| la HEN! ame oT LAnee fae Le sets cre rented . Mowes 23 they SRBELD be seen also dents totalled 842,859 in ASTLE HEATRE RY THOMAS DABNEY COLEMAN Ess nee LEASE NOTE, WIS PROGRAM OWL - REQUIRES 4 amu HOW SHOWING! (SFESE9OOn! (WED [THU [FRI (SAT Q o- a “mnie aaausare, GENE WILDER'S 1980, or about six per, cent of about 14 million U.S. resi-_ i ry A the million. The figures show the aver- age annual household income for Canadian-born at 14.3 per cent. However, a higher percen- was $15,953, or $1,067 less than the average of $17,010 for U.S. natives. That put Canadian-born residents comfortabiy above the average household in- come of $14,588 for all for- eign-born residents, although their average annual income was substantially less than the $25,644 earned by im- migrants from India and the $22,787 earned by people from the Philippines. Among foreign-born resi dents on the lower end of the income scale were people from the Ivory Coast, whose average household earnings were $8,750, and those from Nigeria who earned an aver age of $6,972. EDUCATION DIFFERS On the education front, 61.8 per cent of the Canadian born residents were high cuck BUCKLE UP! TCA) HELP WANTED Housekeeper to cook and clean trom 3 to 7 p.m. week days 365-8120 after 5 ROSE'S BOUTIQUE asout XUAAS LAY-AWAYS, 10% Deposits) Gitte, Wicker etc cose bDays.0 Week 10 Spm for our 5th Annual Cook Book 365-5610 tage of Canadian-born U.S. residents were employed in“ professional specialty occu- ‘pations, 16.2 per cent com- pared with 123 per cent American-born workers. California topped the list of states which had the most attraction for Canadian-born residents, with 163,300 set- tled there. Florida, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan all had more than 70,000 Canadian-born resi- dents. Pennsylvania, where the once prosperous steel and coal industries are struggling for survival, has attracted only 13,626 Canadian-born residents. Nelson college vetoed Rossland-Trail delegates to the Social Credit Party an nual convention in Penticton over the weekend had one resolution accepted and two defeated. A Rossland-Trail calling for a degree-granting post-secondary institution at Nelson was defeated, as was a resolution requesting that B.C. Hydro be fully taxed. A resolution calling for transportation societies not to be “compromised” by tax subsidies to the urban Tran sit Authority was also ap motion | proved Deadline for Receipt of Recipes is 12 Noon of Wed., Oct. 31 Send in the old family favorite recipe or your newest creation. Send us your recipes for: Main Dishes, Breads, Biscuits Rolls, Meats, Soups, Stews, Casseroles Salads, Vegetables, Pickles, Relishes Send your typed or neatly written recipes to Cook Book, Castlegar News Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. Desserts, Squares, Cookies, Cakes, Candy Freezing, Wine or any other recipe ideas or General Cooking Hints Fudge, Canning, Game, Microwave or deliver to REMEMBER: Include your name, oddress and telephone Cook Book, Castieger News 197 Columbia Avenve, Castlegar number DEADLINE: 12 noon, Wed., Oct. 31 Feel welcome to submit as mony recipes os you wish Wild VIN 3H4 HELPING OUT... Neon carpenter admiring a new lathe from Ald. Len Embree with carpenters — a photograph taken in TOOLS FOR PEACE Embree supports aid project A Castlegar alderman has thrown his support behind the Tools for Peace campaign to send tools and medical supplies to Nicaragua this December. Len Embree, who is the local repr for the Nicaragua when Embree visited there two-and-o- half years ago. As a result the carpenter's union pledged $7,000 to help build a trades training school in Nicaragua. The money was raised by contributions from Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners union, visited Nicaragua 2'2 years ago “and as a result is highly committed” to the national campaign, according to a prepared release from the Kootenay Coalition for Aid to Nicaragua When he went to Nicaragua, Embree was initially “shocked” by the poverty that was evident everywhere.” “His shock turned to amazement at the vitality of the people in the country,” the release says. Embree visited a hospital under construction in Nicaragua and he found the calibre of workmanship good and the spirit of the workers high. They were