™. BUSINESS as Castlegar News November 16, 1986 Crestbrook reports $1.7 million profit By CasNews Staff Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. reported a $1.7 million net profit for the third quarter of 1986, compared toa $2.3 million loss for the same period in 1985. For the first nine months of this year, the Cranbrook based forestry company reported a $5.2 million hus compared to a $3.2 million loss in 1985. Akira Shibanuma, Crestbrook's chairman and "chief executive officer, and Stuart Lang, president and chief operating officer, attributed improved performance to increased pulp sales and higher pulp prices. “Pulp sales at $22.6 million were substantially better than the $15.1 million reported for the second quarter of this year and reflects both improved operations and increased prices,” Shibanuma and Lang said in a prepared release. “Markets for pulp continue to be good and a further price inerease, effective for the fourth quarter of 1986, was announced.” But Crestbrook also said the increased pulp sales helped offset a drop in lumber and plywood sales. Lumber and plywood sales fell to $18.4 million in the third quarter from $32.2 million in the second quarter. Lang and Shibanuma attributed the lower lumber sales tothe 16-week International Woodworkers of America strike. And the two company officials voiced concern about the strike and the U.S. duty on Canadian softwood lumber. e ted .. . last quarter that two of the company’s sawmills had been shutdown by the IWA,” said Shibanuma and Lang. “This action was expanded and all three sawmills (Canal Flats, Cranbrook and Elko), the (Creston) veneer plant and logging activities of CFI were shutdown from the second week of August.” The strike affects approximately 750 Crestbrook-IWA employees. “Demand for lumbe?-and pricing was unsettled during the period, due to the uncertainty caused by the strike and the countervailing duties,” said Shibanuma and Lang. “On Oct. 23, the United States of America announced the ition of a -y deposit of 15 percent on all lumber entering the United States. “If the final ruling (expected in early 1987) continues, the imposition of a duty on the impact of lumber operations throughout the industry will be profound.” Shipbuilding bleak By MICHAEL BERNARD (Canadian Press ° VANCOUVER — Forty years ago, Vancouver's North Shore waterfront would be lined at quitting time with thousands of grimy, tired shipyard workers waiting for the ferry to take them back across the harbor. Today, the traffic moves the other way, with the multi tudes of office workers heading for home on the North Shore mountains. It is one more telling sign of the decline of British Columbia's once-mighty shipbuilding and repair business. Some bleakly predict it is a sunset industry — and the numbers support the pessimists. Between 1980 and 1984, the Canadian ilding industry's force plunged to less than 11,000 from 17,000. In 1980, Canada had 69 shipyards; today it has 20. While the value of production from 1980 to 1984 remained stable at just over $1 billion, the figures hide the effects of inflation. When that is taken into account, actual business volume has in fact declined by about 40 per cent. WORKERS SUFFER Lost, too, in the jumble of figures are the human costs. Fifty-two-year-old Mike Milan waits patiently for work in the Vancouver shipyards. Having worked just two months in thie. last two years, Milan now survives on welfare. He hopes’ next year will be better. Terry Bennett has given up hoping. There aren't many employers interested in a 62-year-old arc welder. “I took a job cleaning toilets at a local golf club for a day,” Bennett says. “But it made me sick to my stomach. “T'm bitter about it. But I guess I'm lucky because I'm an old man.” Weekly Stocks TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto Stock Exchange bounced back Friday from Thursday's dive but it wasn't enough to provide any over. all movement for the week. The TSE 300 composite moved up 7.91 points in active trading on Friday to close at 3069.99, down an almost negligible .04 points from a week earlier In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 11.39 points to 1873.59 cut ting its loss for the week to 12.94 points. Analysts at ibuted the movement to rising bond prices and more takeover news and specu. lation. Gold bullion prices was off 25 cents an ounce to $407.75 in London but the Canadian mid-price quote based on Chicago markets dropped $10 US to close at $397.50 US. On Bay Street, half of the subgroups were up and the other half were down in a week where there was a good advance for the first three days before Thursday's fall of 26 points. Analysts blamed it on events in New