CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 29, 1981 All ages, as shown by this group waiting for the Balfour Ferry, have turned to the open roads in a practical manner, —CostewsFoto by Lois Hughes. Overweight or in the family way? COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) — How do you spot a preg- nant pachyderm? Columbus zoo director Jack Hanna said Bamba, an Asian elephant, looks fat enough to be pregnant. But then again she's been eating an awful lot of hay and may be just overweight, “A lot of people are going to laugh at me if she doesn't have anything,” Hanna said. “But the way she protrudes, Til go on record that there is something in there, and it's got to come out.” 3 Only one Asian elephant has been born in a zoo in the United States, Hanna said. Gestation is 22 to 26 months. To help solve the puzzle of possible pregnancy, animal cardiologist Robert Hamlin and zoo veterinarian Harri- son Gardner were called in to give Bamba an electrocardi- ogram. The graph showed two heartbeats. Hanna is hopeful but. not doubt-free. “I hope watermelons don't have heartbeats,” he said. Cultural experience for Chinese By Rod Edwards REGINA (CP) — The young Chinese farmers don't speak much English but fa- cial expressions tell it all when they describe what they like or dislike about life on Saskatchewan farms. Broad, appreciative grins accompafiy talk about pop- corn, drive-in movies or spaghetti. Shudders and sour looks take over‘at the men- tion of rhubarb. It’s all part of a new cultural experience for 11 Chinese farmers selected by their government for a sum- mer’s stay in Saskatchewan this year. When they return home at the end of October, they will have gained first-hand know- ledge about grain, dairy and livestock operations coupled . with theory taught at special classes post-secondary agricultural colleges. Under the initial last year, sponsored by the methods, the program is de- signed to promote gocdwill with a major customer for the province's grain and potash. Chinz, traditionally buys about $250 million worth of Saskatchewan wheat annual- ly and recently became the province's third most im- portant market for potash valued at up to $80 million a yenr. Actually, the program of- ten turns out to be a two-way learning experience, said Doug Gardner who farms about two sections of land south of Regina. Gardner's guest, Yang Li- ang-kno who also is the lead- er of the Chines contingent and has the best command of English, recently offered val- uable. advise to a farmer menaced by cutworms, “Insects have been a big problem for the Chinese and Yang was able to tella neigh- bor the extent of his in- i2 farmers took part in the six-month exercise and, like this year, were billeted on = PROMOTE GOODWILL = Besides teaching the Chi- nese English and farming Answer for Sunday IAIGIOIie IA} WIL INARI and what might be done about it,”-Gardner said in an interview at his home. Yang, 85, works on a sub- farm in northwest China which is about the same size as Gardner's. But while Gard- ner and his family are able to Crossword Puzzle RIAA [S|O|T|SI OIL IOI] fa A iS'PIo| [OINICIA} RI Lies! AIPIOR|TMIRIEIEIDISMEPIOIRIEIR Ui INIDIETE| IN| (a I CTEEME'OMETT IRIAIDIE!S) IOGIRIEREDIOINIAITEEDIAIMIE} [STHIAMEMAINISHET] MEEAIRINIC| IMIOINTIEIBIAINIKEEMIONIT [EIcir| 1 (SIT IUIN| OINBEMIOINITIEIZIVIMIARE TINITIEIe TOT Le nal= EIR INMBEIDIAIMBBAITION| IRIEIOIS iLJOIP|s} ILIEITITEELIEIN! Answer for Sunday, August 31, Cryptoquip: ANTI OF CHALK ON SQUEAK HORRIFIED QUIET CLASS. IQUE BLACKBOARD operate their farm with the help of modern technology, it takes 800 people to work the same acreage in China where each individual has his or her special function. ENJOYS SPAGHETTI Yang, who enjoys spag- hetti because it’s much like Chinese noodles and who spends his leisure time play- ing baseball or watching tel- evision, is a sorious-minded individual who expects to compile a report on the group's experiences. One farming technique he hopes to promote back home on a larger scale is the use of herbicides. “We don’t have large trac- tors and other equiment, or chemicals to control weeds so we have to use a hoe,” Yang said. “““Mip, Gardner just’ took.. ture. three days to spray his farm! ! It would take us at least half a month with manual spray- ing.”" Yang said the Chinese have been reluctant to use chemicals to control weeds because “we worry about whether