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the examiner Saturday October 1917 11 Gary Wismer president of Barries Fisher Stoves plant says fireplace models like the one shown here are more popular than heater models because buyers like to watch the fire screen not shown for the door Opening permits safe viewing Examiner Photo MM Planning to heat your home with wood stove this winter Better get in line now Theres sixweek backlog of orders at the Fisher Wood Stove Factory on Highway 11 just north of Barrie and owners Gary Wismer and Chuck Dynes say theyre thinking of putting on third shift to catch up Business is well hot About 500 orders came in in August with September looking even better and the partners have stopped adding to their network of Strodd dealers in various parts of the province because they cant supply the ones they have It wasnt always so When the partners arrived from the west coast in December 1975 with newly purchased licence to use the US based Fisher name and design they were their own sole employees As recently as mid summer the work force numbered only eight or soa number now trebled by boom ing business JUST MOSEYED ALONG it just moseyed along until about seven weeks ago says Wismer 30yearold struc tural iron worker from British Columbia It really has taken off in the last little while We sold more in the month of August then the whole revious time weve been in usiness The partners cite increasing public awareness of impending uel shortages as major cause of the sudden jump but with the energy crisis four years old there seems to be more to it than that As far as Im concerned the interest was here two years ago when we started says Dynes 26 Quebecborn framing carpenter who grew up in On tario and met Wismer in British Columbia Wordofmouth advertising has been the key Dynes says People trust their neighbor more than they trust salesman Ironically Wismer says rivals like Ontario Hydro and Consumers Gas have helped sales of wood stoves Theyre promiting conser vation and thats certainly helping our cause Wismer says People are fed up with high energy prices too dont think the market has peaked Anyone who into energy conservation over the next few years is going to have pretty good market It was market considerations that brought the partners to On tario in the first place Both had friends in the wood stove business in British Columbia and Wismer was personally in volved because his fabricating experience was useful in assembling the stoves ONTARIO MORE ATTRACTIVE But when the pair decided to strike out on their own Ontario looked more attractive because of its greater population and greater distance from energy sup lies ey went to Eugene Ore to buy rights to the Fisher name and designthe only American components of their product Parts and labor are entirely Canadian including the cast iron doors which are made in Orangeville When the partners first came to Ontario they found themselves concentrating on walkin sales because they could not afford to sell their product wholesale That Chang ed about year ago with the beginning of their dealer net Hottest business in Barrie is Fisher Wood Stove factory work though most of the dealers signed on within the past six months The firm has sales manager on the road to line up more dealershi though his work has been imited during the cur rent freeze on accepting new dealers Wismer says Fishers main market is among middleaged homeowners younger adults are interested but most do not yet own their own homes and it is not financially practical to spend between $300 and $500 for wood stove plus another $150 for chimney in rented quarters Wismer himself does not heat his home with wood for that reason though Dynes does majority of the firms customersabout 60 per centare rural residents Wismer says Access to free wood makes the stoves more attractive buy for farm dwellers than for city folk who must buy their fuel Another important source of sales is the vacation market with the firm enjoying the ad vantage of location just off three main roads to cottage countryHighway 400 Highway 11 and Highway 93 Forget what the skeptics say you can heat home with wood Fisher Stoves coOWner Chuck Dynes right watches as Randy Gilbert puts finishing touches on front door frame for one of the firms stoves The Barrie plant has its stove doors cast in Orangeville but does the rest of the work locally Only the Fisher name and design are American Examiner Photo Yes you can heat your entire home with one woodburning stove say Chuck Dynes and iary Wismer partners in Fisher Stoves Barrie opera tion Wc get hit of skeptics says Wismer They say how can that little thing beat my whole housc But the skepticism doesnt last he says They buy them as su plcmcntal heater and they such good job the stove becomes their main source of heat The furnace becomes supplemental heater Fishers five models are designed to heat specific floor artas 1000 square feet for the smallest moch 2000 square foct for thc largest stove matched propcrly to the house is capable of providing all the butt needed Wismer says You could takc out your fur mice and rcly on the stove to do the saintjob he says The furnace will remain useful however The best stows keep the going max imum of about 20 hours not enough to kccp your plumbing from frcczmg whilc you spend mid wintcr week in Florida The stoves come in two basic typcs heater and fire lace liircplacc models have oublc doors which can be left open and fitted with screen includ ed in your purchase Hcatcr stoves have single door not in Carters South refuge for Canadian businesses ATLANTA ia iPi Canadian businesses are in creasingly finding Jimmy ar ters South to be profitable refuge from fanadian bureaucrats and unions In addition to setting up sales offices to handli the rapidly growing trade between Canada and the seven southeast states Canadian firms