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ROTARKY STUDENTS . .
Mayor Audrey Moore
welcomed Castlegar's
four visiting Rotary
exchange students to
the city council meeti:
last week a
presented each with
a brochure on the
community. (From left)
Kimiko Mitobe of
Japan, Leny Rodrigues
of Philippines,
Louise Devin of
Australia and Nelly
Herrera of Mexico.
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is Red Mountain,”
Rodrigues told
council. “We don't
have skiing in the
Philippines.”

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Chrysler aims
ads at women

TORONTO (CP) — Those
aggressive, macho-man ad-
vertisements for automobiles
are moving aside slightly.
Chrysler has figured out that
women buy cars, too, and is
aiming for them in a new ad-
vertising campaign.

Although automotive ads
have appeared in women's
magazines, they've been part
of existing campaigns aimed
largely at men.

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tising said in a news release
that the Plymouth Turismo
and Dodge Charger are for
the under-30 set, the Chrys-
ler Laser XE is targeted for
the under-35 career women
and the LeBaron GTS is be-
ing pitched to the under-40
crowd.

The Dodge Caravan and
Plymouth Voyager are the
subjects of a campaign that
emphasizes a woman's role in
selecting the family car, the
advertising company said.

FIXED MATTRESS

New baby crib safer

The baby crib industry has
been scurrying for almost a
year to redesign its products
to pass impending tough fed-
eral safety rules, but a group
of university students calmly
got the job done in about
three months.

Industrial design students
from Carleton University in
Ottawa, commissioned by
CBC-TV's Market Place
consumer program, have
built what they say is a safer,
more practical crib that could
be made and sold for between
$100 to $200.

Glasses
now high
fashion

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Now that contact lenses have
come along, eyeglasses are
no longer simply a medical
necessity. They are consid-
ered a high-fashion acces-
sory, says Brad Martin, who
runs an avant-garde boutique
specializing in eyewear im-
ported from Europe.

Martin travels twice a year
to Italy, France and Germany
to buy frames for his shop.
His store's motto: “Your face
is a work of art, it deserves a
great frame.”

Eyewear trends in Europe
are leaning toward the retro
look for winter and spring,
with bold, thick temples and
cat's eye styles. The cat's eye
style should never have been
abandoned because the up-
lifting shape brings the cheek
bones up in what Martin calls
an “instant facelift.”

The federal government,
which normally doesn't test
produets until they reach the
market, made an exception
and submitted the crib to
rigorous tests that the in-
dustry's products will likely
face later this year.

The Carleton crib passed
easily and manufacturers are
interested and may adapt
their products to the design,
which has a patent pending.

“First, we concentrated on

safety, then on how easily it
could be manufactured,” said
George Rothschild, who with
fellow student Dave Wallace
designed the prototype from
four earlier student crib
projects. “The esthetic point
of view was left right to the
last.”
* One of the key differences
between the crib and its
commercial counterparts is a
fixed mattress support.
Many of the 40 or so crib
deaths in Canada in recent
years have been attributed to
the dislodging of the adjust-
able mattress support.

The students designed a
solid, fixed platform that
slides into grooves in the
erib’s frame at about two
thirds of the crib's height.
Instead of adjusting the sup-
port bit by bit as the child
grows, the crib is turned up
side down — the platform is
then at about one-third
height.

Some other innovations:

e A narrower frame so it
can fit through a doorway,
but wheels on only one end,
so the crib has to be lifted to
be pushed around, something
only an adult could do.

An option to replace the
rounded slats on the side of
the crib with a durable,
smear-resistant, plastic com.
pound, to create three “win-

“concerned about

dows.”

e A quick, no-tools assem-
bly of four large pieces, with
all parts attached to the crib
to ensure they don't get lost
in shipping.

e And, most parts are
made of birch, a relatively
inexpensive, hard, Canadian
wood.

“We didn’t want a teething
bar,” said Rothschild, a 32-
year-old cabinet maker who
returned to school to take his
design degree. “We found
that a lot of them splintered
or were toxic.”

