As Castlegar News February 10, 1988 BUSINESS COMPUTERS NOW EQUIPPED WITH ‘BOSS BUTTON’ PROVIDENCE, R.1. (Reuter) — For those workers who prefer computer games to office tasks, softwarc makers have introduced the “boss button.” If the boss enters an office where a worker is at play. a touch of the boss button replaces the game on the screen with something a little more businesslike — like 8 spreadsheet. The. buttons are already found on several games designed for Macintosh and IBM personal computers popular in offices. Electronic Arts, for example, has the button on products such as World Tour Golf, Golden Oldies, Grand Slam Bridge and Chessmaster 2000. “They're probably becoming more common,” said With more and more computers ‘om desks, he said, “more and more people are going to play.” Access Software's bowling game has a boss button and “I've had people call up asking to have it on other products, id the company's public-relations director, Kevin Jones. Unfortunately for employees, boss buttons must be programmed into the original software, not added to a pre-written game. And the computer's internal memory must have room for the device. As computer games become more complex, pro grammers must fight for the memory space to cram in enough computer instructions and there is not always enough room left over for a boss button. “In the last game we made, we didn't put one in because we were cramming into every nook and cranny of the memory,” Jones explained. A recent survey indicated boss buttons may not be necessary — bosses are too busy playing games to dis cipline their staff. Epyx Software, a computer-games publisher, found 66 per cent of the 750 executives it polled admitted using their computers for non-work purposes. Nearly 40 per cent of executives played games, sometimes during office idence. Alfred Mendes, who manages a computer store in Prov. hours. GM reports big profits DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. reported a big jump in profits Tuesday for the fourth quarter and for 1987 as a whole, but said the improvement was partly due to accounting changes and tax credits from past years. The automaker said it netted $836 million U.S., or 2.36 a share, for the three months ended Dec. 31. That compared with earnings of $382 million, or 97 cents a share, the same period in 1986, when GM charged the cost of closing some ‘of its assembly plants. Revenue rose 3.3 per cent, to $26.4 billion U.S. from $25.5 billion. Earnings per Coupl food TORONTO (CP) — Randy Berg and Terri Urovitz want others to follow their road to nutritious eating — without leaving their homes After becoming vegetar jans last year, the two 24-year-olds came up with the idea of turning their one-bedroom apartment into a shop-at-home_health-food service, which customers can call with orders. “We want to educate people in the field of health and organic food,” says Berg “Health food is more nu. tritional, and with’ organic food you bypass pesticides and other chemicals used in mass farming.” share exclude those from certain subsidiaries. For the year, GM's earn ings totalled $3.6 billion U.S. or $10.06 a share, compared to $2.9 billion or $8.21 a share in 1986. Revenue, though, fell by one per cent during last year, to $101.8 billion from $102.8 billion in 1986. The company said ac counting changes added $800 million to its after-tax profit, as the automaker lengthened the estimated life of its plants; equipment and tools Profits were also helped by a $60-million U.S. net income tax credit, down from $300 million in 1986. The 1987 credit reflected, in part, a $298-million tax benefit based on carrying forward losses in prior. years at certain overseas operations. The earnings reflect record profits from its General Mot ors Acceptance Corp., Elec tronic Data Systems and GM Hughes Electronics subsid. iaries, which were reported Monday Ford Motor Co., which out: earned GM in 1986 despite trailing in sales, plans to announced its 1987 results next week. But barring a loss in the fourth quarter, Ford again will finish No. 1 in profits, since it earned $3.7 billion for the first nine e turns health into business Berg and Urovitz say they came up with their new bus: iness venture, Vitality Food Centre, in September after changing their eating habits. “We started getting in volved with the whole health. food market,” Urovitz says “As we got more informed, we realized health-food stores had very high price markups. We found a way of bringing the prices down, without the cost of retail operations that have to pay for overhead like staff, rent and inventory.” LONG HOURS Berg says he works 12 hours a day on the couple's growing business: Urovitz Car firm