SS Castlegar News February 27. 1985 aaa MEDICINE Kootenay Savings Insurance Services AUTOPLAN RENEWALS Fast, friendly, professional service for your 1985 Autoplan renewal We value your business TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU: Castlegar — 365-8313 4th Street Trail — 368-9174 Cedar Ave. Telidon: success or dud? OTTAWA (CP) — Six years and more than $250 million later, Canada’s highly touted Telidon videotex technology is emerging cautiously from under the protective wings of the government that developed it and is entering the big, bad market. Depending on who you talk to, Telidon has been moderately greatly ora lete dud. The federal government, which is ending its support for Telidon March 31, says the project achieved its goals. The technology was developed and turned over to the private sector at a cost of about $80 million to government. Companies spent at least $200 million putting together the hardware and trying to develop markets. But if the technology has been mastered, markets have not. The Canadian version of Telidon, which costs at least $850 for the basic equipment, is in very few homes and businesses. The Department of Communications developed the two-way television system, announced that it would become the wave of the future in communications and then became caught up in its own rhetorie about its great commercial promise. It now is more guarded in describing Telidon's success. Department spokesman Colin Franklin defends the program by saying it achieved its aim of developing the technology and transferring it to the private sector. But he admits the enthusiastic estimates of the early days were overblown. . . Telidon's supporters predicted there would be 40,000 Cahadian homes connected to the system by now, but there are likely less than 1,000 domestic users. “I don't think it has developed as fast as some People had hoped, but it's been developed,” Franklin said in an interview. To date, there is only one major Canadian Infomart sells Telidon under its industry acronym NAPLPS, or North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax, a fancy way of saying that Telidon has been accepted as the North American standard for teletex systems. . And it is rapidly being converted for use in home using Telidon, Toronto's Infomart, a division of Southam Ine Infomart has successfully marketed its Grassroots system, a service for farmers in Ontario and the Prairies that provides information on everything from prices and markets to the weather. LAUNCHES SERVICES Grassroots now has about 2,000 subscribers at $15 a month and is adding new farm customers at the rate of 100 a month; says Infomart spokesman Leigh Sigurdson. And Infomart, through agreements with a variety of U.S. firms, is bringing two new services on line, Grassroots America and Grassroots California. Grassroots America is being marketed in conjunction with three of the biggest U.S. farm co-operatives with a total membership of 800,000 — more than three times as many farmers as there are in all of Canada. The Grassroots California system is still in its infancy, having officially opened for business on Feb. 11 after six months of trials. ie ‘Ss, an area Ss, an area Infomart and others hope to capitalize on. But there are nagging problems, the foremost being the init $850 cost of p ing decoders to enable TV sets to hook up to the system. Microchips developed by Norpak Ltd. of Kanata, Ont., and Rockwell International Corp. were supposed to bring down the cost to $100 per decoder by the end of 1984, but that hasn't happened. And the hope of di isi u to include built-in decoders in their sts has met resistance. Television set manufacturers haven't wanted to add to the cost of their products, but that may change. Ken Bowering, a Norpak spokesman, said the company hasan with a Korean isi to build and market inboard decoder and related videotex equipment in medium to low-cost television sets. The companies hope to have the new products on the market by Christmas. Seminars planned for businesses The Cranbrook branch of seminars for the West Koot- the Federal Business De- enay early in March. velopment Bank has planned On March 6 in Castlegar a two business management session on “Motivating Your Personnel” will be held in the JOHNNY’S GROCERIES AND GAS “A warm, friendly place to shop" lor evening. “In today's turbulent world work rarely meets our needs f . FROM CALIFORNIANS Expo draws VANCOUVER (CP) — Ask a Californian about Expo 86 and you are likely to get a blank stare. But ask a Californian in the tourism industry, and it's like plugging into Expo's own public relations department. Howard Goetzman, travel manager of the A i blank stare tours to United Kingdom and German tourists, two of Expo's largest overseas markets. Overseas tourists plan their vacations a year in advance, and Patterson said Expo is not being considered Club of Southern California, can reel off Expo statistics. He has talked with B.C. Tourism Minister Claude hi has seen the Expo audio-visual show, knows how and no longer concentrates most of our energies,” said the FBDB Baby Chicks We are now taking orders for Baby Chicks TO SERVE