BUSINESS TORONTO (CP) — Presidents of small companies are getting much better raises this year than bosses of big firms, a national survey. of executive salaries show. Chief executive officers of companies with fewer than 100 employees are enjoying average salary increases of 12.7 per cent, while top officials at firms with more than 300 workers are averaging 6.5-per-cent, says thé survey of executive salaries by the management consulting firm of Stevenson Kellogg Ernst and Whinney. Over-all, chief executives averaged an 8.2-per-cent pay raise in their latest year and, for those winning a bonus, it was usually 30 per cent of base pay, said the survey. At this level, base pay means an average of $127,000 and the bonus added $38,000 to that. “I'd venture to say (the bigger raises for chiefs of smaller firms) is because results of the boom economy are felt sooner by smaller organizations and owner-managers are feeling confident enough to reward themselves,” The survey also showed executives with companies near the Pacific or Atlantic oceans received better raises. It found executives on the two coasts had salary increases of 9.5 per cent, while the average was 7.6 per cent in the rest of the country, despite the better performing economies of central Canada, said Mac. Crimmon. “Companies in these provinces are either playing catch-up, or realizing they have to pay better to attract top executives, or more probably a combination of both,” MacCrimmon said. The survey found 68 of the 116 chief executives who responded received a car as part of their pay package and the cars had a replacement value of $28,000. Car allowances were paid to another 19 per cent of the respondents. The average forecasted average increases of 5.2 per cent over-all for 1988. Non-manufacturing presidents can expect an in- crease of 6.4 per cent, while manufacturing and public sector organizations can expect to see executive salary increases of 5.1 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively next year. Production workers won an average 6.1-per-cent salary increase this year, the survey indicated. Increases were highest in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and results. said Scott MacCrimmon, who compiled the survey Quebec, while B.C. and Alberta increases were about 4 per cent, MacCrimmon said. Mobile office eyed VANCOUVER (CP) — Cellu: lar technology made it cheap and easy to put the office telephone on wheels, so it’s not surprising the rest of the office could follow. Less than three years after the introduction of cellular phone systems in Canada, the two rival cellular network operators are pitching the mobile office to their cus- tomers. A car phone now can play host to a portable fascimile machine — fax for short — Weekly Stocks VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were down in mod- erate trading today on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Volume at close was 11,522,- 308 shares. Of the issues traded, 239 advanced, 321 declined and 540 were unchanged for a VSE index of 1125.06, down 13.88 from Thursday's close. Baywest Capital was the most active trader among equities, up .06 to .48 on 137,000 shares, Mintel Inter- national Development was steady at .48 on 134,000, H.T.R. Industries gained .01 to .81 on 115,000 and Rutland Biotech A remained at $1.05 on 99,300. McConneil-Peel advanced .15 to $2.30 and Black Swan Gold rose .01 ta $1.36. Leading development equities trading was Gold- brae Development, up .02 to -52 on 241,000 shares, Gold- pac Investments was steady at .95 on 214,500, Progressive inerals was unchanged at .86 on 210,000 and Kerrisdale Resources fell .05 to .20 on 182,100. Golden Nevada dropped .04 to $2.86 which can send or receive complete documents in less than a minute. The trouble now is finding space for passengers among all the equipment. About 100,000 subscribers are tied into the two cellular networks — about evenly split between Cantel Inc. and Cellnet Canada Inc. Cellular is an advance over old-fashioned radio tele- phones, which- used only a few channels and required a switchboard operator to place calls. Cellular systems use a network of computer-con- trolled, low-power overlap- ping transceiver towers and dozens of channels. The networks are in heav- ily populated areas and busy travel corridors, such as be- tween Toronto and Montreal or Calgary and Edmonton. It didn’t take long for cellular phone users to try to mate their phones to com- puters, but technical prob- lems had to be ironed out before they were reliable, says David Annan, Cantel's director of technology ~de- velopment. Because cellular uses radio waves, the chances of garb- ling a transmission are greater -than on normal phone lines. A new type of modem — the device which connects computers with phones — had to be de- veloped. Real estate agents were the first to use the tie-in. They already used cellular phones to set up appoint- ments. Now, with a lap-top computer costing from sev- eral hundred dollars to more than $3,000, a salesman can get the latest listings and financial information without returning to the office. “It's like driving around with the entire Mutliple Listing Service with you,” said Annan. Some new organizations, including The Canadian Press, the national news- gathering co-operative, use cellular phones to transmit stories. 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Sandman ‘Inn led 4-1--after—she. it. with Simonen, Brad Makortoff, Rick Shukin and Dan Walker scoring. Jeff Townsend drew two assists while Tony Darosa, Ken Keraiff and Shukin were credited with singles. Kelly Keraiff scored the lone Shell goal unassisted. The second period scoring belonged to Shell who led 5-4 after 40 minutes as Alan Conroy and Dave MacKinnon each bagged a goal and an assist, while Rick Christensen and Wayne Popoff each added single markers. Picking up assists were Randy Martin, Bruno Tassone and Vince Anti; But Sandman watacieed Shell 4-1 in the last period for the win. Shukin and Townsend each had a goal and an assist for Sandman in the third period, while Simonen had two goals. Assists went to Jim Nazaroff and Walker each with two. easel Nr cateel Y ween Sandman and Woodland Park Shell. —CasNewsPhoto by Chery! Calderbank wins one Conroy scored the lone Shell goal in the third period after he was set