Pa ¥ ga , June 26, 1985 WANTED Vehicles of the West Kootenay for Special Discount Prices on Paint & Bodywork! Rock guarding at no extra charge with every complete paint job. DROP IN AND ARRANGE YOUR SPECIAL DEAL! REMEMBER: We meet our friends by ac- cident. FREE ESTIMATES — FREE COURTESY CAR — NO OBLIGATION! ) R) qp2)® 94.92, 3 Maloney Pontiac Buick Columbia Ave., Castlegar Wm. R. McKay, Png. R.H. Granholm, Chairman, and the Board of Directors, of the Vancouver based JOHNSTON GROUP of Com panies are very pleased to announce the appointment of Wm. R. McKay. P-Eng as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 7th, 1985. Mr. McKay became well known throughout the Western Canadian and international business communi ties as Chairman and Principal of the Calgary-based Trojan Group and brings to Johnston a solid background of achievement in entrepreneurship and corporate development. Johnston is a major consortium of comparties involved in marine terminal facilities for deep-sea vessels, steve: doring, trucking of bulk products, line: haul trucking, contract cartage, heavy haul, moving and storage, warehousing and distribution, fuel control and building access systems, general insurance and real estate investment. The 73 year old company enjoys revenues exceeding $100 million per year and employs over 1400 people in British Columbia Alberta, Saskatchewan and its inter national subsidiaries. McKay, who be comes a principal shareholder in the Company, says, “Johnston is perfectly i positioned to exploit the huge potential N that exists in interfacing between West ern Canada and Pacific Rim Countries Mr. McKay will be based in Vancouver but will retain his offices and business interests in Alberta Pulp mill to close briefly Crestbrook Forest Indus- tries Ltd. has announced that the company’s bleached kraft pulp mill at Skookumchuck will curtail production for approximately three weeks during the late summer-early fall period. The Skookumchuck Pulp Division produces about 500 tons per day and employs 250 persons. The pulp mill is located about 35 miles north of Cranbrook. Crestbrook Forest Indus- tries Ltd. harvests the forest resources of the Kootenay region and is a fully-inte- grated forest products com. pany directly employing over 1,200 persons. FIRST WINNER . . . Ernie Management Accountants of B.C. looks on as Fred F: troduced the certificate in 1984 to recognize an inter in their education program. ne (centre) id of the Society of Ht (left), West K Chapter Chairman presents the Society's new Accounting Technologist Certificate to the West Kootenay’s first recipient, Terrance Fleet (right). The society in- B.C. president visits accountants Ernie Iannacone, president of the Society of Manage- ment Accountants of British Columbia, addressed the West Kootenay Chapter of the Society recently. During his visit to the West Koot- enay, Iannacone toured Wes- tar Timber’s Pulp Operations and Cominco's Metals Oper- ations. Tannacone spoke at the local chapter's annual general meeting held at the Douk- hobor Village Restaurant in Castlegar. The Society of Manage- others in industry and gov- ernment. The B.C. Society was incorporated in 1945 and is part of a National Fed- eration established in 1920. The Canadian Society now numbers over 38,000. The provincial society was founded to provide an edu- cational program for the training, accreditation and professional development of the Management Branch of the accounting profession in the province and grants the designation RIA (Registered Industrial Accountant) to its graduate members. ment A Pr The provincial society has PI and a ip of over 1,500 services to ac- RIA M Account- countants, financial man- ants and over 1,700 students agers and controllers and on the RIA program. level of ach "WALDEN NORTH' Dream town for sale LILLOOET (CP) — Hidden in a narrow mountain valley near here, a dream community is for sale with a price tag of $3.4 million. Walden North, as it's called, is the private paradise of American entrepreneur Vernon Pick. But Pick is 82 and spends most of his time in England and Switzerland, so his forest retreat with a beautiful house, well-equipped machine shop, and private hydroelectric plant now is on the market. But it’s not easy to find a buyer with the money and enthusiasm to take over a virtually self-contained property designed to bring high technology to the wilderness — if the workers and markets can be found. There's a slim possibility that Expo 86 chairman Jim Pattison, a , could be the man. He paid a quick visit to Walden North during a recent visit to Lillooet. While admitting its used are o---- ‘very limited,” Pattison Wage rates drop OTTAWA (CP) — Wage rates for unionized workers in construction trades were on average 3.2 per cent higher in May than a year earlier, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. ‘The union wage-rate index, covering 16 trades in 22 cities and based on wage rates in 1981 equalling 100 was 132 in May, the agency said. The index does not give what the rates are but rather meas. ures the changes in rates. J.E. FLETCHER West Kootenay Power ond Light Company, Limited is pleased to announce the elec tion of Mr. J.