Ca Castlegar News Jonuary 11, 1989 ELECTRICIAN WANTED Kalesnikoff Lumber has a full time opening for a Journeyman Electrician. Must have P.L.C. Experience. Call 399-4211 OR APPLY TO: Kalesnikoff Lumber Co., Box 3000, Thrums, B.C. VIN 3L8 would be an asset Apply in writing to SLOCAN SILVICULTURIST Slocan Forest Products Ltd position of Silviculturist for its Slocan Division is accepting applications for the The successtul applicant, reporting to the Forestry Superinten dent, shall be responsible for all phases of the Divisional Silvicultural program Applicant must be a Registered Professional Forester with at least three years’ silvicultural experience. Computer experien ce and familiarity with West Kootenay biogeoclimatic zones Mr. Terry Dods, R.P.F. Woodlands Manager Slocan Forest Products Ltd Slocan, B.C. VOG 2CO CasNews Classified Works. Phone 365-2212 LOAN-OUT CAMERA The Castlegar News has two simple-to-operate foan-out cameras (complete with film) which it is pleased to allow groups to use for taking pictures for use by the Castlegar News Arrangements for the use of these cameras should be made through our News Department at 365- 3517 Re Castlegar News -CASTLEGAR MAZDA — “This is the Mazda Way" $100 Down “ Pigs pick optimum feed BRANDON, Man. (CP) — When it comes to food, pigs know what's’ best for them, an Agriculture Canada researcher has found. Dg, Adrian Castell has been feeding young hogs « selection ‘of diets with varying protein levels carefully 1 eat of each So far, he says the porkers. have tended ration that has packed’on the most Suring how thuch they pounds Castell, a swine nutritionist at the Brandon experiment was conducted to. see if reséarch station, said the pigs’ personal preferences could be used ws a guide to help scientists improve hog diets. He said to survive in the wild, the species must have developed -some pretty strong survival instincts For the young pig to survive (in nature), it's got to grow quickly there's because competition out there”, Castell. said He said such a pig would ténd to pick food that was easily digestible gave it enough energy ahd supplied sufficient protein. And we found this (in the experiment) Phe pigs were fed barley-soybean meal diets of varying protein levels Generally, they passed’ on the lower protéin feeds and went for the higher quality fare But they~didn't- pick the highest level of protein, which would have been a tougher feed to digest and less efficient The experiments were conducted using hogs that weighed between 25 and 98 kilograms. Castell said the positive results ofthe tests give scientists hope that they will be able to enlist the help of pigs to‘design better_diets_for10_1o25-kilogram hogs. That's the phase of the pig's growth (just after weaning), at the moment, that we don't know enough about.” He said researchers have been more successful so far designing optimum feeding programs for larger pigs than they-have for whablings Walkie-talkies replace telephones By MICHAEL RODDY KINSHASA (REUTER) — In-Zaire; where telephones serve as paperweights and a dial tone is eatise for celebration, the walkie-talkie is king of communications “The walkie something that works and the telephone jomething that doesn't,” says Pol Smitz, a paint company executive who, like thousands of others in the country, always keeps. a talkie within reach. ire is a prime examiple of an African country where many may choose to have telephones in their homes or offices but few are called. The country’s phone system is a legacy of colonial rule and little has been done to upgrade it since the Belgians left 30 years ago. Cables have rotted,” switching equipment is outmoded and physical problems are compounded by. corruption. MAKE DEAL One American woman said the only way she got a_phone was by. making a private deal with—a telephone company employee and the line is still dead most‘of the time She said the only time she could call the United States was when her at the phone company called to say he had an overseas line. The next day he would drop by the house for a bottle of Scotch. The government says it has hired a Japanese company to overhaul the phones but residents of Kinshasa, the capital, are not holding their breath for a dial tone What they are doing is buying portable walkie-talkie and mobile cellular telephanes alkie-talkies aré common features in* hotel lobbies,-restaurants, nightclubs and stores — and also at the poolside, .in church or at the zoo. People clip them to their belts or carry them in briefcases. They use antennae as pointers and wave walkie-talkies in one anuther's faces for-emphasis. * to consult his wife about the family cheque book. A One international banker uses his walkie-talkie top medical researcher uses his developments back at the laboratory. There is no social