SS, B6 News _ November 6, 1983 Ln gts Ri BUSINESS COMPUTER UPSETS MARKET NEW YORK (AP) — International Business Machines Corp. finally lifted the veil this week from its h home the PCjr, a machine expected to reshape the $2-billion market by raising the i and price of at home. Rumors of the PCjr’s development had unsettled the market in recent momths largely because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, which in two years ly seta new in desktop used mainly by business and professional people. The PCjr, formerly dubbed the Peanut by the trade, starts at $669 and arrives 23 the traditional home-compu- ter market of machines costing about $800 or less is in turmoil following a severe price-cutting war. That turmoil was high’ by Texas I Inc.'s withdrawal from the market last week after losing $223 million this year. In addition, IBM said the two models of PCjr will not be available until the first quarter of 1984, raising the Prospect that some consumers will defer buying any computer, at the expense of current manufacturers, until after Christmas. But some industry observers said those competitors, such as Commodore International Ltd., the current leader in home computers, should not be hurt because home computers are expected to be scarce this Christmas. Coleco Industries Inc., which just jumped into some Wy suggest you Call Diet Centre oy Wal I LOST 95 POUNDS IN JUST 7 MONTHS! computers with its $600 Adam system, “welcomes IBM,” said Arnold Greenberg, Coleco's president and chief executive. WELCOMES IBM He said IBM's reputation as the world's largest computer maker “will be one of the best things that could happen to all of us in the home-computer industry.” But he added, “I don't expect their success will be at our expense whatsoever.” IBM said the basic $669 PCjr can hold 65,536 characters in its main memory, can operate two software cartridges at a time and comes with a cordless keyboard that can be used up to six metres away from the video display. The keyboard uses an infra-red system much like the remote-control device for a television set, but a cord can be hooked up if desired. An enhanced model, costing $1,269, carries a main memory of 131,072 characters, has the two cartridge slots and also provides a disc drive unit that allows for extra storage of 868,640 characters. Neither model comes with a monitor or printer, but the lower-cost model can be ded to be the enh. have memories ranging down from about 64,000 characters, IBM said it was introducing more than 12 new programs for the PCjr, but the new computer also can use many of the popular, ind desi; prog written for the Personal Computer, including VisiCalc and Multiplan. The PCjr can draw color graphics, as can some model. The PCjr also has a 16-bit microprocessor, allowing it to work faster than most current home computers, which have eight-bit microprocessors. Most current brands also ig home \ IBM’s common stock closed unchanged following PC's debut at $126.75 a share on the New York Stock Exchange. Coleco tumbled $2.125 to $23.25, however, while Commodore slipped 25 cents to $84.25 a share, “I feel like anew person!.. .[ have more energy tokeep up with the things I like to do, and I feel good about _ myself!” YOU CAN DO IT TOO! 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China, Trail (Second) ROYAL ALBERT BONE CHINA November 6, 1983 MONEY! ° For a mortgage © Debt consolidation © Car insurance i ® Home improvements We Have Funds Available AE Kootenay Savings CASTLEGAR: 365-3375. Across from Post Office SOUTH SLOCAN: 359-7221. Highway 3A HUSGUNebAudeengaeacnnvecsucccnocarageteccasansy Ina few short days this community and many others across the land will be celebrating, usually with the assistance of the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, the day known as Remembrance Day. The achoo! band will turn out and, braving frozen fingers and numbed lips, will provide the music and the beat to guide light, young feet and give new spring to these faltering older ones, The uniforms, led by the RCMP, will turn out in all shapes, ‘sizes and degrees of order and disorder. The veterans will be there, or most of them, their decorations shining and tinkling, half self-consciously, half proudly, after a year’s sojourn in the darkness of the bureau drawer. \ E The wreath bearers will be.there, and the clergy and the mayor — and all will play their part in the i of Ri fi y, an ritual, recalling us for a moment from preoccupation with the . immediate, from the world that is too much with us, to an almost forgotten or never experienced but very real part of our existence. Some would argue that it is a futile exercise, that the world stumbles on, brutal and unchanged. Others, myself included, feel very strongly that ritual ceremony is quite possibly the only true reality and that much else is that which wo see through, as a “glass darkly,” distorted by prejudice, space and time. 5 5 ae whether. we p: pate in person, or vicariously by radio, TV or not at all, we will be forced even against our will lo give’a few seconds jit of the year's 81 million and more to the effort of pushing aside. the curtains of time, negléct, fear — and for some — sorrow, to ‘ ‘ And what, in the fi f that brief will we remember? That will depend on each one of us, for as every single person’ ever, born: is unique,. the’ remembrance of each will be unique — different. Even as I sit here thinking of the ceremony, the - lees basin wayes.of time. cast out. a-jetsam.of. Sucha‘oneis the memory of sitting wit John Charters ... Reflections & recollections Legion, talking over refreshments after the: paradé.. He “”’ "was a new Canadian and the memories of the years of the occupation of.tis homeland, Holland, had left him bitter and, outwardly at least, cynical. iuasie But his story was not of this, but of the liberation of his home city. The Germans were falling back behind a strong rearguard action before the advancing Canadians, The city was at the point of starvation — lacking both food and. badly needed medical supplies. The deaths. of thousands of civilians was enclosed in a handful of days. the German ‘was a compas- sionate man. He made an offer to the Canadian commander that reflects another of the strange quixotic ironies of war. If the Canadians would send a week's ‘emergency supplies to relieve the situation, he’ would send what few outriders he could spare to protect the Canadian column and pass them through the rearguard to the city. ig The Canadian Service Corps drivers, however, could The new charges also will apply on pre-arranged between a C official said. 