are invcst ing in new and existing manufac turing enterprises They are following hundreds of northern US firms which have found that the South has lucrative combination mar ket of 32 iniliioii people low Construction and land costs comparatively low wages and weathcr that does not disrupt operations with blizzards But even though such hard economic factors arc essential to the decision to invest in the south some obscrvcrs feel the primary reasons for the in vestment arc psychological In my opinion its much more than simply an attack on the southeast market Henry Howell vicepicsidcnt of the First National Bank of Atlanta said in an interview Bas ically the people coming arc people who want to be as close as is possible to free market operation FEEL ltlSlRlll2l In Canada he said the busi nessmen are feeling increas ingly restricted by government and unions lim Wilkerson director of the Atlanta chambcr of com merce agreed with that assessment in separate in tcrvicw but put morc strcss on the fixhugs tfic anadian inv vestors cxprcss about anadiaii unions They pcrccch the Labor movcmcnt gaining more and more control at rapid rate and this is basically causing them to bccoiiic iioircom pctitivc Wilkerson added that few Canadian busincssmcn have mentioned concern over thc possibility of Quebec sipnrd tion but he believes that con cern is minor factor thats basically more hcadlincs and hogwash than rcal impact The region is also gaining considerably from Western Eur ropcan businessmen who are worried about leftist political trends as well as the growth of government control and labor power he said in every placc they llil decided to move their capital out and they see tfic United States as sort of thc last outpost of free enterprise And once the foreign iii vestors start looking at the United States much of their at tention goes to the southeast North and South arolina Georgia lenncsscc Mississip pi Alabama and Florida POPULATION GROWS From 1970 to 1973 overall US population grew 56 per cent the southeast grow 118 per ccnt ltctail salts rosi 91 per cent in the country as whole 161 per ccnt in the southeast Nonagricultural employment went up 6515 per cent overall 886 per cent in the southeast Within the southcast Atlanta has been emerging as finan cial distribution salcs coni munications and transport atioii ccntrc The citys chamber of commerce makes much of the fact that about 440 of thc big gest 500 US corporations have offices hcrc Although US corporations have for some years bccn di rccting their expansion and new cntcrpriscs to thc smith thc flow of forcigii illtslttttlll is morc icci ll Carters election has helped draw forcigii iittcntioii to floor gin and the south tilkcrson said Hcforc if anyoiic had ever heard of Atlanta at all they associiitml it with ioiic Willi The Wind The Georgia govciiimcnt listed 21ft international prcr cnces this ycai many bciiig sales officcs in contrast to only His two ycars ago if thc 218 ittt art aiiadiair including 10 anadian manufacturing optrations lhc potential for both foreign invcstmciit and trade was un dcrliiicd this year when lcorgia banking laws wcrc revised to allow forcigii banks to set up commercial loan operations BANKS MOVE oui bunks quickly movcd in Haiclays of London Trcrlit Suisse Bank of Tokyo and the Bank of Nova Scotia We havc hiin hopes and big plans said lion iflllttltl ofthc Bank of Nova Scotia ninid rushing to opcn the banks ncw Atlantaofficc The Bank of Nova Scotia will be serving not only aiiadiaiis but US companies doing husi ncss with anada Doug ltranion faniidiaii tradc coinmissioiicr in Atlanta said prospects rcinani good for his sevenstate stiiitciis iiica Taiiada cxporfcd $901 million to tlic aica last year and cx ports ari growing at an annual rzitc of It to 13 pcr cint lii said He added that fill lypcs of ex ports arc highly dcsiriililc for Canada siiicc thcy arc mainly sciiiiriiiaiiufucturcd md inniiu facturcd products not just raw materials anaduin exports in cludc auto parts clcctroiiics farm cquipmcnt lltijlllll and food products lficrc is no indication lilill soothich ccouoinic growth is slowing hc sziid piidiciiig that thc icgion would contiiiuc to grow fzistcr than lllt rcst of thc lfiutcd Stiitcs for at lcast live your LIKE LOWER CHLIIS ilrllllfill said that sonic of the factors attracting niiadiun in vcstors wugc rutcs $1 to $15 lowtr than nniidns and pro ductivity pcr ccnt liiglicr could have inadc Iifc difficult fortiiiiadiancxportcrs lhc cxpoltcrs can thank their lucky stars that thc dol lars down to $12 cciits llc cstiliuilcd that iinadians havc invcstcd zilinost $500 mil lion in tlic arm in businesses not including the cxtciisivc nadian investment in real cs MC and said his officc is gct ting tlircc timcs thc numbcr of inquiries it did thrcc ycars ago Howell also reported increas ing Canadian inquiries about icorgia invcstmciit opportun itics weve seen as much in the first six months of this year as we saw in all of last year anadiaii interests are con sidcring setting up manufac luring plants dealing with fur niturc forest products and con sumcr products for autos HAS IIJCXIISIIJiY In many casts he said the Canadian businessman putting his cxpansion money in the southeast is the little guy the guy who has thi flexibility to votc will his fcct There are also major firms like Alcan Aluminum Ltd which has intcrcsts in several soutlicust statcs ltranion noted that Alcan had just invested $140 million in lciincsscc snicltor to give it its first US rcliningcapacity tended to be left open snu rou LESS Heater modets setl for less and are more efficient because they are virtually airtight but the fireplace models enjoy equal or greater popularity due to the esthetic value of wat chingthe flames Prices range from $315 to $495 not counting about $150 for chimney which Wismer says good doityourselfer can in stall in an afternoon