can't get VSE listing VANCOUVER (CP) — The California-based operating arm of Enterra Motor Cars Ltd., a British Columbia company planning to market remodelled Pontiac Fieros in North America, has sus pended operations due to an inability to get financing on the Vancouver Stock Ex change Enterra Automobiles Inc president Jim Salscheider said Monday the exchange is slowly choking” his Cali fornia-based firm by delaying the planned $2-million fin ancing. But exchange listings vice president Al Woo said the exchange is not making ex cessive demands on Enterra except that it wants to clarify the company’s various debts before allowing a fin ancing and listing Enterra Motor Cars, or. iginally financed through the defunct federal Scientific Re search Tax Credit program as well as a B.C. government loan guarantee, has been attempting for more than a year to get a listing on the helps out on weekends and every night after coming home from her full-time job with the municipal govern ment In a typical week, the two take orders from more than 50 customers who choose from dozens of products in a catalogue Berg and Urovitz have put together. They drive to the manufacturer to pick up food such as organic bread, tofu products and forzen seafood, and deliver the items. Berg says customers save up to 30 per cent from regular store prices. Orders of $50 and over are delivered free within certain bound aries. Otherwise, there's a $5 delivery charge. Vitality Food Centre has received orders from as far away as Nova Scotia, where a customer pays for the ship. ping and still saves money, months of 1987. Ford earned a record $3.3 billion in 1986. Last week, rival Chrysler Conp. posted an eight-per. cent rise-in its quarterly profit, to $350.2 million or $1.57 a share, from $324.2 million or $1.48 a share. For all of 1987, however, Chry. sler's net fell by seven per cent because of a one-time gain in 1986 from the sale of the company’s interest in Peugeot S.A. of France. Sawmills warning issued VANCOUVER (CP) — A forestry consultant's study , provides the latest warning that last year's higher log prices could close some saw- mills in British Columbia this year. “In our view, these (price) increases are excgssive, par- ticularly for many B.C. In- terior sawmills . . . and could cause closures and unemploy- ment in this sector of the industry as 1988 evolves,” says a new study by thé Vancouver forest industry consultant, Widman Man- agement Ltd. The annual study says higher log costs alone won't close mills. However, high log costs combined with lower lumber price sales and prices will. The study said it expected lumber sales to decrease this year because it expected American builders — the In- terior mills’ most important market — to start fewer homes this year than last. “Overall, in 1988, North American lumber consump- tion will decline by about seven per cent to 53.5 billion board feet from the peak of 57.4 billion last year,” the study says. FREE! A SWEETHEART OF A DEAL! If you have a car, truck, boat or Recreation Vehicle, etc.etc. for sale bring it to Waneta Plaza Feb 13. We Will Take the Photo and Display it at Waneta Plaza * Phone: 364-2227 ONE MONTH ($19.00 VALUE) FOR FREE! FREE! MINISTERS SEMINAR Kootenay & Okanagan Sections of PAOC Pastors Feb. 9-11 ot NEW LIFE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY Public Invited to Evening Services on Tues., & Wed. at 7 p.m Edmonton's Central A DYNAMIC SPEAKER *Vancouver Coquitlam Minutes from Lougheed Mali, Coquitlam Centre Guildtord Town Centre and New Westminster Q Plenty of free oversized Parking 725 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam, B.C. V3K 103 Tol: 525-7777 “Subject to 2 nights stay Both Locations Just Off Highway #1 at Toll Free Both Locations 1-800-663-2233 BARGAIN HUNTERS SPECIAL . $39 Po Night, Double Occupency *Exhibition Park -minutes from Downtown Vancouver -plenty of free parking 3475 E. Hastings st Vancouver, B.C. VSK 2A5 Tel: 204-4751 offer valid to May 15, 1988 Va uver hi: S FERRARO’S Your satisfaction is our main concern ground beef 5-8 Ib. pkgs. Campbell's tomato soup sliced bread cut from Canada grade A beef ¢ regular io2-18/n.0 99 wn AS SuperValu © white * whole wheat iy 9 570g. loat @ cut from Canada grade A beef © roast or * boneless top sirloin steake 53), 2 .96 Kraft © light or regular miracle whip from the tropics ¢ golden bananas Prices effective up to and including Sun., Feb. 14, 1988. PLAZA SUPER-VALU OPEN SUNDAYS 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. PLUS MANY MORE LOW PRICES throughout our store * Downtown * Castleaird Plaza wd 88 860 d9 February 10, 1988 ay Ask about our RRSP planner. KS The RRSPeople Pictured Above, Susanne at Pharmasave with Gift Ideas for Valentines! TATIANA Body Shampoo, Lotion, Dusting Powder, Body Powder, Hand and Body Soaps Special '4 OFF PLUSH TOYS! Expre sions Gift Set $24.50 VALENTINES FRAGRANCE WAND Y2 PRICE OLD SPICE AlterShave. Comes with Leather Key Case $995 Reg Now Tay . = \| Sweeten Her Valentines Day with CHOCOLATES Large Assortment to Choose from! “In the Heart of Downtown Castlegar” OPEN THIS SUNDAY. 