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the examiner Saturday Jan 1978 disappearing breed By SCOTT HASKINS Examiner Staff Re orter The small time be er who knows everything about you ur family and your way of ife is dying breed Gordon Craig owner of Craigs Barber Shop on Dunlop Street is one such barber He doesnt pretend to be great hairstylist but he does the best he can and enjoys every minute of it trip to traditional barber shop with the two chairs in corner is an experience It gives the customer and the barber chance to talk over better days Its more than just job to the barber He gets chance to meet many interesting people My favorite part of being barber is meeting the public Craig said Over the past 30 years there have been lot of changes but have some customers who have been coming in ever since started Craig is veteran from World War II He became interested in barbering during that time and when the war ended he took course at rehabilitation school in Toronto Its really all have done he said Ive stuck with it this far The first 30 years are the worst and Gordon Craig owner of Craigs Barber Shop on Dunlop Street trims around the ears of customer According to Craig about 70 per cent of his customers are senior citizens have some customers who have been coming to me for the past 30 years raig said Examiner Photo besides Im too old to start anything else Craig is unlike many hairstylists There is no need to make reservation Just show up and youre bound to get your hair cut just do the haircuts as they come he said try to do what the customer asks dont pretend to be hair stylist That Im not Craig considers his ability to remember names as vital part of his success in the business It tends to break the ice when the customer walks in try to know all the customers by their name he said By the third time they come in for haircut usually know their names OLD GUARD As in any small time barber shop there is always the old guard In most cases the customers are the same week after week and ac cording to Craig the majority of his customers are senior citizens would say that about 60 to 70 per cent of my customers are senior citizens he said somewhere in the last 15 years we lost whole generation of kids About 15 years ago men started to wear their hair longer and when they did hair salons became popular We have very few children or young adults coming in anymore but the hair is getting bit shorter now and they are starting to come back again Craig doesnt feel the salons really cut down his business It was the customer himself They bcided where they wanted to get their hair cut NEW TRENDS The success of hairstylists as opposed to barbers forced number of people out of the business who were too old to adjust to the new trends Some just couldnt adjust to the new styles and had to get out of the business because of it Craig said It was really the styles that hurt the small barber shop business They the customer wouldnt come here because didnt know thestyling techniques Not everyone can afford to spend $8 or $10 for haircut every two or three months so there will always be the local barber shop It just isnt as hard to find achair as it used to be Ortwein isnt cutting as much If youre interested in joining the Canadian Armed Forces but afraid of what the camp barbers will do to your long beautiful hair you can rest easier It isnt as bad as it used to be Harold Ortwein Barrie resident who owns barber shop at Canadian Forces Base Borden said that the rules concerning the length of hair are getting more lenient all the time It really isnt all that bad he said The military cut isnt as short as it used to be few years ago the men werent allowed to have sideburns and the hair was kept really short They can now have sideburns almost to the bottom of their ears Ort wein said The only stipulation with the hair is that it must clear the back of the shirt collar by at least one inch Long hair is not as popular as it was five years ago but most people still keep their hair far beyond military standards Because of this you would expect some complaining when the hair starts to come off That really isnt the case In most cases the men accept the fact that the hair has to come off Ortwein said There is always the odd person who complains but thatisto beexpected With the number of non military people living in the camp Ortwein also has to be familiar with some of the latest long hair cuts We do all kinds of cuts here he said There are lot of nonmilitary people here like high school students who dont want their hair cut real short Officers face the same rules as the enlisted men when it comes to the length of their hair but according to Ortwein some of them tend to twist the rules occassionally They have the same rules to go by Their money is no different than anyone elses but sometimes they ask us to leave their haira bit longer There is reason for the short hair Discipline is major part of army life and everyone must learn to face the same rules The haircuts have to be the same You cant have one guy walking around with lmg hair just because he wantsit Another reason for the short hair is the uniforms No one looks good in uniform if tiny have long hair sticking out from under their hats Soldiers are allowed to wear beards but there are some stipulations to meet soldier wishing to wear beard has to announce it to the commanding officer When it comes off they have to do the same thing for identification purposes Moustaches are allowed but hey have to be kept on the upperlip The soldiers are the same as anyone else They all look like gentlemen on the street and it certainly looks better than some of the longer hair you see today Becoming hairstylist not easy So you want to be hairstylist Its harder and more complicated than just walking in and setting up shop It wasnt long ago that the only qualifications you needed to be hairstylist was to know which end of the scissors to hold Today it takes hard work young man or woman with aspirations of becoming hairstylist can expect to take sixmonth barbering course and thats the easy part According to Cosmo Figliuzzi hairstylist at Gentlemens Choice in the Georgian Mall after