we cure the weeds or affect the wheat growth.” In contrast to Yang’s ser- ious nature were two coun- trymen staying with host families nearby. Sun Zong-wen, a 85-year- old wheat specialist living with the Garvin Hanley fam- ily, was shy and almost apologetic during an inter- view. On the other hand, Ding ' Jianlin, a machinery spec- ialist-at the home of Allan Gangshorn, was more greg- arious, “The first thing we taught Ding was the word joke,” said Barbara Ganshorn. “Then we made jokes.” FINDS HUMOR Ding speaks little English | but quickly finds humor in situations. He feigned indig- nation with an outpouring of | Chinese when he wanted to trade a Chinese cigarette for a Canadian one but was sternly reminded that smok- a for Box 3007 WHO'S YOUR CHOICE Castlegar, B.C. 3H4 ° JULY ATHLETE OF THE MONTH The Castlegar News would like you to send your nomination to us at: Athlete of the Month, The person must be of amateur status and reside in the West Kootenays. In your nomination please include past achievements and major accomplishments for the month. Deadline for entry must be postmarked no later than August 3, 1981. ing was taboo in the Gan- shorn house. Allan horn said they lar although his area enjoys an extra month of frost-free share many humorous situ- ations, giving a lighter side to the more serious work in the fields where Ding is an at- tentive student and quick- learner ‘ Sun, who noted that grow- ing conditions and soils in the two countries are quite simi- was imp by the sophisiteated machinery and high living standards in Saskatchewan. Haniey said the biggest problem he encounters is finding enough work for the energetic Sun to do on the 646-hectare (1,600-acre) farm. He sketches before he cuts KINGSTON, ONT. (CP) — Hairstylist Richard Sutton believes every face is a pic- Sutton, 24, sketches the customer's face with ferred styles before he picks up his shears. It’s the client who picks the style from his charcoal drawings. A self-taught artist, Sut- ton's flair with hair has led him to work in hairdressing salons in Toronto, Banff, Alta., and Victoria. Now he has returned to his home in Kingston — with a i ick. “Statistics Canada has no record of an artist-hairstylist LC SUM? DIRECTORY | who sketches before he cuts,” Sutton said. “It’s not un- common in Paris, but it’s cer- ‘ tainly a novelty in Canada.” A hairstylist for six years, Sutton combines his two tal- ents to give “more, than ‘personalized attention” to each customer. He also gives them the skotch with a shampoo, cut was 11 years old,” he said. “This shop is lined with my work — portraits, water- colors, abstracts.” Sutton can sketch two or three hair styles in about five minutes. “They seem to want to be doing something all the time.” Suns aid his host has given him valuable information about the techniques of Sas- katchewan agriculture, and has done everything possible tomake his stay comfortable. “My hostess she washes my clothes for me every week. She makes good food for, me. Sometimes she makes special food for me so I live here very happy.” Commenting on the con- cept of inviting Chinese farm- ers to spend a summer in Sasktachewan, Gardner said he believes it is valuable but questions some of the pro- cedures involved. 5 “One problem from their end is they (the government) don’t send enough informa- tion about their spetialty be- cause these guys are all-rela- “For example Yang is from an irrigated farm on light land and he's interested in plant breeding. Now we're dry land and heavy land so we couldn't really be too much farther from his home farm. “I guess knowing what we know now it would have been" better to place him on an ir- rigated farm producing seed.” Ey Attend Church Sunday 14006 | J te th of July ‘ iunday Services: 10a.m. Robson Community Church) th. 