P ae “y . . ° . . 4 ° THE HERALD, Manday, January 30, 1978, PAGE 2 Fi : Herman Bandstra Epp Talstra Jim Ippel Frances Olsen © Joan Boake John Stinson , Fi President & General Secretary-Treasurer | Manager Pool Car Office Manager, Customer Service Branch Manager ! - : a = anager ‘errace Terrace, Terrace Terrace Kitimat ; ; Pat Cullen ; Doc's Cartage & Storage Wayne Hamilton : General Manager Co. Lid. Terrace Sales Co-ordinator ‘ Johnston Terminals has announced the ap areas. This appointment is made as part of Herman Danstra, President and General couver based firm bas supplied rail pool car Manager, Epp talstra, Secretary)Treasurer, and Jim Ippel who will manage the local pool car operations, Johnst’s a B.C. owned and Van- service in the Prince Ru , Terrace, Kitimat intment of Doc’ s Cartage and Storage as the Johnston’s plans to provide and expand regular, ' Po : r ed and Smithers area since the earl ly 1960's. : rail pool car agent distributor for Johnston dependable pool car service from Van- Terminals Limited in the Terrace and Kitimat couver.Doc’s Cartage and Storage is beaded by p __Bureaucratese i Procrastination’ steals time. So, for that matter, does every other big word.. - Unfortunately, our bureau- crats and politicians seem to have overlooked one of the most fundamental rules of communication: a basic vo- cabulary creates the best un- derstanding. So, today, we suddenly have an entirely new language which we can _vall “bureaucratese’’. Bureaucratese is the lan- guage of the power brokers, the people who make and enforce the millions of rules that determine how we will * “alllive. And, since none of us -< gan survive Without knowing “how to Cope with power sour i Ges, it behooves us all to be- + come ‘comfortable with the “new jargon. .. The primary tenet of bu- : ~ reaucratese may be summed :2 up as: “Big words obscure . :. the minimal content of small ws, ideas”, Therefore, the-tor- _ tent. of jumbled, verbiage aqcomig. out of Ottawa and ai ont pspvineialeapitals, foin-”. ouilganeth sane shortage - : i0f: ingfuyh i By) va Tee rnicativs with ‘the Seivil ‘service presents énor- mous challenges for the small - ~ ‘jpusinessman who is unfami- * Har with bureaucratese, Ima- * gine the bewilderment of a- _ typical, small businessman “whogets a call from a bureau- * crat suggesting that they “in- terface to determine the via- ; ‘ bility of the parameters as they impact on the socio- ‘egonomic model.” (Transla- “tion: Let's get together and : see what- effect these condi- ~tions will have on society and the economy.) _ “Until recently, this trend : “towards nonsensival words —- a trend which began only with the intrusion of the American military and its pe- culiarjargon into North Ame- - tican consciousness during the last decade — was cause for tittle more than the oc- casional chuckle on the part of cynical observors. But, to- day, we have moved dange- rously close to the point where those of ws whoaren't part of the bureaucracy can’t understand what the heck the civil servants and politi- cians are saying, Worse yet, there’s good reason to believe that even the bureaucrats don’t understand each other. For several years, the fe- deral government has been providing free French lessons to Anglophone civil servants (and English lessons to Fran- cophones). The intention, of course, is to develop a civil service which is equally at home in either tongue. The actual result, however, seems to be that we are getting a bureaucracy | which is func: ‘ ‘Honally illiteyate f in ‘both oft : iy SHES “CITIZEN ° OF" ; feat! nape tages. eCstbinne okt We can't have good govern , ‘ment without strong commt- nication. Consequently, we can’t have good government in the presence of rampant . bureaucratese. Tens of thou- sands of smal! businessmen ~ who are forced to deal with the civil service'on a semi- regulay basis —- would like to see aretum to old-fashioned, structured English grammar — before bureaucratese be- comes Canada’s third Offi. cial Language. “Think small" is an editortat message from the Canadian Federation of indgpandant Buainess® - : CP) . Public. expresses pessimism : ‘Compared to last ear, slight! ‘more Canadians bel lieve the am «ing year will bring rising prices, “according toa recent Gallup Poll, Significantly more people think’ the. year ‘ahead’ will be ‘one of" economic difficulty. The follow- ing table compares altitudes to- wards 1976,- 1977 and .1978. Each was obtained: fowards the snemployment will rise and that, end of the previous year, * Prives 1976 1977. 