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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, July 31, 1975

Slower a Child's Heart,
The More that He Learns

RECENT GRADUATE of
BCIT in environmental health
technology is ‘Miss Lynne E.
Sanford, daughter of Mr, and

Lac la Biche, Alta., working for
the Athabasca Health Unit.

When a child is paying
close attention to what he's
being taught in school, his heart
beats faster than his clasamates
who are goofing off, right?

Wrong: his heart slows
down, and the more a chil
heart slows down, the better
learns In school. This is what
has,been discovered by Dr.
Laurence R. Cousins, assistant,
professor at the school of
education of Notre Dame Uni- ©
versity of Nelson, after over a
year of research,

Last spring, Dr. Cousins
recelved a $600 grant from the
Educational Research Institute
of British Columbia to follow up
an experiment he made while
working on his doctorate at the
University of Waterloo in 1974,

fe has recently completed his
research, and is preparing a
report to submit to a scientific
journal.

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children in the Kitchener-
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monitored their heart rates a3
they responded tos stimulus, in
thia case the vibration of a
metal plate they were touching.
Their hearta slowed down for a

“brief moment, in what Dr.

Cousins calls an “orientation
reflex”.

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” “It you really attend to a
stimulus, your heart slows
down," Dr. Cousins says,

“When your heart slowa down
you're able to take in mi
your environment. It’
your brain Is saying to the rest
of your ‘bodily processes, ‘All
you guys shut ae Iv want to pay
attention to

Dr. baa found that
some of the children’s hearts
slowed down more than othera
in reponse to the stimulus. He
classified them into “high ori-
enters” and “low orienters”,
and tested their learning ability
ina laboratory situation. Of the
128 children, Dr. Cousins id
tified ‘82 “fast learners”’ who
were also “high orienters” and
82 “slow learners” who were
also “low orienters”.

But an artificial learning
situation in the lab won't
sivays ‘tell you how well a child

il do in the classroom, Dr.
Cousina says, With his $500
grant he hired research ‘as-
aistants to look up the school
records of the children to see
how well they had been doing
‘at schoo! since the experiment.

~ Of the 65 students classified

into “fast learners” and “slow
learners", 63 were still in the
district.

“Sure enough, those who
learned faster in the lab also
operated | faster in the class
room", yusins says. “If
found no. relationship, that
would have been intereating
too. It was one of those studies
where I couldn't miss.”

‘The next question is: could
slow learners become faster
learners by learning to slow
down their heart rate? "I
suspect the heart rate slowing
down is only a side effect", Dr.
Cousins says, but he won't

know without more extensive

research. He has applied for a
1204 000 grant from the Na-
Research Council to this

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Former Castlegar Resident
Makes Musical Instruments

Some people. play Instru-
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Giles, operations controller at
CanCel’s Vancouver office, and
known both here and at Na.
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~ Dan completed an Appala-
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Although Dan has always
éna music lover he haa never
played an instrument. Now he
is learning to play his home-

He carved ay eck froma

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Motor Vehicle Branch
Urges Safety Belt Use

A bulletin issued by the
Motor. Vehicle Branch states
there are two leading causes of
death in vehicle crashes.

e major cause fs ejection
from the vehicle, Safety belts
keep you in the vehicle.

The other cause is’ the
crash within the crash, Le., the
secondary collision of a
floating occupant with interior
parts er the v vehicle. Safety
belts. keep you'in your seat,

Some'peopie only wear
seat belts for highway driving.
‘This is wrong. Three out of four
traffic deaths occur within 25
miles of home and half of all
road accidents involving injury
or death happen at 40 miles an
hour or less.

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Even then, the protection from
injury provided by the seat belt
makes you better able ‘to
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Some people think seat
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Independent Contractors. Assn. Establishes
Local Branch & Favors Merit Shop Operation

Ed Kop of Victoria, Bren

Imposed work in

it

dent of the
pendent Contractors and Busi-
nessmen Association of B.C.,
has announced the appointment

of Ralph J. Purdy as executive

+ vice-president,

Mr, Purdy has been active
in the field of labor relations as
a consultant and negotiator,

"and in public relations and

‘communications ‘in Saskatche-
wan ane Alberts,

Purdy's responslbill-
ties bi include initial organiza-
tion and establishment of local
chapters‘ of the new orgal
ton, UES
Chapters ‘have already

‘been formed in Cranbrook,

Creston, ‘Trail-Castlegar, and
lower Vancouver Island. Others
are being formed in the Fraser
Valley ark the Okanagan,
Daweon Kamloops and
Williams *

The abjectves of the or-
ganization are to support “ ‘mere
it shop” operations with par-
tleular emphasis on residential
construction.

It is designed to unite
contractors and businessmen
who support the concepts of

rise and merit shop.

dictional disputes and other
unnatural business practices
prevaleat in closed shop opera-
tons.

