B6é CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 9, 1981

PARTICIPATING in air cadet courses during the summer.
were four members of the 581 squadron (Castlegar) of
the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. They are, left to right,
Cpl. L. Peterman, taking a junior leaders course in

Erma

Bombeck x;

Be honest now. Do any of you understand one word of

what your doctor tells you?

Ever since | told a crowded room | had a Bavarian cyst
and not only did no one laugh, but two others In the room
had the same thing, I’ve been convinced doctor and
patient do not speak the same language.

They speak Latin. We speak Reader's Digest.

Isuspect | am like most people who are intimidated by
anyone who wears white all winter and washes his hands

137 times a day.

It’s not that | don’t pay attention. It's Just tht | havea
feeling something more important awaits him In the next

treatment room.

Somehow, | cannot see me having this conversation

with my doctor.

“You say this problem Is in my humorous bone?
Humorous as In Woody Allen?’’ »

“No, that’s humerus.”’

“Would you spell that, please?’’

“‘Of course. Give me a plece of scrap paper and I'll
make a diagram and label it for you.’’

“Here, take the gown you gave me.”’

There is probably nothing more humiliating than to
have a husband who always wants to know what the

doctor sald.

“thas something to do with my nose,’’ | say.
“What part of your nose?’’ he asks.

“You know. The rect . .

“Try septum. What's wrong with it?’’

“It's perverted.’’
“‘Deviated.””
“Same thing.’”

I've talked with people who told me they had a Cather
Inserted in them for a week (Not to be confused with
novelist Willa Catheter who wrote, ‘Death Comes for

the Archbishop.’’)

Another friend | know could never remember his blood
pressure numbers, but sald if his dlabolic reading was
under nis goif score, is was happy.

All of us who go to doctors suffer the same disease,
timidity of the tongue. We don’t open our mouths and
ask questions. | don’t know why. | only know a lot Is lost

In the translation.

When my grandmother once announced she had a
prostate deficiency and was told It wasn’t possible, she
snapped, ‘‘The way | eat, anything Is possible.”

B.C. promoiion
Fall In Love Again

In a dramatic bid to in-
crease the flow of in-coming
Washington tourists, Tour-
ism British Columbia and the
Kootenay Boundary Visitors’
Association will. launch a
major media and travel show

ion in Spok today,

Tourism B.C.'s latest travel
film dealing with the West
Kootenay region.

The displays, made up
mostly of posters and color
photos of the West Koot-
enays, will be attended by

bers of the KBVA who

‘Thursday and Friday accord-
ing to Tim Barry, a spokes-
man from the KBVA.

The travel show, entitled
“Fall In Love Again,” is the
first major travel display to
appear in the Spokane area in
several years, Barry said. It
will be backed up by five
hours of “Open Line” radio
show on KSPO radio, Spo-
kane.

Barry, who called the
event a “three-day promo-
tional extravaganza,” said
that is is designed to be an
ideal opportunity for Inland
Empire travellers to find out
about rates, travel packages,
gasoline prices and the fa-
vorable exchange rate of the
U.S. dollar when converted
into Canadian currency.

“Besides,” he said, “it
should help to situate us on
the map. Let's face it, many
Americans are only dimly
aware of where British Col-
umhia is, never mind trying
to located Kootenay Country,
and they really don't know
much more about us than the
fact that it says “Beautiful”
on our license plates.

The Spokane event will
. inelude two full days of com-
munity displays in the mall of
River Park Square,

ter, and will culminate in the
Spokane Opera House show-
ing of “Here To Share,”

will give away tickets to the
Opera House event as well as
a wide variety of travel lit-
erature including maps, bro-
chures, directories and trip

guides — all free for the =

asking.

Collection agencies
have poor image

By Chris Carlow

WINNIPEG (CP) — Collec-
tion agencies don’t necess-
arily thrive during poor econ-
omic times, say officials of the
much-maligned industry, but
they don’t cry the blues
either.

Jeff Cudmore, manager of
Creative Collection Services
in Winnipeg, said good times
of bad times, debtors get in
trouble.

