LRPRPE ALLE FRET ROMER NET IN aeiaeiaincemaaias ! CASTLEGAR NEWS, Sunday, July 26, 1981 B SUMMIT SAVINGS “15 Va % invorest PLAN 24 CHEQUING::............754.% inrerest TERM DEPOSITS ...... vavcsestupto 17%. Interest A8 Hire a student CASTLEGAR NEWS, Sunday, July 26, 19131 Inflation pushes weak firms out A service which benefits everyone SHEREE LaFOND and JOY LESCHIUTTA . . . child ac- tivities workers. By Bonnie Pereverzoff This summer, over 250 Castlegar students regis- tered at the Student Em- ployment Centre. Any em- ployer is welcome to use the referral service to hire a stu- dent for a day, a month, part time or fulltime. A summer job gives a student great work experience and of course the finances to return to school in the fall. Hiring a student proves to be a ter- rifie benefit for employers because they are able to hire super workers for that extra work burden in the summer. Top Left: Rob Beynon was hired in May by Wally Wal- per of Walper Masonig. He has spent most of his summer being Mr. Walper’s right hand man, bricks and mixing mortar. Rob isn’t qualified to do any actual bricklaying without having comploted the four year ap- prenticeship program but he has gained valuable experi- ence just by watching Mr.° Walper’s talents. This is the first summer Mr. Walper has ever hired a student and has stated he has been “very satisfied” with the results. He says that hiring a student was an excellent idea because a student fills in perfectly for that busy summer season. Top Right: Ramona Osto- foroff is a grade 12 Stanley Humphries student. This summer she has the reson- sibility of supervising the Deer Park reunion Deer Park Reunion, held mid-July at the Pat Romaine farm, was a gathering of approximately 75 persons who came to renew friend- ships. The majority were the original residents or mem- bers of their family who made their home in the area before the construction of the Keenleyside Dam by B.C. Hydro. Farmer residents came from as far away as Van- couver and Edmonton and all points in between. They ar- rived in motor homes, camp- ers and Cadillacs and a few even by boat. This family-like affair was composed of people ranging in ages from four months to pioneers in their 80s. Among them were members of a family who had settled in Deer Park in 1904. In spite of unsettled sum- mer weather the day's event was blessed with sunshine. One of the highlights of the day included the report of a successful fisherman who boasted of catching four fish consisting of two kokanee, one rainbow trout and one Dolly Parton. The evening concluded with a campfire and old-time music. Appreciation has been ex- pressed to all those who par- ticipated. A clean-up job the following day did not take Kingston children. This is Ramona’s second summer job. Last year she worked at the National Exhibition Cen- tre as an artifact cataloguer which was very different from the boisterous job she has this summer, Ramono remarked that she loves babysitting. “Those kids are amazing! They just got brand new bikes — they just sat on them and rode away. It's really exciting being with them every dayl” Lower Left: Sheree La- Fond and Joy Deschiutta are. enjoying their summer, working as a Child Activity workers for the Castlegar branch of the West Kootenay Society for ihe Fiandicapped. They are employed under a Summer Canada grant which is designed to provide val- uable experience for students in their field of education. Sheree is a second year Special Education student and Joy is a third year Education student. Busy day are spent at the Silver Birch School teaching the handi- capped children life skills, arts and crafts and recre- ation. Both girls agree that this summer job has been “a great learning experience” and that they Soul love to gin has a part-time job with Loomis Courier Service. He is one of our more RAMONA OSTOFOROFF G aiperviees the Kingston LORNE VERIGIN ren. get in some time with Loom! students with a real success story. He rises at the crack of dawn to unload parcels from big Loomis trucks onto smal- ler vans which make local de- liveries. He works for only one or two hours in the early morning but then is available the rest of the day to do any other work that may come along. Supervision John King ealls Lorne a “terrific little worker” and has offered him a part time job in the fall before school. He recom- mended Lorne to another company which also hired Lorne as an unloader. When'I asked Lorne about student hiring he just replied, “The., Student Centre place.as the ground 1 unbleamished. is great! It really works!