RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Cotumbie Ave. Phone 366-7266 By MIKE WILLIAMS Oe eerie. trace. Canadian Press ponyy henadiaarnry ar UCLUELET — Take the Island Highway north from Nanaimo and turn west at the road toward Coombs County and Whisky Creek. Stop when you hear the roar of the Pacific. Those are directions to one you haven't of the truly unspoiled parts of HIRED British Columbia within half a day of Vancouver, by ferry A mae Ucluelet (pronounced Yoo- cloo-let) and Tofino, 30 minutes to the north, act as book-ends for Long Beach, an 11-kilometre stretch of sand and pounding surf along the ? i] land. Trees and other vegetation What are you along the rigrageing sea- shore bow permanently in- ne for?? | \and in deference to the re- jone lentless onshore wind. Collect 368-9126 Canada So... " west coast of Vancouver Is- Much of the coastline be- tween the two towns, includ- ing Long Beach, comprises Pacific Rim National Park. 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Mi ature waterfalls, living and dying with the spring and summer run-off, sluice down slate-grey rock cuts. Crude roadside signs ad- vertise seafood for sale. The smoked salmon, sole, lobster and oysters go for bargain prices. There are only occasional blemishes, the result of for- est fires or logging. TOPS FOR SALMON About midway is Port Al- berni, a fishing and lumber harbor town that calls itself the salmon capital of the Ucluelet and Tofino, Long Beach bookends world, despite a counter- claim by at least one other island community. Tofino and Ucluelet also boast good fishing year- round. Morning salmon-fish- ing charters during peak season run about $60 per person. Afternoon bottom fishing is about $40. Ucluelet’s welcoming sign proclaims it Whale Capital of the World. Each April, Pacific grey whales migrate from Baja, Mexico, to the Arctic Ocean. They return again in late Oc- tober. With every pass, they can easily be spotted from shore. . RESERVE ROOM Hotel and motel. accomoda- tion during the peak summer months. is tight and reser- vations are a‘ must. More than half a million people visit the area each year. Rooms for two run $50 to $70. Housekeeping cottages go for $80 and up. 19th century home spared MONTREAL (CP) — De: velopers of a city housing project have scrapped plans to tear down the 19th-cen- tury home of a prime minis- ter of Upper and Lower Can- ada. The developers withdrew their request for permission to demolish the 142-year-old greystone, in whch Sir Louis: Hippolyte Lafontaine lived, and said they would restore it on the condition that the rest of the $100-million con dominium and townhouse project not be frozen. Canada Developer Douglas Cohen said he was “completely sur prised” when he learned La fontaine had lived in the house at 1395 Overdale Ave. when he was prime minister of United Canada during the 1840s. “Right now, it’s 14 ticky- tacky apartments,” said Cohen. “There's a stairwell like you'd see in any tourist rooms that’s been there for 60 or 70 years. The brick at the back doesn’t match. So I didn't believe it at first.” From 1848 to 1851 Lafon- taine formed a ministry over Upper and Lower Canada, which had been joined in 1841, making him the first prime minister of Canada in the modern sense of the term. Insuring the SHERLOCK HOLMES MEIRINGEN, Switzerland — In this the Sherlock Holmes centennial year, his fans flock to the Reichenbach Falls where the world’s greatest detective grappled to the death with the only real enemy he ever had. No, it wasn't Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, who plotted the nefarious murder of Sherlock Holmes on that narrow path overlooking the thundering cataract. It was his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Wimpole Street physician and budding author who wanted to get Holmes and Dr. Watson off his back so he could get on to serious historical novels and do for England what Sir Walter Scott had done for Scotland. “Welcome to the Reichenbach Falls,” Fritz Immer, the attendant on the funicular, shouts to visitors cautiously making their way along the narrow ledge, dank and slippery from flying spray and resonant with the roar of the rushing river. “Isn't this a fine place for a murder?” Conan Doyle thought so when he first visited in the early spring of 1893. “A sinister and terrible place,” he wrote in his diary. “One that would make a suitable tomb for poor Sherlock, even if I buriedmy bank account along with him.” FEES SOAR Sherlock Holmes solved his first case in A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas annual of 1887 and brought the author the princely sum