August 4, 1985 ASTABUSHED AUG 71947 wconrot Cy, CAMPBELL PUBLISHER — PLANT FOREMA\ * OFFICE MANAGE! NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT: Full. compl ted ad belongs 10 Castle Newsdld.. plows THE MAIO WLER MIRROR PUBLISHED SBPT 12.19: Grepored trom repro procts, engraw = Castlégar News MALABER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL TWICk WEERLY MAY 4.1980 78 AUG. 27 1¥80 PUBLISHER AUG. 7.1947 448! 15. 1¥75 Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman N — Peter Harvey R — Linda Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER — Carol Magaw CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley ngs. elt -provides-by the od: Now that's red tape There are all sorts of stories about government red tape, but the Central K gional cut about the sale of garden tools and fertilizers. In fact, the regional i s District board's handling of the. Chang's Nursery case ranks among the more outrageous — at least at the local level. Chang's Nursery and Florist Ltd. wants to move from its Castlegar location to Ootischenia. The reason is simple: the nursery is overcrowded at its 9th Avenue site, where it is also in the middle of a residential area. ‘A move to property along Highway 3 in Ootischenia would enable the nursery to construct more greenhouses and have a larger retail store while providing for future expansion. But there’s a problem. While the Ootischenia property is zoned for a nursery, the regional district planning staff has ruled that the zoning doesn’t permit retail sales of garden tools or fer- rs. The nursery can move there, but can only sell shrubs and trees. The first question, of course, would be what nursery doesn't sell small garden tools and fertilizers? They all do. It would be like saying a newspaper couldn't sell station- ery, of a “hairdressing salon couldn't sell shampoo. It's only common sense that a nursery sell garden. tools and fer- tilizers. To make matters worse, the zoning_regulations. are_not clear Consistency Who said politicians have to be consistent? Take the Central Kootenay Regional District board. One the one hand, the regional © board seems almost to strangle a business with its stringent zoning regulations (see editorial above), Yet when it comes to smoking, regional directors are adamantly opposed to regulations of any sort. A proposal to ban smoking at regional board meetings unless Pp taff went to lengths to regulations. : Yet, for some reason the staff decided to be rigid in its inter- pretation when in reality the inter- pretation could have gone either way. (And still could. An appeal to the Board of Variance could see the interpretation overturned.) An earlier interpretation said the nursery wouldn't even be able to sell plants and shrubs it brought in, but only those grown from seed on the property. However, that was later revised. * : Clearly, -the current pretation is “hairsplitting” as one regional director called it at the recent board meeting. Just as clearly, common sense would tell anyone that zoning for a nursery implies the sale of garden tools and fertilizers. As it is, nobody wins with the interpretation. The nursery could lose- out on a federal grant for $34,000 to build a new nursery because work must begin before Aug. 14. The Castlegar -area stands to lose an additional two full-time and three part-time jobs created by the larger nursery. And the Ootischenia area may lose a business that is compatible with its rural agricultural setting. All because government red tape strangled simple common sense. — interpret up insmoke unanimously approved by those present, was defeated on the basis that there are already too many rulés and regulations imposed on people. It's somewhat ironic that in the same week the regional board couldn't agree to a proposal to ban smoking at its meetings, just south of us ‘in Washington, new legislation was enacted that prohibits smoking in most public places. Fred Merriman “Regional Board Approves Plan.” It was necessary to read the headline one more time, to let it sink into an unbelieving mind. Oot- ischenia is now being prepared for commercial development! Only a toe-hold, admitted, nevertheless a direction has been taken. That direction requires River, despite its importance is a youthful-looking ancient inhabitant of these rugged valleys. Nothing more than an over-rated creek in the geographical scheme of things. Indians, trappers and early settlers chose the east bank of the river for trails and settlements. Had those A little background, -please. Ap- proximately 17 million years ago a glacier occupied the valley now containing the Kootenay River. The massive tongue of ice also extended well down the valley toward the present City of Trail. Geological evidence indicates that an ice jam occurred, probably near what is now called the Birchbank Golf and Country Club. Melting took place at the elevation of the Castlegar Country Golf Course. The egar Gor Course is in tet an fi gar eran excellent example of a kame ter- race. The large indentation in the 17th fairway was ‘most. likely. created by the weight of a block of glacial ice. At the north side of the golf course road you should be able to see glacial silt — proof of the glacier's ancient existence. Oot- ischenia is therefore the bottom of a glacial melt lake. Some few millions of years later, before the Kootenay River eroded its. way to a meeting with the Columbia River at Castlegar and in , the days when the Columbia was meandering in old age, a natural course created the beautiful sweep to the east of the Qotischenia plain.