extremely short of basic tools and had no repair shops available when equipment broke down. Because they were unable to replace worn out parts, they simply had to improvise. Embree was “exhilarated” to see what the workers were doing with so little. “In Canada, a person might have three hammers in their home. In Nicaragua, a major construction project lacks enough of even this simple tool,” he says. Upon his return to Canada from Nicaragua Embree presented a report on his visit to his union's convention. provincial and regional councils, from locals throughout dual i and a fund- the pi and from i: raising project. In the spring of 1983, the union brought Ceasar Estrada Ruis, a Nicaraguan carpenter, to B.E. Ruis travelled around the province, visiting and talking with rank and file carpenters about his dream to see the trades training school established in his native country, the release says. The site for the training school has now been chosen and work begun on its construction. Since being visited by Ruis, the B.C. carpenter's union has maintained regular contact with their counterparts in Nicaragua. More funds than the original allocation were quickly seen to be needed, said the release. The union, with the help of matching grants from CUSO and CIDA is now in the final stages of raising an additional $35,000 for the training school. In July of this year, Bill Darnell, Co-ordinator for Carpentry Apprenticeship programs in B.C. new training school located in Diriamba, Nicaragua. Darnell says he was impressed with what has been accomplished and is presently assisting the Nicaraguans in putting together a two-year training course. visited the 1985, a move that will save British Columbia's ailing in dustries millions of dollars. The freeze, which began in 1984, will duction in the level of service or compensation to the 1.3 ¥ — a nam WCB helps VANCOUVER (CP) — The Workers’ Compensation Board is extending its freeze powers to assessments through companies and to make pay rrent not mean a re COMMUNITY Bulletin Board HALLOWEEN DANCE Oct. 27, 9 pm. - 1 a.m. Tickets available — Johnny's Store. LIVE MUSIC.-Everyone welcome. Sponsored by Robson Recreation 4/83 HALLOWEEN DANCE With Albert Fick Revue: Friday, October 26, 9:00 p.m 1.00 a.m. Castlegar Community Complex. Retreshments prizes tor best costumes. Advance tickets only — $6.00. Available Carl's Drugs, Castlegar Bookstore and Hobbit Hill, Proceeds to Hobbit Hill Children's Centre 3/84 MINOR SOCCER GENERAL MEETING Minor Soccer will hold o General Meeting on Wednesday Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Arts & Crafts Room of the Recreation Centre. Everyone interested in seeing a good soccer season next year should attend 2/84 PAPER CASH BINGO Soturday, October 27 ot Castlegar Complex. Advance tickets $8 at Johnny's Grocery, Castlegar Phormosave, Kel Print, Mountain Ski & Sports. C pm. Regulor 7:00 p.m. Sponsors CONCERT & SOCIAL Friday. November 9 Castlegar Complex. Latin Americon songs ond music by ‘Sabio’. Doors open at 7 p.m. Concert ot 8 p.m. Tickets trom Tools for Peace committee. 6/85 CROSS COUNTRY SKI SWAP Nordic Hall, Friday, Novernber 2. 7-10 p.m 3/86 CASTLEGAR PISTOL CLUB Indoor shoots will be held in Kinnaird Hall basement every Sunday 6-9 p.m 2/86 FALL TEA October 27. 2 4 p.m. Ladies Auxiliory to the Royal Conadion Legion No. 170 Bake table, sewing table, white elephont. Rattles. Door Prize EVERYONE WELCOME 84 PRESCHOOL HALLOWEEN PARTY AND GET ACQUAINTED TEA October 30, 10 o.m. - 12 noon. Prizes and ies tor preschoolers’ costumes. Come see what the Robson Women's Institute is oll about. Free admission 2/86 Coming events of Costlegor rict_non-protit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words ore $3 and additional words ore |5¢ each Boldtoced words which must be used for headings) count os two words There is ne extra cherge for o second consecutive inser tion while the third consecutive insertion is half-price Minirnum charge is $3 (whether od is for one, two or Notices should be brought to the Cosi million B.C. workers covered by the board, which has the levy taxes on ments to injured employees, said board chairman Walter indications for the economy in 1985 are not very positive and it looks like unemployment definitely will Cotumbie