eo ocar en Plorenceville, N.B. But when he barks an order into the telephone, it reaches a corporate network sprawling across three continents.

Florenceville, is an unlikely place for the headquarters of any business, let alone the international offices of one of the largest frozen food companies in the world, But there next to the rippling St. John River, between the gently rolling hills of New Brunswick's potato belt, sits the head- quarters of McCain Foods Ltd., a company with more than 7,000 employees worldwide and sales last year of $847 million.

Many wonder why McCain and his brother, Wallace, have never left their Florenceville home even though their burgeoning corporate empire expanded into more exotic

lands ong ago.

Harrison McCain, 57, leans back in his chair, and with just the shadow of a smile, explains “I like it here.”

McCain is the

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equipment

It has taken the brothers 27 years to build their corporate network and it would appear that Harrison, who considers 15 minutes a long interview with a.reporter, has little time for anything but business.

He speaks in crisp, clipped sentences with a strong, sure voice. When asked to outline the factors that contributed to his company’s phenomenal success, McCain snaps back, “Right place, right time.”

He looks like a man who might fit a tractor seat more comfortably than a corporate swivel chair — he is stocky, bull-necked and balding, and his hooded, steel-grey eyes fix

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New silver-gold zone discovered

By CasNews Staff An important new silver gold zone was di din

to postpone Le Teko's op- tions to further subscribe for

Arnie Flats mid-way through the 1984 field season, ac. cording to a recent progress report by mining companies on the Tillicum gold-silver property.

Prospecting led to the dis- covery of silver mineraliza. tion, with samples revealing 108 oz. per ton of silver, and .22 o2 per ton of gold.

Further samples in the area showed 7.6 oz. per ton of silver, and .02 oz. per ton of gold.

Based on the silver find- ings, there is “excellent po- tential” for further explora- tion, says the report pre pared by Esperanza Explor- ations Ltd., and La Teko Re- sources Ltd.

As well, diamond drilling has found addi-

private pl of Esper. anza shares.

Metallurigieal testing, data compilation and detailed work plans are now being undertaken in preparation for the 1985 season.

Ore reaches Cominco

By CasNews Staff

The first shipment of gold and silver ore from Dentonia Resources’ jewel mine in Greenwood was shipped to Cominco Oct. 20.

According to a company release, the grade of the shipment was “higher than

tional reserves at East Ridge, drilling at Silver Queen has found silver min. eralization over an open strike length of 2,000 feet with trench sampling reveal ing up to 11.7 oz. per ton Ag over 20 feet.

Working capital on hand is now $580,000, according to the report.

Because of depressed met als and venture capital mar kets, Experanza has agreed

The ore shipped was .255 oz. per ton gold, 2.1 oz. per ton silver, and 84.7 per cent silica. Value per ton was $80.55.

The value of the silica and the high recovery of precious metals led to the direet ship- ping to the Cominco smelter, the release says.

The mining program is to begin a series of raises in the vein from lower to upper lev: els.

Stock

prices

TORONTO (CP) — Despite falling interest rates and big growth recorded in the Can adian economy, Bay Street wrapped up a week Friday that cost $3.4 billion in the value of listed stocks

The Toronto Stock Ex chapge 300 composite index dropped 8.14 points to 2,368.54 Friday, bringing its loss for the week to 45.82 points. It was the worst weekly loss in more than four months and the market lost ground during all five trading sessions. It was almost a four-month low

Declines outpaced ad vances 343 to 277 while 363 were unchanged. Volume was a light 7.5 million shares.

Things weren't any better in New York, where the Dow

Jones industrial average fell 4.52 to 1,188.94, giving it a weekly loss of 31.36 and its worst weekly performance in two months.

Traders said investors were hit with a mass of con fusing signals over the econ. omy. There is widespread uneasiness about the effect of wide-ranging tax changes proposed for the United States and the Reagan ad ministration’s tentative proposal to freeze federal spending.

Meantime, Statisties Can ada said Friday the domestic economy grew at an annu alized rate of 7.6 per cent in the third quarter of the year

That was double the aver: age 3.2 per cent in the pre- vious two quarters.

