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Castlegar News November 16, 1983

CLAY CASTLE

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* EDMONTON (GP) — Gov-

ernment protection of minor- \

ities in the marketplace may
be the sort of marketplace
intervention that hampers
economic development, the
director. of the Vancouver-
based Fraser Institute told:
the Macdonald commission |
on the

Alderman

VOTE
FIELDS, Walter

For rides to polls call 365-7993

“In thé: private sector’ the
case for intervention is. much.
less warranted ‘than in the’
public sector,” Michael Wal-
ker said in answer to ques-
tions from commission mem:
ber Tom Shoyama. ri

Government officials ‘can
discriminate against, minor-
ities in hiring without paying
an econonii¢’ price, so there
should be a way to challenge

HOMEGOODS

FURNITURE
WAREHOUSE

“Drive a Little to Save a Lot"

them in the courts, walker,
said.

But private employérs are’ dl

forced to hire the most
‘productive workers’ available,
because in the long. run the
employers won't remain com-
petitive if they don't.

e ville, cay and* the. ‘ther sail

a Rota Villa hte citizens
if 'of the money for the project/came from
from the RRAP Program, as did funds for an

for.Edwards Alarms checks
irtments.

In other, submissions, the $11,000 re-roofing pro} lec

commission heard advice
from all over. the political
map, some groups suggesting

more g involve-
ment in’ the economy and

FOR ALDERMAN
VOTE

\1 MacBain g James Robert

[x]

some far less.
Walker said evidence is
mounting that private enter-

thing, including © providin
services such as education
and garbage collection. bet-
ter than government.’

Canada should be more like
Japan and less like Sweden,
he added. -

Told by Shoyama that
Japan's education system is
completely public, Walker
said he didn't know the de-
tails and public schools could
yet prove to be more efficient
than private schools.

NEW MEASURE
Walker was followed by an

sae Bob storids’ for
1. Integrity and experience to ony for the ee
ofthe ine community.
Ne, fiscal bility if
“social awareness.

d with

aeceereret
ea development to Increase the tax
For transportation to the polls phone 365-3574.

develop &,new economy,
measure of success.

everyone has a chance at a
job or a good income and how

neither, said Sharon Johnson
of the Catholic Social Justice
Cc

prise doés just about every- -
3° EDMONTON (OP) —

which profit is no longer. mikes

they are treated if they have~

—CosNews Photo

Strik

‘was worth it —

says:Fraser Institute

weeks of a ‘British Columbia
government empioyees*:

.strike was not a high price to

pape pt tn hel eee

Tivo"

Aho pile ‘sector, reducing |
tlie ‘sive of the civil service,

; dereguistingin areas such as
rent control and changing the -

province's. overalls economic

Michael Walker, director of of
the Fraser Institute.

Walker told a~ luncheon
Monday of the Economic So-
ciety of Alberta that it ap-
pears the B.C. government

followed the advice of the
VY; hb: dis 7

adding that B.C.’s change in
attitude should have future
economic benefits,

One benefit would be to
reduce the internal momen-
tum for the growth of gov-

ae the long-term benefits
in British Columbia, saying
the policy change could also
be used as a pace-setter for
the rest of Canada.

_ But he said that jn any

> a
motivator behind B.C.’s ets:
tough economie ‘policies,
back

cu;

‘The real test is whether }t

‘tween: the government
bse arene
efs.

main ‘objectives’ include re-
straining total spending. in

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EIONEIDA

ie where a major,
fine group such as the
civil service is reduced, an
ae i inevitable.

ae Birla the effort,

The con-

frontation with employees
will also set the tone for
changes in labor legislation to
eeduce union power in both
the public and private sector,-
he said.

Walter told the group that
British Columbia’s push to
cut its public service should
bean encouragement to bur-

ucraeysheavy Provinces 1982.
ch as Alberth. :

“Ona per-capita basis, cee

‘West Coast neighbor and one
of the fastest-growing’ gov-
‘ernment budgets, he added.

as expected
to add $1 billion

VANCOUVER (GP) — Site.
of

other provinces will draw
totalling $800 mil-

pavilions and other building
work for Expo 86 will add $1
billion to the’ B.C. economy,
says the vice-president of the

Yon from the construction
phase.

