CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 4,1983 AS Computer sales. defy recession: CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 4, 1983 CASTLEGAR NEWS ESTABLISHED AUG. 7,1947 TWICE WEEKLY'MAY 4, 1980 (INCORPORATING THE MID. WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SEPT. 12, 1978-AUG. 27, 1980 LV, CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FEB, 15, 1973 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman John Bianchi Canada corona Roa toe Magow FOREMAN — Mi: ickey Re Read Elaine Sallis vetted in ond belongs 10 Castle News Lid. ony edvertitement prepored trom {_ Seleaieine reer ‘1 however, that copyright In that part and tha! port only of Tepre prools, engravings, etc. provided by the odvertiver shal remain in ond Shattering news The alleged Soviet downing of the South Korean jumbo jet carry- ing 269 people over Sakhalin Island Wiechendsy comes as shattering "No thinking, feeling person can iT ying an civilian plane carrying so many passengers simply for violating Soviet air space. The Soviet allegation that the plane wos spying on secret military installations at Sakhalin is no ex- cuse. But what is doubly distressing about the whole affair is the way the Soviets have addressed the situation. When news of the air tragedy was first disclosed, the world was told the huge passenger jet was simply forced down by So- viet fighter jets. It wasn’t ‘until several hours later that the U.S. came out with its information that the jet was in fact shot down by the Soviets. The Soviet response at that time (if not from the beginning) should have been to clarify any everything, saying simply the plane flew off and that was the last they saw of it. But that story didn't hold up. After an incredible outcry by governments. worldwide, the Soviets Friday issued another in a series of information releases. The information didn't come freely. Reading between the lines, any observer could see the Soviets were only offering more informa- tion because of the worldwide backlash. Friday's information disclosed that indeed the Soviets shot at the jumbo jet — though “only” tracer shots. Again, the Soviets declined to take direct responsibility for the loss of the 269 lives. By refusing to clear up the fate of the Korean Boeing 747 jet, th Soviets are simply y.win — read th t. _melored Beale nottoresign... item again where the Israeli cabinet “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the grief of the relatives of the 269 victims and leaving the world to think the worst. The Soviets should be pressed to make a full disclosure of the events that led up to the incident, ty an mation with the truth. d, the and ything that d af- terward. Anything less tx un- denied A signal Tory triumph (From on editorial in the Vancouver Sun) The federal byelection results Gre a strong signal to the govern- ment, and are red for danger. The results were a personal and political triumph for Brian Mul- roney, the new leader of the Pro- gressive Conservative party. It was his first campaign and the first real ‘ test of his popularity outside his own party. Everyone expected him to win his seat in the Commons, but he won handsomely, and In style. The surprise Was the deployment of so For the NDP the result is miser- able. Not only does it expose the weakness of the party's federal base, but also a failure to translate provincial issues in the campaign. The vote was a practical demonstration of what opinion polls have been saying for more than a year. It suggests that what- ever they do and whoever leads them, the Liberals are in a pit and it's hard to see how they can climb out. many Liberal cabinet ina lost cause. Mr. Mulroney was able to make fools of them rhetorically as well as in the result. bea leader to whom the Liberate look with respect and apprehension. Empha- -size the apprehension. Is Canada's economy going up or down? By KEN SMITH Toe about being a reluctant debu- Cazaas's economy wins the prize at the moment — coyly saying one minute, “Yes, I'm ready to expand.” The next? She shyly suggests she needs more time to think about it and to get herself organized. Her problem isn't helped by the fact there are two groups of people shout- ing advice in her ears. In one ear, she hears from assorted ever-hopeful, hard-driving authorities that they've been waiting for more ‘than two years — and enough is enough. Let's get on with the job, they say. In the other ear, more careful types say let's wait a while. Let's see, they suggest, where all this is going to lead. Then we can decide what to do. It's no way to treat a lady, especially one that has been sick for a long time and — after brief signs of a good re- covery — now indicates she’s not so strong after all. She — that is, the economy — has to decide quickly whether there's the will to