DIDN'T EAT ON IMPULSE By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Contrary to myth, savage tribes rarely seized Christian missionaries on impulse and ate them, says a University of Pennsylvania researcher. Bound by complex taboos, cannibals were much more circumspect as they tried to serve their gods and feed their souls, says Peggy Reeves Sanday, author of a new study, Divine Hunger, Cannibalism as a Cultural System. Dead relatives or enemy captives were much more likely fare, she says. Sampling other people, especially for the sake of a meal, was considered the “ultimate anti-social act,” sometimes punishable by death. The taboo comes with who you eat and how you eat them,” she says. “You couldn't just eat anybody.” CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Sanday, holder of a PhD in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, culled her findings from centuries of reports by missionaries, tribesman and travellers. She found that a meal of human flesh almost always had cultural and spiritual significance and was not just a matter of nutrition. Often the cooking was accompanied by singing and other ceremony and was deeply interwoven into the society's sense of death and reproduction, she says Of the 37 case studies that she examined, most came from North America and the Pacific Islands, followed by Africa and South America. In the majority of cases, the victims were enemies, slaves or victims captured in warfare who were eaten to avenge other deaths and to bodily incorporate their foes’ power, oftem with their gods’ approval. ONLY ACCESS TO GODS The Aztecs believed that cannibalism and sacrifice gave mankind its only access to the gods and to the animating forces of the universe. The Aztecs thought the gods would strike against them unless they were appeased by the most superior of foods, human flesh, Sanday writes. “The flowing of blood was equivalent to the motion of the world,” Sanday writes. “Without it, all would come to an end.” They offered the gods the hearts and blood of their victims and splashed blood on shrines to show the gods were eating. The bodies were rolled down the stone steps of their pyramidal shrines and eaten by nobles and warriors. By eating human flesh, men entered into communion with their gods and shared in some divine power. “It was a communion because they were eating the same thing,” Sanday says. Fears not silly WINNIPEG (CP) — parent shouldn't dismiss a child's fear as silly, a chil dren's social worker says Jan Smith says physical reassurance in a confident, caring way can quickly pro vide security “It's a mistake to say ‘don't be afraid’ or ‘go to sleep’ in an angry way,” Smith says A “That's definitely not help- ful.” Parents should tell their children it's OK to feel afraid and should encourage them to share their feelings. She says it's impossible to shield children from fear, but that a good sense of anticipation can reduce anxiety for children in new situations. Kids tell how to set us right OTTAWA (CP) — “To stop wars I would say ‘Hi’ to them and they would point their arrows the other way.” That is the best way to achieve world peace says six. year-old Ryan Peacock of Trenton, Ont. Young Ryan's solution is one of 400 suggestions from young people across Canada about world ms in a new book called Dear World Cher Monde, by the children of Canada. Proceeds from the book, which goes on salé Thursday at $9.95 a copy, will be used to establish health-care clin ies in Jamaica and Haiti. Dear World-Cher Monde was conceived as a project by the book publishing industry to support GEMS, a regis tered Canadian charity founded by Doreen Wicks of Toronto Wicks says that about $7 from the sale of each book will go toward setting up the clinics, thanks to donations by printing houses, publish ers, book sellers and others. ASKED THOUGHTS Young people between ages five and 18 were asked how they would put the world in order and 20,000 of them put their thoughts on world peace, hunger, pov erty, education and cleaning their rooms into paintings, drawings, poems and essays. Dear World-Cher Monde, a full-color paperback, carries the work of the 400 selected by a panel of judges including Wicks, her cartoonist-hus band, Ben, Knowlton Nash and Mila Mulroney Ben Wicks, who will cross the country promoting the book, said information on the project was sent to every school in Canada in May with students asked: What would you do to make the world right? Thursday, 32 of the chil dren, representing every province and territory, will visit Ottawa and meet Gov Gen. Jeanne Sauve, who wrote the introduction to the book. 914 Columbie Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Family Worship Service 60 Cents 3 Sections (A, B & C) ALL ABOARD .. . Helga Dawson (right) and Marg Pondelicek board Castlegar’s new transit bus at stop in downtown Castlegar. The Castlegar ON THE BUS WITH THE CASNEWS By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer The new Castlegar public transit bus pulls up at bus stop A five minutes late. Driver Mike Zoobkoff changes the sign to Columbia Selkirk and quickly pulls away again, making a left toward downtown Castlegar. I'm running a bit late right now,” Zoobkoff explains. But I'll make up the time between Brilliant and the Castleaird Plaza According to Zoobkoff, there is a minor problem in scheduling, apparently an oversight on the part of the computer, the so-called brains behind the bus route We move to bus stop B on the schedule. It’s 10:10 a.m. There are three people on the bus and two more pay their 65 cents and board It's. usually light lunch, Zoobkoff as he glances over his shoulder again after that.” very around explains It picks up The transit system has been in operation only three short days and Zoobkoff, who drove bus in Trail for four years, seems to have already detected a user pattern Debbie Barens of Brilliant boards the bus off Columbia Ave. This is her third ride on it, making her more or less a veteran. We only have one car,” she