The chief beneficiary other
than B.C. will be Alberta,

aoeenne and ele
cation fair for \

foll d by Ontario and
Quebec.
The is to run

Donald McConachie of the
Expo 86 Corp. told:the Asso-
ciation of Professional Econ-
omists of B.C. Tuesday that a
study of the fair’s impacts, by
Coopers and Lybrand Asso-
‘ciates Ltd. of Montreal,

shows Expo will provide B.C. -

with 11,700 man-years of em-
ployment.

McConachie, who stressed
the findings are pr
and that a full report will be

* |: released early next year, said

The

Automatic
Creosote
Control (A.C.C.) ,
is your Answer.

Available at: ~

from May 2 to Oct. 18, 1986.
During that period, B.C.’s
economy will be boosted by
$2.5 billion. A further $500
million will’ flow to other
provinces.

McConachie said the five-
month: event will generate
49,800. man-years of employ-
ment in B.C. and wages and

-RECOVERY _
TEETERING ON
RECESSION

VANCOUVER (CP) ‘— British’ Columbia's shaky
se Vacs Bsa on the brink of a recession,
B.C. economist George Pedersson warned Tuesday.

“We've got serious problems in British Columbia, much
more serious than the rest. of Canada,” Pedersson told a
one-day, d by the A ion of Profes-
sional ecules of B.C.

He predicts B.C.’s economy will continue to show
gradual improvement during the next year, but is concerned
that if the labor climate turns either excessively pessimistic
vor optimistic it could topple the economy into a recession,

Pedersson, former chief economist with ag tm

lel now head of a Vancouver consul ‘m,
Bloedel Ltd. and ee
and the Royal Bank that B.C. will lead the ee out of
recession.

He warned that the province's 's labor climate must not be
must not be endangered
by threats 0 of job los, and labor must not inflate its wage
expectations becatise of more bouyant economies in other
parts of Canada or markedly improved corporate profits.

sah nt tremendous increase

“Ta that we're going to see a tremendous
in profits but you shoal infer that there will be sub-
stantial wage he said,
adding that © companies will record big profit jumps partly
because 1982 profits ‘were so bad it will be easy to improve

on them, but profits will be needed to repair the damage

done by the recession.

Finance Minister Hugh Curtis, addressing the same
conference, said that bechuss the B.C. economy relies on
trade it must remain competitive internationally and it
would benefit from diversification.

“While we can do relatively little to expand total world
demand for lumber, pulp and mineral resources, we can take
steps to contain costs and improve the competitiveness of
British Columbia's industries,” ‘he «said. “The key to
industrial diversification, the key to export expansion and
the key to the creation of permanent jobs in the private
sector is cost containment.”

He the g tting legisla.”

tion introduced with the J july budget which included | plans to
gradually reduce the civil service by 25 per cent as neces-
sary to contain coata, But he said it was not so stringent as to
chop essential social programs. :
SERVICES SAVED

In spite of the howls of protests about education
spending cuts, he said, the per capita funding the province
provides for studehts in B.C. is $8,987 in 1983, compared
with $8,845 in 1962.

Similarly in health care, the province has the highest
per capita health costs of any province.

“The ‘starvation’ of social programs is just not in
evidence in our province today,” he said.

_Pedersson predicts that B.C.’s unemployment rate will

to be th 1984, will

EE Geral be per cent or an additional 86,000 jobs in the
next year. The province lost 123,000 jobs during the reces-
sion from the third quarter of 1981 to the fourth quarter of

as = CX thinks the unemployment rate by, the fourth quarter
of 1984 may be 12.0 per cent, little better than the 14.5 per
cent of the-depths of the recession in late 1982.