recover and the strength to sustain it. There's an impressive list of talent saying yes to both points, though no one expects.a miracle recovery over- night. : One of the latest comes from the Bank of Nova Scotia in a two-year economic outlook. Its just-published projections are generally more optimistic than the bank's economists were last spring. This year, for example, the bank now expects the real value of all goods and services produced in Canada — that is, after allowances are made for the ef- fects of inflation — will rise by three per cent. eee PeLSPTIne, a survey of 15 niajee did the Scotiabank. That's pretty heady stuff, so why any worries? For one thing, some of the latest fi - after ~yThavey a 7ais : From Greece,.-Mr: Trudeau, saiks Bennett, in it all. ‘Mr. Mulroney, he said; will’ « Thanks, Mr. Bennett Editor, News: As one of:the-100,000 or so “private r” workers who were laid off in Iwas laid off because goveriments all over. the western world were adopting moved to respond «~ Ry, defense of his a ernment workeré.(not to mention gut human rights; shaft regional govern- ment, etc., etc.) in order that poor souls like myself will someday be able to go back to work for our private sector employers... As I pause to brush my tears of gratitude from this page, a few nagging questions remain in the back of my mind. While it has been some time since the recession struck me down, I “Fecollection that = Mr. hi product of workers having “lifetime job security” as though the high interert rates and other policies adopted by conservative governments have nothing to do with it. This surely has to rate right up there with Caligula’s appointment of his favorite horse to the Roman Senate as a political move that is uncon- strained by any need for mortal logic. But I want to end by thanking Mr. Bennett. Both before and-after the May -political parties would come through. ButI was wrong. In two months I have seen more ' genuine solidarity, more unity between workers (never mind the “sector” they hail from) more mobilization, and more strength of purpose on the part of com- munity groups than I would ever have dreamed in this province.. With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this will translate into a more durable and hopeful future for this province in the long run than we could ever have achieved by simply electing the NDP as the organization they are at present. So thank you, Mr. Bennett. Like the dumb compass needle, you have shown i of the, was saying ‘that high rest rates, tight money, restraint and the rest of the conservative economic :nostrums were necessary to bring down that nasty inflation. I thought that he was saying that these things were neces- -sary but as far as the recession was concerned, it was Ronald Reagan's fault anyway. All I had to do was wait (all unemployed: people are good at waiting), re-elect Social Credit “good government,” and hey presto! we would have recovery. I confess that I never really believed that. I realize that it is audacious for a humble unemployed unit such as myself to question the wisdom of the great but it seems to me that the Scotiabank outlook was prepared — suggest some key areas are stumb- ling a bit. Housing starts in Canada and the United States, for example, have backed off sharply from earlier, ad- mittedly unsustainable figures. Because of government grants, starts in Canada in May were 275,000 on a seasonally-adjusted basis. In June, this had dropped to 200,000. In July, they were down to 146,000. Retail sales are up, indicating con- sumers are ready to spend more money — but they’re still well below the level of 1981. But the big problem remains unem- ployment, with uncertainty about the future of interest rates and inflation tied for a distant second. During the latest, deep recession, Canada actually lost about 600,000 jobs, mostly in manufacturing. Since signs of recovery appear nine months ago, about 800,000 new jobs have been created. But more than half of those are part-time employment — and that's not the base on which you build a solid recovery. A major reason for hope about economic recovery this year and next was that plants and businesses, which had been caught with huge inventories of goods as the recession started, had generally reduced them to manageable levels by early this year. That should have resulted in a surge of new orders to build up supplies to satisfy customers. Those new orders did come in for a few months, but latest statistics indi- cate the rate is falling — started to ~ An open letter to parents Editor, Castlegar News: An open letter to parents: Looking back one may wonder where the summer has gone but it has gone and school begins for K.J. students on Wednesday, Sept. 7. Whewl you may say, at last! Yes, the time has come for your child to join (or rejoin) us