry as a whole is growing slowly, if at all, but yogurt sales have been rising 13 to 14 per cent a year for the*past five years, says Desmarais. The lucrative market was launched, unwittingly, by the young health-food fans of the late 1960s. “At the beginning, in the 1970s, it was a very female- oriented product,” says D is. “It's still i by ness booms Those bacteria continue to multiply while in the con tainer, and if left too long they will literally burst the cover. That limits yogurt's shelf-life to about a month. Some companies get around the problem by pasteurization, which neutralizes the bacteria. But to Desmarais, that destroys the product. “If you pasteurize after fermentation, all the cultures are dead. In our definition, that’s not yogurt. We try to keep an all. natural product.” MORE SUGAR He acknowledges that Canadian yogurt, including Yo- plait, contains more sugar than the European product, but says that's what Canadians want even though it does boost the calorie content to about 100 calories per 100 grams (one. serving containers usually have 175 grams). “The taste for sugar varies from one person to another, and from one province to another,” says Desmarais. “We keep it at a level acceptable to most people.” As for fat, Canadian yogurt generally contains about two per cent, considerably less than in the United States where some brands contain as much as 10-per-cent fat. Desmarais says that Agropur is trying to develop a product that would have less than one-per-cent fat for calorie and cholesterol watchers. At the same time, it is marketing new products that will be even richer in calories, such as fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. It looks more like a dessert than a yogurt and has the female segment, but youngsters enjoy it too.” SOME MEN AVOID Women tend to be more nutrition and calorie conscious than men, he says. Market research has found that some men — particularly older men — are actually turned off by yogurt's healthy image. “Yogurt was associated with the granola wave a couple the i y of soft ice cream. Labor changes boon to unions Your satisfaction is our main concern has produced assays of 0.18- of years back. The macho figure who works on a construction 1.30 oz. gold/t. TUESDAY SEPT. 15 SATURDAY SEPT. 19! Tues., Wed., & Sat. — 104 Thursday & Friday — 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. GELAIEIKO MUTA All animals on exhibit during hours WUAILIL WE'VE GOT IT ALL FOR YOU!! OPEN TO 9P.M THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS . site does not want granola.” , Marketing campaigns avoid portraying yogurt as a health food, and concentrate on youngsters in their teens and early 20s. “The nutrition aspect is downplayed,” Desmarais says. “The important thing in reaching these teens is to play yogurt as a part of their social life. “We have to constantly update the image because for a teenager, last year is very old.” Such comments would likely have astonished Eli Metchnikoff, the French scientist who is credited with intro- ducing yogurt to the western world at the turn of the century. Metchnikoff, a specialist on human aging, was studying the habits of Bulgarian mountaineers to learn why they lived so long. He concluded that it was partly due to their consumption of yogurt, which they had brought with them from the Middle East in the 12th century. Modern nutritionists say yogurt's reputation as a health food is justified. Prepared from milk fermented by adding bacteria, it contains all the elements found in milk such as calcium, protein and vitamins — plus a teeming load of bacteria. The one-celled organisms multiply in the intestines and promote good digestion. "Yogurt is a living product,” says Desmarais. “There are 100 million bacteria in one gram.” VANCOUVER (CP) — ‘Changes to British Cotumbia labor laws that make it easier for a unionized employe to work for a nén-union comp- any could help unions, an employers’ representative said. Gabe Somjen, appearing for the Business Council of B.C. was speaking at a policy hearing called by the In- dustrial Relations Council to help it interpret two sections of new laws dealing with union certification rights when a business is sold or is connected with a unionized company. Organized labor has re- fused to appear at the hear. ing. The B.C. Federation of Labor has asked its member unions to boycott the council, but announced last week unions could deal with the THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY, from this cripplin us by making a Society. Woolco to Donate 1% of Sales to Arthritis Research On Saturday, September 19, all Woolco and Woolworth stores from coast-to-coast across Canada will donate 1% of gross sales to support Arthritis research and public education. Over 4 million Canadians from children to seniors suffer disease and we encourage everyone to join jonation to support the work of the Arthritis The causes and eventual cure of Arthritis can be found council in obtaining union certifications. Industrial relations com- missioner Ed Peck, said one union, the Operating En. gineers, submitted a written brief. He would not disclose its contents. Somjen told the hearing more strict definitions in the new laws