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A8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 19, 1981

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The B.C. Economy has lost
more than $300 million in
wages from 128 different
labor disputes so far this
year and the number of
man days lost to strikes has
reached an all-time high,
reports the provincial labor
ministry.

Ministry figures show
2,306,062 workers’ days
lost up to July 31. The only
year that even comes close
is 1972, when 2,120,848
workers’ days were lost
during the full year.

Of the days lost so far
this year, 1,873,524 were
lost during provincial dis-
putes, including strikes by
civic workers in Vancouver
and Victoria, the nine-week
forest industry shutdown,
the Vancouver hotel work-

Several contributin

ers’ strike and the Office
and Technical Employees’
Union strike against the
Insurance Corp. of B.C.

Another 432,538 days
were lot during disputes by
federally-chartered unions,
including the telecommuni-
cations Workers Union
strike against the B.C.
Telephone Co. and the
national postal strike.

Economists and _politi-
cians are blaming the poor
labor record on skyrocket-
ing housing and rental
costs, high interest rates
and galloping inflation.

The B.C. Central Credit
Union says the labor dis-
putes, combined with poor
lumber markets and lower
metals prices, will trim the
growth of the gross provin-
cial product to about 2.5 per
cent this year.

g_factors

Record year for strikes

“That percentage is still
exceptionally good consi-
dering the labor problems
and the damage done by
high interest rates,'’ said
Richard McAlary, the
credit union’s chief econo-
mist.

FEELS PINCH
“But B.C, isnot an island
and when high interest cuts
the demand for housing in
the U.S., or the worid price
of metal drops, we feel the
pinch."*

McAlary zeroed in on
high interest rates as the
major factor slowing the
economy.

‘Mining, fishing and
farming are already being
squeezed by high carrying
costs,”” he said.

So is the lumber indus-
try, which is confronted
with a slackening demand

for housing in the U.S.,
another product affected by
interest rates.

The B.C. forest industry
faces the same difficulties
as lumber mills aim for an
Aug. 24 startup following a
memorandum of agreement
signed last Friday by the

TORONTO (CP) - Stan
Roberts never balks at mak-
ing waves and a few white-
caps seem inevitable as he
settles into his new job as
president of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce.

Roberts accepted the
appointment six months ago
mainly to gain access to a
larger platform for airing
Western Canada’s griev-
ances, Now, the former in-

of America and forest com-
panics’ associations.
McAlary predicted some
lumber workers could be
out-of work again because
of the poor market for B.C.
exports, caused primarily
by the U.S. housing slump.

“When the lumber
workers go back in B.C. the
inventories are going to go
up and the prices will have
to drop. So there could be
lay-offs or shorter work
weeks at the mills."’

Vancouver housing prices slump

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Housing prices in the Van-
couver area have recently
been cut by between $5,000
and $10,000 because sellers
are being forced to pay that
much on low-rate mortgages
to attract buyers, a Vancouver
economist said Monday.

That estimate by Richard
McAlary of the B.C. Central
Credit Union follows statistics
by the Real Estate Board of
Greater Vancouver that the
selling price of the average,
Vancouver home fell $14,300
in July to $165,430.

The slump — which can
amount to $24,000 with
McAlary’s newer estimate —

is linked to record-high inter-
est rates and North America’s
highest housing prices.
“August is going to be the
slowest month in recent his-
tory for sales,’”’ said the
economist.

McAlary said the market is
so bad nearly every seller
must offer the buyer a second
mortgage at a cheaper rate.
That cost must be subtracted
from the selling price, he
said.

PRACTICE GROWS

He said a credit union
survey of Vancouver area
realtors shows that at one
typical office, vendor finan-
cing was used in 30 per cent

of sales in March, SO per cent
in June, 75 per cent last
month and would probably be
used in 90 per cent today.

Under the financing plan,
called a vendor take-back, the
seller prepays some of the
mortgage interest the buyer
would face.

For example, a homeowner
may pay a finance company
$5,000 to $6,000 to offer the
buyer a $90,000 mortgage at
3.75 per cent less that the
going mortgage rate.

“Unless a homeowner is
willing to get involved in a
plan like this, it looks like he
isnot going to get a sale,”’
said McAlary.

High shelter costs arc
blamed for the drop in migra-
tion into British Columbia,
which the credit union
charted in another suryey of
40 moving companies.

McAlary said in the last two
years 1.75 people moved into
B.C. for every one that left.
The ratio now has dropped to
1.5 to one.

