“WHAT ARE THEY?” is a question many people have asked when they've been out closed, he recall Is because of the ‘advent of Flats area of north Castlegar. “They” are the concrete bases for the huge screen which served the Elk Drive-in which opened in 1953 and closed in 1960. The drive-in, built and operated by Nick, Andy and Matt Shelfontiuk, was subject to flooding each year but Nick says the flooding didn’t significently affect business as it took place during July and part of August when theatre at- tendance was low anyway. The reason the Elk Drive-in ropped to a quarter of what it had been, making the drive-in's continued operation uneconomic. As well as the concrete and metal bases for the screen, strollers in the area can not the terraced ground where * humps” were provided so cars would be on an angle to view the screen. There are also melas smaller concrete bases in the area that bedded in them. posts Ii —KasNewsFoto by Burt Campbell Painting could be authentic | QUEBEC (CP) — Three years ago, Jean-Marie Patry bought an oil painting for $12 from a second-hand furniture store. Now he is holding his breath, waiting for word on wether it is a genuine Renoir that could make him a mil- lionaire. Patry quit his job as a pro- vincial government civil ser- vant last December to spend more time trying to verify the painting’s authenticity and value on the interna- tional market. Patry, who describes him- self as an amateur collector of art and antiques, said he bought the painting, entitled Woman On the Sea Shore, in August, 1978, without look- ing ag the signature. “The painting was among many others and I noticed it was a genuine oil painting and not a reproduction,” he said. “I liked it so I bought it, knowing well the real value was surely higher. “The painting was hanging on the wall at home for two years before a friend of mine Patry stored the painting in a vault at a local bank for safe- keeping until he could find out whether it was indeed painted by Auguste Renoir, the French master of the Im- pressionist period in the late 19th century. Rev. Henri Gilbert, a local art specialist who examined Patry’s painting, said he is convinced it is genuine. Patry said an art specialist at the Metropolitan Museum in New York told him the painting, if proven genuine, could be worth $3 million. The painting, said Gilbert, is identical to a Renoir ex- hibited in the Metropolitan Museum, whose authenticity has often been questioned. Rolland Giroux, owner of the store where Patry bought his painting, said it may have come from the es- tate of Jean-Baptiste Lali- berte, founder of a local clothing store, Jacqueline Coulombe, Lali- berte’s great-granddaughter, said it is possible the painting once belonged to her ances- tor. “There were many beauti- ful things in his house and he was a type of man who col- lected beautiful things," she said. New B.C. map is ready A new full-color map and guide to the provincial park system is ready for the ap- proaching recreation season, announced Lands, Parks and Housing Minister Jim Cha- bot. Chabot said, “This is the most comprehensive bro- chure yet published on pro- vincial parks. The map shows all parks of provincial sig- ble about art made me aware of the famous sig- On the advice of his friend, and an ing chart lists the parks in the order they were estab- lished. The guide also advises on how to get to the parks and details of the major facilities available in each park,” On the reserve side of the map, parks are described by their most popular activity. There are parks for campers, sailors, it Manitoba a unique province Provides free incl WINNIPEG (CP) — Susie, a young mother from Mary- land, says she was reunited : with her 10-year-old daugh- ter largely because her es- tranged husband picked Man- itoba as a refuge when he abducted the child. “I'm glad, if he took her : anywhere, he took her to’ Manitoba,” said the 80-year-. | old woman whose search for her daughter Karen ended _ after two months, “If he had taken her to some place in the States, I don't think I'd ever have got her back, I had a lot of help in Manitoba.” Manitoba is the only prov- ince to provide free Crown counsel for parents to enforce ” custody orders from other provinces or countries once a child has been located here. Susie had only to provide a copy of her Maryland custody order to Manitoba court authorities. She was reunited with Karen within 48 hours of discovering the girl was in Dauphin, about 250 kilom- etres northwest of Winnipeg. CUTS COSTS Robyn Diamond, a family law expert in the attorney- general's department, said involving the Crown in par- ental abduction cases not only makes for easy accessi- bility to courts and police de- partments, but means the “foreign custodial parent” doesn’t have to pay for a private detective or lawyer. “Economics shouldn't be a consideration when the inter- est of an abducted child is at stake,” Diamond said. Attorney-General Gerry Mercier said other provinces have