_ HEALTH TORONTO (CP) — Scientists are on the verge of some answers to the puzzle of sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that primarily affects blacks. Researchers from Canada, Britain, the United States, Ghana and the West Indies met earlier this month in Toronto to review the progress — and they. oe “We are on the brink of great of the disease, said Dr. Manesodd AU, head of the department of hematology at St. Joseph's “ Hospital in Hamilton. The scientists said they soon may be able to with drugs the formation of these defectively shapred red blood cells. As well, two significant advances will make possible earlier diagnosis in babies and even prenatal identifica- “If W ween! for the first cigarette of the si a Ex; serie. Gssessing | rigs pan brain. Ele the exact time in pregnancy A itiwomen refrain from drinking ,”: Fedoroff said. Halso want to see whether there | ‘e Car insurance ¢Home (el eee ie We Have Funds ‘available fe Kootenay Savings _ “CASTLEGAR: 365-3375. Across from Post ost Olfice SOUTH SLOCAN: 359-7221. Highway 3A 4 quetiapine re os : S >| s : , : i ig: be ie ee sires se is morning, nalts feck the Sey: ‘ pauraption even during the | tion of the disease. There's also hope that genetic engineering may one day prevent the hereditary disease. Meanwhile, a the Canadian Sickle Cell 2 ‘in profoundly” affected: Society — the screening of all black people for the carrier wife, L af in childred with fetal seta syndrome, a condition gene and screening of newborns for the carrier state or fi ige| A 4 i thers were chronic, heavy the disease itself —seems closer to fulfilment. ; : A co-operative project between St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton, the Canadian Sickle Cell Séciety and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children will screen the umbilical cord blood of all black newborns for the sickle cell gene. “Similar screening is being carried out at: Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Th + The story of t! 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But the use of machines that count-red blood cells gene, they never developed ‘te _medical problems their has added a new dimension. children now. have. - There's a correlation between hemoglobin levels and Their son, Jeffrey, 22, 22 regres the constant care ea red cell size and whether a person is a carrier for the an infant, is and confined to a. wh disease or has the disease itself. the age of 4, be lot the'us af the right sdo of his body. = ‘KINNAIRD PARK... .- Linedrowsing (tor {top) show Teen dads want to be involved _ popular impressions, tec to be involved t in) decisions. that’ theirs lsionda oS wives cent fathers, psyc é RP ARy \ y au wa bes i Ai v 4 e fea $ ae = i ° . ; : Te bain ener of the University of Calgary. feted Chat Har. were ‘unualy Eee ae me ‘ i : Pitta tcoe te i eda: ee) a De pteecger of ak Soar Feelee ral oastings | SESE : . mm — witha group of pictures ilities byt did not ~ = = - —+ - er : : ge be f Maes ied: R with eity counell, the concept had begun to take form and eeiae : | for display during the want to be eft out of Gecislons abbot the: baby’s future. TT; 7 i ‘ ee = ° ; : “= =a ‘ ¢ H heey ype tas ieee: tr dade iat . . ne ; - v However, Fry found, .the unmarried teenaged father Smarr a : 2 ey was usually ignored in ‘decisions about the baby. ‘ e Among those teenagers whose babies were aborted, the” _ teenage boy - was “seldom, if ever” asked to help decide if the baby should in fact be abarted or if it should be given up for adoption. The study, baséd on interviews with 35 married and 60 unmarried teenage fathers, also Bhowed that the average teenage father gets little sympathy or support from his family and friends when he is faced with an pomanied. unplanned pregnancy. BOOZE IN SNOW ; The BEA EN rAd scscets In winter sports favolve, | This is one ina series of advertisements designed to explain pavilion park aninance as it was conceived by landscape architect Eric Clough. Middle’ als hots, shows some of Japanese garden. Parks Chairman Alex Cheveldave presents towns a JR PAT te one) City of Castlegar, work ary to the demands of The. first cae in. the project involved ‘the nnn for: that first: year for ‘design; ‘survey, learing, thinning and miscellaneous items amounted to ), while outside ‘receipts included a donation of ‘ag need arises” (and monies are available) factors in the park's development ~' that is, a possible third phase. by family. and) friends. difficult to realize, if one has not been actively alcohol use, says a Canadian doctor. : : : file) ay 0 f ‘ . a ‘ “1 y, $1,000; from: B,C. ‘Telephone. ‘and $600 from: the sale. of Dr. Robert Niven, who poser a \ decade at the Mayor Clinic in Minnesota and has just been appointed director of the U.S. National Insticute on Acohol Abuse and Alcoholism, says that alcohol has become common among many who take part in winter sports, particularly young people. oe “It seems that drinking has become almost a normal part of downhill skiing,” Niven says in an article in the Journal of the Addiction Research’Foundation of Ontario. Niven adds that the attitude among young people that drinking while skiing is all right di disturbs him, even though omst of the