Castlegar News seprenve: so, 1% Your Carrier is Collecting Your Casi «¢ News carrier will now be livery of the paper for the past ++ +. won't you have your money orshe calls? PAINTING & DECORATING FOURTH AVENUE vin 281 Gary Flemi: ing Dianna Kootnikott ADVERTISING SALES WORSE THAN‘PARENT'S ‘DEATH Divorce hard on kids LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Divotee can have a more devastating effect on children than the death of a parent, a meeting of Canadian psychiatrists Was told. Children caught in the stress of divorce and the constant conflict that often follows have'a gloomier outlook on their own future, said Dr. Jean-Francois Saucier. “Sometimes parents are divorced for 10 years and still fighting like mad and when they try to get the child on their side — that is the worst thing,” Saucier told participants at the seventh annual meeting of the Canadian Academy of Child Psychiatry. Girls are most affected by divorce between the ages of six and nine, and boys between 12 and 15. Girls seem to be aware earlier in life of “the terrible thing that is happening” when parents divorce, Saucier said. Couples thinking of divorce must first realize their children will be hurt in the process, he said, adding that parents must watch the children for signs of depression, which may include worse than usual school grades or friend- ship breakups. MAY NEED HELP Parents should also be aware that children will not automatically recover a year or two after the divorce, Saucier said, stressing the need for immediate intervention if disturbing behavior surfaces. Above all, parents must avoid trying to “get the child on their side,” he said. Regardless of which parent has custody of the child, it is wise for contact to be maintained with both parents “because the child is loyal to both.” Girls seem to do best with their mothers after a divorce, * but boys seem to do equally well with the mother or father, Saucier said. Across the strpet from the hotel where the meeting was POLITICIANS SLAM LATEST KIDS’ TV TOY WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. toymaker demon- strated a “new television concept” to members of Congress recently with a preview of a children's TV show that allows a viewer with a toy to interact with characters in the program. ‘The congressmen seemed less enchanted by the’ innovation than children are likely to be, saying it ties a product to a kids’ TV show more closely than ever. “You couldn't do this with adult programs — it wouldn't work,” said Democratic Representative Al Swift. And Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said he is a bill to TV shows which held, pi erected a 12-metre banner embi with the words: “Psychiatry is making drug addicts out of Canadian school children.” A spokesman for the group said parents told by their doctors that their child should be placed on the drug “should be asking questions.” 4 The group claims that up to 40,000 Canadian children are being treated with the drug, which it says is addictive and can cause high blood pressure and seizures. However, there is no data showing Ritalin is addictive, said Dr. Paul Patterson, director of the child and adolescent centre at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario. Patterson said the drug, known by health professionals as methylphenidate, is used for treating hyperactivity and narcolepsy, a disease that makes it difficult for a patient to stay awake. Solar cooker developed TORONTO (CP) — Imagine going camping and building a fire only for warmth or fun — while the sun does your cooking with- out fuss. Helmut Burkhardt, a phy- sics professor at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in CA reoenn GAR, NEWS OFFICE 365-5210 Toronto, has developed a solar energy cooker which he says is all a camp cook needs to whip up a full-course meal. bread, cake, soup, even a roast,” said Burkhardt. “You just put the food in and forget about it. It's just a box, sitting there.” Light rays enter the air- tight, insulated cooker through a clear plastic plate and are converted into heat so intense it can cook a roast in three hours. Burkhardt said his pat- ented solar cookers — he has “You can do anything — developed an oven and a kettle — work year-round, as With topics Business of bein speakers gener wherever they speak. 736-5551 BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LOOKING FOR A SPEAKER TO SPARK YOUR MEETINGS? Consider a doctor from the BC Medical Association's SPEAKERS’ SERVICE! a Doctor, our doctor/ audience interest The With advance notice.a doctor/speaker can be found to fit your schedule. The Speakers Service is a public service of the doctors of British Columbia. For more information on topics and bookings, please contact Leigh Carter, Communications Manager. BC Medical 115-1665 Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1X1. long as the sun is shining. BOIL WATER On one blustery, sub-zero day in February, water in the kettle reached boiling point in 20 minutes, one of the best times recorded by the pro- fessor. After five years of re- search, Burkhardt’s kettle is ready for marketing. Pro- duction should begin by the end of the year, andthe final product will likely sell for under $50. The oven will not be marketed until after the kettle is launched. lightweight plastic kettle