365-7813 Store Locations: * Downtown * Castleaird Plaza *SuperValu will double the face value of any manufacturers coupon when applied to the purchase price of the coupon item available in our store. This offer is limited to one coupon per purchased item. Offer does not ly to mail-in upon offers or free merchandise This offer t include coupons offered by other stores doesn Not to exceed total item's value) Belczyk p continued trom tront page Games, Belezyk knows there is increased pressure on him and the other Canadian competitors. “Because the Olympics are in Canada and Calgary, there's a lot more Canadian press around,” he says. In Europe he deals with two or three Canadian media representatives who follow the World Cup circuit. “I get to know these people pretty well. “But all of a sudden you come to Calgary and you're dealing with conceivably 20 or 30 ‘people. It’s a big difference.” His recent success in Europe also made Canadian headilii but he was prepared for the laught of media attention. “I knew that there was going to be a lot more attention to me after the win (in the Schladming super giant slalom),” he says. “That's only natural but I'll take that any time — a win’s a win and that's what I'm trying lor.” Belezyk says this recent success has added to the pressures he faces going into the Games. The attention given to Canadian team members on their home soil is Downhill CANMORE, Alta. (CP) — Incredibly steep, dangerous and challenging were among the words used Tuesday by the best male skiers in the world to describe the top of the Olympic downhill course at Mount Allan. The first 200 metres — with a 70-metre vertical drop — wasn't usable in last spring's World Cup race because of weather problems. When the racers looked down from the start Tuesday, when they did their initial inspection, it was like looking over the edge of a cliff. “I don't think it's impossible, but it's very de- manding,” Glenn Wurtele, head coach of the Canadian team, said of the start that will significantly change the course from last year. The pitch out of the starting gate has an incline ranging grom 53 to 75 degrees. The opening seconds of the race, on what is being considered one of the most difficult Olympic downhills ever, will have a major influence on the final outcome. “The most difficult part will be the first 10 seconds :++- if you're not on line up there, if you don't nail it, you have no hope of doing well,” said Mike Carney of Squamish, B.C. The top pitch is too steep to run grooming machines on, leaving the sections rough and bumpy, adding to the difficulty. Canada’s top downhill medal hope, Rob Boyd of immense and even more so if they are favored to win a medal. “Because I just had some great results with the first place (in Schladming), all of a sudden everybody goes, ‘Well you know he’s won once he should win again’ or something like that.” He says he just blocks all of the expectations out of his mind and concentrates on skiing. It is all part of his way of “dealing with it.” Belezyk says if he were to let all the pressure, hype and expectations of the media and the country get to him he'd be doomed. He knows what to expect and when to expect it. “I could tell before hand that all this was going to happen,” he says of the attention given him in Canada following his Super G victory. Maintaining a racer's perspective on the Games is a priority for Belezyk and it's his adherence to this outlook, he says, that will keep him isolated from the outside pressures. “This is just another race stop on the tour and that's how it has to be treated or else it gets blown out of proportion.” run steep Whistler, B.C., said the opening pitch and the technically difficult upper sections set the Mount Allan course apart from other Olympic runs. “It's definitely not like some of the other courses you hear about, the way they make them kind of easy for all the different nations that are competing,” he said. The racers did course inspection Tuesday — studying the various turns to try to find a line to run in today’s opening training run, and looking for ways to cope with the rolling, bumpy lower sections. The Canadian team is considered among the best at handling bumps, especially the series of them that can be found on the Mount Allan