Strikes too ‘brief’

to effect economy

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Economists’ say the public
sector strikes which hit B.C.
during the past two weeks
were too brief to have a ser-
ious effect.on the province.

“If this strike had gone on
much longer, it would have
got a lot easier to determine
the effects,” said Richard
McAlary, chief economist
with the B.C. Central Credit
Union.

As it is, it will be hard to
disentangle the strike effects.
from fluctuations in the econ-
omy due to other causes. The
loss of three or four per cent
of an annual salary doesn't
have a dramatic effect on a
household, but a loss of 10 or
15 per.cent could be a heavy
blow, McAlary sai

“We were at the pnt that,
had

omist Richard Allen of the
Employers’ Council of B.C.

B.C. merchants were con-
cerned about possible effects
of the strike on sales during
the Christmas season.

“If it had gone on much
longer, Christmas sales
would have been affected,”
said Mark Startup of the $20-
member Retail Merchants
Association of B.C. Some re-
tailers say they were hurting
already, while others believe
the strike came at the peak of
the first rush of Christmas
buyirig and missed business
won't be back.

. Since 65 per cent of an

economy's growth is created
by personal consumption, a
change in spending behavior
has more impact than a sim-
ilar change in business in-

salaries will top $1 billion. if any more
Tax revenues flowing to all gohe out, we could expect
levels - of government will retail sales to have felt it

total $400 million.

Rumford Place
, 365-6141
hrs Baie Eh

Manutactured by.

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very strongly,” said econ-

or gov
spending, Allen said.
Clark, co-owner of
Mission Hill Vineyards in

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outside Keonwa,
says he won't recover the
sales he lost because the
strike shut down government.
Hquor stores. He estimated

. the loss at four or five per

cent of his-annual revenues,

The winery laid off 38 of its
42 workers during the strike.
It called back 12 on Monday.
The rest will be called back
as production pickes .up.

Bill Sharpe of the Old Fort
brewery in Prince George
found that his pre-strike pes-
simism was unwarranted. He
had expected a massive‘loss
of business because of the
Mquor store shotdown.

SS,
November 16, 1969 CastlegarNews as

|still: incradeing

‘ OTTAWA (CP) — ‘The
number of divorced people in
the country increased by 65.3
per cent ina five-year period,
says a study released Tues-
day by Statistics Canada,

Although young people are
Increasingly opting for the
‘Single life, marriage is far
from’ extinct, the study
shows.

The number of divorced
people increased to 500,102 in
1981 from 802,586 in 1978 — a
period in which the en\

“adult “population ‘grew by ;

only 10.8 per cent.

‘The overall number of sin:
gle adults, those 15 and over,
increased by 10 per cent, a
rate slightly below that of the
population increase.

The number of single peo-
ple aged 20 to 29 yéars in-
creased but there was a de-
crease in single people in
most ‘older age groups. _

The total number of mar-
ried adults increased’ by 8.9
per cent to 11,9 million from
11 million — a rate below the
‘population increase.

The proportion of the
adult, married population de-

creased to.68.8 per cent from Tuesday,
64.2 per cent.)

NEW. WESTMINSTER
(CP) —

Persons ‘in, commondaw

relationships are’ not ‘consid-

ered ‘married by. ‘Btatisties ‘terness
Canada. .
British Columbia had the!

highest proportion of

men and'4.2 per cent ofits

women, Newfoundland ‘had’
the lowest proportion —'0.8

per cent, of its; men’ and:1.2
per cent: of its wome! Th

‘The Columbian died Col

| banneiPtts all ober foc The
lumbian.”
‘Wein the newsroom
sro pica @ay. tt bas been
fun,” he said.'

*It.was, but the sad truth

» 4s that it hasn't been for the «

last 12 months. It has been a
grim struggie'to produce a

fee that. The Columbian
deserved better.

“We thank you, our rea-
ders, for your support. We
gave it our best shot. I guess
it pasa enough.

