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NOVA SCOTIA
FREIGHT CAR
PLANT SILENT

TRENTON, N.S. (CP) — The ker-whump,’ ker-
whump of the axle fotge at the Trenton Car Works is the
very heartbeat of this steelworking town.

In good times, the thudding rhythm echoes through
the town and vibrates in the ground beneath it — children
climb into bed feeling a faint tingle in their toes that tells
them daddy has work, and all is well.

But Trenton's heart beats rarely these days.

A town that grew up oh boom-and-bust cycles —
except for a long stretch of prosperity, through the 1960s
and 1970s — has been plunged into its toughest times in
memory. Trenton's 3,000 residents are faced with 40 per
cent unemployment.

Canada’s only railway axle forge is part of the
rambling Hawker Siddeley freight-car factory that

i this town 160 northeast of Halifax.

Trenton claims to be the birthplace of Canada's steel
industry.

Started as a forge in’ 1872, the plant grew into
Canada’s first steel maker in1883 but shut down the steel
furnaces in 1904 and switched to heavy forgings.

Now it's a network of forges, shears and assembly
lines that hammer, weld and rivet raw steel into freight
cars of every type, then gives them three coats of paint at
an adjacent paint factory.

RIVALS SIZE

It's a big operation. The L-shaped complex of faded,
white sheds covers nine hectares of floor space. Walking
from end to end is a 1.6-kilometre hike. Its size rivals
even the big Sydney Steel Corp. mill, 260 kilometres to
the east.

After the good times of the '60s and "70s, the bottom
fell out in the early 1980s when U.S. entrepreneurs seized
on an American tax credit for leasing rail cars.

They ordered a glut of cars from American factories,
which they then leased to the railways at low rates,
taking their profits from the tax writeoffs.

It became cheaper for railways, including Canada's,
to rent American-made rail cars than to buy them from
Canadian manufacturers.

In 1980, the Trenton works made over 3,100 cars and
employed about 2,000 people. Last year, it made only
about 300 narrow-gauge cars for Third World countries
that bought them with money provided by the Canadian
Export Development Corp.

The factory stayed open only a few months making
these few cars and then shut down, reducing the work
force to under 100. Canada’s other rail-car factories fared
no better.

The Marine Industries Ltd. shipyard in Sorel, Que.,
shut down its rail-car division, leaving only the National

round axles! ‘

‘Those orders dried up in 1986, and the heartheat was
silenced.» y pits

In Derrick Brown's kitchen, the sound was the
shik-shik of @ miniature cigarette-making machine and
not the distant rumblings of the axle forge.

“This 1s.a product or unemployment, too,” said the
punch-press operator, “I always keep & can of tobaceo
around for the hard times.”

Brown, in his 30s, has 16 years’ seniority but figures
his layoffs have outnumbered his working time by a
two-to-one margin over the last six years. Still, with his
wife's salary as a store clerk and his unemployment
insurance they were comfortable and their four-year-old
daughter properly cared for.

Now his wife is being laid off and Brown worries
about keeping up his $415-a-month house payments and
having enough left over to heat the old two-storey home
he bought six years ago:

When he was working, he earned about $350 a week.
He gets a little more than $800 a month from
unemployment benefits.

MADE CHANGES

But he adjusts. He gives up tailor-made cigarettes,
burns more wood and less oil, and wishes for a night on
the town. He passes the time tinkering with old
snowmobiles in his garage. He could, perhaps, get
another job outside town but he’s stuck like glue to
‘Trenton and says he won't leave.

“['ve lived in Trenton all my life,” he says. “I like it
here. I'm not going to relocate.”

For Stan Vachal, being laid off last year took some
getting used to because his 35 years’ seniority and his job
in the axle forge usually ‘protected him from
unemployment.

“It's been 22 to 24 years since I've been laid off, so
now after 35 years it’s different and it's really hard.”

Vachal, too, gets by. He's 55 years old and his four
children are grown and self-supporting, although one son
still lives at home. He has unemployment insurance, his
house is paid for and he-was able to predict when the
layoffs would come. He stays active as a town councillor.

It’s a matter of getting used to living as he did in his
younger years at the plant, in the 1950s, when he was laid
off regularly.

“Personally, I've always tried to live with what I
knew I had coming,” he said. “I knew what the plant was
like, so I could survive on that.

“We may be down a little, but we're not out.”

The United Steelworkers Union has been lobbying
for five years to persuade Ottawa to stop Americans from
dumping surplus rail cars on the Canadian market. The
union also wants Ottawa to establish a rail-car
procurement agency to break the boom-and-bust cycles
by buying cars in steady quantities.

may.

i
VANCOUVER ( i,

Statements by an influential
Progréssive Conservative
MP that Ottawa might serap
‘or delay a promise to
Vaneouver an internal
banking centre will hurt Brit-
ish Columbia's Pacific Rim
trade efforts, say two pro-
vincial cabinet ministers.
” Finance Minister Mel Cou-
velier said Monday in a. tele-
phone interview from Tokyo,
where he is promoting the
banking centre, that B.C.
could lost credibility as a
Pacific Rim trade hub if
Japanese investors hear of
opposition in Ottawa.
Economic Development
Ministeb Grace McCarthy
said politicians from Central
Canada have a bias against
B.C. and “are not in tune with
what Western Canada's plans
are.”

