Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wrap up. Assume hotel operation new York corp. Of America said it will take Over operations of the Royal embassy hotel in Montreal on Jan. 1, 1969. I hotel corp. Said it plans to expand and refurbish the hotel before its opening As hotel Vonesta next january. The company said it has plans for other hotels bearing similar names in Milan Italy new Orleans and key Biscayne Florida. Market optical scanner Tokyo do Nippon electric co. Said it has developed a High Speed optical character Reader a peripheral device for computers. The company which produces computers under licence from Honeywell inc., said the scanner will be sold in the . By Honeywell. It expects Honeywell also will Market other Nippon electric peripheral equipment in the . The optical scanner can process cards a minute and eliminates the need of key punchers Nippon electric said. Pickle Crow Silver Fields Toronto do a plan for the amalgamation of Pickle Crow Gold mines Ltd. And Silver Fields mining corp. Ltd. Will be submitted to shareholders of i Pickle Crow at a special meeting july 29. Share holders of Silver Fields will consider the proposal at a meeting in August. B p Asphalt Plant Montreal do by Canada Ltd., a Mem Ber of the British Petroleum co. London group of companies will spend Mil lion to build an Asphalt Plant at its Ville d Anjou refinery in East end Montreal. I construction is to Start immediately with completion scheduled for the Spring of 1969. . Jobless rate rises do the nation s unemployment rate Rose sharply to a seasonally adjusted 3 per cent of the civilian labor Force in the month to mid june the . Labor department said. In May the jobless rate held steady at. 3 per cent lowest level in 14% years. However june unemployment climbed As joblessness increased among teen agers and 20 to 24 year Olds the department said. The department noted that unemployment nor Mally moves up sharply in june but s Rise was More than seasonally expected. New audio visual system Rye . Do Dictaphone corp. Said it plans to develop a new Type of audio visual system for educational use. Dictaphone said the system under development at its Kin logic corp. Subsidiary embodies a unitized disc that incorporates both recorded sound and visual frames enabling the teacher or Pupil to hear and see the lesson with perfect synchronization. Bag 311 Airliner London do British aircraft corp. Said the new 311 Airliner it s planning is expected to be similar to the Lockheed aircraft corp. Airbus carry ing eight or nine passengers abreast with two aisle ways. British aircraft said the 311 would probably be powered by two Rolls Ryce Ltd. Rb211 engines the same engine used in the Lockheed Airbus. Japanese steel offer Washington do the japanese steel Industry i offered to limit to seven per cent the annual increase in its steel exports to the ., a move that of matched by similar action by other european producers should slow . Imports by the fourth Quarter of . Officials said. Seaway hotels president Toronto do Norton Cooper has been appointed president of Seaway hotels Ltd., replacing Benson Orenstein who the company said has sold his holdings and resigned As president and a director. Or. Cooper is president of Irving l. Straus associates Canada Ltd., a financial and Industrial Public relations firm. Early in june it was reported that a group of Toronto investors had acquired a substantial Stock interest in Seaway hotels. Details weren t disclosed. Defence contracts to be Washington do general electric co. Has received two defence contracts totalling million. Largest is a million air Force award for production of the Mark 12 re entry system. The other a million Navy award is for Poseidon fire control and support equipment. Winnipeg free press saturday july 20, 1968 finance "-5 i. V s s s Lloyd Kembel president Manitoba trucking association truck Outlook Bright Kembel go into the trucking Industry Young advises Lloyd Kembel presi Dent of the Manitoba truck ing association and presi Dent and general manager of Soo Security motorways Ltd., one of the largest Independent Highway trans port companies in Western Canada. Because trucking is a relatively Young aggressive and rapidly growing Industry it offers almost unlimited opportunities for an ambitious Young Man provided he is willing to put real Effort into his Job says or. Kembel. And he predicts the Industry is going to be More and More important to the development of Canada in the years ahead. The trucking Indus a has always been aggressive in providing the necessary transportation to develop Remote districts and with Canada fast opening up its Northern areas trucking is going to play a vital he says. Nor will the expansion of Industry be Only in the North he thinks. He fore sees a substantial increase in International truck traffic Between Canada and the United states in the years ahead As wee As a steady growth in business across the country. That s Why Isay that trucking is a wonderful business for a Young Man to enter still a relatively Young Man himself he has t a Grey hair on is head Lloyd Kembel began his career in Saskatchewan and he has Learned his business from the steering wheel up. On being discharged from the Navy following the Sec Ond world War he worked for his father driving an Oil truck and helping in the family garage and service s t a t i o n at l u m s d e a Saskatchewan. Then in 1950 he joined Soo freight lines limited at Renghia and drove for them. Two years later he was sent to Lethbridge to open a new terminal. The next year he was transferred to Calgary and two years after that he was appointed operations manager at Regina. In 1957, following the entry of Soo freight lines into the motorways organization he became assistant general manager of Soo Security motorways Ltd. He came to Winnipeg in 1960, and the following year was promoted to vice president and general manager. He was appointed president and general manager of Soo Security motorways Ltd. Of . As president of the Mani Toba trucking association or. Kembel Heads an organization that is exceedingly Active in promoting the welfare of the trucking Industry and the province generally. Currently the association is deeply involved with the Highway