1978 | A year of rising prices 58% 66%. 69% | A year of falling prices . 2 10 74§ame, no change 23. 16 16 ; Don’t know - 7 “7 5 _, Employment : ” A year of fullemployment . 10 H- Ayearofrisingunemployment — - 54: 56 62 : Same, nochange — : 21. - 26 20 ‘Don't know , iH 8 8 _ Labour 7 . . * Ayear of strikes i 37 SI A year of industrial peace way 16. 20 Same. nochange; wo NS, 20 19 Dor'tkngw aa “16 8 10 Taxes | . : : _ Aye of rising taxes 61 ” - 64 * AYear of falling taxes 9 60 NR. Sante. no change 2l 17' 17 * Don't know: 9 —7 8 City scoreboard wa the development ofa new technology and the rush ” toexploit this in the market~ Place, drives prices down.” CPI Increases « Statistics Canada reported an increase of 0.7 per cent in the consumer price index between November and December, 1977, The increase in food prices was sharper than expected, how- ever the December increase should mark the end of the recent spiral in food costs acconing to an Anti-Inflation Board spokes “man. A better performance in food prices is expected to modify the rate of increases in January, .Sespite further increases in car Lifestyle Briefs BAT. . TLEFORD, Sask. (CP) — Mrs. John Gauld, 77, mother of Emile (The Cat) Francis, general jj Louis | manager St. Blues of the National Hocke League, has been this northwestern Saskatchewan ‘com- muni year. She was chosennfor community. service, mainly for organizing Visitatse on 1 programs at hospitals. a CHOOSE : mo CAREFULLY... ; BRAMPTON, ‘Ont. = Many — ardeners fail ouseplants because they don't choose the right ean ‘plant, ‘says R.A. rborticx tural, Usually? ‘light is iting factor in house, olan success; itis not as easily controlled as moisture ‘and temperature. The . ‘closer 1 natural conditions can simulated, the Setter” CRISS “LINE ESTABLISHED CORNWALL, Ont. (CP) — For the next year, Gayle Greenslade, da LeBrun and Debbie Trimble will run a 24 hour hot line to. assist women - in crisis situations. Fenanced by a - Canada Works grant, betes will be a link etween social agencies with women- Problems a and will Many i ilees. ‘¢om- : “Recycling Road Pavement | HALIFAX ( (CP) — head ‘ of Canadian oe ation says sible that read bulder may one day recycle the asphalt to. surface. high ways. . _D.R. Morrisun,s esident of the association, said the aggregates on old roads are of high quality “go it is a good id atierpt to recycle old ma ne Pe Morrieon, a Sum- merside, P.E.I., con: tractor, ia titady belng regedich is conducted’ . on. the: proposal and association The - Members are looking into and ad tres © ars Toul en explain that asphalt is only t the liquid - oe tes Mogther im gpeat egates use used is association is constantly investigating various aggrenate substances - "We are- working with sulphur. now, for in- stance, both because there is.a stockpile of the material and because ‘it mixes compatibly with liquid asp asphalt.” * *We have to look at the: skidvesistant factors of pay surfaces as w tain soft asphalts will smooth off very quickly, m it eapy for a car. ghtly iivelf, § "iB construction. At. truck- loading sites. for in- stance, many companies now have asphalt toring tower. o.| silos where. trugks can-load ‘quickly ‘and: get neck ¢ to the pay- ing “area.” ¥-) citizen of the ° home with - aces .were _ ‘and truck prices, and the an- nounced rate increase for elec- tricity inthe province of Québec... “The AIB's survey of retail food prices shows that this com- ponent has hardly moved at all during early January,.in marked contrast fo the previous [2-month period when food prices ad-. vanced significantly almost every month.” “The ouilook is for a gradual decline in the annual rate a inflation, as measured ty CPI, beginning in 1973," spokesman said. Some prices even go down Prices can and do fall, and not just for corset laces. Products become obsolete, tastes change and the latest craze goes the way af the one-horse shay. Sometimes too, the develop- ment of a new technology and the! fush to exploit this in the mar- ketplace, drives prices down. A case in paint is “chip” techinol- * Chips {not the kind with salt and vinegar) are to the transistor what the uansistor was to the tube in electrical