alcohol-related skiing injuries are not series. Strokers Club holds eee The bi-monthly meeting of the Nelson Strokers Club was held at the Senior Citi- zen’s Centre in Castl An encore was called for .: and complied with, “The Old There were 19 members pre- sent and volunteer helpers along with four visitirs. A sing-a-long was first, followed by a word game. Ivor Thomas gave his report of the Strokers convention held recently in Vancouver. tor, Nonie Burk and delegate Ivor Thomas attended. Their respective reports were information and res- ponse with questions of inter- est came from the assembled strokers. An effective ex- ereise half-hour under the in- struction of therapist Mrs. late peaches donated by Bill and Marie Popoff. The entertainment section was enjoyable. Strokers lis- tened with interest to the songs and music of Linda Hall and Caroline Mason. Old fa- vorites included “Oh for Closer Walk in the Garden” Next meeting is in ‘two weeks in Nelson when Strok- ers will work on Christmas crafts. 4 (submitted byMary Axworthy) 1978 GMC 1 TON VAN Dit. 5058 $2988 MALONEY 365-2155 TRAIL AREA 364-0213 EXPRE XPRESS Tickets Is Your Name in OPEN MONDAYS? LOOK NOW! of 1200 k A professional soginwer fa janed Calm 07 eer wort i the mining wee ne Whee! hias come a long way since was invented more than 8000 years CP Rail, keeping the wheels coders a a job is mnaying thie eee ts does is put thin: & railway 3 Put in boxes, tubs, tanks or’on flatcars, th Tolls the joon sei of mela dong two Hbons of stool steel ra. WHEELS CARRY WEIGHT OF CANADA'S GOODS Caniag toners an at Ig a freight car its is payload tough ie es, up ils over mountains, on bridges across rivers, Moving ocean ports. Hauling ores and cones from mines to smelters, grain from prairie elevators to marine shipping terminals. If there was an average railway wheel, it would roll about 180,000 miles during its working life, Mite M Turko checks a stockpile of wheels at Calgaryl CP Rail spends more than $20 million on purchasing, ‘more than 7 Popes wheels, 2 eeually 2) \ Machinist Ron Cowan opera at Weston. in The, ‘exerts: ee ene ees ze hen CP Rail doesn't have ann avenge _SQORALNAY EN AND WOMEN ON TH ‘THE JOB _Wielve aot 88000 tre 1200 Tocomiotives, Many of 's 30,000, ¢mén and'women ate So nar ; designs of eee aes the eastern shores of the Mediferranean first used a log as a wheel around -3,500.BC, he never realized that modern man Would use Ultrasonic waves and ahaa later beatae pachocciin alee wheel or. beams Chackite alignment * a curve in the railway track, Seapee cis Tete wheel aii Pal Pree 1 Col And we do talon eel i again from club funds. . L- In 1983, $4,200 drinking: feubteta was built, in, honor. By the. eid of 1079, after the hililing ‘of several Acerca cubie yards of earth ard fill, the installation of seeding and system, . the laying out and paving mt a numberof the In‘ all aspects of the major ‘second be of the . i Itis Kinnaird Park development ‘ the Lions Club was ably seconded by the Lady Lions.Club, led by President Ann + Zibin, They not only took an active part: in fundraising \ projects sponsored by the men: but ‘donated the funds -y.for the purch park began to take on its presént shape“and contours. nses for this year’ totalled $46,000, °\while receipts: amounted, to $81,000—$1,000 from B:C, Tele- _ ‘phone, $900 from Imperial Oil anda grant of $80,000 from _ the ‘Provincial! Loto Fund. Considerable expense was saved when equipment for hauling most of the fill was ~~ donated by the'city and by community: spirited private “equipment ‘and the park sat and contribu the children's aes wel as well tothe cost. of the picnic shelter. | In making his presentation speech -at the’ offictal dedication of the park to the City of Castlegar. ‘on Sept. 16, 1988 Park Chairman Alex'Cheveldave noted that this second development phase cost $162,000 in cash, $83,000 of which had been received in grants and donations and 372,000 raised by the ‘club. 5 year for the that further $50,000 had been beam ‘pavilion entrance was constructed, together with both: wood and chain link'fencing, the band stage and the fully curving (but. Rea pool. All costs. were : grace! borne out of club fundraising ac auc te) main one being : the ‘annual Trade Fair. * 4 In‘ 1981,, more was installed trots the bandstage beyond the wooden fence and the front entrance —‘and with: {t-a considerable planting of: trees; flowers and shrubs. The bill this time was $29,000, nn TROON HNMR ed in i by'citizens and businesses no thanked an "he had taken part. In of: the of this phase of the park development, he presented Mayor Audrey Moore with a group of "pictures for display in the city offices. A suitable plaque will follow. + In closing, he also’ noted that not all pf the original concept for the park had been realized at.this stage. The plans’ envisioned more parking space, more fencing, ball-field lights and tennis courts - all of which represent a ‘considerable outlay’ of cash. ..