Aer ea Wile PEKING (AP) — The Chi- nese Wild Man Research In- stitute claims there is new evidence of at least eight gargantuan hairy creatures roaming the forests of Hubei province — the elusive “wild men” of history and legend. Known in Chinese as Ye Ren, the wild men have been described as 10 feet tall, with rufts of red hair and clod. hopping five-toed feet. Some say they have ape-like heads, others claim they have bills, like giant ducks. In most accounts, the wild man walks upright as hu mans do. As with North America’s Big-Foot and Scotland's Loch Ness monster, witnesses have failed to provide con vineing photos or other ab- solute proof. Areas where the wild men are said to roam are off limits to foreigners. The search for these pur- ported man-beasts, which started hundreds of years ago and is recorded in old Chinese history books and poems, occasionally is re- ported by China's state-run Communist press. Li Jian, secretary-general of the Chinese Wild Man Re- search Institute in Wuhan, Hubei’s capital, published his claims in an article in the Worker's Daily. Li claims researchers at Wuhan Medical College re- cently examined “hairs of eight kinds of red-haired wild men” and concluded eight of the creatures exist in the back-country of Hubei, a province of central China. RITTENHOUSE PRODUCE TRUCK WILL BE IN CASTLEGAR Across from the Oglow Building FRI. & SAT., MAR. 9 &10 Fresh vegetables, apples end oranges. iteman-poet Yuan, who in the third cen- tury B.C. lived where search- rs are hunting now, wrote of “mountain ogres “ in his ver- ses. A seventh-century histor- ian wrote that a tribe of “hairy men” thrived in‘ the same region. Later accounts spoke of a “monkey-like cre- ature” that roamed neigh- boring Shaanxi Province. The Wild Man Institute claims more than 200 large footprints up to 60 centi- metres long were found on Hubei’s Jiongdao Mountai. Though wild men have eluded scientists, Li's article said that in 1980, Hubei com- mune member Pu Xiaogiu caught a “little wild man” in an animal trap. “Unfortunately, the super- the wild forests of Sichuan to the desolate plateaurs of Ti- bet. In 1980, the newspaper Guangming Daily said two weather station workers on the China-North Korea bor- der shot at strange duck- billed, cow-like creatures swimming in a volcanic lake, but missed, “The creatures in the water seen this time by sev- eral comrades are an un- solved scientific mystery,” the newspaper said. from HAIRDRESSING HOURS Effective Tuesday, Mar. 6 until Thursday, Mar. 29 inclusive. The Hairdressing Salon at the Rosemont Campus will be open to the Public 9:15 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday to Thursday No appointments necessary Selkirk College ROSEMONT CAMPUS 2001 Silver King Road, Nelson, B.C. VIL 1C8 352-6601 1,000" CH TICKET week. week’s game. 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The researchers, from Mc- Master University's Urban Air Environment Group, found the most important factors affecting the respir- atory health of the children studied were mothers’ smok- ing and smoking in the home generally. The children, aged seven to 10, were given four sets of lung tests at school each year for three years; the parents answered yearly question- naires about the children’s respiratory ailments: colds, bronchitis, asthma, etc. Other data on the families * the home smoked, whether’ smoking kids there was a gas stove, and whether the house had hot air heating. In addition, the research- ers collected data on par- ticulate and sulphur dioxide pollution in different areas of the city. When all these factors were correlated. with the children’s respiratory prob- lems, by far the most obvious affect was that of parental smoking, said Dr. L.D. Pen- gelly of McMaster's medical department. He added that the mothers’ smoking was the most significant factor, either because the mother spent far more time in the house than did the father, or because she spent more time with the children when they were of pre-school age. There was some connec- tion “between air pollution and fespiratory problems: NATIONAL HOMES Choose f? om 100 comYftonen (-buacll frome fitans . aan ri a B.C. PLACE . . . Will be one of the star attractions of Expo 86. Contractors are adding fill to False Creek in front of the big dome to make room tor the fair. Expo 86 controversy By DAPHNE BRAMHAM VANCOUVER (CP) — Designers of Expo 86 have been dreaming and building whiz-bang models for more than a year now, but turning it into reality is something else. Expo 86, a theme exposition rather than a universal fair such as Montreal's Expo 67, was recently dubbed Expro 86 by the Vancouver Sun because it plans to expropriate a permanent marina