€. Fletcher to its Boord of Directors replacing Mr. A.V. Marcolin who retired trom the Boord. Mr. Fletcher is Senior Vice. resident, Cominco Metals and a director of Canada Metals Company Ltd., Comin: co Engineering Services Lid. and Western Canada Steel Utd. However, the index shows that wage rates have more than kept pace with inflation since 1981 although the latest year-to-year increase in wage index has been somewhat less than the year-to-year in crease in consumer prices, which in May was 3.9 per cent. While not exactly compar. able, the consumer price in. dex, also based on prices in 1981 equalling 100, was 126.5 in May, a somewhat smaller increase than posted by the wage-rate index. said he's sending someone from his office to study the potential of the “unique and interesting place.” Walden North is spread over 40 forested hectares about eight kilometres from Lillooet, which is 180 kilometres north of Vancouver. HAS OWN POWER Pick, who became a multi-millionaire from uranium claims in the U.S., selected the site because he was able to get B.C. government permission to dam Cayoosh Creek for hydro power. When Pick began building in the early 1970s, the local community was soon buzzing with rumors. There were stories he was building a private nuclear base or using high voltage to melt the gold left in the old mines in the mountains. In fact, Pick was building a home and a group of workshops equipped to do everything from electronics to carpentry. He finished the job and for several years the workshops hummed with activity doing contract jobs for sawmills and B.C. Hydro. “But Mr. Pick had planned to have workers living here in a sort of community and it didn't really work out,” said Paul Fleming, who began working at Walden North in 1971 and today looks after the building and power plant maintenance. “Our last contract job here was three or four years ago and Mr. Pick just got bored and moved away. The fun went out of it for him. It’s sad not to see the place being used because so much work was put into it over many years.” The property, immaculately maintained by a resident caretaker and outside staff, has attracted many curious visitors but no buyers. When Pattison visited he was given a tour by Fleming and gazed in wonderment at the superbly equipped machine shop, woodworking shop, auto repair shop, grinding room, paint spray shop, electronics room, warehouse, offices, washrooms, and lunch room. CONCRETE BUILDINGS All the buildings are of concrete and brick with insulation and air conditioning. All power comes from a hydroelectric plant with a potential of 1,000 kilowatts, far more than the project needs, even in winter. Outside the work complex are landscaped gardens, lawns, a fountain in a recirculating pool, and picnic tables under the trees beside a pond formed by the dammed creek. There are three houses on the property but the main one is on a mountain ledge overlooking the little valley and it can be reached only by an electric cablecar. The main house, with four bedrooms, six bathrooms and a library, is furnished with antiques, rugs and silver from all over the world. In a glass cabinet is a collection of old guns. The shelves of the panelled library are filled with leather-bound first editions. “The actual cost of building this place, including drilling a tunnel through the mountain for the hydro Project, were many millions more than today’s asking price,” said Vancouver real estate salesman Patrick Coulson who has the listing The asking price does not include the contents of the buildings but further sales could be negotiated BLACK, SHAH THE TALK OF FLEET STREET By PAUL KORING LONDON (CP) — On Fleet Street, the Knowlton Advertiser and the Stockp industry in Brit profit potential of Britai engender little warmth. printing. in North America. graph, which are origins of interest — and some concern. The two papers — one a tiny Quebec weekly that was soon renamed the Eastern Townships Advertiser, and the other a non-union free circulation provincial newspaper in northern England — were the starting points for Conrad Black and Eddie Shah. Black, the Canadian financier who has gone from 24-year-old publisher to head of a financial empire in just 16 years, now has positioned himself to eventually control The Telegraph, Britain's leading conservative daily. Shah, who battled the print and journalists unions and won in Northern