circuitry. Fuinc- tions which once would have required a roomful of equipment to perform can now be produced in the palm of your hand. The technology is a spin-off fram the pace pfogram and computer developments and has come home in the form of mini- ~~ calculators, digital chronographs and TY games, The earliest calculators were comparatively large. and defi- nitely more expensive, Prices November Over October Cities CPI Annual Nov. Over Nov. Winnipeg It Regina Edmonton Quebec Cily Toronto Ottawa Halifax St. John Saskatoon Calgary Montreal Vancouver St. John's, Nfld. bHUaaUUIIwS bad N MIN6 0 999: 10 OS Dew OCT ONN OO) _ Statisties Canada reported recently that consumer, price increases in November ranged from a low of 0.4 in St. John's Nftd., toa high of 1.1 in Winnipeg. ranged from $100 up in 1972, depending upon the functions they could perform. Chips be- came more efficient until only one was required to duplicate the functions of the more expensive models. More companies entered Largest Borrowers A recent report by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Ph York indicates that Canada remained the largest single barrowing county in 1977, with $8.5 bill- jon in few intemational debt. The loan figure, fe presenting international bond issues and medium tenn Eurocurrency bank ~~ There are two howmuchit credits, was dawn from a record $10.2 billion in 1976. Canada was the largest customer ‘for Eurocurrency bank credits (ahead of x France); the largest source of gn bond issues in the U.S, (aheal of Japan); and the largest borrower in non-U.S. markels (ahead of Britaln). your And the difference between them, could mean thousands of dollars to you! © The first way is to consult your insur- . ance agent or broker and use information _ available to him on building cost in ~ your area, This will help you arrive at a reasonable assessment of the re-construc- tion cost. If you have an unusual home ask your agent to arrange for a special appraisal or.consult a local builder. The second is to simply wait for a ” disaster and then find out directly from ~ the builder. Unfortunately this method could lead to a very unpleasant surprise. Probably you'd _ find. you have greatly undervalued your property. ’ Construction costs have ri risen enormously in the “lat detade, Only by. periodic reviews with your ai: “As your hame Appreciates in valu, your insurance should kecp pace” ways how it can work better for you. Insurance Bureau of Canada. Representing private home ‘insurance € companies in Canada. the market,” competition ‘and heavy sales helped to bring the Price down still further until the stall profit margin on each unit drove some companies out of the market. Today the five-function cal- culator which began as a $200 luxury gimmick, can be purch- ased for $13.95 in most retail Stores. The scientific models which cast almost $400 in 1972, now retail for $100. Although the reductions are perhaps not so dramatic, prices have al also fallen for the multi-function digita! watch, TV games and small black and white TY’s, Competition also can bring down the price. The entry of a second manufacturer into the instant camera market generated lower prices and a wider range of models available, The original models sold for over $200. Cheaper models increased the appeal of the product and retail- ers are selling a much larger number .than ever before. In order far che recaler lo pemain competitive the margin of profit has been cut to the bone. P Price changes aren’! always bad news. Sometimes the con- sumer wins. Briefs. 7 WATER WILL BE SOFTENED SASKATOON (CP) — It will cost city residents about $121,-000 tonsoften their ‘water this year. City insurance representative can you ade- quately protect the investment you have in your home, For'most people, a home is the most important single investment ever made. Isn’t it worth the few hours a year it would BE SURE TOWATCH: take to adequately protect that invest- ment? companies want you to know how insur: | ance works. And to findout would cost torebuild home —\ Private insurance Saf \ “oe ih, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 8:00-9:00 PM. CRCTV - council has accepted a proposal to buy about 2,000 tons of y ebbled quicklime which softens water by removing cal- cium carbonate. : wi ‘5 ie insurance Bureau of Canoda - Bureau, d'assurance du Canada