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hingt on the person with whom he is talking. Harrison McCain an air of in his

own appearance and that of his employees. New recruits to the Florenceville offices who show up in three-piece suits quickly realize they are the odd men out — shirt sleeves and open collars are the style in the McCain executive suites. LIFTED IDEA

The McCain family has been in Florenceville, a village near the Maine-New Brunswick border, since the 1830s. Although their father was involved in the potato export

by cheaper labor or cheaper costs than what you'd have, for example, in Toronto. It's just not true. I've never thought very seriously of living anywhere else on a full-time basis.”

M., Peter Geronazzo Thomas H. Thompson

under the firm name of Geronazzo & Thompson

Have opened a Law Office in Castlegar at

1016 B - 4th Street

(Lower level of the Kootenay Savi Union Building entrance from KSCU pa:

Phone 365-7757

Credit ing lot.)

December

There's Always Something New For You

Who Has A Long White Beard And 34 Feet... And Is Coming To Our Mall?

Solve our Christmas Riddle.

Then meet the mysterious man in

red — in person!

He’s jolly and magical, full of surprises and waiting for you. We know you won't want to disappoint him.

After all, he’s a very BIG man!

There’s Always Something New

For You.

Santa Arrives Tuesday,

4 at 6:45 p.m.

Red still stable "deanita debt

By CasNews Staff __ Rd Mountain Ski Club's debt rose $47, 000 to more than $1 million over the past year, the club reported at its annual meeting Thursday night.

Club treasurer Steve Ash told the meeting that during the 1983/84 season, revenue remained flat compared to the —_ year.

le said d, and cash g d from sparation fell to $100,000 from $200,000.

“Unfortunately, the deterioration in the cash generated oceurred when the demand for cash due to the lodge improvement was high,” Ash said in his report.

Capital expenditures — due primarily to the lodge expansion — were $295,000, and even after deducting the New p! and E De (NEED) grant of $123,000 and $100,000 from the operations, the club was still left $72,000 short.

Ash said the club received a $7,000 refund on prior years’ property taxes and benefitted by not having to repay the Red Mountain Debentures. He said the $65,000 balance of the deficit had to be borrowed.

As a result, the club's total debts rose to $1,110,000 from $1,063,000 — an increase of $47,000.

But Ash added, “It is acknowledged that expenditures on the lodge will reap benefits for many years to come.”

He said, “Although the debt rose, we fee! confident that the financial stability of the club was maintained,” adding that sales of early season passes has increased and based on the amount of snow on Red Mountain, the club should have a good year.

In other news, ski operations manager Bob Steckle reported that Red Mountain has lost the services of assistant manager Brian Rhodes, who left to assume the position of general manager at Kimberley ski resort.

As well as providing backup to the Rhodes

steps into the newly-created position of maintenance supervisor. /

Steckle also reported that Red Mountain has just completed the major ski show circuit, which included Edmonton, Vancouver, Seattle and Calgary.

“This year, we noted an awareness and interest in the mountain which far surpassed that of previous years,” Steckle said.

He said bookings are coming in at a “rapid rate and if the weather co-operates, we should have a banner season.”

Tom Johnston, reporting on the Red Mountain Racers, said that there are 22 racers in the cardholder program this year. He said the racers are a young group, largely between 12 and 16 years old.

Joh: added that two of the senior members,

carried “a good deal of responsibility” for Red's summer maintenance, Steckle said, adding that his departure has increased the staff's workload considerably.

He said two new supervisory positions have been created to fill the void left by Rhodes’ departure. Grant Smith has been appointed lift supervisor and Adrian Crowe

REBEL ACTION ..

. Goalie appears to be resting during Rebels’ game against the Spokane Flames Saturday night. Rebels beat Rossland 7-4 in F

y night's game.

Costtews Photo by Doug Horvey

LEMAIRE GETS CREDIT FOR HABS' SUCCESS

By JOHN MacKINNON

MONTREAL (CP) — A little more than a quarter of the way into the National Hockey League season, Montreal Canadiens find themselves in almost forgotten territory — first place. Much of the credit is going to head coach Jacques Lemaire.