for a - year of learning experiences. When? Where? What? Just after 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday we will assemble all students in the gym. After a few general instructions, dents wifi be fed a teacher and will accompany that tea- cher to their homeroom class. The rest of the day will be spent issuing textbooks, assigning lockers, distributing information and forms, and, in the afternoon, trying out the timetable. On the first day, students should bring a notebook and pen and $6 for lock rental and activity fee. Complete supplies should be brought on Thurs- day. For bus information contact Mr. P. Konkin during the day at 865-8881. A newsletter will be issued on Wednesday outlining additional infor- mation. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to telephone the school (365-7727). because no one wants to get caught in in Canada cay the Ottawa-based Confer- ence Board of Canada an an stocked position again. if it the i if you have some special concerns, the vice-principal and T are in the school most days and the be on Tues- average forecast growth this year of 2.8 per cent and 4.6 per cent next year. Several of these organizations have since revised their outlooks higher, as toan in recovery. And leave the poor debutante sitting out in the cold. (Canadian Press) will day, Sept. 6. A new student? Please phone us for initial registration and scheduling. Thanks. T.B. Rogers Principal Lyaieiae ooze a Bud the way out of the wild ~ Derek Tedd get has little to do with ‘restraint’ Editor, Castlegar News: I would like to add my voice to the outrage and concern caused by the legislative package presented by the. Social Credit government on July 7 under the guise of a budget. ‘Thousands of B.C. workers have lost their jobs in the name of restraint, but what worries me more is that this re- gressive legislation has done away with social services, the loss of which will adversely affect those people who can least afford it — women, the poor, the elderly, and children. The abolishment of the human bed mental regions, are tactics that have little to do with “restraint,” but a great deal to do with victimization and the oppres- sion of individual rights. Those rights are my rights, and © gardless yours, and your neighbors’, re; of political affiliation. Premier Bennett has a lot of angry people he is going to have to deal with, people who are prepared to fight back until the legis- lative package is withdrawh, or an election called. I support the principles and the ef- forts of Operation Solidarity and the C roared vices, rent controls and the rentals. man’s office, family and children ser- vices and the child abuse team, along with increased centralization of power in Victoria and away from individual Brit- ish Columbia in their struggles for essential human rights for this prov- ince. Margaret Tessman Castlegar IN CASTLEGAR SCHOOLS Editor, Castlegar News: Perhaps one way to reduce costs in School District No. 9 (Castlegar) is to come up with the same quality as School District No. 16 (Penticton). In School District No. 9 there are 16.6 pupils to every teacher. In School District No. 16 the pupil-teacher ratio is 18.6, If one assumes that each dis- trict has 3,000 students, then the dif- ference is 21 teachers, at a salary and benefits cost of $45,000 each. This, equates to $945,000. Following are figures from the pro- vincial Data Services Branth compar- ing the two districts. Graduates from Schoo] District No.’ 9 — 82.9 per cent; from School District No. 15 — 88.8 per cent. Grade 12 reading level in School District No. 9 — 67.0; Math — 66.5; Science — 53.9. In School District No. 16 the results were: Reading — 67.8; Math — 59.8; Science — 56.8. If administration costs in School District No. 9 were reduced to the same as School District No. 87 (Delta), the savings would be $59.40 per pupil, or a paltry $178,200, assuming 3,000 pupils. Or how about supplies and expen- ses, which are $149 per pupil in Castle- How to cut costs gar and $116.60 in Delta? That saving equals $97,200. Aren't local children en- titled to the same quality as Penticton? Using the September, 1981 class size of 81.7 per cent having one to 20 pupils in elementary, 80.1 per cent having 21 to 24 pupils, 25.4 per cent having 26 to 27 pupils and 12.7 per cent having 28 or more, and ing 30.1 sal ’s Teen Town Clippers de- feat the, fe Castlegar Legion softball ‘team ace ; Sunday last. ‘Thtireday, Sept. 2nd, the Clippers willleave for Vancouver to enter the Little World Series for. the B.C. Cham- Plone The first game in Vancouver ben Played on Saturday, Sept. 4th a ie Gordon House Clippers. ‘Tray with the team will be real ‘Smenoff, coach, Nick Oglow, pgs John Dalziel, first aid man mAset, rant Moree, i Revi idohea gern « a professor of French in the Redemptorist College