MORE APARTMENTS

The drop in migration
comes at a time of record
apartment construction, with
10,000 units started so far in
B.C. this year.

terim ba Liberal party

With new leader

C of C is West's voice

based Canada West Founda-
tion and he was criticized for
putting the non-partisan re-
search group directly into the
constitutional debate,

dati which

of perennial western com-
plaints, although “they still
don’t know what the hell to
do about it.”

Roberts says he is more

he

studies Western Canada and
its place in Confederation,
conducted a survey last fall
to test the western pulse on
the constitution and energy
questions. It was used as a
jumping-off point for a cam-
paign against Ottawa's con-
titulional package.

about the energy
question because Ontarians,
at first the most resolute
backers of low domestic oil
prices, now are pressing for a
speedy end to the pricing
stalemate which is seen as
damaging the Canadian
economy.

VANCOUVER (CP) - Ne-
+ gotiations have broken down
between’ B.C. Hydro and its
9,300 electrical workers.
‘Art O'Keeffe, business
manager for Local 258 of the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, said
Tuesday the union now is
asking for a strike mandate
O'Keeffe said Hydro
refused to offer more than
annual wage increases of 10
per cent over two years.

leader and academic sees the
job as something more.

“My raison d'etre is to
carry the message of people
who feel frustrated and dis-
enfranchised,” said Roberts,
who, though based in Mom-
treal, travels widely.

He said in an interview the
chamber and its president
have become conduits
through which Canadians can
reach what many consider an
increasingly unresponsive
federal government.

This is especially true in
Western Canada, he said,

The foundation, arguing
the British North America
Act should come back from
Britain to be ameended in
Canada, organized a write-in
campaign directed at British
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher.

Although Roberts argued
the foundation was not tak-
ing a partisan positicn but
was reflecting western
opinion and its own under-
standing of Canadian consti-
tutional history, it wa
attacked for undermining its

dibility as a h

where have no
Liberal MPs to whom they
can complain. The find the
chamber, with its 140,000-
member lobbying clout, an
alternate and often effective
voice.

“During the postal strike I
think I got more telegrams
than (Treasury Board Presi-
dent) Don Johnston did.”

GOT BAN LIFTED

Roberts said the chamber
was instrumental in getting
Fisheries Minister romeo
LeBlanc to reconsider a
three-year ban on sport fis-
ing on the West Coast due to
depleted stocks. Operators
who depend on sport fishing
for their income argued it
was ial

group.

The episode earned
Roberts no friends in the
federal government, where
he had been on good terms
with is former Liberal
colleagues.

But that has changed and
he now professes close per-
sonal contact with all federal
cabinet ministers, if only
because of his new position.

Roberts, the first Wester-
ner to head the chamber,
says “I had to earn my
spurs.”

“I was seen as a Westerner
with a western bias. I grad-
ually developed a Canadian
perspective of things and my
learned to trust

who were over-fishing.
For four years, Roberts
was president of the Calgary-

me more.”
He thinks the federal cab-
inet is getting a better grasp

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 19,.196)

BL

Local men to

race at world
hot rod

Two Robson men, Shane
and Ralph Humphrey, will be
competing in the American
Hot Rod Association World
Finals Thursday through
Sunday at Spokane Raceway
Park.

Shane will be driving his
home-built Robson Shaker
while Ralph will drive Rat
Poison, c

Shane raced a 1963 Mus-
tang last year in the Super 8
category but was eliminated
in the second round. This
year he is-trying to qualify in
the Super Pro category.

Qualifying is Thursday,
Friday and Saturday with
final Sunday. Racers come
from all over the U.S. and
Canada. &

Robson Shaker’s _ motor
blew up the day before last
year’s finals but this year it
should be alright, says
Shane.

The engine is a 550 horse-
power Ford 351 C

PRACTICE was held last night at the community complex where the
bers of the Cast! G ers

Other features include an
all-fibreglass front end and
t 1 4

ood Timers and the Castlegar Old Ti
prepared for the fourth annual Castlegar Gentlemen’s Hockey
League mid-summer tournament. Shown here is Rod Irwin taking

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identified player. Play gets underway at 5
p.m. Friday night where the Old Timers take on Salmo Sharks.

—CoeNewsFoto by Chery! Wiahlow,

Shane began building the
car about’ three years ago
(with’ a lot of help from
friends). x

He is hoping the car will
run about 130 m.p.h. in 10
seconds. in one-quarter of a

mile.

