CASTLEGAR NEWS, some 5, 1983 already have a bank account for their education. Andrea is 18 months old. Kimberley was born two days ago at Grace Hospital in Vanccuver. Kimberley and Andrea are “echo-boomers” — infants whose parents were born in the “baby boom” of the 1950s — and economists are predicting they may be ono cure to the recession. Financially secure “baby boomers” who jit off having children in their early 20s are now starting families, ‘ists say. And alth and Andrea won't be spending their bank Some just yet,’ their parents will be spending theirs on the expenses that go with having a family. Richard MacAlary, chief economist of the B.C. Central Credit Union, said the 1983 B.C. forecast is for a 45-per-cent increase over the average yearly births in the early 1970s and 10,000 more than in 1981. “The baby boom will have as significant a change on our society as did the boom experienced during the 1950s and 1960s,” he said. MacAlary-said the anticipated baby boom will spark a retail boom and help whip the Canadian economy into shape. “Children are the most expensive investment parents will make, followed by a house and a car. In the coming months you will likely hotice changes in the merchandise’ carried by department stores and an increase in babies’ and children’s products being adver- tised on radio and television.” HOUSING EXCEPTION MacAlary said he does not expect the new babies to bring on a large increase in new house construction. “A lot of these couples are already wel-housed and bought a house several years ago, expecting to become parents in (the) future.” Kimberly and Andrea's father, Mike, is a 27-year-old bus driver. Mother Kathleen is a housewife. The couple recently sold their home and now rent a house in Vancouver. They hope to save money to send their girls to private school. MacAlary said that because many of theze people put tions made in the early 1960s overestimated child births: throughout the 1970s. “What has happened now is that the biological clock” off having children until later in life, population projec- - —B. C: sees VANCOUVER (CP) — Kimberley and Andrea Crout GIFTS FOR BABY . ..,. Alpha Phi ‘Chapter members of Beta Sigma Phi present gifts to Castlegar's New Year's baby. The gifts were, lenated by local erchont has caught up and we have. the resulting increase ‘ind i births, BincAlary added ‘that: it is better for children’ to be. born early in the baby boom. ~~ “Studies show that in the last boom, there we: opportunities for those born before June of 1952." : Diane ‘Foreman ond baby Christina Claire. —Casttewthoto about 600 births a: month, or.6,000 a yéar,:but by ‘the end’ * _been born at Grace anid’ “right tow, we're overflowing.” Shown are-president Helen Neilsen (left):and service committee chairman Marie Phillips (right) with mother. Dorothy Cumming, post-partim co-ordinator - at } Grace, has her own statistics‘as proof of the new. boom. The-recently opened hospital was built to handle of its first year of operation, al out 7,200 babies will:-have Education Minister report t says Brothers feud over raise WINNIPEG (CP) — Be- cause of a feud over who should earn more, two bro- thers who own an electrical contracting firm that takes in $4 million a year-have been earning less thai $300 a week each for 12 years. Becauser neither will agree to give the other a raise, Harold Kummen, act- ing president of Kummen- Shipman Ltd., is paid $297.50 a week and his brother Carl, -the company’s secretary- treasurer, $256 a week. Both are electrical engineers. Since the feud started, neither has collected any dividends on his share i ig the business. As a resuic, the company, which has assets of more than $2.1 million, has about $1 million in ¢ash and bonds in the bank. In the latest development, the Manioba Court of Appeal ruled Monday that Harold should be allowed to buy out his brother's half interest in the firm. If Harold is not’ interested in doing so, Carl should have the same oppor- tunity. As a final alternative, the company would be liquidated under the supervision of the courts, the Appeal Court judges decided. The proceeds would be split between the brothers. Harold said in an interview Tuesday he and his family have been living only on his salary since 1970. He was reluctant to discuss the situation and said he had. not read the court decision and did not know what he would do about it. Carl Kummen Sr. started the firm that his sons took over in 1962. But it wasn't until after his death in 1970 that the brothers. quarrelled over Harold's claim that he worked harder and should earn more, documents filed in the Appeal Court show. Carl, the younger brother, refused an offer from Harold to buy him out. He decided, as a 60-per-cent shareholder, - that he would freeze Harold's salary. Harold did the same thing to Carl's