occasion so formal that walkie-talkie would be out of place, few encounters so intimate one would not-be nearby “We use them to keep in touch with our companies, even our homes,” said a driver for one company. “There are telephones here but there are just too many outages.” SALES BOOM Mare Kadoch, regional director of sales for the American walkie-talkie manufacturer Motorola, says estimates there are 5,000 to 7,000 walkie-talkies in the city but that is probably low given the large number brought into the country illegally. “I'm sure if there was no problem with the telephones-we-would see the sates decrease,” said Kadoch, who has yet to see a sales decline in his 2'/ years in Zaire, despite prices that begin at ‘the equivalent of about $12,000 Cdn fora basic system of half a dozen portable units and a base transmitter. While walkie-talkies fill an important néed, they are not a cure-all for Zaire’s communications ills. They cannot be used'to talk to people using different radio frequencies, they're not private and they can't bé used for calling long distances or overseas For those kinds of calls, people needa working phone, a rarity in Zaire. One story circulating is that crews flying Zaire’s executive jets, equipped with air-to-ground tele phones, used-them-until-recently to place overseas calls. The only drawback was that the phones only work in the air and the bills were also up in the stratosphere. of typewriters rattled away in offices and newsrooms everywhere. pairman, who has fixed almost every Typewriters a dying breed | TORONTO (CP) — Dave Nicholls years. “I'm a dying breed,” says the re clients include tacled handyman in tweed jacket and longs for the days when a cacophony tie acknowledges probably be extinct in another 10 His circuit is shrinking. His regular two cleaning brushes, two kinds of pliers, a dozen screwdrivers, a torch for soldering type and a tiny hook for latching on to tiny springs. There is also a hammer — {my favorite tool” — and an assortment of his trade will insurance com: * ry January 11, 1989 € astlegar News cs Disorders linked MAKE 1989 YOUR YEAR to genetic flaw By PAUL RAEBURN AP Science Editor NEW~ ORLEANS (AP) — A geneticist and his psychologist wife say they have linked mental disorders including mania, depression, hyperactivity, compul sive overeating and alcoholism — to a single, inherited genetic flaw. If they're right, the finding could revolytionize the treatment of mental illness, Difficult and expensive psychotherapy could be.replaced with new drugs that would compensate for the genetic defect However, some geneticsts say Dr. David Comings of the City of Hope National Medical Centre and his wife, Brenda, are guilty of a colossal mistake or careless misuse of science. An angry debate over their work erupted recently at the annual meeting of the American “Society of Human Genetics where David Comings, president of the society this year, used his. presidential-address to ~ defend his findings. He detailed a long list-of behavioral disorders that he said occurred with unusually high frequency in the relatives of people with Tourette syndrome. The syndrome, an inherited disorder, is marked by jerky movements, or tics, and uncontrollable vocal mannerisms including grunts, yelps, barks . and sometimes involuntary outbursts of profanity. OPPOSITE VIEW David Pauls of Yale-University. presented similar research that directly contradicted the Comings’s findings. Pauls of his colleagues found no unusually high incidence of other disorders in families with Tourette syndrome. After Pauls’ presented his data and responded to critical questions from David Comings, geneticists lingered to continue the discussion. "I disagree -with you completely”. Dr.—Arne Motulsky, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Washington,teld-the Comingses. “You make these grandiose schemes without evidence.” In. Motulsky's. view, that’s’a misuse of scientific data — making hypotheses that can't be supported by the facts. “You revolutionize genetics if it's true — but I think it's very unlikely,” he said. David Comings was visibly hurtoby the criticism; Motulsky had-been his teacher. “I think you are making claims that harken back to the early days of genetics .. . I think you're doing genetics a disservice,” Motulsky continued, referring to the early 20th century when laziness, prostitution and criminally were said to be the result of bad genes. OTHERS PRAISE Not everyone at the genetics meeting was critical of the Comingses’ work. Some praised the pair for their studies with the Amish in Pennsylvania, said, “I lean toward the view that David Comings is closer to the truth. He's a perceptive: person.” Dr. David Rimoin, director of medical genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that even if the Tourette