—.expect all _tha‘ The making ofsthe trench at the bottom of the Frank Beinder Way hill came much later. In all due respett, the Columbia” P' PI iled to current days, the City of Castlegar~ would be occupying land now serving as five-acre farms and a landing area for aircraft. It was not many years ago-that Ootischenia was a mystical place of Doukhobor settlement accessible x wow “The Feds turn the airports over to private owners and they'll have the pilot down here giving security checks instead of topping up his gas tank...” Letters to the Editor inter-. Bomb killed 180,000 Editor, Castlegar News: ; Forty years ago on Aug. 6 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan and 180,000 people were killed. The survivors are still suffering from the after effects of this holocaust. Listen to the words of one such survivor, Yukiyo Harada: “After I graduated from’ elementary school I started working at a vise in the Tokyo Seikan factory in my neigh- borhood. “At 8:15 on Aug. 6, at the moment of the flash I got my head, waist and legs caught between the jaws of the vise. My eyeball popped out. I saw a sheet of fire spreading around myself. Then, two guards came to rescue me. They had to break the huge machine with a hammer and a metal saw. It took them a lot of time to get me out of it, by the time I was able.to’come out of it, it was already a little after 11. It was a wonder that the flame of fire did not reach where I was. “I pushed in my eyeball that_had popped out with my fingers. T adjusted my dislocated jaw and I started to run away. I did not realize that my legs were injured. I went over the Fuk- ishima bridge then I tried’ to go to Inokuchi but found that the bridge I had just passed over had fallen down. “Without my knowing, I was walking around almost naked with only my panties on. My back burnt. My whole body was black, with blood and oil all over me. When I reached home I found _my house burnt to ashes. Since I did not have any place to go I squatted there for a long time. “I did not know what to do. I looked at my legs and found that there was an open wound I did not have any bandage. I did not even have rags because I was naked. I lay there without thinking about anything. I felt hungry, but did not have anything to eat. I crawled around and found a plant root. I did not know which plant the root belonged to but I ate it anyway, starved. - “On the third day, an announcement was made that we should go to the station since rice balls had been delivered there. I slowly made my way to the Yokokawa station. Since I had spent the previous days ‘squatting down at the place where my house had been, I was surprised to see the outer have’children just like every else. Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO * From the Aug. 4, 1950 Castlegar News A long line of mourners were on the steps of the Parliament buildings to file past the casket of Rt. Hon. William Lyon. Mackenzie King and pay their last respects to the former prime minister. ‘ eee ‘The Lions Héad motorcycle club held a motorcycle racing tournament on the Castlegar ball grounds Saturday night. In the daredevil act for which he is now famous, Smokey Miller of Robson thrilled the crowd by racing his motor- cycle through a fire wall crash. 7 8 ‘The Castle-Bar Ranch riding horses are proving very popular with local and out-of-town riding enthusiasts. The riding trails will soon be completed up over the mountain, where you have a béautiful view of the valley. i « |e . Two forest firest are now under, control in the (district. One is at McPhee Creek and the other on Sentinel Mountain. Six men are looking after these fires. 25 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 4, 1950 Castlegar News Bloomer Creek is no longer being ns doas an diti water world. I saw a woman carrying a'dead There used to be someone that I loved baby on her back. I told her the baby but he told me he couldn't marry me. was dead. The woman got angry at my How cruel my life has been! words and said that her child was not —_“I cannot give birth to.a child. As a dead. woman I cannot deplore enough. There 1 saw another woman with half her _ are tens of thousands of nuclear bombs body burned and her'hair standing on . now. What are they going to do to end. People were swollen two to three human beings? Do they think they can times larger. I thought that even hell’ survive by themselves?” could not be as awful as the scene at As I read this account and realized that time. Pe ‘what horrors we are headed for, I me convinced that the urgency [aes Fs ani beca ‘T'was so hungry that I reached the cat!s for a collective effort to demon- tation despite ii injuri nine cies balls sais BA peer iens strate our determination to prevent See ee ital oid: Te Was ti the © Seen me roel thing | rom RaPPen ne summertime. The rice balls were "82" ‘ Bare aiceady rotten! When'l balved the rice’. One smell sver mn fae all do is to join Se