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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Friday, October 15, 1976

Constructed with Half-c-Midlion Empty Embalming Fluid Botties

It sounds almost like a

‘riddle out of vaudeville: what

do you do with half-a-million
empty embalming fluid bottles?

But there's no joke to
either the question or the
answer, What David H. Brown
did with the bottles was build a
unique and surprisingly practi-
cal “house on the shores of
Kootenay Lake in West Koote-
nay country.

Mr. Brown was a funeral
director who moved ‘o the
Creston area after 35 years in
the funeral business in Alberta.
He was fascinated by the idea
that empty embalming fluid
bottles—with thelr rectangular,
brick-like shapes—could be put
to some good use instead of

being thrown on the garbage,

heap.

"he consulted with con-
struction experts, who could
see no practical reason why the
bottles could not be used. And
so he set to work collecting
bottles from all across western
Canada. It took him 20 years to
amass 600,000 of them. Then he
began work on his dream home.

‘The idea was less strange
than it might at first seem.

* With their caps on, the bottles

contain a dead air space that
provides’ excellent insulation.
The bottles ave strong and,
because of their rectangular

Complexion Says Former Editor

Shirley Lord, syndicated
newspaper columnist and for-
mer beauty,.editor of Vogue
magazine, said in Toronto, that
sex is one of the most important
ingredients for making a beau-
tifu), radiant complexion.

‘The vice-president of He-
Tena Rubinstein cosmetic manu-
facturers in New York, in
addressing about 250 women at
Creeds, an haute couture shop
here, said there is a biological
reason for sex being good for
the skin.

“The brain is very closely
related to the skin and so
naturally. love counts in a
woman's life so far as her looks
are concerned,” she said.

She said too many ‘women
“traumatize” their skin by
handling it badly. Two of skin's

exposure because it is one of
the most aging things’ on
earth.”

‘The. author of a book on
easy steps to beauty said the
problem with soap is that to be
effective it must be high in
alkaline, “which i is tantamount

art enemies light and
04]

Paso, skin changes accord-
ing to outside stimuli such as
emotional crisis and geographi-
cal location,” she said. “Sun
worshippers will pay for over-

4 ‘on your
face.”

Miss Lord said the most
important ingredients of a
healthy, beautiful skin are
sound nutrition, proper diet,
exercise and sleep.

shape, fit together readily to
make walls,

Mr. Brown's house was
built in tlie shape of a cloverleal
on a rock carefully chosen to
give support to the great
weight of the building, The
walls, cedar-lined, are curved,
with the bricks cemented to-
gether like the spokes of a
wheel,

‘The house was intended as
a private dwelling, but the
structure attracted so many
people that it was opened to the
public during.summer months.
During the winter, it. still
serves as a dwelling.’

David Brown died five
years ago, but his family still
shows the house and grounds to

Woodmen’s

a horde of visitors every year.
Other structures on the site—
all made of the embalming fluid
bottles—include an observation
tower that looks over the lake,
curved bridges that lead from
one part of the flower garden to
another and low: walls that
parallel the paths.

David H, Brown's glass
house: is located 25 miles (40
kilometers) north of Creston, at
Boswell on the east side of
Kootenay Lake, It'is open from
May to October and admission
is $1 for adults, 75 cents for
teens and 25 cents for children,

{This Travel B.C. story is
provided by the British Colum-
bia Department of ‘Travel In-
dustry.)

‘Skills Still

Flourish in Celebrations

By Ginnie Beardsley

The image of the burly
logger looms large in the public
imagination—so much so’ that
while actual logging today is
seldom carried on in. the
tradition of one man and his axe
against the forest's giants, the

_woodsman's skills of yester-

year flourish in more than a
dozen British Columbia centres
every spring and summer in
loggers’ sports celebrations.

