x4 = LGMMMIRIE erte _ Parents of yuppies are big spenders tifying as the target market are the people over 55,” Mason said in a recent inter- view “The yuppies tee poor, ac tually, because they're in debt because they have to pay off their BMWs.” HOMES PAID OFF Mason said people over 55 —an ever-increasing number ag Canada’s population grows older — have already paid off their homes. They no longer have to meet monthly mortgage pay- ments and for most, their children have grown up and pPage 3 — Multi-Gym, Sets, Bench, Weight Set, Combo Set, so ies Bikes, Exercise Pege § — Jumbo Comiorters, Mattress Pillow Protectors. egh Tergal Priscillas. Page 8 — Floppy Disks, Dere Candy. Pege 10 — Ajax , Quaker State Motor Oil. emma: ious cash to spend ahd that is where a lot of the marketers targeting. yuppies and don't ever let anybody kid you any other way,” Goldie said. “The yup- pies are far and away bigger group, and who will, as time goes on, become a much more significant group of consum- ors,” he said. older segment has the dispos- able income to purchase goods and has become a big target for retailers in .the pursuit of increased sales. “But they tend to be much more traditional and not as great a market in the cloth- ing business, for example, as are the yuppies.” Goldie, who has just com. pleted a marketing survey for a garment industry firm, said the retail industry should realize there's no longer “the one big market.” Hospital keeps track of OTTAWA (CP) — Patients at Ottaw’s Elisabeth Bruyere centre now “beep” when they go astray. Ten patients with a habit of vanishing on nurses and When a confused patient wanders into an elevator or stairwell, or close to an exit door, the transmitter trips one of 14 electronic sensors which signal a desk-top office computer. The computer beeps to at- tract hospital officials’ at- tention and displays a floor plan of the 225-bed institu- tion, the name of the way- ward patient and a light pointing to the person's lo- cation ‘in the eight-storey and they hope, the patient. The system, which took about five months to test and LOAN-OUT CAMERA The Castlegar News has two simple-to- operate loan-out cameras (complete with film) which it is pleased to allow roups to use for taking pictures for use the Castlegar News. Arrangements for the use of these cameras should be made through our News Department at 365-3517. patients install at a cost of $55,000, began officially operating Monday. About once a week, a pati ent temporarily goes missing inside the building. Although “it's not a serious problem too often, it can be- come a serious problem,” if the person isn't found, says Sister Gilberte Paquette, ex- ecutive director of the chron- WINTER SCENE . . . Ootischenia fruit tree covered in hoar frost and old shed. J) ° ° Transplants improve life By DAVID HALLIDAY EDMONTON (CP) — Cor- nea transplants do not at- tract either the glamor or the large amounts of money that heart trans- ie and palliati facility. NEEDS A SYSTEM “In view of the possibility of a patient wandering into areas that are not inhabited, or outside, we needed a 24-hour system because we cannot attach a (staff mem- ber) to each individual pa- tient and we felt the only way was to have some sort of technology.” Enter the National Re- seareh Centre and a Man- otick, Ont., electronics firm. In 1983, officials at the NRC's public safety project office, which develops crime- fighting hardware and irons bugs out of existing police technology, came up with the idea of developing small radio transmitters that can be at- tached to anyone from eld- erly hospital patients to young school children on field trips to a zoo. Similar transmitters have long been used for tracking wild animals or keeping track of ransom money picked up by a kidnapper. In the hope of saving police the time and trouble~of having to search for lost in- dividuals, the NRC turned the idea over to Barry Brem- ner, president of Bremner Marketing Associates of Manotick a firm Ottawa which ializes in di i plants, but they can mark- edly improve a patient's life. Dr. Donald Hassard, an Edmonton eye surgeon, says the them, Hassard, a 20-year Sex book recalled NEW YORK (AP) — A publisher has issued a recall of Dr. Ruth heit “s veteran of cornea trans- plants, said in an interview in office. jured cornea (the clear layer of tissue covering the pupil of the eye) “can be the differ- ence between functioning normally and not at all,” Hassard said. “It is a very satisfying pro- do. allowing patients to return to their employment. For in- stance, an office worker will probably be able to return to his job within three or four weeks of leaving hospital. Estimates of the cost of a heart transplant vary, but Dr. Dennis Modry, who has performed three transplant operations at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmon ton, said the cost is about plant is about three days, far less than that required for a tinue to improve. There is a report from the United States of the surgery being performed on an outpatient basis. Alberta Hospitals Minister Dave Russell said recently the cost of a hospital stay is about $380.2 day. Cornea transplants can be up to 95 per cent successful, but the success rate can dip as low as five per cent in difficult cases such as alkali Hassard has seen tremen- dous changes since he started performing cornea trans- plants in 1965. At first, he cut the graft by hand, used coarse sutures of the eye without having the benefit of a microscope. 