salary. “What we have is a stale- mate, a drastic and unfor- tunate falling out between those two adults who ought to have been more amen- able,” wrote Mr. Justice Al- fred Monnin of the Appeal- Court. “I cannot apportion liab- ility for this unfortunate sit- uation.” VICTORIA (CP) —. Not enough time is spent on sci- ence in primary grades in B.C., and many high school graduates do not know basic . science concepts, says a re- port prepared for the Edu- cation’ Ministry. © 01>, Students surveyed last said Tuesday in a news re- lease. “In view of the imp: ability to reason scientifically even though they appear to” have an.ad weak in each ‘of the’ three “and: on: ecdlioeet of an grades tested, and the report’ adequate science-background ds that, the minis-, ‘in curriculum are: of science in today's society, I am concerned that ngallicen’ improvements ‘in Jearnii iz have not. occurred," He: sal - The amount/of-tinte”spent’ » on science in the” pi year also had now p: beyond levels found in a sim- ilar 1978 study, showing the same strengths and many of the same weaknesses in‘ both” studies. This lack of progress is grades is inad said the report’ by the ministry's learning assessment branch. “Many teachers. are «not using.as ‘much time as rec- ommended -by the .ministry ‘for science teaching,” it said. - Minister Bill Vander Zalm MacBeth sparks concern BURNABY (CP) — When a parent complains about a sexual reference in a school text, it’s usually because the reference is included, not ex- cluded. : But secondary school tea- chers in this Vancouver sub- urb expect heightened stu- dent. interest in Shakes- peare’s' Macbeth because a parent has complained that a sexual reference in the play was cénsored from the stan- dard school text. “Our students now know a passage has been left out and they. will undoubtedly. ask their teachers what it is and, the teachers will tell them,” grade 8 do‘ not have a "eatisactary : says Keith Stainton, prin- . cipal of Burnaby North Sec- ondary. “Stainton said the 11-line passage was deleted in a ver- sion of the play used across Canada and in all Grade 11 classrooms in B.C, The Coles Book version was recom- mended for use by a provin- cially appointed committee of teachers, The passage, in Act H, Scene 3, consists of a porter's comments that alcoholic bey-. ard. erages stimulate sexual ap- petite and then deaden it. The moral of the passage “isa bit obvious — if you drink: too, much, you can't of basic science concepts and are able to apply them (1) E “The study’ foand-thatmany; high school graduates;do no! have the knowledge of basic science concepts. and do not” apply scientific’ a try establish. ‘safety. ‘stan: Tt’ also aiiggesto, ‘that; the dards for science “ ministey all as- and ‘provide -fu ‘funds -for: dis: pect sof thie senior secondary Fequipment “biology - curriculum. aa ane Wer Zalm said new sci- nce curriculum outlines for that a large number of elem- elementary. schools just is- entary teachers feel kao sued, hogeacing of the junior rounds ‘The Canadian Press : It may or may not be. Bangkok flu, but it’s making “a lot of Canadians, including, Newfoundland’s Meutenant- governor, fecl achy, feverish and listléss. Whatever it is, it's preva- lent in: Alberta, New Bruns- wick, Quebec, parts of On- tario and Saskatchewan, southern Nova Scotia and western Newfoundland, There’ 's no sign of it — yet, in Prince’ Edward Island or Manitoba and only a few cases have been Feported in -British- Columbia. Canadians of all ages are getting it, Its, acute phase, lasts four or five days, after which “you feel kind of blab. for a week or so while your . body catches ‘up. says. Dr. Don, Maclachlan of. Calgary. . General Hospital's emergen- cy unit. tts unpleasant but, ba- Th Ottawa, Dr.-S:E. Acres of the Laboratory Centre for Diseage Control has received reports 0 sof relatively, few con- “firmed cases of flu — roughly 100, Ho. said alot, of other virue ‘or bacterial infections Z produce similar symptoms. | Newfoundland’s leuten- ant-governor, -Dr... Anthony Paddon, who pioneered lung: treatment in Labrador, is not taking part in the debate. He has cancelled nll his appoint-: ments for two weeks while he tries to shake the bug. ’s a mixed bag of infec- ee some nastier. than others,” says Dr. Nancy Sut- tle, associate director. of the Middlesex-London, ‘Ont., dis- , trict health unit, Some peapls _ have . sore throats. with a fever, some just have a fever and others have a full-blown upper Teeplratory, jnlestion, | Dr. David W: medical: health ' ‘officer’ . oe sically. not. very d says Dr. Gerald ‘Ahronheim, a specialist in pediatric. in- féctious diseases at’ St. Jus- ~ tine’s‘ Hospital. in Montreal. Dr. Paul Sackman,-an Ed- “monton’ health officer, and Dr. David Korn, medical offi- cer for © Ontario's “Simcoe - County, ere convinced