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Spee : ‘Excuses, excuses

MORTON GROVE, ILL. (AP). —-> Av? businessman placed: his-own obituary in a local paper and mailed clip- pings to his creditors.-

“Another creditor's’ wife said she ran over her hus- band with her car, breaking both*his arms: and leaving him unable to write ‘cheques for three months. 3

And a women in Fargo, N.D., said she was'on tho way.,to the post office last winter when she slipped, lost her cheques and had to wait for the snow to melt befor

“MExcuses, excuses,” says Les Ki ¥

counts over to commercial collection ‘agencies, Kirsch- baum said, :

“Although we are getting more business, it’s getting tougher to collect,’ he said.

SAVES WILD EXCUSES

Kirschbaum, who ~ saves some of the wilder excuses, said one of his favorites cime from a businessman who said: “Voleanic . ash from Mount St. Helens clogged our computer-driven cheque- writing machine."

Another businessman in- sisted his bookkeeper died and he couldn't. find another he could trust with his

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Co., a

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them, But it sure doesn't mean we buy ‘em.” - The firm has been collect- ing bills for 10 years and Kir- schbaum says as money gets tighter, the explanations get wilder.

“In 1979, we were col-

* lecting 60 per cent to 70 per

cent of a million dollars in claims,” he said. “It's now about 55 per cent.”

‘Thanks to the U.S. re- cession, more companies are turning their delinquent ac-

Stereotyping concerns

MONTREAL (CP) — Seen from the world of adver- tisements, North America’s armchair view of men and women is still black and white. 3

Men drink beer, buy tires and install automatic garage door openers.. Women clean clothes, floors,. dishes, hair, skin and buy food.

Yet, as years of nonstop complaints from women's groups, television stations and provincial and federal governments take their toll, these cut-and-dry images are slowly becoming fuzzier.

Men now are occasionally seen doing the laundry and

women driving their children to” hockey practice. “"'*~ a

Perhaps. the biggest pres- sure on i has come

up in 1979 by then Com- munications Minister David MacDonald and co-ordinated by the Canadian Radio-tele- vision and 1 i

sterotyping is the most ef- fective way to combat sexism

in advertising. Under the guidance of the task

tions Commission to recom- mend ways to “eliminate” sexual stereotypes from ad- vertising.

The task force is to make its i at the

force, the industry in the past two years has drawn up codes designed to eliminate hurtful sexual stereotyping and has set up industry-

end of the summer, almost three years after its original deadline.

But advertisers don't ex- pect recommendations will call for government legis- lation.

ELIMINATES SEXISM

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from a federal task force set

to 2 and eliminate sexism and sex-role-

and public-com- plaint. mechanisms. Compli- ance with these measures is voluntary.

Jim McHardy, advertising director of the Canadian Im- perial Bank of Commerce and former chairman of the board

McHardy said. “What we need to do — and are doing — is to raise consciousness within the industry of the problem, if there in fact really is a problem.”* But the task force does not believe it is tackling a void. “The problem with sex- stereotyping in advertising today (is) that it is not pro- jecting a true image of women,” MacDonald said in 1979. “And yet the image it does project is one believed by many people and one on which they base their de- cisions and their actions.” i also have been

of the A of Can- adian Advertisers, says the advertising industry can reg-

“ulate itself.

_“There already exists too

8 sounded for years on the ef- fects on children of stereo- typed advertising.

- One group of children saw

much involve- ment in our daily lives,”

‘ with commercials showing women in their iti roles,

y in California needing a lot of water for production said Jast winter's drought cut so deeply into

sales and profits: “We will be unable to pay until we got six or soven inches of rain,”

Another debtor said he didn't open past-due notices “because I thought they were advertising.” ear

A flower shop owner said she couldn't pay bills until someone died, but added hopefully: “We expect busi- ness to pick up in several weeks.” 2

A business owner wrote: “Our computer wiped out our accounts ‘ payable and T'lk have to call you sometime to find out who we owe.”

* Kirschbaum said the most

overworked excuse used to be: “The cheque is in the mail." But “nowadays, they try to. blame everything on computer trouble, whether they have it or not,” he said.

There is no cure for mahjong fever

HONG KONG (Reuter) — A thunderous clatter like hooves on a cobbled street signalled the start of Hong Kong's International Mah- jong Championship.

More than 1,000 players sat at tables of four, slam- ming: and scrambling ivory tiles on their way to the final of the annual derby. Among them were overseas Chinese from Southeast Asian coun- tries and local foreigners.

For six weeks, addicts of the favorite game among Chinese sought to outwit and outmanoeuvre each for the title of King of Mahjong, the local equivalent of world chess champion.

Finally, after more than 40 rounds and 80 hours of intensive play, much of it televised, a tired, 40-year-old businessman, Tam Yu-Sum, won the crown,

Tam, who learned to play mahjong when he was six; said he faced a busy year and many sleepless nights — everyone would want to beat him.

