' vo. _ Castlegar News pri! 24. 1985 Tumor centre OTTAWA (CP) — In the cramped little laboratory near Ottawa Civie Hospital, three pathologists peer at the slide with a razor-thin sample of a tumor from a 27-year- old woman. They are cancer sleuths, trying to piece together the clues and answer two ques- tions that have eluded other experts before then. Is it cancer? If so, exactly what kind of cancer is it? Despite their expensive electron microscopes, a com- puter that can analyse cells in minute detail and the ex- perience that comes from studying hundreds of unusual cancers every year, the three are stumped. They decide to ship the clues to a panel of volunteer pathologists scattered across the country. Within a few weeks, the panel members report back and eight of the nine conclude the growth is not cancerous. The woman is in the clear. Since 1948, the Canadian Tumor Reference Centre has solved the mysteries of tu mors for thousands of pati. ents. Now the centre itself could be in the grips of a terminal illness unless it can find other sources of funds for the work it does. MAY SHUT DOWN The National Cancer In. stitute of Canada, the re- search arm of the Canadian Cancer Society, has frozen its contributions to the centre at $538,000 a year for the last two years. It plans to cut the funds off entirely, but has given the centre three more years to find new sponsors. “Most of us would like to see the centre kept going,” Accounting PERSONAL INCOME OGLOW'S PAINTS & TAXES PREPARED WALLCOVERINGS 365-6214 ‘ Deoler Pease gone oe s . Rg row n Window Covenng Products CERTIFIED ° GENERAL Chimneys ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. ne k= RUMFORD Ph. 365-2151 E PLACE oa Super Sweep Chimney Services Ltd. MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. says Dr. Peter Scholefi executive director of the na- tional cancer institute in Toronto. “It's a national re- source. We think it's a worthwhile investment.” On the other hand, Schol efield says, the cancer in stitute is strapped for funds and has chosen to concen- trate on basic research ra- ther than treating patients. Those who are trying to keep the centre say losing it would have far-reaching ad verse effects on cancer treat ment. “The cases the centre gets are the most difficult and the most controversial in the country,” says Dr. Kenneth jar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A Resident Partner Appliances Pritzker a hi at th University of Toronto. ] Pritzker says 99 per cent of all cancer cases are straight foward and easy to diagnose. But the other one per cent can challenge even the most skilled pathologist. 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Ernie enthralled fans young and old alike Composing Room Foreman the diminutive robot on with his patter and “break dancing”. (Hint: ask him why the chicken crosses the road.) The Trade Fair con physical teacher was des- troyed in an automobile accident, was awarded some $333,000 in a civil suit which ended here Thursday. Roberta White — whose injuries include a permanently stiffened leg and disfiguring facial scars — was awarded personal damages of $260,000, as well as court costs and interest by a four-man and four-woman jury who deliberated for about five hours before giving a unanimous verdict. The defendant was retired Creston man, Norman Nickel. The four-day trial established that on June 4, 1980, White was driving on Highway 21 south of Creston at 10:30 p.m. when she had a head-on collision with a car driven by Nickel, who approached her on the wrong side of the road, said White's lawyer, Ken Wyllie of Robson. Nickel had previously been charged with impaired driving and criminal negligence in connection with the acci- dent, and was found guilty of danger- ous driving in a Creston inei court in 1981. Wyllie said at this week's trial that Nickel res- ; future care. An 18-minute video-tape of White functioning at home was intro- duced as evidence to demonstrate that she has a 15 per cent permanent dis- ability, said Wyllie. According to Wyllie, White was ponsibility for the accident and sub- sequent damages. White, who was 16 at the time, suffered multiple lacerations to the led to go to trial because the face, a broken rib, dish hip, compound fracture of the right arm, and a shattered right leg in the acci- dent which demolished both cars. She underwent eight operations and was hospitalized for 70 days. White faces future surgery to her leg, as well as plastic surgery, said Wyllie. “She'd hoped to be a phys ed teacher, which she will never be able to be,” Wyllie said in an interview Friday. He said the suit was for out-of-pocket expenses, loss of past and future income earning potential, and cost of that which the jury was prepared to set after hearing all the evidence,” he said, adding that the jury's award was “fair and adequate.” A passenger in the W) te vehicle who was less severely injured in the accident has a civil suit pending. The judge was Justice Mr. Raymond Paris, with Vancouver lawyer Ray Cantillon acting for the defence, and Trail lawyer Don Sperry representing ICBC. Sperry and Cantillon were unavailable for comment Saturday. Snow holds up Fonyo run ROGERS. PASS (CP) — Snowballs were flying around the back courtyard of the Glacier Park Lodge Saturday with Steve Fonyo being the instigator and the main target. The one-legged runner's cross-coun try journey to raise money for cancer research was temporarily halted by a heavy snowfall in Rogers Pass. Fonyo and his father had set out at 5 a.m. Castlegar time Saturday, but were quickly turned back by RCMP because of the treacherous road con- ditions.in the high-walled mountain pass. It had been snowing heavily for 24 hours. raised in Red Deer, an Alberta city that Fonyo was kept away from by an even fiercer snowstorm last weekend. Fonyo has about the weather and tried to push his pace through the long mountain