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October 30, 1985 Castlégat News — w 87

OTTAWA (CP) — The

Michael fey ‘Farrell, director of

News service accused
of ‘tied selling’

equipment or make some

federal watch,
dog has accused Broadcast
“News Ltd. of “tied selling”
and asked for an order to bar
the news -agency from the
anti-competitive practice.
G.M. Payette, secretary of
the Restrictive Trade Prac-
tices Commission, confirmed
Tuesday an for an

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O'Farrell wants an order
from. the trade practices

against BN. came- after in-
vestigation of a complaint
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BN provides news wire,
audio and auxiliary services
to many of Canada’s radio
and television stations over a
leased network of satellite
channels and land-based tele-
graph circuits. The company
is controlled by The Canadian
Press, the national news wire
service, which in turn is co-
operatively owned by Can-
ada’s: daily newspapers.

to
untie the news package from
its delivery system and any
other requirement the com-
mission deems “necessary to
restore.or stimulate compe-
tition in the market.”

Under a shareholder offer-
ing plan approved last year,
EN's subscribers also own
equity units in the company,
formed in 1983 after CP fired
eight broadcast directors
from BN'’s board.

John Rea, a CP -vice-pres-
ident and BN general man-
ager, said today “we're sur-
prised and we're also dis-
appointed” at the request for

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the investigation after saying
it failed to persuade CP
executives that EN should be
able to buy BN’s content and
distribute it to its own sub-
scribers.
REFUSED ACCESS

BN has refused to give EN
access to its basic news pack-
age for delivery by EN unless
EN subscribers either use
BN’s satellite transmission

anti action against
BN.

The next step, Rea said,
will be to defend BN’s busi-
ness practices before the
Restrictive Trade Practices
Commission.

“We've asked our counsel
to vigorously defend it and
have been told EN’s case has
no merit. We will reply to
this and -we will have a
chance to outline our case.”

By ROBERT McLEOD
The Canadian Press

Homes are being: snapped upat near record numbers
in most parts of the country this year, so if you're in the
market to sell yours, chances are it shouldn't be too much
of a problem to find a buyer. However, even in good
times, getting the right ‘real estate agent can mean the
difference between’ a quick sale or a protracted affair,
experts say.

And since agents receive up to six-per cent of the
‘house's price as commission, it makes sense to do your
best to get your money's worth.

“The biggest single complaint in the real: estate
business from people is that once their property was
listed, the sales rep, who was so eager, hasn't been heard
from since,” says Roy St. John, vice-president and
national training director for Royal LePage, one of the
biggest real estate companies in Canada.

He says people wishing to sell their house should ask
the agent what his or her marketing plan for the property
will be:

“What combination of advertising, inspections and
prospecting methods will they ‘employ? How will the
sellers find out the results of the agent's actions?

“No one is more anxious than somebody who has just

RIGHT AGENT MEANS QUICK SALE

Although a proponent of selling a house privately,
Farkas says that if you do use an agent it is good to select
a multiple listing agreement, ‘in which all real estate
offices in your area or city will get information on your
property. y

The commission. will be a little higher but the,
property-will get much wider exposure than if listed with
just. one office.

Because of the way the multiple listing system
works, an agent can, if he chooses, list your house and
then wait for other agents to find: buyers.

So Farkas says it is important for several things to
be written into the listing agreement.

“ENDS AGREEME
First, he recommends sellers insist that the listing

_agents hold two ‘open houses a month and place an

announcement in the classified section of the newspaper
each time. Sellers should make sure they can terminate
the agreement at the end of any month in which there
have not been two open houses.

Second, the seller should make sure the. agreement
states the listing agent will have a new photo taken of the
house every one to two months for inclusion in the
multiple listing. booklet.

“Nothing makes a house look worse than to see snow

listed a home and wants to know if he is ig.” says St.
John. “If they don’t set dback, the whole

g it in its picture in a July issue of the

process breaks down.”
TOLD OF EFFECT

The owner should be told what effect the newspaper
ads have had and how potential buyers reacted when
they saw the house, he adds.

Edward Farkas, a Toronto chemical engineer who
moved several times in quick succession because of job
changes, has written a short book on selling a home,
outlining several tips for the homeowner.

book,” he says.

Timing is also important, Farkas says. Don't lock
yourself into a-long listing agreement. Two months ‘is
adequate. If at the end of two months, the house has not
sold you can try selling the house privately, sign up a new
agent or stick with the one you have.

“A short listing agreement, in that it provides you
some options and some room to manoeuvre, will build a
fire under the listing agent.”

