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the centuries

Sore time ago, I saw a large illustrated advertise~
ment on the church page of a Vancouver paper. ‘The
picture was that of a scaly grasping monster,
with horns, tail and a grimace which would have made
him a fortune in the toothpaste business.

The ad was announcing a lecture series in whith,
among other things, those attending would learn of the
exact dimensions and populations of hell.

I, for one, would have been most happy to attend (the
lectures, that is) if only to learn how the “infernal”
census-taker got his information. One thing would be
certain — he would be an awfully hard man to refute.

The subject is an interesting one, nonetheless. In
ancient times, Het! was a fairly democratic place, though
a little dull — simply a land of shadows and shades, where
everyone went. After the Christians took over, however,

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it beeame much more exclusive, with hot and cold
running bri . personal — if Jeome — i
by the staff, and it catered to only the better class of
sinners.

Various ecclesiastics began to vie with one another in
describing in even more glowing detail the variety of
possible torments and the sins necessary to attain them.
It is not surprising, therefore, to find waves of enthusi
astic devil worshippers appearing in Europe during the
Middle Ages.

“For some go to Paradise, but I'll tell you who —
your old priests and your old cripples and the half and the
maimed who are down on their knees day and night
before altars and mouldy crypts; these also that wear
mangy old cloaks or go in rags and tatters, shivering and
shoeless, and showing their sores and who die of want
and hunger and misery. _

“Such as they go to Paradise and what have I to do
with them. Hell is the place for me! For to hell go the fine
churchmen and the fine knights killed in the tourney, or
in some grand war, and the brave soldiers and gallant
gentlemen. With them will I go.

“There go also the gracious ladies who have lovers
two or three besides their lord. There go the gold and

passenger re
— “mild,” “bland” and “innocuous.

For those who don't believe in Hell, except as sort
of catch-all for their in-laws, enemies and the communists,
who don't believe in it either, (say this could-get
complicated) there is a special fancy, cornflake-type
package, and a coupon (contents are just about as
nourishing too).

Personally, we're inclined to agree with Shakespeare
who said, “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”

The origin of the word? That's easy, it comes from
‘Hel,’ the Norse Goddess — daughter of Loki, who ruled
over the Dark Regions of the dead.

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MLA accuses Socreds

Universities ‘shortchanged’

NDP _ Universities critic
Lorne Nicolson (MLA Nel.
son-Creston) has charged to-
day the Socreds are short-
changing universities at least
$150 million a year.

Nicolson rebutted Univer-
sity Minister, Pat McGeer's
assertion that, “The Social
Credit government has been
pumping (federal) money and
much more into universities
and institutions.”

“McGeer is just plain
wrong,” Nicolson said: “The
federal Department of Fi-
nance transferred $450 mil-

AMC

SOUTHFIELD,_ MICH,
(AP) — American Motors
Corp. announced Tuesday,
that it earned $7.4 million in
the fourth quarter of 1983,
following 14 consecutive per-
iods of decline.

The results, compared
with a loss of $2.9 million in
the 1982 quarter, came on a
51-per-cent increase in sales,

lion for higher education in
1983/84. The Socreds only
put $300 million into uni
versity operating grants.
Where did the other $150
million go?

“The Socreds have not
produced audited accounts of
how federal funds have been
used in B.C. since 1977. They
did not pass along the seven
per cent increase in federal
funding for universities in
1983.

The federal transfer in
cash and tax points was
worth $420 million in 1982/23

and $450.7 million in 1983/84
for higher education under
the complex federal-provin
cial “Established Program
Finance” agreements negoti-
ated between the federal
government and B.C.

Nicolson said: “Up to 1977
the province used about 60
per cent of federal education
funds for universities, and
the rest went to college pro-
grams. If that ratio still
holds, you get a very inter.
esting calculation.

“Provincial university op

erating grants were
$300,993,292 in 1983/84. Take
away the 60 per cent of fed-
eral monies received:
$267,715,800; and that leaves
a net effort of just
$33,277,492 — or just 11 per
cent of university operating
grants.”

“The minister's statement
is pure rubbish. This is sup-
posed to be a 50-50 deal. The
province is clearly failing to
pass on federal funds to the
universities.”

shakes off slump

from $729 million to $1.1
billion. ;

Howevef, AMC said it lost
$146.7 million for all of 1983,
compared with a loss of
$153.5 million the year be-
fore. Sales for the year were
$3.3 billion, a $37.5-per-cent
gain on 1982.

The company's perfor-
mance was bolstered by the

$190-million sale of its AM
General Corp. truck-manu-
facturing subsidiary last year
to LTV Corp..and the $51-
million sale of the headquar-
ters building.

The No. 4 U.S. automaker
had not made a quarterly
profit since the first three
months of 1980.

AMC is 46 per cent owned

by the French automaker
Henault and began U2

Age 110 is tops for human

beings says doctor

WINNIPEG (CP) — The
ripe old age of 110 is about as
long as anyone can ever ex-
pect to live, says a Hamilton
doctor who specializes in
treating old age.

Dr. Ronald Bayne, presi-
dent of the Canadian Associ-
ation of Gerontology, said
there is evidence that hu-
mans are getting close to
iving as long as is possible.
" “It now appears that gen-
etically we seem to be slated
not to get much beyond 110
no matter what we do to pre-
serve health and live to our
fullest lifespan potential,”
said Bayne.

That's not bad considering
that the longest a horse or an
elephant can live is about 60

chimpan-

U:S: pros*years, while the
Ayction of the French-desigit "2808 lifespith orily stretches

ed Renault Alliance subcom-
pact in 1982.

The Alliance and its hatch-
back derivative, the Encore,
have been selling well and
1983 was AMC's best sales
year in seven years.

to 40.
However, 110 isn't that old

for tortoises, which have?

lived more than 170 years in
captivity.

Bayne said there is no ques
tion that more and more
C. ‘

But president Jose Dede-
urwaerder said in an inter-
view last month that AMC's

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future is tl d by com-
panies that make bigger,
more profitable cars and that
AMC would develop such a
car itself.

are living longer
and enjoying their old age
more.

Currently, the life expec-
tancy for a male baby is 71
years, while females born
this year can expect to last an
average of 78 years.

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“And that's according to
health care standards avail-
able today. There’s no doubt
the two figures will improve
as the newborns of today
grow up,” said Bayne.

A major reason is that
deaths from major killers
such as heart and kidney
disease have decreased a full
20 per cent in the last two
decades in Canada.

Bayne said it is possible
that more than half of all
Canadians will live to be
tween 90 and 110 years in the
near future.

“Throughout history there
have been people who made
it to their 90s or past 100.
The only thing is that now
there will be more and more
of them.”

‘The ‘latest statistics” indi-
cate that not only do more
people see their 65th birth-
day, but life expectancy for
people of that age is in-
creasing.

Canadian men who hit age
65 can expect to live an aver-
age of 14 years. Women last
18 years after age 65.

Bayne also said gerontol-
ogists hope more of the
people who live into their 70s
and 80s will be healthy and
alert enough to live indepen-
dently.

World Day of Prayer
for all Christians

The 1984 World Day of
Prayer will be held on March
2.

The purpose of the World
Day of Prayer is for Chris-
tians to pray in unity
throughout the world. Pray-
ers will be heard for Christ's
church of believers in the
world, for its mission to pro-
claim His salvation and
peace.

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held in about 500 places in
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