‘ | - cents. Page 6, The Herald, Watnesdav, August 29, 1979 East-West power tie so ' EDMONTON (CP) — secking approval oextablah approval 6 és! the first dian We bet- ween the western and eastern power grids in North America. The company .applied fo the Alberta energy resources conservation board Tuesday to build = transmiaslon facilities to Link up with power facilities in Saskat- Books it will cost millions, Canadian book publishers must adopt modern com- ter-ordering systems {o eep peace with foreign competitors, says the past president of the Canadian Library Associaton. . Ron Yeo, also this city's head librarian, said in an interview that . foreign wholesalers in the U.S. and England can make at- tractive offers to Canadian bookstores and libraries with computerized ordering systems. . A store's cash register can be linked to the wholesaler's computer and the store owner can get dally salea data, place orders instantly and get printed confirmation from the wholesaler, The system can adjust In- vantories automatically and produce lists of on-hand and onorder booka. “These wholesalers take millions of dollara -out of Canada to the detriment of | focal publishers and agents who depend on the profits they make fo subsidize the production of high-risk Canadian authors,” he sald, Alberta's power grid is al- ‘The oaly periianent”¢on- ready linked to British Columbia and the nor- thwestern United States with & 100-megawatt tle between B.C. Hydro and ry Power, Saskatchewan's ayatem has three tea with Manitoba with a combined capacity of 300 megawatts and recently recelved National Energy Board approval to build a ink to North Dakota. Ag agents fold, £0 do small bookstores, belng replaced by chains which can get volume discounts on orders and reduce prices. He proposes a syatem that would develop a data base of OSES SYSTEM tem thet le proposes a sys a would develop a data base of all books published in Canada, England and the United States to be used on a shared-cost basis by publishers, libraries and tores. “No company in Canada is large enough to do this on ‘their own. 1 “We're hoping for govern- ment assistance, ‘mainly- through the Canada Council and secretary of state. The federal government has been interested in the last 15 years in promoting a sound Canadian publishing in- try. “We're hoping the present governnment recognizes the crisis’ and grants it high enough priority to justify government assistance." — It will cost $150,000 alone to study how such a sytem might be created. ————e _ EARNINGS Claiborne Industries Ltd., aine months ended Jane 3: 1970, $166,674, nine cents a share: 1978, $47,813, three cen Craigmont Mines Ltd., nine months ended July 31: 1979, $6,-772,000, $1.78 tars | ae $ a ' 1978, 6,000, . a Greyhound Computer of Canada Ltd, six months ended June 30: 1979, $532, $49, 13.2 cents a share; 1978, $820,957, elght cents. J. Harris and Sons Ltd., six DOLLAR | MONTREAL (CP) — U.S, dollar in terms of Canadian funds at 3:30 pm, EDT was up 38-100 at dollar was down 6-25 at $0.8546 and pound sterling was down 1-20 at $2.2440. months ended June 30: 1979, $632,687, 20 centa a share; 1979, $505,543, 16 cents. ' Maritime Electric Ca. Lid, al months ended June 30: 1978, $1,012,000, $1.01 a share; 1978, $1,279,000, $1.30. Mikes Submarine Inc., 24 weeks ended June 17: 1979, $20,-627, lose, figure; 1978, $57,610, 16 cents. Monarch Investments Lid, six months ended June 30: 1079, $939,000, 36 cents a share; 1978, $817,600, 36 cents, Place Gas and Oil Co. Ltd., six months ended June 30: 1979, $262,650, 4.87 cents a share; 1978, $168,056, 2.68 cents York Scottish and ' Holdings Group, six months ended June 30:. 1979, $5,027,588, 69 cents a share; 1978, $5,763,256, 72 cents. Skyline Hotels Ltd, lx {he months ended June 38: 1978, $9,-727, loss, no share figures; 1918, $383,928, loss. Wabasso Ltd, 24 weeks ended June$0: 1979, $530,598, $1.04 a share; 1978, $992,515, cas. | STOCKS TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock market was fractionally higher at the gloue of active trading The TSE 300 index gaind 0.19 to 1,678.88, a record- fit-taking lowered re- source stocks but gold and real eotate and be peed rea advance . Volume was oT ates compared with 5.95 million Monday. Resources Investment % to i. VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in heavy trading Tuesday on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Volume at close was 4,340,043 shares. Of shares traded, 167 ad- vanced, 194 declined and 164 were unchanged. In the industrials, B.C, Re- sources Investment Corp. WAS-Up .32 at $6.70 on 508,345 shares and Austin In-' vestment was up .10 at .00 on 12,000. Canada Cement Lafarge was unchanged at #13 1-8 on 5,000 sharea and Taro Industries waa up .05 at $3.45 on 4,700. Canadian Javelin was up .02 at $1.24 and Domen Industries was unchanged at $8 5-8. On the resource and development board, Amber Resources was up .16 at $2.50 _ IBM fell 2 to 381, Gulf Canada 1% t& $72%, Hud- son's Bay Ol] and Gas 114 to $0314, Alberta Energy 1% to $338% and Nowsco Well Service 1 to $42. McIntyre Mines gained Mining and Smelting 33 an $254 and Kerr Addison % to $11%. Falconbridge Copper lost % to $8% and Lytton rals five cents to 49 centa. Scurry-Rainbow cllmbed 34% to $55, CanDel Oll 14% to $46 and Cakwood Pete 114 to $15%. Numac Oil and Gas 1% to #2% and Pete NA % to $27. on 105,000 shares and Thunderwood Exploration was unchanged at .26 on 80,666, Action Resource War- rants was unchanged at .20 on 75,200 shares and Redford Mines wad up .18 at $2.25 on . 