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EDMONTON (CP) — Sometimes beautiful, occasionally
mundane, a new amusement park at West Edmonton Mall is
striving to lure land-locked Albertans with a promise of
deep-sea adventure.

At a cost of $8 per adult, $5 per child, shoppers can hop
aboard one of four custom-built submarines for a half-hour
journey beneath the mall’s.indoor lake.

The sights they'll see-include a: beautiful coral reef,
constructed from actual coral brought to Edmonton from
New Caledonia, an island near Australia. There are more
than 200 varieties of fish, including a section with 30 sharks
and another area in which four playful dolphins and scuba
divers peek at customers through the submarine's small
portholes.

For the easily frightened, there is mock adventure.
At one point, the submarine glides through giant

les which move ically toward, then away from
the vessel.

Later, as passengers are urged to look at tiny blue fish
on the port side, a mechanical shark sneaks up on the
starboard side, twisting and turning its head as its

blood-soaked teeth glisten in the artificial - Hehe:
Other areas are less impressive.
At the trip's outset there is an i

Also, the computer system which was to control the
submarine ride was not yet in place so the course was being

having its eye ripped out by a snake. a

Toward the end the ine enters a recréati
Atlantis which ends up looking more like a.scene from a
Busby Berkeley underwater musical, with bubbles rising in
streams from Greek statues of. scantily clad women.

The entire lake area (which includes full-scale replica of
Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria) and
kilometre-long submarine course cost more than $40 million,
said project manager Isaac Berkhoven.

and a staff of engi from Internati
Submarine Engineering Ltd. of Port Moody, B.C., were
hired by Triple Five Corp., owners of the mall, to construct
the ride.

Each submarine cost $660,000 to design and build. At its,
lowest, the lake is just over four metres deep.

Two weeks after opening to the public, there were still
problems being worked out.

One submarine's engine made a disconcerting grinding.
noise, which unintentionally sounded like the theme music to
Jaws. :

That suited Berkhoven, a 26-year-old veteran with the
Canadian navy, who would have preferred to see his
machines always under the control of human hands.

“They (mall management) didn’t need the computer, but
they're going to put it in anyway,” grumbled the bearded
former seaman.

Nevertheless, Berkhoven made sure those who would
eventually act as the submarines’ captains were trained for
emergencies.

The 10-metre-long vessels actually ride along a
single-rail track and are brought to the surface of the lake by
~ hydraulic lifts. But there is a manual override which would
allow the submarine to Surface if, for instance, it fell off the
track.

“The operators are also trained for evacuation,”
Berkhoven said. “Just underneath the bridge is a place to
take people off, like somebody who is claustrophobic and
doesn't. know it until they get on.”

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TORONTO (CP) — Opera-
ting earnings for Gulf Canada
Ltd. in the first nine months
of 1985 fell to $165 million
from $179 million in the same
period last year, the company
has announced.

However, net profit after
extraordinary items rose to

* $245 million or $1.08 a share

from $229 million or $1.01 a
share a year earlier.

Gulf, taken over by the
Reichmann family of. Toronto
earlier this year, said the res-
ults include a $93-million gain
from the Gulf Canada Re-
sources partnership with
Norcen Energy Resources
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The gain was partially
offset by an after-tax loss of
$80 million resulting from the
sale of the company's west-
ern and Ontario refining and
marketing assets.

Maritimer
elected

EDMONTON (CP) —
David Grant Hawkins of
Fredericton was elected
president of the Canadian
Real Estate Association at
the’ group's annual confer-
ence in Edmonton on Tues-
day.

He is the first real-estate
practitioner from Atlantic
Canada to head the 60,000-
member association.

Hawkins, president of
Dave Hawkins Real’ Estate
Ltd. of Fredericton, has been
active in the industry for
more than 25 years. He is a
past president of both the
New Brunswick Real Estate
Association.

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PRESIDENT

By CasNews Staff
Vowing to continue devel-
oping strong local liaisons _
with

concern over the University
of B.C.’s intention- to- dis-
continue’ offering industrial

teachers throughout B.C.,
Dennis Popowich was re-
elected president of the B.C.
Industrial Education Asso-
ciation at the organization's

DENNIS POPOWICH
. re-elected president

annual general meeting Sat-
urday in Castlegar.

Popowich, who teaches at
Fort Langley Junior Secon-
dary school in Langley,
fought off a challenge from
last year's first vice-presi-
dent Gordon Fleming for the
presidency.

In his report to the meet-
ing, Popowich also expressed

1 content
courses.

During the meeting, a a res-
olution that a CCIEA mem-
bership category be included
for unemployed or partially
employed teachers at $5 per
year aroused some controv-
ersy and was tabled for fur-
ther clarification.

