KINGSTON, Ont, (CP) — ' About 9,000 corporate ''. presidents and heads of Mate have left their calling - eards with 15-yearold Ross ‘Tretheway. He solicited most of the cards by mail and, at his ea mast fae pie au ““A few people ., don’ pa them or don’t send cards because they sa they’re too expensive, but get about a 80-to Xpercent response, ” he says. ’ .° Ross’s- collection of 19 . serap books, with business cards neatly taped in place, stands about, 2% feet high and weighs more than’ 40 He ‘has cards from England, France, Spain, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Cuba, Singapore, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, the Ba- hamas, Lebanon, the United States and Canada. “Most people think it’s a obby,” he says, _ “But I think it’s . fascinating.” He receives about 300 cards a week, but with a goal of 100,000 he has a long way to go. NOTEWORTHY RESPOND Ross has signed cards from former prime minister John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald. Tx Ee Hidden somewhere in the ads in the entertainment section are two Terrace phone numbers. Bain them, and if one is yours you've won. Pick up your tickets at the Herald office, | 3232 Kalum St. | PAGE 2 THE TOWHSMAN, Thureday, June 30, 1977, _ COLLECTION TOTALS 9,009 oy - This lad saves calling cards Keith Norton, John Turner, Robert Bourassa and Jean Drapeau. He has cards from New York mayor Abraham Beame, te Chicago mayor Richard Daley Senator Wilbur Mills an Senator Wayne Hayes, to name a few. Ail major unions are represented. and 80 are of corporations such as Bell Canada, Canadian National Rail- ways, Canadian Pacific Ltd. and banks. The only business persons hehas trouble with are froth the vu. 8.8.R. ‘‘Russians aren't in competitive business, 80 they don't usually have cards.” In the four years since he started his collection, Ross has written to every city in Canada with a population of more than 5,000 persons and will do the same In the U.S.; so far he has covered the states from. A to C. CAREER TRACED He has received updated cards from several cities. ‘One series show a man’s career in Richmond, Calif. The first in the series reads Nathanie) (Nat) Bates, councilman. The next loses i. folksiness—the Nat and now it’s Geeta Bates, vice- mayor. The fina] one rea Nathaniel Bates, mayor. The cards come from over the world. All are the same size, but some are made of cardboard, plastic, leather, wood, aluminum, steel, three-dimenstonal graphics agnetized terial, felt, pho! ographic apt with peel of hace Si Eieot card comes from a California hotel that was advertising rooms for ds $1 to $3 a night in 1998. A stock-brokerage firm in all Toronto had Ross checked him autogra om enpert forger could have had a heyday. Trauma of unemployment hits executive level people EDMONTON (CP) — For an executive cast adrift. from a ‘corporate ship the Search for a new job can result in a psychological crisfS. The trauma begins with an abrupt shift from the fast-paced corridors of power to sudden, forced “It can be just like a mar- riage breaking up, rticularly if the situation 1s not of his own making,” THEATRE PASSES says management consultant Jim Colwell of H..: V. Chapman and Associates. Colwell is the Alberta manager of a national firm which finds jobs for ’ executives, a role which involves playing counsellor, conscience and friend to the fired executive. thing. that ‘ea it's the best at can pen him,” Colwell sald in an interview. ‘It can be a new crack at life.” Allen Fraser of another: employment firm, A. W. Fraser, said the biggest oblem a fired executive 5 is with himself. “Here’s a man who for” many years has been used ta being productive, He is suddenly dislocated, He is certainl ,, unprepared emotio Fraser wid the average waiting period for many corporate jobs is six months. If an executive looking for a job were able to realize that it takes that long and maintain his self- confidence it would be easier for him. Peter Arabchuk of Canada Manpower said a common problem is that many executives don’t know how to look for jobs. “They haven't been in a jobhunting situation,'’ Arabchuk said. “All too often, people have become TVikticam Tua Theatres 14720 Label.