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TORONTO (CP) — Cana- 29-year-old Dallas Dennis Pereversoff’ was given a ,and placed’ on probation for 1964, th 1) TORONTO (CP) — 1f mid winters and warm, oe * ca hciapaaimammarty. iss: vant chsh xt fn Ite yoar-cind statement Friday, Bavirotmiont mt rnin wa nig rt a | Apdo co uaaaamaanaicaer ce tionally owners millions of dollars in heating billa, help municipalities slash snow removal costs and drive ski resort operators in Ontario and Quebec to drink. Last winter, mean temperatures in mueh of southern Ontario were the highest in 30 years. Across southern » wy i ‘The net effect of the mild conditions was to save home’ | NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS GET BROKEN Distillers attack _Te paws aver me federal excise tax gunfire with ing of two years after he was found people out of work, said Ken DINNERS ree" 3.51 SOUP MIX 99° [STUART HOUSE | Pereversoff was also found The association launched a guilty'of assault for which he major advertising campaign was given a suspended sén- earlier this year — Campbell dace “and two years’: pro- would say only that it cost bation. “less than $100,000" — to 7.34: int ® the issue to the atten- Seven youths: pleaded tion of the public. The adver- minors in tisements, published ‘Canada, used the SOLATE Mark given a suspended sentence but we've started to tell and-placed.on four months’ just how much,” Campbell eon $949 Corby Ashcroft pleaded they're mad.” guilty to supplying liquor to The association's main. tar- minots and was finéd $250. _ get ds a federal excise tax nf « ° that -automati¢ally rises VANCOUVER (CP) — Of the many people who make new year’s resolu- tions, it seems the majority break at least one within 48 hours and most within a week, says Robert Ley, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University. Some people, discourag- ed by years of failed resol- utions, no longer make them. Eva Thomas, of Van- couver, who’ calls herself an “over-quatified senior citizen,” won't make resol- utions this year. “I gave it up years ago because I know I won't keep them.” But others, like Thomas's husband, Melvin, remain optimistic. He is making one resolu- tion — to live a more useful life next year. “Tm going to use the talents I have to try to better society,” said the retired engineer. Whatever the outcome, Ley thinks making resol- utions is a natural and im- portant endeavor. “Psychologically, Christ- mas and New Year's are always a time to reflect on one's accomplishments and failures of the last year,” he said. “People, unfor- tunately, are more likely to remember failures and new year’s resolutions are sometimes motivated by guilt over things that weren't done as well as one would like.” Few children make res- olutions, but by the time they reach puberty many of them will. “Adolescents tend to make resolutions involving their personality because they are so very conscious about how they releate to others.” Onee into their 20s and 30s, people tend to make more resolutions about their health, lifestyle and career, said Ley. Resolutions are ‘similar to wishes, he said. When we become too old to be- lieve in fairy godmothers and wishing on stars, we turn to resolutions to change the aspects about ourselves we dislike. A resolution is always a wish to better one’s char- acter, to make oneself the gardener, writer, athlete, conversationalist one al- ways wanted to be. Like Christmas decorations, the same resolutions are brought out year after year. “People often pick fea- tures of their personality that are resistant to change. That is why the same resolutions pop up,” said Ley, adding that this year, once again, he is making'‘e ‘resolition to exercise more. If resolutions are so eas- ily broken, is making them futile? Ley says no. “I think making resolu- tions is positive. Don't berate yourself over your. failure to keep them. The real key is identifying things you want to change.” Reagan set to party tonight PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. (AP) — A powerful array of government officials arrived in Palm Springs today to join President Reagan and his ‘wife, Nancy, a they usher in 1984 at a glittering New Year's celebration. Although the complete guest list for the party the Reagans will attend was kept secret, the White House dis- closed that a number of cab- inet members had been _in- vited and had accepted the invitation of millionaire pub- lisher Walter Annenbetg and his wife, Lenore. chief of protocol, have had the Reagans at their New Year’s Eve soiree for, more than a decade. Many Holly- wood stars are expected to attend tonight's festivities. Presidential spokesman the centre of Gontroversy in recent days after disclosure © that he secretly tape. re corded ttiany of his official phone includ- ing those with Annenberg. But the Reagans, whom Wick, said he did. not, tape, studying the. peculiar winter weather of 1983 and have noted that most weather systems arrived from warm regions to the south or over the Pacific Ocean, rather than from the cold Arctic. After the balmy winter; spring was relatively wet and chilly, with colder than average conditions from Alberta to Q 4 ‘ Blizzards hit the Prairies as late as mid-May and nearly 50 centimetres of snow fell south of Regina in one day — the worst spring snowfall in half a century. Areas from Ontario to New Brunswick also had record spring rainfalls, causing seeding in many rural areas to be delayed up to three weeks. wre. ‘ But from coast to coast, it was the hottest Mean summer temperatures on the southern were about 8 degrees above normal with readings upto 41 Celsius in some locations, ‘. Relentless heat and below -normal rainfall: matured’ crops a few weeks early and crop yields were 10 to 20 per cent below 1962, E: Canada says, gh barley and wheat crops were of exceptionally high quality. Much of Canada enjoyed an Indian summer and mild autumn, but there were ms ip in Ontario and Quebec and @ windstorm late in November left much of New Brunswick without electricity. FROZEN