the course is over the person has togooutfindajoband put in over 4000 hours as an ap prentice One of the better schools in this area is George Brown College in Toronto Figliuzzi said There are different courses and some are sponsored by the government while in others the financial burden is solely on the applicant The hardest part is finding job to apprentice headded Such barbering course would involve everything from finger exercises to sharpening scissors They teach you everything The different cuts shaving exercises how to act with customer and many other things Figliuzzisaid During the 4000 hours you apprentice under qualified hairstylist you arent forgotten about by the school Two or three times during that period member of the schools teaching staff checks up on you to see how youre progressing After you have completed apprenticing you still have WM another obstacle to get by before you become qualified hairdresser and its the hardest step of all You are called back to the school after the 4000 hours Cosmo Figliuzzi hairstylist at Gentlemens Choice in the Georgian Mall puts the final touches to the back of David Arbethnots head It isnt as easy as it seems to become hairstylist According to Figliuzzi it takes over year of hard work before becoming qualified hairstylist has to apprentice for over 4000 hours and pass two tests Examiner Photo and you have to go through another test Figliuzzi said If yourass you are finally qualifie but they give you another three months to tinji rove if you happen to at oreign financial institutions setting up offices in Canada Christoph Kremp will represent bank Firms mortgage business reason behind its success WINNIPEG 71 Kenneth Cutts president of Fort Garry Trust has emphasized increasing the companys share of the local market during the last decade and attributes its gowth to that policy But an equally important key to success is the fact that like its Winnipegabased sister com pany Fidelity Trust Co Fort Garry Trust is active as mortgage broker In other words the company will provide home buyer with mortgage financing Then it sells the mortgage at profit to another investor such as pen sion plan fund and continues to administer the mortgage for fee That way the companys capital is freed for further in vestments while making max imum use of its administrative machinery One mortgage dollar can do the work of four in year as you keep lending the satire money Cutts said The company president said majorinvestorslikethistype of investment because it frees them from handling in vestigativc details When Cutts and his business partners bought the firm in 1967 it had $7 million in depos its and only $3 million out in loans Late in December it reported unaudited ninemonth earnings of $673324 for the company up almost 85 per cent from $354257 in the same period of 1976 Prospects are excellent for $1 rnillion year with indications of st rong fourth quarter SMALL IN COMPARISON Though Fort Garry is dwarf compared with other Canadian trust companies it is one of the leaders on the local scene KENNETH UTTS good investment Cutts maintains that what counts locally is market share and he said that with 25000 ac counts his firm has more Win nipeg clients than any other trust firm Assets managed on their be half total about $95 million Cutts 53 joined the Com merce Bank in Medicine Hat Alta at the age of 16 at salary of $400 year Following military service with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War he returned to the bank where he developed talent for open ing bank branches in remote areas He rose to become head of marketing after the Commerce merged with the Imperial and moved to Winnipeg in 1967 when former Bank of Canada governor James Coyne and Sin clair Stevens attempted to es tablish the Bank of Western Canada We had been all set to go said Cutts We had good team assembled But then at age 431 was out of job with wife and six children That was when Cutts and sev eral business partners bought Fort Garry Trust The company is still closely held with fewer than 60 holders of the companys 254000 com mon shares The company has four Winni peg branches one in Brandon one in Saskatoon and one in Richmond BC British Columbia pulp mills feeling financial squeeze VANCOUVER CF British Columbia pulp mills are feeling the financial squeeze as result of low world demand falling prices and burgeoning inventories Pulp prices have dropped seven to 15 per cent during the last few months say industry irsiders and no recovery in ex pected soon The crunch is so bad that companies hit by walkouts are seeing disrupted production as blessing for inventory prob lems Declining prices for pulp started in August when Great Lakes Paper Co Ltd of Thun der Bay Ont announced re duction of 330 ton to $340 Other Canadian firms followed suit Sharp discounting in the cast ern market is estimated to have forced the price down to be tween $310 and $320 ton Pulp is the major raw matc nal used Ill manufacturing pa per and paper board which in turn is used in packaging Key to the industry is exports with about half going to the US and the other half offshore Pulp mills in BC are esti mated to be operating only at about 70 per cent capacity says Ken Shields an analyst with Pcmberton Securities This compares with 80 to 90 per cent through the earlier 1970s with the exception of 1975 which was down to 71 per cent because of strikes SHIPMENTS DOWN Total shipments dropped 23 per cent to 176 million tons be cause of strike in 1975 Output rosetol9milliontonsin1976 Shields says some customers are passing up BCs highcost pulp for lowerpriced material opting to make their paper and packaging by the cheapest way possible The problem has been in Price of imported wines will increase this year TORONTO CP imported wines will cost more this year because of fluctuations in the exchange rates The Liquor Control Board of Ontario reported today that the increases probably wont come into effect until the 1978 ship ping season begins in the St Lawrence Seaway bringing new supplies spokesman said hardest hit will be West Gemian wines be cause of the lower valued Cana dian dollar in terms of United States funds year ago West