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Ford's biggest disaster

EDMONTON (CP) — Gary Fakeley recalls. that his
father visited a Ford showroom in late 1967, glanced at the
new Edsels, left and bought a Vauxhall from a General
Motors dealer.

Fakeley, 10 years old at the time, said it was the first
time his father turned down a Ford.

“He was staying away from (the Edsel) by a country
mile.”

Most car buyers steered clear of the Edsel, a blocky car
in the 1960s style with lavish amounts of chrome, gimmickry
and speedy performance. The car, which took its name from
Edsel Ford, son of Ford founder Henry Ford, was a disaster
that added a new word for flop to the language.

The Edsel’s front end featured a vertical, oval-
shaped grill — described by a comedian as looking like “an
Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.” The interior was distinguished
by a push-button gear shift mounted in the hub of the
steering wheel.

COLLECTS EDSELS

Such memories flooded back to Fakeley in 1979 when he
decided to get an old car. He went to buy a 1959 Chevrolet
from a Saskatchewan farmer, but he was drawn to another
car — a ‘68 Edsel.

Fakeley, 40, now has a collection of 18 Edsels at his
country home near Edmonton. Included are sedans,
convertibles and station wagons built during the three-year
Edsel production run.

Other people share Fakeley’s passion for the car.

Businessman John Antal wanted a Ford when he went
to an Edmonton showroom 30 years ago. The sole Edsel.on
display was stuck in a corner.

“I looked around and liked it,” said Antal, who still has
the car.

Antal said he was happy with the car's performance and
although he has had many other cars, he kept the Edsel.

Fakeley is a charter member of the Edsel Owners Club,
Prairie chapter, established in 1984. The chapter's 110

members own a total of 850 Edsels, The club has a total
membership of 1,200 in the United States and Canada.

Fakeley wrote to Ford Motor Co., former dealers and
employees to find out about Edsel sales in Canada. A total of
118,287 Edsels had been built when production ended in
November 1969, but only 7,440 were sold in Canada.

‘The Edsel was introduced in the United States with
much a hafere on Sept, 4, 1967; The low-key Canadian debut
was a week later.

“Ford spent $100 million promoting and advertising the
Edsel,” Fakeley said.

In the United States, Ford paid all expenses to take 75
automotive writers to Detroit, ted the Edsel and
then gave each journalist a new Edsel to drive home. Only 17
writers made it to their destinations.

Fakeley said that and other plenty

DRUG HELPS
CANCER VICTIMS
GAIN WEIGHT

TORONTO (CP) — When a number of women in the
United States were given a hormone-derived drug to treat
advanced breast cancer, they experienced a side-effect rare
for cancer patients — they gained weight.

‘That phenomenon has led to a new study to determine if
the drug, called megestrol acetate, can help patients with
other cancers to avoid debilitating weight loss and boost
their ability to overcome the disease.

Dr. Simon Tchekmedyian, a Los Angeles cancer
—— says many cancer patients suffer cachexia, a

weight loss characterized not only by destruction of
fat célls in the body, but of muscle tissue, including the
heart.

In a year-long study of 28 women with breast cancer
in early 1986, Tchekmedyian found all but one of

of bad publicity. “Within 10 days, Ford knew it had a lemon.”
TIMING WRONG

Ford had conducted extensive market research in 1955
and '56 to see if a niche existed for the Edsel. The decision to
build the car was made in the spring of 1965, with
automobile inventories at record lows and the stock market
at new highs.

But by the time the Edsel hit the market the United
States was in a brief but sharp recession. Sales of existing
car lines shrank and that doomed the Edsel.

“It was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Fakeley
said.

The Edsel Owners Club has annual conventions in the
United States every year. Fakeley drives to them when he
can, including the 1986 meeting in Kansas City when he
made the trip in his pink 1960 Edsel sedan.

“Every time I stop for gas, it draws a crowd.”

Sometimes there are Edsel jokes to endure, by Fakeley
takes them well.

“With every person who tells a joke, I see a little envy
in his eyes when I drive away.”

Society to be more ‘militant’

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SASKATOON (CP)
Canadian Cancer Society will
become more militant in the
future and spend more time
lobbying governments on
health issues, Doug Barr, the
society's chief executive of-
ficer, said.

“We're not just an organi-
zation prepared to deal with
people after they get cancer,”
we also want to prevent
cancer and deal with future
patients,” he said in an inter-
vie.