Executive officers of the
“association are: vice-president
Elmer Verigin, Trail; treasurer,
Gordon Laarz, Trail; executive
director Delora McKinnon, Vic-
toria; directors, Len Lakes and
Al''Roper, Creston’ and G.

+ Newcomen, Cranbrook.

‘The association belloves, if

reaidential housing costs are to “

be held down, there must be a
clear distinction drawn \be-
tween commercial and reaiden-

tial construction. f

juris- _ allowed to work, can complete

housing construction projects
without the long and costly
labor disputes that are current-

ly plaguing commercial pro-: -

Jects.
In some reas of the U.S,

. where merit shop, contractors

are active, they are securing an
ever-growing share of construe-
tlon fobs, even in the commer:
lal fleld. The reason being that.

they can meet completion dead. *

lines through not being ri
atrieted by unton juriedletional

y dupa work slow-downs, il-

legal strikes, and work-torule
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VOL, 28 No, a2

Explosion Levels

TE eect
CASTLEGAR, BRITISH.COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1975

House; Owners in Hospital -

- ‘House Rose 20 Ft. in Air’

By Burt Campbell

Galena Ne
“Why didn't he (Ralph)
come out? Surely he heard the
bolt of lightning that hit me.”
This: is) the. way. Mrs,
Florence Desaulalers describes’
her reaetlon “to the explosion

that ripped apart the familly .
home at 1712 - 6th Ave. South

on Wednesday evening of last
week. She had been feeding the
dog in the yard when the house
blew apart and a wall fell

_againat her knocklag her to the

‘ground,
‘Her husband, Ralph, 62, a
Cominco security guard, ie

and were’ listed yeaterday

morning as’being in tls.
factory condition, Ironically,
Mr. Desaulniers—-who sulfers

Yesterday's
Explosion —
Undetermined .

‘An explosion at Sporext
mately 8.15 a.m. yes!
shook at ‘least /one Toe i in
Castlegar causing a pictureon a
wall to swing wildly’ has ap-
parently not been {dentified:
Neither the RCMP. nor the

believed to
the house on his recliner char,
presumably. watching: TV.
Neighbors estimate the explo-
sion blew him 20 or more feet in
the ‘alr and he landed in a

“narrow hallway where the

quick action of a neighbor likely
saved his life. Only metal pleces
of the recliner chair have been
fount

department had recelved any’
reports of what ‘the explosfon
might be when the Castlegar
News checked at 9 a.m. ister.

day.

jpeculation is. that it may
have been « jet breaking the
sound barrier or blasting on the
Kinnaird Salmo, highway. pro-
ject.

and his

‘ y
family were just finishing sup-

per at about’ 6.25 p.m. when
they heard the glass shatter in
thelr living room windgw: The
sound of a blast then echoed
through’ their home.

‘The Shelfontiuks looked
outside to see the whole of the
former Desaulniers home in

* rubble. (Other eye witnesses
- aay the ‘whole house’ rose

Forest. Fire AL
» «x Hazard Now.

© the Castlegar. Ranger Dit
moved into the moderate range
on‘ Wednesday. :

Raiger Hugo Wood told
“ the’ Castlegar ‘News: that day
that there have been no'forest -
fires during:the past week
while the hazard ls increasing
a wee bi” >

‘Ho ald he noticed that the
grass.at the airport is just

Is on Strike
Eight members of the 1WA
Office Workers Union have

taken strike ‘action againat .

Castlegar: Savings Credit

“The union was certified
last January and negotiations
fora’ first contract have been
taking place Periodsally. see

feet in the air, then erashed as
it settled, to the ground.)

‘Mri Shelfontiuk climbed on °

top of the rubble and heard Mr.
Desaulniers ‘moaning.- Flames
were about five feet from the
wounded man and Mr Shelfon-
tiuk’ and: someone: elie ‘ini

* “mediately ‘dragged. him, aut.

Within‘ minutes there were

five-foot-high' flames ‘where he’

had been: laying.

AIT Ralph could ay was
“What happened?" recalls Mr.
Shelfontiuk.. ,

Dorothy Shelfontiuk found
Mrs. Desaulniers under the
rubble by a shed at the back of
the house: “It was. quickly
established that the Desaul-

14-year-old son, Eddie,
waa fortunately visiting his
married sister in Castlegar
when the tragedy occurred.

‘The explosion was believed
caused by a natural gas leak.
Mr. id a neighbor

’ Castlegar News
Published Today
This Week Only
‘ZAs\ announced: in last

week's paper, the Castlegar

“News has been published'a day
Inte this week’ because: of

“Monday's B.C. Day holiday and

the fact that 25 per cent of our
employees are presently'on
annual vacation. ‘

Next week's paper will be
“published on Thursday, morn-
ing, a3 regularly scheduled.

© Nelson Bric ge
Substructure’.
; Contract is Let.