Clad. in the traditional
bright flannel shirts, feller's
pants and caulk boots, men pit
their strength and skill in a
dozen different ways against
trees in one form or another
and against each other. They
roll 20-foot (six-metre) logs up
double ramps with only a band
tool called a peavey for help.
They scramble up 100-foot
(30-metre) spar trees with an
agility that would make a black
bear envious and throw double-
bitted axes with an accuracy
equalling that of any carnival
performer.

‘They chop in all ‘sorts of
ingenious ways,’ overhanded
and underhanded: demolishing
three-foot alder blocks in se-
conds; standing far above the
ground on 8 springboard: in-
serted into a target tree, which
théy ‘try to fell with all speed.
They saw through Douglas fir
logs in minutes with hand saws,
in seconds with power saws.
Sawing events are referred to
in logging parlance as “buck-
ing” and, like the other sports,
are played under Canalog Fes-
tival of Forestry rules.

All of these events are
carried on by contestants si-
multaneously, so.that the
crowd can have the fun of
cheering a favorite on to beat
his competitors, usually by a
matter of seconds.

In the woods, a choker-
man's job is to attach a giant

of pincers to a felled log so
that it can be lifted by a crane.
Translated into a loggers’
sport, a chokerman’s race takes
place over water, with the

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How Many
_Mean Just

What do the words “load-
,” “pickled” and “plastered”
have in common? Aside from

meaning exacting the same .

thing, they happen to be part of

the longest list of synonyms in”

wens Collegiate Thesau-

me Dr. Maire Weir Kay, editor
of the volume just published by
G. and C. Merriam Co, in’
Springfield, Mass., says “intox-
icated" has more synonyms

in and trying to swim without
dropping the choker.

Possibly the most popular
man-to-man competition, year
in and.year out, is log burling.
Here, the two competitors
stand on opposite ends of a log
which rolls and pitches in a
pond, with each trying to keep
his own footing and manceuvre
the log in such a way as to
dump his rival into the water.

All that this sport requires
is tremendous.natural balance
plus years of practice. It is the
only skill sport open to women
in the world of bucking, chop-
ping and climbing. The only
other traditional female event
is probably more of a proof of
the male view that no woman
can drive a nail straight, as the
women are turned loose with
logs, hammers and nails after
the serious competition is over.
No one has suggested a nail-
driving competition for men.

All-Sooke Day is the
granddaddy of all loggers’
sports celebrations in the prov-
ince; the largest in British
Columbia, it attracts competi-
tors from’ as far afield’ as
Australia and New Zealand.

‘The earliest shows in the
province are held in May in
Nanaimo and at Kootenay Bay
on Kootenay Lake. Juné sees
‘one of the bigger shows; with
Canadian and world champion-
ship events, at Terrace, In the
same month, Mission in the
Fraser Valley and Salmo and
Nakusp in the Kootenays in-
clude loggers’ sports in local
celebrations,

AllSooke Day is always.
the third Saturday in July;
Quesnel, in the Caribod, and
Squamish, at the head of Howe
Sound, hold loggers’ days in
August. Exact dates of most
events are published -in the
Calendar of Events published
by the: British Columbia De-
partment of Recreation and
Travel Industry.

(This Travel British Col-

umbia story is one of a series -

provided by the British Colum-
bia department of recreation
and travel industry.)

Synonyms

Plain Loaded

than any other entry in the
book.

The 46 listed, included— -

-blind, _ boiled, fried, juiced,
oiled, pickled, jagged, polluted,
smashed, stinking, stinko, soz-
zled, tanked and zonked.

There are the polite words
like—tiddly, squiffed, lit and
tight, and some not sonice. And
there are the odd ones—
capernoited, deleerit, half-seas
over and spiflicated.

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Pampering Your Feet
raction By Massaging Pays Off

There's nothing more
soothing to the nerves and the
entire body than a good old-
fashioned foot massage.

You may belleve t that's ry
lot of bunk if like most people
you've neglected your feet
since the day you were carried
out of the delivery room,

But masseurs who special-
ize In foot care will tell you that
pampering your feet pays off in
untold dividends.

