Page 16, The Herald, Tuesday, November 21, 1978

LONDON (Cr) —
Essentially, this isa ghost

story.

After about 25 years
doing business at... the
same old stand just off
Fleet Street, The Cana-
dian Press is moving its
London bureau,

Among the remnants
are three packels of
stomach powders; a

trench coat; an unused
eraser; a copy of a 1958
Time magazine with
Teddy Roosevelt on the

cover.

When, in this ballpoint
age, did you last see a
bottle of ink?

There is a cut-throat
razor and a drawer full of
round-peg plugs which
did not fit todays square-
peg receptacles.

A case of Italian paint-
brushes; one shoelace—
unused—four blocks of
wood and one million
paper clips.

There is a large, empty
drawer—empty because
it has no bottom. We have
a lightbrown cardigan
which may be valuable if

leather button from a —

EROM BRITAIN
Canada’s landmark gone}

ms ies

there is ever a-remake of
Mrs. Miniver.

There are five busted
portable typewriters,
retired after service in
Moscow, Peking, Paris,
Brussels and from Lwu-
saka to the gates of
Damascus,

There is a necktie with
horseshoes and riding-
crops—oops, I think that’s
mine.

One drawer contains a
wellworn pair of cycling
slippers, Twinkletoes
Bite,

The maps on the walls
have far too much red in
them.

There are stacks of
notes for long-forgotten
stories written by long-
forgotten foreign corre-
spondents, Beside them
are copies of only half-
believed expense ac-
counts.

There are 25 years
worth of — British
parliamentary compan-
ions.

Beside them nestle 25
years of the Canadian
Parliamentary Guide—
Pearson, Diefenbaker,

Tommy Douglas ...

There is a salmon-
colored folder containing
clippings concerning the
election of a ‘‘young,
vibrant” Pierre Elliott
Trudeau.

There is a small en-
velope, about the size of a
pay packet. Inside is a
rock, outside, in a
spidery, Spencerian
hand, is written:

“From grounclevelled
wall of Horka farm where
the Lidice men were
shot."

There are pads of
outdated expense slips
marked in pounds,
shillings and pence.

There are typewriter
ribbons which fit no
known typewriter, and
two-eared headsets with
speaking horns. which
could have come fram the
Viking helmet of Hagar
the Horrible.

But we're not going far.
We can still iook up
toward the Blind Lady of
Justice crowning the
dome of the Old Bailey.

The ghosts should have
no trouble finding us.

DESPITE CONFLICT
Irish industry booms

LIMERICK, Ireland (AP)
— Foreign investmet in the
Irish republic ls
spearheading a

makes this
economy ane of the fastest
growing in the world.
-United States firma have
put $550miilion into Ireland
in recent years and an
aggressive campaign by the
Irish Development
Authority, the state pre
motion agency, is bringing in
even more.

More than 200 American
‘concerns now account for
nearly two-thirds of all
foreign investment in
Ireland. The boom is tran-
sforming the easygoing rural
backwater on Europe’s re-
mote western edge into an
industrialized, high-
technology state. :

The companies include
bluechip enterprises such as
the textile giant, Burlington
Industries Inc. of Green-
sboro, N.C.; Exxon Corp. of
New York, and the Digital

Equipment

Corp. af
Maynard, Mass.
Ascore of other countries,

primarily West Germany,-
Japan and Britain, have
sunk $600million inte the tiny
republic.

They were attracted by
gener includnno taxes on
export profits until 1990, plus
hefty grants for building
factories and training
personne].

This has made the republic
the most profitable base for
foreign investment in
Europe, with an average
return of 30 per cent, almost
2% times more than the
continental average.

For the Americans and
Japanese particularly, the
move has provided trouble-
and tax-free access to the
lucrative European
Economic Community
(BEC), and its consumer
population of 260million. The
republic joined the European
bice in Janiiary, 1973.

“No other country offers
the same kind of incentives,”

Policewoman’s job
not like on the TV

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) —
Constable Pamela Robillard
knew it wouldn't be like the
television shows when she
joined the Windsor police
force two years ago.

Television, she says, is a
phoney portrayal of the
female cop. The TV women
never walk the streets alone,
never get involved in traffic
or tickets, never pick up the
town drunk so he can urinate
or vomit on their uniforms.

For Constable Robillard,
29, it seems “forever” since
she started walking the beat.
And she is ready for a
change. She thinks her
services would be put to
better use in the youth or
detective branches.

“In other forcea women go
right into youth or detective
just to get them off the
streets,”’ she says.

"They don’t do that here,
and it's appreciated. I
started at the bottom and did

Cummunists discover

what everyone else dd, and
though 1 don’t see much
more than domestics yet,
I've learned a lot.”

She has learned to cope
and things are better now
than they were two years
ago. There wasn’t resent-
ment but fellow students
and, later, officers wondered
whether she got special
treatment.

“At first they considered
me spoiled," she says, ‘and
then they tried to put the
moveon. I took more hassles
‘from them than I’ve ever
taken on tne street.

"T had to prove myself, I
think most women do have to
work harder to show they're
worth of the job. But not now.
I work with the guys, drink
with guys, go to their stags.

“] know they'll never treat
me the same as a guy simply
because I'm not. It's as
close, though, as I think It
could ever get.”

blue jean comforts

MARCALI, Hungary
(REUTER( Blue jeans,
once the ultimate symbol of
Western decadence in
Communist eyes, Dow are
being manufactured here for
sale in Hungary and abroad.