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The agreement was made; the long line of trucks manned by unarmed drivers with their token screen of German motorcyclists drove the long 30 miles of road to the city and delivered the vital supplies to the Dutch authorities for distribution. “They were the bravest of men,” said my friend. “They were all volunteers, for they knew that if they were ked by the d » Dutch for whom the supplies meant not only escape but wealth, they didn't stand a chance.” There were tears in his eyes when he added, “They saved the city and this is one reason that we will never forget the Canadians.” : A second story has to do with the contents of the diary of a captured young German soldier of the elite 3rd Parachute Regiment. It: tells of how his i had where all of his officers became casualties and the regiment was forced back to the ridge above the Arielli River. It darkens still more under the strain of bombard- ment, attacks and loneliness. He was taken prisoner by one of our night-patrols and mortally wounded by machinegun fire from his own comrades just as the patrol had reached our lines. He then attempted to hide the diary but was seen by: an alert-eyed soldier in the dark. The last entry hfd been written just the day before, as he was sitting in the cold Italian winter sunshine in his dug-out on the shell-shat- tered hillside. It is a poem and ends with the poignant and prophetic words: “Never more will the per see the worship due to Almighty God, and to remember with gratitude the service and sacrifice of so many. “T have a text for you today — Ephesians 6:13 — take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.’ “It might, indeed, be a suggestion to all of us that religion is life, all of life, not just a part of life. It puts the * right emphasis on worship. It is just as important as training and disciplicc ior the soldier, as conditioning Tor an athlete, but it is not an end in itself. It is meant to fit us for life, to enable us to play our part in the world as God's men and women. “No doubt you will agree that the true business of life is living. But what is your idea of successful living? A gangster wanted to be buried in a dress suit, seated at the wheel of a new Cadillac. His buddies carried out his dying wish, and as it was being, lowered into the deep grave, one was heard to say, ‘Boy, that’s living.’ “Man's material standards are not enough, and the satisfactions of appetite or ambition are no criterion — to be self centred and to be unconcerned for the rights and welfare of others is very wrong. To live successfully, we need power to handle properly the various experiencesof life. How can we get this power? Remember our test — ‘take unto you the whole armour of God.’ “. .. Of course, it costs — it is not a soft, easy road. The great apostle, out of his own experience, could say to us with assurance, ‘Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.’ And after years of heroic discipleship, he said, 'I live, but not I, but Christ, liveth in me.’ R “Now, some of you might be tempted to say, ‘Oh, well, that's just the padre speaking. After all, he's supposed to say things like that.’ Well, with all my heart I believe they are true. “Donald Soper, a famous London preacher, often held forth in Hyde Park Corner, the home of free speech. One day a (man) at the back of the crowd shouted, “Hi, : guv'ner, you and your blasted Christianity. Two thousand “o“thinke ft ds, ,then I hope I have deseribed the lnter- The poem is called “Epitaph on an Army of Mercen- aries.” It says a great deal in a few spare lines. “These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their-mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.” - They were paid the princely sum of 25 cents a day. Finally -there is the recollection of the Seaforth Nor the roses bloom on his grave.” He died about dawn in an advanced medical aid post in spite of the best efforts of the M.O. He was perhaps 20. The third piece of flotsam is a poem by A.E. Houseman, an English poet. It was written just after the Hi service in V: earlier this year on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the landing in Sicily. Padre Harry Lennox took the service. It is quoted herein in part: “I count it an honor and a privilege to be invited to share with you in this service of worship and _years of it, and look at the world!’ “Soper replied, ‘My friend, there's been water in the world for millions of years — and look at the back of your neck!’ That's right, he just hadn't tried it. “. 