YOU BETTER WE SUPPLY Groceries Hardware Garden Seeds Fishing Supplies & Bait Hunting & Fishing Licences Newspapers & Magazines Lottery Tickets (649 & Lotto West) Gulf Gas and Oil Propane Depot in a news release. “There are other fields that attract us and give us the opportunity to develop ourselves. Thus motivation to work is decreasing danger. ously almost everywhere. “The Federal Business De- velopment Bank thinks there are solutions to this problem, especially in small and med- ium-sized businesse: large the Expo site id the price of admission to the May 2 to Oct. 13, 1986 extravaganza. “There is no public awareness now,” said Goetzman, whose organization has 3.2 million members. “Our members don't know anything about Expo 86, but there is a lot of money down here and a lot of people — 25 million. “That's as many as you have in all of Canada, and Californians consider the West Coast to be their back yard.” But not all tourism people are getting the treatment the California auto club In Ontario, K.D. Paterson, sales director of Travelways Ltd., said there is little awareness of Expo 86. Travelways is a relatively small company that specializes in selling package now by T lway 3. He would like more publicity about Expo now in Europe. “We are a little skeptical of over-reacting to Expo. We planned some package tours around the New Orleans fair, and it was a bust. We need to know more if we are to do the same for Expo.” Expo advertising director Michael Powell said the corporation is contacting people in the travel industry all over North America, with emphasis on key marketing areas such as those within a 1 1-2 day drive of British Columbia and then California, Ontario and Quebec. Powell is concerned that Travelways is lacking information on Expo but he isn't worried that the general public has a low awareness. Within a year, Expo 86 will be a household word, he predicted. (metered propane) Ph. 365-7944 Robson proved productivity and profit. 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An nual sales for 1984 and 1983 were $137.9 million and $126.5 million, respectively. Net earnings for the fourth quarter of 1984 were $1.3 million on sales of $36.2 million compared to a loss of $17,000 on sales of $36.5 million for the previous year’s period. 1984 net earnings per com- on share was .13 cents for the year and .17 cents for the fourth quarter. The loss per common share in 1983 was -17 cents. Akira Shibanuma, chair. man of the board, and presi. dent Stuart Lang said in their annual report to share- holders, “We are pleased to report that this was the third consecutive quarter in which we have reported a profit. Considering the weak selling prices the profitability of the company has been encour. aging. “All divisions operated at capacity during the last quar- ter which, coupled with cost controls, contributed to the profitability.” pulp prices continued to de- cline, pointed out Shibanuma and Lang. “Prices by year end for pulp had declined $50 per ton from the June level,” they said. Lumber prices at the start of the quarter were at a low, but showed signs of im provement by year end. “The investments to prop- erty, plant and equipment made by the company have brought definite benefits which again has allowed Crestbrook to report profits despite the weak prices,” said Shibanuma and Lang. “It is these improvements, together with the dedicated work force and good cus. tomer relations, that enables the company to be among the During the last quarter, industry leaders. “Market forecasts for our Products are mixed,” con: tinued Shibanuma and Lang. “The demand for lumber and pulp is good, however, the near-term supply for both of these products exceeds the demand and we accordingly expect a continuation of downward pressure on sell ing prices. “The basic underlying economy of the world’s con suming areas is good and an expected increase in demand will alleviate the short-term Pressure on selling prices.” Last fall, Crestbrook an nounced the $20-million proj- ect for the Skookumchuck Pulp Division with construc. tion scheduled to begin this spring and completion by WORKING WOMEN ARE HEALTHIER WASHINGTON (AP) — Busy: women who combine job and marriage tend to be healthier than those who are either unmarried or unemployed, a new study «of government statistics discloses. And wom@& who add children to the responsibilities of job and spouse are as healthy as those who don't have to deal with offspring, the report adds. “Contrary to popular belief, the triple roles of job, spouse and mother are linked with good health,” reported Lois Verbrugge of the University of Michigan and Jennifer Madans of the National Centre for Health Statistics. Their findings, reported in the March edition of ican Di ine, are based on infor- mation collected in the National Health Interview Survey taken in 1977-78. “Of the three factors we examined, employment has by far the strongest and most consistent tie to women’s good health,” they reported. “Marriage ranks second and parenthood ranks a weak third.” Working women had fewer days of restricted activity because of illness, spent less time bedridden, had less chronic