For inatance, if your sin-
uses are bothing you, gently
rub the ball of your second toe
for a few minutes and walt for
the comforting results you'll
fee) in your head,

Another example, the ex-
perts say that if your left knee
hurts, kneading the bottom of
your left heel will reduce the
pain.

Sound crazy?

Remember it wasn’t long
ago that most Western doctors
thought that the technique of
acupuncture was ridiculous too.

Then recall the biblical
days when it was consid
polite to anoint your guests’
feet with scented oils? Oh yes,
those feet have seen happier
days!

But thanks to the Under-
ground Feet People who have
never forgotten’ the art of
massaging feet, the ancient
practice lnslowly creeping back
into fashion,

* ‘There are also many books
on the subject such as Ina
Bryant's Foot Massage and
Nerve Tension or Eunice Ing-
ham’s Stories The Feet Have
Told,

Practitioners believe that
the foot massaging technique—
which stems back 600 years to
the Japanese healing art of
Shiatsu-does to a certain
extent relieve aches and pains

kneading 8 pressure point
located in a specific part of the
foot,

‘The medical experts, how-
‘ever, caution you against using
foot massage to treat any
malady.
They do, however, whole-

You'll need a husband or a
friend for total. results how-

ever, singe a do-it-yourself job -
is awkward and not as effect-’

ive.
Believers in Shiatsu or

reflexology, as it is also called, :

point out that certain areas of
your feet are linked directly
through the nervous system to

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almost every part of the body
where pain occurs, If your pain
is persistent though, but out
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foot, Simply knead the bare
foot every square inch from big
toe to heel using about 15
pounds of pressure {use your
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All you require is a 10-
minute massage once a week to
keep your feet healthy, relaxed

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FALL CLEANUP
PROGRAMME

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Garden shrubbery and household refuse will be picked
aera complies with the following: be up provided the
|. Branches MUST be tied and piled in neat bundles.

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Rocks and- concrete, as well as any other objects which +
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made. Schedule will be the same as the normal weekly garbage pickup.

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one car wreck per

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CITY OF CASTLEGAR:

How do you move from Nelson to
Sussex, N.B, with a wife and three
children, four horses, a mule, three
donkeys, a cow, four dogs, six pups, two
ducks, a rabbit and two cats?
Don James bad the answer: You
Fent a CP Rail boxcar for $9,800.

“I lke it, it’s fun," said Don's wife,
Gillian, as she leaned back against a bale
of hay when their boxcar home arrived
in Winnipeg for a three-day weekend
stop.

Pat my house looked like this I think
Td die but..."

The Jameses léft their: previous
home 25 miles south of Nelson a week
ago and they hope to reach their
distination in Sussex in another six or
seven days, :

Rail was the “only conceivable way
to move our family in one. piece at. one.

, time to one place.” said Mr. James, who
rejected thoughts of selling the animals. .
sathey're esr. family ‘They come
before anything else.

Mr, James said neighbors. called

them the “crazy Jameses” when the

move.

animals,

Body heat

move. .

Nelson Area Family A Moves
East in Boxcar With Animals

ead ‘decided to rent the boxcar for the

By the time they arrived in Win-
nipeg they were tired and soiled but
convinced they bad» made the right

+ The boxcar is 50 feet long and 9 1/4

feet wide, containing stalls for the

space for feed and sleeping

quarters built over the stalls. A

refrigerator, and one-burner stove are
the only modern conveniences aboard.

from the animals helps keep

the boxcar warm.

‘The children—Simon, 12, Samantha,

11, and Stephen, 9—are enjoying the

experience. They have spent’ hours

» riding in cabooses and diesel units at the
invitations of the crews. u

_ Mr. James, a native of Winnipeg,

amail

Land cost
pelt i BC., the femily decided to

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West Kootenay Power
Conservation Officer

L. Lyne to the position of
conservation officer and rate
engineer has been announced
by G.K..Harper,. director, fi-
nance and planning of West.
Kootenay Power and © Light
Company, Limited in Trail

In his new. position, Mr.
Laycock will be involved with
matters directly related to the
Y conservation and efficient use
of electrical energy. This is an
area of increasing concern to
the company and one which
requires special emphasis at a
senior level.