to make room for the 5%-month fair. It runs from May 2 to Oct. 13, 1986, and will coincide with two anniversaries — Vancouver's centennial and the 100th anniversary of the first transcontinental rail trip. But Expo 86 has brought protests over demolishing the CP Rail roundhouse, which has since been saved and restored, and demands from the city planning depart. ment that only low-rise developments be allowed on the edge of the exposition’s site. City council eventually agreed to a 78-metre-high, 400-room hotel and two 65-metre apartment towers. Labor leaders have threatened to declare the site off limits to members if major contracts are awarded to i P’ ‘s, and V: advertising agen- cies have refused to bid on work until Expo 86, which originally offered only one-third the going commission rate, upped the ante to normal. STAFF PROBLEMS Expo 86 has also had its problems keeping staff. Six 3 Ee : 7 ‘ot Meanwhile, internal haggles and criticism of its cost continue to plague Expo 86. additional tax revenue and create 50,000 man years of employment. Public relations people travelling with one of several models have to keep explaining there won't be a ferris wheel out over the water in False Creek as in the model. But there will be all kinds of other exciting rides, none of which are confirmed yet. MORE PROBLEMS Jess Ketchum, vice-president of communications for Expo 86, admits there are problems. Ironically, he says two of the biggest headaches for the world transportation and communications fair are parking and traffic. But, he says solutions to both are important. The only problem Expo 86 may not be able to sdlve is con- struction of the Cambie Street bridge, the major connection to the fair from the south. The present one needs to be replaced, but money for a new one won't be voted on until this fall, leaving less than 18 months to build if it it's approved. Meanwhile, the site is growing as contractors add fill to False Creek in front of B.C. Place near the city’s down- town to make room for the fair. The final placement of the 26 national pavilions on the 64-hectare site is nearly completed. Organizers for the World Festival, a $10-million cul- tural extravaganza, have started signing talent for the more than 200 performances at the Queen Elizabeth, Playhouse and Orpheum theatres. They are also looking senior hs two pi Wishance, the creative director and the vice-president of marketing, have quit. Expo 86 chairman Jim Pattison says it’s inevitable when a “fast-track operation” has to hire an entire staff that has never worked together before. B.C. Premier Bill Bennett is repeatedly asked to justify the cost of the fair, which has not been made public, and the province's $50-million pavilion, while his Social Credit ini: ion is cutting ding in social services, education and health. Bennett says the two are separate because Expo 86 funds come from the province's Loto 6-49 profits, esti- mated at more than $100 million a year. ‘Any additional funds will be borrowed at the prov- ince’s preferred rate for Expo 86, a provincial Crown corporation, and repaid with interest from revenue the fair earns. Besides, he says Expo 86 will bring in $750 million in for for the more than 15,000 shows that will take place on the Expo 86 site either on the streets, in the 600-seat theatre or in one of several amphitheatres. Special events such as a parade of tall ships, a gathering of steam locomotives and possibly a parade of DC-8s to coincide with the Abbotsford Air Show are being planned as well as academic conferences to be held in conjunction with the fair. Ketchum said interest in the exposition is growing. The Cariboo region in central British Columbia is planning a gold rush treasure hunt to coincide with the fair with an 86-ounce solid gold Expo 86 logo as the prize. 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Teens need outlet TORONTO (CP) — Par- ents must be told that teen- age masturbation may be a healthy sexual outlet, a draft statement prepared for this summer's 30th General Coun- cil of the United Church of Canada says. “We cannot assume our teenagers are paralysed from the neck down,” says the pp by the church's division of mission. “Nor can we tell them ‘no genital sex before marriage’ unless we have some good reasons to give them.” A chapter on teenage sex- & Singie uality says that nature is Thrower cruel to teenagers because while it gives them strong physical urges along with a growing readiness for emo- tional intimacy, society says “not yet.” “Parents particularly need to be aware that mastur- bation for the teenager may be a healthy sexual outlet; it is part of a parental un- derstanding that teens are trying to cope with confusing