By agreement between the
Levi Strauss firm of the
United States and a branch
of the Hungarian May 1
Clothing Co., blue jeans are
being made here at a rate of
3,200 day.

Jeans manufactured here
are made to _ strict
specifications from the U.S.
company.

“They're the kind of jeans
people tried to buy off you in
the street 10 years ago,”
says a visiting Western
businessman.

At 960 forints (§34)—one-
rter of the average in-
istrial monthly wage—they

bring about the same price
ag they did on the black
market.

In a move to earn much-
needed foreign currency,
Hungary stipulated that the
American firm will buy back
0 per cent of the jeans for
sale abroad to defray licence
costa.

Hungarian jeans are in-
distinguishable frorn Levi
jeans made anywhere elae in
the world. But country-of-
origin can be spotted by a
code number on the reverse
side of the top button.

May 1 bought the Levi
licence after seven months of
talke—a surprisingly swift
negotlation for Eant-Weat
trade ties—according to
diplomat in Budapest.

The Hungarian firm pur-
chased the necesary
machinery from Levi at a
coat of $400,000.

says ‘ Hank Krabbe,
managing director of the
integrated-circuits plant that
Analog Devices Ine. of
Norwood, Mass., built near
this market town in south-

west Ireland, one of the -

boom areas in the country’s
industrialization.

“T's the ideal place,
There's not even a language
problem,” he said. “I think
U.S. investment is a growing
trend. More American
companies will come here to
get a footholdin the EEC

market,
That attitude is ap-..

preciated by Prime Minister
Jack Lynch’s Fianna Fail
government in Dublin, which
won a landslide victory in
last summer’s general
election ona pledge to revive
the republic’s stagnant
economy.

“The economy is the only
issue that really counts
politically right now,” a
Western diplomat observed,
“so Lynch has a lot staked on
economic success.”

Investment has helped
cool inftation to 6,2 per cent
this year from 2 per cent
three years ago, Industrial
production, a key economic
indicator, jumped 12 per cent
last yaar.

Unemployment among the
republic's 3.5million
populationfellbelow 100,000
in May for the first time
since January, 1975. Foreign
firms employ 61,000 people,
one-third of the labor force.

The Organization for Eco-
‘nooic Co-operation and
Development predicted
earlier this summer that
Ireland's economy will grow
by six per cent this year,
more than 3.5 per cent above
the Western European
average.

However, the republic’s
bad strike record—second
only to Italy as the worst in
Europe last year—and-
government reluctance to
combat grumbling labor
unions has alarmed in-

vestors.

Krabbe noted: “I don't

know of any American
companies that have had
strikes, but we're getting
concerned at the way things
are going.
“The government must sort
out these labor problems and
stabilize the situation or it
could scare off investment. I
know some companies who
were thinking of coming here
are now dubious.”

A nine-week strike that
paralysed the republic’s
state-run telecom-
munications system earlier
this year virtually cut off the
country from the rest of the
world, Businessmen had to
fly to London to make five-
cent telephone calls.

Surprisingly, most U.S.
businessmen brush off the
most obvious problem—
sectarian troubles in neigh-
boring Northern Ireland—
even though the violence
sporadically spilis over the
border.

They dismissed with
corporate disdain the 36-day
kidnapping of Dutch in-
dustrialist Tiede Herrema
by renegade Irish
Republican Army guerrillas
in late 1975 as a ‘‘one-shot
deal” unlikely to be

repeated,

Krabbe noted; “We came
here when Herrema was
being held for ranson. It
gave us some doubts. Bul we
soon found it was an isolated
incident.”

TAWA (CUP) — A toul
deed is being done with fow!
ip gnticipatian of Christmas,
says Ken Crawford,
chairman of the Canadian
Turkey Marketing Agency.

Wholesalers, the mid-
dlemen who buy turkeys
from farmers to sell to the
supermarkets, are holding
about 50 million pounds of
the birds in cold storage to
try to force up prices
shoppers will pay for their
Christmas turkeys,
Crawford said in an inter-

view.

He said turkey growers
“want to make the public
aware that there's plenty of
turkey available for
Christmas and there’s ‘no
need to pay high prices.”

Grocery _ stores are
charging between $1.18 and
$1.43 a pound for turkeys
when the highest shoppers
should pay ig between $1.16
and $1.20 a pound, Crawford
said.

The wholesalers are only
paying farmers an average
of 50 cents a pound for the
turkeys. Yet they bill
supermarkets between $1.04
a pound and $1.10 a pound
and that for limited quan-
titles.

Crawford would not name
the offending wholesalers

Foul play suspected in turkey

but said the federal con-
sumer affairs department
should investigate rather
than pester the turkey
marketing agency.

The agency sets produc-
tion limits and prices for
farmers under a cost-of-
produrtion formula and has
some controls over imported
birds.

Prices to farmers have
climbed only four cents a
pound in 1978, he said.

The wholesalers made
money handling turkeys last
year and Crawford said he
can see no reason for their
actions this year.

High beef prices had in-
creased the demand for
other meats and purchases
of turkey, relatively inex-
pensive during the last few
years, grew 12 per cent this
year,

Turkey growers had hoped
for more growth after an
advertising program they
mounted to promote their
products. They thought the
withholding of birds by

wholesalers hurt their sales. - :

The turkey agency was
turned own by the govern-
ment in a request this year to
allow an increase in turkey
production.

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