Mr. Laycock joined West
Kootenay Power in 1954 and
was superintendent of the

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gan Division «until his
transfer to Trail as super-
intendent of the Trail-Boundary
Division. He has held several
supervisory positions, the most
recent being superintendent of
personne! and marketing.

Mr. Laycock is a graduate
in electrical engineering (B.Sc.
Alberta) and a member of the
Association of Professional
Engineers in British Columbia.
He is a past chairman of the
Kootenay Branch of the En-
gineering, Institute of Canada
and a senior active member of
the Trail Rotary Club.

He will continue to, have
his office at the company’s
general office in Trail.

‘See You There!

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Middle-Aged Males Suffer from Discontent | i

Almost 72 per cent of all
middle-aged males suffer from
“boredom, restlessness and
vague discontent.

‘At an age when his pre-
vious experience should be
carrying him forward, Mr.
Average Man reaches 8 Plateau
cwhich he may have beeit

striving toreach for years, and -

, when he gets there, he finds
nothing there he wants.

“In the so-called ‘middle
years’ most men get this feeling
of discontent,” said Dr. Peter
K. Hing: a New York paycho-

lo;

“it has little to do with
financial success of lack of it, A
man may be vice-president, or
he may be a mill-wright.

“The early 40s are the
danger period, and we have
been taking a long hard look at
this malady, trying to find
sires f for it,”

Dr. . King’. suggests. that
much of the discontent. boils
+ down to fretting about the
‘Great-Might-Have-Been,'

A teacher, apparently well-
off, but clinging to his security,
may wish secretly that he had

: been an inventor,’ writer or
even a lumberjack.

Or the man suffering a bad
attack of these middle years
blues may be an assembly
worker, tied to the factory
eight hours a day, realizing that
his life will go on like that for
another 20 or 25 years. A
frightening thought.

“When a man realizes that .

he is getting nowhere, or can
progress no further in his
present job, it’s natural to feel
despair and boredom with
routine,” said Dr. King. “But
most men shy away from the
obvious solution—going ‘into
something different.”

*T must disagree with the
doctor,” said 49-year-old Harold
Benjamins, a partner in a law
firm. i

“I struggled through law
school many years ago, and I
now make $55,000 a year. How.
would I maintain my standard
of living and itl

72 Per Cent Felt Boredom and Restlessness

started planning to take Inex-
pensive vacations near home,

“Then I was offered a
juhlor writing job at $90 a
week,” said Mr, Lynch,

“Me~a junior at 43 years

of age? But I took it, and inside
a year I'd become chief writer
of a team of ten journalists,

“Added to that I've got a
Job I enjoy doing, and the
boredom and unrest of previous
years has vanished.”

Dr. King agrees that any
man can overcome lack of
education if he really wanta to,

“Technology has moved at
auch a rapid pace that men who
do not keep in step with ci

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Friday,

ahas been taught new methods
which are more efficient than
the old ones.”

Dr. King hopes to chango
the current philosophy of “one
lifetime, one job” which is stilt
deeply in Industry

trends. find outs
ciarsed by younger men,” he
sald,

“hiss not due to any lack
of intelligence of know-how on
the part of the older man; it is
merely because.the young man

Journalist is to Speak
About Cuba at College

‘What would the reaction in
Canada be if all working women
had the legal right to demand
that household tasks be shared
equally with their husbands?
And what effects would there
be on our students if they had
to accept responsibility for
maintaining and operating their
schools?

These and’ many other
questions may well be asked
‘and the answers discussed next
Monday night when Robert
Coben: a six year resident in
Cuba addresses a public meet-
ing at Selkirk College.