York, where stocks also dropped ¥ Moving to White Rock or South Surrey? PLEASE CALL ME! at 531-5571 or 536-0271 Wolstencrott Realty MARY WADE ANDERSON 3! NOSYJONV_JOVM_AYVW. 1812-152 St. "White Rock RY_ WADE ANDER: Econo Spots You can sove up to 80% on the cost of this ad! 365-5210 because of profit taking and concern over the inflationary pattern of economic indi cators in the United States. The oil and gas subgroup increased 3.93 per cent for the week amid optimism for higher world oil prices and better tax and royalty deals for the industry, analysts said. Losing indexes included management, down 1.92 per cent; industrial products, off 1.68 per cent, and consumer products, dropping 1.41 per cent. Henry Walsh, president of the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association, says the crisis is worsening. In an interview from Ottawa, Walsh said the industry has traditionally depended on government for about 20 per cent of its work. Now it’s about 90 per cent. “But our position is we can't live on government work alone,” Walsh said. “Government work isn’t regular, it doesn't keep the yards full.” British Columbia's industry, which accounts for about 30 per cent of Canadian shipbuilding, mirrors the national trend. THE BOOM DAYS At its peak during the Second World War, as many as 15,000 men worked at the North Vancouver facility, now owned by Versatile Pacific Shipyard. In its heyday, the operation was sending a new 10,000-tonne cargo ship sliding down the greased ways at a rate of one a month. Only about 1,200 people work at Versatile today, half the total employed three years ago. The company’s wood-panelled executive offices look a little shabby, evidence of an industry that has no money to fritter away on things like office renovations. But David Alsop, Versatile's’ president and chief executive officer, rejects the idea that the business is going the way of the Liberty tee it once built. GOALS DI He prefers it to be called a “mature” industry whose goals are different from other types of business. “The challenge is not to grow, it's to facilitate change . and to seek out the special niches in the marketplace where we can be competitive.” A graduate of Harvard business school, Alsop arrived in Vancouver 14 years ago as an investment analyst hired by Burrard Yarrows Corp. to find out if the shipbuilder should buy another drydock. The expected short stay turned into a career Alsop says there are certain facts Canadian shipbuilders must live with. “This is a global market. A ship can be built anywhere in the world on tidewater and be sailed to its home port.” That means Canada is competing with the likes of heavily subsidized shipbuilders in Japan, Korea and more recently China, where governments have 7? industry and integral part of their national economic strategies, he said. But even those countries have dramatically cut back shipbuilding production after having overbuilt for the market in the ‘70s. Hundreds of ships tied up side by side in the Greek port of Piraeus, in Singapore and in Hong Kong are silent testimony to the industry's doldrums. The West Coast industry has its own set of problems. In the 1950s, local yards were busy building destroyers for the Royal Canadian Navy. In the ‘60s, the expansion of the B.C. Ferry fleet was the saving grace. The forest industry's need for barges and other vessels in the ‘70s seemed insatiable. 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Look right Mill's value leaps ahead By The Cas Canadian Press _lion, bringing the value of the TOR! — One of the fixed assets to $199-million. plup om Set ea oer The writeup, which ap- bia Resources sold this sum- pears in a pi y pros- mer for $70 million has pectus for Repap's first com emerged worth almost three mon share issue, is based on times that much. an appraisal done in Septem- Repap Enterprises Inc. has ber by H.A. Simons Ltd., a written up the Skeena pulp Vancouver consulting comp- A representative of the Bank will be in any. . Castlegar on November 19, 1986 to sie teal atthe tse at discuss your Business’ Financial. and ioeosaal Management needs. Why not call us the sale, Westar Timber had carried the Skeena complex today at 426-7241 (collect) to arrange an appointment. and a Terrace sawmill on its books at $30 million, said Robert Chase, B.C. Re sources’ vice-president for finance. C. Resources by $126 mil- Cominco accepts Federal Business Banque federale Bank de Canada By CasNews Staff Cominco Ltd. has accepted a takeover bid from CanEast Capital Ltd. to purchase Vestgron Mines Ltd. for 66 cents a share. Cominco is majority share- holder in Vestgron. CanEast made the bid through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 683297 Ontario Ine. It had submitted a take- over bid of 65 cents, but in creased it to 66 cents Oct. 17. A competing bid from Zen. mac Zine Ltd. expired Oct. 17. Zenmac had offered 50 cents a share. Contract reached KIMBERLEY (CP) — HALL’S GIFTS ri Grand Opening Next Thursday, Friday & Saturday Nov. 20, 21 and 22 Cominco Ltd. has reached a new agreement with about 250 contract miners at its Sullivan mine in southeast ern B.C. The contract miners are members of Local 651 of the United Steelworkers of America but they bargain separately from Trail, Ceminco workers on an addendum to the main con tract. The addendum covers production incentives. 