SBE Nate” By ALLAN KRASNICK Managing Editor _ Thanks to, the Federal Business Development Bank (FBDB), the knowledge gained by retired Management personnel need not be.lost. It’ is + recycled, _ "Management counselling ‘is an important feature now offered ‘by the expanded government agency and. . "Retired businesspeople form: FBDB to tap. Robert Dohan, the bank's regional director of management services, explained that apart from the Crown corporation’s function as a supplementary lender, it prov forms of managenisnt services: information about available assistance seminars about aspects of modern business operation, and . the Counselling ides three. Enterprise program It is CASE that supplies expertise from agency counsellors or retired businesspeople to smaller companles. He p may be provided in establishing, expanding, enhancing profits, displays, or other aspects of business, he told the Herald. “Last year, 1000 CASE counselling programs were weeks ago and Harvey Webb should be on before the middle ee is : . ’ . vi ', Brian Sears uses a hammer to dislodge wood from this-log du of the new tourist booth on Highway 16 near the new bridge. er, who is in charge of the project, of August if there is not teo much wet weather. The § ring construction Work began two says the roof present tourist booth is bealde the construction near the main bridge. . 2,000. " iterated that t The service's successful business. response is _ _ indicated in {tg 10 percent 7 growth. profitable | hose-with over J 7 employees, which can ‘normal | monthly rate of Only lar ges operations, well afford consultants, are not eligible for {te jservice, Dohan The fee charged for_ the ogram is nominal, about | etired } 20 a day. “ businesspeople offer their - services at an equally dail the nominal bank subsidizes and the client. If expertise is not available: from within the community FBDB will for travel I Par outside Fm costs of an counsellor, ; The exmanager of the. Richmond Bay counselled. in Terrace recently, requiring only alt ‘a day to presen ‘message. Coat-to the local: ’ gtore owner for the valuable advice: $10. - - “We've found that when people retire, after six months of d whatever they feel ‘real todo something a in with busi o Doban seid. So we give them a nominal’ eas. Almost _ 40 Terrace businesses have taken ‘advantage of local manager Mike Kartasheff added. With a district that includes Prince’ Rupert,. Stewart, Kitimat, Smithers, JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — MV Columbia, the fla Pp at a i e r tos th i of a. strike e a. eke ainst’ the state* marine ay system: m ar um Identical scenes. were to be played throughtout the day and week as Alaska's seven other ferries pull into designated ports from Cordova to Ketchikan and the 500 members of the Inlandboatmen’s walk off their jobs. _ ‘The entire state f system will be shut down by Saturday in a phased tie-up plan worked out Tuesday by union and state officials. deadlocked over .a new contract for JBU workers. As the Columbia pulled into port to unload assengers, IBU Vice ident Greg O'Clary re- ‘union -had an overwhelming mandate from its members to continue the strike until the the program, Union. store’ Be mae With @ variety . of Jending services and management . support programs, the Federal Business Development Bank provides a help to aspiring businessmen and a resource for existing business. Robert Dohan (right), the Cassiar, and ‘other small - - -Until recently, Kartasheff communities, the local -branch is kept busy in : performing ita lending and ’ support ‘programs, travelled to the. ‘small mining community of Cassiar to conduct a seminar there. The Cassiar Asbestos C ation is at “once tic: employer and storeowner and wants to . state came to terms. Commissioner of Administration Bill. Allen. said it was ‘‘unfortunate this: . Strike had. to occur. during _ fils peak traffic period... . - ‘VANCOUVER (CP) — The. provincial government’s liquor ‘administration branch has increased the prece of. 40 imported wines effective July 1, a spokeaman said - Wednesday. erry Nick Clark, spokesman for the branch’s pricing ‘department, ' increases are.a direct result of higher costs. - The increases follow a ’. March 31 announcement by . Consumer Affairs Minister Rafe Mair who said the ‘government ‘ould. reduce : the prices of imported and - domestic - — wines to encourage” British Columbians to switch from hard liquor. . ri said. the . shuck this dual role. lained, the company was reluctant to encourage small businesses «to . _-. ggtablish, But now, during - Recently, . Kartasheff. an expansion program in the opera’ mining on, there isa - new nitiative to spur -! budding entrepeneurs into estab retail outlets, service industries, perhaps a motel, | os Kartasheff produced a BAD LUCK FOR TOURISTS hits Alaska ferry and we would like to extend our condolences to thos travelers who may be ‘inconvenienced by this Situation.” -0--. so _ “We believe itis better to -.. Wine prices hike In April, in line with this policy, the price of a French . wine, Chateauneuf Du Pape, was reduced: to $5.10 from. $5.95.’ Effective this week, the price has been increased $1.65 to $6.75. ' PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. (CP)’ — Ralph Edwards, ‘who once helped keep an endangered species of swans alive, died Sunday in Prince. Rupert Regional Hospital. He was 95. Edwards was awarded the Medal ..of Service -by «the ’ Order of Canada in 1972 for his efforts more than 50 years ago to save a flock of ‘which, in the - bank's, regional director of management services, local r experience to work branch manager Mike Kartasheff (center), and assistant branch mamager Rod Cousins explained some of these services. ial of presentation ‘for his ssiar visit, one designed to address ¢ specific mentee Hod Gssistant er ousing sai that while business conditions are comparable ‘in the northwest to the south, there is an obvious relative underabundance of resource personnel on which to draw here. There isn't the accountant negotiate through this work stoppage at this time than it is to agree to proposals price the f Saetemn' ut ct icethe atem ou Bastence," "=. Pan Clark said wine drinkers - re expect to pay sig- nificanti: higher rices for impor es later this year because of European market conditions. A frost killed many acres of grapes white trumpter swans near his Lonesome ‘Lake, B.C., home about 55 miles from Bella Coola. He kept about twodozen of: the rare awans Ra by eeding them grain .durin the rugged winternin the "northwest B.C, region. Edwards was born in the United States and became a conditions there. dr fleet or similar bus down the street t a Terrace manager can easily awn upon in case of special need. That's where the Federal Business Piringng the expertise & - bri ex the businessman, providing a service to people: ‘in smaller communities so that size or relative isolation is no more than a hindrance that can be overcome... The strike will cut off all blic surface tr: tin o about two dozen Southeast Alaska communities, as;.well as Kodiak Island. d by province and be lower in France this 5 the wine crop than usual. . This, along with currency fluctuations, will probably add up to further increases, he said. " of swans is dead | naturalized Canadian citizen in 1915. He settled in the isolated Lonesome Lake area and made his living as a tra . He moved: to Oona River near here a few years ago. He was admitted to ‘hospital in February suffering from a heart ailment. B It is ‘media the young les and not too ‘eirculation of more million. ‘The “T gstara in Western politically, fosters:small business. Radler is one of three held Sterling group. -lawyer in London, newsp the. Conrad. the author of a recently _ strongman, Maurice, Dup noteworthy because it means Ltd., which owns The Herald, riow has eight of its 19 ritish Columbia papers appearing daily. sible that Sterling is still unknown outside known within them. One of. est and smallest chains in‘ the. country, since ~ growth-has also made Radler Cadillac driving entrepreneur, one of Canadian business. . Well-connec he is.‘one of the Bennett government's a pointments to the board of directors of the British Co umbia Development Corp., the Crown agency that partners behind the privately- The oldest is Peter White, 33, nowa Ont., and owner of his own shoppers’. aper. He and Radler were executive assistants in Sterling’s Eastern ‘operations from Toronto, History student at Laval during the Johnson years and is’ the auth mhabed biography of Quebec 3: ec ” Be 7” ° If lack is the youngest of the Sterling trio, he is: | connec haps he es ted Terento: financier an ‘The son now holds that: t Sterling Newspapers 1969 it has put together a group of s with a ‘than 225,00 in Prince Edward Island, . Quebec and British. Columbia and, according to ’ President David Radler, worth a conservative $5 a 35 year old the rising youn administration of Daniel Johnson, a former Union - f remier of Quebec. | Ne arad Biack, 33, ig the youngest partner and runs He was a, . financially... His father. By John i | of ; | ty The Financial Post | | Schreiner of directorship, alongwith similar posts with Canadian. ial Bank of Commerce and T. Eaton Susing P shing in purchasing, for amodest investment, the Sh 4 Im . The trio went into rooke Record. One of the oldest English-language dailies in the Eastern Townships, the pa paterns