page 8, June 16, 1976 North Shore News

The Vancouver Whitecaps

are gearing up for their

annual soccer clinics and

camps for juvenile players
throughout the provin

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Sake See reve wore

The training sessions will
feature intensive instruction
by Whitecaps players in all

aspects of the game and are -

open to both boys and girls
from eight to seventeen
years of age.

One of the day. clinics,
which run from July 12 to
August 12, will be -held on
the North Shore and will.
consist of ten hours of
training in four seperate
sessions at a cost of $20.00. ©

The clinics. will be under ;

the supervision of ~ the
Whitecaps _internationally
recognized Head . Coach
Eckhard Krautzun.

Further information may

be obtained by contacting the

Whitecaps Foundation, 2700
- 1177 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, B.C., telephone
684-2494.

“fate; :
‘managed. shops can continue:
to operate in a- Profitable

Responding last week to a
request -from auto  body-:
shops for a rate increase,

Norman Bortnick, executive —

vice-president and general
manager of the Insurance

- Corporation of British Coi-

umbia, said the corporation
would hold the line.on rates

‘and could not accede to the

request from the operators. |

. “We believe,’’ he said,
“that the present rate gives
the operators a fair return
and while this rate may work
a hardship on some opera-
tors, |
corporation should be called
upon to -protect - -the estab-
lished earnings of any

-business in this province.’

Mr. Bortnick went on. to ;
say’ that it is conceivable
there are too many body

shops for the volume of
’ business.
_ available.
poration started up there —

which is
When the Cor-

were 715 auto body shops on

the Corporation records. -

In one year this had
increased to 1,247. Because
of normal attrition and a
sharp reduction in the work

load,.in June of this. year:

there were still 1,168, 60 per

‘cent more than when the -

Corporation

commenced
operations.

From its studies and the.
accounting records of its own >

shops, the corporation be-
lieves that. at the current
‘the | efficient, . well

manner. 0s
3 ee

we do not feel the

now -

‘efficient and cost conscious,
a ee aes \ sie WE ele Ss ot

‘An analysis of the past rate
structure increases faced by
the motoring public and the
corporation is revealing. The

first. dgreement, in March

1974, between ICBC and the

body, shops caiied for an

‘hourly rate of $14.00. This

was increased to $15.50 an
hour in January, 1975, and to

. the current rate of $18.50 in

July, 1975.

This is a total increase of
31 per’ cent over sixteen
months. During the same
period the cost of living index
increased only 15 per cent.

“In their new submission
the body shop operators
asked that the base rate be

‘ increased to $23.50 from the
going rate of $18.50, or by 27.
_per cent.

According to a survey
conducted: in March, the

B.C. body. shop industry’s

existing rate structure is
already amongst the highest
in North America. Because
previous increases in body
shop hourly rates have far
exceeded cost of living
increases they have been
inflationary. Any further .
increase. would make the
matter even worse.

‘The present rate of $9.07 ©

“paid to union body’ shop

workers already .allows the
operators more than 100 per .
cent at ‘the. $18.50 rate to
cover overhead and profit.

“We will do everything.
possible -to” encourage . the.
good....operators. who  are-

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but we refuse to ask the ;

public to subsidize an: over-
expanded industry,’’ said
Mr. Bortnick.

“We recognize that there |

has been a serious downturn
in business for the auto body.
shops. Fewer cars . have

collision coverage than in |

previous years. Also higher
collision rates and compre-
hensive deductibles are
making drivers more cau-
tious. As. a result we are
having fewer accidents than

afnes
ever before.

***Finally, because of the

higher cost of repairs, more —

cars are Being written off as
total losses.”"

“All this ‘means reduced
work for the body shops. But

‘we believe this industry must

respond to supply and
demand and that the corpor-

ation and thé general public §- -

should not be asked to
maintain the gross revenues
of this industry at a level

which will. support a sub-. }-
stantial over-supply of repair

facilities.”’

Mr. Bortnick concluded by
saying that the corporation

recognizes the need for a
healthy and stable body. shop.. :
“industry, -
the co-operation and the.
-assistance we have received:

““We. “appreciate

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study” ways and means of
improving their operations in
order to increase efficiency
so that they. can continue to

operate under the existing’
Meanwhile

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