we?

_ better, officials say.

* Times r

Bleak outlook -
for builders |

‘TORONTO (CPY —

Canadian bullding materials

manufacturers. say. they're

feeling the pineh:of the
slump in Canadian and U.S.

housing construction and
they forecast a bleak profit:

picture for 1080.1 = *
- North Amertcari sales: are
down 30 per cent, agys John
Clarke;. markétigg ‘vice-
president: of +.American-
Standard,. a division of
Wabeo-Standard Ltd. of
Toronto.’ - ;
The company, one of Can-

ada’s largest plumbing

fixture manufacturers, says
it--expects a, one-week
shutdown and layoffs will
follow. ° . :
With. uncomfortably-high
inventories, manufacturers

expect tolay off workers and

see their sales drop sharply...

Canada Mortgage and
Housing Corp. reported in
May the worst annual
figures. for housing starts
since 1961. There were
125,400 housing starts in 1978
and it is urilikely to get much

‘A senlor ‘corporation of-
ficial says expected houslng
starts of 160,000 in 1900 will
make it the woret year since

10986. ‘
* ‘The situation is not helped
by a similar slackening of
US. ‘ Weeds .
Spendingion new housing
was dowr13.2 per cent in
April froma year earlier.
Construction.

cif

. housing conatruction in the.

‘NEW YORK (AP) — The
Central . Intelligence

Agency's secret experiments
to develop new espionage

.* methods “between 1965 and

1975. ‘have included using
‘trained otters, electric stun
guns, calibrated blackjacks
and marshmallow barrages,
The Times says. | —

‘The agency's research and
development staff was also
interested in the secret life of
plants, peace pills, an in-
yestigalion of “bloplasma
fields” and electrosleep.

. ‘The information was con-
tained in about 3,000 heavily
censored pages of studies
and documents related to

"CIA activities during the 10-

year period, the newspaper

. paid in today's editions. It

was made public in the
agency's Langley, Va.,
headquarters as a result of a
est under the
Freedom of Information Act.

Which ideas were
devel and which were
discaided is not known, The

Times sald, because the
agency. refused to comment
ba the - documents. Many

ta yer names an
titles were deleted {rom the
papers.

tn one project, the CIA at-
tempted 0 ch seals, ot
tara, dogs, cate and other
animals to carry explosives

or. microphones to places.

Je could not reach.
ot FT were the favorite
bécausée they travelled on

- both land and in water, the
iswapaper said, :

: executive . officer

multi-family ‘housing is
expected to drop 16 per cent
in the U.S. from "1979 levels,
gaye the F.W;. Dodge con-
struction forecasting unit of
McGraw-Hill. Inc. of New
York, 9: 7
That ‘means .manufac-
turers who export tothe U.8,

_are no better off thanthose » -
tg «domestic: -

catering

* ais. he a Sap tot
meine says their U.S: com-

‘pany has permanently shut
down its Kokomo, Ind,
chinaware plant and moth-

. balled another in Torrance,
Calif.; untit the end of 1960.

Domtar Ive. of Montreal
gays the slump has affected
its building materials
division, which accounts for
20 per cent of the company's
total sales.

. Domtar manufactures

‘bricks,—footing, insulation,
‘gypsum. wallboard,
Fibreglas, Arborite and
Gyproc.

A Domtar spokesman Says

the slump hasn't yet meant
any layotts but, with profits
down, thecompany will close

te “a little earller than usual

and, undoubtedly, there will
be layoffs later."

Indal Ltd, of Toronto, -
manufacturer of doors and.

windows, as well as other
aluminum, steel, wood,
tempered glass and zinc
construction- products,” has
already laid off 60 to 100
péople, says company
president and.
; D.G.
Coughlan. to .
‘Indal’s sales have declined
about 10 per cent across
North America, he said.
But not everyone is losing
as high mortgage rates
discourage people from

buying new houses. The-

interest in renovating houses
has helped companies like
Indal offset the construction
slump. a

‘The renovations market is
counter-cyclical to ‘the

housing market, saya Paul .

Millyer, spokesman for

Montreal-based Bullding:

Products of Canada Ltd.

Another factor, he says, is
increased consumer interest
in conservation and in-
sulation. ;

The company's 1980 sales
volume has stayed at last
year's levels because of a
strong nonresidential cot-
struction market in Weatern
Canada arid Quebec.

Millyer says a number of
office build: gs were ap-
proved in Quebec after the
referendum. ©

‘Donald McRae, vice-
president and treasurer of
Canada Cement Lafarge
Ltd. of Montreal ways

“eement and concrete sales

to the non-residential market
as well as our construction
work... are helping offset the

2,

But the decline has forced
them to announce the Sep-
tember closing of a cement
plant in Birmingham, Ala,

Wilbrod . Decarie,
marketing vice-president of
St, Lawrence Cement Co. of
Montreal, says the com-
pany's first-quarter 1980
gales are down 12 per cent
from 1979.