up by MacKinnon and Antignani. In Thursday night action, Hi-Arrow shut down Shell 9-2. Doug Makortoff had one goal and an assist for Hi-Arfow in thé first petiod-While Rick Penner settled-for one goal. Robon King picked up two assists. In the second period Bill Nazaroff and Rod Zavaduk each scored a and added an assist. Wayne Kinakin also added a goal while Frank Costa and Randy Martin each added an assist. Kelly Keraiff added one goal and one assist for Shell in the second period while Tassone settled for a goal. Bob Larsh and Sander added assists. The thrid period scoring belonged to Hi-Arrow. Penner added two goals and one assist, Kinakin had one goal and one assist while King settled for one goal. Assists went to Zavaduk with two and Costa, Martin and Makortoff each with one. Tonight Hi-Arrow and the Sandman face off at the Community Complex. Smith gives Habs win MONTREAL (CP) — Centre Bobby Smitli fired his 12th goal to end a tie at 17:05 of the second period, and the Montreal Canadiens, displayed the tight-checking style that. has become, their trademark, earned a 2-1 National Hockey League victory over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night. The Canadiens, who have eight victories and four ties in their last 13 games, spotted New Jersey a 1-0 lead, when Pat Verbeek, the Devils’ top goal scorer, scored his 16th goal early in the first period. The Devils then contributed to their own downfall, taking five of the next seven penalties, but it wasn't until Gord Mark was assessed a four-minute penalty for high-sticking Montreal's Stephane Richer in the face early in the second period that the Canadiens finally cashed in on an advantage. MAPLE LEAFS 6 KINGS 6 TORONTO (CP) — Mirko Frycer’s goal with 62 seconds left in the third period capped a four-goal Toronto rally and earned the Maple Leafs a 6-6 NHL tie Saturday night with the Los Angeles Kings. Bernie Nicholls had scored two goals, including one of four consecutive Los Angeles power-play goals in the first period, to give the Kings what appeared to be an insurmountable 5-1 lead. Jimmy Carson, Mark Hardy, Dave Taylor and Bobby Carpenter also scored for the Kings, giving Los Angeles a 6-8 lead after 40 minutes. Rick Lanz, Tom Fergus and Gary Leeman supplied then first three Leaf goals. C. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — 12th and 13th goals of the season and Mike Ridley added another to spark the Washington Capitals past the Hartford Whalers 4-3 in the NHL Saturday night. In the second period, Washington took a 3-1 lead on power-play goals byk Gartner and Ridley within a span of 1:32. Gartner one-timed home a feed from Mark Hunter from in the NHL Saturday night. Bob Bassen scored the game-winner, with 2:14 to play. Mikko Makela scored twice as the Islanders came back with a three-goal barrage early in the third period to erase a 4-1 Flyers lead. > At 17:46 of the final period, Bassen took a pass from Pat LaFontaine and fired a shot which bounced off the pads of Philadlephia goalie Wendell Young and trickled into the net for a 5-4 Islander lead. BLUES 4 CANUCKS 1 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookie Tony Hrkac set up: three straight goals, leading the St. Louis Blues to a 4-1 NHL victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night. Hrkac set up goals by Tony McKegney, Herb Raglan and Rick Meagher, helping St. Louis overcome a 1-0 deficit. Rob Ramage scored the Blues’ final goal with 5:01 to play. Greg Adams scored Vancouver's goals, opening the scoring at 9:35 of the first. period with a dash up left wing aroundst. Louis defenceman Rob Whistle. Adams cut to his right, beating Blues goaltender Rick Wamsley for his 15th goal of the season and fifth in two games against St. Louis. BRUINS 7 NORTH STARS 5 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Top draft choice Glen Wesley scored his first streaking tie and went on to a 7-5 victory over the slumping North Stars. Cam Neely and Steve Kasper added two goals apiece for the Bruins, who have won six straight games and seven of their last eight. The North stars, who have lost six of their last eight games, went ahead 1-0 on Frantisek Musil’s goal 13:13 into ‘the contest. But with 4:21 left in the first period, Geoff Courtnall shook off Brian Lawton’s check and beat Minnesota goaltender Kari Takko to tie the game. White edges Hampton Humphreys of North Vancouver came By The Canadian Press TRAIL — Jennifer White of North Vancouver combined a third-place finish in free skating with a second in figures to edge Elizabeth Hampton of Vancouver in novice ladies’ competition at the B.C. apie figure skating Third aa we went to Tawney Lem of Kamloops, whose winning perfor- mance in the free skating event moved championships, Dec. 2-5 in North Battleford, Sask. Shane Troyer of Victoria overtook Coquitlam’s Jason Mongrain in the free skate to win the men’s novice title. Mongrain, the leader after figures, placed second in free skating, while Other Natasha Markovina and Tom Engl- maier of West Vancouver's in pairs competition, and Kimberley Popp of tennis There's a jot happening today. We have a new tity council this morning and while the winners are probably nursing sore heads this morning due to celebrating their political vic- tories, the losers are probably trying to figure out what went wrong. And there's a couple of football games today that will decide who will take to the field in next Sunday's Grey Cup. In pre-novice events, Susan Pee Wees split weekend games the slot at 1:17 and Ridley redirected a shot from the point on beefing up the university's by Kevin Hatcher. PENGUINS 4 FLAMES 4 The goals by snapped 4 CALGARY (CP) — Pittsbugh’s Mario Lemieux scored string of 27 straight negated penalties by the Whalers — a one goal and set up two others, all in the third period, to lead streak which stretched over five games. Kevin Hatcher's goal in the third period turned out to be the game-winner for Washigton. ISLANDERS 6 FLYERS 4 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The New York Islanders scored five straight goals to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 budget. And federal Sports Minister Otto Jelinek says no one is going to get any money until he's satisfied the proper procedure was used in Victoria. ‘and slipped in his 18th goal of the season.