not been receptive to this approach, despite sup- port from women’s groups and legal organizations. Winnipeg lawyer Jim Stoffman agreed and said he found no co-operation in his efforts to use a custody enforcement reciprocity agreement with Alberta to trace a six-year-old English boy. “It's. h doust: fright- -. ents capable of being .good parents, granted custody to the parent who had abducted the child. “The losing party was so furious at the evident ‘in- justice of rewarding the kid- napping parent that she, in " VANCOUVER (CP) ~ Computer crimes will .be done increasingly by pro- fessionals in the. 1980s, says a California computer security expert. ° Most computer crimes now are committed by amateurs, Donn Parker, sa senfor’ management sys: Computer crimes to develop. more _ company that sent'out in- . difficult to determine ex- actly what-a computer crime is, citing a Texas voices to people at random. “That's all they did — they sent invoices, You'd be surprised how many people pay bills." When some customers tems told a computer conference Wed- nesday. But computer crime will develop and certain groups begin attacking com- puters, he said. Already the Red Brigades, a ter- rorist group in Europe, have blown up 28 computer centres; “their manifesto is that the enemy is the -maultinational company and their weakest link is the computer system.” + they didn’t owe money, the company apologized, saying their computer'made a mistake, “People will believe any- thing if you say it's a’ com- puter's fault.” Parker clas- sifies this as a computer crime. He said many people caught committing a com- puter crime have a per- sonal problem, so com- panies should include coun- selling on drug abuse, al- and Parker's echoed J.C. Matlock, a Texas businessman who told the conference com- puter systems are vulner- able to attacks by ter- rorists. Matlock said a recent study showed the average company would be almost out of business after 10 days without its compu- ters. few programs In spite of the obvious danger, only five per cent of Canadian companies have programs to, help them prevent a disaster or recover from one, Matlock said. a Parker said it is often . kept sticking a key into the personal finances as part of their computer security system. He presented the case of a computer operator who computer's memory disk, causing the system to erash. After failing to lo- cate a mechanical cause for the crashes, the company installed a camera over the:. computer and caught the operator. Asked why he deliber- ately tampered with the machine, the operator said he was lonely and when- ever the system crashed, he became the centre of attention and got to go turn, kidnapped the child,” Nash said. Although there were no official statistics, it has been etimated that only about five. per cent of the 10,000 chil- dren who are abducted by parents each year in Canada are returned. Winnipeg lawyer Jill Olt- ver said custody battles are becoming more important than squabbles over prop erty. “People aren't disputing to the same extent as previous- ly on property,” she sald. “They tend to fight over cus- tody and maintenance.” Family laws which have been in place here for 2' years rest on the principle of equal sharing of family and commercial assets in divorce settlements. Courts have power to alter the division, but lawyer Alice Steinbart says women's groups feared that giving the courts dis- cretion might alter the prin- ciple. “Fortunately, so far it hasn't,” she said. “Sometimes it’s nice to be’ wrong.” Maintenance provisions of divorce or separation settle- ments are automatically re- corded in the province's computerized monitoring system, SENT TO COURT Cheques for maintenance are sent to the court, which forwards them after record- ing payment in the computer. The computer detects fail- ure to pay within four work- ing days after payment is due. ‘The system “has improved - things drastically,” said Ruth Brown of the Provincial © Council of Women. “It has removed the prob- lems and expense women faced with having to go to court each time their pay- ments were in default.” Enforcement officers say efforts to locate non-paying © spouses are 99 per cent ening that other states have more regard for these things than .our sister provinces with whom we have recip- : rocity,” Stoffman said in an interview. ALL HAVE ACTS All provinces, except On- tario and Quebec, have acts permitting enforcement of custody orders in other jur- isdictions if children have been abducted. But while other provinces profess interest in Mani- toba's system, parents must still hire a lawyer before they can enforce legal rights to custody. Proposed Ontario legis- lation was stalled by a pro- vincial election campaign but lawyer Michael parks or olips vot aan ee this is the first time we have produced a definite guide to provincial parks,” the min- ister said. The, “Provincial Parks of British Columbia Map". will and skiers. There are parks for people looking for a