* 22) a Casta News _svo2 106 PWA sells air fleet CALGARY (CP) — Pacifie Western Airlines “has re organized and is looking for new related investment op portunities, says company spokesman Jack Lawless. Lawless said the company sold its 16-plane fleet of Boeing 737-2008 about a month ago and arranged a loan and lease-back deal that gave it about $225 million in the bank. Coupled with existing surpluses, he said, that gave the company about $350 million cash. Under the reorganization, Pacific Western Airlines Ltd. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Western Airlines Corp The parent holding company will also control Pacific Western Airlines Holidays, Pacifie Western Airlines Leasing, a 46-per-cent holding in Time Air of Lethbridge, Alta., and 25 per cent of Air Ontario. Lawless said Rhys Eyton, president of the parent firm, “has the responsibility to look for ways to reinvest in airline related industries.” Meanwhile, the engineering director for PWA says that despite a record number of commercial airline deaths in 1985, it was not a bad year for air safety. Of the 1,234 fatalities last year, 520 involved a single aircraft — a Japan Air Lines 747 that crashed into a mountain outside Tokyo, Maleolm Wallis told a conference of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. , you can see that one accident can change an average year into a dreadful year,” he said. Wallis said the number .of jet aircraft accidents — excluding those caused by sabotage, such as the Air India re . disaster, aff® hijacking peaking at 24 in 1973. There were 18 such accidents in the Western world last year, he said. Air travel is becoming safer “despite an ever-increasing number of aireraft in the air.” Compared with other causes of death in North has dropped regularly since * America, ineluding other transportation accidents, airline accident deaths amount to .01 per cent of all deaths. “Really, the possibility of anyone here dying in an airline accident is pretty remote,” he said. He said airlines and governments are learning from accidents and working to make air travel even safer. ‘An example is improved technology to deal with wind shedr — a sudden downward burst of cold air that destabilizes planes. This was blamed for the crash of a Delta Airlines L-1011 last year during a landing attempt at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Wallis said three-quarters of accidents happen during takeoff and landing, which account for about 30 per cent of flight time. In fact, about 30 per cent of accidents take place during the final approach, which accounts for three per cent f flight time. is is a phase of flight where the flight crew control the aircraft, so it’s not surprising that in such accidents the flight crew have been found to be the primary factor in about 75 per cent of the accidents.” However Wallis said no single cause accounts for most accidents. The reasons range from crew and manufacturers’ mistakes to poor maps and weather. Canadjan Tire Corp. ‘fined Visit Randy at Foto Shoppes . . your local expert on home brewing and wine making. © BEER & WINE STOCK © SWISHABLE BARRELS © WINE GLASSES © BEER GLASSES today FOTO Shoppes 2a icon ses aes WHO CARE ABOUT YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY PEOPLE KOOTENAY 4 Y STREET « NELSON « 352-1975 “DRIVE A LITTLE TO SAVE A LOT te GROCERY ITEMS * GROCERY ITEMS * WINNIPEG (CP( — Can adian Tire Corp. was fined $100,000 Friday after being convicted of misleading ad vertising for remanufactured vehicle engines. 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Kerkhoff, whose father started the company in 1970 with $700 kitchen renovation contract, is entering construction’s major league with help from an unlikely source — the South Korean auto giant Hyundai. Kerkhoff became prominent in 1984 after his non-union firm was awarded a $17-million contract to build the -Pennyfarthing condominium complex in Van couver’s rapidly developing False Creek area. The building trades unions, who had built the first phase of the luxury apartment complex, were enraged that Kerkhoff had invaded what was traditionally their turf. In violent incidents broadcast on network television, the unions fought a losing battle to drive Kerkhoff off the project. BECOMES ‘HERO’ As the non-union sector was growing rapidly, Kerkhoff, described in one magazine article as “the reluc tant hero,” became the sector's unofficial leader In fact, Kerkhoff shuns publicity. He told B.C. Business magazine in 1964 that he “wished you would have picked someone else” as Business of the Year. He did not respond to numerous telephone calls or a letter from The Canadian Press requesting an interview. Described as a “marriage of convenience” by one building trades council spokesman, Kerkhoff and construction’s major league with help from South Korean auto giant Hyundai. Hyundai's first successful bid was i the SkyTrain bridge, which will carry Vancouver's light rapid transit system over the Fraser River into neighboring Surrey. The $28-million bid this June was almost $2 million less than the next lowest bid, submitted by a .union contractor. Roy Gauthier, president of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, which represents 17 different unions, says Kerkhoff gets the expertise and financial backing while Hyundai gets a foothold in the North American market Hyundai, known to Canadians for its economical Pony car, is a vast business empire whose $20 billion in annual sales is more than Canada's largest company, General Motors of