men it will be harder for unions to get a ruling that certification should remain after the sale of a business or be extended to another company con. nected with a unionized em- ployer. COULD HELP He said that ironically, these changes could help unons by allowing a union. ized employer to stay in business by going into the non-union sector as well, rather than just closing. The business council brief asked the Industrial Rela tions Council to allow union employers to set up non. union businesses that they own up to 100 per cent, as long as day-to-day operation of them is in the hands of a separate manager. Ben Trevino, for the B.C. Construction Association — made up of both union and non-union firms — said the legislation should be inter- preted to allow companies to work in both sections of the industry with equipment and expertise being switched be. tween the two. Tom Roper of the Con- struction Labor Relations Association urged the council to make a quick ruling on the conditions under which it will allow unionized contractors to get involved in non-union businesses, Roper said union contrac tors have been unable to get A'RUTHLESS' PENNY PINCHER By TOM RAUM Associated Press WASHINGTON — Paul Volcker was the world's most powerful banker, but in his personal life he pinched pennies railing at high prices and carting his laundry to his daughter's house, according to a new biography of the retired Federal Reserve Board chairman. Volcker is also a passionate Monopoly player who delights in winning, showing nd mercy on family members, writes journalist William Neikirk in a bio graphy of Volcker, due to be published later this month. “You'd think your father woild let you win once in 4 while,” the book quotes Voleker’s daughter, Janice, as saying. The book, Volcker: Portrait of the Money Man, is the first to appear on the widely respected Fed chairman since he announced his retirement last June. Voleker has read the book and doesn't plan to comment on it, said Joseph Coyne, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve and longtime assistant to Volcker. Neikirk, an economics writer for the Chicago Tribune, interviewed Volcker and his family meiabers, and his successor at the Fed, Alan Greenspan, for the hy of the shy, six-foot central banker who became known as the United State's No. 1 inflation fighter. DOWNPLAYS ROLE But Voleker, who served as Fed chairman for eight years, in a discussion with the author downplayed his own role in breaking the inflation that had soared to 13.3 per cent in 1979 when he was appointed by then president Jimmy Carter. Instead, he credited President Ronald Reagan’: refusal: to back down during the air traffic-controller'’s strike in 1981 as having an almost equally important psychological impact as the Fed's tight monetary policies, which sent interest rates soaring but also helped bring inflation down to under four per cent by 1982. Reagan's decision to fire the controllers rather than accept their salary demands “definitely helped to hold down wages. That had as. much to do with braking infla- tionary expectations as his tight money, the Fed chief said,” Neikirk wrote. Volcker, a nominal Democrat, was first appointed by Carter and reappointed to a second four-year term as Fed chief by Reagan in 1983. In the final days of his chairmanship, Volcker would have agreed to accept another four-year term if Reagan had personally sought to dissuade him from retiring, the book contends. But no such direct appeal was made. In the past, Volcker had closely guarded details of his private life. But the new book, published by Congdon and Weed Inc. of Chicago, contains numberous anecedotes about Volcker the private man, many of them drawn from interviews with his family. For instance, it depicts the apartment in Washington where he lived alone, while commuting on weekends to New York to spend time with his wife, as “cluttered with newspapers, cigar butts and fishing flies that he had tied himself.” He bought a washer and drier for his daughter Janice, a nurse, who lives in nearby northern Virginia, the book relates, “and then proceeded to carry over his laundry every week or so in a suitease” for her to clean. Volcker hated to spend money, unlike the bankers he regulated, Voleker’s daughter is quoted as observing. “His clothes are kind of rumpled up. He really doesn't care a lot about his appearance. He's just sort of cheap,” she said. with your support — please be generous. You can join us in our campaign to fight Arthritis by supporting our tape-a-thon and other events. KBS Radio will be on location to cover this special event along with some prominent people in the area. Let us make this year a year to remember. Let's help find the cure today — with your help we can do it. union contracts that will allow them to compete with non-union companies and their share of total construe- tion in B.C. has dropped to 26 per cent from the 1983 level of 66 per cent. “Let the little children come unto me, Jesus said. TORES DEPARTMENT ‘A DIVISION OF FM OOK WORTH CO LI0 ANGLICAN CHURCH (Between the Turbo & Mohowk) OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government could discourage young people from smoking by enforcing a 