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LS 269 Columbia Ave. ‘Here's my card." ————— Check you plates IF YOUR " DECAL SHOWS, mall SAM: PLE 365-3901 , You must renew “ pefore Aug. 1, 1981 VANCOUVER (CP) — A book written by a 20-year- old lly bh was rojected by several publishers before Harbour of Vi y woman from Surrey, was sold thousands of copies, and is being considered by the United Nations for dis- tribution to mark the In- ternational Year of the Disabled, Published exactly the way Mario Patman wrote it, Mentely Handicapped Love is filled with spelling and grammatical errors and unfinished sentences. But it is pecisely the na- ivety of her style that makes the book ‘charming and poignant. Putman'’s manuscript decided to print it. Ina forward to the book, publisher Howard White notes it was sent to the company in looseleaf pages and written in ballpoint, purple or red crayon with a:' brief note saying: “Dear Staff. Her to try for you to printed in a book. By Marie Putman. Mentely Handi- capped child. It called Mentely Handicapped Love. This story is true.” When the book was first printed in March, an initial run of 1,600 proved to be far under the mark and Author mentally handicapped another 10,000 were printed. Fittingly, the book is being considered by the United Nations for the dis- tribution in its Interna- tional Year of the Disabled. ‘The book is about Mar- fe's life, and details day-to- occurrences and what she thinks of them. “Mother look for pen at door, At 9:80 we began to sell some books. At this moment, dad was talking on CB Radio now. Beautiful was my comet now.” The enigmatic last line is one of many throughout ithe book. “My ‘warlove is nice,” she wrote, She later ex- plained to her publisher, that warlove means how people always fight’ with the people they love. 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Housing program leaves bi By Michael Bernard KELLY LAKE (CP) — A new electric hot water heat- er, still packed in a cardboard container with seams split from a harsh winter in this Mets Indian community, is propped against a delapi- dated shack. 2 A few kilometres away, rolls of faded glass fibre insulation and a stack of who never show up. The neglected building materials, worth thousands of dollars, are the remains of a federal housing renovation program that never got off the ground. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. began its Res- idential Renovation Assis- tance Program in 1979 in this’ settlement, about 30 kilom- °: etres southeast of Dawson Creek on the Alberta-B.C. border. The plan was to improve ‘residents, the first of whom arrived here in the early 119008 and built ‘crude log ‘eabins toeke out a living itrapping beaver, muskrat ‘and squirrel, What's left is a bitter controversy between Metis and federal program officials, CREATED BY WHITES The Metis, who as non- status Indians don't qualify for aid available to Indians on reserves, say whites involved in the program cheated them housing for some of the 200 _ in doing the work. / Ann Landers <4/ be Dear Readers: | received this In the mail nderas | received ithis;ini the: malt stoucy. They say some houses 5 should never have qualified , for the program because of ), the condition they were in 1 but whites saw the oppor- tunity to make money out of repairing them when they really should have been re- placed. . “Federal officials say the’. from Father T: of Notre Dame, and | want to share it with you. It was written by the late Sam Levinson. He called it, “An An- swer toan Anti-Semite.” “It’s a free world. You don’ t that you boycott certain zewiahy if you don’t, | sugges products like Insulin, d have to like Jews, but drilled to provide water. Only two are operational now. S Joseph Calliou, a 76-year- old Metis, said a w outfit recommended by the: corporation's co-ordinator drilled three wells near house but two of them were dry. ‘The third reached water at 90 metres, but the drilling Police ordered to count flowers CHICAGO (AP) — “My madeat the end of their shift, God, I'm going to have to gend two sergeants out to watch flowers.” Police Lieut. William Howe was a bit incredulous at a newly issued directive order- ing police to count the flow- CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 29,198) HOMEGOODS FURNITURE. WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat. 9:30 - 5:30 Chine Creek “Drive a Litte to Save alot’ ers in a downtown park to be sure none had been stolen. . The order, signed by First District Cmdr. Robert Casey, was issued in response to complaints that concertgoers had been walking off with roses and other flowers after musical programs -in Grant Park on the city’s lakefront. “Third-watch supervisors, shall cause a count to be sergeant, notified of the or- der by radio while on patrol, drove back to, the station to read it himself. ¢ But the officers on the beat took the order in ‘stride. “We're not paid to think’ about it," said patrolman Henry Stanisc. “We just’ do it. An order is an\ order.” tter