Oe sa Castlegar News December 15, 1985 ALCON PAINTING & DECORATING 365-3563 Carol Magaw z Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES _ CA . ‘oaen pecan, NEWS OFFICE 365-5210 Jack Morrison. “If you don't see it, lll finditl CASTLEGAR CHEVRON 365-2912 _ REPAIRLTD. - JOSES'S AUTO RE Good Stock of L UT Bath Accessories & fe Upstairs in Trail’s T, Phone 368-5300" ou Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212. TEDDY BEARS FETCH HIGH PRICES LONDON (AP) — Pip, Squeak and Wilfred together” fetched almost $200 Canadian, upmarket Nigel cost almost $400, but a 75-year-old named Sydney sold for more than $1,392 in a booming bear market. + » Smart or scruffy, each of the 186 teddy bears offered at a special Christie's auction found someone to give him a new Home — except one. Misha Bear, who stands slightly more than two metres tall, is losing his stuffing, and nobody wanted him at the reserve price of $160. Poor Misha was left on the shelf, un- wanted, just 12 days before Christmas. But Misha’s fellow teddies were in big demand, or as the London Daily Mirror put it: “Yummy, yummy, yummy, bears make money.” Christie's auctioners, better known for their fine art sales, said the auction made a total of 11,000 pounds, or $21,973. Inspired by Britain's late Poet Laureate Sir. John Betjeman, who wrote: poems about “my safe old bear” Archibald, and by the Winnie-the-Pooh stories of the late A.A. Milne, teddy bear lovers have become legion, and the auction was packed. Sydney, who has ‘big button eyes, an embroidered string nose, a linen smock, blue pants and stands 51 centimetres tall, was bought for $1,393 by an unidentified overseas buyer bidding by telephone. The cataloge described Nigel as a “golden curly plush bear.” Pip, Squeak and Wilfred were described as miniature teddies. The bears wore_an assortment of attire ranging from silk gowns to long underwear. Some boasted hats, others sported scarves and one had a music box inside. Most dated from the first half of this century. Teddy bears are named after President Theodore Roosevelt. The term was first used in 1902 after a cartoon by C.K. Berryman showed a small cub in a jocular-allusion to Roosevelt's love of big game hunting. | 2 SPECIAL 2s} 12" DEEP DISH ve PIZZA : wit “The Works”. Reg. $10.39 ...- DOWNTOWN SOUTH CASTLEGAR 365-5353 365-5304 : RESTORATION PROCEEDS . . . Gordie Hill (from left) Alex Lutz and Barry Metzner with a part load of MMO UU lumber recently donated to the Zuckerberg Island Chapel House restoration project. CosNews Photo by John Charters Celgar plays Santa By JOHN CHARTERS Santa Claus came early, but just in time, to Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park this month in the guise of Barry Mitzner, sales i and i shipper for Southern Wood Products. S The volunteer crew under the direction of restor- ation superintendent Alex Lutz had just finished using the last of a load of lumber to line the lower floor of the chapel house when the Celgar representative arrived. His offer of more lumber was accepted promptly and with the assistance of the city crew, quickly picked up and-then stored in the house: “We have most of the insulation now,” Lutz said, “and now we'll be able to go ahead with the lining of the upper floor and when the weather improves, the outside of the tower. Fi During the course of a visit to the house this week, Mitzner said, “Celgar believes in supporting local projects whenever a suitable opportunity presents itself. The Zuckerberg Island: Heritage Park project ‘and the restoration of the chapel house is very strongly in gear with the community and what goes on about it. We are pleased, therefore, to support it.” Actually, Celgar support for the island project began in the spring of 1983 when the company supplied the Castlegar Rotary Club workers and volunteer Gordie Hill with the heavy lumber and bolts for making the island tables and benches. It helped again in the spring of 1984 by providing the deck and stringers when the 44th Field Engineers built the suspension bridge to the island. : The committee had planned to hold an official opening of