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Coltotimontery parking ® Special group rates For reservations or inquiries call collect: (403) 266-4611 ime 119 - 12th Avenue SW., Calgary, Alberta T2R 0G8 COURIERS: A SERVICE WHOSE TIME HAS COME By BRENDA DALGLISH ‘The Canadian Press Time is money and nobody knows it better than the courier industry. “Courier companies help with one of the most important resources people have — the only resource that can't be retrieved — time,” said Tom Eddie of Vancouver-based jis Courier Service Ltd. Loomis is in direct competition with Geleo Express for second spot in the Canadian courier industry. Purolator Canada is No. 1. “Our society has never been more time-sensitive and we're an industry that can help by squeezine a few more hours out of each day,” Eddie said. Mike Zozula, director of cargo sales with Express, Air Canada’s courier service, added: “The whole world is urgent these days.” The industry spans everything from downtown messenger services, which deliver documents within a city using a fleet of commission messengers on foot or bikes, to cross-country couriers whose vans will pick up packages in one city today to be flown across the country and delivered tomorrow. Together the two types of delivery services — known in the business as messengers if they work just within a city or couriers if they main business is between cities — are one of the big growth industries of the decade. COURIER BIGGEST The courier side of the industry is by far the biggest with estimated annual revenues of $500 million. Statistics Canada can’t supply more accurate data because the courier phenomenon is so new it hasn't collected any figures. Roger Thiffault of Toronto's Downtown Metro Runners said: “We have all kinds of customers and we deliver anything from film to documents to furniture.” Loomis’s Eddie said: “The television commercials and newscasts you watch, the auto parts in your car, your cancelled cheques — more things than you can imagine are all moved by us. “Virtually every business needs a courier to operate these days.” Reliability and speed, in that order, are the most important factors of the business, said Jim Wilson, president of Purolator Canada. Price is a consideration but if a courier company isn't reliable and speedy it doesn't matter how little it charges. Norm Seagrove of Canada Wire and Cable Ltd., which spends around $150,000 a year on courier services, said his company relies on couriers to move important items. WILLING TO PAY “We use it for things we want to get to a certain place by a certain time, things we want to be sure won't get lost,” Seagrove said. “It's expensive but we're willing to pay for the service. We don’t have many alternatives actually — the post office is our other choice. Would you trust a tender to the post office?” The! industry standard is for about 90 per cent of deliveries to be made within the agreed-upon period, Wilson said. Apything less. than that and a company could net suceeed in the highly competitive industry. f * FEEDS | THIS WEEK’S SPECIALS Stenos lack status MONTREAL (CP) — A new survey says secretaries aren't making much headway in terms of status. By and large, they still work for men and don't participate in de cision-making. The study of 231 local sec retaries by Professional Sec retaries International found 85 per cent worked for men. The results suggest that secretaries are still valued mostly for traditional duties — 45.2 per cent organized . New machine is speeding work for Westar Timber contractors. The machine, called a feller-buncher, cuts, picks up and stacks trees in piles jer-buncher can cut between 100 to 130 trees an hour, replacing about three fallers. The equipment is owned by the partnership of R & A Logging and Twin B Logging of Fauquier. The machine is seen operating on a piece of private land near Nakusp outside Westar's TFL No. 23 Cortews Photo by Chery! Colderbank By PETER KINSEY VANCOUVER (CP) — While some United States lumber companies say Canadian lumber imports are unfairly subsidized, the American dollar is one reason Canadian forest companies are showing improved balance sheets. Both the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to the Canadian dollar, and the weakness of the U.S. dollar relative to offshore currencies is a large factor in the improvement, said Ross Hay-Roe, publisher of Paper Tree Economics in Vancouver. Prices for lumber, pulp and newsprint are quoted in American dollars. “Without the strength of the U.S. dollar to the Canadian dollar, the whole Canadian forest products industry would be in dismal shape,” he said in an interview Jack Puusepp, vice-president ang forestry analyst improvements for Canadian companies in 1985 were mostly related to the decline in the American dollar relative to offshore currencies, particularly in the fourth quarter. CITES TWO FACTORS Puusepp said there are two factors why some companies showed profits in 1985, while others continued to lose money “Somme of the companies recognized very early in the post. 1982 recession that the international environment U.S. dollar helps exports had changed and they would have to cut costs,” he said. “Others did not realize this until later in the cycle. “The second is companies showing the lowest amount of debt on their balance sheets are paying less interest and so are able to show a profit earlier,” “The B.C. industry all lost money in 1982,” Hay-Roe said. “A few (companies) thought it was just another cycle and if they were patient, the market would pull them out; others made changes with varying degrees of lag time.” Hay-Roe said that of the 24 Canadian forest MEDICINE Mutagens found in oe “If people want to hedge their bets, just don't cook the sass to shee ander,” he added. “Don’t cook it well-done.” the LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hamburgers