Dillingham Corporation of
Canada at Vancouver has been
awarded the tender’ for the
substructure of the. Taghum
Bridge near Nelson,‘ the Hon.
Lorne Nicholson, MLA- for.
Nelson-Creston, has an-
nounced.

+ Mr. Nicolson said the --
tender of $599,000 for construc-.

tion of ‘one pier and two
abulinents was below the B.C.
af highway’ esti-

__ recalls smelling natural gas at 6

a.m, that’ morning and later in
the afternoon Mr. Desaulniers
is said to have been seen
talking with a gas‘company
representative. A ditch’ exca-

_ vated in front’ of the -Desaul-

niers home by. the sewer
contractor had a bent natural
gas pipe ex]

(Por comments of Kinnaird
fire chief Rene Archathbault
and statements by the sewer
contractor, the’ engineering

firm retained on the sewer |

construction project by the City
of Castlegar, and by Inland

said ‘ie financial institution
had been waiting for a response
toits final offer. when the picket
line was put“ up on Thursday
morning of last woek at both
the Castleaird Plaza and Slocan
Valley branches of ‘the credit’
union. >, 2

‘The credit ane is still,
operating with mana-
ger-Harold Webber ‘andthe

on.page 2 in this paper)’
Twelve houses had win-

< dowd broken as a result of the
explosion, including some in.

Kinberry Heights: Pieces of
debris’ settled on houses and
gardens at least four blocks
away.

"ht. and Mrs. Desaulniers.

were rushed by ambulance to
Castlegar. Hospital where they
were placed in the intensive
cafe ward, Both have since
been removed from intensive
care, but’ are still in hospital

The department of high-
ways will start work on’ the
approach ‘fill immediately and
Dillingham ls expected to start
work on the substructure with-
in six weeks,

The contract for.steel for
the bridge’is ex

to be
» released for, tender before the
. end of the year, followed by the

contract for the bridge deck in
1976, he. sald.”

from a heart condition—had
just. returned home three
weeks earlier from the inten.
sive care unit at Trall Hospital.

In an exclusive interview
with the Castlegar News, Mrs.
Desaulniers sald she had just
shaken the rain water out, of
her dog’s dish when a: crash

* sent her flying to the ground.

She recalls wondering why
her husband didn't realize a
lightning bolt had struck her
and then remembers being
placed on a piece. of plywood
panelling and being piled ‘out
of the rubble.

‘“People have been wond
ful," she says, The family has
recelved numerous offers of
assistance and help. “Even
people: we.don’t know have
made donations of clothing.”

‘She marvels at the fact her
engagement ring was found in
the rubble underneath the spot.

a jewellery box ona chest of
drawers in the master bed-
room,

‘Three tanks of tropical fish
kopt by Mra. Desaulniers were
killéd in-the fire although the
eight rabbits in the shed, the
dog and the family cat all lived
through it.

The Desaulniers would
ave lived athe house 20 years
next month, and the mortga;
on it was only paid off last, pat

‘Heavy aluminum pots and
pans melted in) the fire that
followed ‘the blast, but gallon
fuga of orange juice, canned
preserves in the basement and
even‘:plastic dishes ‘¢:
through! it.

Avery ‘email bottle sls
Uquor} ‘such as that served 01 ts

soarvived the bit ;

i ined 14 "ye:
Eddie’ was, bora,”

y's intent ‘to open the
bottle when he is:21.
‘One wall of the house and
‘ord organ were found on:
tte ‘CPR right-of- way near the
highway.
» The family has retained ~

the ineldent.
Columbia River
Treaty Inquiry
Is Still Planned
+s Plans for an inquiry into!
the Columbia River Treaty’
ve not been abandoned det: des:
plte-the long delay,
Minister Bob wilisse a

Wednesday,
We bave had a particular

tbe person in mind as the commis-
‘loner, who is’ occupied now |,

that is the problem we've had,”
he said in an interview with the
‘Canadian Press.

Charges are Contemplated
Following Fight af Slocan

© A fight at Stocan City on
Monday that was described to
RCMP as “a near riot’ involved
approximately six people and
the police ‘at Crescent Valley
say charges are contemplated.
The fight was reported at
6.30-p.m.-on the B.C, Day
holiday’ and took place both
inslde the Slocan Inn bar and
outside the hotel in the parking

te
‘One person went to hospi:

tal with a bad eye and a hurt
shoulder, while, olter persons’
involved received minor injur-..
ies, including black eyes.

‘The RCMP were still in-
vestigating the melee as of
yesterday morning. -

One witness to the fight
told the Castlegar News the
situation was comparable to
the one inthe movie "Walking

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invited, but he has declined,” a hebig of the community it seems most appropriate
spokesman said, they should gather together at the Doukhobor Historical
President Gerald Ford will «| Village at Ootischenis.”
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-- —Castlegar News Photos

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