Ralph's Rat.,Poison is a
1969 Mach.1 Ford Mustang.
Ralph is responsible for many
items such as the suspension
work, frame, motor, trans-
mission .and rear end.

He raced in .the. world:

finals last year: but was also

éliminated >in the . second
round.:' ea

I time out,
as hip rat time,

expect to do'very.
.,consistent,".-he -says.- "Till:

definitely do better this year.
The car's running and work-
ing better. I'm a little more

prepared.”

Why Rat Poison? “Because
this year Rat Poison is going
to kill every rat motor (big
block chev) that’s ever been
made.”

Lions trade
Doug Seymour

to Ottawa club

VANCOUVER (CP) - Vet-
eran defensive lineman Doug
Seymour has been traded to
Ottawa Rough Riders for
their first-round pick in the
1982 Canadian Football
League draft, B.C. Lions
announced today.

Seymour, 28, was a second-
round pick of the: Lions in
1977 but the 6-3, 235 -pound
Toronto native has been
hobbled by nagging injuries
for the last three ‘seasons.

In 1979, he missed three
games and was out for five
games last season because of
a broken arm. This year ne
has played with a thumb
injury and missed one game
because of a fractured wrist.

Seymour has served prim-
arily as a backup man at the
tackles and on special teams
this year. The Lions said they
have made no decision on
roster additions for Sundays
game against the Alouettes
in Montreal. :

Castlegar swim

club places

second in meet
Nineteen Aquanauts tra-

, velled to Greenwood on Sun-

day to compete in a fun meet.

The Castlegar team came
in second to Colville, Wash.
The U.S. team had 258,
Castlegar 252 and Trail 156.
Six clubs competed in the
meet. y
Some Aquanauts will be
competing in the provincials
at New Westminister Friday
and Saturday and others will
travel to Comox Valley Aug.
27-30 where they will com-
pete in the B.C. Summer
Games.

Congratulations to all who
qualified and also to all who
did not.

B.C. manages cycling victory ©

By Ed Simon
THUNDER BAY, , Ont.
(CP) - A 15-year-old Jill-of-all-
trades staked an early claim
Tuesday to supremacy. in
women’s: swimming at the
Canada Summer Games.

Columbia, which settled fro
five silver and two bronze
medals, and Quebec - two sil-

‘ver and three bronze.

‘There was consolation for
B.C., which lost a member of

_ its four-man cycling team: in
Jap accident on’ the -70-kilo-

metre cycling course and still

Jen Campbell of Sudbury,

zt 100-metre--_back:
stroke and 100 freestyle and
anchoring Ontario to a third

‘victory in the 4x60 freestyle

relay in ‘Canadian. record
time. 4 ey

The Alberta men’s team
matched the Ontario women
race for race, making it a
frustrating evening for such
swimming powers as British

+ suffereday slight

dia victory. in ‘the

team time trial with its three”
2 competitors. Grant,

Vancouver,

slight ‘leg- injury
when he collided with a
P.E.I. cyclist, was expected
to be back in action in the
100-kilometre road race Fri-
day. EASY VICTORY

The winning ‘trio was

timed in one hour, 88.09
minutes, nearly two seconds
faster than second-place
Quebec.

Campbell won her solo
events in Games record time
but saved her most. awe-
inspiring performance for the
relay, which she and her
team-mates swam in 1:47.03,
nearly. -two; seconds | faster
than the four-year-old nation- ;

al record of 1:48.54. >

swimmers Jeff Sheehan, who
won the 300 freestyle and
anchored the relay, and. Bob
Ansell, winner. of the, 200
freestyle and second behind
Sheehan in the 100.

) semifinalists were: beginning

to emerge in team sports.
“The unbeaten B.C, baseball

team woniits third game, 9-4

over, Nova ‘Scotia, and was

-team tied

in fourth round

| VANCOUVER (CP) - Lan-
caster of St. John, N.B.,
Trail, B.C., and Vi

Que., were winners: Tuesday, y

in the fourth roungof

ed.to a

record by turning Back host
Vancouver Little Mountain :