physical urgings.” The statement is a follow- up to the controversial 1980 church-commissioned study In God's Image . . . Male and Female. That study indicated HARVESTS & MOWS 9g 44° Sickle Bar Mower SHREDS & GRINDS Combination st Grinder THROWS SNOW GRADES 36" Dozer e ta Blade SPLITS LOGS ic Log Splitter PLOWS, FURROWS, DISCS, CULTIVATE: DIGS POTAT: MUCH MORI there was no reason why “mature, self-accepting Is should not be- come ministers if they meet ministry requirements,” RR. 1, Site 25, C-1 . B.C. VIN 3H7 have cost > ~ PM his job may have cost him his job. At times, during 16 years as prime minister, he has bee accused of showing a shocking unawareness of the day-to-day economic life of the country. And what's worst for a politician born into wealth and privil he d an indifference, sometimes contempt, toward the suffering of economic victims. Heckled by unemployed workers during the 1979 election campaign, he told them to “get off your ass” and find jobs. Only this year, with his government trying to vince Canadians that the d were its No. 1 concern, Trudeau boasted in the Commons that the unemployment rate was below 10 per cent when in fact it hadn't been below 10 per cent in two years and was above 11 per cent. : “I don’t think he would have regarded economics as his area of greatest competence or interest,” says Simon Reisman, a deputy finance minister under Trudeau from 1970-75. Nevertheless, he has launched numerous initiatives to deal with the economic problems of the day — recur- ring and increasingly severe bouts of inflation and high unemployment, sluggish growth and the high degree of foreign of the y. ially American domination. MAKES ATTEMPTS But an initiative by Trudeau in one area, while only successful, often exacerbated a problem in another area — the most glaring example, the attempts to reduce inflation and its effects on unemployment. At times the initiatives appeared to be almost spur-of-the-moment ideas, such as the Macdonald royal commission into the economy. Trudeau hadn't even informed his finance minister he was setting up the three-year commission, which Ottawa forecast will cost taxpayers an unprecedented $21 million. But if there's one common economic thread that winds its way through his years as prime minister, it’s his obsession with beating inflation — a possible yardstick by which his stewardship of the economy will be judged. On April 20, 1968, when Trudeau was first sworn in as prime minister, inflation was running at an annual rate of 4.1 per cent. Almost 16 years later, on Feb. 29, 1984, when Trudeau announced he was stepping down, inflation was 5.3 per cent. In between, inflation attacked, was rolled back, rose again to greater heights, was forced to retreat, and then returned with a vengeance to reach record highs before finally retreating in the face of recession. TOLL WAS HIGH Trudeau scored victories and suffered defeats. Almost always the toll was high. Socially, it left millions of Canadians without their businesses, their homes, their jobs. Economically, it finally helped plunge the country into the worst recession since the Depression. Politically, the struggle left Trudeau wounded, his and credibility in many parts of the country. In late 1983, fewer than one in three Candians approved of the way he was doing his job. When he announced he was quitting, some businessmen expressed their joy by kicking up their heels and investors went on a buying spree, pushing up stock prices. But that has been described as a knee-jerk reaction to the ending of the. uncertainty about if and when ‘Trudeau was leaving. ‘ While the business establishment may be uncomfor- table with Trudeau, it has been giving his government marks on its recent handling of the economy. While Trudeau is claiming a victory over inflation, there are still -1.5 million Canadians unemployed. Could anyone else have done better? Did other countries do better? The Canadian with the U.S. economy and a comparison of some economic statistics from each show that in some areas the United States did do better, but not much. my is inter COMPARE TO U.S. In 1968, inflation in Canada and in the United States was about four per cent. Now inflation here is 5.3 per cent compared with 4.1 in the States. Unemployment in 1968 was 4.5 per cént here; 3.3 in the States. The figures now are 11.2 per cent in Canada and 8.2 per cent in the United States. in the final battle against inflation — the 1982 re- cession — Canada suffered more than most industrial countries by almost every standard. Of six major industrial countries, economic output in Canada fell 4.8 per cent, more than in any of the others, and only Britain recorded higher unemployment. The extra