of $15, then worth the equivalent of $100 Cdn. Six years later, one of Holmes's “trifling exper ences,” as chronicled by Dr. John H. Watson, commanded thousands of dollars, but Conan Doyle was weary of him. In between dashing off two dozen short stories and a couple of novelettes about the doings at 221B Baker Street, Doyle had written Micah Clarke, a historical novel Anniversary year widely praised by the critics, who continued to ignore Sherlock Holmes. He was also hard at work on The While Company, which as to become the best selling adventure romance since Scott's Ivanhoe. The author felt his “hand was being forced,” by Holmes and Watson “into the lower stratum of literary achievement.” Doyle's solution. Elementary. He sent Holmes careening over the falls in a death grip with Prof. Moriarty. The dastardly deed was done in The Final Problem, which appeared in the December 1893 issue of Strand Magazine. SHOCKS EMPIRE “Killed Sherlock Holmes,” Doyle gloated in his diary, but the Empire was shaken. Londoners wore black armbands and wrote him letters addressed “You brute.” The poet John Masefield felt “an indescribable sense of loss at the thought that Holmes would be no more. - Readers hadn't carried on like this since Charles Dickens let Little Nell die a half-century before. But for almost a decade he held firm against the lamentations of Holmesians everywhere and the increased rewards offered by his British and American publishers. He even tried throwing them a bone, The Hound of the Baskervilles, which Watson oblingingly dug out of his journals for readers of the Strand Magazine in the fall of 1901. Then with a two word postcard to his agent — “very well” — Doyle finally gave in. ‘As The Adventure of the Empty House revealed in the Octover 1903 issue of the Strand, Holmes in that deadly pas de deux with Moriarty on the slithery ledge above the falls had executed a little stutter step, thanks to his knowledge of “baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling.” The maneuver sent his archenemy hurtling into that steaming cauldron and enabled him to go on to acouple of dozen other adventures before retiring to keep bees on the Sussex Downs. Skeena a By DAVID GERSOVITZ Canadian Press PRINCE RUPERT — The gang in the bar on Via Rail's “Skeena” was an odd mix, with just enough mystery about them to help flavor an Agatha Christie whodunit. A couple in their 40s silently played cards with a Texas-size deck, hardly exchanging a glance. A German tourist riding across Canada nursed a beer and pinned down a stranger with aimless banter. Shaie, a husky young Vermonter heading for Alaska, peered into the pitch-black night. Several young men, the kind who meander around the British Columbia Interior looking for work in the forest or lumber mills, periodically pestered Rudy McDowell, a member of the train crew, for another round. It was late. Eyelids were drooping. One of the young men began negotiating with McDowell for a sleeping compartment. “The cheapest bed I've got is $17,” said McDowell. The man thought about the discomfort of sleeping upright and decided to splurge. Out of the breast pocket of a lumberjack shirt came a thin wad of bills. McDowell scribbled something on his ticket. “Anybody else want a bed?” he called to the patrons. “Going once, going twice.” FAST IT’S NOT Welcome aboard the Skeena, also knqwn as the Rupert Rocket, and officially as Via train No. 5 (No. 6 if going east). The Rocket nickname is definitely an endearment, for a rocket she ain't. Nor is the Skeena often crwoded like Via’s Canadian or WANT YOUR AD TO STAND OUT? But don’t want to pay for a B-I-G ad? Use Our ATTENTION GETTERS! e Large “dots” centered above the copy in your ad. slow ride Supercontinental trains, which navigate the Rockies. Yet the Skeena's 29-hour run from Edmonton to Prince Rupert, is a smorgasbord of mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, shimmering lakes and rushing rivers worthy of a great train. It's just a locomotive and five cars most of the year. An inspector once reported to Via headquarters that it had a distinct “country-club atmosphere” where everyone gets along famously. Perhaps, jokes service attendant Diane Peters, the crew should buy T-shirts with an RRCC crest — for Rupert Rocket Country Club, of course. SERVICE GOOD Passengers in need of awake-upcall can rely on Peters. She hasn't forgotten one yet and “I _ don’t expect to. “The odd (attendant) has, and they end up giving the passengers money out of their own pocket to take a taxi back to the station where they were supposed to get off,” said Peters, 33, who lives in Vernon. Via has this