WWMmegmx uwa One of first women here the examiner Frifiev June 197 57 Broker insurance agent retires Hy LORRAINE FIOIYEROA The Examiner HAWKESIONI One of the first female real estate brokers and insurance sellers in the rilliaHarrie area is leaving the business At 64 years of age and after mors than 16 years in the business Loreen Rice is saying goodbye to her clients and hello to leisure time No there arent many women who are general in surance agents says Mrs Rice from her homeoffice in llawkestone Mrs Rice was 48 when she wrote her first real estate exam and 49 when she wrote her first insurance exam Studying for those exams she recalls was hard work You dont learn at that age like you do when youre young she says To her surprise however her exam results were better than those of people half her age got 96 per cent she proudly says Mrs Rice became interested in insurance and real estate while working many years ago for Smith Campbell Real Estate in Barrie did pretty well there she says had deals sewn up and was back into the office before anyone even knew was work ing on it the deal Since she first business began her Loreen Rice Real Estate Broker 15 years ago business has improved eight fold And the reason for her suc Examiner employee awarded cess Word of mouth she says Ive had to do very little advertising Her specialty is rural in surance Rural insurance she says is different from any other types of insurance INVESTEI ILCII Many big business men wouldnt have as much invested as the average farmer does she says farmers in surance policy can be for great deal of money Hes got lot tied up in equipment and livestock She estimates she has about 200 farmers as clients Specializing in farm insurance has never been dull she says Sometime you get calls ear ly in the morning somebodys The Examiner is pleased to announce that Steve Skinner has successfully completed the Career Development Program held in Orillia by Thomson Newspapers Presenting the award on behalf of Thomson Newspapers is Tom Rush Career Development Instructor mark of 75 or better has to be achieved before the award is given Scientists use perfume to lure ambrosia beetle BURNABY BC CP Sci entists are using perfume to lure the ambrosia beetle which costs the British Columbia for est industry millions of dollars year to sticky death research team led by Dr John Borden of the Simon Fra ser University biology depart ment has won $108000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to conduct threeyear study into the technique The beetle has become an in creasing problem in BC since 1970 when chemical pesticides traditionally used to combat the woodboring pest were banned for reasons Ambrosia beetles do not at tack living trees but burrow deep into harvested logs and processed lumber to raise their young leaving the wood marked with pinsized holes and dark stains which form when fungi grow in the tunnels Downgrading the damaged wood to utility from premium grades results in loss of about $7 millionayearinBC Borden says lumber comlt panics have tried to combat the problem by removing felled logs from the forest before they can be infested They have also environmental Industry spending more than thought OTTAWA CP govern ment survey of major corpo rations shows that plans for in vestment in new plants and pro duction facilities this year are higher than originally esti mated The regular April survey of 300 major corporations by the department of industry trade and commerce found they will invest about $207 billion in new buildings and equipment in 1970 about $1 billion higher than estimated in survey last October The department said it is the first time in four years that iii vestment estimates had been revised upward between Octo bcr andApril surveys The new investment means there will be more jobs and greater capacity to produce the goods and services that contrib ute to the countrys total wealth indicating an improve notes Gwartz named chief TORONTO itP Jack Gwartz has been named chief executive officer of Koffler Stores Ltd in addition to his current responsibilities as president and chief operating officer He succeeds Murray Kofflcr who continues as chairman of the board ment from sluggish growth of the last few years The corporations surveyed represent about twothirds of nonagricultural investment but small businesses are not in cluded The department said the re sults of the survey suggest the actual increase in the level of real business spending after in flation is discounted will be be tween four and six per cent for 1979 This compares with actual increases of less than one per cent since 1975 The department said the in creased investment is not sur prising since many existing faA cilities now are operating at or close to capacity and com panies have to expand to fill new orders EXPORT MARKETS OOOI Export markets are particu larly healthy for Canadian companies because the lower value of the dollar has made Canadian goods cheaper and more competitive abroad Strong increases in profits in the last year were also labelled as signficant factor in fluencing investment plans The survey also found ealearly all the $1billion in crease in spending plans was in the private sector Crown corporations had few revisiom There is favorable domes tic investment climate in Can ada this year tried spraying logs with fine mist of water because the beetles dont like damp wood Both methods work but are not practical USE PIIEROMONES The research project concen trates on three pheromones identified during the last 12 years by Borden and Dr RM Silverstein of the New York State College of Forestry in Syracuse Pheromones are sort of per fume insects use to commu nicate Simon Fraser chemists have been able to synthesize three pheromones one for each of the three species of the am brosia beetle which in nature are used by