Sue

remarks by Don
the
“mance
might be waiting for
committee's report before it
decides to set up Vancouver
and Montreal as international
banking centres. Toronto,
was excluded from the prop-
onal,

“I guess if I was House
leader and I saw a bill that is
likely to be opposed by both
the Liberals and the NDP
and a hell of a lot of my own
guys and was as divisive as
this: thing, I guess I would
have a lot more bills on the
order paper that had to have
more priority than this,” said
Blenkarn, who represents a
Toronto-area riding.
“Wouldn't you?”

‘They were responding to

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to 20,000 varieties of apples
cultivated all over the world.
Only a handful have been
isolated for commercial pro-
duction as most are either too
small, too fragile, too large or
have an odd taste.

Researchers have narrow-
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bia's Okanagan Valley to
four main varieties: Red
Delicious, Golden Delicious,
McIntosh and the relative
new comer, the Spartan,
which was developed in the
valley

Dr. Sam La “ropearch
scientist for B.C. Fruits
in Kelowna, says there is
continuous research in de-
veloping new varieties and
improving the familiar varie:
ties at the government Re.
search Station in Summer
land.

Many of them will prob-
ably appear in an
orchard, because of the ex
pense of planting a new
orchard, and the doubtful
acceptance of a new variety

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In the modern agriculture
laboratory, the scientists
take a twig bearing at least
three buds, and radiate it
with cobolt 60 gamma rays.
The buds are then grafted
onto a seeding root stock and
placed in a greenhouse to
grow. Each run involves up
to 6,000 irradiated buds to be

evaluated. What are the
scientists looking for?

Their guidelines include
tree growth habit, earliness
of fruiting, fruit quality, fruit
storage ability, cold hardi
ness, and disease resistance.

Some improvements can
never be used because every
new improvement _ brings
about side affects that may
be more detrimental than the
improvement.

For example, it is possible
to breed an apple that is easy
to handle in the operation
from the orchard to the
supermarket, but the tough
characteristics that make an
apple handle well, make it
undesirable as an eating
apple.

The research scientists at
Summerland have introduced
the Spartan and the Summer
Red to the apple family. The
Spartan, of course, has be
come an important apple
variety for the Okanagan.
The Summer Red, although
not a big variety in B.C., has
become an important apple
for northern Europe. One
orchard in Denmark now has
200 acres of Summer Reds
thriving.

According to B.C. Tree
Fruits’ officials, today's re
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Free utilit
FULLY
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Large one, two and three
bedroom apartments, own en-

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FURNISHED bachelo
nished one bdrm. svi
365-8132.

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LARGE 3 bdrm. mobile home in
Robson, close to bus route. 365-
7188. tin/12

ONE BORM. hou

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$255/month. 365-2428.

2 BDRM. house, adjacent to
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3119. i ee

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72 STATIONWAGON Ford Ltd.
429 <.i. auto. Best offer tokes.
365-6914 3/12

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suitable for one/two le.
2,500 3q.Ht. of 365-6408. ona
Could be converted to 3 BORM. house with bi

retail office space. ‘near Robson school. 365-

CASTLEAIRD PLAZA

1100 8q-#t., good exposure
Only vacant store in Plaza.

WAREHOUSE
2,200 sq.ft. of warehouse.
Located in new buildi
Reasonable rent, excellent
location

OFFICE RENTAL
400 8q.11. office.
Heat and lights included
$250/per month

3/12

3 bedroom

with lots. of yord. Possible
subsidy available. Small pets
welcome on approval. Office
‘open 2-4 Wednesday or leave

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MOVING SALE —
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= 3/12

RECENTLY renovated
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1977 WONDA CVCC 5 5

2 BORM. apartment. Stove.
fridge, loundry facilities:
daycare close. 365-8063. 7/11

ONE 2 bdrm; 1-3 bdrm. -
tments, Meadowbrook
365-3933 Hn/96

completely
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$1,800. 1977 Honda Civic $1

Ph. 365-3485, 3
1970 CHEV 4x4, with canopy. 4
speed, $1875. 365-7019. 3/12

1975 DODGE RAMCHARGER 4x4
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BEAUTIFUL, very clean 1973
12'x68' C i home. 3

drapes ond som:
$9,000. Coll 365-6240 otter 5 p.m.
7/8

3/12

10 a.m. - 2

1978 DODGE club-cob, 4x4, V-6
, $3,500. Ph.

1980 18 CANAVENTURE, hor-
atop. new rea

WANTED 16 anopy,
through windshield,
70 h.p. Ph. 359-7031

FERUGSON Tractor, 3-point hit
ch, P.T.0. $1,600. Bolens 14-HP
with rotevator, blode

$2800. 442-5264

dition, $2,200. 365-265" mal