Ave. industries be higher,” Flesher said in an interview. “We, as a taxing agency, have to do whatever we can to realistically and responsibly ease that tax burden on companies without compromising our integrity in the financing of worker benefits.” The board assessment, which is to total about $465 million this year, ranges from 25 cents to $2.99 per $100 or payroll, depending on the company and industry Because of compensation board demerits levied on companies with a high inci dence of accidents and claims experience, some companies, like those in the logging bus iness, pay as much as $16 per $100 of payroll. FOREST COMPANIES For the forest products in dustry, B.C.'s largest em ployer, the freeze means a saving of $36.3 million this year. The industry is cur rently paying about $121 million annually. Without the freeze, it would be paying $157.3 million. British Columbia already has the highest rate in Can ada with an average assess ment rate of $2.82. The next highest is Ontario's rate, at $2.17, followed by Quebec at $1.89. In contrast, Manitoba's average assessment is only $1.06. The threat of reduced ser vices to workers has been one of the biggest fears of the — Materials, etc staff cutbacks and the earlier freeze The WCB reduced staff by 190 to 1,410 this year, closed its Prince Rupert office and announced plans to close its Penticton, Fort St. John, Williams Lake and Chilliwack offices within the next three months. But Fraser says the board has simply become more effi cient. For example, by the end of this year, he estimates there will have been 2,600 more industrial inspections than the 28,400 in1963. “We are a bureaucracy that, like, most bureaucra. cies, became over-structur. ed,” he said. “In the past, we did not deal with this prob- lem. We now are trying to rationalize it and to reflect the times, reacting to a lower volume of business like any other business would do.” There has been criticism of the board’s huge unfunded li ability, running at $500 mil lion when the 1984 employer assessment freeze was an. nounced last January But this time the board has a healthier balance sheet as justification for the freeze, Flesher said. He pointed out that Its controversial unfunded liability — the difference be- tween its cash reserve and the actual estimate of future costs of claims and pensions for injured workers — has been reduced by more than indy Candy Gift Boxes and Sirdar Yarns May, leaving a quarter of a million British work, predicts Vancouver accountant Stan Webb. ‘And B.C.'s busineds bankruptcy rate is about'to hit new heights for the fourth consecutive year, federal statistics show. % “It's another tough winter,” says bankruptcy expert Gary Powroznik of Coopers and Lybrand Ltd. ‘The underlying problem, Powroznik says, is that the recovery that has boosted the United States and central Canadian economies has never reached British Columbia. Roman Evancic, president of the Certified General Accountants Association of B.C., has called on Finance Minister Hugh Curtis to match tax breaks for small pr by other p: . GO ELSEWHERE Evancic says many of his members are advising business clients to set up new manufacturing operations in Ontario instead of British Columbia, to take advantage of tax holidays for new businesses. They tell other clients to base their investment companies in Alberta or Saskatchewan, where they are eligible for tax credits and cash grants unavailable in British Columbia. Accountant Rod Adams says Hong Kong money looking for a home in Canada might choose Alberta over British Columbia, because B.C. has a corporation capital tax, and Alberta doesn't. “We recommend that they locate in other jurisdictions for sound business and tax reasons,” Evancic said in his association's brief to Curtis’ travelling committee on economic development and taxation. Webb says some businessmen are moving jobs out of the province because of B.C.’s confrontational labor climate. “All that leads us to believe that we're heading for hell in a handbasket,” says Evancic. SOME HOPE Evancie, Webb and Adams, who helped prepare the brief, all declined to identify businessmen who have moved capital out of British Columbia because of the province's tax regime. Evancic says businessmen don't want to be known as contributors