looks like a brief- case, opening up to reveal two 1'A-litre water com- partments. Light enters each compartment through the plastic collecting plate. “You leave it outside at night, and in the morning, the water is ready,” Burk- hardt said. “That sounds like a long time to wait for tea, but that’s not the point. The point is that once it’s boiling you have instant boiling water all day.” The insulated case can be closed,. keeping the water at a near-boil for about four fours, Burkhardt said. And | Association West Broadway dik Province of British Columbia PUBLIC NOTICE ROYAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION (Public Inquiries Act, R.S.B.C. 1960, Chapter 315) The Royal C lon on Ed by refilling each half as it is emptied, a supply of hot water is always ready. HAVE COMFORTS However, the 1980s camp- er may be too sophisticated for solar cookers, says John Liefeld, an associate pro- fessor of consumer studies at Guelph University. “Most campers these days are people who take their power with them,” Liefeld said. “They like to camp with all the comforts of home, and they have energy sources in their camper or RV (rec- reational vehicle).” And many campers enjoy cooking over a fire. “Camping is building fires and cast-iron pots — that's part of the flavor of the whole thing,” said Liefeld. “And you can't always count on the sun.” COULD MODIFY Burkhardt admits solar cookers are a fair-weather convenience. “They can't do much in the rain. That's a severe problem — a family needs to be fed every day.” However, with a few mod- ifications, both his kettle and oven can be equipped for rainy day use, Burkhardt said. A small combustion chamber can be added inside the oven to allow it to be heated with conventional fuel, and a candle can sub- stitute for the sun's rays if a metal plate is attached to the kettle, he said. A similar candle-heated kettle is used in homes in the Soviet Union to keep water ready for tea all day long, he said. Called a samovar, it in- spired the name for Burk- plans a return visit to Castlegar in October. If you wish to p t a brief pl the C U Office, ‘by calling collect, or forward a written briet, addressed to the Secretary, by September 30, 1987. Telephone (24 Hours) CALL COLLECT 660-4010 On behalf of the Commission: Mr. John Walsh, Secretary Royal Commission On Education #350 - 900 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2M4 hardt’s kettle — the Solar Samovar. IDEA IN AFRICA A visit to northwestern Africa in 1982 sparked the Professor's interest in the sun as an alternative energy source. As an energy consultant with a Canadian development agency, Burkhardt said he watched the people of Niger scouring the countryside for cooking fuel. “I saw how they suffer. They travel miles through the glowing desert, just for wood.” In North America, a solar cooker is “good fun,” he said. “But for developing coun- tries, it may be a survival tool. That's why in the long run, the oven is even more important (than the kettle).” Image must change ST. JACOBS, Ont. (CP) — Hardware stores wanting more female customers must revamp their image and realize that “grumpy, con- descending old men” don’t attract business, a U.S. mag- azine editor says. Women need to know they can feel comfortable in a store, Cori Dunn told a recent hardware dealers’ con- vention in this community near Kitchener. Dunn, managing editor of Illinois-based Home Centre magazine, said retailers can help by providing better selection, more imaginative and colorful displays and more omen. “ She cites a 1981 U.S. study to show that women account for at least 20 per cent of the “do-it-yourself” market. Connie 365-7601 Joyce 365-3091 Our hostess will bring gifts and greetings, slong with helpful amount to program-length commercials aimed at kids. John Weems, vice-president of entertainment for Mattel, showed the House telecommunications committee portions of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, a syndicated show for older children, teenagers and adults. He demonstrated a Captain Power jet — a white plastic model of a sleek aircraft with a trigger under the body — by shooting at targets on the screen. PALPABLE HIT When he hit a flickering spot, the toy registered a “hit” that seored points. The jet, one of several products in the Captain Power line, will sell for $30-$40 US, Weems said. “The interactive feature allows those who do own the product to enjoy a new dimension in television viewing,” he said. The Mattel vice-president said the signals that activate the toy do not disrupt the program, and promised that the Captain Power toy line will not be advertised in the program. “You do not have to have power jet to enjoy the show,” he said. “The TV show must stand on its own. If a show doesn’t have enduring entertainment value, it's not going to sustain its audience.” After the demonstration, Swift told Weems that the only reason the toy industry can “get away” with its sales strategy is that “a solution does not readily suggest itself.” “WASTE SITE’ And Markey characterized children's TV as “a waste site strewn with war toys, insipid cartoons and over- sweetened cereals.” “What we now have (in children's TV) is a video library that is a collection of 3° v of Peggy Charren of Action for Children's Television told the House committee. She