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The study concluded: “Re- sults~“indicate children do Jearn about occupations from television, that they also learn’ to stereotype or non- stereotype various occupa- tions based on the sex of the TV model, and that girls will change their preferences for various occupations based on the particular role in which women are portrayed.”

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his win, And he hopes it will hold because the prize money of $1,800 won't last long in a losing streak.

In an average serious mahjong session a player can win or lose $180 to $360. But in high-stake games among Hong Kong's Rolls Royce set, -millions of dollars can change hands overnight.

Mahjong, invented more than 1,000 years ago, pits four players against each other in a race to build matched sets of tiles from a central pool of 144.

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Resembling a hybrid, of bridge, gin rummy and dom- inos, but even more unpre- dictable, mahjong attracts millions of Chinese through- out Southeast Asia.

For many people, particu- larly housewives, mahjong is an important part of their lifestyle. A daily session of twoor three hours is common for many women while the husband is at work.

The game is played in restaurants, clubs, even on beaches. It is essential at parties or such ceremonial occasions as wedding recep- tions or birthday parties. There are even licensed mahjong schools which take a fraction of the winnings.

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Sometimes it is a mara- thon, lasting days and nights. Doctors warn that excessive indulgence cau prove fatal for people with weak hearts playing for big stakes.

Chinese newspapers re-,

ported the fate of an old man who had a heart attack at the mahjongtable after making a “seung ulk”, equivalent to a grand slam fn bridge. He did not live to collect the bets.

Like all gambling, mahjong causes social problems and can split families. Social welfare agencies say they are receiving increasing com- plaints about effects of “mah. jong fever".

But other social research- ers play down the evils, saying it provides ‘needed recreation in this densely crowded British colony of more than five million people.

Gambling in mahjong is illegal in Hong Kong but authorities often turn a blind eye. Horse racing and official lotteries are the only gambl- ing permitted.

The Japanese also tried but failed to stamp out mahjong during their 1941-45 cccuptation of Hong Kong. Despite threats of violence — some players were forced to swallow the tiles when

aay caught in the act — mahjong

was still played by candle-

light on blankets to dampen <

the hoise of the tiles,

In China, the game was banned when the Commun- ists took power in-1949 and compulsive players were sent

‘to labor camps for “re-educa-

tion” during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s,

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FLOAT WINNERS . . . Brad (left) and Jeff Mair collect $50 first prize from Mayor Audrey Moore for winning the city's SunFest float design contest. The brothers

designed a float with a Castlegar theme which will be

built for this year’s SunFest parade.

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Interior forest industry

Financial losses severe

Financial losses for B.C.'s southern interior forest in- dustry are becoming more severe allthe time a recently completed study has con- firmed.

A survey of the financial condition of member com- panies of the Interior Lum- ber Manufacturers’ Associ-

poor lumber markets which started in late 1979 are get- ting progressively worse,” ILMA Manager Al Macdon- ald said.

Combined sales of compan- ies declined from $480 millfon in 1980 to $442 million in 1981. At the same time net

the first three months of 1982 the same companies suffered a net loss of $16.6 million — double the comparable loss in 1981.

“Those conditions which made the last two years so disastrous for. industry are continuing in 1982," Mac- donald said. “Demand for our

ation (ILMA) was by Price Waterhouse & Co., Chartered Accountants, “The results of this survey clearly demonstrate that

losses i d.. from’ $9 million in 1980 to a $32 million in 1981, an increase in loss, of 350 per cent.

The survey shows that for

Car salesman trading very seriously .

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EDMONTON (CP) — The next. time a salesman at Kentwood Ford in Edmonton offers to do a little horse- trading he may mean it lit- erally. Even some cattle- trading. Or throw in some pigs, sheep, chickens or goats.

Kentwood has instituted a program of trading livestock and other farm items for new or used vehicles to boost slumping auto sales.

The dealership started its

Results from Joy Keillor Bridge Club

Nine-and-one-half tables: -

took part in play June 7, with an average of 108, at the Joy Keillor Bridge Club with the following results: . North-South

First, Jude Goodwin and Julie Smith with 131%, sec- ond, Bill Gorkoff and Irene Hess with 128; third, Bert Tyson and Wayne- Weaver with 121% and: fourth, Joy Ramsden and Judy Sheppard with 11542.

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First, Helen Batchelor and Mary Stewart with 126; sec- ond Etuka Cameron and Clara Johnson with 123; third, Myrna Baulne and Donna Wiwchar with 121 and Jim and Doreen Camp- bell with 121.

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Farmer's “Days: barter~ pro- gtam recently in an effort to counter flagging sales, “We've got to put more fun back into the business,” said general manager Sam Gros- so. “Generate more traffic. Put some life into it.” Grosso said it is the first deliberate barter program by an auto i

P' is very slow. Lum- ber prices are 16 per cent lower than they were last year at this time.”