67,600, ay-Ralph Resources was up .21 at $1.24 and SNA was down .02 at 44 on 57,000. On the curb exchange, Bianca Resources was un- changed at $5.50 on 64,800 shares and Edina In- ternational was up .02 at .47 on 30,500. Burlington Gold was up .02 at .66 on 26,200 shares and Ronrleo Ex- oration was down .12 at L.7é on 25,200. Northern Lights wasup .024 at .95 and Tagus Resources was down 02 at .62, no share tn nection between the eastern and western power grids of the U.S, and Canada Is a 100- megawatt link installed two $20 years ago at Stegall, Neb. Alberta Power said the proposed link will allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to share reserve electric- generation capacity to benefit both provinces. The Hdmonton-based: "T’s now at the point where we can’t wait any longer. It will take a couple of years even if we start right now to get a Canadian Program up and running, publishing intuatsy could be pu e in eerious trouble if nothing ia done,’ Yeo said publishers support him in his concern. “However, they have two Consumers to » sapere “ atility said the Alberta portion of the link to the Saskatchewan Power Corp. system as expected to coat on. The application seeks ap- val Te Tborta Power to id a 4Okilovolt tran- amission line from the utility's Battle River power plant, near Forestburg, to a- conversion facility near the Alberta-Saskatchewan .border. The proposed line now need computors basic concerns. One is money, the other is a general resistance to change, which I _ guess applies to us-all in one Way or another, “Many publishers haven't changed their business prac- tices for the last 50 years, I sometimes think they have a: death wish -- just up their hands and carry on as along as they can," get access OTTAWA (CP) — The federal communications department and Bell Canada announced 4 $10-million trial project Tuesday which ‘will. allow consumers to call up computer Information on their televislon screens, _ The federal government | will contribute $2.5 million towards an extensive field trial of technology developed by the communications department. The system, Telidon, is an adaption of a ‘system known inter- nationally as videotex, “Tt provides a tremendous boost to our efforts to show ' the world that Canadian videotex technology is the ' best available anywhere,” | David MacDonald said, ions = Minister By early 1961, 1,000 Telidon terminals attached to televinion sets will be in homes and businesses mainly in Toronto, Bell begins ins! the ter- minals in September of next year and the field trial will run throughout most of 1961, “We have been genuinely. pressed by the govern- ment’s Telidon technology Since its introduction,” James Thackray, president of Bell Canada, said. With a keypad the size of a pocket calculator, users will be able to call ie 100,000 pages of visual Information including news, weather and sports headlines, updated travel schedules, stock’ market quotations, con- sumer ulletina, en- tertainment guides and classified ads. ; Users may also be able to reserve airline tickets, order merchandise and leave messages for others. The government will purchase and loan to Bell 673 Telldon terminals to ‘be placed at homes and inesses. Bell will supp another 325, Plans also ca for 28 special terminals to be wed by persona supplying information to the computer — data bank. The terminals will be built by Norpak Ltd. of, Pakenham, Ont., and other ui em Thackray said several potential information providers ‘have expressed: t in the project. Users and suppliers will be monitored. during ‘the ex- periment to asses human factors, technological aspects and the relative popularity of different in- formation offerings, Budget to wait JASPER, Alta. (CP) — Canadians may have to wait until November to find out how the government elected last May plans to deal with the economy and spend their dollars: , Finance Minister John Crosbie told reporters Tuesday that his budget could be as late as November, Parilament is due to sit Oct. 9, Crosbie said it would be “very much to our ad- vantage” if the question of the domestic price of oil was settled before he draws up his budget, The settlement was necessary #0 the government could have accurate economy forecasts, Crosbie chatted: with reporters briefly after the inner cabinet, meeting in this Rocky Meountaln resort, discussed how the govern- ment would propose to allow the price of Canadian oll to progress toward the much- higher world price of be- tween $21 and $35 a barrel, Prime Minister Clark told reporters progress was made in developing an energy policy which must eventually be put to the