Oddly enough, the Con
sumer and Corporate Affairs
Department never tests cribs
before they reach the mar-
ket. It sets safety standards
for child furniture, buys the
products once they're on the
market and ensures they
meet standards.

If cribs don’t measure up,
they're declared illegal — but
consumers may have been
buying them in the mean.
time.

Manufacturers say they
meet standards, but they are
Proposed
regulations that will, among
other things, eliminate the
detachable mattress support.

Peter Cowley, marketing
manager of Stork Craft Ltd.
of Richmond, a juvenile furni
ture manufacturer, says he
knows of no crib now on sale
in Canada which would pass
the proposed regulations.

The government has yet to
decide when it it will im
plement the regulations,
which were announced last
fall.

Kamlesh Gupta, head of
the mechanical and electrical
hazards division of the fed.
eral department, believes
they'll be in place later this
year.

PLASTIC CELLS
COULD REPLACE
INSULIN SHOTS

(CP) — A University of Toronto
a plastic-coated pancreatic cell
he hopes will eventually eliminate the need for daily
insulin’ injections for North America's estimated 1.5
million diabetics.

Michael Sefton, a professor of chemical engineering,
said the goal is to replace daily insulin shots
injections once or twice a year by transplanting
insulin-producing pancreatic cells — called islets of
langerhans — into diabetics.

“But we're several years away from human
application,” he said in an interview. “Right now, it's a
basic research study. It is not a cure for diabetes.”

Live pancreatic cells culled from laboratory rats are
coated with the synthetic polymer, which permits glucose
(a form of sugar) to pass into the cell to stimulate insulin
production, he said. The then permits insulin
to enter the bloodstream to regulate sugar levels.

Sefton said the plastic membrance should also
prevent the body’s rejection of the transplanted cells by
stopping the penetration of antibodies.

Sefton'’s patented technique, which took almost four
years to develop, uses water-insoluble materials that he
described as “chemical cousins to soft contact lenses and
acrylic floor polish.”

KEEP THEM ALIVE

“There's lots of methods for encapsulating things; for
instance, encapsulating carbon to make carbonless
paper,” he said. “The trick is to adapt a method like that
to live animal cells to keep them alive. We have achieved
that.”

He said it will be at least one year before researchers
implant plastic-coated pancreatic cells into animals and
“three to five years before we perform human
transplants.”

Although scientists have the know-how to transplant
the cells into humans, it takes “half a day to collect 200
islets. And one needs probably 50,000 for a human.

“We need a better source of islets,” said Sefton,
adding that slaughter animals such as pigs and cattle
would be better candidates for cell retrieval “but the
technique for getting them out of the pancreas is yet to be
developed.”

He said he knows of only one other research team in
the world that has developed a similar method of coating
pancreatic cells with polymer — Connaught Laboratories
Ltd. of Toronto.

Despite his success in developing the plastic
membrance, Sefton said recent evidence shows that
juvenile diabetes — in which the islets of langerhans are
destroyed — can recur in a person who has undergone a
pancreas transplant.

But even if scientists find the plastic-coated cells are
killed by a recurrence of the incurable disease, he said
transplanting the cells could still help half the spread of
the disease and degenerative complications like blind.
ness.

Noise studied

SASKATOON (CP)
How much does the noise and
living conditions of a nursing
nome affect elderly residents

ogy might lead to changes in
nursing care.

Stewart says her research
indicates environments that
are too highly stimulative
adversely affect people with
Alzheimer's disease and
other types of degenerative
brain illnesses.

The director of the re
search unit at the University
of Saskatchewan's nursing
college wants to find out.

Norma Stewart hopes re
search she's conducting with
colleagues in medicine, phar
macology and neuropsychol-

“The effects are more pro-
nounced when the residents
have little or no control over
the cause,” she says.

CAESAREAN BIRTHS
New trend developing

quent pregnancies, says the
head of a panel studying cae-
sarean births.

“I'm sure there are num-
bers of women who are per-
haps not aware it’s an option
they'd want to consider,” Dr.
Walter Hannah, chairman of
the department of obstetrics
and gynecology at the Uni-
versity of Toronto, said.