run. The course is deeply covered with man-made snow — organizers are spending about $5 million on snow-making this winter for a mountain that has a history of not producing enough natural snow — and some of that will have to be skied or groomed off dver the next couple of days. The Canadian team was buoyed by the arrival of Brian Stemmle of Aurora, Ont., who injured his knee last month in a training crash. Stemmle has put off having surgery so he can complete in his first Olympics. After course inspection and restricted skiing, Stemmle said his knee was fine and he's anxious to get into training runs. BELCZYICREADY ... Castlegar's Felix Belczk makes his attempt for an Olympic medal on Sunday in the downhill event. The course at the Games is very steep on top an Belczyk hopes to use the steep pitch to his advantage. CosNews tile photo repared for Olympics MEDAL HOPES Coach says Canadian hockey team is ready By GRANT KERR The Canadian Press CALGARY — Dave King won't be trapped into playing needless mind games with the Soviet Union heading into the Winter Olympics hockey competition. Soviet officials lavishly praised the Canadian coach after the Izvestia tournament in Moscow last December — won by Canada on the strength of a 3-2 victory over the favored host team — giving the impression the Canadians should be favored to win the Olympics. “Don't believe everything you read,” Kin; about the favorable appraisal by the Soviets. they're a tremendous team, with so much talent. “At the Izvestia, we got off the hook several times with some tremendous saves. They're still the team to beat. They're the best team here.” The Canadians face their last pre-Olympic test with a pair of tune-up gaines in Saskatoon, tonight against the Soviets and Thursday against Sweden. Canada begins Olympic play Sundat the Saddledome against Poland. King has been the recipient of rave reviews for many years. The former University of Saskatchewan mentor is Canada’s leading expert on international play and not easily led astray before major competitions. SETS FOCUS His ability to focus on the present has kept his team from slipping into a state of over-confidence following the surprise win at Izvestia. “Our ambition is to come out of this with a medal,” the cautious King said when asked whether Canada should be considered the pre-Olympic favorite. “There are six or seven teams capable of winning a medal.” King and his coaching staff of Guy Charron and Tom Watt have spent weeks preparing, with practices last week in Lake Placid, N.Y., and this week at the Olympic Saddledome. Players have become almost rambunctious in workouts as they skate away the long, tedious hours leading up to the competition. “We sit and think of what could go wrong, then remind the guys of everything,” said King. “The games in Saskatoon are important to us because it will remind the guys of just what we're up against. The Soviets are the Soviets, enough said. The Swedes are the defending world champions. “We want the guys to get clear in their minds just what kind of task we face. There will be no illusions after these two games.” ld » boasts Terry Bullick, a spokesman for SEAN BURKE . .. Olympic goalie DAVE KING . .. Cautious optimism King figures the Soviets will be “hungrier after Izvestia” because “they've got some things to prove.” STOPS COUSNTER-ATTACKS His strategy will be to clog the neutral ice zone to prevent the Soviets from launching their dangerous counter- attacks. — The Canadian strategy worked in Moscow, and now King’s team is seeing the tactic — one forechecker in neutral ice and four defenders along the blue line — deployed against Canada as well. King’s biggest decision before the Olympic opener Sunday won't be the naming of his final roster but the selection of his starting goaltender, especially in the key opening-round games against Sweden and Finland. Sean Burke was the backbone of the team at Izvestia, but King also wants to be fair to Andy Moog, the former Edmonton Oiler who joined the team in November. “There isn’t a clear-cut No. 1 goaltender on this team because we're fortunate to have two quality goalies,” said King. “You play hunches a lot in picking your goaltender.” The party line in the Saddledome is that when it comes erunch time, King will turn to the lanky Burke in the important games. Unless, of course, Moog suddenly gets hot and stops practically everything, like Burke did in Moscow. Like the man said, don't believe everything you read. | “They're really impressive.” Medals ‘impressive’ CALGARY (CP) — Its monetary value is only $364, but an Olympic gold medal is so much more. It's years of training, years marked by frustration, sacrifice and sweat. Only 