the insects to alert each other to the discovery of log suitable for housekeeping cow has been struck by lightn ing or something she says Youre always at the beck and call of the phone As 0neperson agency Mrs Rice found she was always busy There arent too many one person agencies she says With the exception of secretaries who ranged from her daughter to her daughter in law to close friend Mrs Rice was always oneperson agency Besides the business Mrs Rice who was widowed seven years ago had five children and her mothe and father in law to take care of She was also an active 4H club leader It used to make me mad when Id go to conventions she says knew the men there didnt have one damn thing to think about before they arriv ed Being woman however Mrs Rice had to make sure she had done everything for her children like preparing meals ahead of time and making sure clothes were clean Working in predominantly male field however Mrs Rice says shes never needed womens lib Ive always been liberated she says In her retirement Mrs Rice hopes to travel paint and write write write It even surprises me sometimes when think Im business woman and not an author she says But she plans to change that have lots of stories to tell she says But youll have to wait until write them to hear about them wvvw nother look Metric noise By DOUGLAS GREENWOOD If the loading engineer of an airliner misread kilograms for grams its quite probable that disaster could be caused wrongly loaded aircraft taking off with centre of gravity too far back or forward of the loading datum point could become either too tailheavy or nose heav In 3flight this faulty loading could cause aerodynamic in stability that could be most dangerous if not uncontrollable know this from personal experience as onetime aeronautical engineer During the war was in charge of performancetesting squadron Certain tests involved loading the aircraft to what is known as its aft limit of centre of gravity Based on previous calculations such loadings were worked out and telephoned to the aircrew sergeant in charge of ballasting the aircraft before flight An instruction to place 1000 rounds of ammunition in the tailgunners position somehow became garbled so that the rounds became pounds This meant that the tail load was about 64 times what it should have been The pilot only just managed to circle the field and land after the plane developed critical instability was in the plane myself MORE NOISE If there had been more noise in the communication the danger would not have arisen Here noise means in ef fect redundancy more words more chatter It comes originally from electronic communications jargon meaning static and other interference that prevents clear com munications Getting rid of noise in this case is all to the 00d But when engineers working on translating machines met with problems of how to get their computers to distinguish between say lead the metal and lead horse to water the more words there were in the message the easier it was to translate the real meaning In other words they wanted more noise not less During that war for example the RAF had to change the word airscrew to propeller after three unhappy airmen aircrew arrived at remote airstrip in the middle of Bur ma instead of three propellers that had been urgently re quested Thats just one example of what can happen with the metric system How would you like ton of earth dumped on your lawn 1000 kilograms instead of the 22 lb 10 kilograms you had ordered And dont think such things dont happen its one of the banes of existence in metric countries understand Then consider that you cant divide 10 by three or four Now packaging dozen items is most efficiently done in four rows of three items To package 10 items youd need two rows of five items much too elongated package for convenience CONFUSED PEOPLE The sad part is that most people are confusing the metric system of weights lengths and so on with the decimal system of measuring with its ease of calculation The decimal system has been used for more than hun dred years especially by engineers and scientists The pre sent nonmetric system is far more practical because its basic units can be divided evenly into fractions that are either decimal ie metric or into fractions such as one third quarter and so on When metric conversion really starts if it does the chaos from land measurement in acres and so on to building standards of length and area will be not only totally confusing but costly and dangerous too Merit award given Loreen Rice one of the first female real estate brokers in the BarrieOrillia area is retiring At 64 years of age and after more than l6 years in the By RALPH ALEXANDER Dear Sir Now that Carter has proposed to lift controls on the price of oil in the United States wouldnt it be good time to buy the shares of US oil companies IG Dar If there has ever been triumph of politics over common sense it is in the field of oil and gas in North America The combined forces of US Congress and the President the Canadian Parliament and former Prime Minister were not able to repeal the laws of supply and demand but that hasnt stopped them from trying Common sense would suggest that if you wish to promote conservation of resource you let the price rise to discourage its use and common sense would suggest that if you wish to stimulate the production of resource you allow the price paid to the producer of that resource to increase Instead in Canada and the United States we have seen the price of oil and its end products kept artificially low for political reasons This has lead to the continuing large scale us of the automobile and has undermined any attempts to encourage use of public transit no matter how heavily it is subsidized Rather than allow the price paid to the producers to increase we have witnessed the following RICE REAL ESTATE