Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 22 Apr 1978, p. 12

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Hullmwm me examiner Its not iunkyard its recycling centre Th ere 83 gold in ol Barry Sweeny and Tom Perry check over their tools as they prepare to remove parts from the automobiles brought into Parkway Auto Wreckers Ltd on Tiffin Street Bill Pfrimmer manager of the yard says car is almost completely recyclable Examiner Photo This isnt junkyard its auto bodies and parts wrecks at the back of the anautomotive recycling and yard and two delivery dismantling yard trucks to deliver parts and Bill Pfrimmer manager of when necessary whole sec Parkway AutoWreckers Ltd tions of vehicles to varioUs at 321 Tiffin St in Barrie intEd to the sign above his ead Thats what the sign says and thats what it means There are about 300 auto wrecks in the Parkway yard In addition they are stacked three high at the back of the yard by boom truck with an extended boom until 500 are gathered After the cars are stacked mobile carcrusher is buyers in the city Pfrimmer said 70 per cent of the yards wrecks are ob tained through insurance companies Although some yards have contracts with in surance companies guaranteeing certain amount of business Pfrim mer doesnt Pfrimmer said he receives telephone calls from in surance companies when they have write offs brought to theyard available and bids against Pfrimmer said car is other yard operators for the almost completely rec wrecks yclable The remaining 30 per cent When the crusher is of Parkways automobiles brought into the yard cars are loaded one at time in to the machine where they are crushed into 30inchhigh bundles The little bundles are stacked six to eight feet high and transported to smelter to be melted down He said entire cars in cluding glass and seats are flattened and the only part of the car that isnt used is badly damaged tires they are brought to the yard by their owners who are paid $30 to $35 depending on the price paid for scrap metal he said SPRING BUSY Pfrimmer said business is good until January when it slows down until spring In the spring business really picks up thats when people start working on their cars again go to the dump There has been an increase Starters alternators in sales to individuals during transmissions and any the past couple of years usable parts that could be which has meant reduction ruined by adverse weather conditions are removed from the cars and stored inside The rest of the car sits in the yard until customer needs parts then the parts are removed from it Doors are removed and placed on racks in the yard and front ends back ends roofs fenders and bumpers are sold to individuals body shops and garages Any part of car which cant be removed with tools is cut free with propane torch LOCATING PARTS Pfrimmer said car bodies and parts are located by use of cardex system which lists all useable parts the color year and make of the body The wrecking yard em ploys five yardworkers and secretary It uses two tow trucks to change the location of the wrecks in the yard com truck to stack the in sales to garages he said In addition to dealing with individuals and garages wrecking yards also sell parts to auto body shops which often purchase entire front or back ends of vehicles Its often cheaper for an insurance company to replace parts of car rather than make cash settle ment he explained Pfrimmers yard is member of the Canadian Automotive Recyclers Association or the hot line ashe callsit The hot line is an open telephone line between 45 auto wreckers throughout central and southern On tario and it has one member inWinnipeg The open line is connected to speaker in Pfrimmers office and requests for various parts are constantly being made boom truck is used to stack automobile bodies at the back of the yard until there are about 500 in the pile Then mobile carcrusher is brought in to squash the bodies into 320inchhigh VII bundles which are transported to smelter to be melted down garages auto body shops and to individuals Parts that could be damaged by adverse weather conditions are removed from the autos and stored Theyre not funk somebody may want them Barry Sweeny checks tags an exhaust manifolds stored at the yard The yard sells car parts to PETERBOROUGH Ont ICP Grant Morrison who always likes butter on his pancakes was natural for the experiment The 25yearold employee of Quaker Oats 70 of Canada Ltd tastefully tackled the research and came up with the butter flavored syrup which the com pany has just placed on the market through its Aunt Je mima division Morrison fresh out of univer sity with master of science degree took job with Quaker Oats two years ago when the firm was kicking around the idea for such Canadianmade syrup It was just coincidence that went to Quaker Oats Morrison said in an interview And it was also coincidence that always prefer butter on my pancakes His scientific background an asset Morrison ordered more than 70 flavor varieties from so called flavor houses and began testing tasting and eliminating When he had brought the number of possible flavors down to 23 he experimented with combinations in thick syr ups and submitted four or five at lime to tasting panel which rated them in order of from one to four SOME NOT LOSE It was purely subjective opinion Morrison said Some of the flavors didnt even come close to butter Or they tasted like nothing Id want on my pancakes From 25 the field was nari rowed to six then three It was timeconsuming Morrison said Even basic butter flavor has several com Morrison likes butter so he invented syrup ponentsbutter is actually fla vors combined In the fall of 1977 the final choice was checked out with the consumer About 270 persons at shopping mall were asked to take home bottleiwithout 1a beland report on their reac tion Three of four expressed positive purchasing interest said Lowell Lunden Quakers manager of marketing service here We never had such positieresult Quaker Oats of Canada is whollyowned subsidiary of Chicagobased Quaker Oats Co but has been marketing independently in Canada for the last few years Lunden didnt know whether the parent company would market the new syrup in the United States week with 2000 delegates en duct too meetings under the chair Canadas finance minister bid by seek $8 billion in fee in creases from the 41 member countries to dwindlin 1v1 14 Molson agrees to sell TORONTO CP Molson Companies Ltd has announced agreement in principle to sell its John Wood division to Ca nadianbased investor group headed by David Sheperd of Toronto The company which did not disclose the price said the transaction is expected to be completed by April 30 John Wood produces domestic and commercial water heaters Torstar plans new press TORONTO CP Torstar Corp has approved $7 million expenditure for new offset press in its