that are broiled or fried well-done contain six’ chemicals that cause mutations, chromosome damage and possibly cancer in rodents, scientists said. The $2-million U.S., six-year study at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found the well-done ground beef tains three newly and three known mutagens. Two other mutagens were also found, but they have not been identified or tested in animals. Two of the three previously known mutagens are known to cause malignant tumors in mice and rats, said senior biomedical scientist James Felton. The risk to humans from any of them remains unknown, the scientists said. Mutagens are compounds that change genetic material in cells and sometimes can cause cancer in animals, said Felton, who presented his findings in Los Angeles at the annual of the for Cancer Sperm snd og sot mutations cal mae = d traits, can cause birth defects. Arthur Miller, head scientist at ang US. Department ot view sd sting wal done nar setye tien senoan hh in other well-done muscle meats, including other beef cuts, Felton said the compounds “could be a factor in the high colon cancer rates in this country, because of the high amounts of meat we eat. But we really need to do more work to understand how potent as carcinogens these might be.” LAUGHTER MAY_ RELIEVE STRESS WATERLOO, ONT. (CP) Moments after a tornado struck in the U.S. Midwest, a motorist whose car had been crushed by a falling tree was seen standing at the roadside, cheerily waving to passers-by. Beside him stood a sign saying: Compact car for sale. The fellow was demonstrating what a growing number of researchers believe to be the ultimate antidote to stress and even disease: laughter. Joel Goodman, a U.S. humor educationist and author of several books on the subject, refers to humor as a means of “sticking our tongues out “at reality before reality sticks its tongue out at us.” Goodman and many counselling professionals are convinced that, for those in the throes of depression, anxiety and stress, a good laugh may be the ultimate tranquillizer — one without adverse side effects. “Humor, in a way, protects people from stress,” says Herbert Lefcourt, a University of Waterloo psychologist who has done extensive research on the subject. “Study after study has shown that people with a good sense of humor, although they still experience stress, will do so at a much more moderate level.” HELPS MARRIAGE Lefcourt, co-author of the recently published book, Humor and Life Stress: Antidote to Adversity, said in an interview he has found that married couples who score well on tests measuring’sense of humor are not only more creative and adept at solving marital disputes and conflicts, but are more likely to rate their marriage as yes. One of the earliest theories about the effects of humor was put forth in the late 1800s by Sigmund Freud. He suggested humor is a means of despite the distressing feelings that interfere with it. Furthermore, he said, jokes permit people to express unconscious, aggressive and sexual impulses. It is the release of this energy, Freud theorized, that may make the joke-telling experience so pleasurable. Lefcourt, meanwhile, believes humor is “often borne out of tragedy. “It is the undoing of the negative things we may encounter in life,” he says. “It reflects the fact that you have saved a part of yourself from the crisis.” Black humor, the type spawned by a major catastrophe or tragedy, is probably an offshoot of that, researchers believe. A flurry of recent jokes about the Challenger Space Shuttle tragedy in which seven astronauts were killed may be tasteless, depraved and just plain sick. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the joke teller or the listener is also sick and depraved. Rather, researchers say that for many people such humor can alleviate tension and fear and take the edge off the grim reality. Researchers also say humor has a positive effect on emotions because of what it does to people physically. Dr. William Fry, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Stanford University who has studied humor for more than 30 years, says in his research that laughter makes the heart rate soar and circulation increase. He compares the effects of laughter to the effects of an aerobic workout. And once the laugh has subsided, both heart rate and circulation levels drop below average, promoting relaxation, he says. aidieeiaennnes Studies slam second-hand smoke KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — U.S. studies show non- smokers are adversely af- fected by cigarette smoke and children of smokers suf- fer significant increases in chronic respiratory prob- lems, the American Association's annual meeting was told. “The area remains contro- versial, but smoking hurts the people around you,” said Edwin Fisher, assistant pro- fessor of psychology at Wash- ington University in St. Louis. Physicians and scientists attending the meeting, said smoking by pregnant women and mothers in the home ap- peared to have the most dramatic effect on children. Dr. Seott Weiss, associate professor of medicine at Har- vard University, cited a Uni- versity of ~~ study that children homes where povirdiges was preva- lent had a significant increase in chronic respiratory prob- lems. Dr. David Coultas of the University of New Mexico said a study he directed showed non-smokers are af- tobacco in the body, can be found in saliva or other body fluids. ‘(i WINE STORE Open Every Day Ti Christmas Eve STARTING MAY 15 HOURS: MONDAY - SATURDAY, 9 A.M. - 11 PA. SUNDAYS — 11 A.M. - 107M, Large Selection of B.C.'s Wine & Beer 651 - 18th St., Castleger Newspapers The newspaper is the only medium that offers advertisers the added prospect — appeal of classified adver- tising. 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