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CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 9, 1981

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/ Ann Landers

Dear Ann Landers: My husband recently ran for public
office. He went to the local radio station to record an ad
to be read on the air. The copy was by someone at the

station.

One of the sentences was: '‘Me and my family will be
moving to (this town).’’ When | heard it on the air, | was
shocked. My husband sald, ‘‘That's the way they wrote
it. It didn't sound right to me, either.’’

| Immediately’ went to the station and challenged

them. They said,

“You are WRONS. on

We then

oy ‘Mall rats’ a

By Larry Elkin

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) —
Thanks to two 20th-century
phenomena — the shopping

after the stores close, but we
usually ask them to leave and
their parents come and get
them.” i

jcentre and the IP
I= suburban American toon!
agers may never again know
the heat of summer.

Instead, they may become’
‘what some Albany security
guards “mall rats,”
taking up seasonal residence
in

telephoned a graduate of Nor who
was an English major. He said It could be either ‘I'" or
“me.”

Am 1 an ignoramus? | was taught to diagram the

sentence when In doubt.
moving.'’
Please settle It.

It comes out,
Does this sound like correct English to you?

“ME will be

— Feeling Like a Fool

Dear Feeling: You are right, but let us not tarnish the

fine name of Northwestern.

| checked with Dr. Edith

Skom, a tecturer In the Department of English at — you
guessed It — Northwestern University, and she ae

‘Me and my family’ ts incorrect. ‘Me’ Is a pi

malls, living on
soda, ice cream and fast food
and spending uncounted
hours in air-conditioned
arcades where they pump
quarters into electronic
games like Asteroid and
space Invaders.

Mall managers like Scott
Mumpbhrey of Wichita, Kan.,
say the game arcades are
part of the shopping centre's

into

Is always used as the object of a preposition. Since the
person is referring to himself as the subject of the

sentence, ‘I’ is called for.'’

Some authorities may argue that ‘‘me’’ Is acceptable
colloquial usage, but it plerces my ear like a needle. Me

don't like it.

Dear Ann: My husband and | are both in our 50s. Our

children are all grown and on their own. We live in a

lovely country home, just the two of us — no close
The

one.

sap
My husband. likes to sit around weekends In the nude.

He keeps pestering me to do the same.

1 don't feel

* comfortable naked. In fact, | get very tired of seeing him

with his clothes off.

What bothers me most Is that sometimes he steps
outside that way. | am scared to death that one day he'll
get caught by friends or neighbors and | will faint dead
away from the embarrassment. Am | the odd one- as he
says? Is my husband's conduct normal?

Dear Vol: | would not say your
but ft certainly. could be

for nudity Is abnormal,

— Sitting On. AVolcano

a
centre — “not a bunch of
clothing stores.”

Some older

Elsewh said
there have been problems,
especially when malls
become hangouts for
“troublemakers.” A few run-
ins with nfall security officers
or local police, though,
usually settle things.

WITH POLICE

Larry Ivich, manager of

Oskridgo Mall in San Jose,

Calif, has his staff hold‘

monthly meetings with local
Li

police.
“I would strongly suggest

U.S. shopping still

BELLINGHAM, WASH.
(CP) — Nancouves and area

find the crowds of Pe neatare
noisy, rambunctious and
unsettling, but the adoles-
cent invasion is apparently
well-received by mall oper-
ators.

“There's a category of
merchandise specifically
created for these y

still
flocking ote Bellingham,
Wash., about 100

Drawn by arcade

growing phenomena

it for any community-orien-
ted centre,” Ivich said. “They
know the kids that | are
problems.”

In the Albany suburb of
Letham, mall manager John
Holmes declared “there's
tremendous amount of
money to be made” in
electronic games alone.

One arcade | already
operates in Holmes’ Latham
Circle Mall. A second is
opening in the: space next
door,

“It’s a cash busihess,”
Holmes explained. “When it’s
done properly, it's worth
every bit as much as a

ters softer than the race-
horse start they got off to
this year, they blame it as
much on Whatcom County fis

south ‘of Vancouver, despite
an exchange rate of as much
as 20 per cent, local mer-
chants say.