commercial printing operations Torstar whose subsidiaries publish The Star and nine community newspapers said the fivevunit press will provide improvedquality printing and color at high speed It said it will take 20 to 22 months to build and install the equipment Utility offers debentures MONTREAL CP HoydroQuebec announced this week the staterun utility has negotiated debenture offer of $120 million to the Canadian market The debentures of fered at 100 have both yield and an interest rate of 1014 per cent The issue is dated May 15 1978 and has term of 25 years but are callable at par after May 15 1998 Kaufman plant to close VANASTRA Ont CF About 25 workers at Kaufman Footwear Inc will lose their jobs when the company closes its plant in this community on July 14 company official said this week However Yurgan Walters company per sonnel manager said jobs will be available to the workers at the companys plant in Kitchener about 65 kilometres east of this community Plan tough reassessment VANCOUVER CP The 19th annual meeting of the InterAmerican Develop ment Bank IDB ended this dorsing resolution to con gh reassessment of the financiallytroubled in ternational bank Following three days of manship of Jean Chretien the delegates also approved bank governors to replenish gfunds Of particular concern was inside Canadas forest industry The problem is serious OTTAWA CP The old adage might have to be changed to you cant see the faest for lack of trees unless forest renewal and management in Canada gets boost There is growing concern in the timber and pulp and paper industries that their resource base is evaporating as natural regeneration and replanting fall behind the annual cut $225000 consultants report now being made available for public distribution but released to the industry last fall spells out the situation in detail Its author Reed of Vancouver predicts that tough times lie ahead and new forest management priorities are im perative He told the recent annual meeting in Montreal of the Ca nadian Pulp and Paper Associ ations woodlands section that painful adjustments are in prospect WARNS OF DANGER He warned that there is real danger however that the participants will remain pre occupied with the problems and fail to move decisively to implementation And talk is cheap Industry has to stop shrug ging off all responsibility for replanting and renewal Pro vincial governments havent been able to do the job alone Warlock By DOUGLAS GREENWOOD Last fall the prime ministers political past came home to roost It echoed through the House of Commons as outspoken words in speech by Otta Jelinek PC for High Park Humber Valley Its tempting to report what he said but since the only newsworthy thing about it is that it was said in parliament and now rests solidly in Hansards sturdy nest of historical speeches lll refrain Mr Jelineks words were only partial replay of lrudeaus record that various souces have already exposed The complete thing actually reads like resume that could get him job as topflight Kremlin economist Even by merely reading Hansards official reporting of it its almost possible to see government members squirming and to hear them squawking with embarrassment as Mr Jelineks words hit the fan It was something like what happens when your longsuffering aunt tells it like it really is about scheming sneaky arrogant hypocritical and in competent uncle who most of the family have known about for long time but kept quiet because of misplaced sense of loyalty Jelinek Thunder Yet for all its thunder very little of what Mr Jelinek said ever was reported or broadcast This is pity because besides speaking the unspeakable Mr Jelinek also showed up the false labeling of Trudeaus campaign promises one of which we all remember to wrestle inflation to the ground He never even entered the ring Then Jelinek com pared thronespeech promises of good legislation with after speech conjobs by Trudeau who thus made the queen liar and they never will Conservative promises to help small businesses its field business could be foreign subsidiary or sub sidiary of giant multinational company but still only have half dozen or so employees Such setup obviously should not be considered small business yet thats how it comes out by present government definitions Second his party would establish an independent small business secretariat At present the department of industry trade and commerce is too big to oversee smallbusiness needs And since small business represents 60 per cent of Canadian economy it certainly has claim to department with some clout in government Third an umbrella act would be developed to cover all federal government matters dealing with small business and provide incentive programs such as set aside portion of government purchases that small businesses could tender for in simpler ways reduce formfilling practices and requirements that are either obsolete or now being duplicated allow tax credit up to $5000 for capital investment in Canadianowned small bsuiness provide assistance in the formation of smallbusiness export partnerships remove capital gains tax on transfers of business from one family member to another encourage secondary manufacturing by tax breaks for research and development Fourth interest rates for small business would be pegged between one and two per cent above prime rates something the government promised to do but never did Unless action is taken at once Mr Jelinek warned the status of the United We could be witnessing the demise of small business and Grant Morrison food scientist with Quaker Oats of Canada Ltd has developed formula for butterflavored pancake syrup After testing more than 70 flavors since Fall of i976 the new Aunt Jemima syrup is on sale in Canadian stores but there are no plans to market the product yet in the us CP Photo States which is about $800 million in arrears in its 197778 financial com mitments to the bank etablished two decades ago to promote the development of Latin America JEAN CHRETIEN was chairman But major proportion of Jelinelis speech as his partys MP responsible for small business dealt with the ways it would be assisted if his party were in power FOUR BUSINESS AIDS First elinek said they would redefine small business In stead of going by the number of employees it should be bas ed on how it functions He prefers the US Small Business Administrations definition An ownermanaged enterprise not domipant in therefore reeenterprise as we know it That of course would probably not bother the prime minister elinke observed because he has indicated quite clearly in interviews that in his words the free market stem will not work This demise would not be because system doesnt work Jelinek concluded but because Trudeau and his government would not allow the free market to operate properly

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