¥ *:‘® Accused shown more concern: ST. ANDREWS, N.B. (CP) — The witness in judicial proceedings is often not af- forded enough respect, the president of the Canadian Association .of Provincial Court-Judges said Judge Jacques Lessard of Montreal said the witness is an integral part of our judi- cial system but the court usually shqws more con for the scaised. ae Lessard told the associ- ation’s annual convention the “inconsiderate calling of a bewildering number of wit- nesses” who are not asked to play the role for which they were sub-poenaed is one of the clearer examples of a lack of respect for the witness. Lessard said a right af- forded the accused but not the witness is the right to obtain a no-publication order | on the proceedings. - 3 ~~ - businesses — VANCOUVER (CP) — Like hungry wolves circling a tired cariboo herd, high fatarast rates are wearing down the small business community and killing off sick and weaker firms. Record high interest rates contributed to many of the estimated 60,000 business failures in Canada last year, says the Economic Council of Canada, an economic re- search body. “For those firms operating at the margin, interest rates are very important,” said Andrea Ryba, the council's financial markets director. “They can often push a weaker company over the edge.” Geoffrey Hale, policy dir- ectar, of the 4,000-member dian Organisation of Saal Business, says studies have shown that about 64 per cent of first-time businesses fail in the first five years of operation during periods of relatively low interest rates, But the interest surge has added at least another 10 per cent to the failure rate of new companies, “Right: now higher rates are requiring everyone to run a lot leaner operation, the 61,000-member Associ- ation says smaller firms are coping with prime lending rates — what chartered banks charge their best cor- porate customers — of nearly 20 per cent with decreased customer credit, postponed expansion, tighter inventor- ies and reduced profits. About 65 per cent of the firms surveyed said the high- er interest rates have re- duced their profits. Seven- teen per cent said they have shelved expansion plans and seven per cent said they are granting customers less cred- it. The igher riven financial burden of interest rates has many smaller busi- nesses to federal and pro- vincial government-guaran- teed loan programs as an al- ternative lending sourcew. In 1980, the size and num- ber of government-guaran- teed loans to small busi- nesses increased 60 per cent over the previous year to 16,000 loand worth $408 mil- lion. The Federal Business De- velopment Bank alone had loans of more than $2 billion outstanding at the end of April. not just new Hale said. “The question is how much can you cut back before you hit bone.” A recent study of small firms with gross annual revenues of less than $2 million — found higher interest rates to be the number one problem fac- ing 32 per cent of the 8,000; smaller companies surveyed by the Canadian Federation of small got some good news earlier this month when. Finance Minister Allan MacEachen announced lending under the small Business Development Bond program is to be dou- bled to more than $1.6 billion by the end of the year. Last year, a total of $408 million, including $106 million by B.C. firms, was borrowed under the provisions of the ‘Loans Act BUSINESS COPING John Bulloch, president of $$ SEALCO “A piote 3 DRIVEWAYS estimate. phone Small compared with $267 million in 1979. and SAVE $$ ~ aler professionally applied on EASTMAN PAVING CO. LYD. "354.4309 or 352.5855 BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP)’— Pancho Carter Survived an early spin, a 97-minute race delay caused by a serious fuel fire and a late charge by Tony Bettenhausen to win the accident-married Nor- ton Michigan 500 Indy-car race yesterday. at Michigan Tat Speedway. Fifteen people were hurt during the race — 14 of them in the fire. The 15th and most seri- ous injury was suffered by veteran driver A. J. Foyt, who crashed into a wall and was in hospital with multiple injuries. It was the first Indy-car victory for Carter, 31, from Brownsburg, Ind. His best previous finish since join- ing the Indy circuit in 1974 was second on five occas- ions. He averaged 212.974 kilometres an hour in race slowed by 18 caution per- iods. Bettenhausen, of Speed- way, Ind., was the only driver on the same lap with Carter, finishing 1.6 sec- onds behind. Foyt, 48, considered America’s outstanding racer after success in all forms of auto racing, was in hospital in serious condi- tion after suffering a com- pound fracture of his right arm, a puncture wound to his leg and a possible fractured left leg. * purse, Driver seriously injured He was knocked uncon- scious briefly when his Coyote-Cosworth struck the wall on