at aig ‘Man., visited Castlegar for a wy dag recently. Father Olynyk is a Sat ot the Ukranian rite and said Mass for the. Ukranian Catholic of Castlegar. s e s Big Labor Day dance, Coronation Hall, Monday, Sept. 6th. Kootenay Boys Orchestra. Adraiestoe 60 cents. On Sept. ibis, waar, of Boards of ‘Trade frm every city between Winni- peg and Vancotver will meet in Nelson to suppott the Southern Route for a gears The Kitinaird Annual Picnic held on Sunday last'was a huge success. The weather was perfect and the ground in shape. ate Ps YEARS AGO From the Sept. 4, 1958 News Twenty-seven boats roared into action Saturday at 1:05 p.m. and the Arrow Boat Club's big water sports day was off to a lively start. Led by boat club commodore Dr. C.S. Fowler of Castlegar, the 27 boats first paraded before the Robson wharf in single file and then dropped down- stairs to the ferry and came back side by side. . s e There is a team captain meeting in the Kinnaird Improvement Society Hall tonight at 8 p.m. to make plans for a house-to-house canvass of Kinnaird Sept. 23 for funds for a community ‘swimming pool. ‘i s . Two traffic tickets were given out during August by traffic officer D. *” Seaton. The penalties were paid in each case. s 28 @ The Castlegar hospital wants a‘ sec- -ond-hand rotary mower. Hospital administrator J. Bainbridge said if anyone “is thinking of throwing one away will they throw it our way.” s e s A trek to Sheep Lake over the new highway will be made Sept. 13 by members of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce. No apparent damage was caused in the Castlegar area by an earth tremor The Dominion Astrophysical Obser- vatory in Victoria said the tremor measured about three on the Richter scale. The scale measures up to 10. Duration of the tremor was about 20 seconds. s s we: Selkirk College Principal A.E. Soles has announced the appointment of Craig Andrews as lecturer in the Col- lege’s department fol history. Arne Perens was a scholarship winner of a $2,000 teachers’ assistant- ship from UBCand a $8,000 scholarship from the National Research Council. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivar Reinsbakken of Castlegar. mayor of the City of Castlegar, drew a large crowd to City Hall Thursday for ithe unveiling of a bronze plaque in his memory. e s s Twoal for a new C: per cent averages 10 (in one to 20 range) and 80 pupils (for 28 and more range) the average elementary class size is 20 and average secondary school class size is 22. If one assumes 20 over- all, why is the pupil-teacher ratio 16.5 to one? I challenge the Castlegar School Board and B.C. Teachers Federation to publish a list of courses, pupils attend- ing, ete., for School District No. 9 so the public can see how their money is being wasted on “Mickey Mouse” cour- ses. Remember, too, one out of every five students will graduate from the system functionally illiterate, Oh yes, to safeguard the rights of the minority, the special class in Russ- ian need not be started (at the public's expense), thereby saving some more money. Furthermore, no one's civil rights would be trod upon. Peitzsche water supply will be the topic of a meeting between city and municipal affairs ministry technical staff in Vie- toria today. Consulting engineer Gordon Leidal, solicitor Galt Willson and city admin- istrator Bill Krug will meet with deputy ministers Chris Woodward and John Taylor to compare the feasibility of Castlegar’s proposed Arrow Lakes supply and the Selkirk College aquifer tested in-June by the environment s * s The Castlegar Aquanauts returned home from the provincial Saaeriahp swim meet with a very good record. The swim club brought back eight medals from the, meet. Premier Bil Beiaatl rit naked “a couple of announcements” at a Rotary Club luncheon in Castlegar Tuesday. {oveenerveeeetveeeenacneeeeenanasin emt cashes in on ‘chips' VANCOUVER (CP) — Until now, companies that wanted to assemble computer chips would find a spot in oe Philippines, South Korea or Taiwan to have the work lone. ‘With wages often less than $1 a day, there was no point in doing the work in high-priced North America, Today the Dynatek Electronics Corp. pores sseemhy plant planned for the th of Sidney is on the edge of a trend to eines much of the work back to North America — despite higher wages. “If a lot of companies had their druthers they would rather do the work over here now,” Daniel Klesken, an analyst who tracks the semiconductor industry for Mont- gomery Securit said from San Franei There will be more onshore assembly ‘work ‘done f two’ years from now, which is pretty good for the people at Dynatek.” Added Marcel Villeneuve, director of “We with Dyanak had stated up ac mth ao because we really needed the assembly capacity,” said John| Maxey of Inmos Corp. of Colorado Springs, Colo, to