ee i alieky aid clammy? UES Tose oo Denes Welk and tree Pons did woL=eare Whether the rice” Balls eee ee ae eat the 40th were rotten. I was so hungry that I was anniversary this Tuesday at 6 p.m. at able to eat anything. I ate as many as the Castlegar courthouse parking lot, 15 rice balls. These commemorative events are HAT becine fall-1: stated to feel being held throughout the world and I pain, Then Istarted back to the ruins of Te ye Ee Re naine my house. The woman and her baby Castlegar that I saw earlier were dead. Every day I had to fight against my hunger. I did not have any place to go to and I wandered about, looking for something to eat. My wound did not heal for three years. I came to be employed by the city doing road work and cleaning. I barely earned enough to eat. “Thirty years_after the bomb blast, lumps as large as grapes started to appear on both sides of the abdomen. They spread all over my belly. The doctor said that they were caused by the gas emitted by the explosion of the “A” bomb which my body had absorbed. “The doctor undertook surgery to remove the swellings. He said that I would die if they spread all over my body. All the swellings were not taken off in one operation. I had to undergo another and it was still not enough. I finally had to have a third operation and had 98 stitches in my abdomen. I never knew when the lumps would appear again. Conference a surprise Editor, Castlegar News: As a concerned citizen I am ,very - pleasantly surprised that Castlegar and our own West Kootenay will be hosting the World .Youth Peace Through Communication Conference. The reason I am surprised is that conferences of this high calibre are usually held at larger global centers such as the United Nations or Moscow or Washington, D.C. We have a unique opportunity‘to see the world’s peace makers from over 20 countries in action right at. our doorstep. Castlegar and area has always had a strong voice through our various area peace groups and I'm confident that all positive efforts are rewarded. i What I would like to see happen is that all the people who love peace and are concerned: about the possibility that we might destroy the planet and our future generations of families with it be concerned enough to do some- thing. I challenge everyone.to get up off their fannies and show that we are not complacent and that everyone ‘in Castlegar cares. “All my hair had fallen out. When my hair came off pieces of glass would also come out. Even now tiny pieces of glass come out of my head. The 15 centimeter wound in my leg healed, but Thave an ugly scar and it hurts when it is hot or cold. “Tam a woman. I wish to marry and Quotable Quotes My wish is that we all get together with the youth of the world who will be here at the end of August. Discuss the world’s problems. Learn and become friends with them. Our little effort becomes stronger only. by a bridge. That bridge still stands as a testimony to the intelligence, cour- age and skill of the local Russian community that is the epitomy of do-it-yourself initiative. ~ ==Now alr that will change. Drive down the new Castlegar-Salmo highway some evening late and envision the Ootischenia plain as the expansion of a now major City of Castlegar. Some would even ques- tion whether the airport will remain on that prime land. The regional district government has set the stage. As developments progress you can be certain that Castlegar council will look towards an expanded tax base. Yes, there will be a few problems with water supply and sewage. Those problems are not insurmountable. The bottom line underlying the “wishes of the people” can safely be spelled. “money”. You can also rea where the melting ice terminated and‘ shed water into Lake Ootischenia to become a very fashionable mort- gage heights. FORMER B.C. premier Dave Bar- rett, pudgy and 54, admits it's not easy being a sex symbol, but says he has learned to live with it. <== GW Host Of air openiine radio-show,—appears from Day One he thinks his Barrett was named by one of the local when you consider that their memories of the people of the Kootenays will include us in the global effort for peace. This could just put Castlegar on the map. myself. I wasn't perhaps thinking as straight as I should have.” LIBERAL MP John Nunziata on Commons Speaker John Bosley: “It Daniel B. Voykin appointment tothe-Speaker's chair was Brilliant an appoii to royalty and that’s... 1 women q d by a Vi newspaper in a poll titled “Name your sexiest man.” Gwen Arntzen, also 54, said she found the former NDP premier ex- citing because “he’s so intelligent and vital and has good curly hair.” To which Barrett replied: “T've been a sex symbol for a long time, but nobody discovered it until this lady was polled.” ONTARIO MLA David Peterson re- signed ‘from a provincial legislature committee last week after comments he made about James Keegstra. But now, Smith believes he shouldn't have bowed to pressure from Ontario Pre- mier David Peterson to resign. The 46-year-old farmer said he didn't argue against the resignation at the time ‘because “I got shook a little clearly wrong and I think he is a little ee ————______— 9 |e britches.” — big for. his beiteet Please address all Letters ROBERT STOECKEL and his sister Hoe ; miae is a Bi to the Editor to: The elen Stoeckel were taken to a Pen- nsylvania mental health centre this Castlegar News, P.O.Box TK after police investigating com. 3007. Castlegar, B.C. VIN plaints of a foul odor found their 3H4, or deliver them to our brother's body decomposing inside office at: 197 Columbia their home. Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. Sonja Terriere, a neighbor, said she asked Robert Stoeckel, who was shop- ping when his brother’s body was dis- covered: “How come you didn't tell us your brother was dead.” aay She said Stocckel replied: “He's not Inq addrese of the writer must be dead. He's in the living room watching gisclosed to the editor. Ez TV with my sister.” News reserves ‘the Police found the woman watching right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, television as her brother's decompos- legality and grammar.— ing body lay nearby. Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the supply for Castlegar. The /ereek source has been under investigation for a month. Council had hoped to save money on. pumping by using Bloomer water, but it is now doubtful that this is possible. ee The wishing well in Helen's Flower Shop has finally been unmasked — it’s not really a well at all, it’s a fountain. But it has fooled a lot of people since its installation last December. Five hundred pennies were recently do- nated to the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped children. Z . oe The newly-constructed Kinsmen wading pool at Kinsmen Park Kiddies Park will be open to children this year, council decided at its-Tuesday meeting. It will be filled three days a week in the morning and pumped dry again at 6 p.m. eo fee Private funeral services were held Tuesday night from the Castlegar Funeral Home for long-time Robson resident Louis Frank Quance. Donald L. Brothers was renominated Social Credit standard bearer for this riding last night just two hours-before Premier W.A.C. Bennett declared Sept 12 the date for the forthcoming provincial election. 15 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 6, 1970 i Castlegar News A Castlegar graduate at Eastern Washington State College at Cheney, Wash., John R.. Landis, is a candidate for a'master of education degree to be ded at it tomorrow evening. Mr. Landis is a graduate of Shurpass’ Pacific College and is principal of the Robson School. . . Charlotte Michelson was named Miss Kootenay-Columbia Days. Her prin- cesses are Irene Soukoroff and Susan Flanders. a: fal gs A number of prizds were awarded for entries in Saturday's KC Days parade. Kootenay West/MP Ran Harding the Castleaird Plaza ~ float to boost Kinnaird as the garden municipality. /Honorable mention in this category went to the Nelson float of a paddle-whceler. Education Minister Don Brothers presentéd the prize for most impres- sive float in the parade to the Douk- hobér float entered by the Doukhobor ydung people. ee “ee oe The Kinnaird Aquanauts swim club returned home from Kimberley with major aggregate trophies. Kinnaird was second with 30 swimmers and 302 points. 5 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 3/6, 1980 Castlegar News A $2 million expansion to the Fire- side Place has been announced this week by~Grangetown Holdings with the unveiling of the architec! The facility, presently underw: with completion scheduled for late February-early March, will consist of 60 adjoining units with four honeymoon suites. & Plans also call for a complete rec- reation area located in the original ‘ stureture of the Fireside Place. . The search goes on for a 16-year-old Swiss boy who was reported missing and drowned: Tuesday afternoon. The boy was reported missing and presumed drowned after being swept away while swimming with a com- panion in the Kootenay River near the Brilliant Bridge. k NO DENYING: “AMAZING GRACE HAS PRESENCE. ~ By DAPHNE BRAMHAM 2 VANCOUVER (CP) — Some people think when a bagpiper plays Amazing Grace in British Columbia, it's.in honor of Grace McCarthy. When she was tourism minister a few years ago, the “indomitable Grace decided a piper was needed on permanent staff in Victoria to play as the parliamentary, flags were lowered each night. It is not entirely in jest that people say Amazing Grace was the most-played tune at the evening ceremonies. : In a word, she has a presence. There was so many stories and rumors about her that even close associates find myth blurring reality. She's been immortalized in a musical called A State of Grace;-she’s been called the minister of ribbon-cutting, and a scarlet tanager among the starlings in Premier Bill Bennett's Social Credit cabinet. Add to her credits the tireless work in revitalizing a moribund Socred’.party organization after W.A.C. Bennett died and the making of his son Bill as leader. “The piper is gone now — a victim of restraint. And McCarthy ‘has moved on to the human resources portfolio, where she is at the centre of the public storm over cuts in social services for women, the disabled, the poor and’ the unemployed. McCarthy presides over a budget of nearly $1.6 billion, much of which is used for welfare. She is sometimes unkindly portrayed as a modern-day Maria ‘Antoinette, looking out over the growing lineups at the food banks. She