C4 CASTLEGAR NI EWS, August 26, 1981 Auctioneering OWEN SOUND, Ont. (CP) - Although virtually anyone can obtain a county licence to be an auctioneer in Ontario, not everyone has the talent and skill to be a seller of goods, singer of ‘chants,’ carny, enter- tainer and businessman, all rolled into one. Elwood Snider, his son Jim, and brother-in-law Lawrence Knaggs, all vet- eran auctioneers, run a popular auction each week in Sydenham Township, which Elwood Snider started in 1968. They each auction simultaneously in one of the three rings of the large barn. Jim Snider took a short but intensive auctioneer- ing course in Montana. Students learn the ‘lingo’, the business in general and to inhale through the nose and talk from the stomach. “Concentration is every- thing; if you lose concen- tration, you lose control,” said Jim Snider. The auctioneer must remember what he wants for a bid, what has been bid and comb the crowd, watching for the next bid while talking. “It’s quite a headful and quite a mouthful,” he said. MANY TYPES Auctioneers must be versatile, since there are so many different types of auctions - farm and estate auctions, community auctions, business liquida- tions and livestock sales - which draw thousands of The lure of the song bidders in Grey and Bruce counties every year. Even seasoned auction- eers cannot fully explain the lure of the auction. “There is what every- body calls auction fever,” said Al McGuire, of South- ampton, about: 35 kilo- metres southwest of Owen Sound. He spent about 20 years in the auction business and only retired in 1975 when cancer of the larynix robbed him of his normal voice. “There is something about an auction,” he said. “My brother was a farmer and he'd go 40 miles for a sale and not spend a penny. There are the friends, old and new, the auction- eer‘and the song.” The surging popularity of antiques partly accounts for the flourishing success of community auctions.Jim Snider said many buy the antiques as a hedge against inflation because they don’t depreciate in value as modern furniture does. Pure entertainment is another reason people flock to auctions. McGuire recalled an auction with a lively banter between himself aud a minister's wife who was acting as clerk. MADE MORE MONEY “We said things to each other that would pretty well burn paper,” he said. The verbal slaps between the two buoyed the crowd and brought in two to three times more money than what the goods would have normally brought. McGuire laughed when he remembers selling his most memorable item — the genitals from a pig. Why they were being sold and why they were being bought were questions open to speculation. Generally, people selling goods at an auction will get a better price for them than if they sold them another way because of the volume of people attracted by auctions, Elwood Snider said. In addition to the rising popularity of auctions, have lew Insertions, USINESS GIRECTC Telomere 365-5210 ORy copy for the Directory will be a bie totore nhs first Wednesday issue of po pecsdvid onty. Dunwoody & Co. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 Len Folkman, B.Com., C.A. Resident Partner =bobeat Services Complete Septic Tank Service * Sand, Gravel * Topsoil * Excavating wd Post Holes also noticed an increase in the number of items at an estate sale and increases in their prices. Gordin Ribey, of Under- wood, about 55 kilometres southwest of Owen Sound, has been mainly a farm and livestock auctioneer in the area for 21 years. He remembers when a good farm sale would net about $165,000 for the owner. Now sales ranging between $50,000 and $75,000 are common. 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Rules must be followed coroner's jury lookin into the deaths ‘of two men when a The five-member jury ruled that the deaths of David Levang, 96, of Cran- brook, and Henry Durkin; 27, of Trail, were accidental. The two were among 18 persons who were setting out aboard the 36-metre vessel STRIKING vocational Instructors sef'y PPI tlegar, rotten shale unten campus In Ca: the prev’ picket lines Thuraday rat the Selkirk College VANCOUVER (CP) — Mos of B.C.’s 19 pulp mills : Hidden mediation Agreements si at most pulp) from “a measure of accom- modation. flowing in ” said for a ‘Monday "start-up after behind-the-seenes mediation by the B.C. Labor Relations Board and Labor Minister Jack Heinrich brought an amicable end Friday to wide- spread picketing by.pulp pw workers. 