fen. (4 fans: held. ‘parties; ata, birthday ake. and: ; sent cards and flowers. .to the grave-of the ~ rock .'n' Toll. star ‘to mark: the. “eat - ane nivergary of hig birth. - Preatey, Whose birthday would have been. Sunday, ¢ died ‘six years ago of heart disease, But fanacontinue to. iravel, ta Memphis to: er i-realderice, Graceland, * gent sth ime at hia: grave. - Two dozen = stands “of brightly: colored . ~ mo flowers dirranged in the shape cf hearts, a dillac axd a Christmas tree | surrounded.the j grave in a small garden on . pink’. othe: Graceland grounds. “Wishing § you a happy bintiday,-B ‘Baby, said the card ona-flower arrangement from the We’ Remember Elvis Fan Club of. Pitts ‘eburgh, Pa,” ‘White ‘carnations | airenged to. epell ‘0. were, Bent; by: ‘Sharon Reardon of Detroit, and ‘an arrangement. shaped like a’ star , came..from - the. New ‘Jersey. ‘State Association For Elvis Presley,» = “Bight hundred: fans came -to. pay. their » respects Sunday at Graceland, ‘the ticket office ‘anid. Those touring the ‘mansion, : “reseived squares ‘of’ blue-and-white’ cake. ° “Bill DeNight. of the Burning’ Love’ Elvis © Presley Fan. Chib of Streamwood, TL., sald ly ets JOHANNESBURG {AP) _ “South . Africa said. its troops . were. pulling back from: positions in Angola: a... milltary spokesman: declined to say today, , ¢but.: how.:soon’, the withdrawal would: be completed, . Maj. John Rolt said he coild'only confirm that the ‘pullback,’ : - announced Suiday,: was proceeding. He ‘gald: he'did not know how far south, thé. troops will go.or 7 whether’ ‘they will continue roaming Angola’ 8 southern . provinces: ‘in search of . black-nationalist guerrillas, South Africa launched an offensive.th Angola on‘Dec. 6, caying it sought to disrupt the; planned _rainy-season = ‘guereltta drive by the South: ©. West,” “ Africa Peoples’ Organization — SWAPO.’ ; On Sunday. two days after oa | the..UN Security Council condemned South Africa’s < oifensive, Defence Minister Magnus Malan said guerrilla operations were shed and troops were to- tak a wtih o ‘SWAPO: has’ ‘fought a. W7- year bush war against South Africa’a administration of South-West Africa, a former - German cotony also, known: ad-Naimibla,’ ‘South African forces are based along the northern Namibian border with Angola, . from. where they operate” inside the Marxist- ruled‘country if pursuit of SWAPO. units, ~- Because. Angola, - sup- ported “hy about 25,000 Cuban troops, aids SWAPO, ~ SWAPO . and’. - because receives ‘most of. its weapons. “from | East: Bloc SOUTCES, ‘the South Africans see. the uerrillas as part of a campaign. by the Soviets against, the pro-Western, White-minority-ruled coun- try. WILL CONTINUE Malan, in his statement Sunday, said his troops will. invade . ‘ Angola '. again “regardless . ‘of the con- sequences’? . ‘whenever it is considered necessary. ‘He ‘said. South African soldiers. chased 1,000 SWAPO guerriflas out of southern Angola and killed more . than. 300 guerrillas and. Angolan: soldiers, He — said®:'24° South. African’ soldiers were: killed in the invasion ‘that struck as far north as ~Lubango, | 2567 Kilometres inside ‘Angola. — : He ‘fnade ao mention of . Cuban deaths, but Gen.. Constand, Viljoen, the - Notice To creditors | and @ others in the matter of the = Estate::of Savid) Robert Eviekson.- : All ‘parfins ‘having: claims: against the estate’ are. required. ta forward.’ MZ pattculars to Carl R. Erickson, 1577 Kenworth’ St., Terrace, B.C, V8G 3X5" mon or. before 15 February 1984 atter which date claims filed ‘may. be paid without reference. to any claims of a which ‘the: personal representative then has no monienae .t ~ 2 Carl. Erickson, Meee Executor 1577 Kenworth, - ‘Terrace (P 12-13] an.) Prealey, ‘death; 40 club members made. + Bald ; ares ‘States: attended a’ ang _ Graetland: ’ layed. the morning ‘of his‘ death? “.Poast beef ‘and COIN, : os: _ for the affair.. ._ Beixey said, Lt.-Gen. | _ losses as 21 dead, : Memphis to ‘mink th the singer's birthday, In. _ | August, : Qa the: anniversary< of Presley’s.... the trek, he : - Presley, who was known. ‘to keep. late ‘hours, ‘had played racquetball until 6 a.m. ‘the morning of his death, and then per- formed two songs on the piano,-Blue Eyes . Crying in the Rain and Unchained Melody, :* Presley’s bédy was found in an n upstairs: "bedroom: at Graceland: a few hours Tater. Troops pulled back _ ‘Defence Foree chief; said: -Saturday.. an -unspécified - number. of Cubans were among 324. guerrillas ‘and “Angolan and Cuban soldiers Killed in a three-day battle last week near the vilage of Cuvelal, 2.7 Jan *; - Gieeaon, chief” of - staff operations, _ told a news conference’ in. Pretoria “on Saturday. that 432 “enemy soldiers" ‘weré killed during the operation. He also listed South African BEsssssssss esses: an article by Michael A. Walker, Director The Fraser Inatitute Prod uctivity © very economic phase has its buzzwords and. un- ett teretert current spasm will be productivity. _ py are fairly predecupied yi ules what -causes It; Ho . tone competitiveness, and, of course, What it does for profits bargaining has.become a panacea for excessive