the chapel house in December. However, adverse weather and the-decision to proceed with the restoration of the upper story has made it necessary to postpone the event until spring. Meantime, the bridge is open and visitors are welcome to come to the worksite and to enjoy the winter aspect of what is becoming to be known more and more as Castlegar’s miniature Stanley Park. COTTAGE INDUSTRY GROWING HALIFAX (CP) — The raven-haired, 30-ish woman longingly eyed the sweater on Judy Johnston's stall at the annual Christmas craft market. It was a striking garment in fluffy, off-white chenille, and on the cuff of its angel-wing sleeves was Johnston's label: Ambiance. Johnston, friendly and enthusiastic, invited the: British mohair, ordinary wool and man-made yarns are found in varying proportions, woven together into unique; new fabrics. One sweater is made of strips of muskrat f woven with wool. The resulting fabric has the lightn: and airiness of a wool sweater with the softness:of a fur: ‘coat WORK AT HOME Johnston designs all the sweaters herself, but most! are made by a dozen women working at home on piecework. It's a method by which Nova Scotia is gaining: a reputatjon in the fashion world as a producer of high fashions on a. small scale. Ambiance’s woven sweaters; the Jagman line of knitwear and the Suttles and Seawinds brand of textile fashions all are making names for themselves in central Canadian and American stores. WITH EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP Companies show profits i By PETE YOST ‘WASHINGTON (AP) — The company is going broke and rather than let it close, the employees buy it. They give themselves a pay cut, elect their bosses, work harder — and turn a profit. _ ; Not exactly ‘the classical American dream, but variations on that theme are happening across the country. In Seymour, Conn.,. for example, a i I enterprises,” says AFL — CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue. . But Kelso says union. leaders are “educated in the baseball bat school of labor negotiations. ~ “If they have to use their heads instead of their muscle, they don't want anything to do with it.” e The Union of is corporation decided to sell off its money-making metals division. The division's 225 workers bought it and took substantial pay cuts. Profits and productivity are up and the newly named Seymour Specialty Wire Co. has a democratically elected board of directors. “The profits stay here,” said Seymour president Carl Drescher. “They're not going to a parent corporation. It’s a great deal for everybody.” B Seymour's employee-owners joined 10 million other American workers using a financing device known as an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to buy a stake in their company. ESOPs have spread to 7,000 in the last the ility of p workers who want to start their own construction business with financial, legal and education support. A boost from the union would encourage loyalty to the labor movement. ‘aced with heavy employment losses among dues- paying the United of America has a somewhat more positive view than some other unions about ESOPs as a job-saving device. CAN CO-EXIST “I do not believe there is any or phil jh December 15, 1985 Castlégar News Ls "Talk about -overstuffed!" . . - But not over priced! Come sample our selection of delicious subs . . . made daily! ‘* Murchies Teas & Coffees + rarty Toys borscht o Meats © Cheeses COUNTRY HARVEST DELI 1436 Columbia Ave. 365-5414 Castlegar FLEA MARKET Saturday & Sunday 9a.m.to3p.m. — Next to Wizard's Palace 1003- 2nd Street. ~: For information concerning ~" space or tables Ph. 365-3237 reason why unions and worker ownership cannot co-exist,” said Lynn’ Williams, the Steelworkers’ Canadian-born further informati president. Not all the worker-owner stories are tales of labor the future. The capitalist system, he says, can be saved only by turning workers into capitalists. z , Eastern Airlines has embraced the idea of employee ownership. In return for. $292 million in wage concessions, Eastern gave its employees 25 per cent of the company. PROFITS RETURN The arrangement has