4. Give this faith a chance. Live life to the full, and in this day that is yours, make your own splendid con- tribution to the great and glorious tradition of this famous regiment. This started out to be a story gn the Royal Canadian - Legion and its relationship to Remembrance Day. Some- how Nobel Prize winner Max Born's concept of “com- plementarity” in the new physics seems to have intruded itself here. That is, he says, there are a number of points of view, including moral and emotional ones, in the consideration of the same natural phenomenon and all of them may be true'even if ‘apparently contradictory. tis appl: to huthak iti ~ If this f the Legion, Day and each of us. It’s a little like looking for ghosts. You can see them only from the corner of your eye. ss (8 Iam sorry that I will not be able to attend the service this year or join in the always welcome luncheon provided by the Legion Women’s Auxiliary afterward. Instead, I will be taking a busman’s holiday at Westminster Abbey, the Benedictine monastery at Mission, to teach English and to consider further the implications of ritual, ceremony reality and remembering. Remembrance Day school guide TORONTO (CP) — Schoolchildren across Canada could be singing Waltzing Matilda this month in the cause of patriotism. The song and nine other war songs are included in a 1p guide on Ri b: Day iviti: compiled by the board of education in suburban: Scar- borough. The guide, listing more than 150 ways in which hoolch can C who died in war, First World War. If is about the British E ti y Force to France — “That contemptible little army,” to quote the Kaisar. They were soldiers — .the class-conscious society of the day: called them ly (no been ordered to Ortona in Italy. It tells of the holiday atmosphere in the troop train southward — of the smiling and cheering girls, the flowers and gifts and the sunshine of the plains of north Italy. i: The mood darkens with the resounding of the ferocious mini-Stalingrad that was the Battle of Ortona In i} fought for pay). They fought heroically and died at the historic Battle of the Marne which stopped the vi enemy advance in its tracks and turned the tide of war. After the war, however, many of the survivors of that conflict, the wounded living on the skimpiest of pensions, had to beg on the streets from a fast-f public. as you to mark the 40th 'y of the landing at Sicily, to honor the memory of those who gave their all, and those others of your comrades in other battles of your splendid tradition. You will notice this chaplain’s stole I am wearing. It was given to me by your much loved Padre, Major Roy Durnford, D.S.O. He, too, has responded to the Last Reveille, and I somehow feel he is with us now. Yes, in the words of Holy Scriptures, ‘We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.’ “It does an old padre’s heart good to know that a keeps alive the importance of the ‘was prep: of the Royal Canadian Legion. Don Harrison, a spokesman for the federal Veterans Affairs Department, said the department will reprint the guide in English and French and may distribute it to schools across Canada. “It’s the first educational package for children that brings out the significance of remembrance,” he said in an interview. z The guide was prepared in response to changes in Ontario government regulations for Remembrance Day that came into effect this year. Are we dupes of a cosmic Watergate? By CHRIS MORRIS FREDERICTON (CP) — Stanton Friedman is con- vinced we're the dupes of a cosmic Watergate — a high-level Friedman, who has lived in New Brunswick since he left his native United States in 1980, has spent: years trying to get his hands on secret documents detailing government conspiracy to conceal the truth about visits by restrial spaceships to Earth. For 25 years Friedman, a 49-year-old nuclear physicist, writer and lecturer, has stalked the elusive UFO -with an intensity that can make even the most steadfast skeptic stop and think twice about the possibility of alien exploration of this planet. 4 “Those of us who get involved in the serious collection of data about UFOs have found a number of things,” Friedman said. i “First, it is an international phenomenon — there are reports of sightings in at least 140 countries, landings, creature reports, abduction cases from all over the world arid they are consistent stories. Second, it is clear the military guys know a lot more than they are saying.” in UFO i i He has d some imp! date, i a memo apparently from J. Edgar Hoover when he was director of the FBI saying the agency might consider invol in UFO it they have “full access to discs recovered.” CANADIAN MEMO There is a 1958 memo marked top-secret from a Can- adian scientist with the Department of Transport who says that after discreet inquiries through the Canadian embassy in Washington, he was told that UFO investigation is “the most highly classified subject in the United States gov- ernment, rating higher even than the H-bomb.” The scientist was also told that flying saucers do exist. “At least since 1947 when one (alien spaceship) crashed in New Mexico and was retrieved by the government, complete with bodies, a small group of people at the highest echelons in the United States have been well aware that we are dealing with extraterrestrials and, to a large extent, they've kept it secret,” Friedman said. On July 2, 1947, there was an incident near the town of Roswell, N.M., that Friedman considers the cornerstone of “We have seven people who handled the material that was picked up and they all describe it in consistent terms — very strong, lightweight, it would bend but not crease, it couldn't be burned or torn and yet it looked like foil, and we have lots of people testifying to the coverup,” he said. Friedman believes governments keep their interest in UFOs secret because they want to be the first to develop the the U.S. government's coverup of its invol in UFO investigation. Friedman and colleague William Moore, co-author of the book The Roswell Incident, have talked to 89 people involved in the case. Friedman said the Air Force first announced that a UFO had crashed near Roswell but later changed that to say it was a weather balloon. Friedman said he has talked to a number of people, including a retired air force general, who admit the balloon was substituted for UFO debris secreted away for examination. by ips and also because they are worried about the political ramifications of revealing their involvement. “There isn’t any government on this planet that wants its citizens to owe their primary allegiance to the planet instead of the individual gov. — nati is the only game in town.” Friedman insists that earthlings are entitled to know the total picture. He's hoping that somebody, perhaps a high-level official getting on in years, will come forward with the whole story instead of taking the secret to the grave.