Barr and the board of di-
rectors of the National Can-
cer Institute, the society's

—The research arm, were in Sask-

atoon for a board meeting.

The society has become
more politically mature and
realizes it can do something
to change laws and policies
which will lead to improved
public health, he said.

The biggest project now is
the anti-smoking lobby.

‘The society realizes smok-
ing bylaws and changes to
public transportation policies
are making a difference in
tobacco consumption. The
issue of second-hand smoke
also has a huge reservoir of
public support, he said.

According to Honda,
the 9-litre
Hyundai Stellar CL
should cost

That is why the society
lobbied on behalf of Bill C-61,
which bans tobacco promo-
tion and supports increased
taxation on tobacco.

Increasing tobacco taxes is
an important cancer pre-
vention strategy because
teenagers are far more sens-
itive to an increase in price
than adults, Barr said.

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Research has shown most
people become hooked on
smoking between the ages of
12 and 19 so, if people don't
start during their teens, they
are not as likely to start
later.

‘The tobacco industry has
tried to get around the
increased price of cigarettes
by producing smaller pack-
ages, which the cancer soc-
iety calls “kiddie packs.” Barr
said the government should
tax this type of product so
the price is the same as other

which ‘the society can be-
come involved in is research
into why people smoke, said
Dr. Richard Margolese, as-
scciate director of the McGill
‘cancer Centre in Montreal.

Lung cancer kills almost
1,400 people in Saskatchewan
each year, and probably the
same number die from
chronic respiratory disease
and kidney failure associated

ith smoking, Margolese
said.

the patients gained weight while being treated with
megestrol acetate. Before taking the treatment, 13 of the 28
were severely underweight and had no appetite.

“I saw many of these patients when they came to the
clinie and they were so hungry that they couldn't last an
hour without eating something,” he said in an interview.

LOSE WEIGHT

Scientists do not know why many cancer patients suffer
severe weight loss, he said. Some lose weight even though
they are eating properly.

But believes the p1 of cancer cells
may produce a substance or response that affects the body's
ability to store energy in the form of fat.

Although cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and
radiation can diminish appetite because of side-effects,
Tehekmedyian said cancer patients often begin wasting
away long before they are diagn

“What happens with these people is that they go into
process of emaciation,” he said. “They get weaker and
weaker and they go into a spiral where weakness produces
apathy, profound tiredness, depression. And then the less
hungry they are, the weaker they are, until it reaches the
point where they don't care about food anymore because
they're close to death. And then they die.”

Cachexia reduces quality of life for cancer patients, who
are often too weak to function normally, he said, adding they
are often physically unable to withstand the potent drugs
and radiation used to treat the disease.

It is not clear why megestrol acetate causes weight
gain, but Tchekmedyian said it may send a chemical message
to fat and muscle cells and cells in organs to “hold on and
store energy,” or it may cause the hypothalamus gland to
increase appetite.

In his study of 25 male and female patients with a
variety of cancers, being conducted in several U.S. research
centres, about half are receiving megestrol acetate and half
a placebo. The patients have been taking the drug for 2'
months, and 18 have had follow-up examinations. Of those,
nine have gained weight, Tchekmedyian said.

Because researchers are not told which patients are
receiving the drug and which the placebo, it is too early to
say what has caused their weight gain, he said. Results of
the study will likely be published in about a year.

Nurses cope
with shift work

TORONTO (CP) — A __ The nurses from Stanford

group of night-shift nurses —
mindful that accident rates
soar between midnight and 6
a.m. — monitored their own
behavior to determine ways
to cope with shift work.

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University Hospital in Stan-
ford, Calif., came up with the
following suggestions, as re-
ported in the health maga-
zine, Prevention:

— Sleep before work, not
after. You'll feel more alert if
you go to work directly after
sleeping, when you are at the
beginning of your energy
cycle.

—Be bullish about sleeping
soundly, even if it means
establishing harsh rules
around the house. Since the
telephone is the most disrup-
tive noise, disconnect it or
invest in an answering ma-
chine. Earplugs, “day sleep-
er” signs on your front door,
shades, drapes and adequate
locks on doors and windows
are also advised.

— Eat normally. A hearty
breakfast may seem strange
at 10 p.m., but three normal
meals a day will help your
energy level.