says She uses the bus for shopping and ceramics classes I have absolutely no complaints with it.” The bus swings left off Columbia and down 6th, then makes a left towards Stanley Humphries secondary Ramis SR i ROME 3 sites Regional Transit System went into operation this week CosNews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk SHARON RAYNER doesn't drive AL MEREDITH beats walking school. A student holding a thin black notebook stops and stares. Further down the block a women pushing a stroller does the same “People don't seem to know about it yet,” says Zoobkoff. We proceed to drive past five or six empty bus stops. It'll pick up.” he adds Turning back onto Columbia Avenue proves no better for passengers. The only stop is the railroad tracks. The plaza also turns out to be a bust though some people dw get off. We continue to Selkirk College “I think we might have to get some coverage in Ootischenia,” says Zoobkoff, signalling to make a right. “They'll have go get one for there.” By the time we pull out of Selkirk College, only one passenger remains. No one has got on board in almost 20 minutes. A grazing cow near the Sunset drive-in theatre continued on poge A2 FOR SHORTFALL Library to raise funds By RON NORMAN Editer The Castlegar and District Public Library board will meet Monday night to discuss ways to try to cover a $40,000 budget shortfall for the prop- osed library expansion. “We're going to attempt to raise funds,” board chairman Deb Chmara told the Castlegar News in an inter- view Friday. (Chmarea said final details of the fund- raising will be worked out at the meeting. “We're looking at a variety of things,” she said, including a telephone blitz of the area. The board has just three weeks to come up with $40,000, otherwise the expansion may have to be scrapped. The expansion has a $400,000 budget — $200,000 from an Expo legacy grant and a matching $200,000 from the city. However, the estimated cost of the expansion is at least $440,000. about s $25,000 increase in the Expo legacy grant. “He is very positive and optimistic” about the additional legacy funding, Chmarea said. But that would mean the board would still have to match that funding. Chmara said she has also contacted Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco to see if federal funding is available, though she hasn't received any word back yet. “It's going to be tough,” Chmara OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY said. “And this is why we need people's su She added that there are “a tremen- dous number” of people in the com- munity willing to help with the fund- raising. . But she said it’s important that others in the community show their support. She pointed out that she has already had several residents donate funds. And she called on others to “come out of the closet. Let's see your support now. Chmara said any donations will be recorded and if the board fails to raise the necessary $40,000 the funds will be urned. But she stressed that the library “needs the money up front,” not just in pledges. Route upsets chamber Calgary Olympic Organizing Commit- tee’s plan to bypass Castlegar on the rehearsal run for the Olympic Toreh Relay. The chamber has written to the relay organizers asking them to re-evaluate the route. , The 11,000-kilometre relay is expec- ted to start Nov. 17, 1987 from St. John's, Nfld. The torch will travel across the country to B.C. and then head east again to Calgary where it is scheduled to arrive at 2 p.m. Feb. 13 for the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics. A rehearsal route through the West Kootenay Jan. 27-29 will include War field, Trail, Fruitvale, Montrose and Salmo, but will bypass Castlegar and Nelson. In a letter to Petro Gfnada the spon- sor and organizer of the relay, chamber president Gary Pearson says the chamber is disappointed the route not only detours from Highway 3, but also proceeds through smaller villages and misses cities with sur rounding populations totalling 31,000. Pearson proposes instead that the route include Trail, proceed north on Highway 22 to Castlegar, switch to Highway 3A to Nelson, then onto Audrey Moore and has referred the matter to Jim Hunter, relay manager for the Calgary ganizing » expects Hunter will comtact Moore this week. Hasham said Hunter will look at the possibility of rerouting the relay route through Castlegar. He noted that the Olympic Organizing Committee estab- lished the route and it is up to the com. Highway 6 to Salmo and rejoin the proposed rehearsal route on Highway mittee to consider any changes to the plan. More than 6,000 of the 11,000-kilo- metre relay will be run. For the remaining 5,000-kilometre portion, the Olympic torch will be transported across the country by snowmobile. Hasham said the public will have an opportunity to carry the torch some of the way He said the Olympic Committee will send applications to every household in Canada in January or February. Those continued on page A2 The chamber president said in an interview it seems odd that the route detours off Highway 3 — a major high way — in the first place. The City of Castlegar supports the chamber’s move to have the torch come through Castlegar. Salem Hasham, operations manager for the Olympic Torch Relay, said in a telephone interview from Calgary Thursday that he spoke with Mayor eR EHR ae wer peeua Es fa > 1A HUGE HIT Suzeki said the steady accumu- lation of wealth and material goods bas only happened “very, very re- cently.” He noted that when he grew up in the 1940s he had many times less of everything consumed today. “We lived rich, full lives using far less than we se now.” A large number of people were ~ ‘Murned away as organizers were forced to close the doors to the hall Searly a half hour before the lecture Another 200 people listened # speech ini the centre's base 3 ‘galled ‘the need for con 0 a “pernicious” myth. eek that this kind of steady . « « doesn't exist anywhere in the universe. Nothing continues to grow exponentially.”