1-0 in the first game. ‘The loss

‘put Little Mountain ‘at 2-2,

In other games, dem:
hed i

olis! I and
Valleyfield beat
which represents K

STRUCK OUT NINE.
jurray. struck z,
and .gave up vo HE

well on the way to

the title the ;province:jhas

held ‘since’:the _ quadrennjal

back-. Games began:12 years ‘ago.
B.C, /iand Ontario ‘were

fly;
Kathy: Bald of Toronto and
Cathie Griffin of Windsor.
“The fifth Ontario victory
went to Cheryl McArton ‘of
Toronto, who edged Julie
Daigneault of Montreal and
Bald in the 200 freestyle. '.
Alberta's most 1

with Seott Smith of Edmon-

ton.
With one. day of ‘prejim-
inary competition remaining,

i

foundiand in’ ‘the openin;
game’ of ‘today's schedule.

performers were Calgary

He's been a big help

By the Associated Press

When New York Mets got
a Valentine on May 29, it was
like giving Dave Kingman a
Christmas present.

Ellis Valentine has. had
only sporadic: success since
being acquired from Mon-
tral Expos just two weeks
before the baseball players’
strike, but Kingman says
that his own power groove
has helped by having Valen-
tine batting behind him in the

lineup.

In the last 16 games before
the strike and eight games
after, Kingman has 12 home
runs and 25 runs batted in,
including two solo homers
and a run-scoring double as
the Mets blanked Atlanta
Braves 4-0 Tuesday night in
National League play.

“In my mind it's an
immense advantage knowing
a threat like that is behind
me,” said Kingman, who bats
fourth in the Mets’ lineup
ahead of Valentine. “Prior to
and just after the strike
I've been getting pitches to

it.

“To me, he’s (valentine)
been a big help.”

TIED FOR LEAD

Kingman’s homers, in
support of the combined
six-hit pitching of Ed Lynch
and Neil Allen, where his
17th and 18th of the strike-
shortened season, tying him
with Mike Schmidt for the
mjor league lead.

In other NL games, Los
Angeles blanked Chicago 5-0,
San Francisco edged Pitts-
burg 4-2, Cincinnati tripped
Philadelphia 3-1, San Diego
nipped St. Louis 4-3 and
Houston beat Montreal 4-2.

In American League
action, Toronto Blue downed
Kansas 5-3, New York blank-
ed Chicago’ 4-0, Detroit
defeated Minnesota 3-0, Mil-
waukee defeated Texas 3-1 in
the first game of a double-
header, than lost 8-6 in the

second, Baltimore edged Cal-
ifornia 6-5, Cleveland beat
Seattle 6-2 and Oakland
edged Boston 3-2 in 15
innings.

Kingman’s run-scoring
double came in the first inn-
ing off loser Rich Mahler, 3-3.

Kingman got both of his

home runs off reliever john

Montefusco, on the first pitch
of the sixth and eighth
innings.

The Mets, 17-34 before the
strike, are showing new life
in the second season. They
have won six of their eight
starts and are in first place in
the NL East. :

BODGERS 5 CUBS C

Burt Hooton allowed no
Chicago runners past second
base as he pitched a four-
hitter for his 25th creer
shutout.

REDS 3 PHILLIES 1

Tom Seaver outduelled
Steve Carlton, surrendering
only four hits in 8 1-3 innings
to pace Cincinnati in a battle
of three-time Cy Young
Award winners.

Seaver, 8-2 had a three-
hitter through eight innings,
but needed relief help in the
ninth. Carlton, 9-3, gave up
two runs in the sixth on a
run-scoring single by Ray
Knight and a sacrifice fly by
Sam Mejias.

ASTROS 6 EXPOS 3

Houston took over first
place in the West as Cesar
Cedeno knocked in three
runs with two singles and
Bob Knepper blanked Mon-
treal for 8 2-3 innings.

Knepper was working on
his fifth shutout of the season
with two outs in the ninth
when he was victimized by a
two-run homer by Larry
Parrish.

PADRES 4 CARDINALS 3

Luis Salazar hit two run-
scoring singles and Chris
Welsh pitched a four-hitter
for seven innings as San
Diego won only its second

game in nine decisions since
the strike ended.

GIANTS 4 PIRATES 2

Former Pirates Ed Whit-
son and Milt May paced San
Francisco's victory over
Pittsburgh. iE

Whitson allowed one run
and four hits in 5 1-8 inn-
ings before having to leave
the game with a hyper-
extended elbow. May knock-
ed in two runs with a pair of
singles.

Tim Kruginvited
to Canadian
Olympic camp

Tim Krug, a former Cas-
tlegar Rebel Defenceman,
has been selected to try out
for the Candian National
Junior Olympic Hockey
Team.