“There are a couple of rea-
sons for it,” says Bill' Quekrn

said Mumphrey. “We create
a market for them in our
shopping centres and we
don’t turn around and say,
‘you don’t come in here.’ ”
ARCADE WELL-RUN
Mumphrey runs three
Wichita malls for Melvin
Simon and Associates of
is, whic! it

toa his
that YOU are the oddball because you refuse to Join him

is childish. He knows better.

One day, he WILL be caught, and this might be exactly
what needs to happen to get him to wear shorts.

Dear Ann Landers: | am a middle-aged, fairly tolerant
person, but | have to get something off my chest.

There seems to be a shameful lack of table manners
among North American children of all ages these days.
Parents allow thelr kids to eat like pigs. They use hands
instead of silverwar, never pass the food, leave the table
before others have finished, and no one: ever says

“‘please”’ or ‘‘thank you.’’

Please publish my letter. Large numbers of these
young slobs read your column regularly. it might hit

home.

— Texas

‘Dear Tex: It’s not the children who are at fault — it’s
the parents. They are too lazy to teach thalr youngsters
table manners, so the kids eat like animals until they are
old enough to be embarrassed. Then they teach

themselves. Sad, isn’t it?

Seniors plan fall

Castlegar and District Se-
nior Citizens held their first
meeting of the fall season in
their centre last Thursday
afternoon, with Mrs. J. don-
nan presiding.

It was reported that all
“games are going well and are

A -

Plans were mede for a Fall
Tea and Bazaar to be held in
the Centre on Sept. 25th;
Ernie Newman offered to
provide a door prize for that
afternoon. Mrs. Helen Bon-
acci was named general con-
venor and will add to the

well
of Mrs. M. Brady, Bob Cor-
mier and Gunvor Selvig was
appointed to be in charge of
arranging game tourna-
ments. Nelson Golden Age
Bowlers would like to come
to Castlegar for a game of
bowls.

Sick visiting was carried
on during the summer; it was
good to see some of the sick
recovered and able to be
present.

Entertainment for the next
meeting in September will be
several of the members giv-
ing a report of the highlights
of their summer.

A crib tournament will be
held in the Centre on Oct. 30;
more details later.

The West Koot Boun-

itself the country’s second-
biggest mall develloper. One
of Mumphrey’s malls has a
gigantic 800-square-metre
game room, nearly half the
size of a football field.

“Kids don’t create prob-
lems as such,” Mumphrey
said. “Maybe their activities
don’t coincide with the
activities of others. They
may kind of rumple things
up when they're in the
stores. It’s all part of growing.
up.

Seren Schiermeyer of
North East Mall in Fort
Worth, Texas, credited the
operator of his mall's arcade
for the kids’ good behavior.

“They're well managed,”
he said. “We do have some
problems with children sort
of congregating and loitering

events

also were presented with an
appropriately decorated
cake. Both extended their
thanks for all the good wishes
‘and the many kindnesses
they have received.

There is to be another Fid-

dlers Contest in the com-
plex on Oct. 24 and the sen-
iors are invited to attend.

Meeting adjourned and re-
freshments were served. The

dary meeting will be held in
Castlegar on Oct. 18.

Bob Cormier reported vis-
iting former members, Flor-
ence and Bill Nixon, now re-
siding in Edmonton. They are
both well and sent their good
wishes to all the members
and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Town,
who celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary on
Sept. 2 were presented with
a gift by Mrs. Donnan, on
behalf of the members. They

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the Bellingham Chamber :
Commerce.

The agricultural land
freeze brought in by the
former NDP government in
B.C. drove many Canadians
south in search of recre-
ational properties in an area
where the geography is bro-
ken only artificially by a bor-
der.