traffic and motor transport seeking to bring up to Date regulations governing the conditions of Carriage rates and control of Intra provincial traffic. The association m a Many submissions to the authorities during the draft ing of the new Highway traffic act. It has also made submissions to the motor transport. Board on behalf of milk haulers concerning rates and conditions of Carriage in the milk hauling Industry. It has made submissions to the Board and the government regarding control of entry in the City cartage Field with a View to bring ing stability to that Section of the trucking Industry. Looking to the future or. Kembel sees automation be coming More and More important to the trucking Industry. One of our Basic prob lems is the High labor Content of our he says. Labor represents 40 per cent of trucking companies costs in Canada and is continually rising so it is Clear that if we Are to do a profitable business we must automate As much As one of the factors in the High labor costs is that each piece of freight has to be handled several times at the Point of at the warehouse where it is transferred to the Highway trailer and double handling again at the destination Point. Carriers generally Are experimenting with containers and pallets for package freight also with trailer train operations which make it possible to use the same trailer for City pick and for Highway trans port. Another of the problems facing the Industry is that of improving its image with the Public. For example Many companies instruct their Drivers never to pass a Motorist in. Trouble even if it Means interrupting schedules. As a result we get Many Many letters of thanks from motorists who were stranded on the High Way and helped by our All the major companies he said Stiess the safety Factor. Most have full time safety directors and by Means of educational pro Grams and re testing spare no Effort to make sure that they have truly skilled professionals behind the wheels of their Highway tractors. Under Soo Security motorways regulations for example Only senior City Drivers get a Chance to drive Highway and they must be at least 25 years old and Able to pass written Oral medical and vision tests. The company enforces a 55 . Maxi mum Speed limit for its vehicles even though posted Highway speeds May be higher. Part of the improved image enjoyed by. The truck ing Industry today is due to improvements in the equip ment itself. Trucks now Are High powered and Able to take Steep grades no longer does a slow moving truck on a Hill hold up a. Long string cars b. E h i n d it notes or. Kembel. And because of carefully engineered weight distribution trucks do no More damage than private cars to a properly constructed High Way. This has been proven conclusively by exhaustive tests in the United states says or. Kembel. The trucking Industry is fully aware of its responsibilities to the motoring Public and to the country said or. Kembel. The Industry May not again see the spectacular growth that it has experienced in the past but i foresee steady and rapid growth for it in the years hovercraft Industry booming by John Petty a new Way of treating severely burned patients a train to travel at 300 Mph Jungle warfare an Oil company wanting to move two storage tanks an amphibious car ferry Able to Cross seas Rivers deserts marshes and ice. At first sight they Are subjects with Little in com Mon. But each is a common Factor arising from work of Christopher Cockerell a British inventor whose ideas Are coming to fruition in a Way which will bring startling changes to life in the latter half of the 20th Century. It is 15 years since or. Cockerell then an electronics Engineer with a Small commercial boat building interest started it a. He wanted to find a Way of reducing water resistance so that boats could travel faster. Two years later he filed his first Patent based on an Experiment using two Coffee tins a pair of Kitchen Scales and a Jet of air. By 1958 he had made enough Progress to get the support of the National research development corporation an Independent body sponsored by the Brit ish government with the intention of. Helping invent ors. That was the moment when the hovercraft Industry was born just 10 years ago. It has come far in those 10 years. Now it is moving out of the purely experimental Field and into the everyday world where it will be encountered with increasing frequency in the next decade. Cockerell s Early thoughts on lifting boats on a Cushion of air to reduce water drag have naturally Given the greatest impetus to development in the Marine Busi Ness. Already More than a million people have used the various types of hovercraft which provide regular serv ices Between the English Mainland and the Isle of Wight. Similar Craft Are carrying passengers in Italy the United states Japan and other parts of the world. Many More Are on order from British companies. These exciting Craft have led the hovercraft develop ment. But now an immense variety of uses is becoming evident. One of the most interest ing is the development of the hover bed for the treat ment of b a d a u r n e d people. It consists of a fabric bag Hung on a rigid Frame work. The top of the bag has two rows of pockets which meet in the Centre. Warm sterile air is pumped into the bag at Low pressure so that the pockets inflate. When the patient is placed on the bed the pockets form a Seal along the Side of his body but fall away beneath him. This leaves the patient floating on a Cushion of air. The weeping areas of the Burns dry very rapidly and the patient has far less pain than under treatment in a Normal Hospital bed. In Industry its first application is a the process of lifting heavy loads a hover pallet for example is going into use in Many factories. It consists of a simple platform which glides along on a Cushion of contained air. A Man can. Push a Load ton or More around a factory floor using no More pressure than that of a single Finger if a hover pallet is available. The same principle is being applied on much bigger scale. The hover truck made its first big Impact last year when it lifted 200-ton transformers across Bridges when the equipment was being delivered by Road. Previously it would have been necessary to strengthen