the second turn of lap 80 on the two-mile MIS oval, car owner Jim Gilmore said. It then took crews several minutes be- fore they could pry Foyt from his wrecked au! FEW FINISHERS Only two cars finished the 260 laps and just 11 of the 87 starters remained at the end. Carter, who pocketed $65,000 of the $500,000 spun his PC7- Cosworth on lap 25, but managed to keep from crashing. A lap later, the caution light came out, prompting many of the drivers to make pit stops. A broke out in the pit of Herm Johnson of Eau Claire, Wis., igniting him | and several of his pit crew. The blaze, triggered by a methanol, spread to at least three. other, tanks, | exploded an air compres- sor and burned tires.” + Fourteen ‘people, includ- ing Johnson, ‘suffered a. variety of burns and injur- ies. Most of. those injured were firefighters and pit crewmen. The race was the first’ 600-mile affair for the high-banked Michigan track and ended in the early evening dusk some 62 hours after it beban. Czech players receive okay VANCOUVER (CP) — Two C: i found out we were coming to layers have been cleared to play for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League in the upcoming season. Jiri Bubla and Ivan Hlinka, the centre of a controversy between the league and the Canucks since early June, will begin getting into con- dition for the season in the city of ‘Litvinov next week, Bubla said in a translated interview from Prague. “We'll be on the ice Mon- day and begin training for four hours a day with our old club ‘(Litvinov)," Bubla said. “Needless to say, when we we were very happy. I've been in touch every day with Ivan since we heard the good news. “The Canucks sent a tele- gram to our national sports organization (Prego Sport) and they told us the dis- agreement was over. “It's quite a relief. For the Ist two or three months we've been living in un- certainty.” Canucks, who had negoti- ‘ated’ with Hlinka and -Bubla since January before signing them to two-year contracts in April, caused a flap at NHL meetings in Montreal in ‘early June when they announced agreements with the former Czechoslovakian national team stars in contravention of a proposed agreement be- tween NHL John ing and threatened legal ac- tion. Ziegler. imposed a *$20,00-a-day fine on the Can: ucks until they turned over the players, but Vancouver it was Ziegler and the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Federation. GRAB PLAYERS Winnipeg Jets had taken Hlinka, a centre, and Color- ado Rockies selected Bubla, a defenceman in a special, but premature draft of four. Czech players'May 28 before an agreement had been signed with officials. in Prague. The Jets and. Rockies ac- cused the Canucks of tamper- NEW, YORK (AP) — With a quarter of the baseball gone, management of at least one team has taken its case directly to the players, while the players’ union leaders prepared to meet in Chicago to brief their executive board on the progress of the strike. Meanwhile, Al Thornwell, executive vice-president of Atlanta Braves, said his team has voted in favor of a plan that would divide the 1981 season into two parts if the strike ends. The voting came in an informal poll by the of- fice of Bowie he would follow the mailgram with a six-page proposal. Sullivan said he wants the information “out to our play- ers ow because of the time element involved.” “If we sat back and let the normal process take its course, it might’ be six-to- seven days, and there would be no baseball season.” MEETS MONDAY The Major League Players Association executive board, which includes the 26 player representatives, will meet in chieaee tomorrow to discuss Kuhn. “The Braves voted for the split season concept that would award the (Los An- geles) Dodgers the division season and start over for the second half,” Thornwell said. Through Saturday, 526 games had been cancelled because of the walkout over free-agent compensation. Haywood Sullivan, owner of. Boston Red Sox, sent mailgrams to his 25 players, outlining, management's lat- est proposal to end the strike that began June 12. He said Donald Fehr, te union's chief counsel, said the board also will be asked to approve a series of re- gional meetings where mem- bers.of the negotiating team couts brief as many piayers ‘as posaible. Federal mediator Kenneth Moffett*has said he would wait until after the executive board meeting to call the two sides. back 2 bargain, pet Ww date. Summers and Dan Schatze- der of Detroit Tigers — have been invited to attend the board meeting. U.S. Representative Wyche Fowler. (D-Ga.,) has called for binding arbitration by a three-member panel as a means of ending the strike. Fowler and 15 other mem- bers of Congress