to B.C.’s economic problems. “You never know when you're going to want something from the government here.” But the accountants all say there are reasons for optimism despite the gloom. They hope that: © Curtis's to listen to "s gripes and suggestions will, by next spring’s provincial budget or sooner, translate into tax and other policy changes that attract new investment to British Columbia. e The Conservative government in Ottawa will soon put flesh on the bones of its campaign promises to create thousands of new jobs and “inflict prosperity” on British Columbia. e Interest rates will keep falling, much-needed in the province's @ The U.S. recovery will finally spill over into British Columbia. e Expo 86 will boost economic activity. Webb says he reached his gloomy ae od ani ~ ificant change in vacancies months. It was the second fiscal quarter in a row in openings were un. No province showed a sig. fn’ the last three months. Cominco posts $29.3 m profit VANCOUVER (CP) — Comineo Ltd. went from a net loss to a net profit in the first nine months of this year, the Company said. Two Cominco subsidiaries, Pine Point Mines Ltd. and Vestgron Mines Ltd., also reported dramatic increases in net profits. Cominco had a net profit of $29.3 million or 22 cents a common share, compared with a net loss of $40.4 million or 84 cents a share, the company said in a news release. This year's profit included an extraordinary item of $5.2 million, mainly from the sale by Cominco's wholly owned subsidiary Cominco Ameri- can Ine. of its interest in an oil recovery project in Texas, Cominco said. For the third quarter end- ed Sept. 30, Cominco had a net profit of $4 million or one cent a share compared with a net loss of $17.7 million or 34 cents a share duting the cor- responding 1983 period. Pine Point had net earn- ings of $11.5 million or $2.55 a share in the first nine months this year compared with a net loss of $7.3 million or $1.61 a share\last year. Net earnings in the latest quarter were $811,000, com: pared with a net loss of $225,000 last year. Vestgron had net earnings of $4.7 million or $1.11 a share, compared with $1.8 million or 43 cents a share for the first nine months of 1983. Third-quarter earnings were $7.5 million or $1.78 a share this year, compared with $2.4 million or 55 cents a share in 1983. executives in Western Can ada have plummeted. None of the specialties surveyed showed a strong demand. The best bets for employment were computer programmers, systems an alysts, electronic engineers, mechanical sales engineers and electronic sales engin cers. However, openings in some of these fields are one-fifth of what they were in 1981. Accountants and plant engineers, usually little af fected by economic change, are experiencing demand far below traditional levels. The council says the in crease in service industry employment has done little to help executives and pro fessionals. And the mining, construction, lumbering and consulting engineering indus. tries continue to be de essed. That means vacancies are extremely limited for every body from architects and corporate lawyers to welding engineers . On a brighter note, op portunities for executives in celebrating with an incredible Sidewalk Sale. PLUS Balloons & Novelties for the kids. Bring the entire family and enjoy the talents of Peter Rolston of TV's Pete's Place fame Wed. 12 noon & 4:30 p.m. Thurs. & Fri. 12, 4:30 & 6:45* Sat. ll am.*, 1, 3* & 4 p.m. Birthday Cake served after 6:45, 11 and 3 p.m. Shows Waneta plaza the $50,000-to-$150,000-a year range increased 11 per cent in the first nine months of 1984 over the same period last year. Our Action Ad number is 365-2212. Wolo forecast by extrapolating Statistics Canada figures with a formula based on normal winter downturns in the B.C. work force. He says his prediction of a 17.2-per-cent unemployment rate by May means 250,000 British Columbians will be out of work. Statistics Canada said 214,000 were jobless at the end of September. B.C. business bankruptcies this year so far total 1,134, compared with 1,279 in 1983. ARSONISTS CANCELED THEIR LONG ENGAGE- MENT, SAID, ‘‘WE WERE MISMATCHED.” Talking to the —— Do you have a news story or feature you want to tell us about? 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