led to the carrier's return to “It's a phenomenal market, and it's growing at a fantastic rate, mainly because the public is beginning to} accept it,” says Johnston. “What used to be very craft, items have turned into fashion items . - - “Over the last five years you can really see the difference in Nova Scotia. But outside Nova Scotia this sort of business is really rare. They look to us as, the forerunner in handwoven fashion.” She has a theory about how Nova Scotia got that: lead. She said that 20 or 30 years ago, Nova Scotia wasn't: as industrially advanced as Ontario, and because of that: people continued to make their own clothes. That was not the case in most other provinces, she said. The Nova Scotia government has also helped. 's f-provil ‘k started taking off: when the provincial Development Department paid for her to visit a Toronto crafts show. Store buyers there and at subsequent exhibits have put her sweaters in stores from London to San Diego. zy In fact, she has had more luck getting her products in stores abroad than in Nova Scotia, where most of her sales are at crafts shows. It is a complaint heard often from Nova Scotian entrepreneurs ranging from farmers and a potato-chip manufacturer to craftspeople. “Local retailers and wholesalers are a little leery about carrying our goods,” she said. “They still worry that the public is going to be able to go straight to your studio to buy at reduced prices rather than going to the store. itself.” ‘Ambiance sweaters sell in a $100-$200 price range, and Johnston has as much business as she can handle at the moment. P! Four of the 10 largest unionized trucking companies in the country are installing ESOPs in an effort to reduce labor costs and stem losses. In recent years, nearly a dozen airlines have instituted some form of employee stock ip in for lower pay. Some 1.5 million union members in the United States and success. _ United Auto Workers members bought a General Motors Corp. roller bearing plant in Clark N.J., for $53 million in 1981, after GM announced plans to close the factory. Now Hyatt Clark Industries Inc. is up for sale again. While there is worker participation in decision-making the board of directors is not employee-controlled. The board voted to invest $600,000 in on the shop floor, new H instead of SELKIRK COLLEGE ‘CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Selkirk College's Castlegar, Trail and Nelson Campuses will b Dec. 21, 1985 until Jan. 1, 1986 inclusive. Please contact the campus in your community it you require "Selkirk College = AR CAMPUS iS GaSe BG 1200, Co ee vine 388-7292 - which sparked a slowdown in production and months of financial losses. it as profit sharing, Weekly Stocks are involved in ESOPs, but the labor has mixed feelings about the concept. - “In many cases they're bailouts or substitutes for other forms of compensation,” said Arnold Cantor, assistant director of the AFL — CIO's economic research department. “Wage cuts are invariably involved.” Unions “have been invited in on all the losers while shared hip is of in the Pp: Lumber market Got a spare $10,000? VANCOUVER (CP) — Ex- po 86 has completed.a. $1.1- million lounge for visiting VIPs, which will also be open to anyone with $10,000 to spare. The high-security private facility within the 1,300- square-metre Canadian Club will be reserved for digni- taries — starting with Prince Charles and Lady Diana when they officially open the ing the fair. Expo is selling club mem- berships in'a program called the Chairman's Circle. The Ltd., who passed her charity tickets to the Paraplegic Association of B.C. Another program, the $10,000 fee p: admis- sion to Expo for the member and three guests throughout the 5'-month fair, free park- ing, use of the lounge and in- vitations to special events. Each Chairman's. Circle member also receives 165 one-day Expo passes to give Linda and Doris Horst Margaret Munns Paul and Mary Koochin Phil, Mildred and Ken Sherstobitoff Rob and Danne Sherstobitoff Ron and Kay Sherstobitoff John, Olga, Steven, and Marianne Popoff, andPeter Edwards Fred and Ruby Marsh Terry, Susanne, Trevin