— Exercise. You'll feel a lot
peppier with at least three
20-minute sessions of some
kind of cardiovascular activ-
ity each week.

— Keep an active social
life, which contributes to
your energy level and lessens
feelings of isolation, depres-

SPECIAL RECOGNITION . . . John Glavin (left),
manager of The Dominion Group of Canada,
presents Charlie Cohoe with specially com-

By CasNews Staff
Cohoe Insurance Agency Ltd. celebrated its 15th
anniversary with an open house Wednesday.
In a special ceremony, John Glavin, prune of the

Cohoe celebrates 15 years

missioned Royal Doulton figurine of Sir John A.
to mark 15th y of Cohoe In-
surance Agency Ltd. —CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbank

‘y of the ps was the
company’s first president.

Glavin said the figurine was given in recognition of
Cohoe's A tncrenrmee and integrity” and for his

Dominion of Canada General
owner Charlie Cohoe with a Royal Doone A figurine of Sir
John A. Macdonald.

The figurine was specially commissioned by The
Dominion of Canada Group to mark the 100th

to the
Cohoe accepted the figurine with thanks, saying the
15 years “have been a lot of fun’ He also paid tribute to
his loyal “friends, clients and associates” and to his “very
loyal employees.”

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Economic future cloudy

TORONTO (CP) — Plummeting stock markets have
sent investment analysts back to the drawing boards,
revising for corporate and, in many
cases, gloomily lowering their estimates.

“We have revised all of our economic assumptions,
earning estimates for companies and the whole

However, the i
lowering their estimates, citing predictions of a pmeniy
economy and cautious consumer spending, spurred by the
market crash this month.

Hahn Mecca some sectors will be hit almost

said Wilfred Hahn, research director for Prudential-
Bache Securities Canada Ltd.

“We are going on the premise that the financial collapse
we've seen does have fairly significant economic impli-
cations. I think it’s illogical to think otherwise.”

Yet there are some optimists.

Michael Ryan, research director with Pemberton
Houston Willoughby Bell Gouinlock Inc., said he thinks
companies making up the Toronto Stock Exchange
composite 300 index will see profits rise by 25 per cent in
1988.

“I think people are making a grave mistake in
presuming the market decline has changed the economic
outlook,” Ryan said. “We've had so many examples recently
where we've had severe market declines without any change
in the economy. The economy has just kept expanding.”

He sees the economy climbing next year at a rate of 8.5
per cent, slightly better than this year’s rate.

SFP reports
record sales

higher prices enabled Slocan more than doubled to $3.4
Forest Products Ltd. to in- million or 71 cents a share
crease net earnings 62 per compared with $1.3 million or
cent for the nine months 28 cents a share a year ago.
ended Sept. 30, the company Nine-month sales in-
said in a news release. creased 63 per cent to $102.7
Net earnings rose to $8.9 million from $62.9 million.
million or $1.90 a share

and cyclical

goods, such as automobiles, auto parts and appliances.

He sees the economy shrinking by 0.5 per cent in the
first quarter of next year. He had earlier forecast growth of
1.5 to two per cent. And in the fourth quarter of 1987, the
economy will grow by only 1.5 per cent, instead of two per
cent previously forecasted, he

Dylex Ltd., a Toronto-based apparel company, will be
hit badly by the falling stocks, said Helen Murphy, an
analyst with Prudential-Bache.

She has dropped her estimates of Dylex's profit per
share to 36 cents from 85 cents for the fiscal year ending
Feb. 2, 1988, and to 65 cents from $1.40 for the year ending
Feb. 2, 1989. Profit per share last year was 51 cents.

David McLeish, research director with Walwyn Stod-
gell Cochran Murray Ltd., is also reducing his estimates.

He said that profits of the TSE 300 companies next year
could be 10 to 15 per cent lower than this year’s, with
housing starts, auto sales and advertising linage among the
areas suffering the most.

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be erased totally,” McLeish said.

Still, he added that some stocks in the financial and
utilities sectors, for example, will hardly feel the pain.

Fred Schilling, an a it with Nesbitt Thomson
Deacon Inc., expects share profit at Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd.
of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will tumble to 65 cents next year
from his originally forecast $1.55.

He predicts that Seleo Inc. of Toronto and Dofasco Inc.
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casts: to $1.55 from his initial $2.25 at Stelco and to $2.20
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