climbs. The 19-year-old Fonyo, whose run was inspired by the late Terry Fox, has raised about $5.2 million with his now famous hopping gait since departing St. John’s, Nfld., almost 14 months ago. The fund was boosted Friday with the arrival of a cheque for $82,000 of a parade planned for May 5 in Vernon, Fonyo's hometown, were notified by Canadian Cancer Society workers that Vonyo will take part, squelching rumc he would not attend. However, the organizers said there are still some problems to be worked out, including where to place Fonyo in the parade. The date may also have to be changed, they said. tinves today until 5 p.m. CosNews Normon VIETNAM 10 YEARS AFTER: A LOOK BACK Editor's Note: Thousands of American war resisters flocked to Canada during the Vietnam war. While most aimed for the larger centres like Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, some ended up in rural areas, such as the _4Silocan Valley. This article marks the 10th anniversary ot the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer When he took a 3 a.m. flight out of Chicago to Winnipeg one night in 1968, John had little idea of what Canada was like. But he didn't care. John (not his real name) had been living underground in the U.S. for about 18 months after receiving his draft notice for the Vietnam war. He says friends in Chicago received a visit from Federal Bureau of FEATURE REPOR Investigation agents asking questions about his where abouts. John decided to flee to Canada. “I was seared . less,” said John, 37, a Nelson resident. He decided to borrow ski equipment from friends so he could say he was on a ski trip if questioned by customs agents. “I got on the plane. I borrowed a pair of skis, and a ski toque. I had this thing pulled down. I didn't know there no mountains in Winnipeg. “I didn't know anyone,” added John. “It desperate. I got on the first plane to Canada.” However, John got safely past customs agents in Winnipeg, and a week later moved to Toronto, where he became part of a thriving community of American draft dodgers near Kensington Market. John says he first stayed briefly at the home of a sympathetic Toronto Star reporter, then in a hostel for American evaders. Eventually he was given landed immigrant status, and got a job at a university bookstore. There, John worked for about four years, merging into Canadian society like American compatriots forced into the same situation Today he insists he was followed by FBI agents during his year-and-a-half underground, when he moved across the American midwest to San Francisco's colorful Haight Ashbury district, living under an assumed was identity. And this feeling persists today, as does a pervading sense of guilt. “It's strange — it's the only way I can describe it,” says John. “It’s a feeling that I have. It's okay, but it’s such a guilty feeling I have that you did something wrong.” But John's feelings against the Vietnam war — in which an estimated 58,000 Americans were killed and 300,000 others wounded — remain as strong today as they were when he first received his draft notice. “I didn't want to go over there and shoot at other people, and I didn’t want to get shot at myself,” he said. John moved to the Slocan Valley 13 years ago, and after living in various parts of Alberta and B.C., returned to Nelson in 1982. He most recently worked as a child-care worker. No official numbers exist for how many U.S. war resisters fled to Canada. Estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000. The U.S. consulate in Vancouver has no records on how many draft dodgers came to B.C. John said “quite a few” came to the Slocan Valley in the late 60s and early 70s. But Ron Woodward, who left the U.S. in the early 70s partly because of his anti-war beliefs, says the idea that the Slocan Valley a haven for draft dodgers is overblown. “A lot of us came up here at that time,” says Woodward, 40, now a graphics communications instruc tor at Selkirk College. “The misconception is we are all draft dodgers. Most of us were legal immigrants.” Woodward said he knows of only two admitted American draft evaders in the area. Those who came were “mostly people who came up here legally to gét away from the U.S. political system, who were also hippies, whatever that is.” Many of these were Americans ftom middle and upper-class families who were highly educated, said Woodward who himself has a Masters degree in sociology Woodward remembers that when he started work on a local lumber green-chain in 1972, American ex-patriots who'd left for political reasons included two men with PhDs, three with Masters degrees and one with a Bache lors degree — all in a 10-man crew When he received his induction notice in 1967, Woodward had already made up his mind he wouldn't fight in Vietnam for “political and philosophical reasons.” Woodward was finishing the first year of a Master: degree in biochemistry in Miami. While graduate students had previously been exempt from the draft, the rules had changed to include those in their first year. continued on poge A2 Park sign NEW SIGN . . . Mayor Audrey Moore and Brigadier memorating Zuckerberg Island Park during General Mike Heppell unveil sign com- ‘emony Saturday Conniows Photo by Rob Popett By CasNews Staff Rotary Club, Brigadier General A commemorative sign was un M.£. Heppell of the 44th Field En- Saturday at Zuckerberg Is gineers, Tim Mathieson general land Park by i v with Ge and Pete Zuckerberg 2S: See nizes the of the 44th Field 7 agineers Squadron. which con Moore congratulated Charters on bridge to the island last gen presersiag ny se hinge gr Castlegar Rotary’ Cub, which someone Jobo us +4 tinted and co-ordinated the project. together to do our best.” unveiled Se be i ee ceremony were: Mayor Audrey ponents wilde te ee Moore, John Charters, chairman of mind it will serve es a constant . the Advisory C. of between the community and the militia.”