and Tanya Rogers Earl and May LeRoy Peter, Marg, Patty, Corinne and Shelley Yotonoff Bob and Fran Moffat Slim and Myrtle Thomas Pythian Sisters Bill, Mary and Christine Faminoff Betty and Bob Sahistrom and Family Johr and Florence Paulson Harold and Lorraine Webber Doug, Patti, Kim and Kelly Richards Cal, Maryanne, Trace, Krystan and Garth Gruneru . John and Anne Stevens Bud and Marge Allingham The Blueberry Creek Hegans Fred and Elsie Plotnikoft Nick, Marion, Connie, Nick Jr., and Malcolm Bullanoff Sally, David, Neil, Gwen and Karen Williams Fern Schwartzenhaver Dr. Roy and Mrs. Catrina Ward Darlene Bouvette and girls Nick and Deldres Soobotin and Family A Chiistmag Card eee All D. Macpherson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kalesnikoff.. Lawrence and Kathy Popoft and Famih; Walter and Mickie Jacobson Pat Haley Kay and Jim Kelly Bill, Joan and Kristen Sang Joy and Brick Saunders Tory, Kyle, Jean and Keith Merritt Phyllis and Bert Lamb Edna Dodgson Verona and Danny Walker Dorothy Fleming and Lorne Ashton Millie, Bruce, Darrin and Darlene Connatty Hilly and Eva York Peter and Anne Soberlak Don, Marlene and Dan Wallace Mabel and Nancy Makortoff Alex and Marion Kassian Mr. and Mrs. A. Ferworn Elsie and Jimmie Killough Vianne Timmons Gwilym and Eileen Hughes Ell, Gerry and Barry Grunerud of Us Nora Makaroff and John Konkin: Betty and Bill Crawford Wilbur and Rebecca Horning Harold and Tony Ackney ‘Dave and Gail Calder Joe and Della Kubos Bob and Sorenson Jim and Dorothy Hardy Paul and Sheila Thederahn Norm and Glenys New Pollie Bartsoff Peter, Corinne, Ben and Jenny Postnikoff Mary Wallace John A. Charters Carol, Wade and Alexis Walsh Pat, Mary, Dave and Steve Picton : Anna and Ken Campbell and Alan, Betty, Donna, Steven and Jamie Middleton Mary, Don and Butch Quiding Mrs. Mary Campbi Nick and Florence Postnikoff Cliff, Evelyn, Kevin and Craig Wilson Cyril, Hazel, Elana, Ben and Brian Demoskoff Bob and Lee Friesen Mickey, Sharon, Shawna, and | Micha ; el Tarasoff Butch Quiding _ Alice and Andy Shutek Gordon and Vicky Pettitt Wally and Virginia Walper Gerry and Thelma Ehman and Family world’s fair on May 2. ‘The Canadian Club, located in the British Columbia Pav- man's Circle memberships, ilion, also contains two main Expo has sold 15 in less than lounges, a ‘60-seat dining a week. The first went to away. With a target of 110 Chair- : room, meeting rooms, a bar Wendy McDonald, president and a wide balcony overlook. of B.C. Bearing Engineers, ~ CALVARY BAPTIST CHRISTMAS PROGRAM December 22 — 11:00 a.m. THE CHOIR'S CANTATA AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS Arranged & Composed by Don Wyrtzen Choir Director: Kenneth Nelson Pianit: Cheryl Job “A YEARLY EVENT THAT IS A CASTLEGAR SPECIAL" 6:30.p.m. — The Sunday School Concert An original play: AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH The children and adults of Calvary Baptist Church invite you and your family to be a part of their presentation. 24 — Ch : 6:30 - 7:30 Carol singing, special music as a prelude ; to the joyfulness of Christmas Eve. 10:30 - 11:30 Carols and A Christmas Message. Let us recall together the happiness of Christ- mas Day. President's Circle, provides a single pass to the lounge and 50 one-day tickets for $2,500. Expo ‘tickets sell well VANCOUVER (CP) — Ex- po 86 has sold more than 50 per cent of its expected at- tendance 4'/: months before the world transportation and communications fair is sched- uled to open, Chairman Jim Pattison has announced. Pattison said in a news re- lease 7,026,000 visits have been paid for which repre- sents 51 per cent of the 13.75 million visits the fair had budgeted for. Tickets have been sold in every province and territory and 50 states in the United States as well as overseas, he said. Tickets went. on sale May 2, a year before the fair is scheduled to open. Pattison said that tradi- tionally, world. expositions have not been pre-sold to the extent of Expo 86. He oH looking better VANCOUVER , (CP) © — Overseas markets for British Columbia lumber are looking better than they were a year ago, say B.C. lumber export- ers. However, this is because of the decline of the Canadian. dollar against other curren- cies — not because of signi- ficantly greater demand. “Prices (in Canadian dol- lars) are up and mill returns are higher,” said Clive Rob- erts, president of Seaboard Lumber Sales, the marketing and shipping arm for a con- sortium of B.C. lumber com- panies. Today, We’re Investing In A Real Growth Industry! 