="~page 6 - August 31, 1977 - Nerta Shore News

In one of his. ‘recent broadsides against the
Trudeau government,. its overblown bureaucracy’
and its forbidding: banks of computers: News
columnist Stanley Burke warned that Canada’s

with the idea that cuwcte

wean aw

than people.

- ° The idea isn’t confined to
- Ottawa or Victoria, however.
It flourishes right here in
your friendly neighborheod "
‘department store. ©
. The store in question, like
__ others, has cut back on staff
_ during these present hard
- times, with the result that
’ daily line-ups at the checkout
‘“. eounters (the ones that
, happen to be operati
~ during your visit) frequently -
resemble those of Christmas

- Eve an hour before closing

~ time.

As well, the store has.
_ recently installed the latest ©
thing in electronic -. cash.

registers: the kind that begin .

_ by . buzzing for several
- seconds, follow up ‘with
assorted burps and clicks,
' buzz again at some length |
. and finally deliver the sales ©
. slip with a noise remarkably
iy like’a resounding raspberry. _
-. Perhaps it expresses what

x ah ertles 4 thinks nf tte.
oo Tt SiGrs SCorsiuy Sas: RAB Sts

-= customers.
* The other afternoon I went
*. to the hardware department
. to buy paint thinners, an.

_ light bulbs. For some mys-
terious reason locked deep in
. the.-mind = of the = store
"management the. electrical

* odds-and-ends section -con-
- tains no light bulbs. Light.
“bulbs are a couple of aisles
over, with kitchen “utensils .
_and crockery -whencel duly .

collected them and returned. ©

to join. the:. queue ; ‘at the
hardware checkout. on

“Sorry,
bulbs,”’
girl when my turn finally
came. ‘‘You’ll have to get
_ them from housewares.” |

-Jooked across at the lengthy

line-up waiting to be served
at the housewares checkout
and rebelled. “Can I please
speak to the hardware
manager?’’ I replied. |

Puppet —
classes for
youngsters

As part of its fall program
‘schedule, North Vancouver ’s.
Presentation House. will be

Offering a series of five

puppetry workshops for chil-
dren. -

I can’t. take the

These workshops, led by |

. Diana Hay of the Vancouver
- Guild of Puppetry, will stress —
the design, construction and

theatrical use of puppets. --

They are suitable for Chil-
dren Grades 4 and up. =

The classes’ will. cost
$15.00 (the fee includes all
materials) and will be held on
Sunday afternoons from 1-3 |
p.m. The series begins on
Sept. 18 and runs through
until Nov. 29 (excluding
Sunday, Oct. 9).

The location is Presenta-
tion House, 209 West Fourth
Steeet, North Vancouver.
Enrollment is limited. and.
pre: arr eal is required
' by Sept. 10.

For further information
contact Moira. McPherson at
986-1351.

wae. had wiw

Said . the checkout _

great.

ms are more important”

“He “Sppeared four | or five

“minutes later with a slightly

agressive .‘‘Yes?’’. ~He’d

evidently been briefed that .
there was'a troublemaker on-

the floor.

1 would like to buy. these
“light bulbs from you,’’ I said..

. 4¢ Ba ae

1 ne began <6 SE-.

piain, “Pil teil you why you
can’t do that. The cash

register in this department —

isn’t connected to.the same.
electrical fitment and some —

part of the computer ‘as
housewares . eee

Pm a aftaid: Tt didn’t wait. to.
hear the end of his doubtless

instruc tive technical. lecture.

Leaving the wrapped hard-"
ware items and the unwrap-
‘ped buibs on his counter, 1°

tore.up the sales slip just to
make quite sure his compu-

ter didn’t bill me in revenge,
and drove . _ over to fhe

competition.

There they
thinners, electrical fitments
and light bulbs all in the

same department. Not that it

matters, however, because
the competition’s checkouts
seem happy to take your

money for anything i in. . the,

store.

They still have old-fash-
ioned cash registers, of
course - the simple sort to
which a dollar rung up is a
dollar earned for the com-

_ pany, and no nonsense about_

asking, a computer. for per-

mission to accept it. I hope |

they haven’t ordered any. of
the new 1984 models; though
‘the. temptation to keep up
with the Joneses . must be

When, after waiting pa-
tiently in line, 1 eventually
make it to. the checkout girl |
with my money. in my hot
little fist, I don’t really enjoy

‘being:told by an IBM many: |
miles away topo and join the. stuff from Ottawa just” as

tail end of yet ‘another queue.

WINDOW
SCREENS —

fiberglass screening :
& aluminum frames

1607 Marine Drive
‘North Vancouver

keep . paint

the bugs are coming.

a

Capitan G Glass

SS %

Speaking of systems and
eople |

Pest

almost © inevitably |

ce - the abiding proof . | TI
greatest danger today lies in Ottawa’ s obsession that we Canadians do, after ||}

1, have a sense of humor.

Last year the post office
had a deficit of $546 million.

A recent item in Marketing
Magazine noted « that,-

1976, about 40 per cent of 2s

Canada’s 23 million people
had -a_ taxable

were averaged — over the

. tax-paying public, it would ~ a

work gut at avonnd $60 Ber |

| Sapayer.

i” It'seems quite a bill to pay
Z -in addition to the 12c stamp r

- for. ‘‘assured delivery”’

. :| within one or two weeks of.
the posting date. But these

little delays obviously don’t

worry the Prime Minister’s |.
whose PR. boys |
regularly send the North |

Office,
- Shore News a bulky batch of

press releases on the mom- q s
entous affairs of state. Via jj

Canada Post Office, natur-
ally,

-between the’ dates on ‘the

releases and the date on |
which the bulky envelope T
‘arrives at our_office is 30

days. But the latest batch

really hit the jackpot.

We received it on August

2. It included the following —

communiques:

car a
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. -FRANSCRIPT. OF ‘THE
PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS
CONFERENCE, ‘VANCOU-
VER, B.C. - SULY &, 1877.

- THE PRIME MINISTER’S
MESSAGE TQ: THE. NA- -

TION - JULY 1 i977.

THE E PRIME MINISTER'S
PRESS CONFERENCE, OT -
‘TAWA-JUNE29, 1977,

THE PRIME MINISTER'S °
REMARKS AT ‘QUESTION —
& ANSWER SESSION WITH.
STUDENTS - OXFORD UNI-
VERSITY, ENGLAND-JUNE
13, 1977.

COMMONWEALTH HE-
ADS. OF GOVERNMENT »
MEETING IN LONDON |
8-15 JUNE, 1977.

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