When Lemaire was one of the best two-way players in the game on the perennial Stanley Cup-champion Montreal teams of the 1970s, first place was the Canadiens’ turf.

But those teams had stars at nearly every position, ineluding goaltender Ken Dryden, defencemen Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe and forwards Steve Shutt and Guy Lafleur

Coach Lemaire's Canadiens started the 1984-85 season with Steve Penney, a rookie goaltender some compared to Dryden for his brilliant playoff performance last spring. Others compared him to Joe Hardy, the flash-in-the-pan baseball hero of the Broadway play Damn Yankees, who sold his soul to the devil so he could help his beloved Washington Senators beat the hated New York Yankees, then returned to obscurity.

The backup netminder — Doug Soetaert — was deemed expendable by the mediocre Winnipeg Jets, who had no takers when they placed Soetaert on league waivers.

On defence, the Canadiens opened with a trio of rookies — two Americans and a Czechoslovak defector - who showed promise for the future, but were expected to suffer from growing pains.

STARS DEPART

At forward, Shutt and Lafleur remained from the glory years. But Shutt was traded to Los Angeles Kings earlier in the month, and an emotionally spent Lafleur, who had just two goals in the club's first 19 games, retired this week.

What remains is a modestly talented bunch of diggers and checkers. The Canadiens don't have anyone in the league's top 35 scorers.

But there they are atop the Adams Division, with the second-best goals-against average in the NHL. This from a team that had its worst regular-season won-lost-tied record in 33 seasons last year. Lemaire replaced Bob Berry as coach with 17 games left in the regular season.

“It started when Jacques took over last year,” said left winger Ryan Walter. “He took us in individually and told us what we wanted.”

An infusion of talent has helped. U.S. college-trained defencemen Chris Chelios and Tom Kurvers, along with 18-year-old defector Peter Svoboda, the club's top choice

at the NHL entry draft last June, have transformed the defence into an offensive force.

The addition of winger Lucien DeBlois and speedy centre Ron Flockhart through trades engineered by Savard — now the Canadiens’ general manager — has helped provide material for four balanced, if unspec tacular, lines.

MOULDS PLAYERS

It's been Lemaire, though, who has moulded the players to his style of play.

“He's demanding at it, he’s relentless at players who don't want to conform,” said captain Bob Gainey. “And given the degree of success we've had, more and more players put their trust in his ideas.”

Lemaire’s ideas include criss-crossing wingers, frequent lines changes and tight, disciplined defence.

If Lemaire's grasp of technique is sophisticated, he keeps his lessons simple.

“I don't coach with words. I don’t have nice phrases and all that,” Lemaire said. “It's very simple, when I'm talking to them it's simple.”

And positive.

“If you're always telling the players, ‘Look at the mistakes, look at what you're doing wrong, it gets frustrating, depressing.” he said. “It takes their confidence away.”

TOUGH TASK

In Dryden's book The Game, Bowman said his toughest task was to “get the right players on the ice.”

That's at the heart of Lemaire's “system,” too.

“Getting the right man on the ice is looking at who's playing (for) the other side, at what line is doing best and having players that are capable of playing against them

speed against speed, good checkers against good scorers.

“It wouldn't be the same thing if you had a big line that was better than their big scoring line. Then it wouldn't be any problem to put them out (against any line). But we're not at that stage right now.”

The Montreal roster is flexible enough to permit Lemaire to move players in and out of the lineup as the situation warrants.

“I go with feelings, all the time,” Lemaire said. “I have a feeling that we're going up, or that we're dropping.

“When the feelings come, I have to find things to work with.”

The feelings don't always bring the desired results. Lemaire felt the Canadiens needed muscle for a game against the Bruins in Boston last weekend so he benched Alfie Tureotte and Svoboda and dressed Kent Carlson and Mark Hunter. Montreal lost 9-2.

But they’ve been right mere often than not so far this season.