His story. said former pub-
lisher R.D. Taylor failed to
maintain the circulation, ad-

5 pap
‘against ever-increasing
ads’

fereyrell ath under’. the

“Some bitterness is inevi-
table. But we all’ wish the
newspaper jhad been given
the sigey of a’clean death
instead of allowed ‘to

ge pee publicly in its death,
throes. Many of. us ean. never

Managing Edii
ham’ ‘wrote : ithe front-pa;

ig and editorial gains
achieved when a 1978-79
strike shut down The Sun
and The Province in nearby
Vancouver.

The'Columbian was selling |
50,000 papers a day at that
time: Circulation in its dying
months had slipped below

/ 22,000.

Taylor, a major share-
holder in the family-owned
Columbian Co. Ltd., has said
the’ terminal illness’ began
when he was forced to take a
$2.5-million operating loan
from the bank in 1961'at peak
interest rates,

“It's been downhill since
then. Newspapers are an-
swerable to the retail trade

Death of a newspaper

Oct. 14. Some 150 jobe are:

lost with the daily’s shut-
down. A sale is expected of
the profitable custom print-
ing division and Taylor has
bought the company’s five
weeklies which he said prob-
ably will be produced ‘else-
where.

Wrote reporter Paul C.
Marck on the final editorial

and we have seen our ad- page:

vertising customers disap-
pear. The financial experts
kept telling us the recession
was ‘over, but it still isn't.”
The parent Pp was

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petitive. In its death throes it
starved fi

“This is a death story, that

and the

about $7 million in debt when
it was put into bankruptcy

OTTAWA (CP) — Many small b

young people have been spoiled by the
‘insurance system and the expectations of the
es ‘exceed their ‘abilities, a survey by ‘the

single women = "gh 6 ‘Per.
cent.
Nationally, 27.9 per ene of

the, adult population was.

single. |

Comfrey tea recall
being monitored:

OTTAWA (CP) — The
‘Health Department said
pears itis) monitoring a
recall of

ing a brew made from half a
box of the tea, much: more
than’ the’ normal amount

Comfrey ‘tea an- used.

nounced this week by Cel-
estial Seasonings Ine. of Bou-
Ider, Colo.

The tea, found to be
contaminated with low levels
of the drug atropine, is being
recalled in the United Staes
and Canada. _

The loose-packed and bag-
ged tea-has been distributed
across Canada’ by eight pri-

mary Canadian?

The effects of atropine in-
clude rapid heartbeat, dilated
pupils, dry, skin and parched
mouth. In large doses it may
prodtice extreme agitation or
coma, the. Health Depart
ment said. -

Celestial Seasonings be-
eves only a smalls amount of
the tea’ was’ contaminated

itors.. and only the one incident has

distribu
"The tan is tiado by Cole
stial

been reported... ‘But the

and: was
voluntarily recalled’when a

~ U.8ivoman suffered blurred:

vision and nausea after drink-

is recalling all the

‘tea for “precaution and public eyo

ithe ‘depart-
ment said.

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MACLEODS
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of Indepe fi shows. 5} 2h
As well, i is too

: However, Liberal MP
:Bulloch and

of the

Job-creation efforts and other
issues will ee made: public next month, he said,

Ursula Appolloni’ warned

vs) of young People and the

that the critici
unemployment insurance

ahd too easily obtained, many say.
“The attitude of young workers is unreal. Thy foal

small businessmen in response to the recent survey. “I
blame this on the g by making uy
and welfare so easy. o
The hand-written remarks were among / pea
ined in a package by fe lent
John Bulloch to the C

Flipping through the package of remarks, Appolioni,
‘MP for the Toronto-area riding of York South: - Weston,
the world owes them a living,” wrote one of about/10,000: ‘said she is frightened by the negative attitude of

businessmen.

However, others such as Progressive Conservative
Otto Jelinek, MP for the southern Ontario riding of
Hilton,’ agreed with Bulloch that an overly generous
jobléss peerel Lessa hasled young people to expect

Full details of the’ wide-ranging survey which ; vaso
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