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B.C. advanced to the western final Nov. 23 against the winner of today's other semifinal between the hd: Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Stampeders at Wide receiver Mervyn Fernandez staged a dazzling hd individual performance with two spectacular touch downs in the opening half for the Lions, who swept four games against the Bombers this season, including the last Fernandez ran 16 yards for a touchdown on a quarter behind the passing of quarterback John Hufnagel, but came up short with their running game when it was needed. B.C. had 20 first downs and 325 net yards, compared with 19 first downs and 392 yards for Winnipeg, most of them in the second half. Dewalt completed 16 of 31 passes for 237 yards, with and one Pp’ five passes for 132 yards. Hufnagel hit on 21 of 31 passes for 362 yards for two with two i Fernandez caught Backup Jim Zorn, used briefly in the second and third quarters, completed one of seven for six yards. Murphy caught seven passes for 75 yards and Tuttle five for 129. The only effective runner was Anthony Parker of the Lions as he carried 23 times for 109 yards. Dewalt was sacked six times by the Winnipeg defence and the Lions had two sacks. ” The aggressive B.C. defence, which forced with six turnovers, at its best late in the game. The Bombers had a first at the Lion four and Kehoe was denied three times crossing the goal line on the pars 2~ng plunges up Kehoe, moved to tailback when Willard Reaves was ejected in the third quarter for a fight with B.C. end Walter Ballard, fumbled when hit by Tyrone Crews and Rick Klassen, with Gray recovering. Hufnagel, after a poor first half, threw 13-yard scoring passes to Perry Tuttle and James Murphy in the final quarter to make the game close. Lui Passaglia completed the B.C. scoring with eight points on two field goals and two converts. Trevor Kennerd converted both Winnipeg touchdowns. The Lios came away with only four points early in the game when two Winnipeg turnovers gave B.C. possession deep in Bomber territory. Lions advance to Western final surptise reverse on the last play of the first quarter and also scored on a 51-yard pass from Roy Dewalt in the Passaglia settled for a single on a missed field goal attempt teen the 38 at $:44 following an interception by cornerback Keith Gooch and a 29-yard return to the Winnipeg 20. Nelson Martin recovered a fumble by Kehoe at the Lion 24 and nine plays later Passaglia kicked a 20-yard field goal at 8:17. Dewak threw 45 yards to Ferastionsto down by Fernandez at 9:09. He took a short paés from Dewalt and made three cutback moves to elude secondary defenders Roy Bennett, Scott Flagel and Ken Hailey. KOKANEE INVITATIONAL . opponents from Eastern . Players trom Mount Royal College (Calgary) try to keep ball in motion as Washington University defend territory Saturday. The match was part of the Kokanee Invitational volleyball tournament played at Selkirk College and Mount Sentinel secon dary school. The tournament winds up today Rebels win 12-9 over Smoke Eaters By CasNews Staff Dane Jackson's three goals sparked Castlegar Rebels to a 12-9 win over Trail Junior Smoke Eaters Friday replied with three goals of their own before the Trail team came back with also one more to make it 6-3 in the Rebels’ favor after 40 minutes. Plotnikoff, Salekin and Colin Carew assisted. The game was also a scrappy one as night at the Community Complex. The Rebels, who are on top of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League's West Division, led 3-1 after the first period on goals by Jackson, Rick Viens and Andrew Zibin. Darcy Martini assisted on two of the goals, while goaltender Steve Voykin had one assist. Jackson, Dave Terhune and Randy Salekin scored for the Rebels with assists coming from Martini, Terhune, David Zarikoff and Andrew Zibin. The final period was freewheeling as the Rebels and the Jr. Smokies scored six goals each. Dean Sjodin scored two of the goals, while singles came from Jackson, Viens, Martini