“Team work will make you win, I'm a firm believer in that,” said Lemaire. “Because there's no way that this team can win, if they don’t play as a group, as a club, as a team. .

“No way.”,

Murray Greenwood and Hans Edblad of Castlegar, had been invited to attend the B.C. ski team program.

Ryan McLellan had also been invited to attend the B.C. team training camp, held at Panorama near Invermere in November.

Tracy Haight, Christina Edblad and Megan Johnston

NHL SATURDAY NIGHT

will continue to attend B.C. training camps for the Women's Best "88 team.

“Under our new head coach, Bernt Muller from Norway, we are hopeful that our cardholders will dominate the race results this year,” he said.

Meanwhile, the bantam league racers will number 35 this year.

“We look forward to them anchoring the Kootenay zone team when they travel to the Pepsi Cola championships at the Lower Mainland again this year,” Johnston said. Gary Gill will act as co-ordinating coach for the five bantam league coaches.

In the Nancy Greene ski league program 64 young skiers have indicated a desire to belong to the program.

Johnston also announced that four races will take place at Red Mountain this year. The Vern Anderson Christmas Giant Slalom will be held Dec. 29 and 30.

The Alberta Ski Team fun race will be held in January The Western Canadian Juvenile championships will take place March 2-4, while the date for an intercollegiate race is to be announced

Stastnys collect 13 points in 8-5 win

QUEBEC (CP) — Marian Stastny scored three times and added two assists and his brother Anton also had five points to power Quebec Nordiques to an 8-4 triumph over Hartford.

Marian Stastny, who sat out seven games over the last two weeks, was reunited with brothers Peter and Anton and they picked up 13 points among them.

Peter scored once and drew two assists. Anton scored twice and added three assists. Anton had a chance for the hat trick but his shot from the left circle late in the second period caromed off the goal post.

Hartford held a 1-0 lead after one period, but Quebec fought back to take a 3-2 lead after two periods. Quebec added five third period goals to put the game out of reach.

RANGERS 4 MAPLE LEAFS

TORONTO (CP) — Right winger Bob Brooks scored the gaine’s first two goals and New York goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck stopped 45 shots as the Rangers breezed to # 4-1 victory over Toronto Maple Leafs.

Mike Allison and Mike Rogers also scored for the Rangers, who carried a 4-0 lead into the third period.

Miroslav Frycer spoiled Vanbiesbrouck's bid for his first NHL shutout by beating the 21-year-old netminder with a 30-foot slap shot with 6:07 left.

Brooks had scored only one goal in 16 previous games.

CAPTTALS 5 BRUINS 4

BOSTON (AP) — Dave Christian scored on a pass out from the boards behind the goal at 1:20 of overtime as Washington Capitals rallied from a three-goal, first-period deficit for a 54 victory over slumping Boston Bruins.

Christian's passout trickled in off Boston goalie Doug Kean's skate at the corner of the goal and lifted Washington to its fourth consecutive victory

Trailing 4-2, the Capitals forced overtime on a pair of goals by Bryan Erickson with less than 3" minutes remaining in regulation play

Playboys clip O'Keefe 7-1

By CasNews Staff Castlegar Playboys troun ced Carling O'Keefe 7-1 Thursday and Sandman Inn and Valley Contraeters fou ght to a 7-7 draw Friday in Castlegar Recreational Hoc key League action this week. In the only other matchup, Williams Moving won 1-0 by default over Sandman Inn the hotel ineligible

the Playboy-O'Keefe

Martin also chipped in two assists, as did Terry Hali sheff. Singles went to Law

goal. That came from Mel Stelek with help from Wayne Kinakin.

The next night, Sandman Inn seored four times in the

2-2 tie after the first 20 min utes with Al Isackson and Vinee Antignani seoring for Sandman Inn. Kevin Kirby and Tony DaRosa picked up assists.

Sagriff scored both Con tractors’ goals with help from Dan Drazdoff and Rick Shu- kin on the first one, and Nick Voykin and James Verigin on the second marker.