Given that and Vancou-
ver's runaway lead in the
cost-of-living race, shopping
in Bellingham is apparently
still a bargain.

“Canadians tell our mer-
chants they are still finding
definite price advantages
here, from family staples to
major purchases like boats
and appliances,” Quehrn

says.

And though the Belling-
ham department store giants
— Fred Meyer, K-Mart and
Sears — report second quar-

of “1 6 per cent.

“The cost of money, con-
sumer loans, is quite high
right now and people gener-
ally just aren't buying as
much, But general retail
sales directly attributable to
Canadian funds has run at 25
to 85 per cent of Bellingham’s
total.

“And that’s been pretty
consistent . for 10 years,”
Quehrn says.

“On your last holiday (B.C.
Day) our business was better
than last year,” says J.C.
Penney assistant manager
Greg Sarvis. “And I'll admit,
T'm a little surprised. When
the exchangetrate got to 15
per cent, I thought we were
going to lose a lot of Canadian
business.

“But even today, charging
the bank rate (then 19 per
cent), there's been no notice-
able drop.”

The range of exchange on a
recent Thursday wentfrom a
low of par to as much as 21
per cent. Sarvis says the
policy of Penney’s and others
to charge the full bank rate is
in part to avoid alientating

clothing store, or more.”

Despite the game room's
profits — he did not give a
specific figure — Holmes said
mall managers tend to have
mixed feelings about the
youngsters.

“Occasionally we have to
use a little persuasion on
them from the security
police. We had to make an
example of two or three of
the real troublemakers. The
rest just come to enjoy
themselves, and they do
spend some money.”

bargain?

local buyers who view dis-

counts on the discount of .

Canadian funds discriminat-
ing against them.

Jack Cline, manager of
Weisfield's jewelry outlet in
Bellingham, disagrees.

“I put the. sign up (an-
nouncing Canadian funds on
purchase price at par) yes-
terday,” he said. “And I had
two people come in the after-
noon. One man was really
irate, waving his arms and
yelling about me selling out
my countrymen.

“But I said to him, ‘Look, I
don't care if Mexicans come
in here with Canadian cur-
rency. Goacross the street to
the bank, but 20 per cent
more Canadian money with
your American, then come
back here and spend it.” He
did.

“Twenty-five per cent of
our business is Canadian and
T've worked hard at courting
repeat Canadian customers.”

His prices are up to 35 per

cent lower than in Vancouver
and of his larger, more ex-
pensive purchases, 60 to 65
per cent are made by Cana-
dians. .
A handful of hotels and
restaurants report their busi-
ness running at about last
year's rate.

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IN THE CASTLEGAR STORE

| Two. tradesmen .for BC.
Timber's sawmill here have
oven ‘once again that
imple remedies are often the
best answer to ‘complex ”
production problems. Glen
Brigeeman and Bud Jenks,
oth pipefitter, ‘steamfitters
it the mill, pooled their
talents earlier this year to
levise a homemade silencer
hat promises to drastically
educe the noise level on the
pperation's log deck.

Their innovative concept is
based on the same principle
as an automotive muffler.
Using parts salvaged from
he mill's stores, they
designed and built a silencer
nit that fits onto a particul-
rly noisy pneumatic valve
xhaust. Located in fe
ipple loader on the mill's
Chip-N-Saw line, the exhaust
regularly discharged large
olumes of high pressure air
Into the atmosphere. The
esult of the air blasts was a

regular lhigh-pitched shriek -

that sounded throughout the
log loading area every time a
new log was shunted on to
the conveyor. . Testing
revealed the peak noise level
somnetimes reached 187
decibels,
rating as a gunshot blast.
Brigeeman and Jenks’
improved muffler system has
in the

about ‘the same —

Briggemen, right and Bud Jenks,

EFFECTIVE MUFFLER for BC Timber's tipple isader was designed and built by Glen
beth pipefitter/steamfitters at the mill.