A continuing low level of

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In one trade, the dealer- ship agreed to appraise 10 steers or bulls from a farmer in the Edmonton area as credit on an $18,000, four- wheel-drive Bronco truck.

Kentwood has retained a specialist to visit farms to appraise li and will

that he knows of since 1968, when a firm he worked for swapped cars for grain, appli- ances and buses.

Kentwood’s new vehicle sales manager Dave King came up with the Farmer's Day idea.

“Like the old days, we're going to go into some swap- ping and trading to generate some business,” Grosso said. Although the original pro- grain has ended it could be extended indefinitely.

“It'll go as long as people bring stuff in to trade.”

KEEP IT GENERAL

Grosso said Kentwood is open to trade on basically anything a farmer doesn’t need anymore — saddles — plows and even some farm machinery. _

“But we're not going into the implement business. I don't think we'll take in a great deal of this stuff.”

Grosso said that after two days of the program Kent- wood was receiving calls from farmers as far away as Athabasca in northern Al-

basically rely on its own cus-

tomers to buy and dispose of

the animals it receives. Grosso said farmers may

get an income tax benefit in«

the barter scheme since they aren't receiving cash for their livestock but a vehicle on which they might be able to claim depreciation.

Missionary

home construction activity in North America, caused main- ly. by continuing high interest. rates on mortgage funds has severely depressed markets for lumber and other building

Pulpit & Pew

by Ministers In the West Kootenay

By PASTOR DIRK ZINNER Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Have you wondered why it is that everybody seems to share a common standard of justice and fairness? You probably know what it’s like to be standing in line for a long time when some wise guy comes along and butts in right in front of you. What's your reaction? Do you feel like congratulating him or telling him where the end of the line is? There's. some- thing in all of us that demands fairness; that’s just the way we tick.

Now if fairness and justice are such a major part of our own bag, then it only makes sense that everybody else in the universe must operate that way too; including God.

No matter how much you defend “doing your own thing," and no matter how moral absolutes you have kissed off, there still remains something inside you that makes you want to defend your own rights. All of us appeal to a common un- written principle of justice. We're just born that way.

When God created us in His image, He not only made us with a capacity to respond to love, but also to operate on a principle of justice. Now that was really crucial for God to do. Without love, life would be dull. Without jus- tice, life would be chaos. so So at this point it becomes very clear that God's whole universe operates on the principle of “If you love me(God), you will keep my commandments.”

Slides replace Cominco tours

Cominco has confirmed that there will be no tours during the planned July shutdown of the company’s Trail and Kimberley oper- ations. However, at 10 a.m. each weekday visitors may see a half-hour slide show of the ions at the Comin-

said,

The Price Waterhouse Study showed that despite poor financial results, the in- dustry continued to pay sub- stantial taxes'to all levels of government.

In spite of the $32 million loss suffered by industry in 1981, it paid $10 million in stumpage and royalty char- ges for harvesting timber.

“Municipal property taxes rose in 1981 for the sixth consecutive year,” Macdon- ald added, “1981 municipal taxes’ were over $5 million,

"an increase of 32 per.-cent

from-1980,'

“The Price Waterhouse Study clearly depicts. the severe impact of current economic conditions on our industry,” he added.

The ILMA represents the large majority of forestry firms in the southern Interior in the Kamloops and Nelson Forest Regions. Member companies produce over two billion board feet of lumber annually.

All phases of the forest products industry are found within the ILMA member- ship, including sawmills, log- ging, plywood and veneer plants, pole and piling oper- ations.

To speak here

Rev. Ron Wallace will be to the Koreans in Japan, and speaking at Grace Presby- one which they are attempt- terian Church Tuesday even- ing to change by sharing the ing at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Wallace freedom of Jesus Christ and is serving’ as.a missionary by establishing social pro- among the Korean population grams which are not open to

in Japan.

the Korean population in

This group of people were Japan.

brought to Japan as slave labor “during the Second World War and continue to be treated as second-rate citizens by the Japanese majority. The situation is one which concerns missionaries

All persons interested in hearing Rev. Wallace are in- vited to attend. The evening will be followed with re- freshments and a time to meet Rev, Wallace person- ally.

co Main Gate at Trail. Chief Public Relations Of- ficer James Cameron said plans call for the last tours before the shutdown to be on Friday, June 25, The tours are expected to resume a week after full ion is

Waneta power plant tours and the surface tours at the Sullivan Mine.

Fallen tree is

blamed

An “amateur woodsman,” whose tree-falling tangled

achieved, on Monday, Aug. 16.

The suspension of tours include the regular and spec- ial tours of the Trail lead-zinc plants, tours of the Warfield fertilizer operations, the

with West Koot Power lines Thursday, caused. a power failure north of Sher- biko Hill. on

A WKPL spokesman said damage was minimal with power out for 12 minutes from 1:08 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

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