5 Now, he uses a microscope to aid him in peforming the operation with instruments and sutures finer than he used initially. Such changes add up to a quicker recovery and less discomfort for the patient. . “The technology has iim- proved to the point that we're able to tackle things that we would not even look at before,” said Hassard, pointing out that a badly in- jured eye can be repaired and then receive a cornea trans- plant. In addition to the changes in the operation, many ‘more of them are being performed. By early December, Has- sard had performed 118 in Edmonton in 1985 and a lar. ger number were performed in Calgary, By comparison, only 39 cornea transplants were done in all of Alberta in But there are still prob- lems to overcome. Hassard said the biggest difficulty that cornea trans- plant recipients face is the amount of refractive error that is present. Although refractive error can be corrected as it nor- mally would — with glasses or contact lens — some cor- nea recipients need thick glasses. He has experimented with various techniques, including making slits in the eye to flatten it and thus reduce the amount of refractive error. Although waiting lists for some age groups have been reduced, there is a contin- uous struggle to find donors. book on sexual information for tee: mistakenly tells are least fertile tually they are most The erroneous sentenc® chapter 10 of First Love: A Young People's Guide to Sexual Information, which Westheimer co-wrote with Nathan Kravetz reads: “The safe times are the week be fore and the week of ovula- fidning equipment. Bremner teamed with re- searchers at another elec- tronics firm, Orion Electron- ies Ltd. of Nova Scotia. This od should NOT hove been rune time Alter it first ran, we ond relatives Next yeor, we ‘assure you. we will print many more extras asked dealers to return what- ever is left of the 115,000- book first printing of the book by the American expert “We also are encouraging consumers to return the books, said Barbara Uva, speaking for the publisher. “We don't want the wrong edition to be in anyone's hand.” Any returns will be re placed by Warner's with a new edition correcting the error. The paperback book, which sells in the U.S. for $3.50, was published late in Sep- tember with a white cover. The corrected version will have a red cover. The error went undetected until Dec. 12, when a librar- ian, Ann Scarpellino of Ram sey, N.J., called the pub lisher. Searpellino, who is in charge of the young people's section of the Ramsey Public Library, said she reads sex information books before she puts them on the shelves. She described herself as a fan of Westheimer and said she received a call of thanks from the sex expert for spot- ting the mistake. PU JIE b ff iff | al t LE as” tia bf if it ut PEKING (REUTER) — In an old courtyard house in Decthern Peking lives one of China's few remaining links with its imperial past — Pu Jie, brother of the last emperor, Henry Pu Yi. If two revolutions and two world wars had not intervened, Pu Jie would have been a senior member of the imperial government and could conceivably have succeeded his brother on the Dragon Throne. But the Manchu dynasty collapsed when he was five years old. Instead of the magnificent silk robes of Manchu nobles in the old days, 78-year-old Pu Jie now wears a well-tailored Mao suit over his frail frame. Instead of power, he wields nothing more than a calligraphy brush for a constant stream of visitors wanting a sample of imperial penmanship. “It was an extraordinary lifestyle and our standard of living was very high, to be sure,” Pu Jie said in an interview, his rich Mandarin accent pointing to his origins in the closed but cultured world of the imperial court. “But it wasn't free. We never left our mansion except on special occasions. We could never go out on our own to watch an opera or to enjoy ourselves.” CHILDHOOD SHELTERED “Of course, at the time, I didn't think about myself as lacking freedom. I didn't envy people outside because I had never seen them. That is how our life was; it was idiotic.” The empire ended in 1911. But the way the emperor and his retinue lived remained much the same for 13 more years, and Pu Jie spent his childhood doted upon by dozens of servants, blissfully unaware of the world and its problems. The life of the Emperor Pu Yi, one year older than Pu Jie, was so heavily regulated that the two brothers did not meet until Pu Jie was 10 years old. “The restrictions were relaxed a bit after the empire ended and one of our father’s wives suggested we get together “I had always imagined the emperor to be an old man, but when I got to the place, I found he was a little boy like me. “Then when I was about 15, I used to go to the palace every morning to study with him. We did that for about two years. Then he got married, and it stopped.” Pu Jie added: “We got on very well. After all, we were children. “But it was still like he was in heaven and I was on earth. I had to call him “Your Majesty,’ and it was the 1960s before I started calling him brother.” ¥ Link with imperial past Pu Jie was with Pu Yi while he was emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China from 1934 to 1945 and then during five years of captivity in the Soviet Union. Pu Yi died in 1967 after spending a number of years atoning for his past by working as a mechanic at a botanical garden in the Chinese capital. At a celebrated meeting in 1960 the late Premier Chou Enlai asked Pu Jie what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. “I gave him the officially correct response: ‘I don't mind. Agricultural, factory work, anything.’ He smiled and said: “You don't have to say that. What would you really like to do?” “I said I liked literature, so I was made a member of a literary committee.” Today, Pu Jie represents China's 4.3 million ethnic Manchus on a number of committees and draws a salary of about $78 a month from the Communist government, which also provides him with two housekeepers. Pu Jie is not impressed with suggestions that constitutional monarchy like that in some Western countries could have worked in China. “The nature of the English monarchy, for instance, is very different from the autocratic system of the old Chinese empire,” he said. “The English monarch is really just a representative of the nation. There's nothing wrong with that. “But when it becomes autocratic dictatorship, then it is bad. The Manchu imperial government was corrupt. It could not continue.” WIFE AILING Pu Jie spends much time at the bedside of his ailing wife, a Japanese aristocrat who was married to him as part of Japan's efforts to forge an empire on the Asian mainiand. His surviving daughter lives in Kobe with her Japanese husband and five children, and occasionally visits. Asked what he felt was the best peirod of his life, Pu Jie replied: “Many people ask me if there is anything about the past that I miss. | feel that, as a person, the best period of my life is now. 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