The Contractors opened up a twogoal margin after 40 minutes, when they scored three goals, while holding Sandman Inn to just a single marker

Gerald Klassen, Yuri Jma. eff and Sagriff scored for the Contractors. Assists went to Dean Keller with two and Vie Jmaeff, Voykin and Shukin with singles.

Sheldon Sookachoff replied for Sandman Inn.

In the third period, Obet- koff scored three straight times for Sandman Inn and Bill Van Yzerloo capped the ‘comeback with a goal with s little over six minutes re maining to tie the

Mike Nevakshonoff and Kirby got two assists apiece, while singles went to Obet- koff, Van Yzerloo, and Da Rosa.

Vie Jmaeff and Sagriff countered for the Contrac- tors. Yuri Jmaeff and Vie Imaeff recorded assists.

CANADIENS 3, SABRES 2

MONTREAL (CP) — Right winger Chris Nilan ended a tie at 17:37 of the third period when his seemingly harmless shot deflected off the skate of Buffalo defenceman Mike Ramsey, providing Montreal Canadiens with a 3-2 triumph over the Sabres on Saturday nigth.

The defeat stretched the Sabres’ winless string to seven games and again deprived head coach Scotty Bowman of earning his 690th career victory, which would tie him with the late Dick Irvin Sr. as the winningest NHL coach.

Nilan, who had skated around the Buffalo net, unleashed a shot that appeared to be wide, but it caught a piece of Ramsay's skate, providing Nilan with his fourth goal.

BLUES 10 RED WINGS 5

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A six-goal outburst in the opening period and two goals by both Brian Sutter and Joey Mullen lifted 8t. Louis Blues to a 10-5 vietory Saturday night over Detroit Red Wings.

The six goals set a club record for one period for the Blues, who remain one point behind Chicago Black Hawks in the Norris Division. The Blues 10-goal total also equalled a club record set Feb. 2, 1983 against Winnipeg Jets.

Bernie Federko, who centres the line with Sutter and Mullen, also had four assists and chipped in a goal to tie a personal mark of five points for one game.

CHICAGO 5 DEVILS 3

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Troy Murray scored a short-handed goal to trigger a three-goal Chicago second period asthe Black Hawks edged New Jersey 5-3, snapping the Devils’ three-game winning streak.

Steve Larmer scored an empty-net goal with 39 seconds left after New Jersey had closed to within 43 on the second of Mel Bridgman's two goals midway through the final period.

Murray snapped a 1-1 tie in the second period with an unassisted goal with teammate Doug Wilson off for holding The Devils’ Doug Sulliman misfired on a shot from the point and Murray took the loose puck and skated the length of the ice, beating New Jersey goalie Glenn Resch with a shot over his left shoulder.

FLYERS 3 PITTSBURGH 1

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two third-period goals by Tim Kerr gave Philadelphia Flyers a 3-1 victory over Pitts burgh Penguins.

The loss marked the 16th consecutive time the Flyers have beaten the Penguins’ winless streak to eight games

The teams battled through a scoreless first period before Philadelphia's Lindsay Carson dropped a pass to Ed Hospodar, who blasted a long slapshot past goalie Roberto Romano at 16:19 of the second period. The goal was the first as a Flyer for Hospodar, who was signed as a free agent in the off-season after being cut by Hartford.

FLAMES 8, NORTH STARS 4

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Right winger Colin Patterson scored two goals and picked up an assist Saturday night to lead Calgary Flames to an 84 victory over Minnesota North Stars.

Calgary, 15-8-1, jumped to a 3-1 lead in the first period on goals by Dan Quinn, Patterson and Kent Nilsson.

Minnesota's first goal came on defenceman Gordie Roberts’ first of the season, at 13:49 of the first period.

WALKER INVITED TO CAMP

Castiegar’s Gord Walker, who plays hockey for Kam- loops Blazers of the Western Hockey League is one of 46 players invited to try out for Canada’s national junior hoe- key team.

Walker was one of 11 WHL players invited to the camp. Players selected who make the team will play represent Canada at the world cham. pionships this month in Hel- sinki, Finland.

The team will be coached by Terry Simpson of the WHL's Prince Albert Raid- ors.