Page lh, The Harald, Tuesday, January 6, 1981

Hairdresserhas [

club

days," said store manager
Janet Sandel, °

“Many of the women who
‘come in kere work and it's
very convenient for them.
They don’t have to get a
sitter because. their

‘private’

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Hairdresser Norma Sedell
thinks she's successfully
restyled the province's new
Sunday shopping law to |
suit-her weekend custom-

ers. .
Sedell didn't want to

husbands are home watch-
close” her hairdressing’ ing football. And between
salon in nearby Surrey on _—the football games the men
Sundays, as she was forced. come in too.”
to under the Holiday Surrey Crown counset
Shopping Act. Harvey Field said he basn't
So she decided to open seen a police report on the
the shop Sundays as a Sunday opening. ° re:

private cluh; Members pay
$i a year for the privilege
of getting thelr hair done
Sundays.
The membership fees _ effect. |

will be donated to charity “The law. will require
at the end of the year. some clarification,” said
_ ‘The response has been © Vancouver deputy police
fantastic," Sedell said, ‘ chief Tom Herdman, whose
“It’s going over like crazy. office was flooded by calis
We were just swamped in from stere operators
here yesterday (Sunday). wondering whether they

However, police in the
Vancouver area were
among the most confused

We couldn't move, it was so = could open.
busy.” :
Police as well -as Information gathered by

police Sunday will be
passed on to the Crown
counsel's office to deter-
mine whether charges
should be laid, he said,
“From what we've seen
already, there are a
number of cases where
we're going to be asking

customers visited the shop
Sunday, the first day the
new law was in effect.
“The cop who came was
just flabbergasted,” Sedell
said. **He was all for it. He
even asked to join and get a
haircut right then and
there, but we couldn’t do it,
we were just too busy.”
The store has been open
for more than a year and
was one of the first hair- ;
dressing shops to offer He said there are two
Sunday service, . cases among seven
-  “[ count on Sunday reported incidents which

a follow up," said Van-
couver Crown counsel
Bruce Donaid.

openings,” Sedell said. were potential for charges,
“I've set my. prices on possibly next week.
‘volume, E do between $600 | Meanwhile, Vancouver
and $700 worth of business mayor Mike Harcourt
ou Sunday. Nowforthem te —_ blasted the law.

come along -.and « say,
"You've got te close,’ I just
knew there would be an
answer to it.” ;
“Sunday has, always
been one of our biggest

“It's 2 dumb law,” he
said, “It’s the worst of both
worlds. It has to be
changed. It sits with the
provincial government to
change it."

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services a unique piece |

people when the law took °- .. of oilfield’ equipment

the police to go back and do -

EDMONTON (cP) —

A few kilometres south ©
- af Edmonton, tucked in
sone of the industrial
parks - nur
7. Alberta’s petroleum
- ‘industry, is an un- .
-, distinguished building
: housing ‘a Canadian

nurtured. by

success story. .
On the squat, blue

with the unlikely name
of continucus sucker
rod. ;

* What's a continuous

- sucker ‘rod? - Gil-- is
“usually extracted from:
‘the ground by suction
.. With pumps at the top
‘and bottom of wells
- connected by dozens,
’, sometimes hundreds of
a -fivemetre . steel] pipes .
joined by couplings.

‘Corad’s sucker rod is
continuous — one long
piece of heattreated
steel connecting the two
pumps and eliminating

the need for heavy ©

building, -

weir on the pipe.

The rod, while steel, is
flexible. It. is
manufactured at the
company’s plant at

‘Nisku, outside Ed-

monton, and shipped in:
reels to sites. There,
specially designed rigs

“insert the rod into the
‘ground::

- Its a Canadian in-
vention — developed by
Edmonton engineers Al
Palyncuk and ‘Albert
Hanson. — ‘making
moderate but steadily
increasing headway in
winhing a market share
among the thousands of

oilwells- in Canada and.

the United States.
From its beginnings

‘im an east-end Ed-
monton warehouse in.

the mid-196(0s, Corod has
survived a disastrous

” attempt to assault the -

U.S. market, repeated
trips to hackers for
more money and in-
dustry reluctance to
abandon conventional
technology. ”

With an estimated 15

per cent of new, wells
buying Cored, the
privatelyowned —comt-
pany has. become
profitable on reyenues
of about $4 million a
year.

But now its future is

” clouded.

Like dozens of other
firms founded on ail-
industry spinoffs, Corod
is caught in the middle
of the [ederal-provincial
squabble over energy
pricing and revenue
shares, .

“We're getting
worried because we see
oilwell campletions are
olf,” says Burke Corbet,
Corod’s 46-year-ald
chairman and chief
executive officer.

“We've already felt a
fallingoff in demand for
service. If we can't keep
our rigs in Canada busy,
we'll have to consider
shifting one or two to the
U.S.”

Corbet, a  mild-
Tannered Vancouver
native, sounds remark-

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In an interview in his

small office on -the
- second fléor of the plant, ..

he doesn't popnd ‘his
desk or rant “against
federal insensitivity.
His anger is restrained,

The inlerview occurs
the day after a board
meeting, and he says

the board ‘decided to
postpone plans for a

maintenance building
beside its plant until the
energy picture is
clearer.

The sale that ‘could -

mean millions ta Corod
‘involves the . §9-billion
Cold Lake oil sands
Project, which Aiberta

has put inabeyance asa

‘protest against the
federal. budget.

The project calls for |

about 8,-000 wells to get
the heavy oil to the
surface. Almost all the
test wells are using
Corad's sucker rod. -

“We virtually have

-Cold Lake," said Cor- ©

- bet. “It would mean ©
. hundreds of rods,

millions of feet, to be
installeh” 0 05?

.Like’ many other

Canadian companies,

Cored is viewing the: —
_American market..with

an increasingly | ap-

Freciative eye, A. new
president. pledged -to

giving oil companies a. ,

Touch freer hand holds
the promise ‘of big
business for the service
and support companies,

Because. of _ the

ucertainty of Canadian |
Sales, the. Cored di-
- rectors decided. to step
up. plans for a big ~

marketing ush' in the
U.S., Tollowed by a

second try at opening a.

manufacturing -” ‘plant.
When its ‘first
American plant was
opened in 1970, five
years alter a group. of
backers formed Corod
and only two years after
the first rod was sold, it
was a costly error.

Oil industry firms face dilemma.

_ couplings: which cause

"We. made a lot of:
mulstakes and withdrew ;

‘in’ 1973," said Corbet. . -

“Wedecided-to retrench |
in Canada, get into a

‘profitable position, then
go back from a position ;
-a strength.”: i

Despite current ' un-
7 certainties, Cored ‘now
is close to that strength. _

Besides the plant, 10°
installation rigs worth -

about $220,000 each and
more than 1,-000 rods

- installed, the company - |
’ has opened a Calgary
sales office and employs °

55.

In: 1975, the year .
Corbet was appointed: . §

chairman, Corod

showed. its first profit."
, alter about $3 million in, “fs

development costs,
Corbet downplays the

coincidence of first -

profits and his arrival;
and credits “getting the

U.S. operation off our. .
‘simply -

backs, and
getting the rods in the
ground." " .

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