4 The governments of Canada and British Columbia have signed a 5-year “Overall demand has not changed much but we are more competitive because of the lower dollar. Our mills are sold up to capacity into _the first quarter of next year. “We are doing quite well in Japan, but perhaps less well in Europe,” Roberts said. “We are having a record year for sales in Australia, al- though that isn’t a large market for us.” MARKET WEAKER Seaboard is the main sup- plier of B.C. lumber to China, but this market has not been as good as it was in 1984, he said. “This is partly because we have had less logs to sell to the Chinese. They can also get logs readily from other sources, and as a result they have less incentive to buy B.C. lumber. The prices they have been willing to pay haven't’ been very attrac- tive.” MacMillan Bloedel, which does its own offshore selling and is not part of the. Sea- board group, has noted grow- ing confidence among Euro- pean, Japanese and Austral- jan customers, said Neil Smyth, manager of overseas lumber marketing. “Price increases over the last three to six months have been due almost entirely to the weaker dollar, but we do see the potential for higher real prices,” he said. TrvnirRcano] forest partnership agreement that will see an additional $300 million invested in i i i and number one resource. : This unique partnership recognizes that our forests are a multiple-use prog for B.C.’s 1 and a sound one pi ng ever and competitive base for BCs forest Products industry. And, with this By The Canadian Press It was a story of “raging bull markets” on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchang- es this week despite sagging oil prices that suppressed petroleum stocks. But the Vancouver Stock Exchange slumped under the weight of disappointing re- sults from a promising new gold find. 3 : * Falling interest rates com- bined with a rising corporate profit outlook create attrac- tive markets for bonds and stocks, said Winnipeg-based analyst Don Dillistone of Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd. The announcement _ last Monday by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that it would be prepared to sacrifice its of- ficial price in order to defend its market share sent oil stocks into a tailspin. But’ Dillistone said “a lot of this is rhetoric” on OPEC's part, and oil stocks will recover. The Toronto Stock Ex- change’s composite 300 index — the broadest measure of stock market activity in Canada — sailed up 0.10 per cent this week to close at- 2866.00. The gain injected $210 million into the value of TSE shares, bringing their total’ value to $222.7 billion. It was the seventh straight weekly gain for the index, which has risen 8.9 per cent in that time. $4500 per night plus tax : Je Tropical Indoor Pool - Downtown Shopping Riverfront Park Get away for a weekend! *Good November 1 - December 30, 1985, space available. Includes room, double or single occ! and kids stay free. For Reservations (800) 848-9600 P! to i our forests and economic potential, a record 200 million seedlings will be planted lly by 1987. T ghout British Columbia, this means jobs now, and a healthy productive future for a real growth industry. Hon. Tom Wateriand Distr Hon. Gerald Merrithew, : Minister of Forests Minister of State, (Forestry) ‘You Get 0 Sense ot Security When You ‘De Business With A Leader! KEN F. BABAKAIFF ~ {Soles Representative) CALL 359-7495 Fins Metropolitan | le wish to extend our warm and sincere appreciation to all those who gave so generously.& i KOOTENAY SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED . Would you like to be a part of our Watchnight Service? 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