and Terhune. The Rebels were in Kimberley Sat- urday night to play the Knights. They being RECREATIONAL LEAGUE Knights defeat Shell By CasNews Staff Chief Mercer scored five goals Thursday night as Castlegar Knights charged to a 10-4 win over Woodland Park Shell in a Castlegar Recreational Hockey League game In other games, Castlegar Playboys edged Checkers/Mallards 7-6 Monday while Sandman Inn beat the Playboys 16-7 last Sunday In Thursday's game, the Knights led 5-1 after the first period on three goals by Mercer and one each by Don Des chene and Rick Sanders. Wes Mc Pherson scored the lone goal for Shell In the second period, Woodland Park Shell scored two goals, then the Knights replied with two before Shell got its final goal of the game with 2:11 left in the period. Wayne Kinakin and Wayne Zino scored for the Knights while Shell got two goals from Bruno Tassone and one from Rick Shukin Knights goaltender Lawrence Cher noff held off Woodland Park in the final frame while his team scored two more goals for a 10-5 final Both goals were scored by Mercer Assists for the Knights came from Deschene with five, Mercer with three, Victor Jamaeff, Martin Sanders and Rick Sanders with two each, Bob Evans and Zino with one each Tassone and Neil Archambault got two assists each for Woodland Park Shell, Pete Moroso, Doug Makortoff and McPherson were credited with singles In the Playboys’ win over Checkers, Mallards, Randy Martin scored twice and Tony Nazaroff added one goal in the first period to give the Playboys a 3-1 lead over Checkers/Mallards. Al Akselson scored the lone goal for Checkers/Mallards. The Playboys took control of the second period, scoring four straight markers before Checkers/Mallards came back with two. Perry Samoyloff scored two of the Playboys’ goals, while Randy Martin and Tony Nazaroff also scored Don Savinkoff got the two goals for Checkers/Mallards. Checkers/Mallards goaltender Mike Byrne shut out the Playboys in the final frame while his team scored three goals. But they fell short as the horn sounded with the team one goal short of tying the Playboys. Moose Morris. Al Akselson and Savinkoff scored the goals. Bill Nazaroff of the Playboys picked up five assists, Gerry Tomlin had three, Lawrence Halisheff got two, while Bob Essaunce, Shawn Coulson, and Tony Nazaroff had singles. Morris had four assists for Check ers/Mallards, Savinkoff got three and Akselson and Mike McCormack got one each Elsewhere, in Sandman Inn's win over the Playboys, the Playboys grabbed a 3-2 lead after the first period, but in the second frame, the Inn team scored five goals, compared to three for the Playboys, to go ahead 76. Sandman scored three more goals in the final period compared to one scored by the Playboys to win 10-7 Lyle Stoushnow scored three of the goals for Sandman, John Obetkoff and Kevin Kirby had two goals each, while singles went to Dan Markin, Dan Walker and Pat Farkas The Jr. Smokies opened the scoring in the second period, but the Rebels NHL LAST NIGHT Terhune and Walter Sheloff had two assists each. Zarikoff, Zibin, Mark on Kimberley. Whalers outscore Oilers HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Power-play goals by rookie Mike Millar, Kevin Dineen and John Anderson led the Hartford Whalers over the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 in the NHL Saturday night. Goalie Mike Liut stopped 30 shots as the Whalers, 7-5-3, clicked on three of eight power plays to defeat the Oilers, 10-8-1, who have lost two straight games and slipped to 3-7 on the road. The Whalers took a 3-0 advantage in the first period by producing twice on the power-play after a wrist shot by Paul MacDermid opened a 1-0 lead at 4:13. Millar, recalled from the minors before the game, scored his first goal in his first big-league game at 11:56 to give the Whalers a 2-0 cushion. Millar knocked home a rebound after goalie Andy Moog stopped Paul Lawless. The Whalers went ahead 30 at 17:08 as Dineen intercepted a clearing pass by Mark Messier and scored from between the circles. Liut was sharp in the period making seven saves and blunted three Edmonton 2-0n-1 rushes by sliding out to stop three quality shots. CANADIENS 4 SABRES 2 MONTREAL (CP) — Guy Carbonneau and goaltender Brian Hayward kept a pair of streaks alive for the Canadiens as Montreal beat Buffalo 4-2 in NHL action. Hayward stopped 25 shots to extend his undefeated stringer games, and the Canadiens now are undefeated in five consecutive games at the Forum. Carbonneau scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season. His second came just over three minutes after the Sabres made it 3-2 on Wilf Paiement's 12th goal of the season at 6:02 of the third