And Pilkington Brothers
(Canada) Ltd. of Toronto has
had layofts because it has
been doubly hit by a decline
in . construction and
automobiles — the glass
manufactiter’s two basic
markets.

Kelth Tucker, ovigoing president of the Terrace
Rotary Club, gives Jane Graveling, right, and
Gladys Clifford a cheque for $10,791 towards the

construction of the new.Senior Citizen’s Drop-in , .
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annual . auction

night at the Rotary Club’s banquet:

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‘CALL US
TODAY

By LEW DIGGS

MONTREAL (CP) --

a Robert Bourassa, keenly:
tempted to jump back into.”
Quebec politics, was being

defensive last week about

‘when he was premier.
‘mained silent about his per-
sonal acceptance of 8 $10,000
gift for his Civic Party from
a major Glympie contractor,
although he

assorted: fiscal misfortunes
of the 1976 Games.

cause-of a 200+-page volume

“other irregular practices”
in the Malouf report on the

and deficit.:

customary relationships

-between construction
canpanies and government —
party officials in: a,
‘position to influence: the -
awarding of public works

and

contracts. :
Key ‘to this informa!
shows,

programs |
Liberal and Civic parties.
Claude Desjardins, for ex-

tractor whose ‘company

was premier at the ime.
Desjardins said that the

gifts were “like a custom, a

tradition.” -

CIE

GIA

id say he wae.
being made a' scapegoat for:

$1-billion Olympic cost spiral

fund-raising ..
ms of the provincial .

) special account.
In: December. -' The for Liberal leader Bourassa,

$778,000 in contritutions by -
Olympic contractors. to the: .
provincial Liberal party:

Mayor Jean Drapeau, re-”

_ These questions arose be-.
on ‘conflicts of interest" and -

It gives a glimpee of the -

ample, was'a Games con: |

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> Albert: "Malouf voiced

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“golicitation," especially by -
of ihe -

party in er, aid
ot Las y elations” between

. Liberal .campaign can-..
tributions and the awarding
of government ar Olympic:

coutracts:
The |
of Drapeau for accepting a

- $10,000 contribution for Civic

Party coffers as this was

“Ykely to’ affect the im

partie!

public affairs.”
plimi

Nor has the mayor's Civic
Party entourage expressed

concern.
“We've. been through all
-this before,’ said. Gerry

Snyder, elty councillor and -
‘former vicepresident of the.
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report is also critical

management of ©
- eontribution to the Liberals’
' g@lection fund by an Olympic

. Bourassa
. acquaintances -—
"tractors, senlor officials and
’ @ senior Liberal adviser —

mittee. ‘In 1978, the people
were aware of what was

‘happening and look at what

they did.”

For Bourassa, in contrast, ©
eredibility appears to be of
‘primary.-concern, {ust as
‘Tamora have arose that he
may pun as 4 Liberal can-.
_didate in the next provincial:
“election — perhaps in the
_recently-vacated Montreal
‘riding of Qutremont. . ~

. Last week, he denied

knowledge. of a $100,000

contractor .in 1976. .

Both ‘Drapeau and

con-

“who were central in the maze

'. ‘af personal contacts through
‘which money was chan-
' nelle, , ; ;

The same contractor,

7 Regis Truden, gave $10,000
to the Civic. Party ‘and

$220,000 to the Liberal
election fund between 1973
and 1976. ce
He won one of the major
consulting engineering
contracts at the Olympic

~ stadium site. The cily gave

him a settlement of $6.8
million and renounced all
legal recourse, despite

- geveral botched jobs.

Trudeau made his Civic

- Party contribution just 25 he
‘was negotiating the ccatract

settlement with the city —
and building a c home
for Niding, free of charge.

As for. the provincial
Liberals, Trudeau also
shared a luxury. apartment

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and .the reputed. Liberal —

ex who played a key
role in bovating Bourassa to

“the leadership in’ 1970,"
"A third tenaot was Claude

Rouleau who, as deputy
minister, awarded

contracts. He became
director of the provincial

board that took over Games ©

construction from the City of
Montreal In November, 1975.
This trio was the hub of a
series of transactions, which
aroused the Malouf inguiry’s
suspicion. i
‘Some. involved the
management of the Liberal
leader's personal account —
held partly in the bank and
rily ina brown envelope

Desrocher’s office, ©
‘Trudeau won his main sta-—

dium contract after Mayor
Drapeau contacted
Desrochers to find out
whether Trudeau was busy
with .other government

‘work: normal procedure,

noted the inquiry, would
have been to contact. elvil
servants,

_ In addition, Rouleau won

$42,000 from Trudeau in a

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Desrochers’ handling of

Liberal teader .Bourassa’s .

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