79-year-old law on tobacco sales that has been ignored The Tobacco Restraint Act of 1908 prohibits shop- keepers from selling tobacco to anyone under age 16, but there hasn't been a single prosecution in the last 45 years, says the article by a team of reseachers based in Winnipeg. “By implementing this existing law, authorities would not only be keeping the profit from almost a million dollars in cigarette sales in Manitoba alone out of tobacco company coffers, but also be having an impact on the leading cause of prevent- able premature death and disability in Canada.” Neil Collishaw, head of the Health Department's tobacco products unit, says the pen- alties in the law are very small — they start at $10 for a retailer convicted of a first offence — and the law fell into disuse over the years. LAW EXISTS “Most people aren't even aware of the existence of the law,” he said in an interview. The Tory government in- troduced a tough anti-tobacco bill in Parliament last spring, but it doesn’t include mea- sures to restrict sales to minors. Many people take up smok- ing at a young age and are smoking every day by the time they become teenagers. The article in the Canadian ing as youngsters are likely to continue. “On the other hand, chil- dren who postpone smoking until their later teens are not only less likely to start smoking, but also more likely to quit as adults. “Consequently, all legiti- mate means by which smok- ing could be delayed need to be explored.” The authors of the article, researchers at the University of Manitoba medical school and the provincial health de- partment, did a survey in 1985 in 140 public schools on the smoking habits of young people and how they norm- ally got their cigarettes. From the survey data, they estimated that children under 16 throughout Man- itoba bought some 439,000 Medical A Journal says people who start smok- a year in retail phan at a cost of Canada among the top family planners TORONTO (CP) — Canada tied with three other coun- tries for the third best family planning program in the world, an international sur- vey on contraception found, while the United States lagged in seventh place. Canadian family planning programs and those in Aus- tralia, France and Italy rank- ed third after the United Kingdom and West Ger- many, according to the study, the first to survey and rate contraceptive policy around the world. “Few laws restrict access to birth control in the U.K. and family planning attitudes are progressive,” ‘the study said. The Population Cris Committee, a non-profit or- ganization which advocates voluntary family planning around the world, eompiled and ranked data on birth control, abortion, sex edu- cation and contraceptive in- formation in 110 countries. Researchers graded 15 de- veloped countries on a point ‘system in such categories as availability of various birth control methods, availability of abortion, sex education in schools, and contraception service and information to the poor and to minors. Foundation to move to B.C.. REGINA (CP) — The Can- adian Schizophrenia Founda- tion, established in Regina in 1968, is moving to British Columbia. The foundation, which ad- vocates a holistic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of ia, will move to tirement of the organization’ 's executive director, Irwin Kahan. The new director, Steve Carter, lives in Van- couver, so the decision was made to move head office. Schizophrenia is believed to be caused by a chemical in the brain, and Burnaby on Oct. 1. The move follows the re- By now most people know that with its modest price the Volkswagen Fox is putting more volks into wagens. But what most people might not know is that the new Station wagon version also puts more beagles in the back. In fact, with a cargo Capacity of 1750 litres, you can VOLKSWAGEN affects about two people in 1,000. transport a bunch of batches of bagels or The 95 developing coun- tties were ranked on meth- ods of birth control but also on related data such as in- formation services and gov- ernment policy and spending. Finally, all countries were given an overall rating from poor to excellent. close to $1 million. The article says individual merchants wouldn't lose much money if the Tobacco Restraint Act were enforced. More children may resort to buying their cigarettes from those who would sell them tobacco ” the Non- Smokers’ Rights Association says in one of its recent bro- ehures. “If children can be from vending but the authors argue vending machine sales could be con- trolled much better. The anti-tobacco legisla- tion introduced last spring would ban all forms of ad- vertising and promotion by Jan. 1, 1989, partly on grounds that ads and cig- arette company sponsorships of sporting and cultural events help tempt young people to start smoking. Health and anti-smoking groups support the legis- lation, but some of them be- lieve even stricter controls are heeded. pr addicted to tobacco: before age 18, there is less chance of them ever starting to smoke.” KOOTENAY DRIVING “SCHOOL LTD.. vel control (double steering, double brake and double car available for driving lessons and rood tests. Free pick up at home or work. 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