Bang- kok flu is plaguing’ people in their areas. Elsewhere, ‘doc- tors report “influenza-like symptoms” but are awaiting the ‘results of laboratory tests before committing themselves. © “This particular bug seems _ to be quite strong and is at- tacking quite a large propor- tion of bg population,” said Sackmal “If Tw were a betting man, Td say it's an A-type or ‘Asian “flu, probably of the Bangkok strain,” says Dr. Harold Wadds, administrator Western Memorial Hospital at Corner Brook, Nfld.,., re: porting a marked increase in. the number of patients suf- fering from the muscle aches, headaches, nausea and gen well although 4. substantial: number of grade 12 students: had completed of were com- pleting. their ‘last “formal course in ‘science. Safety was found to be perform,” ‘Suzanne Gerard, : uately prepared to teac! in Sep- eq . science. Junior secondary: tember and the placement of teachers have the same feel--.a new senior senior; physics ing in: areas other ‘than’ ‘curriculum in schools should. biology, and at each level the .: have a beneficial effect on the - teachers found’‘a: need) for’ systém.. contintious upgrading. 3 “The: re-introduction - of The report S * exe that the ministry co-ordinate aminations will held’ to en- . the design, development and | sure that students achieve a: : : delivery ‘of. in-service'* pro- ‘certain ‘acceptable standard * grams focusirig on the ‘tea- that is readily understood by: Met parent who complained ching of science :processes, teachers and parents,” he about tlie deletion, said Tues- and critical thinking skills, day. She said-her son spotted the. deletion while reading.” | the play as.a recorded ver-~ sion —-with the passage in- tact — played alongside. The’ record was also supplied by the school. - “Kids aren't blind or deaf, they know about censorship be and propaganda,” said Ger- Ofrawa (CP) —A tor . of Canada’s only domed sts-- “Kids can't afford to be in- dium and dinner with Prime. nocent in today’s world. If you take the reality. out of the: ac ivities planned for what they read, they will be Queen Elizabeth end ‘the left defenceless.” Sex offender ‘cried’ for help | VANCOUVER (CP) — A man’s admission that he was a dangerous sexual offender wes really a cry for help, a B.C. Supreme Court’ judge was told Tuesday. Justice Lloyd McKenzie, after hearing by lay’ Charles Findlay, 25, to in- determinate confinement with a recommendation that he receive treatment at the regional psychiatric centre at Matsqui. the judge was told Find- defence counsel E.J. Horem- bala, sentenced Timothy Suspects sought of the es: sential ingredients of the Crown's application to have in child shooting VERNON (CP) — Police arrested three men Tuesday. in connection with the shoot- ing of a four-year-old boy during a drinking party in this Okanagan city. RCMP said they found a shotgun and a_.22-calibre handgun and were checking - to sec whether the weapons were linked to the shooting incident early Tuesday. Police said William Damian Clark, son of Bonnie Heather Clark, was shot in the hand and abdomen at about 4:30 a.m. PST during-a drinking party at the Clark house. The boy was in stable con- dition in hospital, An RCMP spokesman said three men were picked up for questioning in connection with the incident. No charges have been laid. . him declared a dangerous : sexual offender was his way of asking for help. + : Findlay was convicted of collision raping ‘five women: — his.. prospective mother-in‘ law, _scaMouy ‘or a = Pale his landlady’s daughter, ei the thea killed Sunda: 15-year-old girl, a woman taxi: °° men if driver and a prostitute. ina two-vehicle gollision near = this interior. community. Justice McKenzie said the victims were _among Findlay was compelled ‘to - six people riding in a station - seek immediate gratification wagon that went out of con- of sexual desires even fovgy trol two’ kilometres east of such i ‘ould on the Trans-Can- cause violence. -ada Highway and was struck The judge said there were- by a pickup truck. no grounds on which the - Dead is David Sham, 26, of court could believe Findlay Three Hills, Alta. Police ear... ‘Nanaimo the following morn- would do otherwise but per- lier identified the other two sist in the same kind of victims as John Hui, 22, of conduct if he was allowed.to Vancouver, driver of the sta- go free and remain untreat-.. tion wagon, “and ‘passenger, cd. ‘Jeffrey Sze, 23, of: Edmon- However, he said, with an_ ton. indeterminate sentence the: Three other people in the National Parole Board would station wagon: are in hos- be required to review Find-. pital in Salmon Arm with lay’s case after his first three | minor injuries. The driver of years in prison and every the pickup truck was treated two years thereafter. “and Feleased: ister. Trudeau are among. :. ‘sald. “Queen's B.C. ‘tour