is not one of the poor. McCarthy made her money from a Vancouver flower ship, Grayce Florists (she added the y for class), which she opened when she was 17 with a $50 war bond borrowed from her father. She expanded it into a chain. But politics is her first love. She is one of the Socred backroom boys but she says it is “really quite a civilized process; I don't see them as smoke-filled dens where people divide up the spoils” a McCarthy is a big-favorite on the hustings telling it GRACE McCARTHY . . . ‘dislikes’ socialists discreet strawberry blonde>-Her eyes are outlined in numerous peacock shades, her wide smile in a mid-red lipstick. : Her dress is less flamboyant — a navy skirt, navy jacket and yellow blouse. Her necklace, ho’ i: “collection of istic fruit pes, strawberri and pineapples, with bananas dangling in the middl It's hard to get McCarthy off the topic of politics, positive thinking and achieving goals. She works “easily 10 hours a day” and “I'll never get two days off a week because I really do like-to be busy.” But when she does take time off, she likes to talk politics and business with her family and tend her house in the well-to-do Shaughnessy neighborhood of Van- couver. Despite the fierce belief in her own thinking, the staunch defence of free enterprise and individuality, and a burning opposition t ali McCarthy intail like it is. Recently she told pr d that if they don't like it in B.C. they should go to Quebec, where she said they'd only get $125 a month on welfare. The British Columbia minimum is $325 for a single person. After nearly 20 years in provincial politics, McCarthy says: “I'm having the best time in public life that I've ever had. Simply because when you're first in public life you tend to assess everything you do from the point of view of ‘Have I said the wrong thing?’ * Had she ever wanted to be leader? Absolutely not, she answers with McCarthy directness. “Otherwise I'd have been there long ago.” At 57 and a proud grandmother, the minister has toned down her once-famous carrot-red hair to a more the lity of a comfortable matron at a bridge party where wine is served. Does she really hate socialists? “I feel fiercely strongly about the independence of the individual and individuals making their own choices,” she says in her quiet, almost girlish voice. ~ “ButT think hate is too strong a word because Ican personally like people who are in that space. I can dislike them for their desire to perhaps take the minds of children or exploit various factions of society.” Social problems she blames on “a real cancer of the soul in North America” and on “moral degradation — families that would rather sit around and drink than look after thir children.” HEALTH SERVICES GROUPS Solution to extra billing? TORONTO (CP) — Critics patient registered — calcu- call it socialized health care lated from the Ontario while supporters claim it al- Health Insurance Plan bill- lows doctors to practice bet- ings. ter medicine. REGISTER PATIENTS Viewed either way, health- The only way for doctors to service organizations provide increase their income is by a little-known alternative to registering more patients — the extra billing controversy not by seeing the same ones that is raging throughout more often as in fee-for- Canada. service practices. There are 21 of the or- Doctors working on salary ganizations in Ontario, but from the government claim few people know about or are they are freed from the con- involved with them because straints of “cash-register under the rules of the On- medicine.” tario College of Physicians _ They say they can give the and Surgeons, a doctor can time and attention patients neither advertise nor detail require but cannot receive how his services differ from from doctors obsessed with those of another physician. the cash flow that accom- And some doctors tend to panies extra billing and-fee- be leery of them because for-service. they represent. more govern- “I feel more comfortable ment involvement in a pro- with (health-service organ- fession they feel is already izations) than with fee-for- highly regulated. service,” said Dr. Neil Finnie, “There's no doubt that to 4 Hamilton family physician date no one has made a sus- who switched to a health- tained effort to inform the service practice five years public about the centres,” 4g0- paid Mark McGuire, director _ Finnie, who has practiced of the Ontario Association of medicine for 16 years, for- Health Centres, an indepen- merly worked on a fee-for- dent group that receives its service basis and also used to annual $50,000 budget from extra bill for his services, a the Ministry of Health to system that frustrated many promote health-service of his patients. organizations. " “My> day is exactly the “The grapevine is the key.” same as it was five to 10 In Ontario's 21 organiza. years ago,” he said. “But 'm tions, there are only 139“of sure the patients are hap- the Ontario Medical Associ- pier.” - ~—ation’s 16,000 doctors and Most health-service organ- just 152,000 — or two per izations are group practices, cent — of the province's allowing doctors to register patients. Organizations also large numbers of patients pxist in British Columbia, and then refer them to the Saskatchewan, Manitoba and