England, now plans to launch a new daily newspaper that will avoid bloated Fleet Street manning levels by using technology which has been commomplace in North America for a decade. Both men, and their impact on the newspaper in, are currently the talk of Fleet Street. They are the latest in a long and often-distinguished list of powerful individuals attracted to the limelight and 's newspaper industry. ° WIELD POWER Press barons are part of the country’s national newspaper scene. They stir strong emotions, wield considerable power in a nation of avid newspaper readers, and often have more trouble than they expect in changing the~deeply entrenched status quo. Generally, the ones currently on the scene, like Australian Rupert Murdoch who owns upmarket The Times and its unlikely stablemate, The Sun, which comes complete with fabricated interviews, bare breasts and the largest English-language circulation in the world, However, former barons, like Canadians Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thompson seem — with the soothing passage of time — to be remembered with a mixture of awe, affection, and tales of the “good old days.” Shah, Murdoch and Black may eventually achieve similar status. In the meantime they all face the struggle to drag Fleet Street kicking and scréaming into the world of computer typesetting, satellite transmission and color So far Murdoch has won some gains from the unions but now has apparently turned his attention to television Few expect Black to be the “passive” partner that he was described as by The Telegraph. But even if he eventually takes control of the 130-year-old daily, he, like Murdoch and Thompson before him at The Times, will inherit a massively overstaffed newspaper prestige and credibility don't pay the bills. The Tele tially attracted Black by its efforts to raise $175 million to finance a new printing works, is expected to lose $1.4 million this year TIRESOME TASK And slugging it out on Fleet Street has often become tiresome for tycoons with other interests. So Shah, the 41-year-old son of an Iranian diplomat father and an English mother, may turn out to have the best shot at modernizing Fleet Street. where Castlegar Disabled kids learn with others MONTREAL (CP) — Nar- in Finley is a 16-year-old eighth grader, and like everyone else at her school, complains about homework, worries about her looks and is thrilled by a good grade. Hannah Lusthaus, seven, goes to kindergarten where her favorite activity is show and tell. To their classmates, they are just Narin and Hannah. But seven years ago, they might not have been at- tending regular schools. Narin has a serious learn- ing di ing her uphill work — and Hannah was born with Down's syn- drome, a form of mental re- tardation. They are enrolled in ordin- ary classrooms thanks to a 1978 Quebec law requiring that all children be educated as normally as possible — in- stead of shut away in in- stitutions. and is aimed at the 15 per cent of the school population which suffers from a learning dnbitty. the 93 per cent of ability to perceive chronolo- gical order — making math consid. cred able to be eduented pnd capped children. Some children, such as periods a week when they may be tutored privately. Others, with more severe schools, where they can work - i slower pace. They mix h regular students for ican pe mapa music and lunch breaks in or- der to learn social skills. “The most important learn- ing children do is from other children,” said Renee Ste- vens, psychol at the Me- Gill Learning Centre. “So when you —segregate such youngsters, you cut off their most important source of in- formation.” Critics approve of the idea, but say the schools don't have the necessary resources to carry it out. “You can wait six months for a psycholo- gist’s special learning disabilities, warns that such children’ need con- stant Narin, one of about 102 disabled or physically handi- today carry a heavy load. Some may not be prepared or able to go the extra mile for these students,” she said. classes are often overcrowd- ed,” says Sheila Donohue, an official of the Quebec Asso- ciation for Children with Kay Dila, head of the Landsdowne Learning Cen- tre, a non-profit group which works with children with the commitment, it won't,” capped de at her school, is beginning to believe life will work out for stand something, I was afraid to tell my teacher because when I did she made me feel I possil Hannah, the first Down's syndrome child at her school, is in a regular class where she learns social skills from other children. , June 23 Cryptoquip: PUPIL AT OUR DANCE SCHOOL IS STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. dish or pair of candlesticks. Gift-boxed. ‘Bavarian’ 24 Gift-boxed. 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