New approach to ancient disease :

VANCOUVER (CP) —
estimated 10 per cent of the

exhaust’s peak noise level to
& more manageable 108
decibels by regulating the
release of escaping air.

sitting in British
Columbia classrooms suffer
from a disability that turns
simple reading, writing and
spelling exercises into painful

dren. Yet less is known about
their illness.

Some cases of dyslexia are
mild and sufferers will res-
pond to effective teaching
programs in the classroom
combined with after-school
Others will need

Because of the n
formula used to. measure
noise levels, the actual noise
has been reduced by more
than one half using their
simple, effective, yet

obsta-

aa
Only a small percentage of
those .will be diagnosed as
dyslexic. The rest will be
written off as immature,

individual help for years.

foodrow Wilson, Thomas
Edison, Albert Einstein, Nel-
son Rockefeller and Hans
Christian Andersen were all
dyslexi

cheap

Plans are now underway to
install similar units on the
mill's cutoff saws and other
pneumatic loaders.

stupid and

There are more dyslexic
children in North America
than the combined total of all
blind, deaf and retarded chil-

The cowboy image
gaining popularity

to CALGARY (CP)}.— People
used to say that a real
‘Cowboy had to be able to roll
a bull Durham cigarette with
one hand while riding in a
‘high wind, spit through a
wedding ring at 20 paces and
swear with feeling for 15
minutes without repeating
himself.

: The cowboys could also be
‘trustworthy, loyal, helpful,
friendly, courteous, ‘kind,
obedient, cheerful, thrifty,
‘brave, clean and reverent.

{ While those happen to be
ithe 12 points of the Boy Scout
law, they do just as well to
‘describe the North

Most dyslexics have nor-
mal intelligence and no visual
or hearing disorders. They
suffer from a developmental
condition that gives them a
difficulty with words, pre-
venting them from leafning
no matter how hard they try.
It can do things like reverse
letters, words, numbers or
the order of letters within a
single word.

Finding the right word
when speaking can eres bea

western-suits and

boots, =; Cowboy: “hats: tare,
- everyWhere.' Thére tre even
denim diaper sets and
crocheted baby booties that
resemble cowboy boots.

The urban cowboy is
everywhere, so much so that
the authentic article is
getting harder to identify.
But it doesn’t take the
experts — the cowboys them-
selves — more than a few
seconds to decide whether a
cowpoke is the real thing.

the most part,
don't mind the look-

For

jcowboy, who in many ways
‘defies af

alikes. In ace they welcome
their

3. The real cowboy is unique.
{He is all of those things some
tof the time and some of them
fall the time. And that’s good
‘enough for most people.
: He has something that
imight be called cowboy
charisma. People admire him
‘and try to look like him. He's
Inaughty but nice.

The cowboy came into

ing in the early days of the
jwestern frontier to fill the
ineeds of the time — look
‘after cattle and get them to
market. 2
{ He's still wearing the
clothes he wore 100 years ago
‘and the skills he perfected for
‘his job now are being used at
rodeos.

The cowboy's rugged yet
‘glamorous image has always
‘been admired and imitated.
For at least two decades blue
jeans have been a sort of
‘unofficial uniform among
North Americans.

- Calgary used to turn
western every summer for
Stampede Week. Now the
‘hats and the boots stay out
all year. Business executives
wear elegantly tailored

ade of. aatceonal rodeo.

Wayne Vold, a 35-year-old
DeWinton, Alta., cowboy,
was until recently a success-
ful saddle bronc contestant.
Now he’s a rodeo stock
contractor producing 15
shows a year, and a country
and western singer of some
note.

“Tm ‘not knocking that
urban cowboy thing one bit,”
says Vold.

“At lots of rodeos.1 go to,
everybody's wearin’ ~hats.

People that were: never: inte }

problom for. dyslexics.
aagually start talking or army:

‘ing later than the average

child. ‘
ALWAYS CONFUSION
All types of sequences such

as the order of the alphabet

of days of the week may be _

difficult to memorize. And
there is almost always con-
fusion between right and left.
In the search for a cause,
this last’ characteristic has
on the

of the brain normally controls
language skills and puts data
into a logical sequence, in
dyslexics the right side may
be trying to do this job for
which it is unsuited.