“When the economy is
good, there’s more loans

around, the banks are freer

Penhold, Alta., Sgt. D. Forrent and Sgt. C. Parfeniuk,
both participating in a senior leaders course at Cold
Lake, Alta., and Cpl. K. Paul, technical training at Bor-

dien, Ont.

—CosNewsFoto by Chery! Wishlow.

Training,

Everest

By Vic Parsons

PEKING (CP) — The first
team of Canadian mountain
climbers to be permitted to
scale Chinese mountain
peaks left Peking late in
August for the remote city of
Urumdi in China's far west
Xinjiang province.

The group, led by John
Amatt of Canmore, Alta., will
tackle the slopes of 7,546-
metre Mount Muztagata, a
mountain in the Chinese
Pamirs close to the Russian
and Afghanistan borders.

The climbers are all mem-
bers of the Canadian Mount
Everest expedition, which
will attempt the world’s
higksst mountain in the fall
of 1982.

Amatt said the climb of
Muztagata, which has been
conquered three times be-
fore, most recently by an
American team, amounts to a
training run for the Everest
ascent. During their six
weeks in the Pamirs, the
Canadians will also attempt ~
two other 7,000-metre peaks
that are unnamed and have
never been climbed.

Just getting to the moun-
tains will be a mini-adven-
ture. From Urumai, capital of
Xinjiang, the team will fly to
Kashgar, an ancient city on
the Silk Road travelled by
Italian explorer Marco Polo
in the 18th century.

From there, a bus or truck

+ will carry them and their 500

kilograms of climbing equip-
ment and food to the village
of Subashi.

TRAVEL BY CAMEL

The final stage of the trip
will be via a 16-camel caravan
to the 5,000-metre level on
the mountain where a base
camp will be established.

Amatt said in an interview
that Muztagata is a mountain
of average difficulty. “The
main value of this climb will
be the high-altitude train-
ing.”

The climbers, including
Lloyd Gallagher of Canmore,
Steve Bezruchka of Seattle
and Pat Morrow of Kimber-
ley, B.C., will spend four
weeks on the -mountain
slopes acclimatizing their
bodies to the high altitude
before trying the final ascent.

“The key thing is accli-
matization,” said Amatt.
“There is a real danger of

ascent

trying too much too fast. You
can die if you go to altitude
too quickly bécause your
lungs can fill with fluid.”

Amatt said at high levels it
is a major challenge to re-
main healthy and it does not
pay to be too fit when you
arrive. i

“At altitude the body tends
to deteriorate quickly. You
lose a lot of weight, you don’t
eat and become susceptible
to illness.”

“If you are too fit you start
to lose hody weight. It is bet-
ter to build up your muscle
on the mountain.”

Amatt says he hopes the
visit by his team will build up
a good relationship with Chi-
nese mountaineers so that
other Canadians will he wel-
come in China.

B.C. TEAM COMING

with their loans and there are
more collections,” Cudmore
explained,

‘*However, when the econ-
omy’s bad, people get in
rougher situations with high-
er rates and mortgage renew-
als which may mean a mort-
gage payment of $800 instead
of $500. So there’s more
collections: for us there too,
but I think it would equal out
either way.”

George Prociuk, a collector
with Canadian Financial Re-
covery of Winnipeg, said lean
times can. make it harder to
collect bad debts,

“Everybody knows what
the economy's like and they
should be able to realize we
can't be getting fat on their
money when there is none to
get,’” Prociuk said.

COLLECTORS
FARE BETTER

But he also admitted his
company fares better when
interest rates are in the 22-
per-cent range than busin-
esses in other lines.

“Naturally, we're going to
make money in this time,
more than ABC company will

. + You could say we know
how to get money out of a rock
sometimes, and we will make
money.””

But he rejected the notion
of collection agencies thriving
on the misfortune of other
businesses.

Industry spokesmen said
which once all-

AV based group
is coming next year to climb
Mount Minyakonka in Chi-
na’s southwestern Sichuan
province.