BROKER LDREEN business Mrs Rice says its time to call it quits She says however real estate is good business for anyone willing to work at it US lifts oil controls stocks worth questioned the federal governments eXCise tax in Canada the Alberta governments massive royalty increases to produce the Heritage foundation to the greater glory of Peter Lougheed and his minions and now finally Jimmy Carters windfall profits tax The oil companies in North America have been investing billions of dollars annually to search for oil They face the risk of drilling only dry holes and they also face the risk that some latter day Einstein will solve the problem of hydrogen fusion This breakthrough which will probably come sooner than the experts predict 30 years will result in the im mediate decline in value of all other competing forms of energy They also face the risk that some power mad politi cian will nationalize them in the public interest if you like our Post Office youll love our nationalized oil com pany In view of all these risks there are no windfall profits There are only profits necessary to compensate for the risk oflosses In view of the continuing political interference in energy personally prefer to avoid these stocks The anticipated decontrol of US oil prices was discounted in advance by in creases in share prices If you must invest in this area Gulf Oil which currently pays divident of close to per cent might be an appropriate investment offering good yield while you wait for the My artificial price ceiling on crude oil in both Canada and the Unitedrstates hoped for triumph of reality Edper aims for Brascan control TORONTO CP Edper Equities Ltd moved Wed nesday to finish the job it started two months ago with $140million bid for majority control of Brascan Ltd of Toronto Edper owner of about eight Dave Lawrence centre regional electrical operator at Ontario Hydros Essa transformer station accepts an award of merit on behalf of the sta tions staff for 20 years of volunteer weather observation for Environment Canada Making the presentation is Jerry Jordison of the atmospheric en vironment service Other onlooking staff members are Wayne Mogk left and Bruce Berry right Examiner Photo million of Brascans 25 million shares announced it will buy up to five millionmore shares of the multinational holding company bringing its holdings to more than 50 per cent Before the offer was an nounced trading in Brascan shares was halted on the To ronto Stock Exchange shortly before noon Wednesday pen ding an announcement by the company At the time of the halt Bras can shares were down onelthalf t0$2363 Edpers $28ashare offer will be made June 14 on the three major Canadian stock ex changes Toronto Montreal and Vancouver The offer the same price as two previous unsuccessful bids came day after Brascan an nounced what amounted to capitulation in its bitter struggle against takeover by Edper An Edper spokesman said the offer could have been lower be cause of market conditions but we thought it only fair to pro ceed at the original price He said Edper doesnt expect any competition to its offer ABANDONED BID On Tuesday Brascan aban doned takeover bid for the US retail giant FW Woolworth Co move strongly opposed by both Woolworth and Edper peace between Brascan and Edper was also announced in cluding an agreement on nam ing Edper officials to the Bras can board but no details were given The Edper spokesman refused to comment on the agreement reached saying it would be premature because details are still being discussed Edper which started its at tempts for 50percent control early in April had been stalled in court by Brascan from voting its shares or increasing its hold ings But those barriers fell Friday when US federal court judge in New York threw out tem porary order restraining Edper from voting its shares Edper Equities was formed by Edper Investments in late March to acquire control of cashrich Brascan The Torontobased holding company is twothirds owned by Edper In vestments the investment arm of Edward and Peter Bront man The other third is owned by Patino NV Netherlands based mining holding company The ruling on Friday lifted an order that prevented Edper from buying more Brascan stock That meeting postponed from May 23 because of the Woolworth bid will be held June26 Tories to increase deficit private company predicts TORONTO iCP Data Re sources of Canada private forecasting organization says in an analysis prepared before the May 22 federal election that Progressive Conservative pol icies wfll significantly increase the federal deficit The organization in state ment that had been prepared for release May 18 said the length of the period of deficit would depend on whether the provmces follow the federal lead in the deducting of mar tage interest and property taxes from income tax Data Resources said the def cit resulting from Conservative promises would decline over the years but small deficit would remain in 1981 The organization said it was referring to Conservative pol icies to bring in variety of tax reductions to reduce personal income tax by $2 billion to al low deduction of mortgage in terest and property taxes from income tax and to restrain gov ernment expenditures Conservative proposals would result in real growth in the economy of 32 per cent in 1979 increasing to 53 per cent 1111980 and five per cent in 1981 the forecasters said That compared with an analysis of Liberal party prom ises that said Liberal policies would result in real growth of three per cent in 1979 increas ing to 48 per cent in 1980 and five per cent in 1981 Data Resources said unem ployment would average eight per cent in 1980 and 74 per cent in 1981 if the Conservatives im plemented their policies Under the Conservatives the Canadian dollar would average 879 cents US in 1980 and 889 cents US in 1981