severity was blamed more on Canada’s open econdmy and heavy dependence on the sale of raw materials than on economic policies. But many critics, political and economic, argue that Trudeau must take the blame. Even Reisman, who says he has no complaints about the economic stewardship of the economy while he was with the government, says: “There were a number of countries that succeeded in living through this period with a good deal less inflation, lower interest rates and a good deal less turmoil. “Persistency or lapse rates the 1 problem facing the life industry in Canada today,” he said in an interview, adding it's getting worse.as lifestyles change them with the costs of defectors. “They're stuck in their ways,” he says of the major insurance companies. “We need changes to bring the industry into the 20th century because it’s slow to react and not good at innovation.” COSTS HIDDEN Haney said a recent study by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries shows as much as 49 per cent of annual premiums go toward commissions, expenses and other hidden costs, while an average of 51 per cent goes toward benefits. That's because costs of opening a policy can be as much as double or triple the first-year premium most companies charge and it takes a few years of charges on top of the premium to break even on the policy. Haney, who says insurance is “probably the least consumer-oriented item” on the market, isn’t the first to criticize the industry. A July 1982 report sponsored by the Ontario Economic Council concluded consumers are too often being taken advantage of by pushy sales agents who are more concerned with selling policies of their own choice — and that wins them the largest commissions — rather than those that meet customers’ needs. : WANTS REVISION Although Haney doesn't agree with the report's recom- dation that life i be i he is in favor of changing the Ontario Insurance Act to allow agents to act for more than one company. But Laurier Life isn’t just a pot calling the kettle black. The federally licensed company has come out with a unique | Heinrich likes} policy it believes is fairer to consumers. Haney is hoping the — called the term policy — may prompt changes in the industry. “Our policy matches income and expenses right off the bat,” he said. - < That means you pay more in the first year to cover the costs of underwriting, commission, administration, main- tenance and distribution. But after that, it’s down hill, with the premium falling to as much as 30 per cent less than other major companies, Haney said. “By having a client pay their own costs up front, we don't have to load premiums for others.” GOOD FOR COMPANY So what's in this new policy for Laurier? “It's much easier to sell,” says Haney. In addition, chances are that once most people have paid the initial fee, they will not likely want to change to another company or apt out of the policy. Haney said the business term policy has been 80 successful that the company has done more business in the first six weeks this year than all of 1982. He added his firm is small enough to be flexible in introducing new products. The new policy, which comprises 85 per cent of Laurier's business and has garnered $4.5 million in premiums since its introduction last April, has reduced premiums by roughly 85 per cent. It’s available in terms of three, five, 10 and 20 years across Canada, but the bulk of Laurier's business is done in Quebec and Ontario and the company’s Toronto office is its only branch. Ivan Scott of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association called the policy “a clever idea and very refreshing.” Time will tell whether there's a big enough market for that kind of policy, he said. NOT FOR EVERYONE The Laurier policy will only work for those who can afford to put down a lot of money at the beginning, says Scott. For those who have to drop the policy after a couple years, the losses would be much greater. “These are things the consumer has to weigh. There are pluses and minuses with every policy.” Haney recognizes that a hefty payment up front doesn't appeal to everyone, although it has been a success among businessmen and professionals. The average size of business term policies sold so far is $400,000 and the average death benefits paid is about $305,900. iter ‘the best result VICTORIA (CP) — Edu- ation Minister Jack Heinrich dismissed one result of a public opinion poll while em- bracing another finding of the same poll. Heinrich said he does not . “really accept” the finding in said. “I'll only be happy wheo! & province-wide poll com- the public is satisfied to the missioned by the B.C. 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