analysts, has a number of operations for Ottawa's Mitel Corp.: “We do 95 per cent of our assembly work in Asia. We are watching Dynatek with interest because we want to start doing work here.” HAVE ASSEMBLY LINES The Sidney plant will be one of a handful of contract assembly operations in North America, although some U.S. companies have their own assembly lines for testing and evaluating new products. At one of the few other contract ‘assembly plants .in North America, Indy Electronics Ltd. of Manteca, Calif, the work force was recently increased by 100 to 500 workers. The orders for chips in the U.S. — the major market for Dynatek — hit U.S. $2.2 billion in the second quarter, 87 per cent above a year ago, according to In-Stat Inc., a Scottedale, Ariz. market researcher. Klesken said the world semiconductor market will go from $18 billion this year'to $42 billion in 1988. aN CASTLEGAR KITCHEN DES! SPECIALIZING IN CUSTOM CABINETS AND BATHROOM VANITIES. CASTLEGAR, BC. 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Most plants’in'Asia use primarily manual equipment, but Seca are becoming Dynatek were doing: work for the military. Finally, it enjoya political stability. Industry officials are nervous that up*to 80 per cent of the assembly capacity is in Asia/;“You don’t want to invest a lot of money in a place like the Philippines only to find: your P has been Errol Heiman, project manager at Storage Technology Corp. in Colorado Springs. The greatest surge in demand for chips is for 64K random access memories (RAMs) — which Dynatek can assemble — and which store more than 64,000 bits of data and are the building blocks for the booming computer and teleecommunications business. Both Ji and hi: struggling ©. keep up with the demand. - Texas in complex ‘and more important for quality control. " upset eng daietcinng a ry on the federal and provincial governments totalling $19 million for a‘ $50-million ‘plant. U.S. executives say American governments would only be that generous if Inc., the leading U.S. producer, has been ra- tioning supplies since February. Klesken estimates worldwide demand for 64K RAMs at just under 850 million chips and pegs supply at only tat million. He expects supply next year to fall million 54K memories. “SUPER: ERASE SCE C0 BG CSE FR ELSE 1 EEE ST ET MINIMUM 120 DAYS $1,000 CERTIFICATES Jr. Members (under age 19) min. *500 The Canadian Press Despite the in’ micro- hnol re- cession, the indus- and aggres- by try is enjoying growth, pushed ahead by the boo sales of mini- and microcomputers. But industry observers re- main. concerned that few Canadian companies are tak- ing advantage of the thriving market — dominated by U.S. firms and their subsidiaries — by. building the machine in this country. The vast array of both software and hardware prod- ucts at a recent — inter- national computer show in Toronto and the presence of some of the world’s biggest companies hawking their wares underscores just how big the stakes are and how crucial it is for Canada to lay claim to a larger share of the growing market. Although sales of the big main-frame computers have softened because of the re- cession, industry observers predict sales of personal computers for home and small business will grow ten- fold to become a multibillion- dollar annual market by the middle of the decade. These smaller computers range from personal models with limited power and data storage ability to multiter- minal machines with a capa- bility that until recently was found only in bigger com- ry hoping to gain a foothold in on the lucrative market have made these computers-more - affordable in recent years, Rapging in price from $800 to as much as $100,000, such computers are expected to generate more than $6 billion _ in sales by 1987, comprising an. increasingly. large. per-- centage of all computer. hard- ware sold in Ganada: 2." ~ WON'T BENEFIT = However, . Canada’ won't benefit as much‘as it should from the sales of. computer and computer products, an- alysts warn, noting the coun- try’s seriously deteriorating trade imbalance in data pro- cessing and office machines. Dominated by large U.S. hardware producers like IBM, Honeywell and Control Data in the big computer field, and Apple, Commodore and Radio Shack -in mini- computers, the Canadian in- dustry has in effect become a warehouse for imported com- puter products, the analysts complain. Canada’s balance of trade in data processing and office machines has been falling for several. years. In 1981, the trade deficit jumped to $1.4 billion, compared with $1.2 billioh in 1980 and about #700 million in igre. DEPOSITS GUARANTEED FOR THE TERM OF THE DEPOSIT Per Annum Interest OFFER MAY. NOTICE PHONE US FOR DETAILS... Kootenay Savings Credit Union TRAIL SOUTH SLOCAN FRUITVALE NAKUSP CASTLEGAR NEW DENVER SALMO WANETA PLAZA