“There has been a kind of
traditional wisdom that once
a caesarean, always a caes-
arean and it's only been the
last several years that there
has been a trend away from
that. We'd like to see our
recommendations accelerat
ing that trend.”

The Panel on Aspects of
Caesarean Birth was formed
last year after researchers at

MeMaster University in
Hamilton noted that

20 per cent of all births in
Canada are caesarean. That's
about twice the rate in west-
ern Europe, where infant and
mother death rates are the
same as in Canada.

The 10-member panel,
comprised of doctors, sci-

experts before releasing its
final recommendations.

breech births as a way of re-
ducing the number of caes-
arean births, it recommend-
ed.

In breech births, the
baby’s buttocks or feet ap-
pear first, making for a more
difficult delivery than when
the head appears first.

Hannah said many doctors

Japanese smokers

at all-time low

Researching the safety of of 38.8 per cent last year,

externally moving a baby in says a survey conducted by average female used 17.1.

- the womb to a head-down

miums have risen to $80,000

a year.

‘The panel also said further
studies are needed. These
include:

to
diagnose and treat dystocia,
or abnormally slow labor,
which accounts for up to 60
per cent of all caesareans.

position from a breech posi-
tion.

© Questioning women who
have had caesarean births to
discover how they feel about
subsequent births.

e Examining obstetric
especially caesar-

are

able,” he said. “We're not
suggesting things that can't
be accomplished.”

The 's recommenda-
tions will be put into practice
only if they are approved by
the Society of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists of Canada.

JS e
Researchers work on codeine

WATERLOO, ONT. (CP)
— Scientists in Waterloo and
Guelph are working on a
method to produce codeine
synthetically, a move they
say could save Canada mil.
lions of dollars now being
spent to import the pain.
killer.

morphine and heroin, which
often find their way into
North America as an illicit
drug.

Four at Guel-

nes of it a year at an ap
proximate cost of $45 million.

The local project is headed
by University of Waterloo
jiochemical engineer Murray

ph-Waterloo Biotech, a re-
search centre operated by
the universities of Waterloo
and Guelph, are hoping to

Used in pai g tab-
lets, codeine is mad: the
opium poppy growh in the
Far East. Immature flower
pods of the poppy are sliced
to yield a sap that is distilled
and purified into codeine.

That process also produces

ry ” codeine from
chemicals, eliminating the
need for poppy plants, puri-
fication, morphine or heroin.

If they succeed, coceine
could become a Canadian
export. The United States,
for example, imports 50 ton-

Immunization
program started

LONDON, .ONT. (CP) —
First- and second-year medi-
cal students at the Univer-
sity of Western Ontario have
joined forces with the Can-
adian Foundation for World
Development to launch a
permanent summer immuni.
zation program in Third
World countries.

From June 1 to July 8,
eight medical students and a
nursing graduate will in.
noculate 25,000 children and
young adults in St. Mare,
Haiti, against diptheria, per-
tussis, tetanus, polio, meas-
les, mumps and rubella.

In Haiti, which the United
Nations ranks as the poorest
country in the Western Hem-
isphere, one in five newborns
does not see a first birthday
and many of those deaths are
caused by easily prevented
infectious diseases. Infant
mortality in Canada is about
one in 100.

A group of McMaster Uni-
versity students in Hamilton
who vaccinated 10,000 chil-
dren in the Dominican Re-
public inspired the project.

Last summer, Don Melady,
Andy Brockway, Len Kelly
and Maureen Kelly began to
research a similar idea.

Moo-Young. His specialty is

contain enzymes or living or-
ganisms of microbial, plant or
animal cells that permit bio-
conversion of materials.
Also working on the proj-
ect are Guelph biochemist
Brian Ellis, an expert in en-
zymology; University of Wa-
terloo organic chemist Victor

Snieckus, who has expertise
in natural products such as
alkaloids; and University of
Waterloo biochemical engin-
eer Ray Legge who. speci-
alzes in plant physiology and
tissue cultures.

The four are blending their
expertise to tackle a problem
that other researchers
around the world have been
working on for years. But at-
tempts to chemically synthe-
size codeine have failed, and
so have efforts to culture
plant tissues in test tubes.

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