Amatt says he has also-s

negotiated permission from
the Chinese to try Mount
Everest, which lies on the
Tibet-Nepal border, from the
Chinese side in 1985.

The team has widespread
climbing experience in many
parts of the world. Amatt’s
highest climb has been Al-
pamays, a 6,500-metre moun-
tain in Peru. He was also
involved in the first ascent of
the 1,600-metre vertical face
of the Troll Wall in Norway.

Amatt said although Muz-
tagata was climbed by a U.S.
team in July, 1980, the
mountain is not well known.
The Canadians are hoping to
find a different and more
difficult route than the Amer-
icans used.

Muztagata is in a desert
region and the climbers are

‘expecting extremes of hot

and cold temperature result-
ing in high winds.

“Winds will be the most
arduous factor in climbing
this mountain,” Amatt said.

The Chinese may have a
motive in allowing foreign
teams to climb the i

owed bills to sit unpaid for six
to eight months before turn-
ing to an agency now are
waiting only about 90 days

before turning over accounts.

Some agency representa-
tives will admit that profits
are increasing.

Jack Lubotta, president of
Financial Collection Agencies
International Ltd., said his
firm is projecting a net profit
this year of $3 million, up
from $2¥% million last year.

The average agency char-
ges a 24-per-cent commission
on the amount collected so to
reach that projected profit
Lubotta’s firm must collect
about $12 million. '

Agencies operate with
roughly a 15- to 20-p it

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It you can't pick out the
alcoholic from among your 14
best friends that drink, then
the odds are that you're IT!

Rattles ya, doesn’t it!
| And it should, because one
of every 16 adults who drink
{s an alcoholic.
| But double check yourself.
There's a 18-step trail fol-
Jowed by most alcoholics.
Find out where (or if) you've
peen there.

! The first step, logically
pnough, is, starting to drink.

Bounds innocent enough and ,

usually is since 14 of 15 adults
never go beyond that point,
except having a “little too
inuch” once in a while with-
but any particular pattern.

: But are you the one that
imperceptibly inches beyond
this point?

: If so, you start having
plackouts by the time you're
26, getting drunk more or
less regularly. Sure, call: it
“getting tight” or “having a
buzz on” because you enjoy it
and feel you can stop at any
time.

Sometimes you get tanked.

up at a party and the next
day you can't recall all those
“funny things” your host says
you did. It may not happen
again, but if it does... watch
out. And count yourself as
having passed the second
trail marker.

BCGEW
fight racism
in province

Buttons inscribed with
“Have Courage, Oppose Ra-

cism” are being distributed |

to B.C. ‘Government Em-
ployees’ Union members as
part of the union’s program
to fight racism in the prov-
ince.

A resolution passed at the
union’s convention in June
reaffirmed the BCGEU's op-
position to all forms of racist
discrimination -;-and::* called

Alcoholism

_ The 13 frightening steps

About the same time you
want'a little more “kick” so
you may sneak a few during
the party or even beforehand
“to be sure you enjoy your-
self.” b

The experts (ex-alcholics
who have been down the
road) call this the state
where liquor means more to
you than it does to others. -

In short, you don't want to
talk about how much the
“sauce” means to you.

If you stop or sharply cut
back now, it’s not too late. If
you don't, the chances are
high you're en route to alco-
holism,

For about the next two
years you'll! hang in this
limbo zone but eventually
find yourself drinking more
than you intend each time
you take a drink.

You join the fellas (or the
girls) after work for a “couple
of quickies” but find yourself
still drinking through dinner
or up until closing time.

Sure, you still have control
over whether or not you
drink tomorrow or next week
or whenever. But when you
do “tipple,” you don’t have
control over how much.

About now, you'll find
yourself picking up checks in
restaurants, paying too much
for things you don’t need,
tipping right and left and
generally splurging.

It’s puzzling and annoying
— but not too late to stop.

‘Unless you understand and
take hold. of this loss of
control within the next two
years, you'll start making
excuses for drinking.

That’s the fifth step.

