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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.

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