wil- derness experience as well as parks for those-who want to explore the province's rich | cultural heritage. ‘ “Over the year, my;.min-. istry has produced, many be widely di Copies will be available at all min- istry offices, Tourism British Columbia outlets, infor- mation centres and govern- nent agents offices, It can ‘tee be obtained by writing the ministry of lands, parks and housing in Victoria. Izumi Nash maintained in an interview even it is inade- quate when it comes to kid- napping. “What I have found ‘to be one of the most madd EDMONTON (CP) — The John Howard Society of Al- berta wants prisoners in a proposed new jail to pay for their keep with wages earned by working for private em- ployers inside the jail. The medium-security jail, which will replace the Fort . Saskatchewan Correctional Institute, will be built near the federal Tnati: home early. DD, in many institutions either do meaningless work or nothing. ‘The society's proposal sug- gests private firms be asked to: blish f; : Alberta to get new jail when they are released. “It's important everything happening in jail reinforces the principle that inmates facilities inside the new jail, Inmates could be put to work. making furniture on an as-. sembly line or piece workin a garment industry. HUB OF ACTIVITY should. be tution northeast of Edmon- ton. It is scheduled for com- pletion in 1984 and will hold 300 prisoners serving sen- tences of less than two years. The society, a volunteer group which assists released prisoners, says prisoners should be compelled to work and receive ii wages experiences in family law is that the courts rely on this motion of continuity to re- ward the parent who has successfully kept the kid-- napped child away from the other party for.a sufficient period of time,” Nash said. He cited a case in which a trial, judge, finding both par- from which they could help support families, pay room and board and make court- ordered restitution to vic- tims. Bill Lowen, the society's executive director, said it costs taxpayers $30,000 a year to support a prisoner in a Canadian prison. Prisoners “the hub of all activity in the prison,” the society said in a submission to the solicitor- general's department. “Work should have some satisfaction and provide for some success ‘or failure.” If a prisoner is fired or doesn't want to work he should be compelled to sit in his cell during working hours until he reutrns to work. If a prisoner takes a day off, even to see his lawyer, pay should be docked the “same as on the street.” ‘The society said by making gainful employment manda- tory in jail, prisoners would - have an easier time adjusting and ac- countable for themselves.” Since there are few free rides on the outside, the so- ciety said, prisoners should have to pay for extra priv- ileges such as movies. Rec- reation facilities such as pool . tables or television sets for a proposed “living room” should be paid for out of prisoner welfare funds. The society also wants cell doors in the new jail to have shuttered windows with peepholes to give prisoners some privacy “to maintain human dignity.” Victoria Haddon, an infor- mation officer with the soli- citor-general’s department, said plans for the jail are still in the preliminary stage and costs haven't been projected. “We're trying to keep it open to accommodate changes.” Canada’s biggest crime Cost of stolen time will top $1 Vancouver, Canada...“Time theft” — the deliberate waste and miguse of on-the-job time — will cost the battered Can- adian economy more than $11 billion this year, itwas reported in a study released today by a leading international person- nel expert. According to Robert Half, employers. “Time thieves,” saya Half, "are guilty ofstealing a precious and irreplaceable commodity.” Half, who heads Robert Half, Inc., the world’s largest finan- cal executive, accounting and activity in order to create over- time situations. —Feigning illness and taking unjustified “sick days” ie ois ot company zines or books on company time E: lizing with 75 offices throughout on the United States | and Great oor vandalism, arson, kick- packs, of the na nationwide Canadian ‘aps ft study at at a meeting other jt Canadian business total some $4 billion a year, the biggest crime of them all — time theft — goes unrecognized andun- reported, Half contends that when employees intentionally abuse the time for which they are being paid to work, they are, literally, stealing from their of hi 's Canadian offices, held in Vancouver Thursday, April 2, 1981. Among Half's many examples of time theft are: —Frequently arriving at work late Leaving early —Turning the water cooler into a conversation pit Slowing down the pace of co-workers ° —Daydreaming and lack of . attention to the work to be lone —Using an employer's time to - attend to personal or family business —Making excessive personal phone calls * —Taking long or numerous coffee breaks —Eating lunch at the deak — and then going out for a lunch