Canada Ltd. LOOKS ELSEWHERE “With the decline in the Middle East oil situation, Hyundai has been looking for other markets,” Gauthier said. “Kerkhoff offers that opportunity.” But Gauthier promises that his unions, backed with a B.C. Federation of Labor ban on any union member participating in the project, will be doing everything they can to stop Kerkhoff from building the bridge. The pro ject starts in late September. “I think Kerkhoff will have to try and find the expertise to build it term, Gauthier sees provincial government policy as being the major influence in determining whether the non-union sector continues to grow He said he held hope in new Premier Bill Vander Zalm's avowed aim to reduce confrontation Kerkhoff and Hyundai also have submitted a low bid to build a diversion tunnel for the massive $350-million Oldman River dam project in southern Alberta. In most cases, low bidders on such government projects are awarded the contract. 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After Pope John Paul ascended to power in 1978, signs of enforced doctrinal rigidity began to appear. Theological writings were put under closer ins views on sexual issues. challenging the doctrine of papal infailivility waco says the pontiff is divinely kept from error in his teachings. 7 ‘The Vatican lifted Kueng’s permission to teach heology at of in West Germany, where he had been professor of dogmatic theology Curran has taken issue with the church's oppossition to artificial birth control, abortion, divorce and homosexual acts. He also have argued that, under some circumstances, masturbation, sia and ilizati pr sex, are In 1979, maverick Swiss theologian and priest Hans Kueng received the same punishment for Jesuits were allowed to elect a new leader. ERE Economy grows 3.2 per cent OTTAWA (CP( — The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent in the second quarter of 1986 and Canada's deficit in the trade of goods and services was $1.8 billion — not a sterling performance but better than some economists had ex pected and an improvement over the first-quarter per formance. And it was good enough to give the dollar a healthy boost, pushing the value of the currency up more than a quarter of a cent to 72.11 cents U.S. at the close of trading Friday, the first time in two weeks the dollar has been above the 72-cent level. “We needed some good news and we got it,” said John Grant, chief economist with Wood Bundy “We had quite a pessi mistic view .. . for the second quarter so for us it was a very pleasant surprise.” The value of goods and services produced during the quarter, adjusted for sea sonal variations and worked out on an annual basis, was OFFICE AID Protessional Services * Bookkeeping Accounting aphy 218 - 11th Avenve 265-6658 24 hour call $501.7 billion, Statistics Can. ada said Friday Once inflation is taken into account, that was arf increase of 0.8 per cent over the first quarter of the year or an annualized growth rate of 3.2 per cent. It’s up from the two-per-cent annual growth rate posted in the previous quarter and more than five times the estimated 0.6 per cent growth rate in the United States during the second quarter. EXPORTS FALL And despite a sharp fall in merchandise exports during the quarter — to their lowest quarterly level in almost two years — the country re covered somewhat from what was its worst-ever overall trade balance in the first quarter. A steep drop in merchan dise imports, a reduction in dividend payments to foreign investors and a flood of tourists all helped offset the drop in exports and reduced the goods and services trade deficit to $1.8 billion from the first quarter's $2.9 billion. Not all economists were favorably impressed by Fri day's figures. Mike McCracken, head of the private economic fore casting firm Informetrica, said the numbers are respect able and in line with general expectations, but “It is nothing to write home to Mother about.” POPOFF ATTRACTS FOLLOWERS By KIRK LaPOINTE Canadian Press They began lining up early in the morning and hundreds are pressed close to the doors when they. open at noon. In wheelchairs, in leg braces, in pain and desperation, they rush to the choice seats in the hall and await the miracle Peter Popoff promises at 2:30 p.m. ‘Their numbers on this Sunday swell to nearly 4,000 in the convention hall-turned-place of worship in Missi computer in Upland, Calif, mailed to followers, said they would receive a message from God. But skeptics recently said that Popoff's message from God comes at 39.17 mega- hertz. Using electronic surveillance equipment, the so-called ikers™ ii pted radio from his wife back- stage to Popoff's earphone. They said the messages contained names and ailments in the crowd that had been taken from prayer request cards gathered before the show. The doubters said that explains Popoff's seemingly divine supply of information. « Popoff has acknowledged he is prompted some of the time. But today, his wife sits onstage and Popoff asks people: “Is there anything in my ears?” They discover nothing. He then begins to call illnesses and claim the cures. Oddly excluded from the couple of dozen healings are t the names, reveal the Ont., just west of Toronto. It’s the latest stop by the 39-year. old radio and TV evangelist on his world crusade. ‘The woman selling Popoff's books and pamphlets walks over to'the stage and takes her place behind the Hammond organ. A broad-shouldered Baptist minister, Reeford Shirrell, picks up his shiny, perfectly pressed black jacket. Show time.