period. Carbonneau slipped around Sabres defenceman Jim Hafford, and deked goaltender Jacques Cloutier, who faced 28 shots. Carbonneau's shot hit the post but a sliding Cloutier knocked it into the net. Bobby Smith and Mats Naslund also scored for Montreal Jim Korn also scored for Buffalo, who have lost their last four games. LEAFS 6 RED WINGS 0 TORONTO (CP) Tom Fergus and Vincent Damphousse scored two goals each as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated Detroit 6-0 to end a three-game NHL losing streak and move four points clear of the Red Wings atop the Norris Division Allan Bester made 21 saves for his second shutout of the Red Wings in two weeks and third perfect game of his goaltending career Wendel Clark and Russ Courtnall had Toronto's other goals in a brawl-filled game that saw referee Dave Newll assess four game misconducts to Basil McRae, Tim Higgins and Harold Snepsts of Detroit and Brad Smith of Toronto — as well as 10 10-minute misconducts and 17 fighting majors. Snepsts was given a major penalty and his game misconduct for spearing Leaf forward Steve Thomas. Thomas was not injured. PENGUINS 5 NORDIQUES 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Craig Simpson scored the first of three Pittsburgh first-period goals and set up Mario Lemieux's 19th of the season to lead the Penguins to a 5-2 NHL victory over the Quebec Nordiques. The Penguins scored three times in the first 13:31 beginning with Simpson's fifth of the year at 6:35, which was set up by Ron Duguy’s steal. John Chabot scored at 8:30 off a give-and-go feed from Bob Arrey and newly acquired Dan Quinn made it 3-0 when he knocked in the rebound of a Jim Johnson shot. Quinn was playing his second game since joining the Penguins from the Calgary Flames in a trade for centre Mike Bullard. Brent Ashton got his 11th goal of the year at 14:28 and Mike Eagles scored at 1:49 of the second period for the Nordiques. Less than a minute after Eagles’s goal, Simpson's pass to Lemieux gave Pittsburgh a 4-2 lead. Dave Hannan scored his fifth of the year for Pittsburgh at 3:17 of the final period. BRUINS 5 DEVILS 5 BOSTON (AP) — Ray Bourque and Steve Kasper scored third-period goals, rallying Boston to a 5-5 NHL tie with the New Jersey Devils in Terry O'Reilly's debut as the Bruins’ head coach. The Bruins rallied after New Jersey's Claude Loiselle broke a 3-3 tie with a goal 16 seconds into the third period and Mark Johnson made it 5-3 with a goal on a deflected shot just 68 seconds later Bourque, set up by Geoff Courtnall and Rick Middleton, pulled Boston to within one goal with a shot from the left faceoff circle at 9:16. The assist was Middleton's 900th career point in the NHL. At 12:54, Kasper took a pass from Nevin Markwart, split the New Jersey defence and went in to beat New Jersey goalie Chris Terreri with a shot to the stick side for his fourth goal of the season. Greg Adams gave New Jersey a 10 lead with his seventh goal at 1:46 of the opening period, but Boston went ahead on power-play goals by Reed Larson, lhis second, and Ken Linseman, also his second. ISLANDERS 7 NORTH STARS 3 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Pat LaFontaine and Brent Sutter scored in a 50-second span of the third period to break a 2-2 tie and Mike Bossy added two goals to lead the New York Islanders to a 7-3 NHL win over the Minnesota North Stars. LaFontaine tipped Denis Potvin's slap shot past Minnesota goaltender Mike Sands 45 seconds into the third period while the North Stars Jari Gronstrand was in the penalty box Sutter scored his team-high 11th goal at 1:35 after taking a pass from Brian Curran and firing a drive that deflected off Sands’s pad and into the net. The victory improved the Islanders record to 9-61. while Minnesota dropped to 5-9-2 Minnesota rallied from a 2-0 first-period deficit on goals by Marc Habscheid and Brian MacLellan. Dwayne Sutter and Bossy put New York up early Dwayne Sutter scored just 10 seconds into the game to record the fastest goal ever scored against the North Stars. BLUES 4 BLACKHAWKS 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) Greg Paslawski knocked home the rebound of his own shot with 4:28 left in the game to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 43 NHL victory over the Chicago Blackhawks Paslawksi got off a quick'shot after muscling his way past Chicago defenceman Jack O'Callaghan. Goaltender Bob Sauve made a stick save, but O'Callahan knocked Paslawski into the crease, dislodging the puck and sending it into the net The goal was Paslawski’s fourth of the season. It snapped a 3-3 tie created by Chicago right winger Steve Larmer, who scored his second goal of the night on a power play at 14:45.