And when you start taking

“eye-openers” first thing af-

ter starting your day, count
yourself as having reached
the near midpoint. It’s no
longer social or pleasure. It’s
because you feel “you need
it.”

And you soon “need it” so
often that you start drinking
alone.

— number nine — is the
“bender.”

This acute stage is the first
sign of true alcoholism and
usually comes one to three
years after you begin drink-
ing in the morning.

In short, you've gone be-
yond the point of any sem-
blance of control.

There are patterns now,
too. You're “on the wagon”
and off again or’ decide to
drink only on given days or
with someone. But it's all
subterfuge because you have
no intention of keeping the
-promise.

So: now you've proven
yourself a “no-good, drunken
failure” and are bound .to
have sober moments of deep
remorse.

But this is just temporary.
The over-riding conviction
that you “have good reason”
to drink or that “nobody
understands” you puts you
back on the bottle.

In fact, the world is against
you, right?
If this is true, you've hit

(step 10 and might as well

count yourself almost out.
But there's more.
You'll soon feel a deep,
nameless anxiety as you
move closer to and

EDMONTON (CP) — Mar-
riage breakdown “is a crisis
for which no one is ever
prepared,” says Rev. ‘Mike
McCaffery, a Roman Catholic
priest who has hdlped many
Men and women struggling
to start new lives after div-
orce,

McCaffery is spiritual ad-

wiser to Reaching Out, a

spiritual bankruptcy.

It's not long before you hit
an éven dozen of those grim
trail markers and realize
drinking has you licked. If
you don't admit this to
yourself within five years
after the anxiety began,
you'll probably never admit it
at all,

But let's say you do.

That's where trail marker .
18 comes along — the only
bright one in a steadily
darkening picture.

If you've counted yourself
in up to now, count yourself
in for the round trip and get
that help.

To start with, you could
phone 365-3663.

group of

and divorced Catholics in
Edmonton who help others
with the same problems.

The group provides coun-
selling, emotional support
and social contact.

Failure of a marriage,
McCaffery said in an inter-
view does not mean the
couple is no longer welcome
and wanted ‘in the Catholic
church, -

“We maintain marriage is a
commitmént: for life. But
Jesus had a compassion for
failure, and the chursh sees
marriage breakdown as fail-
ure, not sin.

“Divorce never has and
doesn't prevent someone
from being a full member of
the Roman Catholic church.”

The divorce rate for Catho-
lics is the same as for the
general Canadian

CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 9, 1981

Divorce trauma ‘like mourning’

+
Beginnings, a weekend de-
signed to help peopld come to
terms: with break-

a fact acknowledged by the
church through participation
in groups such as Reaching
Qut and sponsorship of re-
treats and special programs
for di d and d

down.

“It helps close the door,
gently, and make a new be-
ginning on life,” said Marie
MacDonald, family life’ co-

One such program is New

Aug. 20
Record

A ridge of high pressure
moved over British Columbia
during the month of August
and finally brought summer
to the West Kootenays.

. The ridge remained
throughout the month, giving
above-normal hours of’ sun-
shine and warm temper-
atures. One very active dis-
turbance broke through on
the 20th however, giving
record-breaking, short-term
rainfalls,

for Catholic Sociat
Services. y
Trained volunteers, who

rainfall

The | average maximum,
jum and mean temper-
atures were about 1°c above
normal. Recorded sunshine
was 81.8 hours above normal
and total rainfall, at 27.7 mm,
was 60 per cent normal.

For one hour on the 20th,

short term was 14.0mm,
which fell in 1976.

have been through separa: °
tion, help people explore
their feelings.

“You lock at why you do
the things you do,” said Di-
anne, divorced and in her
early 20s, who went to New
Beginnings last year. “You
look at things that made you
angry, the things that hurt.”

Support from people who}
understand the anger, rejec-’
tion and despair that come:
and remain for years after a;

going through a divorce.”

“They don't understand
the hurt doesn’t just go
away.”

“It takes a long time to sort
through mixed-up feelings,”
said Chhrles, divorced and in
his 40s. “It’s like mourning.”