Krug, who plays for the
University of Alberta Golden
Bears, was one of 44 players
selected from university,
major junior league and
junior A teams from all over
Canada.

All. participants of the
week-long camp Aug. 22-81
at Kingston Queen’s Univer-
sity, Kingston, Ont. are
under 20 years of age.

Head Coach is Dave King,
coach of the University of
Saskatchewan Huskies.
Assisting him will be Jacques
LaMair of the Montreal Can-
adians, and Mike Keenay,
coach of the Rochester Amer-
cans.

‘Twenty players will make
up the team that will com-
pete in the World Junior
Hockey Championships Dec.
26 to Jan. 4, 1982 in Minna-
polis, Minn.

The theam will be finalized
by mid-December.

_ Trying to meet
biggest challenge

MONTREAL (CP) - His
boyish face topped by. a mop’
of curly hair, his lithe body
wrapped in designer
jeans, Roy Duguay resem-
bles a rock star rather than
someone fighting fro a berth
on Team Canada.

He appears more the type
who could describe his‘sexula

assist, displaying exceptional
penalty-killing. skills and
skating with abandon.
Duguay is’ the first to
admit he was not expected to
make the team, yet he’s now

got. back ‘into the, |

fight with ‘their fm

‘trail came | alive

last two games

‘cont

compete at games

will provide a 1 -
drop next month for Caneda’s
largest - annual © sporting
event, the

The ‘scenic Comox Valley
colorful back:

considered a leading’ conadi- : S

date to capture one of
perhaps eight remaining
starting © positions that
haven't yet been privately
decided upon by the Team

cottage. ©

Yet, despite. his swinging
reputation as “the Joe Na-
math of hockey,” the New
ork Rangers centre is deter-
mined to prove himself worth
of carrying his country’s
colors in the Canada Cup
hockey tournament starting
September 1.

“It’s the biggest challenge
of my life,” he said. “I was
hoping I'd be chosen to
attend camp, but I didn't
think I would because I don't
have the greatest record in
the world.

“I decided I'd show them
(Team Canada coaches) that I
was ready to give 150 per
cent. And now that I'm here,
I think I can make the team.
Maybe not first or second
string but whereever they
want to use me.”

“I feel I'm playing the
game here at a much higher
level than I've ever played.
And playing with the best in
the National Hockey League
is not only alot of fun but a
learning experience as well.
Every move means so much.”

Thhus far, Duguay has
been making the right
moves.’ He was one of the
most impressive players
during Team Canada’s first
intro-squad game Monday
night, scoring a goal and an

Canada

Duguay said he played the
best hockey of his career
during the final two. months
of last season, after coming
back from a torn Achilles
tendon. He was the leading
New York Rangers marks-
man in the Stanley Cup play-
offs, scoring eight goals and
17 points ifn 14 games.

“I was sort of in the dog-
house with mangement after

the injury, so I had to prove”

myslef all over again for a
new coach (Craig Patrick). I
simply told him, ‘if you want
to get the best out of me
you've got to play me a lot.’
‘And that means penalty
killing and double shifts.”
Duguay demonstrated
enough to be chosen to try
out for Team Canada. He
says his performance with
the team - if he makes one.of
the final 23 positions - could
be the turning point of his

career.

Currently a free agent still
negotiating with the Ran-
gers, Duguay said he didn't
let contract inty pre-

gent in the Games’ his

compete in 33 events’!
over four days of exciteme:

time more than one“comm-

unity has taken on the diffi-

The city of Courtenay, the
town of Comox aiid. the
village of Cumberland-plus
surrounding electoral areas
and Canadian Forcts Baso
Comox—have joined ‘ forces
and come up. with: several
thousand volunteers to make
sure the 1981 games will be
the best yet for. competitors

spectators.

The Comox Valley, games
will present a series of firsts,

from its Vancouver

the G

vent him from attending
training camp, unlike New
York Islanders’ star Bob
Bourne who declined because
he felt he had inadequate
insurance in case of injury.

“I just wanted to come
here and prove I could play
with the best in the world.
And representing your
country is a far different
feeling than making money
or being a so-called media
celebrity.”

Valley musician “Edwin

jover 18

area—a

Games athletes and:visitors.
Another first willbe the

running of the- Terry Fox

Memorial 1,500 metre wheel-

chair race. Disabled sports
are being highlighted at the