planned Duke of Edinburgh during a four-day visit to-British ‘Col- umbia in March. ‘The: ‘royal couple, trav- elling on the yacht Britannia, will arrive in Victoria harbor March 8, dock in V eral: . \ 1 where ; cy clinies were overflowing with patients, says ‘children recover rapidly from the ill: ness but’ adults, particularly those with” chronic. health problems suchas ‘bronchitis or diabetes,are more sev- erely affected and may be left with a lingering cough:. ‘At Montreal's |.Children’s Hospital, ‘which ~ normally sees about 140 patients a day, the number rose to more than 400%over the holiday period... . Hospitals. in “Yorkton, North Battleford and Moose Jaw, Sask.,.decided 10 days ago to permit visitis only from healthy members of. patients’ immediate families. A-number. of doctors’ ad- vised against giving aspirin to children because of a sus- pected link with Reye's syn- drome, a rare, sometimes fa- tal childrer’s-disease. . © “Flu shots help, says Dr. “Pierre Levine of the Nova Scotia Health Department, but only when takon in the fall. By the time an epidemic starts, it's too late. Canadianize or ‘lose members | MONTREAL (cP) — next two years may see Ge i -adian workers leaving major international unions such as ‘the autoworkers and the steelworkers, says the presi- “dent of the Canadian Paper- workers Union. International unfons in the private sector are facing re- newed ‘pressure from’ mem- bers .to “Canadianize’ in named the Resouree and Energy Workers. Union, would : have had almost 100,000 members, making: it one of the largest in Canada. It also would have bolstered the position within the Can- adian Labor Congress of pri- vate-sector unions. -They have been losing | ground and influence in the national labor body to rapidly bli to the situation, James Buchanan said in an interview Tuesday. He cited. the ateslworkers and autoworkers as exsm- ples. “The chink is already in the armor at the autoworkers,” gro is. Pi ploy unions. Buchanan, a strong: prop- onent of the failed merger, said it. was “not inconceiy- ~ able” that it would be recon- sidered in two years as the situation in the ‘paper in- Mareh’'9 and. visit said the public di: that to: dustry deteri further. March 19 before ‘flying back to England March.11: - ‘The visit will be the final leg of a cruise that will in- clude previcus stops in the United States and Mexico. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be officially welcomed upon their arrival in Victoria, the morning of March -8. They will visit “schools and a cathedral in the afternoon before making an evening tour of the Univer- sity of Victoria. In Vancouver on March 9, activities include a ceremony for the fortheoming Expo 86, a tour of the University of British Columbia’ and of ‘the * nearly-completed British Col- umbia-Stadium. = - The ‘couple will anchor in ing, and after a brief visit there the Queen will travel to Vernon while the-Duke will visit Kamloops.: “has developed between the union’s Canadian and Amer- ican leadership over bargain- ing strategy with major North ‘American car produ- Problems also are starting to develop among Cenadian locals of the powerful United Steel’ Workers of America, half of whose members are on layoff, he said. International unions “that don’t Canadianize stand ‘to lose members to Canadi: The behind the merger remains valid and the two unions will increase. co- . operation in the’ meantime, he said. He attributed the rejection of the merger to fear among Paperworkers that they. would lose their identity ina broader: entity. He argued thata larger; stronger union is needed to counter increas- ing. concentration of owner- ship in the resource sector. “Paperworkers are pri- based unions, he said. Large Canadian private- ,sector unions are increas. ingly necessary as’ member- ship levels off in traditional industries, added Buchanan, whose union was born when Canadian members quit ‘the | U:S.-based United Paperwor- kers International Union in 1974, awit However, a proposal . to merge Buchanan's 65,000- member union with another They wil meet again that in New af ster before an evening dinner given by Prime Minister Trudeau and will fly back to London the morning of March 11. recent break ‘the En- ergy and Chemical Workers Union,. was narrowly de- feated at a paperworkers’ before Chri: mary workers, and we have to start looking at ‘ourselves that way,” he said, “The die-hard papermakers simply weren't wiiling to ac- cept the fact that chemicals are energy and that energy is’ resources.” Buehataa denied the union was split along lan; lines by the merger ‘sstion although francophone dele- gates from Quebec arid New Brunswick ‘did vote ‘solidly against the proposal, saying their influence would be dim- iiished in'the new union. 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