WATER LINES A little magic goes long way WINNIPEG (CP) — It work as quickly as possible to DISPLAY WINNERS . . . Marie (céntre) dfid Ryan Schult- ze receive prize of a dinner for twos The Carvery in the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel front Castlegar Cham- ber of Commerce secretary Cindy Siluch for having the best residential Christmas lights display. TasNews Photo BATTLING SOVIET SPIES High tech hijinks LONDON (AP)|— From Sweden to Colorado and from West Germany to England, customs agents are pur- suing a cat-and-mouse game of arrests and cargo seizures as Washington's allies try to block the illegal export of U.S. high-technology to the Soviet Union. It’s a two-pronged drive — against Western business- men handling the risky but highly lucrative trade to the East bloc, and against Soviet agents acquiring through es- pionage what they can't buy. “We're exporting to the Soviets the equipment with which they are arming * Group to challenge Orwell PARIS (REUTER) — An eclectic group of avant-garde artists will challenge Orwell's sinister about the television of 1984 * ‘with a “video happening” in New York and Paris on New against us,” said Richard Perle, U.S. assistant secre- tary of defence for interna- tional security policy, in a re- cBHt ititer vidw' With thé Brit? * Minutes before the Swe- dish container vessel Elgaren was-due to sail last month from the West German port of Hamburg, customs agents — prompted by U.S. author- ities — seized part of its Soviet-bound cargo. The rest, which like the Hamburg haul contained for a giant U.S..made VAX 11-782 computer cap- able of directing nuclear- tipped missiles, made it to Helsingborg in neutral Swe- takes science and sometimes a little magic to find and repair water mains that break line dry twigs when bone-chilling temperatures drive frost two or three me- tres below ground level. If anyone in Canada can claim expertise in the skills needed to mend water lines in such sub-zero weather, it must be the city work crews in Winnipeg where winter and water main breaks are synonymous. Even though temperatures are around normal now — about -12 C — a bout of severe cold weather during the last few weeks sent tem peratures plunging to near -40 and caused frost to pen. etrate about one metre below ground level. By February, it gould have reached a depth of two or three metres. “The deeper the frost, the more soil movement,” says Bob Corkal, acting director of works and operations. “If we get more cold weather like we had before Christmas, we British businessmen with officials through 1983 — dou- {2 anticipate more prob- ems. trying to smuggle them to the East bloc. “Cole., Free iy ble the 1982 figures — re- flects the counter-espionage prong of the battle. AMERICANS ARRESTED. “Bight Wayg later! US" The MBRan t vole thc eater oe on they tried to ship to the Soviets by way of West Ger- many a sophisticated device to detect and measure nu- clear explosions. The Central Intelligence Agency estimated last year that only 20 to 30 per cent of the militarily valuable tech- nology reaching Moscow is acquired legally on the open market. For the rest, _Krem- lin agents scour periodicals, murky, cdmphi deals featuring seemingly endless circuits of subsidiary com- panies and switched bills of lading. The U.S. customs service reports considerable success. U.S. Customs Commission- er William von Raab said during a recent London visit that agents of “Operation Exodus” in 1983 seized more than 2,000 illegal consign- ments of U.S. computer den before being i ded as war material. dodge i gly tough ex- controls — or just steal. At'thé south England ooaglle fact that NATO coun- of Poole earlier this mor customs agents seized six U.S.-made computers bound for France and charged two ies, along with Australia, Japan and even neutral Swit- zerland expelled some 100 Soviet diplomats and other worth some $100 million destiried for the East bloc. “Two years ago there was a flood of high technology exports and no control what- soever,” von Raab said. 3” It’s frost that causes the ground to shift and pushes the «lines;- many about 75 yeaa old, past the breaking peint. When tha‘ happens, crews Children PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Prince George RCMP are looking for three children who disappeared after at- tending a movie at a local theatre Thursday afternoon. The three are four-year-old Leon Mercer, Cecil Derrick, 10, and his eight-year-old sis- ter Patricia Derrick. Management personnel at the Park Wood Theatre re- member seeing the children enter the theatre but no one has reported seeing them since. repair the damage and get the water running again from nearby taps but first they must find the broken water line. To do that they start with the aquaphone, a listening device that amplifies the sound of leaking water when- placed against shut-off valves . near the site of a break. Holes are then drilled to find the line. If that fails, other techni- ques may be tried, some bor- dering on the supernatural. City worker Dave Lyons takes two welding rods bent at right angles, twirls them in hjs hands to warm them and then dowses for the buried line, using the same technique that well dowsers use to find underground springs. When the rods cross, that’s where to dig. Lyons isn't alone. Other workers haye used the rods when more modern methods fail and some have reputa- tions of eerie accuracy. It takes about half again as much time to repair a water main in the winter and it only takes on look at a workman, wearing a heavy parka, mitts and headgear, struggling to. move half-frozen much with a spade, to explain the extra time consumed. missing The children walked to the theatre from their homes in a city apartment block and were supposed to walk home after seeing the movie. When they didn’t arrive the mother of the two Derrick children went to the theatre to look for them and then contacted The children, all native Indians, may have a small brown terrier named Hobo with them. 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