| They, doubtless, represent aspects of Carl Loeblich's involved, the number of headaches, time and plain hard work that sich complicated and long sustained project requires. I am impressed and would like to congratulate -the Lions, the Lady Lions and all of those citizens and ~businesses who gave so much, both, to this second phase and to the first phase of the Kinnaird Park. You have done a good thing. fi In the course of the park I learned a lost more about the work of the Lions in other e parts of the community and elsewhere. Since, in a brief 18 > years the club has made itself, very much a part of the history. of Castlegar, and since the Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club seem to be a modest lot, we will attempt in the near future, to téll of ‘the work of one community service club. ‘My thanks to president Lawrence Popoff and to parks chairman Alex Cheveldave for their very considerable assistance: s . If you have not yet got a copy of the draft report on the Zuckerberg Island Historical Restoration Project, they are available at the'city office at cost, ($4) thanks to Celgar; 150 pages of, text, pictures, maps. It is invaluable to. anyone d in early inhabitants, plant and animal life, geology of the valley, etc. A’bargain. Mn Clark back into the mainstream. By JOAN RAMSAY. OTTAWA ores Former prime minister Joe Clark is ending ‘his ° self-imposed exile’ from the political spotlight but he's doing it on his own terms and for his own interests. Clark, who has been’ a backstage player since Parliament resumed Sept. 12 with a new man leading the Conservatives, admitted in'an interview that the time has come for him to move back’ into; ‘the Commons ‘ mainstream. x “The former Tory chief kept the low profile to “leave ” the stage elear” for the party's fledgling leader Brian Mulroney, who ousted Clark as leader in‘Sune and won his first Commons seat Aug. 29 in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova. “Now he's established himselt asa’ parliamentarian and that means that I can move’ in a little. more frequently, ‘as I will in two or three weeks in the House,” Clark said. “And I'm free to raise individual issues that come -along and.pursue some of the things Tye been quite deliberately: staying out of.” One of the issues Clark plans to chimpion ts funda: mental "y reform, power to the MPs by allowing hore free wiles — that is non-partisan’ votes — on issues that are not matters of confidence in the government. STARTED REFORMS e started some major parliamentary reforms — thers wast time to take root — but I have believed for a ‘way Parliament works.” long time there needs to be a fundamental change in the Clark said writing is still a vague consideration, but he will be teaching at Toronto’s York University for two weeks, one starting Monday and another in February. In addition, the MP for the Alberta riding of Yllow- Clark ‘has been careful not to lock himself into opposition posts too quickly, although Mulroney offered him any party position he wanted. “I want to do what I'm doing, at least at this stage,” Clark explained. “T’ve been:able to help the leader resolve the major problem the Conservative party has faced, that is the problem of internal difference, and that took- two of us. -'m free to raise in- dividual Issues . . . and.pursue | some of the things I've been deliberately staying out of.” And we both, I think, can congratulate ourselves on the way we've ‘done that, ““ “Tit terms of the longer things, there are obviously some major problems that the party needs to look at that would be helpful to have me involved in, where they could ise my reputation and authority and it. would be of interest to me. “I guess the question I have to ask is whether that ‘fits into my priorities in the next three, four, five months. IfT'm going to pursue a book, for example, if I'm going to be pursuing some of these issues I won't have time to undertake some of these other questions.” . head will be spending time on more basic things. “I have a constituency to worry about. There are some things to do out there that I'm quite interested in doing. I don't think that I have to work it to win it, but there are some things that I'm freer to do now... . that need doing. “There's some travel] I want to do, some people I warit to talk to.” Clark has steered clear of upstaging Mulroney during the five weeks since Parliament resumed, not asking any questions in the daily question period, not + participating in any debatea or commenting on issues. His one lapse came when it was learned that former Liberal mines minister Roger Simmons resigned after only 10 days in office because he was to be charged with tax evasion. Clark spoke out strongly on the issue, saying it raises questions about the adequacy of security. checks on all current ministers and about the process used by Prime Minister Trudeau. to screen potential ministers. Meanwhile; Clark has sent the government more than 40 written questions, 32 of which concerned his push : for more free votes through a definition of questions of confidence in the government. The government refused to answer the 32 questions but Clark citing said he will eoetiben his battle, “I want to have many more free votea,1 don’t think we're going to have any fundamental parliamentary reform until we have many more ee votes.” A special C dying narlia- mentary reform and the Commons is euerenly working under an experimental system that has, among other things, ended night sittings. men