The membership also pass-
ed‘a revised constitution at
the meeting.

The aim of the new con-
stitution is to clarify some
ambiguities in the old. con-
stitution and to create the
new executive position of
member-at-large, Popowich
said.

Elected to the new position
was Art Benzer of J. Lloyd.
Crowe Secondary school in
Trail.

Also elected to the BCIEA
executive, all by acclamation,
were:

e First vice-president —
Doug Podetz, Frank Hurt
Secondary, Kelowna;

e Second vice-president —
John Vigrass, Alberni Dis-
itFict’ Secondary, Alberni;

_ e Secretary — Don Askew,
L.A. Matheson Junior Sec-
ondary, Surrey;

e Treasurer — Larry
Davidson, KLO ys

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Hearing set

for officers

COWNASVILLE, QUE.
(CP) — A preliminary hear-
ing was set for Jan. 29 for
three former ‘Lac-Brome po-
lice officers accused of as-
saulting a British Columbia
man suspected of burglary in
1982.

Former police chief Alyre
Thireau and'-former police.
constable Mario Beaumont
are charged with

ant
ment while former constable
Paul Roy is charged with ag-
gravated assault.

All three men have since
resigned from the municipal
police force.

‘They ‘appeared briefly in
sessions: court Tuesday. be-
fore Judge Claude Leveille.

The charges stem from a
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Guidelines
not
accepted

REGINA (CP) — Federal
financing of “universities is
“gravely imperilled” because
provinces won't accept stric-
ter guidelines for- spending
money intended — for - post-

Kelowna;

e Newsletter editor — Bill
McCormick, Robron Second-
ary, Campbell River.

Syria urged to
extradite Brunner

BONN (AP) — West Ger-

many has urged Syria to ex-
tradite Alois Brunner, one of
the world’s most hunted Nazi
war criminals, following pub-
lication of an interview with
him in Damascus, a Justice
Ministry spokesman said
Tuesday.
_ Nazi hunter Beate Klar-
sfeld has alleged that Brun-
ner one of Adolf Eichmann’s
closest associates, was res-
ponsible for the deaths of at
least 100,000 Jews.

Bunte magazine published
the interview Monday ani

quoted Brunner as saying he.

is willing to surrender after
years in a Syrian hideout and
face an international court of
justice.

Ministry spokesman Hans
Juergen Schmid called the
purported offer “nonsense.”

“If he wants to go before a
court, he can come back here

France. He also supervised
deportation of Austrian,
Greek, French and Czechos-
lovak Jews to concentration
camps.

Schmid said that bringing
up trial by an international
court was just a ploy by
Brunner.

“There is no such interna-
tional court, and he knows
that perfectly well,” Schmid
said. “He is just trying to as-
sert his innocence.’

Bunte quoted Brunner as
saying he wouJd surrender as
long as he. was not handed
over to Israel.

“I am ready to go and res-
pond before an international
court,” it quoted Brunner as
saying. “It’s just that Israel
will never get me. I won't be-
come a second Eichmann.”

The Israelis captured Eich-
mann in Argentina and hang-

and go before a court. If bowed him in 1962 for crimes

comes back here he wi
arrested immediately,”
Schmid said.

Brunner, who would now
be 73, commanded a con-
centration camp at Drancy.

against the Jews. As head of
the Nazi Gestapo's Jewish
section, Eichmann oversaw
the deportation and murder
of millions of Jews during the
Second World War.

says a
University of Toronto P aaa
tical science professor.

Al Johnson, author of a
report on federal financing of
post-secondary education,
said the present system
means some provinces —
Newfoundland and British
Columbia, for example —
give less to. universities and
colleges than what they re-
ceive in federal transfer pay-
ments for that purpose.

His report, commissioned
by the previous Liberal gov-
ernment and released last
February, recommends cre-
ating incentives for provinces
to spend more on post-sec-
ondary education.

But he said all provinces
have rejected proposals res-
tricting their use of federal
grants earmarked for uni-
versities and colleges. Such
grants totalled $4.5 billion
last year.

“The provinces have effec-
tively denied the propriety of
Parliament reaffirming a na-
tional interest in higher edu-
cation,” said Johnson.

As a-result, transfer pay-
ments for post-secondary ed-
ucation are vulnerable to cuts
at a time when Ottawa is
trying to reduce its
billion deficit, he said.

In his report, Johnson said
the federal government
should continue to increase
post-secondary transfer pay-
ments to provinces, prefer-
ably at the same rate as
growth in the Gross National
Product.

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