appropriate health tare Quebec. __ workers within their own In a héalth-service organ- ¥ loctor receives a monthly payment Ministry of Health for every services @ VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL St. Peter Lutheran School August 12 - 16 6-8p.m. Ages 3 to 13 All Welcome! patients is a major difference between the care offered by doctors in health-: lce_or- ganizations and those in pri- vate’ practices. in mind, doctors working in health-service organizations receive patients out of hos- pital. Each bed-day (the cost of occupying a hospital bed for one day) saved is worth an average $367.90, of which physicians retain one-third. The money is then used to create preventive health care programs. A Toronto doctor who asked not to be named said quick diagnoses are often the result of the billing forms provided by the health insur- ance plan for fee-for-service — which require a detailed justification of every treat- aeeat. Studies have shown pati- ents treated in health service organizations are more than 20 per cent less likely to enter hospital than patients treated by a fee-for-service physician. “For the fee (the health insurance plan) provides, we can't practice _ preventive medicine,” said the doctor. With preventive medicine Find your Keys in Seconds! © Attaches to your keys © Responds with short beeps to your __whistling — approx. 40’ radius “tomy *22.50 RUMFORD PLACE 735 Columbia Aves Ph. 365-6141 “~—-=~~ef--- one” personal interviews. PUBLIC NOTICE TO LOCAL BUSINESSES Regional District of Central Kootenay Announces LL Canada Export Trade Month-takes place Octob- ber, 1985. On October 2, five Canadian Trade Commissioners from the United States and a DRIE Co-ordinator will be arriving in Castlegar for discussions with local firms on the oppor- tunities for exporting to the United States. The format of the discussions will be “one-to- Local companies interésted~in—exporting and capable of doing so should be in contact Witt the] Regional District of Central Kootenay Economic Development Office 352-6665 advising of the name of the firm and the nature of the goods to be exported in order that interviews may be arranged. Regional District of Cental Kootenay Economic Development ice 601 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. VIL 4E9 Executive perks go way of dodo CALGARY (CP) — Dome Petroléum Ltd. executives were shocked when they arrived at their offices Sept. 1, 1982, to learn along list of company perks had disappeared overnight. e f For some junior people, it simply-meant no more free bus’ passes. But for others, it signalled the loss of company cars, free parking, health club memberships and: other tangible ~ symbols that they had “made it" in Calgary's corporate “jungle. “We'd already lost our free cookies with morning coffee, so we should have been prepared,” joked one middle-level manager who asked for anonymity. “But the news was a jolt.” iy me Dome Pete's fortunes had taken a tumble, with heavy debts pushing the oil and gas giant to the brink of bankruptcy.- It joined several other companies in slashing many of the staff goodies that are so prevalent in the oil patch. John Fox, a hiring sp with Western Consultants, says Calgary is the most perk-oriented city, in Canada. He figures it is because Calgary is largely a one-industry town in which companies must use every bit of ammunition to compete for top personnel. COMPANIES FOLLOW Once one oil firm starts providing a particular perk or prerequisite, others feel the pressure to follow. ing-every-third Friday is a good example.The hiring consultants estimate as many as 90 per cent of all companies offer this bonus, known by some as a “golden Friday,” compared with about 70 per cent five years ago. Despite the industry downturn, free bus passes and the golden Fridays — even though the hours must often be made up on other days — remain the basic minimum throughout most of Calgary's oil industry. But the list of goodies for more senior executives is far longer.Besides car and club memberships, it can include longer vacations, lower interest loans, stock options, i i P: i in exotic locations and, the ultimate, a share in individual well profits. L “These kinds of things are called the golden handcuffs — they keep people where you want them,” says Bruce Roper of Roper and Associates. “As we continue on a recovery the perks are going to continue upward; they've got to if companies want good staff.” DEBTS LARGE That could be tough at Dome Pete or other oil and gas firms, where heavy debts will keep the purse strings tight for years to come. “This company in not likely to ever return to the way it was before,” said the unnamed Dome executive. Still, he said, the firm continues to offer many standard staff benefits as well as a stock p plan and scholarships for the children of employees. The junior and middle-sized oil companies, in their fight to lure top staff away from the wealthier multinationals, continue to provide some of the best perk packages. a SPECIALS FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday THIS WEEK BUTTER | DOG FOOD $229] x 2... 98° MARGARINE | QUENCHER 4$j°° ae August 4.1985 Castlegar News as _Snop-Easy FooDs | 2717 Col. 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