me Castlegar News November 13, 1988 Castlegar Chamber of C Invites You to Attend a FEDERAL CANDIDATE DEBATE ON FREE TRADE Arena Complex Wednesday, Nov. 16 — 7:00 p.m. For More Information Call the Chamber Office * 365-6313 NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) — Obscure country musie performer Bobby Joe Ryman says he was honored as a “little country boy” to be picked to do an album as the lone American singer on the only Soviet record label. The 47-year-old Ryman, who per forms nightly at a Nashville res- taurant, recorded the album Country Boy in Moscow in the Soviet Union in early September. He's been told the record could sell up to five million copies when it's released in the Soviet Union early near year. That's considerably more than he sells at the Melrose House BOOK EARLY FOR OURS SG MAAS PERE restaurant where he peddles his ‘cassette tapes for $6 to audiences no ‘ 364-0922 larger than 200 per meal. ‘ > His pictures sell for $2. He has a i 8 SUPER SMORGASBORD | °:-?=\2 00 ™ ry 5 i ey felt honored,” he said as he reflected “tip hat” at the front of the stage for customers to show their special atoe on his eight-day visit to the Soviet Union, Kootenay Cattle Co For a GREAT Party Banquet and Dinner-Dancing appreciation of his music. HOSTS BLAMED Talk shows violent NEW YORK (REUTER) — Curses, flying fists and on-the-air explosions — talk shows are filling America's airwaves with the sights and sounds of violent dissent. A videotaped panel discussion on racism ended with a dozen “skinhead” audience members taking the stage, slugging guests and breaking Geraldo Rivera's nose with a metal chair, “If the price of exposing these dog: a broken nose, then I'm pleased,” said Rivera. “You can't put them on and not confront them.” Morton Downey, a chain-smoking talk-show host called New York's “piranha of the airwaves,” comes on the set surrounded by four boydguards, one a professional wrestler. “Zip it!” he screams at a guest. “I'm going to sit on your face!” Downey foutinely insults his panelists, throwing the more persuasive ones off his set, Accused of slapping a gay activist guest on his show, Downey . explained: “He spit on me.” In Los Angeles, talk-radio's Tom Leykis shouts into the microphone: “if I ever tell you I'm getting married again, put a bullet in my brain.” ‘ Leykis terminates on-air discussions by “blow- ing up” call-in antagonists. He pushes a button in the studio and the airwaves reverberate with the sound of explosions. TOPPLES CHAIR In a heated on-air discussion over a notorious racial case, the national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights group, pushes his opponent's chair over. The audience howls its approval. Talk-radio station KZZZI in Salt Lake City included a show called The Aryan Nations Hour in which white supremacists traded anecdotes and ‘engaged in verbal combat. The show was taken off the-air after listeners complained. Talk Radio, a new film by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone (Platoon), focuses on the case of Alan Berg, an acid-tongued Denver radio host who once described talk-radio as “the last neighborhood in town” — a forum where insulated moderns can exchange views once traded over the back fence. Berg's goading on-air chatter culminated in his “death, Two neo-Nazis were convicted in 1984 of murdering him. According tu Rivera, the skinheads on his show are the descendants of Berg's murderers. “These are the same people that killed Alan Berg,” he said. ‘The killers were the spiritual parents of these guys.” Rivera, 45, a local newsman since 1970 who was an amateur boxer for eight years, says he hadn't expected the violence that occurred in the studio. “We had the Jewish Defense Organization booked with the Nazis. But when they refused to appear, we anticipated only strong words,” he said. “But these Nazis came with a hidden agenda “They came bent on violence.” NSN [urrrr IIIT ITrryr BUSINESS SCARF FIRM DOES BIG BUSINESS By SHERYL UBELACKER Ci Pr ‘anadian Press TORONTO — When Lee and Sybil Schwenk tied the knot 32 years ago, marriage wasn't the only partnership they formed. They also laid the foundation for what has become one of the largest scarf importing businesses in Canada. Lee, a native New Yorker, was operating a department store chain in Quebec and Sybil was a buyer for a major New York fashion chain when they met in 1954. The couple settled in Montreal, and in 1977 — after Sybil spent almost five years surveying the Canadian retail market —they launched Impor. tations Joelles. “The survey showed there was a dearth of fashionable accessories in Canada, so that's the business we decided to go into,” says Sybil from her office-showroom in Toronto, where the company moved in 1983. “We concentrated on scarves because we really felt there was a special niche to be developed. “The scarf industry in Canada was in very bad shape. They had no medium-to-better fashion merchandise . . . nothing with any class, fashion know-how or color savvy.” ‘ IMPORT SHAWLS The Schwenks, now Canadian citizens, began by importing shawls and large scarves from Italy “We started the business in Montreal and we had two unpaid employees,” recalls Sybil “Ya, us,” recalls Sybil, “Ya, us,” says Lee, chuckling. “We didn't take a salary for almost two years,” his wife continues. “We started out in the basement of our house.” Today, Joelles has 22 employees and several sales agents, and its scarves are hanging in more than 3,000 stores across Canada, from major department stores to single-owner boutiques. “We're just starting to poke our nose into Australia,” says Lee. “We're talking about (expand ing into) the United States, but we don’t feel we're ready yet,” BUSINESS BOOMS “And, of course, we're very, very busy here,” Sybil adds. The company, with annual sales in the millions, ts Vicensed to sell a number of designer scarf brands, including Anne Klein, Perry Ellis and Vera. Sybil also produces her own designs, under the Cybele label, which are manufactured overseas. All imported scarves are made to Joelles specifications ‘to ensure patterns and colors are keyed to the Canadian market, says Sybil. The showroom abounds with scarves of every color, pattern and shape imaginable. Retail prices start at $12 for a solid-color tie and run to about for a large designer scarf in pure silk or wool. Scarves have always been a staple of the $350-million accessory industry in Canada, but this season scarves have made a resurgence on the fashion scene, replacing necklaces as the treatment of choice for neclines. a Weekly stocks ————__— TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto and New York stock markets took a dive Friday, ending a week of losses driven by election developments in Canada and the United States. The Toronto Stock Exchange's 300 composite index was down 28.23 points in light trading to 3231.09, for a hefty drop on the week of 104.72 points. New. York Dow Jones average of 30 industrials tumbled 47.66 points to close at 2,067.03 for a 78.77 point decline since last Friday. The Toronto market's problems Friday began in New York, where George Bush's anti-climactic victory in the presidential election earlier in the week continued to leave the market flat, analyst John Ing said. “A lot of players held off adding to their portfolios until after ‘the elec: tion,” said Ing, president of Maison Placements Canada. “But now there's been a realization that Bush's problems are the same ones (President Ronald) Reagan faced. Foremost among those problems, Ing said, are the so-called twin de. ficits — the tradé deficit and bud. getary deficit. 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Whether it is just a shift to more moderate growth or something worse remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the decline in world oil prices continued and industry bosses predicted 15,000 Western Canada jobs could be jeopardized. Concerns about the impact on Canada of falling oil prices — caused by overproduction by OPEC coun tries — is not new. Information released last week shows that the Bank of Canada was more than a month ago warning that the economy in oil-producing regions would suffer if oil prices didn't re. bound. Still, those concerns didn't sway the central bank from continuing to use high interest rates to show economic growth in Ontario —and, in turn, squeeze out inflation pressures it said were building there. Since then, oil prices have fallen further and interest rates have been pushed higher. Unfortunately for Western Can. ada, high interest rates can't be applied selectively. 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