listed 73 product-based shows for children. These b by the pi i budgets of toymakers, make it nearly impossible for other programs to get air time, she said. “If you want to make a biography of Helen Keller, in today’s marketplace you would first have to talk Mattel into producing a Helen Keller do Charren said. 3 : ‘ TORONTO (CP) — Low levels in many pei gl ha Documents from the Amerieadl Paper Institute out- 's concern 'about adverse publie teaction recently by Greenpeace The documents show United States met wit tal to co-operate with the industry to future that the public not be unduly alarmed about, this jue.” The U.8, federal agency has been heavily lobbied by the industry to play down the study results because they fear consumers would boycott paper Products, the documents say. The EPA found dioxin — believed to carcinogenic in its most toxic form — at levels of about 10 parts per trillion in various paper products it examined. NO SAFE LEVEL There are no immediate identifiable health effects from such low levels, but no safe level of the substance.has been determined, The pulp and paper industry suspects dioxins in paper are formed when chlorine is added to a hot, alkaline pulp ago. There are 87 mills using the chlorine-based process in Canada, 16 of them in British Columbia and seven in Ontario. bleaching instead of chlorine. The discovery of dioxin in paper products “has to give everyone a real'scare,” said Ellen Silbergeld, a spokesman for the Environmental Defence Fund in Washington, which has gone to court to force the U.S. government to set a limit for dioxins in food. First bilingual doll marketed TORONTO (CP) — Meet intended for children three Jill, a blue-eyes, bilingual years old and over. doll. The key feature of Jill's technology is a microchip that recognizes word cues and controls a cassette which produces her voice in English or French. The chip also activates Jill's face, head and Los Angeles inventor Larry Jones says Jill is North America’s first bilingual doll, with co-ordinated head, arm and facial movements. She's almost a metre tall, wi arms. about thrge kilograms and is The doll sells for $189 Cdn. 2 CASSETTES 50 FIDDLE FAVOURITES by Canada’s Greatest Artists AND 31 MORE OF YOUR*ALLTIME FAVORITE FIDDLE HITS If this is your music, the kind you don't find in Stores anymore, we have the best selection around! Ask for our FREE CATALOGUES. In the meantime, to get your 50 FIDDLE FAVOURITES on 2 Cassettes or 2 LPs, send your name and address along with a $15.00 cheque or money order to: #41 The Music Barn Albert. Ontario. —_—————— eee °.0. Box 309. Mount LOG 190 Canada “Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded” “If a mother changes her baby’s diaper, puts a cream on the baby’s bottom, wipes the excess off with a tissue and then puts on a disposable diaper, you have a perfect matrix for transferring dioxins from the diaper and tissue to the baby.” John Sprague, a University of Guelph biologist doing research for the Ontario government, said he expects more studies will find other highly toxic chemicals similar to dioxin in paper products. High cholesterol - blamed on gene BOSTON (AP) — A single genetic defect appears to cause about two-thirds of the ‘cases of inherited high chol- esterol levels among French Canadians, a study has con- cluded. And researchers say their discovery should make it possible to diagnose the di- sease early so it can be treated. The researchers found an inherited genetic mutation that causes familial hyper- cholesterolemia, a disease that makes people suscep- tible to heart attacks at relatively young ages. It occurs worldwide in about one of every 500 people. They checked 84 unrela' French Canadians who had hypercholesterolemia and lived within 80 kilometres of Montreal. In 53 of them, the disease was caused by an identical genetic error. The study was directed by Dr. Helen Hobbs of the Uni- versity of Texas Health Science Centre at Dallas and published in the New Eng- land Journal of Medicine. A major underlying cause of heart disease is the build- up of cholesterol on the art- eries that feed the heart. The cholesterol that causes these deposits is carried by a sub- stance known as low density lipoprotein, or LDL. MAKES RECEPTORS In healthy people, the body's internal machinery removes this cholesterol with apparatus called LDL recep- tors. A single gene is re- sponsible for making these receptors. When have in- herited hypercholesterol- emia, part of the gene that makes the receptor is miss- ing. Ordinarily, however, the part that's gone varies from family to family. The French Canadian research is unique because it shows that exactly the same genetic mistake is responsible for a majority of the cases of the disease. The researchers specu- lated the Canadians inherited the bad gene from common ancestors who were. among the 8,000 French immigrants from northern and western France who settled in Canada between 1608 and 1763. The findings should make it possible for doctors to search the genes of French Canadians to see if they have inherited the problem. Such people can be treated with cholesterollowering drugs and diets in an effort to avoid heart disease. Answer to Sunday Crossword Puzzle No. PASTA! BARNS , Sept. PIR! 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