illness and in general felt better than unemployed females, they found. “These differentials are true for all age groups, and may reflect the fact that unhealthy women stay out of the labor force, or that working outside the home has a positive influence on the well-being of women,” the researchers said. ’ They found that “the busy women who are both employed and married are the healthiest. Those who have children are just as healthy as those who do not.” NO ROLES WORSE On the other hand, they observed: “The combination of no job and no spouse is strongly linked to poor health, especially for women aged 25 to 34. “The women with no roles (no jobs, no spouse, no children) have the worst health of all. “Involvement in activities that use one’s skills and education, that offer social contacts and intimacy, and that provide income probably helps people maintain good health or even improve their health. “Stress may damage mental or physical health, but our analysis indicates that inactivity, rather than multiple social roles, may create the most stress. Good health also helps people find and keep a job, get married and bear children.” While married women were rated healthiest, single females with jobs felt better than those who didn't work. But among single women, children did have an effect, with single working mothers being less healthy than single working women without children. This-finding, the researchers suggested, may reflect “either the financial pressures that draw not-so-healthy mothers into employment, or the negative impact of having the sole responsibility for providing the family's income and child care on an unmarried mother’s health.” Among women who do not have jobs outside the home, those having children tended to be healthier than those without, although mothers did experience more acute sessions of sickness, “probably the result of infections they pick up from their children.” Overall, employed women reported higher rates of excellent or good health than those without jobs outside the home. DEBATE RAGES ON Does fitness affect sex? By KIRK LaPOINTE Dr, Robert Haas, in hid best seller 6n nutrition and FREE INVESTMENT SEMINAR September. 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Perhaps it was Casey Stengel, the late former skipper of the New York Yankees, who first brought some intelligence to the subject. “It isn’t sex that wrecks these guys: it’s staying up all night looking for it,” he said. Modern sports medicine has largely destroyed the notion that sex and sport shouldn't be mixed. Dr. William Masters, or Masters and Johnston sex study fame, believes the release shortly before athletics of the male sex hormone, testosterone, can be beneficial for a variety of reasons. Apart from the release of tension, Masters and others now think the presence of high levels of testosterone in the bloodstream may be linked to athletic excellence. As for concerns that athletes are weakened by sexual activity, Masters and others say the average act of sex is far less taxing than the average pre-game warmup. Less easily proven, however, are claims that fitness improves sexual performance. In fact, there is some evidence to the contrary. . Dr. David C i an i Pp of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Alberta, has found lower than usual levels of testosterone in men who run more than 60 kilometres a week. The lower level, which Cumming say wasn't serious but “below-normal”,” didn't affect fertility. But it could affect sex drive. Cumming is conducting further work onthe subject. His interim recommendation: a little pampering of runners by their wives will go a long way toward solving any problem. SIMILAR NEEDS The most persuasive among those who say fitness will create increased sexual performance point to the parallel q of the two ivities. athletics, Eat to Win, summarizes the similar needs: “High aerobic capacity, abundant energy, stamina, strength, mobility, i d Pprop- er hydration and optimal health.” : Why then, he argues, shouldn't improvement in fitness go with improvement in sex? It seems easier to prove that obesity and sex don't mix. Medical research has determined in recent years that excess fat — say, 25 pounds or more — upsets hormonal balance and can reduce sex drives. One last point on the sex-fitness relationship: sex won't make you fit. Although doctors say pelvic and hip muscles are strengthened, and the heart rate will increase to between 160 and 180 beats per minute, almost all you'll burn off is about 60 to 90 calories. That's about what's in a light beer. Smoking a hazard to others OTTAWA (CP) — An esti- mated 500 non-smokers die every year in Canada of lung cancer caused by on-the-job tobacco smoke, says an American expert. James Repace, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said 5,000 Amer- jeans die each year of the same cause. Estimates by other sci- entists of all deaths associ- ated with ambient workpl pr tobacco smoke range up to 5,000 annually in Canada and 50,000 in the United States, he said. The figures apply only to non-smokers. CAN QUIT SMOKING... With these three steps. 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