provinces, industry and the consumers. He said the cabinet must decide on a policy in which the federal government and the other three parties are willing participants. At present the price of Canadian cil is due to rise $1 abarrel Jan. 1. That will not bring the price anywhere near the prices charged by members Ga the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Clark said while a decision ona policy may be made at the four-day inner-cabinet meeting here, no immediate announcement will be made. Clark spoke cautiously when asked about the federal attitude toward the $5-billion Alberta heritage savings trust fund, built up with 30 per cent of the province's resource revenue, Clark, whose Yellowhead riding contains major oil and natural gas fields, repeated bis earlier rernarks that the heritage fund belongs to: Albertta and he should not comment on how the money ahould be spent. ; Lambert ‘report approved OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Clark announced | Tuesday the government will implement the Lambert Commission's reec-- ommendations for proving management: and ac-. eountability in the public service, Perrin Beatty, minister of ‘state for the treasury board, has been given special im- responsibility for developing © a timetable for im-- plementing the recom- mendations, Clark sald in a “— release. io e@ commission reported ’ last April that there has been “an almost total breakdown in the chain of ac- countability"’ within the public service and that Par- Hament has almost lost control of bureaueratic spending. . Clark's statement said he and Treasury Board President Sinclair Stevens are working on a new syatem for managing government pe: Comptroller General’ Rogers is developing accounting and reporting procedures as recommended by the Lambert Commission, Clark said. ; Walter Baker, government House leader, has been given i a aoe 7 for the "Avignon report examining legislative: rules for hiring public servants on the basis of merit rather than political .patronage or other criteria. The D'Avignon committee is expected to report th's fall. Baker is also responsible for parliamentary reform and personnel management in the public service, Clark would financial: from an galsting substation, near Metiskow, to a location near the provincial boun- Gory, about 240 kilometres southeast of Edmonton. Alberta: Power wi ap- val to the Eignvoltage’ gansmieatan line and the direct-current converter station next summer, with completion scheduled for 1662. The converter station is . estimated to cost $17 million and will be built near the provincial boundary, about 100 kilometres south of Liloydmins Alberta. Power sald‘ the’ converter is required because. the Alberta and Saskatchewan systems are. large and independent, disturbance in one system could cause instability in the other if the two were con- nected by alternating current Lines. . to cost $3 million, initially will be capable of tran- sfering 100 megawatts of power and later will reach a capacity of 2 megawatts. installed capacity ‘ol 140 1,640 megawatts, scheduled to increase to 2,450 megawatts by 1062. Alberta's generation capacity totals 4,870 megawatts ands scheduled to rise to 5,840 over the next years, . ught run 38 kilometres” INFO. - HEALTH | DR. BOB YOUNG Doctors are still interested in spit, or more correctly and politely, sputum. Collection and mar tion af put frequently of great help diagnosing disease of the respiratory tract. The tests are eng expensive, and when properly done can be highly diagnostic, of Properly done Implies that the specimen is preduced from away down in the lungs — the product of a deep cough. Saliva and material from the mouth is useless, In addition a series of three fo five specimens are required for confident diagnosis as the organism or cell that signals may not be present - in all samples, The sputum may - be cultured.in the bacteriology lab — a time-honored technique that identifies germs causing pocumonia and other lung infections. A newer and more exciting st ihe ey spul cy (the a of cella) to identify cells and other material that may be present in the sputum. Special staing have allowed the microscopiat to identify cell changes that are diagnostic of diseases such as cancer of the lung Cin ita several forms), spread of camer to the lung from elsewhere, and other tumors that may .occur in lung disease, Tn addition benign growths may be diagnosed — a gratifying result if the docto ahd patient suspect that a cancer is present, ' The sputum may reveal the presence of fungal diseases, lung parasites, | asbestos-related diseases cash, please contact: will be arranged. Pine mushrooms are abundant In the Terrace - Kitimat @ - Hazelton area and can be worth $3 - $7.50 per Ib. for youl Anyone Interested In pleking mushrooma for Elaine Inouye 635-9451 Lessons In idenilfleation of drop | MONTREAL (CP) .— The Canadian dollar suffered ite biggest drop In more than a month on North American money markets Tuesday, losing almoat one-third of a cent against its U.S. coun- rt. 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