new vocabulary. A chief steward like McDowell is called a service co-ordinator. There are no more porters and waiters, only service attendants like Peters and Debbie Acresmith. Passengers are guests now and a dining car is a “guest-service unit.” But a chef is still a chef. The captain of the galley this time was Dan Mackenzie, 37, of Cape Breton, who once cooked for sailors on HMCS Bonaventure, Canada's last aircraft carrier — “Six of us cooked for 900.” Mackenzie makes a mean pot roast or salmon steak, but he shrugs off all praise. If you really want to taste the work of a master, he said, ride the Skeena when John Munsie is cooking: “He makes me look like a potwasher.” NO DOME CAR Although signs forbid it, several of us opened the top half of the doors of our sleeping car and took turns thrusting heads and cameras out into the wind as the train’s whistle reverberated mournfully against the mountains. MEDICINE TELEMEDICINE Canada helps Uganda By MARLENE ORTON Canadian Press A edp is placed over the patient's head and tiny electrodes aré, stuck paintlessly to the skull. A monitor sweeps across a chart, tracing on it the patient's brain activity, The test is an electroencephalogram (EEG), done routinely in Canadian hospitals. In this case, the doctor and patient are in the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. The tracings, however, mark a chart in a lab at the General Hospita in St. John's, Nfid., where they're analysed. Later, the results are relayed back to East Africa. It’s an example of technology at work in modern continuing medical education program. “We were looking for ways to provide physicians and nurses out there with learning experiences within them having to travel hundreds of miles.” Voice links by teleconference calls were set up using Canadian telecommunications know-how that is admired around the world, and the technology that joins the vast land by voice was expanded. “If a physician in Twillingate has a patient with a cardiac problem, a pain in the chest, and he wants to get the advice of a cardiologist, he can call him up,” House explains. “He'll it the el diogram to the ie medicine — a Canadian specialty known as long medicine or telemedicine. For doctors at Memorial University's medical school in St. John’s, it’s almost old hat. ZAP MESSAG! High-tech companies around the country routinely zap computer messages and reports across lines or d's shores into the Third World was perhaps inevitable, given Canada's boy scout reputation combined with top-notch telecommuni- cations experience. “We felt that if telemedicine worked well in bounce the signals by satellite. Physicians or lone medics can send EEG signals and pictures of injured patients from places like Goose Bay, Labrador City and Grand Falls to Memorial's medical centre. Change the setting to an oil rig in the Hibernia fields off the coast of Newfoundland and the picture is ‘ine by in Labrador, then it should work in other isolated areas,” says House. House and a cast of supporters began putting the East Africa project together in 1984 under the name of Project Share. Intelsat, an international satellite organization, had offered free satellite circuits for agencies willing to bring satellite link with the rig’s sick bay. “There's nothing magical about telemedicine,” says Dr. Maxwell House of Memorial University’s school of medicine. “You're trying to make available to the remote sites resources that you have at the central sites.” The technology has been put to work in larger hospitals and teaching centres, especially in Ontario. Long-distance teaching, disagnosis and consultation by satellite began in the 1970s, providing medical services to remote Canadian outposts. Larger hospitals and teaching centres like the University of Toronto, McMaster University in Hamilton, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto are hooked by computer to remote areas such as Sioux Lookout, Ont. The University of Ottawa's school of nursing has offered nursing courses outside the city since 1982 via a satellite centre operating out of Cornwall, Ont. CHANGES SETTING House, a practising neurologist who turned academic when Memorial's medical school opened in the 1960s, directs Memorial's telemedicine program. “| grew up in an isolated area of the pi and then health to poorer countries. By January 1986, Kenya and Canada were linked. Uganda was hooked up a month later in the program geared mainly to pediatrics and maternal health education. The The players included the Canadian International Development Agency, Memorial University, the Montreal Children’s Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Newfoundland