Bridges along the route in order to take such a heavy Load. In the hover truck air is fed to the Cushion from Rolls Royce engines housed in a sound proof Compart ment. The National research development corporation records the movement of two Oil storage tanks at an Esso depot near Man Chester Northwest eng land As the most spectacular air Cushion transport operation so far. They were 50 feet in diameter and had to be moved on a 200-Yard Zig Zag path to a new site. Hovercraft development a subsidiary of the Corpora Tion designed special skirts to strap round the Bottom of the tanks. These were inflated lifting the 704on tanks seven inches from the ground. Air was pumped at Only 60 pounds per Square foot but this was enough to float the tanks to heir new place. The newest air Cushion subsidiary of the Corpora Tion is tracked hovercraft it is to promote the world use of High Speed guided land hovercraft transport Headquarters have been set up at Cambridge and an track is being set up across the Flat Fenland of East Anglia. A 300 Mph passenger train should be is use by 1970. Meanwhile Britain is rap idly becoming used to the hovercraft As a Means sea and sheltered water transport. New services and new types of Craft Are being introduced cutting journey times by two thirds com pared with conventional ferries military men of Allna tons Are taking an interest wanting them for fast patrol Craft for logistics and offensive work. But they Are also finding a place in sport ambulance work air sea Rescue fire fighting coast guard work and Many other jobs. Their versatility Means they can operate in places where other forms of trans port Are out of the question. On businesses by Douglas h. Fullerton hat Sweden does about regional development the recent election High lighted the growing concern of canadians for the prob lems areas of slow growth As the Atlantic prov inces. Sweden has been facing a very similar situation and the source of its difficulties is much the same As our own. As indu Stry has become less dependent on resources and More on markets their population has shifted from Rural areas and industries into the cities. In Canada the main population losses have been Eastern Quebec the Mari times and the Rural Prairies in. Sweden the Centre and South have grown at the expense of the North. Sweden has used a wide variety of devices in attempting to Cope with the problem of labor surplus and labor Short areas which have resulted from these population and Indus try shifts. Its general policy is summed up in the following paragraph from a govern ment publication problems of regional unemployment cannot always be solved merely by taking Public action to move Power from surplus to shortage areas. In the inter ests of the Economy As a whole it is therefore con desirable to prevail on firms to do More than they have been doing to move to where the surpluses Are. Towards this end the government conducts a n Active location policy which Means that it takes Steps to help localities suffering from single Industry Dpi Nance or surplus labour problems but which other Wise show potential growth possibilities to diversify their economies.1 swedish location policy prior to 1963 was chiefly confined to advice and exhortation but in 1963 firms were allowed to draw on funds from their special Frozen i n v e s t m e n t re serves to build in specified depressed area mainly the North. In addition some subsidies were granted. In ,1965 this program was enlarged to give manufacturers and tourist enterprises a maximum subsidy of 50 per cent to cover construction costs which together with Avail Able government Loans could comprise up to two thirds of total investment costs this program is quite similar in intent and scope to the area development Agency Grants of Canada s department of Industry. Allied with measures to Spur Industry location in the problem areas the swedish government has adopted a very Active labor Market policy. Besides bringing jobs to the workers it helps labour move to existing1 Job opportunities. Here the most important instrument is the employ ment service which includes not Only placement vocational g u a n c e and rehabilitation but teacher counsellors in the comprehensive schools. The labor Market pro g r a a not dissimilar to that of our manpower department includes the following a retraining and extended training using training facilities in private Industry As wee As govern ment courses. Living allow ances Are provided. Mobility Grants Are provided including trave eing allowances costs of moving to a new location and special family and installation aeon aces. Housing in labor Short areas including temporary a special allocation of Public funds. The swedish policy goals place great emphasis on restricting assistance a s much As possible to projects and industries which have Good Long term prospects of viability and potential growth. If the need for meeting Short term problems of labor surplus is accepted Sweden a location. Policy dedicated to the general welfare should not help establish new Industrial plants or develop existing areas where operations Are not Likely to be this latter objective is More easily enunciated than attained however and one suspects that Sweden faces the same difficulties As Canada in trying to ensure that their Aid funds for depressed placed on Good Long term Industrial bets. They themselves recognize the problem As the following quota Tion suggests unless each Case is carefully examined on its own merits the government Wel find itself inadvertently committed to misdirected 1 Community development Al location of resources and so whatever the risks in assisting Industry location it is becoming increasingly Clear that it is no longer Good enough to expect the problems of regional unemployment to solve them selves solely by migration of people. In Sweden Canada or anywhere else the social Cost of rapid depopulation of distressed areas has now become an important econ Omic Factor in itself and a new element in calculating the consequences of alter native policies. When one adds in the effect on housing costs in such migration target areas As Toronto the Case for continuing and extending Industrial location Assis Tance becomes that much stronger ;