controversy with his family of 12ona site The main problem, she overlooking the lake. It is an said, occurred when work uphill walk from the kitchen started on eight new houses entrence to the refrigerator last year under another cor- on the other side of the room. poration program. “ItoldthemIhadtohavea “We never heard any com- house, with a basement, but- plaints until the new houses his: they would not give me ‘were being built,” she said. enough money,” said Gladue “Then they said they wanted who also had a pump buried new houses. in a caved-in well. “We knew this would hap- Gladue, like others around pen,” she Loree ieee the . the lake, pi a tom, he Less than a month later, the bottom of the well caved in, buried the pump in muck and he now has to travel four kilometres every day to bring in water. The wells and pump cost part of $5,000 he received from the govern- ment. He’ still. must pay “" improvements were made to when-the federal government built new homes in the Peace River vaccine for hlochvd by Dr. Baruch Blumb Secolerea Or. J. Von Y lor I Liebig; the Wassermann test for syphilis; fe estes covered by dis pill by Dr. A Sabin, and the polio vaccine by Dr. Jonas that my “Goodi’ Boycott! But humarliatiahiem ‘requires erect pat humane all the ent = the we id. Fanaticism requires that’ all bigots accept They say. the self-help pro- gram, largely successful else-' where, just didn’t work for Or. Selman Abraham Waxman; the polio - the Metis. The corporation is hoping to find out what went on and fo sieve aerate ou ain’t to so y Dear Ann Landers: syphilis, diseases and infantile paralysis. mod! But I’m telling you, \y husband and | come from large familiss. We have 17 nieces and 19 nephews. ! don’t have to tell you what a decent wedding gift cos! these days. Sometimes we give a cheque. We don’t mind sending ONE gift or ONE cheque, but five nieces and four nephews al have married twice... We sent second gifts for both celebrations. - i:)), \ affairs ( are marrying “first-timers”), and lavish receptions will follow. What do you think about sending a second and third wedding gift? The way the world Is ing, I’m sure several of these nieces and nent ews wil not stop at three. We need guidance. — Short i Dear Shorts If you attend a vou are obligated to send marriages the gift could same goes fora The Bonk — which p ! grants of up to $5,000 to help jbring housing. up to corpor- ation standards. The loan portion of ‘the - assistance, jbased on the hom 's ‘income, is repayable at low linterest rates over five Cliff Calliou, a United Na- tive Nations fieldworker who : We received two invitations for THIRD helped oversee the projects, weddings. Both: weddings will.be church says the corporation prom- ised the. renovated houses would last at least 15 years. - But. the has be- come a cruel joke, he says. Some some houses which have rot- ting logs as foundations nad could never last 15 years. _ ~~ One such house belongs to Judenais Gladue, who lives emergency. ‘When. a heart attack occurs, care may not be readily available, yet oxygen should be ad- ministered immediately, according to first aid available that can be stored conveniently in the home or at the office for ‘such emergency use. Such units are particu- larly invaluable when are no better off and still face loan g and a gift. For second or third be ecmewhat modest: The fourth. 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Transmission Shift You might hafta to change this ol’ letter around - or boating or on 2 aivcraft airciait, hot corp water heater, sinks and toi-' in 1979 to sign forms stating lets but the fixtures, useless that if they received grants, Alfonso Apa - Ladies and Men's Wear Ltd. y) JULY SUPER SALE Discounts of. 10 to 40% Ph: 368-6314 1364 Ave. Trail, B.C. without a water system, are - ed in a bedroom. Annie Gladue, a 78-year- ‘old grandmother, lives in a run-down log house Joseph Callious says never should | have been chosen for. the being mo é housing development, offi- ~ cials said she could not apply, _ renovation money to the urchase, Pl Calliou She wants to live alone, but last winter had to move in with a daughter because it was too cold. The B.C. Native Housing Corp., set up by the UNN, has complained frequently about the program, several federal res have. in- they understood they would not’ qualify for new housing. 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