Mr. Cohen, a young U.S.
journalist and poet, worked for
Radio Havana in Cuba until a
few months ago. While there he

became very involved in the *

Cuban development process at
the community level and will be

able to speak in depth about life ~

in that country.,

‘The main focus of his talk
will be on the new family code
and on the education system in
Cuba. The talk will be il-
lustrated by a slide show,

Sponsors of this evening
event are.Selkirk College, the
Mondsy Night Group: and

In other Monday Night

news, the group has finished
viewing “The History Book"
film series, and plans to begin
its examination of “Food” in a
‘couple of weeks,

Bud Godderis has been:
back in Castlegar for the last
week and an interview with
him concerning his B.C. travels
will be presented in next
week's paper. Mr. Godderis
should be back to stay at the
end of October, and will be able
to show his African slides to
interested groups in the area.

Health Questionnaire
With Family Allowance

Health and Welfare Min-
ister Mare Lalonde announced
his department's plans to-dis-
tribute a self-scoring health
rea appraisal with October

suddenly decided to become'a
‘writer, which is what I hanker.”
after?”

Dr. King suggests that ifa
man wants to get out from
under his boredom sufficlently,
there is nothing. to stop him,*

-2“Fear often’ keeps aman
slogging ats fob he has come tb
hate,” said

“Those woh iave taken the
plunge at 50 or even later,
pulled in their horns and put -
their backs into learning a new.
trade are the better for it.”

“I. was ‘a ‘technician fee

eques,
bre A Lifestyle Profile”

will enable individuals to deter-
mine for themselves the quality
of their lifestyle and to see
where improvement is needed.
Approximately 3.6 million

Canadians receive tho. cheques
each month but it is hoped that
more than this number will
assess ‘their health: habits ‘as
others ‘in the family become
interested- :

For persons who are not
cheque recipients, copies of the
questionnaire are available
fom: the Information Direc-

2 Mei said John ne

ruven the bottom fell out.
of the aerospace industry, I
was laid off with hundreds of
others, <’
“They went on welfare,
and kept trying to get their old
jobs back. I'd always wanted to”
be a journalist, so—nothing
ventured, nothing gained—I
applied for every writing job
which I heard about.”

Mr. Lyncb and his wife
were preparer to pull back on
their expenses.

They sold their car, sold”

their house; and moved into a -

cheap downtown walk-up, and

Administrator:
Is Appointed :
‘The board'of management

of the Dr. Endicott Home is
pleased to announce the ap-

of National

Health and Welfare, Ottawa.
In November, a follow-up

message called “Ways to Im-

. prove” Your Lifestyle Profile”

will offer recipients ‘general
advice on how to resolve their
lifestyle problems.

* Your. Lifestyle Profile and
Ways to Improve Your Life-
style Profile are elements of
Operation Lifestyle, a public
education program developed

by the department’ to en-~

courage Canadians to assume
greater responsibility for their
own health.

Earlier this year Mr. La-
londe introduced the Fit-Kit to
help individuals estimate their
levels of physical’ fitness’ and
assist them in selecting activi-
tles appropriate to age, lifestyle
and “personal ‘capacity. Later.
this month, Dialogue on Drink-
ing, a “national information

program aimed at reducing the
excessive use of alcohol, will be
introduced.

Other components of
Operation Lifestyle will be an-
nounced later this year.

’

and commerce,

‘The doctor would like: to
see men having as many as
three careers, one after the
other,

“It won't happen over-
night,” he sald.

“But if more middle-aged
men would take the plunge and
move out of jobs they have
become ‘bored with, soclety
would be a calmer and happier
environment to live in,”

October 15, 1976

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* COLORED “BY
Close-Coupled,

$55.95

$55.95

365-8284

"Bath Boutique
@ “Fisldcus” Towels

Assortment of Decorative Soap
Dishes, Tooth brush
Towel Bars and Morel

- Castlegar Plumbing. & Heating Ltd.

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