“You are mourning the
death of a relationship,” said
Harold- 5

The Project Impact
Committee for the Trail

build the project.

downstream water use
and transmission lines.

' area.is a volunteer group:
of local residents set up
under the. auspices of
‘the Regional District
of Kootenay Boundary
to provide a focus and
public forum in the

By next summer,
in addition to engineer-
ing and transmission ,
line studies, there will
be studies showing the
effects of the project on

socio-economics, tourism

We'd like to
share the information
we are gaining on the
proposed Murphy Creek
hydroelectric project
with you. Simply call
your local repre-

regional district for
discussion about the
proposed dam at
Murphy Creek.
Our Commit-

for the~develop-
ment of a program to high-
light the union's position.

While the buttons were
produced primarily for
BCGEU members, they will
also be distributed at the
B.C. Federation of Labor's
conference on racism Oct. 16
at the Biltmore Hotel in
Vancouver.

“We have produced these
buttons under a mandate
from our membership, with
the hope that by distri

- «Hold up-seven fingers, be->
cause-that’s-where you're-at-~;
And ‘not far off is. the

“anti-social” phase when you
feel destructive and pick
fights with friends, kick dogs
or just about anything that
satisfies a desire to cause
damage.

These same feelings turn
inward, too,

You become self-conscious,
afraid of people staring at:
you or whispering about you.
You become overly critical of
friends, ly analyse

them, it will help create an
awareness of the very real
dangers to our society posed
by racist attitudes,” said
BCGEU president Norman T.
Richards.

complete strangers and ber-
ate things in general — all to
make you fee! better about
yourself.’

Draw another danger line
here because your next step

AIBO!
TIO!
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Answer for Sunday, September 6, Cryptoquip:

CITY SLICKE:

THINKS

JACK-IN-THE-FULPIT iS

JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY PREACHER.

‘NOTICE

FOR THE SAKE OF THE
SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN

If a school bus is stopped on the’
highway with red lights flashing

ALL motorists

from EITHER

DIRECTION MUST STOP. and must
not proceed until the red lights

stop flashing.

Board of Trustees
School District No. 9
Castlegar

wfee has besnamnect=
“ing ‘with B.C: Hydro
representatives on
a regular basis to
ensure that the pro-

Ensure that your —
concerns are heard
during the planning

of the Murphy Creek

Project

sentative on the
Project Impact
Committee. Or, if
you live outside the
Kootenay Boundary
district ask for infor.
mation at your local
municipal office or
public library. _
The most im-

ject studies examine
all the issues which are
important to the people

* who live in this region:

B.C.Hydro plans

to decide early next year
whettier to proceed to the
next stage of applying for
regulatory approval to

and recreation, land use,
water quality, fishing,
wildlife, agriculture,
yegetation, forestry, heri-
tage resources, geology

and river morphology,
water quality, climate,

and landforms, hydrology

portant thing. is that
any concerns you might
have should be made
known to members of

- the Committee.

Because we all
live here.

And we’ll make sure
that your voice is heard.

THE MURPHY CREEK PROJECT IMPACT COMMITTEE

Jim Switzer (Chairman):

Bill-O’ Neill:
Gary Johnstone:
Duane Logan:
Christine Mayer:
Rich Hammond:
Andy Grant:
Ugo DeBiasio:
Carlo Crema:
Graham Kenyon:
Joe Tatangelo:
Norm Gabana:
Bill Mykes:
Peter Calder:

364-2430. Warfield Area
367-9139 Montrose Area
367-9153 Fruitvale Area
693-2438. Genelle
368-6028 City of Trail
368-5404 City of Trail

‘362-5459 City of Rossland

368-8070 Riverdale-Oasis Area
367-9018 Beaver Valley Area
368-8997 Beaver Valley Area

368-9809 Regional District, Area B Representative
368-3695 Ex-officio Region of District of Kooténay Boundary
0-663-2117.(collect) Ex-officio B.C. Hydro Liaison

0-663-4065 (collect) Ex-officio B.C. Hydro Liaison

The Murphy Creek Project Impact Committee