PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 24, 1978

Pacific Northwest Music

The Pacific Northwest
Music Festival is now
taking place in Terrace.

Thepiano
classifications are taking
place at the R.E.M. Lee

Theatre and the
Caledonia Lecture
Theatre with Mrs. Helen
Silvester and Miss
Alexander Munn ad-
judicating.

Instrumental is taking
place at E.T. Kenney

Tudor

Jones adjudicator,
Speech Arts is at Cassie
Hall Auditorium, with Dr.
Leona Patterson ad-

judicator.
Choral

Vocal, and

STrings is taking pkace at.

Clarence Michea

Auditorium, with Mrs.
Roberta Stephens ad-
judicating.

All sessions start at
9:30 for mornings, 1:30
for afternoons, and 7:30
evenings.

gym,

with Mr,

Percussion classes which were tob
Kenney have been changed to Caledonia Lecture
Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Rick McDaniel
is one of the competitors.

y

e held at E.T.

Truly delightful was the only way to
dancing classification at the festival last week.
Laurel Adams did exceplionally well,

bia aaa Ew
describe the

hag n

Festival

competitor.

| The festival is now in its voe:
classificattions taking place at Clarence Michiel
“auditorium. Mary Joy Williamson will be one.

, choral and string

Halt Auditorium.

‘Heather Squires is only one of many competitors
for Speech Arts which takes place'at the Cassle

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No-name products

TOR sive S

Steinberg’s Ltd. of
. Montreal is becoming the

_ third major supermarket
chain to introduce a line
of no-name generic

- products in its stores.

. Jack Levine, executive
vicepresident of retailing
for Steinberg’s, said in an
interview Monday that a
line of 31 unbranded
generic products will be
intyvoduced in the chain’s
212 stores Wednesday,
including the 66 Miracle
Mart stores it operates in
Ontario. :

Generic products were

introduced “in — both
Loblaws Ltd. and
Dominion Stores in

Ontario the week of
March 20. Dominion has
since taken the products
to Quebec and Saskat-

Nosy
Parker

VANCOUVER (CP) —
A census-taker described

by the judge as a “‘nosy.

Parker” was denied
damages Monday in
British Columbia
Supreme Court for a
broken wrist suffered in a
fall while calling at a
Duncan, B.C., residence.
The federal govern-
ment sued the
homeowner, Mrs. Diane
Joan McKay, after
cerisug-taker Mrs.
Marjene Haley, 63,
tripped of..a piece of
plywood and injured her
wrist in June, 1976,

Justice Smith said Mrs.
McKay had taken
reasonable Steps to en-
SUr& hey one-acre
property was safe, and
the census-taker had
exceeded her area af. so-
called invitation.

Mrs. Haley decided to
see if there was an ac-
coupant in the back
garden,

“The danger, if danger
there was, was obvious,"
Justice Smith said, ‘Mrs.
Haley had no business

’ canvassing the whole
property to avoid a call-
back, and as a ‘nosy
Parker’ her unfortunate
‘injuries and its con-
sequences are not
matters for which she can
here claim relief.” -

chewan and this week

aving's
in Nova Scotia.
Levine said it was a
fallacy for consumers to
expect lower prices with
_ho drop in. quality so
Steinberg’s advertiving
will compare quality as
well as savings.

n stores

For example, Stein-

berg’s noname coffee will
sell for $2.99 a pound
compared with $3.89 for
the chain’s house brand

and $3.84 for one national -

brand. “But the coffee is
not the same,” Levine
said.

At prices up to 40 per
cent below national
brands, the generic
products come in plain,

unadorned containers
without frills like fancy

graphics or built-in

_pouring spouts.

Kofoed Dr.
and
River Dr.

~ Queensway area|
DAILY HERALD

Melissa Davies is one of the many piano entries

in_the Pacific Northwest Music Festival. Piano

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locations during the week are the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre and Caledonia Lecture Theatre.

Courts generous in firing suits

VANCOUVER (CP) —
The-number of wrongful

. dismissal suits appearing

in court has increased
significantly over the last
couple of years and the
courts generally have
been more generous in
awards to those who have
been given the hoot un-
justly.
Economists and

lawyers agree that. such,
‘firings and subsequent

legal actions are tied to
downturns in the
economy. ;

A typical case seems to
be a middle-aged mid-
range executive, classed
as expendable by a
directorship concerned
with cutting costs and
unimpressed with the
subject’s recent perform-
ance.

He will be earning
bétween $3,000 and $4,000
1 month and, based on
eight to 10 years with the
firm, his early and not-
sogolden handshake will
be worth about $25,000.
- Not every _ fired
executive has a case
against his ex-boss. Vari-
ables to consider include
length of service and

Vancouver. Kiti
* Kemare, Tertac
Prince -Ruper
Stowart

covered:Dar
handle your: pe

salary _leyel, and
sometimes a company
will take pains to be fair
about severance pay.

DIFFICULT TO PROVE -

“Wrongful dismissal is
a misnomer,” _—_said

Vancouver lawyer Ross ©

Clark. ‘‘I don’t think any-
one seriously disputes the
basic right of a company
to dismiss an employee.”
Another veteran

lawyer said ‘it is almost
impossible for an em-
ployer to prove his claim
that an employee was
simply incompetent.”

. “The fired person’s

rights, based on law and

many court precedents,
are clearly delineated.
But the company often
finds itself in an im-
possible position unless
the plaintiff has been
caught absconding with
corporate funds or has
kicked the chairman of
the board downstairs.”

“What must be decided
is how much com-
pensation. the employee

should, get," said Clark, -

_ Basically the decisio

is based on the number o:
years worked by the
individual, his salary, the

responsibilities and
pressures of the job, his
age and the chances of his
finding another post.
AMOUNTS VARY

The average court
award—although - the
variation is so great that
finding an average is al-
most meaningless—is apt
to represent little more
than the addition of two
or three months’ pay.

Among last year’s local
cases, hewever, there
was something of a
landmark—-an award of
$166,208 to J. Boyd
Douglas, former

‘president of the Van-

couver consulting firm of
Sandwell and Co, Ltd.

, Lawyer I, G,
Nathenson stressed that
while it may he _ the

‘highest award of its kind

yet made in Canada, it
was by no means ex-
cessive under the cir-
cumstances.

“We're talking here of
aman who was a senior

executive of this large

company for 20 years, for
the last eight years its
president, with an annual
salary of $85,000 and
other’ benefits,”’ said

Nathenson. 4
“Té the amount of th
award were invested in
bonds and securities at
the going return of eight
or nine per cent annually,
it’s a pretty small income
compared with the pay
Douglas was receiving as

Sandwell president.”

Briefs
PAY CRIME VICTIMS
QUEBEC (CP) — The
Quebec pavernment paid
$2.6 million last year to
417 crime victims from
its crime victims in-
demnity fund. The
figures show 36 per cent
of the beneficiaries were
victims of
causing bodily harm, 17
per cent were victims of
armed robbery and 0 per
cent. of the beneficiaries
were surviving family
members of murder
victims.

SEND DELEGATION

OTTAWA (CP) —

‘ Canada will send a four-

man delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe
April 24-28 in Strasbourg,
France.

Be Seals dame em ene es Sc od Me

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