5 Board chairman Don Mun- roe, who earlier this month helped initiate negotiations that ended the’ six-week for- sent atrike, said the mediation The settlement ‘resulted Munroe. Management and union of- ficials were sitting down Sat- urday and today to sign col- lective agreements at seven of the nine mills manned by members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada. Workers at the other two brook Forest Industries in Cranbrook, where local .is- sues still block settlement — also will return to work Mon- day and will conduct new ratification votes by Friday, Munroe told a’ news con- ference. ee In the meantime, PPWC secondary pickets will’ dome 7 down at all pulp ts ‘and sawmills,’ bringing, what: Munroe called “ ‘a measure of labor peace,’ The Vaebarient reached © Friday means only two: y-pulp mills, both employing 1 Tmem- bers of the Canadian Paper- workers Union, remain closed. They are del in Port Albernie,’ “ahut. down by office workers’ jad electricians’ strike: workers involved ina over hours. Alberta, federal governments, Oil talks enter day ive MONTREAL (CP) — Oi pricing negotiations between “Alberta and the federal gov- a pickete and aby hs d the Ope: thestrik on Leak: “Instructors fo continue strike against Selkirk _ Striking.vocational insturc- tors at Selkirk College will continue manning :picket lines at the college's four this ‘week, follow: 88 On & scuba diving charter._ The ier the breakdown of con- Wednes- burned and senk at a fuel barge in Coal Harbor. The = ‘passengers were asleep be- Jow decks when the fire “Transmission lines out of a generating station in any Murphy Creek Dam would have no effect on ae oN gar area, according waleasod by BC. Hydro ete last week. ‘our possible routes are cutlined a the report, but all an area ‘south ron through ‘end east of Trail, said Bill Mykes. Hydro’s community tions co-ordinator, on Fri- He added the routes were considered only ont he basis of physical and economic fea- sibility, and the environ- mental and social impacts still have to be studied. He expects at least two routes would be~ eliminated after those have been sae : * Mykés continued that the report: public in'the near fature, He also said the compnay is continuing to search for suit- able location. for a, Byers. office in Castlegar, and he expects to have a place within several weeks. Mykes was in the area to meet with local officials about the transmission line report. wailable to the sphey x spokesman for the Can- ‘adian Union of Public Em- ployees local at the college said the union members will continue to honor the picket lines, while a Selkirk College Faculty Association spokes- man said members will cross ~ or not cross the line as they see fit. There are no new talks scheduled at this time. Meanwhile, the college in- tends to offer its regular services, other than its voca- tional ‘courses. The B.C. Government Em- ployees’ Union bargaining committee, negotiating for the vocational instructors, broke off negotiations. In a cs it, BCGEU totalled 9.5 per ‘cent in the first year of a new- agree- ment,.and 10 per cent:in the second, he added. Selkirk: College Principal Leo Parra issued 4 statement Thursday, saying the instruc- tors were receiving the high- est salaries of any instructors represented bythe BCGEU, and a negotiated settlement despite the job action, and the official registration pro- cess is scheduled to go ahead as planned, Freno-Link con- .tinued. She said Friday, that the college's position is that the BCGEU must make the over+ >tures’for: new talks. The union broke off negotiations, and the college has never left the ini table, would have p d that status. Lowndes said the member- ship voted 86 per cent in favor of strike action in May and it has-told the union negotiating committee not to come back to it until the committee has a contract of- fer it can recommend to its members. * About 165 students are af- fected at this time by the strike, sald Penny Freno- Link, the college's informa- tion officer, on Thursday. There were 15 students studying English as a second area staff ive Al ‘ in Trail, about 30 office i stu- Lowndes said the committee felt little progress had been made during the last nine bargaining sessions. He added that the main issues concern class sizes, student contact time, and ex- ceptional merit awards. The college's wage offer dents, and about 160 stu- dents at the Rosemont cam- pus in Nelson, she said. The number of students who would be starting cours- es programs in September was unavailable. Pre-registration at the col- lege continued last week Over last year’s added. - Ed Hagan, CUPE business agent for the Kootenay re- gion, said Thursday CUPE members employed at Sel- kirk will respect the RCGEU picket lines. Their negotj- ations have broken down and the instructors are on a legal strike, and CUPE follows the B.C. Federation of Labor policy of not crossing picket lines, he said. SCFA vice-president Marge Nichols said Friday, the association executive met, aday earlier, and decided not to make any recommenda- tions to its members. Indi- vidual members will do as they wish, she continued. She added the college in- structors have mixed reac- tions to the strike — there is a fair amount of sympathy for- the problem, but there also is concern that students could lose a year’s instruction if the dispute is too long. Forest fire costs rising VANCOUVER (CP) — number of forest fires'in B.C. and the cost of fighting them has increased this year com- pared with last, says a B.C. forest service officer. _ But, considered over a 3 10-year period, even though there have been some spec- tacular fires this summer, it has been an average year for B.C., Victoria duty officer Ted England said Friday. “We have slightly ex: ceeded the 10-year avera, England said. “Just barely.’ There -have been 2,391 fires in the province to date and approximately 105,000 hectares burned compared: with 1,570 fires and 48,000 hectares last year, England said. Already, it hes cost the province $22.6 million to fight the fires — $5.7 million more than last year. The Prince George region has been hardest hit, Eng- land said. The more than 700 fires to date in the region are a record, he said. “In the past couple of days heavy lightning has caused fires in the Rocky Mountain trench from Revelstoke to McBride involving not only Prince George but also Car- iboo, Kamloops and Nelson forest regions.” This brings tee total for the province to fires burning, most of which are under control. Approximately 77 per cent of those were caused by lightning, England said, and the remainder were ca! by man. would stretch into téday but he refused :to elaborat ite fur- He said Lalonde. and Al berta Energy Minister Merv ‘Leitch had not’ met face- apeuna ou: mi taken over much of four floors ‘of a hotel, but whatever action there is in the d manoeu- tained in the national ‘energy which set the well- to-face ‘their officials met on and off had all day. The ministers bee scheduled ‘to “hold per- sonal talks Saturday but, without explanation, . those siscusel ions did not take she - otiations the federal spokes- man said: “Sure.” CP Raii workers = shutdown of freight services through the Rockies in May in a dispute over discipling of workers who had insisted on stopping trains so crews could have not hunches. Chief Justice Allan Mc- Eachern said the CP Rail workers were generally use- ful and hardworking. mem- bers of the society and jail sentences would not be ap- imposing the fines because innocent parties had been hurt by the disruption of rail service. * The 69 workers and their two unions, the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, were accused of violating an injunction issued May 21 to stop Gas ing after the Canada Lal Relations Board opheld CP ‘Rail’s right to fire five employees who delayed trains last year in a protest over working conditions. Charges were dismissed it the unions earlier in the week for lack of prog Mass child i murders: VANCOUVER (cP) - of skull and portion of a jaw- bone found Thursday near the Fraser Valley community__ pol Ada Anite Court, 18, of Bur- naby, one of several victims ne BG: they. believe fell wes to. a suspect whey say they Hays in in custody. The. suspect | been identified but police 1 ae they are preparing. several haiee which will be Inid in the next few days. tii missing are Colleen Daignault, 18, of Surrey, B.C. and Sandra Lynn Wolfstein- er, 16, of Tangier: BC. suburb home after babysit- ting at her brothers ’s home in Sajacent Cost ae ae the gen- eral location where police found three other bodies ear- lier this summer. RCMP Supt. Bruce Nor- thorp also salt Saturday that identification work was con- tinuing on a node female body found Aga afternoon in a cranberry bog in the Vancouver suburb of Rich- mond. Meanwhile, police contin- ued to look in two undis- closed iocations Saturday for, the 10th and 11th bodies of those they believe fell victim. Northorp said the search had concluded in Richmond {ol- lowing Friday's discovery. ae NAMED EIGHT So far police have iden- tified eight of the 11 children held.out little. hee thee cangeon thank children, whose rae pee Car- son, 15, also of Surrey, and Marie Chartrand, 17, cf Maple Ridge. The female's body in Rich- mond was the fifth body she was a “transient” from a foreign country. The Van- couver Sun said Saturday that it was learned ‘this at the West German consul- ate in Vancouver, said Inter- pol, had received information from a German family that a” Angola splits France and U.S. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France, splitting with the United States, supported black African demands Sat- urday for a strong Security coin eee condemnation of invasion of Angola by South Africa.” But the French en- iy stopped short of paar African, black Werld and Soviet ioe de de- mands for mandatory eccn- omic and political sanctions against South Africa. hile, An; said strongest possible way the Ls and . Saturday that South African troops were continuing “their work of destruction and ter- ror,” the country’s” official aimed only ‘at black nation- alist guerrillas who are seek- ing independence for South- West Africa, also called Nam-