wage- growth and & solvent for management-employee rela- a3 a "conservative adventure, After all, if we're going to have a public service it should be pro- . ductive, shouldn't it? / can we complain about? _ ensconced in government and labor rhetoric States the notion In rearing Its pointy head in the school. system where the merit principle of compensation ts tion clearly shows, the concept of productivity bargain- ing in the publle sector or productivity pay or merit pay if nonsense, The reason is that the notion of pay- -ment for value received does not choracterlze the public service in any of itsaspects, - consumer who ullmately holds the power of deter- _ Mination. Ttis consumers by evaluating the productsof private firms that determine the merit of the product - itself and, hence, the merit of those who manufacture tive and, hence, ‘deserve higher wages, they will increase In productivity was forthcoming. Was thelr extra work worthwhile or not? Well, only the final con- sumer of the product can tell. - What about the public sector? Of course, itis possi , ‘ble te devise all manner of measurements of produc- tivity; number of pages typed, number of application and so on. All of these, It should be clear, are not only measures of work. A public employee who spends increasing the gross national product). If he produces 12 more mud ples a day, has his productivity gone up, course, is that slnce no value is belng produced there Is no productivity at all and the only thing measured by the productivity measure la the extent to which the in- dividual Js working, It is unfortunately the case that the consumers of the products of the public sector usually have no ability whatsoever to indicste their approval or disapproval of thelr appreciation br lack of appreciation for tha . value apparently contained in the public service. So, the attempt fo take over to the public sector . what in thé private eector makes eminent good sense {nomeyy productivity bargaining) leads to an undue level of conf! in the proceas of détermining com- y : Aanaes bargaining. ‘Don’t be misted by this particular ’ Everywhere one looks journalists, politictanis and a | ne leanne ae fecta it, what it:does to workers, what It does ty ala. . Nowhere is the discussion more prevalent than in’ the area of the public. sector where productivity, tions. Generally speaking, productivity bargaining is . regarded dif it is productive, then what : In British Columbia productivity bargaining is . increasingly adopted. However, as a moment's reflec: , To see the truth of this one has only to observe how . merit pay operates in the private sector. Within the - private sector employees really-must.be pald what they are worth or aise the corporation will lose money - and ultimately cease to exist. In that situation, itis the | it. If employees in a private manufacturing enterprise . decide unilaterally that they are being more produc-’ |- ultimately answer to the consumer of the product for - the higher prices that higher wages would imply if no’ forms completed, number of park benches palnted, . measures of value or productivity in any real sense but " ‘all day making mud pies is judged to be working (and — Statistics Canada dutifully records his ple-making as . gone down, or remained the same? The answer, of . ' pensation and a notion that public sector managers ard || | dolng ail right by the taxpayer by forcing such pivduc- PTZ, ew _ DeNight and 82 thei #0 pfetentatives of” "Presley: fan: clubs’ ‘throughéat. the. United! ny, Saturday night at Tne répresenia ives walehed an nold hore : - vie'of-a birthday party for Presley and , ° listened to songs performed on the piano he -. “They -aleo ‘ate a dinner’ made up of | | Presley's" favarite: foods. = ~ green beans, ’ The party included a musical program, by “” eompéser ‘Ben ‘Weisman, who, ‘wrote 57 - -. Songs used in Presley's. various. ‘movies, : ‘Brixey said the piano’ Elvis: played shortly. - * before his death was brought out of storage ee ‘Dogfight. HALIFAX (cP) = A. ‘weekend dig at at B » downtown ; “waterfront -construction site: yielded a few items”. : dating back ta'the founding af. this city in 1749, Low.“f. “*Colling, historian for the City of Halifax, said Sunday... ‘But ‘he. said More could have been- salvaged if the’ “ elly allowed archeologists to'look al important sreas pefore construction of the fice tower was allowed to : BO. ‘Bhead; : : : ; The items iricluded - jpleces of plas, ‘china and: ” leather. “Two belt huckles were also found. . . “os he construction compay: ‘allowed a team: -Of ar- : cheotogy. stidents to sift: through’ the area during the.’ “weekend after. timbers, ‘beli eved to be part ofa wharf: © “dating ‘back “ta “1 unearthed during: OX: : cayallon work last week::: ae _ + Colling said more:could’ hive been learned of what. was probably one of | the firat Wharfs built in the clty if if ; workers hadn't: disturbed the: “area a first. ; a | takeover’ “of the: smaller . ‘panding ts reach ! stroke:.. i shares; ‘the | museum ‘has "Pexacd Inc's ‘agreement’ to’ : control of-9.3 millicn shares. et, ‘buy Getty, Oil Co. for almost - '_ Texaeog;