Heat is adjusted on both fireplace and heater models by means of vents which control air flow With heater model Wismer says the fire can be put out just by closing down the vents The stoves made primarilv of steel plate and lined with fire brick produce only five per cent of the fuels weight in ash requiring little cleaning Wismer says However the firm does recommend yearly chimney cleanout to avoid chimney fires caused by buildup of smoke contents Heat from stove is spread through house by means of convection currents as warm air moves up and out and is replaced by cold air moving down and in However the room with the stove will generally be warmer than other rooms by 10 to 12 degrees arenhcit about five to seven iegrees Celsuis director of finance and calers Jan 23 1978 Ontario Gets top BC iob Hugh Seadon formerly of Barrie has been ap lanning Telephone company at its Vancouver headquarters Prior to this appointment he was directorgeneral of cor porate planning with Quebec Telephone in Rimouski Quebec He had worked for this company for 17 months At farewell party given for him by Quebec Telephone Seaton was presented with gold watch GM has conversion kits In helping Canadians adjust to the metric system General Motors of Canada has come out with two version systems for latemodel GM cars The first system the Metric converts speedometers from miles to kilometers in most 1971 to 1974 cars and sells for $475 through GM dealers The second system the Universal Metric ConverSion Kit fits all car models and consists of eight trans arent stickers that can be ap lied to the glass over the sipecdbmeter face This system se Is for 99 cents at all GM Seminars deal with economics The Ontario Economic Council is sponsoring series of four afternoon seminars dealing with longterm economic prospects and special policy issues for Ontario The series entitled Outlook and Issues will get underway in Kingston on Oct 24 from there it moves to Hamilton on Nov 21 London on Nov 28 and finishes in Thunder Bay on CENTRE OF FAMILY LIFE As result the room with the stove usually becomes the cen tre of family life says Wismer and bedrooms and littleused rooms need not be heated to full room temperature How much can wood stove owner save in winter If he owns woodlot says Wismer the stove will pay for itself in single season savings for those who must buy firewood run around 30 per cent Wismer says stove buyer can calculate his wood needs on the basis of one true cord of hardwood four by four by eight feet for every 200 gallons of fuel oil needed over winter Wood prices vary widely he says but typical figure is $75 for true cord of suitable hardwoodamaple beech or the like At 54 cents gallon 200 gallons of fuel oil costs $108 For those lucky enough to own one Wismer says twoto fiveacre woodlot pro erly managed can heat ome forever ou can grow your own heat ike you grow your own vegetables side benefit of wood stove is cooking though Dynm says no one would buy one primarily for that purpose Its hard and uneconomical to get wood stove hot enough to cook steak hems but simmering pots of is easy enough Dynes also keeps pot of water on his stove during the winter as makeshift humidifier pointed with the British Columbia peedometer con peedometer Conversion Kit 93 peedometer The main issues to be discussed at the seminars are the following intergovernmental relations coping with health care costs public and private pensions in Canada and transportation rates and economic development in northern Tom Murfin is one of about two dozen workers employed at Fisher Stoves north of Barrie now that business is booming Here he cleans and chips welded seams on partially oompleted stove Examiner Photo llAWA Tl ltusincssur en are not expecting strong improvement in anadas cco iiomic performance in the next six months the onfcrcncc Board in Canada says quarterly survey of busi ness attitudes shows that busi ness leaders appear to be less optimistic than they were at the time of the previous survey three months ago The board says 38 per ccnt of businessmen feel overall cco nomic conditions will remain the same during the next six months The pessimistic outlook ro fleets shift in attitudes of dc lSlttllrlllttktlS in the forestry and lorcst products li guJ 14 chemical mining metal and machinery and electrical cquipmcnt industries which historically hich accounted for major share of total iii vcstincnt spending the report said EXPECT NO IIANGE Most businessmen said they expect no change in the unem ployment rate 81 per cent na tionally in the last report dur ing the next six months The report said the business men arc little more optimistic over an improvement in the in flation rate with only it per cent cxpixting an increase dur ing the next six months In the prcvious survey 27 per cent of thosc survcyid thought the rate wheels of yesterday Last weeks Wheels of Yesteryear was 1955 Mercury Montclair and it was correctly Iden tified by Nelson McDowell 331 Big Bay Point Rd Painswick He wins 810 gift certificate from Brass and Glenn Dunlop Street You too can be winner by correctly ldentlfylng the car in this weeks contest We want not only the make but the model as well Send your answer to Wheels of Yesteryear The Examiner Box 370 Barrie Ont AM 4T6 The winner will be the flrst correct entry chosen in draw at noon Thursday Businessmen less optimistic on economic improvement would go up Hopes by company leaders for an increase in sales also dropped with most of them cit ing weak market demand as the main reason Fortysix per cent gave govr crnmeiit policies as another im pediment to investment spend ing About 47 per cent of the busi nessmen felt it would be bad time to expand plant and equip ment 20 per cent considered it good time and 33 per cent didnt know The survey showed that 84 per cent reported their com panies are already operating at less than full capacity