88 of the most coveted prizes in international sport will be awarded during the Calgary Winter Olympics. An equal number of bronze and silver medals will be draped around athletes’ necks during the nightly award ceremonies in the downtown Olympic Plaza. “The design is really unique,” medals depicts the Olympic organizing committee. Organizers of Olympic Summer Games can choose the design for only one side of their medals — the other is dictated by the Olympic Charter. But Winter Olympics officials are free to select signs for both sides of their medallions. mug. Four sets of medals will be awarded during the 16-day Calgary Games, which begin Saturday. The medals for the 10 official sports link the Greek origins of the Olympics with Canada’s heritage. Profiles of a Greek youth and a Canadian Indian are featured side by side. The Greek sports a laurel crown, the ancient emblem of victory. The feathers in the Indians's headdress are actually the accountrements of winter sports, such as skis, ski poles, skate blades, a sled and a hockey stick. The reverse side of all four sets of Calgary's snowflake logo and the Olympic rings. GOLD PLATED While the silver and bronze med. allions are made of those metals, there's not much gold in the gold. The top prize is actually silver gilded with six grams of gold. Worn on detachable, multi-colored ribbons, the medals are round and about the size of the base of a coffee The top finishers in the three demonstration events at the games — curling, short-track speed skating and freestyle skiing — will also be awarded medals. These feature the Rocky N , with raised silh of athletes from the three sports super- imposed. Disabled skiers will compete for exhibition medals that bear the date and location of the Games in braille along with a stylized Olympic flame. Both the demonstration and ex- hibition medals are slightly smaller than the regular Olympic medallions. For every medal winner, there are scores of-athletes who won't get to mount the medal podium, won't get to listen with pride to the strains of their national anthems sounding across Olympic Plaza. But they won't go home empty- handed. Commemorative bronze medals, depicting the Olympic torch against the Calgary skyline, will be presented to all athletes, coaches and team officials as well as volunteers and International Olympic Committee members. stylized Village fills every need By HELEN BRANSWELL The Canadian Press CALGARY — Every 30 minutes around the clock, sticky cinnamon buns are pulled from the oven, drizzled with icing and sold to sweet-toothed athletes at the Baron's Court. Nearby, the Royal Bank is open evenings and weekends, florists are preparing bouquets and masseurs knead the muscles of the superfit. There is the Olympic village, designed to fill every need and desire of the world's premier winter athletes. It's a cold-proof paradise, an athletic Club Med — if you don’t count the RCMP dogs patrolling the 2/-metre fences. For the entire month the cluster of buildings in a corner of the University of Calgary campus is home to Olympic athletes and team officials. About 2,600 people will live in the Calgary complex and a similar facility in Canmore. The main village is a self-contained world where athletes can dance and drink, shop and swim, work out and even seek spiritual guidance. The village store's shelves groan with toiletries and souvenirs such as the ever-present Hidy and Howdy dolls and Olympic frisbees. Rows of acid-wash jeans await Eastern bloc athletes. Twelve major foreign newspapers will be on sale, although the news will be a day late. “All our prices are extremely competitive,” store manager Bill Sykes boasts. “The philosophy is our pricing is to a student market.” FREE CONCERTS There's a popular video arcade where the athletes play for free, a chapel, a human performance laboratory where athletes can assess themselves. There are bars and discos. Three theatres offer full length films. Major Canadian stars — including Bryan Adams and K.D. Lang — are slated to perform for athletes’ ears only. There's a pool and a large, fully equipped fitness centre, squash and racketball courts and ping pong tables. Most of the facilities in the village keep extended hours, some even operating around the clock. They're all linked by underground tunnels to the circle of residences that house the athletes. And it’s all strictly off limits to outsiders. High and potentially intrusive security is the price Olympic athletes have had to pay since Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. Calgary is no exception. Getting a non-athlete into the village is only slightly less difficult than getting a camel through the eye of a needle,