sent letters to Marvin Miller, executive director of the players’ asso- ciation, and Ray Grebey, dir- ector of the players relations committec, management's bargaining arm, outlying his proposal. Under Fowler's plan, the panel would include one per- son selected by the owners, one chosen by the players and a third sgreed upon by both parties. <“We have tried to keep our noses out of it. But we are. baseball fans who have been’ Hlinka and Bubla - also made it clear they would come to North America only if they could -play for the same team. Aca uramnise was reached | last week‘in Chicago which sees the Canucks gaining playing rights to the Czechs trying to figure out a way to 4 get this off dead centre. It has gone beyond a sports problem with all sorts of im- éuch as loss of tax Three of the players who have expressed dissatisfac- tion with certain aspects of the strike — Davey Lopes of the Dodgers, and Champ revenue.” , The talks, which had been moved to Washington from New York last Monday, broke off Thursday. i [4 TRS SUBJECT TO CHANOS ere teed Savings Credit Union} SCRAMBLING torn a pop-up is third baseman Marcel Apels, No. 5, and catcher Bruce Jeffries. 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Als challenge champs By Mark Har MONTREAL (CP) — Out- ings in recent years against Edmonton have not been memorable experiences for the Alouettes, but Vince Ferragamo, Billy John- son and James Scott can put a serious dent in Edmonton's armor. It will mark the three- will attempt-to reverse that trend when they challenge the Grey Cup defending Es- kimos today at Olympic Sta- dium. Edmonton opened some healthy-sized wounds with back-to-back Grey Cup vic- tories against the ‘Alouettes in 1978 and 1979, but those setbacks are not nearly as fresh as the 44-14 beating the Eskimos inflicted when the Canadian Football League clubs met last season. It shouldn't take an ex- pected crowd of 45,000 and a national TV audience long to ‘decide whether free agents some's against the perennial Western Div- ision champions. Former Uni- versity of Oklahoma defen- sive standout Keith Gary will also be seeing Edmonton for the first time. “Hell, some of them prob- ably never heard of Edmon- ton until 2 mornth or so ago,” said Montreal head coach Joe Scannella. Fifteen new Montreal play- ers will see action, 10 of whom have never felt Ed- monton'’s wrath, ~ “That's why I talked about it in. our team meetings,” Scannella said. “I wanted them to know what the games (against Edmonton) mean to us because a lot of them have no idea. Success against Montreal, and the rest of the league, has not rendered the Eski- mos complacent by any means. “This is the first chance our defensive line has had to : hit anybody close to being a millionaire — legally, that is,” said Edmonton middle line- backer Dan Kepley of Mon- treal's high-priced stars. “But Pll only be worried if Ferragamo comes out walk- ing on water,” he added. “The main thing I'm con- cerned about is getting our ball club back on track.” Edmonton signal-caller Warren Moon said he thought “we can prove that money can’t do it all the time.” TIM HORCOFF hits home but. the op- ponent, Trail Hotel tries a 10 fap II the t game by catching the ball. becaus: Celgar. ‘thelp Lieber. Trail tost Re game 0-1 to Standing by is Umpire Frank Tournament begins After day. one of the SunFest '81 Fastball Tourna- ment being held at Kinnaird Park, Labatt’s arid Celgar are leading each. with a 20 win-loss record. Following yesterday's scores of the double knockout tournament ends today. Revelstoke Inn.4 Smelter Pub 3; Celgar 1 Trail Hotel 0; ‘Trail Tire 1 Valley Combines 0; ‘Trail Hotel 6 Vernon 8; Smelter Pub 7 Regent Inn eveletoke) 0; Celgar 8 Trail Tire 4; Labatt’s 10 Revel- Smelter Pub 12. Columbia Glass 1. Action gets underway again this morning at 9 a.m. with the Bavarian gardens beginning at 10 a.m. The tournament is being d by stoke Inn 2; Valley C 2 Vernon 0; Labatt’s 8 Regent Inn 3; Revelstoke Inn 4 Columbia Glass (Trail) 0; Commercial, Fastball League in conjunction with the Sel- kirk Lions Club. “There's an overlap right’ nipeg. noting now,” he said, that fellow ski team member Ken getting from cycling will bal- ance it out,” said:Ingram, who has been a member of Canada’s national junior cyc- ling team for two. years. Europe in September," when he joins the ski ‘I want to piper miles in to maintain: my: ee: for the 1982 Commonwealth, be riding.in them if I progressing the way:I have.” . quitlam, B.C., won the seniot men’s 1,000-metre event in 1:08.86, a half second aheac of Peter Suderman of Win Karen Strong of St.. Cath arines, Ont., a four-tim¢ Canadian track | champion, won the women's 1,000 me;