Telephone Co., Teleglobe Canada (the overseas telephone service), the University of Toronto, McMaster University and UNICEF. LACKS TEACHERS Both Makere University in Kampala and Nairobi University in Kenya have good medical schools, House said, but they have too few teachers and can't get their hands on recent medical journals. Beyond that, the medical problems on the two continents vary widely and, because of that, Canadian doctors are able to acquire an education in areas that are new to them, House says. “There was a fair amount of discussion about the AIDS problem. In Uganda, they have a reportedly high incidence of AIDS but it’s roughly equal among heterosexuals (and Chemicals to blame in ozone ? NEW YORK (AP) — Ob- servations of the atmosphere over Antarctica support the ories man-made chemicals play a role in an annual decline in ozone over that continent, scientists say. Researchers found high concentrations of an ozone- destroying gas at the same altitude as the ozone de- pletion, indicating the gas destroyed ozone, according to the British journal Nature. Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration announted Tuesday another investigation which also aims at determining what is des: troying the ozone over An. tarctica. The findings in the Nature report were noted in the press last May when they were represented at a U.S. Senate hearing. At that time, researcher Philip Solomon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook called his re- sults strong evidence for im: plicating man-made com pounds called chlorofluoro- carbons in the destruction of ozone. Chlorofuorocarbons are widely used in refigeration fluids, manufacture of plastic foams and for aerosol sprays. Concern over their destruc- tion of ozone led Canada and the United States to ban their use as aerosol prop- ellants. I went out to practise in a similar area,” House says. He ws sometimes stranded in areas like Baie Verte for weeks at a time before roads were built leading to larger Newfoundland centres. “j guess the thing that really started Memorial into telemedicine was that back in 1968 I had responsibility for a INCORRECT USE Contact users may face danger They have prob! with the tr from mothers to children. “There are levels of expertise with certain diseases that we just don't have here.” The idea worked so well that telemedicine links were extended for six months to the West Indies and to six other nearby island countries. Extended use discouraged FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS Castlégar News ee cont gto mo " anes? ge” CHICAGO (REUTER( — Soft contact lens wearers who use home-made saline solutions incorrectly or wear the lenses while swimming may risk a rare infection that can cause blindness, a study says. Researchers at the U.S. Centres for Disease Control said a review of 27 patients who came down with an amoebic infection of the cor. nea found the victims had used saline solutions made from salt tablets, probably incorrectly, instead of com mercial preparations or had ignored precautions against swimming with the lenses on. The study, published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Associa. tion, said U.S. government guidelines state that home- made saline preparations should be used only before and during heat disinfection procedures. ALL TYPES OF COMMERCIAL PRINTING Putting such solutions dir- ectly in the eye, even when distilled water is used, can be dangerous, the report said. It said most manufactur. ers recommend against wearing the lenses while swimming because of the po- tential for loss. The re searchchers said it appears that the water may also pro- vide an avenue for the entry of the infective agent. The study said the infec tion it reported is still rare — with only 100 cases reported to the government among the estimated 23 million Amer. icans who wear contact len. ses. EDMONTON (CP) — Con. tact lenses should not be worn for extended periods, say opthalmologists concern. ed about a growing number of eye irritations. Common problems are cor. neal ulcers and_ infections that can lead to permanent vision damage. “We're seeing more and more of that kind of thing,” said Dr. Gary Chornell, ex- ecutive director of the Op- thalmologists Society of Al berta. “The largest figures show that in (hospital) emer gency rooms, 70 per cent of corneal problems are caused by contact lens wear of some kind.” Chornell said wearing len- ses during sleep can cause corneal swelling and changes in cell structure because in- sufficient oxygen reaches the cornea. 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