diagn started ‘the turn-around by cu ‘Later, Radler told a newspaper interviewer: was losing money. Radler and his over staffing a a main problem and staff. . “Once we realized we could ‘make money were Bassett couldn't,“we got serlous about the business.” (The. Record was owned in the 1850's by Tornto 1 publisher Jobn _ Bassett, but was in local hands whe partners bought it.) dler. and his Success at The Record led the group to acquire several ‘other small newspapers (French and Eastern Townships, Sept-Isles and Baie Comeau. : Several: were sold when the group: _ outside Quebec; but Sterling stili owns The-Record, now n to expand stable and profitable, and a French-language paper in the townships. — - “Having decided to expand in an appendix to Senator Keith Davey's royal commission “tle on the media as a sho new Canada. ~ Late in 1971 Sterling suc pers a - publishers of some of these pa list, which lsted independent y began , with offers to buy. ied in making the Alaska Highway News at Fort St. John, then a weekly din the - ublishing, the group used a deal to buy. "THE STERLING NEWSPAPER CHAIN “The “family” that includes the Terrac ~ Last month the Terrace Herald, circulation 4,200, switched from weekly to daily production. The event is and now a daily with a circulation of 5,500. In succession, Sterling bought the Prince Rupert Bay News, the Terrace Herald, and on the other side of the country, P.E.1L Radler moved to British Columbia in Prince Rupert), to manage the new properties and look for others. As the Sterling buying momentum built up, _ offers began to come to the group - and, on occasion, to the daily Journal Pioneer in Summerside, 1972 (first to competing ‘chains at the same time. ‘“ivery single- vendor said he was dealing with Thomson,” Radler says. There are reports, however, ’ that Thomson Newspa pers Lid., the premier chain of | small city dailies, competed in 1973 when Sterling bought the Alberni Valley Vancouver Island Daily. And one reason why Sie of the smaller Ontario cities is not in any Times (circulation. 7,800), a rling is ae the ubiquitous Thomson chain got there first. @ deal that moved rich suburbs of Vancouver was the pure! of the North Shore Citizen. With ler and his partners into the ase early in 1974 a twice-weekly circulation of 40,000, this tabloid covers North and West ’ Vancouver, The recent demise of its only major competitor is creating further opportunity for expansion. Sterliig’s acquisitions now. .ring the Vancouver suburbs, The seven neighborhood monthly, the rest are weekly or ublications (one is ce-weekly) account. for two thirds of the group's circulation. Radler freely admits that his mod by. Douglas Bassett. _ All Sterling's newsp Bought, the exception is the suburban Toronto chain run , except one, have been © the monthly Kerrisdale r in Vancouver whee was started last October. At presstime, Radler was negotiating for three more _ small newspapers.. computer ta ob printing. rperre aig advertising centra. The’ Sterling chain has ’ combination of bank loans and cash: Radler agrees without hesitation that’ newspapers o public? “Why?” Radler asks, . at the question. To raise equity capital for further expansion. ‘“We don’t require the outside equity,” he says. There's also a hint that he and ters enjoy making deals withest outside shareholders. Such entrepreneurship is rare and Radler knows it. “Conrad, Peter and I see v can be lucrative. Will Sterling seemingly surpr: his entrepreneurial ’ being encumbered have done well without inheriting wealth, To us, it’s just e start.” re Earlier this year, they acquired control of Dominion e two malting companies Maiting Co., Winnipeg, one of en about 30 percent of the market, Thig held in the country with a unusual leap from newspape majority interest had been held Radler describes it as another bus: and one which has been somewhat more profitable than expected. That experience led conclude there are basics of business management which of industries. And he has a readiness tq move in almost any business direction - if the deal is the partners had work in a varie appealing. Radler has centralized accounting for the B.C. and centralized production in Nor Vancouver area suburban pa controlled production system is being dev to transmit copy from the papers to the printing t by (either by telephone line or delivered to the plant(. ‘The plant also does a substantial amount of beginning a program to sell national fly," Radler says. : pers Vancouver fo the pers. A computer- been financed through a internally-generated few people our age who occurred because , thé. by Black’s femily. = iness turnaround = him t¢ ca rge Black, was a no director of Argus Corp. 7