Dr. Carl Kline, a Van-
couver psychiatrist, says dys-
lexia is genetically deter-
mined.

There are families in which
reading disabilities can be
traced through several gen-
erations, and boys are af-
fected four times more often
than girls.

Peggy Koopman, associate
professor in the department
of educational pSychology
and special education at the
University of B.C., says there
is a problem just deciding
what dyslexia is.

CAUTIONS TEACHERS

Koopman says the UBC
faculty cautions teachers in
training against using a term
Pint dyslexia to défine a
os a a “with “the” “fearning
disability; she admits it is

helpful to know that the child.

is dyslexic because that rujes
out problems like pehizo:
phrenia.

However, she ‘says, the

term does ‘not tell teachers
exactly what the child's par-
ticular learning hi

que is an alphabetic phonic
approach to teaching langu-
age skills. It uses the multi-
sensory involvement of eyes,
ears and muscles as the basis
of a program for students
who haven't been able to
acquire reading and spelling
skills with the traditional
methods.

FUSES UNITS

This alphabetic method
concentrates on fusing smal-
ler units like letters, sounds
or:syllables into words. Chil-
dren see, hear, say and feel
(by tracing the outline of the
letter and by feeling their
own vocal cords) the words
or phonetic sounds.

It also helps dyslexics (who
can't see a word, no matter
how often they use it) to
spell,-says Lois Lindsay.

Jury says

Local tradesmen design SITENCEL pushes heirs

are legitimate

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) —
An attempt by 500 distant
cousins of-Howard Hughes to
secure part of the late
billionaire’s fortune has been
swept aside by jury that
upheld the legitimacy of a
firat cousin.

‘Addecision last week ended
another round of complex
litigation in the five-year.
tight to determine the right-
ful heirs to Hughes's estate,

most two hours of delibera-
tion that Elspeth Hughes
Lapp was the legitimate

daughter of Hughes's pater- .

nal uncle, Ru

That means Lapp's child-
ren, Barbara Cameron,
Elspeth DePoul and Agnes
Roberts, can be counted
among the legitimate pater-
nal heirs to Hughes's estate.

‘That also means there is no
need to go to more distant
cousins to find rightful heirs.

W.A. Jones, a Tennessee
genealogical investigator in-
strumental in getting 400 of
the second cousins together,
said they will “appeal im-
mediately and forever.”

Renault
18-series -
being recalled
TORONTO (CP) —

can Motors (Canada) Ltd. has
begun a recall of 1,190 1981

* Renault 18-series ‘cars in

Canada for inspection and
repair of potentially faulty
fuel line connections. The
company, which distributes

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the problem was discovered
during routine testing in the
United States. An American
Motors spokesman said the
company hasn't been notified
of any difficulties with loose

fuel connections, which could

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Students planning to attend Selkirk Collage in
t

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Centre

on Ui

question of hemispheric dom-
inance. This theory was for-
mulated more than 50 years
ago by Dr.. Samuel Torrey
Orton.

He’ suggested that dys-
lexics suffer from something
called bihemispheric repre-
sentation. While the left side

of his problem.

Kline claims that dyslexia
is an ancient disease that can
easily be diagnosed, and re-
medied by the Orton-Gill-
ingham method which is also
supported by the Orton So-
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rodeo are more
‘this cowboy -thing.! 1: “don't
know how long it‘will'‘last. I
think the traditional cowboy
thing will last forever... .
“everybody's wearing hats,
boots. Exotic boots that used
to cost $300 or $400 now cost.
$1,000. The clothes thing is
getting enormous.

“If you really want to
change a trend, get John
Travolta to make a movie.
That’s how you do it. It's
good for the western busin-
ess, it’s good for western
music and it’s good for rodeo.

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