Half noted: “I am not sug- gesting that employees should be expected to act like mach- ines. All of us are entitled toa reasonable amount of on-the- job sociable conversation, and almost everyone is going to be late — or ‘goof-off’ a bit here and there. But the pervasive, insidious and damaging effects of deliberate and constant time theft pose a serious threat to the Canadian economy.” “Time theft,” says Half, “erodes the nation’s product- ivity. And it fuels inflation by increasing both the costs of producing goods and services and the prices consumers have to pay for them.” Half has been measuring the impact of the problem since his first study of U.S. time theft in 1970, His initial Canadian time-theft study was conducted in 1977, and he says that the problem is much more serious today. His report that time theftis, atleast, an $11 billion crimeis based on astudy conducted by the managers of the Robert Half offices in Canada. - They contacted 200 corpo- 1 billion this ignificantly higher. ible Half made the assumption that 20% ofall employees never ateal time. This reduced the number of time thieves to 8,026,000, Statistica Canada reports + that the average hourly wage for non-apricultural workers is 44, Multiplying $7.44 by rate throughout the country and asked each one to carefully estimate the amount of time theft within their own company. The estimates ranged from 20 minutes to 6-1/2 hours’ per employee, per week. The final result was a weekly average of 3 hours and 50 minutes of stolen time per employee. According to the latest data available from Statiatica Can- ada, the nonagricultural em- ployed iabor force totals Yo. 032,000. But, to be as con- the 3 hours and 50 minutes of time stolen each week, Half arrived at a weekly time theft cot of $28,52 Per vine lultiplying the wee! re by ae ees he came up with a yearly time theft total per employee of $1,426. And by multiplying this amount by 8,026,000 time thieves, Half. arrived at a stag- gering 1981 time theft total of $11.5 billion. And, based‘on his knowledge of the problem, he feels that the total will be “He also pointed out that, according to his 1977 Can- , adian time-theft study, workers were stealing aweel ly average of 3 hours and 45 minutes of time each week, for a total of $8 billion that year. Half notes that “a worker who ‘appropriates’ 3 hours and 50 minutes of his or her em- ployer’s time each week will, during a single year, steal,192 ours — or more than § full 35-hour work weeks!” Half points out that as. ser- ious as time theftis in Canada, the problem is even worse in the United States where, ac- cording to the study he con- ducted last year, the average time thiefis guilty of stealing 4 hours and five minutes each week. He observed that if year Canadian workers stole as much time as their U.S. counter- parts, the cost would rise to Biz. 2 billion, “Time theft breeds time theft,” says Half. “Executives and managers are often the most blatant time thieves. By setting poor examples, they are, in effect, encouraging others to ateal time.” Half acknowledges that time theft can never be eliminated completely. But he believes that it can be reduced sig- nificantly. He urges employers to establish anti-time theft measutes — and to enforce them as rigidly as possible. “Time theft is a crime,” says Half, “and flagrant time thieves deserve to be punished for their actions.” aon dg SI FLOWERS OF HOPE ssinpalgn is unlarway ‘with the traditional plan-: ting of marigolds, the s symbol of hope, planted this week at ci Armando Rego the city’s parks lead hand, Left photo; Mayor Audrey Moore places her contribution ; by Sheila Morsison an right phot - Protection from y lead poisoning : Thiamin, ‘or ‘vitamin’ B1, Say protect against the pols- onous effects of lead, new re- search suggests. Lead ming, both fron direct ‘ingeation ‘of lead-con- ate ‘lead, isa major health “problem in’ North: American’ for those who would fF Hope box held by Caroline one fo These'boxes are rs of the city at hall a ike to contribute. SHEESH! T GOT TEN WRONG ON - a THE TEST WAS, ONLY: OUT OF CAND. IT: WAS. AN “EASY ONE. WINNIPEG (CP) — Even though Tanya, 22, had hit her seven-week-old child several times, she was unaware that she was hurting him. Nor did a‘father realize he didn’t have the right to whip his 16-year-old daughter with she came home late. Both Tanya {not her real name) and the_-father are child abusers, part of grow- ing statistics compiled’ by. police and social agencies. Last year, the Winhipeg- Children’s “Aid ‘Society was” involved in 140 cases of child abuse. The number of cases naa Fisen slowly. from 64 in| Many of the. cases fit a pattern. Tanya, who gave upa job and active social live to get married and raise a ‘child, said she felt cramped and confined by her new lifestyle. Tanya said she tried many’ times to talk to her husband “but he would. riot. listen.” “I knew “something wes happening to me, but I didn’ know where to go, who * turn to," she said. “When