German mark had value of about 39 cents in Canadian funds At current rates the mark is worth about 52 cents bottle of Bernkasteler Kur furstlay West German white wine cost $330 at the start of 1977 Its current retail price is $380 but the board expects it will rise to $410 bottle this year litre bottle of Lion Rouge French red wine costs $370 up from $355 year ago The board expects that the price will increase to$380 this year tensified by competition trom Sweden which has been able to improve its usual prices be cause of its devalued currency Sweden also has cut the price of its pulp Mclmies Weyerhauser president estimates total stockpiles at Canadian mills are about 860000 metric tons more than half of it in BC This is up from 800000 at the end of July and 1976 Canadian inventory of only 550 metric tons Meanwhile lumber prices which skyrocketed in the sum mer largely because of record US housing starts also have taken sharp fall25 per cent since the end of August TORONTO CP An in fluential German bank has setup an office here lured by the proposed changes in the Bank Act and the market that will be provided in financing energy projects such as the gas pipeline in Canadas North Bayerische Landesbank Giro zentrale or Bayernbank based in Munich also joins growing lineup of foreignbased financial institutions that have moved to Canada in the hope of becoming chartered banks Bayernbank with assets of about $25 billion was formed in 1972 through the merger of two smaller Bavarian banks mak ing it relative newcomer to irternational banking circles It has offices in Luxembourg London Johannesburg Hong Kong and Singapore It chose Toronto as the location for its first thrust into North America Christoph Kremp 32 head of the bank office here said Ba yernbank likely will open New York office next year KNOW THE RULES But we came here first be cause we knew what the rules were going to be Bayernbank was encouraged by proposals in Bank Act revi sions to open up competition in Canadian banking Under the proposed rules foreign banks will be permitted to establish business not New company in Stroud locating in Stroud Newly appointed Supe there isla trend back to natural fibres and it makes good economic sense to use cloth diapers It costs only about $2007 including laundering coststo keep child in textile diapers ence LONDON Reuter JAMES SNOW awards contract company which guarantees an exhaust system replacement for as long as an indivrdual owns car 15 nor Robertson has been doing business through the Painswick Service Centre RR Stroud for the past three years The guarantee offered by Superior Muffler includes every part of the exhaust system including the muffler tailpipe exhaust pipes clamps hangers and labor and is valid at more than 1200 dealers in North America Making comeback TORONTO CP Cloth diapers which had been losing out to the disposable kind in recent years may be making comeback Toronto producer says Michael Davis president of Davis Textiles Co Ltd said this week Davis said Compare that with the $575 or whatever for disposable and then try and justify the differ Reports higher sales ENGLEWOOD NJ Reuter Volkswagens US sales subsidiary Volkswagen of America Inc said this week 1977 sales rose 293 per cent over the 1976 figure Volkswagen said it sold 260704 cars in the US last year up from 201670 in 1976 The sharp sales gain came despite increased competition for the smallcar market by domestic producers and several price increases for German cars reflecting the appreciation of the mark against the dollar British troubles triple Working days lost in Britain be ause of industrial disputes for the first 11 months of 1977 were almost triple the corresponding figure for 1976 Working days lost in the first 11 months of last year totalled 8970000 against 3096000 in the same period of 1976 Reports loss of millions MONTVALE Renter The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co the second largest US grocery chain said this week it had loss of $5022 million for the third quar ter which it blamed on higher costs and an extraordinary loss associated to closing stores Highway 400 contract been awarded the contract rive Canadian branches and have total assets of $500 million or less although restricted to doing no more than 15 1per cent of the total commercia lending inCanada Kremp said Bayernbank has no plans to compete directly with Canadian banks We do not intend to in corporate here or to start tak ing in deposits to sell as loans in competition with Canadian banks he said We came here as representative bank and that will be our role at least for the foreseeable future He said Bayernbank is inter ested in sharing in the inter national financing that will be generated in Canada by the northem pipeline Even if Canadian banks are able to finance onehalf or threequarters of the $13 billion required there will still be in ternational financing involved Thats where we could be of service through our ability to arrange longterm Eurodollar loans at fixed rates The principal thrust of his of fice would be to service the Ca nadian subsidiaries of West German companies operating here It would also act as win dow on the Canadian financial markets Muffler dealer Wayne TORONTO Tran sportation and Com munications Minister James Snow has announced the award of contract for work on Highway 400 for five mile stretch in the Owen Soundarea The contract is for grading drainage granular base hot mix paving and structures on Highway 400 from Highway 11 north for five miles at cost of $2914259 Bot Holdings Limited Bot Construction Canada Limited Bot Construction Limited and Clarkson Construction Company Limited of Oakville have Work on the project is scheduled to begin in May 1978 with completion set for midsummer 1979 There was no winner in last weeks Wheels of Yesteryear contest The picture was supplied to us by Don Hubbert of Oro Station who Identified the car as 1954 Hudson Super Jet This weeks car might prove little easier If you know what type of car it is and the model year send your entry to Wheels of Yesteryear The Examiner Box 370 Barrie MM 4T6 Winner receives sit gift certificate for Brass and Glenn of Dunlop Street