gene is responsible for some cases of mania, hyperactivity and compulsive behavior it is not likely to be the cause of all cases of those disorders. “Many different causes can produce the same disease traits,” and a single disorder — such as Tourette can show itself in many ways, “so I'm not surprised” by the Comings findings, Rimoin said Even the Comingses’ most ferocious critics accused ’ them of no worse offense then shoddy science; there are no suggestion of deliberate, distortion. The Comingses based their extensive studies of families of patients with Tourette syndrome. The syndrome had been thought rare, occurring in at least one in 2,000 people in the United States. But David Comings said in an interview he believes it occurs in as many as one in 200 or about one million Americans, usually becoming evident in the young, more often in boys than in girls. In a 166-page report in the American Journal of Human Genetics, the Comingses said that attention deficit disorder, with or without hyperactivity;is-10 times more common in Tourette families than in the general population. Obsessive-compulsive~behavior- is five times as common. Conduct disorders, 17 times as common. Stuttering, five times. Dyslexia, six times. Panic attacks, 13 times. Multiple phobias, three times. Depression, 11 times. Mania and severe anxiety, 20 times as common. ADD SYMPTOMS At the genetics meeting, Comings added alcohol ism, compulsive overeating and drug abuse. Other associated_symptoms-inelude auditory hallucinations, short temper, exhibition and easiness to anger, All-of-these-disorders-are manifestations of the yet-to-be-discovered gene that causes Tourette synd rome, the couple asserted. They explain the findings by suggesting that the gene is associated with a biochemica] loss of inhibitions. “Many of the features of (Tourette syndrome) can be Visualized as disinhibited, active, intrusive symptoms,” they wrote. David and Brenda Comings say Pauls doesn't see the connections because, unlike them, he doesn't treat patients with Tourette syndrome. Pauls is a geneticist, not a psychologist. Pauls says his studies’ included interviews with many relatives of Tourette syndrome patients, while many of the Comingses’ studies were based —on conclusions on AKE US YOUR CHOICE YOU DON’T NEED TO WAIT TIL SPRING, DO IT NOW. WE’LL MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILE WITH OUR d Your Good Credit Can Put You ina Brand New kind of manual typewriter during 30 years of making rounds in’ his home town of Toronto. Phere are only a few of us left and we're all over 50. The kids want to get into the electronic stuff.” Bent over a 30-year-old Olivetti for which he has had to 'scavenge parts from another machine, the bespec pany, a_credit: union_and_a_ school board. Mostly he just answers calls. It may cost $40 to get him out the door of his suburban office, but at least he makes house calls, he boasts. POLISH SKILLS Nicholls, 50, started at the Royal Typewriter Co. in 1955, training at its Montreal factory before taking a course in Hartford, Conn : But he picked up-most of-his-skills in the nooks and crannies of down town Toronto office buildings, first cleaning machines and changing type, graduating to trouble-shooter and repairman “Over the years, you learn’em all,” he says, taking a moment's break fromhis-work.—“There were some real dogs. Some real lousy mach ines.” 5 The Olivetti he’s working on — dinosaur next to faster, quieter el tronic typewriters and word proces. sors — weighs 20 kilograms. It's gota broken left platenlock, ‘the gear metal gadgets he calls benders and twisters. “You're supposed to know what you're doing before you start using those.” It’s all from another era, but Dave Nicholls has adapted to the present one. He has learned his share of elec tronics to keep the kids in check “A matter of survival,” says the father of three boys =the etdest is typing university papers on an IBM MUST BE LOVE Asked what got him interested in typewriters, Nicholls mugs incredul ity T don't know,” he answers, chuc kling as he cranks the Olivetti's return bar. “There's no motfey init. T wish I got into another line of work ‘But I love typewriters. I have to, don't 1?” The Olivetti is fixed. He tidies up, packs his tools away and gives the machine one last, affectionate rub with a. well-worn eféaning rag courage ‘in proposing such a daring hypothesis. Dr. Victor McKusick of Johns Hopkins University, “Our (finding) is based on direct a medical_geneticist who has done extensive family ’ informatio interviews with only patients and their parents interview Pauls said. Sheep ‘remarkable’ OTTAWA {CP} —~They're-called Arcotts, and they're a new breed of sheep. But they could just as easily be ‘called supersheep. 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