the baby cried, I hit him.” One day she slapped ‘the clild so hard, he’ended up in hospital with a broken:leg.. INVOLVE DISCIPLINE Many cases of child abuse involve discipline’ problems, such as the.father who beat his' daughter with the clothesline’ when she didn't come home on time. Dave “Allen, -a Winnipeg police staff sergeant, said the parent could not accept the girl's behavior and: felt he was within his rights in dis- ciplining her. While bruises burns’ and fractures are the most visible effects of child abuse, they're not necessarily the damaging... - Child care experts : ‘say. mental abuse such as name- calling, lack of recognition and isolation can cause chil- dren to develop a low, self- image. This can lead to_ag- gressiion, anxiety and low impulse. control: and ‘even cause. children :to become self-destructive and. anti- social, Studies show that most child’ abusers,” like Tanya, were either Liaditcal or on The oe PINE BASKET. HOUSE : Gift Shop . Pine Naedle Baskets : ee ‘ Many behdemade, unigue tem Patterson border, us. most’ ” emotionally abused as young- sters. Her family and friends often ridiculed her for- her weight problem. But child abuse can take many forms, such as the case of ‘the. 85-year-old: woman who discovered that her hus- band £4 ter for the last seven years. ‘CAN'T BELIEVE IT” « ~ “I was shocked and hurt,” she said. “Never in my wild- est dreams could:I imagin that would happen. Still. in my mind! know it’s true, but ‘it’s so hard to believe.”' The woman said ber hus- band “swore it wasn't true.” e’eried and ‘all. But, I never doubted it.” Police records show that reports of incest and: sedual abuse. involving . Winnipeg children increased to 86 in 1980 from 11 in 1977. Of the 86. cases, 27 ‘adults were charged: with sex offences “We've: had very. young babies “with _ gonorrhea ‘and .. weve never ‘been, able - to “There's a. lot’ of, wie ressures,”- he added. “Some of these kids don’t even know until’ ‘they * get ‘older. and talking to their friends . this is the first time some of these. kids “realize.‘that “all”: daughters ‘don’t have inter- | up with Frog GASPEREAU, N.8. (CP) -~ There won't be any tubing ‘down:the old .Gaspereau River this summer — at least ‘not. your. organized, . beer guzzling kind of tubing. -- ‘The Gaspereau River Tub- ing Festival, held last year as a part of the annual Theatre Arts Festival International in Nova Scotia's usually pastor- al Annopolis Valley, has been called off — because local people let the air out of the project. Brothers Clair. and Law- rence’ Davidson own: ‘the farmland bordering ‘a hydro dam where the festival par- ticipants, enter the’. water aboard their inner tubes‘and _ road leading to the: village other floating conveyances to bounce along the river. The Lawrences have de: | cided to disallow access this * year,’ forcing organizers to call of the event. - ‘Admitting he. is “terribly against liquor,.” Clair David- son said in an interview that the tubing festival, which at- tracted. competitors from many parts of the Maritimes and film crews from the TV. ‘networks, had’ become : “sim ply.a beer party.” The 6 organized tubing had course with ‘thelr fathers.” Dr. Lorna ‘Grant, a gyne- cologist.. at the: Winnipeg | Children's Hospital, said she-. The study, aimed, a ‘fin ing out what was most prized daily. : None ‘of the control treated _ or the thi in an enduring relationship,?:+"s njamin ».was:sheaded: by, -Bé: sces about five cases a month © © ‘of sexually abused TREAT been written‘on thé topic and there‘ are almost'no proven: the breadwinner and:the wifes: “treatment programs, ~~ A group of concerned pro-- * fessionals has formed a com- mittee to deal? with sexual abuse. The’ group, which-in-) cludes policemen,‘ social’ and. hospital: workers and -law- Dr. Ken‘ McRae,’'a clinic - director’ at” the’ Children’s - ‘staying home to ‘raise. dren, but they now. beltfeve in agreater sharing of domesti roles ‘and responsibilities. rank each oh were married 16 y NOTA “The | wives’ attached ‘the Hospital, wants the provi to establish'a. Manitoba Fro: tection Centre at the hospital that would: deal specifically with abuse’ cases. McRae said ‘the proposed’ -eentre ‘would. also:: provide ‘facilities for research, treat-: ment : programs, * education: | for child care’ professionals and clinical treatment. Skip Gryschuk of the Win-- nipeg Children’s Aid Society said :the multi-disciplinary approach that Winnipeg. has: * followed - since: 1970" bes : Broven its worth, enough begi “Years ago, the odd: tuber would pass a pleasant sum- mer:‘afternoon by floating down. tho... trco-bordered stream. i)» “Atsome point, an unofficial festival was proclaimed but it began.on a small scale. But . as” the’: publicity mounted and the ‘crowds in-. creased: so did the The ious professionals ‘ and Gry- schuk says the high degree of co-operation has. prevented deaths afd -ropeat casos. of child abuse. . 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